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The People's Journal. PICKENS S.o. 1901 FEBRUARY1901 Su. Mo. Tu. We. Th. Fri. Sat. * 1 2 34 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1415 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 2A125_126127 281 28 *0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0 THE WRECK OF I THEl CATIEBOAT. 0 O0 * BY CUTOLIFFE JYNE. * 0 COPYit0olT, In)M, 0iCI HYNE O 0*0*0*0*0*0-* 0;:.-0 0*0*04 0 0 0 CON'LUDED FlROM LAST WEEK.] A mob of men, sulky, sullen and afraid, stood round the hatch, and one of these, when the poolr remains came up and swung to the roll of the ship over the side, cut the bowline with his knife and let the carcass 1)101) into the raging seas. The chain clashed back again down between the iron comibings of the hatch, and the two mates below went on with their work. No one of fered to help them. No one, as Kettle grimly noted, was made to do so. "Do your three iates run thils sl), captain?" asked Kettle at last. "They are handy fellows." "If you ask me, I should call then) ,poor drivers. What for do they put in fal1 the work themselves when there is all that mob of deck hands and cattl hands standing roind doing the gentle men as though they were iu the gallery of a theater?" "There was some misunderstanding when the crew were shipped. They say they never sigued oil to handle dead cattle." "I've seen that kind of niusunder standings before, captain, and I've Started in to smooth theim away." "Well?"said the captain of the cattle boat. "Oh, with me," said Kettle trucui lently, "they str-aightened out s0 soon ' as ever I began to li(! if your mates knew their business, thly'd soon have that crew in hand again.: "1 don't allow my mates to knock the men about. To give thema thei- due, they wanted to. TVhey were i-ouight up in a school whIIiceh would prol)ably suit you, captain, 1111 threv of them; but I don't permit that sort of thin'g. I am a Christian mni, Iu(i I will not order my fellow men~l to b~e struck. If the fellows refuse their duty, it lies h)e tween them and their coinscienmces." "As if an old1 sa1ilor haud a con science!" miurnmure'd IKeIttle to himself. "Well, capitaini, I'mf no0 small P1ece' of a Christian myself, but I wnus taught that whatev-er my hand findeth to (10 to do it with all my might, and I guess bashing a lazy creCw Comes nmder that head." "I don't want either your advice or your theology." "If I wasn't a passenger hecre," saidi Kettle, "I'd like to tell you wvhat I thought of your seamanship and your notion of making a imamster's ticket re spected, but I'll hold my tongue on that. As it is, I think I ought just to say I don't consider this ship's safe, run the way she is." The captain of the cattleboat flushed darkly. He jerked his head towar-d the ladder. "Get down off this br'idge," he said. "You hear me. (jet down off my bridge! If you'velearned anythingahout your profession, you must know tis is private uip here and no place for bloom ing passenger's." Kettle glared and hesitated, Ie was not used to receivinug orders of' this de scription, and the lnovation did1 not please him. But for once in) his life lie submitted. Miss Carnegie was sitting } under the leo of' the deckhouse aft watching him, andl somehow or other he did not choose to have a scene be fore her. It was ail par't of' this strange ne*y feeling which had come over him. He gripped his other impulses tight and went and sat beside her-. She wvei comed him cordllally. She madle no so cret of her pleasure at his presence. But her talk just ntow jarr-ed upon imn. Like other people who see the ocean and its traffic merely fr-om the ,ama teur's viewv, she was able to detect romance beneath her- present discom forts, and she was pouring into his ear her scheme for making it tho roundation of her most ambitloous poem. In Kettle's mnind to build an epic on such a gr-ouindwoi'k wvas niothing shior-t of profanation. ie viewved time sea, seamen andl sea duties wvith an in tlmnate eye. To him they were common and unclean to the fur-therecst degrece; .no trick of language could elevate their meanness. lie pointed out how she would prostltute her talent by iayinug hold of such an unsavory subject and extolled thme beauty of' his own ideal. "Tackle a corn field, mniss," lie wouid say again and again, "with its butter yellow color andl its bobs of red pop p ies and the green hledges all round. You write poetr-y such as I know you can about a cor-nfleid andI farmiers and1( farm buildings with tha tched roofs, and you'll wvake onue of these mornings (like all poets hiope to (10 some (lay) and find your'self famous. And because why? you want to know. Well, miss, it's because cornfleld1s andl tile country and all that are what people want to hlear ab~out and (dreaml thiey'vo got handy to their ownt backc doorstep. .lhey're so ipeaceful, so restful. You take it from) me, no one would ever want to read four wordq about tis beastly cruel sea and the brutes of men who make their living by driving ship across it. No, by Ja- No, mliss. you take it froni a jn~n who knows they'dl Just lh'sis' il. .\ AI- si t I hey argned vtl'sly :i1 th ti-.. i nvi keeping tan noehlanniot * pihin l'erhinp 44' :11 thlt- C:! -0 re-lpglu that the enttlhiat car'Iedl .\Mr. .\eToit was Mle only one pfirxonl I'nltirlly Intp py. I mi hs.al no wiat'h to ket'. no Wor'k to do;: tle. 14,14r4101m wa'Is Warm,11. Stuffy and et ireely t his aste; iitn111or was leny, nidl th-iceal tiigineers of the sihyp were 'u "Itcli and ar!g'utieltative. lie neviei enm We 'n leek for a whif of fresl nir. tI-v r I: w it I)oient's to dium: Ie i i phe dansatit atmos. phe1r ce' b a( : ' :ihat. strolg tobacco tit ten- .n-. o1i : ll tliorolughilly enjoy ed ' ! - eu. n tilt moment of t. !. . .: ,- It-ws and ener S. ., , mIZ OW Saviig of hu mn-- I*r. .. shiowed that this (1 : a .".ny salpped IIs eil i :::... .id. as has been said, varI(- ' 1144: w<-a h ver ith her all the wai neriSs iw Athiutic from the river 'In as. Vs toigh it were a curse In ilieri a,Ir he crielty of her steve doscM. The crew forgot wlhat it was like to we-var dry cloth1es. The after glir lvel inl a1 State of hole wear! Iss. A hardeir captain would have still coitil'ed to keep themt up to the mark. but the man wh-Ito was in su preme command wits feeble anid unde elded, aid there Is no doubt that vig ilanice was dangerously slackened. A fog, too, whieh camte down to cover the sea. stopped, out all view of the sim nd cd tpelled them for three days to depend on deld reckoning, and after the eveit it was said at stroig current set tie steftame' 11n1duly to the west warId. Anyway. be the cause what it may, Kettle was piteied violently out of his bunk in the deep of one in ight. just aft er two hells. ail from tle Symptoms witch() loudly advertised theses it requaired no expert kntowledge to tell thai tile vessel was heatig her bottom out ot, rocks to tihe le(tillpatimiiient of i ImauIrderouasly heavy sea. The engines stoppe, steam begana to blow off naois 11y from tihe escalps, anild what with that and tle eries of ment and the clasling of seis and the heatilig of troll al the beast Cries from the cattle decks tih' din was aIl most enlough to split tie ear. Anad then the sleam a sirent bill'st ollt ito ole vast hellow of1 paIn. which drowied all the other i ses as though they hald been chi4lrent's wils pers. Kettle 811d on coat and trousers over his pyjamilas atid went and thumped at a (oor' at the other side of the alley wiay. "Miss Carnegle?" "Y es." "Dres's quickly." "1 11111 ( dessilg, Capta1in." "Get fin ished with it and then wait. I'll colie ior you waena it's time." It i all very well to be cool on these occasiols, bull sometimes the race Is to the prarnpt. Captain Kettle made 1 his way up ont (eck against n great ava lantcie of water wih ich was cascading downa the compantiotway. No shore was in iht. Il The shi1) had backed off after she had struck and was now roll hag heavily in at deep tarough. She was low~ In thte wa ter', aid every second wav~e swep~t over hetr. No one sceaemed to be in command. A dilm light showed Kettle one lIfeboat wr'eckedl iu dav'its and a disorderly atolb of men01 trying to lowetr thte other. But some oate let go the stein fall so that the boat shot down'a perpeandicular 13y, andi the next wave smlashed the lower haalf of it Into splinters. The frenzied crowd left it to ttry thte port quariter' boat, and1( Kettle raced them across5 the strenaming decks and( got just to the davits. Hie plucked a greenheart bielay ig 1)in faroam the ral and1( laid about him viciously. "Back, y'out scum !" lhe shouted. "Get back or Ill sinash ian every face among y'ouI Goo(Id L ord, isan't t here a mate or at man11 left on this stin1kinug farmnyar'd? A m I to keel) oft' all this two legged cattle by amyself?" T1hey3 f'oughat on, thte black water swirling waist dJel) among themn with every r'oil, thte sii'cn bellowing for help ovearhead and the ship sinking under' theIr feet, and( graduailly, with the f'renzy of dlespiri, the menci draove Kettle back against the rail, while others of tthenm cast off the falls of the quarter boat's tackles .preparatory to letting her drtol). Buat, thenit out of the (lark ness, upl camet Me'Lodd and the steam. ea's mate, biothi shriewd1 hitter's and men not afraid to use their skill, and once more tihe tables were turned. Thela othter quarter boat had been low ered and( swamiped; this boat was the only one remaining. "Now, Mac," said Kettle, "help the amate take chaar'ge and murder every one that iterferes. Get the boat in the wvater and( fead off. I'il be off be' low anad fetch up Miss Carnegie. We must puit somle hurry In it. Th'le old box hasn't macit loangea' to swim. Tako the lady ashaor'e and1 see she comes to no harm." "Oha, aye," said McTodd, "and we'll keel) a seat for yersel', skippen"' "You nteedn't bother," said Kettle. "I take ano mian's 1place in this sort of tea party." IIe splashed off across tho streamintg (leeks and found the cattle boat's captaint shltei'ng uinder the lee of the companion wringing his hands. "Ott yout bllthei'er," ho shouted, "'andl save youar mangy lfel Youar ship's gone no0w. You caan't play hash wIth hera iany mlore." After which pleasant speech Ihe wor'ked hIs way below, hlalf swimming, hatlf wadling, and once anoro beat agaist Miss Carnegie's door. Eveni it thtis nmomaent of extremity hte did( ntot dIreamt of going in uaaasked. She enate out to lit) in the half swamp~led alleyway, fuily dIressed. "Is there any hlope?" site asked. "We'll get you ashore, don't you Ie clapped ani arim atround her waist and1( dre'w her' starongly on1 through the dlark and( the swirling water toward the foot of the companIon. "Etxcuase mec, amiss," lie said, "this is not famil iar'ity, but I have got the firmer saa legs, and we amust hurry." They praessed up the stair, battling with gt'eat greeni cascades of water, andl gained thte dlreadful turmoil on deck. A few weak stars gleamed out above the wvind and showed the black wave tops dimly. Already some of the cattle had beeni swept overboard and were swimning about likce the horned beasts of a nightmare. The dIn of surf came to them among the other nolses, laut . ~' '9Lvisle, The steamer bad backed off thie reef on which she had struck and was foundering in deep water. it was indeed a time for hurry. It was p'aln she had very few more minutes to swim. Each sea now made a clean breach over her, and a passage about the decks was a thing of infinito danger. but Kettle was resourceful and strong. and he had a grip round Miss Carnegie and a hold on something solid wheii the waters wrenched him, and he con. trived never to be wrested entirely from his hold. But when he had worked his way aft a disappointment was there ready for him. The quarter boat was gone. McTodd stood against one of the day. its cool and philosophlical as ever. "You infernal Scotchinan, you've let them take away the boat from youl" Kettle snarled. "I should have thought you could have kept your end up with a mangy crowd like that." "Use your eyes," Raid the engineer, "The boat's in the wash below there, at the end of the tackles, with her side stove in. She drowned the three ruen that were lowered in her because they'd no' seise enough to fen( ofY." "That comes of setting a lot of farm. era to work a steamboat." "Aweel," said MeTodd, "steanera have been lost before, and I have it In mind, captain, that you've helped." "By James, if you don't carry a civil tongue, you drunken Gcordle, I'll kniock you some teeth down to cover iti" "Oh, I owed you that!" said Me. Todd. "But now we're quits. I bided here, Captain Kettle, because I thought you'd maybe like to swin the leddy oil to the shore, and at that I can bear a useful hand." "Mac," said Kettle, "I take back what I said about you're being Scoteh. You're a good soul"- Ile turned to the girl, still shouting to make his voice carry above the clash of the seas and the bellow of the siren and the noises of the dying ship: "It's our only chance, miss, swimming. The life buoys from the bridge are all gone. I looked. The hands will have taken them. There'll be a lot of timber flont ing about w-henl she goes down, and we'll be best clear of that. Will you trust to us?" "I trust you In everything." she said. Deeper and deeper the steamer sank In her wallow. The lower decks were swamped by this, an( the miserable cattle were either drowned Iin their stalls or washed out of her. There was no need for the three to Jump. They just let.go their hold, and the next incoming wave swept them clear of the steamer's spar deck and spurned them 100 yards from her side. They found themselves among a herd of floating cattle, some drowned, some swimming frenziedly, and with the Inspiration of the moment laid hold of a couple of beasts an(] so supported themselves wIthout further exertion. It was no use swimming for the pres cut. They could not tell which way the shore lay. And it behooved them to reserve all their energies for the morn Ing, so well as the numbing cold and the water would let theni. Of a Suddell the bellow of the steam er's sirei ceased, and a pang went through them as though they had lost a friend. T1hen came a dull, mufilled explosion, and then a huge, ragged shape loomed up through the night like some vast monument and sank swiftly straight dlownward out of sight beneath the black, tumbled sea. "Poor 01(1 gIrl," said McTodd, spit. ting out the sea wvater. "They'd a tIne keg of whisky down in hmer messroomi." "Poor d1ev il of a skipper!" said Ket tIc. "It's to be hmoped he's dlrowned1 out of harm's way or it'll take lying to keep him any rags of his ticket." The talk (dIed out of them after that. and the muiser-Ies of thme situatIon closed in. T1he wvater was coldl. lbut the air was piercing. and so they kep~t their bodies sub~mergell. eachm holding on to time bovIne r'aft and ('eh oman sparing a few fingers to keep a grip on1 the girl. Th nex inomn waesc7 temc a One f th beats tey cung o quckl drwed heohestage(/ sy kep it /otisaoewtr wm ming strongly, adi heedcm anT he next minutir~wae foundt thema Onelofative basts teydng to ucklyor mihen strony around themn mourne aivegt the shorethele onfurned t occupanted thelteamer' to way avd.at Atutsingndhem eah rue itllsonead the tll that they wer too bruied marnd numbed tomhng then ane and secndt. Lng yefore next dawnte found them still ainto an dtpradng its succ eor from sainggbyre ervousd themr mon ithe eand then etef drnesecve twesre merel automti ay andpltingt bruisin the wit rdegacollos. n thenil i tem soweeof thebocmri fullynuing theroat and npty three befre haued (lawn tie girwle had snk contoinuo drppn wsrnly he frio thekl bytien' vos fingers odue theomlong i~ te tleenfoa thedee tceir tuas wth a.gcyo ~i Whey werom soewahere oundo tee woing alste carfebor shomed cup, gmeand thy ruge, kidl Iohrishipll treeoere whae dover the gwale n Mts lrne ie lookene fo suene renoem-e facto a doekf armthr nd to C1elitth. Ke-tTh Attrld -on in truAr11Wige, makuinl almost hourly inquiries for her. Ie ought to have gone away to seek fresh elployient; ho ought to have gone onck to iis wife and chil Iren, and he upbraided litiuself bitterly for his negleet of' titese dutles. At last the girl was able to st up iand see him, and Io visited her, showing all the deference an embassanor might offer to a queen. She listened to his tale of the wrech with Interest and surprise. She was almost startled to hear that others, in eluding the captain and two of the mates, were saved froin the disaster besides themselves, but at the saime time unfeignedly pleased. And she was pleased also to liear that Kettle was subp(enaed to give evidenee before the forthcoming inquiry. "I am glad of that." she said, "be ceine I know you will speak with a free minid. You have told ine so imany times how incomnpetent the captain war, an(d now you will be able to tell It to the proper authorities." Kettle looked it her blankly. "Bluit that was different." lie said. "I can't say to them what I said to you." "Why not? Look what misery am] suffering and loss of life the man has caused. lie isn't fit to commnnand a ship." "But, miss," said Kettle, "It's his liv. ing. Ilie's been br'ought up to seafar Ing, ani( he Isn't fit for anything else You wouldn't have rme send out th< man to starve? Besides, I'm a ship master myself, and you wouldn't have me try to take away another mastter'c ticket? The cleverest cal)tailn aflona might mieet vith inisfortune, and he'i always got to think of that when he'k put up to give evidence against his fel lows." "W%'ell, wilit are you going to do then ?" "Oh, we've got together a tale, ant when the old m31an1 is put 111) On l1 trial the mates and I will stick to I through thick and thin. You can be that we are not going to swear awa3 his ticket." "Iliis ticket?" "Yes, his master's certifleate, il neans of livelihood." "I think it's wrong," she said excit edly, "criiinally wrong. And, besides you said you didn't like tile m31an." "I don't. I dislike him cordially lIut tlit's nothing to do with the case I've my own honior to think of, niss llow'd I feel if I went about knowin I'd done my biest to ruin a brother cap tain for good aln(d always?" "You are wrong," she repeated ve heinelitly. "The 131an3 is ilcomnpeten by your own sayiig, and therefore h<: should suffer." Kettle's heart chilled. "Miss Carnegie," lie said, "I am dis appointed iII you. I thought from 'youl poetry that you hrad feelings. I though you had charity, but I find that yo are cold." "Anld you." she retorted, "you that had set up for myself as an Ideal o liost of the ma31inly virtues, do you think I fevel no (isapoiintiellt when hear that you 3 are deliberately pr0oposo ing to be a itar?" "I a ni) o liar," lie said sullen'ly. " have most faurlts, lbut not that. Thi~s I: diff'erenit. Von do not undierist anud. I Is 1n(t ly inlg o1 d'ienid onre's felilow si y maiister3 hi~eii e a3 iriuiry board.'' 'lThe gir 'i 3r3atedu to) te l'llow in bi hlir and i id her iti t'ne"e. ''Oh I, go,'' sli said1(, ''go: I wVishi I ha11t' ever meit youi 1iiuhoighit you1 wetre so) good lirnd se 'bra0ve :tutii so honiest, a3ndl when I' ('ometo14 te linch'l your a3re Jutst lik the rest. Glo! Go!" "You)i say you doni't unaderstand,'' sait Ktet tle. "' Ihinmk you3 delibierateliy woni'l unrtni u. tiss. Y1oul rinemherIill' thal I so Id I was ~ Ilo diolpited in you, rand stle!k to thit titiw. You ruake mie re miembeinr thatt I hav ~e got a wife an13 farully I airi folid of. You iniake niu asham ted I havye uiot gone to them hue lore. Goodhy133, m33iss."' "Gohodhy,"' she sobbed fromt her p31 low. "I wish I could t hink you art righit, but perhapsll) it 1s best as it is.'' In thie village' street ouitsidet was Mc 'Todd, clothed in rasping serge and In clinied to lbe sententlous. "Thiey'vt whlisky lierie," hie said, with a jerk of the thumnb. "Irish whisky that's got ?1 smoisy3 taste that's rather' allun'ri whlen on3ce yo1u've' got ovei' the first dis like. I'm out of' sl~i'rumysel' or l'( stand you a glass, but if you be it funds I could guide y'ou to the 1p1ace.'' Kettle wais half tempited, butt with ii wrench he4 sraid ''No,'' adding that if lit once star ited lhe mnight niot know w~he, to stop). "Quite r'ight," said thie eniginric' ''you're' quilte (le) iight, skipper. A manl with ant inclination to level huim. self with the beasts that per'ish shouhlk always be absteniious." Hie sat against a wayside fence and prepared for sleep. "Like me," h(e added solemnly, and shut his eyes. "No," said Kettle to himself, "I won't forget it that way. I guess I can man age withouit. She pretty well cured me her'self, and a sight of tho missh will do the rest." [THrE END ] MANDY'S FEARFUL4 TE~MPER A Woman's Infirmity That Worked Wonders in Her Church. I)r, C, C. Brown in Bapitist Conrier. " Too much temper ain't a good thirg to have." said Uncle Dan'l, " an' y it, now an' then, we run up with it jost where it seems to ltelong, an' it 'pears as sf God makes a man's wrath to praise him, an' specially a woman's." This was said one day after a church meeting, at which the deacons had boon trying to settle a difficulty between two f the members, which arose fronm over heated tongues. " Some o' you ricoleck Mandy Moore tead," said Uncle D an'l. "Site was the floriest woman I ever knowed. She use to boast that she said whlat she thought. I'his wouldn't 'a boon so bad of she hadn't 'a thouglit in Eech a hiurtin' way. 3he fell outt, a bout onst a ycr, with ever sabor she had, an' one h alf hor time was ipent in ondoing at her leisure what she tad done in her haste, But in spite of ill her quarrels an' wranglin's, peopte was never div so fur fumi her that they wouldn't come back. When she was juiet and peaceable she drawed folks to ier an' made 'em like her an' jo-t about be time some fren' thought she had urned to an angel, she'd turn roun, art' give 'em a whop with her tongue, an' ion' 'em off like a dog with a kittle o' iot water poured on his back. That na Mandy. She run old man Spencer rinkins out'n her yard jest because he rome to boe a wagin, .an . en heno night an' fur three nights followin', she sot up with his son Lisha that was down with fever'n ague. When Spencer seen how she nussed the boy, an' hilt up his head to give him coolin' water an' hyeard her talk low an' sof' to him in the dead o' night when Lisha couldn't leep, he wondered of Mandy didn't have two tongues in her head. When Lisha had got un an' walkin' roun' Mandy sont him nice things to eat about twice a day, an' Spencer said to me, says he, ' Mandy is the bes' woman in Swcetvyater church, an' I don't care of she did fun me out'n her yard. - "1 Jn the war time, when women use to meet and pick lint for the soldiers' woun's as had been made in battle, Mandy was a'most always thor. Oup day, she up and 'cused the women of brlIging dirty scraps to pick, an' said, "I don't know what you all mean These scraps ain't fittin' to make lint fur a dog." At that, some o' the women busted out cryin', some lef' the room, an' the re' didn't know what to do Miss Jim Wheeler thought she'd take a shot back at Mandy. 8o she ul.s an' says, " Eff you don t like the way we does, Miss Moorohoad, you'd bet'er pick your lint at home.' Mandy riz up, an, without sayin' a word, she lef' the house 11er skyrts was a poppin' like a Whip lash as she switched out o' the do'. The very frock she had on looked like it was mad too. That night, when the com mittee met to pack up the lint an' sen' is away to the war, Mandy sout in a pil or case mighty nigh full. Bie had went home an' picked mo' lint than all the other women put together, an' ther was 'leven of 'cm. " When we had the dinner an' barbe cue at 8weetwater church to raise money to buy sashes an' blines, Mandy sot an' listened as long as she, could at Parson Brooks a readin' out committees, an' sayin' what each committee was to do. Turni' to Miss 8pencer, she said, "'Tll Preacher Brooks to 'pint one 1110' con mittee to whit-le tooth picks,' an' with that she fetched a whurl an went a stormin' thoo the do, out into the yard. On my way home, I seen her settin' oi the front steps to her house, an' I knowed she was mad but I dasn't name it 'Uncle Dan'!,' she called out, 'kin you tell ine who'.s a goin' to buy the dinner after Preacher Brooks has put the whole church on committees? Don't he know the people who iixes the table never pays fur nothing ? Is he a plum idiot ? I jest want himin to comie by here so I kin speak my mine to him.' I seen it wouldn't do to have an argynent wilh her, so I driv on. On Wednesday fol lowin', the day of the (ill ner, Mandy was there. Sie had on a poke bonnit an' a ginghatm apun that retched to the groun'. She had fetched a barbecued pig, a turkey, rice, potatoes, pies, tarts, bread, an' a three gall'n jug o' milk. She jest tuck charge o' things herself. As fast as some young woman would come up an' set her baskit down, Alandy would tell her what to do, without hav ing no regards for her being on some special committee In this way, she run about two thirds o' the wiomen away fun the table, an' kep sich as she wanted to help her. The tab e was sot under the trees, an' sech a sp cad you never seen. When all was ready an' the com mittee women comic a s:alkin' roun' the table, she says to 'em pint blank, "Sech of yt u as wants dinner kin git it fur twenty-five cents.' It was eurous to see the gals as had collie to eat without )ayin' goin' roun' gittin' Imoney fui ther fathers and brothers an' wherever they could borry it Busan Carson rid back home to git her money, an' it was a full mile an' 1mo.' But hlandy had her way. Fur about a month. the whole naberhood was in a stew, but Spencer Jenkis reported sixty one dollars to the church as comin' fumi the dinner, an' wvhen the sashes an' blines w~as p)ut up, it was wvell nigh agrceed in tihe church that Mandy dhone it. " Mandy never did hurt nobody with her han's but she would tear 'em upi wi'.h her tongue, an' it, 'peared that the hotter she got. the more work she could do. She was never knowed to sulk an' p~out an' git on' in a corner an' sit still She jest made up her mine to have her way, an' her temper never Comle to a calnm tell she had got thoo with what was on hand. When she was mad, her hair fairly riz up an' her face got red an' stayed so. But work-? She could (d0 more work in that frame 0' mine than any six woimn at Sweetwater. Luke Sawyer, that had tihe wart onl his nose, said be was a ridin' by one day. an' sen Yotu can cough s yourself into ;bronchitis,pneu-4 mnonia, and con sumuption. Bandaging4 sand bundling your throat wvill do no4 good. You must give your throat and4 lungs rest and allowv the cough wvounds to heal.4 There is noth ing so bad for a cough as cough..4 Ing. Stop it by using Even the cough of early consumption is cured. And, later on, when the disease is firmly fixed, you can bring rest and< comfort in every case. A 25 cent bottle wvill cure newv coughs and* colds ; the 50 cent size is better for settled coughs of bronchitis and weak lungs; the one dollar size Is more ecorsomical for chronic cases and con sumption. It's the size you should keep on hand. " Al1l ftmille's ought to ho on the watchu for, sudden, attacks of croup 4 Or aci to htig troules'~. Ever co0un1 try ho~me in tlh ld shout~d keop ('herry i'ectoral constantly on hand 4to j,rovlide against an eme1(rency." Deo 1,19A ( O. 'V~i -IA, M .D. Dec. 14,1398. Hollanld, MI'h.y ICAT Tie KHind You. Have Always 3 it, use for over 30 years, 1 andi III Allow All Comiter'eits, IImitatio)ns1 I Exiperieilnits tililt trifle witli In'anits and Children-Expei What is C Cstor'ia is a Imarmless subs gori(, 1)rol1 and Sootliig I contaiiis neither Opitim, Mt Jal41lStaIace(. Its age is its giu ti1iI all.ys Feverishiless. It Colie. It telieves Teetling '] anml FIlat-uienucy. It assinkinl Stollitet Imal(l BoWels giviig Tim Childi en's Panacea-Tlhn CENUINE CAS-i Bears the The Kind You Ha In Use For 0 THE CENTAUR COMPANY. TT M Mr. Moorehead a settin' under a tree by the big gate. Ie jest passed the time o' day, an' rid on, but he knowed Miss Moorchead had run the olo man out, an' was keepin him out. May be so. 8hC was very sperited when once she got her mouth a goin', An' ef she did run Moorehead out, I'll warrant she done somethin' to pay fur it 'fore night. [or housekeepin' was the bes' in the nabor hood, an' a man that couldn't eat her cookin' was sure sick ' Mandy wasn't like a gun that would bust an' kill you jest for fun, but I-ke one that would shoot an' hit you 11er temper -always had a aim to it, an' when thq 'splosion was over with. it always 'lpcared as if Mandy done right to git mad. Temper that's got somethin' behine it ain't so bad; but when some people bust, ther ain't nothin' lef'. Tnem kine oughtn't to git mad. They ain't got sense enough, an' that's jtst what ails these two broth ers that's now a rowin' here at the church nectin'." JA MES W. TOLIBERT SHOT AT M'CORMICK, Returned to Town From Which He Had Been Expelled-Masked Men Called at Noon. The Greenwood coIrrespondent of The State writes as follows under date of Feb 21 : .James WV. Tolbert has met the fate he courted, lie was shot today on the streets of McCormick, where he had bcca1 told that he must not go or else he would have to die. Blefore he was she t down he tired two shots at a young v si tor to the town of.McCormick - a man w~ho had nothing to do with the row going on bet ween Tolbert and the citi zens of McCormick. Both shots took effect, one in the body. and one in the hip This young muan, a Mr. Martin, was visiting his brother in la'w, M. L .' Sturkey, and was simply~ walkireg by when Tolbert, accordling to the state ments of those present, pulled out.a pis. tol and fired at hini. .Immediately a fusilade began, with Tlolbert as th~e tar get for all tihe availab~le shooting Irons in and around that vicinity. Tolbert owns quiite a .lot, of land around McCormick and some real estate in the town lie has never. attended to the renting of this property in person until this year ;ho will likely never do so again. About a week ago lbe wvent down to McCormick cdetermiinedl to Stay. In a few days hie received an anonymous letter advising him to leave H~e refused to attach any importance to the letter' and went on about his business of look ing after his farm lands. Today he was appfroached by a cro - d of men and told to leave. According to the statement of. the best men present lhe attempted to argue the matter and to let it be known that he intended to stay JTust about lihat time young Martin pas sedi by the crowdl on the other Side of the street, and seeing him, Tolbert pulled out his pistol and tIred twice at. Martin As stated above, tihe shooting at Tolbert then commenced, only two shots taking ('ffect, both in the body. Martin was hit in the hip and in the body. There were 110 more shots tired at Toibert after ne fell, lie was carried to the home of Mr. Pick Hlollingsworth, and it was stated tonight that a heavy guard had been place( around the house. Young Martin was carried into the store of his brother-in law, M L. B. Sturkey, and his wounds immediately attended to by D~r. Mleldau Even if Tolbert's wounds do not p ove fatal, his life is sti I in danger. The general opinion is that if Martin should( dile there would bo no chance for Tolbert. Late tis afternoon a 'phone melssage from McCormick stated that a good many people from -the coudary were cominig iin town),;andl the universal opinion was that Tlolbert, had better be moved. HIis physician said that lie could be moved, and his brother, IR. It TIolbert, exp~ects to go tonight to have him moved to Augusta or some place of eafety. Jum Tolbert, as lie is kinown, has been obnoxious to the people0 of McCori-:k ever since the Phoenix riot in the fall of 1898 He rendered himself (doubily 3o by the celebrated "conSipracy ease" against sonmc of the very best citizens of of the place in the spring of 1899. lie has madec severa' attempts to go back there, but, every time lhe was told (juiet- 1 ly but none thie less firmlhy that he couldt not stay in the town of McCormick.t D~espite these warninugs he has persisted,r 11nd it seems now .that lie wlieu his life for his rashness. The people of M1cCormilck are very cool and very do. termined. lie lias been told to stay Iway, and all would be well, but to try Lo come back there would mean trouble rhie trouble has come. THE~ SToRtY FROLM At'coRMICK A special to The State from Moor ought, and whIic1h has 1bee&n las borne the signatnre of ts beeniii made undIer lis per ;p1iervisiol Hince Its linancy. no 0ne to deceive you iii this. umd " Just-as-good " are but tni eidiage the healtli of ASTORIA titute for Castor Oil, Pare syruups. It is Pleasant. It >r)p1ne nor otier Narcotic an tee. It (estroys IV orns Cr1e-S Iaiurr'lqMa and IWnd $ ronbes, enr's Costitipationi tes te Food, regulates tile -eallhy and natural sleep. 3 Mother's Friend. ORIA ALWAYS Signature of Ve Always Bought ver 30 Years. FRRY STREET. NEW YORK OeTV. mick gives the following account: A pirty of nasgked men rode into town to lay a')nu - i with the inten tion of n %kin, Jimes W. Tolhart leave. He hAd b2n heri for a week and the citiz -as h.0 Mb 'Ut d 1cid I to n1 >' Im Aest him furth >r, waic oa, in a le hin feel s tfe. Tne n Vs'ce i p .y e-1countere I him at w rk repdriig o i of his bul'd ings and, aicirdiag to an eye witness, one of th- p arty of n it i mn aske I him to s irren ler, innie I I of #hichi fs dre v hip pistol and :)reae'tiag it tired. The im akol p arty w.i save I by a mn> randum b))k wrapjed arouaid with a silk handKerchief; it citciing the b-.lhiet. Tri'hy immedi-ately began backing from eac' other after excihtaging shots. Tolbert emptied bia pistol, ttien turned and r:% an.sicnaded in evaling the mob which s))a i ipirso . 1a dovolopedi afterwrdli that o-ni of the prty was wo aided sightly 'rolbort was seriously wounded, once in the right side of back, the bullet lo.lging in lung, and once in arm, which is a tiesh wound. RycaueI-rmN- F-n'r'E WAn.-A young officer, being dete.iied at the outset of the Spanish-American wo"':to organ'ze a regiment of negroes ini the~ South, be gan his recruiting in Augusta. Ga., his former home. One of the first darkios he met in the s'reet was his father's old body servant, who "tuk on pow'fully" over his uniform and shoulder straps, but cautioned him against " mixin' up In rows whiut didn't consarn 'im." said he : " Mars George, ye' ma don't knew nothin' bo'it dis; ef she did she wouldn' 'low it." 'But, Jim, I'm fighting for my country anid you've got to join my regi nment and fight, too " "Naw, nlaw, Mar. George ;yo's joikin'. I gut mixed up In dat scrap ober de niggers in '01 en didn' git no good outcn it. I ain't got no grievance wid1 de Spaniards. Dey ain' (lone nuthin' ter me Naw, naw, sir ; of yo' man knowed 'hout dis-of she lee' knowed !" lie shoo3k hIs head warning ly. " But, Jim, there is such a thing as patriotism. I'mi fighting for love of country," urgred the oficer. " Dat don' ketch me, nuther, Mars George : sonce I done mOVe to town I ain't got no me' love for do country." -Jenner's famous discovery that per sons who contracted cowpox while on "aged in milking, never had smallpox, dates from 1796. Our Spilng Lines Of .Shoes.. Are no0W being opened up, and we find them prettier and better thani we had even hoped for, We get them direct from the world's best manufactur ers. If yo;i will favo: us with ~i look we can certainly please Some very desirable win Ler Shoes still going at preat y reduced prices. Pride & Patton Greenville, S. C, WANTED TO LEASE. A iFUiLNISHrI D o'ritx. in-a, tbwn r city of South Carolina. S.,ate'num. .er of roomsm, location of hotel In rela 'on to hupinoas sectilon, the length and crms of le'as'. References given if eq'uired. Address,. M us. E 0. P., Re'idsville, N. C. MONEFY T1O LOAN On farmir g lands. Easy payment.. No ommissions charged. liorrower pays ac ual cost of perfecting loan. 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