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" ISSUED SIKI-WEEKL^ i. m. GRIST & sons, Publishers. J % ^[amilj) ^tcuTspaper: jfor (he promotion of the political, facial, gjritultiiral, and Commercial Interests of the geogle". { ??' cents*1*"8' ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., "WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1901. NO. 79. * 1 ~ ' 4- i uet.e that mnw iip. NOT LIKE ( By Frederick Va Author of "The UrotlierJio* of a SI Copyright, 1901, by Frederic Van Rent CHAPTER XIV. USLE'S RESOLUTION'. LllSLE MAXWELL followed the advice given to her by Tunm' Craig Thompson, and during Wwl the remainder of that day and the one succeeding it she kept much In the society of Erna. save at those Intervals when her presence was required elsewhere. The friendship begun so strangely ripened rapiaiy, ana at Erna's request they occupied the same room, so that their opportunity for the exchange of confidences was manifold. The servants were quartered in an adjacent building, and from them and from the cowboys employed upon the ranch the secret of LIsle's identity was kept, nor were the minister and the doctor made more wise. After the funeral Craig called Lisle to him and conducted her to the library. "We've been through Dick's papers," he said, "and everything is as shipshape as it could be. I found a letter addressed to me. written the same day that I went away from here after the round up. I reckon maybe Dick thought he might shuffle off without much warning, and he did. Something that I said to him that day weighed on his mind. I reckon, and he appointed me guardian pro teih. His will and everything concerning his business Is In the hands of a lawyer in the east? In New York city?a feller named Dan Maxwell. Did you ever hear of blm?" "Never." "Well, I suspect he's some relation, though I don't know. Anyhow I'm to notify him of Dick's death, and he'll do the rest, and the old man wanted me to Rtnv here with vou till Dan Maxwell's arrival. Tbe letter tells me about your being a girl and says that I can use my own judgment about telling you before Dan Maxwell gets bere, but it doesn't say a word about any reasons for the way he brought you up. aud it doesu't explain a thing except what I have told you. only that the lawyer has full instructions how to act and that you are rich enough to do as you please for the rest of your life." "Let me see the letter." said Lisle quietly. It was given her. and she read it through to the end. finding no more and no less than Craig had told her. Hut when she returned it to him she said: "It is my wish. Craig, that you should all go away and leave me here alone for a time. 1 do not even waui you to write to this lawyer until 1 give you permission to do so." Thompson shook his bead in a decid ed negative, but the calm, clear voice went ou unheedingly. "It must be so, Craig, whether yoi approve of it or not. I will have it so I wish to be left here utterly alone uu til I send for you to come, and I com mand that you do not communicate with the lawyer in the east until I tel you to do so." "It's all uonsense. Lisle. Don't yoi see that it is?" uvt ? 1 * ?v%a !?/> nr\ rl 1 ffn^nnoe i\u, U.UU II V\uuiu iuni\c uu UU1VI \.uv\ if I did." "Well, let me stay here with you any way." "No." "Keep Eroa Thomas with you. then.' "No." "Let us both stay, or, If you don' want uie. 1 ean prevail upon Tom to re main with his daughter." "No. Craig, no. If 1 permitted any body to remain. It would be you. but ! must be alone. I will be alone." "I'll ride over to see you once' In th< while anyway." "No. not at all unless I send for you.' "You're a headstrong critter If yot are a gal. Lisle." "Perhaps so. I do not mean to b< unkind. Craig. There Is nobody in tin world in whom I have as much eonti dence as I have In you. but even yoi must leave me alone for awhile, have learned that leopards can chang? their spots, but they cannot cbang< them all at once." "Humph! What are you up to any how?" "1 do not know?yet." "You won't go away? You'll staj here on the ranch, won't you?" "I will do nothing of which you wil not ultimately approve." "Promise me that you won't gt away." persisted Craig, who was It despair. For almost the tirst time if uik me uf iuiiiiu mmseir m me pres ence of a person whose will was stron per than his own. Instead of dominat lug. as he had expected to do. he was dominated. "I will make you one promise anc only one." replied Lisle calmly. "Witt that one you will have to be satisfied or I will end the discussion here. 1 will, at the eud of two months frotr now. go to you or send for you ou con dition that during that time you wil make no effort to see me or to seud t messenger to me. It must be as 1 liavt said. Tomorrow morning you will taki our friends to your ranch, leaving mi here as If nothing had happened. A the end of two months, if not before you will hear frotu me or see uie-twi mouths from today." "Well. Lisle, it's got to be doue. 6upi>ose. but I call it blamed unklud I'll have a fit that'll last two sola months, you see. and tJod knows bov many dead men you'll have to hnswe for lu that time, for I'll have to shoo somebody just to let off steam, aud I you are so anxious to get rid of us w< can start tonight; there'll be a moon." JTHER MEN. in Rensselaer Dey, oct ol silence," "Tlie Quality n," Etc. jselaer Dey. He turned to leave the room, and Lisle's brows contracted with pain. She sprang to his side and detained him with a gesture that was more nearly feminine than anything she bad ever done. urvIn nnr*nn Pun lr? " oHa U<JU i leave LUC IU augci, Viuig out said. "You promised out there on the plain to be father and mother to me. I never needed you so much as I need you now. but for the present, until 1 have learned to know myself, you must remain at a distance. I do not know why 1 feel that it must be so, but I do. and It must be, even if you are angry. You won't go away before morning. Craig?" "No." He left her alone then; not In anger, but in something that so closely resembled it In outward appearance that any other than Lisle would have been deceived. but there was a smile upon her face, for she knew that Bhe had conquered where she bad feared defeat. Her plans were thoroughly mapped out, and the only Impediment to their fruition had ceased to exist. ? "Erna," she said later, when they : were alone in their room together, "I : want to ask you some strange quesf tlons." "For goodness sake, don't ask them. 1 If they are any stranger than the ones you asked me the night of ray arrival, i I do not know now how I stood up under them, thinking that you were a "Don't leave me in anger, Craig." man. But. then, you were not like oth1 er men even then. What have you got f on your mind now?" "How do you get your clothes?" "Eh? Papa gets them for me?that Is, he pays for them." "1 mean where do you get them?" "At the dressmaker's, of course." "Do they cost much?" 1 "Ask papa. He says they cost a for' tune." "What is a dressmaker?" "Why, a dressmaker is a woman who | makes dresses and things. You have to go to the stores and do your shopping, you know, and it's great fun. 1 Then you take what you have bought to your dressmaker, and she cuts and 5 fits and makes. There are men dressmakers, too, but I prefer a woman." "Dressmakers live in cities, do they not?" "Certainly. You'll find them everywhere where women live, but you must be 6ure to get a good one. Heavens, 1 what a figure you have got to fit! It's Just perfect. Mrs. Gusset would go wild over it. But if I were you I wouldn't worry about dresses. I've got ' a plan in my head for you." "What is It. Erna?" 5 "I'll fnl-Q T-mir trnlat nrwl hnst mpfls ure, and so forth, and when 1 get back to Kansas City I'll have something 1 made up that will do. I'll send the things on. and then you come to me. f They'll do to travel in. you know, and when you get to Kansas City I'll put you in the hands of Mrs. Gusset, and 1 she'll fix you out in no time." 1 "Very well. Erua." replied Lisle, with * a sigh. "I will write to you when I am i ready." In the morning Lisle bade her new " friends goodby. Mounted on her favorite horse, she rode part of the distance with them, and after they sepa' rated she sat upon her horse, shading her eyes with her hands and watching I them for a long time. At last she wheeled her horse and dashed back ) again toward her own home, and foi i the first time in her life she felt utterlj alone. The following day, alone, she rode away from the ranch. TO BE CONTINUED. ? Chicago Tribune: Few men in mod I ern times have had careers as pictur i esque as that of Dr. Von Miquel. the former Prussian minister of finance ' whose death is just announced. In th< ' first place, it is sufficiently remarkablt > that the son of a poor French famitj . should rise to the leading place in th< I cabinet of the German emperor. Ru that is only the beginning. Von Alique 1 began life as a radical Socialist an< ? revolutionist, tie was one <>i wic u?uci i rebels m 1S4S. and was banished by th< j government, only to seek refuge ii " Frar.ee and become practically a pro t fessional conspirator. That after sucl . an experience he should become min } isier of finance and the chief agent ii putting into effect the measures direct ed toward tile suppression of (Jerinai 1 Socialists, is a sufficient proof of hi |. wonderful ability. In his youth Mique j was a rank atheist. He closed his Iif as a member of the Evangelical church f He was in many ways a paradox. Fo r years he stood next to Bismarck as th t most influential man in Germany am f one of the most powerful in Europe He fell from the favor of the kaiser on e ly last May. and his death follows clos ly h.s retirement from public life. IWisttUuttcmts grading. ? I WELLINGTON AND McKINLEY. d 1 tl Why the Maryland Senator Hate* b the Dead President. a; A Cleveland, Ohio, dispatch says: s' Senator Hanna today explained the &i cause of Senator George L. Wellington's st enmity toward President McKinley. | " -1 Senator Hanna also denied a report I that at the nexi session ui tuugma ?ic would introduce a resolution to expel Senator Wellington from the senate, and that Senator Foraker would do his utmost to procure the adoption of the resolution. "J Senator Wellington was elected as a ? Republican from Maryland. After President McKinley was assassinated 3,1 Senator Wellington gave to a Baltimore * newspaper an interview in which he was quoted as saying that he and President McKinley were enemies; that the assassination of President McKinley ^ was nothing to him, and that, as he could say nothing good of the dead 1 president he would say nothing. Word was today received from Chicago that private information had been received in that city from a personal Q friend of Senator Foraker that when congress convened next winter. Senator M Hanna would introduce a resolution to expel Senator Wellington, and that Senator Foraker would give it his y( whole-souled support. t}] Senator Hanna was asked concerning ln the truth of the report, and his reply showed most conclusively that grief, not revenge, filled his heart. "I had not thought of the matter at ^ all, and the report is without founda- Jn tion," said Senator Hanna. "I do not think that attention should be paid to such matters. This is not a time for tVimio-Vitc of rpvfnpp. and nothing of that nature should be injected into the sadness and grief of the nation. This w sentiment is too pure to be spoiled by hj thoughts of revenge. Let revenge come ol last. Let the people of this country m come out of their sorrow and sadness lg uplifted and purified. t0 "By the time congress convenes I presume Senator Wellington will be al openly and strongly denying that he w said anything of the sort. I see he is w already beginning to back water. Be- tj fore next winter he will have backed rc out completely. I do not know on what I grounds he could be expelled from the ai senate, unless the senate takes the ? matter into its own hands, it being a ** self-governing body, and expels him of tl: its own accord. "The primary cause of his enmity to w President McKinley is simply this: He th recommended to President McKinley tt the appointment of a certain young tv man in Maryland to a consularshlp or ui something of the kind: I don't remem- n< ber now exactly what position it was. te At the iast minute, before President te McKinley announced the appointment, is Senator Wellington, who had had some 01 kind of a dispute with the young man's d< father, withdrew his recommendation ** and demanded of the president that the ** appointment should not be made. President McKinley said that it was too n< late to withdraw the recommendation ,r as he had already given his word to the young man's father and to other friends 01 of the young man that he should re- n( reive the appointment, and he appoint- s' ed him. From that time forth Senator rt Wellington opposed several Republican 151 measures In the senate and opposed the 1)1 administration in many other things. I 111 do not know whether anything else ever occurred between President McKlnley ls and Senator Wellington, but the trou- ^ ble over that appointment was the be- s ginning of his enmity toward tne president." t( rr CAPTURED BY BRIGANDS. Ol American Mlnslonnry Held For Ran, mo in In Bnlgarla. The Amerlcaji Mission Eoard at Bos- tl ton, has received a letter, dated Sam- tl akor, European Turkey, September 7, vi giving details of the capture by bri- a: gands of Miss Ellen M. Stone. The n writer says: c: "We were greatly pained yesterday ' at noon to learn trom a telegram from ir Dr. House that Miss Ellen Stone and tl ' Mrs. Tsilka, the wife of the Albanian It : preacher, were captured and carried off tt ' by a band of brigands on September 3, p about 4 p. m., while on their way with ci 1 quite a company of friends from Ban- It 1 sko to DJumaa. f{ "Just before sunset two of our stu- oi dents from Bansko arrived. They were with Miss Stone when the brigands captured the party. From their ac- 11 founts, by the aid of questions, I got g ' the following: The whole party?about w ' 15 to 18?were suddenly stopped In a n ; narrow valley and as soon as possible tl | all were compelled to wade a river and r< ascend a wooded mountainside, as fast b r as threats could make them, for about f< an hour. Not all could he seen, but 20 t< 1 were counted at one time, as I under- o stand, and it was the opinion that there fl must be 40 of them, dressed like Turks tl and talking bad Turkish. They knew - Miss Stone, showing that they were a ^ mainly after her. y "She and Mrs. Tsilka were taken on fi ; further and seen no more. The remaln der were relieved of money, watches, [, etc., and compelled to stay all night un- li t der strict guard. After sunrise the bri- a ' gands who watched them, went up the c J mountains, and the remainder of the F s party were free. S i "Our two students passed through p " Djumaa and on across the border to p save themselves from detention by the F i Turkish authorities. The teachers, Bi- ^ - hie women and Mr. Tsilka returned to ? Bansko. It seems that this detention s I of all the party kept the Turkish gov- F e ernment from getting any knowledge of 1 u even the presence of brigands until je about noon on the 4th and gave those (, J outlaws a chance to hurry their cap- F tives to a place far distant from the ^ ~ scene of their capture. A Turk, cap- p tured just before this party was, was F iken up the mountain with them and eaten to death before their eyes. "Though I know nothing as to which 1 irection the captives were taken, I link it most likely that they will be rought Into Bulgaria. A Bulgarian 1 rmy officer came today, sent by the ' overnment, to learn about these bri- 1 ands. He said they had special in- 1 auctions and that they )y?uld guard ] leir border very closely." PROF. GARNER HEARD FROM. 1 rhe Man Who Makes Monkeys ' Talk" Writes From Africa. 1 Prof. R. L. Garner, "the man who ; akes monkeys talk," has, after months * ! silence, been heard from. Mr. Harr E. Gamer, of 1,411 Mount Royal t*enue, son of the distinguished scienst, yesterday received a letter from s father, dated Mbeka Manji Nenge, /"est Africa, July 4. Prof. Garner is l excellent health, and, according to s letter, is mainly engaged in huntg big game in the jungles of the Dark ontinent. He says nothing about his cperience with the monkeys or how s experiments with the phonograph e progressing. Much of the letter is voted to personal and family affairs, mitting these portions the letter is as Hows: beka, Manji Nenoe, West Africa, July 4, 1901. My Dear Son: I am Just in receipt of >ur letter of April 14 Since le first week in March I have been livg near this native village, about 40 lies from Cape Lopez, and for four onths never saw a white man. Last eek, however, a white man who lives ; Cape Lopez came to visit me, and slsted upon my returning with him to le coast to spend a few days. We ent overland, and the little walk of miles did me good. I returned by inoe. I could write you of many adventures ith buffalo since my sojourn here. I ive been, much of my time, in quest ! them as my chief food supply. You ust know that the equatorial buffalo a very wary and dangerous animal i hunt and quite the hardest to kill ' any that I know of. He is active id pugnacious, and when provoked or ounded will fight to the death. I as charged three times in one day by lem, and have been in some very nar>w calls with them: A few days ago killed three in less than two hours, id two of these I shot at one sitting ( that is to say, I killed one, and by le time it was on the ground I shot le second one. All three fell at the crack of the rifle, hlch is a thing almost unknown to { lose who are familiar with hunting j lis burly bovine? '^ffhot and wounded ( ro others the same day, but they got j rider cover of the Jungle, into which ] j hunter ever dares to follow one. Of- ( n they are found dead in the bush af- ? t the meat is spoiled. T think there no doubt that I have killed as many ' them as any other man has ever me in the same length of time, but , le greater part of them are lost in , le manner above described. ' The dry season is now on and it is it so laborious to hunt them, but durig the wet season it is something iniscribably difficult. The Jungle is full , f swamps, many of them up to one's sck, and the trails "are in many inrances so thwarted by submerged >ots and vines and fallen trees as to i almost inaccessible to man. The lains, too, are crossed by great, deep larshes, so filled with long grass, ishes and other aquatic plants that it very difficult to wade through them. , of fnr mlloct anri milpg T Viavp stril? led and trudged my way through lem, day after day, In rain and :orching sunshine, and often returned > my camp without any reward for ly labors. In a few days I am going to an olako, r native camp, where I shall spend >metime in hunting buffalo, hippotmi, wild pigs and elephants. After lat I shall go to another place where lere is a big lake in the midst of a ast plain, and hunt elephants. There re plenty of them about here, but they ever stir about in the daytime, beluse of the village or camp. There is only one gun here besides line, and that is an old musket?but ley manage to kill some game with . I couldn't do it. I have a "VVlnches?r (model '95), 30-30 calibre, smokeless owder, soft-nosed bullets, and, of aurse, I can catch at long range, but . requires a centre shot to get a bufllo. You must hit the brain, or heart r break the spine to get one. R. L. Garner. Prof. Gamer left Boston, July 23, 100. for Africa. He took with him a reat cage and a phonograph, and it as his avowed object to learn the lonkey language, he holding to the tieory that the animal had one. He ?ached the French Congo in Septem er and was there stricken with jungle 1 jver. Edward Everett Hale, of Bosjn; Prof. Putnam, of Harvard, and ther leading educators, with vast difculty succeeded in getting succor to he stricken scientist. Prof. Garner was heard from Janury 7 last direct, and since then, up to esterday, his son has had no word rom him.?Baltimore Sun. Assassinations or a Century.?Folnvinp is the record of rulers who were ssassinated during the Nineteenth entury: Imperor Paul, Russia, choked 1801. ultan Selim, Turkey, stabbed... 1808 'resident d'lstria, Greece, saber.. 1831. >uke of Parma, Italy 1854. 'resident of Haiti, stabbed 1859. 'res. Lincoln, United States, shot 1865. resident Balta, Peru, shot 1872. 'resident Moreno, Ecuador, shot. 1872. 'resident Guthriz, Ecuador, shot. 1873. ultan Aziz, Turkey, Stabbed.... 1874. resident of Paraguay, shot 1877. res. Garfield. United States, shot 1881. 'zar Alexander II. Russia, bomb 1881. res. Barrios, Guatemala, shot.. 18S5. }ueen of Korea, poisoned 1890. resident Oarnot, Fiance, stabbed 1894. Ihah of Persia, stabbed 1896. 'res. J. Barrios, Guatamala, shot. 1898. Impress oi Austria, stabbed 1899. Cing Humbert, Italy, shot 1900. SULUMUN'S rUULS. Interesting Discoveries Recently Made In Jerusalem. The ancient aqueducts and reservoirs of Jerusalem testify to the abuniant provision that was made for running water in the Holy City when it .vas the metropolis of the Jewish state. It is only within the last few weeks :hat they have been brought again in:o the service of the city, which durng intervening centuries, has been dependent upon the scanty accumula:ions of rain water. The drouths of :he present summer led to distress, .vhich happily, the new governor of Ferusalem, Mohammed Pjevad Pasha, lad the will and energy to combat. He secured the sultan's consent to lay imnediately a pipe from Solomon's pools, line miles south of the city. The pipe draws from the sealed ountain mentioned In the song of Solimon: "My beloved Is like a spring, shut up In a fountain sealed," the deep lown subterranean spring, which, rom the time of Solomon, flowed hrough an arched channel to a dlsrlbuting chamber. The tunnel is roofid with stones in the shape of an in'erted V. It is one of the oldest structires in existence. It passes through he valley where the beautiful ancient rardens of Solomon are mentioned in 2ccleslastes. It passes the spot where Elijah Is laid to have rested In his flight from tezebel, and crosses the plains of Sphrlam, where David, In the heat of >attle with the Philistines, longed for vater from the well of Bethlehem. Filally, after passing round the slope of Hon, it enters the city through the nosque of Omar, which Is In the old emple area. * This drawing from Solomon's pools vill enable the use of twelve ancient ountains in the city. It will require 0 kilometers of piping, ten centimes In liameter, when finally installed. The fovernor has also successfully repairid the virgin's fount, In the valley of rehosophat, outside the city walls. Its vaters pass to the pool of Siloam to a unnel built by Hezeklah, as his worknan recorded by a roughhewn He)rew record, which is the oldest inicription extant. It was stolen, but aferward recovered, and is now in a nuseum in Constantinople. FOREIGN DEVILS IN CHINA. 'Ixarette Picture* Increnie Contempt For European Women. As I have gone down these thirty rears of life in China, the words "For;lgn Devils," "Chinese Devils," have leemed to remain with me aa some- j hing to keep down in the undercurrent < )f my life that every now and again 1 nslsted on making themselves heard. < [ have come to believe that we foreign- < ?rs in China, as a class, think too much i about the "Chinese Devil" part of the 1 mbject and not enough of the other ' fide. i Do we foreigners realize what we ! >iave done and are doing to make 1 Shanghai the sink of iniquity that it is? 1 We scatter broadcast over these settle- 1 nents, and from here Into the country ! it large, such pictures and advertisenents as should make us all ashamed. ' The worse ones are all of foreign wo- ' men, and, as we send them out, we say 1 to these heathen Chinese, who have ' Tar more Christian ideas in this respect ' than we have, that we care not what 1 the world thinks of our women. We 1 put her forth into the glare of the 1 tvorld's broad sunlight, we set her up oefore millions of curious eyes, and say, 'Here is our foreign women, dressed or ' undressed, it is all the same to us. 1 Look at her. Think of her as you will. 1 We are so anxious to have you buy our ' cigarettes and come to our theatres 1 and circuses that we are willing to ex- ' pose our women in anyway you like 1 best. We so want to have you buy ' our wares that we willingly sacrifice * all our ideas of propriety. In exchange ' for your gold we will give our goods 1 and throw in our social purity at no ex- ' tra charge." We post all over this set- 1 tlement a life-sized picture of an Amer- ' lean girl smoking a cigarette, hoping to ! ?et the Chinese girl, I suppose, to fol- ' low her example. We scatter picture 1 cards by millions, even begging shop- ' keepers to give them away when they ( sell their goods, if only we may bring ' to the notice of a few more thousands of these heathen Chinese how anxious vve are iu nave uiciu i/uituaoc um ugars and how lightly we value the honor of foreign women. About ten years ago. when tne large 1 cigarette advertisement pictures began 1 to be so plentiful In Shanghai, I was going frequently to the house of one of our Christians to teach his wife to read. To my sorrow I found one day two of these hung up in their guest room. I told them at once how very sorry I was to see them there. The old mother in the family, herself a Christian, said: "Why, my son, has just bought them. He thought they were very ornamental." Said I, "If that cluster of women were Chinese women and dress- ' ed, or rather undressed, in that fashion, would you have them in your room for one moment?" She seemed horrified at the idea. "Well," said I, "I am a foreign woman and they are foreign women, and I am ashamed to look at them." On my next visit they had disappeared and on my remarking upon It the mother said: "As soon as I told my son what you said he decided that they must go at once." In another home of our Christians I 'f\ lai'cro fnocjrlv Hf*? rnn tures of*a similar nature. One of them was of a foreign lady in a neat, tightfitting street costume; the other of a lady ready for the ball. I turned to the latter and said: "I am exceedingly sorry to see this in your home." The wife, pointing to the other, asked: "Do you think it any worse than that?" Her manner implied a contempt for any woman that would appear in either way, she seeming to consider one just as bad as the other. This was the severest comment I ever heard on our wearing 01 ugnuy niung garmemo, though one other of our Christian woman said to me later: "You foreign wo- 1 men seem to dress so as to expose your person as much as possible. We Chinese women prefer to dress so as to " conceal them." She freely admitted 1 :hat those pictures were none of her 1 choosing, but that her husband thought y :hey "adorned" the home. Her quiet b sarcasm was rather difficult to bear. p rhls conversation was evidently report- r id to the husband, for these two pic :ures also disappeared from that ' louse. How does all this make us appear In v :he eyes of the Chinese? I don't won- ' ler they call us "Foreign Devils." I v :hlnk It Is a very appropriate form of 3 iddress. Foreign gentlemen take their p ,vlves and daughters to dinner at the b lotels and private residences In Shang- ^ lai clad in such a manner as makes l< he Chinese servants at first ashamed I( t? :o wait upon them. Sir Robert Hart never wrote a truer 1 hing than he wrote recently about the l; sensitiveness of the Chinese nature. rhey are superior to us In this trait ? ind we sin against It beyond telling. 1 some of the Chinese think very sught- ll ngly of us foreigners,' and we certainly n leserve no better at their hands.? 11 ^orth China Herald. "Dirty a olitics."?Since the death of 3. A. Webster, who was the national ommitteeman for the Republican party n this state, there has been some specllation as to who will be his successor. 3 rhe newspapers in the state that are * esortlng to all manner of means to irejudice Senator McLaurln's return to t he United States senate, have begun to :onnect his name with Influencing the lame of Webster's successor. Colonel rohn G. Capers' name has been men- ^ loned, and there is a strong likelihood ^ >f his appointment; but McLaurln has t 10 voice in the matter, it Is a matter ^ mtirely for the Republicans, and as Colonel Capers is a Republican, and so ^ ecognized ever since 1896, we do not ^ >ee way trie uppuuema ul ixivjuauuii ihould connect him with his selection. 5 Capers was appointed district attorley as a Republican, and endorsed for he position by the most prominent of hat party in the United States senate. VIcLaurin and a number of other Dem- t )crats gave him their endorsement also, lecause they preferred him to other Relublicans. Had their been any chance t 'or a Democrat to have received this ippointment, McLaurln and the other Democrats would not have endorsed juch; but the Republican party is in a lower and as the appointment was to t ?o to one of that party, there was not a iholce between a Republican and a y Democrat, but between Republicans e inly, therefore Mr. McLaurin gave his r endorsement to Capers because he is ^ i Carolinian and all of his interests are s dentifled with us. But in the selection y if an executive committeeman McLau- j in nor any other Democrat will be con- L suited, and the coupling of McLaurin's s name is a ruse to deceive the people in- a :o believing that McLaurln is organiz- v Ing a white Republican party in this 0 state, which they know is not true. When it comes to matters of holding e iffices in this state, if McLaurin can 0 ?et a Democrat appointed he will cer- a tainly do so; but if it must be a Re- y lubllcan and he is consulted at all, then a tie will endeavor to advise the appoint- a ment of one who will not be obnoxious y to the people and one in whom the pen- g pie can have respect.?Manning Times, y i ? > g The Pistol Law.?There Is some f 3oubt among dealers In pistols as to c tvhen the new law passed by the last legislature goes Into effect. The law, \ however, makes July 1, 1902, as the time e tvhen no more pistols can be sold of the t jsual variety. The act provides that c pistols twenty inches long and weigh- o Ing three pounds may then be sold to ' those who want them. Such a weapon \ :ould hardly be concealed in the hip r pocket of one who bought it; but the r law goes even further and prohibits the i carrying of any sort of firearms, con- v pealed or otherwise. There does not 3eem to be any law against the selling i pf cartridges which will fit what will be t the old timer after July, 1902, and no ] doubt the regulation pistols will be sold \ as usual after that date. No law can g prevent the importation of pistols into I this state from another state any more c than it can prohibit the importation of r whisky. So' that any one wanting a ( monioiinn nistni nfter next July, can arder It through his dealer, and unless they have a pistol constabulary as well ? as a liquor one, there Is nothing to pre- J rent tue importation of weapons. ? Lawyers consider the law a very fool- \ Ish one and one that cannot be carried i out. The general sentiment against the carrying of concealed weapons f made many legislators vote for a law ? which they knew could not be enforced. < ?Columbia Record. ? ? ? c "Hessians For McLaurin.?There ? was a session of the summer political t school at Laurens on Thursday. Mes- \ srs. Hemphill, Johnstone and Latimer c were present and made speeches. The J daily papers have given very little ? space to it; but from the meagre ac- 1 counts that have been printed a very i interesting fact is gathered, and that i is that Mr. Latimer used some very ( bitter language concerning the recent e meeting at Anderson. ( The city editor of the Spartanburg c Journal attended the meeting. He wrote: j "Mr. Latimer made the liveliest speech. He said Mr. McLaurin went J to Anderson like a thief in the night J and that he had about 4W jtiessiana ready to cheer him." The special from Laurens to the Atlanta Journal had this: "Latimer denounced McLaurin and said his Anderson applause was given by Hessians and boys who would applaud anything he said." The McLaurin supporters here who heard the McLaurin-Johnstone debate and remember all the circumstances, laugh at what Mr. Latimer says, and Mr. Latimer's friends are surprised that he has allowed himself to make such an assertion.?Anderson Daily Mall, September 14. Phey Look Empty and Harmless, Bat They Are Fall of Danger. Anton Colman, a veteran dynamite nan, Is perhaps one of the oldest of all he old-timers and has been looking afer high explosives for the past 25 or 30 ears. He has been on most 01 the >lg jobs in Massachusetts and in many tarts of New England and has had nany hairbreadth escapes and excitng adventures. Mr. Colman is about 0 years old, and was born in Maine. "Dynamite and the blasting powder k'hich we have today, is much different rom what it used to be in the days k'hen I first started in the business," aid Mr. Colman, "and I am not so wejl losted on everything as I might like to e, but there are some things about andling powder that when a man laimo Vinm anno Via nouor fArtrofo a a W4V, *** Vlivv, I1V. UW ? V? 4W4QVI.B U" jng as he lives, and no matter what :ind of powder Is used or how much he style changes, it is all the same; hey will still be careful and watch heir business mighty close. Of course, . ? f all the explosives, nitro-gycerine is he most dangerous and the hardest o get along with. It has as many loods and is as hard to manage someImes as the spoiled child or a woman .'ho wants her own way. "I never got over my great respect or this explosive, and even today I reat It with every deflference, and will e as gentle and peaceful in its presnce as any tyro. A man can never et any experience in handling nitrolycerine. The more he handles it the ;ss he is liable to know about it. For e realizes more and more how uncerain it is. "Why, even the kegs that nltrolycerine comes in are white elephants n a man's hand, for they, are mighty ard to get rid of, I tell you. The >'ood has been so thoroughly saturaed with the stuff that it cannot be urned and cannot be broken up, and hey can't be left lying around loose, or someone is sure to come along who oes not. know anything about them nd bang something Into them and off oes the roof. "I remember a fellow out in the western part of the state, several years go, wno came aiong wun a nammer n his hand. He sat down on an empy nitroglycerine keg and playfully mused himself by tapping the staves rtth his hammer. I saw him and ran o a place of safety and tried my best 0 warn him by shouting, DUt It was 10 use; the keg finally blew ud with . loud report and the poor fellow lin:ered in the hospital about two weeks tefore he died. "I am even more afraid of these empy nitroglycerine kegs than I am of the xplosive Itself or of any other kind of owder or dynamite. Tou can always ell when to be careful when the real tuff Is around, but If some one hap>ens to leave an empty keg or barrel n the way you might not know It mtil you had dropped a crowbar or ledge-hammer Into it or tipped It over md then, after you found it out, you" vould be in no condition to tell any me of your discovery. "The only way to get rid of these mpty kegs or barrels is to take them iut into an open field and fire a pistol it them from a safe distance, and even hat is not an undertaking that I would idvise a person to try, for I remember 1 case of a fellow who wenl out with hree kegs, and Instead of placing them ;ide by side and letting one shot do the msiness, I guess he was anxious to ee them blow up one at at a time, or he placed the first keg and left the ither two on the wagon. "He fired his gun and the bullet did vhat was expected of it; but the keg xploded with such terrific force that he man was horrified when the con :ussion caused the two remaining kegs in his wagon to follow suit immediatey, killing his horses, wrecking the vagon completely, while he himself eceived a splinter in his face that uined the sight of one eye. After that f he ever went out. I am sure that he vas more careful. "I have known of a fellow who lost lis foot by the explosion of a drop of he terrible stuff, and another man who ost his hand by hitting e. board on vhich a can of nitro had rested and l drop or two of the liquid oozed out, t is mighty bad stuff, and I am afraid >f it, and if I live to be 200, I will be nore afraid of it than ever."?Boston 31obe. A Famous Hymn.?The hymn, "Near>r, My God, to Thee," which President McKInley sang in his dying moments, md which was sung at the funeral services the world over, has an interescng history. It is said to be the best metrical exiression in modern psaimody of the delire for a more intimate spiritual acluaintance with God. Its Imagery embraces the associations )f one of the most sublime and interring religious experiences recorded in he early Hebrew Scriptures, Jacob's vision at Luz. "And he lighted up a :ertain place," says the Scriptures of racob's wanderings, "and tarried there ill night, because the sun was set; and tsvsvl* s\P fUft nf/\n/\n r\P nlioo Q IC luun ui tuc isiuiicd ui iiiai auu >ut them for his pillow and lay down n that place to sleep. And he dream>d, and behold a ladder set up on the arth, and the top of it reached to heav;n; and behold the angels of God as:ending and descending on it." Mrs. Sarah Flower Adams, author of he hymn, was a -daughter of Benjamin Slower, an English writer and editor, she was born in 1805. In 1841 she published a dramatic joem in Ave acts, entitled "Viva Perjetua," in which she portrays the expediences of the early martyrs. The hymn "Nearer, My God, to ^hee," was a record of her own religious experience, dnd was written as a memodial of answered prayer, probably without any expectation that it would be of subllc service. It was furnished with 13 ether hymns to Charles Fox's collec,ion of "Hymns ancf Anthems," published In London in 1841.