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Y@flK?SLLE ENQUIRER. ISSUED SKMI-WKSKLY. I* grist s SONS. Publishers.} & l?"WW= 4" promotion oJ[ th< fjoUttqat. j^jM, S|riq?toral and Cimwetdal Jnitrtstt of ?hq frajlq. J wn^^Vw^roBgiMESTABLISHED IH55. YORKYILLE, 8. C.> TUE8AY, FEBRUARY 6, 19V2. NO. 31. t "Wle . PRODIGAL Jl The Famous Nova VAUGHAN KE? > Copyright, 1911. The Bobb*-M?rr CHAPTER XXIV. A The Cabin Across the Bayou. W Tom Ware was seated alone over his breakfast. He had left his bed as the pale morning: light crept across the great fields that were alike his pride and his despair?what was the use of trying to sleep when sleep was an impossibility! The memory of that tragedy at the church door was a black horror to him; it gave substance to his dreams, it brought him awake fek with writhing Hps that voiced his fear F in the dead stillness of the night. The y days were scarcely less terrible. Steeled and resolute as his will could make him, he was not able to speak of what. . he had seen with composure. Being r as he was in this terribly perturbed "x- state ne naa snirnca ma iiniimue wiki and presented a proportionately haggard and unkempt appearance. He was about to quit the table when big Steve entered the room to say there was a white fellow at the door wished to see him. "Fetch him along in here," said Ware briefly, without lifting his bloodshot * eyes. Brought into his presence the white fellow delivered a penciled note which proved to be from Murrell, and then on Ware's invitation partook of whisky. ^ When he was gone, the planter ordered his horse, and while he waited for it to be brought up from the stables, re-read Murrell's note. The expression of his unprepossessing features Indicated what was passing in his mind, his mood was one of sullen rebellion. He felt Murrell was bent on committing him to an aggregate of cripi? he would never have considered possible, and all for love of a girl?a pink-cheeked, white-faced chit of a girl?disgust boiled up within him, ^ raged choked him; this was the rot ten 8pot in Murrell's make-up, the man was mad?stark mad! As Ware rode away from Belle Plain he cursed him under his breath with vindictive thoroughness. His ^ own inclination toward evil was never very robust; he could have connived and schemed over a long period of years to despoil Betty of her property, he would have counted this a legitimate field for enterprise; but murder and abduction was quite another thing. tH? would wash his hands of all further connection with Murrell, he had other things to lose besides Belle Plain, and the present would be as good a time, as any to let the outlaw know he could be coerced and bullied no 1 longer. But he had a saving recollec tlon of the way In which Murrell dealt with what he counted treachery: an unguarded word, and he would not dare to travel those roads even at broad noon-day, while to pass before a lighted window at night would be to invite death; nowhere would he be safe. Three miles from Belle Plain he entered a bridle path that led toward the river; he was now traversing a part of the Quintard tract. Two miles ? from the point where he had quitted the main road he came out upon the shores of a wide bayou. Looking across this he saw at a distance of half a mile what seemed to be a clearing of considerable extent, it was the first sign of human occupation he had seen since leaving Belle Plain. An Impenetrable swamp defended the H head of the bayou which he skirted. Doubling back as though he were going to retrace his steps to Belle Plain, finally he gained a position opposite the clearing which still showed remotely across the wide reach of slugi glsh water. Here he dismounted and tied his horse, then as one tolerably familiar with the locality and its resources, he went down to the shore and launched a dugout which he found concealed in some bushes; entering it he pointed Its blunt bow In the direction of the clearing opposite. A growth of small timber was still standing along the water's edge, but as he noornr thns& hpttprmcnts which HPBW the resident of that lonely spot had seen fit to make for his own conventence, came under his scrutiny; these consisted of a log cabin and several lesser sheds. Landing and securing his dugout by the simple expedient of dragging half its length out of the water, he advanced toward the cabin. As he did so he saw two women at work heckling ^ flax under an open shed. They were the wife and daughter of George Hicks, his overseer's brother. "Morning, Mrs. Hicks," he said, addressing himself to the mother, a hulkI Ing ruffian of a woman. "Howdy, sir?" she answered. Her daughter glanced Indifferently in Ware's direction. She was a fine strapping girl, giving that sense of physical abundance which the planter admired. "They'd better keep her out of Mur rell's way!" he thougnt; aioua ne aid, ^'Anybody with the captain?" "Colonel Fentress Is." "Humph!" muttered Ware. He mov ed to the door of the cabin and pushing It open, entered the room where Murrell and Fentress were seated facing each other across the breakfast table. The planter nodded curtly. He had not rseen Murrell since the murder, and the sight of him quickened the spirit of antagonism which he had been nursing. "You roust a fellow out early enough!" he grumbled, rubbing his unshaven chin with the back of his hand. "I was afraid you'd be gone somewhere. Sit down?here, between the colone! and me," said Murrell. "Well, what the devil do you want of me, anyhow?" demanded the plantr-v erL "How's your sister. Tom?" Inquired t. Murrell. "I reckon she's the way you'd expect her to be." Ware dropped his voice1 to a whisper. Those women were Just I the other side of the logs, he could hear them at their work. '"Who's at Belle Plain now?" demanded Murrell. I "Bowen's wife and daughter have stayed," answered Ware, still In a whisper. "For how long, Tom? Do you know?" "They were to go home after breakfast this morning; the daughter's to come out again tomorrow and stay with Betty until she leaves." "What's that you're saying?" cried Murrell. "She's going back to North Carolina to those friends of hers; it's no concern of mine, she does what she likes without consulting me." There was a brief pause during which Murrell scowled at the planter. ... . u * j "I reCKOn your n?itn a icnucr, iuu. he presently said. Ware's dull glance shifted to Fentress, but the colonel's cold and impassive exterior forbade the thought that his sympathy had been roused. "It isn't that," Ware muttered, moistening his lips. He felt the utter futility of opposition. "I am for letting things rest Just where they are," again | his voice slid into a husky whisper. "You'll be running all our heads into a halter, the first thing you know? and this isn't any place to talk over such matters, there are too many people about." "There's only Bees and the old woman busy outside," said Murrell. "What's to hinder them from sticking an ear to a chink in the logs?" "Go on and finish what you've got to say, and get It off your mind," said Murrell. "Well, then, I want to tell you that I consider you didn't regard me at all in the way you managed that business at the church! If I had known what was due to happen 'there, do you think I'd have gone near the place? But you let me go! I met you on the road and you told me you'd learned Norton had been to see Bowen, you told me that much, but you didn't tell me near all you might!" Ware was bitter and resentful; again he felt the sweat of a moral terror drip from him. "It was the best thing for you that it happened the way it did," rejoined Murrell coolly. "No one will ever think you had a hand In it." "It wasn't right! You placed me in the meanest kind of a situation," objected Ware sullenly, mopping his face. "Did you think I was going to let the marriage take place? You knew he had been warned to keep away from her," said Murrell. There was a movement overhead in the loft, the loose clapboards with which It was floored created under a heavy- tread. "Who's that? Hicks?' asked Ware. "It isn't Hicks?never mind who It Is, Tom," answered Murrell quietly. "I thought you sent him out of the county?" muttered Ware, his face livid. "Look here, Tom, I don't ask your help, but I won't stand your interference. I'm going to have the girl." "John, you'll ruin yourself with your damned crazy infatuation!" It was Fentress, no longer able to contain himself, who spoke. "No, I won't, colonel, but I'm not going to discuss that. All I want Is for Tom to go to Memphis and stay there for a couple of days. When he comes back Belle Plain and its niggers will be as good as his. I am going to take the girl away from there tonight. I don't ask your help and you needn't ask what comes of her afterward. That will be my affair." Murrell's burning eyes shifted from one to the other. "A beautiful and accomplished young lady?a great heiress?is to disappear and no solution of the mystery demanded by the public at large!" said Fentress with an acid smile. Murrell laughed contemptuously. "What's all this fuss over Norton's death amounted to?" he said. "Are you sure you have come to the end of that, John?" inquired Fentress, still smiling. "I don't propose to debate this further," rejoined Murrell haughtily. Instantly the colonel's jaw became rigid. The masterful airs of this cutthroat out of the hills Irked him beyond measure. Murrell turned to Ware. "How soon can you get away from here, Tom?" he asked abruptly. "By God. I can't go too soon!" cried the planter, staggering to his feet. He gave Fentress a hopeless beaten look. "You're my witness that first and last T'va tin nflft In thin' hp nrldPfl. The colonel merely shrugged his shoulders. Murrell reached out a detaining hand and rested it on Ware's arm. "Keep your wits about you, Tom, and within a week people will have forgotten all about Norton and your sister. I am going to give them something else to worry over." Ware went from the cabin, and as the door swung shut Fentress faced Murrell across the table. "I've gone as far with you In this affair as I can go; after all, as you say. It is a private matter. You reap the henefits?you and Tom between you?I shall give you a wide berth until you come to your senses. Frankly, If you think that In this late day In the world you can carry off an unwilling girl, your Judgment Is faulty." "Hold on, colonel?how do you know she Is going to prove unwilling?" objected Murrell, grinning. Fentress gave him a glance of undisguised contempt and rose from his seat. "I admit your past successes, John ?that is, I take your word for thembut Miss Malroy Is a lady." "I have heard enough!" said Murrell angrily. "So have I, John," retorted the colonel in a tone that was unvexed but final, "and I shall count it a favor if you will never refer to her in my hearing." He moved In the direction of the door. "Oh, you and 1 are not going to lose our tempers over this!" began Murrell. "Come, sit down again, colonel!" he concluded with great good nature. "We shall never agree, John?you have one Idea and I another." "We'll let the whole matter drop out of our talk. Look her#, how about the boy?are you ready for him If I can get my hands on him?" Fentress considered. From the facts he had gathered he knew that the man who called himself Judge Price must soon run his course In Raleigh, and then as Inevitably push out for fresh fields. Any. morning might find him gone and the boy with him. "I can't take him to my place as I had Intended doing; under the circumstances that is out of the question," he said at length. "Of course; but I'll send him either up or down the river and place him In safe keeping where you can get him any time you want." "This must be done without violence, John!" stipulated Fentress. "Certainly, I understand that perfectly well. It wouldn't suit your schemes to have that brace of old sots handled by the Clan. Which shall It be?up or down river?" Could you take care of him for me below, at Natchez?" inquired Fen iress. "As well there as anywhere,'colonel, and he'll pass into safe hands; he won't give me the slip the second time!" "Good!" said Fentress, and took his leave. From the window Murrell watched him cross the clearing, followed by the gi 1, Bess, who was now to row him over to the opposite shore. He reflected that these men?the Wares and Fentresses and their like?were keen enough where they had schemes of their own they wished put through; It was only when he reached out empty hands that they reckoned the consequences. Three-quarters of an hour slipped by, then, piercing the silence, Murrell heard a shrill whistle; it was twlc repeated; he saw Bess go down to the landing again. A half hour elapsed and a man issued from the scattering growth of bushes that screened the shore. The new-comer crossed the blearing and entered the cabin. He was a young fellow of twenty-four or Ave, whose bronzed and sunburnt face wore a somewhat reckless expression. "Well, captain, what's doing?" he asked, as he shooks hands with Murrell. "I've been waiting for you. Hues," said Murrell. He continued, "I reckon the time's here when nothing will be gained by delay." Hues dropped down on a three-legged stool and looked at the outlaw fixedly and in silence for a moment. At length he nodded understanding^. . "You mean?" "If anythlng's to be done, now is the time. What have you to report?" "Well, I've seen the council of each Clan division. They are ripe to start this thing off." Murrell gave him a moment of moody regard "Twice already I've, named the day and hour, but now I'm going to put It through!" He set his teeth and thrust out his Jaw. "Captain, you're the greatest fellow n America! Inside of a week men who have never been within five hundred miles of you will be asking each other who John Murrell is!" Murrell had expected to part with Hues then and there and for all time, but Hues possessed qualities which might still be of use to him. "What do you expect to do for yourself?" he demanded. The other laughed shortly. "Captain, I'm going to get rich while I have the chance. Ain't that what we are all after?" "How?" Inquired Murrell quietly. Hues shifted his i -at. "I'm sensitive about caling things by their short names;" he gave way to easy laughter; "but if you've got anything special you're saving for yourself, I'm free to say I'd rather take chances wlh you than with another," he finished carelessly. "Hues, you must start hack across Tennessee. Make it Sunday at midnight?that's three days off." Unconsciously his vole sank to a whisper. "Sunday at midnight," repeated Hues slowly. "When you have passed the word into middle Tennessee, turn south and make the best of your way to New Orleans. Don't stop for anything? push through as fast as you can. You'll find me there. I've a notion you and I will quit the country together." "Quit the country! Why, captain, who's talking of quitting the country?" "You speak as though you were fool enough to think the niggers would accomplish something!" said Murrell coolly. "There will be confusion at first, but there are enough white men in the southwest to handle a heap better organized insurrection than we'll be able to set going. Our fellows will have to use their heads as well as their hands or they are likely to help the nigger swallow his medicine. I look for nothing else than considerable of a shake-up along the Mississippi.... what with lynchers and regulators a man will have to show a clean bill of health to be allowed to live, no matter what his color?just being whito won't help him any!" "No. you're right, it won't!" and again Hues gave way to easy laughter. "When you've done your work you strike south as I tell you and join me. I'm going to keep New Orleans for myself?It's my ambition to destroy the city that Old Hickory saved!" "And then it's change your name and srlke out for Texas with what you've picked up!" "No, It isn't. I"ll have my choice of men?a river full of ships. Look here, there's South America, or some of those islands In the gulf with a blaek-and-tan population and a few white mongrels holding on to civilization by their eye-teeth; what's to hinder our setting up shop for ourselves? Two or three hundred Americans could walk off with an Island like Hayti, for instance?and it's black with niggers. What we'd done here would be just so much capital down there. We'd make it a stamping ground for the Clan! In the next two years we could bring in a couple of thousand of Americans and then we'd be ready to take over their government, whether they'd like It or not, and run it at a profit. We'd put the niggers back in slavery where they belong, and set them at work raising sugar and tobacco for their new bosses. Man, it's the richest land in the world, I tell you?and the mountains are full of gold!" Hues had kindled with a ready enthusiasm while Murrell was speaking. . "That sounds right, captain, we'd have a country and a flag of our own? and I look at those free niggers as just so much boot!" "I shall take only picked men with me?I can't give ship room to any . other?but I want you. You'll Join me In New Orleans?" said Murrell. "When do you start south?" asked Hues quickly. "Inside of two days. I've got some private business to settle before I leave. I'll hank around here until that's attended to." To Be Continued. "FARMER 13 A BIG JOKE." President Barrett Talks Wisely of Politics. The following statement has been Issued to members of the Farmers' Union by President Charles S. Barrett: "The farmers have Just laid on the shelf the only senator from the south who voted against the antl-gambllng bill. Backed by the cotton exchange, he left the biggest city In the south with a big majority; but the boys In the country had been furnished with his record, and they did the rest. A few fellows 'excused' like this one was. will do our cause more good than anything else that can be done. It Is evidence seen and felt that you are 'on the Job.' The average politician respects nothing but the power of the ballot. It Is up to the farmer to Judiciously exercise that power. "The biggest Joke of the age in the mind of the average politician Is the American farmer. It Is only when thoroughly shaken up and aroused to exercise his power that the politicians begin to believe that he is In dead earnest. An illustration is the defeat of the senior senator from the Pellcan state. Even the most self-confldent senator at the head of the most Important committee, secured by the caste rule of seniority, does not refuse to listen to election returns. The effect of election returns are so electrical that one man actually said to me with an anxious look, 'Are you fellows gunning for us?' "Let the good work go on. You are not seriously considered until you knock the 'stuffing' out -of somebody. "My brother, If you could Just visit this place, and see that brave, fearless. rlp-roarlng, snorting . congressman of yours, who left home a short while ago to save the country and make the world give you a 'square deal'?If you could Just see that same fellow since assuming his duties as a law-maker, how docile, how inoffensive and how uncertain he Is. Unable to say *yes' or 'no* to anything, he promises to give It his 'careful consideration' and 'thoughtful attention/ Instead of his hearty Indorsement and terrific support, as his speeches on me siump teu yuu iu ca^cui. "Notwithstanding this deplorable state of affairs. It Is good to know that there are a number of statesmen here ?statesmen In the true sense of the word?men who are earnestly trying to help you. "My brethren. I would not for any consideration be unfair to your congressman. There Is a reason for this change In his attitude toward the questions which he discussed in his campaign. He Is afraid you will not back him up In his strong, vigorous, aggressive fight for your Interests. He knows that the great special Interests of the country will take care of him If he fights for them or refuses to rasp against them. "If you want your congressman to be what he really desires-to be?your friend, your defender, your advocate ?you should prove your loyalty to him for his devotion to your cause. If he proves himself worthy, and stand by him in every conflict?this will give him courage. It will make him aggressive. It will make him determined, and It will encourage young men. who really want to do something for their fellowmen. to enter politics." When You Indorse a CHeok.?The story is told of a woman who going Into a bank to identify an acquaintance with a check to cash, was asked to endorse the check as a guarantee. The check-holder told her that her signature was "merely a formality" and the bank teller said nothing about the liability she Incurred. So she made the Indorsement, and as the check turned out not to be good, she afterward had to make good besides. This event, we hasten to say, did not occur In New Bedford, and perhaps would not have occurred here had the attention of any bank teller In this city been called to the fact that obviously the woman did not understand the nature of the obligation she assumed. Possibly Instruction of Ignorant women In the nature of an Indorsement Is no part of the technical duty of the man at the window; but we assume that If the teller were a gentleman he would not suffer a woman to take the chance of loss through her Ignorance. Every woman?and man, for that matter?ought to understand the obligation taken by an Indorsement of a check. No doubt It seemed ungracious to the woman of the story to decline to write her name as a "mere formality. " Nevertheless, she should have declined, and in point of fact, she never should have been asked. Unless a person is ready to make good to the amount of a check, he should never put his name on the back?and he certainly is justified In refusing to do so when he has no interest of his own In the transaction. Banks often, we do not know but always, ask an Identifier of a check-holder to act as an Indorser, and thus to take the risk they do not care to take themselves. That should be clearly understood by everybody, or they may learn the costly and disagreeable lesson that was learned by the woman.?New Bedford Standard. .tr'Some married men look upon homes as a place to rest?and some others get anything but a rest while there. Pistllancous #railin<|. TALK8 OF TICK8. Ciuim Million* of Dollar* Loss to th* Farmer* of th* 8outh. Declaring that the state of South Carolina is losing over $1,000,000 annually and that the loss to the south is $40,000,000 by the cattle tick, E. M. Nlghbert, Inspector of the United States department of agriculture, has addressed a letter to Commissioner Watson and President Dabbs of the State Farmers' Union, suggesting certain methods of eradication. The suggestions were endorsed by the State Farmers' Union at the recent meeting held in Columbia. "The state is suffering," says the Inspector, "the ban of quarantine on account of the splenetic fever of cattle, which is produced and transmitted by t^ie cattle tick. The presence of this t^:k makes breeding, feeding and marketing of cattle unprofitable and hazardous. The losses, conservatively es ttmated, the reiult of this disease producing and blood-sucking parasite, are $1,100,000 annually to the state of South Carolina and $40,000,000 to the entire south. "The feasibility of complete extermination of this disease producing parasite from every plantation, farm and eow lot, has been known for fifteen years and confirmed by every southern state. By a thorough knowledge of this condition, Individual effort and concerted action, this menace to your, cattle industry may be removed from every' plantation, farm and cow lot within the short period of from four and a half to nine months. "South Carolina Is strictly a farming section. Your worthy citizens and co-workers are now laboring with a condition that Is adverse to their in' terest. You are Interested In the production of the most valuable crop and by-product cattle feed in the world. You are countenancing the shipping of the greater per cent of this feed to other states and nations, all to the detriment of the live stock industry* and up-building of South Carolina Your knowledge, individual effort and active support in removing this great agricultural handicap, is imperative. Your action on this matter will be fostering your own interests in the Way of a cattle industry in the moat favored section of the nation. The cattle Industry in the state is at low ebb, on account of inferior quality and the presence of disease. "The futu. agricultural development and prosperity of the citizens of your state largely depend on cattle and other live stock. This menace to the cattle industry should be removed from the entire state. It's up to you and your associates. It is a business proposition and will pay. -"Under the direction of the department of veterinary science of your most worthy Institution, the Clemson agricultural cvuegc, iuui tuuiu^o, *,m. Oconee, Pickens, Greenville and Anderson have been freed of the cattle tick, and released from quarantine. Eight other counties and parts of counties have been freed of ticks under the direction of Dr. M. R. Powers, state veterinarian, and the co-operation of this bureau, the past year, and the territory has been recommended for release from quarantine. This work alone so far achieved demonstrates that the plans adopted are feasible. "It seems to be that there will never be a better opportunity to bring this subject of the eradication of the cattle tick before the people and urge early action on theJr part, in order that the work may be completed at the earliest date possible. "The fact that it has been plainly demonstrated and this work is feasible, I am now recommending and urging officials and citizens Interested to make this movement a state-wide proposition. You well understand and know that a cattle Industry must be fostered and encouraged in any form of agriculture. The work of tick eradication has long passed the experimental stage, it is today strictly a business proposition and should be handled as such, because It will pay. It may not be possible to conduct active work in the remainder of the state In its entirety now, but a general educational campaign should be inaugurated in each county, which may be easily accomplished through your recommendation and active support. "The work ef tick eradication is farreaching, It will solve many of the problems of the one crop cotton. It will pay to complete the work at the earliest possible date, In order that breeders and feeders and the people generally may receive the benefits of a free and unrestricted cattle traffic and a chance to improve home cattle. Every calf dropped in the presence of ticks suffers from splenetic fever and is stunted In growth throughout Its life. For that reason such cattle are never profitable for the dairy, the feed lot or the butcher's block. "The main idea prevailing with the South Carolina planter is to feed cattle from 90 to 120 days in winter, mainly for the manure produced; that plan Is probably profitable, simply from a fertilizer standpoint, but most feeders are better satisfied when they get at least all cash back and the manure for the profit when the cattle are sold. "The losses under the above plan, financially, have In the past been enormous and will continue as long as splenetic fever and the quarantine restrictions are maintained, because the market price or an came in wit- mimed area below the national quarantine line, is at a lower rate, no matter what the quality, and this price prevails right at the home markets, even if the cattle compare favorably In quality with cattle on the market above the line. So there you are?good cattle selling lower than the same quality of cattle In the best markets of the country, all on account of the cattle tick and quarantine restrictions. Can this situation and condition be relieved? No, not until the cattle ticks have been eradicated in every county and the territory released from national quarantine. "The reasons for this are simple. Cattle of the Infected area, quarantined on account of splenetic fever, which Is transmitted by the common cattle tick, when sold either at home or on the best markets of the country at large, are sold as 'exposed.' 'Infected,' 'southern' or 'quarantined' cattle. ai.d the price is fixed lower because the cattle shipped interstate to the best markets of the country must be sold for immediate slaughter or held and treated under rigid restrictions, which adds expense. "The feature of the business discourages the winter feeder, because he is knifed from two sides. The South Carolina feeder, in order to get a good grade of cattle that may be fed profitably, must go above the quarantine line in territory already freed of ticks to purchase them; then he pays above the line price. The seller above the line has the advantage he can ship his feeders anywhere to the best markets without restrictions or sell to a good advantage at home, so he does not care a snap for the South Carolina feeders' business. The South Carolina feeder is stung by paying a long price and selling for a short one. Remember now, It makes no difference how good our cattle are In South Carolina, no' long as the tick In present and the quarantine Is on, they will sell for a low figure. The difference in price being from i to i cent per pound in favor of cattle In the territory freed of ticks above the quarantine line. "It Is time now that the people should act and It is believed that through your sympathy, moral and active support would be a mighty factor in making these points well understood. "While the work of tick eradication so far accomplished in the state, under the old law, the law has been found to be Inadequate, and I am urging a revision of same. "The present law gives authority to enter premises and quarantine animals infested with or exposed to the fever tick, but does not authorize enforcement of disinfection of such animals. Therefore it is readily observed that the work is at a disadvantage and valuable lime and excessive sums of money are wasted. Experience has shown that it Is an easy matter to get all intelligent citizens to accomplish the work on their premises In the shortest time possible, while a small per cent of indifferent Individuals must be time and again visited, persuaded and coaxed to do the work. This condition prolongs the work in a county two or three years that could be completed within twelve to eighteen months. Experience has also demonstrated the Importance of securing local funds from the county treasury, individuals or associations. This brings the work closer home and establishes an interest and local responsibility. Such a law is operating successfully and satisfactorily in the state of Georgia and several other state:i interested. "I would be pleased for you to give this matter careful consideration and urge your Influence In a revised law, greater appropriations and a state, wide movement in the work. "The completion of this work will save the state thousands of dollars and( at the same time give all interested. encouragement in feeding and breed* | ing cattle. It makes no difference! what the work of tick eradication! costs, the early completion of the' work will return over and over every | dollar spent. I would be pleased to have the honor of hearing from you and an opportunity to personally confer on this- subject." THE APPROPRIATION BILL. Introduced by Ways and Means Committee, Carries Nearly $2,000,000. Carrying a total appropriation of 11,970,000 In round numbers and calling for a tax levy of 5J mills, the general appropriation bill was transmitted to the house of representatives on Thursday from the ways and means committee. Mr. L. J. Browning, chairman of the committee, deserves especial credit for bringing In this most Important feature of the session's work on. record time, there being still at least two weeks of the session In which to consider It and to give the governor opportunity to use the paring knife If he so desires, before the session closes. The expenses for the various departments run about as usual. There Is provided this year special appropriations for a new auditorium at the University of South Carolina, 150,000, of which (25,000 Is payable out of this year's taxes and (25,000 next year, and for ar Industrial arts and science building at Wlnthrop, (40,000, of which (20,000 Is to come from this year's taxes. Fome of the Items of the bill are as follows: Governor's office. (18,480; secretary of state's office. (8,320; comptroller general's office, (10,600; Insurance commissioner's office. (10,240; state treasurer's office, (8,642.35; attorney general's office, (7,845; railroad commissioner's office, (11,570; chief game warden, (2,900; state librarian's office, (1,800; state geologist's office. (1,762.53; public buildings (maintenance fund), (71,023.13;. liidlclal denartment. (99.296; board of medical examiners, $2,500; health department, $24,509.20; tax department, $81,485.14; University of South Carolina. $98,298.78; Wlnthrop Normal and Industrial college. $152,531.29; the Citadel, $57,266.61; Institute for Education of Deaf. Dumb and Blind. $35,600; State Negro college, $16,500: South Carolina Industrial school, $26,000; State Hospital for the Insane, $283,050; state penitentiary, $6,560; pensions, $268,050; historical commission, $5,503.53; Interest on bonded debt, $295,980.83; elections. $45,485; miscellaneous. $62,037.50; senate, $15,186.43; house of representatives, $32,904.70; department of agriculture, commerce and industries, $22,020; other educational purposes. $148,773.70; state superintendent of education's office. $9,270; adjutant general's office. $18,570.?A. K. In the News and Courier. CourtMy.?Visitor?I've Just come from the doctor's funeral, but I didn't sec any of you there. Hostess?No, my husband didn't care to go, a!< funerals always upset him. Visitor?If you never go to other people's funerals I don't see how you can expect them to come to yours. t* Empty honors will not satisfy a hungry poet. TT Patience Is a virtue?and virtue is Its own reward. THE CRIME RECORD. Statistic* Incorporated in Annual Ra* port of Attorney General. Some interesting statistics on the crime record of South Carolina are contained in the annual report to be made by Attorney General Lyon to the general assembly. The statistics are given from reports made by the solicitors of the twelve circuits of the state. The report shows that there were 216 charges of murder during the year. Convictions were secured in 77 cases, a majority receiving recommendation to mercy. A verdict of not guilty was secured in 122 cases and no bills were returned in 17 instances. (Seventy-six were convicted of manslaughter.-' It is shown in the report that 209 ) were convicted during the. year on the i charge of violating the dispensary law. Conviction* 8??ur*d. The following table Is given. No Not BUI Qullty Oulltjr .Abduction 1 2 Adultery ... 3 8 22 I A ranri 13 1R 11 Assault with intent to ravish 7 4 12 Assault with Intent to kill, and aggravated assault and battery.. 76 65 352 Assault and battery, 8lmplo 1 4 Attempt to enter house and steal 1 Bawdy house ....... 5 Bastardy 2 3 Bigamy 2 1 13 Breach of trust, etc.... 2 9 8 Burglary 1 7 23 Buying cotton seed at night 1 5 Burning an untenanted houso 1 Carrying concealed weapons 3 - 10 47 Conspiracy 1 Giving check without funds 2 1 2 Disposing of property under lien 20 10 8 Defrauding in not paying board 1 1 Enticing laborers under contract - 1 Entering house with intent to steal 1 1 Escapo from prison and aiding escape 2 F'orgerf 5 6 . 35 Wrecking train 1 Gaming house ....... 1 1 Incest ? 2 Highway robbery .... 6 13 House breaking and larceny 19 23 168 Indecent exposure of person .. ... 1 .1 Having in possession burglar's tools .... 1 Larceny .. - 39 38 208 Larceny of live stock.. 4 8 27 Larceny from field.... 1 6 8 Larceny from person.. 2 Larceny bicycle 1 11 Malicious mischief .... 1 10 3 Malicious trespass ...... 6 Manslaughter 76 Murder 17 122 77 Using horse without ( owner's consent .... 2 2 6 Nuisance, obstrtfotlng highway 2 4 2 Buggery - .... 1 1 Obtaining goods under false pretenses 26 13 12 Obstructing railroad ., 2 Practicing medicine without license ..... 2 Perjury 1 2 Privily stealing from - * - a f tno person a < Shooting at train 1 Throwing at train 2 5 Robbery 1 Rape 3 2 7 Receiving stolen goods 5 1 5 Refusing or neglecting to support children and wife .. ... 4 6 Resisting officer ..... 2 6 1 Riot 3 4 6 , Seduction .. 1 7 Changing switch on railroad 1 Violation of dispensary law 80 72 209 Miscegenation 2 Car breaking 1 ,3 Stealing electric current 2 Disturbing Are alarm .. 1 SUN YAT-8EN. Interesting 8tory of Remarkable Mod* 1 ern Day Chinaman. Last Monday Sun Yat-sen, the leader of the Young China Movement entered Nanking, the provisional republican capital, and was received with a salute of twenty-one guns. He was then proclaimed president of the provisional government, and swore, according to the Dally Mail correspondent, to dethrone the Manchus, restore peace, establish a government based on the people's will, and then to resign and allow the people to elect a president of United China. The first act of the provisional government was to institute a new calendar, January 1st becoming the first day of the year. If the undertaking of Sun Yat-sen could move swiftly and surely to its desired end, nothing could give more satisfaction to Englishmen. Sun Yatsen would probably be himself elected president of the established republic, and for the first time British diplomacy would be dealing with an Oriental nation whose head shared our own methods of thought and standard of conduct. Sun Yat:sen speaks English perfectly, and all his 1 ideals of life and government are those of Great Britain and the United States. Our doubt, of course, is whether the Chinese are ripe for so sudden a 1 change to the forms of a western policy. Yuan-Shl-Kal, as we know, ' thinks that they are not, and maintains that the reverence for kingship Is Inherent In the majority of Chinese minds, and that it would therefore be much better to retain the old apparatus of monarchy while Informing It with the spirit and practice of democracy. It is to be remembered that the beginnings of constitutional government In association with the monarchy are already In existence In the shape of the provincial assemblies. The rebels, however, appear to be determined to have a republic pur sang and nothing else. If they persist It mav be that they will not at first bring all the provinces under the republic. Perhaps the north will hold out for monarchy, and China will be spilt in two, and perhaps the whole country will be plagued with civil war. Before a settlement could be reached by force foreign powers would probably Intervene. We sincerely hope that the rival sides In China will recognize that It la better for the country to hold together than for either side to be able to say that It triumphed over the other. The forms of government can develop gradually, but a nation which has fallen asunder will never be reunited. This is the danger ahead, but we should be blind If we did not perceive that the enthusiasm. the posltlveness, and the confidence are at present all characteristic of the rebel republicans and not of the imperialists. For this reason It Is very Interesting to learn what manner of man Is Sun Yat-sen, who is the political philosopher and the leading spirit of the rebels and who has sworn to dethrone the Manchus. He was born in Honolulu about 1862. where his father was an agent of a Christian mission. He was brought up in a missionary school and Is himself a Christian. The Dally Graphic of last Saturday published some Interesting facts about his life communicated by Mr. Canllle, the well-known surgeon, who Is an old friend of Sun Yat-sen. Mr. C&ntlie describes Sun Yat-sen as "the best educated, the most enlightened and th<> broadest-minded man In China today. Learning rather than wealth gives m Chinese power over his countrymen, and Sun Yat-sen "has been learning In every civilised country In the world for the last twenty years, gradually absorbing all that Is best In Europe and America." When he was being educated as a doctor he came under Mr. Cantlle at the Hong Kong college. tie graauatea in i??< ana iook nis diploma In 1892. Mr. Cantlle nays that hla characteristic was an extreme simplicity?" a simplicity which has grown with his years of travel." 8un Yat-sen practiced his profession In Canton, but ail the time he was reading deeply and brooding over the re- . generation of his country. He either came Into touch with the Young China Movement at that period or himself started the movement Mr. Cantlle says that there were sixteen leaders and that In three years the propaganda of the society had attracted thousands of well educated Chirtese. In 1895 Sun Yat-sen launched the well remembered plot to seise Canton. The Intention was to bring about a bloodless revolution, but the plans were betrayed, and fifteen of the Young China Party were executed. Sun Yat-sen alone escaped. He left the country In disguise, and, admitting that the plot had been premature, came to England to study western methods, A price of 50,000 dollars was put On- his head by the Chinese government. It was extraordinary that he was able to move about freely and without harm. Yet he had a narrow escape. In October, 1890. he was kidnapped by the Chinese legation In London. He was engaged in conversation one day In Portland Place by two Chinese, and by them he was invited into the Chinese legation, which he did not even know to be the legation. If Mr. Cantlle Is not mlitalran nhniit thl? Sun Vat.Mn'a simplicity was certainly intense. Once Inside the legation he was held a prisoner. The intention was, of course, to take him to China, where he would have been executed. For a fortnight he was kept there while preparations were made to smuggle him out of the country. He gave a note by stealth to a servant, who conveyed it to Mr. Cantlie. The latter went at once to the foreign office, and Lord Salisbury.. wha_ jwaa?ihen . foreign secretary, behaved admirably. He brushed aside the technical defense of extra-territoriality set up by the Chinese minister. He took the common sense view that the British government could not tolerate the kidnapping of political offenders (fanry Abdul-Hamld being allowed to carry off his enemies in those days!), that an affront had been offered to the British government and that Sun Yat-sen must be released. IN THE KHYBER PA88. Horse Thieves Do a Thriving Business at the Famous Gateway. The khyber Pass is the chief gateway into Afghanistan. Sixteen miles south of it is the city of Peshawur. The adjoining valley and hills have always been the haunts of professional thieves. The objects which they most covet are arms, money and horses. In securing these they evince great skill and daring. Their most popular mode of horse stealing requires at least three men to carry it out comfortably and successfully. One of them quietly steals his way Into the stable and lays hold . of a cord which has been pushed through one of the holes in the wall by an accomplice outside. The two use this string as a saw. while the third man pours upon it a plentiful supply of water. The cord silently ana speeaiy cuis iu wayauwn tho mud wall. In a wonderfully short time .the three craftsmen manage to saw round a portion of the wall, which when pushed outward leaves a space sufficient to allow a horse to pass out. This done, the remaining work presents no difficulty. The rop.*s which bind the horse are cut, and in a short time he is cantering to the hills, with generally two or three of his new masters on his back. A somewhat bold and impudent exploit in the horse-stealing line was once the amusement and the talk of the British military station for some days. The cantonment was surrounded at sundown by a chain of sentries. This demanded a great number of men, and all regiments, cavalry and Infantry, European and native, nightly gave their proportions. A native trooper on this occasion fastened his horse to the peg fixed about the middle of his "beat," and to keep his courage and himself warm? the night was bitterly cold?walked smartly backward and forward. The extent of this walk wu not more than thirty yards, and thus at no time could he have been more than fifteen yards from his charger. . He was armed with a short rifle and a tulwar or sword. While he was thus doing duty a hlllman managed to crawl quite close to him without exciting notice, and waiting qulejly until the sentry was near the end of his walk, and of course, with his back to the horse, the robber cut the charger's rope, mounted him and In a moment was galloping from the station. The sentry fired his rifle In the direction in which his mount had gone, the guards turned out, and a great noise was raised, but the outwitted soldier never saw his horse again.? Harper's Weekly. XT There are only two kinds of girls In the world?those who want to be kissed and those who are willing to be.. .* ' -* The man who Is satisfied with himself never worries on account of his neighbor's estimate of htm.