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V " I ^ ISSUED l7m. grist & SONS, Publisher.. 1 % ^amitg Jkirspaper: jfor the promotion of tho political, gotial, Sflritaltura, and (Eomnttrti a Jnlmsts of tht |jtoplt. {TTMG?MArrl^''JC8, ESTABLISHED T855. YORKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JXTLY 17, 1901. JSTO. 57 * BY SYLVA3N CHAPTER XL AN ASTOUNDING AFFAIR. Half an hour had the gunmaker sat by the side of the sick man's bed when he was aroused from the reverie into which he had fallen by the gentle opening of the door. He turned and beheld a human form emerging from the narrow, dark entryway. As it came into the room the watcher started, for he beheld the humpbacked priest, Savotano. "Who is here ?" the arch fiend whispered, shading his eyes and trying to peer into the gloom. "Sh! uttered Ruric. "The count is alseep." By this time our hero had so far overcome the first emotion caused by the villain's entrance that he could be calm. "And who is this?" the priest whispered, moving nearer to the bed. "Ha! The gunmaker!" "Yes," replied the youth, watching every look and movement of the fpllnw mnst plnsplv. ' "You are in a strange place, I should say," Savotano whispered, not looking the young man directly in the face, but casting upon him a sidelong glance, as though he dared not look direct. "Speak not too loud, sir priest," said our hero, determined to enter into no conversation with the man if he could avoid it. "Do not awaken the count, for he is very faint and weak." And then Ruric had another reason. He feared.if Damonoff should awake that the strange discovery they had made might be revealed, and, of course, he wished not that the villain should yet know how well he was understood. "But why are you here ?" pursued Savotano, who seemed determined to know. "I am this poor man's spiritual comforter, and I surely have a right toJwow-wherofore is the presence of one bearing the peculiar relations toward him which are sustained by you." Ruric's first impulse was one of disgust and'wrath, but he managed to keep it to himself. "Sir priest," he returned, moving his chair noiselessly nearer to the visitor, so that his whisper might not disturb the sleeper, "1 heard tVisit thp nnnnt was dvintr. and 1 *****" ** ' O' would not have him die without first forgiving me for all that I had done." "And has he done it ?" "He has." "And why do you remain here? Where is his attendant?" "She is out somewhere. The count has had a strange fit?a startling spasm?and I feared if he had another the woman could not manage him alone." "Ah!" uttered Savotano. "A -? spasm ?" "Yes, a most strange one, as though something were at his heart, as though his brain were on fire and his whole system shaking." The priest turned his head away, but Ruric saw plainly the exultant look which rested there. There was no mistaking any more. That one look?for Ruric saw it?was proof enough. "Well, well," the misshapen villain said, "1 will call again when he is awake. 1 would not have him die and I not by him." Thus speaking Savotano aroso and moved toward the door. His step was eager, and his every look betrayed some anxious porposG. He stopped as he reached the door and lnnk-pfl hnrk. hut lie did not SDeak. Ruric was afraid he nii^rht go to the sideboard to look at the medicine, but he did not. He simply cast one more glance at the watcher and then left the room. In half an hour more the surgeon returned. His face wore a clear, emphatic expression, and his movements were all quick and prompt, as though each one was for the purpose of announcing some self evident decision. "Well," he uttered, with a quickly drawn breath, "we have put the medicines to a test." And then he leaned back and looked into Ruric's face. "And what did you find?" the young man asked. "Just what we expected. We have detected arsenic in three of the medicines which the count had to take. But this poison is not alone. There is much opium in the wine, even so that we could smell it when our suspicions guided us. The poison has been most adroitly fixed. The priest must have one of those recipes which have been used by scientilic poisoners, for no physician in Moscow could have concocted the deadly poison." "But wherein was it so wondrous rxjs COBB, JR. ly peculiar?" asked Ruric, with interest. "Why, in this: Arsenic was the principal poisoning agent, but that alone would produce symptoms which any physician would know at once. In this case there was something present which overcame all the outward signs of the poison and only let it eat upon the vitals. I know not the secret, though I know there is such a one. Had it not been for your fortunate suspicions the count would have died from the effects of the wound. The poison was working silently and surely, without pain and without outward sign different from the usual sinking of the worn and fainting body. But I have hopes now. The villain must not know that we have discovered him. We will let the thing run tnr nrpcprit " Kopani was not a little surprised when he found that the priest had been there during his absence, but before he could make any further remark the count awoke. He felt very faint, but that strange sickness of the stomach was lessened. The surgeon prepared some suitable diluents, and, having called in the woman, he gave directions that they should be given in large quantities, and also directed her to prepare some strong barley water for the patient to drink as he wanted beverage. All the vials were replaced upon the sideboard and then refilled with liquids somewhat like those they had before contained. But the nurse was directed not to use them. Everything that her patient was to take she was to keep under her own charge in the kitchen, and she was also most particularly cautioned against allowing the priest to gain anything from her. But Kopani meant to be sure on that score. He had a little business-to-transact, and then he was coming back to spend the night himself by the couht's side. He meant at all events that the poisoner should have no more opportunity to exercise his diabolical science upon the sick nobleman. He promised the count that he should have safe and competent watchers thereafter. It was fairly dark now, as Ruric could see by raising the curtain and looking out. He had no idea it was 60 late. Time had passed without his notice. He moved to the side of the bed and took the invalid's hand. "I must go now," he said. "But if you are willing I will come again"? "You will come," uttered Conrad in reply, returning the grasp of the hand with all his feeble power. "Oh, you must come often now. I hope 1 shall live. Perhaps I shall. If I do, 1 shall owe my life to you. And God knows?for the feeling is even now firm in my sou)?that I will always remember how you saved me, and I will never think, never, of the sad blow you struck me. Come?come to me when you can, for now ? now ? as God lives, I speak the truth?now I love you!" "God bless and keep you!" murmured Ruric in a husky, tremulous voice. And with these words, coming from the very depths of his soul, he turned away and left the room. He heard the voice of the count as he moved toward the open door and thanked God that 'twas a blessing which fell upon his ears. Ah, those who know not what true forgiveness is know not the holiest emotion of earth! Ruric had left his sledge at a neighboring inn, and as soon as he gained the street he bent his steps that way. He had gone half the distance from the residence of the count to the inn and was just upon AWAPPinrr f Kn otvnnf lilt? |>U1III 111 IIUBSIIJJJ Lilt OUV.UV when he heard his name pronounced by some one behind hire. He stopped and iooked around ?nd ^aw a man approaching him. It was too dark to distinguish faces plainly even at a.usual conversational distance, yet Ruric was not long in concluding that the man who had thus hailed him was a stranger. He was a medium sized man and so closely enveloped in his bonnet and pelisse that his form and features would have been hidden even had it been lighter than it was. "Did you speak to me?" asked the youth as the man came up. "Yes, sir. Is your1 name Ruric Novel ?" "It is." "Then you are wanted a few moments at the residence of a lieutenant named Orsa." "Alaric Orsa?" asked Ruric. "The same." "But he does not live here in the Kremlin." "He is here now, at any rate, and, would see you." "But you said he was at his residence," suggested our hero, who 1 was fearful that 6ome evil might be 1 meant for him. < "I know nothing to the contra- i ry, sir," the stranger returned 1 promptly. "All I can say is Alaric i Orsa has fallen upon the ice and i hurt himself severely and upon be- < ing informed that you were near by 1 with a sledge he asked that you J might be sent for." 1 "Been hurt, has he?" 1 "Yes, sir." : .DUUiy T "I believe no bones arc broken, i but he is so badly sprained that he cannot walk." "Ah, then perhaps he wants me to carry him home." "I can't say as to that, sir. They only sent me to find you. I don't know the man myself." There was something so frank in the statement thus made that Ruric believed it all honest, and he stood no longer in doubt. "I will go," he said. "But lead the way quickly, for I have no time to waste." "I will lead as fast as you will want to follow," answered the nan. And thus speaking he turned back, and, having gone some dozen rods by the way they had both come, he turned down a narrow street which led toward the river. Half way down this he went, and then he turned again?this time to the left ?and thus Ruric found himself in a narrow, dark lane, within which the snow was deep and almost untrodden. "Look ye," cried the youth, stopping as he found himself over knees in snow, "I think we have gone about far enough in this direction." "This is the shortest way," 6aid the stranger guide apologetically. "I did not think the snow was so deep here. But it's only in the next street." "Then on you go." Again the 6tranger started, and Ruric followed on. The lane was a crooked one, and more than once the youth had another inclination to stop. He had no direct fear, but yet he had some just grounds for doubt. Had he not seen what had been attempted against the count he might have had no* such doubts nowPSuf as Tfwas he thought*fluff if one attempt had' been made to ruin him through the emperor's displeasure by the man who was now ? * li/i it LI Yltlg LV/ 11JU1UC1 ilic VVUUl; IV II VUAU not be at all improbable that some more effective plan should be adopted toward him. He was pondering thus when they came to a cross lane full as narrow as this, into which the guide turned. "Look ye once more, sirrah!" cried the youth, now stopping short. "Do you call this a street ?" "Yes, sir, and on this street we shall find the man we seek. It is only a short cut from where he is to the inn where your horse is, so you won't have to retrace these dubious ways. Only a little farther, 6ir." "But I don't like tliis." "Why, bless you, sir, if you wish to go direct to the inn where your horse is this will be the nearest way." Well, on you go." And on they went, now slipping on the ice. now in the snow to their knees and anon stumbling along over frozen hubbies and deep holes. At length the guide stopped and opened a 6mall gale which was fixed in a high, thick brick wall. Ruric hesitated here again. He had no weapon of any kind. If he had had even a pistol or a sword, he would have cared not. But he did not show his thoughts to his guide. The gate opened with a creak upon its frosty hinges, and by the dim starlight the youth could see an open court be- j yond, and farther still a house of ? some kind loomed up. . t "This place seems not to be used 1 much," remarked Ruric as he saw t the snow in the court was trodden ^ but little, only one or two tracks j being visible from the gate to the houso. 1 "Ah?yes?you said?what ?" i "I said this place didn't seem to i be used much," the youth repeated, though he was sure the fellow heard i the first time. "Ah, yes?a?the usual entrance ? is the other way, by the sledge path." ( "And where is that?" Ruric ask- 1 ed, not being able to see any such < path. i "Oh, it's around on the other i 6idc." i By this time they had reached the 1 door of the house, which our hero i could now 6ee had an old, dilapidated appearance, and the guide plied a the iron knocker with zeal. Ere Inner n man made his annearance 1 with a lantern in his hand. "Ah! Has the gunmakcr come?" 1 the latter asked. ] "Yes," returned the guide. i "Well, I'm glad he's here, but I qon't believe O.rsa is fit to move," ^ said the first speaker. And then, < turning to Ruric, he said: < "But I'jn glad you've come, sir, \ for the lieutenant wishes to see you very much. This way, sir." This was all 60 frank and prompt that the young man began to think be had been a fool for being frightened. He followed the man with the lantern into the hall, and from thence down a long flight of stairs into a basement. The lantern did not give much light, but it wa9 sufficient to reveal the fact that the house was an old one and not very large, for Ruric could see windows upon the opposite side of the hall which looked out of doors. As he reached the foot of the stairs he [ound himself upon a brick floor, md he saw the walls were of stone. A. little farther on a door was openid, and this led to a small apartment, within which was a fireplace md a good fire burning. "There, good sir," said the second guide, "if you will wait a few moments I will go and see how the ieutenant is" As soon as Ruric was left alone he looked about hint The room ivas of moderate size for a small house, and the idea of inhabiting the cellars was a co'fnmon one in Moscow during the winter season, rhe windows, two in 'number, were dose up to the ceiling and very small and were patched with pieces )f board in two or three places. Ere long the man came back, and with him came three others, one of svhom the youth recognized as the mdividual who had conducted him to the house. "Orsa will see you, sir," said he iritn tne lantern. Ruric arose to follow him, the ither three men approaching the ire as though they would remain ;here. He had reached the door md passed through into the room :?eyond when he thought he heard footsteps behind him. It was a slidng, shuffling sound, and he turned lis head to see what it was. As he lid so he received a blow which staggered him and which would lave felled an ordinary man to the loor. He gathered himself quickly ip, but before he could fairly turn ibout he received a second blow, leavier than the first, which wrought him upon his knees. In an nstant all four of the men were up>n him, and he could see that they lad ropes in their hands with which ;o bind him. With all his might he land back against the wall, and anil her he sent in an opposite, direc;ion, and in a moment more he vould have been upon his feet, but iust at that instant a noose was idroitly slipped over his head, and is the rope tightened about his leek he was drawn back upon the irick floor again. "Now, resist any more, and we'll jhoke you as sure as fate!" cried the nan who had held the lantern and iow had a hold upon the rope. "Oh," groaned Ruric, while the nassive cords worked like cables in lis arms and shoulders, "give me a 'air chance! Let me up and free? Vion lnr>t voiir doors, if vou Dlease!" " v" J ~? ? ' -- J ? I "No, no, good sir," replied the uffian, with a wicked smile. "We enow your power, and we are not lisposed to test it further. We have lad trouble enough already. Shall ve"? The man stopped speaking, for at ;hat moment another noose was dipped down over Ruric's head, and ?re he could avoid it it had been Irawn tightly about his arms. He vas now at the mercy of his captors, md, having rolled him over upon lis breast, they proceeded to secure lis arms behind him, which, being lone, they bade him to rise. Of :ourse he could have no desire to lio ;here upon the cold bricks, and he jot upon his feet as well as he could. "Now, Ruric Nevel, I will conduct fou to your own apartment," 6aid ;he leader of the gang. "But wherefore is this ?" the gunnaker gasped, rendered almost speechless with the mingled emo:ions of surprise and anger. "Why lave ye done this ? Whose hirelings ire ye that ye thus waylay and seize ipon an honest man who has done io harm to any of you ?" "Never mind that now, sir," the uffian coolly answered. "Suffice it ior you to know that you are safe U1 tlie pcocui/. , "But will ye not tell me what this s for? There is some intent/' "Yes, and come with me and you >hall see. Come." Thus speaking, the man turned >nce more, and. having picked up lis lantern, he moved on, while the ithers, taking Ruric by the arms, iollowed after. The prisoner made io resistance now, for he knew that ' t would be useless. At a short dis:ance another flight of stairs was eached. "Down here?" uttered Ruric, vith a shudder. "Of course. You'd freeze up lere." These words struck harshly upon .he youth's soul, for it meant that le was tq be detained in this lonesome place. . At the bottom of these stairs they lame to a vaulted passage, at the md of which was a door. This was ipened, and Ruric was led through nto. the place beyond. He cast his eyes quickly about, and he found himself in a narrow apartment, the walls and floor of which were of stone and the roof of brick, the latter being arched. In one corner ttraa a paiipVi onrl iinnn it wprp snmp old skins. And here the youth was to be left. His guide simply pointed to the low pouch and then turned away. Ruric asked a question, but it was not answered. In a few moments more the heavy door was closed upon him,and he was in total darkness. He sought the couch, and, with a deep groan, he sank down. TO BE CONTINUED. ?itiscdtancous Reading. BEHEADING THE BOXERS. Execution of Two of the Chinese Anti-Foreign Leaders a Quick Piece of Work. Pekln Cor. London Express. Just before Yuen Chang, a member of the Tsung-ll-Yamen, was beheaded here in July on account of his alleged pro-foreign leanings, he Solemnly warned Shlu Cheng Yl, the vice president of the board of punishments, in the following language: "Today I shall suffer an ignominious death because I have striven to avert calamity from China. In a few months the foreigner will accupy Pekin and then you will undergo a similar penalty on the selfsame spot." This forecast was realized today, and as the Chinaman is superstitious and a fatalist, perhaps the feeling that it was his destiny may have afforded some sort of consolation to the wretched Shiu Cheng Y1 when he and his colleague, Chi Shiu, were being jolted in Pekin carts through the dusty city to their death. Save for the skill of the Japanese we should not even have secured any one for beheadal. The sad part of it is that the allied forces have made it clear to the Chinese that the governments of the "foreign devils" collectively are prone to adopt the same pitiful diplomacy of "bluff and cave in" which over and over again has characterized their individual policy in treating with China. Yes, these two comparatively unimDortant men, who "never will be missed" by the Chinese, have been considered by the allied Powers as sufficing to save our face, where their eleven superiors in crime and position are allowed some of them to submit to a nominal banishment and the rest to commit a hypothetical suicide. The worst that can.happen to those men is that they ' shouM really kill ifi em selves, fn whicT' doubtful case, Trii the eyes of the Chinese, they will be martyrs and not degraded criminals. Truly, a pitiful business! So I went to see how England, France, Germany, America, Austria, Italy, Janan and T?iiaalo tn "xnvo faro" hv executing the only two men they could lay hands on out of the thirteen on the famous list. In taking leave of their kindly custodian, Colonel Shlba, of legation siege fame, the doomed men had said: "We cannot understand the emperor's edict; but if our beheadal will tend toward the restoration of an honorable peace to China we are happy to die, even in this degrading manner." Then they were handed over to the Chinese authorities, and after saying goodbye to their immediate relatives, took their places In the centre of the quiet procession that passed at a walking pace through the thickly populated streets of Pekln to the place of execution. The Chinese soldiers were afraid to assume the responsibility of the prisoners while pasing through the streets, and so the Japanese were told off to escort them to the vegetable market? a narrow and dingy street in the Chinese city, where executions habitually take place. Arrived at their destination, the carts halted in front of a roughly constructed tent of sacking stretched across bamboo poles, where sat the magistrate who was to read over to them the history of their misdeeds and formally confirm the death sentence. Hard by were a couple of mats on the ground, and by them sat the executioner's assistants?villainous and dirty-looking men with unwashed clothes that were impregnated with the dried blood of previous victims. One of them stood up, shouldering the heavy sheathed knife that was to do the deed, in an attitude resembling a slipshod "attention," and another held under his arm the metal bowl that was to reoolm tVio VioqHQ TKOV wlfh each other and with the crowd, and the knife-bearer would unsheath his weapon for the benefit of the kodak fiend, who was present In great variety. The narrow street and the roofs of the adjoining buildings were thronged with men, mostly foreigners. Further off, held at bay by the foreign guards, was an immense crowd of Chinese. Every variety of uniform was noticeable and the few civilians present were nearly all press men. The executioner-in-chlef, who stood aloof from his companions, was by no means so repulsive looking a man as one might expect; he seemed alert and intelligent, and was neatly dressed in crimson trousers. American and French soldiers acted as police. Chi Chjti, an elderly man of full body, and a member of the Tsung-H-Yamen. was in the first cart. After the legal formalities nad been gone through with incredible rapidity, he walked ti?, 1.. tvitk /liopnitv tc\ tho fiirthpr in iiii j auu ?? mi uib??.vj vw v..w mat and knelt down. Instantly he was seized, a piece of string \vas tied tightly around his head, his pigtail was pulled aside, his clothes torn away to bare the neck end his arms seized. Four men held him while the executioner raised the heavy knife and with one swift drawing cut, decapitated his victim. The head was held aloft for the world to see, and simultaneously the inert ev trunk fell forward to the ground, up There it lay while the executioners, su with hands and clothes saturated with blood, went in search of the second pe prisoner. gr< Shin Cheng Tl, whose chief offense ca seems to have been that his father, W; now dead, declared that he would nev- da er be happy until he had the skin of a gri foreigner as a rug for his cart, was or< also an elderly man, and was taller inl and not so stout as his predecessor. It was obvious that he had been robbed lal of all feeling by drugs. There was no trl emotion in his face as he was dragged wi along and placed in position oh his To mat. It was all over In a few seconds, tul and I do not think that three minutes wc elapsed between the securing of the pa first prisoner and the fall of the second head. Though rapidly carried out and possibly an almost painless death, a ? Chinese execution is a ghastly and un- J cleanly exhibition. so] Soon, however, the orderly crowd hii melted away, save for those who had Es curiosity enough to wait and witness On the grewsome operation of sewing the ha heads on to the trunks and the disposal wo of the bodies In the elaborate coffins, ga The shops soon opened and the normal mc business of the street was quickly re- mt sumed; nor was there anything to indi- da cate that what must eventually become up a historical and is certainly the most of internationally attended legal tragedy go: of modern times, had Just i^een enacted bu here, except that at two spots on the ga1 street, facing a very ordinary grocery 8a, shop, the thickly lying dust had been 8a, converted into dark colored patches of 8a, sticky mud. ^ Altogether I counted the people of 13 ma different nationalities in the crowd ^ which witnessed the execution, and the ,.j only pleasing feature throughout the lt. ghastly business was that though a j ' public ceremony, there was no sign of ^ rowdyism. The ribald song, the laughter, the oaths and the hysterical shrelking which characterize a French exe- wl cution were not there nor was there ^ nnv ancrpntlnn nf nrnvera fnr the Henri " ? oo """ r" **' """ """" Let us hope, with these unhappy men, that their death may tend toward the S6< restoration of an honorable peace to China. we sa' * * * ho CHINESE YS. NEGRO LABOR. Bu Ju Does the South Want the Exclusion 0]^ Act Repealed. an Does the south want Chinese labor? to That Is a question sprung all at once bu by the demand of the Mobile Regis- sa1 ter, that southern congressmen work ne' for the repeal of the Chinese exclusion sa' act, so that Chinamen may come into bu the southern states and compete with sa' the Negro as laborers^- . Es iSacipi"frMrTt . SSfti ? "* That paper thinks the conpetltion sa' would have a good effect on Industry th< in this section. th< The New York Sun, in discussing the mi Register's proposition, makes some im- kn portant observations on the subject, Es which will be read with Interest. The sai Sun says: th< "It is somewhat remarkable to And a foU paper in Alabama, The Dally Regis- b]C ter, of Mobile, urging representatives 8t0 in congress from the southern states to ^ unite in demanding the repeal of the ge) Chinese exclusion law. Why? Because sai "we need in the south a million active Bu Chinese to wake the Negro population bU( into activity." "Get rid of the excluslon law, so far as we are affected by vJc It " " Bu "The trouble with the south, accord- bu ing to this Mobile paper, is that 'the tuj Negro has no competitor in certain j lines of work,' agricultural labor, more especially, and the Chinese competition Lq Is needed to 'break up the trust.' If these views were held generally by southern employers of labor, and the national bar to Chinese immigration was let down for their benefit, they would probably soon get their million A ! Chinamen: but what would be the consequence? They would have on their ^ hands a new and far more troublesome Alc race nuestion. a "The law excluding the Chinese, so bee violent In Its departure from our prin- ry clple of hospitality to immigration, was ^ passed because of the urgent demand of the Pacific coast, to which the Chinamen were coming in numbers so tra great that they threatened to swarm an< over those states and throughout the *12 union. Violent objection was made to ev{ them as alien not only, in race, but also ^01 in religion, morals, habits and tone. prl They had proved themselves efficient 'n in the construction of railroads and in " other enterprises necessary to the de- tra velopment of the Pacific coast states, twi but on the ground that they brought Gh social demoralization and the degrada- mil tion of labor the outcry against *.hem No came from every district into which sur they penetrated and the animosity was to expressed in frequent riots. Their im- ert migration, if permitted to continue, It pui was argued, would swamp our civiliza- the tion. Jus "Accordingly, after an attempt had been made to restrict It by state legis- t0 , lation, which was declared unconsti- ^ tutionai, the national exclusion aci re- (jot ferred tQ by the Mobile paper was cov passed and approved. As a representa- me tive from Oregon declared In congress: ord 'All political parties In all the states .. west of the Rocky Mountains have de- kll] ciared themselves in favor of measures for looking to the exclusion of the Chinese.' at? It was a burning question throughout t< tne ranks of labor, and the flame would burst out again not less furiously If an eac attempt was made by the south to re- c0" Sfl.lt peal the exclusion act. and it would be hottest in the south itself; for the argument against the Chinaman is that he is more disturbing socially, more yQlJ dangerous, than even the Negro, since I e: his habits are formed and fixed under sun a civilization of his own which is of- " fensive to ours he Is unasslmiliable sue and carries with him moral and social sai< degradation wherever he goes. my "If, then, the bars were let down and an<3 Chinese Immigration allowed to pour the into the south by the million, as the the Mobile paper advises, an agitation hai ? * en more passionate than that stirred by the Negro question would be re to arise eventually. 'Undoubtedly, the complaint that para makes of the shiftlessness of a eat part of the Negroes has justifltion; but as Mr. A. J. Clarke, of ashlngton, said in The 8un on Mony, the southern objection to the N?9 applies to all labor of the 'lowest Jer in the matter of education and elllgence' throughout the world. 'In the possession of cheap Negro jor, the south now enjoys an lndusal advantage which it could hot Hie thout consequences disastrous to it. bring in Chinese labor as a substifp or as a onmnoHtnr with tha Vavm tuld be like jumping from the frying n Into the Are." 2SAU BUCK AND THE BUCK SAW. In old farmer of Arkansas, whose is had all grown up and left hhn, ed a young man by the name of au Buck to help him on his farm, i the evening of the first day they uled up a small load of poles for' >od and unloaded them between the rden and the barn yard. The next >rning the old man said to the hired m: "Esau, I am going to town toy, and while I am gone you may saw that wood and keep the old ram out the garden. When the old man had ne Esau went out to saw the wood; t when he saw the saw he wouldn't sv It. When Esau saw the saw he tv that he couldn't saw It with that tv. Esau looked around for another tv; but that was the only saw he tv, so he didn't saw It When the old m came home he says to Esau: "Esau, I you saw the wood?" Esau said: saw the wood, but I wouldn't saw for when I saw the saw, I saw that couldn't saw with that saw, so I In't saw It." The old man went out see the saw, and when he saw the tv he saw that Esau couldn't saw th that saw. When Esau saw that i old man saw that he couldn't saw th the saw Esau picked up the ax d chopped up the wood and made a >-saw. The next day the old man nt to town and bought a new buck tv for Esau Buck, and when he came me he hung the buck saw for Esau ick on the saw buck by the see-saw. st at this time Esau Buck saw the > 1 buck In the garden eating cabbage, d when driving him from the garden \ the barn yard Esau Buck saw the ck saw on the saw buck by the seew, and Esau stopped to examine the w buck saw. Now when the old buck w Esau Buck looking at the new ck saw on the saw buck by the seew, he made a dive for Esau, missed (v against EsauT^imkf'wlm^fell on ~ saw. Now. when the old man saw i old buck dive at Esau Buck-ond ss Esau and hit the buck saw and ock the see-saw against Esau and au Buck fall on the buck saw on the (v buck by the see-saw, he picked up ; axe to kill the old buck; but the ck saw him coming, and dodged the r.r and countered on the old man's nnach; knocked the old man over see-saw onto Esau Buck, who was itlng up with the buck saw off the v buck by the see-saw, crippled Esau ck, broke the buck sasv and the saw ck and the see-saw., Now, when the l buck saw the completeness of his tory over the old man and Esau ck and the buck saw and the saw ck and the see-saw, he quietly ned around, went back and jumped 0 the garden again and ate up what s left of the old man's cabbage.?St uls Globe-Democrat THESE WERE NOT JERSEYS. Sensational Surprise Caused by an Alabama Dairyman. i'or the first time in the history of ibama railroads a cow that was not pure blooded Jersey worth $125 has ;n killed by a locomotive," said HarJenkins, of the Mary Lee Coal and ilroad company. As if to make this fact doubly exordinary, two cows have been killed, 1 neither one a pure Jersey worth 5; but both were just plain, honest. ?ry-day cows, the Droperty of an iest man. The story deserves to be nted in every newspaper and posted every court house. The other day a locomotive on our . . ,, T -i 1. IrlllA/i ck ai wary lice bhuva anu tuneu ? milch cows, the property of Mr. iss, a dairyman who supplies Bir-V ngham customers with honest milk, t knowing Mr. Glass, I naturally asned when the accident was reported me that, in acordanee with the hlth0 invariable custom, the cows were 'e-blooded Jerseys worth $125 each, iugh I knew as a fact that they were t common country cows. 1 sent for Mr. Glass In order to come an agreement with him and compene him for his loss, for there was no ibt that our locomotive killed his ^s. He came and we had a pleasant etlng. After the Interchange of the inary courtesies I came to business. 'Now, Mr. Glass,' I began, 'we have ed your cows and we intend to pay them. "What did you value them 'I believe the cows were worm $25 h. Mr. Jenkins, and that is all I Id ask you for?$50 for the two,' 3 Mr. Glass. Why, certainly. Mr. Glass,' I re>d, 'the cows were worth that. But i won't take it disrespectful if I say xpected you to name a mucn larger a?' 'Certainly not; I understand how h things are usually done,' Mr. Glass i, 'but I couldn't accept more than cows were honestly worth to me, I, to tell you the truth, It was partly fault of them fool cows getting in way of your engine. Birmingn (Ala.) Age-Herald.