Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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M M iii la By RTOYABD IIPLIffCr. lt was sot it the open fight iv W tkrew away the sword. Bot in the lonely watching In the darkness by the ford. The waters lapped, the night wind Mei Foll armed the fear was born and grew And were flying ere we knew From panic in the night. -Beoni Ba Some people hold that an Eng] cavalry regiment cannot run. This i mistake.. I have seen 437 sabers fly: ever the'.iface of the country in abj terror; have seen the best regiment tl ever drew bridle wiped off the army i .: .ior* i;'Space of two hours. If you 3>eat theale to the White, hussars, tl r will- in all probability treat yon seve >ijj "They are not proud of the incide: ; h. You may know the White hussars - ei ^* ^ " which is greater than tl ?^^feTcaxY^iry regiments on theist l this sot a sufficient mark, you m -know them by their old brandy. It 1 been 60 yearn in the mess and is woi Vr-^oiiig^far to taste Ask for the " Sase" oMr^randy -and see that y \ getit If the mess sergeant thinks ii : ^you are uneducated and that the ge " niae article will be lost on. you, he w treat* yon /accordingly. He is a go man. But when yon are at mess .y ;v must never talk to your hosts abo I Jorced marches or long distance rid The mess are very sensitive and, if th think that yon aro laughing at the^ >-- $BB1 tel* you >. As the-Wbite hussars say, it was J -the colonel's fault He was a new.ma ^and he ought never to have taken t command. He said that the regime waa not^smart enough-this to ti -"HHaite hussars, who knew they cou walk round any horse and through ai : guns and over any foot on the face < the earth 1 That insult was the fir cause of offense Then the colonel cast the drum hor - -^the drum horse of the White hussar; /. Perhaps you do not see what an m speakable crime he bad committed. wiH try to make it clear. The soul < r the regiment lives in the drum hon f ': -who carries the silver kettledrums. E is nearly always a big piebald wale: That is a point of honor, and a reg ment will spend anything you pleas oin a piebald. He is beyond the ordin r laws of casting. His work is very lighl and be only maneuvers at a foot pac Wherefore so long as. he can step OE and look handsome his well being, is as sured He knows more about the regi ment fian the adjutant, and could nc make a mistake if he tried.' ; The drum horse of the White hussar . was only 18 years old and perfect! j equal to his duties. He had <at least si years more work in him and carrie -? Inmself with all the pomp and dignit. of a drum major of the guards Th : regiment had paid 1 200 rupees for him ; But the colonel 'said that he mus go, and he was cast in due form an replaced by a washy bay beast as ugl; as a mule, with a ewe neck, rat tail am cow hocks. The drummer detested tba yrmn !, and the best of the band horse put back their ears and showed thl whites of their eyes at the very sigh ** cf him. They knew him for an upstar and no gentleman I fancy that th< colonel's ideas of smartness extended t< the band, and that he wanted to mak< it take part in .the regular parade move ' ~ menta A cavalry band is a sacr e thing. It only turns out fer cern m and ing officers' parades, and the bandmas ter is one degree more important than the colonel. He is high priest and thc **3 eel Row" isNais holy song. The /"Heel Bow" is the cavalry trot, and - " the man who has never heard that tune V rising, high and shrill, above the rattle ^tbe regiment going past the saluting lase has something yet to hear and un derstand. When the colonel cast the drum horse of the White hussars, there was nearly s mutiny. The officers were angry, the regiment was furious and the bandsmen swore -like troopers. The drum horse was going to be put up to auction-public auction-to be bought, perhaps, by a Parsee and put into a cart! It was worse than exposing the inner life of the regiment to the whole world or selling the mess plate toa Jew-a black Jew. The colonel was a mean man and a bully. He knew what the regiment thought about his action, and, when the troopers offered to buy the drum faerse. he said that their offer was mu fanons and forbidden by the regulations But one of the subalterns-Hogan Tale an Irishman-bought the drum horse for 60 rupees at the sale and the colonel was wroth. Yale professed re pentance-he was unnaturally submis sive-and said that, as he had only made t e purchase to save the horse from possible ill treatment and starva tion, he would now shoot him and end the business Tr s speared to soothe the colonel for oe wanted the drum horse disposed of He felt that he had made a mistake, and could not of course acknowledge it Meantime, the presence sf the drum horse was an annoyance to BBL Tale took to himself a glass of the old brandy, three cheroots, and his friend. Martyn, and they all left the mess to gether. Yale and Martyn conferred for two hours in Tales quarters, but only the bull terrier who keeps watch over Tale's boot trees knows what they said Ahorse, hooded and sheeted to his ears, left Tale's stables and was taken, very unwillingly^ into the civil lines. Yale'; groom went with him Two men broke into the regimental theater and took several paint pots and some large scen ery brushes Then night fell over the cantonments, and there was a noise as of a horse kicking his loose box to pieces in Yale's stables. Yale had a big, old. white waler trap horse. The next day was a Thursday, and the men. hearing that Yale was going to shoot the drum horse in the evening, determined to give the beast a regular regimental funeral-a finer one than they would have given the colonel had ..bec^d ju t!:m TJCJ Hr* r. v-7W*k " ... cart and some sacking nd" mounds monnds of roses, and the body, n: sacking, was carried ont to the p where the anthrax cases were crema Two-thirds of the regiment folloi There was no band, bnt they all "The Place Where the Old Horse Di as something respectful and appropr to the occasion. When the corpse dumped into the grave and the men gan throwing, down armfuls of rose cover it, the farrier sergeant ripped an oath and said aloud, "Why, it a tbe drum horse any more than mel" The troop sergeant majors a him whether he bad left his hea< the canteen. The farrier sergeant ! that he knew the drum horse's fee well as he knew his own, but he silenced when he saw the regimei number burned in on the poor, s: upturned near fore. Thus was the drum horse of White hussars buried-the farrier : geant grumbling. The sacking that c ered the corpse was smeared in pis with black paint, and the "farrier J geant drew attention to this fact ] the troop sergeant major of E tr kicked him severely on the shin j told him that he was nndonbte drank. \ On the Monday following the bm the colonel sought revenge on the Wi .hussars. Unfortunately, being at ti time temporarily in command of station, he- ordered a brigade field d; He said that he wished to make regiment "sweat for their damned in lenee," and he carried out his not thoroughly. That Monday was one the hardest days in the. memory of 1 White hussars. They were . thro1 against a skeleton enemy and pus! forward and withdrawn and dismoui d and "scientifically handled" in < ery possible fashion over dusty conni cill they sweated profusely. Their ox amusement came late in the day wh they fell upon the battery of horse ; tillery and chased it for two miles. Tl was a ' personal question, and most the troopers had money on the evei the gunners saying openly that th had the legs of the White hussars. Th were wrong. A march past conclud the"campaign, and when the regime got back to its lines the men wc coated with dirt from spur to ch straj). The White hussars have one great a: peculiar privilege. They won it at Fo tenoy, I think. Many regiments possess special righi such as wearing dollars with undre uniform, or a bow of ribbon betwe< the shoulders, or red and white roses : their helmets on certain day3 of tl year. Some rights are connected wi* regimental saints and some with reg mental successes. All are valued high! bnt none so highly as the right of tl White hussars to have the band playii when their horses are being watered i the lines. Only one tune is played ai that tune never varies. I don't kn o its real name, but the White hussa: call it "Take Me to London Again. It sounds very pretty. The regimei would sooner be struck off the rost< than forego its distinction. After the "dismiss" was sounded, tl officers rode off home to prepare f( stables, and the men filed into the line: riding easy-that is to say, they opene their tight buttons, shifted their he mets, and began tb joke or to swears the humor took them, the more carefx slipping off and easing girths and enrbi JL good trooper values his mount exacl ly as much as he values himself, an believes, or should believe, that the tw together are irresistible where wome: or men, girls or guns, are concerned. Then the orderly officer gave the 01 der "water horses," and the regimen loafed off to the squadron troughs whicl were in rear of the stables and betwee] these and the barracks. There were fou huge troughs, one for each squadron arranged en echelon, so that the who! regiment could water in ten minutes i it liked. But it lingered for 1?, ^as J rule, while the band played. The band struck up as the squadron: filed off the troughs, and the men slip ped their feet out of the stirrups ant chaffed each other. The sun was jusi setting in a big, hot bed of red cloud, and the road to the civil lines seemed tc run straight into the sun's eye. Then was a little dot on the road. It grevi and grew till it showed as a Lorse, witl a sort of gridiron thing on his back. The red cloud glared through the bari of the gridiron. Some of the troopers shaded their eyes with their hands and said, "What the mischief 'aa that there 'orse got on 'im?" In another minute they heard a neigh that every soul-horse and man-in the regiment knew, and saw, heading straight toward the band, the dead drum horse of the White hussars! On his withers banged and bumped the kettledrums draped in crape, and on his back, very stiff and soldierly, sat a bareheaded skeleton. The band stopped playing, and for a moment there..was a hush.. Then some one in E troop-men said it was the troop sergeant major-swung his horse round and yelled. Ko one can account exactly for what happened aft erward, but it seems that at least one man in each troop set an example of panic, and the rest followed like sheep. The horses that had barely put their muzzles into the troughs reared and capered, but as soon as the band broke, which it did when the ghost cf the drum horse was about a furlong dis tant, all hoofs followed suit, and the clatter of the stampede-quite different from the orderly throb and roar of a movement on parade or the rough horse play of watering in camp-made them only more terrified. They felt that the men on theil backs were afraid of some thing. When horses once know that, all is over except the butchery. Troop after troop turned from the troughs and ran-anywhere and every where-like spilled quicksilver. It was a most extraordinary spectacle, for men and horses were in all stages of easiness, and the carbine buckets flopping against their sides urged the horses on. Men were shouting and cursing and trying to pull clear of the band which was be ing chased by the drum horse, whose rider had fallen forward and seemed to j be sparring for a wager, i The colonel bad gone over to the i for a drink. Most of the officers \ with him, and the subaltern of the was preparing to go down to the 1 and receive the watering reports f the troop sergeant majors. When 4"1 Me to London Again" stopped af te: bars, every one in the mess said, "W on earth has happened?" A mir later they heard nnmilitary noises saw far across the plain the^White 1 sars scattered and broken and flying The colonel was speechless with ri for he thought that the regiment risen against him or was unanimoi j drank. The band, a disorganized rc ! tore past, and at its heels labored drum horse-the dead nd buried di horse-with the jolting, clattering si eton. Hogan-Yale whispered softl] Martyn, "No wire will stand that tr< ment," and the band, which had d bled like a hare, ^came back again. ] the rest of the regiment was gone, i rioting all over the. province, for dusk had shut in, and each man ^ howling to his neighbor that the dr horse $r s on his flank. Troop hoi -are far too tenderly treated, as a rx "They can on emergencies do a gr deal, even with 17 stone on their bac as the troopers fonnd ont . How long this panic lasted I can: say. I believe that when the moon r the men saw they had nothing to f< and by twos and threes and half tro< crept back into cantonments very mt ashamed of themselves. Meantime 1 drum horse, disgusted at his treatm< by old friends, pulled up, whee! round and trotted up to the mess j randa steps for bread. Noone liked run, but no one cared to go forward 1 the colonel made a movement and h bold of the skeleton's foot. The ba had halted some distance away a now came back slowly. The coloi called it, individually and collective; every evil name that; occurred to h: at the time, for he had set his hand the bosom of the drum horse and fon: flesh and blood. Then he beat the k< tledruias with his clinched fist a: discovered that they were but made silver paper and bamboo. Nest, st swearing, he tried to drag the skelet* out of the saddle, but found that it h; been wired into the caritle. The sig of the colonel, with his arms round t skeleton's pelvis and his knee in tl old drum horse's stomach, was strikin net to say amusing. He worried ti thing off in a minute or two and thre it down on the ground, saying to ti band, "Here, you curs, that's wh you're afraid of!" The skeleton did n look pretty in the twilight The bai sergeant seemed to recognize it, for 1 began to chuckle and choke. "Shall take it away, sir?" said the band se geant "Yes, " said the colonel, "take to hell and ride there yourselves t" The band sergeant saluted, hoist the skeleton across his saddlebow ar Jed off to the stables. Then the colon began to make inquiries for the rest < the regiment, and the language he use was wonderful. He would disband ti regiment, he would court martial ever soul in it, he would not command sue a set of rabble, and- so on and so oi As the men dropped in, his' langnag grew wilder, until at. last it exceede the utmost limits of free speech allowe even to a colonel of horse. Martyn took Hogan-Yale aside an suggested compulsory retirement froi the service as a necessity when all wa discovered. Martyn was the weake man of the two. Hogan-Yale put up hi eyebrows and remarked, first, that h was the son cf a lord, and, secondly that he was as innocent as the babe un born of the theatrical resurrection o the drum horse. "My instructions, " said Yale, with ; singularly sweet smile, "were that th< drum hcrse should be sent back as im pressively as possible. I ask you, Am '. responsible if a mule headed frienc sends him back in such a manner as t< disturb the peace of mind of a regimeni of her majesty's cavalry t" Martyn said, "You are a great man, and will in time become a general, bul I'd give my chance of a troop to be safe out of this affair. " Providence saved Martyn and Hogan Yale. The second in command led the colonel away to the little curtained al cove wherein the subalterns of the White hussars were accustomed to play poker of nights, and there, after many oaths on the colonel's part, they talked to gether in low tones. I fancy that the second in command must have repre sented the scare as the work of some trooper whom it would be hopeless to detect, and I know that he dwelt upon the sin and the shame of making a pub lic laughing stock of the scara "They will call us," said the second in command, who had really a fine imagination-"they will call us the 'fly-by-nights,' they will call us the 'ghost hunters, ' they will nickname us from one end of the army list to the other. All the explanations in the world won't make outsiders understand that the officers were away when the panic began. For the honor of the regiment and for your own sake keep this thing quiet" The colonel was so exhausted with anger that soothing him down was not 60 difficult as might be imagined. He was made to see gently and by degrees that it was obviously impossible to court martial the whole regiment and equally impossible to proceed against j any subaltern who, in his belief, had any concern in the hoax. "But the beast's alive! Ht>'s never been shot at alli" shouted the colonel. "It's flat, flagrant disobedience! I've known a man broke for less, damned eight less. They're mocking me, I tell you, Mutman! They're mocking me!" Once more the second in command set himself to soothe the colonel and wrestled with bim for half an hour. At the end of that time the regimental sergeant major reported himself. The situation was rather novel to him, but he was not a man to be put out by cir cumstances. He saluted and saul. "Regiment all come back, sir;" then, to propitiate the colonel, "An none of the horses any the worse, sir. " The colonel only snorted and answer ed, "You'd better tuck the men into their cots, then, and see that they wake np and cry in the night " The sergeant withdrew. His little stroke of humor pleased the colonel, and, further,- he felt slightly ashamed of the language he had been using. The second in command worried him again, and the two sat talking far into the night. Next day tut one there was a coin manding officers' parade, and the colo nel harangued the White hussars vigor ously. The pith of his speech was that since the drum horse in his old age had proved himself capable of cutting up the whole regiment he should return to his post of pride at the head of the band, but the regiment were a set of ruffians with bad consciences. The White hussars shouted and threw everything movable about them into the air, and when the parade was ever they cheered the colonel till they could net speak. No cheers were put up for Lieutenant Hogan-Yale, who smiled very sweetly in the background. Said the second in command to the colonel unofficially : "These little things insure popularity and do not the least affect discipline. " "But I went hack on my word. " said the colonel "Never mind," said the second in command. "The White hussars will follow you anywhere from today. Regi ments are just like women ; . they will do anything for trinketry. " A week later Hogan-Yale received an extraordinary letter from some one who signed himself "Secretary Charity and Zeal, 3709, E. C.," and asked for "the return of our skeleton which we have reason to believe is in your possession. " "Who the deuce is this lunatic who trades in bones?" said Hogan-Yale. "Beg your pardon, sir," said the band sergeant, "but the skeleton is with me, and I'll return it if you'll pay the carriage into the civil lines. There's^ a coffin with it, sir. " Hogan-Yale smiled and handed 2 ru pees to the band sergeant, saying. "Write the date on the skull, will you?" If you doubt this story and know where to go, yon can see the date on the skeleton. But don't mention the matter to the White hussars. I happen to know something1 about it ' because I prepared the drum horse for his resurrection. He did not take kind ly to the skeleton at alL Odors and the Voice. Dr. Sand.ersonvan English resident of Paris, says certain essences will give certain qualities and capacities to the voice. This is interesting to embryo Pattis, De Reszkes and Pla ccns. Dr. Sanderson asserts that in order to modi fy the sounds of the human voice one has only to inhale the vapors of certain liquids and essences. Thus inhalation of curacao, accord ing to Dr. Sanderson, will raise the oice two notes, the inspiration of ab sinth will add one high and two low notes, and essence extracted from pines will give two low notes. A dissolution of coffee beans in rum, he claims, strengthens the medium notes. . There are other, odors that are said to be even more efficacious, though they have the disadvantage of not tickling the olfactory nerves so agreeably. But no singer would stick at such a trifle as this if he or she desired to reach a much coveted and hitherto unattainable note. For instance, "there are kerosene and turpentine and-yes-even strychnine. The effect of the latter, according to the doctor, is marvelous. He asserts that it raises the voice no fewer than five notes and will enable almost any body to deliver with ease Tamberlick's famous chest C that never failed to bring down the house. Coal Stealers. Coal stealing from railroads, common along the lines of all the coal carrying reads, has been reduced to a system in Syracuse. The Post-Standard of that city saya' The thieves work hard and take many risks, not oniy of detection, but of bodily injury. Their methods would be called clever if employed in an honest business. The heaviest thiev ing is done by men with 6acks, who climb np between the cars of a slow moving train, with two or more bushel sacks concealed under their clothing. As opportunity offers they fi l a sack and throw it from the train, to be pick ed up hy accomplices. Another trick is adopted by men who, dressed like tramps, board trains as if with the intention of stealing a ride. These men travel along from one car to another, apparently seeking a comforta ble place in which to lie down, but in their progress thjey manage to dislodge a large amount of coal, which is subse quently picked up by the women and children who are employed in the "in dustry. " Large quantities of coal are stolen by these and other methods, the plunder being disposed of to unscrupu lous dealers, who subsequently rob the honest poor by dishonest measure. Our First Clocks. The oldest clocks of American manu facture were made by Gideon Roberts of Bristol, Conn. According to the best authorities, no clocks were manufac tured in what is now the United States prior to 1800, at which time Mr. Rob erts first placed his timepieces on the market. His clocks were made with the great est care, and much time was spent in perfecting them. They were all of the style commonly known as "hall" clocks, about six feet in height, handsomely finished and a recognized separate piece of furniture in which the owner always took great pride. In ancient times many of the moun tains of Palestine were terraced, and tome of these terraces still remain Very Human. Teacher-Once upon a time there were two rich naen, one of whom made his fortune by honest industry, while the other made his by fraud. Now, which of these two men would you pre fer to be? Tommy (after a moment's hesitation) -Which made the most ? Ex-Constable Howie Shot a CitiZ9n of Chester in a Difficulty. The following particulars of a shooting affray in Chester Saturdny are from the Reporter of that city. H. B Howie is well known having been on the constabulary force He has operated a beer dis pensary in Chester and was closed up by legal proceedings, it being alleged that his plsce was nuisance. About 10 o'clock that night Mr. H. B. Howie went to the door of Mr. Jos A' Walker. Sr , saying he wish ed to see him and asked him to the pavement Howie inquired of Walker why he had bought the bottle of beer that day. The reply was that it was for the purpose of making a test case as lo the legality of a beer dispensary here Opprobious words were ap plied by Mr. Howie and Mr. Walker turned to go back into his store Mr. Howie fired his pistol, the first ball grazing Mr. Walker's left eyebrow, the second entering near the left elbow and passing between the bones of the lower arm was extracted near tbe wrist. Mr. Walker denounced the act as cowardly. Mr Walker was at oDce taken to his home ; Mr Howie went to the jail and is in the sheriff's custody. The affair caused deep feeling in the. community. THE CUBAN PAYMENT. Habana, May 30 Early this morn ing Lieut Col. George M. Randall oFYoe Eight United States infantry, accompanied by Paymaster Moses, his clerks, a doctor and a military escort, with nearly $200,000 left by special train for Santiago de Las Vegas.but owing to vaious delays,the payment did not begin until this afternoon. That the rolls are padded badly be comes more and more evident each day, and Col. Randall says that from what he can learn every man, dead or alive, who ever has served in the ranks of the insurgente, appears on the lists The number paid this afternoon waa 45, but there were several appli cants with arms entitled to payment who will receive it after identifica tion. Why Worry About It? One of the strange things io the politics.of the day is the active interest that outsiders condone to manifest io tbe Democratic party. From all sides we are given assurance that tbe party will gc to everlasting defeat if the Chicago platform is re enacted and gold standard advocates, both Republi cans and alleged Democrats, are so distressed about tbe impeoding second defeat of Bryan and Democracy chat they lay. awake at night. The Wash ington Post, whi poses as an independent in pomics and which amuses itself by patting both sides on the back io turn, or administering reproof to either, but always managing to stand io with the Washington administration, is deeply distressed . bout "the Bryan combination," and says : Unification of the Democratic party on any platform containing the Bryan currency plank being a conceded im possibility, and the triumph of any possible ootr Dioation on such a platform being practically out of the question, it would seem to be well worth the while of the leaders, and especially the leaders in the Democratic south, to confider the feasibility ofs helviog 16 to 1. Is it the solemn duty of a party to ohose defeat io standing uo for a moribuod issue rather than to secure a chance for victory by laying that issue aside ? When a large and increasing faotion of a pariy stands aloof and must thus stand until that one defeated and steadily decadent issue is dropped, is it the moral or political duty of the dominant wing of that party to adhere to that issue ? Now, the thing that we cannot understand is why our geld standard friends should worry so much about us. They believe the gold standard is necessary to the welfare of the country They bave it under the McKinley administration. They are ure that McKinley will be re-elected, the gold standard continued, and the wave of prosperity grow larger despite the $100.000.000 deficit that Secretary Gage predicts for this year ; then why not ba happy io thia contemplation, aod stop worryiog over Bryan and tbe crazy Democrats ? If Ephraim is joined to bis id o e aod prefers to go to defeat upon the platform of his choice, rather than, one buitded by those who differ with certain defeat staring them in the face why should gold standard advocates distress themselves when their pet bobby is assured of success.-Augusts Chronicle. Big Land Deal. A deed bas been filed for reoord in the clerk's office conveying about 40, 000 acres of land at $1 per acre from Mrs. Mary E McKay to John M. Turner, of Raleigh, N. C This deed required $39.57 worth of U S. reve ru; stamps. Mr. Turner is one of the Seaboard Air Line men and rep eseots a big syndicate.-Chesterfield Adver tiser. Paper Dolls, dressed or otherwise at E. G. Oateen k Co's Gen. Lee Delivered Address. Habana, May 39. Decoration day was observed here today in a notable manner. At 9 o'clock this morning Estes G. Rathbone and a committee of women who had been selected for the purpose, were taken in Rear Admiral Cromwell's launch, escorted by a detatchment of marines to the wreck of the battleship Maine, where they strung the skeleton of the unfortunate craft with ropes of laurel and wreaths of flowers Mrs. Lucien Young represented the navy at the decoration of the graves of the sailors and soldiers interred in the Colon cemetary at ll o'clock. Mrs. Patterson and a committee represent* ing the Maine association participated in the ceremonies A great many flowers and wreaths were placed on the graves of the heroes. Similar exercises took place at the Quemados cemetary at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Maj Gen Lee, who delivered the oration, alluded to the ceremonies that were being ? conducted in the United States over the graves of Union and confederate troops alike and remarked that now;here on foreign soil, the 6ons of the north and the south were honored together. Where* ever ihe American flag is raised, he said, there the principles of liberty and the highest ideal of government are upheld. New York, May 30 -The most notable passenger who arrived today on the North German Lloyd steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, was the Dake de Arcos, who comes to assume the post of Spanish minister at Wash ington. He was accompanied by. his wife, formerly Miss Virginia Wood bury Lowery of Wathingtoo, and Senor Juan Rianao, who will act as first secretary of the Spanish legation. Savannah, Ga., May 30.-The rice planters owning plantations on the South Carolina side of the Savannah river will meet here tomorrow to form a syndicate of $1,000,000, includiog a $400.000 bonded indebtedness. It is the purpose of tbe syndicate to con struct a great levee cf 20 miles or more along the river for tbe protection of crops from storms and freshets. This means great increase io rice production. A Boston syndicate is ready to fioacca the scheme, takiog bonds secored by mortgages OD the plantations. Tbe Governor's Condition. Information from the governor's bedside this morning was that be was ''about the same/' showing no improve* meat. The end is thought to bo bat a question of days oow, though the gov ernor bas rallied from such a low con dition before.-Columbia Record, May 30. The Civil Service Humbug. The recent action of President McKinley in taking about four thou sand offices cut of the civil service rules and getting them in position to be o service ss incentives to activity on the part of politicians in the G. O. P. ali over the country, is renewed illustration of the truth that a party platform, like the platform of a street oar, is made to get io on, bot not to stand on. The Republican national platform upon which Mr. McKinley rao for the presidency contained the following : The civil service law was placed oo the statute book by the Republican party, which bas always sustained it> and we renew our repeated declarations that it shall be honestly and thoroughly enforced and extended wherever prac ticable. And Mr. McKinley in bis inaugural address stated that "''reforms ia the oivil service must go on." The action of the president last week shows how these reforms are going on. If it shall be found necessary next year, before election time, to open the doors farther and provide more patronage to repay partisan service, the same sort of reform will go on further. "To the victor belongs the spoils" is the shib boleth of modern politics and the oardinal principle of the Republican party. The retention of Democrats io office during a Republican administra- ' tion, while hungry applicants for ~ appointment are refused place* is gall aod wormwood to the Republican ward worker, and there has been a constant demand upon President McKinley for a revi ioo of the civil eervice law. He has yielded, and about 4,000 offices are DOW available to the faithful. Wheo these hali have been filled io the way that will do the most good io sext year's election, others will ba provided if necessary.-Angosta Chronicle. Dixie Thompson, the "bean kiog" of Venture county, California, planted 20,000 acres of beans last vear, which prod aced 1,300 car loada of beans, embracing more than 100 varieties. They are sown and cultivated io the^ same manner as corn, and are harvest* | ed by special machinery, which cutt - the vines close to the roots. The vines' are than raked into windrows, piled into stacks, and are thrashed by steam power machines, which are also spe cially contributed for the bean business. CUBAN RELIEF cures Colic, Neuralgia and Toothache in ^WB** five minutes. Sour Stomach and # Summer Complaints. Price, 25c%^ Sold by Hcgbson Ligen Co.