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He raised his visor and began to spca shali be no escape." " ~~~ ~~ "I know wall that there will be no cape for one or other of us, Juan de. G cia," I answered, * 'Now we play the h round of the game, but So not boast, 1 God alone knows to whom the vicie shall he given. You have prospered lox but a day may be at hand when your pn periiy shall cease with your breath. ' your errand, Juan de Garcia. " For a moment he sat silent, pulling ?is pointed beard, and watching him thought that I could see the shadow oj half forgotten fear creep into his eyes, so, it was soon gone, for lifting bis he he spoke boldly and clearly. "This is my message to you, Thom Wingfield, and to such of the Otomie do with whom you herd as we have left ali today. The Captain Bernai Diaz offers y< terms on behalf of his excellency the vic roy." "What are his terms?" I asked "Merciful enough to such pestilent rebe and heathens," he answered, sn eerie "Surrender your city without conditio and the viceroy, in his clemency, will a cept the surrender. Nevertheless, lest ye should say afterward that faith has bet broken with you, be it known to yt that you shall not go unpunished for yoi many crimea This is the punishment th? shall be inflicted on you. All those wi had part or parcel in .the devilish murd* of that holy saint, Father Pedro, shall 1 burned at the stake, and the eyes of a who beheld it shall be put out. Such < the leaders of the Otomie as the judgt may select shall be hanged publicly, arnon them, yourself, Cousin .Wingfield, an more particularly the woman Otomi< daughter of Montezuma, the late king. Fe the rest, the dwellers in the City of Pine must surrender their wealth into the treas uryof the viceroy, and they themselves men, women and children, shall bo le from the city and be distributed, accordin to the viceroy 's pleasure,upon the estate . of such of the Spanish settlers as he ma; select, thereto learn the useful arts of hus bandry and mining. These are the con dirions of surrender, and I am commande to say that an hour is given you in whicl to decide whether to accept or reject them. ' "And if we reject them?" "Then the Captain Bernai Diaz has 01 ders to sack and destroy this city, and hav ing given it over 12 hours to the mercy o the Tlascalans and other faithful Indian allies to collect those who may be left liv lng within it and bring them to the Citr -of Mexico, there to be sold as slaves." "Good," I said "You shall have you answer in an hour." Now, leaving the gate guarded, I burri? to the palace, sending messengers as : ?weat to summon such of the council of th< city as remained alive. At the door of thi palace I met Otomie, who greeted me fond ly, for after hearing of our disaster sh? had hardly looked to see me again. "Come with me to the hall of assem bly," I said; "there I will speak to you." We went to the hall, where the member! of the council were already gathered Sc soon as the most of them were assembled there were but eight in all-I repeated tc them the words of De Garcia without com? ment. Then Otomie spoke, as, being thc first in rank, she had a right to do. Twice before I had heard her address the people of the Otomie upon these qu?tions of de fense against tho Spaniards. The first time, it may be remembered, was when we came as envoys from Cuitlahua, Monte zuxna's (her father's) successor, to pray the aid of the children of the mountain against . Cortes and the Teales. The second time was when, some 14 years ago, wc bad re? turned to the City of Pines as fugitives aft? er the fall of Tenoctifclan, and the populace, moved to fury by the destruction of nearly 20,000 of their soldiers, would have deliv? ered us as a peace offering into the hands of the Spaniards. On each of these occasions Otomie had triumphed by her eloquence, by the great? ness of her name and the majesty of her presence. Now things were far otherwise, and even had she not scorned to use them such arts would have availed us nothing in their extremity. Now her great name . was but a shadow, one of many waning shadows cast by an empire whose glory had gone forever. Now she used no pas? sionate appeal to the pride and traditions of a doomed race, now she was no longer young, and the first splendor of her wom? anhood had departed from her. And yet, as with her son and mine by her side, she rose to address those seven councilors, who, haggard with fear and hopeless in thc grasp of fate, crouched in silence before her, their faces buried in their hands, I thought that Otomie had never seemed more beautiful, and that her words, sim? ple as they were, had never been more elo? quent. "Friends," she said, "you know thc di" aster that has overtaken us. My husband has given you the message of the Teulcs. Our case is desperate. We have but 1,000 men at most to defend this city, the home of our forefathers, and we alone of all the people ol A nah nae dare to stand in arms against the white men. Years ago I said to you, Choose between death with honor and life with shame! Today again I say to you, Choose! ' For me and mine there is no choice left, since whatever you decide death must be our portion. But with you it is otherwise. Will you die fighting, or will you aird your children servo your re? maining years as slaves?" For awhile the seven consulted together; then their spokesman answered "Otomie, and you, Teule, we have fol? lowed your counsels for many years, and they have brought us but little luck. Wc do net blame you, for the gods of Anahuac have deserted us as we have deserted them, and the gods alone stand between men and- their evil destiny. Whatever mis? fortunes we may have borne, you have shared in them, and sp it is now at the end. Nor will we gpo back upon our words in this the last hour of the people of the Otomie We have chosen; we have lived free with you, and still free we will die with you, for, like you, we hold that it is better for njt. and_ours_ to. perish as_free men 'than to drag outour days beneath yoke^of thoTeule." . ^It is we?j ' * said Otomie. " Now ni lng remains for me except to seek dc so glorious tbat it shall be sung of in a days. Husband, you have heard the ans of the council. Let the Spaniards hea also." So I went back to the wall, a white : in my hand, and presently an envoy vanced from the Spanish camp to speal me-not De Garcia, but another. I ( him in few words that those who rezm ed alive of the people of the Otomie wo die beneath the ruins of their city like children of Tenoctitlan before them, ' that while they had a spear to throw? an ann to throw it they would never yi to the tender mercies of the Spaniard. The ec voy returned to the camp, t within ar. hour the attack began. Bri ing up their pieces of ordnance, the Sp lards set them within little more tha hundred ;oaces of the gates and began batter us with iron shot at their leisu for our spears and arrows could scare harm them at such a distance. Still were not idle, for seeing that the wooc gates must soon be down we d?molis! houses on either side of them and filled the roadway, with stones and rubbish, the rear of the heap thus formed I caui a great trench to be dug, which could i be passed by horseman and ordnance 1 it was filled in again. All atong: the rai street leading to the great square of 1 teocalli I threw up other barricades, p. tected in the front and rear by dikes c through the roadway, and in case the Spa lards should try to turn our flank a force a passage through the narrow a tortuous lanes to the right and left I a] barricaded the four entrances to the gre square or market place. TIU nightfall. the Spaniards bombard tite shattered remains of the gate and t earthworks behind them, doing no gre damage beyond the killing of about a soc of people by cannon shot and arqueb balls. But they attempted no assault th day. At length the darkness fell, and t fire ceased, but not so our labors. Most the men must guard the gates, and ? weak spots in the walls, and therefore tl building of the barricades was left chiei to the women working under my coi mauds and that of my captains. Otom herself took a share in the toil, an exai pie that was followed by every lady az indeed every woman in the city, and. the were many of them, for the women on numbered the men among the O tomi and, moreover, not a few of them had bec made widows on that same day. Itwasa strange sight to see them in tl glare of hundreds of torches split from tl rosin pine that gaye its name to the cit; as all night long they moved to. and fro i lines, each of them staggering beneath tl weight of a basket of earth or a heav stone, or dug with wooden spades at ti hard soil, or labored at the pulling dow of houses. They , never complained, bi worked on sullenly and despairingly, iii groan or tear broke from them-no, nc even from those whose husbands and soi had been hurled that morning from th precipices of the pass. They knew that n sistance would be useless and that thei doom was at hand, but no cry arose arnon them of surren der to tl ie Spaniards. Thos of them who spoke of the matter at a' said, with Otomie, that it was better to di free than to live as slaves, but the mos did not speak. The old and the young mother, wife, widow and maid, they ls bored in silence, and the children laboro at their sides. Looking at them, it came into my min that these silent, patient women were in spired by some common and desperate pm pose that all knew of, but which none c them chose to tell. "Will you work so hard for your mas ters, the Tenies.*" cried a man in bitte mockery as a file of them toiled past be neath their loads of stone. "Fool!" answered their leader, a younj and lovely lady of rank, "do the dead la bor?" "Nay," said this ill jester, "but such a you are too fair for the Teules to kill, an* your years of slavery will be many. Say how shall you escape them?" "Fool!" answered the lady again, "doe fire die from lack of fuel only, and mus everyman live- till age takes him? W< shall escape them thus, ' ' and casting do wi the torch she carried she trod it into th< earth with her sandal and went on wltl her load. Thon I was sure that they bax some purpose, though I did not guess hov desperate it was, and Otomie would tel me nothing of this woman's secret. "Otomie, " I said to her that night whei we met by chance, "I have ill news foi you." "It must be bad indeed, husband, to bf named in such an hour," she answered. "De Garcia is among our foes." *'I knew it, husband." "How did you know it?" "By the hate written in your eyes, " she answered. ' 'It seems that his hour of triumph is at hand, "I said. "Nay, beloved, not his, but yours. You shall triumph over De Garcia, but victory will cost you dear. I know it in my heart. Ask me not how or why. See, the queen puts on her crown," and she pointed to the volcan Xaca, whose snows grew rosy with tho dawn, "and you must go to the gate, for the Spaniards will soon be stir? ring." As Otomie spoke I heard a trumpet blare without the walls. Hurrying to the gates by the first light of day, I could see that the Spaniards were mustering their forces for attack. They did not come at once, however, but delayed till the sun was well up. Then they began to pour a furious fire upon our defenses that reduced the shattered beams of the gates to pow? der and even shook down the crest of- the earthwork beyond them. Suddenly the firing ceased, and again a trumpet called. Now they charged us in column, a thou* sand or more Tlascalans leading the van, followed by the Spanish force. In two minutes Z, who waited them beyond it, together with some 300 warriors of the Otomie, saw their beads appear over the crest of the earthwork, and the fight be? gan. Thrice we drove them back with our spears and our arrows, but at the fourth charge tho 'wave of men swept over our de? fense and poured into the dry ditch beyond. Now we were forced to fly to the next earthwork, for we could not hope to fight so many in the open street, whither, so soon as a passage had been made for their horses and ordnance, the enemy followed us. Here the fight was renewed, and this barricade being very strong we held it for hard upon two hours, with much loss to ourselves and to the Spanish force. Again we retreated, and again we were assailed, .and so the struggle went on throughout the livelong day. Every hourour numbers grew fewer and fewer and our arms faint? er, but still we fought on desperately. At the last two barricades hundreds of tho women of the Otomie fought by the sides of their husbands and their brothers. Tho last earthwork was captured by the Spaniards just as the sun sank, and under the shadow of approaching darknews those of us that remained alive fled to the ref ugo which we had prepared under the teocalli, nor was there any further fighting during that oieht. [TO BE CONTINU ED.] Relentless Enforcement. Tillman on the Future of the Liquor Law. In view of the announcement of the decision of the State dispensary law and in the enforcement of it in Greenville for the first time, so far as the searching of a private residence is concerned, causing so much trou ble, and in view of the intimation made in his telegram to the sheriff in Greenville, Governor Tillman was last night asked for a statement of his intentions as to the enforcement of the law in the future. Governor Tillman talked freely, and gave direct utterances on the matter of establishing a metropolitan police system. He said : "I propose to make everybody get out of the road and obey the law. I urge on all good citizens to frown down all resistence to the law and to cooperate with the constituted authorities in carrying it out and pre? venting such unseemly and disgrace? ful exhibitions as we had at Green ville yesterday The town people who are 'opposed to the law, have nothing to gain and everything to lose by such behavior. 1 have no desire in the world co employ any force, and would be glad to have the co-operation of tjie police and the municipal authorities, but I have all the militia I need, and can concen trate 2,000 good men at any point in the State inside of forty eight hours and, while I would hate to resort to. any such methods, no resistence would be tolerated. The constables are going to work now and are going to search all places whore they have reason to know that whiskey or liquors are kept, and private resi? dences will not be exempt when we have reasoti to believe that they have been made depots, for the storage of whiskey. The constables will not be allowed to harry the people or do anything to provoke collisions, and any reasonable complaint against them will be promptly investigated. Sherifife and police will be expected to co-operate, and those municipali? ties which prove derelict will receive no share of the profits, while it is almost inevitable that a system of metropolitan police will be provided for all such places when the Legisla? ture meets " "Does that include Columbia and Charleston V was asked. "Of course-specifically," was the answer. "Trial justices who don't do their duty will likely be relieved of the burdens of office, and if juries, fail to convict, change of venue will be tried. The law has come to stay, and the sooner that fact is recog? nized by the whiskey mey, those who have opposed it heretofore, the bet ter it will be for ail concerned."-The State, Oct. 10th. Dr. Sarah C. Allan Comes Out First. Dr. Sarah C. Allan, daughter of Mr. James Allan, of Charleston, came out first in the State medical exami? nation Dr. Allan began her medica! studies at the College for Women, completing the preparatory course in medicine under Drs. Talley and Howe, who had charge of the medi? cal department of the College for Women She then continued her studies at the Women's College of | New York, from which she was graduated with the degree of M. D. last June. Miss Allan left for Balti? more to take a post-graduate course in Medicine in Johns Hopkins Uni? versity, where she expects to remain until next June, wheu she will have completed a five years' continuous course in medicine, an accomplish? ment which can scarcely be claimed by another of the profession in the State. It is gratifying to know that it was entirely due to the medical de? partment in Dr. Atkinson's college that Miss Allan had her attention turned to the study of medicine. - M .*?? -^?B?" Engraving. Several of tbe largest engraving establish mdots io the country ?re represented io Sum? ter by H. G. Osteen A Co , who will be pie.ised to show samples and qoie prices on all kinds of engraved invitations and cards. Engraved visiting cards unusually cheap. ^eliagfcTouch OF Hood's Sarsaparilla You smile at the idea. But if you are a sufferer from Dyspepsia And Indigestion, try a bottle, and be? fore you have taken half a dozen doses, you will involuntarily think, and no doubt exclaim, "That Just Hits It!" "That soothing effect is a magie touch!" Hood's Sarsaparilla gently tones and strengthens the stomach and digestive organs, invigorates the liver, creates a natural, healthy desire for food, gives refreshing sleep, and in short, raises the health tone of the entire system. Remember Hood's * parilla cures Hood's Pills cure liver ills, constipation, tili ou s new, jaundice, sick headache, indigestion G. W. DICE, I D. S. Office over Levi Bros.' Store, SNTRANCE ON HAIN STREET. SUMTER, S.C. Uffice Hours-9 to 1 ; 2.30 to 5.30. Cheap ! Cheaper! Cheapest ! Did you ever hear of goods being sold so cheap? All goods except Gora and Bacon are cheaper than ever before. Cotton is cheap because so moch bas been made. Coro and Bacon are high because so little bas beeo made. We ?re not intending to d?liter a lee? tore on political economy, but to let you know that you cao bay things so cheap from us. Believing that money would be scarce, we only bought what we could eell cheap. Don't imagine we mean to say that our stock is cheap, common good-, but CHEAP FOR THE QUALITY. Our Groceries will always be the best that money eas buy, but they will be sold cheap. Tber? in not a house in the South that carries a better class nf GROCERIES .than i ! i i i ! i i ? ? i Do, but there are thousands who charge more. Io DRY GOODS we have all you want-cheap, medium and fine, but they will be sold cheap. If you are a mao aud want a Hat come and see our Job Lots before buy? ing. We bought drummers' samples at fifty oeots oo the dollar is the reason we sell them so cheap. The nobbiest and latest styles as cheap as you could buy a second hand one. Come and pay us a social call if you do not want to buy-but when you see how cheap wc cao sell goods you will buy aoy way. It will pay you to buy tbiogs you don't waot, they are so cheap. DUCKER & BULTMAN. Overflow of the Wateree. Disastrous Results to the Planters in the River Bottoms. CAMDEN, October IO.-The rain Monday night and all day yesterday caused the Wateree River to over? flow its banks, and to-day, although the sun is shining brightly, thousands of bushels of corn and hundreds of bales of cotton are under the water. The loss is very heavy upon the river planters A Pension Fraud in Claren? don. MANNING, October 10 -J. Manning Welch, of Pinewood, this county, was arrested and lodged in jail here last night by United States Deputy Marsha! Emanuel. Welch is charg? ed with obtaining a pension fraud? ulently It seems that Welch was instrumental in securing a pension for a negro and some time after the pension was granted the negro died, but Welch continued to collect the pension. The warrant was sworn out by one Robert M. Johnson, who says he was a witness to the endorse ment of the pension checks. There is some talk of implicating Johnson in the fraud. AT THE SUMTER INSTITUTE. TAKE DUE NOTICE THEREOF AND GOVERN YOURSELF AC? CORDINGLY. SPECIMENS OF THE WORK NOW ON IO exhibition at the Studio, and we ask all the Indies of the town who are interested io this work to call aod examioe tbese speci? mens. We desire particularly to io?erest the rnirried ladies in this beautiful home decora? tive Art. The painted china will be fired at the Institute. A kiln has been ordered for this purpose. Come and see what we can do in this line. H. F.WILSON, Pres, Sept. 19. Sumter, S. C. 52d Year. The Cheat Farm, Industrial and Stock Journal of the South. OHS TEAS EOS 81. Sam pis copies acd Premium List will be mailed FREE on application to ' THE CULTIVATOR PUBLISHING CO., Box 415, Atlanta, Ga. Crlcfin Springs HoteL Open from May 1, to October 15. FOR RATES OF BOARD, APPLY TO ? Simpson & Simpson. Glenn Springs, S, C. Glenn Springs Water, If? unsurpassed and invalids find sore and speedy relief by its ose IT -SKTXXMTL* OTT3F1.3E: Dyspepsia. 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