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THE PEOPLES JR. VOL 7--N0 37. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 - FIX FIRMLY IN YOUR MIND N N THIS FAOT. That you intend to make your fall and winter pur - chases at the store offering the greatest values. We NMoved To this large, new store with the determination to outstrip competition, and to lay before the people such unniatchable values that the Big Store would be the busiest spot in the up country, since we are screwed down to The Last Notch. And the bands on new goods are being bursted at less pro!t than ever before. Quick sales and small prcfit is the way we do it. o 8 A FEW OF THE MANY. Good Cotton Flannel 5c. 29-inch heavy Cotton Flannel, bleached and un bleached, 8c. 30-inch.heavy Outings 7 and 82.,-some others sell at 1W., 27- t inch Oatings 5c. Heavy Red Twill Flannel, all wool, 123c. A better one. t 15c. Heavy Jeans 15c. The 25c weight at 20c, 33, weight at 25s, and 4O Ii Goode : yds to $1. Great values in Blankets, 493 pair up. All our Wool ft Blankets are made out of " free wool,"-" No Tariff." 46-inch Henriettas a 25c. :35-inch Henriettas 1913. 36 inch fancy mix Worsteds, 15c. 38-inch c Broadclothe 25c. SPECIALS-15 bolts all wool Dress Goods, in stylish col- ( orings, :3-inch, at 25c. People will talk, and all that have seen our now v Shoe Department says that it's a marvel. The newest, the best and the fi cheapest. Let us shoe you this fall. 'Twill pay you. u CAPES ANTDJCES t Our large assortment is rolling in. Any style or any price you with. 211 NORTH MAIN SrEudET. d AN OL) THEORY UPSET. in the sky, or the intersections of two imaginary lines, the equator and the ! path of the sun, no act quato reason Extensive Observations Disprove:..O apCni:d for any conscquent c Iect up- h Tradition That the Equinoctial on the weather of this earth. The Period Btings Wind and Rain, day Is lengthening when March 21 t3 Perod n Wicomes around and the night is length- e Washington Post. ening when September 21 arm ives. The man who feels called upon to These conditions are directly con- h predict equinoctial storms twice a year trary to each other, and present no is abroad in the land. The weather reason for supposing that they pro for the past two daye has Inspired him duce similar effects. When the days st with the requisite supply of confidence are increasing in length about two and b and has strengthened the general a half minutes daily from December to k belief that storms may be expected June, and decreasing proportionately about September 21 and March 21. So from June to December, no adequate long has it been accepted as a fact that reason appears as to why the advent 0 storms are certainly to accompany the of any particular day in this p)rogrcs -but a mom or of the Thirteen Club and his brother winds or throw wide would ever think of getting up a picnic the floodgates of heaven. - for September 21. Farmers in dry In the absence of any apparent rca seasons always say, *a Wait till the son for regularly recurring storms at h equinox and we are sure to have rain." the equinoctial periods, investigations it - Haen,oflicial forecaster of the weath- was such a recurring storm period. or bureau, who proceeded to nail this Prof. Scott, after an examination of tradition to the tree of exploded the English records for fourteen years, t theories from whose branches the found that out of forty-five storms in tattered remnants of many another March, not one occurred on the 21st, ,time honored fallacy wave, and out of eighteen storms in Septem " This matter of so-called equinoc- ber only one was on the 21st, so in - tial storms has been thoroughly inves- fourteen years there was only one *>tigated," said Professor Hazen, " and rightly so called equinoctial storm in * so far as it concerns the occurrence of Great Britain. In the United States any unusual number of storms' on an elaborate Beries of observations, March 21 and September 21 there is extending from St. Paul to New Or-b nothinog whatever to support the pop- leans, and New York to San F'rancisco, ular theory. The trouble with the wore made. The period examined was people who insist that cquinoctial sixteen years. The general results - * storms~ are a fact is that you cannot are thus summarized in Prof. Hlazen's a hold them dJown to any particular dat,e. report: n Of course there are only two days in " Wind was lower after the March a 'he year to which the term (quinox cquinox than at it. During the Sep. . applies, March 21 and S3ptember 21, tembor equinox there is a tendency to but the defenders of the equinox tra- decrease of wind on the 21st. At the ditions want a latitude of three or four autumn cquinox there is nearly the -days or a week on either ide of the minimum amount of rain for the 21st of these months. month. For March the maximum a " As a matter of fact, th6 term equi- number of storms fall on the 8th, the noctil cannot be properly aplieti to next highest number on the 21st.' In any storm that does not occur on the September the hi ghost number of 21st. Then, too, they refuse to agree storms occurred on t he) 9h, and almost on what shall constitute a storm. The the minimum for the whole month on wind velocity and amount of precipi- the 21st." tation constitute a storm only when Connected with Prof. IHazen's report they iexceed certain limits, but the is a very graphic and complete series man who has been brought up on tha of charts, showing by curvts on a di-v (quinoctiai storm theory wants to be vided and numbered surface the rela allowed to attribute everything that tivo force of winds, amount of precip may occur on the 21st of September or itation and pressure, and other more March, from a sailing breeze to a hur- technical features. If a conirmed be ricarne and passIng shower to a cloud- liever could see the line of storms for burst, to the equinox.'' September as shown by the records of This matter has been investigated sixteen yeare, and observe how smooth very thoroughly in England by Prof. and straIght it runs over all the dates 14. iH. Scott, of London, and by the ho is accustomed to connect with fu weather bureau of the United States. rious rain storms, ho might be induced The results of the investigations made to pack this theory away with the 'in the United States are comp)lied in a practice of bleeding patients suffering report of Prof. Hlazen's. The investi- from weakness and refusing ice to gatlon hero covered the entire coun- those down with fever. try, and took Into consideration every * telemns Tis beie inoS cinoctia' -Two French lovers resolved to die .s.tors ifarywlgouded in the together, and the man shot the woman stOrs i farly ellgron eand then himself. They have both re - minds of muny intelligent persone' coveored and are now married. Tocom who believe that storms are intluenced- mit suicide first and matrimony after if not generated by the seeming pas- ward probably comes as near to a novel sage gof e s urnh aos terlequator senn in gats the jaded youth of this they consider a logical connection be- aecngt tween storms on our earth and the --- eul noctial points of the planets. -Insurance against accident and When it is considered that equinoxes sickness is made compulsory upon all arc based on wholly ta.aginary points 'citizens of Switzerland. GEN. JACKSON'S DUEL WITH COL SEVI[R, OLD HIICKOItY ME'T' 1IS MAC'HlI. how Two irave Men Suddtenly Fell Out and Tried to Kill Each Otn r -Sevier Behaved Like a Cavalier anl Won the General's Respect ant Aduiration. t. houis ( lobe- ")emioerat. No two historians agree on the ocality where the " personal explana don " between General Jackson and Jolonel So,vier occurred, but as my rand father was with General Jackson, md has often shown me one of the lintlook pistols used on that occasion, am in a position to assert that It was ust five miles out on the Knoxville cad, To have ridden along the Knoxville 'oad between S and 9 o'clock in the norning in the middle of May, when he Cherokee roses and sweetbriars )lend their scent in the air with that rom the blossoms of the wild grape, is o have a fragrant memory that will orever last. Perhaps there are bluer kits than those which overlook the (noxville road in May ; perhaps there o times in the Val u'Arno or in Tempo then the sunlight sifting through the oliago falls on greener grass and turns t more nearly to the primrose gold ihich Ruskin loved to see on grass at norning. Perhaps these things may e, but I do not know, and neither did y grandfather and General Jackson s they rode together with loosened Fin. It was the general who was ulking. " I am not a religious man, as you now, Colonel Tipton," he was saying, but you, sir, are a gentleman. a man f refinement, and L may speak on uch subjects without the danger of eing minunderstood. It is my mis )rtune to be a- rough soldier, and I ave lived all my life among scenes of much beauty, it is impossible for me not to fee! thn deepest roverence )r its creator. I am tilled-ah I' My grandfather knew that under he general's impetuous and fiery mper there was a deep vein of re gious feeling, peculiar in it+ maui stations, no doubt, when manifested t all, and generally carefully, con cualed ; for, like most sensitive men, eneral Jackson took pains to conceal hat was linest and highest in him -om the se who he tlought likc ly to m's nderrtLnd him. HIe was as genuine o his emotion under the c ifects of the 'ennessee May morning, however, as c was when on his death bed he asked od to forgive all his enemies-except hose who had slandered Mrs. Jackson. Indoubtedly he was a deeply religious nan in his way, though he allowed it o be known only by the few who knew dim intimately. Being one of these, ny grandfather was not so much sur >rised at the unusual nature of the .ration he had begun as at its sudden .terruption. L.oking to see what ad caused it, he saw that General ackson had pulled up his horse sue ently, h:lf wheeling to the right and urning in the saddle to face a horse ian who had come Into view around he bend of the road not more than .ty yard:caway. No one who know Jackson had to >ok a second tim'3 to understand that >mething was about to happen. He tt absolutely rigid in the saddle, hold ig the reins with a grip which long tstom in feeing the bit under his nd had taught his horse to under and. It had spread out its forefeet ad backed its ears in the position of rained nervous concentration a well -ed horse learns to assume when it iows the least movement may dis rh its owner's aim and cause him to aste h is fire whben everything depends the result of the shot. Thue compl ntess of the sympathy between a ell-bred hor-se and its rider is as nishing. Every motion of the wrist avels dowvn the reins and is inter 'eted through the bit to a brain so ighly organized that the morelI study s operations the more fully I am eon need that Swift made no mistake in ;s estimate of the relative moral and tellectual standing of the horse and he yahoo. If the general's roan understood the tuation at once, my grandfather had 3 ,dilliculty in guessing it, for Jack mn's lips were p)ulled down at the )rners and his forichcad showed the urrow between the eye wvhieh never ppoared there except in a crisis, when e was suddenly called on to concen 'ate his faculties on the all-important point not wasting a shot. 'rho rider who had caused this bud en break in what promised to be a most edifying conversation camne on at good round gate not hesitating in the uast when he saw that both General ackson and mny grandfather had ~opped with the evident intention of assing the compliments of the seaBon ith him. Lie was a tall man, smoot,h iaven, as all who p)retended to gen lity were in those days. He wore a lue uniform coat, laced with white, Sthe F'rench style, but without the eavy gold ep)aulets which belorged to .'.ih cocked hat, which dated back > the revolutionary period, and was nen going out of fashion, even among >ldiers of the border, showed that he 'as one of the elder generation, and rie light French walking rapiemr which wung at his side was in further cvi ence of the fact. His holsters had he brace of flint-lock lato,l which rere a p)art of every rideri's c qipilment n tihe first, quarter of thue century. Ils face waus frank and 01)1n and his earing as he rode ujp p.'rfectly easy ,nd natural. IIe wished my grand ather and General Jackson good morn ng in a clear and good-h umor-ed voice, ailing each by name. My grand father ectu rnedl the sal ution prompltly, hut seneral JTackson waited a moment to olet himself, and when he did speak t, was In the steady, restrained low ,itched t meo he never adopted except wvhen intensely angry--to) angry for she outbr-eak which generally relieved him and put him in a good humor. " General Sevior-," he began. " Colonel SovIer-, if you please, Gen oral Jackson. I prefer the title 1 had mt King's Mountain to any higher one 4ven in these days." If this veiled a concealed meiing it did not, appear in thesneaker's voice, for he spoke e,ood-humoredlhy as before, but it was e'v1idnt th at Gneral. Jac.' son was still further disturbed by the interruption. " I beg your pardon, Sir. Colonel Sevier, I am informed on good au thority that you said publicly at Jones boro a week ago, sir, that General Jackson had thrown away the valuable lives of more Tonnessecoans in .lislodg ing a handful of dirty Creeks from [orseshoe Bend than i. had cost to drive the Cherokees from the State, though they were the bravest and most intelligent Indians in North America, and though it took thirty battles to do it.,, " My dear General Jackson," said Sovier, with increasing 'uavity, though I am perhaps misrepresented by your informant, I am not at all dis posed to dispute your assertion that he is reliable, nor is this a suit able oc casion for questioning his accuracy as a tale bearer." " Colonel Tipton," said General Jack son, turning to my granufather, " I will usk you to ride to one side and witness that, what occurs, betweon Colonel Sovier and myself is porfectly fair. Colonel Sevier I have two pistols in my hosters. I assume that you are similarly provided. I f it suits your convenience, sir, I will ride twenty or thirty yards down the road, nml when I have fairly turned you will be at liberty to fire." " My dear General .1 ackson," said Sevier, in the same even tone, but with a very heightened color, " 1 inust say that this is sudden, and, even from you, somewhat surprising, but you are entirely warranted in taking it for granted that wnat suits your eon venienec in the matter suits mine. Colonel Tiptor, although our families have not always been as friendly as I could wish, I will ask you to do me the favor to tell my friends, if it should be necessary for you to take such action on my part, that everything which occurs here today was arranged in good order and to my satisfaction as we li as tj that of General Jackson." He had barely ceased speaking when General Jackson rode very deliberately to the i o :1, lo s3ning his pistols in hib holsters as he rode. The meeting had occurred where the road skirted a strip of open woodland, and into this my grandfather rode for some ten paces. When he turned his horse General Jackbon wt already in posi tion, and was waiting to be sure that he v as taking no possible advantage. When he saw that Sevier had drawn his pistol and was leveling it, he fired buddenly without stopping to take aim. Sevier's pistol -ias discharged almost in the same instint, and his badly trained horse shied at the report, his cocked hat fell oil, as it scented then from the elect of the horse's spring to one bide, but as it appeared later, with some help from General Juckson's bullet. As Sevier roined in his -horse n brought. his second pistol to the level of his eyes .1ack-on Iired again. As lie did so S :vier lowered his arm suddenly, and my grandfa,her thought at first he was hit. H soon saw ho was mistaken, however. " Colonel Tipton," he said, " General Jackson has sp ;iled my hat and inter rupted my enjoyment of a buautiful morning. lie has emptied both his pistols at me, as he wits entitled to do under his own arrangement of tli affair. Under that arrangement I am entitled to use the one shot, I have left at my leisure. I call you to vitness that my revenge is fair and in perfet order under the agreement." During this harangue, delivered in a voice intenled to make it perfectly audible to General Jackson, my grand father shifted uneasily in his saddle, and fcIt, as he confessed to me, the strongest inclination to draw his own pistol in the effort to prevent murder. Ilut the " rules of the road " were stronger than his imIulse, and he could only reply: "If it suits Colonel 'Sevier' to use his remaining shot in such a way, it is his privilege. I beg to inform him, however, that I have two pistols in my holstei', both loaded, and one of themi will he at his service ats soon as lie has discharged his at Goner-al .Jackson." Sevier' laughed, and without wait ing to r-eply,, dischar'ged his p)istol in the air. "' Thank you for' your' kind ness, Colonel Tipton," he said, as he replaced it in the holster, "' but I will not tr'ouble you. I have had quite enough shooting for' one morning."' D)ismounting, he picekedl up his hat, birushed it, rearranged It into correct tilangular' shatpe, andI, bow ing irst to General Jackson and then to my grandlfather relace)iCd it carefully on his powdered wig-an old-fashioned elegance which Col. Sevier- had not thought it eitheir nect ssamry or con venient to assume in the (lays when he was Noliehucky Jack, and moi'e familiar with the feel of buckskin than of good hblue broadcloth. Having settled his hat, to his satis faction, so) that its cornersi' b)ore theirm custeriy r'ehttioni to the cue in to which the ends of his wig werec gather ed, Colonel Sevier' rearranged his tuni form coat, shift,ed h Is dr ess swor'd a 1 ttle more to t he left, and remnounted with the d ignaity of a r'ev.olutionary hero0 exIti biting his su per'ior it,y to a your ger gem r'ation -(alculating every t.ing wit,h all the power-t of hiIs re mnatrkable in tellect, toii puish I General Jackson to his uitmiost possibl extent. He undloub)tedlly succeeded. .Jackson was fond of being magnanimous him i self, and nothing oiilh have gal led him more than being victi miz d b)y thIs spJectacular dIisp)lay of his op ponent's su periority. v1e would ilinitely have pi'efeirredl being shot at, as both Sevier andi my grandlfather knew. A nil althotugh Sovier amsu med an expreO~sion of gr-ave and dignified politeness as .Jacson i'ode forwardo, it was impo,sibile noe, to believe that, he was laughing behindl hist mask. The coi'ners of .Jackson's mouth were drawn lower- still, and the centi'al w rinkle In his forehead was st,ill deep"ir as hie rode iio to Sev ier. "Colonel Sev ier," he said, '" I will alwamys adir ie yot, but I w ill n eve for'gi .e you '"' Sevier bow(ed. "' Gentlemen,'' he said, "' the road( is now open, I believe, andl I w ishi you boith good (day.'' lie rode away sitting ve'ry sti'aight in the saddle, utntil Ihe was out of sIght, where the r'oad was turned rottnd the foot of the hill. "' I havo -al ways thought," said umy grand father to me, that as sJon as he was out, of sight he throw iun his hat, laughed, and gave 'hiq old Cherokee whtoop, foi' I hteard a noIse that rmiindcd me of it, and he always was something of a boy to hi: (lying day. I3eeldes, he had something General Jackson never bad the luast trace of-a sense of hua or. If Colonel Sevier thought that Proceeding on the Knoxville road a joke, ho was un doubtedly entitled to laue h his fill, but as for my part, 1 never was food of jokes of that kind." When Sevier was out of sight Gen eral Jackson and my grandfather rode on in silencc for at least two miles Ulaneing furtively at Jackson my grandfather saw that his face had ro laxed, and having hims, If a sense of humr, which he could not resist in Indulging at every opportunity, he said : " I think, General Jackson. that when we were interrupted you weo atbout to maake somec romarks on the beauty of the lanseape." " Colonel Tipton," ropliod J ackson, wit,h great deliberation, " I hope you do not intend to be a fool. There are enough in the world without, you--and I am one of them." ---- ----. - TlIlc WEIAT1114iGt AND lROPS. Valuable Inlormn ation to Those iuter esteil in Faring Operations. The following is the weekly bulletin issued by the weather bureau in C: lumubia as to the condition of the crops in thi- State : COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 28, 1897. During the greater part of the p)lst week the weather was abnormally cool, with departures from 2 to li6 degrees below the normal, but the last of the week was much warmer with nearlv the normal temperature. The night of the 22-23rd was unusually cold with ininn ui tnemperatures under 50 over all the State except near the coast, where it was between 50 and 55. The lowest reported wts -10 on the 2-Ith at K iuigstreu, and the highest 95 on the I !th at l''lorence The weekly mean was thi and the normal for the same period is approximately 73. The long existing and severe drought was broken by showers early in the week, and a general heavy rain on the 215t and 2:nd. The rain was aecom panied by high wir.ds over the eastern portion of the State. The rainfall measurenents were generally heavy, only a places having amounts of less than one inch, 10 had from one to two incht, and 2d had over two inches, w ith a maximum measurement of 6.25 at Oakland. The average of all meas urements was 2 50 and the normal for the week is about one inch. The severe drought was broken by the rains of the week, and the en,ire State is now well watered, and the ground in line condition for p'owing and sowing fill oats, rye and barley, which work h).s activel.y begun. I'ens, turnips, late potatoes and pastures were greatly hem lited by the rain, and also fal vegetables, gardens and truck, ut it came too iato to materially benefit corn or cotton, except very late fields of the former and young Immi t illholl of the latter of which there are comparatively few. Cot,ton reports are feat.utiless for the week, except that muuch open cotton was blown to the ground on the 21st and 22.1, and beat into the dirt and stained by th heavy rains. Cotton picking was dulayed from one to three da3s by the unfavorable weather and the heretofore rapid opening of in mature bolls was largely checked. Wherwise the rain was of no benefit to cotton, which is now so far advanced ts to be beyond liability of injury by frost, there being practically no " top crop." Cotton in many places is nearly all open and over half of the crop has been gathered. The yield is reported to be smaller than expected and gen erally disappointing. There are matny sections whilch will no dotubt inke a full crop, but stuch rorits aire outnumbered, two to one, by reopor'ts of yields failing below an aver'age. Sea island cotton was not in jured by the storm, on the contrary the rain will mat.criaflly help the "' top crop'' of which there is a fai' priomise. .Corn is baing gathered and the crop is generally reported to be a full one atnd in p)laes an extra fine one. In the extreme north western cotuntles where corni was laInted Ito, fodder Is still being p)ulledl, but even there the car's are maitur-ed and no longer subject, to weat,bmer condlitions. .tice harvest was somewhat delayed early in the week, but was resumed dluring the latter portion and Is nlow pract,ical ly comnpleted. T1hero are a few repor'ts 1 idiati ng p)oor yields of rice, btut, general ly this crop Is a fiullI average one or better, and has been secured in excellent condition, it, hav i ng been not att all dlamnaged by the stor'm. Tihr'eshiing is wvell untIer' way. I 'eas were hlpled by the rain andi are generally fruit,ing well, with excep tions over liminited areas w here peas are comnplete fail ure's. Sweet potatoes sho1w impr)love ment since the rain and look more prom Is img. In t,be trtuck raising districts, plow inrg aind planting winter vegetables is now under waty, with the gr'ound in excel lent, eondlit,ion for this work. L 'ast,ures whIiich were partlched and brown hatve started at new gr'owthi. Stock water is agi n pl'-nti ful. COr0p) having comp ileted their g,rowth, excepit a few com paratively ui0 nmportant ones, the issue of these huilletins will end for the season of IM 1, wit,h this number. CJorrespon dlents will, therefore, p)lease discon tI iu ',heiri wee ly re ports. J1. W. HA ia.:, Di)retor. --In every Kansas town there Is an, old toper w ho is deniled whiskey by tia drug store keeper. {t, is usually the case that hiis family has warned them. T'heL pl) emlCf of his life, theore fore, Is how to circtumivent the drug stor'es and p)rocurc his b)everi.ges, and it, must be con fessed that at times his methbodls rise to the heights of genius. Several times recently the old toper' of Smith Center has appeared at a drug store w ith a quart bottle In whIiIch could ho seen a great wad of gum camphor. ile matdo alilavit that his w fo needed a mix1t ure ofgalcohol and camph.o' for her aches andI pains, and t.he druggist lilled the bottle accord(ling to request. l"inally the 01(1 tOpler began coming so often and so regularly that the druggist be camne suspicious, lie took the bot,bic hohind Ih)iresrip)tion ease and fished out the gum campnlhor. It was rock candy. We Expect to Try Ourselves THIS FALL1 If'you do not get to Iasley before Fall, you must not f'ail to come to see us. We give to one and all a- cordial invitation, and will take great pleasure in showing you as nice and as cheap line of goods as it has ever been your good fortune to see in these parts. W e are preparing for a big fill trade, and shall endeavor to make it to your in terest, one and all, to give us your pat ronage. We are now ofl'ering Some Rare Bargains - - - In unseasonable goods. We certainly can intorest you: We have one lot of Mon's i''ur IIats, ranging in price freom $1.25 to $1.,5, all to go at iJSc each. We are beginning to receive our l'ALL GOODS, and say right hero that it will pay you to hold to your dollars until you can got to the .tacket., and know for yourself how much you can buy at the ItACKE'1 STORl' for one dollar. We are aware that our competitors are not, stuck on us much, 1. e., not in love with us. But be sure you do not stop until you are safe in the Store where you can buy what you want and as clieap as you can buy anywhere. Wishing for you, one and all, good success, and William Jennings Bryan's l reo Silver, with Uncle sam's seal, 1E. Pluribus Unum, we are your servants to please, NEW YORK RACKET STORES 1nasley, S. C'. (iYI)I9 & N A iLLY, I'roprictors. - 1835. - Carriages - Buggies - Harness. fAGONS! WAGONS! BUY THE JYAGONS!BEST WrVAIGONS.' r,r Ifon AyT , v7v drvav ;T. THEY ARE MADE AT GREENVILLE COACH FACTORY. W. G. SIRRINE, Supt. - - - H. C. MARKLEY, Prop. POLl( Mil,R'S YA1tN. .lust ay the old negro got alongsido a voice as from the sky said: A Gooi Negro Story told by the Lea- " Whar you gwine to dre.p me ?" nous Ilumrorit. The old man turned his eyes heaven ward and said : unii i,allIi ( 'omra ncial-''*ibune. " HI w who dat spoke ?" I wats seatcd in front or the hotul .Iust then the voice camne again, but talkingt ,of mnern, who, like my- this time it was unmistakably from tlkin feto thaprsieba,o tl the turtle. Looking down with aston July night. T1horo was a drummer hmnadferhltgoisps, necar mo1 who was t,he best, ventriloquist, saying as ho did so: I had ever soen. Terest of the' gm 'Ise gwino to drap you right 'ore.' panykno of hpoes u dnt And ho dId so. I called to him: "'Old so lbe concluded to have a little fun out, ma, cm akadgoortrl. of me. I heard a voice from the t,lrid Nir, suh, ho can stay d'yrr. I dean' st,ory siaying : want him !" "Won't you please come to) No. (6. I "Oh, come hack,'' said 1, "' this man would like to sp)eak to you." Iwent isa ventriloq1ui, and it washoha upi, hut found Nu. (i unoccupied, wit,h made the turtle sp)eak." tihe hallway leading to it illied wit,h a Looking at my friend and moving lot (of ruish, over which I stumbled. oAf slowly In the opposite direction, he Calling to tile clerk, who wag one of s t,he gang below, I inquired wlTo was in ,I dean' know n->thln' 'baut yo No. I;. lie r'eplied that there was no wh~ientriloguls, but the devil's in dat o.:c regist,ered for that room. Iwas t,urtle, an' I'm done wid him pleld, but, never for a moment aus peet.ed that I was the victim of a pr'ac- --" A peculiarity of the yellow fever tical joke. iteturning to the pavement that may not be generally known." I began to commlent upon01 the strange- said Mr. A. M. Marcus, of New Or ness of the thing, whenl a voice called(- leans, "'is that it..only appears on the I mne aga'n, saying : Atlantic side of this Continent. It is "I made a mistake in the numb)er. liable to visit our AtlantIc cities any W ill you please come to No I ti. I am year, but its dread visitat,ionlis unknown sorry t,o tr'oubilo you." in San Francisco, l'ortlano or any of the immeiidiately ran up tile throo towns on tihe l'acillc coast. Even on I lights of stairs to No. 1(6, hut met with the Isthmus of P'anama its ravages are no better luck than b)efore, for this conlined to the Atlantic end of the nar r'oomi was5 dark and unoccupied. I he- row neck of land that connects the gan to get a little mad, for I thought A mericas. Why this is so I have never somie fellow was up thei'e and dodging seen exp)lained,.. but the fact is well es me. I gave up) the search andi went tablishod. Yellow fever is not, as has b)ack to whore the group of men wcre often been asserted, confined to the seated- white race. Negroes are not immune, '.That foll,>w thinks lie's doing seine- although much less subject, to the dis thing smart," said i. ease, particularly those of pure Airi At this the crowdl broke forth in a can blood. r'hose with an Anglo-Saxon hlearty laugh andl the perpetrator' of straIn in them are by no moans ex the joke madie the mfost humIfbig apo(l- Omp)t." ogy, saying : '' We just wanted to hlave a little fun at your expense sir. I am Sntr1.1.Tla fSuhCr a11 chatir wset.t"in,ad h olin a, will be asked to make a speech "Islls "hi was nex cmltomi and theur in Richmond, during the present cam priised me that I enjoyed it, as much as pag.Ths was' dcddboomi t-onClb the rest of them. too from the Ol oiio lb ho dometim afterthatthi ma ard Ioldest organization of the kind in RIch ni e in a emt.li town in North Carolina. mond,eand if he accepts the meeting While si,anding on the street corner, wilb one of the features of the con talking, we saw an old darky coming a. towaird us with a fishing pole thrown -h otcrosuet hc a aer'oes his left shoulder, while in his n--isToe pst cuios taugestoedc ba right hand he was carrying a turtle, eisobeptsthtugstdy hloldilng him by the tail. The old fel- bhe blotting' papeir towel. It Is a new low' fae ws wrathd i smies,forstyle of bath towel, consisting of a full hew'asfacenkasgwreathed in surles, sor suit of heavy blotting paper. A person lhe was going to have that day for din- hasonl stopn outrof himsmorning obah, ner. I called my ventriloquist friend's these sonlt, ada Isin onn e of b attention to the old negro as he camne dhry. is,adi ascn h ilb "Ain't he happy," said I. " Visions -The daily income of the czr of I of turtle soup are floating through his Russ&a i.s $25,000; of the sultan s,of rur mid. key. *18,000; the emneror of Austria, "at tilt he gets up close to mo $10,000; the German~ emperor, $8.000 and I'l make that turtleespeak to him," the king of Itlay, $6,500; Queen Vic sai my frin' toria, $6,500; the king of Belgium, $6 "an you do that ?" 500; the president of France, 85,006 Watch me," said he. president of the United States, $125.