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' ISSUED SEMU'WEEKi!^^ l. m. grist & sons, Publishers. J % ^aniitj Deurspper: -dfor (he promotion o( (he political, facial, Agricultural, and Comniei;tial Interests of (he people. j tkkmsSino^#2opt! n?J cekt8*NCI!' established 1855. YQRKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JTJLY 2, 1902. ISTO. 53. ' ** " *"* * ^*1? ?" ??~v?* t>? Wnlnoumont nnH tn Hlsnute that It hn<i WHEN BOYS BY JOHN H Author of "Helen's Ba ington Copyright. 1901, by John Habberton. CHAPTER XI. cross rcnrosEs. E to bis custom, our colonel ordered n scout Pro,DPtIy at tbe beeJnk/gsm cl n'u6 of one very cold ~ spell. The roads, never 1 traveled in wet weatber ^ad frozen as hard as any pavement, and 1 we and our horses had been Imprisoned so long by the preceding rain that we heartily enJoyed the beginning of the trip. We had been well fed all winter, but no one neglected the precaution of carrying all the rations, particularly fat pork, that he could get. In camp we had good fresh bread dally, but once in awhile when other rations abounded 1 had begged a day's rations of hard bread Instead and stowed it away against the next scout. I had never forgotten the semistarvation of our first three days' outing. On the morning referred to only four companies of us went out. but we felt entirely safe. What could happen to us? We were strong enough to whip any force of the enemy that had yet moved between our liues and their own . 1- - ?11 Aa1ama,1 unless our irregular spies?an cvivicu people and natives of the country?had counted Incorrectly the enemy's few detachments. Of course we would be fired upon as soon as the advance struck the enemy's pickets, and. as most southerners had handled guns from their youth up. two or three of our men would probably be killed or wounded, but we had come to regard that sort of thing as a matter of course. It was one of the fortunes of war?or misfortunes of being at the head of a cavalry advance. To prevent unfairness in this respect companies took turns of a day each at the head of a scouting party, but the advance proper was always taken from the right, or head of the company, so in formiug line for a start there never was an unseemly rush for positions at the right. The extreme advance consisted of four men. riding abreast or by twos, according to the width of the road, and carrying carbines or revolvers In their hands ready for instant use. About 50 yards behind rode a single trooper, onllori .1 messenger. to Dass back any alarm or other Information which the men ahead might shout to him. Fifty yards farther in the rear were two men. who also had a messenger within earshot, and within 50 yards of him rode the remainder of the platoon? 8 or 12 men?about as far from the main body as from the man in front. The specified distances were measured only with the eye. but whether they were too little or too great the main body was far enough In the rear to be out of point blank range of ordinary firearms, and most firearms of the enemy's cavalry were ordinary. This distance enabled the main body to draw sabers or get their carbines or revolvers ready for action, according to order. It also allowed us to get Into a trot or gallop with some momentum to It by the time we bad closed on the advance and begun the charge or chase. Meanwhile the messenger and reserve had closed on the first set of fours and begun firing if they saw anything to fire at. Should the advance halt, they began firing at once; if they turned to run. they parted and galloped down either flank In single file, so the troop they unmasked could clear the road by firing or charging. (I never had the melancholy satisfaction of seeing the advance break to the rear.) nM>nn/\n<Mi <rr?sv fhn OUOni X7 In ?> uciic?ci nc iv/uuu vut vmvujj ? line, even behind breastworks?for not all of them were cavalry?we would deploy as skirmishers in the woods or Holds on either side of the road and advance at the gallop, firing rapidly as we rode. 1 don't believe carbine firing at the gallop at a mark 200 or 300 yards away ever did much damage, but the successive puffs of smoke made our horsemen difficult marks to hit. In such dashes the bugle generally sounded the recall before the skirmishers were upon the enemy's line. Even If it didn't, most of the horses turned suddenly and dashed back, but an occasional good rider with a horse under perfect control would get far enough within the line to estimate Its strength anil see If It had any artillery. Quite as often a poor rider with an odstiuate horse would get within the line and find himself unable to return. The horse that knew him would know him no more forever, and the rider would take up his abode for an indefinite season at the ITotel IJhhv. Richmond. Va. A single mail surrounded by enemies nt short range was seldom killed or even hurt unless he refused to recognize the inevitable. The general mass of our men regarded a skirmish dash against infantry with very little apprehension. A trooper and his horse generally are one for practical purposes. the animal seeming to know what is in his rider's mind. Resides, the enemy had only muzzle loading weapons, which could not be reloaded and fired more than once during the forward rush of cavalry skirmishers, while the rapid lire of our breechloaders and revolvers had a disturbing effect upon a foot soldier's hand and eye. Our advantages and precautions be ing so many, we felt entirely secure in the scout of which 1 have begun to tell. Yet things did not turu out at all as we had expected. We struck the WERE MEN. ABBERTOX. ibies," "George WashEtc. enemy's outpost (luring the middle of the afternoon aud drove It In without any casualty on our side. We dismounted. took cover behind some trees aud exchanged shots with skirmishers across a small river, and we had our horses far enough to the right and left to avoid the round shot or two that were fired down the road by a cannon which guarded the bridge. Then we remounted, retired through the woods and fields until out of artillery range, after which we took the road for home, 1 with the cheering hope that we would be out of camp only about half the customary time. Just about sunset, as we were approaehing a long bridge over one of the wide, high banked, but shallow creeks peculiar to the tide water region of Virginia, the word was passed back from the advance: "Close up! Quick! Send the major up!" The major commanding the battalion dashed toward the front, and the rest of us followed rapidly. As my company was the second in column we soou saw what was the matter, and it didn't please us much. A body of the enemy's cavalry was approaching the bridge from the other side. This was something we had not counted upon. It was enraging. It At* hsL X x 'Charye."' was also ridiculous. We were between the Johnnies and their camp, the Johnnies were between us and our camp, and the bridge, which both parties agreed In wishing anywhere else at that particular moment, remained just where it was and looked as dark and threatening as if It meant to make no end of trouble. It would be foolish for either body to ford the stream, for those tide water creeks Invariably have one bank which is too steep for horses to climb or descend, except through occasional tributary gullies. The major began to think. So, evidently. did the commander of the Johnuies. while I indulged in a wild hope that they would both keep on thinking until one or other got tired and took his men away. "We cau reach the Blue Church road for camp by making a detour through the flelds at our right," suggested a prudent captain. "Meanwhile, as soon as they cross the bridge and show tight we can fours about, come on the left into line and drop half of them from their saddles before they can tire more tlmii otice." "No." said the major. "I don't want to show them our rear. They'd never stop blowiug about it if they got away. We've twice as many men as they. We ought to be heavy enough to press them back. If we can cross tirst, we can drive them into our camp like cattle." "They're as close to the bridge as we." said the captain. "We'll try. anyhow." said the major. "No sabers, men?revolvers only!" Then the major put his hand on his revolver and shouted: "Charge!" We were within 100 yards of the bridge, so we easily heard the Confederate commander, a grayish brown man from top to toe. who rode to the front, dropped his bridle In his saddle, drew two old fashioned horse pistols from liiilctnrs utid veiled' "Git!" Then that grayish brown man fired. It is astonish ill}; how much damage can be done by the buckshot which can be put into an old horse pistol. I afterward learned that all the horses In the first set of fours, as well as two of the men. were hit. though none was seriously Injured, by that grayish brown man's double shot. In half a minute some of our men were on the bridge, but so were some of the enemy. Ten seconds later the bridge was jammed with horsemen. "Fire fast! Fire fast!" screamed our major. The major meant well, but how much firing could he done ou a bridge only wide enough for about four men abreast after the men in front had emptied their revolvers? IIow were mi}- but tlio surest shots and those nearest the front to lire without hitting their own comrades, who already were using their revolvers as hammers or hitting the Johnnies with bare fists? There was little firing on the other side, for nearly all the Confederates carried shotguns or muzzle loading muskets, which they could not reload in haste, so after tiring once they used their guns as lances, punching our men in breast or face and being horribly cursed in return. Meanwhile each horse was looking out for No. 1. The horse is a wedge shaped animal, and each of our four footed wedges pushed his head and shoulders between those of horses in front of him. This gave the animals absolute rest as well as safety while their riders were lighting. Tlie major turned to the. rear, first cautioning his captains to maintain tlie pressure, and soon we heard him say: "Two rear companies dismount' Third company deploy on the right; fourth on the left! Pepper their rear with carbines as long as there's a man of them in tlie saddle! Aim carefully! Be careful not to hit our own men!" This promised sickening slaughter, for our men with their carbines could get within 100 yards of the most distant Johnny and do a great deal of harm before tlie enemy could dismount and fire more than a single shot. Probably the enemy would follow our example as soon as they saw what we were up to. if any of them were left after we had given them a volley or two. Tills is not a joke. Our Sharp carbines were as true as sporting rifles. For several months we had been taught, when fighting dismounted with carbines or revolvers, to shoot from a rest whenever possible, and our practice shooting showed that anywhere within point blank range we could shoot well. At the major's orders three men of every set of fours In the last two companies dismounted and hurried to trees, logs and fences near the creek. "Now. men." said the major to us, "as soon as they begin to fire and clear away the rear you press upon the advance with all your might. If we drive tliem off the bridge, divide, right and left, as soon as you get across and ride down their flanks, and we'll capture every mother's sou of them who's alive." This seemed practicable, and I hoped it might begin at once. Had there been no other reason, It would be vastly pleasanter to take a lot of prisoners into camp than to bury an equal number of Confederate dead, for burial party duty stays in one's mind. "Why don't those skirmishers begin firing?" shouted the major, though it was not easy to hear him above the horrid din on the bridge. "Crack!" went one of our carbiues. I reined my horse toward the edge of the road to see when the enemy's rear should become weak enough for the pressure to begin. "Crack, crack, crack!" sounded In rapid succession, but the sounds were not like the report of revolver or carbine. Something new was occurring on the bridge, for all the men, both gray and blue, seemed to press to one side. A second or two later that entire bridge, containing 40 or 50 Union troop* ers aud as many Confederates, went down witli a erasli and a splash Into the creek below. Here was the unexpected again, and a great deal of it, too, so I looked anxtously at the major to see what he was going to do about it. lie didn't seem a bit puzzled. On the contrary, the bridge had scarcely fallen when he roared: "Skirmishers cover the road on the other side of the bridge! Don't let a reb get away! Second company dismount; lie down along the edge of the bank! Cover every reb trying to get out of the water aud order him to come ashore here!" Out of their saddles dropped Nos. 1, 2 and 3 of each set of fours in our troop, and in less than half a minute each had picked out for himself a gray target In the great gully below. The skirmishers had alieady begun to blaze away at the gray targets on the other side of the bridge, but the Johnnies. like sensible soldiers, broke right and left into the woods, left their horses pretty well sheltered from fire by the standing timber and then took cover themselves behind the trees nearest the creek and began to operate exactly according to our tactics, tiring on our skirmishers and trying to secure prisoners from the struggling mass below. We wore the stronger in numbers and weapons, but nature gave the enemy one immense advantage. As members of the Potomac army will remember, creeks on the Virginia coast almost invariably have one bank high and steep and one which Is low and shelving, and where we were fighting the steep bank was on our side. Our fellows eould not easily get out, much less drag out prisoners, but the Johnnies had scampered up their own side before all of us were in position to fire. Some. too. whose horses bad been hit or who had dropped their guns during the tumble had the presence of mind to take Yankee carbines or horses with them. One had the Impudence to lead away two of our horses, including the forage, blankets and overcoats strapped upon the saddles, and he sheltered himself so skillfully with one of the animals that none of the bullets aimed at him seemed to hit. On the other hand, when one of our fellows tried to climb the bank on our side, perhaps with revolver in band, trying to drive an unarmed prisoner in front of him. he was a capital mark for the other side to shoot at, and if lie was hit his prisoner would generally change his own mind and hurry back to his friends, taking with him the wounded man's revolver and carbine as a memento. Such a dash required him to wade the creek, but the water was not very deep, ana a man who hail once been wet did not seem to mind a little additional soaking. Suddenly the major, who had been closely eying all that had occurred, passed the word from man to man along the irregular line of kneeling, crouching or flat lying skirmishers that at the word of command all should drop over the bank, ford th creek, press the enemy as closely a possible and try to drive them to th left of the road. Two miles away o: that side wag another road by wblcl we rightly Imagined they would hurr for home should they think us to many for them. Men without carbine were warned to have their revolver fully loaded before crossing. It took two or three minutes for cap tains, lieutenants and sergeants to pas "Forward!" this word along, but when the majo roared "Forward!" over we went. Tb excitement of the jump was intensifies by our sabers. Many of us bad mad long jumps from barn roofs or bricl piles or builders' scaffoldings when w were young, but our sabers hadn't There's nothing adaptive about a sabe anyway, so these weapons mixed them selves with our legs In a most alarm ing maimer. We found the water quit as wet as any I had ever stepped intc and the bottom was not as hard am smooth as we would have liked. I made our legs feel overheavy, too, a nra ivont nn tho nnnnsita hank witl our boots full of water, but It was n< time and place to call for towels an< dry trousers. "Forward!" again shouted the majoi who had waded the stream with us a unconcernedly as If he were not wear Ing his If20 trousers. "Forward!" h continued to repeat about once a sec ond, and "Forward!" shouted each cat tain after him. The Johnnies were brave fellows, bu they weren't fools. They began to se that we could (Ire several shots to thel one, and the fighting was at such clos quarters that the instant one of then fired his muzzle ioilber a Yank was up on him demanding his surrender befor he could reload. Soon they allowed u to chase them through the forest and as they were better woodsmen thai we, they got away quite rapidly, takini with them, besides the prisoners the; had already sent to their rear, one o two of our men who were a trifle to expert In the chase. When their flrln; slackened to scattering shots and final ly ceased, our bugle sounded the recall and we were sent back to cross th stream for our horses, which were le< one by one down a path hastily brokei and dug lu the steep bank with frag ments of the broken bridge and then U] the opposite slope. TO BE CONTINUED. JUSTICE TO THE DRAGON PLY. Science anil MytholoRy Agree Tlia He la a Natural Monqnlto De utroyer. Apropos of the recent discovery tha the dragon fly is a destroyer of mos quitoes and as such is entitled to al the protection that can be extended, i is interesting to learn that the invest! Rators and scientists of the Army ant Navy hospital have been forestalled ii this discovery by the Negroes of lowe Louisiana. The dragon fly is knowi under different names in different sec tions of the United States. In sonv sections it is known under the nanv of "snake doctor," in others the nami of "big-head fly" prevails. tvhih "dragon fly" is, perhaps the most gene ral designation under which this insec is known, but in Louisiana it is knowi as the "mosquito hawk," to the exclu sion of all other designations. The name "dragon fly" is unknowi In lower California, where the insec has never been known under any othe name than that of "mosquito hawk,' and where it is the object of what ma: be considered a myth, but which, in th< light of recent investigations, turns ou to be a bit of good sound reason ant fact. For a long time the Negroes o that section have clung to the belie that the "mosquito hawk" is a destroye of mosquitoes, and that to kill one ii to court misfortune and ill-luck. It ii said that this was formerly the belie of the Attakapas Indians, a tribe nov extinct, but which at one time occu pied the whole of lower Louisiana, am that the Negroes received the mytl from them. At all events, the dragoi fly is protected in Louisiana, just as ii other states people are not allowed t< molest the buzzards. They believe tha the mosquito hawk hovers about pool: of waters, capturing and destroy!n| the young mosquitoes as they emergi from the water, and, for that reason, i is looked upon as a benefactor to man kind.?Washington Post. His Old Kentucky Home.?He wai fiom the sunny south, and he wai visiting a gentleman in this vicinity One day they crossed the river ani climbed to the lofty Pallisades. Look ing down on the majestic Hudson be low, the southerner said: "This reminds me of home." "How so?" inquired his friend. "Why, in Kentucky, you know, w< always look down on water!"?Yonk ers Statesman. piscdlancous ittaumg. i I=ZZ=I=ZZ===IZZZZ=IZZZZZ q FREDERICK AND WASHINGTON. b j Why the Statoe Offered by William 0 Might be Accepted. ' It may be urged that it is not the 1 proper thing for a republic to accept from a monarchy and set up in its natlonal capital a statue of a king; it may 8 be urged in this instance, where the | king is Frederick the Great of Prussia, | that he did nothing for this country, and It may be urged also that Louis XVI, of France, did, and that we have some reason then for setting up his statue; but when all these arguments are threshed over, proven to the satisfaction of those who offer them, and apparently settled, the real reason why a bronze of Frederick the Great should prove acceptable is the great admiration Frederick and Washington ha-? for each other. That Frederick's bust occupied a place of honor in Washington's home is unquestioned. This was not given to our immortal president and general; was not placed in his hands in such a way that courtesy would prompt paying it some honor. It was ordered by him personally, paid for and placed in its niche of esteem in 1773, long before Frederick the Great had ever dreamed that there was such a soldier on the face of this globe as Washington, the colonial, who thus testified at a considerable financial cost to himself the high regard in which he held the Prussian ' monarch. Six great generals and mon* archs were Washington's especial he^ roes, all six of them he honored by 0 placing their busts in his home; Fred^ erlck was the only one who was con? temporary with him, and to Frederick's 14 bust was accorded the particular place 1 of honor above them all, the place in '* " ' ? *l.a moot nil hi Ir* tne drawing rwm, mc u?v?? r? '* place in the house, where it could 8 scarcely fail to fall within the range of *' vision of all those who entered. So 3 high was Washington's regard for * Frederick that the bust went with him 8 wherever he went, to each of his sev^ eral homes; from Mount Vernon to 8 New York, to Philadelphia, and back again to Mount Vernon, where it was when he died. ' Turning to Frederick's side of this, f what do we find? Many open and avowed acts of friendship and all that sort of thing? No; but we do find in v those dark days of 1777 he declared that Washington's campaign in New JerI sey from December 25, 1776, to Janua0 ry 4. 1777, was the most brilliant ever 1 conducted in the world's history. Not g many in this country and few in Eua rope would have made that assertion or would have believed it. Why should e our hearts not warm a little, therefore, g to the old king who could see our first |, great citizen as we see him, as the a world now sees him, and frankly state g what he thought at the time? y Concerning the stories of his gift of a f sword to Washington, of the gift of a o portrait and of the correspondence g carried on between them, it must be 1- admitted that there is so much haze I, around them it is hard to unravel facts, a Tmditinn hnn it- that Frederick sent a 3 beautiful sword to Washington with a the lnscrlntlon graven upon it, "From ; the oldest general to the greatest." The p New York state library authorities own a sword of Washington's, the sword he wore most frequently when In New York city, a plain sword with a hilt and chain of polished steel, ornamented with steel beads, and the claim has been made that this was the sword t given by Frederick, but the claim was manifestly absurd on Its face. The " sword Is too plain for a gift: it Is almost cheap, and Is devoid of any int scriptlon at all, when In nearly every . Instance such things are always placed I on gift swords. M. D. Conway, who att tempted to explode the sword story in . an elaborate treatise in the Century j ten years ago, accepted this claim and j huilt all his arguments around this r sword. But It appears perfectly clear , that If Frederick ever gave a sword to _ Washington it was the one selected by & Bushrod Washington from his uncle's e collection after his death. e This sword is now at Mount Vernon, n and when It was in good condition It . was certainly a fairly good gift for a t monarch to make. Its hilt was of sil1 ver, handsomely chased; Its scabbard . of fine black leather, mounted with gold, and the blade of the best temper1 ed steel, had on one side the inscription t in gold inlaid letters "Recti Fac Etice" (do what is right), and on the other , "Neminem Timeas" (fear no man.) All the traditions of the Frederick sword cluster around this sword. Next uu +Vila wa q thp fiflP ^ LU Ills 3CI ? ICC onviu into ?t u? .... j Washington appeared to value the most. He wore it nearly always on formal occasions during his incumbency of the presidential chair. Apparently none knew how it came into Washington's possession. It does not f figure among his properties until after 1780, the year in which the legend k has it the gift was made. " At Bushrod Washington's death the sword passed to his brother, George 1 Corbln Washington, from whom it de1 scended to his son, Colonel Lewis Wil1 liam Washington, in 1854. Colonel ' Washington's home was at Bel Air, Halltown, Harper's Ferry, and at the time of John Brown's raid that worthy * conceived the idea of securing the sword to use in his undertaking, and 1 it is significant that he wanted it because "it was the sword given to Washington by Frederick the Great." He purloined the sword, but it was s recovered later. During the civil war s the precious relic was placed in the ' ul- o /mttfir nil mpH . fiumuie uwtruing ui a. vwiv. - 1 Odin for safety, and here it was found - years after in a deplorable condition. - The scabbard was almost entirely gone, the gold band from its top and a plate on top of the hilt missing, and the blade so rusted that it was scarcely posj sible to decipher the inscription on it. - Who knows but that famous sentence, "From the oldest general in the world IU Hie ^icaic OL, 11115111 nvv im?w wv?? graven on the band missing from the scabbard or on the plate that once adorned the crest of the hilt? The New Jersey Journal, of August 9, 1780, a copy of which Is now in possession of the New York Historical society, brings another alleged gift to Washington from Frederick, and with it another origin for the sentence. In this newspaper appears an item to the effect that General Washington has just received from the monarch a handsome autograph portrait of the king, with an accompanying message stating that it was "From the oldest general in Europe to the greatest on earth." And with this announcement is printed an account of Frederick stating to one of his generals that "This noble chief has encountered every embarrassment, has surmounted untold difficulties, and thereby stands entitled to such honors as conquest, fame and mananimity only can give." No portrait given to the general by the king is now known to exist.?St. Louis Globe-Democrat. TRADING IN SAMOA. It Is Accompanied by a Marvelous Dialogue. Two youngsters in dirty lavalavas come and sit on the veranda, waiting until the trader finishes his breakfast. They keep up a constant chatter, as children do the world around; they explain to one another out of their ignorance what the white man does with all the Btrange gear about his room. Time Is no object to them; not for any Samoan does time exist. They could be content thus waiting for hours. When the trader has finished his corned beef or his salmon; when he has chopped the navy plug on the corner of the ta* * *?-1 ?~ 14 #?> . Vkla nlno j Die ana nas druken il uuc wi < *<> wby grinding it in his left palm with the ball of his right thumb, when his pipe is alight; he is willing to traffic with his small customers. Take this as a sample of native speech and native custom: "What is it, then that you two want," he asks in the native speech, "that you sit on my portico beginning at sunrise and ending at all day?" "O Apa, it is thus, and we two will declare the truth to thy highness." "Use not the high-sounding words of the talk of chiefs; call me not excellency, nor yet highness, for by that I know that you two are come to beg. That thing do you two tell what you want, and quickly." "O Apa, smooth out the wrikles from thy heart, but listen. In the insignificant hut of the family of us two there ip tobacco, anc. we have plucked the dry leaves of the banana. But there is not [fire. That thing have we two come to ask of thy excellency, afford to us two the Are scratcher, Just one box, for great is the poverty of the family of us two." "O pig-faced, it is the lie, and you two come to beg, it is true. It is right that you two buy fire scratchers; I do not give away the articles of wealth, lest I too become poor while you two have all things." "Thou knowest, O Apa, the great poverty of all this Samoa, and that we too are poor people and of no account. We have not wherewith to buy. But because great is the love of us two to thy excellency we two give to thee the loving fruit of the hen, one." "Not so is it true. Dirt and Pigs. If you two love me, give me the fruit of the hen, two. Give them now to me and my blackboy thing shall look ttirnnot, tham nt thp snn and he shall spin them on this floor, and he shall float them in water lest they be bad." "O Apa, thou art wise to drive a hard bargain and Samoans are foolish. Here then are these two fruits of the hen; now give to us two the box of flrescratcliers." Every Samoan, small or great, will beg. The villager of the hamlet in which the white man's house Is placed turns up at sunset with a gin bottle and asks kerosene for his evening lamp. The king attempts to get money out of the foreign officials of his kingdom. It is, indeed, a custom of the Polynesians, always giving up the treasure to him who begs and immediately replacing it by begging in turn. The Samoan is quite sharp enough to attempt to extend the custom to the white man, all the more because it is not white-man custom to beg those things which the Samoan has, a profitable transaction and one-sided. Meanwhile there is small business going on; the trader cannot sit forever tilted back on his veranda, watching the empty straits. A fisherman beaches his canoe and offers a fish?a mullet, most likely?on the broad side of his paddle; for the agreeable change of diet some trifling gift is ample and satisfactory. Seeing this success, every fisher in the fleet stands about the veranda and pokes out into view his paddle and flsh; they seem to think tho trader's capacity for fresh fish to be that of an aquarium. Some little cash has dribbled into the till as now one and then another nought some saimon or the round tins of corned beef, which the Samoans call pisupo. Sixpence Is the lowest unit of value. If any article is too cheap to stand the price of sixpence (and there are very few such at these trading stations), the Samoans must buy a quantity or else take matches for change. The islanders have the knack of making fire seemingly without exertion, byrubbing two sticks together, but tney are keen after matches, although the Swedish safety matches made in Japan, which pass current in the Pacific ocean are probably the most incombustible matches made, certain not to light off the box and extremely uncertain to light on it. All this petty trade spreads itself lazily along throughout the morning. Sometimes the payment was in small silver coin, each piece snugged away in its knot in a strip of cloth. Sometimes again it was necessary to weigh the basket of copra proffered in been fairly dried for three days in the sun, and to be careful not to count in the weighing the big stone which will get in the middle of so many of the baskets of copra in which these innocent children of nature deal.?Lipplncott's Magazine. KOESTER IS OUT OK IT. Kew Collector Succnmba to tbe Revenue of Tillman. Internal Revenue Collector Koester has joined the political ghosts and recognizes and admits that he is out of business July 1, says a Columbia dispatch to the Greenville News. He puollshes a two-column card on the affair and in it says: "The senate has not confirmed my nomination, so when that body adjourns my commission expires and I am out of office that day. In case a new appointee has not qualified and gotten ready to take charge on that day the chief deputy collector assumes charge and acts as collector and carries out the work of the office until a new collector la apointed and takes charge. The proceedure is the same as if the collector died." "Then you will be out of office in a few days?" asked the reporter. "Yes," replied the collector. "Even ' If the president should reappoint me, I would have to give up the office when the senate adjourns and stay.out until I had qualified under the new commission." "Do you expect a reappointment?" "No, I have not asked and do not expect a reappointment. My original appointment was wholly unsought by me. Neither I nor any friends of mine asked the president to bestow the office upon me. I had no claims upon a Republican president and have none now, except an official record which will compare favorably with that of any Internal revenue collector. During the time that I have been collector my office has been practically uniformly graded and at No. 1 by the treasury department. It Is a record of which I am proud, but its credit I freely share with the very efficient deputies and clerks selected by my predecessor and retailed In office by myself. A better working force could not be obtained." wnai was senator Tillman's attitude?" "He did me more harm than Deas, The State or any one else who fought me. He dared not openly fight me on the only charge against me, for his lynching record is too well known. For Instance, h i1 action as governor in turning over to ? mob to be lynched an innocent Ne^ro who fled to him for refuge. He was too shrewd to weaken himself at home for his success proves that a majority of the white voters of this state agree with him In favoring lynching as punishment for one crime, so with characteristic shrewdness he made his 'Negro In the sand' and other violent speeches In the senate, even asserting that he favored lynching for rape and then in conversation with Pepubllcan senators would say he wanted me confirmed, that I was "his tort of a man," that I was a lyncher like him and that he would vote for me. That ccoked my goose. The Republican senators did not want to expose themselves to taunts from him of having voted for a man he told them was a lyncher. They thought he would have them on the hip, thereafter If they spoke against lynching or objected to his advocacy of it. "The president could reappoint me. but I neither ask nor expect It. He has done all that could be demanded of him by one having political claims upon him and far more than I had any right to expect." BROKE ROOSEVELT'S RIBS. ? Result of a Wrestling Match With a Longshoreman. President Roosevelt, It Is said, is much Interested In the demonstrations of the science of Japanese wrestling which have been sriven at the caoital for some months by an American athlete recently returned from the Orient. This recalls the fact that, while serving as governor of the state of New York, the news came out from Albany that he was having a daily bout at the executive mansion with an athletic instructor. These bouts came to a sudden end, but why has never been told, because the interesting story is known to a very few. The man who gave Governor Roosevelt his dally wrestle was called away to New Orleans. The governor was not inclined to give up his wrestling, which had done him a great deal of good, and so he asked the "professor" if he could not find a substitute. The instructor sent up a brawny Irish longshoreman, to whom he had taught the "science," and recommended him to the governor's consideration. At the usual hour the next day the mat was spread on the top floor of the governor's mansion, and Mr. Roosevell and the longshoreman went at it. Unfortunately the longshoreman had not been trained in the art of self-control, and, instead of the gentle and scientific resistance which the "professor" had offered, he went at the governor very fiercely.. In an instant Mr. Roosevelt's fighting blood was up and for about twenty minutes there was a fine exhibition of westling. Finally, however, the big longshoreman's brawn, coupled with the science Imparted to him by the "professor," told, and told disastrously. The governor was fiung violently. The crash almost shook the rafters. In an instant Mr. Roosevelt was on his feet again, ready to go ahead. Suddenly he felt a twinge of pain in his right side. With much reluctance he concluded that perhaps he had enough for the day. The pain in his side grew worse after he had once more donned his ordinary attire, and toward nightfall a doctor was sent for. An examination disclosed the fact that three ribs had been broken, and further wrestling was strictly forbidden.?Philadelphia Post.