/ i ^ ^ ^ 1 ^ ISSUED SEMI^WEEKI l. m. grist & sons, Publishers, j % ^amilg Jleutsgager: Jor the gromotionjflhe |olitital, Social, Agricultural, and (Eamnttrtial luteals of the ftoglt. {TKRM88iNo^0coVBi4?E'c^ANC'i' ESTABLISHED 1855. YOEKVILLE, S. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1902. * NO. 76. ? - " Z " I tbi m By ?IB AVAL' Copyright,- 1901, by Sir Walter Besant. /ITT 4 IVTC1D VTT l/Qdl 1 DU AT. NEW COMPACT. lHAT followed, by InWvention and design of the pious ecclesiastic Mr. Purden. was a vll HMipa lainy even greater than that at first dejft signed, more daring, mhAJ more cruel. The bride, accompanied by the minister officiating in the late ceremony, walked back to her lodgiug. She was still exultant in the first glow and triumph of her revenge. He, on the other hand, walked downcast, stealthily glancing at bis companion, his big bead moving sideways like the head of a bear, bis sallow cheeks paler than was customary. The bridegroom, for bis part, tluug himself Into his chair and was carried to the lady's lodging. A strange w?>dding procession! She threw off her cloak and her domino and stood before her newly made " * * ?fn A/V flneltA/1 lora, ner eyes unguu uci iatv uuou<.u, her lips quivering. She was filled with revenge half satiated, but revenge can never be wholly satisfied, and with the triumph of victory. "1 have won." she Raid. "You tried to deceive me again. Ludovic. but I haye won. You have been caught in yodr own tolls." He took the nearest chair, sitting down In silence, but bis face was dark. As she looked upon him some of the triumph died out of her eyes; her cheek lost Its glow: she began to be frightened. What would he say or do next? As for bis reverence, be stood within the door as If ready for Instant flight. Indeed there was cause for uncertainty because the man was desperate. and his sword was at bis side. "Silence." hv said, "or I may kill you!" troo oilnnpn Tho nthPf I UI'U LUC I V ?? uo Ditvuvv. wv two did not speak. The lady threw herself upon the sofa, twisting her fingers nervously. "You have married me, you say. You shall he a happy wife. You cannot Imagine how happy you will be." In a contest of tongues the woman has the hest of It. "So long as you. my lord, enjoy the same happiness or even greater I shall not repiue. You Intended my happiness In another way." "You have destroyed my last chance. It is a good beginning." "And eudiug. my lord. The fond v mistress whom you have fooled so long becomes the wife. It Is not the duty of a wife to provide for her husband. Nor will the Countess of Fyllngdale allow the earl to enter her house. She will want the proceeds of her bank herself. In a word, my lord, you are not only my husband, but you are now privileged to provide for yourself." He sprang to bis feet and fell to L common and violent cursing. Invoking the Immediate and miraculous Interventioo of that Power which be bad all his life Insulted and detled. The lady received the torrent without a word. What can one say In reply to a man who only curses? But she was afraid of him; bis words were like blows. The headlong rage of the man cowed her: she bent her head and covered her face with ber hands. Then Mr. Purden ventured to Interfere. "Let me speak," he said. "The thing Is done. It cannot be undone. ^ Would It not be better to make the best of It? Does it help any of us? does it help your lordship?to revile J and to threaten?" The bridegroom turned upon him ^ savagely. "You to speak!" be said. "You are too mealy mouthed and too virtuous even to tear up a page from a register." "1 do not wish to be unfrocked or to be sent to the plantations, my lord. Meantime it would be doing you the worst service In the world If 1 were to tear out that page." "Oh. you talk! You always talk!" "Of old, my lord, I have sometimes talked to some purpose." "Talk again then. What do you mean by disservice? You will say next, I suppose, that this play acting wus roriunuie ior me. "We may sometimes turn disasters Into victories. If your lordship will listen." His patron sat down again, the late storm leaving its trace in a scowling face and twitching lips. "Why the dickens wasn't Molly there? How did this woman find out? How did she know that Molly was not coming?" "I can answer these questions," said the lady "Molly would not come because she learned last night, just in time, certain facts in the private life of the bridegroom." "What?" Lord Fylingdale betrayed his terror. "She has heard? What has she heard?" He had not received Molly's letter nor had he opened the captain's. "More than enough. You have lost your bride and her fortune. I might have warned you. but I preferred to tuke her place." "What has she heard?" "Apparently all that there is to be heard. Not. of course, all that could be told If Mr. I'urden and I were to speak. Merely things of public notol riety. That you are a gambler and a rake: that you have ruined many; that you are ruined yourself?quite enough TEH BESANT. for a girl of her class to learn. In our rank we want much tnore before wo turn our back upon a man. I myself know much more. Yet I have married you." "She has beard." Lord Fylingdale repeated. "Dear, dear!" said the parson. "All this is most unfortunate?most unfortunate. Your lordship bad already lost rnnp hi-idt*?lost her." he reDeated. | "Lost her and her fortune. Is there no way out?" "Who brought these reports? Show me the man!" "Ta-tu-ta! You need not bluster, Ludovie. Reports of this kind are in the air: they cling to your uame; they travel with you. What? The notorious Lord Fylingdale? They have come, you see. at last, even to this unfashionable corner of the Island. They are here, although we have done so much to declare your virtues. Acknowledge that you have been fortuuate so far." "Are these reports your doing, madam? Is this a part of your infernal Jealousy?" "I do not know who put them about. It is not likely that I should start such reports, especially after the scandal at Bath. 1 am. in fact like his reverence here, too much Involved myself. Oh, we have beautiful characters?all three of us." "Who told Molly?" "I say that I know nothing. She has been warned. That is all I can tell you. and she has been advised to take no further steps until full explanations have been made In answer to these rumors." "Full explanations," repeated Mr. Burden. "Dear, dear! Most unfortunate most unfortunate." "Your lordship can refer to his reverence here, or to the admirable Semple. or to the Immaculate Sir Harry, or to the colonel, that man of nice and well known honor, for your character. But who will give them a character? Understand." she said, facing him. "you had lost your Dncie oerore you gin out of bed this morning. Your only chaiice Is to imitate the example of Tom Rising and to carry her off, and she will then stick a knife between your ribs, as she Intended to do to that worthy gentleman. But. no; I forgot. You cannot do that You are already married." Hisrevereneeagaln Interposed. "With submission, my lord, some explanations will be asked. It will not certainly be convenient to offer any. There is. however, one way. and only one, that 1 can suggest." He looked at the Lady Anastasla. "It will be perhaps at first distasteful to her ladyship It has. however, the very great advantage of securing the fortune, which. 1 take it. Is what your lordship chiefly desires. As regards the girl. she Is. in point of manners and appearance. so fur beneath your lordship's notice that we need not consider her In the matter." *'l care nothing about the girl. But hung me if I understand one siugle syllable of what you mean?or how you can secure the fortune without the girl." "A moment. Madam saw her way to the revenge of jealousy. She took the place of the bride, and she was married as Miss Molly. She signed the name of Molly Miller: the license was in that name. The clerk who was present has. I am sure, already carried the news all over the place. We have the evidence, therefore, of the bridegroom. the parson, the clerk, the license and the registers. Who is to prove that the real Molly was at home all the titne'r Captain Crowle, perhaps, though I doubt. The girl herself? But who will believe berV I'.j mrd, you tnj MTtM SAT DOW* ASJUM Lave married Miss Molly and not the Lady Anastasia." i "What then?" "You have only to claim your bride." "Sir. you forget that I am the bride," i Lady Anastasia interposed qulcldy. Mr. I'urden bowed and smiled, rubbing his hands softly. "With submission. madam. I do not advise that his lordship should carry her oil' nor that ; ho should claim her ad monsam et tho, rum, as we scholars say. Ills principles would not, I am sure, allow that he should carry off an upmarried wornj an. Not at all. lie will leave her with her friends. Indeed he would prefer to i do so. I suggest only that we should proclaim the marriage and lay hands upon the fortune." "And what am I to be?" ! "Ilis lordship's best friend. You will rescue lilra In his deepest need; you will restore him to affluence. It will be a service, madam, of the purest and most disinterested affection, Instead of i an ugly and ruinous revenge. Heavens. can you hesitate?" ! They both looked at Anastasia, who made no response, her eyes In her lap. "The trick will lie with us three," l the tempter went on. "Neither of us i will reveal it." < "As regards jealousy, Anastasia," i said Fylingdale, "the girl will be here, i and everything will continue Just as i before." 1 She threw un her arms and snrang to ] her feet. "Oh." she cried, "ft is the most monstrous villainy!" "We need not think of the girl. We , must think of ourselves." ( "The fortune is immense. Anastasin. > It is ridiculous that the girl should have so much. We will leave her a competence, and there are the Jewels." Lady Anastasia gasped, and Fylingdale continued: "You yourself will adorn these Jewels. It will he my greatest pleasure to atone for my ill judged deception by giving you all those Jewels?the diamonds, the rubies, the chains of pearls and all the rest of the pretty, glittering things." He took her hands, the parson looking on all the time as a physician looks on at a bloodletting or an operation. "What can that girl do with the Jewels? They shall all be yours. Forgive me, Anastasia, and let us again work together, as we have already done, you and I. with no more Jealousy and uo more suspicions." He kissed her hand. His manner was changed almost suddenly: he became soft caressing and persuasive. It was the old charm, which the poor lady could uever resist. She suffered him to hold her hand; she allowed him to kiss her: her eyes grew humid. "Oh." she murmured, "I must do everything you ask. Ludovlc, if you are onlv kind!" "How can 1 be anything but kind?" be replied, with a smile. "You must forget and forgive. The thought that all 1 had schemed and planned for was torn from me, and by you?Auastasia, by you?was too much. My mind was upset; I knew not what I said. Forgive me." "Oh, Ludovlc, I forgive!" "And the Jewels shall atone, the lovely jewels. You shall have them all." "You will truly give me the jewels?" "Truly, my Anastasia. After all, we are man and wife. Henceforth we shall only live for each other. Your happiness shall be mine. The Jewels shall be yours." She yielded. She fell into bis arms. There was a complete, a touching, reconciliation. Lord Fylingdale was going to declare that It was Molly and none other who was married that morning at 0 o'clock and to assume the rights and powers of a husband. So that the news of bis evil reputation came, after all, too late to be of any use. And as for explanatlnna n'hn nrnnld ho up thp rlcrht to ask . 1,v"w' " MV "V1"^" ? f my people that trusts, to which I im, and have been opposed, can be :ured, or the people benefitted by free rade, in whole or in part, I must dedine to accept the nomination so generously and enthusiastically made. "I have devoted twenty of the best rears of my life to the service of my jeople and my country and I have 'ought for what I believed to be best or the farmer, the laborer and the bus ?a a. _ - * nn/1 + ViO ness mieresis ui tins uisn ivt auu vuv itate. I am grateful for the devotion hat has ever been accorded me and to he hour of my death I will hold In a rrateful heart 4fc*'memory of that demotion. I will give, later on, In some letail, my views and convictions on >ur conditions and public questions, md will state my reasons why the Remblican pai * and Its policies should lontinue In the confidence of the voters >f the United States, and why the docrines of the Democracy should find no odgment in the faith and teachings of he Republican party. "Very truly yours, (Signed) "D. B. Henderson." Discussing the matter further, Geneal Henderson made the following itatement: "For three years I have advocated riving control of trusts to congress. In ny judgment, proper supervision can lever be had until congress has power o treat them. I am glad to see from speeches maae Dy our ieaness mm u^ ight chief executive that he is advocaing Federal control over these corporitions and while in some quarters they nay sneer at it, I have not seen any proposition yet, except this, that seems it all likely to bring relief. No proportion has ever been made by the Denocracy excepting to put everything on he free list and to give the country 'ree trade. In other words, they propose to kill the child dead in order to ure it. In my opinion, if combinations ould be regulated and controlled, we vould have very little ground for changes in the tariff laws. For my part, if any great interest in this counry is for prosperity through protective policies or any other legislation and is ising its advantages, growth and prosperity to plunder the American people, [, for one, am ready to strike it by vhatever legal means we may be able :o adopt, provided that in so doing, we lo not hurt innocent interests. I have peen more amused than hurt at the suggestions that I have been against iny changes in the tariff. I have never peen opposed to making needed changes md am not now. I must say, and emphatically, that I do not believe that a single schedule of the Dingley tariff aw can be so amended as to relieve he people from the oppression of trusts pr combinations of capital, however lamed, and that such action may involve the retarding of our expanding ;ommerce and getting and holding forfign markets. Indeed, I believe such i plan to be fraught with grave dangers to the people. I am a firm beiever in reciprocity. I worked with intiring zeal to secure reciprocal arrangements between Cuba and this jountry and I was successful in passng it through the house. The senate lid not act on the measure because condderation of it would have permitted :he opening of the whole question of :ariff revision. While I cannot speak for the prospects of favorable action ipon bills sent to the senate, I still lope and believe that by a treaty the ?anie result may be accomplished, and [ have no doubt that President Roosevelt is now working on the question of i treaty with Cuba to give that struggling young republic needed help, a help, too, in which, while they will be ?ainers, we will not be losers. And now, let me say, and let there be no misunderstanding as to my position: I believe in protection that will protect :he hand of labor, the wheels of industry, every farmer and miner, and am igainst wicked corporations that would trample on the rights of the people to fair play and to the fruits of honest efforts. I am against unnecessary legislation that would throw my country into a panic and bring back the horrors bequeathed to us by the last Democratic administration." NEGROES IN POLITICS. Columbia Republican* Want to Be Democrats. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says there is a movement on the part of certain colored people In Columbia to endeavor to become members of the Democratic party, and a petition is being circulated among prominent politicians and other citizens asking their aid in persuading the Democracy to accept them as members of the party. The movement is Ka Kaa^atI Ktf AAlnro/1 mon c\f In saiu ki/ uc ncauvu uj wtwi vu mvii vk ... telltgence and men who own property in Columbia, but who heretofore acted with the Republican party, and who, by reason of Democratic regulations, have not heretofore been allowed to become members of the party. These men state that they realize that, under present conditions, they can accomplish nothing for their own good by remaining with the Republican party, and as they are taxpayers they hope to be allowed some voice in the state government by being allowed to join the Democratic party. To what extent this movement will go Is unknown, but it is said that the originators of the idea are not meeting with much success In 'securing the backing of local leaders. There are very few Negro Democrats in Columbia and they have been such before and since 1876 as a rule. They are generally respectable, law-abiding and business men, who have accumulated some property, and colored men who are like them in this regard, but who have been out in the cold politically, want to enjoy the same party privileges they have. That is likely t^e bottom of the whole undertaking. In individual cases, no doubt, leading Democrats might be willing to admit them to the party, but when once the bars are let down there is no telling where it would stop; hence there Is a disinclination to encourage the movement. They call to mind the result of Negroes participating in municipal elections in Georgia, and the honest politicians freely admit that we already have a sufficiency of purchasable vote without adding to it. Then the white man's primary idea is so firmly engrafted upon the people that there is little chance at present of do Ing anything that would tend to deI stroy It. IT'S CUBA FOR THE CUBANS. Veteran* Demand the Removal of All Spaniard* From Public Office. There is a strong movement In Cuba to secure the removal of all Spaniards from any part In the government of the island. A commission of former Cuban soldiers recently visited the president to request the Immediate dismissal from office of all Spaniards and Cu[ bans who served with the Spaniards. The soldiers said that there were in | the government employ many persons of the character described and they said that this was a great Injustice to those who had fought all through the war and were now on the point of starvation. They threatened to call a mass meeting to support their demand. The president asked them to abstain from such a demonstration until he could make an investigation. This Investigation the president then placed In the hands of Secretary Tamayo. It resulted in a report favoring At- - ?~ rip To me pt^uiun ui liic suiuicio. i/?. mayo says that Spaniards who fought against the Cuban insurgents and Cubans who fought against their own countrymen are at the present time occupying offices under the government, and he will recommend their discharge. It is believed generally that this movement grows out of the hatred the average Cuban has for the Spaniard and his desire to keep him out of desirable employment. This spirit can be seen everywhere and it applies to most foreigners. Only today, says a dispatch, an English police captain, who had served on the force since its organization by Chief McCullagh without a reprimand, was forced to resign, although he had fought through the entire Cuban war and personally armed a large number of Cubans and lost a fortune in the Cuban cause. The same spirit is shown toward day laborers as well as officeholders, and a few days ago some Spaniards who sought work on some public works, were almost mobbed. This attitude on the part of the Cubans will cause much confusion In some of departments, as it will mean the discharge of old and tried men whose places it will be hard to fill. This will be especially true of the secret service bureau. The men in this bureau were selected by Major Pitcher, U. S. A., Major Caziarc, U. S. A., and Capt. Foltz, U. S. A. The three American army officers tested the men thoroughly and found that they could not be replaced. < Drunkenness a Crime.?The recent law enacted by the Iowa legislature by which power habitual drunkards may be arrested and committed to the insane asylum for two years, and be placed in the inebriate ward there, has worked wonders among the old topers and drunkards here and in this county, says a Keokuk dispatch, and will do more good toward solving the drink habit than any previous law upon the statute books. A number from the county have already been taken to the Mount Pleasant asylum, and their confinement at that place has so alarmed and scared their fellow-topers that a scarcity of arrests for intoxication is already noticeable and more pledges have been made than ever before.?Topeka Herald. FAIRY STORY FROM PHILIPPINE Teacher Claim* Moroa Are Lo Tribe of larael. "I believe," said Robert Curran, i he sat In the union depot yesterda waiting for a train, to a reporter f the Denver News, "that I have disco ered one of the lost ten tribes of I rael." Mr. Curran was talking to friend at the time, but the eavesdro per, who takes a great deal of inte est in the lost ten tribes, could not r strain his curisosity, and broke in the conversation with an abrupt "Where? Do tell me where." Mr. Cu ran evinced some astonishment at tl interruption; but on being told that was customary in this part of the coui try to acquire information at whatev cost, became resigned to his fate. "I, of course, don't really know th I have made this discovery," said W Curran, who Is returning to his hon In Natchez, Miss., from the Philippine where he has been instructing the litt brown children In the three "r's" at tl expense of the government, "but I thlr that in the tribe of Moros living ne: Bacolor, In Mindanao, the sultan whom has lately been very saucy, delver into musty history of past ai forgotten people will find from the customs that the Moros, now Mohan medans of the worst type, were on far back In forgotten ages ornament with the facial appearance now to 1 seen In the descendants of the t? tribes which did not get lost. "My reasons for thinking so are m merous, but perhaps the strongest that they believe In the Jewish rite circumcision and hold no man friei or brother who does not. Another thli is that they most cordially hate ai despise the Americans because th< eat pork, and the third and stronge reason Is that they hold the Old Test ment in the grandest veneration ne to the Koran, and their sages and wl men can repeat It word for word, bac! ward or forward. The ancient hlsto: of the Jews is known to the smalle children who are entertained by the fathers and grandfathers with storl of David and Moses and all the re of the Jewish heroes, in much the san way that American parents tell the children of the wars of the Revoluth and the heroes who figured in them. "Many of the pure blood Moros this region have all the fac simile r semblance of the race, but no other a tributes. "They are proud, boastful and haugl ty in tne extreme, ana aeugni in numu so much as giving exhibitions of the prowess with the kriss and baron Talking about weapons there is ai other thing which adds to my beli that they are of the lost tribes. T1 children, when toio young to be giv< weapons such as the men wear, a armed with slings, fashioned much lil that I suppose was used by David put a pebble in Goliah's head, and tl strangest thing about it is that the boys five or six years old, take th? slings, and, using mud balls, play David and Goliah. They divide off in pairs and when one of them can land mud ball on the other's head in the a thentlcated place, the victim slnl slowly to the around as if cumben with armor, and the youth who is pla ing the role of David comes over to h victim with a stick and pretends to c off his head. "In talking with some of the old m< who once in awhile come into the towi occupied by the Americans to get r of a load of cocoanuts. they have to me that far In the interior of the islai there is a mosque built entirely of stoi and so old that the memory of the ol est man of the tribe is only that of ti great-grandfather, that it was there the beginning of the world and alwa; has been there. In this mosque th< said there is a sacred box on whl< two genii bow in prayer. That in tl box. which, though made of wood ai covered with precious stones, is old than the mosque, there lies a rod whi< once budded in the hands of Aaron, ai the two tables of stone, on which a inscribed mysterious characters whl< no living man can read. Back in tl beginning, they said, there was a mi with fair skin, who guarded the b< and who was so old that he knew things which happened when the grea great-grandfathers of the time we little children. This man never die said the old men, but faded away, ai is now the terrible guardian of the s; cred box and the mosque, and is wo shipped by followers of Mohammet i a terrible genii, who, if any har should come to the mosque, wou make the country one vast ruin. I to the old man that we should one di come Into the country and see the woi derful mosque and the still more woi derful box. but he onlv smiled a sup rior smile and said, 'Allah is Alia and is the only merciful and true Go Mahomet is his prophet; and then tl old, old man who guards the mosqu With these three against you?we sh? see what we shall see.' "I am inclined to think that the o man, having disposed of his load of c coanuts, had imbibed too much 'bhanj their native drink, but be that as it I he was most certainly a wonderf dreamer, and I should have liked hear more strange stories about the ii terior, but I had to come home on a count of sickness. "To show you, however, that I a not joking about the Moros' observani of certain Jewish rites of faith, I w show you a copy of the letter which tl recalcitrant Sultan of Bacolor, wro to the American commander at Can Vicars. The letter was received the on July 4, and Is as follows; " 'We ask you to return to the s< because you should not be here amor civilized Moros, for you are not cl cumcised. If you stay here we w fight you this month and in no evei ? til Ua ?M(AM^n kAAAI.on 1./ V> 111 W C MKT )UUI II ICUUO, UCWUUOC J \ eat pork. We say to you that if y< do not leave this region, come here ai the sultan will sacrifice you and if y< do not wish to come we will come you and fight.' " fir cltement, when every eye waa on the in senate, that a party of ladles, one afternoon, entered the house, and took In seats In the member's gallery. Among e- the party was Mrs. Stewart, and prest ently she was joined by a certain Democratic member from one of the southh ern states, who occupied a leading poig sition on his side of th? house. He fir was an old friend of Mrs. Stewart and g. merely came up to pay his respects, n- However, the conversation naturally ef drifted to the absorbing topic of the he day, and this Democratic congressman, sn knowing Mrs. Stewart's warm affection re for the south and the southern people, ke conceived the idea of enlisting her symto pathles against the "force bill," being he also well aware of the lady's almost se boundless influence with her husband, >lr the senator from Nevada, who held her at intellect and political acumen In the to highest respect. a He explained to her how, if this bill became a law, elections In the south ^3 would become the merest farce; that S(J liberty would be gone; that the people y_ would be at the mercy of the Federal jg bayonets, and that riot, bloodshed, perut haps revolution, would Inevitably follow. He told her of the horror which ;n filled the hearts of the southern people, her own people: how mothers and jfj wives, sisters and sweethearts trembled with fear lest this iniquitous bill should 1(J become a law. knowing only too well ne the peril It meant for father, son, hus,j. band and lover whose hot blood would lls never tolerate a military Invasion of ln their liberties; and he implored her to y8 interest her husband and urge him to ey break away from party bonds and ar?h ray himself on the side of Justice, 11berty and right. ld She listened, was convinced, and er promised to give all the aid she could. ??ll~ nnkl? okn rt^ I1IOIUI y tc110 liuw IIUUIJ OIIV * VUWMIW ld her word, though It is silent as rere gards the part she took in the drama ?h played out in the senate. The man who gained that promise in was Benton McMillin, now governor of Jx Tennessee. Senator Stewart listened to his wife, adopted her views, and arrayed himself re against the bill. Some other falr-mlnd(j ed Republican senators were won over, ld and the bill was beaten In the senate. a_ There have been numerous stories r_ told of deals engineered by Gorman as and Quay, but this is the true story of m how the Republican forces were undermined and the Lodge bill forever jd buried. The woman whose love of her ly people and the land of her birth saved them this bitter humiliation and outn_ rage is dead, and every southern man e_ and woman will Join in saying, "Peace j, to her ashes."?Atlanta Dally News, d. I ? - . Stti.l In the Business.?Lord Kaie" J mes, a once famous Scottish judge, on 1,1 his way southward to Perth from the northern circuit, had to spend the night Id at Dunkeld. Next morning he made for the ferry across the Tay, but, missing '* the road, asked a passerby to show is* him the way. u "With all my heart," said the stranto ger. "I see your lordship does not n" know me. My name Is John Gow. c" Don't you remember me? I had the honor to be tried before your lordship m for sheep stealing." ? "Now, I recollect you, John," replied the judge. "And how is your wife? hip She, too, had the honor to appear bete fore me for receiving the sheep, knowip ing them to have been stolen." r "Ah, we were very lucky to get off for want of evidence, but I am still in ?a the butchering business." ig "Then," quoth Lord Karnes as he r" came in sight of the ferry, "we may have the honor of meeting again."? Scottish American. TV One should look beneath the foam to on the sea to see that which lies in the depths below. S. DEFEAT OF THE FORCE BILL. t Credit Given to the Late Xn. Stewart. as The announcement of the killing of y, Mrs. Stewart, wife of United States or Senator Stewart, of Nevada, in an auv tomoblle accident in California, recalls 8- an episode In secret political history a in which she played an Important part, p- Mrs. Stewart was the eldest daughter r- of the famous Governor Foote, of Mlse sisslppl, sometime senator from that to state and California as well, the only ? man, If memory serves me correctly, r- who has ever sat in the United States tie senate from two states. Foote was a it noted character in his day, a master n- politician, possessing many- of the eleer ments of a statesman, a most courageous man, a very fire-eater, Indeed, at at a time when flre-eating was a danger[r. ous pastime, and this daughter inherittie ed many of his better qualities. ?, Incidentally, it may be noted, that 1 n T^nnfn nrna fnrlna mnrrln/1 nn/1 nro a fkn v, i' uuic tiao i tw ivv uiai i ivu awu nao bii^. fie father of twenty-one children, jk As stated. Mrs. Stewart was his eldar est daughter, and though early removof ed from the scenes of her birth and a childhood, always retained a warm afld fection for the south and the southern >ir people. This affection she demonstratn ed in a most substantial way, as this ce little sketch will show. ?d It was during the summer of 1890, be during the first session of the ever novo torious congress known to this day as "Reed's congress," for it was the first u- term of the "Czar's" rule as speaker is of the house, more properly master, for of the Republican members moved, or id were moved, us one moves on a chess ig board. id The whole country was in a furore By of excitement over the iniquitous Lodge st bill, commonly known as the "force a- bill," 'and even in Washington little xt else was talked about. In the hotels, se in every cafe, in the committee rooms lc- and corridors of the Capitol, it was the ry topic of conversation, and men offered st or took wagers on its probable passage >lr or defeat. It had just passed the house es by a close party vote, one courageous st Republican voting against it. ne It was during the heat of this ex