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% ,> YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. ISSITSD SEMI-WEESLY. i. k. qbist ft sons, Pnbii.h?.. } % jfamitg gtwsgager: 4ar jramaiion of thg IgaliOcal, Social, g.jriniilta>}Bl and (gamnttttctal Jnter^sts a)} the gfogle. { . ESTABLISHED 1865^ YORKVILLE, S. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER i3, 19QO. 1STO. 82. v. BY MAJ. Anrrs Copyrigut, 1900, by R. F. Fenno & Co V CHAPTER V. r$0^ SAUL ?J. 8NT7YZEB OF MESSRS. 8A$A* BAND A SONS. NEW YORK CIT* AND CHICAGO. . t Ip 'mjf, earnest desire to farther the Wishes anil Interests of your firm I visited jiie gentleman named in your m pleasure and. put before him, *- pri^fiy apd with much circumspection, the reasops why beshopid secure the aerifices of Messrs- Saraband 4 Sopa. Captain Wood did not respond very cordially to my proposal which be guessed was not serious. It la my settled conviction now that he would give the earth td reconsider that hasty and mistaken reply. I shadowed him the evening of the . first day, now Jnst 48 hoars ago, following him to the fiyde park, 'to his cliib. to his house. In Hyde park only one person sppke to Sir. Vfood. I knew him by sight and name, abdlf Xmericap. Jimmy law ford, ha vine crp?|gd with him ,opce In (he same fpi^hler and hand In the same, game of poker in j^b? smoking x aalpop. , E(c passed then qs an oceap v. drummer^ although some said he was epgaged In ..the; secret sprvlep, pf the .federal government. Npw, I take lit, .ha just loafs around?Just the sort of chap tp be .In thiq crowd against Wood. I did not bear what be said to Wood, bat when leaving by the park gates I .noticed Jimmy in close talk with a hansom cab man who bad got off his perch and was very particular to bear v wbat la wiora saia. 1 only caught the last word Pr two: "Any time tonight or tomorrow night You'll get the OfiOO; mind you're on the quee vee.*' I shadowed the captain all that ' blessed night to the ftpera. out wept to several parties, and. ^poke to Vim, or rather tie fcpokf me. roughly, too. ^ % the jiopr of fihopsfi U PrlWa' gftfei yhen'hi'e'wcig ^Ingtwo Incites to their carriage.. That w&snbt <^u|te the last of hA?', fpr aomewhe^ ue^r Knlg^its;?5^tge.>e wW pjpjced up by, a cpb. apd next thlqg it com^s back, ten miles an .houif, c^blpy standing up gnd flogging his. horse J^ke mad. It was go near w daylight that 1 got a view inside the , .bqt^om as it passed me full tilt I caught sight in that short moment of g mass of people Inside the cab, two PC more men struggling and fighting with some, one underneath them. Of course Captain Wood was being kidnaped and carried off. I reckoned V- that op on the spot, and gathered myself together thbn and there to give chase to the cab. I followed it steadily Bevxu seeing two ladies to their oarriaae. down the Kensington road, losing my distance, of conrse, very fast By the time I reached High street I had lost the cab. But a man at an early coffee stall had seen it pass, holding straight on the main road toward Holland House. * I heard of It again at St. Mary Abbott's terrace, and was told that it had turned up Addison road. I traced it by Holland road to Shepherd's Bush Green, and there a herring was drawn across the scent I was on the track now of two cabs, one going by the Shepherd's Bush or ^ Uxbridge road, the other by the Starch Green road. I followed the first and drew blank. It was a nlgbthawk working home to his stables, and where, by and by, I caught the chap settling Into bis crib. He swore he hadn't had a fare for the last two hours, and I ^ could 6ee he was speaking truth, for his horse had not turned a hair. J went back then to the Starch Green road, asking all and several for my galloping hansom cab. There were very few people about at this early hour, only the policemen, and they ^ looked very shy at my tramp's clothes, giving no answer. At last a couple ot decent farm folk bringing in milk told me they had passed a hansom with a Jtvorn horse on the far side of Hammersmith bridge, in the district ol Barnes. By the time I reached the Strathallan road It was broad daylight. I found a long road of detached villa houses, each In Its own garden, many with stables adjoining. I figured it out. as I walked up and down this road twice, that one of these cottages was just suited for the purpose of sequestrating :tm GRIPFITH8. Captain Wood If he could be got to it He could be driven straight Into the stable yard; the cab would be no more seen when the coach bouse door closed behind him, and no one, neither the rielgbbors nor the police, would be a bit the wiser as to what mischief was being worked Inside. 1 It took me Just two hours to examlhe the entrance gates of every villa bouse 1 with stables in that road. In three t of them there were the new tracks of * wheels marked plainly in the thick 1 lying summer dust. I could not dlscoyer yyhich were t^e moat recent, but 1 I carefully noted the ^timbers of these houses, meaning to put a watch upon them al^. . . .. * . ' ..I cabled up the hoy Jojeph Via lis, a .. very , smart youpg squire, too, from the office in Norfolk street, as soon as I could get a telegram through. By . the time he arrived I had narrowed my ! investigations to a single point for further observation. The day bad so far advanced that the business of life was well begun. I saw the blinds draWn up In two Of the hoUSfk Gie iron} doors opened, the WWKP J^Ibs t>psy shaking the mutq and washing down the stoops. Presently some Of the young folks ran out Stq thy garden's, I could see t$e wily gatherings round thy breakfast * tables, from which on ihe early mornj log air came tbe stboll of hot coffee hnd ! p#li?h blpea^fa^t tfjtb the J ; temptation or Tantalus for a starving \ man who had been out all night. All 1 this while the third house remained ( dosed, 'iwnnf.tlcally gfcalcd. It W^s * eloped .up, tiglit shuttered, not a sign J of life in it. tWien 1 reached my lodging In Nprfofk street I was pretty , We|i w^mhed Out. lint I turned Ip (ipr : ; an hour and at io, a. m. woke much J refreshed. As I dressed with care I . . pondered deeply Over this business ,. ! 'ijSJd the Co.uiae "th^t I should adopt. 8 w first and most urgent duty was to secure tbe release of 11 r. Wood, always shnDoslhe that mv eentle'man ' vfas the ? Person aOtuaUj^afrled'off ip the cab. 4-t present I bad no certainty of this, only a bit more than strong suspicion. ' Yet If V could ascertain that he bad J not returned home I should be Justified In taking surmise for fact .< First I went to Clares street. The man there repiembered me, bat looked . strangely, when I ' Inquired for Captain Wood. "You have not beard the news, then?" he said. ' "What In thunder is there to hear . ipore than I have to tell you?" I asked, nettled at thinking some one was before me. . "Why. t|iat the captain has met with . an accident He slipped up somehow . last night or early this morning and hurt himself badly." . ' "Who fold you that story? Dp you y believe it?" 1 "1 believe tbe captain s own bandwriting." . "What did he say exactly?" I was 1 quite taken aback, as you may suppose. but did not want to show'It'too much. "Here, read it for yourself. Itls not ail his own. of course, and you will understand why. But that's bis name at the bottom there sure enough." It was written on good gray note paper id a fair running hand, and it said: Savory, I've (oiae to grief driving bopie. Horse slipped upon the curb, and I wa^ . thrown out o! tbe cab. Some kipd people picked ipe up and fre taking good care of mp. But I shan't be a&e to move hand or foot for aotne day a. 8epd me by bearer portmanteau of tkingn?ahlrt*, dressing gown, dittoes, checkbook, letters. papers and the reft." yours. W. A. Wood. I ' 17A laburnum Street. Harrow Boad. c "And you sent them? How?" s "By the cab that brought the letter." s "Why didn't you go with them your- c self?" q "I thought of it certainly, and I wish t I had." 1 "You may well wish that. And now, o if you will be guided by me, you'll go and find out 17A Laburnum street a right away, if there's any such place at t all." t "Oh. but there Is. It's in the direct- c ory." "Is that so? Well, If you come across t Mr. Wood there 111 run you for next c president of tbe United States. You've c got Just the face for a postage stamp." e "What in the name of conscience j d'ye mean? What's 'appened to him. c then?" f "Ifs my opinion that Captain Wood i has fallen among thieves, brigands, t i worse?ruffians, who'll bold him to ran- 8 1 som for blackmail, rob, murder him, c f God knows what, unless some of ub ( non fllronmrnnt fhofr hiQr>L-trnarH mo. neuvers. And I am going to try. c , don't believe In cab accidents and La- 1 ' burnum streets. You may, so you'd 1 I better go and judge for yourself." t But be was not going to find him In Laburnum street I was pretty sure of f ' that but It was right to look there on the off chance that this story was true. 1 i For myself I was more than ever ? I |>ersuaded of foul play, and 1 consider < t-d I was bound to lay the whole mattf t before the London police, i I was not very well received at Sco; i land Yard. They told me to get prope 1 credentials, a certificate from th l ; American consul. 1 was terribly roiled ( jut not to waste time I took a cab itraight to Great St. Helen's, where of jourse I was perfectly well known. One of the senior clerks came to me directly. "What can we do for you, Mr. Snuyter? Want an Introduction to the metropolitan police? Why, certainly. Reckon It's ho use asking what you're tfter? Big case?" He was a friend and had often given me information in a small "way. 1 thought perhaps be might help me now, fdr I'd heard from you they were mostly Americans working this conjpira^y, and it was ilkely enough :hey*d know at the consulate whether my big "touts'* and "bunko men" vere in London lust then. "it's something to do with the Mc* Efatight ipllilons," I said. "You've iea^d, no doubt, of that you tig Englishnan's luck?" "Why, yes. He was here this very nornlng. only an hoilr ago." It was :hefa about 1 O'clock. "Captain WIlia m Aretas Wood they called him. Is ie your client?" It hit me likCa blow, this news, for I taw at once what It meant Captain iYood could not be lying injured in a itreet off the Harrow road and walkng about Great St Helen's. I wanted to more proof of foul play. "We are acting f6r Captain Wood. 3ase of attempted fraud. They've loon found he's fair game. But what iibdght him here. tfTmay ask??' "Some question of legal powers, ^rantlntr attorbev to representatives New "York, assigning certain properies by deed to trhstaes. Legal bhslless. *The ra\f,-ybti kttdw, requires the ilgn'dture to be given lb the presetace, f^the United States cbnstil.*' "Ton saw Captain Wood, did you. rpureelff' "Why, certainly. A man worth milIons. He Interested us idl. Took It li}i'etly enough, fhotigh. Hither or^llary sort of' ipcfrt8piin. Tall enough. >ut no show about him. For so rich a nan te went yety1 plainly dressed?on y a Dertyy hat and a'business suit" "Handsome young roan, eh? Tall, air. holds himself well?" 1 suggested. "Why, no. Rather mean. I should iay. Ifair. yes: thickset coarse lookng. but i bad no talk Vith him. He md his friends were In the Inner room vlth the copsul himself." 4,Hls friends?" I hafcarded. "1 suppose so, but-be might have 'ound better. There was that Laword. Jimmy they call blm. I don't ;pow much about him- No good anypay. And there was Colonel McQuay. pho ran the Cyclostoma swindle out pest, and a little black faced Spanish :hap who looked hungry enough to eat ilm. clothes and all If you're a friend >f Captain Wood's, Snuyzer. I'd warn lim against, being too thick with that :rowd." "Warn him!" I said to myself as 1 palked away from the consulate. "It le'd listened to me, he would have lever got Into this fix.* Much as I had beep Surprised by the promptitude with which these unscrupulous foes bad got him Into their toils was now amazed with the breadth, be boldness of their scheme. It was is clear to me as If t bad seen It all in >rint To seize. sequestrate, securely told their prisoner, with heaven knows vhat added 111 usage?It mjght be nake away with him utterly?while his louble. some cleverly set up second elf, their puppet or confederate, peronated him, acted for him, making lucks and drakes of hlB fortune, aclulrlng every red cent that was mova>le and within reach, without fear of nterference or retribution, provided >nly they kept fast hold of their prey. How far was It In my power to meet ind frustrate these felonious but asutely planned measures? At least I lad one or two threads, one or two ilews. In my band. I believed that I could exactly locate he present place of Captain Wood's letentlon. 1 knew the very house or its lutbulldtngs in which he was imprisontd. To get him out must be my next ob. If he were once free, much mis ;hlef. the worst certainly, migm De >revented. But whether he were Imnedlately released or not It was of litle less Importance to follow np bis perlecutors to ascertain what they were loing and work to counteract and de'eat them. Three of them, at least, 1 had beard >f, thanks to my friend at the consuate, two by name and clear Identity. The third should be discovered through he other two. My next moves were clearly and lm>eratlvely marked out for me. As I passed along the Strand I called n at Norfolk street No sign from Joleph, so all was presumably without .'hange In the Strathallan road. Next jo Clarges street Time was getting on. Close on 3 p. n., and nothing done as yet In Mr. flood's behalf. I was Impatient eager :o act for him, and yet I knew I must jroceed resrularly. The man Savory had returned, and 1 knew by his face that be had drawn blank In Laburnum street Of coarse no Mr. Wood w'as there. 1 did not require to be told that Savory was also satisfied now, a good deal on the evidence of the collie dog which he had taken with him. "Mahier Willie was nowhere on the premises. Roy wlil knBweriforthat I told him to 'go look,', although the woman of the place?it was a sort of second rate lodging, house-rcalled him a dreadful dog add tried to stop him. Roy's teeth helped him to qUest right through the hotrte." "Fine fellow! We'll take him with uMb look for Mr. Wood. Eh.Roy?" was like a Christian, thkt dog, for he made friends at once, wagged bis. tail and put bis nose in nay hand. When Savory added on some gibberish with "hlldolooloo. go sehfcb, Roy," he first howled and yelped, then ran tip and down the ball entry like a mad thing , "Y/here arf; we going, Ur?" asked Savory, growing respectful as he recognized my authority. "To Scotland Vard straight They yrohjdn't listen to me this morning. Row perhaps? What have you got therie?" Jt's a letter, sir, btought by hand tin hour ago for ftfr. Wood, marked. 'Very immediate.' D'ye see? Butyon wouldnH surely?" ^rhlsi Was lb ajarm^dprotest'fa I was htout to break the seal. ' "Wouldn't 1, though ? Why, It's a qt estion of life and death with Captain 1(9 5od. Anything bnd everything that Is likely to help us. must be made use of I. stand on that, and here goes." TO BE CONTINUED. ^ijswlltrowiw ^fading. CHANGElS. The summer by us Softly crept; First thing We thought of ' It was Sept. ' " Full soon the streets will All be blocked With freezing rains?a, Sign of Oct. Then we will hug the Parlor stove? A sure and certaiii Sign of Nov. Then will cOttae Christmas, I Time of peace, (All in the crownWg Month of Dec.' What then? Ah, merci! Unto man ? Another' CentUry CAlnAn tttlfV'Tdtil VsVAUWD nibU V WM? ' ^ *"?st. Lwrta KING SOLOMON'S ftllNES. Speculations As to Their Discovery and Richness. This story Is quite on the mo'dern literary lines, for It ends with a note of Interrogation. It begins with the scene of Dr. Carl Peters, the German explorer, rummaging about In an old German castle a few years back. In his ancient Teutonic schloss, Dr. Peters came upon a niusty volume, together with a quaint old map, published in France in 1719 or thereabouts,. Tnis work and map, according to one of Dr. Carl Peters's associates, dealt with the doings of the Portuguese 200 years earlier, in the country bordering on "the Zambesi, and are to form the key to the whereabouts of gold mines In the heart of Africa. The course of the Zambesi was shown on the map roughly, but accurately, and on the south bank of the river appeared Mount Fura. Now, concerning Mount Fura, a thirst for science and a thirst for gold had already bred in the good doctor certain suspicions. So he set to work, it is recorded, in systematic fashion, to get all the works he could find on the subject. He is credited with possessing a wonderful memory and of being capable of rect ollecting minute details for years afterward. Some of the old writings thus hunted up went back to the seventeenth century, and for two years was the trail followed up, says an admiring chronicler, through the dim and dust strewn realms of centuries-old bookland. The recent works were studied, too, and at the end of two years, In July, 1898, the German traveler promoted In London a company?the Dr. Carl Peters's Estates and Exploration company, limited?for the purpose of purchasing properties and rights which had been acquired by him in Southeastern and Central Africa, and for the conduct by Dr. Peters of a well-equipped and carefully selected expedition to the district where he hoped to discover Mount Fura and to test his surmises about that mysterious locality. The vendors took 75,000 ?1 shares in part payment, and the expenses of this expedition and sufficient working capital would be provided, said the prospectus, by the issue of 250,000 shares. Well, the expedition, with Peters at its head, and the clues afforded by the old writings and the old map in constant use, duly discovered the mountain of Fura by the middle of 1899, and Dr. Peters was convinced his cherished hopes were well founded. Those hopes were nothing more nor less than that Fura was Ophlr, the Biblical land of gold, the source of Solomon's fabulous riches. Fura, the good doctor contended, was the native corruption of the word Afur, by which name the Arabs of the sixteenth century knew the district. Afur was the Sabaean, or South Arabian, form of the Hebrew name Ophir. As Dr. Peters afterward assured a representative of Reuter's Agency, for the information of the world at large, he IV.0A nmnlo r\ynnt tVlot thp FllTA. Which I Jio.it auipn wi. >VMM? ? r ? . | his expedition discovered and explored J In the summer of 1899 was the Ophir of the Old Testament?the Ophir whose Incalculable wealth Is referred to in the first Book of Kings, in both Books of the Chronicles, In Job, in the Psalms and in Isaiah. A chief, th^ doctor said, gave him valuable information regarding the position of ancient ruins and workings, which he at once investigated. Going annt InHlrotoil Vie fniinH anripnt ruins of undoubted Semitic type. Fura, Itself, he found to possess a formation of quartzitlc slate and dlorite, between which gold reefs were running. The ancient workings which he found were not only surface workings, but there were also, he declared, shafts and roads hewn in the rock. How the shareholders must have palpitated when they read, In thereport Dr. Peters presented to the directors, that when the Portuguese arrived In East Africa, about the year 1600, the Arabs called the district Afur and told the Portuguese It was Ophlr of the Old Testament. For a glance at I Chronicles, : chapter xxlx, verse 4, would show them that David gave ^o overlay the walls of the temple 3,000 talents of the gold of ' Ophlr, fed upon the authority of F. W. Madden, M. R. A. S? author df "History of Jewish Coinage," etc., they would know that a talent of gold was worth ?6,000. Here, then, fvas ?18,000,000 worth of gold froin Ophlr, and the lnexhaustiole nature of the sujpply would be apparent when they pursued their Biblical researches to flhd In I kings, chapter Ik, verse 28, that there was brought froin Ophlr to Solomon 420 talents of gold, equal to a modern value of ?2,520,000, and that, again, In II Chronicles, chapter viil, verse 18, mention is made of apother dip by Solomon ^nto the Ophlr mines to the extent of 4>0 talents of gbld, ?2,700;000. . But by now the cold shivers of doubt may have succeeded to the first warm thills, fpr a year hap passed since the wonderfpl discovery was made, apd two years since the company was formed, and no inilliohs of pounds, nor hundreds, noi tens, nor even units, have yet come the way of the expectant shareholders. But Instead come unexpected whispers that what purported to be King Solomon's rplpes a^e npt works thousands of years plijl; but just a mefe ordinary colectlon of sand and rock'lillis. - -I *Ls. - i - r\ 1 - lu'l . is it verrtaniy tne iana or upmr, anq It so, have David and Solomon left much gold for the shareholders in Dr. Peter's Estates and Exploration company??lo'n^o'n Daily Mail. m w wees. C^oretl People Werncd Thit White fen's Rule Is Qejng Taught. Colopel Thomas Weptwqfth Higgineon, William Lloyd Garrison and exGovernor George 'S. !Bout\^ell, all of Boston, have united in an address to the colored people or the United States. This address was given out a few days ago by the national Democratic committee. The three men whose names are subscribed to the address are well known to the ifregroes of the country. They urge the colored voters to turn their baclcs on the Republican frarty, because, they say, the national policy of imperialism is full of danger to the colored race. Following is the address: "Boston, Mass., Oct. To the Colored People of the United States: We, the undersigned, address you at one of the most important points in your history. If ever there was a war of races in this world the war now going on in the Philippines islands is precisely that. Yet, if there is anything which the colored race in this country has to dread, and the white race also, it is just such a war. /lav in fho Philinninea is al- I ready training our young American soldiers to the habit of thinking that the white man, as such, is the rightful owner of all other men. This is seen, for instance, tn the fact that these very soldiers, in writing home letters from the seat of war, describe the inhabitants of the Philippines more and more constantly as 'niggers,' thus giving a new lease of life to the word which was previously dying out among us. Every defender of the war in congress, sustains the contest on the assumed ground that the Filipinos are unfit for freedom, although Admiral Dewey at first described them as more fit for it than the Cubans; and Senator Hoar describes them to be probably better fitted than any race on the two American continents south of us. "In other words, freedom is to become for the new Republican party amatter of complexion. If this doctrine is to prevail, what hope Is there for the colored race in the United States? The answer is easy; there is in that case no hope at all. In the name of the old anti-slavery sentiment, we call on you to resist this great danger, even if for that purpose you have to turn your backs on the party you once had reason to love. "This danger can evidently not be resisted by any further voting for the Republican party. In other days that party freed the slaves and passed tn the United States COn-I stitution for the protection of those who had been slaves. These amendments are now being steadily set aside and the Republican party shows no sign of raising a finger In their defense. There have been far more outrages on the American Negro during one term of McKinley than under two terms of Cleveland. On the other hand, the < Southern Democrats are at least doing the colored race this service; that they as a rule oppose the national policy of Imperialism. This may seem an inconsistency; but it is really very simple. ; The very fact of their unwillingness to give equal political rights to the American Negro makes them unwilling 1o undertake the government of ten millions more belonging to the colored : race. This much, at least, experience has taught them. Thus far, at any rate, they are on your side. "The undersigned, trained from youtfi in the strictest school of anti-slavery conviction, are following up the same early training when they now write to you. We wish to warn you that the Imperialistic Republican party of today Is not the liberty loving' party of that name which set the American Negro free 40 years ago. The time Is past when you can safely give to it your implicit support. We warn you that the American .Negro must nencexorui think for himself and must cut atfrat from every organization which wars on darker races, as such,, and begins to talk again of the 'natural supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon.' We fought through a four-years' war to get rid of that doctrine, and enlisted nearly 200,000 black soldiers for the purpose. It is too soon to see such a theory brought up again. It rests with you to make It Impossible.'' ROUGH, BUT EFFECTIVE. There Are Othqr Thief? Thee Beer Thtf Will Cere the Hlecoogbe. "I read a story lh some paper the . other day," said a traveling man last night, "where a severe case of hiccoughs had been cured with a bottle pf beer. Well, that* certainly was a Artemedicine and I guess you will see hundreds of thirsty people going about with that coughing business Just to get cured. There Is a finer remedy than that, however, and I saw It worked the other day. I was Tldlhg in the second class car and across the seat from tne was 'a young chap who 'had hiccoughs to beat the band. He had been doing reg- ' ular pendulum work for several "hours and he was becoming weak. Various r^hledles had been suggested, but stll of these had foiled. All the time tile patient was suffering more and more and it got the whole car worried. "One of the passengers told the conductor that he had a remedy that would cure those hiccoughs the first dash out of the box. At that time 1 there were only a few passengers bi the car and the plan of. action was quickly, explained to aU except the patient. Then the man with the remedy walked into the baggage oar and he waited a moment to see what would follow. Meantime the hiccoughs continued. "In a little while the man with the v, ( remedy came back. He made a sudden entrance and had his face hidden behind an improvised mask. In each hand lie carried a six shooter atid he made a pass at the suffering man. 'Hands up,' he shouted, and like a flash the hlccOughrhg -cftftp1 ptto&fed^tr flfc gers to the carr ceiling. We'all followed Suit In'a Jiffy, even if we did laugh. " 'Not a word now, or I will Irfll every man In the car,' shouted the Stage robber, 'and I want your money qiildk.' ''Well, the chap who had been suffering: started to reach In his Jean's, fir his stuff, but the masked man stopped him. 'Don't you draw any gun In this car,' he yelled, and the fellow sent his hands skyward again. By that time all ot his hiccoughing had stopped. When the man with the mask saw that a cure had been effected he took off his face covering and smiled. Then he put down the guns. " 'You will have to pardon my rough remedy,' he remarked kindly to the sufferer, 'but I wanted to cure you. The best way in the world to cure hiccoughs Is to frighten the sufferer quickly and I think' I have succeeded where other remedies have failed, and he handed the guns back to the baggage man. "Say yotf'd rather have beer? Well I guess you would; but beer won't cure hiccoughs as quickly as a sudden fright."?News and Courier. t NOT THAT WAY IN CHINA. Cape May Summer Girls Shocked Minister Wu. Correspondence Chicago Chronicle. Chinese Minister Wu Ting Fang went on a straw ride with his nephew Fang Choa Shee, Saturday night. Four horses, decked with sleigh bells and. plumes, bauiea a nay can nan iuu of straw. The minister had the seat of honor at the head of the load. A dozen pretty Cape May damsels with their beauty crowded in. Minister Wu was delighted until by the light of one of the Japanese lanterns he saw the arm of a gallant young fellow steal around the waist of one of the girls. In China this would be a most shocking breach of the peace. The Chinese minister looke'd to see the girl resent the advance. Instead, her white hand found that of her sweetheart under the straw and held it. Wu saw later that gentle hugging was being indulged in by other members of the party. . Minister Wu had been brought up to different things. Taking the arm of his nephew firmly in his hand he pulled him to the tail of the wagon and alighted. "We need exercise, and we will walk home," he said, and politely saying "good night," he and the young man went to the hotel across lots. There was an awkward pause .until a. pretty girl somewhere in the semidarkness remarked in a whisper,. "Well, you know the Chinese are not thoroughly organized anyway." The minister will say nothing as to his reasons for leaving the party. He only says the women of China do not go on straw rides. ?3" The Yorkville Enquirer last Saturday had Rev. Robert Lathan's r\t tho hot-tip nf Vine's Monn tain. Let ail who are fortunate enough to own a copy of that issue preserve it. It will make a valuable appendix to "Draper's Kings Mountain."?Carolina Spartan. * W ; x r ' \ x ' j- -