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I' By SAMUEL LOVELACE I
Copyright, M5. htj T. Mrf'lure T
Three men had lain down to sleep in
a Cuban Jungle?three men in ragged
uniforms and unkempt in nppoar.mee
to the last degree. Two of them wore
bandages over fresh wounds, and the
trio looked gaunt and starved and slept
a.* if sleep had not co.nc to them for
several nights before.* It wan t? o'clock
when they threw themselves down
among the land crabs, with the evening
air swarming with mosquitoes, and it
was an hour after midnight wlnu one
of them awoke and softly crawled over
to another and whispered in his car:
"Diaz, awake! It is time!"
"Is the Yankee sound asleep?" asked
tlie other as lie sat up.
"He sh ops like a pig. ^Tings could
not be better far us."
The two moved away like serpents
tlirontrh the rank trr-wj n- il lnn?*'?? i*n.
til tliey hail covered n hundred foot,
and then they stood up and made tho!r
way swift!}* along in the dfro'-tion or
the Spanish lines.
There were p!onty of Aauik'.ui adventurers
In the ranks of the patriots?
men whose sympathies were on the
right side and. who ran the blockade
and joined the insurgents to light for
them as they had fought for the Union
years before. Such men were at first
given the hand of welcome, hut when
Ihcir dash and bravery had earned
them promotion there were envy and
Jealously to he reckoned with.
The man left lying alone in the jungle
was Tom Warner, good natured,
reckless and careless. Hero, whore he
had been fighting for six months, near
ly always on scout duty, he was called
Captain "Warner. He had a commission
from CJarela, but the title was a
barren one. lie had furnished his own
weapons and. clothing and had never
drawn a penny from what facetiously
might be termed the insurgent treasury.
lie had won praise and admiration
for a time, and then jealousy crept
In to make certain men hope in secret
that the Spaniards might make him
captive. They had heard of the Yankee
lighter?aye, and felt his blows?
and they had said that they would give
him no quarter If they were lucky
enough to capture him. lie had sent
back a message of defiance and gone
his way, and It never once entered his
mind that some of the men whose hatties
he was assisting to fight might
lictrny him.
"So you wish to surrender yourselves
and at the same time put the
Yankee Into my hands?" asked the
eoionei into wnose presence they worn
conducted from the picket post.
"SI, Senor Colonel. We wish to fight
against our pood friends the Spaniards
no longer, and In surrendering we
place In your hands one who has killed
many of your brave men. Tim reward
shall he what you will."
The colonel looked at them for a moment
In contempt. The Spaniard Is
bloodthirsty and cruel In wartime, but
he also has a code of honor. He might
condescend to play the spy, hut he
would not condescend to betray for
money.
Each one of the men was hauded a
five dollar gold piece and ordered to
report to the officer of the day, and the
colonel wrote a few lines and dispatched
them by his orderly and lay down
to sleep.
Two hours later he heard the sergeant's
squad that had been sent out
coining hack with their prisoner, hut
he turned over and slept again. It
would he time enough to settle with
the Yankee in the morning. The squad
had heen guided to the place where
the captain still slumbered, and hp
had heen made a prisoner without resistance.
"And so, American, you are here,
fighting among the rebels ngnlnst our
king!" sneered the colonel when he had
eaten his breakfast and the prisoner
stood before him.
"I nm fighting for the Independence
of Cuba," was the quiet reply.
"The independence of a mob of dogs!
However, that makes uo difference.
You are not one of them. You have no
tight here. You may iwvy n comflftf
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slou, tut I do not recognize It. No rebel
dog has authority to Issue commissions.
You know your fate, senor?"
"I believe you sent me word only a
month ago that you would shoot me
without trial if I had the misfortune
to he captured.**
"And rest assured I shall do so. No;
j 1 will not shooi you; I will hang you.
I You are a spy, and yon shall die by
I the rope."
"On what day and hour?" was the
calm inquiry.
"Pays and bour<!" thundered the
colonel no he showed his teeth at his
prisoner. "I have no days and hours
for the hanging of such as you. I
string them up at my own convenience.
At 10 o'clock?an hour and a half from
now?you shall dance 011 nothing!"
"Very well, colonel," said Tom sis he
saluted and fell hack and was marched
away by his guard.
in: 1.1 11 ill .1 ic wan, uiuseu IUf
colonel later on, "but be defied me.
Yes, I will hang lilru, and I will uniko
him afraid before bo Is swung off.
When the dogs of renegades hear how
lie died, begging for his life, It will be
a lesson to be heeded. He is hungry
and thirsty, but he shall neither eat
nor drink before the execution."
The force under the colonel comprise.!
about 400 men. Orders were sent out
to parade, all but the sentinels, under
arms at 10:1?, and a corporal was detailed
to sre to the erection of a gallows.
His work was not arduous or
lengthy. A small tree trunk waa
passed from the crotch of one tree to
another and a noose 1 rope lied to its
center. The prisoner would be placed
on a pork barrel?an American pork
barrel for the grim irony?and it would
do kickou from uuilor Ulm.
At the hour named by the colonel
the troops were umler arms and formed
u three sided square around the gallows.
Then the prisoner was brought
out. I Lis elbows were tied behind him,
and in liis contempt for the Cubans
who had sold their otlicer the colonel
ordered the two men to march with
the condemned man and act as his executioners.
They had sold a man for
money, but when It came to playing
the part of hangmen they rebelled.
They hung hack, but the colonel ordered
the lash applied.
When the prisoner was led under the
noosed rope the colonel faced him aud
made him a bult of ridicule. He pointed
at his rags, at his star veil looks, at
his unkempt appearance, and the soldiers
in line laughed. From ridicule
he turned to sarcasm and tliencc to
abuse and revilement, nn<^ during the
long half hour the prisoner faced him
calmly without a word. There were
not ten men in the lines who did not
feel a secret admiration for him. The
colonel had failed to shake his nerve,
and. ehncrrlned and ninrormi ho m-iioi-.
| oil oho of the deserters to place the
| barrel ami the other to assist the prisoner
to mount.
Then it was that one of the betrayers
felt the stints of conscience. lie
was the one who was placing the barrel.
'Ie knew what he was going to
<lo would bringhUn perhaps a more
cruel death thauthat designed for his
captain, but he did not hesitate. lake
a flash he whipped out a knife and cut
the prisoner's bonds, and, though taken
by surprise, Captain Tom bounded
away toward the forest.
In his excitement the colonel called
upon the lines to fire and ran after
the fleeing man. A volley was let go,
and when the smoke cleared away the
colonel lay dead on the ground, the
victim of twenty bullets.
For a moment every soldier seemed
dumb and without power to. move.
Then there were shouts and yells, and
the lines broke and becamo a mob.
When order was restored the renegades
were no longer In sight. The
jungle sheltered them and the captain
tliey bad betrayed.
"Poor devils!" the released man said.
"I don't blame you much. It's a hard
road to liberty, and a man has to be
something more than n flshworm to
win it."
American, All lllffht.
A countryman registered at a hotel
In Kansas City the other day. He did
not explain on what "plau" he purposed
to Income a guest.
"European or American?" asked the
clerk.
The guest looked surprised. "American,"
he sold emphatically. "Born and
raised up here in Platte comity. I don't
look' like" po 'foreigner, do 1?" i
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Cbnriiilnrc Oip Anti.
The mistress of n house in India has I
J to deal tvltli strange servants, plctur- i
! osque creatures whose minds are bent !
at every point by the traditions of
caste or custom. Cliota Chankldar was
a tiny night watchman employed by
Cornelia Sorabjl because ho had chosen
that occupation. But by day he
helped her do her garder.lv*? an 1 after !
burying seeds would rush eagerly next '
morning to see If green leaves were I
showing. >
When the little green things were
really up there cavio white an is to eat
them, and It win Chat a Chankldar [
who found a remedy.
"It behooves us to call a magic I
man,"' he said. "lie will say charms '
to the white ants, not forgetting to use
some black tar and such things which
are deadly to the r.nt people."
"Could not you and I use the black
tnr and sueli things, Cliota Chankldar'"
aslced the mistress humbly.
"Maybe. But wo could not say the
words."
"But we will say words of our own."
He thought for a moment and then
shook h's head with melancholy energy.
"No. no. Miss Sahib! The fathergrandfather
ways are best always, and
our fatlier-gr :ndfatilers always called j
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Besides," be added appeasing!}*, "of 1
course, though we people know better ;
than tho magic men, the net people are
ser.sel -so and wrv.'hl not nn lerstaud
our langui: go." I
So the ant people were exterminated
with appropriate ceremonies.
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No Twllt?lit In Mexico.
There is almost no twilight In Mexleo.
You watch the sun. a blazing orb,
descending with growing swiftness and
wreathed in a yell of tire toward the
horizon. Arourift, the air is amber tinted,
glowing. Suddenly it begins to
drop behind tlie distant mountains, and
the shadows advance across the plain,
swallowing up the landscape In mellow
gloom. The shadow draws near and
nearer?envelops the town. Behind you
the sky is still lit up with the rosy
beams. A line of shadow creeps swiftly
up the rugged sides of old Popocatepetl,
obscuring completely the base of
I the mountain as It advances. Up. up
the suow capped crest, deepening In
tint until at Inst It hangs like a great
opal against the darkening sky. A moment
It remains so, glowing and quivering
as if on fire?grows smaller and
Is gone. Night has come. 1
Through the dusky silence you seek '
your hotel, passing on the roadside ?1- j
lent figures, fagot laden. "Adlos, se- j
nor." Their soft voiced .greeting falls ,
upon your ear like a benediction.?Lee
W. Ziegler In Recreation.
ThroaKli, l>n< Kept Gotntc.
A long winded member of the Massachusetts
legislature was delivering a
polltlenl address in a town not far 1
from Boston, and the village folic gath- I
ered In the town hall to hear It.
He had been speaking quite awhile
when finally an old Scotchman arose
and walked out of the hall. At me
door one of his countrymen was waiting
with his hack to drive the orator
to the station.
"is bo done yet, Sandy?" asked tho
Soot on the box.
The old man turned about."
"Aye," said he; "he's done lnug ago,
but he will na stop."
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Tide* and Storm*.
When a tompest is npproncLlng or
passing out on the ocean, the tides are
noticeably higher than usual, as If tho
water had been driven In a vast wave
before tho storm. The Influence extends
to a great distance from tho cyclonic
storm center, so that tho possibility exists
of foretelling the approach of a '
dangerous hurricane by means of Indications
furnished by tide gauges situated
far away from the place then occupied
by the whirling winds. Tho fact
that the tidal wave outstrips the advancing
storm shows how extremely
sensitive the surface of the sea Is to
the changes of pressure brought to bear
upon It by the never resting atmosphere.
Inherited.
"Your daughter's music Is Improving,"
snld tho professor, "but when she '
runs tho scales I have to watch her
pretty closely."
"Just like her father." snld Mrs. Murltch;
"lie mndo his raouey In the
grocery llpe.."
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(Jrwn.
Owing to Its derivation the word
"green" was originally applied to the
color of vegetation, but not to the color
or tno sea. >o application of "preen"
to the color of the sea 13 quoted before
Chaucer, but as early as the year 7bi)
It was used for vegetation. The word
la akin to "grass" and "prow," which
verb originally belonged to the vegetable
world alone. Vegetables "grew,"
but auluials "waxed." "Green" comes
from an Aryan root, "ghahr," meaning
to be green or yellow, and "yellow,"
"gold", and "yolk" come from that
same root.
Tnplot n no<l Penrl Tn:?loen.
Tapioca is i?anrfactored from the
plant called in Ik-axil manioc, in Peru
yucca and in Use West Indies cassava.
W'.en the true starch is separated
from !!:e rut it is placed 011 hot plates
and while it is heating is stirred witli
an !"on r??!. T!:e s.ta.vh grains burst,
and t'r.e wliole eggi r.nerate? into small,
irregular masses, pearl tapioca is not
n product of the plant at all. hut of
potato starch.
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Satisfied
Customers
arc the best kind .of
advertisement for the
grocery business. Wo
try to get grocery customers
to satisfy?and
then
We satisfy our Customers
We used to iind it a
hard task?but since it
has got abroad that we
satisfy our customers,
it has been an easy
matter to get customers
to satisfy. It doesn't
make any difference
here what nature your
purchase may l>e, we'll
see that it gives satisfaction,
or if it doesn't,
we'll r e t u r n your
money.
Union Grocery Co.,
L. L. Wagnon, Manager.
SOMETHING NEW
Van Camp's
Evanorated
Cream.
10c per can at
J. T. SEXTON'S,
/ Phone No. 10.
BOILERS AND ENGINES.
Tanks, Stacks, i^and Pipes,
and Sheet Iron Work; Shafting,
Pulleys, Gearing, Boxes,
Mangers, etc. Mill Castings.
Cast every day; work 200
hands.
Lombard Foundry Machine and
Boiler Work and Supply Store.
Augusta, Georgia
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in a better positl
lilding which ena!
eries and ali- kim
jly your wants.
CT OUR STOCK.
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KEEP THE KIDNEYS WELL. .
Health is Worth Saving, and Some
Union Pflonlft Knnw Hrrn; tn
Save It.
Many people take their lives in their
hands hy neglecting the kidneys when
they know these organs need help.
Sick kidneys are responsible for a vast
amount of suffering and ill-health, hut
thefe is no need to suffer nor to remain
in danger when all diseases.and aches
and pains due to weak kidneys can be
quickly and permanently cured hy the
use of I loan's Kidney Pills.
J. It. Lee, of Chester, S. C., stove and
pump repairer, who travels through
many counties in South Carolina, and
is generally known over the whole
state, says: "My hack has been so weak
at times that I could not attend to business.
It pained me all the time right
across the small of it, but since using
Doan's Kidney Pills my back has been
much stronger and has not pained me
at all. The pills did me a whole lot of
good and I am going to give them the
credit for it."
For sale hy all dealers. Price 50
cents. Fosler-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents t for the United
States.
Remember the name?Doan's?and
i take no other.
Superb Perfumes!
The making of Perfumes
is a fine art. Perfumes
vary in their ability as
other artists do. Some
stand head and shoulders
above others and
make goods that are
marvels of delicacy and
refinement. It is worth
while to get such goods
?inferior ones are apt
to cost you just as much.
Fine perfumes are a
specialty with us. Our
assortment includes the
latest and best goods of
the world's best makers,
both bottled and in bulk.
Prices are as reasonable
as the goods are
fine.
Palmetto Drug Co.,
j Iluiet & Ren wick, Owners.
Purest
ICE CREAM
(OUR OWN MAKE.)
Send Us Your
Orders.
Phone 73.
DUKE DRUG CO.
Under Hotel Onion. Union, S. C.
Bring your job work to The
Times. We can please you.
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Cash Bargain Store
There are always extra
values found at the Cash
Bargain Store at this season
of the'year. "V
Just received a lot of Lawns
and Organdies in large figures,
price 10c the yard.
Colored Lawns that sold at
7c, 8c, 9c and 10c the yard,
now Kc.
White Lawn, 40 inches wide,
going at 10c.
Good Bleaching at 5c, 6c, 7c,
8c, and 10c the yard.
Mennen's Talcum Powder at
15c a box.
MRS. D. N. W1LB0RN. \
From Frigid to Torrid
From Coal to Ice you
think, one is no mora a
luxury than the other,
both are a necessity......
I will deliver |C? at your door
Buy your ticket, it is
, v
economy and saves you
trouble.
Ice house opposite Southern
Passenger Depot.
J. B. RICHARDS.
THEY HAVE COME! %
I always made special prep-1k
arations for the summer
months, for I know that almost
everybody has to buy
hot weather specials this time
of the year, so I ask you to
come and look through my
lines, which are complete.
JUST RECEIVED
lots of real good things in '"****
Dry Goods, Notions, Sho ^
Hats, Clothing, Hosiery, ' *' fe
derwear, etc. C- - r M
All of the abc -f
are correct in^j
quality and lor
trade here, S/TITIM
and get a f \ 9e
free. ** co.
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