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Supervisor's Quarterly Report. The following Report of Claims approved for the fourth qua of the fiscal year 1901, showing number, in whose favor, f at purpose, and amount, is published in accordance with the r trements of the law: '01 NO. -NAME AND PURPOSE. AM'i LTE. 8 340 anning Grocery Co., 1 car oats and hav....--- ..... 281 3411C L Griffin, magistrate ........... ....-. .-.- 8 342 L T Fisher, per diem and mileage-..... .......- -- . 3! 14 42 J H Lesesne, balance on examining offices.-........... 65 344IJ W Heriot, conveying prisoner..............-.-.-.-.-. 5 3451J Elbert Davis, expense w'nded prisoner, Greeleyville- 2 346J Elbert Davis. sheriff's dieting ...... ...-........ 347T C Owens, making mattresses-......... .....-- --- 17 348J H Lowder, magistrate's constable............. ..... 6 349:J H Lowder, coroner's constable.......... ... 22 50IA J Richbourg, acting coroner............ ..........8 351J Frank Richbourg, coroner's constable....... - 24: 352R P Barrow, coroner's constable............----------- 2 28 3A C L R R Co., freight on car piping ................. 51 29 354 Louis Appelt, printing..-.... -............ ....... 112 355 Legg, Hutchinson & Co., hay for chaingang..... ...... V 356 J H Windham, overseer chaingang ..-- ................ 25 357 A B Windham, guard on chaingang .......... ... .... 20 358 J B Thames, guard on chaingang ... ................ 15 359 J H Windham. supplies for dead convict, etc ........ 4 -360 J Frank Rich bourg, magistrate's constable..-..-- . - 6 361 James Dennis, coroner's constable........... ... ..... 362A J Richbourg, acting coroner .............. - 8 363:A J Richbourg, magistrate's salary................... 8 364 C M Davis & Co., chaingang supplies........ ..- .-- - 8 3631A H Breedin, broker, I car terra cotta piping.......- 173 366J A & C C Way, bridge lumber.....................17 367W J Turbeville, bridge lumber.......... ......... ... 12 . 366,J P Turbeville, magistrate's salary. ............- - --50 369 Dr I M Woods, med. attention to convicts and paup'rs 16 370 Dr I 1 Woods, postmortem examination...........--- . - 5 3711S C Turbeville, supplies to poor -.-.-.................... 24 372 Broadway & Brunson, lumber-.......-................. 373J Elbert Eavis, lunacyclaim..... -----.-.----.-- 18 374!J V Windham, capturing prisoner and medical atten tion to wounded prisoner at Greeleyville, S. C- 8 375J Elbert Davis, sheriff's dieting ...... ...... ........ 101 3761 1 Bagnal, services on Board of Education....... .... 21 3771H L Johnston, conveying prisoner...... ............. 4 3761J H Timmons, contingent office account ......... ...... 3 379J H Lesesne, clerk Board County Commissioners. ..--.12 380 R M Johnson, lumber and bridge work .----- ---- 6 381 R M Strange, supplies to poor-....--...... 27 382 R M Strange, chaingang supplies ---............... .... 135, 383Manning Hardware Co., hardware supplies ------- 39 364 C L Griffin, coroner's inquerst................. ..... . 8 385 R C Burgess, bridge lumber.. .............. .....- -13 386 T C Owens, Com-. on seed cotton license .. ------ 8 41 387iC L Griffin, magistrate's salary...................... 8 3-8L L Wells, Superintendent Education, salary-....----- 3 389 Rev W A Betts, attention to crazy woman. ------ 10 390 J H Lesesne, clerk. office postage, etc . - ---- 1 391 Dr W R Mood, lunacy examinations - --.................. 5 392:W L Brown, painting office signs... .......... .. .... 3 393 Mrs E C Tindal, coffin for convict................ 394 Ambition James, bridge work........... ............7 21 395 T C Owens, com. on cotton seed license .... ... ........ 3 36I I M Loryea, 1 ledger for Treasurer.................... 1 27 397 J H Lesesne, expenses to Columbia for county 398 W C Davis, defending chaingang overseer....... ..... 50 399L L Wells, Superintendent Fducation, salary ...... ... 37 4001A B Windham, chaingang guard.... -........... 20 . 4011Dr A. J Briggs, medical attention to convicts... -..... 29 402 Sumter Shirt Mf'g Co, wool stripe shirts and pants... 99 403,H T Avant, suit clothes for dead convict -.- .--...... 5 404 Geo H Huggins, beef for chaingaug - ---............... 4 405J H Windham, overseer, salary..-- ----.-- -251 406J B Thames, guard............................. 15 407 John W Heriot, coroner's constable --- ----.......... - - 408 W H Bryan, shoeing mules.............-...----- ----- 2 409;W E Jenkinson, blankets and shoes for prisoners -..... 4101J F Richbourg, constable's salary ................ - 6 411 A J Richbourg, magistrate's salary.. ........-.... 8 41" Thomas & Bradham, mowing C H sq & haul'g shingl s 12 413 IV r Kelley, coroner's constable. . ....... ....... 2 414 J E Richbourg, acting coroner-..-. ....... ............ 8 415 or C E Houston, postmortem . ... ..... ............ 5 416 R M Strange, "poor" accondit.-..................... .. 23 417 R M Strange, chaingang supplies-................... 120 418i W T Francis, balance on road right of way......... 11 419JM31 Lee, bridge work...... ...................-- - - 1 420!J A Alsbrook, wood for offices.------..--........- - 13 421 Davis Lumber.Co, lumber.---------------------------' 422 TM Beard, bridge work..--.----.--------.----------. 423 S C Turbeville, supplies to poor.....--.-.-.-.-.---.-.-.-- 11 424l W J Turbeville, lumber and bridge work---------- 10 425 W J Turbeville, bridge lumber-------------------.. 426 BP Barrow, bridge timber.-. -------- -- - 9,i 4271J E Lee, lumber and bridge work-------------------. 8 I428iD B Davis, tools for Santee township.------..---...-. 429:J Elbert Davis, Sheriff's lunacy claim- .--.--.. --.-.8 430 J Elbert Davis, Sheriff, conveying prisoner.. .--- 11 431J Elbert Davis, Sheriff, lunacy..--------------------- 23 432J3Elbert Davis, Sheriff. luna-y..-..------------.-----.13 4331J Elbert Davis, Lberiff 's dieting --.-.----.-.---.------ 79. I4341L T Fisher, per diem anad mileage.-.--.---..-.-----.---.6. 435 R A White, shoeing mules.-.-.-..--..-.-.-.-----'--'..1 436 J H Lesesne, clerk Board....-.-.--.--.--.-.-.-.-.-.-' 12 43J H Timmons, binding mortgage book.----.--.--..--..20'1 438 J H Timmnons, making copy of record-.-.-..---.---.--.--. I 439IJ S Ridgeway, lumber and hauling----------------.- 2'( 440 H B Bateman, constable's salary.-..-.--.--..---..--.-.--..-6. 441 R B White, coroner's constable.-.-..----.---..-.--.------.- 2 I I442!H B Bateian, magistrate's constable..-..--..--.-.--..--..-5. 4431W A Brewer, coroner's inquest..---.....-..----- -- - - 1 4441W A Brewer, " ----------'-' 11 ' 445IW A Brewer, ' " -. ----. -----.--''- 11 446'John S Watt, conveying lunatic-.----.---.------.-.--.--- 14 {4471 Walker, Evans & Cogswell Co, books, stationery, ete-.4 448 Manning Grocery Co. 1 car corn and Oats---..-.-- .-.--.-.349 449 DL E Turbeviile, hauling lumber-Sandy Grove.I 4501D E Turbeville. bridge work .-.---.-.-----------.---- 5 21: 451CJ Gibson, bridgelbumber-...----------------.-------.1 I452 Mt Vernon Woodberry Cotton Duck Co, 1 bIt tent clth~ 4g 4531 Walker, Evans & Comswell Co, stationery, etc.-..-.-.--.-.- 20 454Harsvin Lumber Co- bridge lumber.-:--------------.2. 455!J E Lee, bridge work.... .----------.----.----------- 6 ( 4.56J H Mahoney, rep~airs on bridge------.--------.------ 10 ( 457 W P Legg, corrr for chaingaing....--------------'--.. . 1 458 L L Wells. Sup't Ed, postage, ex and frt~on school b'ksl 58 4591L L Wells, Supt Ed, clerk in offie-..--..---------. 75. 460jJ H Lesesne, clerk Board County Commissioners----- 12 4611W C Chandler, coffin for pauper------- ....--.. ---- -- 6 2Ia461 Manning Hardware Co. hard ware supplies...-.--.....4 b461 Dr A J Briggs, medical altentioni to convicts.. .--.....-.-3 46e iE C Dickson, stamps, wood and office contimgents.. 4 4 6 C Dickson, Auditor's salary.-..--.--.-..-.-..-.-.-..-.-..-..10 464:J H Windham and others, guards on chaingang-----.-.46 a464 John WV Heriot, conveying prisoner...--......--- 1 465I W J Turbeville, bridge lumber...-.------.. --.-.-.---.5. 466 R S Flemming, rosad and bridge work.--.-.-.-.--.---.5. 467i.D E Cole, lumber and bridge work.--.------.--------- 22 468 H L Johnston, bridge timbers and work--.----.-.---.--- 26'4 469 J B Thames, guard on gang.--.---.-----..--.------.10 470 Bell & Mathis, making shackles and chains..-.-.-.-.-.------ 6: 471 W T Kelley, magistrate's constable-.-..-..---.--.--.--.--.- 75 472 J F.Richbourg, magistrate's salary--.-.-..---..--..---..--.5. 4731C E & J C Land, lumber.-...---.........----.---- .-- 24 474 W J Turbevllle, per diem and mileage.--.---.--.-.--.-. 13 I475IL P Flemming, building bridge..--..-..-.----.---..--.. 9'( 476 Louis A ppelt, printing and stationery.....----.-.-.-.. 22 47 Ju A Alshrook, wood for offices.'. -.-...-- ....-----.- - 3 I478 J Elbert Davis, ex pense capturing and dieting prisoneri at Mayesville and conveying same- ...--..---.. --- 479 J Elbert Davis, wood, stationery, etc -----.---- - 10'( 4b0 R Mf Strange. chaingang supplies........--..--..--..--..--.8' 481 R M1 Strange, supplies to "poor".-..-.-.-..-.-.-.-.- 6: - 482'W A Brewer, coroner's inquest.......-. -...---...--1. 483 M1 C Butler, coroner's constable...----------------2. I484 H B Bateman, magistrate's salary-..--..--..--..-- ..--.-.-.-.- 16 4850 C M Davis & Co. suit clothes for convict-.--.--.--.--.--.-- 3 4,6 J Elbert Davis, dieting.....------------------------- 92 487 C L Griffin, magistrate's salary..-..----..--...--.-..-- ...-.-. 16 48J H Lowder, magistrate's constable..-...-..-----....18 489 Dr W M1 Brockinaton, medicine for prisoners-.-..-..-.--.--.- 3 490 Dr WV 3. Brockinton, lunacy examinations-..--- .-.-.-.-.-.- 10 491 Dr P M1 Sally, lunacy examinations and vaccinating.... 6 492 Dr C B Geiger, lunacy examinations and vaccinations- 43 49~3 J F Richbourg, constable's salary........-.--.-.-.--.-.-- 8 494 A J Richbourg, magistrate's salary..-..-.-...-.--.-.. 8 1 495 M M Kranoff, bankets for jail.............-.. - -------- 3 4986H S Dollard, lumber and bridges.-..-..--------------. 497 T C Owens, freight and express....--...--.---.-.-..-.-- 1 498 L T Fisher, per diem and mileage----------------------3 499 T C Owens, Supervisor's salary....---.----------------00 5005 3M Youmans, magistrates salary........--..--..-..--..--..- 100 501 Dr WV E Brown, medical attention---.------------------i1 503 Dr WV l Brown, medicine for prisoners, poor & convcts, 31 504 Dr G L Dickson, medical attention................... 41 5058 S 3 Youmans, magistrate's salary......----.-..-..-..-..-..-25 50SM 1Youmans, "0 ----------- 5 3 '078SM3 Youmaus, " ".--------------. ~50 1MYoumnans, " " ..------------- 2 509SM31Youmans, " "..-.----------- 2 5108M31Youmans- " "-.....-..---- 2 511IA J Richbourg, - -...... .-.-- 8 512~A J Richbourg, -' " ..........-. 8 513 A J Richbourg, "~ " ........-..- 8 5141J Frank Richbbourg, constable.......... ............ --6 515'J F Richbourg, magistrate...................... 7 516 J F Richbourg, " .......-.......- 8 517J3 F Richbourw, " .----..-....--. 8 518'JF Richbourg, " --...-............ 8 519 J 1" Richbourg, " --...-...-..-... 8 5206J F Richbourg,.."....- .------..........---.....8 521~J F Richbourg,.".-------------------.-....---...8 52HB Bateman, constable-..--..--..-----...-...-......6 52HB Batemnan, "..-.-----.-------.... 6 524H BBateman,. ".. .--------.--..... 525D S Bateman, "........---.--.-..-- 6 5261J H Timmons, Clerk of Court........--.--.-.-.-.....--.150 527'J W Heriot, conveying prisoner......... ....- ....-* 2 528 WV A Brewer, coroner.................-.-------.---.11 529 J A Lowder, coroner's constable..............-......2 53nr C S Lowde, coner's cnstable....................... 2 531:R B White, coroner's coi 532'J W Heriot. 533IT M Beard, 534J M Windham, lunacy.. 535 J M Windham, 536;J M Windham. 5371J M Windham, 538,J M Windhar. 539j M Windham, 540IJ M v indhain, 5411J M Windham. 543!A J Richbourg, magistra 544 D Levi, tools for St Paul 545 J M Windham, wood, st 546 Stone & Davis, bridge la 34 5474 Dr G L Dickson, postmor 4W4 W H Bradham, bridge w a548:Dr G L Eickson, lunacy < 10 -549'J C Gibson, lumber, etc.. 550IJ Elbert Davis. Sheriff's o Attest: 25 J. H. LESESNE, Clerk. >O 50 D THE HABIT OF GIVING. )0 78 Governor E. D. Morgan's First Taste of Real Happiness. 12 )0 To the present generation the name )o of Governor E. D. Morgan of New )0 York is scarcely more than a dim 10 echo from the pages of history, but 5 there are men still living who remem D ber him as one of the group of great war governors whose firmness and courage served their country so mag nificently In her d rkest hour. It was 34 one who so remembered him who told 3 this incident: )0 Governor Morgan was a very rich 50 man, but until he was seventy years DO old he never had given away any of )0 his wealth. Then one day he sent for 4 his old friend. Dr. Adams. the presi t0 dent of Union Theological seminary, 0 and told him that he wished to give a 0 large sum of money to the college. DO The doctor, almost incredulous at first. 0 was soon convinced of the sincerity 5 of the offer, and a time was set at 0 which he was to go and get the bonds. )o At the appointed hour the doctor ap Z peared, and bonds to the value of more 3 than $200.000 were put into his bands. i0 The governor stood and watched until )0 the doctor's carriage was out of sight )O Afterward he spoke of it to another 3 friend. 0 "I am an old man." he said. "I have had a successful life and done about 00 all that I had planned to do, and I sup 0 posed that I had been happy. But I )0 know now that until I stood and 0 watched Dr. Adamns drive away with 50 those bonds I never had known what Z happiness was. I cannot regret too k deeply that early in life I did not form the habit of giving."-Youth's Compan 0 Ion. )0 )o The Wills of Noah and Jacob. 0 The origin of testaments is lost in )3 obscurity, but doubtless they followed 0 soon after the first Institution of prl )0 vate property. Eusebius says that Noah 0 made a will soon after the flood where 0 in he disposed of the whole world. He was certainly possessed of a consider able landed estate, but Eusebius' story 0 of the testament in writing and wit 0 nessed under his seal needs confirma 50 tion. )0 In the forty-eighth chapter of Gene 5 sis, however, we do fiud mention of a 6 will, wherein Jacob bequeathed to his 50 son Joseph twice as much as to his Sother children. This was not a testa 8 ment in writing, but a verbal or nun 0 cupative testament, declared by the 00 testator "in-estremnis" before witnesses 0 and depending upon oral testimonyv. 2 Such nuncupative testaments were 0 at one time recognized in English law, 0 but In the eIghteenth century, Black stone says, they had fallen Into disuse 0 and were hardly ever hea~rd cf. Weighing Machinesu. so Weighing machines and scales o1 0 some kind were in use L800O B. C., for 0O It is said that Abraham at that time 0 "weighed out" 400 shekels of silver, 0current money. with the merchant to 0Ephron, the Hittite, as payment for a Spiece of land, including the cave and 0all the standing timber "in the field and 5 in the fence." This is said to be the 0 earliest transfer of land of which any 0 record survives and that the payment Swas made In the presence of witnesses. 0 The original form of the weighing scale was probably a bar suspended from the middle, with a board or shell 0 suspended from each end, one to con 9 tain the weight, the other to contain 4 the matter to be weighed. The steel 5 yard was probably so called from the 0 material of which It was made and 0 from its former length It is also 0known as the Roman baiance and is of great antiquity. :0 Cunning Slberian Natives. o When compe'ed to travel all night, 0 the Siberitos natives always make a 8 practice of stopping just before sun 0 rise and allowing; their dogs to go to 9 sleep. They argue that if the dog goes 0 to sleep while it is yet dark and wakes 7up in an hour and finds tt:.e sun shin .> ing he will suppose that he has had a ( full nIght's rest and will travel all 5 day without thinking of being tired. 5 One or even two hours' stop at any 0 other time is perfectly useless, as the 0 dogs will be uncontrollable from that 00 time forward until they are permitted 6to take what they think a full allow O. ance of sleep. 5Policemen In the Blood. 0. A writer in Knowledge thus denomi nates certain wandering cells found in 15 the healthy human body which destroy )5 harmful microbes introduced Into the 12 system. "The tonsils, for example, are 0crowded with these guardian cells." 0The scene under the microscope when 6 protective cells are Introduced into a 0 lively culture of typhoid bacilli is de '0 scribed as very striking, irresistibly 56 bringing before the imagination "the 5) ferce struggle which goes on when 30 disease germs invade the body." Neither Better Than the Other. "This dollar"- began the cashier of the restaurant as he scrutinized the 0 coin. 0"Is bad, eh?" Interrupted the sour 34 looking patron. ,"Well, It doesn't look very good." 0"That so? Just bite it, and if it's 30 anything like the dinner I had it'll taste even worse than it looks."-Cath 0olic Standard and Times. 30A Dilemma. 0 Edith-Forgive me, Bertha, but your 30 husband plays the flute atrociously. )0 Bertha-i know, dear, but what can 00 1 do? Hie used to serenade me with 33 that flute. If I tell him now that he 33is no player, he will think my love _is growingr cold.-Boston Transcript. 0 As Represented. Mrs. Bonster-Henry and I attended 3the opera last night. We had a box. 3- Mirs. Blount-Caramels, weren't they? 3 1 saw gon in the gallery eating somne 33 thIng ---Richmond Dispatch. 5The Vulnerable Point. ?Percy-I've made Pauline sorry that she threw me over. 0Guy-In what way? SPercy-Why. I'm attentive now to a 00 girl five years younger than she is. sta t ae......................... 2 00 ......................... 2 00 ....... ................. 2 00 ................. ............. 3 00 .............................. 5 00 ............................... 5 00 ............................... 5 00 ............................... 5 00 ................................ 500 ................. ............ 500 ............. . ............... 5 00 Ae ............................. 8 .33 ................... ........... 4 50 Lmps, etc ...................... 5 25 mber......................... 10 24 temn and testifying............ 10 00 ork and lumber............... 4 00 ,xaminations.................. 55 00 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 00 salary......................... 700 00 T. C. OWENS, Supervisor Clarendon Co. LOVE'S SACRIFICE. An Engagement Ring Which Ampu tates a Finger Joint. Ethnological experts agree that with most Australian tribes every woman Is betrothed in infancy or even in antici pation of her birth. According to some mysterious law of their own, this is arranged by the old men of the family, the women having no voice in the mat ter. The age of 6be proposed. husband Is not taken Into consideration, so that it frequently happens that by the time the girl is of a marriageable age her intended is an old iman. If in the meantime some younger man has set his heart upon her, this means a fight, in which the unfortunate bride to be, as she Is dragged away, Is certain to come in for a share of the blows which the rival suitors deal out to each other. In some of the coast districts, where not all the girls are promised in infan cy, the betrothal of a young woman to a man who follows the occupation of a fisherman compels her to lose the first joint of the l:tle finger of her left hand. This slow and painful opera tion Is performed by a stout string bound tightly about the joint-an en gagemeut ring with which one would willingly dispense! A marriage 11 cense, equally urique, is common in some sections. w:2ere the chief gives to the prospective groom a peculiarly knotted string, possessing which he is free to seek the wife of his choice. Woman's Home Companion. How Muskrats Are Trapped. Trapping is one of the modes by which muskrats are secured. The traps are made of boards about six Inches wide and three feet long. These are nailed together Ike an ordinary box trap, the open ends being secured by swinging doors of wire network, fasten ed to the upper part of both entrances. These doors allow easy ingress to the trap, but once In t he rat cannot get out without opening the door by pullIng It to him, which sicr'et they seem very slow to discover. These traps are put In the leads running from the houses to the water when the tide Is at low ebb and the rats are out feeding. On the return they crawl up the leads, push against one of t:2e wire doors of the trap, which immediately opens into the trap, but they cannot go farther, as the next door opens -:oward them. Befor. they can gnaw out the tide makes up and they are drowned In the trap. A Story Tc-ld by Disraeli. Disraeli once se Id: "You know I have the honor of beIng one of the elder brethren of the Trinity House. Well, there is a special unIform belonging to the office. One day I was about to attend a levee at St. James' palace, and my valet laid out my diplomatic uniform ready for me to put on. Plac ng Implicit confidence in him, I put it on and went to the levee. On appear ing before the prince hIs royal high ness jocularly remarked: 'It won't do. You're found out.' 'In what, sir? I in quired. 'Oh,' sald the prince, 'you've got the wrong trousers on.' And to my horror, on looking down I found that I had got my diplomatic uniform coat on with the TrinIty House trousers. It seemed to amuse the prince immense The Oldest Epitaph. The oldest epitaph In English, which Is found In a churchyard In Oxford shire and dates from the year 13'70, ;. modern readers would be unintelligi ble not only from Its antique typog raphy, but from Its obsolete language. the first two lines of which run as fol lows and may be taken as a sample of the whole: "Man com & se how schal alle dedo be: wen yow co~mes bad & bare: noth hay ven we away fare: all ye werines yt ye for care." The modern reading would be: "M1an, come and see how shall all dead be when you come poor and bare: nothing - have when we away fare. All is wea riness that we for care." Ears. If your cars burn, people say, some one Is talking a bout-you. This Is very old, for Pliny says. "When our ears do glow and tingle, some do talk of us In our absence." Shakespeare, in "Much Ado About Nothing." makes Beatrice say to Uir sua and Hero, who had been talking of her, "What fire Is in mine ears!" Sir Thomas Browne ascribes this conceit to the superstition of guardian angels, who touch the right ear If the talk Is favorable and the left If other wise. This is done to cheer or warn. One ear tingles, some there be That are snarling now at me. Before Mirrors. Mrs. Snaggs-I read a paragraph in the paper which said. 'Woman was made before mirrors, but It wasn't her fault." Don't you think that is a mean remark to make about woman? Mr. Snaggs-Yes, I thinok It Is. What the writer meant to say was that wo man was made before mirrors and- had been biefore. them dyer since.-Ex change. Needed No Help, Mrs. Hiram Offen-And do you think you could do the cooking for the family with a little help from me? Applicant-No. ma'am, 01 do not. Mrs. Hiram Off'en-You don't? - Applicant-No, ma'am, but OI'm sure M cod do It wldout anny help from you.-Philadelphla Press. No Cause F'or Alarm. Nervous Passenger ion New Haven steamer)-There's a very peculiar noise in the water tonight. Do you notice it. captain? Captain-Yes, madam; that's the reg ular Long Island sound.-Harlem Life. The man who hesitates may be lost, but the man who never hesitates i ard to find.-Chicago News. *The Doctor'. Calls. Hunt-I have seen Dr. Pellet's car riage at your house three orfour times lately. It has alarmed me greatly. Turner-Nobody's sick. Pellet merely' called to collect a bill. Nothing seri THE C O0F TH K F H -----By .JUb "Sanigarre"' cried Ivan Ogareff in the first moment of surprise and not imag Ining that it could be any other woman than the gypsy. It was not.Sangarre; it was Nadia. At the moment when, seeking refuge on the block of ice, the young girl had uttered that cry when she saw the fire spread over the current of the Angara. Michael Strogoff had seized her-in his arms, and he had dived with her to seek even in the depths of the river a shelter from the flames. After having swum under the waters Michael Stro goff had fortunately put his foot on ground at the quay, and he had Nadia still safe with him. Michael Strogoff was touching at last his goal. He was at Irkutsk. "To the palace of the governor!" said he to Na dia. In less than ten minutes after ward both arrived at the entrance to that palace, the massive stone walls of which were being licked by the long flames from tne Angara, without, how ever, their being able to set the struc ture on fire. Beyond, the houses on the bank were all In flames. Michael Strogoff and Nadia entered without difficulty into that palace, which was open for all. In the midst of the general confusion no one noticed them, although their clothes were drip ping wet. A crowd of officers came for orders, and soldiers running to execute them blocked up the grand salon on the ground floor. There Michael Strogoff and the young girl, in the midst of so great a crowd, found themselves separated from each other. Nadia, distracted, ran along the lower rooms, called her campanion and asked to be led before the grand duke. A door leading into a room that was inundated with light opened itself be fore her. She entered, and she found herself unexpectedly face to face with him whom she had seen at Ichim, whom she hac. seen at Tomsk, in the presence of tiat man whose cursed hand an instant later would have deliv ered up the city. "Ivan Ogarelf!" cried she. On hearing his name pronounced the miserable wretch trembled. His true name being once known, all his plans would be ruined. He had only one thing to do-to kill the being, whoever t might be, who had just pronounced t. Ivan Ogareff threw himself on Na dia, but the young girl, with a knife in her hand, placed her back to the wall, resolv ed to de:.end herself. "Ivan Ogareff!" cried again Nadia, knowing well that detested name would bring succor to her. "At., you shall be silent!" said the traitor. "Ivan Ogareff!" cried a third time the ntrepid young girl In a voice whose ate bad increased tenfold the force. Drtnk with fury, Ivan Ogareff drew dagger -from his belt, rushed upon adia and forced her back into a cor ner of the room. It was all over with her w'hen the wretch, suddenly knock ed down by a tremendous blow, rolled o the ground. "Michael!" cried Nad Ia. It was Michael Strogoff. Michael Strogoff had heard the appeal of Nadia. uided by her voice, he had arrived at the room of Ivan Ogareff, and he had entered- by the door which had been left open. "Fear nothing, Nadiai,". he said as he placed himself ibetween. her -and Ivan gareff. "Ah," screamed the young girl, "take care, brother! -The traitor .Is armed! e ean see well!" Ivan Ogareff had risen, and, believ ing that he had the advantage over a blind: nian,~ he threw himself upon Mi. chael Sti-ogofr. But with one hand 5Il chael seized the arm of him who could see well aird with the other, turning aside his weapon, he threw him a sec ond time to the ground. Ivan Ogareff, pale with fury and shame, remembered that he was carry Ing a sword. He drew it from the scabbard and returned to the combat. e had also recognized Michael Stro goff. A blind man! He had only, In short, to deal with a blind man. Nadia, terrified at the danger whichm threatened Ler companion in such an unequal struggle, ran to the door, call~ ng help. "Shut that door, Nadia," said Michael Strogof. "Do not call any one, and let e do It. The courier of the czar has othing to fear today from this wretch. Let him come at me if lhe dare. I am waiting for him." Meanwhile Ivan Ogareff, gathering imself together, as It were, like a ti ger' did not utter a word. The noise of his step, his very breathing, he would have wished to keep back from the ear of the blind man. He wished to strike him before even he had any warning of his approach, to strike him with a certain blow. The traitor did ot dream of fighting, but of assas sinating him whose name he had sto Nadia, frightened, yet at the same time confident, contemplated with a sort of admiration that terrible scene. It seemed that the old coolness had ome back to him. Michael Strogoff had as his only weapon his Siberian knife, and he could not see his adversary, who was even armed with a sword. But by what favor from heaven was lie able to over power him'. Ivan Ogareff glanced at his adversary with a visib~le anxiety. That superhu man calmness worked upon him. In vain, appealing to his reason, he kept saying that in the Inequality of such a ombat all the advantage was in his favor. That immovableness of the blind man completely froze him. He had sought with his eyes the place where he raust strike his victim. He had found it. Who, then, was prevent ing him, from giving the finishing blow? At length lie made a blow and thrust his sword lull at the breast of Michael Strogoff. An impe-ceptible movement of the knife of the blind man turned the blow. Michael Steogoff had not been touched and coolly seemed to wait another at tack without, however, challenging It. A cold sweat ran from the face of Ivan Ogareff. Ie recoiled a pace, then made anot her thrust. But the second blow, lihe thie first, fell harmless. A simple parying with the large knife had sufficed~ to turn aside the sword of the traitor. Tihe latter, mad with rage and terror before that living statue, fixed his terrified look on the large open eyes of the blind man. Those eye that eemed to rea the very. bot U IE . 94 13 CZAR~ ~s V e r ne in, of his hevart ai Which coul no-t see-thos e eyes seemned to have for him an awful fascination. 1 Suddenly Ivan Ogaroff gave a cry. An unexpected light had entered his brain... "He can see!" cried he. "He can 1 see"' And, like a deer trying to re-enter its r cave, step by step, terrified, he retreat- 1 ed to the lower end of the room. Then t the statue took life. The blind man 1 walked straight to Ivan Ogareff, and, 1 placing himself in front of him, said: "Yes, I see-I see the blow of the knout 1 with which I have marked you, traitor I and coward! I see the place where I am going to strike you. Defend your ] life! It is a duel which I condescend s to offer you. My knife will suffice me 1 against your sword!" "He sees!" said Nadia. "God of mer- ] cy, is it possible?" Ivan Ogareff felt himself to be lost. 1 But suddenly, taking courage, sword x In front, he rushed upon his impassible adversary. The two blades crossed. but at the first clash of the knife of 1 Michael Strogoff, grasped firmly in the r hand of the Siberian hunter, the sword 1 flew In pieces. and the wretch, pierced. to the heart, fell dead to the ground. 1 At that moment the door of the room, < pushed from the outside, opened. The. grand duke, accompanied by some offi cers, showed himself on the threshold. f The grand duke advanced. He recog- s nized on the ground the dead body of i him whom he thought to be the courier 1 of the czar, and then in a threatening < voice he asked: 1 "Who has slain this man?" 1 "I," replied Michael Strogoff. One of the officers placed a revolver 1 to his head, ready to fire. 1 "Your name?" asked the grand duke f before giving the order to shoot him - dead. "Your highness," answered Michael 1 Strogoff, "ask me rather the name of j the man stretched at your feet." "That man I have recognized. He is a a servant of my brother. He is the czar's courier." . "That man, your highness, Is not a b courier from the czar. He Is Ivan Oga- N reff." "Ivan Ogaref!" cried the grand duke. 1 "Yes; Ivan the..traitor." "But you--who are you?" "Michael Strogoff." CHAPTER XX. ICHAEL STROGOFF was not, had never been,blind. A purely human phenom- . enon, at once moral and ~ physical, had neutralized t.~ the action of the redhot blade which the execu-1 tioner of Feofar had passed over his eyes. One remembers that at the mo ment of that terrible punishment Mar fa Strogoff was there, stretching out her hands toward her son. Michael Strogoff looked at her, as a son can look at hIs mother when It Is for the last time. Streams of tears welled up from his heart to his eyes, which his high spirit tried in vain to restrain and, filling the sockets of his eyes, had thus saved his sight. The action of the heat had been destroyed1 just in the same manner as when a smelter, after having plunged his hand into water, thrusts it with impunity into molten iron. Michael Strogoff had at once under stood the danger he would have run in making known his secret to any one. He realized the advantages which he might gain from this situation for the accomplishment of his projects. It Is ~because they would believe him to be blind that they would leave him his liberty. It was necessary, then, that he should be blind, that he should be so for all, even for Nadla-in short, Sthat he should be so everywhete and that not a gesture at any moment could cause any doubt of the sincerity of his role: His resolution was taken. Even his very life must be risked in order ~ to give to all the proof of his blindness, adoekows how he risked it. ais oher alone knew the truth, and it was on the square of Tomsk that C he had whispered it in her ear when, bending over her in the shade, he had i covered her with his kisses. r We can now understand how when ~ Ivan Ogareff had placed the emperor's l letter before his eyes, which he be lieved to be blind, Michael Strogoff had C been able to read, had read that letter which disclosed the hateful designs of the traitor; hence that energy which ~ he displayed during the second part of the journey: hence that unchanging will to reach Irkutsk and on arriving there to fulfill with his own voice his ~ mission. He knew that the town was Ito be given up by the traitor. He knew that the life of the grand duke wast threatened. The safety of the brother of the czar and of Siberia was still ina his hands.' In a few words all this history was recunted to the grand duke, and Mi chael Strogoff told also, and with whatt emotion, the part which Nadia had tak en in these events. "Who is this young girlY' asked the grand duke. f "The daughter of the exiled Wassill a Feodor," answered Michael Strogoff- t "The daughter of Commander Feo- s Idor," said the grand duke, "has ceased to be the daughi:er of an exile. There j are no mobre exiles at Irkutsk." t Nadia, less strong in joy than she had t been in sorrow, fell at the feet of the grand duke, who raised her with one t hand, while he held out the other to a Michael Strogoff. An hour afterward b Nadia was in the arms of her father. e Michael Strogoff, Nadia, Wassili Feo dor, were reunited. It was on all side's complete happiness. The Tar-tars had been repulsed in their double attack upon the town. j Wassili Feodor, with his little troop, I had crushed the first assailants who E had presented themselves at the Bol- t chia gate with the expectation of find- c ing it open.t At the same time that the Tartars j were driven back the besieged had ren- a dered themselves masters -or the fire. 1 Before daybreak the troops of Feofar-t Khan had returned to their encamp- r ments, leaving a good niumber of dead , under the ramparts.E Among the dead was the gypsy San- . garre, who had tried in vain to rejoin Ivan Ogareff. For two days the besiegers attempt- I ed no new assault. They were discour- i Iged 1-3 ~the death ~of ivan-ugarer. rhat man was the soul of the invasion, and he nlene. ty his long continued >lots, had sufficient influence over the chans and their bordes to be able to end them to the conquest of Asiatic ussia. Meanwhile the defenders of Irkutsk iad held themselves on their guard, tnd the investment continued, but on he 7th of October from the first streaks >f day the boom of cannon resounded m the heights around Irkutsk. It was :he relieving army which had arrived inder the orders of General Kissely, vho thus signaled his presence to the prand duke. The Tartars did not stay any longer. Lhey did not wish to risk a battle un ler the walls of Irkutsk. The camp of he Angara was immediately raised. rkutsk was at last delivered. With the first Russian soldiers two riends of Michael Strogoff had entered he town. They were the Inseparable 3lount and Jolivet. By gaining the ight bank of the A ngara along the )arrier of ice they and the other fugi Ives had been able to escape before he flames of the Angara had reached he raft. This had been put down by Licide Jolivet In his notebooic and in his manner, "Was near ending like a emon In a bowl of punch!" Their joy was great to once more find iadia and Michael Strogoff safe and ound, especially when they learned hat their brave companion was not lind, a statement which led Harry 3ount to jot down this observation: 'A redhot iron is perhaps insufficient o destroy the sensibility of the optic Lerve. To be modified." Afterward the two correspondents, vell Installed in Irkutsk, occupied hemselves in putting in order the Im iressions of their journey. From thence wo interesting chronicles of the Tartar nvasion were sent to London and Par s, which, strange to say, only contra licted each other on points of less mo nent. For the rest the campaign was bad or the emir and his allies. That Inva ion, useless, as are all those that at ack colossal Russia, was most fatal to hem. They soon found themselves cut if by the troops of the czar, who re ook successively all the conquered owns. Besides, the winter was terri- - le, and of those hordes, decimated by he cold, only a small number returned o the steppes of Tartary. The route rom Irkutsk to the Ural mountains ras free. The grand duke was in haste to re urn to Moscow, but he delayed his ourney in order to assist at a touching eremony which took place some days fter the entry of the Russian troops. Michael Strogoff had sought out Na Lia and in the presence of her father ad said to her, "Nadia, my sister still, rhen you left Riga to come to Irkutsk ad 'you no other regret but that of maving behind you your mother?' "No," replied Nadia; "none what Ter." "So that no part of yosui heart has emalned down there?" "None, brother." - "Then, Nadia," said Michael Strogoff, 'I do not believe but that God In bring og us together. in allowing us to pass brough these great trials together, has rished us to be united forever." "A!" said Nadia as she fell into the rms of Michael Strogoff, and, turning oward Wassili Feodor, "My father," he said, blushing deeply. "Nadia," said Wassili Feodor, "my oy will be to call you both my chil ten!" The marriage ceremony took place in he cathedral of Irkutsk. It was very imple in its preparations, but very eautful in the concourse of the mill ary and civil popmlation, which thus rished to show its gratitude to the1 oung couple, whose strange journey ad now become legendary. Alcide Jolivet and Harry Blount of ourse assIsted at the marriage, .of rhich they wished to give an account a their readers. "And does it not make you envious to iitate them?' asked Alcide Jolvet to 1s companion. "Phaw!" exclaimed Harry Blount. If, like you, I had a cousin!" "My cousin is not any longer mar lageable," laughingly answered Alcide olivet. "All the better," added Harry Blount, for they speak of difficulties which re about to arise between London and 'eking." "Would you not like to see what is assing there?" "Why, my dear Blouint," cried Alcide olivet. "Il was about to propose it to This is how the two inseparables set1 ut for China. Some days after the ceremony Mi hael and Nadia Strogoff, accompanied y Wassili Feodor, started on their] urney to Europe. That road of sor Dws was only one of happiness on heir return. They traveled very rapid r with one of those trains 'which glide ke an express over the frozen steppes f Siberia. Meanwhile, arrived at the banks of he Dinka, just opposite Briskoe, they topped there one day. Michael Stro off sought out the place where he had iterred poor Nicholas. A cross was lanted there, and Nadia prayed for e last time on the tomb of the hum le and heroic soul which neither the ne nor the other would ever forget. At Omsk old Maria was awaiting em in the little house of the Stro off's. She pressed in her arms that oble girl whom in her heart she had iready a hundred times called her aughter. The brave Siberian on that ay had the right to own her son and >say that she was proud of him. After some days passed at Omsk, Mi bael and Nadia Strogoir returned to urope, and, Wassili Feodor being well xed in st. Petersburg, neither his son or his daughter had any occasion ever leave him, only when they went to e their old mother. The young courier had been received y the czar, who attached him specially > his person and decorated him with de cross of St. George. Michael Strogoff afterward attained' a high post in the empire. But it is ot the history of his success, but the istory of his trials, which has deserv rl to be chronicled. -rEE END. AmnzIty Between Horses. When the Duke of Wellington was ghtng In Spain, there were two orses which had always drawn thle ame gun, side by side, in many bat les. At last one was killed, and the ther, on having his food brought as sual, refused to eat, but turned his ead around to look for his old friend, nd neighed many times as if to call im. 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