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A: ' ' ~# OLD I ? C/?e Slow I?' . ^ By Joseph Nearly twenty years ago I owned a shepherd puppy away out on toe Range Valley ranch in sunny southern Utah. He was not pretty?dark with tawny markings, small, too, for his age, but his eyes were merry and had in them a peculiar knowingness that v I had never seen in dog-kind before, nor since. I named him Pard and he was truly a most willing and effectual partner of my joys and sorrows. The canyon was a lonely place, so far as * humankind went, though it was peopled with all sorts of animals, some that we chose and some that chose us. This little Pard puppy had the most :>. * surprising courage I have ever seen in any animate thing. It was not couv ' pled "with moroseness or ill temper, St was not displayed for his own grati' flcation, but in obedience to my wishes. He would not hesitate to attack any living thing and the tempestuous fury of his attack and rage would bluff off almost anything so that he won surprising- victories. I do not like useless dog-fighting, but when we V discovered his quality we would give him signal to attack other dogs, some of them full grown and four times his % size and weight. It was astonishing yp . and amusing to see him launch him- : self with fierce impetuosity upon some ,v huge antagonist and I never knew it Kf-" the Hitr Hnp' -would be SO 1 W iou wav ~ o overwhelmed with surprise, dismay and wonder that he would give up and |W! tarn tail. I suppose he wondered what sort of animal this was anyhow, Y behaving so differently from what might reasonably be expected of a puppy. Only with his brothers, all v . bigger than himself, could he have a real fight, and this we prevented as 1 k-V .; much as possible for fear that one & .??: would injure, maybe kill, the other. I | r have seen Pard and big Bummer, his p overgrown brother, twice his size, roll y headlong down a precipitous hillside, p- neither one relaxing hold. And yet y;-. little. Pard had a sweet, sunny temc? i per. He fought because he deemed ? pi- it part of his duty in the world, and 1 r. his policy of sudden, fierce onslaught won. I have often thought of 'this principle; it is true in many things 1 I'- in life, one who is not afraid, who Rem?' ia vastlv aeeressive. overoowere those f Inherently , much stronger than them- ' selves. Pard was a natural worker. He was ! what the cowboys call a "heeler," that 1 |p is, without teaching almost, he would 3 '1 slip up behind a cow and bite her 1 , heels. The result was a sudden attainment of speed on the p>art of the cow. A dog that goes to the cow's head is < llf-T^no good on the range. Dogs were 1 ' very useful to us because of the rocky p v and brushy canyons. Little Pard 1 would heel them when he was scarcely larger than an old cow's foot. More jr. than once he got kicked tail over ap- 1 petite, once indeed the cow caught his head between her foot and a rock and that time he lay there without a quiver for a Jong time. I thought it I. his last effort, but he revived and J : had lost none of his vim, curiouslyenough. But he learned to get at the heels sort of sideways as it were. But little Pard was too good to last One day as a horse wrangler was ridf ing up a brushy canyon after the sad> * die band the little dog stopped to bark in a clump of maple brush. The rider 1 t' called him away, got the horses and / returning passed again this clump of brush. The unwise little doggie stopped again to investigate that great yellow cat that lay watching him so fc' . sleepily with outstretched feet. There must have been after the rider had 1 ?? '* gone, a sudden leap, a hoarse low growl, a stunning blow of huge paw,..a crunching of little dog bones and the flesh of the gamest little shepherd 'dog I have ever known became part of a mountain Ion, while the intrepid !'v\ Bpirit went back to its maker. We never found his hide nor bones. Some years later after I had come back home to Ohio and was married I again sought a shepherd dog. One day when strolling in a thick forest back from the road I found a log cabin newly built, in which was dwelling a curious man, half hermit, half woodsman, living all alone, clearing up a bit of "new ground" for the crop, loafling when he wished, working when the spirit moved. That is not a bad sort of life, by the way. This old man Willis White had a pair of dogs that he called "shepherds." The female seemed to be a Collie, the dog must have been about half that.blood. He was big, strong, silent, savage. Gypsies left him there, desperately wounded; Willis White took care of him and kept him. Afterwards the old dog would stand by the hour and watch the highway, a third of a mile away, a dreamy lock in his eyes, thinking of his old companions of the road, wondering, no doubt, whether they would come for him again. He was a fine watchdog; it was not safe to approach the cabin .when Willis was away. A litter of fine puppies was born, my wife and I selected one of the prettiest, and felt for the bump on the back of the head that denotes sense and courage. We traded some hens for him, I think, and we had our puppy. Maybe we would have left him had we foreseen the immediate result. He grew, how he did grow! Our 11 y-' >ARD af Collie ^ j E. Wing. -|?) I? in nil I IMIIIIW !! 'TTT'HWn mother loves dogs and fed him well; he was a great, wide, laughing puppy, but so full of mischief and so hard to break of his tricks! Among other accomplishments he took to slaughtering cats. This we could not have, so after repeated thrashings, very i savage ones, too, for he was not a sensitive Collie, but a beast with any amount of endurance, and he always loved me the better for thrashing him. I took a kitten that he had killed and tied it about his neck; he dragged it about, crestfallen, for some hours, 1 then disappeared, and finally came leaping joyfully to me, the kitten gone. I hunted for it but ouly found a few fragments. He had eaten it, but he never again hurt a kitten. We named him Old Pard after the good one, and he soon became one of the family and felt a personal responsibility for many things- He developed into a fine watchdog, too; to some he showed only a friendly greeting, others he instinctively felt ought to be denied any admission at all. We learned later that some of those he hated worst were night thieves; he had either known of their prowlings or had instinctively hated them. fooroH Viim on/1 rrnr hpn roost. Jiaujr IVUI v a UMU fared better than our neighbors', though later he extended his night patrol to the home of a close neighbor, to their great satisfaction. Old Pard developed into a great worker with stock. He was always too swift, too impetuous to suit, me, but he was a big help. Many thousands of lambs he has helped pen, always he was in place when it was time to put the feeding lambs in the barn or to drive them out at feeding time. He would "speak to them" when they were tame and stubborn, barking fiercely as long as you wished, subsiding at command. He knew what I wanted of him always, but would not always do it. I never knew what a perfect sheepdog he was capable of being until one day when I was up on a barn roof the Iambs got a gate open and 500 of them came racing into the road. Pard saw them before [ did and stopped them. I was about to go down to his assistance, but to my astonishment he began doing exactly what I had long been trying to teach him, going from side to side, his white brush high in air, waving to and fro, gently, quietly; slowly he drove them back, never one mad rush, never a bark save when it was needed. It showed to me that he had sense enough, that is, brain enough, he knew, but the fierce impetuosity of some alien blood made it very difficult for him to curb himself and when I was there he laid the burden of restraint entirely upon me. I never knew a dog with more conscience, though it was hard for him to use it sometimes. He hated swine and was very rough with them. We hardly dared set him to driving them, for he killed one or two shotes in his impetuosity. He would catch and hold the largest sow. One day a neighbor's little pigs got into a cornfield where I was husking. We drove them out and I had hard running to keep him from injuring the fat little rascals. This kept up for several daj'S, each time the same difficulty from Old Pard's too great willingness. Finally one day I did not go to the field and was dismayed to hear his excited barking down there and the frantic squeal of an infant pig. I ran as fast as I could to save their lives, for my neighbor was a good old man and a friend, but when I got to the crest of the hill whence I could look down and see the skirmish it was a most curious $nd amusing sight. The big dog was hurrying the pigs out. but doing it in a new and original manner for him. He would run with force against them, knocking them endways, then stop without biting at all, and tail aloft and mouth open and eyes dancing watch their recovery and listen to their frantic squeals. Presently he would make another rush. I said not a word to him and he escort ed them thus harmlessly clear out of the field. He had reasoned to himself: "Now Joe is not here to pull me off these little pigs. I can't bite them, but must restrain myself. Hang it all, but I will have some fun, anyway!" Speaking of his conscience again, here .is an illustration. When we killed hogs I always gave him the kidneys. One day we butchered but iinishing late did not do more than carry the carcasses into an outhouse and lay them on a bench. Next morning, coming down to see about maters, I was annoyed to see the door jjar and yet more- vexed when as I stepped up Old Pard came out. He looked up at me in a friendly and conIding way, quite fearless, as though say: "Now Joe. don't look so infernally cross, I know my place I mess." and I went in to see what he had eaten. He had without putting his j paws on the carcasses reached over ind torn out and devoured the kidneys, leaving the rest untouched! But one of the most marvellous acts, showing reason and a knowledge of proportion, was when I was trying one iay to catch a tiny suckling lamb, just jld enough to run like a john rabbit. Old Pard joined in the chase and be- j 'v/een us we caught the darting mite. ! ! but Pard did his part by first running j into it full tilt, knocking it over, then ; holding it down by putting his feet upon it, he would not touch it with his teeth. The rascal was a born scrapper. He was a terror to every dog that passed the place, and no beatings would deter him in the least from assailing passing canines, great and small. I could set him on a dog in a distant j field, if he got one glimpse he was off ' --L J at. - j ? ? j +V.AT UKe a snoi ana uie miruuei tucu j day lie set foot in that field. He was j singularly lacking in gallantry, for he | would run females away as readily as j males. While he was first fighting his | way to acknowledged supremacy there I was a big, fierce yard dog between our j house and the village that was wont 1 to make a, terrific bluff every time j Pard passed with me, raging up and j down the fence as though he would [ burst a blood vessel if he could not j get at Pard to tear him up. I had no j idea but he could whip our dog, but one day to my astonishment Pard | cleared the fence at a bound and attacked the enemy on his own soil! It | was a terrible fight but Pard gained I the victory and came grimly on after a time, on three legs. Thereby was | illustrated a curious side of dog nature. The two dogs had neither had a racial friend before, my neighbor's dog had never been known to leave his house, yet in a day or two I found fraternizing very amiably with Old Pard! He was the only dog not belonging on the place that Pard ever made friends with, and he was killed soon after, how I never knew. It was strange that no one ever killed Old jpara. Me was naiea oy a gooa mauy and did in fact have some lead in him; he was annoying to passers-by who had dogs with them but he would not harm any honest man. The crowning act of a useful life was when he saved my brother Willis from a horrible death. We had a gentle Jersey bull, dehorned. People got afraid of him but I laughed and showed that he could be driven with a cornstalk. One day Willis went out to the pasture to drive up the cows, ihe bull sulked and would not come. Willis kicked him and in an instant the lurking devil came out, the beast sprang at him, knocked him down; the boy sprang up and ran, the bull overtaking him in an instant and knocked him down again and tried to gore him. The third time this was repeated, Willis' head was butted down into the mud until blood ran from his ears. I saw it from afar and started to run to help. Never did my feet seem so glued to the ground; it seemed to me that I was rooted to the spot as I realized all that would happen before I could gain that quarter of a mile. All at once Old Pard bounded by me like a flash and streaked across the field. Before he had gotten half, way the bull saw him and hesitated a moment, before he was there the great coward was in slow retreat. Old Pard knew the enormity of the offense and promptly seized him by the nose and led the bellowing cringing bully a merry dance across the field. By a miracle not a bone was broken, but the bull went into bologna soon afterward. I wonder how long dogs live? When Pard was about twelve year^ old he lost his hearing and became morose and unhappy. He was of use, though, and we suffered him to stay another year, then got a new puppy. It was touching to see the new and playful Collie and the old veteran. The puppy worshipped him and while he played with him it was with a good deal of respect, and Old Pard suffered any sort of indignity from him almost, rising up silently and-going away when the infantile pranks were too unendurable. But he taught the Collie his bad tricks of assaulting passers by, so we held counsel and decided to put him mercifully to sleep, and I buried him with real sorrow and respect. His successor is a lovable Collie, but I fear he will never have in him the go and dash that made Old Pard his fame.?Breeders' Gazette. "The Cable to Alaska. The Sitka-Seattle^cable, 1070 miles long, which was completed and thrown open to public use on Aug. 28, has since been operated most successfully, its electrical conditions exceeding anticipations. The commercial business of one month iecently closed up amounted to over $10,000, and the prospects are thai the receipts of the next year will exceed $100,000. The tariffs on commercial messages are: From Seattle to Sitka, $1.50; to Skagway, $2; to Valdez, $2.50; to Fort Egbert. $3; to St. Michael, $3.50; to Nome, $4. The Alaskan telegraph system was first started in 1SC5. The cable section, starting from Seattle, touches at five other points, the total length being something over 2000 miles. The land system includes more than 40 stations, separated from each other by distances varying from three to CO miles. Wireless telegraphy is also used at one point for transmitting messages a distance of 107 miles. In running the land lines much difficulty was encountered, both on account of the rough country through which they passed and the severe climate. He Was Wondering. A Scotch doctor, who was attending a laird, had instructed the butler of the house in the art of taking and recording his master's temperature with a ^thermometer. On repairing to the house one morning, he was met by the builer, to whom he said: "Well, John, I hope the laird's temperature is not any higher today." The man looked puzzled for a moment, and then replied: "Well, I was just wo.nderin' that mysel'. Ye see, he died at twal 1 | \ SOUTH CAROLINA I \ STATE NEWS ITEMS. 11 Fifteen Acres to Piow. The farmers of Union met in Union recently and adopted resolutions that I j it was the sense of the meeting that I : ail iarnjers wau iasL jicar ijiulilcu muic I 1 than fifteen acres of cotton to the j ; plow should reduce their acreage 25 j I per cent. * * * i Spartanburg Music Festival, j Plans are laid at Spartanburg for ' Ihe biggest May Music Festival ever j held which means something when the {' past ten years of the society's history | : and its magnificent success are re- ) called. ? * * j May Create New County. According to a Columbia news item, I it is quite probable that Calhoun coun- i i ty will oe created. The state board | of canvassers have dismissed the ap- !' peal from Edgefield county. It is said that there will be x pro; test from Greenwood county. i * i * * j' Three Indicted for Peonage. In the United States court at Co- 1 ; lumbia, a few days ago, Thomas Scan- j i dona, an Italian- contractor, an?J two j assistants were indicted under the j i charge of holding a number of labor- : | ers at the phosphate mines in peonage. The cases may or may not be tried at j this term, as the, district attorney is I watching a similar case now in court I elsewhere. . * * * I l Changes Back to White Boys. Manager Gray of the Western Union i Telegraph Company at Columbia, an| nounces that after a trial of more than . - ? v,? +n nnt nn white U. J cai up uau - . boys in place of the negro me?sen- i gers. The Columbia office took on negro boys about the same time the experiment was being made in other southern cities, nearly all of which have now returned to the employment of j white messengers. i v I ' I Hill Charged W^th Embezzlement. j Thomas M. Hill, agent of the South- ' era Railway at Greers, was arrested a few days ago by the American Sure- : , tv Company of New York, charged j with embezzling S3.000. He was under bond with the comj pany, and when taken to Greenville was released on bail in the sum of $3,000 for preliminary examination. January 30. Hill is an elder in the Presbyterian i j church, and superintendent of the Sun I i day school. He is said to have admit- ; i ted that his accounts were irregular, I but says it is only bad bookkeeping. Friends are said to claim that the shock received several years ago when he was shot by burglars had wrecked' ' j his health and affected his mind. I I * Governor Heyward Will Retire. It has been pretty generally sup- j posed that Governor Heyward would i continue in politics after completing i his second term as governor. It has ; even been proposed by many that he ' j should have a third term, but it was ! ; seriously thought he would aspire to ; ! the United States senate, either op- j posing unman next year ui uauuci . | two years later. The governor, however, when ques- | i tioned, announced that he had definite- ; j ly determined not to remain in poll- ! ties after serving the second term. He I j declared his determination to retire, j ; saying his ambition was to be governor and serve his people; that nothing else tempts him. L * ? Arrested for Posfoffice Robbery. Some weeks ago Rudolph Rabens, a German grocer of Charleston, was ar| rested by the federal authorities charg| ed with complicity in the Kingstree j postofflce robbery several months ago. ! His bond was fixed at $5,000. A few days ago postofflce inspectors went to Charleston and arrested his i brother. Christopher Rabens, on the j charge of being implicated in the j case. 1 It is promised by the United States government officials that the Rabens case and the arrests that follow will ' be tie most sensational heard in this ] f state in a long time. 1 The Rabens formerly lived in Walhalla, going from there to Charleston, where, it is said, they became mixed up in the Old Star exposition, a gang organized ior the purpose of robbery. * * * Legislative Melange. a Pninmhia SDecial says: While , I there is no legislation of an unusual j ! or sensational nature before it, tne i j legislature will be kept busy with a ; i number of important measures. Perhaps the proposed legislation j which is attracting most interest is ' the probable passage of a compulory i education" law. Already two bills look-! ing to this end have been introduced, j ! one compelling an attendance of chil- j dren on school for eight weeks in [ the year, and the other for twelve j weeks. A matter demanding the urgent attention of the present legislature is the ? readjustment or the state's finances. ! Governor Heyward, in his message to j the genera) assf .nbly, calls attention to the fact that for a number of years the state has been charged with an annual deficit. Last year the state j treasurer was obliged to borrow $500,000 for running expenses. It is expect^ ^ * +Vi r\ roon? nf O r\f tVifi vru mat 11115 jcai mc 1 v* | state will be appreciably increased by j the operation of'the franchise tax law ! which was passed by the preceding legislature. but failed to go into force j during last year because of a verbal j blunder in its terms. In addition to i this increased source of revenue, ineas- j ures will probably be taken to insure i a more complete and rigid listing of j the taxable property. Governor Heyward has made a num- | ber of recommendations concerning I the dispensary, all of them aiming to i give its affairs greater publicity and to j prevent opportunities for 'graft." It is j too early in the session to predict what ! disposition the legislature will make j of these. The terms of two circuit judges ox- j pire this year and the present legis- j lature will be called upon to elect i their successors. Judge Ernest Gary of the fifth circuit and Judge B. A. Townsend are the two justices whose terms will expire, and both are candidates for re-election. There will be : elections also for three directors of ; the dispensary, some college trustees 1 and the directors and superintendent j of the penitentiary. * I PROTOCOL WITH SAN DOMINGO. | Uncle Sam Takes Charge of Customs for Purpose cf Adjusting Obligations, j A protocol between the Dominican | government and the American minister, Mr. Dawson, and Commander A. u. Lninngnam, u. s. in., m Denan 01 the American government, was signed January 20. The principal conditions are chat the American government guarantees the complete integrity of Dominican territory; agrees to undertake the adjustment of all obligations of the Dominican, government, ioreign and domestic, and the conditions of payments; to- adjust unreasonable claims and to determine the validity and amount of pending claims. In the case of the appointment of one or more commissions to reach such an adjustment the Dominican' government shall be represented in order to protect the responsibility. The American government will take charge of the existing customhouses, and # those hereafter to be ereated ; will 'name the employes necessary to their management; the- duties they will exercise and their rights. These will be considered Dominican and subject to th-'i laws of the republic. The Dominican government will have at each custom house inspectors in. behalf of its interests from and after the date the contract takes effect. The present employes are to be considered as acting under its provisions. Out of the revenues collected at the custom house of the. republic the American government will deliver to the Dominican government 45" per cent of the total of the gross amount for the purpose of attending to the necessities of the budget. It is estimated that the first year $900,000 will be receivable monthly. GOOD ROADS CONVENTION. | Association Meeting in Jacksonville, Fla., Largely Attended. The National Good Roads Association met in Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday, attended by a large number of delegates from all parts of country. One thousand delegates were appointed by Governor Broward from Florida alone. A. S. Mann, vice president and national organizer of the Good Roads Association, presided. The features of the opening day were addresses by Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles, Senator Martin Dodge of Ohio, director of the office of road inquiries of the department of agriculture; Andrew Sledd,* LL. D., chancellor of-the University of Florida; Frank Clark, congressman-elect from the second Florida district; William A. Miles, commissioner of public works of Mount Vernon, N. Y- * George M. Nolan, mayor of Jacksonville, and C. E. Garner, president of the Jacksonville board of trade. On account of a wreck in which he was slightly injured, President Moor of the National Good Roads Association, did not get to Jacksonville, to preside at the opening of the convention, consequently Former State Senator M?ann, national organizer, presided at the morning session. TO AID COTTON GROWERS. .jngress is Asked to L'isccntjnue v.. Tariff on Agricultural Implement*. Representative Ryrd of Mississ.p^ introduced a resolution in the hou~?. Friday reciting at length the depioruie condition of the. cotton raising i. dustry of the country and conclud.n. with an instruction to the ways an. means committee to make a favorable report to the house on a pencin:bill discontinuing the tariff on c kind6 of agricultural implements a: otton machinery. Doors of National Bank Close. The comptroller of the currency hag i been advised that the officers of the American National Bank of Abilene, Kans., have closed the bank. R. L. Vanzandt has been appointed receiver. f ' .' ' ' ... ; SMOOT ON THE STAND. Mormon Senator Testifies in His Own bchaif before Invest.^aung committee ? Tells of fast i_ite. A Washington special says: interest in the Smoot investigation before the senate committee on privileges and election was stirred Friday by tn*> unexpected determination to put Sen ator Smoot on the stand in his owi* behalf without waiting for other wit nesses now en route trom Utah. The senator was under direct and cross-exammation all day, and frankly answered most of the questions askeu. He acquitted himsell' excellently and appeared to make a favorable impression on the members of the committee. At 4:50 p. m. an adjournment was taken out of consideration to:the witness, who has been sufferins with indigestion for several weeks. The examination of Senator Smoot, who has been intimately connected with church history, went into his duty toward the church as compared to his duties as a senator. He said*" he had not taken any oaths that would interfere with his loyalty to his government. H.is recollection of the endowment house ceremony was indistinct, he said, but he was sure there were no obligations taken to avenge the blood of the prophets upon either "this nation" or "this generation," as has V.?A*. i ' fl UT? wrHnAeOCCI fr?T? tho uccu icatmcu iu uj *vi.vi. prosecution. Counsel for the defense were clos- ? eted with the senator throughout the morning. He was late in arriving at the capitol, but stated that the expected witnesses failed to appear and had decided to examine the senator at once in order not to lose a day. Re conducted the direct examination. Senator Smoot was at his ease, as every eye in the ropm was directed, to him. The first questions were as to the senator's nativity. He said he was born in Salt Lake City in 1862. His father and mother were both dead. His mother was a plural wife. Concerning4 his own family, he said he was married September 17. 1884, and has but one wife. They have six children. He said at the time of his marriage he did not take the endowments, but that in 1880 he had gone through the endowment house at the. request of his father, before taking, a trip to the Sandwich Islands with '1 his father for the benefit of his father's health. He said he told his father at that time that he did not care much about taking the ceremony. V A Senator Smoot said he had been en- % gaged in the mercantile business most of his life. The only office that he has held in the church other than that of apostle was counsellor to, the '{ president of the Utah Stake of ZIob, and he declared that he had taken no oaths of any character, when ^he became counsellor nor had he taken any other when he became an apostle. ' ~ ' FARMERS HOLDING COTTON. - fjj Hester's Weekly Statement Prove* . of Most Bullish Character. t ; A News Orleans special says: The' most bullish set of statistics so far issued this year by the. local cotton exchange were those showing the reek end in sight and receipts and shipments up to noon Friday, as compiled by Secretary Hester. The into sight for the week was 151,862 bales, compared with 249,313 bales for the same week' last year. |j When R is remembered that the crop this year is 3,000,000 tales larger than the one of last year, the full significance is shown. The statement proves that the farimers are actually as well as theoretically holding back their cotton crop. ThA ctatpmpnt nf rprpints shows that only 75,155 bales were received during the week, ^while 109,806 were shipped from the entire country. At this rate prominent traders say that the ports and country towns will soon be drained and the farmers will have the situation entirely in their control. i ? SOUTHERN CATTLE BARRED. . v. Quarantine Against Spread of Spfefc. netic Tever is Established. The department of agriculture at Washington has Issued regulations establishing on February 1, a federal quarantine against a l?.rge part of the south to prevent the spread of sple- . netic or southern fever among cattle. The quarantined territory embraces the eastern part of North Carolina, all of South Carolina. Indian Territory,. Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. an or Georgia but Union, Towns and Rabun counties. WOMEN TESTIFY IN SMOOT CASE. Two Petticoat Witnesses Give Mormon Senator a Good Reputation.' Two prominent Gentile women of Utah, one a member of the legislature that elected Mr. Smoot a sen2tor,were witnesses Thursday in the Smoot in- ' qulry before the senate committee on privileges and elections. x i Both women gave Senator Smoot an excellent reputation and testified that they would not vote for a poiygamist - : ' ^ * '. ' . -liSm - "