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A' PH I IOL TH PEOPL' S JOUR NALt, VOL. 6.---NO- 50- PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1897. ONE DOLAR A 'y. CHAPTER XII. Jack Ormeby did not go cast by the first train after Hie Christmas ball as had been his purposo, but ho saw no more of the lady cf his love. Late that dreadful night, rousing for a few me ments fromn tho stupor into which she had jeml thrown by the aitnouI net that it was her own brother who lay thoro dowustrIcken in the midst of his career of. orige 'and shame, Ellis Far rar, littli by little, realized tho wholo miserable trufti, that he, her brother, was the Inn who had wrecked Helen D.aunCon's life-I-Iclen, who, to sparo that Invalid mother an added sorrow, had hidden from her the name of the man whoso brutal blows and curses had rewarded her love. More than all did Ellis realize that the lover, whose loyalty awd devotion she horself had()%paid with scorn and contempt, had --ti-red her words in silence rather thiih betray another we man's confidence and thereby divulge a truth that would overwhelm with shame all who bore thepamo of Farrar. Then i was that, hysterically weeping, she broke down utterly) d beforo the set ting of another sun 41:mother and all the household learnoldii her lipsr that it was all that was left of Roylo Farrar khat now lay there, cold and stiff and Atill in that baro, echoing ward of the old hospital, awaiting the last volleys and the solemn trumpet salutation to the soldier dead. Only a corporal's guard formed the firing party when, just before sundown, the remains of Privato Graico were laid in the bleak, snow covered cemetery out on the rolling prairie, but more than a dozen men in the crowded garrison knew by that time that the folds of the dore draped over the mortal re mains of a colonel's' sii'O-. It wax an awestricken group that gathered about the hopital when the bearers came forth i their burdon and placed it in tho waiting ambulance and the firing squad presented arms. The idea cf the 2:cvrea:t, the would be murderer, Tom Graice, being buried with military honors had not occurred to the garrison as a possibility. Yet here was the lit tle escort; hero were the trumpeters-tho band had been nerci fully excused; here were pallbearers from his troop instead of from among the garrison prisoners, as might have been ruled when ono of their number died; here were old Terry Rorke and some of the senior sergeants of the regi ment; hero indeed, with pallid face, was young Lieutenant Farrar, with him Mr. Ormsby, the adjutant, quartornnister, the surgeon and one or two voteran cap tains, Major Waymnm6ind oven Colonel Fonton himself! Whoever heard of such an array as that at tending the obesequios of a criminal? Fort Frayno was mysti fled and talked of it for hours, but the story told itself before tattoo, and tho mystery was done. They had buried the firstborn of the colonel whom all men loved andl honored and mourned, and 01(1 Fenton himself decided that, as Graico had never yet been tried and convicted and)( could nev er appear before an earthly tribunal, he must be considered as innocent and so issued the order that no military honor should be denied except the hand. It was toe bitterly cold for them to at 4temipt to play, for thoe valves of the in stfruments would freeze at once, and it ~was deemed best that no sound of the dirge music s hould1- p~oh tho cars of Marjorie Farrar. Neit.er she nor Ellis know when the funeral took place, Mrs. Farrar learning onliy on the fol lowing day, Ellisi not until weeks there after, for, as a result of all tho long, gradu ,~mhi~, culminating in the shock of that agio night and the realizatiou --of the wvrL!g she had done thoe honest man who had so lovedl her, her strengt b gave way, and brain icycr and delirium supervened. In the week that followed that hapless holiday Ellis hovered on the borderland 'twixt life and death, and no man could say that the fatal Christmastide might net claim still an other of the Farrars. -And that week was one of woe to poor Jack Ormisby. Ho haunted the neighbor hod of the Farrars; ho hung about the gatoway, importun ig the (looter, the colonel, Kitty, Wih,, miybody, for tid ings of the girl holod. His lne, alert, intelligont' face was clouded with the dread and sorrow that overcame him. 3 He could not see Mrs. Farrar-sho rare ly moved from her stricken (laughter's Aide-but twice he saw and talked with Relon, and once, with her, walked out to visit tihe new made graves All that week tho shadows east by the glare of the guardhouse flames seemed to wrap Fort Frayno in Bloom, and people gazed upon the black ruins only wvith a shud der. The Indians, over superstitious, had professed to see the hand of the Great S pirit in the clouds, pointing remorso Slessly at the spot and warning them of further wrath to come as a consequence * of the uinavenged murder of a chief t~ n's son. (Cow boys anid hustlers, an gored against the garrison because it Shad interposed be coen thonm and their ~ ~~ purposed punishm'!nt of Big Road's *band, saw here a capital opportunity of embroiling the red men -with their white defenders. By dozens, in shiver ing silence, wrapped in their blankota Sand seated onl their scraggy ponics, the warior hdlooked on at the solomn m tmwremony, and within another do by scores the cowboys and settlers we: spreading the story that the whit chief had buried Toni Graico with a the honors cf war, despite his crimes an misdomeanorsi, simply because ho hi killed the son of an Indian chief-t son of the chief whose people killed t colonel of the Twolfth when he attaol ed the fleeing village on the Mini Pus three long years before. It .was t1 whito soldiers' way of taunting the re mn. It was proof of his real feelin toward the indian. "Look out for yourself, Big Road! said these astute, frontier statesmer "Chief Fenton and his soldiers hav only lured you hero within range c their walls that they may the mor readily swoop upon you some bitte morning and put you and your wai riors, your women and children to th sword. " In the intense cold of the thre days that succeeded the blizzard, ther was no interchange of visits, so t speak, between the fort and the India village, but the emissaries of Be Thorpo had been busily at work. Bi Road and his warriors had been bidde to attend the stately funeral of thoi kinsian and friend, Crow Knife, on tb morning after Christmas, and had flooli ed to the scene and lifted up thel mournful chant when the volleys flash ed and the crowd of attendant soldier bowed their heads in mingled homag and sorrow. That was as it should be but what did it mean that his slaye should then be accorded equal honors nye, that more officers-ohiefs-wer present at Graico's grave than when th son of a Brule warrior was laid to rest This they could not fathom, and this despite the strained relations that ha resulted In the death of Laramie Pete the cowboy emissaries proved~ eager t ~ipin-theW-yow- d4-plaI to attentive ears. "Old Fenton thought he'd done m when he moved that bloody band u hero to the fort," said the cowboy kin to his admiring audience over at th saloon across the Platte. "If Idon't pa, him off with compound interest withi: the month and make him wish he hadn' monkeyed with my business, call m a coyoto. Ho and the stuck up gang h heads will wish to God they'd left thos Indians where they were." And five days af ter Christmas Colone Fenton hoard of goings on within th village that gave him cause to sumino his adjutant and officer of the day, t double his sentries on every front an to realize how much In these few year he had learned to lean for counsel an sunuort on Malcolm Leale: for now th ,olonoi was rorbiuen, as was overybod alsc, to see him even for a moment Not only had the flash of the expkosio wrecked his eyesight, but there wo grave reason to fear that lie had inhale the flame. Captain Leale was sufferin torment, yet bearing his burden withoi a moan. A troubled man was the veteran poi surgeon all that woeful week. ElI Farrar, delirious in burning fever, Ma colm Leale prostrate on a bed of pali blind and broathing only in agoniz< gasps, Mis. Farrar looking so fragi and weak that It semed as though breath might blow away the feob flicker of her life, others of the womo more or less overcome and shocked 1 the events of the last few days, and nov right in the midst of it uall, came ind eations of trouble in the Indian villa; up the stream-powwowinug, sped making and dancing by night, runne flitting to and from the Big Horn, me sengers darting in from other tribe - and when Fenton sent for Big Road1 come into the office and explain t1 chief temporized, expressed himself suspicious of some plot to separate hij from his pleople and to hold him hostage at th1e fort. If Colonel Ponton desired to talk, 14 Colounel Fentoii come to the couiic ledge at: the village, but leave his so diers behind. Big Road's old mon hei seen visIons and hiad heard warning his medicine chiefs had been signaic by the Great Spirit, his young men wol exeitnd and alarmed, his women wel weeping and gathering their childrc to thieir knees. If the whimehief meal peace and friendship, let himi show by coming to his lodge with gifts ini h hands Instead of guns. Ieo (the whi chief) was rich, and his horses and h young men were fat and strong. B Road wvas poor and his peopOIe we hungry and cold, hisi ponies dy ing. Fe ton Indeed would have gone with on his adjutant and interpreter and a si gle orderly but for the warning of B3rule girl who had loft her people few years before to follow a soldier lo er and had made her home among ti whites, a patient, sorrowing woma ever since his untimely death. TJ Am.orys had provided for her in eve way, for the Eoldier was one of the ca tami's troop, and she had grown deep attached to them, even though now t casionally visiting her kindred. it was at luncheon, talking to i wife, that Amory told of Colonel Fe ton's purposo of riding over to the v: lage that very afternoon, and the sto w.as repeated in the kitchen, whore reached the ears of the Indlian girl. an instant .sho had darted out of t house and gone to the colonel's, who she frightened Lueretia out of her sov senses with the first words she uttere 'Thav kil tha colcunal Hen no go uiried in, and tongues that were primed Wha' ith wifely roproof wore stilled by tho ol dings that quickly spread from door to "4 Dor. Big Road had made an insolent knowi Drmand- and coupled with it a defiant wato iessage. Big Road was drunk and had "f areatened to move with his village, Indit md then it would become the duty of of th to Twelfth to surround and herd him At ok. Under the stipulation of a late mOvn eaty he was allowed for his winter the 1 nge only the south bank of the Platte, aione om Frayne to:tho breaks of the Medl- and no Bow. If h rossed the Platte and ghosi ruok out for the Big Horn, ho invaded rider ic cattle lands and -laid himself open wait, > attack from the hustlers. If he char we into the mountain range to the other uth, he left his reservation and for- teir ited the rations and suppl-los which ""4 o agent at Fettorman Bond was bound tre issue at regular intervals. He had com L mrreled with the agent and moved his hand lage up stream to within. ten milos of stern rayne-which hu had a right to do. muff o had quarreled with-and on good the r -ounds-the cowboys and then boen "i ken under the wing of Uncle Sam for to hr fety, and now he proposed quarreling to C( Ith his benefactors and launohing out agil i fe- bidden territory, and that meant "C isiness for all at Frayne. auth< But One Eyed Bull was no truculent "i arrior. He had delivered his message to c) accordance -with his chief's demands, come d in far more civil tone and terms well an it'was consigned to him, then had "c aited in dignified silence, confronting Amo e somewhat flippant bluecoats from youn o fort, refusing to make any response elder the jocularity and ridicule in which out I me of their number indulged or to wih iter into any discussion with Bat or e two Indian soldiers as to the prob- danc >lo inspiration of Big Road's bombast. as ell enough he realized when the adju- "h nt arrived upon the scene that the hav iluff" had totally failed, and before a ofss ord was spoken read contemptuous ro- oe C sal in the young officer's face. They the] ere indeed cold and hungry over in andyt ,e village, and he himself and the war- ha Nd ors with him would have been glad of I feast on army rations. int Nor were the warriors at all satisfied point ith the judgment and discretion of the a eir chief, but one and all the Indians with are now imbued with the warning of oerri eir medicine men and expected to go >thing less than some sudden not of him, stility on the soldiers' part. If there cidei 'er was a time in Big Road's history [T hen a clear head and cool brain were )eded, it was now, just when he had Leceeded in getting drunk, and well id the cowboys reasoned. While some The the number lured the chief to the ail inmks of the Platte and plied him with i s and whisky, others were scurrying l . and down the valley, routing out the Speci anchmen, settlers and "hustlers" and Ch arning them to be in readiness to moet %ther at the given signal, for there nigh as no telling what would be the first solic msequence of their diplomacy. If Big legis oad simply broke camp and started comni ith his whole village in the dead of tant ight in hopes of leading the soldiers a 'IP ern chase to the Big Horn, they could con umble in his way, impede his flight in id bring on a row in which, with vast- tren superior numbers, they could at least dispi ib the red men of their pony herd. pics hat would be part satisfaction for the are 3ath of Laramie Pete. Then, when the inte ildiers came up, they cquld sail in aft- Thal ? them and claim such spoil as was Unit th ,orth having and all the credit of hav- te I %g brought the chief to bay. If, on the thor hand, -Big Road became so orazed bi1c rith their firewater as to ao down and fron mard the lion in his den and defy the by t wvalry at the fort, then there might chai i a pretty scrimmage right over on the tLion ats when the colonel ordered the Gen tief's arrest, and when the soldiers the ore tackling the warriors in the open o nd having a nip and tuck fight of it ao 10 frontiersmen could surround the vii- bo1 go and help themselves. There would traimi a only old men and women and children th at Sdefend it. There was gloom, there- be at >re, in Bull's sole remaining optic as sund a received in majestic silence tihe adju. not mt's indignant rendering of the cole- sold. 31's message, and, motioning to his S tankoted braves to follow, he turned 'ct out and rode away' the "What do you think they'll do?" was se me eager question asked the adjutant syste 1 his return to the post. "Is ho mad that mough to mean fight?" gain "H~e is, if he doesn't get any drunk- the E '," was the answer. "More whisky ns ould lbe the surest way of settling the ~I iestion now, but it would rob us of e pleasure of knocking him out--and d--d to him for spoiling my dinl- tion At 8 o'clock that night, with one bar, atoon in dispersed order well to I !. frm ont and others in reserve, while the u ii irrison of Fort Frayno stood1 by their z- ns -me within the fort, Captain Farwell's thait QO~o moved slowly up the dlark valley, ,3st ong thle sno0w covered fiats, out beyond thiob me point where the delegation was met prac dusk and held at bay, and, though nmin me stars were glinting ina the frosty sky hani id not a broath of air was stirring verb id the night was still as solitude it- such lf, not a whisper could be hoard from anld o direction of the lago, net a spark noit fire could be seen. dver aguinlst thempe a the northern shore were sounds at c mesa as of rapid hoof beats muflk-d by colo me sno0w. Half a mile out a horseman the >omecd up at tihefront and in a moment thel 'as merged in tihe advancing line. lars "What is it, sergeant? What news that ave you?'' asked the young platoon Chla )immandor. , i " "They're off, sir! A whole gang of Id folks and womeni on ponies and n 'avois has started across the Pldit. , he warriors are all there yet. You'll anid ear Big Road shoudIst hi a minute. cairr [e's fighting foll and is urging on some and oviltry. I can't make out-'what, but Al rom all we can understand of it he fore rants to lead a rush through tihe stahles capture or kill the beoes. lle's justtim runlk enough to try, ~ut the others wh lon't lot himl. They dl~ are they won't (een allow him. Theoy lfow too much, iect Luckily, Wayno was at hand to soothe, h LnsuppoIt 111 explain. Otherofllccrswero NV sent for, and, despite Fenton's pooh- ti pooh ing, ro Qtrong wero their arguments d that at 2 o'clock a messongor was dis- d patched to Big Road's bailiwick to tell him the colonel had heard that which made him say to the Indian chief that a now the only way in which he would tj meet him would be at the adjutant's b office, as originally proposed, or else t alone and unarmed midway between rf the fort and the village, no soldiers or warriors being allowed to approach 0 within 200 yards, unless, indeed, Big st Road himself should propose an adju- t tant for enob. If this was satisfactory, t y lot the timo be set for 8 o'clock and d( o Fenton would be there. .o o The half breed messenger camo back L in half an bour. "Big Road would send d his answer by a squaw," and that was to d Big Road's way of saying that the white q e chief was an old woman. Utterly for o getful now of the service Fenton had :- rendered his people and him, duped by H a the visions of his medicine men and 0 fuddled with the liquor lavished on him d by the cowboys, Big Road was hot for ea g war. No sguaw came, no conference took place. Darkness was settling down up- bt on the post when at lust the westward e sentries reported a small party of In f dians riding out from the village to o ward Fort Frayne. The trumpeters at r were just scattering after sounding re. treat when the offloer of the day con 0t tl: 9 at 2 Wc r I 130 w F; r ft ri r ht "Thcy kilU the colonel/ e no go)'! voyed the news to Fenton, and-in two D minutes an officer, with ad4ozen men, e I' trotted out frAi tiie odables of Troop n K and 400 yards beyond the sentry BI 8 posts signaled to the advancing war P riors, "Halt!" I There were ten in the party and Big b & Road was not among them. The offi 7 cors, returning from stables and retreat. A roll call, had gathered about the colo- u t nel on the wesward bluff and fieldglass- r B es were brought to bear on the opposing W D parties, now only dimly visible in the 3 floaming. Over at the barracks the men were still gathered about their re 1 spective parades, despite the fact that supper was ready and they as ready for 1 supper. All over the garrison had gone at the rumor of Big Road's hostile and de flant message, and the troops were a 5 wrathful at the indignity. put upon I their colonel. Some of -them had step- rc pod inside the quarters and were quiet- T ly examining their belts and equip- d maents and counting the oartridges in their boxes. Ormsby, sharing the sup pressed exoitement, had hastened out to join his friends of the Twolfth, his Lt nerves tingling again at the thought of, the possibility of a skirmish, and now he itstood with Fenton clOo at hand, wait-b s ing eagerly for the first developments. e But little time was wasted. There b was a brief parley between the lienton- g ant with the troopers and a formidabie e Slooking Indian who seemed to lead the , a others. Then the officer turned and sent a ea man galloping back to the post. In tj Sfour minutes he was in the colonel's la presence, dismounted and making his b report. t "Big Rload's compliments-I mean, &' ethe lieutenant's -comnplimeonts, sir-and b Big Road sends his delegation for three ti .wagon loads of moat, flour, sugar and a coffee, sir, and says as the colonel hasn't b _oome to see 1dm lhe's going to movo." al oThe colonel laughed-the fIrst laugh e ince Ohristmas, somebody remarked at ti Sthe time. "Are you sure there's no mis- o~ n take, Fallen?" ho asked the messenger. et S "That's what the lieutenant asked the Indians, sir, but we have two of a ~ L' troop with us-what's left of 'em . -o Brnlo and t'other Ogalalla, and'q . they both translate it the same wvay, and tl d Bat is with us, too, sir and he says it's bi ,like Big Road whon ho gets liquor in n d him. He thinks ho's lord of the earth. ,, Bat says ho's drunk now, and believesp .e the colonel will be glad to do as he de- fg a mands for fear of him."' it "Well, who brought the message? al it Who's that big buck in the lead there?'' ti " 'That's One Eyed Bull, sir--him a that was niursed in the hospital here ti j after the fight three years ago." g "Bull? He ought to know better than el e t brng ny uchmessage," said Fo'n- a ,. ton reilectively. "I presume ho dare a ynot refuse, however. Mr. Adjutant, s 2. mount Fallon's horse, gallop out there, t] a and tell Blil to toll Big Road to go to o a the devil, That's all on that head. Cap- o ~. tain Farwell, soon as your men have i to had supper let them saddle and be ready t~ for night work. Orderly, have mty horse b i sent up in half'ian hour. That's all for y ey the present, gentlemen. Come, Jack p. Lou's waiting dinnor for us" h ly It was the first time that any one had e o. seen Fenton mad, as Amory put it, when the group broke up. "Eithenr Big o is Read will come downi off that 1!4h g -. horse or the old man 'will snatch him, qj I. and within the next few hours too. b ey Ormsby brings us luck, Hoe nevcr comes it out hero that we don't have a shindy of [n me kind." " 0More than one oficor was thinking of re this remark of Amory's as they scat tored i mn to thei r homes. Many a dinner was kept :1 waiting and many a housewife had to . , i" be plaoated-when th. inra and mastar g b they want to do Is to got out and t Trooper creek tonight, I reckon. " tide back, then, and let the captain r. Who else are out at the front on h?" Only Rorko and two or three of the in troop, sir. They are taking care omselves, though." id then for a moment the forward iment conned. "Halt, halt!" were Dw toned orders of the noncommis d offloers dispersed along the lho, under the twinkling stars, dim, ,ly and silent, the extended rank of a seemed as one man to rein in and Here and there an impatient ger began to paw the snow, and a sniffed suspiciously and cooked pointed ears in the direction of the mu village. Some young troopers, ulous with excitement and cold inod, began to slap their fur gloved a on breast or thigh and had to be ly called to order. Presently a ed horseman came riding up from 3ar, a trumpeter in his tracks. 'hat's right, Martin. You did well It a minute. I've sent back word lonel Fenton. le had wirod to the 3y before we pulled out." an't we turn 'em baok without his )rity, sir?" ro, even when wo know they mean 'ows tho Platte. But orders will tonight. The wires are working laptain, did you hear what Captain ry said thuis evening?" asked the gater as ho edged in closer to the 'a side, "that Ormsby nevor came ere that we didn't have a shindy the Sioux?" 7es, but poor Jack is out of the 3 this time and can't be with us was before. " don't understand," said Martin,. ig some vaguo theory that the ill of Miss Farrar was at the bottqm rmsby's inability to take part in >romised chase. "I didn't suppose ing could keep him from taking a in soldier service. " Voll, that's just it. Those fellows o Seventh are as punctilious on a i of duty as any man wo know in rmy. Ormsby promised to be back his company for some review or iony within this week. He's got They've telegraphed to remind and ho has just time, barring ac t, to make the trip." B nE CONTINUED NEXT WEEiK.] OLD CITY STILL PECULIAR. Metropolitan Police is a Neces .y Until Charleston is Ready for o Change 01' the Dispensary w. al to the Columbia Register. arleston is looking forward to the ,ing of the GeneralAssembly a fort t hence with much intorest and itude. Not that a great deal of lation is antieipated by the forth ng session, but most of the impor general mnasures undertaken are oted to alfect the material and nercial interests of this city intl ly. First and foremost in the is of many, is the character and I of legislation with regard to the mnsary. The fundermental princi of the dispensary law, of course, practically fixed and unalterable ,ral portions of our institutions. is to say, Mr. Tilinan, Governor, ed States Senator and men betr (o Jonstitutional Conventiun, clinch Lis views o the subject by concen ng and segregating thorm In a fclause of the new constitution, which there is no appeal except lie two-thirds vote necessory for uging or amending the constitu Wide latitude is left to the oral Assembly for legIslating on subject : It, can enact, prohibition, .Frant licenses to Individuals, or >t practically any system which mnds Itelf to the judgment of the for the conduct and control of the Ic, with the specified exceptIons, nothing less thaun a half pint can >Id ; that it cannot be0 sold between own and sunrise, and that it can be dIrunk on the premises where Is leaves the Legislature at lib) to (deal with peculiar cond~itions may find them, such as exist in encoast city of Charleston. There s to be no dIoubt that the present mi, In spite of the many defects attach to novelty, has generally d the applroval of the peCople of itato. It has dimInished drunken rind has been of Invaluable benefit, claimed, in the agricultural dis 3, and these would, in consequence, th to part with It. In Charleston, it nmay be said, that the des'.ruc rof the social feature of mootinlg Irinking in perfect freedom at the has been o)f nes tim able beneili, a moral standpoint, and many of >est 'tud most disinterested citi are free to con fess this. It is true "bilindl tigers" exist, in spite of netropolitan or any other police im, but they are forced to deal out wares by stealth, and this is tically decath to the business ag sopolsiie anid ope'n ledl a peolo as Charleston is pro lally plaUited with, to whom a thing as drinking behind doors in stealth' Is intolerable. But ier will they patronize the dis aries, for to do so compels them to nto a placo0 more that apt to be dod, to 0tmand In line witb all sorts, '5 andl conditions of men and, if law is carriedl out, to write down ' nametUs, ages, and other partiou The conseqiuence of all this is the~ best and largest class of the eleston trade, in so far as figures is freely supp)lield, under Judge mnton's dlecision, with goods order ni bulk fromt near-by cities and our I merchants of repute who used to y this trade are forced to stand by se0 the rival cities of other States y off the ir most lucrative business, fr quently other business with it. Il Charleston would be glad, there I f pJolitcl animosities could be irdinuatedl fer a sufficient length of , to welcome a modification of the ensary law with regard to her dh would license her merchants to luet legitimately the traflie, sub to the constitutional restrictione, which outsiders are now enjoying with out yielding any rovouuo to the State. This is the boon whiQh our presentlB commercial needs call for more than anything else, and which will do more to reconcile our people to the changed condition of affairs than any one thing W, 0 1se. It is true that the local prcss and th'e dominant politicians clamor for the 5 removal of the metropolitan polco as the one thing needful. But this would M1 prove a boomerang to the city, as our polities have so long done, if consum- ho mated before any preparation were mado for it. It would be in effect put- st ting the cart beforo the horso. No. body but realizes thatt our 'blind tiger" statio of existeucc must come to an end. Oi Nobody wishes it more than many of the dealers who have been forced into PO it for self-preservation. Nobody wishos it moro than the class of reputable tw dealers who formerly paid their 1i- fo censes and Carried on the business legitimately, but who are forced now i to stand by and seo others do business gI without license and contrary to law. i But to remove the machinery before ra the law is changed would himply be to plunge the city into a carnival of li censo from which there would be no In escape short of more drastic measures in than ever. However, our politicians, ti in their usual shortsightedness, in so far as the public interest and welfare are concer ned. have put this political be rovengo beforo everything else, and it Ye rests with Governor Millerbe and the 16 Legislaturo to make such dspositionm be of the (luestion as in their judgment they may see fit. a Charleston has a strong delegation, as legally speaking, in the General As- Mu semby, and while they will scarcely th initiate any legislation in regard to the liquor traille they can bodepended es on to give intel!lgcnt support to any ml measure which n'ay promise relief to no the interests in this city. sa WAS IT A GOLD BRICI? of el How the IIigwaamps amlI Sound B Money Democrata Feol Nov. To the Editor of the Boston Herald : Once upon a ti me there was a mighty au party, and it was called the Respubli- w can party. But after it had becomo bi weakened by age, and by the abuse of stimulants, such as star routes, navy ad contracts, large appropriations and to great individual proilt from high pro- Ul tection, it lost many of its adherents, who became mugwumps, if not Demo crats, and it put up a candidato for the presidency who was opposed by a strong minority in his party. This si minority didn't like him a little bit, a but they had to say they would take w him, and they all set to to elect him. And about that time there was 0 sprung against them a candidate call- h ed a Democratic candidate, and of a sudden it looked mightily iLs if he a we-ro going to be elected, out 1ie, too, "1 was opposed by a strong ninority of ti his party. And it came to pass that the Repub- v licans, in their danger and distrt:ss, ni appeared to sco some of the errors of y of their ways, and they seemed to wish (r to burn some of their previously wor- I tlipped idols of protection and high I prices, and to adopt, instead the ideas of the good Democrats, who wanted ul bouind money and a reformed currency, al in order to improve the business needs of the country. And they all said 10 ". That's what we all want, and if you JX will help us to elect our candidate we will help you to your sound money and your :e-formned currency and your bus Miess improvements. 1hnt we have not funds needed to carry on the campaign tl against our1 common enemy, so you C must help us (ickly with your con tribu.tions" ( Anmd the tr-usti ng, goodl Democrats ii andl mugwumips turneod to with a wil, Cad they suppllied what was needed of 'I fiInancial and moral su1pp~ort to thir h 1 new-maido friends, and they elected C. the Rep~ublicani candidate, after one of 11 the most momentons struggles ever' ci witnessed in a great natiom,. And the great men of the Republl can party breathed freely again, and iv the1wnt to Washington and got to- A gother in their councils, and they rc Lur'ned their backs upon the D~emo- se, crats who had helped thenm to victory, st and began to parcel out among them- th selves all the good things. And they at sat themselves down at theo feast tables, but the good Democrats they left stiading in the entries. I Sc This i-ends like a fable, and like a fable it must have a moral to It: in Iam one of the Domocr'ats. I was won over- to the side of my new friends the Hepublicans ; I trembled with them; I sufler-ed with them ; I worked with theum ; I marched in their prlo- wI cessions. I finally recjoiced with them in: and thre-w up my lint and cheered jul with them in the day of our joint vie- ba tory. Gc We contributed to the joint cause so more money than we had ever con- fal tiributed to a pol1itical campaign. No H worked hiardor- in the field of edluca tional literature and reform stumping, ov and we innocently believed in the new hi1 friendships which we had made. so But my new frienis now pass me by yo withioumt so much as a smile of reeogn i- cy tion ; they do not seek my companion- en) ship as they did a few shoirt, weoks an since. I mention sound money, cu1.1- se rency refoirm and revival of business pa to them, and I see them smile a smile of indllffirence, If, indeed, not one of contempt, and t.hey talk among tiem- (is solves of high protection, largo- appro- i priations, exalted oilices and war with t foreign nations. In the name of innocent and verdantti humanity, what are they aIming at ? Are they kIcking away Outr support by a which they w'mo saved y Ai'e they i preparing for thoemncives new crops of 8 oncmles and another hydi-a-headed foeoi in four' yea rs? A ndsam i to be blamed t if a feeling arises in me that we have boen b)uncoed. --An abused wife in Maystiek, Ky., se lately secured a divorce from her hus-w band on the gmround, as stated in the (leered, that he " did not provide herr with enough provender to keep her organic system from faltering." a -A New York religious journal g intimates that ,some ",persons contri- b butt to missions according to their u meaainoss irather than aeording to their '5 mneans. WAYSIDE GA'$11ERINGS. .' 164 o Humor and Nuggets of Trut for the Multitude. -Calcutta is the hotbesti~ty in.. the Drld. -A million dollars in silver ailhs ,931 pounds. -Russia exports more wheat than y otbor country. -Tobolsk, Russia, is the coldest in 6bltect place in the world. --Baldness is caused by a germ do *oying the roots of the hair. -T here are 17,592,186,044,515 differ t sounds in the human voice. -President-elect McKinley has a rcolain bath tub inlaid with gold. -There are fourteer hundred and onty-five characters in the twenty uir books written by Dickens. -The region about the Dead Sea one of the hottest places on the Dbe, and the sea is said to lose a illions toniof water a day by evapo tion. -Yaleta, on the Rio Grande river, Texas, is said to be the oldest town America. St. Augustine, in .llori has long laid claims to that dis iction. -ailfornia has always claimed to a stuart State, and as her present a6's mustard crop amounts to about 000,000 pounds, we are inclined to lievO it. -The Welsh have a saying that if voman were an quick with her feet with their tongue, she would catch chtning enough to kindle the fire in D morning. -There is a time when thou may say nothing, and a time when thou lyest say something; but there will ver be a time when thou shouldst y all things. -Learning is not education. Half all the fools in the world are " edu ted." Lgarning gives the means of quiring that which correctly used, lightens the mind. -if you would enjoy your meals, sit wn to the table good-natured. An gry, fussy man or woman cannot tell lother they are eating boiled cab go or stewed umbrellas. -The modul husband lives in Phil elphia. He never allows his wife do more than half the work. She puts > all the canned fruit in the summer, id he puts it down in the winter. -In certain parts of China the >ung woman wear their hair in a long ugle plait, with which lz intertwined strand of bright scarlet thread, hich denotes that she is rarriagablo. -A curious note of explanation ac >mpanied some poetry received by a ichigan editor. The note ran thus: These lines were written 50 years .o by a man who has. for a long time, Upt in his grave merely for a pas Me.'' --Tomnmy (who had just received a vere scolding)--" Am I really so bad nLiini ?" Mamma-' Yes, Tommy, )u are a very had boy." Tommy LIlectively)-" Well, anyway mamma, think you ought to be real darn glad tin' twins !" --Our senses do not fall asleep SIm taneouaslv. The eyelids are first rcted, and shut out sight ; next fol ws the sense of taste, then smelling, aring and touch, the last named lng the lightest sleeper, and most Ls1y aroused. --An addition to the toleplione is a aVice which shows the photographs of le persons who are talking. You 1n seC the picturmI of the poerona with hoM you are conversing. This won i;rful invention is the word of a mian Alamuenda, Cal. -The~ bicycle craze, according to he ilanlted .States Tobacco Journal, (s decreased the consumption of gars in this country by about one illion a daiy. Th'ie decrease since the 'aze set in has actually been seven andred million a year. --ThIe Ex-Slavo Penqion Association bich recently mnet at Birmingham, Ia., has put a' lot of agents -en the ad to collect money to further their bemeI( in Congress. The Baptist .ieguard warns its readers to be on oir guard against this new "for'ty res and a mule " scheme. -A chemical expert says that 9)0 r cent. of the beer brewed in Amer will not come up to the test pro ribed by the German government,, dlih Is not a severe one, only insist'. g that pure beer be brewed, and hng severe penalties for the pro etion of any other kind. -Capt C. (B3. Blood, of oTennesse, to acted as drill master for the raw urgent troops under Gomez, has it rcturned to his home. He brings ok the startling information that n. Weylecr is a native of Ohio and a Sof parents of German origin, is her as at present a farmer in the ekeyo State. -A c'lergymfan's daughter, looking 3r the MMS3. left by her father in study, chanced upon the following atonce : "1I love to look upon a ing aman. There is a bidden poten conceaIad within his breast' which srmns and Jains me." She sati down LI blushingly added: "Them's .my itiments exactly, papa-all but the --A Portland sea captain t911s of his ling in southern seas Where" fi ing ri asoend. They would somet mes their light in the lightomeaboard 3 ship and drop to the deck. He had 'ce cats that, though they were ng asleep below, would hear the Ind whenever a fish struck the -deck d woulil rush up to got it. Thy stinguishe'd this from all oth r Aeds. ~The crew tried to imitate it various ways, but could ,not deceive cets. -A Michigan young lady named 03 e' was so contident that Bryan would elected that she staked one thou ad kisses on him. The young n lth whom the bet was' made ha'o all along towards the half way-mat' the collection whon a dise~t a 0#e rer the enumeration, so thern vas >thing to (10 but wipe out the ilte id take a recount, which Is now pro-, ecssing. The couple are engae it the girl declines to get kiro - fu the debt has been paid in ful sio girl ; she wants to getQot