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1 ~ ISSUED SEMZ-WEEHL^^ . l. m. grist's sons, publishers. } . % ^atmlj UetBsjajjer: 401, ft* jjrotnotioii of the folitical, Social, ^gricnllnral, and Comtnttjtial gwtwats of Iht jjtoplt. { teb*mmom#2opi! nv* oi^ancb' established 1855. YORKYILLE, 8. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1903. . ISTO. 15. 1 - - - ? -- - 1 rnnro u a oDimii imtirn w > rrvnw n TIE ill By Rev. Char] Anthor of "In His Steps," "Ro Copyright, 1901, by Charles M. Sheldon. CHAPTER XI?Continued. The crisis for John Gordon came oh the night of the election day. To Ford and the others who watched by him that night it seemed as if the struggle Deing rougnt oui in me cujr was pifled by the struggle going on in John Gordon's room. Rumors of the political battle drifted into Hope House all day. Both sides were confident Both sides claimed a victory. It was righteousness against all forms of evil that had grown secure and Insolent, but was now alarmed and fighting for future existence. Tommy Randall typified the entire city administration. He had used enormous sums of money. The tenement district almost solidly voted for him against the friends who, like Miss Andrews, lived to better their condition. The whole thing illustrated magnificently the regular social degradatlon of American civic life. As night deepened and returns began to come in slowly there seemed to be no decisive indications for either side. . Ford, who had been with Gordon from the beginning, refused" to leave, although he was thoroughly exhausted. Gordon sank lower and lower. Twice .they thought he bad passed on. Each time he rallied. At 2 o'clock he was nearer death than he had ever been. From that time on the struggle of life for the spirit grew stronger. When dawn came, the doctor lifted his hand and a grim smile expressed his satisfaction. The crisis was passed, and John Gordon, by the grace of God, was to live and struggle on for a few years more before bis spirit should go to God. who gave It Out In Bowen street and around Hope House the boys were crying out special election editions. Miss Andrews and Ford could hear the words "Victory for Reform ticket!" "Triumph for law and order!" "Chambers elected city attorney!" Ford' stole downstairs and got a paper. The little family of residents gathered in the library. Tli? fliwt nnocHnno onl'oH WWP flhflllt XUC U1 Dl 4 UVOWVUW MWHVW tt v*? John Gordon. "The doctor says he'll live. Hurrah!" Ford cried feebly. He waved the paper as if that was the special news that covered its first page with heavy type and exclamation points. Some one discovered Miss Andrews over by the window with tears on her face. Miss Hammoud came up and put an arm about her. "Grand, isn't it?". Miss Hammond said. "Yes. It did not seem possible in the night that he could live." "Who? Tommy Randall?" Miss Hammond asked demurely. Miss Andrews laughed. "I'm rather unstrung by all this," she said. "It is a good deal, isn't it? Tommy's death and Mr. Gordou's life at the same time. But joy never kills, does it?" "It has never killed Miss Andrews yeC said Ford. "But I don't know Low she will stand all this. I'm afraid It will go Lard with Ler." "I will try to accustom myself to it," the Lead of tLe Louse answered, smiling on them all. At tLe breakfast table no one ever remembered to have seen ber more interesting or fascinating. John Gordon rapidly grew stronger. When once life Lad claimed Llm, It seemed as if all the forces of good came to Lis assistance. One day when lie naa Decome strong enough be listened with the greatest delight to Ford's account of the election. "Chambers is going to make history for the double decker fellows. There are over a hundred cases tiled already. The atmosphere around the end of Bowen street is of a dark blue. Tommy Kaudull bus skipped out for his health aud carried with him the boodle he was careful uot to use for campaign purposes. The property out here. Including Ills unfinished building, has all passed into other hands, and the city is l.kely to take measures toward condemnation and purchase. Of course that means lots of legislation and law's delays, and so forth, but the gang is out of the city balls, and Chambers and his gold bowed spectacles will move things us rapidly as the law permits, which to my m.nd is not fast enough to set any thing afire. At the next election the city ought to make Chambers a king und give him absolute authority to do as he pleases for the good of the city. But 1 tell you. Cordon, you missed u mighty good tight by being here the week before the election." "So did you. my dear fellow, from what 1 hear of you." said Cordon affectionately. "Oil. I had a good fight over you." said Ford. "There were also others. Miss Marsh came flown or sen: woru every day. We were all determined not to let you die. But 'twas a good fight I'm about used up. I turn you over to Miss Marsh." "I'm sorry to miss you, Ford." Gordon laughed lightly. "I've no fault to find." "I understand. You simply want a better looking nurse around. Don't blame you." said Ford, who was uncommonly homely and not at all sensitive over it "1 did not say so," replied Gordon, laughing again. He was light hearted. The world seemed good to him. The victory of ihe righteous forces In the city, the defeat of Tommy Randall, the prospect for the future and. above all, 'OP,HER. ies M. Sheldon. bert Hardy's Seven Days," Etc. the thought of Luella filled bin with Jo.v. Life was worth living after all There would always be battle, but victory wus possible; always sorrow and trouble, but (iod was not dead. Every minute brought healing to bim. When, a few days after. Miss Andrews told blip that Miss Marsh was iu the bouse, ' ? * '!' .. 1 +/\ Klo aM flmA on. Ut* it'll jiiluum trquui iu uio uiu uuiu ?utUuslnsui He was up and dressed, sitting by his window, which overlooked.the same prospect us that commanded by the library window downstairs, when Luella stepped into the room. She had put off coming to see him as long us possible. When she bad no more excuses to offer, she went down to Hope House. Gordon or course asked to see her. He was growing strong so fast that there was no reason why he should not see her. She cauie slowly iuto the room, and he started to rise and walk toward her, but he was not equal to it and sank back, smiling at her and not noting In bis effort the very grave look in her face. "I have been told I need another nurse, Luellu, but I will promise not to be"He noted her look and Instantly felt troubled by it. She had come up to his chair and put out her hand. He had bent over and placed his lips on It and felt it to be trembling and cold. "What is the matter? Yon are ill." "No: but. John"She sat down near him and covered her face. John Gordon sat very still. He did not break the silence. "Oh. let us not?do not ask me to? you are not strong enough. It is cruel in me to come to you In this way, but I am not able to act a part"? "What is it?" be asked quietly. She looked up. He was gazing at her so gently, so lovingly, that she was deeply moved. She rose and kneeled down by him and let him put bis hands over hers. "John," she exclaimed wildly, "is it right that 1 should make you unhappy all your life?" "There is only one way you can do that." "Yes; but it is not the way you mean. It is the way I mean. If I should be your wife and come here to live, I AA4-i*t/? n rvnt?f I nm nnt mnHn N11UUIU ue u i uui 1IV?. Uiuu>. to act. It would be unfair to you. When you began to realize the Impossibility of It for me, then your unhapplness would begin." "Your promise"? John Gordon began, while his eyes sought to dwell on hers and then wandered away to the window. "My promise! Oh, it was given when I thought you were dying. You cannot know the agony I have suffered! John, tell me you despise me. What a contradiction I am to myself, to you. to everybody!" "There are no contradictions in true love," said John Gordon gently. He removed his hands from hers and turned his face away. She slowly rose and stood looking out of the window. "It is that, that!" she exclaimed passionately. pointing at the view from the window. "It would kill me, all that dreary, hideous, unattractive, horHI?lo hmmuiitv with its miserable, sor did. moan, selfish life. To dwell with it, to neighbor it?I cannot?I cannot! It would be a sin for me to pretend that 1 could be happy in that kind of a life." "And yet," said John Gordon, looking at her with a new look, In which pity for her predominated more than any feeling for himself?"and yet it is the kind of humanity that the Son of God came to save. I am sorry for you. Luella. God help you." She turned toward him swiftly. Something in his tone reminded her of something Mrs. Penrose had said. "It is too late. I was born as I am." 4*rv^ 1UUI1 jjuu eauie iifuitfr. uu juu iuigive me for bringing j-ou this unhappiness? Will you forget me?" "I will forgive." be said simply. "You will also forget In time," she replied after a pause. He did not anShe turned and looked back. swer and she walked slowly toward the door. There she turned uud looked back at him. He was looking oat of the window gravely. His face, thin and pale, ennobled in every line by suffering and service, seemed to her for a moment to be more than earthly In its beauty and power. She hesitated. What she was renouncing began to be dimly made real to her. And yet to lose the things? Slowly she turned her head and opened the door, stepped out Into the ball, shut the door and went down Into the library. With a sense of relief she found the room empty and quietly went out of the archway and back to her father's house. But the man that she had left had cried her name just as she closed the door. It was just one cry. Then he struggled down upon his knees, and for a time his soul beat about in the dark for help, crying and sobbing In its poor human weakness over what was gone. Finally God drew near and comforted him. When be got up again, he felt something like a sudden Illumination of bis spirit This woman?was she not right? How could two walk together except they were agreed?' Could love hesitate or doubt or be uncertain over the future and be love? Did he care for a heart that must be driven to his by force or lured to It by pity? Was the hunger of life ever satisfied with the husks of reality? Up from the lowly place of his spirit's depression he rose step by step until he rested his affections In his growing fate that the future would satisfy blm with a human love that knew no such thing a: doubt or fear. During the day that followed this growing strength that looked into the futtire with confidence be had several interviews with friends who came to Hope House to congratulate him on his recovery and talk over the work of the settlement. Among these callers one day was Mr. Marsh.. "Gordon," he said frankly after he had expressed his interest in the proDoaed use of the property he had turned ? over to the settlement, "I am deeply sorry that you and Luella have decided to go your ways apart She needs Just your strength. She is going to lead a life of aimless effort." "It is best as it is, sir," Gordon had answered. "There is no possibility of any reconciliation, then?" "No; we have not quarreled; we have simply understood. There can be no other way for her or me." "I am sorry." Mr. Marsh sighed. "She needed you, and so do I." .He spoke wistfully. Gordon read In It a whole history of human weakness, struggling up toward light and strength. He put his hand into the older man's. "If my friendship Is of any value to you, Mr. Marsh, you have It" Marsh went away, and Gordon mused over his future. How far would the man use his wealth, his education, his responsibility, to help the weak and overcome his horror of humanity's sin and trouble because he learned to love instead of tremble? Paul Falmouth was a welcome visitor. He was much encouraged over the results of the city campaign. "I learned my share from it," he said CnrHnn his aTnoripnPA QUCi ^lUUg uvi uvu u?v v-|/w. with the young people's civic league In his church. "The church Is not all bad. There is great hope in its young life. There is where I am going to put my own strength and enthusiasm. I have stopped preaching great sermor.s to old people. I have begun to teach my children. I have begun to learn that the office of the ministry is not to draw the crowd, but to instruct a handful and make disciples. Gordon, I see some hopeful slgnB in the church of the future." "Glad to bear It," Gordon answered gladly. "I always believed the church contained leuven. There is always hope for any Institution that has leaven in it" "The leaven of the church of this century is its children," the minister said and went his way, leaving Gordon to muse over the power of that force that represented through all the ages the love of Jesus, an organization obscured und at times almost extinct, but elowiue vet with an inward illuml nation that has not forgotten the commands of a Master who loved the church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify it and make of it an institution at last without spot or wrinkle or arty such thing. Mrs. Penrose was one of Gordon's most interesting visitors. She came in and chatted familiarly and at times tlippautly of all things on earth and under heaven. At last she said suddenly: "So Luella has got her fleshpots. They contain bitter brew for her. Are you satisfied?" "There was nothing else for her to do." Gordon answered after a moment's silence. "You're going to grow better for it She's going to grow worse. I did my best for you." "Thank you." Gordon answered simply. "Archie tried again the other day. He will never make another attempt. I have advised him to go abroad. Ho sails next month." ? ?- ?? If T)/vnti/vnn uoraon maae uo repiy. aim. fcuiuoc sighed. "Why don't you and Miss Andrews"? Gordon gave her a look that stopped her. 'Tardon tue. Go on with your good work for the children. Let me come down once in awhile and help. I'm not altogether bad, Gordon. Simply born so. But life's a dreary sort of jumble to me. I made my choice. Goodby. Best wishes to you." When she was gone, Gordon, hesitatingly to himself, lifted the curtain of her future as It might be. It was a future of contradictions. Poor, wasted life of an immortal spirit! How you have missed and shall miss forever the joys of triumphant womanhood! Poor, pitiable creature! Homeless! Childless! No two words ha all. human I s speech can mofe deeply describe your poverty, your loneliness! Julius Chambers was one of the most welcome callers as Gordon dally grew stronger and more buoyant "The city is looking up," he said In his cultured voice. "This housing problem Is something tremendous. It will simply have to come to cheap transportation, city own the means, condemn all this property, tear down, build up, make suburban residence possible for the poor; in short, we've got a dozen questions in one involved in the tenement problem. But I'm hope ful. Tne Dusmess men are getting waked ?up. Best of all, the saloon Is getting a lot of free advertising. The cranks are right, as they have been all the time, and we've got to come to itwipe out the saloon, pnt a home in its place, thafs the only substitute worth anything. Public entertainment halls, resorts, gymnasiums, libraries, parks, bathhouses, all that, good as 'tis, cannot equal a good home. The salvation of the city lies In its ability to build up Christian homes. That's civic reform in a sentence." He stayed longer than Ford said was' good for Gordon. But Gordon said he was a tonic, and when be was gone he stretched himself, got up, walked aero88 the room exulting In his returning strength, and when Ford came in and began to expostulate Gordon laughed. "You don't dare let me hit you," be said, facing Ford sturdily. Ford looked at him critically, then backed off to a safe distance. "Don't believe I will risk it with a man who helped knock out Tommy Randall." "Not yet," Gordon answered gently. "We've got our lifework cut out for us, Ford. This is only the beginning." Miss Andrews came in. They were in the library now, for Gordon had been downstairs for one of his meals. "A letter from Mrs. Captain George Effingham," she said with a smile, handing the letter to Gordon. It was a hearty message of good cheer from the old lady to all the settlement workers, especially to Gordon, whom it congratulated on his recovery. She commended the use of her money in the campaign, and promised $100,000 more toward the proposed park or toward the education of public sentiment for removing the saloon. "Let us get at some of the causes of human sin and misery," she wrote. "I am willing to give money to relieve misery, but I would much rather re move causea I don't want to think the money goes all the time for remedies. I would like to think some of it goes to preventives." Gordon sat by the window reading. When he finfcftcd, he looked up. and Miss Andrews was standing near. Ford and the others were at the table. "You are feeling quite well again, Mr. Gordon?" "Yes; I am getting eager to go out again. I long to be at work." Oho rrlonooH at him nnrt hnrted some thing quietly in a very deep grave beyond all resurrection. "You are going to grow strong with work," 6he 6aid. "Yes." He turned his face from her to the window. "It will be my life to work for the people." The city stretched out before him as when he left his father's house, full of human weakness, power, straggle, defeat, sin, selfishness. In a very positive^ but not by any means fully defined, manner he began to feel his way with this age old problem of humanity. He realized that he had by no means served his apprenticeship. Please God, If he were granted twenty years of vigor be would learn something of the I ways of men and be used If God willed It to play nis pan mamuu; uj me ucm ceasing drama. He thanked heaven that his love for the people was more sane and more passionate, too, than ever. There was also an abiding peace In his soul as be marshaled up for review all the possible forces of righteousness in the city, sometimes sleeping, apathetic, indifferent, but always to be reckoned with. And it even stirred his soul that the world had not yet grown deaf to the cry of children nor its heart become cold to the sorrows of the poor. Hope was strong within him as he felt his life forces pulsing anew, suipmoning him to conflict for human rights, for a city of God on the earth. And he stretched out his arms toward the people he could see through the window, saying, "Let us love one another and all things will be possible." Thus John Gordon as he resolutely faced bis future enshrined the people in his holy of holies as the current of their lives oore him on, their destinies i irrevocably woven into his own. THE ENS. Anecdote* of Colonel Eve. Colonel Ege was a famous character in the early days. Although living in Doniphan county, he was often In Atch-1 Ison. followed by a pack of bounds. He was a high toned southern gentleman with a kind heart. One day while returning home from this city be came across a man whose wagon was stuck In the mud In Independence creek bottom. Colonel Ege at once started In to help the man pry out his wagon with a fence rail. While both were working away Ege became angry and yelled to the man, "Lift, you son of a gun; you are not lifting a pound." The man picked up the end gate of the wagon and split It over Ege's head, laying him up for three weeks. Ege had his hat off when he was struck and was so bald before coming to Kansas that be was known as the Bald Eagle of Maryland. Ege always carried a pistol and was always trying to shoot through somebody's hat without hitting him. One day. at the Independence creek ferry, be shot at a man, but aimed a little low and creased him. But Ege was always a gentleman; he took the man Into his home and tenderly cared for him until he recovered. jpfettltettemwi Reading. I PASSING OF NEILL. I He Coat the Farmer* Million* Bnt 1 Now He la a Back Number. Within the last week there has been ] a remarkable advance in the price of cotton. The English spinners have i been buying, the American spinners have been buying and the continental i spinners have been buying. Values are at about the highest level of the yearAugust 31?and the south Is enjoying i an era of unexampled prosperity. But this great advance In the value of one of the earth's greatest products brings no Joy to a little old man In New Or- < leans, who has wielded a power In the 1 cotton world so absolute as to be beyond the comprehension of any one except a person familiar with cotton. The little old man is Henry M. Nelll. He has cost the planters untold millions, and they used to look upon him as they would upon a plague or a pest. But Nell 1*8 day is done. His power Is broken. He, too, Is broken In health, In spirit and In purse. Where once his word was all-powerful he now is little more than a memory. His influence In i the making or unmaking of millions i is gone, and he is nothing but a faded < voice and a blighted life. The Immense sums he once commanded are gone, and none of his wealth Is left to him. For nearly twenty years Henry M. Nelll was the most unique figure in the world. In the days when communication was slow and the system of collecting Information regarding the cotton crop was loose he laid the basis for a thorough, scientific method of collecting returns. No plant in the vegetable kingdom is so variable as is cotton. It is said Nelll was the first man to appreciate in its fullness the proportionate effect of rain upon the plant. Whatever merit there was in the basis from which he made his calculations, his deduction were wonderfully accurate for many years, and his fame as a judge or estimator of the size of the crop became so great that there was practically no one considered worthy to challenge his reporta He had been a cotton trader; but the demand for information from him regarding cotton became so urgent that he abandoned his regular business and devoted all his energies to his "tipping" bureau. He had one office in New Orleans and another in London. He had more than 1,000 subscribers to his service, and they paid a flat rate of $20 a year for his letters. Usually he sent out four letters a year. Nearly all his subscribers were In England, and they received his. Information simultaneously. Whenever he Issued a bulletin the effect upon the market was startling. One blast from his horn has been known to knock the price of cotton down fifty points, which meant an apparent reduction of nearly $20,000,000 In the value of the crop. The spinners had the most absolute faith In his predictions, and his influence so dominated the market that, regardless of what conditions might seem to indicate, the price of the south's great staple was practically dominated by this one man's opinion. It was when his power was supreme that he went astray. He departed from his old groove of figuring, and, catering to the desires of his customers, who always wanted to buy cotton cheaply, I he persistently over-estimated the crop. For a few years his prestige was so great that It kept the price of cotton down when It should have been up. In this time the loss to the planters of the south was incalculable. They had no redress. Nelll was master. The English spinners were the buyers of the American crop, and the price was established on Nelll's estimate. But Nelll, although a man of marked ability, did not keep abreast of the times. He clung to his system. Others Improved on his method of collecting information and getting at logical results. Not only that, but the wall from the suffering south for relief from the Injustices Nelll had visited upon the planters became so strong that the government, through the agricultural bu reau, took action ana esiuuutmeu no own system of official reports upon the condition of the cotton crop. In addition to that, the .government went to the extreme of issuing official estimates on the cotton yield. This action on the part of the government was the most remarkable acknowledgment of the power of Neill. Neill scoffed at all this, and to show his contempt he gave out crop estimates that were extravagantly wrong. In the crop of 1899-1900, despite a drought that curtailed the yield, he persisted in predicting the largest crop on record. The government predicted 9,000,000 bales; NeiU's forecast was 12,000,000, England believed Neill; American spinners bought cotton early in the season; the English spinners used up their reserves and tried to force the producers to sell at such figures as the foreign spinners dictated. The struggle was the most momentous in the history of the cotton trade. Planters held -""" '"no thmiip-hout the south, and IllCVUligo *.? ? --0. every effort was made to hold cotton back until the spinners were compelled to yield. It was a regular International contest. At the beginning of the season cotton had been selling for less than 6 cents a pound. It was not until the next crop was In the ground that England realized Neill wes wrong. Then cotton suddenly began to boom. From September until March It had been difficult to force the price up from 6 to 7J cents, but In July the price had jumped to 12 cents, and the world was hungry for cotton. Hundreds of British spinners were crippled financially by following Nelll. American spinners reaped the benefit through buying early In the season. The Impetus given to American textile manufacturers through that one crop still is felt. w? imnnMont than ail. however, was IIV1UI C w"" ' j the fact that it freed the planters from I the domination or the Anglian Duyers and Neill. . ( It was the breaking of Neill as a prophet. He had killed the goose that supplied his golden eggs. His clients cared no longer for his estimates, for 1 they had no faith in them. The hun- 1 dreds of thousands of dollars he had 1 received for his service were gone, too, for Neill, like most men interested in 1 cotton, is speculatively inclined. Since 1 then he has tried to rehabilitate him- 1 self; but he is old, and the men who used to fawn upon him now look upon ' Uf?m wHK fiila ooqaAn ho Vflft J 1*4*11 rvavu uiouniin auw .. out again with predictions of a monumental crop. Once more he is wrong. The few who followed him, thinking perhaps he was right, have had a sorry experience. Cotton is high?very high. The crop is not big. Nelll, whose word, was magic once, is but a shadow.?New York Press. MUST MARltY OR PAY TAX. A Kansas Law Wanted by Bourbon County Residents. Representative D. P. Campbell, of Bourbon, has received a petition which may take the form of a bill, says the Kansas City Star. In such case it will cause much trouble and uneasiness among the unmarried men and women of the state. The petition, which is from residents of Bourbon county, prays for the enactment of a law which will require unmarried men and women to pay a tax. The petition follows: To acquaint you with just the legislation we desire, let us state some wellknown facts in regard to our own progressive state, which is known, to originate and lead upon all great ques-* tlons of the day. It is an undisputed fact that our state is making more rapid progress in all the things that tend to make the people prosperous and i happy than any other state in the Union, but with all these blessings we are not increasing in population in proportion to our needs, as statistics show to our mortification. This condition, nr?,</,V> 4a ?n tVionrv domonHn the wisest consideration of our legislators. It would be useless to send out emigration boards to invite foreigners to augment our population when we have all the resources within our borders to bring about this consumation so devoutly wished for. We have within our borders not less than 75,000 old bachelors and an equal number of old maids, who are wasting their sweetness on the desert air. Now this deplorable condition which confronts us can be immediately remedied by necessary legislation, by a bill something like this: That all unmarried males over the age of 30 years shall pay for the present year a separate tax of 350, which shall be doubled each year as long' as they may remain single. That all unmarried females over the age of 25 shall pay the sum-of 35 per annum, to be doubled each year as long as they may remain single. That the money accruing from this tax be appropriated as pension money to pay the old veterans of this state, who have labored in season and out of season by placing their flags upon the parapets of victory and progress by 1 raising large families. That the head of each family who have been born and raised in this state, six children, shall be paid $100 per annum, and families of over six children shall receive $25 for each additional child. We further demand that a special bill be passed -forthwith to give our governor a good, hard legal Jolt for his dereliction and bad example in this matter, and that he be taxed $500, with the same provisions as the other, with the additional conditions that if he remains subject to this law for more than one year that he shall be Ineligible for a second term. We most earnestly pray, desire and demand that youi Immediately draw up the necessary bill or bills to carry out the great reforms above indicated and have them passed through the legislature and made immediately effective, and thus, with our entire resources developed and the additional incentive offered to our old veterans, there can be no question but what our population will take a bound in numbers and keep pace with our progress and will likely outstrip it. IN A SUBMARINE. Experiences of a. Journey Below the Water's Surface. Lieutenant Lawrence Spear, formerly naval constructor, who recently read i a paper in New York on submarine war vessels before the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, gave to a representative of the New York Tribune an interesting descrlp- i tion of his experience while under wa- i ter during a three hours' trial of the Adder in Peconic bay. Fifteen miles were traveled under water without coming to the surface ( once; After the first hour the trip \ became monotonous. There were elev- j en men in the boat, nearly eighteen < *?? onrfnno nf the water. . ICCl UCIU W tliv. OUIAWVV V ...? No noise could be heard except that i of an electric motor driving the boat through the water at seven knots. The captain stood with his head in the ( conning tower, steering by the little j compass and timing the boat by his ] watch, so that he might know when to turn her around and begip the re- , turn trip of the three-mile course. 1 Water could be seen rushing by, but ] nothing else could be distinguished ex- , cept the small brass whistle which , stands close to the rear of the tower; , the rest was just a wall of green water through which the Adder was rushing. Objects ten feet away could not be , seen. As for the air, it was as pure as i any could be in a room of the same | area, and much purer than that of , many a cardroom in which men sit, i not for three hours, but for ten and ; twelve hours with closed doors and with the air vitiated by tobacco smoke. ? ? ? t XSTThe skeleton alone of an average j whale weighs twenty tons. t 1'he United States Has Esgafed la Forty International Adjustments. "No other nation," according to the late Frederick R. Coudert, "has arbitrated Its differences with other nations as much as the United States. We are the arbitrating nation. In the last hundred years the United States has settled disputes with other powers by arbitration more than forty times. "As I said recently in a magazine irtlnlo tuor lnclno llv nnPflUlnff (fl ATI inarchronism. It belongs to other iges and other forms of civilization tban those under which we live. Its brutality, cruelty and Injustice jar against the humanizing tendencies of the nineteenth century. We are accustomed to look elsewhere than to the hazards of the battlefield for the solution of international problems, and have learned that there are better and cheaper methods of settling controversies than those which depend upon heavy artillery and needle guns. "There Is no question between two nations, In my mind, which cannot be settled by arbitration. If we are right cur claims will be acknowledged by any lust tribunal; If we are wrong we shall rail. "The more serious the question the more need there is for patient consideration and careful argument It Is cheaper to hire lawyers than to build battleships and buy big guns. It does not cost nearly half as much; It does not mean bloodshed, sorrow and misery." Here is a table which covers some of the results of arbitration: 1794?Great Britain, boundary; dispute, contended that the Schoodlc Rlv* er was really the St. Croix. 1794?Great Britain, 217 claims, awarded to the United States. 1814?Northeastern boundary. 1814?Great Britain, boundary. 1818?Great Britain for slaves carried away by British 'soldiers after the war of the Revolution, 81,264,980. 1839?Mexico claims $671,798. 1853?Great Britain claims 866,000. 1857?New Grenada claims 8846,307. 1858?Chill claims 842,000. 1860?Costa Rica claims 826,704. 1862?Ecuador claims 894,799. 1863?Peru claims $31,260. 1864?Colombia claims $846,307. 1866?Venezuela claims $1,263,310. . 1868?Mexico claims $4,000,000. 1868?Peru claims $150,000. 1870?Brazil claims $100,740. 1871?Spain claims $1,688,683. 1871?Great Britain, San Juan, land. 1871?Great Britain, Geneva, for depredations of the Alabama and other cruisers of the Confederate States fittec} out In Great Britain, $16,600,000. 1874?Colombia claims $13,401. 1886?Spain claims $46,034. 1892?Venezuela claims $141,600. 1893?Ecuador claims $40,000. There have been seven cases in which the United States was defeated In all her claims, and yet accepted the rulings with the greatest possible grace. They are as follows. 1794?Great Britain. Claims for roy aiisc iubhcb uuriiitt uie wai ui uic ikiolutlon, $3,000,000. 1851?Portugal. Loss of the United States privateer, General Armstrong, destroyed in the harbor of FayaL 1871?Great Britain. Claims of British subjects for property lost in the war of the Rebellion, $1,929,810. 1871?Great Britain. Claims Halifax fisheries, $5,600,000. 1880?France. Claims for property of French citizens destroyed in the war of the Rebellion, $612,000. 1888?Denmark. Butterfleld claims. 1889?Great Britain. Bering Sea controversy. SEVEN BAPTIST GOVERNORS. That Denomination Has Been Sne ceiifnl In Southern Politic*. Seven governors of southern states have been invited to attend the annual convention of the Southern Baptists, which will be held in this city, beginning May 8. In the list of celebrities that will attend will be many of the ex-governors of southern states. President Eagle, of Arkansas, being one and ex-Governor Northen, of this state, who is vice president of the convention, being another. The governors of the south who are Baptists rule over the following states at this time: Virginia, North Carolina, r>ani.<rlii VlnrlHa ArlrnnMR And LiOlliS iana. The governor of Alabama Is not a churchman; but his family are members of a Baptist church. The conventions of the Baptist church are always noted for bringing together many of the brightest minds of the south, as it always Includes in its makeup many of the leaders of thought. , The meetings of the convention will be held in the tabernacle to be built In the park extension soon, if the desired permission can be secured for its use. It is aMite probable that the permission will be granted by the city council and a monster tabernacle erected which will be able to accommodate the great crowds that will come. It is estimated that at least 2,500 visitors from a distance will be present, and in addition hundreds more from all of the nearby territory can be counted on to attend. The meeting will be a great one and there is no church in the city that could begin to hold the crowds, as hundreds and hundreds of all denominations will be on hand, for the occasion will be one of the big events in church life in the south during: the year. All around Savannah is a large Baptist population and these will swell the crowds to a very large extent, and the fact that there is a population of nearly 200,000 communicants in the state, means that Savannah will have to prepare for a crowd.?Savannah Press. tST A New York man, versed in languages, says that he heard ten different tongues spoken while walking across Brooklyn bridge the other day.