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fcf ft lb ? *= | TALE OF J 1%, , Miss Sophronia Jennie Moddle *<udied hygienic twaddle, *lill she got it in her noddle T^at she couldn't live on food? And she used to sit and ponder On the happy Over-Yonder Where the hosts angelic wander, And on such things she would brood. p Nothing not by art digested Misj Sophronia molested, And she got herself infested With the eereclitis fad. Till the little w.t created In her skull evaporated. And her common sense was slated To go slumping to the bad. Ic* Well, this tale must 1 And it is no use pret 0 ^ That the end we are Is a triumph, for it Miss Sophronia Jenn ? Q With her hygienic tw Through eternity wil as a preaigesieu ae g| BE2SC3SBEBS9BBBSSH5SHBHMHH I Ti Man of F 8 Rv CDANXIJN W I ^ ? * -" N the summer of 1867," said Kelly, the post trader, . O T O "I started out to take a 7( consignment of goods to ItQJC the Black Hills country, where most of the blanket Indians were supposed to be gathered. - "I set out about the middle of August with a string of packhorses and ' two men?Bat Lamoure, my driver, and Little Chief, to act as guide and interpreter to the Cheyeunes and Gros Ventres. I could then speak Sioux very well, but Little Chief could talk in seven wholly different Indian tongues; without him such an expedition could hardly have been under| taken. "We jogged across to the Little Missouri, and followed that stream nearly to its head without meeting Indians. Then we crossed over to the Belle Fourche, and followed that past the pine hills. There were no buffaloes except stragglers, stray bunches of old bulls that had been left behind in the inarch of south-going herds. "When we had reached a creek called Medicine Dance. Little Chief an Inounced that the Ogallalas and their allies had all gone south after the buffalo. He said the Ogallalas, or a good part of them, had wintered on this creek the year before, and had raised a crop of vegetables at their village i : during the summer. They had gone, and if they had intended to return would not have mo red their village and taken all their horses out of the coun U try* "It was too late in the season to turn north to the Blackfoot country, so there was nothing we could do hut graze our stock and hunt and rest for a time. "Then one morning a party of Indians appeared. There were fifteen or twenty of them, a wild lot of fellow* mounted on swift horses, who circled about our camp, riding like the wind, 1 and then shook their blankets at us in token that they wanted to talk. ; "Little Chief made signs to them to " come on, and they approached cautiously. They proved to be mountain Crows?and half of them had never seen a white man before. "They had nothing to trade. Tbeywere all armed with bows and arrows, and the only sign of civilized life in their outfittings was a few old woolen blankets. "My interpreter was acquainted with the river Crows of the Yellowstone, and after their curiosity was a little I * satisfied, he talked with these fellows in their tongue. He could get but little out of them, but they promised to return to their buffalo camp and bring in some peltries in a day or two. "When we had seen the last of them, I was quite ready to pack up and pull out for the Missouri, for I knew that our visitors belonged to the wildest tribe then in all the Northwest, and A 4* +L A AH v wA#*n H/1 +V* aiv? <1 a +Vi A iuai IUC OIUUA ic^aiucu lucui a? iuc most expert and inveterate thieves in existence. "However, when I proposed that we get out of the country, Little Chief counseled delay. He said that we might be sure these wild Crows were watching us keenly, and that if we should display any signs of fear or uneasiness they would the sooner attack us. So I listened to his Indian wisdom, whether for the best or not I've never been able to guess. "For two or three days we kept an eye out for the Crows and closely herded our stock at night. Then, seeing no further sign of our visitors, we concluded that they had returned to their villages, which must have been two or three hundred miles distant. "We had packed all our wares and new skins," with the intention to pull out at sunrise in the morning. Just before daybreak the Crows came. Bat ?r*n n ^ m V\ a it ! ! ? Vt a vtiia suypuaru IU uc ui?;ui-ucr uiii?, uui he was probably asleep 011 the prairie when the drums and jells sounded. "The rascals slipped up on us quietly, having shod their ponies with buffalo moccasins, fur side out. and they were right on top of us when they drummed us out of blankets. We jumped to our feet and worked our Spencer repeaters with all possible speed, while a yelling mob rode over and round us. "Owing to the darkness, we came off j without a scratch; but when the stain- j pedo had rolled out of harm's way we i stood there, three men on foot, with a j jtock of trader's goods ou hand, fire; MARTYR. Site ate hay and wheat and barley, She chewed soap-nuts small and gnarly, With a steak she ne'er would parley, Nor with solid stuff like that; Rut she stuck with grim persistence To her predigest existence, And she fought with firm resistance All temptation to get fat. So in course of time she grew to Be a part of what she's c-hew toReady Oats she ate at 2.02 And Aseptic bran at 4: At just 5 she'd eat her dinner Of Dust-Corn (that was a winner!). A rvr* /rrAwinor thinner 1> one ntpi vu v ?? She asepticized the more! lave an ending, ending intending ? A) : ain't; w ^ w lie Moddle, _ ^ _ -addle, O 0 1 toddle lint. ?Baltimore News. !e I Resources | ELLES CALKINS I hundred miles from the Missouri. And worse still, when daylight came, we found ourselves surrounded by a war party of thirty-five or forty Crows. "The rascals were lined up on the prairie on two sides, and when we stood up on the creek bank, they yelled all manner of threats at us. There was no doubt of their intentions. They were after our goods and guns, and incidentally our scalps. I had brought four Spencer rifles for myself and men, and the Crows were armed only with bows and arrows and a few old muzzle-loading guns. "We held a little council of war, and finally decided to make some bull-boats for our goods and take up our marcn as quickly as possible down the creek. There had been rains on the mountains, and there was water enough in the Medicine Dance to float the widebottomed skin tubs of the Sioux. "While I watched the Crows Little Chief and Bat fell to work cutting willows and making frames for the boats. As they had some half-tanned bull pelts and plenty of thongs, there was no difficulty in building the craft. In an hour they had their first bull-boat loaded. "By mid-afternoon we had our supplies afloat?five boats lightly loaded and tied together. Then we took up our march, Bat cordelling the boats, . and Little Chief and I walking on either bank of the creek. There was but little timber along this streamonly patches of willows. There was no covert that we couldn't have driven the Crows out of in a few minutes, so we , did not fear an ambush. , "We believed that, at least until help came, they would attack us only under j cover of night, and so we pushed ahead as fast as Bat could pull the 3 boats. WThen beaver dams lay across the channel, either Little Chief or my self would help lift the tubs over. Our progress was diseouragingly slow. The , Crows followed us leisurely, quite like an escort of cavalry. "At night we camped where the banks of the creek were bare of vegetation, but offered pits where we could < command the level flats on both sides. 1 "A little after midnight we were attacked. The Crows came with a rush, and for a moment I thought wo were ! done for; but our sharp fire and good J cover discouraged them, and they clat- ; tered away. Our shots knocked over two ponies, but if any of their men 1 were hit at this time they succeeded in concealing the fact. "In the morning we took up our : march again, with the Crows following like two flocks of buzzards. "Toward noojj they rode on ahead, and about three-fourths of them dismounted and took possession of the ; creek channel. But we had plenty of ammunition, and we bombarded every turn of the banks and every bit of willow or timber cover, and so drove them out. We wounded one Indian in hia ficht. "That night the Crows camped as near to ns as they dared, and danced and pounded their tom-toms all night. They hoped to keep us awake and wear us out, I suppose. But we took turns on guard,, and slept just the same. "The next day we had two sharp skirmishes in the creek chancel, and in the last we disabled three Crows. This fight would bare encouraged us greatly, but immediately afterward the hostiles sent a runner to the west. "Bat and the interpreter now thought that our only chance of escape was to crawl away from our camp in the nie-ht each man for himself, anchfihd' hill cover. "I knew my helpers counseled wisely, but I hung out for another day or two of bull-boating, and they agreed to stay with me. I think Little Chief was < persuaded by the prospect of knocking over more Crows with his rifle, which I now gave him as a present. He was a keen fighter and a brave man. "That afternoon our progress was very slow and cautious, for timber had thickened along the stream, and we had to feel our way through the groves, promptly shooting at every flutter of a leaf that could excite suspicion. "Toward night we passed an abandoned village site, where wild pumpkins were growing. Some were ripe and of great size, and Bat put two or three of them into his bull-boat, to make a change from our meat diet. , "That night we camped within a shelter of natural rifle-pits, made by a short curve ?ust below z short curve of the creek just below a grove of young ash. We kept close to this timber, so that we could take to it quickly if attacked by the Crows, and a deep, dry ditch protected our position perfectly from a horseback rush out of the woods. "We hac. one of the pumpkins for supper, and while Bat was cutting it up an idea came into my head. When we had finished the meal it was dark, and I asked Little Chief to find the Crow camp for me. "While be was gone I made a Jackft'-lnnlnun s\f tlio cUolT nf th(? hifflTPSt V '1U1JIU1U VI luv ouwi. V*. ??v ^.oa pumpkin. Then I shaved the end of a dry ash pole to a broom bead, and filled the splints with elk tallow melted by a fire brand. I put the smooth end of my pole through the top of my Jack-o'lantern and through a hole in the bottom till I could fasten it with the shavings torch inside. I then tied a crosspiece to represent outspread arms, and was ready for my trial. "Bat watched my v^ork curiously, and though I said nothing, he understood my purpose. " 'Huh,' he said, finally, "me, I have seen one those?not lak these onejust one leetle head. I think these weel scare those wil' Ingin some eef you geet close 'nough.' "When Little Chief came in he said the Crow camp was about a gunshot above the grove, and that there were two scouts on horseback on the prairie below us, and how many more on the watch he could not say. When I showed him my Jack-o'-lantern, he lanfepd nt it. lonsr and earnestly, evi deutly regarding it as a fetish of some kind. 'Huh!' he said. 'My brother has made a medicine!' "I then told him and Bat to stay by the goods at all hazards, took my gun, the Jack-o'-lantern and two blankets, and lert them. I went directly to the mouth of the dry ditch. This was fifteen or twenty fee^ deep and ran into the creek parallel with a curve or loop on which the Crows were camped. "I felt my way cautiously up this until I could actually hear the Crows talking at their camp, and also the sound of ponies grazing close at hand. So far I had found my path clear. It was neck or nothing with me now. "I hung two blankets on the arms, and lighted the torch of my pumpkinhead. Grasping the pole so as to draw the blankets about my face, yet leaving the eyes uncovered, I scrambled up a steep bank of the ditch. Before my feet touched the level I heard picketed ponies running the length of their ropes and snorting with fright. Some of them pulled their pins and scampered off, and then yells from the Indians' camp and a wild rout of confusion followed. "With my grinning fire-face turned upon them, with flame and smoke for a scalp-lock, I bore down on the camp, walking steadily, as if intending to eat up everything in the way. "The Crows' camp was cleared almost as quickly as if a cyclone had passed over it. In every direction 1 saw the Indians run for their horses. and when they got to them tney simpiy took themselves out of that country as [f a cavalry troop were after them. "The next morning we picked up nine ponies which they had left behind Six of these were our own, and so we had no trouble in getting back to the Missouri with our freight."?Youth's Companion. Picking Cotton. Heaping the wheat a handful at a time would be on a par with the present method of gathering our immense cotton crops. Did the reader ever think what it means to pick out one of our ten miflion bale crops of cotton? Did you ever stop to think That at least fifteen billion pounds of raw cotton must be picked from the bolls by hand? That is an almost incalculable amount, yet that is what the crop means, and what the manual labor is that gets it out a lock at a time. The limits of our cotton crop are to a great extent fixed by the ability to get it out and ready for the market?not only to get it ready in time, but to get as much of it out as possible during good weather before the cold and wet of winter injure the staple and interfere with the work of picking it out. But we are persuaded that a successful machine would not prove an unmixed blessing for this section or for the farmers generally.?Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser. British Officers Studying; Japanese, A small, industrious body of British officers are at Tokio, engaged in the "study of the Japanese language." Arrangements for their despatch and reception had been concluded before the hrAl-o rmt- flhvirmalir Trltli .Tnnnn for our ally, it was necessary that the British officers should be cognizant of her language, since at rapy time, they might be called upon to serve side by side with their new allies in the field. They are now taking* advantage of their presence to watch and to gather ideas from the Japanese arrangements for mobilization and transport of troops. The officers will remain two years.?London Daily Mail. The Cry ef the Clergy. The service held at St. Paul's Cathedral in connection with the Queen Victoria Clergy Fund drew attention to the conditions under which thousands of clergymen do their work. Within the last ten years over 100 clergymen of the Church of England have been admitted to the workhouses and pamper lunatic asylums In England n:iu Wales, More than half of the vicars and rectors arc living 01^ Incomes not one of which exceeds ?3 10s. a week, and 1341 of them would glndly exchange their revenues for a weekly ?2. ?London Paper. I SOUTH CAROLINA \ ^ STATE NEWS ITEMS. j Comptroller to Blacklist Them. A Columbia dispatch says: There has been so many complaints recently to the comptroller general about wild cat insurance companies that he will shortly issue a black list containing the names of the companies who have not paid their license of $100 for the year. Should an adjuster for an unlicensed concern come into the state he is liable to arrest. * * A Trolley Line to Atlanta. Great interest is being taken in the proposed electric railway from South Carolina to Atlanta, Ga. A number of business men of Hoschton, Ga., have advertised in the county newspapers for a charter. Those who are applying for a charter are: John R. Hosch, W. P. De La Perriere, R. A. Hosch, J. E. Hill, H. J. Sell, G. Braselton and L. F. Sill. The charter for the road will call for a road* to pass through or near Stone Mountain, Logansville, Hoschton, Jefferson, Commerce and Carnesville, all Georgia towns, The citizens in and near Hoschton met Monday, April 18th, in the interest of the railway. * * Naval Hospital for Charleston. It is announced at the navy department at Washington that it is the present intention of the Surgeon General Rixey to provide a large hospital for the naval station at Charleston, there being no modern hospital of the service south of Norfolk. Sinreeon General Rixev. who has just returned from his visit of inspection at Port Royal, has made some important recommendations in regard to the establishment at the place of an outdoor hospital for the treatment of tuberculosis patients of the service. ' * * * Crum's Name Up Again. A Washington special s?.ys: The nomination of W. D. Crum to be collector of customs at Charleston, S. C., was called up in executive session of the Senate by Senator Gallinger. Senator Tillman, who opposed the confirmation, explained that he was not well enough to make a speech, and the nomination went over out of courtesy to him. Senator Tillman expects soon to return to . his home in South Carolina and possibly may not be able to attend congress again before adjournment. In that event the nomination probably will fail of confirmation and the president will make another recess appointment to hold overcuntil the next session. * Collector for Georgetown. President Roosevelt has sent to the senate the nomination of Collector of Customs Isaiah J. McCottrie, of the district of Georgetown, S. C. * ? * Sergeant Reynolds Killed. Relatives of Sergeant Ernest Reynolds, who live at Bennettsville, have just receied a cablegram stating that he was killed in battle near Manila, a fe wdays ago. He was torlT to pieces by a cannon ball and died instantly. * * * Big Shortage at Dispensary. The dispenser at Prosperity, A. L. Beenbaujjh, had been reported shu Beenbaugh, has been reported short something over $1,000. * * * Relieving the Taxpayers. A Columbia news item states that the county auditor is now busy giving tho tavnavers in the lower Dart of the county who suffered from the destructive floods and hail storms last June, release on the taxes to which each is liable. - * Improvement Company Chartered. The secretary of state has issued a charter to the Aiken Improvement Comoany. with a capital stock of $250, 000. The business of the company is the development of real estate by in vestment and handling bonds and securities. * * u Woman Commits Suicide. Mrs. Lizzie Goodson, formerly of North Carolina, but who has been living in Pickens county for the past two years, committed suicide a few days ago by hanging herself * Sunday School Workers to Meet. The official program of the cession of the twenty-seventy annual state Sunday school convention which meets in Columbia May 2-4, has been issued bv Dr. W. E. Pelham, of Newberry, chairman of the executive committee. In the list of speakers are many of much prominence in Sunday school work, not only in this state, but I throughout the south. The convention is looked forward to with much in' lerest. Great Show Given by Negroes. ' Whether any of the negroes in Co- j' lumbia ever heard of the "Passion j. Play" of Oberammergau is a question ! ] but they certainly atempted something along similar lines at their Easter celebration, says a corespondent of The Atlanta Constitution. The specially dramatic feature was five women at the sepulchre, dressed | in mourning robes, wearing crowns, stuck full of tiny candles. These circulated about the tomb of Jesus, a L-.ack box. asking in thrilling tones: ^ "Where have they laid Him?" Then a great angel came forth?all ' in white. (This was a colored man < wearing a gown with sleevs that lifted nn hv raisina the arms, caused him to look as if he had wings). He , said to the women: "He is not here! He is risen!" Then the women marched up and ' down the aisles intoning the words, 1 "Christ is risen; Christ is risen indeed!" ] They had a star in the east and the j Magi, and many incidents of the life 1 of Christ illustrated jn songs and speeches, and a mighty wave of excitement was engendered by the vivid realism. * Judge Simonton Very III. United States Circuit Judge Chas. H. Simonton is precariously ill, and it is feared that he will not survive many days. He is under treatment in Philadelphia, and latest reports say that there is slight hope for him. m * Machinist Meets Death. The new span of steel bridge being built over Seneca river, twelve miles from Anderson, collapsed few days ago. Daniel Allen, a machenist from Rome, Ga., was killed. Clifton Brogden, another machenist, and a negro were painfully injured. * Dragged to His Death. News has been received of the accidental death of Nathan Oxner, a citizen of Saluda county. Oxner was driving a two-horse team, the wagon being loaded with shingles. In some way the horses became frightened, the wagon was overturned and Mr. Oxner was dragged along the , ground until he was kiled. CONGRESSMEN INNQCENT. ' Investigation Committee Makes its Re- i port: to the House. A* Washington special says: The re- 1 port of the special committee of the house appointed to investigate the re- 1 port from the postoffice department < prined under the caption "Charges Con. cerning Members of Congress," was < made to the house Monday by Chair- i man McCall. The gist of the report is 11 contained in the following paragraph: i "After a careful consideration of ail cases specified in the report numbered 1395 (the report of the postoffice com- ;( mittee on charges), in so far as they ; ' relate to the present memNbers of the , ^ nouse 01 representatives uu cumium? assumed to be the limit of their juris dieion, they have.unanimously reached : '< the conclusion that nothing has ap- j 1 peared in connection with the charges j that would justify the finding that any [ ( member of the house of represents- j ( tives has profited financially in the i slightest degree, or that any member i was guilty of improper conduct in con-! < nection therewith, or that any member j ( has done in connection with any of , ^ said cases anything that did not ap- j pear to be within the line of his official' duty, according to long established cus- j . torn." I GAMMONS MAKES CONFESSION. j _ Tells of Killing Farmer Kimsey and f His Daughter, Fannie. I * A dispatch from Jackson, Miss., j says: Ed Gammons, the young white < man who killed Lake Kimsey, of Wa- r ter Valley, and his. daughter, Fannie, has made a confession in regard to ^ I the killing of Mr. Kimsey. 1 I In his confession be, for the firfet j i time, tells of the killing of the girl, I j with whom ho was in love, j He says that when he went to the c j house after killing her father in the I field, he told the girl about it, and they t at first planned to run away, and get j t married, but he says the girl suddenly | s changed her mind, and asked him to ; kill her, which he says he refused ! fi to do at first. Then she tried to snatch < c the pistol from his hand, whereupon he told her to step off a few paces and turn her back, which she did, anta , c then he shot her. . a First Minister from Paraguay. r Don Cecilo Baez, envoy extraordina j ry and mniister plenipotentiary to j c the United Staes from Paraguay, was I a received by President Roosevelt at j ^ the white house Saturday, Secretary t of State Hay presenting the. new minister. j JAP OFFICERS CAPTURED. Were Preparing to Blow Up Railroad ' ' Bridge When Surprised. An Associated Press dispatch says: Two officers of the Japanese general staff have arrived at Harbin, under i strict escort, having been arrested by the railroad guard eighteen miles from the city. They were dressed as Thib- C. etan Lamas. In attempting to escape they for- 1 sook their tents, in which were found sixty pounds of high explosives, a * fuse, a string of keys to unscrew rail- ? road nuts, etc. They evidently in- t tended to blow up the bridge over the Nonni river, near Fullardi. c The prisoners displayed great cool- } ness, confesing that it was their inten- ; 3 tion to destroy the railroad. d *-K * * 11 * 1414 14 * '! * * 1 l i i i * *j| % Cream of News.! X * -I-1 * f * FI Brief Summary of Most Important Events of Each "Day. ?Brooks county, Ga., will send sample of fine syrup to St. Louis fair. ?Eight hundred and eighty-four new school houses have been built in North Carolina in two years. ?Quiet is restored in Pensacola following the shooting among soldiers and policemen. ?Cold rains have protected the fruit crop, according to reports from various sections. will V> r\ am a O TV. x awc niii uc au cuui t cv/ puv up propriation bills to the forefront during the present week in the senate. The sundry civil bill will be taken up first. When it is disposed of the pension appropriation bill will be pressed. ?Statehood and ship subsidy will be the features of the house proceedings this week, with confernce reports and minor bills to fill the gaps. ?In a letter to Chairman Gillett, of the house committee on civil service former Commissioner Foulke denies charges that Rosevelt' has made more exceptions than other presidents. ?At Indianapolis Sunday morning fire in St. Vincent hosiptal caused a panic in which one woman was killed and several persons injured. ?Emperor William is credited with having indicated that he was ready to met President Loubet, should the occasion arise before the end of the Mediterranean cruise. ?Admiral Togo reports that the Russian battle ship Petropavlovsk was destroyed and the Pobieda crippled by mines laid by the Japanese. The Japanese cleverly decoyed the Russian ships over the mines. ?An iron-clad train is being pre- , pared to take the czar to the front if he decides to asume command in the Far East. ? - * ' A 1* J T^.IAIM a ?Attorneys ior Aiireu uamcio, a North Carolina negro accused of killing a white man, apply to United States supreme court for new trial on ground that jury was white. ?Ed. Gammons, who slew his sweet- heart and her father in Mississippi, tells details of killing the griL ?Can grand juries act in absence of . ; the judge? is the problem in Richmond lounty, Ga. ; ?Georgia T. P. A.'s adjourned ajter successful gathering at Augusta. ?Battleship Texas now holds world's record for rapid and accurate < gunnery. ?The Massachusetts republican convention Friday turned down the Canadian reciprocity plan offered by Eugene N. Foss, who was himself defeated as delegate at large to Chicago. ?Three men were killed by a mniway train of fifteen coal cars on the Erie near Rock Junction, Pa., Friday. Captain David Wheeler, U. S. A., lied in Mindanao, Philippines, Frilay, as the result of a stab received * while scouting along. Moro works. ?Richard H. Edmonds, editor of The Manufacturers' Record, gives an inter- * jsting interview on the cotton situa;ion in the south. ?The case of the state of Georgia ,rs. the Ducktown ihines was .withIrawn from the United States supreme :uun ai wasumgion jyionaay. ?Postmaster . Blodgett has made ecommendations iii the Atlanta post , '* )ffice that will be of great benefit to he entire county. ?The first session of the juvenile iourt under the new probation ordi- ? lance was held in Atlanta Monday. ?A. B. Baxter Company does not hink full amount tax is due in Coumbus, Ga. ?Houston county, Georgia, will igain WTestle with the dispensary juestion. ?The Leather Manufacturers' Naional bank and the Mechanics' Naional bank, of New York, have con- * iolidated. Mississippi will ask for a marine urgeon to be stationed at cue of the . oast cit.es. , ?In the house Monday the demorats made a sharp move, by offering imendments to that part of the gene al deficiency appropriation measure * iroviding'for service pensions. Point if crder was made by republicans that mendments violated existing law. The ^ lemocra:s replied that the house had he same rights as the president. ?Senator Nelson, of Minnesota, durng Jrbate, surprised his brother senitors by using the word "damn." ?New York democrats, in state conention at Albany, instructed delegates o vote for Judge Alton Brooks Par:er for president. ?Mississippi democrats favor Par ;er, but will not instruct delegates. . ?Man and wife found dead in each ithcr's arms in lodging house at Oglen, Utah. It is thought that woman >oisoned husband and then herself. % ?Major Hugh Dennis, who defended ifnutnr Rnrton. is dead at St. Louis lis demise being brought about by irooding over outcome of trial. ?The hweariug on the demurrer proeedings instituted by Sully, in New % fork, which was to have been held ifcnday, was postponed unitl Thurs lay.