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* * THE PEOPLE'S _ _______ VoL 5. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4,1895.N NaisR~i6/MM AT.r AUTIMO COPV R10G daied not leave2i m, lest he might l and him again--she boy groped arou for awhile looking for the road. ItNi Of no use. Go where ho would, tb were only stumps and grass, every h4 low being filled with water. He thought of Jydig down in a fou corner to sloop till morning. But lie not like to do this, for fear that, oi lasleep, ho would not wako up till l1 jtho next day, and then the south< ,army might be away from Tullahon with all its stores, and perhaps th< ,woro a great many othior advantaF they would gain that caused Jak'y, 1 iug a good Union boy, to winco, thou he could not name them. But the seemed no alternative. it could not more than two hours before daylig 'would show him the road, and lie r luctantly concluded to go into bivoun As lie was looking for a good, broni flat rail to stretch himself on, Tom p his nose over his shoulder affectionate and rested it there. Never before h Jakey felt so deeply any interchange sympathy with a dumb brute. '"Ton, olo critter, " he said, hiuttih his arms about the horso's neck, "th air louesomo. " And Tom semed to respond as plai ly as if the words woro spoken: "Jakoy, you bet. " Maybo-Tom had an object in vic more important than an offer of symp thy. Maybe he had something to coi municato. At any rate as Jakoy sto with his arms around the lowered no and looking over it lie espied a light. "Golly, Tom," he exclaimed, reckon y' sor't." In a moment he had olimbed the fen and had regained his place in the sa dlo. Then, pointing the horso's head d rectly for the light, with a "Git ul Toni, " rider and horso wero soon awt in the direction of its appearance. Suddenly there was an ominous clic which in the stillness of the night soun ed with all the distinctness of the coo ing of a gun. "Who comit daro?" "Mister, can y' put i1o on ter t road?'' "Who you vas?" "I'm a boy, I air." "Vat you want?" "I want ter go tor Manchester." "Vat for?" Jakoy thought a moment before r plying. The question occurred to hi. Was this surely a Union picket? I Confederato would be likely to clhp longo with a German accent. "I've got somo information fo' M Rose-Rose-what's his naiiie?" "Shonoral Rosecrans?" "Yes." Jakoy was led over a stubblo fle which had not been planted since ti brovious season and brought before group of half a dozen tots, the hea quarters of the colonel coimuding t! --th cavalry brigade. T1ho c-,lonel h: not yet risen. JTakoy's condunctor o plained to the sentinel on pout that t] boy had important informi-~i. n, whiet upon the sentinel shouted, loud enious to wake the whole army, "('orporal the guard I"' The summnoned soldi came, and it was explainiod to him th Jakoy had important information. T] corporal went off to fetch .o officer the guard. "W~hat you want, sonny?"' asked th peison when lie arrived, buttoning coat lie had just put on. "I don't want nothiin."' "'Oh, you dlon't. I thought you did. "Rckoni I got someup'ni youunis wmou but I'm gittina tiredx ansawerin quest io 'bout it.'' . "'Well, wvha't is it, my little man?' ".I ain't no little mian. I'm~ a boy. "'Can't you tell me what you ha' for uis?" asked the omcor, smiling. "'Can't toll nobody but someibot big." "'I doni't knew anybody bigger thu our chiof of staff about hero. I'll cor him.'' So the chief of staff wvas calledi and infCormed that Jakiey had inform tion of the enemy. Th'io chief of str calod upl the colonel conunanildinlg, wi suddenly appeared at the tent door in pair of trousers and a woolen shirt. 'It wasi evident from the mxomuent til colonel espied Jakey sitting on old To in front of the tent and ,Jahy espii the slender figure of the colonel, wi his blue eyes and light hair, that th~ had moit h)oforo, net only that they hi met, but that they must have been n ed by some cord of groat durabilit T'1horo wvoro two exolaimations like pis 'shots. "Big brother I" from Jakoy. "Little brother I"' from the colonel. Colonel Mark Mayniard strode up the boy, took him in hisa arms, a Jakey might have as well been in t embrace of a bear for a time, whilo ii a wVord was spoen. Then there wau fusillade of questions and anawo: after which the colonel tookc Jakey ir his tent and sat him en his own~ cam cot. Jakoy lost no0 timo in giving a br account of Is trip from school, how had slept at thle guerrilla's house a how his father had hoard of the evaci tion of Tullahonma. Tho colonel, throwing open the ti flap and seeing his chief of staff outsit called him in. -"Captain," ho said, "ride over corps headquarters and say that a has just comoe in wvho is sent by hi ' ther to say that lie slept last night the house of a guerrilla, who told wonot knowing that he was ov .hoard, that they are gettinig out of T lahomia. Say that the information perfectly rellable, as it has beon broni byna Union boy who went with me ~myamatnmortant mission when T r. 1094 BY AMCaICAN PRESS AssoCAenION. iot a scout and rendered me on that occa 1d sion the nes valuable servico a human 'as 'being can rendor another. Rido at onco. iro Never mind the division commandor. )l- There's no time to spare for army oti quetto. Go." 00 The oaptain saluted, and without id Iwaiting for his own horso to be saddled co mounted the horso of an ordorly and Ito ashed away. rn I ni CHAPTER VI Iro TULLAHOMA. ,es Colonel Maynard was ordered to push forward down the road from Manohes fh rtor toward Tullahoma in order to test the truth of Jakey Slack's information. ro Jakey begged permission to go with )o jhim, but the colonel told him that he [it had better go back to his father and e- sister. Jakey argued that he could a!, 0. well return from Tullahoma if they 31, should reach it, and, if not, from any at point whoro they might halt. The colo ly nel at last consented, and as they rode d off he romarked to the members of his of staff, using the conventional military phrase for announcing a staff officer in 1g orders, "Gentlemen, this Is Jacob Black, is volunteer aid-de-camp to the colonel commanding the -th cavalry brigade, il and will be obeyed and respected as such. " The announcement, couched in these terms, so delighted Jakey that ho came well nigh losing his balance and falling off old Tom's back and getting himself trampled on by the rest of tho )d staff. But after the first flurry ho made k a most officient aid-do-camp-that is, if riding close beside the colonel and being always ready for an order which was never given constitutes a good staff officer. About noon the fortifloations around the town of Tullahoma suddenly appear P ed bofore them. Though it was plain 7Y now that they woro not to be defended, the advancing force half expected to see c, a cloud of smoko burst from them. But - tiey Vero silent and impotent, without ti -ops to man them. Dashing from the edge of the wood, Colonel Maynard, followed by Jakoy 10 and the rest of the staff, rodo oyer the intervening space, and in a few iin utes wero climbing the slanting sides of the earthworks. A point had been gained which, without the previous ma neuvors, would have cost thousands of lives. Even Jakey Slack, who can hard 0- ly be called an educated soldier, oxpo 1 rioncod a certain comfort on riding un ro opposed over breastworks so formidable. - Once within them, he got off his horse, and seeing a big siego gun from under r- which the carriago had been burned climbed on to it and sat a-straddle, wav ing his hat and cheering as vociferously as if tho victory had been exclusively d duo to his own genius. 10 His hilarity was suddenly quonohed a by the colonel, who, riding up to him, - told him that the brigade was ordered 10 forward in pursuit of the retreating (enemy, and that lhe must go back to Shis father and sister. Jakoy begged hard 0to go on, but his appeal was unavail ~ ng. His brief dignity must bo resigned. hFrom aid-do-camp con theo staff of the Scolonel commanding the --th brigade, "to be oboyed and respeoted as such," It ho must be reduced to the level of a 10 small boy. S The colonel gave him a hug before parting and told him that lie would tsenid a trooper with him to see him safe a~ ly on his way. Had Jakoy been a sol dier his action on this Occasion would ~,have boon considered by any court mar tial rank mutiny. t. "D'y' think I hain't nobody nohow? 8 D~idn't I go with y' last summer ter Chattanooga wvhin y' war niuthini but a scout? 'N diidn't I stay in jail with y'? 'N now yer talkini 'bout sendin a sojor Swith mnc fo' a nurse.'' "All right, Jakoy. Go it alone If you 'prefer It." The colonel rode away, and Jakey, ii shorn of tho plumago ho had worn so 11 becomiingly for a whole half day, pro ceeded on his return journey. Ho first p inquired the most dlircet route to Hills i- bore, and having been directed to it lio ff sut off at a brisk trot. .lHe had eaton 10 nothing sinco early morning and was a ravenously hungry. At a farmhouse by the wvay ho scured a meal for himisohf 'o andl a good food for Tom. Then the old in woman who furnished thonm gave himi d a kiss and started him again on his h journey. iy Jakoy had not gone far before ho Id came to a road connecting Jillsboro t- with the Macinnvillo branch of the y. railroad at a placo called Concord. The ol road on which lhe was travolinig forked into theo other at an acute angle, the two running nearly parallel for a short din tance. Looking ahead toward the fork, to lho sawv a rig wh~i struck him at onco id as being astonishingly familiar. It was b0 non11 other than the rawboned horse and atpaint bereft buggy ho had soon several a times before. As It drowv near, Jakoy 's, could seo some one in the buggy, and to lie was not long in recognizing the pc IP eullar dress of Miss Betsy Blaggs. af "Hello, Miss D~aggsl Whar v' geoi ho at?'' ho called. ad Never a word spoke Miss Baggs. She' an- Bat bolt upright in her buggy, regard ing the boy flxedly as Bobby Leo triani 'n, gulated- onward. As she passed she turned hor' head slowly, keeping her spectacles on Jakey with an unearthly to stato. -There Is SOmething superstitious ial human beings mnd especially ini aboys. Something like a shiver ran down at Jakoy's back at sight -of this uiinlar tid person, who knew hti'prfetly, yet >r- who passed him, her head turning m il- chanically, without uttoring a word. is For a moment ho was tempted to believe his that Miss Baggs had perished, and this on was her ghost going to seek ret in 'a san ather land than war. ...,...d To nossee, Bdt this fooling was -inoniionta ry.' Throwing it off, he shouted: "Sholl I givo yor love ter Rats whei I soo him?" If Miss Baggs was trying to make th boy believe be was mistakon, or that h saw her disombodiod spirit, her effor failed signally at this point. A peal 0 suppressed laughter came back on tl broozo to Jakey. Looking after her, h saw the back of the buggy, from whiol streaiiod the tatters of the top and un der it Bob Loe's four logs mingled ii inextricable confusion, doing some o: their best work. "She uns hain't bent on no good,' said Jakey to himself as he gavo Tom i jog. "Rookon she's up ter somep'n." Jakoy rode on musing upon Misi Baggs. He had noticed her kind treat ment of his sistor, and as Jakoy wai disposed to regard Souri the most im. portant person on earth after Colono: Maynard Miss Baggs had thus foun her way into that youthful somethinE or other which for want of a bottei name may be called Jakey's heart. Hii remark was made with great serious, ness. Jakey felt that it was his duty a a Union sympathizer to put some o1 on Miss Baggs' track. "She mought b( workon fo' the Confederates," ho mus ed, " 'n then agin she moughtn't.' Tho latter view was most agreeable t( him, because ho liked Miss Baggs and would grieve to seo any harm como tc her. While he was jogging along, turning the matter over in his mind, he saiv sevnral horsemen in blue and yollowi com tearing down the road. They rein. ed in when they came up with him and opened a volley of questions. "Say, boy, did you so a woman with a striped dress and goggles go by?" "'N a long legged wind busted crit ter?" "Yes." " 'N an olo rattlin buggy?" "Yes. " "What d'y' want with her?" "Never mind that. Have you see' her?" "Waal, never inind whether I have 01 not. Git up, Tom" This brought the questioner to terms, "Are you a Confederato boy?" "Don't I live in Tennessee?" "I supposo that means you arO Con federate. We've no time to lose. Th< woman in that buggy is--is"-- Hi was conjuring up a story to deceive th, "Hello, Miss Ragp.!" atupid looking boy beforo him and ge the required information, but ho wa not good at inventions. Jakey came t the rescue. "Wanted by you uns' general or oolc nol or somep'n?" "Yes." "Fo' ter keep her outen danger co she's like nuff to run inter a guerrill camp?" The man looked wonderingly at th: boy, who was making a story for hir -unaskod. "Y-o-s, " lie replied, uncertain wha -to say. "Waal, she's gone along thar. Wheo y' git ter thm' fork in th' road, take th: .loft fork. " "All right.' Thanke, miy little man, and the party galloped away to take th w7rong road on reaching the fork. Jakoy pursued lisa course meditative ly. "Reckon that warn't 111 done thio. 'T must 'a' lbeu somot un else. I air *Union boy, I air. She un's Confedor, ate. Like nuff sonic uii got spicion oi her. Roecon I can't 1b0 Union of I help ed her out. WVaal, she likes Souri any way. Rockon~ she won't do no0 harm.' Netwvithstainding the view takeni at the oloso of Jfakey's soliloquy, lie foli very miuch dissamtisfied with himself. H< redo Oin thoughltful ly, wvonderinig whal Colonel Ma~ynard would say if lie shouki know whiat lie had dono. Hoe soon mol a soldier On .,lame horse. Jakey infor red that lio belonged to the p)art~y ahead, but had bean obliged to drop out of th< chase. "Say,. mister, " called the boy, "wha them ims chasin thet woman ini thm buggy fo'?" "Did yout pass her." "Yes." ''Put 'onm on the track?'' "'Reckon.'' "She tried to slip through thme linei oni a forged pass. The guard was suspi oious and took the pass to hoadquartor. -after letting her go through, though like a fool-when the trick was disoov ered. " "Waal, reokon they'll ketoh her,' and Jakey rode on. As the dusk of the evening was conm ing on Tom wYas seen bmy Farmor Slaci far dowun the street advaninig at a joj trot and ont hinm Jakey, bobbing up ami down, his olbows stuck out on each sid< and his little logs at an obtuse angli with the rest of his body. Riding up t< the little porch in front of the house Jakey slid down froni Tom's high bace] with as much dignity as he could comn imand en doending from suoh a height The whole household, iioluding th< children, was there to rcivo him, and Jakey was about to give them am account of how ho had served on Cole mel Maynard's staff when he caught hii father's oyo. "'You, J ako," said Mr. Slack, "'didn I send y' out ter th' barn ter leek arte tho critters last night, 'ni now yor hoel ridin all over, nobody knows whr Whar y' ban?" I"Waal," said Jakey, taking his eu readily, "I foun Tom loose, 'n I follorel him all over th' Uiiited States." "'I'mi glad y' got him," replied th fathor, "Go in 'nm git yar supper. " UHAPTER VIL OLD FRIENDS MEET. I It was the middle of August bofore y the different columns of the Army of the Cue: rland began to cross the C b mounta ! between it and Chattanooga in pur. , f the Confedorated who had a y withdr. .) that place and there in , trenched 11;cmsolves. Meanwhilo the r Slack family had arrived at their home 0 . near Jasper, in the Sequatobie valley. Much to Souri's surprise, everything I about the place looked uncouth. When she loft it a year before, it was all she had ever known. A ton months' resi donco in the north, surrounded by every comfort, associating with the daughters of refined people, had made a great Dhango in her. NoW the furniture ap- c peared dilapidated, the rag carpets 0 rough. Indeed there was a disappoint mont about "sweet home" that she had not expected. Nevertheless ehe did not F sit down and repino over it. She had t] no means of procuring anything better, but she found that she could do a groat C deal of patching. With considerable fore- f, thought she had brought some cheap ma- t torial of different kinds with her from , the north, and this she used to the best 8, advantage. She made noat valancos for tl the beds, cushions for her mother's rook ing chair, scarfs for the bureaus-in fact, with very little she made quite a t1 revolution in the house. S1 Her great anxiety was her brother. n Jakey had attended well to his studies while at school, but his teachers had ti found it impossible to change his moth ods of expressing himself. As soon as he reached Tennessee he began to ro lapse into the state of somibarbarism in which he had lived before the coining A of his advantages. Souri knew that there was no hope for improvement in t* her father and mother. Instead of trou bling thom when their ways of acting A and speaking shocked her, she refrained sj from comment, but when Jakey dropped t into his old ways she tried hard to check u him. Besides she felt that it was neces sary to keep a strict guard over herself, , for she had noticed that when under n any excitement or when her feelings : were deeply touched she was apt to for- 'j got herself and be once more the "poor c white" girl of former days. There was another cause of solicitude i as to Jakey. It must be admitted, not- i 3 withstanding Jakey's good points and a certain original shrewdness thoro was I about him, that lie never was the same < boy after his few hours of servico on Colonel Maynard's staff. It was con stintly "when I war Colonel Maynard's aid-der-camp, " or "when the colonel 'n m11 rode inter Tullyhony, " or "when I carried the news of- tho rovacuation. " I Then he would strut about with his hands in his pockets, much to his fa ther's amusement and Souri's dread that lie would run away and join the Union army. But one day when he threatened to do so Souri took him to task for it and made him promise that ho would not. This ended her anxiety, for Jakey would as soon have forgotten his military honors as break a pliedge to his sister. t The Army of the Cumberland was a now advancing by every posisiblo routo a toward Chattanooga. One of the routes taken by the Union army lay through the Sequatchio valley and directly past the Slacks' little farm. One evening Souri was leaning over the gato z thoughtfully when she saw several a mounted men in blue, with yellow fao ings, trotting down the road. They c wore the first blncoats to appear of Sthe host that was coming. There is a certain jaunty air, a devil may care ap Spoaranco, about a trooper who becomes| used to being always con hiorsebackc. SEach man and horse seemed the same aninmal. Their sabers clanked in uni son, anid they were chatting and laugh . ug as if they had come to the south with only the most peaceful intentions. When they reached the gate where Sou ri stood, one of them, lifting his hat politely, askced. ''Would ye mind mnc goin to the well for a little water?" In the brilliant display that was no vealed by the lifting of the man's hat I Souri recognized a head she could never I forget-the head of Corporal Ratigan. "Why," she said, "ain't you Cor poral Ratigan?" "'I am, me young lady, and If Oi'm I niot niistakcn yo'rc one of the party that t was goin through the lines one day a i few wvolks ago. " Jakey at this momeont came around a the house in a fashion at which lie had become expert at school. This was turn- I inlg handsprings sideways like a cart t wheel. Seeing the soldiers, ho suddenly g remembered his dignity as former vet- t untoor ai d-de--camp, and straightening a up pulled his hat down over the back t of his head arnd tried to look military. fl True, his hair was in his eyes, but his n ilitairy training had only boon for one t mioring, aind Jakoy's hair was always e In his eyes. Doubtless it would have bI required months of training from a e drill sergeant to got it to growing any t other way. Approaching the fence, lhe . climibed it and sat with one log on each (1 sido of it. "oye know mue, inc boy?" asked C Ratigan. "Does I know erie o' them signal lights on th' mountinig?"' "'Oh, Jakey,"' sighed his sister. a '"Well, moc lad,'' pursued the corpo ral, laughing. "'Who am I?"' ''Rats.'' "I see ye have a good memory. Rats. It's quaro ye should have .remembered that. " And the corporal chuckled goodr naturedly. "Mobbe y' remember soncmoiun's 1nam.'' "And who is that?" *"Miss Baggs." "Certainly I do, " Aaid the corpioral ~ somewhat startled andl confused. ( "I sor her t'othor (lay. " ''Ye don't mean it?" t r "Reckon I do."t ''Whore?"'' I"She war a-trottin that olo critter o' 1 horn, goen no'th like shiot from a squir- t Srol gumn. ' S "Upon mo word!" ejaculated the cor poral, evidently much interested, S"Reckon she war up to sonmep'n. " "Whatlos eo think so?" A nd Rati STAGE COACH DAYS. low Feople Traveled In the Middle SRateo Forty Wears Ago. F orty-two years ago lanst New Year's 9 ay the last through United States mail rrived by stage coach from Baltimore t Wheeling, W. Va., says the Balti- y iore Sun. John 1H. Reeside, now a esident of Baltimore, was in charge f the stage which made the last trip, iriving in Wheeling Now Year's day, 353. Mr. Reeside's father, the lato James eeside, was a pioneer in this travel. a he son entered the same business hen about fifteen years old, and con nued extending stage-coach lines estward until they reaclied tho Pacific ast. Railroads followed in the wako f the coach lines and took away their usiness of carrying passetigers and iails. 01 Probably the most interesting of Mr. b4 .eside's experiences were in connce- U on with the national road, or "old ice," projected by the national gov- h ninent in 1806. This road extended 'om Cubilerland, Mid., westward over io Alleghanies to the Ohio river. It 'as the main artery of travel for pas- d inger, mail and freight tralic until le Balinmore & Ohio railroad took Its lace. From altimore to Cumberland the B irnpike was older, having been con ructed by private persons and compa- b, ies. "The stage-coach headquarters in Bal- ' more," said Mr. Reeside, "were at old I, arnu1m's hotel and the Fountain inn, ti hich stood on the site of the Carrollton le Dtel. The coaches used were open at w to front and sides, with seats for a even passengers besides the driver. y 11 seants faced the front of the vehicle. , addlebags, which were carried In that me for baggage, were hung on the h osti. mnpporting the top of the stage. il small rack behind for trunks was at ddom used. A tin I intern, with a %v tilow dip, placed over the driver was w sod at night. "Four strong horses drew these 01 :aches, with relays every ten or twelve i uiles at stages or stations, from which '. ,robably camo the name of the vehicle. f( 'le average rate of fare was six cents f, , mile. At first travel was only in the t laytime, with stops over night at the % kumberous excellent inns or taverns 1 vhIch lined the road. 0 "Ono of the great obstructions to r ravel along the rond were large droves d f cattle, sheep and hogs being driven a roin western plains to eastern markets. l'ho cattle especially, with their long i iorns pointed toward the oncoming t roach, made a formidable obstruction. , "The two hundred and seventy-two I iles from Baltimore to Wheeling were 1 [rst made in four days, with nightly itops. The best stage coach thne was afterward reduced to fifty hours by the old eclipse line, established by James Reeside." Mr. Reeside is probably the only sur riving stage coach contractor of ia Uional prominence. Ile is a native of umberland. Samuel Lurman, said to t be the oldest living stage coach driver, now lives in Cumberland. ENGLAND IN THE JAM TRADE. ladstone's WiFsdom in Aidviiing th Farm- c ors to Cultiate Fruit. A few years ago, when Mr. Gladstone, 4 n one of his chariming b)ucolic orations 1) it lawarden, recoinncnded the British P .armuer to turn his attention to fr-uit h multivation and the making of jam, his idvico wits received with a good d(eal of : hleap andI ignorant ridicule. As usual, "V he ex-premier has p~roved a good dieal el viser than his critics, atnd those who tC ave ear to his counsel in this instance ave had no reason to regret their con-r dence. In an interview a famous prlo ider said to a representative of the t ,'estminster Gazette: "T1he motive thait Induced mec to takco p the jam trade was my knowvledge of .ue fact that within late years the (10-t iand for preserves has been steadily h icreasing, while that for butter has- n o do'ubt in consequence-shown a ti andency rather to decline than other- 0 rise. Catering as I dlo for some three a undred thousand daily ens1 omera, I f ave naturally good opportunity of n nowing what the public want in il bo matter of provisionn. 14 "Jam has a great future before it. fl 'he people are using it more and more argely every year-and, in my opinion, 0 bocy are doing wisely, for whiat could 0 *c cheaper and at the same thme 0 cnlthier than good jam made from 13 aund English fruit? ' "I attribute the superiority of Enag. n shi fruit to the nature of the soil and i o the fact that the fruit ripen-s more 0 radually In our climate than in coun ries where there is momre continuous nid powerful sunshine. The slower a Lie ripeninug process;, the better Is the M avor of tho fruit. "You may not, perhmaps, be aware hat strawberries grown in the north rnn parts of Scotland arec vastly superior t a all respects to those grown ini south- in r-n England--withiout (loulbt becauso p iey take longer to mature. Australian urns are being pushed largely in In- t la and elsewhere, and may very prob- f bly come over hieio before long to a omupete with onur h omei produ11ce. "In Irelhmd the ire is a magnificent g uture for the fi-rit-growinmg industry, g only its opplortuniit i'n wvere turnied to ecount. Eveui now mont of the black erries that ecomo to the English mar :ets are gro~vn in Ilcanmd. But there r re enor-i.oums p)ossibilities there of vhich no onme hias yet taken advantage.A 'roperly worked-o, Its frumiit trade might et do munch to) haisure Ir-elaind's comn- c< 1er-cial prospetrit v." n MICHAEL K(ELLY('S FUNERAL. I g [us Iemains Carried to .lersey City For 0 CIIARa-;s'ox, 13. C., Febi-uary 5.--Theo v ilmainis of the late M. Kelly, who a led sudtdeinly on Wednesday night last C rere sent to Jermsey City today for- in- * armnent. They were accompaniedI by o he very R1ev. Drm. Mooney Vicar, goner 1 of the diocese of New York, the av Trran~ce F. Kelly, a brother of he dleceased. T1he funciral will be held a Jer-sey City at 10 a. m. on tomorrow. larlingoon To~i ioir'Eers' A esoclation. CmmAlnu:sToN, 8. C., Fcbruary 1.---The )ar-lington Tlobacco Girower's associa ion was organized at D~arlington yes eday with a. laren mnombnahip DRANK HIS PEPSIN S') m Ilia Mild Hypocrisy Irought Trouble to a Pillar of the Chur!h. - There is now living in o)neo of the ho tels of Indianapolis a rather proinincptb business man lho, althoughl l pillar in, the church he attlends an a tervent disciple of ternperance when he is called upon to addrossi a mecting, yet rather admires the shade of- -liqtioi. when it is red. Now, this sante man got the idea soiew'iere that he really needed a good stiff bracer of whisky before each meal, and, after pondering over several schemes in the hope of ar rival at something which would keep the snap concealed, he fixed it with the aleric that he was to have sent to the room at a certain hour each day a sil rer pot, in which was concealed a glass >f "pepsin," as It was christened for ,he occasion. And this went Into ffect. Before each meal the bell boy ,vould be sent up by the clerk with a 3ot of "pepsin." One day the head clerk was very 3usy, and, as he saw it was the time for mending up the liquor, he turned to mother cleric and told him to send up Mr. --'n pepsin right away. And it. io happened that the new clerk wasn't 3,u to the scheme, and so he called a bell-boy, sent him into the drug-store mud told him to have prepared a stiff lose of the real pepsin and take it up to the room designed. The bell-boy Lfterward told whathe salw. The gen lemm an met him at the door with a he 2ign smile and lordly air of condeseen lion. "Ai, my boy," said he, us he wiped hs mouth with his tongue, "you hnve brought my pepsin. I see. You aire a good boy. i'll just drink It right here while my wife is getting ready for ri nner." Ile turned the glass into the air, )pened bla tih-oit and threw back his 'ace. Just here the bell boy isn't clear is to what happened. lie at first said ,hat the muan gave a gasp of horror and ihouted that he was poisoned by memies who were jealous of his social mecceses, and then the boy rememberr, that, somnebody's foot caine in contact with his trousers and he begain going downstairs at a most terrible rate. It seems clear that the business man did mak1le hisi appearanee in the ofiee a few iminutes later andt asked what kind Of pepsin thalt was he had been given. The new clerk re.plied that, it had been bought at the drug store. imut. just tlen the head cleric cine up, antid the whole thing was explainied. lheal pepsin was too munch for the old Imnal's digestion. Indianapolis Hentinel. HARD "O KILL YAQU IS. Mexican Indians G ratuialy ExtorminatIng thn 4ioldierr. Among the pansengers who arrived on the steamer St. Paul, froam navmas the other day, was Ur. Iloido. Wvuon the doctor left Cuaynmas the Mexican troop ship Alejandro had just arrived there with the Seventeenth battalion of infantry, numbering about four hunir dred troops. "The soldiers are going to the Yaqui war," said Dr. Ioido, "to take the places of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth battalions, which have been nearly ex terminated by the Indians. The war has now been in progress for six years, the Yaquis being us. diflicult to cope wvit as your Apaches in Arizona. They are a cowardly lot, conduetiig as they do gnerrilla warfare. They give as a reason for fighting that the Mexicans are taking from them their lands, as the American settlers did thiose of the Indians long ago. No reservations are Bet aside for the Yaquls, and it is a ques, tion whether they would accept any. "A short time ago ai number of In diana swooped dlown upon a band of settlers and would have wiped them out but for the arrival of the soldiers. As It was, twelve of them were kmled, while only three Yaquis bit the dust. H~ow many Yarqism are left it is impossi ble to determine, as they roam about thme country in baudsa numbering from fifty to two hundredl." The Czamr Vidn'& T.ilk. They are telling another story In London at the expense of thme irre p ressible Mr. Stead. In a recent article e boasted of enjoying a private con versation with the late czar, "as frank and full and unreserved na I evor hold with any man." It was during a visit to St. Petersburg. As Stead had coim plhmented Alexander in thme Pall Mall Gazette at a time when other British p apers wore reViling him, the czar~ was induced to favor the journalist with an Interview. It was stipulated, however, that It should not last more than fif teen minutes. 4t the end of that. time the emperor looked at his wu'atch and arosh to Indicate that the interview should cease. "'int., your~ jmjesty," protested Mr. Stead, "you have not said a word." "No," said the czar, "you haven't given mae a ebance." QUEEN VIUTORIA'S MESSAGE. Delivered at the Opening of Panrliamuent Mtatters Referred to. LOND)ON, February 5.-The queen's speech on the occasion of the opening of pailiament today refers to the eon tInued efforts to promote peace between China and Japan, thme conclusion of thme breaty with F~ranace in regard to the Af rican hinterland, and the prospect of an sarly settlement of the question of tho Russian boundary line in- Central A sia The speech also expresses regret at the Armenian outrages, asks for an In crease of the financial provision for strengthening the navy., The bill pro gram makces no reference to the ques tion of the veto power of the house of lords. Remiaded of anm Earthquake. "It Is somethihe like an earthquake shock," said the talkative passenger, "when two electries clash together. I have been In a railway accident; and I've felt the ground shake and seen the mduntains teetering out In Cali fornia, and tho.aensation' the last two inspire, is much the same. I don't know whether or not it's because there's the same force knociked end ways in electric car, accidents and in earthquakes, but in both your mouth instantly tastes' as a photographer's dark room smells and you turn Into a sort of a galvanic goose flesh and--" The rest was inaudible, a~s the talka tive passenger followed his companion , out of the car.-Bloston Traniscript, a: 'HE ENGLISH IN AFRICA. 'hoir Efforts to Subdue a.Tribo of Warlike Natives. Msrfare Which IUs steen Going on for Donades Between the Queens Troops and the Untam able Savages. The Waziri country forms a blockc of )out 9,000 square miles, backed by the Aleiman ranges on t he west and run ng down our frontier from the Kur i valley on the north to Baluchistan the south. Of the dozen tribes which cupy its fastnesses, says the London hines, the Waziris alone are sufficient powerful to require attention. The 'aziris aro-themselves divided into two ans, the Darwesh and the Mahaud, Aween whom rages a chronic feud. nited they could nuster perhaps 40,000 0hting men, of whon about a half ive matchlocks. But the Mahsuds, though fewer in numbers, are braver, 1 igrier and more untaumed, and they I 'o driving the more civilized Darwesh i )wn from their ancestral glens and : tstures to the shelter of our lannu i strict.. On the four or five occasions 1 which It has been necessary to send ritish Punitive forces into the Wyaziri I 11s the Darwesh have shown no con ned front, and as they possess scaree- I any property it has been difficult to i flict any real losi upon them. Thie dian papers report that, on the i lrentened outbreak of hostilities, this i sai warlike section of the Watziris ore making a peaceful exodus into 1 fe quarters within our frontier. The allSudi have always Played, and are >w playing, a very different game. Down to thirty-four years ago they irried our border villages almost with ipunity. But in 1800 their audacious tack on the frontier town of Tank, I ith an invading host of 8,000 Mahsud i arriors, forced us to try to teach them i lesson. Within a month of the Tank i itrago, in the most favorable month i r such warfare, when the spring crops 1 y ready for destruction or as forage >r -our transport animals, we sent a wee of 5,000 troops into their mloun ilns. It was the Masuda, however, ,ho taught us a lesson. One.' night just efore dawn ,000 of them surprised uzr camp, the bravest of their warriors ushing through our tents and cutting own mnci and animals till they them lvesf fell covered with wounds, but wr in hand. It was a surprise con I-cted almost exctly on the plan of ai. 'idit attack onl our camp a few vkoo, Lld w%-it I C mCL i1ore suCCelSs. n V;31 m lost no fever than 2'4W men, *..des numbers of the trallspurt ani iN, wileo the 'Mahmuds le-ft oly 1".) oris huhind. "Th who'le campoaign," v!; Mr. Thortnrn, "ost xi; nearly -t0 : 1and. adm1i!tedly Tailed in itn- ohIje.. ( -Tect inf the submission of the tribe. . . Mahsutds would not submit Ind he' exNpne of mxiain taining a small iy in tliC'lr mib:t WII heavy, th lhIring th' next twenty years WO opt up a clumisy and intermittent >lockado against the Mahsud clans. lut the steadily-growing list of their Iutrages compelled us in 1881 to tako 10em efflectively in hand. A force of 000 British troops, now armed with reech loaders, penetrated into every irt of their hills. Resistance, whilich id been possible by tile sword and atchlock against the old nuzzle load , was hopeless against our new eapon. Thle tribe gaLve upl thleir lead s to our general and submitted to his rms.1 We have already referred to the more cent history of the Waiziris. The time .s come wvhen they must either accept ec peace and order which the Afghan neer and the British government are 'intly determined to impose on the order land, or they must be compelled do so. Temporizing offers and half sarted submission can avail them othing. Once they really make up ieir minds to come into the new stato titings, there are several influences I. workc on the frontier to provenitthem 'em regretting their decision. For terly their chief source of wealthl was 10 custody of the Gomal Pass and tile ucs or blackmail whichl they levied -omn all who went through it, whlether ritish subjects or A fghan.. In place tis and ether less legitimate forms l plunder, the British government pens up employment in its border po ce and frontier irregular force. rad~o soon springs up when a hil11 race akea the change from pillage to set ed industry. WVe have taught tribes ron more untamnablo than the Waziris tat plunder as a means of livelihood yes not pay upon the British border; axd there is no permanent reason why e should not also teach them. SOUTH CAROLINA IN BRIEF. Edward Anderson, late captain of .1e Carolina Rifles at Charleston, is ow the general of the Fourth bri ade. TLhere does not seem to be any en husiasm among the Sumter Ligilt In antry in the matter of re-enlistment nde1r the new law. II on. B. F. Crayton had a serious fall romn a laddolr in liis barn at Anderson, ay or two since, by which several of is ribs were broken. State Secretary WV. M. L.ewis is ar onging for a large delegation at tile .M. C. A. convention to be held in iken, S. C., February 14-17. Part of the body of an unknown ilored mall was picked up Saturday nar MIagpnolia crossing, Charleston, to man having been killed by the out :>ing phospate train on the South Car ina and Georgia railroad. The Anderson telephone company ill soon be ready for operation, The sockholders have already organized. apital is all local. Twenty-five sub 3ribers have been obtained so far, but thers will moon come in. he Steamship Ringdlom ApparentlyLost. CnAnras'row, 8. C., February 2. treet Brothers, consignees of theI teamship Kingdom, which is reported nissing, state that they have heard tothing of the vessel. The Kingdom ailed from Hamburg with a cargo of canit for Charleston. She put in for oal at Shields, which place she left orty-one ays mao