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tram The Regiment's Darling. jMttry 1, WOT, will iv«r be held in aaJ remembrenoe by the regiment then autioMd nt StaWra Barracka. A bttU bad bean glren la the town on New Yaar’a Bva. and all the offloara had been preaeok Stoat of than Aid not laata the bail-ruom antil nearly flea la tha morning, but ahortly after eight they Ware all up again, brought tbetr bad by •hocking tiding!; ih Hatherly had oodamlttad aui i attar bin return Irom the balL fane at ftrat wonidl boUera It, bat It wee only too tree, am? from the colonel down to tha la teat recruit, arary ooun- tananoa waa expreeaiva of grief and gloom. Hatherly waa tha darling of theiegimant. He had won the eateem, or rather, the affection, of hia brother- ofBoera: to tha men ha waa tha beau- ideal of a hero. A (mart officer who, good judge a anid, would go far, ha ahona m every apurk Ha waa tha beat bat in tha eleven, and had often Mved hla aide. from defeat; ha rode aa at might aa any man to the hounda, and baaldaa aome creditable •kill at golf, ha waa one of the beat three-qnartera at *• Bagger " the county could bonek Indeid, an the eolonel had once, half In humor, half in iff action, styled hi ha WMtbk “Admiral Crltoh the regiment. In the moat exciting elrcamatenons he kept a gay, sunny tamper, whleh more than anything won him hla way to khe hearts of hla eomradee. But there wm one more clrcutn- stanca which helped to make the cap tain's death n tragedy such aa had seldom bean known at Kasterton. At tha end of tha month ho waa to marry the only daughter of Major Bindon, n girl In every way worthy of him. Mo woader tha major stood •baking ns if with pels) when ha heard the tragic aawa, .and rwallaad that on him de volved Uu» duty of telling hla mothar- 1 *$bat H eoa1d have poaaaaael him? Thera was no one who could supply no answer. " it wasn't money troubles,'’ said hla aertlemar obnm, Conroy, try ing ta vain to apeak calmly. ■ “That la fUlte right,” said Major Bindon; “ it isn’t money, I know. And unlaoe lt.oaonrred when they parted tbit morning—whtcn isn’t likely—, them was no trouble between him and Bthel. Poor girl! I’d rather face a battery alone than tall her. They—7 they were awfully food of each other,” and the major turned away and went home. Motning In bis life evei hurt him ao much ns the light of hla daugh ter’s agony wbad he. made known to him the mournfnl tidings.'' ” God com fort my poor girl T he cried again and, again, with more earnrstoeaa then he had prayed for many a long day. But although It seemed tuch a clear and sad sate of mental,derangement aad self-destruction, there were some sinister convictions expressed among the rank and file. ''‘He nsver killed? hlsaelf,” said Corporal Waite, of the deceased captain's company, amid gloomy nods nod murmurs of acquies cence ; •* he won’t that kind of a man. Tall me he committed suicide, and just abont to marry a girl like that v it’s as l 1 “ I bought vag. *ofyou ni ted?" *■ V 1 A ml bed died ooavulsively, anu then, ns was usual with'him, subjected rutim minute in-section, aided *>• it uo»*er- <al aagnl'vtng-ginas. V'n- o ^aren lag on the door near the ^*>d, hveame oa aotee tiny article of glass, aad the fragment of a needle, which, after careful examination, he placed In his empty stiver orgarette-ease. He paused m for some time in thought, then gently Hatherly waa murdered.” DU you dad wk Y And after a pause he 1 ’I hate one little itqutfy to met morrow, end then 1 ohV tell you' the murderer wia." “Murderer l” cried the colonel. “Do you mean ” “ Yeas” said the detective. ’’Captain turned np the sleeves of the captain's nightshirt and examined the lifeless A long-drawn-oat “ Ah!” marked the algninoacce of what he had Carefully looking the door behind him and seeing no one was about, he made hia way to the colonel's quarters. “ Well, Mr. Da Wart,” naked that office r,” what do you think ?“ “ I have noted ooe or tiro Interest ing little things,” add De Watrr. ”1 have a r< quest to make—In foot, two. I went to be preeentat the inquest, and I should like to dine with the mesa to night.” ”Certainly,” Mid the oolonel. “I had intend as.' aly,” 1 ed to ask yon to dine with “Aad might I ask that at dinner J on will support me in anything I may o, even If It seims stupid to vqu ? It may be important.” Ji “ I will,” said the oolonel. •^Dn-Wanr had a few wordi wlsh Ethel Bindon. Had you any other ad>- tnlrers ?” he asked. She blushed a little. ” There were several,” she said, ” but none in parti cular ; none likely to be jealous. Cap tain Hatherly w«.s the only one who proposed to me. I never encouraged any of them.” "Thank you,” said De Warr. “t'hat it all I want, to know.” ^ * V • The Inqueat was leld at alx that evening. The orderly who had found the captain and given the alarm, Colonel Weaoott, and Miss Bindon were the chief witnesses. It was proved As soon aa the shops opened the next morning, De Warr went Into the town aad called at the drat ehemlst’s shop he mw. He did not find what he wanted there, and went Into another. He came out, with a grim smile on hla face. . , - - That evening,' at De Warr’a sugges tion, the oolonel invited Major Bindon and Captain Helby to join himself and De Warr in a game of whist. Helby wm fonder of what he called ‘'lively'’ games, by whleh he meant baocarat and others of the sort, In whleh a a could gain or lose a few huedreds in an evening. But the colonel’s invita tion could not be refused. The game had proceeded for a little time, when De Warr,' wearing that stern expression he always used when he had brought his quary to bay, sud denly Interrupted the game. " I did uotshow you," he said, “what I picked up In Hatherly’s room when I waa there.” And he took out bis cigarette- case and exhibited its contents. >' ''Only a few partisles of glass, De Warr,” said the oolonel, letting the name slip out by accident. Helby gave a start, and looked curiously aa the de tective when he heard it. De Wjsrr took it back loto,bftt hands again. “ A- little thingbe said, “ but it proves much. It proves that the captain did not kill himself, but was murdered. These particles of glass and that fragment of needle are the remains of a hypodermic syringe that contained morphia. It showed that the owner used it so often that he did not always trouble to return it to its that the deceased returned from thw ease. 1 sww from Hatherly arms that ball about l a. m., In capital spirits, he was not In the habit of injecting and that five hours later he was found - dead with a gaping wound in hia throat and a Malay krlse by his side, which tommy-rot. tmmy And, strange to say, as possessed ky the sa ad looked herself in I Ethel Bindon same Idea. Bbe had looked herself in her room and given way to her anguish, but before aooe she came out her face Bushed and with a wild light la her eyes that alarmed her father, and begged him to fetch Colonel Wescott, as sue wished to apeak to both ol them. The oolonel eame instantly and ex pressed hla sympathy, to which she listoned impatiently. “ I have sent for you. Colonel Westeott, to tell you aad father that something must be done at once—at or ee. Eroeat has not killed himself; ha has been mur dered P “ Bthel, Bthel!’’ erled the distressed father, afraid that grief waa affecting KNuahV— ahull all bafajotwrefpae and I will yon do not know what yon are baying, vow rh*r« Is sure to be 0 I tall my dear.” •’ Yea, I do, perfectly, father, yon Ernest baa been murdered.” “ Bat, my dear,” Interposed the am IV 1 UUtn Hwtbcrly had not an. enemy la the world. Who could have done a deed so foul ?” “ Ido not know,” she erled, Impress ing both of them by her deadly eernest- ■cea. “I do not know, but I knew Braeat batter than any of you, and 1 know that la an Intolerable Insult to toy poor murdarad love to suggest that he killed hlmeelf,” aad ate gave way to another outburst of grief. “ I want father to employ a deteo- I know, I feel, he has been mur- Can I let my poor dead love’a memory have the ateln of sniolde upon 11?” Almost against their judgment they were Impressed, aad la order to calm her If possible, a telegram wm at oaee to the eelebratod London De Warr, Mklag him to to Bastorton Immediately. Mr. De Warr wired back to say that ha would leave London some time that afternoon, and at four o’clock the met him at tha station several witnesses testified was his prop* erty, and hung jver the mantlepiece in his bed-room. The doctor said that it was quite possible and most probable that the wound had been self-tnlicted, and all but one or two were satisfied with the verdict: “ Suicide while tem porarily insane.” Colonel Wescott’s friend, Mr. Broth- erton, whom be introduced to his sub ordinate officers as an old friend of bis whom, he bad lost sight of fer years, proved a deeply Interesting conversa tionalist', and a oused the interest of the mess in spite of the gloomy subject that over-shadowed them. He' nad rich stores of experience to draw from, and before long monopolised the K con- versation, though he did not allow them jto guess his profession, nor Why he a aa at Easterton. It was over the «ine and cigars after dinner that De Warr turned the con versation to magic and fortune-telling. “ I believe a little In palmistry,” he •aid, “but I learnt something from an old Jap which is startling. He showed me—1 paid well for the secret, of course—that man’s fata is revealed in the formation of his elbow. 1 can read there a man’s chance of life and death —can even tell him if he will die in his bed. With my friend Westcott’s permission 1 saw the poor captain’s b»dy this afternoon. Alas! his fate .as written there.” “ You don’t ask us to believe that, sir ?” said one, and a warm discussion ensued. Soma were altogether skepti cal, but others whd bad been In India expressed their solemn oonvlctlon that there are many unexplained things In the magic of the East. De Warr was very grave, especially when some of the skeptics asked him t6 confess that he was* only chaffing them. “With your permission,” be •aid, “ It shall be put to the test. You "" — your fates, mere is sure to be one or two among you whose sands of life are nearly run, and the majority will have the opportunity of proving the truth or falsity of my predictions before many years passed.” "Tie Warr loofc. •rgBTBMBtty Ct the morphia, bat I saw from my little ex perience last night w ho was. There was a struggle, do you see, and the syringe dropped on the Boor and waa crushed. And this morning”—De Warr’s tone was as solemn as that of a judge when be assumes the black cap —" this morning I discovered that Spinks Bros, had sold a hypodermic syringe to Captain Helby yesterday to replace one he had broken.” Three of the four will never forget the painful tension of the minute’s silence that followed. It was broken by Captain Helby rising to hls?feet, with a curse. Yes, it’s true,” he crletf, the light of madness in his eyes. ’* He robbed me of Ethel. I should have had her if he had not stepped in.” Helby rushed from the room. The three quickly, followed, but they were too late. He locked bis room- door behind him, and ere they oould break It open a shot rang out. THB NKQKO 18 HAPPY. tiva. Arovs him to the barracks, relating on the way the tragic story that had eaaeeA him to be summoaed. Oa raaohnf tha colonel’s, quarter’s tha major was sent for aad tha colonel's ae- oonat was ampllted with all aoeessary details. “What do you think af It, Mr. Da ▼err ?" asked tha eolonel, whan every thing had bean told. “ First of all," said Ds Warr, “ have yon aay objection, oolonel, to giving eat that I am an old friend of yours un- expeetedly arrived; Mr. Brotkertoa, of Haw York, shall we My ?” “ Mot at all,” said tha ooloael. " And sow, without attracting attaa ana I soe the dead man nad tha 1? Bm it bean disturbed f” “Tha too* has sot bean touohed,’ lid the oolonel. “Tha siperlaten dent of police looked ep tha room, bat I have no doubt ha will grant you par- mtsetoa to make an Inspection.” Whan Da Warr’s namt wai la tha room. Tha captain, handsome ‘i la Mood Ivan D* Warr, wbo 1 many horrible things, sighed at tha thoaghW that a fair : lile shoald have aadad thus. which rgrr ooloael, who interpreted the look and spoke. “ Very, well, Brotherton,” he said, with a laugh, “ we will put your powers to the test. I can’t say I am a convinced believer iu foretelling Pate, but 1 never heard of this arm business before ** “No,” said De Warr, “and there fore you should not doubt it.” ’ Come, then, gentlemen,” said the colonel, “let us submit to this seer. Bare your arms,” and he set tha ax ample. Jokingly they all complied save Cap tain Helby, who sat with a sneer on his face. “Coma, Helby,” said several. “ No, I don’t think I shall,” said Helby, a heavy built but flue man, whose good looks were marred by evl denoes of dissipation. Helby was one “who went the pace,” as the phrase Is. “ Ob, some, Helby,” said the ooloael. “If you don’t believe in It, you can treat It ns nonsense Ilka't$l rest of os.” Tha aolonel’s request wm a veiled command, and with rather a bad grace Helby bared his arms. “ Halloa, Hel by,” Mid oaa, notlotng tha eruptive appearance of the captain's left arm, “bad blood’s sure to break out.” “ I often got these pimples/’ said Helby, eurtiy. Da Warr' passed from man to man, gravely examining both arms, with such remarks as, ’ 7 1 oongratulata you oa a long nad fortunate Ufa, air,” or “ Yours will be a soldier’s dsath, sir, but not just yet,” aad so on. When he Mine to Hsfbv ha looked him In tha face but said nothing, nad pawed on to tb« next. “What about mint r asked Helby, with a laugh. “ III tall you If you Ilka, sir,” Mid Da'Warr, solemnly. ^ “ I do like; but, understand, I think It all nonsense.” f ‘ - “ Nonsense or not, youi arm tells of sudden death within the year.” Helby laughed derisively. Boon after-tha mass broke up. and tha detective accompanied the eolonel “That wasa funny Men of yours,” said tha ooloael. “ You didn’t balleve in It yourself—a plaeeot bluff, eurely?” “It wae,”jMld Da Warr, “aad dona W|1M » BUI Arp Bays tbs Politicians Should Let Him Alone—Tom Dixon Tells the Irnth About the Negro's Con dition. Those Northern Republicans are in an aw ful.tangle. They are torn all to pieces on the Pnllippioe question. The pres and the pulpit are fulminating their various theories aud giving advice In no uncertain sounds. Dr. Parkburst preached a Thanksgiving sermon to an immense congregation and left the thanks ''ut. He made bold to denounce the war as an unboly one, conceived In ■In and waged with iniquity, sod de clared that this country had gained neither glory nor respect by reason of it. He said that not even the President oould tell whather be declared war be cause the Maine was exploded or be cause the Cubans were being starved, or because a --lot of Congreasmsu threatened to play Judas to the admin- Istrailgn if he llde^’tdeclare war. He ■BJfJlbe President Is continually put ting his ear to the ground like an In dian to hear what tha people of the great West have got to say about it. It ML. a-terriWc awaigaanat ef aha waa party. Dr. Van Dyke, another notable in .his nation. Toe negro alone oaa selva hla probler 1, and be mast do It, uv by polities, hi, t by work.” Well, that sonud* flae but a good deal of it la fancy. The fact remains that balm the war there was not a negro tn the ohalngaag in Georgia, and now therb are 4,000, aad tha number la inoreaalng dally, aad the Northern Re publican preaa and Republican pulpits are still denouncing us for It. In the language of Governor Oates, I am con tinually tempted to exclaim, “ Well, wfeat are you’uns going to do about It.?” -/ . .\ . 1 , Bat we are going to have a Peace Jubilee down bare, and M John Tampla Graves said of Henry Grady, “ We are going to love a nation Into pence.” See if we don’t. We are going to treat our Northern visitors so generously nod love them eo hard that when they get book home they won’t My nigger for two weeka maybe a month. I wish it possible to get those fanatics to stay down here a year or so and see tor themselves how the negro Is doing —not In Atlanta, of Savannah or In any of the big cities where most of the obaingangs oome from, but in the coun try or the smaller towns. I wish they wonld visit Cnrtarsvllle and tee the negro Jraymen hauling cotton nod hear their merry laugh and their jokee, and see the cotton pickers in town on Saturday evening and night ending their week's wages for some- lag good for Sunday, or see them in their churches on the Sabbath and. hear them sing and shout and give lory to God. Who ever heard of a lartersville negro abusing the white people or complaining of oppreeslpc ? They ore always happy and #ear better ilothes than the poor whites at the North, and at the sound of the school bell their children pour la or pour out like bees from a hive. There Is no trouble here or in the country ; no con flict, and all the money they make is •pent at home. Cotton aioklng is their •nnaai frolic. My barber tola me hia shoeblack had quit him and gone to the cotton patch. He earned 75 cents to II a day blacking shoes, but he has gona to the fleffi, where he can pick more than a hundred pounds of cotton and get 40 cents for It; but out there he »uld talk and laugh and carry on with the other negroes and have a good time. Who ever heard of a negro tramp going around begging for some thing to eat ? Well, now, if they are so contented and happy, why does any body want to disturb them about poli tics or social equality ? But we are going to see fun alive be fore long. The negroes in the Islands we have taken wllfglve our Northern brethren enough to do and to think about and maybe they will let us atone fpr a while. I see that Cardinal Gib bons has been expressing his opinion about the negro problem, and he adviaeg'us to have a property qualifica tion for voters. Well, the New England Statea 'have got that now and say It works well. South Carolina and Mis- slssippl require an eduoatlonal qualifica tion, but my opinion Is that a voter ought to have one or the other, either property enough to make him Inter ested In his government or education enough to understand It. The greatest menace to good goverament Is the K urchasable votes of Illiterate vaga- onds, both white and black. Good gracious 1 how fast we are all living now. A month is longer than a year used to be. What w.th these-Thenks- glviag-sermons with the thanks left out, what with Spain and Cuba and the Philippines and the treaty and the war investigation and the movement of our. troops and the devilment of the negro soldleri and the attitudes of the great powers towards us and the low price of ootton and the Atlanta Jublles and tha oemlng of Santa Claus and tbs awful Wrecks on the co st and the sui cides and divorces and lynching!'And vendetta*and devilment in general our minds are kept strained every day and we wonder what the next daily May the goad Lord my prayer. Bill art. ably one thousand man, sprasM out over a territory of six or eight miles, and there they had tha sktrmiah Unas froatijig the Caban lines, extended oat about fifteen miles from the bay, aad wa had to go through thw4iaM about fifteen miles out. , ’T took this guide sad wan; out into tiie bills oa the northwest fide and going on the Cuban Unas theft, the oolonel in oommand—l have forgotten his name—gave me three other men wall acquainted with the country, who had lived there all their IIvm and knew every part af It—men who oould be trusted. I took these tour men, my original guide and these three footman, Infantrymen—the other man, a major in the Cuban army, on mule bock— with me. Syihe way, I didn’t learn to ride a mule In South Carolina, but bad soma experience with them at one time la Mexico. I oould apeak Spanish. We want to tha Cuban ontpoet, started from there and penetrated tha Spanish lines. Of course, after we got through •he lines the only difficulty wm In avoiding the small bands of Spaniards that may have been prowling around there in (quads, patrolling the ooantry and getting in nMr the bills, so as to reach a point of observation. “We old not have much trouble We passed some times tn close proximity to the Spaniards and heard them skirmishing with the Cubantoroes, but out of tnetr wiy. We into any fights; we were run, unless we ware crowded to the wall, then I don’t know what we might have done. But we managed to get through the lines at first, and my object waa to go In and olwaya kept wern 7 t going prepared to - '1® keep going tbrougbout the night until OBMBBAL1 Splendid Atlanta Journal. Six months ago tha world oatslda af England knew little of General Sir] Herbert Kitchener; now hla namele fnmlUar to tha average eltlssa of ovary clvtllaed country. Ho ie the most famous living general aad probably the ablest. He hM certainly accom plished a feat which places him high la tha annals of war and makes him Tha winds, aad thai Tha report just Baoar la tor the awath all - ^^CUMAtOUDOY. was 67.6 d< W wail Thai the most popular hero of England. Hla | march to Khartoum and bis splendid success in crushing the power of the khalifa stamp him os a man of rare military genius aad dauntiass deter mination. No modern campaign waa . , ever batter planned or more completely IV*.. J*^**”. 1 carried oat according to the origins! I specifications. It wm thirteen yaart after Gordon’* murder in Khartoum that He avenging came. England was nevae.hnown before la be so sluggish fi lar vengeance. It wm due to the vacillation of tha Glad stone government that wm la power at tha time of Gordon’s death that ao effort wm made immediately to swoop the Infamous mohdl from tha region that suffered under his bloody rale. England foughf for Jenkins's oar much •oonor than she fought tor tbs dastard- ly crime of Gordon’s oeasaalnotioa. 1Sir But while the government hesitated S'v *12*7 U^S.?*** nod finally *quarked the people of 1 a Sf l » afq ' V*' having I featorai valley m counties. Tbej I with ralm from the a Avenye 1 14, oloudy 9, pa S&aw's Pork oa And and 28tn. l«t,2ed^4th, 5th, Blh, loe, first of tb Catalan oa&str lithT 1 igland did not liken 1m weaken. His . t failure to meet their just expectotion. [ firot light fro* aftke Frost wm of tha 14th of fraqaaat the moati coot Mr. Gladstone its ehd his party a loss 0: which it baa never regained. The Kitchener expedition nad Its superb success hM done more to strengthen the Conservative party’s bold on Bag- land than all Lord Salisbury's speeches and all the skill of the able mas wbo ora associated with him la tha present British administration. bouse-^hooted llkenht sme answer I didn’t such dignities with so little lose as woe the English and Egyptian force which Gen. Kltchener lid ooross the trackless desert to battle aad to vic tory over a fierce foe greatly outnum bering it and finally to the captain of both of tiie strongholds of the fanatics of tha Soudan. Gordon wm killed In 1885. After the mnhdl died the khalifa succeeded to tha oommaad ol tha Dervishes. Hia nils wm even more cruel than that of his predsoessor. It is estimated that he exterminated one-half of the popu lotion of Upper F*gypt. Besides her oauvs w wisuviui vru«nv wi paper will record. May have pity upon us all, is we reached this place of obeervatloh. The Cubans seemed to know better than I did abont the arrangement of things and they all went on a strika about 0 o’clock—would not go any far ther. I could not persnade them tb do so, so I finally took tbelr vlaw. We turned beck through the woods and they balled owl—and got some understand, but they said it wm all right and we oould go up to thuthouM. We went there and they took us in; fed us nod gave us a brick floor to sleep on. They told us 11 we had gone on that rood we would have run Into the Spaniards In about fifteen minutes. This fellow, who lived there, happened to be a Frenchman. The next morning we got off. Ha told us the rood wa eonld taka to get rid of the Spaniards. They were going around from plaos to place, end we would inquire from the ’peclfloos’— those Cabans who did not taka part la the war were called ‘paolfiocs’—where to go to avoid the Spaniards. They proved very loyal. I wish here to pay a tribute to these people. If they had wished wa netdr could have accom plished our object; or if we had aoeom- f llshed it wa saver could have got out. hey were free to give us, where the country was thickly settled, the needs of our going there so freely all over the country. These Cuban guides bod thought It was a great thing, thslr going on, and In ordar to make it more Important they had told all the ’pool* fioos’ living there that I was going In to blow up all those ships with dyna mite. They all Relieved It, of course, and on my way bank I found the whole country was aroused there, and peopla would come.miles through the country to see me, end also to give advice as to how to avoid the Spaniards. Just be fore we got through the lines—went to go through the woods—theytold us we could not go any further. We bed to disperse. I kept my horseman along with me. The three infantrymen went through the woods. I haven’t heard of them since. I hope they got back all right. That Is about all there wm ef It. Sometimes, of course, we came insight of the Spaniards, throe or four hundred at a place. The woods were thick. I used to hunt a good dealMabOYla Marion county f confidence | ^ ^ lftfch llfht ^ over the entire State, 1 named lata coast, where that of toe season 00 27th. Heavy k« ttiUaf fcal 1 over the State oa the Shi Alleodaife , Jf^OuaW *fc| Goffaey, Kings tree, Si. Stephana, fl Trial. Tha flrat kititag as follows: Oeatral Ifth, < lege 15th, Florence llth, 23rd, Longshore Slrd, Shaw's J Spartanburg 18th, Wai York villa 21 rd. October, 1818, atvnv than usual durlag tha ! after the middle of night* with ui upper r-Kjp*. ucaiue* umr i ^11. Ji.f- long delayed duty of avenging Got don’s death England bad a call of humanity | _°? e *f T f d . quite os strong ns that whleh preacher, took for his text “The Am erican Birthright and the Philippine Pottage,” and forcibly denounced ter ritorial expansion. Tnen again Dr. Morgan Dix, another strong and popu lar preacher, refused to give thanks “ for having made war upon a feeble nation, a war that was entered Into tor humanity sake only and not to acquire terrltorv.” - And there were other preachers on the other side, and between .the reachers and the press the people era wlldered and .don’t know what to think. But It is to be observed that all the preachers have some flings to oast at the South about the negro except Dr. Thomas Dixou. .“.The nigger la in the woodpile” up there and everybody Is creoy about him." But Dr. Dixon bald forth In the Grand opera house to an Immense audience aad dared to tell them the truth. He declared that Mra. Grannls was simply last no and ka hoped the Lord would mv# the aegro from such frier ds. Ha Mid: MI know the Southern people nad the Northern people, and I know the negro. He Is better off today than the Northern working man. Ha nevar starvaa nor suffers for bread. Tha tun does not rise or set on this city but whnt some whlte man or woman or children starve to death. For every negro in the Soath found sleeping on a bed of straw, I will •how you flve whits persons la the North who have not got straw, and would be glad to have it. The North ern white man thinks lass of tha negro than the Southern white man dose. Yon don’t want him la yonr house nor close abont yon. No trades are'opsa to him here. He Is nothing here but a servant; whereas, at tha South, ha competes with tha white man la tW trade aad walk fn thaaeonomle world. Thera are 60.000 aegro voters In Nsw York now, bht whd ever sew n negrb office holder among them ? There is not ooe, and never will be. Tha Anglo- Saxon will rule, and tha Southara ne gro need expeet no more artificial sup port from tha North. Tha experiment is andad. . Tha war gave this nation tan hill, {he ne gro most saw stead alone, aad there ha a bleed? ehlrt Isaaa again BLUK'O 1?AB BXFBRiBNOBA V Telia How Be Went Threw#h the 'Ipanlsh Lines and Foued CervMro’s Fleet, ' Lieutenant Victor Blue, of the United States navy, gave his own storv 1 of how he went through the Spanish I lines to find Oervern’s fleet, at the banquet of the St. Andrews’ Society in Charleston. Lieutenant Blue, who Is In command of the captured Spanish gunboat, the Alvarado, Is spending some time with bit family in this State and he wm given a royal reception in Charleeton. The following la his story of his march; “Wjiefa It was finally thought that wa had located Cervera’s Beet in the harbor of Santiago, it wm not definitely kdowa that nil of them were there. At first we felt' sure of It, but we got a gwd many reports from different parts of the Cuoao poast that gunboats hal sighted Spanish cruisers; European newspapers had published as a fact that aU of Cervera’s fleet was not in Santiago harbor. There was a little uneasiness felt, and finally tha navy department telegraphed to Admiral Sampson to find out definitely. That was the reaeon of my going, however, was simply a mere aooldent. I happened to be on hand when tha ad' plral wanted this Information, and happening to bant the place and hoar lag about It, I put In a word to go my self, and was ordered to teke the duty. I wasn’t selected for It at all. I want ed to break tha monotony of that blockade. That wm aome time before the army landed In Cuba. They all landed to tha eMtward of Santiago, and at this time tha Spaniards expect ed tha advance from the westward, the Caban liaae being aU there oat from the waat aide np; they had been ad vaneing aad retreating, gaining and from Amc! crawl through the brush; bad very l.ttle difficulty. I finally got throun the Hors and on board ship, after be ing out about two days. The Spaniards Informed me after the fall of Santiago, that they were on mv troll, hnta one day too late. “That is all of it. It does not amount to much after all.’’ new era Of Its Ilfs. ¥he bloody shirt wm burled oa San Jana hill. —The Incognitos of royalty sometimes bring them amusing experiences. In 1804 Prince and Princess Henry, of Battenberg, slipped away to St. Molo for .rest and quiet after tha social season. They poeed os ordinary tour- lau aad excited no attention, visiting places of interest without arousing any suspicion of tholr rank, mingling with the holiday makers and taking every thing with good temper. At Moot St. Michel, however, when taking tholr •onto at tha hotel table they ware rather taken aback by the request of young person to the effect that they would change their seata because she wanted to sit next her fiance. They consented graciously and it waa not till some time after that tha girl discover ed who they were. -Tha Ktann* City Journal thus quotas the letter of a soldier In Honolulu to his.friends: “The New York regiment here wont to go home vary bad. They are dying off very fMt, there being a funeral from tholr camp almoet ovary day. It is mostly their own fault, as they won’t take care of themselves, but* drink and carouse around all the time. The natives make a kind'of beer called ’smnke.’ If a white man drinks It, it* will make him oraxy and probably kill him. Owot our soldier moved us to fight for Cuba. She responded to it nobly. She sent Kitchener to the Soudan nod to fame. He planned hie expedition with consummate skill aad with noble prudeaoe. It wm alow la starting, but whan It started nothing oould stop It. With 30,000 troops, ooe-third of them tha flower of tha English army and tha rest Egyptians whom British drill ser geants bad converted from nothing Into soldiers of first class quality, ha fought and defeated twloe tholr num ber of Dervishes at Omdormaa oa September 8d, killing outright 8,000 of them, more men than were slain on both sides In the terrific fighting at Gettysburg. Thesoldieraof the khalifa were well armed and there is no more desperate fighter in the world. The Cuban insurgent Is “ an easy mark” by comparison. Rodynrd Kipling wrote history os well os poetry when ha said that “ Fussy-Wntsy ” wm the only tal low whoever “crumpled np an Bagttah square.” After hit great victory at Omdnr- maa General Kitchener had aa easy capture of the khalifa’a capital. He hM been properly made Lord Kitche ner of Khartoum He Is la many re spects a remarkable mao. Ha would have delighted Carlyle by his gift of a- He _ - - —; • — what forbidding man; has few Inti mates aad will not tolerate flattery, i There is la him much of Cromwell aad Stonewall Jackson. He rules hi* with unrelenting severity but with] him blindly. What is mora, they love him devotedly, for mea have tha tnstinet of hero worship deep down la tholr souls. Thera Is only one thing abont Lord Kitchener which wa cannot forgive; be is a bachelor. Wa know that there have bean many great bachelors la I history, but few of them aver had a sufficient exoasefbr being so. A re cent writer says of this potent ana “ His only mis trees is ambition.” Oaa of his associates bears this testimony: good deal as a bqv la lhavc delighted Carlyle by his 1 aad I knew ho w tot silence. He ie a quiet, stern And 1 the 28rd, eopeetalty oa 28th, vega tettea,wag aot< out farther growth waa factually cheeked. There was a rainy 1 ginning af the moat over the eatiro State, wm gcaarally light southeastern oouatie the Savannah vallof was exooeelva aad wa mvara galas. This rainy waathar was followed by < with frequent 11 tits 17th and 18th, rain fall, covering tha tha 20th and tut covered tha State, treae WMterhj 1 and 2 lashes 1 Light rains ware again, j 25th, 28th aad 20th. ^ These ooadHla— la favorable for 1 vesting operallaaa. 1 tha 1st aad Sad did mash J rise, aadrloa lai high winds blowing It nnusnally high easterly, flea fleh ^ ^ ferred with houolag basked ‘ He Is very brave and vary atrong ana he fights the struggles of his life quite alone. Ha Is oaralest of his peraonel appearance, as are those who do aot oome Into dally contest with woman; sad I believe that tha antruthfol, boastful words whleh tha Emperor Napoleon onoa need la speaking of himself are really true pf the Sirdar. Not all tha fairest women of tha world eonld combine to make him sacrlfloe oaa hour of tha work that ha has at heart.” ■> Bat la spite of tha sad faat that hM tha defect of beohelordota it la true that this masterly pea, this superb leader, has swept every other contemporaneous a 111 ter y reputation la England Into a subordinate pleas aad, moreover. Is today the meat dis tinguished soldier oa earth. part of 1 orable outstanding erop'te trad nnnimlnn. crop found yield, with fffcwr ^ made Into tyrup both. Oottoa aoallnaad to grow, 1 fruit, aad half grown lotb f over the 1 whan froL botdtAaifii \ MAtinaA throughout the 1 rapid plated over tha 1 "m with picking and two-tblrdeof the< ad by tkeeatof tl however, in the 'mottoi prevailed durlag tha the month. Tha fraqaaat light kept the soil Mssdtng, and : our sol • losing ground, all the way from Asser- y jvedos to PolotCocal, about Iva miles from the bay, Assured oa being about nineteen. M landed and went to the Cuban quarters and there got a guide, and with orders, or lettert, rather, to all tba Cuban commanders In the field to give me carte blanche for anything I requested. “The Spanish Unee were spread ont thickly from the eoatt, entrenched in many places, and it seemed impossible to get through to the northwestward— they were waiting aatraaehed, prob- went to town yesterday and drank some of this ’smake.’ It didn’t do a thing to him but mnks him sroay. They bad to keep him In Irons most of the night. He Is all right today, but walks around wltb a guard over him all the time.” —A* long ago ns the Harrison admin istration the board of geographic name# decided that Puerto Bloo wm the proper spelling of the name of the Island, but the government printing offloe never learned' of the decision, or disregarded it, and always printed it Porto Rico. Gen. Miles made it Puerto in his report, aad whan ti came hook Porto In tha proofs ha cheered it to Puerto. Again It eame book Porto In the revised proofs, but the general In sisted pa Puerto. The poetoflee de partment spells It Porto, os do most tba newspapers of tba country. Tba board of gsiaf raphlo names met of the Cuban capital dabaaa. —The first attempt at seleatlfle fore casting of the weather wm tha resalt of n storm whleh, daring the Crimean war, November 14, 1854, almost da stroyed tha fleets of Praaoe aad Eng land. As a stont had raged Mvaral days earlier la Proaee, Vaillaat, the Freoh minister of war, A1 rooted that investigations be made to sea If tha two storms ware the same and If tha progress of the dlalsrbaaote oould have bean foretold. It wm demonstrated that tha two ware la reality oaa stem sad that its path eonld have been ae on rial ned and the fleet forewarapi la ample time to roach safety. grata will wheat aad lata Tha ooatemplrte* gralM la somewhat ' _ Tha front of tha fifth 1 truck did M MeM ***** tarsi —80 Injurious iallle 1 that a year mentally am! man. Thin authority of Lori „ 1 bsl ihAl tha •tr*ia oa ( on thsM craft la vary j by the feet that fie one the British naval sagal Nrorktmrmaw’a Frtawd is tbs genuine mitigate the IHnntor UOinkMic. It’s e ires friend | beats, te j rot it sevss bears and days of suffering. ttlA Aallrtaa IlKSSSiSKS v‘ v -