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VOL________ 5___ JPICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH ,85 (OPYRIGnT, 1894 Wne gave mm a iny wute envelopo, w] within which in a few words was con- sh centratod what may be boat expressod as B< three days' rations of desiccated affoo- or tion. tu Jakey took the parcels, and placing toi the note in his cap wont out, mounted be Tom and dashed away after his com- vo mandor. oli Maynard's brigade crossed the river a i south of Loo' ut mountain and passed B( over the mountain's face where it juts wi on to the river. His command was but se one of the many, all moving forward lie toward a retreating enemy. He marched through Chattanooga to co Rosaville, situated at a gap in Mis'sion hi Ridge. From there he was ordered for- wJ ward, entering what is called McLon- th more's cove, an undulating space lying or, between two ranges, Mission Ridge and or the Pigeon mountains. There the bri- se; gade encamped on a field soon to becomo U memorable as the scene of one of the wi most desperate, the most dramatic of th all the bat.tles of the civil war-the he geld of Chickamauga. Ti CHAPTER XL th A RACE FOR LIFE, ha Major Burko's command was ordered ro to guard the telegraph line extending by south from Rossville. The regiment re, was strung out to a considerable dis. th tanco, each troop guarding a certain sh portion of the line. Corporal Ratigan ab was placed in charge of a section of a : two miles. Putting himself at the head mi of eight men, ,r )od Chem to the end of his sootion ne. ' t camp, a-Lid dividing he them Into two reliefs of four men each wi posted them at intervals of half a mile ol along the line under his care. A t sun- be set, not being relieved, lie prepared to spend the night in bivouac. Selecting a go clump of trees under which to rest and cutting some boughs for beds-or rather he to keep the mon from the damp ground ta) -tbe corporal established the relief, off mi duty, there. The rations were cookod Bt and oaten, after which the guard was it( relieved. The corporal wont out always thi with the relief, posted his men and w< slept between times. th: It was 2 o'clock in the morning when lai Ratigan started out to post the last ro- be lief for the night. The men followed, In grum and stupid, having just been wak ened out of a sound sleep and not yet att thoroughly aroused. The party rodo to th the extremo end of the section, left a tu: man and turned back, leaving a man at ed every half milo. Corporal Ratigan had so posted the last man half a mile from the , bivouac and was returning when sud- Im denly, turning a bend In the road run- P1n ning through 'a wood, he descried a go dark object beore him beside the road. He drew rein and watched and listened. w] The dark object, as he fixed his gazo he upon it, grew Into the dim outlines of a co vehicle, but it was too dark for him to see if it contained any one. The corpo- In ral, whose mind had been fixed on the pe special duty of protooting the line, at th once assumed that seine one was trying 0] to out the wire. No put spurs to his iii horse and called out: "Halt, there! Throw up your hands oh and surrender, or I'll shoot. " The only response wahs a swish from ab~ a whip which came down evidently on be a horse's back, and the dark mass bo- it. fore him vanished around the bend In no the road. The corporal dashed on, but in; before he could get around the bend the th object had turned again. Hoe could hear fei: the rattling of wheels and sounds of a ed horse's hoofs digging into the road at a gallop. W/hoover was behind that horse must be driving at a frightful pace, for urging his own beast to his i best ho somedlto lose rather than gain lou ground. Couing to a straight pice of .me yoead, lhe could again see the objct bo fore hin, but in the darkness It was ] simply a darker spot than Its surround- Ra ings. Suddenly the ears of the corporal hiri caught a sound that flleod him with as- as tonishnient. It was a voice urging for- his *ward the horse he was chasing. Rati- ] gan had supposed that whoever was try- Go ing to escape was a man, yet this voice sib was different from a man 's tones. It wc sounded like that of a child or awoman. Mi The corporal wvas puzzled. Then it end- fr denily occurred to him that perhaps lie was chasing Betsy B~aggs. th( Now, the corporal was as conscion-. tious a man as there was in the Army sni of the Cumnberland and one of the most gallant, but when the suspicion we - fell upon him like, a chill that lie was after a woman whose prosonice, for the vii brief period lie had been with her, had so throwvn a strange spoil over him ho on ceased to urge his horse with the samo in pressure as before. In the midst of the ke chase there had conmo a contLest within th his own breais between two conflicting di emotions. If itsy Blaggs were in front hi of him, what would be the result if hie hi - should catch her? Ho mnust turn her over to the military anthorities, and the ohances were she Would be exootd for al a spy. On the ether hand, supposing he he permitted her to escape, he would be th liberating an Onomiy far more dangor- to ens to the armiy in which he served wa than a dozen batteries. In short, he am would be a traitor to his comrades and his cause. s Miss Baggs, for it was she, had pass- ps ed many pickets, had experienced many hi lucky escapes. She had browbeaten em-. lt cers and had cozened soldiers. She had gi gone through a dozen places where a ra man would surely have boon arrested. t And now, after passing so many dan- Mi goe, on the very eve of success, she Bud- '' donly found herself in the most criticaniit of all the situations she had over been or - placed in. Meanwhile the long legs of Bobby a Leo weore getting ever the ground at di ~nastonishing pace. It was not the ti- hi angulaion o a ormuer IO00 fsr spnrt w 9C ITCIIL BY aMCRaCAN PAIsS ASSOCentO.. th Corporal Ratigan, but the quick, ort jump.i of a race for life. And ibby somed to kilow the stake. Nov in his former flights had his ears boon rned back so eagorly to catch the low ios of his mistress. Never had there Dn so much feeling in that mistress' ico. It was: "Go on, Bobby! Good I horse. Get up! On, on, on! That's lear boy. It's life and death with me, obby," a continued stream of broken >rds and sentences, all of which Bobby ned to understand and act upon as if had been a human being. The fugitive know that the chase uld not be a long one. Her crazy ve olo was lik6a rotton hulk in a storm thout sea r"o'. To the north was a Tennessee river, and no moans of >ssing. Ahead was Chickamauga 3ok, but between her and it lay the ittored forces of the left wing of the ion army. She knew the ground 11 and had as good a knowledge of a positions of the troops as one could ye of an army constantly changing. ie point from which she had started is half a mile west of Rossville on a Lafayette road. A milo of chasing d brought her near a fork, the left id leading across Chickamauga creek Dyer's bridge, the right leading di 3tly south. She determined to take a left band road, intending, if she Duld succeed in reaching Dyer's mill, out a mile from the crook, to strike .ord some distance below that she re nbered having once crossed. These possibilities flashed through r mind like messages over a telegraph re while the thud of hoofs and the ittering of her pursuer's swinging sa r were sounding in her ears. "On, on, Bobby; for heaven's sake, onf" Would it not be best for her to leave r horse and buggy in the road and to to the woods? No. They would rk the point whore she had left them. it her pursuer would not know which lo of the road she had taken, and ro would be an even chance that he iuld follow on the wrong side. Some. ing must be done; the race could not it forever; the man behind seemed tc gaining, and then the dread of com g upon a Union camp! Bhe was about to bring her horse to a ind and jump from her buggy when 3 clatter behind her--Ratigan had med a slight bond in the road-sound so loud, so near, that instead of doing she gave him a out with the whip. "There's no time now, Bobby. We ist put a greater distance between us d the Yankee. Get up, Bobby! Oh, on! Why haven't you wings?" Heavens, what is that ahead? Tents, iito and ghostly in the gloom! And w many of them! The whole field is vored I Nearer comes the clatter from behind. front is a sleeping regiment, brigade, rhaps a whole division. It was not are yesterday. It must be-in transit. i, why should it have halted just in no to block the way? "God help me, I must take my, anoes and go on. " Sentinels were pacing on their beat. out the camps.. In some cases the ats led along the road, but not across Right through these chains of senti hi, right into the :teart of this sleep g multitude of armed men, dashed m woman whose only weapons of de so were Dobby Lee and her antiquat vehiceo. 'Halt!" 'Go en, Bob!" i shot, a bullet singing like a tun fork in cars which already sang d enough in $hemselves with excite at. 'Turn out the guardl!" 'ollowing Miss Baggs came Corpor~al tigan, to find the road in front of1 a blocked by half a dozen mon with many muskets pointed right up in face. 30o uttered an involuntary "Thank dl" lHe must be delayed; the respon ility for the escape of the fugitive uld be with them. If indeed she were ss B~aggs, ho would regard himself tunato at the delay. 'What's the matter?" asked one of 'I'm chasing somne one in front. I poet a telegraph breaker." "Ahm! That's it, is it? Well, go on; 've stopped thme wrong person." rho corporal regretted that the inter iw had been so brief, the interruption short. lHe hand no option but to dash Before the fugitive there stood a man the midlo of the road wvith a mus b leveled straight at her, or rather at > comning mass, which he could not itinguish. Miss Baggs (lid not see in till she got within a dozen feet of mn and heard: "Halt, or I'll fire!" Rising in her seat and concentrating her strength in one effort, she brough t r whip downm on the horse's back, at! o same time holding him in the oen e of tile road by tihe reins. The man ms knocked in one direction, stunned, id his musket weont flying in thme other. And now ch one of tihe chain of utries through which tihe fair dis btch stealer's hlorse dragged her and ir swaying buggy with a series of nges, hearing shots, the cries of Lards, the clatter of horses' hmoofs, tile ttling nf wheels, and seeing some ing coming through the darkness as iss Baggs approached, shouted "Halt I"i rurn2 out the guard!" "Who comes ere?" and a sooro of ether similar ie, to none of which Miss Baggs paid. my other attention than to fly through id from themi as from the hand of. ath. A score of shots wore fired at ir along half a mile of road while she0 as running the antlet., And now the-'last sonfry- is passed, and the woman shoots out from between the rows of white tents into a free road ahead. The noises are left behind. But amid the confusion of distant sounds is one which, coming with a low, contin ued rattle, strikes terror into her heart. A familiarity with war has taught her its calls. She hears the beating of the "long roll." The whole camp is arous ed. A legion of Yankees may soon be in pursuit. Corporal Ratigan was stopped by ov ery sentinel who had tried to cheek Miss Bagge. After an explanation to each he was suffered to go on. The men whc stopped him transmitted the informa tion at once to the guard tent that some one-doubtless an onomy-was being chased. The force was a division of in fantry, with no cavalry Oxcopt a mount ed escort to the general commanding. Somo of theso wero ordered in pursuit. Thoro was a hurried saddling of. horses, sprinkled with oaths at the delays en. countered, and threo cavalrymen mount ad and dashed after Miss Baggs and her pursuer. But before they started a cou ple of miles had boon placed between her and tho camps. The gray of the morning was by this time beginning to reveal objects with greater distinctness. Ratigan, coming to a rise in tho ground just beyond the camps, saw the buggy about two miles ahead swaying like the (lark hull of a ship rolling through the billows of an ocean. For a moment ho hesitated be tween his duty as a soldier and that quick, sharp something, be it love, be. witohmuent or a natural sympathy of man for weaker woman, while beads of cold perspiration stood on his forehead. It seemed to him that if ho should do his duty he would be noting the part of an executioner, not only that, but the exooutioner of a woman-a woman whose image had got into his heart and his head and never left him a moment's peace since she first throw the spell of her entrancing personality about him. It was a hard struggle, and from the nature of the case could not be a long one. Duty won. Ho shouted to his horso, gave him a dig with .both spurs and dashed forward. There was a depression in the ground down which the corporal plunged. Then the road ran along a level for awhile, with another slight rise beyond. As he rodo down the declivity tho fugitive was on the crest of the second rise. She stood up and turned to catch a glance behind her. She saw a horseman-she was too far to recognize the corporal dashing after her. Below her was a wooded space, and sho noticed that which gave her a glimmer of hope. rhe road forked. Urging her horse on ward, she aimed to got on one of the two roads beyond the fork while her pursuer was in the hollow back of her, trusting that she might escapo, as she had escaped before, by forcing him to chooso between two roads, and trusting that he might take the wrong one. Down the declivity her racer plunged while Ratigpm was galloping down the one behind her. So steep was the road and so swift her horse's pace that the danger of death by mangling seemed greater than death by hanging. She reached the bottom, where the road ran level to the fork and the wood.. Hope urged her. It was not 100 yards to the point she was so anxious to reach. Passing over a rut at the very fork of the road that seemed her only chance for escape, the old buggy gave a dismal groan, as much in sympathy with the mistress it had served so well as a death rattle, and flew into a hundred pieces. CHAPTER XII. A CHANGED ENEMY. Corporal Ratigan had been worked up to such a fever of excitement by the chase and his complicated feelings to ward the object of it that when he shot vor the rise in the ground that hid the ugitivo from his view his visage was listortod from the expression of good lature usually stamlped upon it to one vhlich cain only be called demoniac. lis eyes were wild, that portion of his lair whichl extended below his forage ap somed to glow with unusual rod ioss, his body leaned forward like a ockoy in a race, thle whole forming a icturo of eager ferocity. In short, Cor loral Ratigan resonmbled anm escaped unatic chasing a flying fiend who hlad ceen torturing him. On tile crest of tihe second rise he trained his eyes after Miss Baggs. fothing appeared to denote her presence n the landscape except a horse in har iess, which he idragged iln thle dust, rotting back toward a heap of rubbish n tile road. A sudden dread took pocs esion of the corporal. It was plainly vident there had been an accident. Ho sad been chasing a Confederate tole grp -tao hth mgttr e wa 2sddnl plne-no err o but tvithe anew oabed distnc i his bttsuorherUs Heoonrm to the ltr auhiea of irs andi aronwhich mlarked and poinW he wags wasll po iluned into seo fore toa he wood beon kiled fork wnt road? byti %th a nea objeict ditic ihn sg ching I anjot tof Inpre Misuatgsd but toisuor aher fasnoo uy math. irn wnc anne. til pintofh wood, 'when, looking doivn oi the long grass by the roadalde, he desoried the unconscious body, the face apparently white in death, of the woman he sought. In a moment the corporal was off his horso and on his knees beside hor. The chase in wich ho had boon so eagor and the cause wi'ro both forgotten on seeing Miss Baggs lying apparently cold in death at his foot. "Darlin, aro yo hurt?" Thoro was agony in the corporal's voice. He put an arm under her head to raise it. With the other he grasped her hands. "To the divil's own keepin with the war anyway. What's it good for ex cept to injure innocent women and chil dren?" In that nonresistance of unconscious ness ho forgot that this woman had boon engaged in what the world condemns oponly, if not secretly, as illegitimate warfare. To him she was innocent, not that he reasoned upon her acts, but be cause a mysterious something-a breath from spirit land-had made her more to him than all the world beside. He laid his head down upon her breast to listen if the heart boat; he chafed her hands and arms; he took off his cap and fan ned her. Still she lay limp in his arms without a sign of life. "Darlin, darlin, como back to life. Como back, if it's only long enough to tell me yo forgive me for me cowardly chasin yo. Oi've killed yo. Oi know it. 01 wish some one would run a bayonet through me own rotten heart." A slight murmur, something like a groan, escaped her. "PraisA God, there's life I If it'd only grow stronger! Ah, thank heaven, there's water!" Laying her head down in the grass, he went to the side of the road where there was a runnel of clear water. Scooping some of it in his two hands, he threw it in her face. She opened her eyes. Corporal Ratigan never forgot the look with which his prisoner regarded him when she recognized who he was. There were two expressions following each other rapidly-tho first, reproach; but when she noticed the pain with which it was received it melted into one of tenderness. "Ah, Rats," she exclaimed faintly, "how could you do it?" He put his groat hands-brown from exposure-boforo his eyes to shut out the face which at every glance kindled some now emotion to rack him. Now that she had come to life another terror came to him to administer an added torture. Ho know that mounted men were following; that they would soon appear over the crest just behind them; that his prisoner would be taken, tried and condemned. "They're comin I They'll be here in a jiffy!" he cried wildly. "Tell me that yo forgive me. Tell me that yo don't hate ie as I hate meself. " "For doing your duty, Rats?'" "Dutyl Is it a man's duty to run down a woman like a hare? Don't talk to me of duty. If ye suffer for this, O'l1 desert and go back to Oireland, and God be praised if he'll send a storm to sink the ship and me in it. There's a drop in me canteen-a dr- of whisky. Will yo take it, darlin-I mean-I don't know-what I'm talkin about. Lot me put it to yer lips. Take a swallow. It'll revive yo. No?" She appeared to be passing back to unconsciousness. "Take it for moi sake, sweetheart. Only take a good swallow, and yo'll be righted. " She opened her eyes. Evidently she had hoard. There was an expression on her face indicating that his words had produced that effect upon her which might be expected in a woman who hears a strong man, unconsciously and unintentionally, declaring his love. "Why do you wish me to live, Rats? Don't lot moc live. If you do, I'll die on the gibbet. " '"Oh, darlin, '" ho moaned, "'don't be talkin that way. Oi'lldie meself first. Oi'll raise a mutiny. 0'l1" Ho could not go on. His words inooked him. He well knew their futil ity. "Take a drop, sweetheart-only a drop for moi sake." What a change from the day he had1 jokingly asked her to take an oath for "moi sake!"1 'For your sake, Rats. Give it to me." Ho put the nook of a battered tin can-) teen to her lips, and she drank a little of the liquid. It produced a beneficial change at once. A tinge of color came to her cheeks, and she breathed mere e~ily. A clattering of horses' hoofs, a clank ing of sabers, mounted figures standing out against the morning sky on the crest behind them, anel three cavalrymen are dashing on to where lies Miss Baggs and kneols the corporal. "Promise mc, Rats, that you will do nothing foolish,'' she asked pleadingly. "0 God!i Oi'mt going to draw me revolver on 'cm."' "Promise. " "I can't. " "For moi sake, Rats." The faintest trace of a smile, despito her desperate situation, passed over her faco as she imitated the corporal's pro nunciation. The quaint humor, mini gled with so nmany singular traits prom inent ini her that could show itself at so critical a moment, touched a responsive Irish chord in his Irish heart and brought him to terms. "For your sake, darlin, Oi'l1 do it, " he said ini a despairing voice. There was scarcely time for him to speak the words-indood1 they were whispered with his lips touching her ear-when the three cavalrymen rode up to whore the two were. "What's it all about, corporal?" ask ed one of them. "I found this-thiis lady-iying heo. Her buggy is broken. She is badly hurt." The corporal spoke the words haltingly, and drops of sweat stood out on his forehead. "Who is she?" "Well, that's to be found out sonmc other time. One of ye'd better ride back for an ambulance and a surgeon. " "Never mind the surgeon," said Miss Blaggs faintly. "Well, bring the amnbulance any back if ye like. Oi'll gay with her. She's me own prisoner." "There's no need of all going, " said ] the man who had spoken. "I'll go my- I sOlf. " He turned and rodo away, whilo the I others dismounted and throw the roins I of their bridles over a fonco rail. Ono I of them caught Bobby Lee, who was .E cropping the grass near by, occasionally looking up as though suspicious that I something had happened. The men loi tored about, now and then approaching t to take a look at the prisoner, but soon I turning away again, quite willing to bo free from tho responsibility which Cor- I poral Ratigan soomed disposed to take upon himself. "Rats, " said Miss Baggs, who was F now rapidly recovering strength and v coolness, "it will not be long boforo I shall be separated from you. Boforo a then I wish to thank you for the kind- t noss, the interest, even the tendorness, f with which you have treated a fallon I enemy. And I wish to ask your forgive ness for the deception I practiced on c you once when you were deputed to soo me through the lines." "What was that compared with what i Oi've done?" ho moaned. "Do you forigve me?" "0i do. But Oi've nothin to for give. " "And, Rats, you have unconsciously lot me know that you-you feel more kind ly toward me than" "You've robbed mo of mo heart in tiroly. " "Well, I'm both glad and sorry. It. is delightful to be loved, but sad to think that your very love must make you grieve. Our meetings have been few and strango-very strange," she addod musingly. "Who are you, Rats? c I know you are well born. I can see it a In every word and motion. " "Oi'm second son of Sir Thomas Rat- t Igan, Esq., of County Cavan, Oiroland. At his death me older brother succeeded to the estate. So I camo to America to shift for moself. A year ago 01 enlisted [n the Union ranks, and here 01 am. Oi wish to God me brother was in his cofin and 01 in possession of the es tates, that 01 could give them all to . save your life." $ "No, no, Rats. You are a soldier and an honorablo man. Remember what I have told you. You will do your duty hereafter as you have done it heretofore. Your words in that respect a are meaningloss. Your sense of honor will always triumph over your sym pathy When that sympathy is alloyed t with dishonor. For this I havo con- d coived for you an unbounded respoot. v Perhaps were I not so soon to be" "Don't speak it, for God's sake don't 1 Rpeak it." "Well, Rats, we will try for the o Drief time we shall bo together to fix our minds on a pleasant picture. Lot , us think of that day when the south will be independent, or at least when north and south will be at peace. This region, now trodden by soldiers wear i ug the blue and the gray, will be given up to those simple people who till the soil. Instead of the sound of shottod guns there will be the lowing of cattle. Instead of the singing of minio balls there will be the songs of birds. There will be peace, blessed peace. Oh, if I could only live to see iti Then perhaps I may take you by the hand, say to you -But, Rats, this can never be for us. It is only a fancy picture I've drawn to rolieve that terrible suffering I see in your face. You've aged ten years in as many minutes. Don't look at mot in that dreadful way. I can't bear it. " L a The two cavalrymen's backs were turned. They wore strolling towvard the n woeods. Ratigan put his ar os about her, ~ ind both yielded to a1/ong ombrace. r'hore were no more ord spoken. Words would have added nothing to vhat both felt. There wvas mere pain mdc more pleasure concentrated in the >osom of each than had been there in bll the years they had lived. CHAPTER XIII.8 "TURNED OvER." There was a rattling of wheels on fie soft road, and looking up Ratigan iaw the messenger returning, followoedc by an ambulance. Driving to Missb Baggs, wvho was still lying in the grass, I :ho driver backed it up to lher, while the mnessenger disnmounted and opened the loor. The cavahymnon stood ready to ift the prisoner into the vehicle. But Mdiss Baggs wa~ved them all away ox ept the corporal, and taking his; handn r~OSu to her feet and stood for a moment mupportcd by him. The effort was too much for her. Hecr head fell on his shoul icr, and for a moment she lost con tciousncss. R atigan took her off her feet, and lifting her into the ambulance laid - lier on the cushions. "Ol'll ride at the foot, " he said to ii the others. "One of ye lead me horse. " a When they camne to the place wvheroe nach had successively emerged from the namp through which Riatigan had fol lowed her before daylight, they found the road lined with soldiers, whose curl osity brought them there to see the woman who had succeded in breaking through a whole chain of guards. They had all heard of the exlloit and crowd ed around the ambulance as it passed, but were kept away by the guards in at tondanco,who dropped back to the sides t~r~d rear. This prevented any furt her conversation between Ratigan and Miss B~aggs, except an occasional whispor, but the corporal managed to keep her han d in his under a blanket, unobserved. At last the ambulance pulled up boforoe the headquarters of the division whmoso i camp they had entered, and Ratigan a suddenly became conscious of the fact that ho must turn his prisoner over toj others, doubtless to be dealt with sum- e marily, for ho well knew the ease wouldt naturally receive prompt attention. t An officeor with a captain's shoulder 1 straps camne out from headquarters and < survoyed the ambulance, Hoe was a t dapper little follow, fat and red faced. "Who've you got there?" lhe asked of Ratigan. ''A lady, sir.'' "The woman 'who ran the guards last night?" "01 captured her on theoroadi below. " I "H'm. The guard duty of this divi sion is ini a fine condition when a wonm- r an can run a whole ohain of sentinels. ~ 3ot her out of that." "She's badly hurt, captain," sai< Eatigan, who had stopped down on t, tho ground and saluted. "I can alight," said Miss Bagg eobly. And getting as best she coul o the door of the ambulance Ratigai iolped her out. She looked faint, bu tood by the aid of the corporal's arm. "Take her in to the general, " said th ittlo captain. "He wants to see her.' As the tent was an ordinary wail exit, there was no great room in it diss Baggs vent inside, while the cor oral stood directly outside, with hi land oii the tout pole. "I iust havo you searched, " said thi :enoral to the prisoner. Then ho added onowhat hesitatingly, "It's rathei wkward not having a woninn in eainp.' "I will relieve you of the nocessity,' aid the prisonor, with dignity, and put ing her iand into hor pocket sho dron orth a bundle of papers, which sh< kanded to him. "What are these?" asked the surpris, id commander. "Copies of intercepted tolegrams." Tho general uttered anl oxclaiation, mnd taking the papers ran thon ovoi vith1 blig ovar [TO DE CONTINUED.] WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. The president has recognized Andrev ?etersen as consul of I)emIark at Chi ago. The naval medical board has rejecte< D. A. Jonas, appointed to be an assiF unt paymaster fi the navy. Secretary Herbert spoke at the bari truet of the Pennsylvania Scotcl-Iris ociety in Philadelphia Friday night. Comptroller Echels has authorize< he Granville National bank, of Gran ille, N. Y., capital $50,000, to begh usiness. The Now York Central has broker round in Buffalo for the extensive in rovements which are to be built ft hiat city. Ai official circular announcing hanges in the traffme department of ti< eaboard Air [Line may be expected an3 ime this month. A rumor is current to the effect, thai everal changes are immxxainenlt amixonl he oficials of the Cincinnati, Jaskso nd Alackinaw. The committee on wxxoman suffrage o hie Massachusetts legislture Satu r(a1L ecided-8 to 3- to report a bill in fa or of municipal suffrage. Dr. G. 11. Foster, of Manchester Col. ,ge, Toronto. has accepted a call tc be chair of theology in the Universit3 f Chicago divinity school. General Manager Wood, of the Penn ylvania lines, who has been sjourn ng in Florida, has veturned to hi meadquarters in Pittsburg. Jonathan Tipon has received the a pointmxient of general freight and pat senger agent of the Knoxville, Cumibe Land Gap and Louisville road. Air. James Hodges. ex-mayor of Ila Himore, died last night at his honw there. Mr. Hodges had filled nan placcs of honor and trust, both nation mnd state. Eastern Passenger Agent Burke, o he Louisville and Nashville, indig iantly denies the report that ie ha, Peen offered the eastern passengei gency of another Southern road. Douglas Dalian, formerly comm aercia: gent of the Nashville, Chattanoog, nd St. LeoiIs, has been alhpointed gen ral southern agent of thme Iloosac Tun cl Line, with headquaxrters at Louis llie. W. B3. Shattuck, formerly general pas miger agent of the Ohio and Missis ppi,h[as been selected as one of the ar itrators to settle the quiestionx of dit arentials betweexn thme strong anxd dif irentiaml western lines. hMore sensational developmenmts in th< 95,000 shortage in the Kings county I. Y., txreasurer's offlee have beer rought to light by thxe discovery tha1 wo of the bonds of County Tireasurex [arry HI. Adams are xnissing froam th< aunty clerk's office in Blrooklyn. The onids axe for $100,000 eaceb. Judge Pryor, in the court of commiori leas at New York Saturday, refusedl naturalize two Italianis because they :mid not speak English. lHe annxounced1 mat foe-igners who could not speak( xc language of the [Unitedi States neeod oL, apply to him for citizenship paper~s. The Blaltimore and Ohiocoxmpany haa nder advertisement a proposition t< ictend the block signal system over iti ntire system. A meeting of the igher officials of the road is to be heli Chicago for the purpose of exain ig and discussing the various system iuse on the Chicago roads. They wiil dopt the onie they thimnk the most of ictive and complete. CZAR NEEDS SPIES. souls Phlippe's Expo'rtenc~e IlIlustraxtes tih V'aue of S'cret Police. The alleged determination of the cxx yeror of Russia to abolish forthwit1 he secret police is sure to end ii smoke, and it wouild be a most fatuou Lud absurd proceeding in the existing tondition of thxe country, says the Len ion Truthx. When Louis XVIII. was lying, Comite d'Artois (Charles X.: tud D~uo d'Orleans (Louis Philippe: mat in the next room discussing th< umntions of the piolice in a well' ~rdered state. Comto d'Artois do lared that tihe king's police should be ,s numerous as his guards, while Duc 'Orleans maintained that a virtuout aonarch, having confidence in sub octs, could entirely dispense with a so ret police. Louis Philippe acted on his principle whein lie camne to the brono for about twvo years, the rcsuxlt acing that he hiad four insurrections te fuell, his life was several times at emupted, and lie verxy narrowly escaped >cing tihe victim of a legitimate con. piracy, which had been formed to kid. ap him on the groun'ls at Neully, and u rry him out of FIrance. Louis hbilippo having discovered that hit irtues and good intentions would noi rotect him changed his tactics ant uring the Iast fifteen years of hm eign his police spies were even mori immeroa than his ands. THEY WOULDN'T EA'l Sad Experience of a Chioagoan ' the Peanut Concession at Anti, Americans eat a good many \ unknown to Europeans and which the people on the otrel would not eat even if they had a el Bananas, sweet potatoes, popcor peanuts are almost unknown in En A young Chicugoan 11(id not know. and it cost him several tiousand - to fild it out. lie returned from ti, Antwerp exposition, where he expori merited with the salo of popcorn and peanuts, and the stories ho tells of his experiences are amusing. "I knew the concessionnaires at the world's fair in Chicago earned money out of nickel bags of popcorn and pea nuts," hesaid. "The firm who had the concession here made something liko one hundred thousand dollars. I bad four or five thousand dollara saved up for a good investment, and so when the fair closed here I made application for the sole concetsion of the sale of pea nuts at Antwerp. There were no com petitors and I got the concession. Nov I wish I had not. I bought up all the popcorn and peanut roasters left over from the fair and went down south and purchased a car load of peanuts and made contracts for several other car loads to be shipped later on. lut I did not nced them. The paraphernalia, to gether with several hundred bags of old corn and peanuts, went over and I followed it. After weeks of hard work I was ready for buiness. But thero was nonc. Money is pess plentiful in Europe than in the United States. Thoso people over there thought as much of five ceiti aile.s an A imerican thinks of a half dollar. I saw I ha4d to make a low price for my stuff, so I put 1 the popcorn and peanit: on sale at fifteen centinmes a hag, w0hih is equal I to three cents in United Sta tes money. - Well, I had my hopes built up and be k fore I started to sell I dreamt of bags full of twenty-frane grold pieces and what I would (10 with themi when I got back to Chicago. You can inmagine my surprise whon I saw what the first woman did who had induced her com panion to buy a bag of popeorn. She bit a Piece in two, looked scared, and theni exclaimed in French: 'Why, it is cork. The Americans want to poison us.' "ler companion tasted the corn and jabb'hered sonething in French, and then took the whole hage and tlrew it away. When I saw this waa reaIIdy to faint. One after another the popcorn bags found their way to the floor. My hopes shmlattered, I sill had connfidenco in the p(iuts. lut they (id not like tll(mll either. They broke the shells, took ont the nuts, hull and all, munnched tlhm and then cried b-r-r-r,' and the poltimauts went the way of the popcorn. llow did I coume out? I came out and that is about all. I staid there six weeks, and after I lost all may money R started to see some of the continent. Now, I am gilad I i in Chieago, and I don't wimnt anlythigIr to do with pen s- nuts or pop-orn inl Euirope herel fter. It has beein a lessoni to mie, and I paid five thousand dolhirs for it, still I guess it is I- worth its price." e - y FAMOUS CAT FANCIIERS. Celebrities of All Area mni NntlonvalItles Who Ilave larin Pdvtq of Tihn. Looking back ward we find that pussy has bCon the pet and fa vorite of some of the most fanmous person:s in history. Mohammnied rather ebo:.c, to cut ofw the sleeves of his rob~e tham to dilturb aL cab lying uponI Ihem, anid his followers, who have no more objumgatory termi for the Christian than dog, admit It into their' mosques. Dante and Potrarch each had a fondness for them, and the great .Richelieu had a pet cat, while Cardinal Wolsey placed his favorite tab~by near him on a chair whilst exercisinig his ju dicial functions. iKir Isaac Newton had a pet cat anid kitea, : ays Girtrude( B. llolfe in North An.cmricaun licev. Mon taigne, too, was not too witty or too cynical but the frolics of a cat would amuse him, and L~a lkile Stuart, a famous beauty in thle reig;n of Charles II., satirIzed by Pope in time line wvell known: "Dio and endow am collego or a cat," left annuities to several of her friends on condition of their caring for and maintaining her cats. Among contem porary celebrities Ellen Ter(iry loves to disport herself with her cats. Both Rlonain and Taine possessed an ex-' travagant fondness for cats, andi~ Fran cols Choppee, who, since the death of Victor Ihugo, has been generally classed as the leading poet of contemporary F~rane, also shares this hobby in a marked degree. Cats surround his deskc and nibble at his pen wvhile ho wvrites, and his friends can recito a dozen poems which he has compnlosed in honor of these pets. 8OUTH CAROLINA IN BRIEF. Adjutant General J7. Gmary Watts is in Charleston for the purpose of comning to some understanding with the milita ry officers of 'that city in 'regard to the new military law, wvhich goes into ef -feet shortly. inThe state farmers' alliance is likely to ho in session in Columbia ini about a fortnight to consider what the farm ers of the state had best do to better their condition and( (10 battle wvith the 5 cent cotton situation. Port Royal makes a splendid showing in her cotton receipts this season as compared with the season of 1898-94. Since September 1, 1894, the net re ceipts have been 111,501 bales, as com pared with 47,038 the previous season, in increase of 64,stl8. Senator M. C. Butler spent Sunday afternoon and Monday in Edgefield. lie has now gone to Washington, but it is probable that ho. will return on Feruary 4th to address the veterans of the Abner Perrin Camp, who will meet here on that day. Advices received from Somoa say that a German firm, Frings & Spatz, have been importing and selling the rebels rifles and ammunition. The rebels are enabled to maintain an armed opposi. tion to the Malletoa government. The rifles imported from Germany were labeled toys and passed the customs. The German consuil fined each partner only p87.50, although the offense was a direct controversion of the Berlin