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It. /« ft i i Lc o * * e r 1 i Aljj jRlI+l h f iiv r ___y »J % a. - 2 ffi f/ J \\ r % ■ — 1 Puckaber &» Purraway. B’i A, M. DAmES. trLruxnxu t I HERE’S no use put- ting off the telling / \ of it any longer, Maria, the planta¬ tion must go,” “Oh, James, no.” “Yes, Maria; 1 have kept the knowledge of it from you as long as I can, hoping against hope that some¬ thing might be done;-—some way found out of the trouble. It would be cruel to let it come on you all of a suddon, with the notice to quit the home. To quit the home! Think of it, Maria! the home that has sheltered me all my life, and you, since you came to me, a happy and trusting bride, twenty-five years ago. ” “Ob, James, can nothing be done? “No, dear; I have paid the interest until it has eaten up all my ready money- It would bo better to take this money aud live on it as best we can than to go on with the ruinous policy of paying interest on mortga¬ ges.” “But to think, my husband, that you must lose the home of your child¬ hood ! Every part of it is dear to you, I know. ” She took his hand within her own and tried to comfort him as much as her overflowing heart would permit. He raised his head suddenly, a light coming into his eyes behind the tears. “In tho kitchen, James, She just would go to sea about the potato pudding for your dinner. She thinks no one oan make it for you like herself.” “And no one can!” declared the father proudly. “Oh, Maria',”—the knowledge of tho dread news he had to tell breaking upon him with re¬ newed force—“this thing will kill her.” “No, James; she will take it better than either of us, for there is a strength in her young heart V that our old ones do not know.” “And where is Alice. ?” “Sho went to spend the day with Sarah Marston. The longer you de¬ lay telling her, James, the better it will be. She will have only the less time, theu, in which to make you miserable.” The father sighed. What a differ¬ ence there was between his two daughters! “Ob, father, haveyoucome at last?” cried a delighted voice at that mo¬ ment. “I was afraid you were going to wait until the pudding was cold. Then it would be spoiled.” “Come to father, dame, and let the pudding wait, awhile at least. 1 have something to say to you.” She came, aud, despite her 13i years, perched herself upon his knee, and, throwing her arms around his neck, placed her cheek against his, rubbing it back and forth softly. “Sing one of your kitten songs to father, Damie,” he said, closing his eyes. He would put oil telling the bad news a little longer. She cuddled down against him, put her mouth to his ear and began to sing. No one else could have heard it. No one else did she wish to hear it. It was for him alone—a love song all his own—a song like the gentle purr of a kitten, comforting, soothing, yet a complete little song within itself, and its words nestled down in her father’s heart, each as a tiny song¬ bird, making a music of its own. It was this loving, cuddling, kitten¬ ish way she had that had gained for her the pet name by which not oniy her father, but others called her— “Little Dame Purraway.” Her real name was Azalea, called for the flower that crowns with such glory the gar¬ dens of her native State. It seemed indeed a cruel thrust to follow that purring heart-song of lova and content with such dreadful news. “O, father, must you really give up your home?” Her one thought was for him. “Yes, Dame Purraway.” He could say no more for the tears that were ready to come. “But it is not so dreadful since wo can all go away together,” she said, comfortingly. “Yes, we will be to¬ gether, father; only think of that, and surely we can find some place to call home. If it is only a oabin, and you were there, father, it will be home to me.” Then Bhe snuggled still closer against his heaving heart and purred another love song in his ear. As they were sitting down to the table Mrs. Edgerton said suddenly: “Why, where is Professor Puckaber?" “O, the dear old professor,” said the Dame, starting up from her seat. “I know he is buried in stones and bones and roots and such things at this very moment, and not thinking a thing of his dinner. 'Why, he would¬ n’t know if he hadn’t any all day longl I must run and wake him up.” Sure enough, the professor was sit- ting in his room surrounded by what would have been to unprofessional eyes a most uninviting collection of the specimens he had gathered tho day before. “Professor Puckaber 1 Professor Puckaber! Professor Puckaber!” called the Damo three times before an answer came. “Hey 1" said the professor without looking up. . “Dinner ! Come to dinner !’’ “Yes,antediluvian beyond a doubt!” declared tho professor, absorbed in the task before him. “No, professor,” returned tho Dame gaily; “the dinner isn’t antediluvian ; it is rather a modern affair of Hopping John (peas and riee), tomato pilau, broiled fish, sweet potatoes and corn bread. Do come, or it will be cold.” Then she took him by the arm and coaxed him away from his specimens, marching off with him triumphantly to dinner, for between the Dame and the professor there was a genuine good comradeship. He had been her father’s classmate and was now his best and closest friend. “I noticed your father was disturbed at dinner,” said the professor later at afternoon to Azalea. This went plainly to show that, al¬ though tho professor could get so ab¬ sorbed in stones and bones and the like as to forget his dinner, he yet had eyes for other things. A cloud came over the bright face. She stopped in the path where she'was walking with the professor to look up into his eyes, her own beginning to grow misty with tears. “Ho was disturbed. O, dear Pro¬ fessor Puckaber, as his best and dear¬ est friend, it neod not be kept from you, 1 am sure. My father is about to lose bis home." “What? Bless my eyes!” They were very bright eyes, despite the years they had seen, usually shin¬ ing like stars when the professor took oil his glasses But now they seemed to be troubled with a sudden dimness. “He only told us to day,” went on the Dame sadly. “Oh, it is hurting him so 1 He loves the place, for he was born here and here every year of his life has been passed. But now it must go, for it is mortgaged,and thoso who have the mortgages will wait no longer.” “What is the amount of the mort¬ gages?” “Three asked the professor. thousand dollars.” “A pretty good sum ! But the ease isn’t as bad as I thought,” ho added. Then he asked : “How long a time has your father? That is, how long will it be till the men come to claim the place?” “I think father said he had thirty days.” “Thirty days? Well, that is rather short. But much can be done in thirty days. And see here, Miss Azalea Ed- gerton,” pushiug back his glasses, to gaze at here with the most engaging frankness, “you and I are the ones by whom it is to be done." “f, Professor Puckaber?” “Yes, you, my Dame Purraway.” “Oh,you surely are laughing at me !” and there was a note of pain in her voice. “What could I do? Oh, if I only could 1” “Of oourse you cau,” announced the professor, decidedly. “Now listen, Dame Purraway—by the way, that was a quaint conceit of your father to call you that— I am going to take you into partnership. Puckaber and Pur raway, how does that sound? Fine,eh? Now hearken, Partner Purraway! Well, I supposo you know, for I am sure you have heard your father say, the company by which I am engaged sent me out here to locate some valuable deposits. So far I haven’t found them, that is to the extent I hoped, though I think I’m not far from the scent. But I want the help of your younger and keener eyes. Your father tells me you are the greatest little woodsman in all the country round.” “Yes, professor,” she said, with some pride. “I do know a great deal about the pine lands of South Caro¬ lina ; the dearest lands in all the world to me,” she added, her eyes shining, “because I was born among them.” “Aud about the ugliest,’’declared the professor with candor.” That is the lob¬ lolly pine lands, and the poorest, too, in themselves. Bat, if 1 am not mis¬ taken, Partner Purraway, there is that in these same poor lands as will yet make the fortunes of some of their owners. I have my eye now on a par- oel or two of land where I am sure the treasure is, only I don’t want to locate it here,” his eyes sweeping the rather stunted stretch of forest that lay around them. “Guess why, Partner Purraway?” father’s “These are my lands,” an¬ nounced the partner, pronjptly. “Exactly. You’ll do for the part¬ nership, I see. Wideawake as to in¬ terests.” ' “Cut this isn’t, by any moans, the best part of tho land, professor.” “I know it, Partner Purraway. See that marsh over yonder ? Ugly, isu’t it? and apparently of no value whatever. Yet, if certain signs I can read serve me fair, I wouldn’t give it for all tho rest of the land put together." “Oh, professor. “That’s all true, Partner Purra¬ way.” “Partner Purraway, of course you believe in the Garden of Eden?” The professor asked tho question at they were standing on a slight rise of ground at tho edge of the forest. All around them were tho brown needies of the pines, while in front stretched theselfsau v marsh that had previously received the profess* r’s highest com¬ mendation. “Why, Professor Puckaber, bow oan you “Well, over ask the question?” yon never thought of it be¬ ing located around her, did you?” She stared at him with opening eyes. “Of oourse not.” “Well, there are those who believe it fully, I among tho number,” lifting his shoulders as though to bear the full weight of the assertion. “Far loo many evidences to doubt it. Tho great Agassiz believes it with all his soul. He fairly routed the scientists who attempted to hold out against it. Situation, topography, prehistoric re¬ mains, such as found nowhere else, all go to show beyond doubt that—” “Ob, Professor Puckaber, what a grand azalea! Do look! Did you ever see one in its first year growing so luxuriantly? For it wasn’t here last year. I am certain of that. I know the woods too well. Tha birds dropped the seed. Isn’t it a glorious purple?” “Purple? Purple?” repeated the professor, “and growing luxuriantly in \.ne year? and by tho marsh, too? I say, Partner—” But the partner didn't hear. She had grasped the little grubbing hoe and started away. “I am going to dig it up to trans¬ plant in the garden,” she called to him. She swung the hoe with all the force of her strong young arms. For tho first stroke or so she had no trouble, the blade sinking deep into the dark, moist soil. But suddenly she encoun¬ tered something that gave her a great deal of exercise. She struck and pulled away at something, but it would not yield. It couldn’t be the roots of the shrub; it was foo hard. Besides she had been careful not to strike near enough to cut into these. “Oh professor,” she exclaimed, quickly, “1 do believe I have dug into a pile of rooks ! but how could that be about here, where there isn’t a single one?” She stopped, looking at him with a deeply puzzled face. “Bocks? What?” shouted the pro¬ fessor, starting and leaping down tho slight inclipe in such a way his feet almost went out from under him. Then he actually snatched the hoe from her hands—he, the polite and gentie professor—and there, before the astonished eyes of Partner Purra¬ way, he began to dig around the bush like one possessed, even digging it up piece by piece in his excitement. Tho earth fell in showers and the partner had a time protecting lace aud cloth¬ ing. Between snoh efforts she stared in bewilderment atProfessorPickaber. Had he lost his senses? Suddenly he dislodged an oblong raasRof hard, grayish substance, look¬ ing like rock, and yet not like it. Ho threw it above his head with a shout. “1 knew it would be found,” be cried. “I said it 1 The marsh told it! But I wasn’t expecting it here; rather over there by the bend of the river. Hurrah for you, Partner Purraway! I knew your scent would prove the keener of the two. Do von know what you have dcuie for your father, my dear?” taking off his glasses, his eyes shining like suns; “well, you have paid off those mortgages and a Bight besides!” “Professor Puckaber,” pleaded the bewildered partner, “will yon please tell me what yon are talking about? What is it you have iu your hand?” “Why, phosphute 1” cried the pro¬ fessor, looking at her as though he though she ought to know. “Fertil¬ izer! the finest yet found on the Ash¬ ley, the Euphrates, by the way, my dear. Never saw such a specimen be¬ fore I Oh, it’s grand 1” eves and fin¬ gers gloating over it.” “Tons of this —and there are thousands of them here—when ground in that big mill the Etiwan company has just put up, will not only release your father, but make him a rich man.” And so it proved. For, with the forming of the firm of Puckaber & Purraway the star of fortune of the house of Edgerton had arisen, never to go down again.—Chicago Record. The Papal Succession. Two hundred npd ninety-three Popes have succeeded each other, and only eleven of them, including the present Pope, have reigned more than seven¬ teen years. Leo XIII. has reigned nineteen years. Pius IX. reigned thirty-two yearn, thereby stultifying the popular superstition that no Pope would reign more than twenty-five. Leo owes his fine health and astonish¬ ing powers of work firstly, to his fru¬ gal up-bringing-in the Italian hills, aud in the next place to his regularity of life-long abstemiousness. Ho lives on less than $2.50 a day.—New York Mail and Express. The “Tombs.” A new prison, 45x186 feet, and 123 feet high, is to be built this year on the site of tho old Tombs in New York City. It is said that it will oost $720,000, and that it will be necessary, to sink the foundation 100 feet, since the Tombs stands on the filled-in site of the old Collect pond. I' jl- • SIXTEEN PASSENGERS ON THE LEONA LOSE THEIR LIVES. HERE PENNED UP BELOW DECKS. Tho Fire Was Subdued In Time to Save Others—City of Augusta to the Rescue, The Mallory line steamer Leona, which left her pier at New York on Saturday, bound for Galveston, took fire at sea, put back and arrived in port Sunday night with sixteen corpses on board. The dead wore thirteen steerage passengers and three members of the crew, who succumbed to a terrible fire which occurred off the Delaware coast Sunday morning. Details of the horrible story are meagre. Those who are dead were penned up below decks, and although frantic ef¬ forts were made by the officers of the vessel to save them the fire had gained such terrible headway before the dan¬ ger was discovered that all escape was cut off. The steamer carried in her cargo many bales of cotton. It is not cer¬ tain how the fire originated, but when it was discovered, it burst forth with such fury that it was impossible to reach the steerage. Even the steer¬ mindful age passengers apparently were un¬ of the danger, else the smoke and flames had not reached them. The saloon passengers were first aroused, and in such a manner as to occasion little alarm. When it became apparent that the fire had cut off the steerage passengers the captain and his men poured great quantities of water down the ventila¬ tor and heroic attempts were made for the escape of those penned up. Ill this way eight of the steerage passengers made their escape. The deAd steerage passengers are: Bridget Sullivan; JL Caliane, Miss Guzza, Mrs. G. C. Guzfeft, Miss Han¬ nah Solomonson, Mrs. Valiricks, Miss Valiricks, Sophie Schwartz, Marie Wade, two unknown children, and two unidentified. Of the crew: Alfred Hardy, waiter, forty-one years old, New York; Alfred Lang, waiter, nineteen years old, New York; H. Hartmann, butcher, twenty- seven years old, New York. Captain Wilder was in command, with First Mate Wallace and Second Mate Sweeny assisting. The chief en¬ gineer was below with three assistants and a crew of about seventy-five men, including firemen and deck hands. After a hard fight the flames were finally subdued. The surviving passengers were trans¬ ferred to the steamer City of Augusta, of the Savannah line, which came upon the scene in answer to signals of distress. ROBINSON STEPS DOWN. AgricuKural Department Has a New Sta- tistician from Nevada. Henry A. Robinson, of Michigan, of the agricultural department, tendered his resignation to Assistant Secretary Wilson Saturday. Mr. Robinson is a free silver man, and says he deemed it only right that the administration should have the office at its disposal. The office pays $3,000 per year, and is protected by the civil service law. John Hyde, of Nebraska, now ed¬ itor of the year book of the agricul¬ tural department, has been appointed to succeed Mr. Robinson. DISASTROUS RESULT OF FIRE. Horses Run Into a Railroad Trestle and Wreck a Freight Train. At Manning, S. C., Friday night, fire destroyed Bradham’s ginnery, the county dispensary with its entire stock, Shradham & Thomas’ big stables and two big warehouses, one full of ve¬ hicles. Two horses from the stable ran down the railroad and, becoming fas¬ tened in a trestle, wrecked the night freight, pitching the engine in Black river and wrecking three box cars. No lives were lost. Want Six Millions Indemnity. A dispatch to The Morning Post (London) from Constantinople says it is possible that Turkey will demand a war indemnity of over 115,000,000. EMPRESS PROSTRATED BY GRIEF. Death of Duchess d’Alencon a Heavy Blow to Her Royal Sister. A dispatch to the London Times from Vienna, says: “Not until this morning (Wednesday) had the empe¬ that ror and empress of Austria heard the Duohese d’Alencon was among the victims of the Paris tragedy, Tho empress was devotedly attached to her sister and is completely overcome by the bereavement. The dinner which was to be given t:> the queen regent and tlie queen of Holland at the Chateau Lainz, where the emperor and empress are staying, has been cancelled. The empress has been nnconsolable over the loss of her favorite sister. POSTAL CONGRESS MEETS. About Sixty Countries Represented By Delegates. The Universal Postal Congress met at Washington Wednesday in the great hall of the old Corcoran Art Gallery. About sixty countries, comprising most of those in the postal union,were represented. Korea, China and tho Orange Free State, which are now out¬ side the pale of the union, had dele¬ gates present. Postmaster General Ga¬ ry delivered the address of welcome. BIMETALLIC COMMISSION SAILS, They Go To Confer With Head* of Enro* [leiin Government#. Ex-Vice President. Adlai Stevenson, General .T. 0. Paine and United States Senator Edward O. Wolcott, who were recently appointed by President Mc¬ Kinley as a commission to confer with the heads of European governments relative to the holding of an interna¬ tional bimetallic conference, sailed from New York Saturday for Havre on the French liner La Touraine. Before their departure Mr. Steven¬ son said that the commission would go direct to Paris and, after conferring with the French government, would visit London, Berlin, Vienna and the capitals of other European govern¬ ments. He expected that much good would be accomplished by the commission and did not anticipate any trouble in inducing the governments to ap¬ point delegates to the contemplated conference. WILL ABANDON CRETE. Report That Greeks Will Gradually With¬ draw From the Island* Advices of Sunday from Athens, says: “The government has informed the ministers of the powers verbally that following the recall from Crete of Colonel Vassos, twenty-fivo officers and two companies of sappers, the gradual withdrawal of troops from the island of Crete will take place. After a brief delay the powers will offer to mediate between Greece and Turkey. The powers will insist, how¬ ever, that Greece shall confide her in¬ terests unreservedly to their hands.” The correspondent of the Associated Press at Athens learns on the best au¬ thority that Greece has made a written application to the powers, through their representatives at Athens, for mediation. All the representatives have prom¬ ised in their replies to use their best offices, except the German minister, who has merely acknowledged the re¬ ceipt of the note from the cabinet. The porte is inclined to support the powers, with a view to the facilitation of negotiations, but it declines to con¬ sent to an armistice, on the ground that this would enable Greece to reor¬ ganize her forces. GOV ERNOR TAYLOR TO RESIGN. v. Chuff Eieentive Will Return Tennessee’s to lecture Platform. ■ A report is going tils rounds t,]iat Governor Taylor will resign XffPVier 1st and again go on the lecture pkk- form. Under the constitution Hon. John Thompson, speaker of the sen¬ ate, will succeed to the governorship. It is known that Governor Taylor has contemplated this action and the fact that he entered into the lyceum convention with Hon. Henry Watter- son, General John B. Gordon and others some weeks ago seem to indi¬ cate that he will return to the lecture platform, where he made ten or fifteen thousand dollars per annum, while his salary as governor is only four thous¬ and. While the governor refuses to talk for publication concerning the reports, it is known that he has so made up his mind, and has told several gentleman that the reports were correct. MINERS SIGN NEW CONTRACT. A Reduction of Two and One-Half Cents a Ton Is Accepted. Representatives of the 3,000 coal miners working for the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company at Pratt mines and West Pratt, met with Gen¬ eral Manager G. B. McCormack, of the company, in Birmingham, Ala., and signed a contract for mining to begin on May 10, 1897, and to extend to July 1, 1898.. The minimum price to be paid for coal mining will be 37$ cents per ton, which is 2$ cents below what is being paid now. adopted The sliding scale was again with No. 1 foundry pig iron, $7.50 per ton, as a basis, and for every 50 cents advance of 2$ cents per ton on coal. The company agrees to abolish the sub-contract system and regulate other complaints in mining objected to by miners. A representative from each mine at the places named signed the The miners working for the same company at Blocton, Adger, Johns and Sumter have refused to accept any re¬ duction and will not consider any new contract until the expiration of the prosent one. DISPENSARY SCANDAL UP. South Carolina Board of Control Begins . Investigation. The South Carolina state board of control met at Columbia Wednesday to air dispensary matters. An effort was made to pass a resolution admit¬ ting reporters to their meeting, but a vote on that question has not been reached. In the attorney general’s office a dozen witnesses were examined and many affidavits taken; three or four of these are from employes in the dis¬ pensary, and are all to the effect that Chief Clerk Scruggs obtained posses¬ sion of the key to the “contraband room” and had a duplicate made with which he opened the room at pleasure. NEGRO METHODISTS MEET. A New Georgia Conference Will Be Form¬ ed at Meeting in Macon. A meeting of delegates from the North Georgia.tbe Macon and Georgia con¬ ferences of the African Methodist Epis¬ copal church, met in Macon Wednes¬ day. proposed It is to form a new confer¬ ence out of the Macon and Georgia conferences. The memberssliip ot' both has become so large that a 1 divis¬ ion is now thought advisiable. BAYARD BANQUETED. Ills Rondon Friend* Honor Him With a Farewell Dinner, The farewell banquet given at Lon¬ don Friday evening by the American Society to Mr. Bayard, former ambas¬ sador of the United States, was attend¬ ed by 270 guests. Ambassador The company included Hay, Mrs. Hay and all the members of the American embassay, the lord bishop of London (Dr. Creigton), Baron Bussell, of Killouen; the lord chief justice, Sir Francis and Lady Jeuene, Sir Edwin Arnold, Sir Henry Thompson, Lady Randolph Churchill, Lady Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Vivian and Miss Genevive Ward, the actress. But there was a notable ab¬ sence of the majority of the best known Americans residing in London. Mr. Bayard had a cordial reception. He brought with him the log of the Mayflower, which he deposited in its glass case in the reception room, where it became the center of attrac¬ tion. The dining room was prettily deco¬ rated with flowers and banners, the stars and stripes and the union jack being entwined about the arms of the state of Delaware above Mr. Bayard. The lord mayor of London, in a felic- itious speech, proposed the health of the president of the United States. In response to a toast Mr. Bayard said in part: “There is nothing we desire to con¬ ceal except a strange skame-facedness that tempts us to restrain the love each feels for the other; but there never should be a train of doubt as to that affection between the heads of the two countries. No man feels this more than my il’ustrious successor. If I was ever worth a button, you have here a better button to put in my place. I rejoice in my successor, for he will be as fair as I have always sought to be.” OFFERED CASH FOR VOTE. legislative Clerk Mistaken for Member By Street Railway Bobby istist* A sensation developed in the Illi¬ nois legislature Friday in connection with the Humphrey bills by a reported attempt to bribe a committee clerk, mistaken for a member of the house. A. L. Hamilton, publisher of the West Chicago Journal and clerk of the committee on live stock and dairy, stated to representatives of the press that he had been mistaken for Repre¬ sentative Flannagan by a lobbyist, for the Humphrey bills and offered $7,000 to vote for them. The Humphrey bills extended the franchises of all street railways in Illi¬ nois fer 50 years and give the control of existing reads and new franchises to specially appointed cdfiynissions in¬ stead of to the boards of aldermen- eL- the various cities. CALL COMES DOWN. Florida Ex-Senator Retires From Race. Stockton Entered. Ex-Senator Call, of Florida, with¬ drew from the senatorial race Friday and most of his strength went to John N. C. Stockton, of Jacksonville, a member of the house who was elected as an independent. In nineteen ballots Call’s vote ranged from 30 to 35, or from 10 to 15 less than the number necessary to elect. During most of the balloting State Senator W. D. Chipley has run from 6 to 10 votes below Call, but in Thurs¬ day’s ballot he went ahead, and that fact brought on the ex-senator’s with¬ drawal. Friday’s vote resulted as follows: Chipley, 37; Stockton, 33; Raney, 20; Hooker, 3. Buford, 1. GOLD WITHDRAWALS A Subject of Discussion a Cabinet Meeting. The recent heavy gold withdrawals was a subject of grave consideration at Friday’s meeting of the cabinet. Assistant Treasurer Jordan was called from New York at the instance of the president and was questioned at length concerning these* heavy withdrawals. The president and Secretory Gage expressed anxiety because of them. They took them as indicative of the probability of the gold speculators raid making another systematic upon the gold in the treasury. Conference Committee Agree. The conference committee of the senate and house reached an agree¬ ment Friday on the Indian appropria¬ tion bill. ATKINSON GUEST OF ELLERBE. Georgia’s Governor Inspecting South Caro¬ lina’s Convict System. Governor Atkinson was in Columbia, S. C., Friday as the guest of Gover¬ nor Ellerbe. Georgia’s chief executive spent sev¬ eral houris u inspecting the peniten¬ tiary, the hosiery factory within its walls and inquiring into the details of its management. During the day the two governors took a train for Camden, Kershaw county, near where the big state farms are situated, on a tour of inspection. It is supposed that Governor Atkin¬ son is contemplating recommending a change in the Georgia convict system. TWENTY-NINE INDICTMENTS, To Which President of Chicago Bank An¬ swers “Not Guilty.” At Chicago, Friday, President Chas. W. Spalding, of the defunct Globe Savings bank, was arraigned in court to plead to twenty-nine indictments against him, mostly charges of embez¬ zlement. He entered a plea of not guilty to each of the indictments and was then sent back to his cell in the county jail.