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"l ^ OEMT'S SOHs! Pubii.h.r.,J * gewsVagtr::~Jfor th> promotion of th< golitiat, Serial. ^griinltnml and (gonnntmiallfnttfwtt of ih< |TS^,8(,'0?o!,^.",vio?^"('' established 1855. ~YOBKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25,1910. ~ NOTlO. Triixton f King / Copyright. 1909, by Georja /I Barr McCutcheon II Copyright. 1909, by Dodd. 1/ Mead ? Company Synopsis of Preceding Chapters. Chapter I?Truxton Kin* arrives in Edelweiss, capital of Graustark, and meets the beautiful niece of Spantz, a gunmaker. II?Kin* does a favor for Prince Robin, the young ruler of the country, whose guardian is John Tullls, an American. Ill?Baron Dangloss, minister of police, interviews Kin* and warns him against Olga, the gunmaker's niece. CHAPTER IV. Truxton Trespasses. There was a sparkle in King'a eyes as he struck out across town after breakfast the next morning. He burst in upon Mr. Hobbs at Cook's. "Say, Hobbs, how about the castle today?in an hour, say? Can you take a party of one rubbernecking this morning? I want you to get me into the castle grounds today and show me where the duchesses dawdle and the countesses cavort" "Of course, sir, you understand there are certain parts of the park not open to the public. The grotto and the playgrounds and the Basin of Venus"? "I'll not trespass, so don't fidget, Hobbs. I'll be here for you at 10." Truxton hurried to the square and across it to the shop of the armorer, not forgetting, however, to look about In some anxiety for the excellent Dangloss, who might, for all he knew, be snooping in the neighborhood. Spantz was at the rear of the shop talking to a customer. The girl was behind the counter, dressed for the street She came quickly out to him, a disturbed expression in her face. As he doffed his hat the smile left his lips. He saw that she had been weeping. "You must not come here, Mr. King," she said hurriedly in low tones. "Take your broadsword this morning, and please, for my sake, do not come again I?I may not explain why I am asking you to do this." "Just a minute, please," he interrupted. "I've heard your story from Baron Dangloss. Are you in trouble? Do you need friends, Miss Platanova?" "The baron has told you all about me?" She smiled sadly. "Alas, he has only told you what he knows. But It should be sufficient There is no place in my life for you or any one else. There never can be. Do you question me? I can say no more. Now I must be gone. I?I have warned you. Do not come again." She slipped into the street and was gone. King stood in the doorway, looking alter ner, a puzziea gieam in his eyes. Old Spantz was coming up from the rear, followed by his customer. "Hello, Mr. Spantz! Good morning. I'm here for the sword." The old man glared at him in unmistakable displeasure. Truxton began counting out his money. The customer. a swarthy fellow, passed out of the door, turning to glance intently at the young man. A meaning look and a sly nod passed between him and Spantz. The man halted at the corner below and later on followed King to Cook's office, afterward to the castle gates, outside of which he waited until his quarry reappeared. Until King went to bed late that night this swarthy fellow was close at his heels, always keeping well out of sight himself. "I'll come in soon to look at those rings," said King, placing the notes on the counter. Spantz merely nodded, raked in the bills without counting them and passed the sword over to the purchaser. Truxton picked up the weapon and stalked away. A few minutes later he was on his way to the castle grounds, accompanied by the short legged Mr. Hobbs. Bobbs led him through the great park gates and up to the lodge of Jacob Fraasch. the venerable high steward of the grounds. Here, to King's utter disgust, he was booked as a plain Cook's tourist and mechanically advised to pay strict attention ') the rules. "It's no disgrace," growled Hobbs, redder than ever. "You're inside the grounds, and you've got to obey the rules, same as any tourist. Right this way. sir. We'll take a turn Just inside the wall. Now. on your left, ladies and?ahem!?I should say?ahem!?sir, you may see the first turret ever built on the wall. It is over 400 years old. On the right we have"? "See here. Hobbs," said King, stopping short, "I'm dashed If I'll let you lecture me as if 1 were a gang of hay- J seeds from Joshvllle." r Vn nft'.ncp T nil it* vriy gvuu, on. aw v.?, ? forgot, sir." "Just tell me, old chap. Don't lecture. Hobbs, this is all very beautfiul and very grand and very slow," said King, stopping to lean against the moss covered wall that encircled the park within a park, the grounds adjoining the grotto. "Can't I hop over this wall and take a peep into the grotto?" "By no means!" cried Hobbs, horri fled. King looked over the low wall. The prospect was alluring. The pool, the trickling rivulets, the mossy banks, the dense shadows?It was maddening to think he could not enter. "I wouldn't be in there a minute," he argued. "And I might catch a glimpse of a dream lady. Now, I say. Hobbs. here's a low place. I could Jump"? "Mr. King, if you do that I am ruined forever. I am trusted by the steward. He would cut off all my privileges"? Hobbs could go no further. He was prematurely aghast. Something told him that Mr. King would hop over the wall. "Go and report me, Hobbs; there's a good fellow. Tell the guards I wouldn't obey. That will let you out. my boy, and I'll do the rest." He strode off across the bright green ? ? A Story of GraustarK. By GEORGE BARR IVrCUTCHEON | Q O?? turf toward the source of all this enchantment, leaving: poor Mr. Hobbs braced against the wall, weak kneed and helpless. "What are you doing In here?" demanded a voice. Truxton, conscious of guilt, whirled with as much consternation as if he had been accosted by a voice of thunder. He beheld a very small boy standing at the top of the knoll above him, not thirty feet away. His face was quite as dirty as any small boy's should be at that time of day, and his curly brown hair looked as if It had not been combed since the day before. His firm little legs, in half hose and presumably white knickers, were spread apart, and his hands were in his pockets. King recognized him at once and looked about uneasily for the attendants who, he knew, should be near. It is safe to say that he came to his feet and bowed deeply, even in humility. DON'T TOU KNOW ANT BKTTKB THAN TO COMB IN HEBB ?" "I am resting, your highness," he said meekly. "Don't you know any better than to come in here?" demanded the prince. Truxton turned very red. "I am sorry. 1*11 go at once." "Oh, I'm not going to put you out!" hastily exclaimed the prince, coming down the slope. "But you are old enough to know better. You are the gentleman who picked up my crop yesterday. You are an American." "ices, loneiy Amenutu, wuu on attempt at the pathetic. The youngster looked cautiously about. Say, do you ever go fishing?" he demanded eagerly. "Occasionally." "You won't give me away, will you?" with a warning frown. "Don't you tell Jacob Fraasch. He's the steward. I?I know a fine place to fish." The prince led the way up the bank, followed by the amused American, who stooped so admirably that the boy, looking back, whispered that it was "Just fine." At the top of the knoll the prince turned into a little shrub lined path leading down to the banks of the pool almost directly below the rocky face of the grotto. The prince scurried behind a big rock and reappeared at once with a willow I branch from the end of which dangled a piece of thread. A bent pin occupied the chief end in view. He unceremoniously shoved the branch into the hands of his confederate and then produced from one of his pockets a silver cigarette box, which he gingerly opened to reveal to the gaze a conglomerate mass of angleworms and grubs. "A fellow gets awful dirty digging for worms, doesn't he?" he pronounced. The prince took the branch and gingerly dropped the hook into the dancing pool. In less time than it requires to tell It he had a nibble, a bite and a catch. There never was a boy so excited as he when a scarlet nibbler flew into the shrubbery above. On the opposite bank of the pool suddenly appeared two rigid members of the royal guard. Intently watching the fishers. King was somewhat disturbed by the fact that their rifles were In a position to be used at an instant's notice. He felt himself turning pale as he thought of what might have happened If he had taken to flight. A young: lady In a rajah s|lk gown, a flimsy panama hat tilted well over her nose, with a red feather that stood erect as If always in a state of surprise, turned the bushes and came to a stop almost at King's elbow. He had time to note In his confusion that she was about shoulder high alongside him and that she was staring up into his face with amazed gray eyes. Afterward he was to realize that she was amazingly pretty: that her teeth were very white and even: that her eyes were the most beautiful and expressive he had even seen, that she was slender and imperious and that there were dimples in her cheeks so fascinating that he could not gather sufficient strength of purpose to withdraw his gaze from them. Of course he did not see them at the outset. She was not smiling, so how could he? The prince came to the rescue. "This is my Aunt Loraine, Mr.?Mr."? He swallowed hard and looked helpless. "King." supplied Truxton?"Truxton King, your highness." Then, with all the courage he could produce, he said to the beautiful lady: "I'm as guilty as he. See!" He pointed ruefully to four goldfish which he had strung upon wire grass and dropped into the edge of the pool. "Please put those poor little things back In the pool, Mr. King," said the lady In perfect English. "Gladly, with the prince's permission," said King, also in English. The prince looked glum, but Interposed no imperial objection. It must be confessed that King's composure was sorely disturbed. He glanced up to find her studying him, plainly perplexed. "I Just wandered In here," he began guiltily. "The prince captured me down there by the big tree." "Did you say your name is Truxton King?" she asked somewhat skeptically. "Yes, your?yes, ma'am," he replied, "of New York." "Your father is Mr. Emerson King? Are you the brother of Adele King?" sne asked. "I am." "I've heard her speak of her brother Truxton. She said you were in South America." She was regarding him with cool, speculative interest "I wonder if you are he?" "I think I am," he said, but doubtfully. "Please pardon my amazement Perhaps I'm dreaming. At any rate, I'm dazed." "We were in the convent together for two years. Now that I observe you closely you do resemble her. We were very good friends, she and I." "Then you'll intercede for me?" he urged, with a fervent glance in the direction of the wall. She smiled Joyously. "More than that" she said, "I shall assist you to escape. Come!" He followed her through the shrubbery. his heart pounding violently. "Say!" whispered the prince a few moments later, dropping back as if to Impart a grave secret. "See that man over there by the fountain, Mr. King?" "Bobby!" cried the lady sharply. liOOODy, Mr. King, neriiernuer me iu your sister when you write. She"? "That's Aunt Loralne's beau." announced the prince. "That's Count Eric Vos Engo." Truxton's look turned t? one of Interest at once. The man designated was a slight, swarthy fellow In the uniform of a colonel. He did not appear to be particularly happy at the moment The American observed the lady's dainty ears. They had turned a delicate pink. "May I ask who"? began Truxton timidly. . "She will know If you merely call me Loralne." They parted company at once, the prince and the lady In the rajah silk going toward the castle. King toward the gate, somewhat dazed and by no means sure of his senses. To be Continued. BATTLE OF PIONEERS. When Colorado Settlers Wiped Out a Band of Indians. "Oeorge L. Shoup was a resident of the little mining town of Eenver, Col., more than forty-five years ago," James J. Miller said to a Washington Herald reporter. "On the one hand he was denounced as an Infamous leader of the Chivington massacre, but among his neighbors he was lauded as the hero of the battle of Sand Creek. "The surrounding country was overrun with a band of aborigines, known as the Sand Creek Indians, under the leadership of White Antelope. They were what are known as friendly Indians. Notwithstanding their demonstration of affection, numerous outrages were traced to the warriors *\f fhn *riho Mnn u'Arp miirHflrpil. 'women were outraged, children stolen, property purloined and stock driven off the ranches. To all demands for aid the United States officials responded that the Sand Creelj Indians were "friendly" and could not be the authors of the outrages. One day mutilated bodies of four settlers were brought into Denver. They had been treated with nameless violence. People of what was then a mining camp arose In indignation. A militia regiment of 400 men was at once organized, all trained, picked men, familiar with Indian methods. George L. Shoup was one of this body. He was not Its nominal leader, but in the vents which followed he took virtual- command and led the fighting. "The men who went out upon this expedition were not noisy, blatant ruffians. They were quiet-voiced, gentle, but determined citizens of a pioneer town, nearly all with what have been described as 'the inevitable blue eyes which seem to prevail among the heroes of the west.' They followed the Indians, found their villages at nightfall and prepared for attack at sunrise. A line of pickets was thrown out to guard against surprise. During the night one of the 'friendly' Indians sneaked up to one of the watchers, killed him, scalped hJm out mit V?i<a Vipnrt dlvidpd it in to four quarters and laid It upon the bleeding body. This was the spectacle which confronted the band of avengers in the morning. The sight drove them to frenzy. They fell upon the Indians with merciless purpose, sparing neither warrior, squaw nor papoose. It was a battle of annihilation. White Antelope and his people were absolutely wiped out. Not one lived to tell the tale. But from that day to this, a period covering more than forty-four years, there has never been an Indian outbreak in Colorado. "Col. Shoup led the men who destroyed that band of Indian marauders. That the claim made for the Indians of being friendly was a mockery was demonstrated by the fact that in their camp were found the scalps of three women, still wet with blood, and a vast amount of plunder which had been stolen from settlers and from trains passing through that region. When subsequently asked why he permitted buchery to extend tn Kntt, ivnman anil nhlllircn Col. Shoup quietly answered: 'It was Impossible to control my men. The spectacle of their comrade with his cut-up heart upon his breast made madmen of them. As to the squaws, they fought us more desperately than the warriors. They crawled on their hands and knees In efforts to cuf us down. "There was not a man among us who had not witnessed evidences of nameless atrocities which had been perpetrated upon white women. The battle was probably, considering the numbers involved, one of the fiercest In the history of the world. It was a hand-to-hand conflict from beginning to end. and If we had not wiped the Indians out of existence they would have destroyed' us. I admit that It was butchery, bat a necessary one." iWiscrllanrous grading. SOME GENERAL LAWS. No Really Important State-Wide Legislation Enacted. The legislature has adjourned, writes the Columbia correspondent of the Greenville News, and If there was any really Important law of state-wide nature enacted, it is yet to be found on the statute books. The more one thinks of the work of that session, the more the fact dawns upon him that very little was done. One thing can be said about this legislature and that is a marvelous number of local measures were passed. This is the last session and the members are going to nave 10 go Deiore me people ouring the coming summer and ask for reelection and they will be able to recite the wonderful work done for the people at home. Perhaps the most Important statewide measure passed at this session was the appropriation of $60,000 to the weak schools of the state and the enactment of a law providing for the Inspection of all commercial food stuffs. The asylum was attended to In a way?though in such a way as to show that the legislature did not wish to entrust the future upbuilding of the asylum to the present management. The following general laws were passed: To amend section 1619 and 1621 of the code of laws of South Carolina, 1902, Vol. 1, relating to Pilotage, and to Insert two additional sections to be known as 1619a and 1621a. To require the cancellation of all real estate and chattel mortgages and judgments in the different counties of the state to be entered upon the margin of the indexes thereof. To amend an act to amend section 1989, of Vol. 1, code of laws of South Carolina, 1902, relating to borrowing money by municipalities. A Joint resolution to provide for a commission to examine and revise the school laws of the state, and to recommend changes in the same. To further prescribe the powers of cities containing more than 5,000 inhabitants. To empower the commission charged with erection of a monument to the heroism, fidelity and fortitude of the women of South Carolina during the war between the Confederate and the United States, to locate such monument on approaches to the state house grounds. To authorize and empower trustees of Clem8on Agricultural and Mechanical college to purchase adjacent lands and providing means of payments for same. To amend the code, volume 1, chapter XLIX, relating to municipal corporations, by adding thereto an article to be known as article VII, providing a form of government for cities of more than 20,000 inhabitants and less than 50,000 inhabitants, such forms of government to be adopted by special elec-' tion ordered upon petition. ' To provide for the examination and registration of trained nurses. To authorize municipal corporations /tAnfolninff K AAA Inhabitants tn Afltflh lish or permit the establishment of slaughter pens beyond their corporate limits, and prescribe regulations in regard thereto. To compel support of wife and children by husband. To amend an act to reorganize military forces of this state, to adopt and make of force a military code, and to provide penalties for the violation thereof, and to repeal all laws referring to the military forces not herein re-enacted, so as to make the organlgatlon of national guard comply with the requirements of the United States. To provide for the manufacture and sale of certain alcohol within this state. To amend an act to amend section 948 of the code of laws of South Carolina, volume 1, relating to the probate of deeds beyond the limits of this state. To empower all cities and towns to require coal, coke, unbaled hay, cotton seed, cattle and other articles, to be weighed by a public weigher. To provide for holding courts in *v.e Fourth judicial circuit. To amend section 1378 of volume 1, code of laws of South Carolina, 1902, relating to duty of overseers at railroad crossings. To amend section 241, volume 1, code of laws, 1902, relating to the forwarding of election returns. Relating to undertakings required to be given In civil actions or special proceedings. To amend section 272, volume 1, code of laws, 1902, relating to the time for making returns of real estate for taxation. To prohibit the mutilation of any monument or fence Inclosing same. To amend an act to authorize sheriff of any county of this state to appoint a deputy sheriff or deputy sheriffs for a fair association. To provide for the compensation of solicitors while In attendance upon the sessions of the general assembly. To provide for the redemption of that part of the state debt, represented by the 4i per cent Brown Consols bonds and stocks, issued by virtue of an act approved December 22, 1892, by placing the same, or so much as may be necessary or practicable, with 3J per cent bonds and stocks. To provide a mode for the dissolution of school districts formed of parts of two or more counties. To establish a public service commission to fix and establish in all cities of this state rates and charges for the supply of water, gas, or electricity furnished by any person, firm, or corporation to such city and the inhabitants thereof, and to prescribe penalties. To amend chapter 34, article 2, of the civil code of 1902, volume 1, in as far as It relates to public cotton weighers, by adding to said chapter additional sections to be numbered sections 1558a and 1558b, regulating the purchase, sale, and public weighing of cotton ip bales in Columbia township of Richland county, and providing penalties for violation or their provisions. To encourage and aid In the construction of adequate public school buildings in the respective counties of this state, and to make an appropriation for same. Ratifying the 16th amendment to the constitution of the United States of America. To amend an act to regulate the catching, gathering, sale, exporting, or canning of oysters, terrapins, clams, shad, and sturgeon; to provide for the licensing thereof, and to provide for the leasing of public lands suitable for the cultivation thereof, so as to further regulate the industry of catching, gathering, selling, exporting, or canning of oysters, terrapins, clams, shad, and sturgeon. To amend the law in relation to the names and location of the voting precincts in this state. To amend section 2655 of volume 1, of the code of laws of South Carolina, 1902, so that said section shall apply to simple contract creditors. To direct the state treasurer to hold funds turned over to him by the dispensary committee. To provide for the chief game war den. In relation to deduction from weights or price of cotton for bagging and ties. Relating to ammonia in commercial fertilizer. To amend the law relating to magistrates and their constables, their pow?^ duties, Jurisdiction, salaries. To create a commission to purchase lands for the use of the state hospital for the insane, and erect buildings thereon and provide the means therefor. To amend the law with reference to compensation and salaries of county officers. To provide for the levy of taxes for county and school purposes for the fiscal years beginning January 1, 1910. To make appropriations to meet the ordinary expenses of the state government for the fiscal year commencing January 1, 1910, and to provide for a tax sufficient to defray the same. To provide for the display of the state flag over public buildings. Petitioning congress for the return to the Btate of South Carolina its proportionate part or share of the cotton tax, unlawfully collected by the Federal government. E8CAPED CONVICT8 ADVENTURE His Long Walk Across Africa?How He Reached Europe. News was received in London on Saturday of the death of Joseph Creswlck, who while fleeing from justice accomplished one of the most remarkable walking feats on record. C'reswlck was undergoing a sentence for forgery in Rhodesia and while being conveyed from one prison to another by train (as reported some months ago) conceived the idea of escaping from his guards. As his legs were heavily ironed the task was by no means an easy one, but one night, when the train in which he was being conveyed was between Buluwayo and Salisbury and his guards were asleep, Creswlck quietly opened the carriage door and Jumped out When he reached the ground he fell but was not badly hurt. During the remainder of the night he shuffled along in the dark and at daybreak could see the railroad in the distance. He decided to walk in a straight line from it, which he did for several days, still with his feet shackled. Day after day and night after night he rubbed his irons with the sharpest pieces of rock he could And until at last he was able to throw his manacles aside. After this Creswlck went on with great strides through the unknown country in which he found himself, his sole object being to get to some white settlement. Some weeks after hlg escape the wanderer had a wonderful piece of luck. In a hut apparently belonging t to a settler he found a gun and some ammunition, which in the circumstances he did not hesitate to take possession of. With the gun he managed to shoot several zebras and other animals which provided him with many a welcome meal; but unfortunately his gun got out of order before his ammunition became exhausted and he had to rely upon fruit for his sustenance. Just when Creswlck was coming to the conclusion that he had been walking 'round and 'round without making much progress he fell in with some natives, who gave him certain directions as to how to find "a very long water" which Creswlck concluded ' must mean the river Congo, and for several more weeks he continued his tramp. Eight months after his escape from the train between Salisbury and Bulu- ' wayo, Creswick was found by a party of Belgians lying In a weak and feverish condition about two hundred miles 1 from Leopoldville on the Congo. They ' nursed him back to health and strength. At Bomba, arrayed in all the glory of a pair of cricket flannels 1 and a football jersey provided by his ' new friends, the fugitive found a ship on which he worked his passage to Antwerp. From there he got a ship ' to London. That, however, led to his 1 undoing, for while walking in Whltechapel he was recognized by Detective Inspector Belcher of Scotland Yard, who arrested him on the charge of es- 1 caping from lawful custody. He was taken subsequently to Rho- ' desla as a fugitive offender, and for 1 his escapade he was sentenced to a 1 further term of six months' imprisonment, during which he died.?London Globe. 1 . ? i i Length of Dreams. Three physicians were discussing the matter of the length of dreams. "One afternoon," said one of them, ' "I called to see a patient, and much to my satisfaction, I found him sleeping soundly. I sat by his bed, felt of his pulse without disturbing him and waited for him to awaken. After a few minutes a Junk dealer's cart with discordant ringing bells turned into the street and as their first tones reached us my patient opened his eyes. " 'Doctor,' he said, 'I'm glad to see you and awfully glad that you woke ' me, for I have been tortured by a most distressing dream that must have lasted for several hours. I dreamed that 1 I was sick, as I ant, and that my boy came into the room with a string of ' most horribly sounding sleighbells and 1 rang them in my ears, while I hadn't power to move or speak to him. 1 sqffered tortures for what appeared to be an Interminable time. Fm so glad you woke me. "The ringing of those bells for one second had caused all of that dream and Just at the waking moment." tir a goose had been known to live fifty years, a swan one hundred years, THE 8TATE HOSPITAL. ? Senator CHristensen I* Encouraged t With the Progrese That Has Been j Made. \ "It is an erroneous opinion which is t held by some people, founded on cer- r tain newspaper reports, that the inves- t tigatlng commission lost out in its s fight to improve the facilities and e methods of treatment of the insane t people of the state," said Hon. Niels r Christensen today, as his face bright- 1 ened at the suggestion of the triumph I over powerful interests which the commission had to encounter. I "It is true that the recommendation i for a bond issue was lost," said Sena- 1 tor Christensen, "but in other ways, f the needs of the unfortunate people t will be looked after and with the ap- g pointment of a commission and an ap- r -M t1AA AAA A' ?1- ~* t piupi laviuii ui fiuu.uuu, cue wuin ui ^ bettering the facilities which have been r so wofully deficient and Inadequate at b the state hospital will be started, and * this, In addition to an appropriation q of (50,000 for urgent and Immediate re- u pairs at the present Institution." u Senator Christensen went on to say ^ that it was true that the resolution q asking the resignation of the officials s of the asylum was defeated, and the a bond issue was also lost, but the In- n vestigating commission was not wed- s ded to either of these suggestions, if the * desired results were to be had in other ? ways, and he is confident that the state h is now entering upon a period for the p better and more humane treatment, 1 and care of Its unfortunate people. ^ When the proposition for the bond t Issue came up in the house, where such 1 financial matters must originate, the minority report of the commission was ? adopted, Mr. Christensen explained, n which provided for the purchase of o about 1,200 acres of land within ten * miles of Columbia, the idea probably j, being the location of an asylum for n negroes on this tract. When this Dili * went to the senate, It was absorbed In J1 the proposition which was endorsed by fj the majority of the commission, pro- t: vlded for the appropriation of $100,000 1 for a new hospital, with the size and jj place of location left free and open, ], and the personnel of the commission ti to consist of the superintendent of the 0 hospital, the state chairman of the j, board of health and three additional d members who are yet to be named by a Qov. Ansel. If. Dr. Babcock remains ^ at the head of the Institution, he will 0 be on the commission, as will be Dr. c Robert Wilson of Charleston, a spe- v clallst on nervous diseases who gave g the Investigating commission consider- ti able information, helping them in their c deliberation on the subject matter of their report The very fact that regUT ? lar board of regents of the Institution q was not placed in charge of the new t' hospital matter was an evidence of the ? control of the situation, said Mr. Chris- f tensen today in speaking of the mat- a ter. ? With the sum of $100,000 as a nu- g cleus fund, the place of the new In- t stltutlon and its size and character as h the naming of the commission, a long n step has already been made, said Mr. a Christensen in securing the much p needed reforms. o Mr. Christensen said that he thought ? that the Institution will be placed at or > near Columbia, but, of course, he had ti no suggestion to make on the matter. ? All he had been Interested In was the p expose of the wofully Inadequate and tl inefficient conditions which existed at a the state insane hospital, which were f1 presented to the legislature with such recommendations as have been made si and now, he has washed his hands, so to speak, and the matter remains with p those in whose charge It has been p placed. Of course, he wants the rec- a ords kept straight, and he Is hopeful g that all this agitation will not be with- ? out its good results, and all present ? Indications are that much good will T come.?Charleston Post. a .?? . r THE LONDON CROWD. P t< n Where the Unfortunates of the World w Accumulate. ? a The London elections give one food tl for much thought. Unionists should b think that they have not done so well ^ as they expected to do or as they j, ought to have done; Radicals that w they have had a happy escape which P they did not deserve. If they will g, think with any sort of honesty over u certain of the London elections their n rejoicing will take a very sober hue. '( Excitement has had time to cool down v a little, but the truth about Hoxton S and Bermondsey, among others, b though Liberals know it well enough " will not come home until long after b all the elections are over. Then T many Radicals will wish they could forget a good deal and may become u Tories too. But we are perfectly cer- t< tain that Unionists will have nothing F to be so much ashamed of as to have * the Radicals in their victory at Hox- y ton. We are not going to soil our n pages by giving the details of things a said and done by the Radicals there. t( It will be enough if we mention that a a Socialist elector of Hoxton said to f? us on the day of the polling that he N should in any case refrain from voting for the Liberal candidate as a protest against the disgusting tactics adopted by the Radicals in that elec- L tlon. tl The thing that strikes one, and tl rather oppresses, thinking over these w two or three sinister elections (It is p a mild word) is that probably they a would not be possible anywhere in it 'hp klnedom excent in certain parts n of London. These spots are not typl- Ij cal of poorer London, which is for T the most part highly respectable and h sadly dull; bus essentially they are c of London, if not peculiar to it. ti Abroad, the United States at any rate, n can show the same social phenome- tl non aggravated. Criminal is not at ti all the word to hit this peculiar popu- a lation. It has its criminal elements tl of course. Two "wanteds" figured Ir conspicuously In a crowd that was ? trying to rush very uglily the Con- U servatlye candidate's cart at an open tl air meeting in Shoreditch. One was tl run In. the other was "rescued" from ri the police by the Liberal crowd. But tl this might happen in any part of any A large town, though somehow this kind > of gentleman seems to have congre- <> gated in a way rather wonderful at a some of these elections. Lieft alone, o this population is, in the mass, not tl malicious, but harmless and cowed d looking. It becomes ''wicked." only u when urged by others, generally out- tl ilders, real wicked ones, damned louls, clever at spreading the Infeclon. The point about these unhappy >eople is their rottenness, no fibre, no orce, no character. Bitterly poor, hey know nothing, and we may alnost say care for nothing. Apathetic, he spark in them is more easily truck by the evil than good Influence. He who works for them and rles to help them feels more and nore that he has nothing In them to ean upon, nothing to help him to lelp them. They may excite disgust at times? n some moods they are frankly hor'Ible as an ordinarily dull face looks torrible distorted by passion?but inInitely more they excite pity. They tave no chance, and they will not rive themselves a chance. They will lot take a chance; it really seems that hey do not know how to take it. luch a population is of course & sedlnent; otherwise happily it would not >e. But in London the droppings hrough from all grades in all counrles into these quarters are so freuent that the sediment is rising iglily. "Colluvies gentium" is an inklnd phrase, but there can be no loubt Sulla meant by it exactly what his peculiar London population is. )ne feels they are a mixture, no tock. no race; accidents nationally, ccidents industrially. As under free rade the industrial surplus of every narket finds its way here, so does the octal surplus of all countries find its /ay to London. Anything leBs English Ither in the literal or in the tradilonal sense than these quarters can lardly be imagined. Most of the eople talk English and there their Snglishness begins and there it ends, tone feels this so much as the sound nan who somehow finds himself in hese uncongenial surroundings, 'here are many of these of course, ine, clean, healthy fellows, but they re not many among so many. And hey do not stay longer than they ieed. None gives a severer account f the people about him than these. Elections are a rather rphlnc tnat f this kind of population. We fear n London the evidence is not that natters are improving with them, lany things are tending to get the etter stock out of London and all he time their place is more than lied by worse. Socially and morally he problem is almost overwhelming, t is serious nationally and on that lde at any rate something can be one. British statesmen will have to nok the matter in the face and check his accumulation of the unfortunates f the world in London. However, this is a small and wholV exceptional fragment of the Lonon crowd. The crowd that has been ssembling nightly to see the eleclon results in Trafalgar Square has othlng sinister about it. Quite the ther way. Its easy good nature and omfortable contentment are so obious that it is almost humorous, lost of the London elections have one off quietly enough, even tamely, o the declaration of the poll. Vast rowds heard, or rather saw, the gures, roared and went home, not uietly, because the average Engllshlan on the young side of forty is not uie* when he is happy. But bad eeling there was none. In Trafalgar kjuare Liberals, Conservatives, Lar or men, Free Traders, Tariff Reormers, Socialists, stood side by side nd nobody minded when his nelghor's man got in or was irritated by lis Jubilation. And they did not artie, certainly not with any heat, on he merits of parties. One might ave thought that most of them had 0 politics. They came out for an venlng's entertainment and to make noise. Any result served the purose. After the show was over bands f young men paraded the streets? rderly enough?every other minute heerlng lustily for no earthly reason, lothing had happened. Plainly poliIcs had nothing to do with the rowd's assembling or its manner, 'hey seemed to have been good temered because they did not care. Is tils political indifference a good or bad thing? It certainly makes for eace and good order. If everybody 1 hannv either w?v there in no ma erlal for ructions. But it does not eem particularly intelligent. Here at the heart of the capital of tie empire is a great crowd waiting, reathless of course, to see how the olitical tide is running. Are we not democracy? Is not this the people ravely exercised about the effect the eeults they are expecting will have pon the fortunes of the empire? lut what are they talking about? 'ariff reform and free trade? The uestion seems to be, not political at 11, but which does the blue light repesent and which the red? This aparently is a vastly and abidingly investing question. Another man canot understand why tariff reformers rant to tax the goods we send out f the country. But he knows they o because he heard them say that hey were going to tax imports. Just ehind us another group were hotly iscussing whether the government Ide was the side that had the majrlty in the house or the side that rere in a minority. It was a knotty oint, only settled by a third party appily remembering the number of upporters the government had in the ist hundred, so the government side lust be the side which was in a mairity. These were not inventions, but conersations heard in the Trafalgar quare crowd. We hope some memers of the L. C. C. education comlittee were there and some heads f training colleges and a goodly num- ; er of elementary school teachers. ^ 'hey should be proud of their work they were. Is this a brilliant reult of education on a people pecu- ( arly gifted, according to Liberal his- ( jrians, with political genius? Sir | tobert Morant's views on the point ( rould be interesting. There seems , ) be very little doubt that the mulItude in London is extremely good , atured and extremely Ignorant?at , ny rate politically. So perhaps it , lay be ideally fit for democracy as 50 ignorant to be able to affect policy ( nd good tempered to mind not af- ( acting it.?London Saturday Re- | iew. j Dogs For Military Work. The Brltlsn army, accoramg iu * ( tondon military mail Interview, Is le only European army which ignores He use of dogs. If the German army ere mobilised tomorrow they could ut 4,000,000 men in the field within fortnight and 4,000 ambulance serv\g dogs. The dogs used by the Gerrnn police would also be immediater mobilized with those in the army, he Moors understand the use of dogs 1 warfare pretty well. They have a ross between a deerhound and a masft. At night they would go down ear the Spanish lines and put on leir dogs to detect the enemy's sen ies. When the dogs barked they were ble to locate the sentries and fire on lem. They also dressed up their dogs i their own turbans and chelabas, in hlch they would run up the mounlins and draw the Spanish fire. Somemes they would send the dogs into te camps, and the Spaniards would ush out and fire upon the dogs and le Moors would fire on the Spaniards, a hnttipfirrnunrl has been gone ver by the search parties at the end f the engagement the ambulance dogs i re sent out to see if any one has been ' verlooked. They work better at night , lan In the daytime, and have the ad- I Itlonal advantage that they avoid the se of lanterns which Invariably draw 1 le enemy's Are. \ v WHAT A BOY CAN DO. Story of Bascom Ushar and His Corn Crop. Under the headline, "The Boys' Prize Crop," the New York Evening Mail prints the following concerning Bascom Usher, the champion boy corn grower, who several days ago entered Wofford College Pitting school: "There probably is nothing more prosaic to the superficial observer than a one-acre corn held, unless it Is another just like it, or possibly a little more so. It is merely a patch \jl giun ui? V/iuy, nucic uic winbined forces of man and the favoring sunshine arc coaxing nature more or less effectively to smile with a harvest. From the hour of planting down through successive hoelngs to the final processes of cutting and husking, the held Is nothing more to the unthinking man than a commonplace scene of human activity, in which the work is hard and the returns uncertain. "But Bascom Usher's one-acre corn field was distinctively different It was the theatre not only of an exploit which charms one's Imagination, but of an agricultural triumph that should make every American boy proud. "Bascom Usher Is seventeen years old, and lives In South Carolina. Now, every year the government organizes a national corn contest for boys In which $10,000 in prizes Is awarded for various achievements. Including one for the largest yield from a single acre. Bascom Usher entered last year's contest. He ploughed his acre, planted It, cultivated it as he believed it should be, and watched ana tenaea it u 11 it were some aeucate flower bed. The work was hard ?everybody that ever hoed corn knows that?but Bascom Usher torgot his fatigue In the sheer Joy of watching that corn. grow. In due season It was cut and shucked, and a little later It was husked. Then the official committee came around, looked over the results, and decided H that .Bascom Usher's acre had won the first prize. "Please consider what this victory meant to Bascom Usher In a practical way, and quite apart from the exaltation of pride, which It must have brought to him. His one-acre field produced 1621-2 bushels of corn, which sold as prise seed at $2 a bushel, making $106, and the fodder for $30, or a total of $326.00. Allowing $136 for labor the one-acre field returned a net profit of $200? a yield rich enough to make the average grown-up corn grower gasp. "But the sense of conquest was worth more than the money. Bascom Usher has learned how. He Is a master of the soil. He has discovered a new charm In land and become a Joint partner with nature in a combination capable of transforming black loam and sunshine Into gold." m i HUNTING BEAR WITH 8PEAR8. One of the Methods of Killing Bruin In Northern Eu-ope. During the last few years I have had the satisfaction of killing a fair number of bears, the biggest and perhaps the most interesting game of northern Europe, and have studied the ways of these animals both In Sweden and In Finnish and Russian Karelia, wnere I have come across thirty-six bears altogether, and have myself killed or caught twenty-thrqe, including six young onea My Russian and Finnish Kaar hiintinc ha* always taken place in winter, but it has been done In various ways. The one which has afforded me the greatest amount of enjoyment is hunting the bear on skis, and I will first relate my experiences in that direction. I have twice hunted a bear with the spear; on one occasion the lair was in a boggy country, and we soon found the entrance, outside of which I took up my position, armed with my bear spear, which is a strong ash poie rather more than six feet long, with a steel point of about twelve inches; in order to protect it against the teeth of the bear the lower part of the pole is covered with copper. The moment the bear appeared I tried to hit him in the throat, but he parried with his paw and my spear miscarried. The bear came further out and I managed to thrust my spear well into his chest, he got furious and bit viciously at the copper coating, at the same time trying to knock the spear out of my hand with his paw. He used his teeth with such force that they almost penetrated the copper, and higher up the pole he tore out great splinters of wood. It took me all my time to hold my own against him, but by degrees he tired and lay down at the entrance to the lair. I drew out the spear to let the blood flow more freely, but the bear still had strength enough to snap at the point of the spear with such violence that be made some big marks in the metal with his teeth. My friend now came up and gave him the coup de grace with his spear. The fight lasted about five minutes. To tackle a bear with a spear in the summer time when the ground is bare Is a serious business, although I have beard of Laps doing it; but the bear Is as lithe as a cat and uses his paws with surprising rapidity and force. Even in winter, wnen anow aumcnuai hinders his movements, one needs a cool head and a strong arm. A well known Norwegian bear hunter, commenting upon the use of the spear when bear hunting, either when rousing a bear from his lair or when In pursuit of a wounded bear, recommends in the latter case that the spear should be so carried that it trails on the ground with the bottom end and the point a little behind one's body. When the bear rushes at the hunter the latter steps back one step and the bear spits itself on the sp'V which with its other end finds supp^. i on the ground. It is more especially in northern Norway that the spear is used at bear bunts, and such spears are often handed down from father to son through several generations, the same spear often having been the death of many a bear. Its handling requires both great coolness and adroitness and now that both magazine rifle and revolver ire used in bear hunting the use of the spear is less frequent than formerly. A. member of the recent Danish Literary Greenland expedition relates how the polar Eskimo hunts the ice bear with a spear, considering it below the dignity of a bear hunter to use firearms.?Field. , a , / 1-0" Chicago housewives have won a victory In the highest court In the state. The supreme court of Illinois has decided that no more Inflated, short weight loaves of bread may be sold in Chicago. The court upheld a Chicago ordinance requiring that the weight of a loaf of bread be plainly marked thereon and that all loaves weigh one pound or multiples of fractions thereof.