Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A CAGED 1VK I prs?? a eono'ci-V? shop upon the street. And paused a moment at the doorstop, % where, In nature's meciiey. piping cool and sweet, The songs that thrill the swamps when spring is near. Ply o'er the ticlds at fullness of the vi.ir. And twitter where the autumn hedges run, Joined all the mouths of music into one. I shut my eyes; the hermit thrush was there, t . And all the leaves hung still to catch h;s 11 . spcu, Wrens cheeped amonj the bushes; iron: somewhere A blue-bird's rweeule faiteringly fell; From rustling corn bob-white his name did tell; I heard the oriole set his full heart free; And barefoot boyhood rushed again to rue. The vision-bringcr hung upon a nail Before a dusty window, looking dim On marts where trade waxed hot with bos and bale; The sad-eved passers bad no time for him. K& f TESTING If By WALTER , Malffllll t I dear Dorothea, I see I ^ TfT must cnce U10re Protest. O |V/| O Yet you must know al^ ready what my views are "WOJf upon this matter. Your money Is a subject in which I have little or 110 interest. Indeed, I heartily ;; wish I could forget it altogether. It is an insult to love to discuss such sordid details." ^1- \ Ashley Creet waved his hand as It. * thought to dismiss the topic for all time. Dorothea Spray regarded him . ' admiringly. "You are :> > different from the rest of men," she-said tremulously. "Every ll'V one told me that I should find my money a great temptation to avarin?AnlA 'pilar coir? I cltnillf? (ifv IV'lUUd J.; 'Hi*u * . ? courted for its sake alone, and be deceived. And?and I have found you!" She smiled complacently. Clearly lier advisors were at fault in their judgment of men, and their motives. For here was a man who would not so much as allow her to tell him how much money she really had?who loved her for her own sake, and vigorously opposed the discussion of a topic which, as ho himself affirmed, was an insult to love. "I want nothing whatever to (To with your money, Dorothea." lie said filially. "I have my four hunt'.red a ye*,:;, and that is all which concerns v But the girl had net yet made herself understood. It was rather a delicate subject to broach. But she had already made up her mind as to the course she should pursue. "1 know?I know." she said. "But that is net quite all. dear Ashley. Other people are saying horrid things about you. They do not know you as I do. Aud-and 1 wane to prove to them all that they are wrong. I want -to triumph ever them, and show them Love unsellish and noble you are." A look of Interest came ir.tc Ashley's "But such people are cbstir.aie, ami rather difficult to convince." lie re Brv. niiiKitu lie;*. "10:1 uau newer niuei: 1st them alcae." Bat Dorothea was not to be disph si:i\(led from her purpose. "No," she said. decidedly, 'I In we found a way to show them all how 0. v vrong au<l unjust they are. I want you to remain 111 this room during the w-. interview I am about to have with uiy dear friend and lawyer, Mr. Lucian Ormc. He is coming up the stairs at %70\ this mciueut" There was no time to do anything lse. So the man kept his seat. It ipy/; could not make him any ihe less disinterested to be obliged to listen to the &p approaching discussion of legalities. And ho was not altogether free from a feeling of curiosity. It showed itself in a little nervous uneasiness that |f^h: now took possession of him. But this ?p<t- the gir! diu not so?. The door opeued and Lueian Or me teas announced. He was a man of - close upon forty, with frank face, and gentlemanly bearing. His greeting ^ - with Dorothea was more than cordial. Indeed, one might even 2?ave suspected W by the curious way in which his deep eyes rested upon her from time tc time that he, too, was in love with this slender, graceful girl. She motioned hira to a chair, and began her explax nation. Ashley Creet feigned indifference. and looked out of the window. "Mr. Oriue." she said, deliberately. 4I am going to ask you to do a strange 'V . thing. I am going to be married to Mr. Creet.as soon as arrangements can be made. My friends are saying horrid things about it. and 1 am going to teach ihem a lesson. My tasies are. as you know, of the simplest. My money is never used, and the capital accumulates year by year. Mr. Creet is quite indifferent to it, and declares that he will not toucli it. He has three thousand dollars . year of his own, which will be ample for our wants. So I am going to make a deed of gift in favor of my old nurse and companion, Margaret Swan. She shall live in ease and luxury for the remainder of her days. And people shall know of a truth that my husband is * above their unworthy suspicions and insinuations.*' She stopped. There was a glow on lier face as she triumphantly proclaimed her plans. There was a slight movement in the direction of the winfdow. But Ashley held his peace. Lucian Orme looked grave. "This is rather a startling proposal,'' lie said, slowly. Dorothea had anticipated his ohjec <$ous, and was ready ?or lliem, if gfo . [>v %* Bg$g Rggj fe:' & 3 C KING BIRD? 11 i-i or. pi or sat. with btrded fare .it' grim, i Plying a listless awl, as in .1 dream O; pastures winding !:v a shady stream. Oray bird, what spirit bides with thee unseen? t . I For now. when every songster finds his l love, And makes his nest where'er the woods are j green, t ' Free as the winds, thv sonrr should mock llir uw* e. An, were I thou, my grief in moon* would move, At thinking?otherwise, by others' art Charmed and forgetful?of mine own sweetheart. 0 mnny-souled, Shakespeare bird, who knows, Full we'd each feathered songster's pipe to wind! 0 captive Milton, in this dreary close Singing in shame cf fortune so unkond. Holding wide, sunny stretches in thy mind! 1 blush to offer sorrow unto thee. Master of fate, seorner ox destiny! ?John Charles McXeill, in The Century. & gs-igsesaaSilSjs A LOVER, jt kfa^x;no av j, muvf mvn i < EEipjiipnni "It is not a proposal." she replied calmly. "It is the outline of my present instructions. Mr. Orwe." The man colored. "Very well," he said, curtly. "I will have the deed drawn up at once. You will be able to sign it to-morrow afternoon.' Dorothea nodded. Then she went across to Ashley, and asked him to i leave them for a little while. | "I don't want to trouble you with ! the rest of my business affairs," she | said. "They are only trivial details. You have heard all that I wished you | to hear. I hope you are content." | He got up quickly, and left the room. As soon as the door was shut, I Dorothea drew her chair close to that of the lawyer. "Now, listen," she said, in low tones. "All this is a mere pretense. I am not going to rob my husband of what he has a right to expect. But that must remain a secret between you and me for the present, Mr. Orme. I shall send my ohl nurse away tc-morrow for a j holiday. That will prevent her hearing the news, and so save a disappointi ir.ent at the last. But the world will j think that I am getting rid of my i money, and will be reproved for its base suspicion. Mr. Creet also is not to know. But 1 shall *o!l him all on the day when we are married." The lawyer nodded. Ke had heard :i few Quixotic things iu his life. nnu was beyond surprise. Moreover. lie? was beginning to see that the plan might have lis advantages, after all. He stood up to take his leave. "I wish you all happiness," he said quietly, the girl's slim hand clasped for a moment in his own. And then he loft her. Dorothea went to the door, and called her lever. He was conversing with old Margaret Swan in an adjoining room. But he came at her summons, and declined to discuss the plan to which she had given so much earnest and anxious consideration. It was a fortnight later, and Lueian Oruie sat a lout- in his private ottice. There was a tap at tho door, and a clerk altered. "Mr. Ashley Creel to see you. sir," he said. The lawyer nodded. "Show him in," he said, .and the clerk withdrew. Then lie leaned hack in his revolving chair, and a queer little inscrutable smile played for an instant upon his clear cut face. Then the door opened again, and Ashley Creet was formally announced. He took rhe chair which was proffered him. and or me to the point at once. "I called in reference to that little matter of Miss Spray s deed of gift to Iier nurse." he said airily. "I may as : well intimate from the outset that the plan ill question was cariied out with my full and complete approval. It was the very best thing my affianced wife could have done to have establish my true position." Lucian bowed stiffly. "And your wishes?" he asked curtly. A faint tinge of color came into Ashley's face. "Areuotto "Are not too easily expressed." he replied. "But I am desirous of knowing whether or not Miss Spray actu: ally carried out her intention. She has never referred to the matter since ;he day when she gave you her instructions. You, with your experience of the world. Mr. Orm . must be aware that??r?ladies often revoke a decision within an hour of its formation. And, now that this matter has gone thus far, I am determined to see it throueh. Mv honor demands .it. And, if you have not yet drawn up a deed of gift in favor of Margaret Swan I must put my aversion to such topics in the background, and insist on j its immediate fulfillment." The lawyer opened a drawer, and . drew forth a large legal document. Glancing at it for a moment, he handed ; it to his visitor. The latter took it, and devoured its contents eagerly. Then he handed it back and rose to ; go. ! "Thanks," he said, with a gulp. "1 . i am delighted to see that this matter . i has been legally carried out. Good . | day. Mr. Orme." He walked briskly to the door. Lu clan Orme watched him. His step was jaunty, his head erect. There . was no disguising the fact that he i really was "delighted." Yet the smile oil the lawyer's face. when tne aoor closed, boded no good for the man whoso motives were so disinterested. Five minutes later. Lueian Orme j carefully put the legal looking document within tho empty grate, and held a lighted match to its lower edges. The tiame spread rapidly, till but a few j blackened ashes remained. "What a fool!"' lie soliloquized grimly. 'He never even saw that deed lacked a seal!" He walked back to his writing table Qiid sat down. An hour passed, and he was once more immersed in work when a hurried knock sounded on his j door, ile seemed to recognize it, and ' vnen hni!v j "At last!" lie muttered. "Well, it was bound to come.' Poor little girl! I wish X could spare her." lie opened the door. A white face looked at him piteously irom without, and two trembling hands were held out to him". He took them, and drew her into the room. Then he led her gently to a chair, and she sank into it with a little stiiled sob. "Oh, you can't think what has happened!' she cried piteously. "It is so ?so dreadful! I never-never if.orght It of him! I ' *} j I Lucian Orme drew his chair a lit- : tie nearer to her own. "Dorothea," he said gently, "we have j been old friends for ever so long. All j that concerns your welfare is of grave i importance to me. Let us forget for a little while that I am your lawyer, and you my client. Let us remember only that we are friends. Can you do this?" She looked at him tearfully. He had never seemed so strong before. She wondered how it came about that she had never before realized what a noble man he was. It seemed so natural to run to him whencve" rhe was in trouble. i She had done so from a child, and was only now beginning to realize what all this meant to her. "I can't tell you!' she sobbed. "It's 1 -Mf-i! 1. U iA so?so nuimuauiig 10 uu\e iu ir-u il iw any one?even to you!" He flushed. "You need not/' he said gently. "I know it already." She dropped her lace handkerchief with a start. "You kLow it!' she gasped. "Oh, but that is irnpo. sible!" He smiled. "Well," he admitted quietly. "I may not quite lay claim to positive knowledge. But I can guess. Mr. Ashley Creet and Miss Margaret Swan have decided to throw their lot together, and have been quietly married this morning. Am I not right?" She nodded. "How did you know it?" she asked tremulously. , The lawyer glanced at the ashes in the otherwise empty grate. "He came to me a little more than an hour ago," he said dryly. "I think he was then on his way to the church. He wanted to see the deed of gift." Dorothea looked up. "But you hadn't one." she cried, "I don't understand." The lawyer smiled again. "I had one ready for him," he said. "Some instinct told me that he would come. So I prepared one, and scribbled a. few names at the foot. Some people might call it forgery. But I was ready to risk that. He saw it, and was deceived. Then I burned it." He pointed to the little heap of o oh AO or>/l rroe oilorif "He has not written to me," said the girl. "But that horrid old woman ha?. They were married half an hour ago. Oh. dear!?what a miserable, heart breaking world this is!" The lawyer smiled. "You should be thankful it is no worse," he leminded her. "You have had a narrow es>enpe, Dorothea. Ash-1 ley Creet's motives were mercenary, after all, and I always knew it. I am only too glad to remember that he was discovered through your own plan. He will be amply punished when he learns the truth." "And serve him right!" she commented. "I will never believe another man as long as I live!" Lucian laughed. "Isn't that rather premature?not to say rude?" he inquired. She looked into his gray eyes, and held out her hand. "Except you," she said shyly. "I know I can trust you." "Thank you." he said simply. "I may put you to the test some day, Dorothea." She blushed prettily. He had let her see his secret. Then sli j rose to go. "Gcod-by," she said timidly. He held her hand for an instant. "Good-by," he said.Tlmn V?/\ anrvn a/1 f li a A s\s\y ^am 1\ ah +a J.UU11 XJtr U^CULU IUC UVUl 1UI UCI IV | pass through. I "May I come and see you on Thursday?" he asked. "Yes." she said, and left him standing there by the open door, a smile upon his face. Presently he closed the door very softly, and went back to his seat. But he could not settle again to his work. For he knew now that the way lay clear before his feet, and that sooner or later he would reach the goal in which his dearest hopes were centered. ?New York Weekly. Terse Truth*. Nowadays, a house is known by the bathtubs it keeps. Some men would argue against babies, to the mother of one. Manners are the debt we owe to others. Our enemies hate us for faults, and our friends love us for virtues that I we do not possess, j The cloud of every other man has I a silver lining.?Tom Mason, in Every' doby's Magazine. Between Tonopah and Manhattan. New, fifty miles, there is an automobile service. Bound trip* $25. ii I^? AAA "A" A |palniGito StaieNews; J ? ~-*\y ^ ll/ V V WVVV * Aged Couple Plight Troth. Mr. Daniel S. Hull, a citizen of Westminster, and Mrs. Mary Stoddards of Newberry, have been united in marriage. Mr. Hull, who is seventy-six years of age, has been a widr ower for many years. 'He has one great grandchild, nearly ten years of age. Mrs. Stoddards is probably sixty years of age. They will make their home in Westminster. * * * Lawyer Hc.ld for Bribery. H. G. Millar, representing himself to be an attorney from Chicago, was placed in jail at Columbia on a charge of bribery. He was representing three pickpockets arrested in Columbia during fair week last November and offered Deputy Sheriff Cathcart $200 to get certain states' witnesses out of the way. The deputy took the money and later turned it over to the court with a report of the circumstances. * * Seaboard to- Build New Line. It is reported in Charleston' that the Seaboard Air Line is to build a road frcm a point on the Savannah division, near Camden, to Charleston, giving the system another seaport, to be used in connection with the plans of the extension of the road to the west. The Seaboard Air Line has a large terminal site at the foot-of Hanseil street, Charleston, purchased several years ago, and this property is now to be utilized in connection with the extension of the system to the coal fields and the west. * * * How Charleston Honored George. Washington's birthday was duly eelebrated in Charleston. A parade was made by the local militia in which the three companies of coast artillery from^ Fort Moultrie and the pott band took part. The third regiment and attached troops were in line. The troops were reviewed by Adjutant and Inspector General Frost and Colonel I E. B. Fuller, U. S. A. At night ?ie Washington Light Infantry and the naval militia enjoyed entertainments. Tho nonorhtpra of the Revolution trave a grand ball, and there were various other social features. * * * Pcstoffice Cornerstone Laicf. Willi Masonic honors that were interesting and impressive the cornerstone of the new postoffice building was laid at Spartanburg. In addition to the Masonic features of the program - the pupils of the city schools had an interesting and unique part in the exercises of the day. Dressed j in costumes of Mother Goose characters they mounted roller skates and ' glided over the cement paved sidewalks through the principal streets of the city, Anally bringing up at the building, which is being erected at the corner of North Church and Walnut streets. The principal address >f the occasion was delivered by Presi dent Snyder of Wofford college. * * * Rice Experiments Continue. The United States department of agriculture is continuing its experimental stations on rice fields in the vicinity of Charleston, to show a profitable use of the soil, now that there has been such a general abandon- i ment of rice culture, on account of the | low price of the staple incident to overproduction. Professor W. R. Beattie, assistant horticulturist of the department, gives it as his opinion that the South Carolina rice will always command a sale and the market will be better, now that there is such a general diversification of crops in the south- I west, ' where* the competition in rice cultivation has proven detrimental to the South Carolina staple. While he favors diversification here through the drainage of the rice lands and the raising of such truck and grasses as will grow, he thinks that the farmers should not abandon entirely the cultivation of rice. * $ How TolDert Lost uut. A Washington dispatch says: R. R. Tolbert, commonly known as "Rid," l will not be postmaster at Abbeville, S. C. The president seemed somewhat surprised when Senator. Latimer and Representative Aiken informed him that such an appointment had been contemplated and forthwith ordered the appointment withdrawn. "What, is he the Tolbert who came up here a year or so ago with a long pistol and wanted to kill my friend Leupp?" The president made this exclamation, or one similar to it, before any reference was made to it by his callers. The president seemed to remember the little circumstance even better than Mr. Leupp himself. 1 Mr. Leupp is now commissioner of Indian affairs. He was a newspaper man. and he wrote Tolbert's story for him whiVh wns niihlished in Tho New York Independent with Tolbert's named signed to it. Some time after that Tolbert seems to have got it into his head that Leupp had in seme way been making fun of him in newspaper j I ?? V' 4'A S <.-J. . ;> I stories and he came to Washington, ; so the story 'goes, equipped with a carefully selected shooting iron and called to pay his respects to Mr. Leupp. Nothing came cf it, however, except a few newspaper stories, some interviews with Mr. Tolbert and a .lot of fun. some of the boys had out of him. * . * * Sea Island Seed Cornered. A Washington dispatch is as follows: There is an impression prevailing in the department of agriculture that the growers of sea island cotton, in South Carolina, have formed a corner in sea island cotton seed, or that they are saving their crop of seed for the coming season for planting. Representative Brantley, who represents the Brunswick district ii Georgia, has a large constituency, engaged in growing sea island cotton. During the many years he has been in congress he has been able to obtain from the department of agriculture a reasonable supply of cotton seed for distribution in his congressional district. A few days ago Mr^ Brantley called upon the department of agriculture, as usual, to deliver to him his quota of sea island cotton seed. After waiting several days he received the following letter, which is self-explanatory: Dear Mr. Brantley: Referring to your favor of the 10th instant, asking that you be furnished with an allotment of sea island cotton seed, I am sorry to state that there will be none of this seed distributed this year , for the reason that the South Carolina growers, from whom we have alwove jrnttpn niip sunnlv. have refused absolutely to sell any seed outside of South Carolina this year. Regretting that we are not in a position to meet your wishes in this instance, I remain, very respectfully, R. T. GALLOWAY, Chief of Bureau. * * * Anxiety Over Militia Reduction. The proposed reduction of the military forces of the state in order to make the annual appropriations go farther and better equip the troop?, is proving a source of much anxiety to the members of the national guard of South Carolina. The number of companies have been considerably reduced during the past few years, and it was thought a year ago when the last reduction was made, that a stable basis had been reached, but it appears that the number of commands and the general organization is still toe large and cumbersome and now that the annual inspections are aDoui ic begin and it is announced that further reductions are to be nfade, thf companies are much exercised. The militiamen are also chafing somewhat under the regulations of the Dix law, being assessed as formerly tc maintain their armories while required to perform services which ar<? not very agreeable and for which there is not 'adequate compensation. One of the purposes of the proposed reduction of the companies is to enable the payment of a larger sum td the surviving commands both for equipment and individual compensation that the increased duties may not Ifrove too exacting and profitless to the men. GROSVENOR BADLY BEATEN. Veteran Ohio Congressman Loses Out in District Convention. A special from Lancaster, Ohio, says: After a service of over twenty years in congress, General Charles H. Grosvenor, the "sage of Athens," was defeated for renomination in the district convention Wednesday on the first ballot by Albert Douglas of ChiL licothe, Ross county, the vote being 78 to 20. Early In the day the friends of General Grosvenor were claiming his nomination on the promise of John F. White of Hocking county, that he would throw the vote of that county to Grosvenor. The man who defeated General Grosvenor is 53 years old and a lawyer at Chillicothe. He graduated at Kenyon College in 1872 and at the Harvard law school in 1874. He was a presidential elector at large and president of the Ohio electoral college in 1896 and was defeated for the republican nomination for governor in 1899. He is a fine orator and has dominated the politics of Ross county for years. The nomination was made amid the wildest excitement ? The defeat of Grosvenor was rendered the more bitter from the fact that his own county, Athens, did not give him a single vote, and he did not ITA+ O CaH/1 /I flATl fyATW O T"? tr 6^i a$ ounu u^i^gakiuu 11 um clulj ^vuu~ ty in the district. The defeat was crushing in the extreme and there Is talk that he will run independently. MILITARY STUDENTS LOSE LIFE. Three Burned to Death and Others Injured in Academy Fire. Three dead and nine seriously injured and several others more or les3 hurt as a result of a fire which destroyed Milner hall, Kenyon Military Academy, Delano and North halls, and North annex at Gambier, Ohio. The, fire broke out at 4 a. m. while the students and college authorities were asleep and quickly spread through the buildings named, which were consumed. TILLMAN WILL LEAD 1 In Senate Fight for Hepburn Railroad Rate Bill. DEMOCRATS IN CONTROL iV; ^ Their Votes in Committee Meeting Did the Work ? Republicans Badly ' ji V / Split Over the Great j? \ Question. - 8 ___ A Washington special says: By taking advantage just at the right time of the opportunity presented to them. ' aj Friday, the democrats of the senate ^ interstate commerce committee net J only succeeded in forcing a. favorable ^ report upon the Hepburn bill Just as it came from the house, but succeeded in getting possession of the bill, which has been much touted as die _Lf A |ja administration measure. ' The net result of the day's action, studied from a strategical standpoint, is that all the credit for taking this- J advance toward securing adequate legislation must go to the democrats. J Ihus, in the great fight to come over : the rate question in the senate, the ' democrats have all the advantage of . The bill will be in the hands of J f Senator Tillman, senior democrat upon f j the committee, and under his leader- i ship the democrats will see to it that * rothing is permitted to stand in tie * way of the enactment of an adequate After the committee had adjournal 1 Senator Tillman held a levee in hie committee room. There were present / ';^?gg several democratic senators to con- | gratulate him upon the practical vie- . | tcry secured by the party In getting M control of the rate bDl, and therewere also present several newspaper ^ When reference was made to pos- - = || sible conferences between him and rf the president of the United States. upon whom he loses"* no opportunity W&mm to empty the vials oi his wrath, Sen- ^ ator Tillman said: "Well, it is a rather unexpected and ridiculous situation, bat if any one has an idea that I am going to- 1 >> make a farce of it, with myself as , ; *|| the clown, they are badly mistaken. . r-^WEajm Those who imagine I am not going tp v ! fight for an effective railroad bill are way off their base. I do not see why r my selection as the member to have y) charge of the measure should go to- ~ wards allaying the feeling throughout - % the country in regard to railroad matter. I am certainly not going to lend myself to any scheme of sidetracking or undermining the efforts to get cor rective legislation. > ' "The senate should be.veliered ot white house dictation, and we should _ be at liberty to do our duty In ae- ' ~ oordance with our oaths of riffle n, and "r our (My to o?r stages and oonstft- . \iMSp uents under the aowrtlkrttaa. In all seriousness, I azn not gotog to pat Tuructf in any peettoa or attaor auy thing te hogpen to sktelmdk fee ef- ^ tort to gst a good tour. My f?ikuwr and a'ttoato.*, I think, *4M pMointe *j toe poasfeftMr of suspicion toot I am in this bil as a joker. "**to to a democratic peopaaition, M and tbo preekleat loot hto gaaat in- ? finance to to i hope that he nitf oonttnee to do as. *Vhe ilrniri?toil in ; ^ "fi~ the house suppaoted the MB anailmonalr, and I better? the deaeersto in the senate itfl do Hhetrtoe. I < vft ' hope these will be enough patriots on the repubiicaa side to help pass it" . ' ' '' NO POISON IN STOMACH. Tucker Is Exonerated of Charge of Murdering His Wife. ( Drs. Harris and Denial, who eon- V:1p9 ducted the post mortem examination at Moultrie, Ga., in the case of R W. Tucker, have reported that they found no poison in the stamaoh. It was alleged that she had been poisoned by her husband to secure life insurance, and under this charge. V : Tucker has been in jail. He to re- '-???8| leased on an order from the solicitor ^ sseaeoal. FATALITIES OF MOUNTAIN FEUD. Old Trouble Breaks Out Afresh and Three Men WM Die. The Johnson-Motley feud in Cannon county, Tennessee, broke out afresh Saturday night and as a result the following are fatally wounded: Sam Blair, shot four times In the stomach; Bob Mctley, shot twice in i groin; Richard Johnson, throat cut The trouble between the Motleys . and the Johnsons, two large families of the Pea Ridge neighborhood near the Dekalb county line, originated tea years ago oyer the operation of am g | illicit distillery, when blood was shed, J and has broken out frequently since. ?????? - X'yfisSfi CASTRO'S DIRE THREATS. Will Smash Monroe doctrine, Humble * France and Clear Out Foreigners. Advices received from Venezuela are to the effect that President Castro says he will humble France, break -:1W up the Monroe doctrine, clear out the J French from Venezuela, and then r-+r>i~+ nr, AmprWns. -Enellshmen and ' ; "3 | Germans, who, he declares, are worse than Chinese.