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SIGNS OF A SUMMER RAIN.
... kDCir |t would r.llB.'* ifiOil t!to faruier ii girl,
..a^t . lik, xu 1 ol the morn leg glories,
for Ibrir tk-lls h*v» teen open the whole day long,
’ \n,l they’re (lowem that tell no stories.”
•I knew It would rain,’' said the farmer's hoy,
• uecauss of the ears—I eotild hear them,
Though ,Ar un ' !lv tll * Jr roU * <1 orer the rails
ka plainly ns if I w * s “ear them.”
••I knew it would rain," said the farmer’s wife,
"J'or the sound of the wind wss so hollow,
And when the wind's moaning and sighing that
way,
tvby a rainstorm is curtain to follow."
.] knew It would rain,” said the farmer himself,
••for this reason—the old barnyard pump la
gu dry that today It was not primed’ at all,
And it's generally dry us a stump la."
-I knew it would rain," said the good grand
mamma,
• When I saw our old tabby eat idaying,
For when eats of her age hire their own klttena
play,
[S)ok out for wet weather, I'm saying.”
And so when the rain jus! at twilight came down,
And the wind, with a splash and dash, threw It
•Gainst the doors and the windows, each sign was
recalled.
And every one said, “There! I knew it,"
- Bessie Q. Hart in Chicago Tribune
BY BRET HARTE.
[Copyrighted by Houghton, Mil’lm A Co., and
published by arrangement with them.]
CHAPTER III.
To Kate's surprise the lower part of the
house was deserted, but there was an unusual
activity on the floor above, and the sound of
heavy steps. There were alien marks of
dusty feet on the scrupulously clean passage,
and on the first step of the stairs a spot of
blood. With a sudden genuine alarm that
drove her previous adventure from her mind,
she impatiently called her sister's name.
There was a hasty yet subdued rustle of
skirts on the staircase, and Mrs. Hale, with
her finger on her lip, swept Kate unceremo
niously into the sitting room, closed the door
end leaned bock against it, with a faint smile.
Bhe had a crumpled paper in her hand.
“Don't he alarmed, but read that first,” she
said, handing her sister the paper. “It was
brought just now.*
Kate instantly recognized her brother's dls^
tinct baud. Bhe read hurriedly. “The coach
was robbed last night; nobody hurt. I’ve
lost nothing but a day’s time, as this business
will keep me here until tomorrow, when
Manuel can join me with a fresh horse. No
cause for alarm. As the bearer goes out of
his way to bring you this, tee that he wants
for nothing.”
“Welle said Kate, expectantly.
“Well, the ‘bearer’ was fired upon by the
robbers, who were lurking on the ridge. He
was wounded in the leg. Luckily he was
picked up by his friend, who was coming to
meet him, and brought here as the nearest
place. He's upstairs in the spare bed in the
spare room, with his friend, who wont leave
his side. He won’t even have mother in the
room. They’ve stopped the bleeding with
John’s ambulance things, and now. Kate,
here’s a chance for you to show the value of
your education in the ambulance class. The
ball has got to be extracted. Here's your op
portunity.”
Kate looked at her sister curiously. There
was a faint pink flush on her pale cheeks, and
her eyes were gently sparkling. She had
never seen her look so pretty before.
“Why not have sent Manuel for a doctor at
once!” asked Kate.
“The nearest doctor is fifteen miles away,
snd Manuel is nowhere to be found. Per
haps he’s gone to look after the stock. There's
some talk of snow; imagine the absurdity
of it!”
“But who are they?”
“They speak of themselves as ‘friends,’ as
if it were a profession. The wounded one
was u passenger, I suppose. ”
“But what are they like?” continued Kate.
“1 suppose they’re like them all.”
Mrs. Hale shrugged her shoulders.
“The wounded one, when he's not fainting
away, is laughing. The other is a creature
with a mustache, and gloomy beyond ex
pression.”
“What are you going to do with them?”
said Kate.
“What should I do? Even without John’s
letter I could not refuse the shelter of my
house to a wounded and helpless man. I
shall keep him, of course, until John comes.
Why, Kate, I really believe you are so pre
judiced against these people you’d like to
turn them out. But I forget! It’s because
you like them so well. Well, you need not
fear to expose yourself to the fascinations of
the wounded Christy Minstrel—I’m sure he’s
that—or to the unspeakable one, who is shy-
ness Itself, and would not dars to raise his
eye* to you.”
There was a timid, hesitating step in the
sassage. It paused before the door, moved
tway, returned, and finally asserted its in
dentions in the gentlest of taps.
“It’s him; I'm sure of it,” said Mrs. Hale,
vith a suppressed smile.
Kate threw open the door smartly, to the
txtreme discomfiture of a tall, dark figure
shat already had slunk away from it. For
all that bo was a good looking enough fel
low, with a mustache as long and almost as
flexible as a ringlet. Kate could not help
noticing also that his hand, which was ner
vously pulling the mustache, was white and
thin.
“Excuse me,” he stammered, without rais
ing his eyes, “I was looking for—for—the old
lady. I—1 beg your pardon. I didn’t know
that you—the young ladies—company—were
here. I intended—I only wanted to say that
my friend—” He stopped at the slight
smile that passed quickly over Mrs. Hale’s
mouth and his pale face reddened with an
angry flush.
“I hope ho is not worse," said Mrs. Hale,
with more titan her usual languid gentle
ness. “My mother is not here at present.
Can I—can t«—this is my sister—do as well?”
Without looking up he made a constrained
recognition of Kate's presence, that, embar
rassed and curt as it was, had none of the
iwkwardness of rusticity.
“Thank you; you're very kind. But my
friend is a little stronger, and if you can lend
me an extra horse I'll try to get him on the
ttmnmit to-night.”
“But you surely will not take him away
from us so soon?” said Mrs. Hale, with a
languid look of alarm, in which Kate, how
ever, detected a certain real feeling. “Walt
at least until my husband returns to-mor
row.”
“He won’t be here to-morrow,” said the
stranger hastily. He stopped, and os quickly
corrected himself. “That is, his business is
•o very uncertain, my friend says.”
Only Kate noticed the slip; but she noticed
also that her sister wits apparently uncon
scious of it “You think,” she said, “that
Mr. Halo may be delayed?”
Ho turned upon bar almost brusque! y. “I
mean that it is already snowing up there;”
be pointed through the window to the cloud
Kate had noticed; “If it oonw. down lower
in the past tbs roads will be blocked up.
That is why it would be better for us to try
and get on at ouce.”
“But if Mr. Kale is kkely to he stopped by
mow so are you,” said Mrs. Rais playfully;
“and you had better let us try to make your
friend comfortable hero rather than expose
him to that uncertainty in his week con
dition. We will do our best for hinsu
My deter It dying for nn opportunity to
•bow her skill in surgery,” she continued,
with tn unexpected mischievousness that only
*44*1 to Kate's surprised emberramraent
41 Aren’t you, KateP
4 Equivocal as tbs young girl
polite evasion. Borne unaccountable
impulse kept her constrained and speechless.
The stranger did not, however, wait lor her
reidy, but, casting a swift, hinged glanco
around the room, said, “It’s impo *»b!o; we
must go. In fact, I’ve already taken the lib
erty to order the horses round. They ore at
the door now. You may be certain,” he
added with quick earnestness, suddenly lift
ing his dark eyes to Mrs. Hale, and a* rabidly
withdrawing thorn, “that your hors© will bo
returned at once, and—and—we won t forget
your kindness.” Ho stopped and turned to-
ward tho hall. “I—I have brought my
friend down stairs. Ho wants to thank you
before be goes.”
As he remained standing in the hall the
two women stepped to tho door. To their
surprise, half reclining on a cane sofa, was
the wounded man, and what could bo Seen of
his slight ilguro wss wrapped in a dark
scrape. His beardless foes gave him a quaint
boyishness quite inconsistent with tho mature
lines of his temples and forehead. Pale, and
in pain os he evidently was, his blue eyes
twinkled with intense amusement. Not only
did his manner offer a marked contrast to
the somlxv* uneasiness of his companion, but
he seemed to bo the only one perfectly at his
ease in the group around him.
“It’s rather rough making you come out
hero to see mo off,” he said, with a not un
musical laugh that was very infectious, ‘but
Ned there, who carried me downstairs,
wanted to tote me round the house in his
arms like a baby to say ta-ta to you all. Ex
cuse my not rising, but I feel as uncertain l)e*
low os a mermaid, and os out of my ele
ment,” he added, with a mischievous glance
at his friend. “Nod concluded I must go on.
But I must say good-by to the old lady first
Ah! here she is.”
To Kate’s complete bewilderment not only
did the utter familiarity of this speech imss
unnoticed and unrebuked by her sister, but
actually her own mother advanced quickly
with every expression of lively sympathy,
and with tho authority of her yearn and an
almost maternal anxiety endeavored to dis
suade the invalid from going. “This is not
my house,” she said, looking at her daugh
ter, “but. if it were I should not hear of your
leaving, not only to-night, but until you
were out of danger. Josephine! Kate!
What ore you thinking of to permit it?
Well, then, / forbid it—there!”
Had they become suddenly insane, or were
they bewitched by this morose intruder and
his insufferably familiar confidant? The
man was wounded, it was true; they might
have to put him up in common humanity;
but here was her austere mother, who
wouldn’t come in the room when Whisky
Dick called on business, actually pressing
both of tho invalid’s hands, while her sister,
who never extended a linger to the ordinary
visiting humanity of the neighborhood,
looked on with evident complacency.
The wounded man suddenly raised Mi's.
Bcott’s hand to his lips, kissed it gently, and,
with his smile quite vanished, endeavored to
rise to his feet. “It’s of no use—we must go.
Give me your arm, Ned. Quick! Are the
horses there?”
“Dear me,” said Mrs. Scott quickly, “I
forgot to say tho hone cannot bo found any
where. Manuel must have taken him this
morning to look up tho stock. But he will
be back to-night certainly, and if to-mor
row”—
The wounded man sank back to a sitting
position. “Is Manuel your man?” he asked
grimly.
“Yes.”
Tho two men exchanged glances.
“Marked on his left cheek and drinks a
good deal T
“Yes,” said Kate, finding her voice.
“Whyr
The amused look came back to the man’s
eyes. “That kind of man isn’t safe to wait
for. We must take our own horse, Ned. Are
you ready r
“Yes.”
The wounded man again attempted to lise.
Ho fell back, but this time quite heavily. He
had fainted.
Involuntarily and simultaneously the three
women rushed to his vide. “He cannot go,”
said Kate, suddenly.
inompson, m a state mem mt-nccu to
ibere is a panther, wolves, shield the young man from the death pen-
CO* of accident,’ in your amfuianec rules, I of Utc nwir,” sifid tnestranger,
reed : ‘First ley the sufferer on his back end one is a grixzly
inquCe bis name end family connections'? "ild'em, a [ox, and sene mountain goate” elty, declared It to have been th:iv daye.
HMrVia, you can cell one ‘Ned’ end the other “An ill-assorted party,” said the voune cirl. Bo* Thompson's statement con;:. ! lets it-
‘George,’ it you Hite.” j “fll luck makes them conqiauions.
.-<■1 „ They
“Ob, you know whet I mean,” said Kate, *!*“ I 00 frightened to hurt one another now.”
irrelerently. “tvi.i.4, i. tn m * n..i tll.'V ss-Si) .-..f- .-1.“-*f- . »4 I.
'Which is Gqorge?’
“George is th« wounded man,” said Mrs.
Hale; “not the one who talked to you more
than ho did to any one else. I suppose the
poor man was frightened and read dismissal
in your eyes.”
“I wish John wore here.”
But they will eat each uUier later on,” said
Kate, cfc-jttit»g a glance at her companion.
IIo lifted his long loshets and met her eyes.
“Not on a haven of refuge.”
(To be Continued.)
self in iini>ortant particulars mid leaves
the impression that Davit pasood bitweon
Canada and Richmond on at least two sep
arate missions, and the data at tho trial
may have related to his first trip from
Richmond to Canada and his last trip from
Canada homeward. However, both the
trial evidence and Thompson’s statement
show that he made a return trip from the
Confederate rendezvous in Canada to Co
lumbus, and set out from therein the di-
“I don’t think wo hart anything to fear in THE CONFEDERATE SPY , faction of fiftltimoto.
bis absence from men whose only wish is to There were many points about the young
get away from os. If it is a question of pro- j man to give him peculiar fitness for his
priety, my dear Kate, surely there is the THROUGH THE. UNION LINES AND work; there was also a fatally weak spot
pretence of mother to prevent any Krundol—' MANY PERILS. i in W» harness. lie was well bred and of
prepossessing appearance. A native of
R L. Dargan & Co.,
BoobMirs ami Mm,
DABHNGTON, S. G.
Schedule of the Hartsviile R. R.
Uaktsvillk. 8. C., Dec. ’ 9.
DAILY MIXED THAI
Leaves Hartsviile,
Leaves Jovann,
Arrive at Floyd’s,
Making connection
with
6.4f) A. M.
7.80 “
7.45 “
the South
although i-colly her owu couduct with the
wounded one is not above nixpicion,” she
added, with that novel miucbiovonsnuw that
seemed a return of her lost girlhood. “U’e
must try to do toe bent we can with them and
for them,’ she raid decidedly, “and mean
time I’ll see if I can't arrange John’s room
for them."
“John’s room?’’
“6h, mother is perfectly satisfied; indeed,
suggested it. It’s larger and will hold two
beds, for ‘Ned,’ the fgiend, must attend to
him at, night And, Kate, don’t you think,
if you’re not going out again, you might
change your costume? It docs very well
while we are alone”
“Well,” said Kate iadignrntly, “as I am
not going into his room”
T’ji not so sure about that, if wo can t get
Daring ^tissioa of
Officer to Ohio am! to Canada---Nar
row Escape from the Gallows—Was
This Another Andre Case?
[Oopyriglu uy American Pm* Association ]
IEUTKNAXT S.
B. DAVIS, of the
Confederate serv
ice, probul lycame
the m ;:r. st of any
o fti c c i on either
side i f playing the
|role of tho Andre
of the rebellion.
He did not, it is
true, lose his life
in an attempt to
negotiate for the
surrender of an
enemy’s fortress, as did the noted British
Davis,
and had the rcsiiect and confidence of the
Confederate chieftains. Too young to havo
attained prominence before the war, and
never having served in the regular army,
bis personality was not lUely to be known
on the Uuion side of the lines. But he had
served a long time on the staff of Gen.
Winder, commander at AndersonviUe prls
on, where many Union soldiers had seer,
him often.
Fortune favored him in his daring enter
prise until his arrival, on what proved to
be his final trip southward from Canada, at
Newark, O. He was traveling in the pas
senger cars of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road; had passed safely through Colum
bus and other public centers most danger
ous to him.
At Newark two Union soldiers entered
the car where tho disguised Confederate
sat. They had been in AndersonviUe pris
on, and after eying their fellow passenger
for a time one ex-prisoner whispered in hii
comrade’s ear, ‘There is Lieut Davis, ot
AndersonviUe!’’
Both arose and, approaching Davis, one
culled out bluntly to tho stranger, “Aren’t
you Lieut. Davis?”
^ “No, sir; my name is Stewart! ’was the
good lady wa* already in attondaiico on the «"ore, » “tate that did not swede, and cn pr . < ?vi’ t
i .t ... tcred into the part he nlavcd on Ids own ' . ^ 03 * 3 011 aro Lieut.
v „ . l*>i*ware. ho could mingle with northern p uriK)Sl conducting an establishment that will he a credit to
Voui.r; CunfoUerato people without arousing suspicion. He: ^ ^ _ 1 _ !
was a distant relative of Jefferson
Darlington County at the stand next door to Dr. Boyd’s
Drug Store.
bound passenger train on the Cheraw
& Darlington Railroad.
RETURNING.
Leave Floyd's, 10.00 A. M.
Leave Jovann. 10.30 “
Arrive at Hartsviile, 10.50 “
This train waits two hours, if necessa
ry, for the North bound freight train
on C. &. D. R. R.
J. L. COKER.
President.
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A full line of Stationery and School-
Books always on hnad.
FOB C. .4 1). AND C. & 9. RAILROADS
Pbisidixt’s Ornas
C. & D. AStrC. & 3. RAILROADS,
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a regular doctor. But lie is very restless,
and wanders all over the house like u timid spy, but he was sentenced to bo hanged for
and apologetic spaniel.” 1 complicity, under disguise, in negotiations
“Who?” between citizens of the United States and
“Why‘Ned.’ But I must go and look after ConfederaU officials in Richmond and in
the patient. I .oppose they’ve got him safe ' Cunmlnfor the delivery of the states of
in i.i« it^i «a i. Ohio, Illinois and Indiana and certain mil-
s T !!! ' T 41 W,th B n0d 10 '* r ‘ iv itary position, on the lakes into the power
she tripped up stana vf organized and armed emissaries of tho
Uncomfortable and endtarrossed, she knew south, led by Confederate officers,
not why, Kate sought her mother. But that Limit. Davis wiwbut S4, a native of Del
uatient and Kate tuiri i.sl (h it i tcrod into the part he played on his own 1 , 1 u*’ Juu aro iaeut. Davis, and you had
patient, and Kate huii led past that baleful I110 ,|„ n i charge of the prison when 1 was In Auder-
center of attraction with a feeling of loneli
ness and strangeness she bail never expe- j
rienced before. Entering her own room she
went to tho window—that first and last ref
uge of the troubled mind—and gazed out.
Turning her eyes in the direction uf her
morning’s walk, she started buck with a sense
of being dazzled. She rubbed first her eyes
and then the rain-dimmed pone. It was no
illusion! The whole landscape, so familiar to '
her, was one vast field of dead, colorless
white! Trees, rocks, even distance itself, had
vanished in those few hours. Au even,
shadowiest, motionless white sea filled the
horizon. On either side a vast wall of snow
seemed to shut out tho world like a shroud.
Only the green plateau before her, with its
sloping meadows and fringes of pines and
cottonwood, lay alone like a summer island
in this frozen sea.
A sudden desire to view this phenomenon
The full details of the Northwestern con
spiracy, as the scheme of the plotters in
the south and in Canada is called, have,
never been collected, but, in the outline i questioners would not
given two years ago in a southern military Confederate yielded nn<
•envlite,” persisted the soldier. A crowd
of passengers quickly smH ounded the par
ties and seeing that his stubborn cross-
be convinced, tho
and said
more closely, and to learn for herself the • Morgan’s follower
magazine by Capt. Thomas II. Hines,.
enough is disclosed to show the purposes ; Davis,
of the movement, the methods used and
the identity of its chief abettors. Capt.
Hines was one of Gen. John H. Morgan’s
band, and with that noted leader had
raided Indiana and Ohio, and after de feat
and capture had escaped from tho peniten
tiury at Columbus, O. lie was the mili
tary leader assigned by the Confederate
government to command the forces eu
gaged in developing the conspiracy.
Capt. Hines’ instructions were written at
Richmond, March 10, 1801, and by their
terms he was to be !il)cra!!y supplied with
money, pass the United States to
Canada, co.*.. r.in tho states “with the
leading persons friendly or attached to the
cause of the Confederacy,” collect all of
Well, boys, you’ve got me. I am Lieut.
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Law Blanks in great variety.
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This is tlu* place to buy your ledgers and blayk books of all kind
at the lowest market prices.
Sporting Headquarters!
Base Ball Supplies, Croquet sets, Ham
mocks, etc.
On ami after May 12, the
traini on
these roads will run as follow*.
S-unda / ex-
ccptcd)every day:
DOW* TRAIN.
! Leave Wadesboro
Bcnnells
Morven’s
McFarland
Leave Cheraw
Cash',
Society Hilt
. 7 13
Dove's
. 7.30
Floyd's
Darlington
. 7.60
Palmetto
: Arrive at Florence
. 8 16
UP TRAIN.
Leave Florence
8.10 P M
Palmetto
8 25
Darlington
8.86
Floyd's
8.40
Dove's
8.0®
Society Hill
9.12
Cash's
9 17
A LARGE LINE OF HANDSOME BOOKS SUITABLE
FOR PRESENTS.
LeavtCheraw 9.43
McFarlan 10.08
Morven’i 10 20
Bennett’s 10.85
Laks Waiiesbortf. ...11.00
Freight Train going up.
P M
Any book not in stock will be ordered out on a few day’s notice at
catalogue prices.
Leave Florence
8 11> » m
Arrive Darlington
9 05 a ni
Freight going ‘lown
Arrive DarlinSton
3.00 p m
Leave Darlington
8 30 p m
Arrive Florence
4.10 p m
limits of this new tethered life, completely
possessed her, and, accustomed to act upon
her independent impulses, she seized a hooded
waterproof cloak and slipped out of tho house
unperceived. The rain was falling steadily
along the descending trail where she walked,
but beyond, scarcely a mile utToss the chasm,
the wintry distance began to confuse her
brain with the inextricable swarming of
snow. Hurrying down with feverish excite- [ ada in May, 1864, and Capt. Hines was or-
incut, she at last came in sight of the arching dcrc ‘ l to report to and Iw governed by it in
granite* [Hiitals of their domain. But tier first ; ot^hi’* operations. It was soon docidcd,
had escaped to
Canada and any other Confederates there
desirous of re-entering the service, and. by
such n cans os he could command, effect
“an; fair and appropriate enterprises of
war” against tho enemies of tho Confeder
ucy. About the same time a commission,
headed by Jacob Thompson,was dispatched
from Richmond to Canada to net under
secret instructions from the Confederate
authorities. This commission reached Can-
“Fbu cannot po,” said Kate, suddenly,
“He will be better in n moment.”
“But oniv for • moment. Will nothing in
duce you to change your mind?”
As if in reply a sudden gust of wind brought
a volley of rain against the window.
“That will,” said the stranger bitterly.
“The rain?”
“A milc.from here it is snow; and Ijefore
we could reach the Summit with these horses
the road would he impassable.”
He made a slight gesture to himself, as if
accepting an inevitable defeat, and turned to
his companion, who was slowly reviving
under the active ministration of tho two
women. The wounded man looked around
with a weak smile. “This is one way of
going off,” he said faintly, “but I could do
this sort of thing as well on the road.”
“You can do nothing now,” said his friend,
decidedly. “Before wo get to the Gate the
rood will lie impassable for our horses."
“For any horses?” asked Kate.
“For any liorecs. For any man or beast, I
might say. Where wo cannot get out no one
can get in,” he added, as if answering her
thoughts. “I am afraid that you won't see
your brother to-morrow morning. But I’i!
reconnoiter, as 1 can do so without torturing
him," he said, looking anxiously at the help-
1 ( «9 man; “he’s got about his share of pain, I
reckon, and the first tiling is to get him
easier.” It was the longest speech lie hod
made to her; it was tho first time lie had
fairly looked her la the face. His shy rest
lessness hod suddenly given way to dogged
resignation, less abstracted, but scarcely more
flattering to his entertainers. Lifting his
companion gently in his arms, as if ho had
been o child, he reas:-ended the staircase,
Mrs. Bcott and the hastily summoned Molly
following with overflowing solicitude. As
soon as they were alone in the l»i !or Mrs
Hale turned to her sister: “Only that our
gucsta seemed to he os anxious to go now as you
were to pack them off I should have been
shocked at your inhoepitality. What baa
come over you, Kate! Thceo ore the very
people you have reproached me »o often with
not being civil enough to.”
“But who ore they?”
“How do I know? There in your brother’s
letter.”
Sho usually spoke of her husband os “John.”
This slight shifting of reationship and re
sponsibility to tbs fcminlns mind was signifi
cant Kate was a little frightened and ra-
morssfuh
“I only meant you don’t even know their
glance through the gateway showed it closed
as if with a white portcullis. Kate remem
bered that the trail began to ascend beyond
the arch, ami knew that what sho saw was
only tho mountain side sho had partly climbed
this morning. But tho snow had crept down
its flank, and the exit by trail was prac
tically closed. Breathlessly making her way
back to tho highest part of tho plateau—the
cliff behind the house that hero descended ab
ruptly to the rain-dimmed valley—sho gazed
at the dizzy depths in vain for some undiscov
ered or forgotten trail along its face. But a
single glance convinced her of its inacces
sibility. Tho gateway was indeed their only
outlet to the plain below. She looked back
at the falling snow beyond until she fancied
she could see in the crossing and recrossing
lines the moving meshes of a fateful web
woven around them by viewless but inex
orable fingers.
Half frightened, she was turning away,
when she perceived, a few paces distant, the
figure of the stranger, “Ned,” also apparently
absorbed in the gloomy prospect He was
wrapped in the clinging folds of a black
ser&po braided with silver; tho broad flap of
a slouched hat beaten back by the wind ex
posed tho dark, glistening curls on his white
forehead. He was certainly very handsome
and picturesque, and that apparently without
effort or consciousness. Neither was there
anything in his costume or appearance in
consistent with his surroundings, or even
with what Kate could judge were his habits
or position. Nevertheless she instantly de
cided that he was too handsome and too pic
turesque, without suspecting that her ideas
of the limits of masculine beauty were merely
personal experience.
As he turned away from the cliff they were
brought face to face. “It doesn’t look very
encouraging over there,” he said, quietly, as
if tho inevitablenees of the sittiation had re
lieved him of his previous shyness and effort;
“it’s even worse than I expected. The snow
must have begun there last night, and it
looks os if it meant to stay.” He stopped for
a moment, and then, lifting his eyes to her,
■aid: “I suppose you know what this means?”
“I don’t understand you.”
“I thought not Well! it means that you
are absolutely cut off bore from any commu
nication or intercourse with any one outside
of that canyon. By this time the snow is five
feet deep over the only trail by which one
can pass in and out of that gateway. I am
not alarming you, I hope, for there U no real
physical danger ; a place like this ought to
be well garrisoned, and certainly is self-sup
porting so far as the mere necessities and
even comforts are concerned. You have
wood, water, cattle and game at your com
mand, but for two weeks at least you are
completely isolated.”
“For two weeks,” said Kate, growing pale—
“and my brother?*
“He knows all by this time and is prob
ably as assured as I am of the safety of his
family.”
“For two weeks,” continued Kate, “impossi
ble ! You dob t know tey brother! He will
thiil some way to get to us.”
“I hope so,” returned the granger, grave
ly “for what is ooenble for him is nossible
for u*.*
“Then you are anxious to get away,” Kate
could not help saying.
“Very.”
The reply was not discourteous in manner,
but was so far from gallant that Kate felt a
new and inconsistent resentment. Before
she could say anything he added, “And I
says Capt. Hines, “to utilize tho feeling
existing in tho western and border states
inimical to the administration (Lincoln’s)
and to organize it for active and practical
opposition.”
The political disaffection in the territory
named had given rise to a somi-military
circle called the “Sons of Liberty,” which
the grand commander, Clement L. Val-
laudigham, of Ohio, represented as num
bering SOO.OOOmcn. Of these 85,000 were in
Illinois, 50,000 in Indiana and 40,000 in
Ohio. Capt. Hines met Mr. Vallandigham
at Windsor, Canada, where the latter was
living in exile under a commutation by
President Lincoln of his sentence to close
confinement in a military prison for acts of
treason, and secured information as to the
forces under his control. This was early
in June, and a few days later Vallandig
ham returned home to Ohio.
The Confederate party in Canada wished
the whole tendency of the Vallandigham
movement to be directed to the establish
ment of a separate confederacy of north
western states, to keep up a lire on the
Union rear as an ally of the Southern Con
federacy, but they did not disclose such a
purpose openly. They hoped to see the
“Sons of Liberty” breakout in open revolt
in the states. Then, it was believed, an al
liance with tho Confederates for open war
would be welcomed by them. In July
Thompson wrote from Canada to the Rich
mond government that while the western
confederacy he was fostering was to first
demand of tho Union party peace, with In
dependence for^the southern Confederate
states, yet if such peace was not granted
then war at home would be the remedy.
All summer plotting went on, and dates
were fixed at various times in July, Au
gust and September for the uprising in the
states. The Confederates in Canada were
armed and divided into two commands,
one to raid Camp Douglas, near Chicago,
and release the Confederate prisoners there,
and the other to do similar duty at the
Rock Island prison.
The 20th of August was selected for a
Chicago emeute. It was the opening of the
national Democratic convention, and Val
landigham was to be on hand with subor
hope you
will remember, whatever may hap
pen, that I did my bert to avoid xtayingJiere
i longer than wax necessary to keep my friend
from bleeding to death In the road.”
“Certainly," xoid Kate; then added awk
wardly, “I hope he’ll be better xoon." Bhe
was Aleut, and then, quickening her pace,
■aid hurriedly, “I must tell my drier this
dreadful new*.”
“I think ahe ia prepared for it. If three it
anything I can do to help you I hope yon will
let me know. Pre-hop* I may beat fame
service. I •hall begin by exploring the treib
to-morrow, for the bmt rerviee we can do you
possibly is to take oorselvee off; bat I con
carry a gun, and the woods ere full ol game
driven down from the mountains Let me
“That wasn’t neoreeary for giving than a
bsd and bondages Do you suppose the good
Samaritan over asked the wounded Jew’s
name, and that the Levite did not txcum
because the thieves hod token the
“AUEN’T YOU LIEUT. DAVIS?”
dinute military leaders of the “Sons of
Liberty.” The Canadian party, fully
armed, reached the city, and were joined
by bands of Confederate partisans from
Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee, all in
disguise, but fully equipped and officered.
An unlocked for increase of the Union
garrisons at tho prisons just at this time,
the detection and arrest of several prom i
nent Confederate officers and the hike
warmness of tho “Sons of Liberty” for
overt acts caused a postponement.
From that time on until the presidential
election Thompson's emissaries were busy
and there was more or leas war along the
border under his direction. Tho entire re
gion of the Canada line was placed under
strict Ugion surveillance and hundreds of
persons were arrested. It was In this ex
citing period that Davis, a commissioned
officer of the Confederate army, appeared
on the scene in disguise, the bearer over
Union territory, as he confessed on his j
trial, of important dispatches between the j
Confederate government at Richmond ami
the northwestern plotters.
It appears from the evidence educed on ,
his trial and the admissions made by his
friends ia order to secure executive clem
ency that soium time after the failure of i
Capt. Hines' expedition at Chicago Lieut.
Davis volunteered to act os a messenger
between Richmond and Canada. He was .
provided with a British passport under an
assumed aame, had his hair dyed, and put,
on citizen's dress. The regular route of ;
coinmunichtion between Richmond an. ,
Canada was by steamer via Bermuda, but j
for some reason never yet explained Davis 1
went from Richmond to Daitimore, and
from there to Columbus, O., where he cer
tainly communicated with people of sus-1
"X DO SOT FEAR TO DIE.”
Tho provost marshal of Newark was
summoned, and tho prisoner was speqjiily
hurried to the common jail. A search of
his person failed to disclose any secret
papers, and he was left in the main room
with a number of ordinary county crim
inals. Soon after the military had left the
place the stranger was seen to remove from
inside his coat lining a number of dis
patches and drawings upon white silk, and
to burn them in the fire which was blazing
in an open stove. Tho link that would
have removed all doubt as to his purnoses
and condemned him to instantaneous death
was thus hopelessly destroyed.
Ohio was in the military department of
Gen. Hooker, and Lieut. Davis was put
under guard and held for court martial as
a spy. His defense was that he was a
bearer of dispatches. Tho court martial
held that his presence in the Union lines in
disguise constituted the offense for which
the penalty is death. When tho evidence
was all iu and tho case clear against
him, the prisoner rose, facing the officers
and witnesses, every one wearing the colors
of his mortal enemies and some of them
scarred with the conflicts in which he and
his own had been pitted against them.
There was no reason to expect mercy and
he did not ask it.
After stating his case briefly, he looked
over his accusers and judges, and said: “I
do not fear to die. I am young and would
like to live, but I deem him unworthy who
should ask. pity of his foemen. Some of
you have wounds and scars. I can show
them, too. You are serving your country
as best you may, I have done the same. I
can look to God with a clear conscience;
and whenever the chief magistrate of this
nation shall say ‘Go ’ whether upon the
scaffold or by the bullets of your soldiery,
I will show you how to die.”
The sentence was that he be confined in
the military prison at Johnson Island, in
loake Erie, until the 17th of February, 1865,
then “to he hung by tho neck until he is
dead.” Just before the day arrived the
condemned wrote to the judge advocate of
the court martial askiug that one or more
members of the court witness the execu
tion. “Gome and see it done,” said he.
“and you shall have the satisfaction of
knowing that you hung a brave man.”
During the night of the 16th of February,
when all preparations had been made anu
Davis had, as he believed, beheld the lust
sunset on earth, a reprieve came from
President Lincoln. Influential citizens
of Ohio, Delaware and the south now
set to work to have him pardoned and
treated as a prisoner of war. Jacob Thomp
son avowed that he knew all of the con
tents of the dispatches carried by tho con
demned and that they were not of hostile
import.
Powerful friends pleaded that the youth,
bravery and noble bearing of the unfortu
nate victim of war, and the fact that he ac
complished no fell purpose, should be held
as sufficient grounds for remitting the
death penalty. But the dispatches which
alone could reveal the nature of his mis
sion had been burned by his own hand.
Ke was placed in a dungeon at Fort War
ren. Boston harbor, and before the reprieve
ended the war closed. Then Mr. Stanton,
secretary of war, “ very reluctantly ” per
mitted him to go free. To the end he kept
the secret of his mission to Ohio.
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o
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0 II Mailer TranaporlitioD.
SOUTHEASTERN RAILROAD
OiiARLCgTOX, S. C. t May 1, 18‘.()
On ami after this date the following
schedule will be run :
GOING SOUTH.
No. 27, Daily.
Leave Florence
*1 36 a m
Leave Kingslree
2 29 a m
Arrive Lancs
2 60 a m
Leave Lanes
2 60 a m
Aprive Charleston
6 00 a m
No. 28, Daily.
Leave Florence
*8 30 a m
Leave Kingslree
tl 411 a o
Arrive Lanes
10 07 a i
Leave Lanes
10 07 at
Arrive Charleston
11 59 a m
No 63.
Leave Lanes *
*7 60 P. M,
Arrive Charleston
9 80 p. m.
Train on C A D K R conn
els at Flor-
tnee with No 23 Train.
GOING NORTH,
No, 78, Daily.
Leave Charleston
*1 20 a m
Arrive Lanes
3 00 a n
Leave Lanes
3 00 a m
Leave Kiugstree
3 17 a m
Arrive Florence
4 20 a m
No. 14.
Leare Cnarleiion
Arrive Lanes
Leave Lancs
Leave Kingslree
Arrive Florence
‘4 50 p in
b 29 p in
« 29 p iu
I! 4(i P HI
7 55 p in
No. 52, Daily.
Leave Charleelon *7 00 a
Arrive Lanes 8 27 a
* Daily, f Daily except Sun
Nos 52 runs through to Ooiumb
via Central R R of S C.
Not. 78 and 14 run solid to WHmingtoi
N. C., making dole connection with W.
W R R for all points north.
J. R. KENLY, J. F. Diviss,
Supt. Trans. Gcn’l Sup’
T. M. Ehibson, Oen’l Pass. Agt.
ULSIXCTON COLIIBIA AM AlUSTA RAIU
May i, 1890.
00INQ SOUTH
No. 28.
Leave Wilmington
Leave Marion
Arrive Florence
Leave Florence
Arrive Snmler
Leave Sumter
Arrive Columbia
Leave Wilmington
Leave Marion
Arrive Florence
No. 50.
No. 27
*0 15 p m
9 33 p m
10 20 a m
3.20 a u
4.u6 a re
4 35 a m
0. 16 a in
*10.10 p ■
12.40 p m
1 20 a m
No 62
Leave Sumter | 9 45 a m
Arrive Columbia 10 66 p m
No 68
Leave Florence f8 25 a a
Arrive Sumter 9 85 a m
No 52 rune through from Charleaten via
Central R U.
Leaving Lanei 8 80 A M., Manning 9 10
A M.
Train on C & D R U conneoti at Florence
with No 58.
GOING NORTH.
No 61.
(?. s. mm &
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<£lK Punk of PiuliiifltuH,
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SA-XTINGtS 333NTT,
And from and after this date will receive deposits of One Dol
lar and upwards, and pay quarterly interest on the same,
at the rate of five per cent, per annum, under regu
lations to be made known at the Bank. This is
a favorable opportunity for
Farmers, Clerks,
/.cave Columbia.
•10 36 p n
Arrive Sumter
11 68 p n,
i Leave Snmler
1168 pm
I Arrive Florence
1 15 a m
Leave Florence,
No. 78.
4 35 a m
Leave Marion
5 20 a m
l Arrive at Wilmington,
8 35 a ■
No. 69
Leave Sumter
ffi 37 p m
7 50 p m
Arrive Florence
No. 68,
Leave Colombia
•5 20 pm
Arrive Snmler
No 14
C32p m
Leave Florence
*8 15 p m
Leave Marion
8 65 p m
Arrive at Wilmington
11 45 p m
Mechanics
■bow yore ooBorililng yoo may not havo . . ( , io - U( , c | iarat ter at tha time,
aotfoed.” Ho (topped and pointed to a renall Froin Coiumbu* be went to Detroit, and
knoll of sheltered ihrubhery and granite on froal there to Wind*or, Canada, where he
the appealte rv—"t* 1 ", which rtill remained nle t Thompson and other Confederate em |
hUckoiainri the reuToandlng mow. It imariee. How long he remained iu Canada |
“Thwart wad animate driven out 1
Factory Operatives,
To Save Their Earnings.
Laborers,
Attention Mechanics!
fell
W. C. COKER,
All persons in need of babbitt metal j Prftsidftflt
caw purchase it cheap at The Dak-| riOSJUBin.
lihoto.n Nkws office. Darlington, S. C., June 18, ’89.
June 12, ’90—tf I
BRIGHT WILLIA2JS0E,
Cashier.
“Daily, f Daily except Sunday.
No 63 run, through t* Chariest jn, via
Oentral R U, arriving Manning 7 04 P 1.
Lanes 7 42 P M. Charleston 9 80 P M.
No 69 conueeK at Florence with CAD
train for Uberaw and Wadesboro’.
Nos 78 and 14 make oloie connection at
Wilmington with W & W R R for all point*
North.
Train on Florence R. R. leave Pee Dee
; daily except Sanday 4.40 P. M., arrive
Rowland 7.00 P. M. Returning leave
Rowland 0.80 A. M., arrive Pee Dee 8.60
A.M.
Train ou Manchester A Augusia R. I
leaves Sumter daily except Sunday. 10.50
A. M.. arrive Rimini 12.01P.M. R-
turning leave Rimii.i 19.16 P. M .
rive Sumter 1.80 P. M.
JOHN P. D1VINK, G«u. Sop’t.