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" ISSUED SEMI-WEEKL^ ^ ^ ^ l a. grist & sons, Publishers.} % .Jfamitj IJeiespaper: j[tr the promotion ij the political, Social, Agricultural, and (Commercial Interests of the |eogle. j tbr^Si'n'ole 2oApt! rAi c^rvsance' ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1901. ISTO. 78. NOT LIKE C By Frederick Va Author of "The Urotlierlioc of a HI Copyright, 1901, by Frederic Van Rens CHAPTER XIII. OA o?AC AV TUP nP A T"> WAT?!" LA/11 a uv uovm v*i > ? ClRAIO THOMPSON, with the bridle of a led horse in his BSRK5 grasp and with three men S2aCBr similarly provided accompanying him, was riding with all speed toward Maxwell's ranch. Already half the distance of 30 miles bad been covered, and already he bad changed horses twice, urging them to their utmost effort impatient silent digged. Before him. not half a mile away, was a rise of ground, more lofty than the others, and as he spurred his animal toward It a horseman emerged from the blank beyond and halted upon its crest silhouetted against the sky. Even at that distance Craig recognized the rider, and. rlslug his stirrups, he waved his bat In greeting. The salutation was returned. The half mile which separated the men was quickly traveled, and the galloping party came to a halt "Ride on ahead, boys," ordered Craig, addressing his companions. "I'll trail along behind with the kid. We'll get there soon enough, I reckon, since Lisle Is out here to meet us. Is it true, Lisle, that Tom Thomas and his girl are there?" "Yes. They are at the house." "That's all right. You skip along, boys, and don't mind us. We'll Jog along at a slower pace. Lord, kid, but it was lucky that I was home. I hadn't been there more'n an hour either when I'ete rode up with the news. No foul play, was there. Lisle?" "No." "Just turned up his toes without a word, eh? Broke your heart, too, eb? Pull up here and let me look at you. What's the matter with you. lad? That ain't all grief that I see In your face. There's something else there. What makes your eyes blaze so? Yon look Just as you did when you drew that bead on Jim Cummings while your other arm was held fast to your body by the rope." * "I feel very much the same as 1 did then, Craig." responded Lisle. "I am In very much the same position with the difference that I cannot see an enemy to fire at. Let us rest here awhile. I have something to tell you." They did not leave their saddles, but sat vis-a-vis. Lisle with her hack toward the ranch. Craig facing it and studying with manifest care the loping of the horses which bore the three men who had ridden on ahead. lie considered it best not to speak again until bis voune friend had told what there was to say. "Craig," said Lisle presently, "you have regarded me as rather a queer specimen of a boy ever since we first met. There is something concerning me that must be told, sometlilug that I wish to tell you. something that Just now I could not tell to any other person?something which you must retain as a secret in your own heart until I give you permission to reveal it and. above all, something concerning which you must advise and direct me." "Let it go, lad: I'm listeuing." "I am a woman. Craig." Thompson did not move a muscle of bis body except those which controlled his visual organs. He turned his eyes slowly until they rested upon the face of Lisle, and then, with marked deliberation. but undoubted emphasis, he said: "You don't mean it!" "I am a woman. Craig." "Who told you?" "Miss Thomas." "How did she know It?" "1 do not exactly know. When raywhen Richard Maxwell died. 1 fainted. She revived me. and"? "I know the rest. Does Tom Thomas know?" "Not yet." Thompson did not speak again for a moment or two. The muscles of his Rising In hUs stlrru]>s, he waved his hat In greeting. face were working, however, as though he were thinking words which he did not care to utter. "Did you know It. Craig?" asked Lisle suspiciously. "Know It? No! How should I know It? What do you think I am?a clairvoyant?" "But you believe It uow. do you not?" "Of course I believe It. liow could 1 help believing it? The only wonder is that I was such an idiot as not to see it at once. I ought to have seen it, and now, viewed in the light of understanding. I suppose 1 did see It without recognizing It. When 1 tirst caine to this God forsaken country, 1 used to pros )THER MEN. n Rensselaer Dey, >d ol 811once,M "Tho Quality n," Etc. selaer Dey. pect for gold over there In the Sierras, and I've picked up pay dirt and chucked it away again a good many times without knowing what it was. That's just bow it was this time. Well, kid, before we go any deeper Into this subject, I've got Just one thing to say? I'm going to be father and .mother and brother and sister and the bull blllng lot of relatives to you from this on. without regard to conventionalities, and for the present, while 1 turn this thing over In my mind two or three times. I'm going to think, and while I'm thinking I'm going to treat you as 1 always have?Just as If you were a boy? and lastly, before I speak very decidedly on the subject, I'm going to have a talk with Miss Erna Thomas. She's a whole team with a boss behind and a dog under the wagon. Let's ride on." There was silence between them after that, neither speaking until the ranch was before them: then It was Craig Thompson who spoke. "I brought Hank Smith aloug with me," he said. "He's handy with tools and can make a coffin in a jiffy. Where shall we break ground V" "It makes no difference to me." "I mean where do you want the old man buried?" "I understood you. 1 do not care. Bury him where you please. It is all the same to me." "Humph! Look here. Lisle, I understand how you feel, but you don't want to do anything now that you'll be sorry M ?ml I* nln't fo 11* tr\ trr onH lur inlet uu. hijvj 11 a.u ? iv unconvict a tnan without hearing blm In his own defense. Dick Maxwell's gone where he can't be heard, and 1 don't believe that you are made of the sort of stuff that's going to hit a man when he's down?leastwise that ain't exactly the way that I sized you up." "What do you want me to doV "Your duty, not to him particularly. If you don't like It that way. but to yourself and to others?to me, to the cowboys on your ranch and to the world. It's the worst kind of a coward that turus tail at a time like this. You go to your room and wait for me. Think It over. A man may have lots of reasons for doing things, and they may be of the sort that he can't explain. but there's one thing that is dead certain, and that is that every son and every daughter In the world has got a credit as well as a debit account In the names of the old folks, and anybody who won't study botti sides of the ledger before making out the balance sheet ain't tit to he mentioned in polite society, and. Lisle, the only reully polite society in the world Is the one that's made up of honest people." Lisle reached out one hand aud rested it upon the arm of her frieud. "You are right. Craig," she said. "There is no need for me to think It aver. You have done that for me in the few words that you have uttered. Before you leave me, however, there Is one question which I must ask you." "What is it, kid?" "Ftn mil rleunlse me hep.tiiRp I nm a woman? Tell me truly?do you despise me?" "Lisle, the man never lived who honestly despised women as a class. Here and there oue man may have despised and hated oue woman or two or u dozen?hut ail of 'em? Not much! 'Tain't natural, and God Almighty never made one of us that way." "My father did." "Not on your life. Lisle. The best proof that you are wrong Is the fact that be hid himself.away from 'em all the way he did. lie did that because he loved 'em so that he didn't dare to go where they were for fear that his pride would give iu to human nature. It's more than likely that one woman has deceived him somehow, and he got on his ear. just as you have done at him. There wasn't any old critter like Craig Thompson around to tell him the difference 'tween tweedledum and tweedledee. You just make out that baluuce sheet and look it over, and if you don't find more to your dad's credit than you've got ag'in him I'll eat it." "But you have not replied to my question, Craig." "Ain't I? Well. I'll answer it now. It don't make no difference to me or to any other man whether a human critter's a man or a woman. It's the critter, not the sex, that we look at. Nobody will ever be despised by anybody if he or she is honest and true. Those are the biggest words in the dictionary of human conduct, 'cause they mean the most. As for uiy despising you because you're a woman, the idea is infernal rot. When 1 despise a person. that person's pretty apt to know it 'thout asking questions on the subject. Look here. Lisle: I wasn't intending to talk any more to you till after 1 had a chance to turn things over in my mind, but I'll say this: You're facing a situation that looks a heap sight bigger to you than It does or ever will to anybody else. You have found out that you are a woman without knowing what a woman Is. and you sorter feel as if you was walking round arm in arm with your own ghost. You've met a stranger that you can't git away from for the rest of your life. You've cot to cet acuuainted. and the sootier you get on familiar terms with yourself the better for all cotieerned. If you had been picked up and carried away and suddenly put down again on another planet, you couldn't have been In a much worse fix than you are now, but I reckon you'd find the inhabitants .of the other place sort of decent, and you'll find 'em so here. 1 think that between Torn Thomas, Erna aud me we can set you on the right road all right, hut you've got to remember that you can't Jump on to your boss aud ride from here to my ranch lu half an hour. If you do It In three, you're riding mighty fast, and you know It So you see you can't expect to know everything that concerns this transformation of yours In a holy minute. It ain't the future that's puzzling me; It's the present. I'll have a talk with Tom and bis daughter, and blmehy we'll look over Dick's papers and things. The domlnle'll be here about sundown, and we'll have the funeral and plant your guv'nor in the morning.and tomorrow night . after the rest have goue to bed you and me and maybe Tom will sit down lu the library and talk It over. In the meantime I'll be doing some thinking. and you can tote Erna arouud the place and show her things and talk. Tom and I will manage everything. You jest leave that to us. You keep pK'i/i \ "You are right," said Lisle. ' your head up and be a man yet awhile. ' Don't let anybody see that things are any different, and for the rest put your > elbow on Craig Thompson's shoulder ' and lean there, and. lastly, don't go I back on the dead man." < He turned away abruptly and left i Lisle alone, for tbey had brought their < horses to a halt close beside the corral. 1 TO BE CONTINUED. THEY LIVE BY CRIME. Half a Million Honest People Supported by Offences Against the Lair. Not less than 100,000 of the good citizens of this broad land live by crimes which they do not commit. Although among the law-abiding and often respected citizens of their several communities, they are supported entirely by offences against the law and against right. Their living depends on the energies of 250,000 other persons who commit the offenses. Were these 250,000 to suddenly become upright citizens and cease to break the laws, not only the 100,000, but four times that many more who depend upon them would be thrown out of their livelihood and must depend upon charity for support until some other occupation should be found for them. If it be true that there is honesty among thieves this time cannot be as far distant as might be supposed, for by the national census it appears that the country is rapidly approaching a time when all the inhabitants shall be malefactors, and therefore, according to the proverb, being honest among themselves will not longer require supervision. In 1850 but one out of every 3,422 inhabitants was a criminal. In 1870 thieves and other evil doers had in| creasd so that one out of every 1,171 inhabitants served a term in Jail. In 1890 one out of every 786.5 was incarcerated, and the proportion has steao'ly increas[ ed, so that now it probably approximates one out of every 500. To look after these evil doers the United States maintains a police force esI ?* 70 nnn man nnotinp' nnnnallv I uuaicu a.u i y.uuv liivti, vWWv...0 _ ? more than $50,000,000 for their support. In 52 of the chief cities of the land there are over 15,000 police, whose maintenance costs over $13,000,000. In addition to these police is a great army of men who are employed in the machinery of trying and punishing criminals. There are police magistrates, trial judges, clerks, bailiffs, jailers and penitentiary guards, in all amounting to several thousand more. On an average one guard is required for every ten prisoners in jail. On the 1st of June this year there were upward of 85,000 prisoners in the jails of this country. This is taken as a fair daily average, so that there must have been 8,500 guards caring for them. This army of men engaged in catching, trying, guarding and watching thieves and other evil doers, reckoning at the usual rate for this country of one to a family of five, is the support of 500,000 persons. The cost to a nation in wages, court expenses and support of these men, not counting the civil courts, is not less than $125".000,000. All this expense is brought upon the natiop through the desire of many people to break the laws. The exnense is even greater than this, for there are the criminals in jail to be fed and housed, which, if the average cost is out little more than $100 per criminal, , amounts to $10,000,000. ( If "Bill Sykes," as the English term . the malefactor, should therefore suddenly reform, he would save the ( nation an expense of $135,000,000 an- ( nually, in addition to what he steals 2 and the damage he does. But what a calamity he would plunge it into. ( Of the many criminals out of jail probably 20.000 have no other occu- | pation. Add these to the 85,000 who would be released, and these again to the 100,000 honest folk thrown out of < employment, and the nation would be < left in some such plight as it was at the close of the civil war, with 200,000 men out of employment to be absorb- ' ed into various lines of trade, and these t same persons with all dependent upon . them to be pensioned and supported until they could be cared for. The expense of the pensioning and pension bureau would probably equal the present 1 policing expense for a time, but the , problem of (-firing for all the people and finding them employment, would be 1 great.?Chicago Tribune. 1 g^tecettanemi* Reading. THE MINISTRY OP CHILDREN. "Million* of Infant Sonla Compose the Family Above." Published by Request. Some while ago in a mood for such statistics, our eye fell on the item that in one year the deaths in four Eastern cities amounted to 43,432, and of this number 24,767 were children under 5 years of age. The last sentence fixed our attention: nftHnhpil (inrlnp thp vpar I 6*t, IUI Uiiiiutcu f/v-.?? ? ? 0 ? ?we prefer to say died. This In four cities only! Of the balance of the 43,432 who can tell their eternal destiny? Some to heaven, some to hell. But of these little ones no one can doubt. Taking the aggregate of other cities and villages, and the country at large, we comprehend a fact that finds expression at the Savior's lips, "Of such Is the kingdom of God," and in the sacred couplet: Millions of infant souls compose The family above. The adults had worked out their mission or failed to do it. But these little ones had no mission? Was their being a failure? Lived they, and suffered, and died, and is the world all the same as though they had not been? Nay, eerily. Theirs was a precious ministry, and such as they could fulfill. What a waste of life! exclaims the worldy economist, as he figures up the statistics of population. They lived In vain, Is the thougnt of the man ambitious of making his mark on the age. Mere blank beings in vain, flowers that came to no fruit, broken off, fallen, faded, is the thought and feeling of many. But Christian philosophy presents a more ennobling1 and comforting view. How cold, selfish, would this world of ours be without these children! They preach the evangel of beauty and Innocence; they break the incrustations of worldliness; they touch chords vibrating solemnly, sweetly, and reserved only for their tiny hands; they stir In the heart hidden wells of feeling; they preserve human sympathies from utter ossification; they deeply subsoil our hard nature. Geologists often show us, 3eep down under the earth's layers, the olear and well-defined print of a frail leaf, or tne track of a little bird, made In the dim ages past. These have left Imperishable memorials of themselves on the face of a world from which tvhole species of races and kingdoms have passed away- wiihout a record. The Bible makes many records, minute ind kind, of the death of little children. They have their significance. Take :he case of David'* family. We lose fight of the sickness and suffering, and leath of the unweaned child, in the ef'ects produced upon the royal parent, ft Is not saying too much, that a large proportion of those who are saved will he saved by the ministry of little cnillren. Summing: up the moral results of the fear we must not credit all to orators ind presses and Institutions. These Utile preachers have visited homes, and softened the hearts of the Indwellers and drawn them heavenward, where >ther voices have not been heeded. The strong man, unused to tears, has bowed >ver the little coffin and wept. Under vhat sermon was he ever so melted lown? What other preacher ever availed to bow that pride of strength and unseal that fountain of tears? The ?ay. worldly minded mother, sits silent, and sheds secret tears and prays. And jeradventure, as these two hearts are Irawn closer by a common grief, they :hlnk of a common tie in heaven, and esolve, through grace, as the babe canlot come to them, that they will go to t. "When our little boy died," has seen the beginning of pilgrimages for nany bereaved parents. "When the jaby died." dates Impressions on the 'amlly circle that have matured to godIness. The old may outlive their friends, the niddle aged may make enemies who ire glad to be rid of them, or, wanderng off, die where none lament: but the jabe is without prejudice in life, and nighty in death. It is God's messenger >f reconciliation, his flag of truce in :his world of enmities and envies and 4.1. 3 Tf Vino otrnncr Vinlrl on >V I'll (.11 clIIU SUUC. AV ?>I4U ?V.V-.0 wo hearts, If no more. The empty crib, :he half-worn shoe, the soft locks of mir that a few may see, prolong the gainful, yet pleasing memory of the anjel visitor that looked In upon us and smiled and went to heaven, bidding js, amid care and sorrow to follow on. There Is something so peculiarly affecting In the loss of a child that we sympathize with the parent who said le believed no minister is prepared to jury another's child who had not bured one of his own. There's many an empty cradle, There's many a vacant bed. There's many a vacant bosom Wnose joy and light are fled, For thick in every graveyard The little hillocks lie. And every hillock represents An angel in the sky. In this way heaven Is receiving large contributions from earth. Next to the conversion of a soul, the enemy of God ind man may take least pleasure in the leath of a child. His snares are all prevented and his prey surely lost. We bless God for our creation. The jpening of a career of Immortal existence Is in itself a great event?a misdon of praise and glory, which death cannot frustrate. Thougn the voice of praise swell as the sound of many waters, and the ceestial harpers are numberless, yet His car detects each new voice and joyful string, and the praise of these little tines glorifleth Him. in mis view mc babe, even of a few days and sicklythat goeth from the cradle to the grave ?Is of more Intrinsic Importance than material worlds. A Hindu woman said to a missionary: 'Surely your Bible was written by a woman?" "Why?" "Because It says so many kind things for women. Our Shastas never refer to us but In re proach." Parents who have w&tchei by the couch of suffering innocence and seen the desire of their eye taker away at a stroke, have found them' selves busy running over the Scrip tures of faith, and gathering up ai the stay of their hearts, what Goc has said of their little children How full and precious and equivO' cal are the passages of comfort The conclusion is, surely, the Bi ble was given by a parent. And so il was. He knows the heart of a parent and works in it and by it to the glorj of His grace. He weaves out of this ex qulsite material silken cords which draw mightily. He touches Strieker souls with this divine polarity, and ther sets the object of affection in the skies O, prattling tongues, never formed to speech, and now still in death, how eioquenny you preaon 10 ub: v, unit pattering feet, leading the way, how many, through rude and stormy scenes are following after you to heaven! W< thank God for your ministry, and If II be In vain, the fault and the loss wli: be all our own.?New Orleans Advocate. BRITONS ARE ASTOUNDED. Sneeeaa of the Boera Are Entirely Beyond Comprehenalon. To say that all England Is astounded by the successes of the Boers on twc successive days Is to put It mildly. The people are absolutely dumbfounded al the news, and clamor as loudly agalnsl war office methods as they did In the days when Metheun and other British generals were trapped by tne burghers There is no further talk now about droves of Boers coming In wu.n flags of truce to surrender, and there Is nc reasonable doubt that the war, such as It Is, will be prolonged another yeai unless the government takes steps nol hitherto planned. Only a few weeks ago talk was sanguine of the removal of 70,000 troops from South Africa, with the resultant lifting of so much financial burden froir nio nnnntrv Then the ontimlsts ol Lombard street did not believe that another large government loan would be required before the end of the year Now it seems likely that we shall heai before many weeks a demand for more funds. The situation, as seen by the average Englishman, now is: The Boers begar their third summer campaign this week. The opening engagement withir two days resulted, so far as the British censorship discloses, in 80 British killed and 370 wounded and taken prisoners as well as five guns captured. This exceeds the loss in the opening fights ir October, 1899, when the combatants first met. It would be a serious mistake to assome that, because about 20,000 Boer are prisoners, it would be impossible for battles of the magnitude of the firs) struggles at the Tugela and Moddei rivers to be repeated. The Boers in the past year have probably recruited 5,00( colonial Dutch, while the Republicar forces are now at their fullest available strength, instead of as originally, leaving one man of each family to reside or the farm. On the other hand, Lord Kitchener's army, although five times the strength of General Buller's first force, does not represent a proportionately greater combatant capacity. Before the invasion of the Boer republics the total British force was available for seeking and engaging the Boers, but now nearly 3,000 miles of railway must be guarded so closely that adjoining posts meet daily and nightly. Commander-in-Chief Botha's present plan is simple and apparently workable. As soon as Lord Kitchener's date of September 15 for the general surren der of the burghers lapsed, and the Boer leaders were placed under the bar of the forfeiture of their property and lifelong exile, It was obvious that, having decided not to surrender, they could serve no purpose by remaining In the republican territory. They therefore struck Immediately Into the British colonies, where they were enabled to make Immediate reprisals on their enemies' subjects. It is significant that there is no record of their releasing prisoners during the present week's engagement. If the British authorities attempt any particular severity In the new phase of the war, the fact that the Boers are able to collect armed hostages whenever they try. may Induce the English to pause. The present position thus remains difficult, though In a different way from what it was two years ago. Many of the British troops, particularly the mounted men. are in a very unsatisfactory condition. The infantry has long since succumbed to the fatalistic Idea that they are trudging after' an agile will-o'-the-wisp, whom they never expect to catch, while the recent importations of Eritish horsemen, like the " 1 nnthlntr Q rtH fnrfTPt nouruuijo, ictti II IIVVH...C ... nothing. Secretary of War Broderick's most notable contribution to the field force was In sending out 15,000 yeomanry. Lord Kitchener's criticism of them, in a report wnich the war office was constrained to publish, was: "Many of them were unable to either shoot or ride, and others are quite unsuitable for the work in hand. Numbers of them had to be taught the elements of a soldier's business when they were sorely needed at the front. Over 100 of the 400 officers had to be sent home." Weary and disgusted though the English people are with the war, yet the dangerous quicksand on which they seem to see their generals, regulars and volunteers alike, has compelled the newspapers to give prominence to the bad news of the week, and yesterday and today the war-office messages supplanted the rest of the world's news for prominence in all the Journals. The misgivings in regard to the future have been deepened by the announcement that Secretary of War Broderick, after his professions that proved competence alone would entitle a man to promotion, has appointed Sir Redvers Bui \ ler to the command of the 1st army d . vision. The foreign office is disposed to sett the claims of Americans for deports tion from the Transvaal, without troi bling the United States embassy 1 1 collect more testimony or bring ove . witnesses for examination by th - claims commission, as agreed upon lai ! August. The demands of the Amer - cans will be voluntarily scaled dow t by the United States embassy from tt , large sums at first asked, while the foi r eign office intimates that it will readil - concede reasonable payments for Iosj 1 es of property and for personal incor i venlences. i Details have been received of th . fight between Major Gough and th 1 Boers, in which the British were an r bushed and lost heavily. Tne countr i is rough and difficult. Major Gougl r with 180 mounted Infantry, made , dashing attack upon 200 Boers, wh i were descending a hill in front of th t British. Six or eight hundred Boei I were ambushed on the British flanh and encompassed the capture of th force with three guns. Twenty-flve < the Britisn escaped. Major Gough an Capt. Craycraft effected their escar later in the darkness. r It is believed that about 2,000 Boei have concentrated for operations in Na tal. It is not certain at what point < I the Natal border they are aiming. ] > they attempt to go through Zululant s they will get into a.fight with the na t tives, who are friendly to the British.t London cable to Philadelphia Times. SPIRIT OF ROOSEVELT. " By No Mennn Inherited Solely Froi ' His Father. From the father's side may hav come some of the blood that gave Pret ident Roosevelt his indomitable spiri but certain it is that the maternt branch was rich in that quality tha marked the Bullochs, of Georgia, fc their resolution, pertinacity and grea strength of will. No better exponent < | those traits could be found than Marth Bulloch Roosevelt, the mother of th [ president. Not long after the civil war Mr Rooseveit was on a visit to Savanna! where she had many friends. She wa a Georgia woman of distinguished ar * it T?.- UAImos ama / L'esiry, me duiiuuii laiun; uciug uire V the best In the state and its represents tives having served with distinction i the highest positions. It was but nal 1 ural, therefore, that she should hav > been well received upon her visit to thi 1 city, and that there should have bee rare pleasure to her, an unreconstructe ' "rebel," in her intercourse with he 1 own people, those who had fought an ' bled upon the field of battle or fougl the greater fight of waiting and watcl " ing. ' Reunion with her Southern friend; f after the years of the war that she ha : spent at her home in New York, was pleasure to Mrs. Roosevelt, and it wa ! with the keenest relish that she r? ' counted stories of the times and of th i trials that she suffered in the city c her adoption because of her unswervin loyalty to the cause of the South? ' cause in which one brother, Irvine Bui I loch, fought as an officer aboard th i cruiser Alabama, and which anothe i brother represented at England's cap! tal city. One of these stories clearly r< vealed the character of the woman an ' leaves little difficulty in determinin whence the president gets some c : those qualities that have tended to hi ; preferment. , It was at a dinner given in Mr Roosevelt's honor, by Mrs. Henriett : S. Cohen, that she told the story. C late years, because of Theodore Roosc ! velt's ranld advancement, it has bee recalled by his mother's old friend; ! who feel pride in having known th i mother of the president and gladly as I cribe to her some of the traits that ar seen in the son. I It was just when the spirit of peact ! uncertain as to whether it shoul i alight, was hovering over the lane New York was aflame with passionat ! patriotism, and anything smackin of the Confederacy was not tolerates i Feeling ran high and woe was it fo i any who braved the popular tide an showed a leaning toward the cause c ' the Soutn. ' Theodore Roosevelt, the older, decid ed at about that time, to give som great social function. The Roosevel mansion was accordingly bravely deck ed in bunting and with American flags From every window, save one, flew th Stars and Stripes. That one was o ' Mrs. Roosevelt's boudoir. Her husban had not designed to omit it from th decorative scheme, but she would hav i none of it. Instead, she hit upon a pla that would clearly reveal her sentl ments. Stopping not to consider the peril i which it might place her and her hus band, but determined to show tha all in that house were not of the caus of the North, she drew from among he most cherished treasures the Stars an Bars, the emblem of the South. Goin to the window she firmly fixed its stal and allowed its folds to flutter from th breeze. On the instant, almost, the hostile en sign was noted. A passer-by in th street below descried it. In hot indig nation, he pointed it out to another. A mobs will, so one began to grow, am soon the street was chocked with angr; people, who shook threatening lists a the Confederate I1ag and inveighe> most bitterly. Alarmed uy the gathering that wa swelled every moment and that directe< its wrath against his home, Theodor Roosevelt sought the cause that hai stirred the people to anger. He wa not long in finding it. Fierce acclair directed his gaze, which rested upoi the fluttering emblem of the South The Roosevelt nature had never quaile before a crowd. Theodore, the elde: saw that imminent danger could proba bly be averted only through his per suadinghis wife toremove the objection able flag. With a word to the crowd, h left, entering the house and finding hi i- wife, he told her what she already knew?that the anger of the mob had le been excited by her Indiscreet display l- of her colors, and that It would- be well i- for her to take In the flag. :o "I shall not do so," declared the mother er of the president. "The flag is mine; ie the boudoir is mine. I love the flag for 3t It represents my native land. No ruf1 flan hand shall Invade the privacy of n my boudoir to drag down that flag, nor ie shall rufflian shouts force me to re[ - move it from the window of a room that y is wholly mine. Explain to them that I j. am a Southern woman; that I love the South. Do anything you like except touch that flag. It shall not come ,e down." ie And It did not. Theodore Roosevelt wont ncoln tn fnoo tho prnwd _ Wo mndo y a speecli. dwelling with finesse upon his wife's love for her own land and moulda lng the mob to his will and to an indulio gence of Mrs. Roosevelt in her desire ie to fly the flag of her beloved South, s The crowd dispersed, but the story :s remains to show a maternal quality ie that has made a president.?Savannah >f News. >e the: race: por governor. .g Probability In That There Will Be L_ Many Candidate*. >f There are now quite a number of can[f didates in the field for the position of j( governor of the Palmetto state, and the i- prospect is that there will be quite a _ number of others who will enter the race by next summer who are not now identified witu the contest, says a Columbia letter to the Augusta Chronicle. Perhaps the strongest individual mentioned in connection with this race who is yet a dark horse, is Colonel Wilie Jones, of Columbia. Por some time '6 | past he has been recognized and named t as a senatorial possioility; but from J what can be understood, very strong t pressure is now being brought upon (r him to make a change of base and enter t the race for governor instead of run^ ning for the United States senate. Whether he will do this or not is not ia ie yet known, for it is certain that the colonel of the Second South Carolina volunteers has decided ambitions to 8. wear the senatorial toga. The general opinion now is that the most promihent of the candidates now f in the field is Congressman W. J. Talbert, of Edgefield. He seems to be looked upon by the political leaders as ^ the official candidate, whatever that may amount to; but there have been 'e I times in South Carolina when men who have been regarded as having a "cinch" upon public office have been badly defeated. T mu_ <kn? x lie gictticai LI uauic inui V/Viifiicao1 man Talbert will have in his race is that he has been in public office draw" ing a salary of $5,000 a year since early in the 90*8, when he defeated Colonel ^ Geo. D. Tillman; and second, that he comes from Edgefield county, which has had a United States senator continuously since 1876, first M. C. Butler and then Senator Tillmai^ )f That the county of Edgefield has had the congressman from that district alg most continuously since 1876, from Col. I -Geo. D. Tillman's time down through e that of Congressman Talbert. The >r county has had the state treasurer, and j_ other public officers, now has the lieutenant governor, and with the solitary interruption of the term of Solicitor Nelson, has had the solicitorship since )f Democratic days oegan. It is urged l8 that this will be used to considerable disadvantage to Congressman Talbert's candidacy, on the ground that Edge^ field county, which is now one of the smallest in the state, ought not to have everything, or at least more than its ' quota in proportion to ine population ' and distribution of public officers. 8 Mr. Heyward, of Colleton county, is something of an unknown ouantity in the contest, which he has permanently entered. He is a prominent member of 4 the Knights of Pythias, and has been a ^ leading officer of that fraternal organlj zation and is said to be quite a successg ful and veil qualined business man. The friends of Secretary of State j Cooper have announced that he will r make the race for the governorship, ^ but it does not seem to be at all certain that he will enter, and the friends of former State Treasurer Tlmmerman have also announced that he will be in e the race and make a formidable candi[t date. There seems to be a good deal of spec3 ulatlon as to whether Lieutenant Govg ernor Tillman will be content to stand ,f for lieutenant governor, which position jj there seems to be no doubt he can see cure again if he should stand tor ree election. It seems to be practically n settled that he will not make the race l_ for congress against his business partner, Col. George Croft, who is going to n run for congress in the Second congressional district, and the only quest tion is whether Colonel Tillman's arae bltion will permit him to be checked up r for two years longer. If he enters the ^ gubernatorial race there is no telling g what his candidacy will amount to as ^ his race for lieutenatn governor was a e decided surprise to every one wno had watched the political kalledoscope. There is some talk that Governor Mce Sweeney will make the race again for governor, and there is no doubt about g the fact that he is being strongly urged A to do so, and frequent letters have been y received by him from his political t friends advising him that his admlnis[j tration has been so successful that he ought to make the race at all events. s There is a strong desire on the part j of a great many people to have a good successful business man enter the race e and see what the disposition of the peod pie is in regard to having such a man s occupy the position of governor instead of having some man who has been in political harness for a number of years 11 elected: and there is a desire on the i. part of a great many people to have j some such man as Mr. John B. Cleve. land or Mr. W. A. Courtenay or Arch B. Calvert, or a man of such tempera - ment and training. At all events the gubernatorial con_ test Is someways off and a great deal can happen in South Carolina politics e between now and the time mat the ens tries for the primary will close.