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carried a hungry belly, yet stood
with my heart exulting proudly within
me to see the down-trodden at last set
on high, and those of low estate ex-
alted.
For the sidewalks and causeways of
the High Street We're filled with eager
crowds, but the crown of it was kept
as bare as for the passing of a royal
procession. And down it toward Holy
rood tramped steadily and ceaselessly
company by company, the Soldiers of
the other Kingdom.
Stalwart men in gray homespun they
were. each with his sword belted to
him, his musket over his shoulder and
his store of powder and lead by his
side. Then came squadrons of horse
men. riding two and two, some well
mounted, and others on country nags,
but all of them steady in their saddles
as Kings guards. And when these had
passed, again company after company
of footmen.
Never song or an oath from end to
end, not so much as a cheer along all
the ranks, as the Hill men marched
grimly in.
Tramp! tramp! tramp!" So they
passed, as if the line would never end.
And at the head of each company the
blue banner of Christ's Covenant-the
Standard that had been trailed in the
dust but that could never be wholly put
down.
Then after a while among the new
flags, bright with silk and blazening,
there came one tattered and stained.
ragged at the edges and pierced with
many holes. There ran 4 whisper. 1T
is the flag of Ayrsmoss!'
And at sight of its torn folds and
the writing of dulled and blistered gold
upon it, For Christ's Cause and Cove
nant" 1 felt the tears we'll from my
heart up to my eyes, and something
broke sharply with little audible cry
in my throat.
Then an old Covenant man who had
been both at Drumclog and the Brig
of Boutwell, turned quickly to me with
kindly eyes.
NAY, lad" he said, rather be glad.
The Standard that was sunllen in
sea of blood is cleansed and set up
again. And now, in this our day, woe
be to the prosecutors! The banner they
trailed in the dust behind the dripping
head of Richard Cameron shall wave
on the Neither Bow, where the corbes
picked his eyes and his fair cheeks
blackened in the SUM-
And so it was, for they set it there
betwixt the High Street and the Canon
gate, and from that day forth during
all the weeks of the convention, the
Covenant men held the city quiet as a
frghted child under their hand.
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dross that they might win the crown
of faithfulness. And when we marched
through the West Port and passed it
by, it was in our heart to cheer For
we knew that with the tyrants fall all
this was at an end. But Colonel WAL
lam Gordon checked us.
Rather your bonnets off. lads" he
cried. land put up prayer!"
And so we did. And then we faced
about and filed straight up into the
town. And as the sound of our march
ing echoed through the narrows of the
West Bow, the waiting faithful threw
up their windows and blessed us, hail
ing us as their saviors.
Company after company went by,
regular and disciplined as soldiers, but
in the Lawmarket, where the great folk
dwelt, there were many who peeped in
fear through their barred lattices.
1.-The wild Wings of the West have
risen and are marching into Edin-
burgh!" so ran the cry.
We Of Colonel Gordon's Glenkens foot
were set to guard the Parliament
House, and as we waited there, though
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Gathering Alligator Hides.

1t is said that some gatherers of all-
gators hides who went to South Amer
lea a few years ago, in pursuit of their
calling, made $4,000 a month on their
trip. In capturing an alligator these
men first shoot him with rifle, which
serves only to stun him, usually Be-
fore he RECEIVERS they rush upon him
and sever his backbone in two places.
The skin and teeth are then removed
and packed away. and the carcass
abandoned But alligator hunting is
by no means as lucrative as it used
to be, as two or three big houses con-
troll the market and will pay for tha
skins just whatever pleases them.
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''yet 1 have been told a hundred times
the tale of your bringing me home tc
my aunt at Lochinvar. 1t is somewhat
belated, but thank you, sir. for youl
courtesy"
Nay" said I, "'tis all I have to be
thankful for in my poor life, that I tool,
you safely past the cruel prosecutors. u
She gave me a quick, strange look.
Yet now, do I not see you ready to
ride and persecute in your turn"
These words from the daughter of
Alexander Gordon of Earlstoun, who
was not yet liberate from the prison
of Blackness, astonished me so much
that l stood speechless.
ITO persecute in my turn?' said 1;
may, my dear mistress, l go to up
hold the banner of Christs Kingdom
against those that hate him."
Very scornfully she smiled.
I'm my short life," she said, "I've
heard overmuch of such talk. I know
to an ell how much it means. | have
a mother, and she has friends and gos-
sips. To me the triumph of what We
call the Kingdom means but two
things-the Pharisee exalted, and the
bigot triumphant. Prince Jacob of
Orange may supplant his father and
take the crown. Every canting Jack
may fling away the white rose and
shout for the Orange lily. But not l.
not IT,
She Haunted little white hand sud-
denly, palm upward like an apple
blossom blown off by the wind. To say
that l was astounded by this outbreak
is to say little. 1t was like an earth
quake, the trembling and resolving of
solid land under my feet. Alexander
Gordons child-"the Bull of Earls-
toun's' daughter standing openly and
boldly for the cause of those who had
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Weathercocks in New England.

The earliest weather vanes in New
England were cocks, trumpeters, SIM
pie plates, disks, and arrows, and, not
to be overlooked, the sacred Goldfish. In
Boston cocks or broad arrows were on
all the old churches. On the Province
House, where General Gage had his
headquarters, there was a statue of an
Indian with drawn bow and arrow,
ready to shoot. Prints of the city of
New Amsterdam as it was in the good
old Dutch days show the churches and
many of the houses surmounted by the
gilded cock or the plain arrow.
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THE MISTER OE THE HILL FOLK.

THE MUSTER OF THE HILL FOLK
Men who know the strange history of
the later life of Quintin Mac Clellan
may wonder that the present narrative
discovers so little concerning his
changes of opinion and stresses of
spiritual conflict. But of these things
! have written in extension elsewhere,
and those who desire more than a per-
. sonal narrative know well where to find
the recital of my difficulties. covenant
ings. and combatings for the cause.
For myself. the memory of the day
on the Bennan top was more than
enough, and made me a high Covenant
man for life. So that when heard how
King James was fed and his son-in-
law, William of Orange, landed. l
could not contain myself, but bade Hob
and David to come with me and light
a beacon-fire on the top of the Mill
yea, that fair and shapely mountain.
This after severe labor we did. and
they say that the light was seen over
a dozen parishes.
Then there came word to the Glen
kens that there was to be a conven-
tion in Edinburgh, of men chosen out
of every shire and county, called and
presided over by Duke Hamilton. But
it was the brut of the country side
that this parliament would turn cut.
even as the others, ground under the
heel of the old kingsmen and malig-
nants.
So there came to see my father two
men. grave and gray, their boards
blanched with dripping hill-caves and
with sleeping out in the smell winds ard
biting frosts of many a winter. with
out better shelter than some cold moss
hag or the bieldy side of a snow
wreath.
There is to be a great rising of the
Seven Thousand. The whole west Is
marching to Edinburgh!" cried in at
the door the elder of the two. one
Steel, a noted covenanter from Lesma-
hago.
But the othe-, when his dark cloak
blew back. showed a man of slender
figure, but with face of calm resolve
and indomitable courage-the proven
face of soldier. He was in a fair uri-
form--that, as I afterwards found. of
one of the Prince of Oranges regi-
ments.
"This," said Steel to my father "is
Colonel William Gordon. brother of
Earlstoun. who is come directly from
the Prince of Orange to represent his
cause in his own country of the Wes..'
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Copyright 1897. by S. R. Crockett.
SYNOPSIS.

SYNOPSIS.
This is the story of Quintin Mac Clel-
lan's life. written by himself. with addi-
tions by his brother Hob. Quintin's par
ents are indwelers in the farm of Ardar-
roch. situated on the hills above the loch
of Ken. and are staunch Covenanters.
The lads childhood is passed in the Bit
terest days of the persecution of these
people. and many of the scenes TO which
he is witness-and especially the killing
of an inoffensive man upon the Rennan
app by the soldiers of the king-change
the light-hearted boy into an earnest SYM
pathiZer with the Covenanters. At this
time he is instrumental on one occasion
in rescuing Il little eirl-Mary Gordon,
daughter of the laird of Earlstoun u
prominent Covenanter-from the soldiers.
and returning her safely to her family.
Quintins ambition is to study for the
ministry. and at the age of fourteen he
begins to prepare himself with that end
in view. BY the time he is eighteen,
James II has been deposed. and the ad-
vent of William of Orange TO the throne
of the United Kingdom, promises great
relief to the supporters of the Covenant
in their fight for religious liberty.
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THE BLUE BANNER IS UP.

And though at first l was grievously
astonished that the daughter of Alex
ander Gordon and his wife, Janet Ham
ilton, should so speak, yet now, when
l come to consider further of the mat
ter it appears noways SO wonderful.
For her father, when I came to know
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(Note by Hob Mac Clellan)
The tale of my brothers college lie
may be told in a word. I know that
he had written many chapters upon his
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The Mormons.
What Coz. ENerbe Has to Say about
Their Trouble.

Governor Ellerbe yesterday returned
to the city after weeks absence. He
said that be had not been keeping up With
the papers aud did not know exactly
what was going o. When asked
about the Mormon matter be stated thas
before he left the city the Mormons had
appealed to him He bad told them to
20 before magistrate aud swear out
their warrants; then il the county off
ficials did not do their duty to come
back and report the facts to him. He
said be bad heard nothing about the
troubles sirce that time.
Yesterday neither Solicitor Henry or
Assistant Attorney General Townsend
were at Ridgeway to attend che prelin-
mary hearing Of those for whom war
rants we're issued 90 Saturday las. at
the Instance Of the Mormons. Judge
Townsend expected MIR. Henry to be
90 aaod. The judge passed Ridgeway
on his way back to Columbia from
Chester. He said that there was
great crowd there, but be had DOT the
tine to stop. It is understood that the
preliminary vas postponed uutii next
Monday.-The State. Aug "a
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Negroes and Whites Inter.
nnlngle.

Montgomery, Ala. Aug. % "A
special letter TO the Advertiser from
Gadsdep, Ala.. says A race war is
Imminent 10 E,iwah county. A negro
woman has been preaching on Sandy
Mountain to negroes aud igucraDt
whites. claiming she is the Messiah and
can do all things They had a big foot
washing Sunday aod negroes and
whites iotermiogled freely, embracing
each other With the holy kiss.''
This morning the negro woman met
one Of the best citizens Of the town
and cursed him terribly. He finally
cowhided her within an inch Of her
life. Her followers swear they will
exterminate the better element of the
white people, aud clash may come at
any time. She has laid several plots
to bush whack those who !sve per
suaded her to desist.
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Take JOHlNSON'S
CHILL g. FEVER
TONIC
Government by Injunction.
Eugene v Debs Proposes to Head
s. Rebellion Against judicial
Tyranny.

Terre Haute, Ind. August % =
Eugene Y Debs has issued call to
the Social Democracy, and all lovers
of liberty and fair play, to attend the
conference at St. Louis next Monday.
when, he says, prompt and vigorous
action will be taken in regard TO the
miners strike, and especially the
course of the judiciary in assuming to
issue restraining orders In con-
clusion he says Every atom OF
American manhood revolts against the
spectacle Judges. by the usurpa,
tion of power and playing the role OF
tyrants, have annihilated the Con-
stitutioo. abrogated the right of trial
by jury, forbidden free speech, sup,
pressed peaceable assemblage and
transformed our Republic into an
absolute depotism. They are guilty
of judicial treason, aud should be
made to answer at the bar of an out
ragged people. The issue has been
forced upon US, and we have retreat
ed before it to the verge Of slavery
Let US now meet it as it would have
been met by the patriots of 1776.
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Abundance of Gold i
Europe.

Loodon, Aog Money is abund.
ant although the rates. rose sharply at
the beginning of last week on the ex-
pectation Of the withdrawal of gold for
the United States. The quick response
Of the Continental exchanges indicates
that if the United States wants gold,
the Continent is ready 20 supply it, and
as consequence rates eased off again.
Silver is fairly steady at 24d per
ounce, chiefly owing to the Indian de-
mand. Only a small business has
been done during the last few days on
the stock exchange, the holidays. the
disturbed condition of politics in lndia
and in Turkey aud the uosettled coodi-
ton of Wall street, tending to depress
prices and to restrict dealings. There
was slight Improvement at the end OF
the week, on the strength of better
news from India Consols, Indian
loaos and home rails imp ID slightly,
but there was no advance ID the Ameri
can section where the business still COZ.
tiuues very small!
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BUCKSHOT STOPS A CON.
VICT.

Summerton. August 20.-A con.
vict escaped from Mr.. 0. G. Scar
borough's farm yesterday about noon
A guard had four plougbing together
and all at once one dropped his plough
stock aud made for the creek swamp
near by. The guard followed him
with four rife balls, but did not hi'
him.
Those in charge knew he would
hide in the creek till night, so q
watch was stationed On both banks,
and guard with several men beat
the creek for him
He was discovered and made for
the hill, where an attempt to halt him
was made, but he was not in halt.
ing mood, and two loads of buck
shot stopped his fight His freedom
lasted only about four or Eve hours,
SIS he was captured before sundown.
He is very seriously wounded, but
had the best attention given him; a
physician was sent for at once
This is the sixth convict to try his
luck at escaping in three years Out
of these Mr Scarborough has los.
onlv one
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The Mormon Raiders.
Their Preliminary Trial at
Ridgeway Postponed.

Ridgeway, S G Aug. % This
town had the biggest sensation in years
to-day, when the men alleged to have
committed the outrages on the Nor.
mons were summoned before court Of
law There we're, perhaps, two hun
dred people III the town from the neigh
boring sections. all greatly interested
10 the outcome. Some we're for the
Mormons and some against them, but
the crowd was quiet and orderly.
It was expected that either Solicitor
Henry or Assistant Attorney General
Townsend would be present to assist 10
the prosecution, but neither were. Mr..
Townsend was on the southbound train,
but he said important duties in Colum-
bia would prevent him stopping here,
and be wen: 90. leaving Mr.. r. A.
Meares SO conduct the prosecution.
The people Of Ridgeway are not es-
pecially interested in the matter more
than the citizens Of any other part Of
the State. Though the Mormons have
been ipculcatiog their dogmas in the
vicinity. there is only oue member of
the Mormon church in the towo, and
that is woman
However. when the trial was called
it was stated that majority of the out
RACES charged were committed BY citi.
zens of Kersbaw, which county is oply
about twelve miles distant from Ridge.
way.
Charles E. Dinkius. one of the de.
feodauts. asked that the case be post
poned until be could get Kersnaw
lawyer. but after consultation with
NJ. R. A Meares. warrants were
sworo out against C. E D;ukins. John
Moore, George Moore. William Moore,
James Harold Cliff Wilson. El:oo
Wilson, Nortcn Kelly. VIII Kelly.
Charles Heios. Talley Peak. Robert
Mccoy, Fletcher Hayes and James
Riuson
". F. Brsoham. wife and daughter,
against whom it is alleged ousrages
we're committed. say they will swear to
the ideusity of all OF the nen.
While Deputy BoIick was OUT for the
purpose Of serving the warrants, Mr.
R. w. Sutton appeared as counsel
for defendants, and said his
clients had not had time to secure coun-
sci, and asked for postpouement 1t
was finally arranged to have the pre-
liminary trial next Monday.
Each pa.ty was placed under $500
bond. which was furuisbed.-The Co.
lumbia Register.
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COZ. IRBY's PROPOSED LEASE OF coSyIclS
The following. printed in circular
form. bearing date of Madden's
Laurens county, and signed by John
D. NJ Shaw, H F. Cunningham, J
" Martin, J. NJ. Dean. John A..
Martin, T. S league. NJ W Mad
den, T. E Corbet, T. NJ. Martin, j.
NJ. Sullivan. o. c. Cunningham, NJ :.
c Cunningham. T. S. Langston. D.
A. MartinW. T. Cunningham, P. II
Martin, J. W Henry. A. F. Martin,
J. Ben Jones, and W. B Note, has
been distributed on incoming trains
A passenger from Greenville yester-
day handed copy to a representa-
tive Of The State:
"This is to certify that we are cit
liens of Laurens county, and live in
the vicinity of this county where
Col Irby's BIG farm is situated.
We know that while the ex senator
runs big farm, that said farm is cul-
tivated exclusively by negro labor
ers, except one white overseer, who
is Senator Irby's nephew. Ex-
Senator Irby made strong effort
this year to get convict labor from
Col. Neal, superintendent of South
Carolina penitentlary. He failed by
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Bound to Be Completed.
Mr.. s. B. Lumpkin Says The Charles.
ton and Ohio River Road Will
Certainly be Pushed across
the Mountains.

Mr. S. B. Lumpkiu, general freight
and passenger agent cf the Charles
ton and Ohio River Railroad, was in
the city yesterday and last evening,
when accosted by reporter for The
News and Courier, talked most pleas
antly and interestingly of the pros,
poets of his read and the fine crops
and fourishing industries on its line.
Mr. Lumpkin's special business in
Charleston was in connection with
the anticipated traffic arrangements
with the South Carolina and Georgia
Railroad. and he spoke last night as
if confident that most satisfactory
conclusions would be reached "The
present indications are," he said.
"tbat Charleston will soon have 2
through line to Cincinnati. and this
will then he the shortest line in ex-
istence In fact it will be considera-
bly, shorter than any other route con-
Meeting these two points Z" lie did
not wish to enter into any extensive
explanation of what the plans were.
but said that he was sure that things
were being arranged that would
prove most pleasant and profitable
for Charleston as port and mar
ket.
'.There is no doubt" said Mr..
Lumpkin, "that the owners of the
Charleston and Ohio River Railroad
contemplate finishing the line through
from Marion, n G., to Johnson City,
Tenn, in the near future When
this is done l have no doubt but that
the line will then be completed to
Portsmouth. Here it will connect
with the Cincinnati, Portsmouth and
Virginia Railroad, line now owned
by our people. and the direct line will
thus be established to Cincinnati Z"
In speaking of the crops and busi-
ness along the line of tie Charleston
and Ohio iaiver Road Mr.. Lumpkin
said that the crops were the finest
that have ever been known since the
road was built, both Of cotton and
grain. The people, he said, were
we'll pleased with the prospects Of a
fine season. He spoke also of the
fourteen cotton mills on the line of
road and said they were in most
hourishing condition
The road is now preparing to build
twelve miles of track from Marion to
the foot of the mountains and this
extension. Mr. Lumpkiu said. would
give them the business Of four good
counties that now have only wagon
roads. This, he said, would largely
increase the business of the road and
prove valuable and immediate feed
er. besides being another step to
wards connecting up the through
line News and Courier
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TIE ARM or TIE LAW.
10 be Felt by the Prosecutors
Of the Mormons.

The State yesterday contained state
ment IN reference to two Mormons call
ing apon the assistant attorney general
IN regard 10 recent outrages against the
Mormons in Fairfield county. Il vas
stated that Judge Townsend had in
consequeace written to the magistrate
il the neighborhood telling him if
serious crimes bad been committed to
issue warrants sgainss the offenders,
and If necessary place them in the
hands Of the sheriff Of the county for
service.
Soon after the story bad been writ
fsn : special dispatch came from Cam
den telling Of the ride Of the whitecsps
from Fairfield through that town 10
search Of Mormon elders. Yesterday
5 report reached the city that the crowd
of vhitocaps had found the two elders
they we're after and bad beaten them
severely. telling them to leave the couo-
try aud never return.
Soon after this report resched here
Governor Ellerbe received telegram
from r. L.. Meares Of Ridgeway. in-
forming him that half dozen warrants
had been iesued by the magistrate to
whom the assistant attorney general
urose. and that there would be about
so defendants at preliminary hearing
TO be beld tomorrow morning. Mr..
Mears represents the prosecution and
wired to ask that the attorney general
be presep. a.the preliminary. A message
vas sent back stating that either the
solicitor Of the circuit or the
assistant attorney general would
be on hand. Judge Townsend
wens to Chester yesterday afternoon to
he a acopsulation with Attorney General
Barber. presumably 10 regard to these
prosecutions.
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The " hitscaps' Raid.
They Strip Three Mormon
Elders and Lay on the
Lash.
Special 10 The State.

0fcC4as " Ao0 0sosSs
Camden. Aug. 31-As was sur
missed io last night's dispatch. the OBJ.
iecs Of the whitecaps who passed
through Camden. was to and aud puo-
ish sene Mormon elders. They went
10 house about four miles below Cam
den in the Beulah section. aud took
out three Mormon elders, stripped and
whipped them. The crowd cane back
shroaah Camden about midnight.
They ueps through the back streets
and crossed over the river into West
Wateree.
Il is supposed that the whiteesps,
came mostly from Ricbtaod and Fair
feld eounties. and that the Mormon
elders Who we're whipped were the ones
that escaped them in Fairfield county
) fev nights ago.
Is is said that the reason The white
caps are folloxing the Mormone aud
punishiDg them is that they have gone
irsothe homes-o of some of the ignorant
elass Of white people in that section
and ruined some Of the girls. Some
sof the citizens wanted to kill them. bat
the majority wished simply to Whip
them snd dsiye them out of the coun-
tn, and it seems thas their counsel has
prevailed.
Whatever may have been the griev
ances, the law-abiding citizens Of this
scomnuDily deplore The fact that they
shonld have invaded this couoty for the
purpose Of conmissing unlawful aose.