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MUTATION. 1 Till comes the crescent Moon, We worship each a Star; ' But in the reign of Xoou, Alike forgotten are The lesser and the larger light That ruled the destinies of Xight. > Anon, the darkness near, Within their dim domain To Memorv appear Tlio tritirrhf rrrtrtc .Min * XJ.V. I.. V , And Keverence beneath their sway Forgets the sovereignty of Pay. ?John B. Ta'ob. in the Atlantic. ?" Dart well,<jj WILSON HOWARD. g IU u-j| XE day in the late summer 0=3 O I was half dozing: on my 0 horse as I herded a bunch , of cattle on a wide exjffil pH pause of grass land in a Western .State. I was losing the forms of things about me when a quick movement of my horse recalled me to consciousness, and I saw tS that two horsemen were approaching. They had just appeared over a low ridge of sand hills that lay across the trail leading to the upper ranges along the river. They came toward me at the easy, shambling gait of the "cow pony,'' sit0 ting their horses with the perfect ease s~<ot long practice. As they drew nearer. I noted the dignified bearing and the v' better quality of dress that often distinguish the ranch owner from the hired rider. But perhaps I should have paid little further heed, and let inem pass as casual visitors riding for strays, had Ik; v not the gray locks of one of them given ? ?f" him an appearance of age which his erect carriage and vigorous face piainV Jy belied. Naturally I kept my curiosity to myself, but I watched tbe man closely as he made the customary inspection of my herd, then rode on. But that evening I mentioned the strange appearance of my visitor to my employer. 'Oh, that was Dad llowell," he said. "He came by here." gjfc. - "He is really'old?" I said, drawing ?' < inference from the fact that Carter called him "Dad." "\V?" venlied Tarter. "Little past |? forty. The other man was his brother, v and'the older by several years.'' Then it he told this story. The Howell brothers, George and Allen, came West early, and established themselves 011 the Arkansas P River. The range on the public domain \ was then open and free. They had r plenty of room for the grazing of their herds, and as they possessed some means, and were intelligent, progressive men, they were soon in possession g?> of a large "bunch"' of cattle. It so happened that the Texas cattle trail ran through the region in which :: the Howell brothers had their ranch. Along this ..rail large herds of cattle i,r were driven every year, from the breeding grounds in Texas to the maturing grounds in Montana and Dakota. : * .With all regard for the honest and upright among them, truth demands that we say the men who composed ?>'. the outfits 011 the trail were often the 8 riffraff of the Lone Star State. Not infrequently, when these men were returning empty handed, they sought to enrich themselves by turn. ing "rustler." and taking a choice lot of cattle back with them. Soon after the Howell brothers came ? West a gang of these rustlers, led by one Cal Smith, gathered up a bunch of cattle and started south. The stockmen gave chase. They followed the thieves for a week, and finally brought them to bay. But they failed to recover iheir cattle, and returned, losing three of their number. \ With this example stir fresh before them, the ranchmen quaiie.. when Ca! Smith repeated his raid as he returned from Montana the following year. But realizing uat their business would be ruined if these raids were allowed to continue, and that it would be useless to appeal to such law as had at that time been established, a few of the braver men, with Allan Howell at their bead, crossed the sand hills in pursuit. The rustlers had several days the i start of their pursuers, but were encumbered with the h.-rd of stolen cattle, and must travel slowly. The stockmen went out with their luggage packed on their relay borses. They thus avoided the impediment of camp wagon, and could move rapidly. After two days of hard riding they overtook the outlaws. But the latter were prepared to receive them. On sighting their pursuers they had rushed the cattle across the practically dry bed of the Cimarroa River, and bunched them on a "flat" at the base of a bluff. Then with a guard posted to prevent them from scattering, tin gang took post on the top of the hill. Dismounting, they rested their rifles across their saddles and calmly waited. It is no discredit to the stockmen that they halted at a respectful distance. To rush into an affray with so well posted an enemy would nave been the height of rashness. "Well, I dunno," said a big Missourian, after they had carefully surveyed the situation. "I hate to beat out, but them cutthroats seem to have the best of us this time, sure." "It doesn't look as it a fellow would enjoy his cattle long afte* he got in there wiu? them," observed another. "But. boys." said Allan Howell, "you knew when you started out what you were coming for, and this is no time to falter. Who will ?0 ou wun me aiiu get those cattle?" He was answered by an ominous silence, which, was broken by the big ,?oic? ot Cal i mith taunting them: "Jl you want these cattle, come and get them. Don't keep us waiting/' Howell looked in the faces of his men and saw that while they were brave men wno wouia not nesitaie at fair odds, they would not deliberately throw away their lives. He could not blame them. The odds wore insurmountable. Still, he was unwilling to turn back without accomplishing his mission. He thought for a moment, then turned to his comrades and said: "Boys, I'm going after these cattle, and I want you to be rerdy to fight off the rustlers when I bring them hack, (let off your horses and act as if you i were waiting for me to have a talk with them, but be ready." To all appearances, Allan Howell rode forward to confer with the outlaws. They evidently so explained his action, for they allowed him to advance unmolested to the foot of the bluff. Here he had gained the farther side of the herd. He was also screened from the outlaws by the brow of the hill. Looking back, he could see that his men had obeyed his orders literrally, and were sitting or standing about in I easy positions, but keeping conveniently near their horses. He noted, too, that the cattle were restive. Suddenly Howell wheeled his horse ; xi. - .X - -1 1 ? 1 r, f ! lO XUt? 115:111, UHSlltrU ilJULlg liic ua?: vi I the bluff, and tearing his yellow* slicker*' from his saddlebow*, lie flaunted it with one hand, while with the other he discharged a volley of shots. And he yelled as only a cow-man can yell. Now there is nothing 4hat will frighten a Western range steer worse than a waving slicker, and as Howell expected, pandemonium broke loose at once. With wild snorts and a great clashing of horns the herd rushed away. The guards, dashing up. only increased the stampede, and directed it upon Howell's party, who opened their line to let it pass, then closed up behind it to prevent pursuit. The cattle were recovered! From the stockmen there went up a great shout of triumph, from the bluff a yell of rage. And the solitary horseman, galloping in the wake of the fleeing i herd, became the target of a vicious volley. One bullet carried sway his hat; another paralyzed an arm. while a third killed the horse under him. Down he went with a great crash! To Allan Howell's horror, the animal, in falling, pinned him to the ground. Handicapped by his wounded arm, his utmost efforts could not avail to draw his leg from beneath the horse. Meanwhile, the earih about him was torn with the leaden hail. More terrible still, he saw through the dust cloud that his comrades, supposing mat ne was coming safely on. were hurrying after the cattle. Wounded and helpless, he was being .ieedlessly abandoned by thoo?e whose interests he had sought 10 serve. Then the fire ceased, and he heard the thread of a horse's hoofs. Looking up, ne saw one of the desperadoes riding tip, with his pistol leveled. The sickening terror of death came upon him with the blinding flash. The next moment he realized, to his surprise, that he still lived: Oup more bullet had entered the body of poor old Tom. Then the mr.n; a mere boy, swung himself from fhe saddle. "Lie still until .ve get away," he said, in an undertone. With a mighty ei*ort be pulled the dead horse from Allan's leg. Then he continued, "I'm sorry, mister, but I'll have to take your six-shooter, or the boys will come for it and make trouble,'' and picking up the weapon, he rode away. The next Allan Kowell knew, the big Missourian was raising him in his arms, while his comrades were standing about, looking on with deep concern and sincere contrition. "Oh, he's coming out of it now, boys!" the big man said, with a ringing note of gladness in his voice. Theu addressing himself to Allan, he continued. "We didn't see you go down, and thought you wore safe till the dust cleared away. Then we came back 'to get ye, Allan. The rustlers have skedaddled, and you're out of danger. So don't worry." But he was not out of danger. They tok him home and put him to bed. and it was several months before he recovered his former health and spirits. But from that hour his hair was whitened, and to is friends he has ever been "Dad" Howell.?Youth's Companion. The Ideal In Eferr-Ugy Life. Let us now go for a walk, during which we will observe the people who are pursuing their callings. Let us note their moods. We will come upon persons whom we can not see sweep, hammec or dig the earth without experiencing a desire to take from them their broom or hammer or spade, in order to show them how they ought to use it. This sort of worker is to be met with quite as often in the schools, in the church, in the studios of painting and sculpture as in the fields, the mines and the shops. "Without ideals people are the same everywhere. When they teach they make us weary >f learning, when they make music they cause us to hate music. They have no faith in their work. All the time they have the air of saying, "What a stupid trade 1 have chosen I Be sure my children shall not follow it." Those who put the ideal into their work produce altogether different effect upon us, whether they be manual or intellectual laborers. You see them at "work, performing at t:mes unpleasant duties, which you perhaps would r.ot choose, but with so much of good will, of punctuality and fidelity, and such an appreciation of "the useful flight of days,"' that they appear great to us, and an envy seizes us to imitate them.?Charles Wagner, in Harper's Bazar ^DolmoHnCfafo Now/c> Ill QlillGllUUlUlb 11 l?f?01 Attorney General Names Aid. LeRoy F. Youmans, attorney general of SouT.h Carolina from 1877 to 1883, who was appointed by Governor Heywara to succeed the late U. X. Gunter, Jr.. as attorney general, has named Duncan C. Ray of the Columbia bar j as his assistant. Hon. Cole L. Blease, senator from Newberry county, who recently signified his intention to make the race for the governorship, has formally announced his candidacy. It is probable that Hon. "Hub"' H. Evans, former chairman of the state board of dispensary directors, will be a candidate fcr the seat in the state senate made vacant by Senator Blease's entry in the state campaign. ? * 3 College Will Celebrate. Extensive preparations are being made by those in charge for the semicentennial celebration of -Newberry college, which will be held in June. This anniversary celebration will be one of the most pleasant events in the history of Newberry college, and to this end President James A. B. Scherer and his associates in the work ar? laboring. ? * * Paving Contract Awarded. The city council of Spartanburg has awarded the contract for $100,000 worth of street paving. The successful bidder was the Southern Bitulithic Contracting company of Nashville, Tenn. "Work will begin at once. Representatives of a dozen or more street paving concerns were on hand, and one after another appeared before the council and gave in detail the plans which their bids set forth. The rivalry was keen and the contract went to the Nashville concern after two days' consideration. * Meeting of Miil Creditors. At a meeting of creditors of fue independent Cotton Oil company, bankrupt, held in Darlington a few days ago, a report from the trustees was submitted. The value of property now fixed by appraisers Is oil mill plants $346,363; ginneries, $46,620 ; furniture fixtures, etc., $838; real i ta+o. $1,500; seed houses, $1,625; scales. Si.760- personal property. $66. 950; accounts appraised as good, $2,919; cash, $-15,880; total assets, $440,- i 814, and indebtedness amounting to $793,400. Jt is stated that the $45,000 bond of the late General Manager R R". Dargan, who committed suicide, is held ready to be paid under order of court. The mill property will be sold in May, the upset price fixed being $100,000. * * To Improve Glenn Springs. The sum of $100,000 will be issued by the Glenn Springs Company at a special meeting of the stockholders, which has been called for Wednesday, April 28. The money arising the sale of the bonds will be expended for extensive improvements on the hotel and grounds and other property of the company which intends Glenn Springs to be eventually one of t"3 largest resorts in the south. The bonds will bear the denomination of $1,000 each, carrying interest at 6 per cent per annum, secured by mortgage of the property of the coinpany. In addition to the building of a new hotel there is also a movement on foot for a trolley line from Spartanburg to Glenn Springs and from the latter point to Aiken. The Glenn Springs company is back of this proposition, and a charter has already been applied for. ^ ^ Sensational Jury Presentment. The grand jury of Colleton county sprung a sensation in court at "Waterloo, when the presentment was read as follows: "The grand jury was astounded when information reached it that certain cases, known as the pension fraud cases, were nol prossed by the solicitor, but they are aware that such action is within the discretion of the prosecuting officer, and that they cannot interfere with such discretion. He has, however, given his reasons therefor as embodied in a letter from C. C. Henderson, Stobo J. E. Perry, B. C. Benton, J. T. Polk and W. B. Akerman. The grand jury is unable to find from such letter that the parties as members of the county board of pensions for ColTfefon county, who signed such letter, have presented reasons sufficient for the abandonment of the charge of malfeasance in office, and names James W. Peurifov, H. P. Padgett and L. G. Owens as material witnesses to prove the same. Until the conviction of the origins! parties accused of crime, they cannot be presented for compounding a fel onv. They present C. W. Ulmer, H. M. Yarn.. G. J. Yarn, Henry DuBois, alias Jubois. alias A. B. Yarn, for fraudulent misappropriation of funds ar.d forgery, as alleged in the indict nents now of rScord in this county and nolle prossed, and name as witnesses those named in the baclt of said indictment, and earnestly urge chat new indictments be prepaid against them. They regret that they have no legal grounds upon which j to present the solicitor." W. St. Julien Jervey, of Charleston, j is solicitor of that circuit. James E. j Peurifoy is state senator from Colle- j ton county. * * * Senator Tillman's Platform. "There are things more to be dreaded than the loss of a seat in j the United States senate. One is the loss of my own self-respect. I have been trusted by the people of South Carolina for sixteen years, and if I should now, from selfish motives, betray their confidence and allow ambition to draw me aside from the path of duty I would deserve and Expect to receive their contempt and punlsfiment at the polls. I therefore scorn ; all suggestions of cowardly non-inter- j ference in state affairs." In these | words Senator Tillman hurls defiance to those home critics who think he should keep his hanis off the dispensary fight which will stir the state this summer. "I have," he writes, in a broadside statement for publication in South Carolina papers, "received a great deal of - fvom rtonranono-po r\t clU V ILC 1 C'vCUli4> lium uvncya^/vtsi v*. the state that I should attend to my duties in Washington and leave to others the discussion cf affairs at home. I am warned and threatened that should I net heed this counsel something may happen to me.# "It gives me no concern that if I fail to heed the advice my seat in the senate may be jeopardized." Relative to the dispensary law, the objective point in his statement, he shows where fifteen of the forty-five counties of the state are enjoying prohibition, but says that in no county was there a vote that represents the will of the people. Less than half the total democratic vote was cast in each contest. Jle urges every voter to take part in primaries this year, and gives notification that he will be on the stump enough to arouse them. He ridicules the results of prohibition in the fifteen counties as follows: "Under the dispensary law whisky was sold by the pint and quart mainly through dispensaries. It is now sold through the express offices by the gallon and jug, while the retailing is dene by the drink in almost every county as in the old barroom days. The prohibitionists, high license men, old barroom element, blind tigers ahd moonshiners have united against the dispensary and want to vote it out." Senator Tillman then goes on to declare that the management of the state dispensary had become rotten and corrupt; that the people grew tired and wanted a change, but that the change is more desired in proper laws than in going away from the present system." BULLET STOPPED HIS FLIGHT. Young Army Private Killed While Attempting to Desert. His third attempt in four months to desert the army and the tedium of barracks life ended tragically for Lewis Persell, 21 years old, who lashed the horses of a twc-horse wagon in his efforts to escape from the Fort McPherson reservation at Atlanta Monday morning. Lawrence I.udlani. another private, was guarding Persell, who was held a prisoner to be tried later for desertion. Ludlam called cn him three times to halt. Persell crouched under the seat of the wagon, never heeding the command, and Ludlam fired. Persell died twenty minutes later. Ludlam was placed in the guard house, pending an investigation, but Colonel Orsdale said later that the facts seemed to warrant the assumption that Ludlam liad been justified. HAVANA IN THROES OF STRIKE. Mounted Police Called Upon to Disperse Mob of Thousand Men.? The strike situation in Havana Is assuming formidable proportions. Mounted policemen Sunday afternoon dispersed a mass meeting of 1,000 strikers and arrested the leader, who was engaged in condemning the police and local officials. Two other men who ott^rrmtp.d to rescue the orator were also taken Into custody. The original grievances of the street car employees relating to minor changes in the wage scale owing to the company's decision to pay in American, instead of Spanish money, are almost lost sight of in what is really the main grievance?the company's insistent refusal to permit its employees to be members of any organization regarded as antagonistic to the company's interest. EXPOSITION AT JAMESTOWN. Great Britain, Mexico and Cuba Urged to Erect Buildings. The erection of buildings at the Jamestown Exposition by the governments of Great Britain, Mexico and Cuba was urged at Washington by H. Tucker, president, and J. Ellyson, lieutenant governor of Virginia, and members of the board of governors of the exposition, upon the diplomatic representatives of those countries, each of whom promised to make recommendations to that end. MORGAN OBDURATEi Alabama Veteran Senator Speaks Against Rata Bill. MENACE TO STATE RIGHTS McLaurin of Mississippi Espouses i Measure, But Makes Declaration in Favor cf Court Review Feature. A Washington special says: Mr. McLaurin an'l Mr. Morgan ai^iessed the senate Monday on the railroad rate question, tli- former advocating legislation and the iatter opposing it. The Mississippi senator announced his intention to support an amendment providing for a court review of the decisions of the interstate commerce commission, and also stated his adherence to the Bailey amendment prohibiting the temporary suspension 01 the commission's eiders by the inferior courts. He criticized what he characterized as an effort to inject 1 olitics into the consideration of the bill. He referred to the Long amendment first proposed by Mr. Bailey, but now spoken cf as an amendment prepared by the president, which the democrats arc asked to help adopt. "If this is non-political legislation,' I continued the senator, "what good reason can be given for ignoring the amendment offered by the senator from Texas? It is far more explicit and better adapted to do justice and roach the just end sought to be attained. This is not a policy discovered and copyrighted or patented by the president. It is a policy proclaimed and advocated by the democratic party long since, and opposed by the president and republican party until less than a year and a half ago, when the president seems to have first seen its beneficer.ee. "Now, assuming that the president and the faction in his party who are willing to follow him on this measure. are sincere and earnestly desire legislation, in the interest of the great mass of plain people of the countrj', let him and them come over and help us enact a law that will be a sure enough law. Let us give the small farmer who ships his cotton or flour or corn or meat a fair rate, and lift the hand of extortion from him. ?/r. Morgan took the position that | the proposed legislation was an inter- I ference with the rights of the states to control the corporations created bv themselves and said that the best way to check exorbitant railroad rates was to keep the waterways in such condition as to insure competition. "If," he said, "congress would do its duty in the improvements of tho water courses and place the river auu harbor bill on the same footing a3 the postoffice bill, the railroads would cease to do evil and learn to do good, and the people could snap their fingers at them." Mr. Morgan spoke of the danger of the management of the railroad systems of the United States by fifty magnates and predicted "a cyclone of socialism,*' with consequent wreckage 1 of values as the result of their unbridled control of this great power. He believed the states ..could control the roads, single-handed, but If aid from the national government, was necessary it could be granted by a few simple enactments without entering upon an effort to regulate rate3. BUDDHA'S BIRTH CELEBRATED By Few Followers of That Faith In New York City. While Christian churches in New York, Sunday night, with sermon and song, were celebrating Palm Sunday and the entry of the Savior into Jerusalem before His crucifixion, priests of the Buddhist faith in Seventy-first street, in strange robes and weird chanting, were celebrating the birth of their savior, Gautama Buddha, 2,* r o crr\ iOU J Cai d c?^v? TUBERCULOSIS AMONG NEGROES. Dr. Harris of Mobile, Ala., Confers With the President. ?Dr. Sealc Harris, professor of medicine of the University of Alabama, it Mobile, talked to the president Monday about the ravages of consumption among the negroes of the south. He expressed the fear that the negro race was likely to become extinct in this country througli the ravages of dis-' case, especially consumption. Statistics showed, he declared, that the death rate among the members of the negro race in America was greater than the birth rate. PRESIDENT HEALING BREACH. Comes to Agreement With Republican Majority on Rate Bill. The president has come to an agreement with the majority of the republican senators upon the great issue that has been splitting his party, that of the form of the review position to be incorporated in the Hepburn bill. In every essential this agreement is for the acceptance of the Knox review provision. ' SOFT COAL MINERS ACL Bituminous Diggers Follow Suit of 1 heir Anthracite Brothers in Asking for Arbitration. Interest in the labor troubles in the anthracite regions was overshadowed Friday by the proposition that cam? from the west for the arbitration of the differences existing between the soft coal operators who have not yet agreed to the 1903 scale and their miners. The offer cf the soft coal operators is identical, word for word, except where the term bituminous is substituted for anthracite, with the on? President Mitchell presented to the hard coal operators in New York on : Thursdav. There was considerable speculation as to how the miners* leader would receive his own arbitration plan for another held. He was much interested Sn (tho news, but maiitaincd his usual silence when asked what he would do. Within an hour of The receipt of the offer from J. H. Woider, the head of the Ohio soft ccal operators, he sent a reply to the effect that ho had no power to acf on the proposition, but would submit it to the international, executive board of the union at Its meeting in Indianapolis week after next. Mr. Mitchell was asked what he thought of Mr. Winder's literary ability, and he jokingly replied that he admired it very much. Leaders of the Miners' Union who vere at headquarters in New York Friday did not think the international board would favor the proposition: A. > member of the board said that conditions in the soft coal regions aremuch different from those in the anthracite fields. He pointed out that'' ' *} many operators had already signed the 1903 scale and that the number is increasing eacii day. - . ^ , Nothing developed in the anthracite situation to clearly indicate what the outcome of the next slated meet ing between the sub-committees of the ^ mine owners and the union leaders ' will be. There was no formal meet- ' ^5 ing of the operators, but most cf ;; them were in communication with one another. It was reported during *fce ' -^|Sj day that the arbitration offer of the ^ miners will be flatly refused, but it was denied by those in authority that . - ;-i a final decision had been reached. It has practically been settled that vf if the operators accept the arbitra- v ? tion offer, a call will go out at once for a convention. WEEK SHOULD FINISH DEBATE. "|S|| Senator Tillman Wants Early Vote on Rate Measure. In making an effort Friday to get the senate to agree upon a date for taking a vote on the railroad, rate bill, Mr. Tillman made the statement V that one week more probably would exhaust the general debate on the ; C-'& measure. He failed, however, to secure the consent of Mr. Aldrich, who said that ^ he would not be willing to ^gree to vote on the bill until it was more ^ nearly perfected than it now is. During the day there were three speeches on the rate4 bill. The first, ' was made by Mr. Elkins, who indicoted many defects in the pending" ' bill. Mr. Gamble followed in support ' <n. Of tne Dill, ana jar. iveau tlUOCU iu , opposition. FALSE YELLOW JACK REPORTS* Causes Mayor of Pensacola, Fla., la ? . Enter General Denial. ^ C. H. Bliss of Pensacola wires Mayor Teague% of Montgomery, Ala., that rumors of yellow fever .there ' . ! and heard in the Alabama capital' are false. Ho thinks they may have arlsea from the fact that they screen every fever case in Pensacola for seventy hours. Mayor Teague promises to ferret out and punish any circulation of false rumors as to fever at Pensacola hereafter. 4 v-NHi'.) Tws Negroes Pay Penalty. John Patton and Albert Haley, two negroes charged with murdering ? white man, were hanged at Haynesville, Ala., Friday. PROVISIONS OF AGREEMENT V ^ ' 1 Reached oy Envoys of Powers Anent Moroccan Reforms. The foreign office at Paris gives out the text of the convention for Moroccan reforms, agreed upon by the conference at Algeciras, Spain. The most interesting chapter relates to the Moroccan police. It consists of twelve articles and provides for natives as rank and file, cadis as commanders. French and Spanish instructors and a Swiss inspector gen- ," -?1 fnroo will consist of 2.500 ai* jl w officers and men distributed at eight ports. - ?? -A NEW CHIEF QUARTERMASTER ~. i ' Of Department of Gulf, With Headquarters in Atlanta. A Washington dispatch says: Lieutenant Colonel Frederick G. Hodgson has been ordered to Atlanta, Ga., to serve as chief quartermaster of the son is a Georgian. He was very recently promoted from major to be lieutenant colonel. JM