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ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLT. i. m. OEI8T'8 SOKS, Fubii.hm~ I g ^amilg gtcspgw: ^or the promotion a]f the political, facial, Agricultural, and dtommetcial gntmsts of the gwjlt. ESTABLISHED 1855. YOEKVILLE, S. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1904. ISTO. 4. I WHEN KN I WAS IN Or, The Love Story of Charles Erandoi Happening In the Reign of His Ao Hewritten and Rendered Into Caikoder By EDWIN CASKODf Copyright, 1898 and 1901, by i ftAAAAAAAAAdHiMi CHAPTER X?Continued. "VTItli this tue King wheeled about and started west toward Guildhall. To the lord mayor we accordingly went without further delay. He was ? * ? ..!?.! (/. lil.uivita Hroiwlnn whpr Uillj iw &iau iv iivnwiv lie heard my story, which the king had ordered uie to repeat. The only hesitancy was from a doubt of its truth. The lortl mayor was kind enough to say that he felt little doubt of my word, hut that friendship would often drive a man to any extremity, even falsehood, to save a friend. Then I offered to go into custody myself and pay the penalty, death, for helping a convicted felon to escape if I told not the truth, to be confirmed or denied by the princess and her first lady in waiting. I knew Jane and wae willing to risk her truthfulness without a doubt?it was so pronounced as to be troublesome at times?and as to Mary?well, I had not doubt of her either. If she would but stop to think out the right, she was sure to do it My offer was satisfactory, for what more can a man do than pledge his life for his friend? We have Scripture for that, or something like it The lord mayor did not require my proffered pledge, but readily consented that the king should write an order for Brandon's pardon and release. This was done at once, and we?that Is, I, together with the sheriff's sergeant and his four yeomen, hastened to Newgate, while Henry went over to Wolsey's to settle Mary's fate. Brandon was brought up, with chains and manacles at his ankles and wrists. When he entered the room and Baw me, he exclaimed: "Ah, Caskoden, is that you? I thought tbey bad brought me up to hang me. and was glad for the change. But I suppose you would not come to help at that, even if you have left me here to rot, God only knows how long; I have forgotten." I could not restrain the tears at sight of him. "Your words are more than Just" I said, and, being anxious that he should know at once that my fault bad not been so great as it looked, continued hurriedly: "The King sent me 10 r ruuoe upou an hour's notice the day after your arrest I know only too well I should not have gone without seeing you out of this, but you had enjoined silence upon me, and?and I trusted to the promises of another." "I thought as much. You are in no way to blame, my friend. All I ask Is that you never mention the subject again." "My friend!" Ah, the words were dear to me as words of love from a sweetheart's lips! I hardly recognized him, he was so frightfully covered with filth and dirt and creeping things. His hair and beard were unkempt and matted, and I ? I "Ah, Cu8koden, is that youf" his eyes and cheeks were lusterless and sunken; but I will describe him no further. Suffering had well nigh done its work, and nothing but the hardihood gathered in his years of camp life and war could have saved him from death. I bathed and reclothed him as well as I could at Newgate and then took him home to Greenwich in a horse litter, where my man and I thoroughly washed, dressed and sheared the poor fellow and put him to bed. "Ah, this bed is a foretaste of paradise!** he said as he lay upon the mattress. It was a pitiful sight, and I ewdld hardly refrain from tears. I will ask you to go back with oie I*. a moment. During the week between Brand' interview with Mary in the anteroon ot the King's bedchamber and the trag eoy at Billingsgate he and 1 had uiauj conversations about the extraordlnarj situation In which he found himself. At one time. I remember, he said "I was safe enough before that after uoon. I believe 1 could have gon? away anu rorgoucn uer cinnuuiy , but our mutual avowal seems to liav< dazed me and paralyzed every powei for effort. I sometimes feel helpless and. although 1 have sueeeeded Ir keeping away from her since then, ] orteu find myself wavering in my de termination to leave England. Thai was what I feared if I allowed tk? matter to go to the point of being sun or her love. I only wanted it before and very easily made myself believe 11 was impossible, and not for me. I.?u now that I know she loves me it is llltt holding my breath to live without her I feel every iustaut that I cau hold I' ICtlTHOOD ? FLOWER I n and Mary Tudor, the King's Sister, and gust Majesty King Henry the Eighth ?$"' Modem Engr eh From Sir Edwia f >' Memoir ^ IN [CHARLES MAJOR] $ the Bou>rn-Af'^-^Oompoi?y imp* 110 louge . 1 know only too well that : If I but t ?e her face once more I shall breathe. She Is the very breath of life for me. She is mine by the gift of i God. Curses upon those who keep us i apart." Then musingly and half In1 terrogatlvely: "She certainly does love me. She could not have treated me as she did unless her love was so strong > that she could not resist it" "Let no doubt of that trouble you," 1 i answered. "A woman like Mary cani not treat two men as she treated you. Many a woman may love or think she loves many times, but there is only one ' man who receives the full measure of her best. Other women again have uoth" lng to give but their best, and when : they have once given that they have i glveu all. Unless I have known her In vain. Mary, with all her faults, is i unch a woman. Again. I say, let no doubt of that trouble you." Brandon answered with a sad little l smile from the midst of his reverie, "It is really uot so much the doubt as : the certainty of It that troubles me." 1 Then, starting to his feet. "If I thought ' she bad lied to me. if I thought she could wantonly lead me on to suffer so for ber. I would kill ber. so help me 1 God." "Do not tblnk that. Whatever her ' faults?and she has enough?there la no man on earth for her but you. Her love has conic to her through a struggle against it because It was her mas1 ter. That is the strongest and best, in fact the only love, worth all the self made passions in the world." "Yes. I believe It I know she has faults: even my partiality cannot bllud me to tlieni. but she is as pure and chaste as a child and as gentle, strong and true us?as?a woman. I can put it no stronger. She has these, ber redeeming virtues, along with her beauty. from her plebeian grandmother, Elizabeth Woodville. who with them won a royal husband and elevated herself to the throne beside the chivalrous Edward. This sweet plebeian heritage bubbles up In the heart of Mary and will not dowu. but neutralizes the royal poison in her veins and makes a goddess of her." Then with a sigh: "But if ber faults were a thousand times aB many, and If each fault were a thousand times as great, ber beauty would atone for all. Such beauty as hers caD afford to have faults. Look at Helen and Cleopatra and Agnes Sorel. Did their faults make tliern less attractive? Beauty eoveretb more sins than charity and maketb more grief than pestilence." CHAPTER XI. LOl.'IS XII. A SUITOn. r * >S soon as I could leave BranI i don T had Intended to go JjygrS down to Windsor and give igg^l vent to my indignation toward the girls, but the more 1 thought about it the surer I felt there had somehow been a mistake. I could not bring uiyself to believe that Mary had deliberately permitted matters to go to such an extreme when it was in her power to prevent it. She might have neglected her duty for a day or two, but sootier or later her good impulses always came to her rescue, and with Jane by her side to urge her on I was almost sure she would have liberated Brandon long ago. barring a blunder of some sort. So I did not go to Windsor until a week after Brandon's release, when the king asked me to go down with him. Wolsey and De Longueville, the French ambassador special, for the purpose of officially offering to Mary the hand of Louis XII. and the honor of becoming queen of France. The princess had known of the projected arrangement for many weeks, but had no thought of the present forward condition of affairs or she would have brought her energies to bear upon Henry long before. She could not , bring herself to believe that her brother would really force her into such wretchedness, and possibly he would never have done so, much as he desired It from the standpoint of personal ambition, had it not been for the petty excuse of that fatal trip to uroucue ?. All the circumstances of the ease were such as to make Mary's marriage a veritable virgin sacrifice. Louis was an old man. and an old Frenchman at that, full of French notions of morality and immorality, and, besides, there were objections that cannot be written. but of which Henry and Mary had been fully Informed. She might as well marry a leper. Do you wonder she was ? full of dread and fear and resisted with - the desperation of death? r So Mary, the person most Interested, r was about the last to learn that the treaty had been signed. : Windsor was nearly eight leagues from London and at that time was oc? etipled only by the girls and a few old , ladies and servants, so that news did i not travel fast in that direction from r the city. It is also probable that, even - - -? - i-. A , ir me report 01 me ireui.v uuu uiw i don's release had reached Windsor, the [ tereons hearing it would have hesltat 1 to repeat it to Mary. However that t may be. she bad no knowledge of either until she was informed of the fact that ? the king and the French ambassador >, would be at Windsor on a certain day t to make the formal request for her t band and to offer the gifts of King i Louis. I bad no doubt Mary was in trouble t and felt sure she had been making at fairs lively about ber. I knew ber suffering was keeu, but was ginil of it iu view of her treatment of Brandon. A day or two after Brandon's liberation I bad begun to speak to blm of the girls, but be Interrupted me with a frightful oath: "Caskoden, you are my friend, but If you ever mention their names again in my hearing you are iny friend no longer. I will curse you!" I was frightened, so much stronger did his nature show than mine, and I took good cnre to remain silent on that eubject until?but I am going too fast i again. I will tell you of that here- i after. Unon the morning appointed the king, Wolsey, De Lougueville and myself, with a small retinue, rode over to Windsor, where we found that Mary, anticipating us, had barricaded herself in her bedroom and refused to receive the announcement. The king went upstairs to coax the fair young besieged i through two inches of oak door and to Induce her If possible to come down. We below c-ould plainly hear the king i pleading in the voice of a Bnshnn bull, and It afforded us some amusement behind our bands. Then his majesty grew angry and threatened to break j down uie uoor, uui ujc imr uesicgeu maintained n most persistent and provoking silence throughout it all and ; allowed him to carry out his threat ( without so much as a whimper. He was thoroughly angry and called to us to come up to see him "compel obedience from the self willed hussy," a task the magnitude of which he underrated. i The door was soon broken down, and the king walked in first, with DeLongue- i ville and Wolsey next, and the rest ; of us followlug in close procession. But we marched over broken walls to the most laughable defeat ever suffered by | besieging army. Our foe. though small, was altogether too fertile in expedients for us. There seemed no way to con- ( quer this girl. Her resources were so Inexhaustible that in the moment of your expected victory success was turned into defeat; nay. more, ridic- i uious disaster. We found Jane crouching on the floor < in a corner half dead with fright from the noise and tumult, and where do you think we found ber mistress? , Frightened? Not at all. She was lying in bed with her face to the wall as < cool as a January morning, her clothing In a little heap in the middle of the , room. Without turning her head, she exclaimed: "Come in, brother. You are quite welcome. Bring In your friends. I um ready to receive them, though not In court attire, as you see." And she thrust her bare arm straight up from , the bed to prove her words. You . should have seen the Frenchman's little black eyes gloat on its beauty. , Mary went on, still looking toward the wall. "1 will arise and receive you all Informally if you will but wait" This disconcerted the Imperturbable j Henry, who was about at his wits' end. "Cover that arm, you hussyl" be < cried In a flaming rage. "Be not impatient brother minel I will jump out iu Just a moment" A little scream from Jane startled everybody, and she quickly ran up to the king, saying: "I beg your majesty to go. She will do as she says so sure as you remain. You don't know her. She is very angry. Please go. I will bring her downstairs somehow." "Ah. indeed! Jane Bollngbroke,"came from the bed. "1 will receive my guests myself when they are kind enough to come to my room." The coverlid began to move, and whether or not she was really going to carry out her threat I cannot say. but Henry, knowing her too well to risk It, hurried us all out of the room and marched downstairs at the bead of his defeated cohorts. He was swearing in a way to make a priest's flesh creep and protesting by everything holy that Mary should be the wife of Louis or die. He went back to Mary's room at intervals, but there was enough persistence In that one girl to stop the wheels of time, if she but set herself to do it, and the king came away from each visit the victim of another rout. Finally Ills anger cooled, and he became amused. From the last visit he came down laughing. "I shall have to give up the fight or else put my armor on with visor down," said he. "It Is not safe to go near her without It She Is a very vixen, and but now tried to scratch my eyes out" Wolsey. who had a wonderful knack for finding the easiest means to a difficult end. took Henry off to a window, where they held a whispered conversation. It was pathetic to see a mighty king and his great minister of state consulting and planning against one poor girl, and, as angry as I felt toward Mary, I could not help pitying her and admired beyond the power of pen to write the valiant and so far impregnable defense she had put up against an array *f strength that would have made a king tremble on his throne. Presently Henry gave one of his loud laughs and slapped his thigh as If highly satisfied with some proposition'of Wolsey's. "Make ready at once," he said. "We will go back to London." In a short time we were all at the tualu stairway ready to mount for the return trip. The Lady Mary's window was Just I nhnrn nnrl I nnw .Tane watching us as we rode away. After we were well out of Mary's sight the king called me to him, and he. together with De Longuevllle, Wolaey und myself, turned our horses' heads, rode rapidly by a circuitous path back to another door of the castle and reentered without the knowledge of any of the Inmates. We four remained In silence, enJoined by the king, and In the course of an hour the princess, supposing every one had gone, came downstairs and walked Into the room where we were waiting. It was a scurvy trick, and I felt a contempt for the men who had planned It I could see thut Mary's first lnj pulse was to beat a basty retreat back Into ber citadel, tlie bed, but In troth the had In ber makeup very little disposition to retreat She was clear grit What a man she would have madel But what a crime It would have been In nature to have spoiled so perfect a woman. How beautiful she was! She threw one quick, surprised glance at her brother and his companions and, 1 lifting up her exquisite head, careless lj hummed a little tune under her , breath as she marched to the other end i of the room with a gait that Juno her- 1 Belf could not have Improved upon. I I saw the king smile, half In pride of | her and half in amusement, and the i Frenchman's little eyes feasted upon her beauty with a relish that could not < be mistaken. Henry and the ambassador spoke a j word in whispers when the latter took ] a box from a huge side pocket and started across the room toward Mary ( with the king at bis heels. Her side was toward them when thej | came up, but she kept her attitude as If she had been of bronze. 8be had i taken up a book that was lying on the table and was examining it as thej j approached. , De Longuevllle held the box In his ; Dana, ana. uowiug auu EHaupiug, nam ( In broken English, "Permit to me, most gracious princess, that I may have the ( hon xr to offer on behalf of my august , master this little testament of his high . admiration and love." With this he < bowed again, smiled like a crack In a , piece of old parchment and held his , box toward Mary. It was open, prob- , ably In the hope of enticing her with j a sight of Its contents?a beantlfnl dia- ] mond necklace. She turned her face ever so little and j took it all In with one contemptuous, Bneerlng glance out of the corners of ] her eyes. Then, quietly reaching out , her hand, she grasped the necklace and j deliberately dashed it In poor old De ( Longuevllle'8 face. , "There Is iny answer, sir! Go home | and tell your Imbecile old master I scorn his suit am) bate him?hate him , ?hate him!" Then, with the tears falling unheeded down her cheeks: "Mas- , ter Wolsey. you butcher's cur, this , trick was of your conception. The oth- , ers had not brains enough to think of , It Are you not proud to have outwitted one poor heartbroken girl? But ^ beware, sir! I tell you now I will be quits with you yet or my name Is not Mary!" There Is a limit to the best of feminine nerve, and at that limit should -j always be found a flood of. healthful tears. Mary had reached It when she threw the necklace and shot her bolt c at Wolsey. so she broke down and hastily left the room. The king of course was beside him- Q self with rage. ~ "By God's soul," be swore, "she shall marry Louis of France or I will have her whipped to death on the Smith- ? field pillory!" And In his wicked heart ?so Impervious to a single lasting good e Impulse?he really meant it Immediately after this, the king, De s Longuevllle and Wolsey set out for ? London. I remained behind hoping to see the girls, and after a short time a page t plucked me by the sleeve, saying the n princess wished to see me. wirt IA aomo rue page cuuuuvicu uit i? wv ~ room Is which had been fought the bat- d c ^ ' t "There la my answer, air I" s tie with Mary in bed. The door had c been placed on its hinges again, but 1 the bed was tumbled as Mary had left 4 It, and the room was in great disorder. "Oh, Sir Edwin," began Mary, who * was weeping, "was ever woman in r such frightful troulle? My brother is c killing me. Can he not see that I could 1 not live through a week of this mar- 3 rlage? And I have been deserted by ( all my friends, too. excepting Jane. 1 She, poor thing, cannot leave." 1 "You know I would not go," said f Jane parenthetically. Mary continued, 1 "You. too. have been home an entire I week and have not been near me." 1 I begun to soften at the sight of her 1 ? i thiif SI grier mill UUllfiuuru rr tiu ui uuuvu uiuvf after all. her beauty could well cover 1 a multitude of sins, perhaps even this, c her great transgression against him. s The princess was trying to check her d weeping and In a moment took up the r thread of her unfinished sentence: 1 "And Master Brandon, too, left with- 1 out so much as sending me one little a word?not a lll?e nor a syllable. He 1 did not come near me, but went off as 1 If I did not care?or he did not Of I course he did not care or he would not \ have behaved so, knowing I was in so t much trouble. I did not see him at all f after^-one afternoon in the king's? j about a week before that awful night i In London, except that night, when I < was so frightened I could not speak one word of all the things I wished to say." f This sounded strange enough, and 1 began more than ever to suspect something wrong. I. however, kept as firm 1 a grasp as possible upon the stock of Indiguatlon 1 had brought with me. .'.'How did you expect_to see or hear l rrom him," asked IT "when he was 1 y? (ng In a loathsome dungeon wlthont sue ray of light, condemned to be hanged, drawn and quartered because jf your selfish neglect to save him who it the cost of half his blood and alnost his life bad saved so much for FOU?" Her eyes grew big, and the tears were checked by genuine surprise. I continued: "Lady Mary, no one jould have made me believe that you would stand back and let the man to whom you owed so great a debt lie ao long In such misery and be condemned to such a death for the act that saved pou. I could never have believed it!" "Imp of hell!" screamed Mary. "What tale Is this you bring to torture me? Have I not enough already? Tell me It Is a He or I will have your miserable little tongue torn out by the root!" "It Is no lie, princess, bnt an awful truth and a frightful shame to you." I was determined to tell her all and let her see herself as she was. She gave a hysterical laugh and, throwing up her hands with her accustomed little gesture, fell upon the bed In utter abandonment, shaking as with i spasm. She did not weep; she could uoi; Hue was yuai uiai uuir, naus cut 5ver to the bed and tried to soothe her. In a moment Mary sprang to her feet, aiclalmlng: "Master Brandon conlemned to death, and you and I here talking and moaning and weeping! Come, come; we will go to the king at Dnce. We will start to walk, Edwln?I must be doing something ? and Jane lan follow with the horses and overtake as. No; I will not dress; just as [ am; this will do. Bring me a hat Jane?any one, any one." While putting on hat and gloves she continued: 'I will see the king at once and tell lilm all?all! I will do anything. I will marry that old king of France or Forty kings or forty devils! It's all jne to me. Anything, anything, to save him! Oh, to think that he has Jeen in that dungeon all this time!" And the tears came unheeded In a deluge. She was under such headway and ipoke and moved so rapidly that I ;ould not stop her until she was nearly *eady to go; then I held her by the arm ivhlle I said: "It Is not necessary now. You are joo late." TO BE CONTINUED. RUSSIA IN MANCHURIA. "roops of the Czar 200,000 Strong Garrison the Country. Reerardlne Russia's strength In Man hurla, every place of Importance on nd off the railroad Is held by troops rhose number, Inclusive of the garrion of Vladivostok, Is not less than 00,000. It Is a fact that Russians are ocupying every city of even the most rifling Importance In Manchuria, but xcept for a few Immigrants who have ommenced farming on a very small cale near Hallar, the old Mongolian apltal in northern Manchuria, there i no evidence of any attempt to bring mmigrants into Manchuria for the urpose of the occupation of agriculural lands. There Is a spirit of comlerclal unrest as to the future of the ountry. I found in the remoter cities hat the Russian shopkeepers were very oubtful as to the duration of the ocupatlon, so much so that they refused o invest heavily In commercial enterrises. The Russian position along the ines of railway is, however, quite anther matter, and splendid cities are pringlng up along the track. From a ommercial standpoint Harbin, is the oremost. But three years old, this ilace has a Russian population exceedng 40,000, and in Its rapid growth and eneral social conditions resembles very losely a "boom" mining town in Amerca. With its large flour mills and Imlortant wholesale establishments, It las a stability which will make in a ew years not only the greatest market ' **a?/?Vnrlo K?if In mv nninlnn one f the most important cities of the ar east. Here an administration bulldog is being erected at a cost of 110,000 lounds. There are a commercial chool costing 50,000 pounds, a technial school costing 25,000 pounds, and ight other schools for teaching Chiicse, Russian and Russians Chinese, larbln will be the great railway cener for all Manchuria, and engine hops costing 251,000 pounds are in ourse of erection. A hospital, open o all nationalities, is being built for 2,000 pounds. The new town of Port Arthur is beng constructed on lines which will nake it the most attractive residential ity in China. The government board ecjuires that every building erected hall have architectural beauty, and the Chinese are not permitted to live or mild in the new town. The result is hat the city, which already has a >opulation of 20,000 is one of excepional beauty. It has often been resorted that Admiral Alexieft favored Jort Arthur, and that Dalny would herefore lose its commercial importmce. On this point the Russian viceoy himself told me that he had ennuraged the construction of retail ihops in Port Arthur, so that the solliers might be able to buy in a cheap narket. It was, however, his intention hat Dalny should be the great comnercial and manufacturing city, and ill applicants who wished to erect facories In Port Arthur were always told hat they must be built at Dalny. One joint that will favor the eventual suc:ess and prosperity of Dalny is that he custom house will be established here or close by, and that while the rovernment can at any time close Port Arthur to all foreign shipping, he assurance has been given that Daly will always remain open.?London Uhronicle. An" He Is a fool who milks no wisdom 'ram adversity. _. 1 t'ir a man can feel good without beng especially good. A sledge Is slower than a tack lammer; but?! I Miscellaneous Reading, ? = P CANAL TWO-FIFTHS DUG. h a Eight Years of Work Yet For 50,000 d Men. o Since the United States decided to ?| buy the Panama canal from the Paris n company, Major Black and Lieut. Is Brooks, of the engineer corps, U. S. A., fl have been living at the point where ^ digging is going on. Their duty is nto observe how much is be'.ng done, T so that the purchasers may determine what fairly should be added to the purchase price for work accomplished } between the time of the bargain and 01 the actual transfer of the property. t? They report that from 6,000 to 7,000 ei cubic metres a month are being re- ^ moved from the Culebra hill; that the d hill was ninety metres above the level h desired, and that It Is now only forty, and that this fifty-metre canon has an t average bottom width of one hundred b metres. sf Thus, the bugbear of the earlier ej company no longer scares anybody. It tl has been subjugated and laid low. Al- d' together, according to the American ? engineers, the canal across the Isthmus C1 is at this time two-fifths completed, tl Qnmafhlnir Vino h??n Hnns thp entire length, 84,000,000 cubic metres of earth jc having been excavated, and for four- h teen miles from the Atlantic and four cl miles from the Pacific side the canal is " full of water and needs only to be tl dredged deeper. Thirty-six miles re- el main dry cuttings, most of them now w overgrown with low jungle?at least c. eight years' labor by some 50,000 per- si sons lying between this day and the J* opening of the waterway to ships. To get these 50,000 laborers will in- ci volve difficulties. West Indian negroes di have been found valuable, for they are ? not generally subject to the fevers. jc But only 15,000 at the most, can be ei drawn from the islands of the Caribbean. Where will the other 35,000 be C{ had? There arrived a labor contractor ei the other day, who offered to bring the hi whole from China and Japan. What he Is trying to get around is that Ameri- fl| can laws are to govern on the canal re strip, and they prohibit the importation of Chinese labor Into American terri- u tory. Another impediment is the de- c< sire of the men who nominated the men la ro be chosen to the constitutional conventlon that there shall be a clause in ui Panama's constitution excluding Chinese forever from the isthmus. Dr. Amador is actively interesting himself in this question. The leading j newspaper characterizes the Chinese ^ as "vampires, who unceasingly absorb B blood from all veins; Insatiable pan- ? there who never relax their persecution ^ of victims; a devouring plague which s( is always prevailing," and demands b; that the Chinese be shut out, and that ^ those who do not own real property be expelled. w Expansion. ? What is to be done in the circumstances Is primarily "up to" the United tc States. By the treaty Panama cedes w to this country the control of the canal p zone in perpetuity, "to the entire ex- tt elusive of the exercise by the Republic ol of Panama of any sovereign rights, & power or authority." A special act of g( congress will be required no doubt to y permit the entrance of laborers neces- V sary for the tremendous task still jjj ahead In the isthmus. Very many will p die. Many will soon desert, owing to fr the hard conditions of digging. They 8< will save a little money and settle on o) farms, near or far, probably both near ir and far; a proceeding which will dis- as turb the Republic of Panama and the United States together. After the canal a] is built the perplexity will be how to t) get them out of the territory of each, cl This Is the worry of "expansion" (for ei at the isthmus, among naval officers, c< our part in the Panama "transforma- 01 tion" is looked upon as nothing else In w effect)?settled policies are strained tl and broken and cast away. fl< "Now we don't care how much territory the United States acquires or si engages to protect," is the way they di put it. "But look at our forces: Ev- b ery ship here is undermanned; the Dixie b Is forty men short; on many ships the di duties are doubled; the Maine had a ti broken enginebar, and had to be re- b lteved: the Nashville came down with- tl "* mnet offoftlVP tf out ammuniuuii iui no mv. puns?she was practically useless. We o had not vessels enough to protect our p present coast line; the Philippines are p open to any sea rover; yet there are tl two more coast lines which our ser- tl vice must guard. I'm not an anti-ex- b pansionist, but I hope I know that a n yard of tape won't go round a three- ir yard circle." One is almost prepared to say that in these words may be found the prevail- tl ing attitude of the United States navy; si if anybody cares to know what that is. si At the Pacific end. C Three excursions supply a compre- t< henslve impression of the canal and its si condition. Four or five mites from a Panama is the Pacific mouth; and d there one day we drove to connect with ri a six-oared boat. There was an Amer- F ican girl in the company?the kind you tl would see at Sherry's in horse show T week, when nobody dines at home. Her h passage across the isthmus was the A Hash of a comet to naval officers long v deprived of the sight of a face which n could call up home memories. She was 23rd street of a fair midweek after- o: noon, transferred suddenly to the wil- ti derness, red waist, chatelaine, mili- yi tary-heeled shoes?the whole engag- si ing mode. Well, we went up the aban- rr doned canal on the Pacific side in the six-oared boat. It had become shal- ti lowed with silt and the wash of tides, nand there were places where the boat p would touch bottom. The canal has T been dug?but not to proper dimen- f< slons?for between three and four lc miles, and it is lined with dredgers b and steam shovels in disuse, perhaps o thirty of them. Alligators show their a noses and burning eyes above the wa- d ter surface?useless to shoot them, for d iniocQ vnn hit them in the shoulder si or under the foreieg they merely sink to the bottom and stay there. These ts dredgers and power-shovels, squatting fi in the mud, seemed like some extra- n ordinary tropical river monsters. a "Yes," said the Sherry girl, "and V those great wheels are their eyes." rr Few of these once excellent machines tl will be serviceable to Americans. In it the first place, as the Walker commts- ci sion declared, "they are Ill-adapted for q American methods of work," and be- C sides, they are from seventeen to twen- a ty-four years old. Engineering In fi America has made new big tools In tl the course of twenty-four years. Even b if these French ones were well pre- F served there would be no way of du- li plicating parts that gave out or were E ractured when reawakened to service, learings and running-gear have been rotected with white lead. Camp EmIre finds that a water pump which ad been white-leaded twelve years go works perfectly. Yet the other ections of the machinery have much eteriorated, and one doubts if much f it will be worth restoration. It lould be more profitable to Import Ltest models for the great dredging; lachines with bigger shovels and irger capacities. De Lesseps, after oating his stock, had to hasten to low results; and the Paris weeklies ad photographs of excavations and lachinery In action within a year. nere neea De no aucn wasietui nurry lis time. Present Digging In the Cut. The immensity of the Culebra cutng becomes real to the understanding nly by going through it. It is a mouniln cleft in two. Half a dozen diflternt construction railroads are built ithin the cleft at different elevations, ?parate contractors working upon liferent levels or terraces. Eight undred men are busy there at this loment, but their 7,000 cubic metres a lonth makes but slow impression, he idea of the present company has een merely to continue to some ex>nt the operations; and one undertands that the Panama railroad's net arnings are mostly put out now in lis way, instead of in 8 per cent dlviends. Of course the sale of the road t $7,000,000 will more than make this orth while. Most of the cars in the at are considered serviceable; but le locomotives are light and old-fash>ned, and though the running gear as been protected, the boilers are no rnger to be trusted. Bushes grow etween the driving wheels; vines enIrcle the piston as if it never was leant to be anything but a trellis; nd the whole machine reminds you of lose tloats usea in Saratoga ierea, logged and smothered in flowers. Anyway, not steam but electricity ill be largely used when the Ameriins take hold. Two or three power lations are expected to be sufficient ) supply force for traction, and for Igging and for lifting along most, proably all, of the forty-six miles of the inal line. The easeway of that great am which is to be constructed at ohio (seventy-five feet above the bed f the Chagres river, and 1,286 feet mg on its top) will furnish free pow\ The treaty especially provides for le utilization of water power, which lay come from territory outside the inal strip. Fuel, pay of locomotive iglneers and firemen, many items of Igh cost to the French, may be ellmiated by the Americans. Much of the Igging and drilling, which was done fteen and seventeen years ago by lanual labor, is now. to be done by ectricity and compressed-air machln-y It has been recommended that the nited States let the jobs in various mtracts, but the likelihood is that one .rge corporation will be formed, such i that which built the New York subay, and that different parts of the ndertaking will be sublet to subordiate contracting firms, and by them, no Dubt, parcelled out to others. The Canal Plan. Briefly, the plan for the canal is lis. Sea-level waterway from the tiantlc end fourteen miles inland to nhin iiHikins- thp PhofifTes river: at ohlo the river will be dammed to iake a lake 52 feet above the sea, and t.585 acres in extent, into which vee;ls of deepest draught will be lifted y twin locks. There will be about venty-one miles of plain sailing, then yer the submerged country, through ie Culebra divide to Pedro Miguel, here locks will drop the ships flfty>ur to sixty-five feet. One and a third lies beyond will be the last locks, at [lraflores; the drop there of eighteen > thirty feet will place the ship In ater at sea level, with the Bay of anama only some eight miles distant. M. Bunau-Varilla has not been on ie Isthmus for a long while. Indeed, all the officers of the provisional jvernment, Dr. Amador alone waa :quainted with him; they plotted to?ther at the Waldorf-Astoria in New ork last summer. So when M. Bunauarllla writes that "little or no dredgig will be required to deepen the comleted sections of the canal" at the aciflc and Atlantic ends he writes om information not fresh. In both >ctions we found, within a week that six-oared row boat or a small gasine launch would often go aground, istead of carrying the silt out to sea, s M. Bunau-Varilla declares, the Chares river, at the Atlantic end, piles it i bars upon the canal bed, and rains nd confluent streams do the same for ie so-called completed part at the Pa flc end. How to protect tne Atlantic id from this gradual filling In, acirding to the Walker inquiry, is one t the serious studies to be carried forard in connection with controlling le Chagres river and its powerful oods. There is a multitude of dredgers and :eams shovels idling and rusting and ecaying, white-leaded about their earings, but unprotected as to their oiler tubes. Dense chaparral reaches own from the shores and drops frucferous seeds, and the very highest elows of the cranes and the frames of le shovels bear high flowering bushes, > which now and then cling green rchids; desolation in the midst of rofuslon, the obsolete and the dead in roud human handiwork overrun by le liveliest of vegetation. When you link of the uncounted men strangled y the wilderness while operating these lachines there is something mocking 1 it. Fever, Beri-Beri, Leprosy. As you leave your room at Colon in !ie early morning to take the one tiower bath on the isthmus, you can se the "fever mist" rising from the hagres. There is that still to con;nd with, harder for persons of white kin and blood tempered by northern Irs than for the blacks from the Inies?harder, even, for an unknown ;ason, than for Europeans. But the rench have left excellent hospitals on le verge of Ancon Hill, in Panama, hey are not equipped as we would ave them, but the plant is there, rmy experience In Santiago and Haana have taught what the French ever knew about what is here called Chagres fever," but which may be nly Cuban fever, or malarial fever, or opical fever, a type of typhoid. Even ellow fever is not considered a neceslry concomitant of tropical life any lore. Beri-beri, however, that Insidious ouble which takes power from the luscles of the legs, the same as in the hllippines, is going to be dangerous, wo men on the Panama war ship suf? M '* *?-l~ a mUA?A la a ;r iroin 11 at una muiiiciii. mcic a. >per settlement near La Boca. Red ugs attack everybody, even residents f eight years are never free of them, nd chiggers and rosamnanas know no istlnction of persons, except that they iscriminate against?avoid, that is to ly?black skins. For all these Ills the Ancon hospiils will be of immense service without jrther outlay, save for doctors and ledlcines. And Major Black is here, nd is likely to stay. He was with Vood in Cuba, which may not mean so mch to those at home as once upon a Ime, but to citizens and naval men ; stands still, in the isthmus, as a reommendation. "Black," you freuently hear, "is to be the Wood of the 'anal Strip." He is ordinarily a calm nd serious person, even if he was the rst on the Atlantic side to haul up ne flag of the Republic of Panama, efore any one outside the towns' of anama and Colon knew that a revoltion had taken place.?New York Ivening Post.