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Americans Advance Over Rough Ground. Brigade Moval From Racoor ? .J - Town of Novelita Novel is. Island of Luzon, Oct. 8. -3.15 p . m.-Gen Schvan's coi BSDD, consisting of tbe Thirteenth infantry.. a battalion of the Four teenth, two troops of cava! ry, Capt. Reilly's battery pf the Fifth artillery, and Dewey's scouts, advanced from Bacoor "this morning and occupied Cavite Viejo and Noveleta. v,^^ The American loss was three oin* cersand mine privates wounded, oae of the officers being morl ally hurt. The loss pf the enemy is unknown, bot the bodies of three FiiTpinos were seen. There were two sharp fights near Noveleta. Lowe's scouts first en countered the enemy near Cavite Viejo and soon put them to flight, continuing their advance. Capt Stafford's battalion of the Thirteenth regiment with two com panies of the Fourteenth and a num ber of Tagajo scouts, Capt McGrathJ commanding the troops from the Fourth cavalry and Capt Reilly's battery, came upon the enemy in a strongly entrenched position on the road between Cavite Viejo and Novelet a. fight lasting half an . hour followed. ( resulting ic the enemy's being driven back. Toe American forces sustained considera ble loss in tho engagement, the men being sho;; from trenches and shacks along the road. The column then pressed on to isoveleta, which they found deserted and will remain there tonight. Toe marines and naval forces co opera!v?d with the troops The gunboats Wheeling, Petrel and Cal lao lay of the shore near Noveleta and threw shells into that town and Santa Cruz for an boor, preparing the ' way for the marines to land. The battalions consisting of 450 marines ander Coi. Elliott, advanced along the peninsula from Cavite to Noveleta Hhe only way was by a narrow road through swamps. A mile beyond the marines' out post the column was suddenly receiv ed with a volley from trenches across the road A Hank movement was executed and the insurgents were driven from the trenches, the marines wading through rice fields in turning the flank of the enemy, who retreated to s tro cg sand forts across the creek dividing the peninsula, destroying the bridges across the -stream The marines waded through more rice fields, forded the river in water to their shoulders and carried the forts, . meeting with feeble resistance, the first encounter having disheartened the enemy. Squads were sent to Noveleta and burned the town and the huts ali along tho road from which the enemy commenced the firing. There a junction was formed with the scouts who bad been sweep ing the swamps and thicket. Thence the marines returned to Cavite thor oughly exhausted. Lient. Wynne, with a three pounder, did good execution during the sd vance. Gen. Lawton was not in personal command of today's movements Capt. Cowies' battalion, Fourth i infantry, while reconnoitering today found a body of several hundred in sergents near San Nicholas. fter a ?brisk fight, lasting three quarters of j an hour, the enemy was driven off IQ this engagement the American casualties were four men slightly wounded. Six of the enemy were killed, but the number wounded is net known The bad condition of the roads made the progress of the artillery slow. Ex-Consul Wildman Back From The East. Gives his Views About Value of Philippine Islands. New York. Oct. 7 -Edwin Wild man, es vice counsul of the United States at Hong Kong who was sta tioned there when the war in the Philippines was begun, was a passen* ger on the American iine steamship St Louis which reached ber dock from Southampton and Cherbourg today Mr Wildman spoke on conditions in the Philippines and eulogized Admiral Dewey. "The Philippines,'4 be said "are well worth the struggle. The country out their is magnificent and the climate is good There are seven months of good weather and-| then comes the rainy season when one can do nothing. But the in every country there is the bad time of year. The eooner \ we get down to governing the islands the better They are worth much j from a commercial standpoint. The whole country is rich and productive, j Gen 0ti3 is two old and not aggres sive enough "ile tries to do the whole thing j out there and like every other man | who tries to do ail he does nothing successfully The great need out in the islands is a young and aggressive man. "As to the question of self go vern ir ent T am l*d to believe that none j of the native people are capable of that in the highest sense of the wordi *The only waj that the na tives contd govern is under American supervision ^""1 believe that the fag in the Phil - . ipp.ines should never be lowered We'have got to conquer or annihilate them. The question is which will 'bur war do. . "I want to.say now it no time was Aguinaldo or any of the Filipinos promised independence. Admiral Dewey made them no promises. We brought Aguinaldo to Manila the same as any other man was brought over to help At no time was any thing said about giving them their independence. You will notice that in his manifestos Aguinaldo is care ful not to say directly that there were promises made That talk always comes from some of the followers who have something to gain by his success " Insurgents Shoot Americans at Gates of J anila,, Manila, Oct 9-1 30 p. m -This afternoon a body of insurgents v?as seen near Laloma church, four miles from the heart of the city of Manila They opened fire, the bullets failing among the tents of the Twenty fifth infantry. The Americans manned the trenches and replied st a range of 1,200 yards. The insurgents volleyed and the Americans used their artillery. The fight lasted an hour, after which the insurgents retreated. One Amer ican was wounded. The scoots of the Twentieth infantry are now reconnoitering An expedition, composed of the United States gunboats Callao and Manila with an armored fiat boat and steam pump, has left Oavite for the River Pasig, or Betis. which empties into Manila bay, on the north side, with a view of raising the Spanish river gunboat Ayat, supposedly sunk in the river by the Spaniards, which is reported to be in good condition. The United States gunboat Helena, with a body of marines from the Baltimore, preceded the expedition to make sounding at t;be mouth of the river Evening Gen. Schwank column, consisting of the Thirteenth infantry, a battalion of the Fourteenth infantry, two troops of cavalry, Capt. Reilly's atteryb of the Fifth artillery and Lowe's scoots continued the advance today toward San Francisco de Mat abon, meeting with little resistance and Buffering no casualties The enemy fell back steadily. Provisions are being conveyed to Rosario, be tween Noveleta and Santa Cruz 10 50 p m -The American camp tonight is within sight of San Fran cisco de Malabon, the stronghold of of the insurgents in the province of Cavite, where the Filipinos are said to number five thousand. During the march from Noveleta to Rosario only a few Bhots were fired. This large coast town was literally fill ed with white Sags The Americans captured two or three hundred men, many, of the Filipinos changing cloth* iog for white costumes The bay of Rosario was filled with hundreds of boats in which the people had spent an exciting night. IMPORTANT PAPERS FOUND BY AMERICANS. Washington, Oct. 9 -Mail advices which have just reached the war depart ment from the Philippines tell of an important ap tu re about a month ago. The small gee boat Cai ac, while cruis ing io the Bay of Manila, noticed a banca, with a number of Chinese on board, going down the coast. Tba ves sel waa challenged, aod as the men did not respood the guoboar. immediately seized the banca Upon overhauling the boat some 14,000 in money was foood and a number of papers and doooments bearing insurgent generals' signatures, with official stamps attach ed These documents trere found to be iostruotions to the men to prooeed sooth and recruit another regiment. .The guard of Bioondo district made a raid on a house that had been under suspicion as resort for insurgent offi cers. The only persons found were two Chinese. Upon searching the premises, however, a box contai&iog a number of papers was found, the pa pers conclusively proving the existence of contracts with Japan for the supply of arms and ammunition -by the latter to the insurgents. THE AMERICAN LOSSES. Washington, Oct. 9 -Gen. Otis has made toe fellowing report to the war department or yesterday's ghting : "Sohwan, with column 1,726 men. Thirtieth infantry, battalion Fourteenth infantry, with cavalry and artillery, left Bacoor yesterday morning and pro ceeded to Noveleta. Encountered heavy opposition, old *Cavite and be yond, bot drove enemy, capturing two guns and infecting damage. Hie casualties : Cap:, Scaffold. Thirrcenth I infantry. killed : Capt. McGrath, I Fourth cavairy, eeriously wounded ; ! 10 enlisted men wounded Column i entering Rosaire this morniog meeticz ! slight opposition. ''Navy vessels and matines at Cavit I made demonstration on Noveleta yes- j terday, while Schwan advanced at same i time. "Troop? at imus attacked insurgents at San Nicholas, two miles eaBt of the city, and drove them from the road in tersection there. Four men slightly wounded. Enemy left six bodies on field.7' The Transvaal Situation. Reported That Boers Are Leaving Border and Re turning Home. London, Oct 7 -Most important news comes from the Transvaal to night, which, if true, probably indicates that the South African ! republic is shout to yield, or, in any case, that the Boers have abandoned ali idea of invading Natal The news is comprised in a cable gram from New Castle, Natal, which says that farmers who arrived today j from the Buffalo river state that the I Boers are returning to their homes, leaving patrols along the river The commanders still remain on the Free State border The dispatch also says that the feeling at New Castle now is that thev Boers do not intend to attack that place, and that the evacuation of the town was prematnre. A dispatch from Durban also says that the excitement there has abated, the Boers holding back from the frontier. The retirement of the Boers is what the British war authoriee have expected, as their defective commissariat would prevent them from long remaining massed along the border. .Telegrams received here recently have made frequent reference to the scarcity of forage and supplies in the Boer laagers, and have stated that many of those in the camps were inclined to strike out for their homes unless active operations were under taken immediately. The dispatch from New Castle looks as though they had done as they threatened and had abandoned the idea of fight ing Meanwhile further transports from india, with two Seid hospitals and Hussars have arrived at Durban and the men and material were forwarded to Ladysmith instantly A royal proclamation summoning parliament to meet Oct. IT and authorizing the calling out of the reserves was signed this morning Her majesty, in privy council at Balmoral this morning, assented to the calling of parliament, the mobili zation of the reserves and the con tinnaoce in the army of all soldiers now serving who, in ordinary cir cumstances, would be entitled to discbarge cr transfer to the reserve. The war office announces that, under the proclamation calling ont the reserves, 25,000 men will be summoned. The field forces for service in South Africa, the war office annonces, will commence mobilization next Monday. Tba Evening News publishes the following dispatch from Capetown : "The reports of the barbaric excesses committed by the Boers on refugees have caused a thrill of horror here. In one instance 70 women and children were packed in a cattle truck so tightly that they were un able to sit and were thus kept side tracked for 30 hours, without food or water. When they attempted to leave the truck they were driven back with blows "Every train load of refugees brings harrowing acconnts of the barbarities of the Boers of the Or ange Free tate. train arrived here today that had been 36 hours en route. The sufferings of the women were deadfui Several births occurred on the way-one in a cattle truck containing 20 men.7' FIGHTING WILL BE SE VERE. Southampton, Oct. 8 -Sir John Christopher iVilloogbby, who accom panied Dr Jameson into the Trans vaal in 1896, and who, for particip t ing in the raid was s ntenced to ten months' imprisonment, but was sub sequently released, was an unexpect ed passenger by the steamer Mexi can; which sailed for the Cape Sat urday. No berth had been taken for him. Mr. Wessels, member of the Cape assembly for Yryburgh, was also a passenger by the Mexican. In the course of an interview with Mr. Wessels that gentleman declared that he saw no way to avert war between Great Britain and the Transvaal, which, if not long, would be terribly severe He believed it would be impossible to restrain the younger Dutch residents of Cape Colony with whom blood would prove thicker than water. The Boers, said Mr Wessels, are hemmed in and will fight desperately and trouble may be expected with the natives Washington, Oot. 7 -Gen. O. 9 to day advised the war department that the transport, Pueblo sailed from Ma nila yes:erday with 105 sick and 100 discharged men. The Garonne will fail today and thc Indiana will gai! toroorn w with thc Tennessee troops j Gen Otis say^ : "indiana sent sou'h I early in September to collect Tennessee ' regiment, licilo and C:bu Picked upi portion. Proseeded to C<bu. where' regiment volunteered service to assist to drive off insurgents from mountains ; near that etty Services accepted by Gen Snyder. Insurgents overwhelm ingly defeated, Tennessee taking prom inent part. Reembarked at Cebu, reaching this harbor 1st instant. De tained to complete necessary discharge papers and will sail in Indiana tomor row." BRYAN IS ILL. Chicago. Oct. 8.-A special to Tbe Chronicle from Webster, Ia., says : W. J Bryao is a verv sick mao tonight Friends who have speot Sunday with him at the farm of Fred S. White, democratic candidate for governor 0f Iowa, three miles from Webster, are afraid that Mr. Bryan may have temporarily to abandon his campaign work not oniy in Iowa, bat io Ken tucky and Ohio. When Mr. Bryan awoke this moro iog be complained about his throat aod longs, but said he had suffered from a similar ailment once before, and that it had yielded to treatment. A local physician who was called io tonight to ^reat the istiogu shed invalid recommended a long term of absolute rest and quiet. It is understood tonight that 6teps will be taken by interested friendsi to cancel Mr. Bryan's engagements, which include two and three speeches daily, and a tour covering the wiitb of Iowa, ending at Sioux City Satur day. mm - Washington, Oct. 7.-Admiral Dew ey today promised a committee of prominent citizens of Atlanta, Ga., that he would soon visit that city The admiral assured his callers also that he would gladly officiate at the presentation of the sword voted by the people of the State of Georgia to Lieut. Brumby, the admiral's flag officer. The trip to Atlanta wilt be made io the near future, or as soon as the admiral's engagements will permit. Constantinople, Oct. 8 -Djaried Bey, soo of Halil Rifat Pasha, the grand visier, was assassinated on the Galata bridge today by an Albanian, who fired four shots from a revolver. The murderer was arrested. Munir Pasha, the sultan's grand master of ceremonies, is dead. He will be succeeded by Ibrahim Rasich Bey, the introducer of ambassadors. The fight near Imus on Friday in which Geo. Fred Grant was engaged tarns oat to bave been a more serious aod significant affair than the Associat ed Press dispatch reported it. A special cable to the Chicago Record says that the Filipinos surrounded seven of Geo. Grant's men and captur ed them, and when the general advanced other oompaoies they had "a terrible hand-to hand fight with the insurgents" whioh was kept up for some time before tbe Filipinos broke. The correspondent says that "the American troops are marveling at this latest exhibition of the boldness of the rebels," that "the American officers regard today's fighting as important beoause it has shown a disposition on the part of the Filipinos to stand up and make a close fight" and that "the officers predict that hereafter it will be a great deal more dangerous to storm insurgent positions " How little of Luzon we hold securely is shown by this paragraph : "The people of Ma nila could bear and see to day's hattie. The smoke of the burning houses at Binacayao could be seen plainly, while the roar of Reilly's artillery could be heard. The battle oaused a great deal of excitement." The Filipinos are imitative. They first followed Spanish example io entrenching and acting on the defensive ; while now they are following Americas example in taking thc aggressive and fighting at close quarters. This is an awkward sort of compliment to us.-The State LATI M ER PAYS UP. Columbia, Oct. 8.-Attorney Gen eral Bellinger yesterday received the following letter in which was enclos ed a check for $12 : Belton, S 0 , Oct 6, 1899. Gen. Bellinger. * Dear Sir : I see from a statement made by Col Wilie Jones that the book cases made at tbe penitentiary are valued at $12 each As I have stated before in the papers of the State I, offered to pay Col. Neal for the case sent to Mrs Latimer aod he refused to accept pay. I now enclose to you my check for $12 to settle for same. I say again I bad no other intention when this case was ordered but to pay for it I offered to pay for ifwhen I received it, and have never thongbt of it as the State's property until the investigation, and I now take pleasure in paying the amount named. Yours very truly, A. C. Latimer. The traveling man whose note on the shortage of the oottoo crop in the south west we printed reoeotiy writes us again, this time from West Point, Miss. He says: "I am workiog my way home over a different route aod find many fields where all the cottoo has beeo gathered. I bave just come out of the bottoms where the be9t crop9 are I have seen this year, and it will be ali out it fair weather continues by Dee. 1. Tell our borne, folks to hold al! they cao '' This advice is both sincere aod competent The gentleman who tive it das buen on the road tor rnaoy yearn j and studied crop conditions rnro-ignout (he south. Nobody should sell his cotton for lees than 1 \ "2 cents if he can possibly beip ir. If wo had any wc wcuid hold at lea^t half of if for a better price, but that is a master for individual discretion -The State. Horses are now almost as cheap in the famine districts of Russia as they were some time ago in Colorado and Montana They are selling now as low as 50 cents a bead. The Lambs For Wall Street. Tho brassy, measly peddler who stands at the street corner selling brass sin"rt studs for 0 cents apiece and shouting that he "guarantees" them to be gold catches ninny a wandoring fool. Tho "guarantee" is given by a man who never expects to see his cus tomers again, and thc custom'ers never expect to trade with him a second time. Rut the word .?guarantee" car ries weight with it, and the fool and his- money, now as ever, are soon parted. Every day's mail brings me letters of inquiry regarding the stability of aNset of Wall street sharks who offer to "guarantee'' proiits ranging from 10 lo 100 per cent per month to all who will give up their good money and trust the sharpers to invest it in r.lie maelstrom of speculation. Scarcely a week passes without the report in the newspapers of the exposure, the flight or arrest of one of these sharks. But the race of fools seems - to be eternal, and it appears to be only nec essary for the Wall street bunko man to take a new name and to hire desk room in Wall street or one of its laterals to reap a new crop from a new line of customers.-Leslie's Weekly. A Fish .Mystery. One strange feature of this sea life of the tropics is the regular recurrence of migratory swarms of fish of very small size that return in huge numbers year after year with such absolute regular ity that the natives calculate on the event on a certain day in each year and even within an hour or two of the day. One such swarm of fish forms the occasion of an annual holiday and feast at Samoa. The fish is not unlike the whitebait for which the English Thames has so long been celebrated, and each year it arrives at Samoa on the same day in the month of October, remains for a day, or at the most two days, and then disappears entirely till the same day of the following year. Why it comes or whence no curious naturalist has yet discovered, nor has anybody traced its onward course when it leaves the Samoan group, but the fact is unquestionable that sudden ly, without notice, the still waters of the lagoon which surround each island within the fringing reef become alive with millions of fishes, passing through them for a single day and night and then disappearing for.a year as though they had never coine.-Lippi ncott's. Chicago Modesty. "Chicago beats the world," announc ed the tall, slim traveling man after he had taken a late lunch in the hotel cafe. "It claims everything and con cedes nothing. A novice would be made to think over there that Chicago exploited the universe, stocked it, wa tered the stock, issued half a dozen series of bonds and ran it ever since. "What do you think 1 went up against in that town last winter? I was coming out of one of the theaters when a cadaverous looking genius with ten inch hair asked-me if I was a law yer. I humored him to learn what his game was. 'Well, sir,' he continued, 'you have a chance to make a fortune. You ha-e seen this play, strong on the stage and strong in the box office, 'lt's superb, yet it's a bald faced, unmiti gated, cold blooded plagiarism. I wrote it every word of it Not a situation, climax or sentence is changed. Go after the author for damages, and I'll give you half.' "I dodged through the crowd ahead of us and made my escape." "What was the play?" " 'The Rivals.' "-Detroit Free Press. A Newsboy's Triumph. A pretty young lady dropped her dainty lace handkerchief at a State street corner the other afternoon. A dapper young man and a newsboy both saw it drop and simultaneously made a grab for it and each got a corner. "Let go; I've got it" whispered the fellow to the boy. "Let go yourself!'* shouted the newsy. "I've got it." While the man was apparently whis pering a bribe to the boy the latter sud denly jerked the handkerchief out of his hands and handed it to the smiling girl, with the remark: "Dat guy wanted to make a mash, I guess, but I caught de snuffer first" The crowd laughed, and the "guy" suddenly moved on.-Chicago News. One of the Directors. "Impossible," exclaimed the caller to the proud mother. "I can't believe that your son, who has only been in the em ploy of that great corporation for six months, is already a director. "Well, I can. James is a splendid penman, and here is the news in his last letter." He had just finished direct ing 10,000 circulars.-Detroit Free Press. / The Gossip. More attention should be paid to the old fashioned saying, "lie who brings will cany." If a man brings bad sto ries about others to you. he will carry bad stories about you to others. This is so true it is a wouder that people are not more cautious in their talk when with gossips. Don't let any one carry anything from you.-Atchisou Globe Double Proof. "Do you believe in heredity, Mrs. Simpson V" "Indeed I do. Every moan trait Bobby has I can trace right back to his father." "Does his father believe in heredity too?*' "Vos. rio traces Bobby's faults all back to me."-Chicago Record. Kormnl Obi Aue. Tip* general tendency is for mon to live longer. There is much evidence to show that in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries mon of To were considered very aped, and that a man of SO was a very rare phenomenon. If medical science, sanitation and general obedience to the laws of health con tinue to improve, the gauge of normal ige may yet rise to 100.-Boston Post President Petitioned . New York, Oat. 8.-Among today's signers to the petition to President McKinley urgiDg him to offer the friendly services of the United States in mediation between Great Britain,, aod the Republic of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State were Governor Tyier, of Virginia, Joel Benton, the author; Wm. Goebe!, Democratic candidate for governor of Kentucky; . Booker T. Washington, four justices of the supreme court of Michigan ; Chief , | Justice Peters, of Maine-; Chief Jas- i lice Blcdgeit, of New Hampshire; Chief Justice Cartwright, of illinois; Henry L. Nelson, editor of Harper's Weekly, and Attorney General Mon oett, of Ohio. K j The mass meeting to express sympa^i thy for the Boers, which will be held '\ at Carnegie hail Wedoesday evening, has among its vice presidents thirteen governors of States, 26 congressmen, 6 United States senators, 12 judges, 12 | clergymen and over 200 bankers and influential business meD. Bourke Cockran will be the orator of the even ing. I STANDARD BRED STALLION Modoc, I Will Stand the Season in Sumter Boyle's Stables. iChestnnt Stallion, foaled May 1892'; bred by. Maj. Campbell Brown, Ewell Stock Farm, Tennessee. "MODOC," sired by McEween, 2.18J; first dam Lady Radawa ; registered in Yoi. 12, American Stud Book. Be is one of the 5Des: bred stallions in the ita te; bred for size > style, beauty and speed. Be is of kind and gentle disposition. A sure foal setter. _ -rn Atlantic Coast Lie Bailrea. Company of Ml Carolina. CONDENSED SCHEDULE. < In affect November 20th, 1898. SOTJTB BOUND. No. 35 No bl? Lv Darlington, 8 02 aux Lv Elliott, 8 45 am Ar Sumter, 9 25 am Lv Sumter, [4 29 am Ar Creston, ^5 17 am Lv Creistgn, 5 45 am Ar Pregnall8, g3 15'am Ar Orange^urg, 5 40 am Ar Denmark,^" 6 12 am NORTHBOUND. Nc . 32 No. 56 I. Lv Denmark, 4 17 pm Lv Orangeburg, 4 CO pm Lv'Pregnalls, . 10 00 asL^ Ar Creston, 3 50 pm Lv Creston, 5 13 pm Ar Sumter, 6 03 pm Lv Sumter, 6 40 par Ar Elliott, 7 20 pm Ar Darlington, 8 05 pm " JDaiiy except Sunday. Trains 82 and 35 carry tbroogb Pullman Palace Buffet Sleeping cars between New York aod Macon via Augusta. T. Si EMERSON, B. M. EVERSON, Traffic Manager. Gen'l Pass. Agt J. R. KENLY, Gen 1 Manager. Atlantic Coast Lina WILMINGTON. COLUMBIA AND AS GUSTA RAILROAD. Condensed Schedule. Dated April 17, 1893. TRAINS GOING SO TB. No. 55 No. 35 p. m. Leave Wilmington *3 45 Leave Marion 6 34 Arrive Florence 7 15 p. m. a. m. Leate Florence 7 45 *3 25 Arrive Sumter 8 7 4 29 No. 52 Leave Sumter ^8 57 *9 40 Arrive Columbia 10 20 ll OG No. 52 ruDS through from Charleston via Central R. R, leaving Charleston 7 a. r_.< Lanes 8 34 a rn, Manning 9 09 a m TRAINS GOING NORTB No. 54 No. 53 a. m. p. m. Lea*e Columbia *6 40 *4 00 Arrive Sumter 8 05 5 13 No. 32 a. m. p. m. Leave Sumter 8 05 *6 06 Arrive Florence 9 20 7 20 a. m. Leave Florence 9 f>0 Leave Marion 10 20 Arrive Wilmirgtor 1 15 ?Daily fDaily except Scriday. No 53 runs through to Charleston, S. C.'; v.a Central R. R., arriving Munn.og 5 41 p n>. Lanes 617 p rr, Charleston 8.0 p m. Trains on Conway Branch leave Chad t:ourn 5 35 pm, arrive Conway 7.40 p rn. return ing leave Conway 8 30 a rn, arrive ChaC bourn 11 20 am, leave Cbadbourn ll 50ftn, arrive Hub 12 25 p m, returning leave Hub 3.00 pm, arrive Chadbourc 3 35 a o, Dailjr except Sunday. J. R. KENLY, Gen'! Manager. T M. EMBRsON, Traffic Manager. H. M. EMERSON, Gen'l Pa?s. Agent.