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THl M MS OP THE FORE AND APT 5T By BTOYAED KPLIN&. And a littie child shall lead thom. In the army list they still stand a * "The Fore and Fit Princess Hohenzol leni-Sigmaringen-Anspach's Hertha ^Pydfilsbire Own Royal Loyal Light Ir fan try. Regimental District S29A, Imt the army through all its barrack and canteens knows them now as th "Fore and Aft" They may in time d something that shall make their ne^ title honorable, bat at present they ar latterly ashamed, and the man wh calls them Fore and Aft does so a the risk of the head which is on hi shoulders. Two words breathed into the stable of a certain cavalry regiment will brin; the men ont into the streets with belt and mop? and bad language, but a whis per of Fore and Aft will bring on this regiment with rifles. Their one excuse is that they cam again and did their best to finish th Job in style. Bat for a time all thei -world knows that they were openl: beaten, whipped, domb cowed, shaking and afraid. The men know it ; thei officers know it ; the Horse Guards knov it, and when the next war comes thi enemy will know it also. There are tw< cr three regiments" of the line that hav a 'black mark against their names wilie! they will then wipe ont, and it will b excessively inconvenient for the troop upon whom they do their wiping. The courage of the British soldier i officially supposed to be above proof and, as a general rule, it is so. Th< exceptions are decently shoveled out o: eight, only to be. referred to in th< freshet of unguarded talk that ceca onally swamps a mess table at mid night Then one hears strange and nor jdble stories of men not following theil officers, of orders being given by those who had no righi to give them, and ol disgrace that, but for the standing Incl ; cf the British army, might have endec B in brilliant disaster. These are un pleasant stories to listen to, and tin messes tell them under their breath sit ting by the big wood fires, and the young officer bows his head and thinks to him self, please God, his men shall never be have unhandily. The British soldier is not altogethei to be blamed for occasional lapses, but this verdict he shonld not know. A moderately intelligent general will waste six months in mastering the craft B-of the particular var that he may b? waging, a colonel may utterly misun derstand the capacity of his regiment for three months after it has taken the field, and even company commander may err and be deceived as to the tem gjper and temperament of his own hand JPnl, wherefore the soldier, and the sol dier of today more particularly, shonld not be blamed for falling back. He should be shot or hanged afterward pour encourager les autres-but he should not be vilified in newspapers, for that is want of tact and waste of space. K- He has, let ns say, been in the service of the empress for perhaps four years. He will leave in another two years. He has no inherited morals, and four years are not sufficient to drive toughness in to his fiber, or to teach him how holy a thing is his regiment. He wants to ;V v drink, he wants to enjoy himself-in India he wants to save money-and he .:" .-1 does not in the least like getting hurt. He has received just sufficient education to make him understand half the pur port of the orders he receives and to speculate on the nature of clean, incised and shattering wounds. Thus, if he is told to deploy under fire preparatory to an attack, he knows that he runs a very great risk of being killed while he is deploying, and suspects that he is be ing thrown away to gain ten minutes' time. He may either deploy with des perate swiftness, or he may shuffle or . bunch or break, according to the disci pline under which he has lain for four years. Armed with imperfect knowledge, cursed with the rudiments of an imagi nation, hampered by the intense selfish ness of the lower classes and unsup ported by any regimental associations, this young man is suddenly introduced to an enemy who in eastern lands is al ways ugly, generally tall and hairy and frequently noisy. If he looks to the right and the left and sees old soldiers -mea of 12 years' service, who, he knows, know what they are about taking a charge, rush or demonstration without embarrassment, he is consoled nd applies his shoulder to the butt of his rifle with a stout heart His peace is the greater if he bears a senior, who has taught him his soldiering and bro ken his head on occasion, whispering: * 'They'll shout and carry on like this for five minutes. Then they'll rush in, and then we've got 'em by the short hairs!" But, on the other hand, if he sees only men of his own term of service turning white and playing with their triggers and saying, "What the hell's np now?" while the company com manders are sweating into their sword hilts and shouting, "Front rank, fix bayonets! Steady there-steady! Sight for 300-no, for 500! Lie down, all! Steady! Front rank, kneel!" and so forth, he becomes unhappy and grows acutely miserable when he hears a com rade turn over with the rattle of fire irons falling into the fender and the grunt of a poleaxed ox. If he can be xaoved about a little and allowed to watch the effect of his own fire on the enemy, he feels merrier and may be then worked up to the blind passion of fighting, which is, contrary to general belief, controlled by a chill}' devil and 6hakes men like ague. If he is not moved about and begins to feel cold at the pit of the stomach and in that crisis is badly mauled and hears orders that were never given, he will break, and he will break badly, and of all things un der the sight cf the sun there is noth ing more terrible than a broken British regiment When the worst come3 to the worst and the panic is really epi Gcrr.ic, il:-? ivre:: TZT.^ be e'en let fo. *nd toe company cornrnanOers nau oet escape to the enemy and stay there safety's sake. If they can be made come again, they are not pleasant II to meet, because they will not br< twice. A powerfully prayerful highla regiment, officered by rank Presby I rians, is perhaps one degree more tei ble in action than a hard bitten th< ! saud of irresponsible Irish ruffians j by most improper young unbelievers. Which homily brings me directly j a brace of the most finished little fier that ever banged drum or tootled i in the band of a British regime] They ended their sinful career by op and flagrant mutiny, and were si * for it. Their names were Jakin a Lew-Piggy Lew-and they were bo! bad drummer boys, both of them f] quently birched by the drum major the Fore and Aft. Jakin was a stunted child of 14, a: Lew was about the same age. Wh not looked after, they smoked ai drank. They swore habitually after t manner of the barrack room, which cold swearing and comes from betwe j clinched teeth, and they fought re giously once a week. Jakin had sprui ; from some London gutter and may I may not have passed through Dr. Ba nado's hands ere he arrived at the di nity of drummer boy. Lew could i member nothing except the regime: j and the delight of listening to the bai from his earliest years. He hid som where in his grimy little soul a genni] love for music and was most mistake: ly furnished with the head of a chem insomuch that beautiful ladies wi watched the regiment in church we: went to speak of-him as a "darling. They never heard his vitriolic COE ments on their manners and morals i he walked back to barracks with tl ! band and matured fresh causes of o fense against . Jakin. The other drummer boys hated bot lads on account of their illogical coi duct Jakin might be pounding Le or Lew might be rubbing Jakin's hea in the dirt, but any attempt at aggre sion on the part of an outsider was mi by the combined forces of Lew an Jakin, and the consequences were pail ; ful. "The boys were the Ishmaels of th corps, but wealthy Ishmaels, for the sold battles in alternate weeks for th sport of the barracks when they wei not pitted against other boys, and thu they amassed money. On this particular day there w^s dis sension in the camp. They had jus been convicted afresh of smoking, whic is bad for little boys who use plug tc bacco, and Lew's contention was tba Jakin had "stunk so 'orrid bad fror keepin the pipe in pocket" that he ani he alone was responsible for the birch ing they were both tingling under. "I tell you I 'id the pipe back o' bar ricks,"' said Jakin pacifically. "You're ar bloomin liar!" said Lev without heat "You're a bloomin little barstard!' said Jakin, strong in the knowledge that his own ancestry was unknown. Now there is one word in the extend ed vocabulary of b rrack room abusi that cannot pass without comment You may call a man a thief and risl nothing. You may even call him i coward without finding more than i boot whiz past your ear, but you mus not call a man a bastard unless yon are prepared to prove it on his front teeth. "You might ha* kep' that till 1 wasn't so sore," said Lew sorrowfully, dodging round Jakin's guard. "I'll make you sorer," said Jakin genially and got home on Lew's ala baster forehead. All would have gone well, and this story, as the books say, would never have been written, had not his evil fate prompted the bazaar ser geant's son, a long, employless man of five and twenty, to put in an appear ance after the first round. He was eter nally in need of money and knew that the boys had silver. "Fighting ngain, " said he. "I'll re port you .to my father, and he'll report you to tho color sergeant. " "What's that to you?" said Jakin with an unpleasant dilation of the nos trils. "Oh. nothing to me. You'll get into trouble, and you've been up too often to afford that" "What the hell do you know about what we've done?" asked Lew the Seraph. "You aren't in the army, you lousy, cadgin civilian." He closed in on the man's left flank. "Jes' 'cause you find two gentlemen settlin their diffrences with their fistes you stick in your ugly nose where you aren't wanted. Run 'ome to your 'arf caste slut of a ma-or we'll give you what for," said Jakin. The man attempted reprisals by knocking the beys' heads together. The scheme would have succeeded had not Jakin punched him vehemently in the stomach, or had Lew refrained from kicking his shins. They fought togeth dr. bleeding and breathless, for half an hour, and, after heavy punishment, triumphantly pulled down their oppo nent as terriers pull down a jackal. "Now," gasped Jakin, "I'll give you what for. " He proceeded to pound the man's features while.Lew stamped on the outlying portions of his anatomy. Chivalry is not a strong point in the composition of the average drummer boy. He fights, as do his betters, to make his mark. Ghastly was the ruin that escaped, and awful was the wrath of the bazaar sergeant. Awful, too, was the scene in orderly room when the two reprobates appeared to answer the charge of half murdering a "civilian." The bazaar I sergeant thirsted for a criminal action, and his son lied. The boys stood to at tention while the black clouds of evi dence accumulated. "You little devils are more trouble than the rest of the regiment put to gether. " said the colonel angrily. "One might as well admonish thistle down, and I can't well put you in cells or un der stoppages. You must be flogged j again. " "Beg your pardon, sir. Can't we say j nothin in our own defense, sir?" shrill ed Jakin. "Hev! What? Are vou going to | argue with me?" said the colonel. "No, sir," said Lew. "Bat if a n come to jon, sir, an said he was g to report yon, sir, for 'avin a bit o tnrn np with a friend, sir, an wan to get money out o' you, sir" The orderly room exploded in a r of laughter. "Well?" said the co^i "That was what that measly jarm there did, sir, an 'e'd 'a' done it, if we 'adn't prevented 'im. We did 'it 'im much, sir. JE 'adn't no man: o' right to interfere with ns, sir. don't mind bein flogged by the dr major, sir, nor yet reported by corp'ral; but I'm-but I don't th: it's fair, sir, for a civilian to come talk over a man in the army." A second shout cf laughter shock 1 orderly room, but the colonel was gra "What sort of characters have th boys?" he asked of the regimental s g ant major. "Accordin to the bandmaster, si] returned that revered official-the oi soul in the regiment whom the b< feared-"they do everything but ] sir. "Is it like we'd go for that man i fun, sir?" said Lew, pointing to t plaintiff. "Oh, admonished-admonished said the colonel testily, and when t boys had gone he read the bazaar s* geant's son a lecture on the sin of n profitable meddling and gave ord< that the bandmaster should keep t drums in better discipline. "If eithe^ of you comes to practi again with so much as a scratch your two ugly little faces," thunder the bandmaster, "I'll tell the dm major to take the skin off your bael Understand that, you young devils." Then he repented of his speech f just the length cf time that Lew, loo ing like a seraph in red worsted embi lishments, took the place of one of t trumpets-in hospital-and render the echo of a battle piece. Lew certai ly was a musician and had often his more exalted moments expressed yearning to master every instrume: of the band. "There's nothing o prevent your b coming a bandmaster, Lew," said tl bandmaster, who had composed waltz of his own and worked day and nig] in the interests of the band. "Whatdid he say?" demanded Jak: after practice. "Said I might be a bloomin bani master an be asked in to 'ave a glass ? sherry wine on mess nights." "Ho! Said you might be a bloomi noncombatant, did ' ? That's ju about wet 'e would say. When I've pi in my boy's service-it's a bloomi shame that don't count for pension I'll take on a privit. Then I'll be lance in a year-knowin what I kno* about the ins an outs o' things. In thn years I'll be a bloom in sergeant, won't marry then, not I. I'll 'old o an learn the orf 'cers' ways an appl for exchange into a reg'ment ths doesn't know all about me. Then I'll b a bloomin orf'cer. Then I'll ask you t 'ave a glass o' sherry wine, Mr. Lev; an you'll bloomtn well 'ave to stay i: the hanty room while the mess sergean brings it to your dirty 'ands.'' "S 'pose I'in goin to be a bandmajs ter? Not I, quite. I'll be a orf'cer toe There's noihin like takin to a thin; an stickin to it, the schoolmaster says vThe reg'ment don't go ;ome for anothe seven years. I'll be a lance then o near tc. " Thus the boys discussed their future and conducted themselves with exem pl a ry piety for a week. That is to say Lew started a flirtation with the colo: sergeant's dauglxer, aged 13-"not,' as he explained to Jakin, "with any in tention o' matrimony, but by way o keepin my 'and in." And the blacl haired Cris Delighan enjoyed that flirta tion more than previous ones, and th( other drummer l>oys raged furiously to gether, and Jakin preached sermons or the dangers of "bein tangled along o' petticoats. " But neither love nor virtue would have held Lew long in the paths of pro priety had not the rumor gone abroad that the regiment was to be sent on ac tive service to take part in a war which for the sake of brevity we will call "the war of the lost tribes. " The barracks had the rumor almost before the in ess room, and of all the 900 men in barracks not 10 had seen a shot fired in anger. The colonel had 20 years ago assisted at a frontier expedition, one of the majors had seen service at the Cape, a confirmed deserter in E company had helped to clear streets in Ireland, but that was all. The regi ment had been put by for many years. The overwhelming mass of its rank and file had from three to four years' serv ice, the noncommissioned officers were under 30 years old, and men and ser geants alike had forgotten to speak of the stories written in brief upon the colors-the new colors that had been formally blessed by an archbishop in England ere the regiment came a\vay. They wanted to go to the front-they were enthusiastically anxious to go but they had no knowledge of what war meant, and there was none to tell them. Wherefore they cheered lustily when the rumor ran, and the shrewd, clerkly noncommissioned officers speculated on the chances of batta and of saving their pay. At headquarters men said: "The Fore and Fit have never been under fire within the last generation. Let us, therefore, break them in easily by set ting them to guard lines of communica tion. " And this would have been done but for the fact that British regiments were wanted-badly wanted-at the front, and there were doubtful native regiments that could fill the miner du ties. "Brigade 'em with two strong reg iments, " said headquarters. "They may be knocked about a bit, but they'll learn their busings before they come through. Nothing like a night alarm and a little cutting up of stragglers to make a regi ment smart in the field. Wait till they've had half a dozen sentries' throats cut." The colonel wrote willi delight thai the temper of his men was excellent, that th ' regiment was all that could be wished and as sound as a bell. The majors smiled with sober joy, and the j subalterns waltzed in pairs down the ! tnessro m after dinner and nearly sk themselves at revolver practice. B there was consternation in the hearts Jakin and Lew. What was to be do with the drums? Would the band go the front? How many of the dru] would accompany the regiment? They took counsel together, sitting a tree and smoking. "It's more than a bloomin toss 1 they'll leave us be'ind at the depot wi the women. You'll like that," sa Jakin sarcastically. " 'Cause o' Cris, you mean? Wot': woman, or a 'ole bloomin depot women, 'longside o' the chanst o' fie service? You know I'm as keen on g in as you," said Lew. "Wish I was a bloomin bugler. said Jakin sadly. "They'll take To Kidd along, that I can plaster a W with, an like as not they won't ta' us. "Then let's go an make Tom Kidd bloomin sick 'e can't bugle no mox You 'old 'is 'ands an I'll kick him. said Lew, wriggling on the branch. "That ain't no good, neither. "V ain't the sort o' characters to preso< onourrep'tations. They're bad. Ifth< have the band at the depot, we dor go, an no error there. If they take tl band, we may get cast for medical u fitness. Are you medical fit, Piggy' said Jakin, digging Lew in the ri with force. "Yus," said Lew, with an oat "The doctor says your 'eart's wei through smokin on an empty stui mick. Throw a chest, an I'll t: yer. Jakin threw out his chest, whi< Lew smote with all his might. Jak turned very pale, gasped, crowe screwed up his eyes and said, "That all right." "You'll do," said Lew. "I've 'eal o' men dyin when you 'it 'em fair c the breastbone." "Don't bring us no nearer goi: though," said Jakin. "Do you kno where we're ordered?" "Gawd knows, an 'e won't split c a pal. Somewheres up to the front i kill Pay than?:-hairy big beggars th; turn you inside out if they get 'old i you. They say their women are goc lookin too. ' ' "Any loot?" asked the abandone Jakin. "Not a bloomin anna, they say, ui less you dig up the ground an see whi the niggers 'ave 'id. They're a po< lot. " Jakin stood upright cn the branc and gazed across the plain. "Lew," said he. "there's the colon comin. Colonel's a good old begga: Let's go an talk to 'im." Lew nearly fell out of the tree at th audacity of the suggestion. Like Jakii he feared not God, neither regarded h man, but there are limits even to th audacity of drummer boys, and to spea to a colonel was But Jakin had slid down the trun and doubled in the direction of the cole nel. That officer was walking, wrappe in thought and visions of a C. B.-yes even K. C. B., for had he not at com mand ene of the best regiments of th line-the Fore and Fit? And he wa aware of two small boys charging dow: upon him. Once before it had been sol emnly reported to him that "the drnm were in a state cf mutiny," Jakin am Lew being the ringleaders. This looke< like an organized conspiracy. The boys halted at 20 yards, walke to the regulation four paces and salute< together, each as well set up as a ram rod and little taller. The colonel was in a genial mood, th boys appeared very forlorn and unpro tected on the desolate plain, and one o: them was handsome. "Well "said the colonel, recognizing them. "Are yon going to pull jiedowi in the open? I'm sure I never interfer with you, even though"-he sniffed sus piciously-"you have been smoking." It was time tc strike while the iror was hot. Their hearts beat tumultuous ly. "Beg your pardon, sir, " began Jakin. "The reg'ment'sordered on active serv ice, sir?" "So I believe." said the colonel cour teously. "Is the bandgoin, sir?" said both to gether. Then, without pause. "We're goin, sir, ain't we?" "Von!" said the colonel, stepping back the mere fully to take in the two small figures. "You! You'd die in the first march. " "No, we wouldn't, sir. We can march with the regiment anywheres p'rade an anywhere else," said Jakin. "If Tom Kidd goes, 'e'll shut up like a clasp knife," said Lew. "Tom 'as very close veins in both 'is legs, sir." "Very how much?" "Very close veins, sir. That's why they swells after long p'rade, sir. If 'e can go, we can go, sir." Again the colonel looked at them long and intently. "Yes, the band is going, " he said as gravely as though he had been address ing a brother officer. "Have you any parents, either of you two?" "No. sir," rejoicingly from Lew and Jakin. "We're both orphans, sir. There's no one to be considered of on Qur account, sir. " TO BE CONTINUED. Camden, Jane 30.-Oo Tuesday afternoon Edgar Harriott, a negro abcat 17 years of &ge, brutally murdered a email boy of 10 year?, knowo as Robert Frazier. HoustOD, Texas, Juoe 30.-The remarkably heavy rains of the past four days io Texas bave done damage which will amount to hundred of thousands of dollars. Railroad iraffio is suspend ed io Southern Texas because of the numerous washouts and many bridges are gone. Every stream io this section of the State is above bi, water mark, and the angry waters have destroyed thousand ot acree of cotton, corn and cane, besides houses and catt jo. --~mmwmw- -- Mr. ard Mrs. B. Lnckamp, Sistoc, Mo., vr r ; : c : : '(Joe Minute Cocgb Cure snr<d the life of our little boy when nearly de.d w;ib croup."-Hugh CD-Ligcc Co. Big Money in Good Horses. Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky have a national reputation for pro ducing fine horses, and in other Southern states the conditions are juet as favorable for doing so, says the Chattanooga News The horse market in the last few years, how ever, has not been encouraging to breeders, But it seems that horses, of euch style and character as have been raised in the southern horse growing states are again in demand and it is not likely that any material depression in prices will occur again. At recent sales in New York of standard bred horses for light harness purposes the prices obtained were without precedent The amount obtaioed for sixty five head was $49,940, and an average of $760. 61. These horses were all of a type that a horseman in the South, where the heavy draught type has never become popular, would take most in terest and pleasure in raising. They were the product of crossing thor ooghbred on trotting stock and had the fine form and action that belong to that type of horses, aa well as their epeed and bottom. There will never be a glut in the marked fer horses of this type. They are want ed by people who can pay any price for what they fancy, and no sort of vehicle will ever displace them for fine driving. For fine driving and riding horses we believe that such prices will always be obtainable as will justify farmers who are well situ ated to go into the business in a formal way. Of course it would not be well to go into it on a large scale at once, but gradually. Let those who have active, muscular mares of good size and qualities breed them to the best trotting stallion they can find, and then when the colts come feed and train them properly from the start, and the product will be horses tha t at four years will probably bring from $300 to $500 each. But it must be remembered that there wiil be almost as much in training as in the breeding and raising. Character and quality in horses are worth almost as much as in men. This is a thing that many farmers who raise colts wholly ignore. They let the colts grow up to maturity as wild as deer, and then treat them brutally to -'break" them A colt should not have to be broken He should be trained from his birth up in euch a way as to be gentle and intelligent, and whatever their other quatitias, they will be worth 25 per cent more ou this account. Gold and Silver Production. Director of the Mint Roberts has announced bis final estimate of the production cf gold and silver in the United States for the calendar year as foilows : States. Gold. Silver. (Fine Ounces ) Alabama, $ 5,000 100 Alaska, 5,224,800 92,400 Arizona, 2,465,100 2,246,800 California, 15,635,900 642,300 Colorado, 23,195,300 22,815,600 Georgia, 128,600 500 Idobo, 5,716,900 5,073,800 Iowa, 100 Maryland, 600 Michigan, 100 32.400 Minnesota, 100 Montana, 5,126,900 14,807,200 Nevada, 2,994,500 805.000 New Mexico, 539.000 425,300 N. Carolina, 82,000 700 Oregon, 1,117,600 130,000 S Carolina, 104,200 300 S. Dakota, 5,699,700 152,300 Tennessee, 900 Texas, 300 472,900 Utah, 2,285,400 6,485,900 Virginia, 4,500 Washington, 766,200 254,400 Wyoming, 5.300 100 Total, $64,463,000 54,463,000 Totals '97, $57,363,000 58,860,000 fine ounces. The commercial value of silver bullion foi 1898 was 58 cents per fine ounce, while in 1897 it was 60 cents Jefferson City, Mo., Jane 30.-The Missouri supreme court en bane today awarded a writ of ouster on the infor mation of Attorney General Crowd, against 73 foreign fire' iosuraoce com panies doiog business io St Joseph, Mo , for violating the State anti-trust kw of 1895. Under this decision the 72 companies cannot continue doing business in the State. Baxley, Ga , June 30 -Boigie Ables, the negro rapist, wa hanged today The execution was a spectacu lar affair, without iooident. Thc condemned mau rode from the jail to the gallows in a cart, sitting upon his oeffin. He was pronounced dead in nine minutes after the trap was sprung He made no statement on the ga Gws, but he previously had confessed his crime and expressed his readiness to expiate i* Washington, June 29.-The treas ury officials are now confident that the deficit for the present fiscal year will not exceed $90,000,000 One week ago the estimate was a littie short of "100,000,000. but during the last few days the receipts have been rather above (he estimate, while the expenditures have greatly fallen off. Hugging and Squeezing. They have introduced hugging so cieties in Idaho, tc swell the church treasury, with the following scale of prices : Girls under sixteen 13 cents for a hug of two minutes or 10 cents for a snort squeezo ; from sixteen to twenty years, 50 cents ; school marms 40 cents ; anoth r man's wife $1 ; widows (according to looks) from 9 cents to $2 ; old maids three cents each or two for 5 cents and no limit of time. Ministers of the gospel are not charged. Newspaper men pay in advance and are not allowed to participate until everyone else is through -Ex. This would be a better place for the Mormons to go than to South Carolina. People will talk these warm days especially about politics, politicians and religion. The reason is that they talk most about those things which they do not comprehend One of these knowing ones said a few days ago : "Well it looks as if Dean of Green ville, Johnson of Spartanburg, Patton of Columbia would certainly be can didates for congress next year. There are possible candidates ic Fairfield aad Laurens. Wash Shell is not asleep and the ladder bas never been taken down from the self on which Irby crawled after his last defeat.'* This seer was asked about Congressman Wilson, who has such a streng bold on the district from the head of the Congaree Canal to the western corner of Greenville county. Said he ; "Oh, Wilson :s elated for Governor. Had you not heard that ?" That ia the way people talk -Spartanburg Spartan. The secretary of state has granted a commission to Frank K. Ball of Racine, Wis., and E. E Mandwille of Camden as corpoatoirs of the George town Electric company, which pro posee to establish a water and electric light plant . The capital stock is to be $50,000, divided into shares of $100 each. The corporators are the same as those of the Camden com pany. A commission, appointed to investi gate the plague in the East, reports that the natives use cunning means to conceal the presence of the disease A gruesome story, worthy of Kipling, describes a card party, of which one member was a corpse propped against a tree. The most interesting point about the report is the conclusion of the com missioners as to the mode io which iofeotion is propagated The evidence is aid to show that, whereas the poison rarely makes its way into the system by way of the longs or digestive organs, the bacillus habitually enters through abrasions or perforations of the skia, however small. Hence the immunity of Europeans is largely due to the fact that they wear more clothes than the natives.-News and Courier. Sbe Was Posted. A sensible husband said to his wife the other day, "Jane, don't spend a cent with merchants who don't adver tise."' Thc wife who is a business womao, replied : "You old goose I learned better long ago than to go where I was not invited. You would be an old bachelor now if you had not invited me to be yoar wife Catch me goiog to a store without an invitation. I guess not.'* London, June 27.-The St. Jame? Gazette, which has been remarkable for its jingoism on the subject of the Transvaal, cape the climax today by earnestly appealing to the British tdmirality to "take immediate Ups to counteract the plans of the representa tives of the Clan-N* Gael, from the United States who are now at Pretoria with the view of obtaining authority to start a fleet of privateers under the Transvaal flag with the object of looting Cape Liners.'* Washington, June 30 -Mrs Emma D. E. N South worth, the authoress, died at her residence in this city at 8.30 r " *^ck tonight after an illness of several weeks About a month ago Mrs. Southwoitb was prostrated by the heat and the infirmity of advanced age, she being in her T9tb year, rendering her unable to recu perated from the attack. Chicago, June 29--The steamer Margaret Olwill, owned by M. P. Smith, of Cleveland, went down in the storm off Lorain, Lake Erie, last night. Twelve people were lost, in cluding Capt John Brown, his wife and son, and Miss Baldwin, a passen ger The Olwill, of 554 tons, was bound from Kelly's Island to Cleve land with limestone, her cargo shift ing in the heavy sea, sending her down by the stern Seaman Coyle was the only man saved New York, June 28.-Justice Brown in the United States district court, today handed down a decision awarding $65,000 damages, with in terest from Nov. 1, 1898, to Wm L Moore, in the libel filled by him against the Sun Printing and Publish ! ing company for the loss of the yatcb Kanapaha, stranded in September of ! last year while off the north coast of Cuba The yatch was then in the employ of the New Yoik Sun as a j dispatch boat. Gen Gordon also declines to allow a subscription to be raised to build him a" house ic place of the one recently burned. The gift enterprise isn't popular with our southern generals, wbo prefer t pay for their bouses.