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THE LAST ROAD. T 1. # ' 'Across the silence of the hills (0 distant hills of dream!) The Piper's magic music shrills And ripples like a stream. Beyond the moor, beyond the fen, Thin, tremulous, ami silver clear, It pierces to the souls of men. It calls?and they must hear. n. The voice o: .all the crowded town <0 voice of tears and laughter!) 1A. The Piper's charmed note shall drown, ? ' Thev turn and follow after. By its wild lure their feet are drawn i To walk a wav thev do not know. "* \ Cj ^ wnatever neari- ne leit to mo;;ni, It calls? and they must go. III. They leave their hearts' desire behind, (0 witching tune the Piper plays!) None know what they may hope to find, "What waits beyond the trackless ways; No grief can hold, no love can keep, No wild regret their eyes can dim; i Whatever heart be left to weep. The Piper calls?they follow him. ?Ursula Twenty, in the Pall Mall Magazine. i:- Milce was the pet of the fire brigade men. He was only ten, quite a tp little boy in fact, but he liked to be p;iV considered a man. His father had p|' belonged to the fire brigade, and he died from wounds inflicted while endeayoring to save the inmates of a ' burning house. His mother had died from the shock, and had left behind her little baby boy, Mike, when he fwas only a few days old. Another fireman's wife had taken Si;; - the tiny fellow to nurse with her own children, and he had been called jj|| Michael, after his father. As he %' grew up he loved to go to drill with the brigade men, and to watch them I?- cleaning the brass of the big fire en Igines and escapes. He would run, fetch and carry for the reward of hearing some stQry about people rescued from burnjng houses, and so on. If any boy were liable to be spoilt, that boy would have been Mike, but it seemed impossible to spoil. He was always obedient to his fosterparents and teachers, and unselfish toward the children when he played .with them. [ , Mike's ambition was to go cn the fire engines with the men when they .were called to action. He had often pleaded to be allowed to go, but in Tain. i One night as he lay dreaming, a Strange light seemed to fill the room through the window from outside. Then the cries and shouts of men and Iwomen from the street below filled his ears. Something was on fire! For a moment his brain grew dizzy, and he felt afraid, for he knew that Ihe fire must be near. Then he fe- tJtimpecl up and looked out of the p..? window. Tie fire station was built with two great wings from the main building, |p and between them was a large courtIP? yard. In this courtyard Mike could l&f' see a throng of people looking up toward the house, their faces lit by fc some light which came from above? whehce he could not tell.- With tremS|: bling hands he pushed up the winW} dour and looked up. The flames came ill from the roof of the very building he !ra$ Ja. The fire was quite close to "When the people saw Mike at the window they gave a great shout. The little fellow looked down on tie great seething mass of faces and ien above and around at the huge ames leaping and jumping higher nd higher. They seemed to be closig In all around him. He wondered ow it was he had been left there lone, when a child's cry of fear lade him turn around to see little fillie, a child of three, come through is bedroom door? As the door was pened a volume of dense smoke Dured in, and beyond Mike could je the angry red flames that curled and up. For a moment the smoke i|p blinded him, then he rushed forward gpft-iaad slammed the door to, clasping S&V the little sobbing boy in his arms. B?-C* s0 fwigbtened," Willie whim!? pered. "Hush! hush!" said Mike soothp ingly to the little fellow, who was it;., motherless like himself and a great favorite. "Mike will take care of h*: you." ? 4 This he said with great courage, but feeling as if he were telling a story, for he was perplexed and be .wildered and saw no way of escape. ?&: s He took Willie to the window and called and shouted to the people help:' low. They called and shouted in re||t turn, and in the din and roar of 5C-.'. fniAoa A-nnifi srarrfdv hear what [.they said. It seemed as if they were - bidding him have courage, that the fire escapes were all in use on the other wing of the building, and that help was coming. He tried to be brave for Willie's sake, who was quite happy now he was no longer alone. He clapped his hands with glee as he saw the flames r leaping up and laughed in childish mirth as he watched the people below. "What arc they all doing, Mike?" I he asked. k And Mike, who saw the smoke slowly creeping in under the bedroom door and heard the hissing and crackling of the burning wood, laughed, too, watching all the time for the promised help to come. Then he saw th<* firemen take a large blanket and ftold it under the window where he stood, and which fl was three stories high. E';* knew what that meant well enough; he ? '" had not lived in a fire station all! his life for nothing. It meant that *e was to leap from the window in to the blanket, which would be lowered as he reached it. For himself he was not afraid, but for Willie. He was such a little chap, and could never be persuaded to jump. He could not throw him into the blanket, for he was but small himself, and he knew instinctively that his strength would not be equal to the task of aiming straight. With a cry, almost of agony, and a tightening of his arms around Willie's baby form, he hurled himself into the space below. Cheer, after cheer arose from the anxious spectators, but Mike heeded them not, for he was quite stunned by the fall. When he came to it was to find himself and Willie in a warm room and a cosy fire, while his foster mother was bending over him and trying to get him to drink some cordial. ' Brave boy!" she whispered; and ST 11, lAniiA/l o r t ll o wnrrlc .uiivt: a juctxt L. iccijcvi u<. mv, .. ^. v.?. Then she explained to him how he had been left behind in the hurry and confusion of the fire alarm. She had taken her two children *wiy, meaning to return for him and Willie. But the fire had gained ground so rapidly that she had been unable to do as she wished. "But you are safe now, my darling, and little Willie, too. You saved his life, Mike!" "Oh, no!" cried Mike, flushing all over. "Yes," she returned; "if you had not carried him in your arms he would have dropped to the ground through fright, and been dashed to pieces, and you risked your life by carrying him, too. Every one says so." But Mike would not have it. "There was nothing else to do," he answered simply, and said the same when he was grown up and a fireman, with more than one medal from the Royal Humane Society for saving lives at the risk of his own.? Cassell's Little Folks. A REMARKABLE CAVE. Was It Hewn Out of Rock by a Smith For a Smithy? To the majority of' residents in Edinburgh and the vicinity the remarkable Gilmerton Cave is unknown, and unvisited even if known by hearsay. We are not, however, the first to notice the cave, for in 17S2 the_Rev. Thomas Whyte, then minister of Liberton, has the following story on record: "Here is a famous cave dug out of a rock by one George Paterson, a smith. It was finished in 1724, after five years' hard labor, as appears from the in- i scription on one of the chimney heads. In this cave are several apart- i ments, several beds, a spacious table, with a large punch bowl, all cut out . of the rock in the nicest manner. . Here there was a forge, with a well and washing house. Here there were several windows, which communicated light from above. The author of this extraordinary piece of workmanship lived in it for a long time with his wife and family, and prosecuted ' his business as a smith. He died in it about the year 1735. He was a ' feuar, or feodary, and consequently : the cave he formed and embellished 1 * -1 Xl "J VvAtTA {f so mucn, anu my gdiucu auu<^ were his own property, and his pos terity enjoyed it for some time after ] his decease. His cave for many years ( was deemed a great curiosity, and visited by all the people of fashion.'' , Having procured the gate key and a couple of oil lamps, we unlock the door, and descend at once by a flight of twelve steps to the beginning of a long passage. On the right is the 1 forge, indisputably enough, on the ' left the jamb of the first doorway. < The main passage, which is about six i feet high and three feet broad throughout, maintains a straight di- < rection, roughly, westward for a dis- j tance of forty-one feet. It then turns , abruptly to the northwest, and after ( expanding into three rounded chambers ends in a long passage, eighteen feet long and very narrow, which is said to be the beginning of an underground communication with Craigmillar. At the foot of the entrance steps the doorway on the left leads into a partly straight sided chamber, which expands into two curved inner rooms, a ledge of the rock being left in each about eighteen inches to serve as seats or'beds. All the hewn work thrpughout these chambers and passages has been done with an implement of iron, not chisel-shaped, but sharp pointed. The question arises? Is the story of George Paterson likely to be true? Can we find him in any records, local or other? Where'was he buried? So remarkable a feat as the hewing out of a series of cham bers in solid rock and the dwelling therein of a blacksmith and his family would surely help to keep green the record of the man who performed it. But the parish records are silent, and locally nothing more is known of Paterson than what is contained in the statement by the parish minister of 17S2. Computing very roughly the amount of rock actually hewn and removed from the cave before the chambers and passages were in a fit state for habitation, we are confronted with the result that rock to the extent of half a million cubical feet has been thus displaced?probably an underestimate. Is it creditable that this quarrying was the work of one pair of arms, even if those arms drove the pick for several years? [judging the work from the stand| point of archaeology also, we find j that the Gilmerton Cave is only one | of a large number of chambered and recessed hollows in similar rock, hewn in the same style, and with similar entrances, ,door jambs and bar holes.?Edinburgh Scotsman. FF? : . . .j I . - ,. ;_-v ' ,. n " , ' ' . . ' r~ A "fri rfr -*- *r iiflVi m -?- " : Palmetto State Newsf < :> i WVWWWWWVWWWW i Two and a Half Cent Bill Killed. The two and a half cent passenger rate biil was hilled in the state senate by a vote of 25 to 14. The bill passed the house last week by a majority of S to 1. ? ? No School for Florence. The house Monday morning killed ihe biil appropriating $65,000 for a new industrial school at Florence. The biil provided that the amount was to be paid back in five yearly installments. The vote was 50 to 43. * * # Ex-Governor Heyward Will Attend. Ex-Governor Heyward has written Secretary Den Ian of the Georgia lrumigr-ition Association at Savannah ihat he will attend the Macon Immigration Conference on February 13. E. J. Watson, state commissioner ut immigration, ha& also advised Mr. Donlan that he will attend the Macon conference. * * Ten-Hour Day Bill Passed. The state senate Monday night passed the ten-hour bill, which limits the time of labor in cotton and woolen mills in South Carolina, to ten hours per day. The bill has already passed the house, and will become a law when signed by the governor. The bill becomes partially effective July l of this year, and will operate absolutely after January 1, 190S. * * ? Leaves Host of Descendants. Mark Johnson, aged 89 years, died at the residence ot his son near Kerksey, in Greenwood county, a few days ago. Ke was the father of twelve children and is survived by one hundred and thirty-nine descendants. He loaves eight children, fifty-eight grandchildren, sixty-nine great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. * * Counterfeit Coin Circulated. Counterfeit money has been circulated with a free fcaiia in Spartanburg through the practice of passing spurious money on the merchants ot the city, but it will probably discontinue, for the matter has been reported to the proper authorities, and an effort is being made co find out who first circulated the worthless *oin. * $ * Pistol Dropped and Trotter Died. Mark L\ Trotter was killed at the home of a Miss Anderson, two miles from Pickens, one night the past week.'"It is claimed by Miss Anderson, who was the only eye-witness, that Trotter was killed accidentally. He stooped to put a piece of bark into the fire, and his pistol dropped from his pocket to the hearth, and was discharged, the load taking effect in his breast. * * * Courthouse Contract Awarded. The Newberry court house commission met a few days ago and'awardEd the contract for the new $40,0Cf? court house for Newberry county to George YV. Waring of Columbia, ho being the lowest bidder out of the five contestants. Mr. Waring's bid was $39,473 and the highest bid was $48,D00. The commission found that to carry out the plans of the architect, Mr. Frank P. Milburn of Washington, D. C., they would have to have more money, and $5,000 was borrowed. To Probe Mysterious Death. Clerk of Court McDaniel at Greenville has served notice on Coroner Wooten to investigate the death of a man named Lotis, who was buried on Paris Mountain six or eight wekes ago. The notice was served in accordance with an order of the county grand jury. It appears that at the time of the man's interment it was said that he died of pneumonia, but later developments tend to the belief that he was shot. * * * More Immigrants Arrive. The Wittekind arrived at Charles1 ton last Saturday morning with 115 Austrian immigrants, two cabin immigrants and 75 farmers for the Piedmont section and 40 for Charleston and vicinity. The commissioner's general agent was not present. However, Inspector Reuick of Charleston, Hise of Fernandina, Opdyke of Baltimore and Dr. B. H. Farle, Dr. F. F. Sams of Charleston were present and handled immigrants for the government. Peter Pils, one of the immigrants, will start pheasant raising in South Carolina. Pils has bought a farm near Columbia. Two hundred Belgians were prevented from coming this trip by the German weather conditions. * * Negro Blockader Behind Bars. Steve Jackson, an alleged notorious -;-v; U-'"- -.'V.~ ' p V'w-3 n ' i ?i negro blockader of the Dark Corner section, of Greenville county, has been jailed in Greenville by Deputy Marshal Gordon. He is the father of Doyle Jackson, who is now serving a life sentence for killing a man a year or more ago. The deputy, in talking of Jackson's arrest, said it was strange how few negro blockaders there were; that negroes as a rule preferred to sen rhe stuff after it was made, but had something of a superstitious dread of having a hand in making it. in support of this theory the marshal poiuted out that in. his experience, covering twelve years, lie had arrested only four negroes for running illicit distilleries. I'here are negro helpers at the stills, of course, but few negro nrnnrintnrc: j 1- * Vfj/A w. n t> * Col. E. F. Crayton Dead. After an illness of several week?, Colonel J;. F. Crayton died at li!s home in Anderson at the advanced age of S7. Colonel Crayton was An-;! del-son's grand old man for his iong life has been one of usefulness, lie served many terms in the legislature, and the senate. He was president of the Anderson county fairs for years and afterwards president of the state fairs Coionel Crayton was quite active In the campaign last summer when the dispensary was an issue. He was a life-long prohibitionist and opposed the dispensary. * * Governor Adked to Show Cause. Counsel for J. B. Wylie, J. M. Rawlinson and John Black, directors of the state dispensary, who were removed from office by Governor Ansel, appeared before Justice Ira B. Jones of the supreme court at chambers at Lancaster Monday, asking for a writ of certiorari, calling upon the governor to show cause February 19 why the board should be removed. Attorneys; for the board asked that a full court be present to hear the motion. It is likely that Justice Jones will call in his associates to hear the case. Following their removal by the governor, the three directors will be prosecuted in the criminal courts. Attoiv ney General Lyon has announced that he will institute the proceedings. The three men were charged with misconduct, negl^ot of duty and incompetency, the specific charges being that these officers disregarded the law, did not buy on sealed bids and approved large purchases in Cincinnati and Peoria at prices in excess of the regular bids. It is also charged that they disregarded the wishes of the commissioner ond tho rnuntv disnensers uiled up hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of unsalable liquor. The legislature unanimously endorsed the governor's action in removing the directors from office. MEXICO AND UNITED STATES Will Act Jointly in Enforcing Pesc* in Central America. The statement was made at tho state department Monday that at a conference held between Assistant Secretary BacOn and the Mexican ambassador, it has been decided ^hat Mexico and the United States would unite with Salvador, Costa Rica and Guatemala in making identical representations to Honduras and Nicaragua to the effect that they would be expected lo settle their differences without rex ~ f +1rw_\ ord'iirroHAtl sun IU Hrt!, emu uiat me aiuni?i.tvu which was recently terminated at San Salvador must be reconvened in order that the issues between the two countries may be peacefully settled in accorJai^ce with existing- treaties. TOO MUCH FOR CANADIANS. Postmaster General Bars Papers Publishing Rotten Thaw Evidence. The postmaster general of Canada lias been asked to deny the use of mails to all Ottawa, Ont., papers which printed the details of certain evidence in the Thaw trial iu New York. The postmaster general said he had not read the report in the newspapers mentioned, but the law was clear on the point, and he would see that it was enforced. v Any newspaper publishing filthy evl-1 dence of a trial in court, said he, would bd guilty of a misdemeanor under Canadian law. SENATOR FRYE MAKES KICK On Million-Dollar Appropriation for Savannah Harbor. Senator Frye, chairman of the senate committee on commerce, which has under consideration the rivers ana harbors bill, is opposed to the appropriation of a million dollars for the harbor of Savannah. Ga., and openly expresses his opr^ttion. > DIAZ TO ACT PEACEMAKER. Mexican President Will Forestall War in Central America. Official acceptance of the intervention of President Diaz, of Mexico, in an effort lo prevent the dispute between Honduras and Nicaragua, precipitating a disastrous Central American war, was received by the Mexican government Saturday. ' i. ;V.\ ! WHITES FIRED FIRST Is Sworn Statement of Colored Sot* dier Before Committee?investiga , tion Regarded as Farce. A Washington special says: The impression made upon auditors at tl:e hearing of the discharged negro sol- , diers ac the in\ estigatton by the sen! ate military affairs committee is alj most invariably that the investigation I [ is a farce in so far as sustaining :my contention heretofore made by Sena, tor FOraker. The Ohio senator has diligently sought to aid the witnesses in making the best showing possible tiiat they haci nothing to do with the Browns- j ville shoot-up and that they knew ] nothing about it. None of the witnesses has admitted ever entertaining an idea mat any of ( his colored comrades did the shoot- < ing. Some of them even stated that i they did uot know whether the .phoot- . ing had even been discussed among 1'ne troops after the affair. Most of them took the ground that it was : impossible for arms and ammunition 3 to be taken by their men without de- , tection, notwithstanding it was elicited from them that these equipments } were in charge of negro sergeants. , Nearly all of them held to the remark- j able statement of beiTei that the ]>eople of Brownsville aid the shooting. , One witness, Winter Washington, stat- j ed as his first and last judgment mat ^ ihe Brownsville shooting was done by ( Mexicans and cowboys. He reiterated . that statement, although his testimony contained his statement that there were no marks or signs of bullets about the barracks and that he had "heard" something about a man having been killed and some wounded among the people of Brownsville. One of the witnesses, First Sergeant Fraser of company D, in giving his reasons why he believed that' the people of Brownsville did the shooting, said he believed they did it to get the colored, troops away by making trouble for them. The trouble, according to this witness, as far as the animosity of the people of Brownsville against the three companies of colored troops at the fort, was that when they found they would not be allowed to drink in the front part of the saloons of the town, they exclusively patronized a saloon that had teen set up in the town by a discharged negro soldier. This was the saloon that got their money, and that was what made the white folks mad. ^ Hence they shot up some of their own people in order to have the negro | troops ordered away. It was here that Senator Overman asked the witness: ( "Do you mean to say that you be- ( lieve on your oath that the people of Brownsville, for that reason, shot j their own people ? committed murder?" ""I don't know nothing about any ' murder," answered the witness, "but 3 that's what I believe." Asked where the Brownsville people could have gotten the ammunition with which they did the shooting, as ! he believed, the witness declared: "I { don't know unless they got it from * the twenty-sixrh." The twenty-sixth regiment was the 1 white regiment which had occupied the post at Brownsville before the colored twenty-sixth battalion went ! inere. The "shooting up" of the town of Brownsville, Texas, was in the form of ' an attack on the garrison at Fort ' Brown, according to the testimony given Monday by Mingo Sanders, former first sergeant of company B of the 1 F?fth infantry before the senate committee on military affairs. Sanders' story created something of a stir in the committee, as he said that while running from his quarters 1 to company B barracks after being ' awakened by the firing on the night : of August 13, the shooting was going 1 on, and it came from the town and wa3 toward the hospital on the military reservation. He said bullets ' were whizzing over his head. This is the first direct testimony given by any of the discharged negro 1 soldiers that the fire came from the ' town. ) FOR iNSULTING FARMER'S WIFE. East Point, Ga., Man is Shot to Death in Public Road. According to a report received from Machen, Ga., C. P. Dorsey of East Point, was slioi ami instantly Kinea by Emmett Newton, a weli knowu young farmer of Jasper couuty. The tragedy occurred in a public road near Mac-hen and is said to hava been the result of Dorsey having made improper proposals to Newtcn's wife, while alo.ne at her home Saturday,. There were several eye-witnesses to the killing. ? BANK MESSENGER ROBBED. Armed Highwaymen in Moscow Get Away With $22,000, A dispatch from Moscow, Russia, says. A messenger belonging to thd government spirit depot, while on hia way to a banl: Monday, was told up by ten armed men and robhed of $23;SUO. Tne highwaymen, in 'their liightj dropped a hag containing but got awaj with ihc balance. * ^ K NEGRO WITNESSES ' wm m {*$> Swear That White Men Shot & \ f '- a Up Town of Brownsville. ALLEGE PLOT BY WHITES ,/ ^ . .1 Discharged Negro Soldiers Tell Queer Tale Before Senate Investigating Committee ? Senator Foraker Called Down by Member. A Washington special rays:' Th# senate committee on military affaire oegan its third day of the Browns- ;'->?|gS Ha hparinc: at 10:30 Wednesday. Ja- Js rob D. Frazier, former first sergeant S|jj jt company D, twenty-fifth infantry, v '*?>. was called to the stand. Senator For? - V - -r iker conducted the examination and tie. had not proceeded far when his methods were challenged by Senator ' Pettus, who declared that the Ohio senator was "leading" the witness. I? Frazier testified that he, with other yM married soldiers, was permitted to live nutside the post quarters and was at iome with his family on the' night ot August 13 when the firing In Brownstill? occurred. He was awakened by ^ :wo shots. On his way to the quar- ' ;>J|| :ers he heard the general fusilade. Ho iescribed the call to arms and the roil , :all, which was ordered by Captain Lyons, and he said he found every v ^ man present or accounted for. Frazier testified that each man was allowed twenty rounds of ammunition, ten of which were carried in a belt - ^ and ten in a cartridge box. The cart- ;> 4^ ridge boxes were not carried during the inspection next day, but were lett . jm it quarters. About two days after the trouble all ammunition was turn- tjsS L-d in, and *11 was properly accounted tor. Asked if he had anything to do ; with The trouble, Frazier answered no, and said he didn't know, of any >^||f otter member of his company being sngaged in it. He had withheld no information and declared there was no < conspiracy of silence. Senator Warner cross-examined the witness. Frazier had believed, he said, that some of the soldiers had "3hot up" the town, but the opinion was . Dased on the fact that his company commander had so told him; he had never heard any of the soldiers admit it. He had'talked with many of the men, and said he had'"talked one way" ; to them in order that they might "talk, the other way," and so find out wh? ' lid the shooting. Frazier stated it as his belief that the citizens of Brownsville had themselves "shot up" the town to drivethe soldiers away. Mr. Overman said:"Do you think the citizens would kiii . one of their own number and commit murder to get you away?" Frazier replied: "I dont know whetner any one was, siuea* . tucj, ivanted us away.' Colored men would V, ij>end very little money "in tiie saloona on account of their treatment, and the citizens of Brownsville wanted white soldiers who wotfld spend their . money." With reference to the contention that the citizens of Brownsville were iisguised as soldiers, the fact was brought out that the witness had teatided in a former hearing that the citIzens might have procured discarded caps and uniforms from soldiers who ~Sf|| had been there before them. He said nt this time', however, that all men in ' ' ^ Lhe twenty-fifth infantry wore hats. Jerry E. Reeves, former sergeant of company D, said that on the night of the trouble he was awakened by shots which appeared to be in the direction of the quarters of company B. He could not state who did- the shobtIng and said he had never been abler 1 to get any information from mem- ^Jj? bers of company D. He knew noth- \j|| ing of any conspiracy of silence and !?P?g did not believe any of the soldier* were implicated in the affray. Senator Overman asked: "Could the /. citizens of Brownsville' get any Spring* field rifle cartridges?" and Reeves re* r plied: "No." FIRST TRIP WAS HIS LAST. Sl|| Baggagemaster and Fireman Lose Their Lives in Wreck. Limited passenger train No.!?t)3cm ' ~ the St. Louis and San Francisco rail- ' ;$$$ road, due -n Birmingham, v,Aia , Saturday morning from Kansas City and Memphis, struck a broken rail eight "JjIS miles west of Birmingham at. 5: fy v?.. \ m. and with the exception of the .rear \::/0 sleeper the entire train was wreck- f.. ed. The dead are: Baggagenuwter ijp|| White, who was making his first'train* : and Fireman G. McElmurray, the lat* ' i ter being buried under the locomotive* which turned over: RU8S GOVERNOR AS8A38IN AT ? O. Murderer Fled, Was Pursued and Fa* r-j tally Wounded. S. M Alexandrovisky,. governor pt *' Penza, Russia, was shot and killed as >^J3 he was leaving the theater? Thursday ' night. Tne asshssin fied, was pursued and ^ kept up a running fight during which. he was fatally wounded. He; died shortly afterwards in the hospital.'