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^ ?HBBBBWSB?3?, . J L ..BSS-gg? CgSgHESg? I, J. I 111 ?BBBSBCg , II 1 'I 1 ^ ~ I3STOD agMjt-WB^mi^^ I L. m. grists sons, PnbUihen. } % Jfamilj Jfrirsjiaper: #or the promotion of the political, f oqiai, Sfgridtiltttral ant) Commetrial Interests of the people. {TS'l"8Mo?copi^ic^K^l. ESTABLISHED lSStT r YORKVILLE,'s. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2971904. , ^Fo|96. F LITTLE A ROMANCE OF TH GREAT LORD HAWKE" J CYRUS TOVW Aathor of "Commodora Paul loots,' ( or tba ! Copyrlgbt, lWa.fcyD. A * CHAPTER XXL THE BOAT IN THE PASS. I*T was evening. The Maidstone was beating to and fro off the moyth of the harbor of Brest ~ The wind was still blowing hard on the shore and the French ships were ? securely bottled up. They could not beat out of the narrow channel. At least It would be a dangerous undertaking ana the game would be scarcely worth the candle. Therefore the Maidstone, although her approach had been noticed long since, had been permitted to come as close as she dared unhindered. From the foretop-mast cross-trees by the aid of a good glass Grafton had discovered.unmistakable signs of preparation in the French fleet still windk<.?.Ksw< Utnv hrvntn were WUUVI Ul IUO IMU W?? M mm mm J ? passing between the ships and the shore, troops were being embarked, and provisions and supplies taken on board the huge line-of-battle ships and -s the frigates. It was quite evident that a movement of some sort was in contemplation; and it was more than probable that as soon as the wind served, taking advantage of the absence of the blockaders, the French wouJd put to sea... That was news, of the highest importance. If they could learn the destination of the fleet there would be nothing left to be desired except an opportunity of meeting tbem; an opportunity Hawke would make if he were glyen the vestige of a chance. "Hatfield," said Grafton, as he came down from the cross-trees for the last time, it being too dark to see farther, "I have changed my mind. I am going ashore to see if I can, not find out some# thing about the French fleet." "And you want me to go with you?" "No, that pan not be. Tou must look after thf ship. I will take the dinghy and one man, old Jabez Slocum. Now, < mark me. My plan is to land at a little cove I know of under the lee of the Chateau de Josselin, about which I told you. I shall effect an entrance to the castle immediately, and see if there ls> anything to be learned there. If not, I will take Jabez and we will sail boldly into the harbor and nna out what we can." "And you will aee Mademoi" Rohanr "Perhaps. I hope so, though that is not my main purpose. At least I would > go even if I knew she were not there. Now. if I am not back by eight bells, midnight, you will brace up and make the best of your way to Torbay and tell Sir Edward what we have learned." "Yes, but you will hardly have time to ge there and back by midnight. Capt. Grafton. Don't you think it would be better to make it, say, eight bells in the midwatch. or four o'clock in the * morning?, I'd hate mightily to run away and leave you." "Very well." answered Grafton, "that will give me more time, and perhaps it woujd be better not to leave without exhausting overy possible opportunity of getting information as to the destination of the French fleet, for there is no doubt in my mind that they intend to move." % "Nor in mine." "Very woll, then, we'll make it eight bells in the midwatch." "And if you are not back then. I'm to make the best of my way to Torbay, or Plymouth, or wherever I can find Sir Edward, deliver the dispatches, and tell what we have seen?" "That's It Now, I "need not tell you to watch the ship carefully on this hard lee-shore, and when you start ior Hawke, if I am not here, drive her for all Rhe has In her." "1 will do both, Capt. Grafton." "Of course. And If the wind should change and the French should send out a liner or a couple of frigates after you, you are on no account to wait for me or anybody. The information we have gained is of far more ' importance that a half dozen captured frigates. Remember that running, not fighting, is your role. Don't hesitate on my account Don't be captured, and don't be wrecked." "Very good," answered Hatfield, "I shall carry out your instructions to the letter. But I wish I could go with you." "I wish so, too, but you can't. One of ug must stay by the ship. Remem"* ber that the fate of England is resting on your shoulders," continued the older man gravely, "for 'tis perfectly well known if the French get away from Brest successfully, and are not beaten elsewhere, they have an army all ready for a descent upon Ireland, or perhaps England herself." "I shall remember it," answered Hatfield solemnly. "That's well. Now, heave to and have the dinghy dropped overboard. See that the mast is stepped and the ?. *!! is close reefed: put a compass, a Weaker of water, a couple of muskets and & bag of bread in ber; stow away forward a coll of 'signal halliards and a g\put rope with a grapnel bent on the Vnd of It?about 30 fathoms of e&ptJ. I think?and send old Jabez to ?* in-my cabin." ^r|"Ay. ay, sir," replied Hatfleld, caller ing the hands to the braces as Grafton f turned to the companionway and went M below, whither he was followed shortM ly by the old sailor he had designated, with whom he spent a few moments ^B in busy preparation. Presently the ... eLty was hove to and the dinghy dropsy pad alongside. Grafton and Slocum came on deck. Grafton wore hla uni|p;' forte and both men were fully armed swLSWerd, or cutlass, and platola. "You are urety not going In your H uniform?" queried Hatfield. why not? I've no mind tc hanrifs a spy, and if I am captured Is 1S|^^ thjjyiuniform I'm a prisoner of wai jaljr. Remember my instructions." shall not forget them." gmgim /'Good-bye. and God bless you. 1 $g ^Miall be In a fever of anxiety until yot Hum." exclaimed the lieutenant as CTeSffiBB^Bey Parted. *Wg ' 1 FRANCE f E DAYS WHEN "THE 1 WAS KING OF THE SEA JSEND BRADY * " "Reobea Junes," "For tha Freado* See," etc. ppletoa * Co., Kit Tork. Waving his hand Grafton stepped to the gangway and dropped easily down the battens into the bout, whither Slocum had preceded him. A vigorous shove sent them clear of the frigate; a bit of close reefed sail was hoisted on the dinghy abd she gathered way toward the distant shore. Afier two hours of hard running, I having at last come well within the harbor mouth and reached a point opposite the old chateau, they bore up and began ratching in toward the shore. It seemed to the old sailor at the helm, after they had made several short tacks, that they were getting perilously near the breakers As he peered ahead he thought he could see the white caps, and he belie ved, as he turned his ear up to windward, that he could hear the roar of the mighty ~ A- .? J WAI.U j waves, une more ihck sua iucj ?umu 'certainly be In the midst of them. I Grafton had ordered him to throw the dinghy up into the wind and check her way while he Investigated the situation. He had gone forward and was kneeling down by the mast peering ahead trying to get his bearings. Finally, having satisfied himself as well as he could in the darkness, he called out a command to the sailor at the tiller. Although it looked like certain destruction old Jabez was toe thorough a seaman to hesitate to obey, and when Grafton directed him to put the helm over he let her go off, slipped out the Bheet, and in a few seconds they gathered way and were rushing straight for the breakers. They could now dimly make out the black mass of the cliffs before them. In the tower of the chateau which rose above them were two lights. Grafton sought them out from other lights in other windows in the castle. He was sure of the tower, for he thought he recognized its conical top; though the darkness was so leep, there were signs of a break in tl 3 clouds? in fact, they had broke) over the tower. Was that a star r bove it to lead him on? One light Grafton surmised came from the oriel window in the tower, the other from the window of the oom adjacent to it By what happy oftune did they chance to be lighted hat night? If he were right in his opinion he knew his course to the mouth of the passage to the little bay. Once in the channel leading to it, he would have to trust to instinct to feel his way through. "Mind your steering, now, Slocum!" he cried "Keep your weather eye lifting and obeying my orders exactly! Our lives depend on it Starboard a little! So! I think we can win through, but it's touch and go. Steady! Do you see those two lights?" "I sees 'm, sir." "Keep them in range until i say further. Steady, now! Nothing off, for God's sake, man! Hold her up to It!" The boat steered with an uneasy helm. She had a tendency to fall off, to go leeward, that is; but old Jabez set his teeth hard, contracted his brows, and, peering steadily out at the lights high above and far ahead of them, kept her on her course. They were nearing the shore rapidly now; it looked awfully close. The clifTs loomed up in front of them grim and terrible. There was no entrance through them, no rift even, no way that he could see. Their course seemed madness. Another moment and they would be beaten to pieces. But the business of the old sailor was to obey orders and steer the boat. He put everything else out of his heart and watched and listened, all bis skill and discipline at bis own command, and at I his captain's service. "Well done!" Grafton called back to him. "Now let her go ofT a little. Easy, now! Very well, dyce! Port, once more. So! Port, port again!" "Port it Is, sir!" cried Jabez, as the boat's head fell off to starboard in ODecnence iu me tumuiajiu. Then. Jn compliance with the rapid and changing directions of Grafton, he lulled up to port and then again swung to starboard; twisting about, in obedience to Grafton's instinctive conning, through the narrow pass through the reefs. They were right in the breakers now. The waves were hissing, boiling and roaring around them on every side. The sea was white with the surf. The old man thought his last hour bad come in that riven sea; the rapid succession of commands from the captain however, left him no time for reflection; the boat whirled about, darted back and forth, swung from side to ' side like a mad-woman, a Bacchante, | under their skillful handling. She seemed doomed a dozen times, and that she was nof shattered was wonderful. Suddenly right in front of them loomed a black mass of rock. "Luff!" roared Grafton. "LufT her hard!" The little boat spun around once more like a dancing girl, her starboard , side Just scraping a jagged reef. Then , came leaping up into the wind, then bore away on the other xack. "That was a close shave," screamed Grafton, "but we're all right yet. Give her a good full now. God! But it's dark! We've lost the lights, but I think we can feel our way. Hard over!" he shrieked, as another rock ( rose up In front of them. As they cleared the rock, they suddenly whirled about, swept through a narrow opening, and found themselves In smooth water. The cliffs rose high above them on every side. The wind, | though they could still hear It roaring faintly, seemed to die away suddenly. ! The change from the wild clamor of I the pass to the silence and stillness in . the bay was startling. The dinghy drifted in for a few moments and then slowly came to a standstill, the water lipping along her keel. The men sat I quiet, but with beating hearts and ( panting breaths from their labor and , excitement, until they had recovered themselves in 3 measure. Far above ! ES ? * them towered the massive walls of tlie chateau. "We are in," said Grafton at last, a note of triumph and relief thrilling through his voice. He climbed aft and grasped the hand of the old man. "By heaven, Jabez, I never saw such steering! We were gone a dozen times but for you!" " 'Twant my steerin', yer honor, s'much as 'twas your pilotin' got us in," remarked the old sailor, wiping the sweat from his forehead with his other hand. " Twas a close shave ill the way through. Wot next, sir?" ] "Out with the oars, now, and let 'us row to the shore," he said, taking the tiller while Jabez shipped the oars. "Gently, man!" he added, as the boat surged rapidly forward under the old sailor's powerful strokes. Presently her prow touched a little stretch of beach a few feet wide, which i Philip remembered to have seen right at the foot of the place where he determined to make the attempt to descend the wall of the chateau. I "Now, Slocum," he said, "pass me that coll of signal halliards." ! When the mass of light but strong line was handed him he slipped the coll around his neck. "Ef I mought make so bold, yer honor, wot are ye goin' to do?" asked the sailor. "I am going to ascend the wall of the castle yonder." "Good Lord!" ejaculated the old old man, "It can't be done. Why, 'tis a regular pressipyce! I c'n shin up any r'yal mast that ever was set, but that 'ere " "That'll do, Jabez. I've been here before and I know it's possible to scale the wall. It has been done before?by a lover." " 'Taint fer the likes o' me to speak to you." said the old seaman; "but lovers alius was fools, they say, w'ich I ain't never been one, an' raebbe Providence watches over 'em special like, but as fer sailors " "I am a lover, too, Jabez. if it comes to that. 'Tis not only for England that I go Into that tower. Now. we've talked enough. T am going to climb to that window from which the light is coming. D'ye see it? The one with the balcony. Then I am going to drop the end of this piece of signal halliards down to you. I want you to bend on the end of that coil of rope in the bow to it. Be sure to make it fast to the grapnel end. Then I'll haul it up, hook it to the balcony, and have a ladder to come down again." "Werry good, sir." "Then you are ?o stay In the boat here and keep a sharp lookout for anything and everything. #ave your muskets ready for use, too. You're a good shot, aren't you?" "I used to be, sir." "I remembered it. Now, if I should happen to fall you are to pick up what's left of me and take it back to | the ship?if you can get back." "An' if you don't come down, sir, w'ich God forbid " "Wait until about four bells in the mldwatch for me, as near as you can guess the time?here, take my watch and then you can be sure?and then make your way as best you can to the ship. It will be easier to get out of this little bay, I think, than it was to get into it, especially if the wind shifts off-shore. Keep her reefed down and take it slowly; you must remember something of the pass from our coming in." "If you ain't to go with me, cap't, I don't care w'ether I gits out alive or not. I'll jest jam her head fer the openin' an' let her go. Damme, beggin' yer parding, sir, I wish you'd take me into that 'ere tower, too." "I would rather have you down here, Jabez. Good-by; remember what I told you," Grafton said, extending his hand to his faithful if humble companion. "I won't, forgit none of it, sir," answered the old man in a melancholy voice, shaking his captain by the hand. chapter XXIL LIKE A BIRD IN THE AIR. Grafton sprang lightly to i the shore, and finding a suggestion of a path up the rlnmhprprl*nlnwlv nvpr the stones, until he stood on the narrow shelf of rock at the foot of the tower. He threw bis head far back and looked up along its slanting surface. The clouds had broken now, and though the sky was still adrift with them racing before the wind, he could see, around the black edge of the crenellated top, a star or two. As he gazed upward that peculiar optical delusion which seizes people who look up at the sheer pitch of a lofty building came upon him. It seemed to him as though the castle were swaying toward him; as though In another moment it might fall and crush him. He lost all sense of the considerable inclination of the tower, or If there were any variation from the perpendicular; It seemed to him to slope back over his head, instead of away from him. It was an appalling sight. He stood at gaze a second or two and looked straight before him. "This will never do," he murmured, "if I hesitate longer I shall be lost." He leaned his forehead against the wall and closed his eyes, breathing a prayer at the same time, and having recovered his calmness thereby, he slowly and cautiously began the ascent. He put bis foot on the first projecting stone and reached across the rough surface until his fingers clutched another Jutting block. Then he swung himself into the air. He looked neither up nor down, nor sidewise, but stared straight at the wet stones in front of him as he monotonously plodded up. He dared not look elsewhere, in fact He found the angle between the tower and the wall presently and with infinite care he made his way painfully upward. Once he glanced quickly above him. The goal was miles away, yet it seemed as if he had been crawling up thoee rocks for hours. Once his foot slipped on a round damp stone, and it was only by a superhuman effort, aided by a little larger projection which happened to be under his right hand, that he kept himself from falling. But presently, as he fearfully made the slow ascent, hin onnrniro rotnrnpri tn him. He for got the danger and began to feel himself Immune from It. England and1 her service came back to him, Anne sprang Into his mind. She was there,) perhaps, behind that window, from' which the light streamed oat into the; darkness, waiting tor him, dreaming of him; he should see her In a moment. The thought lent him wings, he forgot the dizzy depths below him, the unsealed heights above him, he forgot his imminent deadly peril, he forgot himself, In fact However, he relaxed none of his precaution, as he painfully wormed himself up the face of the tower. With each step he was drawing nearer to Anne, that was the burden of his thoughts. Presently his head struck the projection at the foot of the balcony surI rounding the oriel window. Here was 'the most difficult part of the ascent; but he was full of confidence now. A few more cautions efforts and his hands clasped the coping of the balcony. Slowly, painfully, he drew himself up, swung his feet over the wall, and dropped softly down to the sione floor. He was trembling under the strain he had undergone; and until that moVA VIA/4 ?Af rnQli'/oH vkof if Ha/1 U1CUI uc uau UVl l??kl?<VU nuMv ii UMVt been; cold perspiration had broken out on his forehead, his hands were bleeding, but he had achieved the feat An undertaking, by the way, had he but known It, which the unfortunate Baron de Crolsic had only compassed because he had been aided by a rope dropped by the hands of the fair Jehane. Grafton's ascent, therefore, had been unparalleled. He waited a few moments until he had recovered himself, and then, although he was consumed by an eager desire, without looking at the shuttered window, which happened to have the curtains drawn before it as well, he rose slowly to his feet; he took the coil of rope from his neck dropped it down to thefoot of the tower, waited a few moments until he felt a slight tug upon it, and then hauled up the rope, to the end of which was fastened one of the heavy grappling irons, or grapnels, from the ship. He hooked it securely over the coping, colled the signal halliards up at his feet with sailor-like care, and thus having secured his retreat turned toward the window. Barred shutters fastened inside prevented him from reaching the glass of the window or the hangings therein. He could see nothing. Here was an unforseen obstacle. After all that he had gone through was he to be stopped by a shutter? He stood a moment thinking deeply and yet seeing no way. Suddenly he remembered that there were othei windows on the other sides of the oriel. He stepped quickly around to the other face, and by happy chance found one open. The guiding light bad come from it The curtains banging before it were fluttering in the air. He drew tbem aside a little and cautiously looked in. The room presented an entirely different appearance from bis remembrance of it the night in which he had held Anne In his arms there. Then it had been bare, unfurnished, empty; now, thick luxurious rugs were stretched across the floor. Inviting couches and chairs, and several gilded tables were scattered around the apartment Rich hangings depended from the wall. On one table by a vase oi rosea an elaborate candelabra displayed many lights. A spinet stood against the wall of the room, a piece of music lying upon its rack. The whole room was filled with signs of a woman's cecupancy. What woman T There was a shawl over a chair, a shawl he had seen Anne wear; a workbasket sat upon a low table, and in front of it lay a careless little slipper. He knew its jeweled buckle. He longed to get to it There was no other foot in France?in the world, even? for that dainty slipper but hers, he thought fatuously, m an instant he divined that Anne had Indeed com' ba<?? and had chosen to make this room her boudoir. His heart gave ? great leap as he thought of that association of ideas by which she had k?o? lo/l aotohllpti haraolf In Ihlg UCQU 1VU W OBWMW110U MV. HUM M* VH ? spot sacred to both of them. He would see her In a moment per haps. She might be in the adjoining room yonder. His heart beat louder than it had on the tower walL To enter the room seemed almost a sacrilege. Still, there was no other way. Just as he was about to climb over the sill be heard a footstep in the corridor outside the room. For an instant he thought it might be hers, but a second thought undeceived him. He drew back, let the curtain fall, and waited with his eye comprehending the room through the corner of the drapery. The door opened, th" hangings before it were lifted, and the sturdy figure of Josette appeared in the doorway. "Well!" ejaculated the maid, as she stepped into the room and stood looking about her with her arms akimbo, "that's done, at any rate. Mon Dieu! How beautiful Mademoiselle Anne looked to-night! But how sad her heart! 'Helas, Josette,' she said, as I was dressing her, 'I care not how beautiful I am now.' And yet Monsieur le Comte is a gallant gentleman, noble and rich. God send me such a lover some day. Poor Monsieur de Vitre, how Bad he looks, too; and as for that English knight, Sir Grafton? well, 'tis he that mademoiselle loves; yes, for him she breaks her heart 'Twas for him she always looked back, back, back, on that hateful ship. Me, I like not the sea. I'm glad 'tis not I who have so many lovers. One will suit me, if I may choose. That poor Englishman. Dame, if I had been he I had stolen her away willy-nilly. She would have forgiven him, I know; love like hers forgives all. But now Bhe will never see him again " "Don't be too sure of that, Josette," whispered Grafton in her ear. to be continued. A Question of Cereals.?A man sat on the veranda of one of the most exclusive clubhouses which line the north shore of the government channel connecting Lake St. George with Huron, known as "The Flats," says the Boston Post. As he sat there idly a huge steam freighter bound for Detroit came within hailing distance of the veranda, Seeing two men who were e\ idently passengers returning his gaze with interest from the ship's deck, he picked up the club megaphone and called out lustily: "What are you loaded with?" "Corn," was the prompt reply. "What are you loaded with?" "Rye," came sadly over the waters to the ears of the men on the deck as the vessel steamed away. pifittUanMus grading.,. JUST A POLITICAL MACHINE., 8?rious Charges to the.. Growing Power of the Oitpeneary. The South Carolina dispensary Is reliably stated and generally believed to have degenerated Into the machine of a business establishment In the city of Columbia, which controls the Institution In Its Interest. By means of heavy deposits In certain banks this Columbia business enterprise is believed to control certain newspapers which were formerly opposed to the dispensary, but which will not now utter one word against It. This Columbia business concern is said to control not only the state board of directors, but every employe of the dispensary Is claimed to be at Its beck and call. This Columbia concern Is making money by the barrel out of the dispensary and the monopoly It enjoys by the sufferance and neglect of the people of South Carolina who are maintaining an Institution under the guise of a state moral Institution to cause wealth to flow Into the cofTers of this Columbia business concern which has no claim whatever on the taxpayers of South Carolina. Every effort Is made by this Columbia concern and its emissaries to silence newspapers In South Carolina and prevent criticism of the dispensary and the awakening of the people of the state to the manner In which they are being despoiled by a corrupt private snap, operating under the cloak of morality. This effort to muzzle newspapers In different parts of the state has to some noticeable extent been successful, and several newspapers which could ^formerly be relied on to oppose the dispensary when It was less corrupt and scandalous than now are strangely silent when all over the state there Is a crying demand for the reform or abolishment of the dispensary. These silent and docile newspapers cannot misrepresent or conceal the sentiment of the people of the state which is overwhelmingly opposed to the dispensary, as shown in the heavy vote against It in Cherokee county and the Remand for elections to pass on It in' other counties and the general assault being waged on It by the pulpit and a large part of the press of the state. Few newspapers are defending the dispensary, but some of those who would be expected In conformity with their past records and affiliations to take a prominent part in the fight against It are remarkably silent and bespeak in forceful terms the great Influence that the dispensary machine and the Columbia business establishment that Is so closely allied with It are able to exert.?Spartanburg Journal, Nov. 22. > DEADLY MORTAR PITS. How Unci* Sam is Oofanding Hit Coasts. Although the systematic fortifications of the sea coasts of the United States were not begun until about 10 years ago, American military experts are convinced that, so far as those portions of the defensive works already completed are concerned, the United States Is better equipped for resisting a foreign Invader than any other nation in the world. Besides the most complete organization,' the most modern type* of fortifications, disappearing and rapid-fire guns and submarine apparatus, the most effective explosives and the most perfect system for ascertaining, plotting and communicating the exact position and range of approaching vessels, there Is one important feature in our fixed armament that is absolutely unique, no other country having yet been far-sighted enough to adopt it. This is the coast-defense mortar, whioh is mounted in a peculiar kind of fortification known as a mortar-pit, consisting of a circular pit, lined with a cement wall, and banked up with earth so as to form an Immense mound. In some cases the concrete Is 20 or 30 feet thick and the embankment may extend to a distance of more than 100 feet on the most exposed side. The entrance Is hidden behind a clump of bushes, or In some I other way, and within the earthworks, on the least exposed side, there are cement-lined passages leading from the exterior to the Interior, and giving access to the magazine rooms and storerooms, and the telephone and telautograph booth, where communication Is maintained with superior officers and the range-finding or observation statlona All necessary departments are subterranean and provided with thick cement walls. The observation or range-finding station Is usually at a distance from the pit. There are usually from two to four mortar-plts In a battery. While field mortars proved very effective In the Civil war, and have shown their efficiency In other military operations In various parts of the world, the coast defense mortars have never yet been thoroughly tested In actual warfare. While the gun proper Is a cannon used for firing directly at the hostile works, ships, or men, the mortar Is one that throws Its projectiles in such a manner that they will descend upon I I ?... nk/V1*A VlAU'ltTPr mi; enemy num auv>c, Ui? ?, which Is used only as a field piece, being capable of being used for both purposes. The length of the most modern guns is about fifty times as great as the calibre or interior diameter, while the howitzer is exceedingly short in proportion to its calibre, and the mortar much shorter still. The mortar constitutes a kind of aerial mine, dropping large quantities of explosives from above. Submarine mines can be cut out by the invading ships; they are frequently defective, and when they are In good working order they are liable to do Injury to the fleet with which they are intended to co-operate, as has so frequently happened in the Russo-Japanese war. The mortar, on the contrary, is sure, safe and effective. It is altogether beyond the enemy'9 reach, for the position that it occupies cannot be located, and it Is Impossible for it to be dislodged by the guns from a fleet, as a ship cannot use a mortar, and the pit is so constructed as to be absolutely impregnable to direct Are. In actual warfare the mortars are fired either byr pita or batteries, either four, eight or sixteen being discharged at the same time. In target practice a single mortar acting alone has attained to an accuracy -of 30 per cent of hits at a distance of over 7,200 yards range, with a target moving obliquely across the line of Are at a rate of from eight to twelve miles an hour. Each mortar pit Is manned by one company, which Is divided into four gun detachments, one for each mortar, an ammunition., detachment, a range detachment and a reserve. The general command .is vested in an emplacement officer. The gun detachment for a mortar consists of a gun commander and a gunner, who are non-commissioned officers, and ten privates, to each of whom a certain I number Is assigned. Nos. 1 to 4 constitute the breach detail, and do the loading, 5 and 6 constitute the eleva uan aetau, i ana o ine iru.ven?nig detail, whose duty It 1b to give the required horizontal direction, and 9 and 10 the shot truck detail. No one outside the military service is allowed to inspect the details of the coast defenses themselves, but at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition there Is a perfectly constructed and equipped mortar pit In the model coast defense fortifications built under the direction of the war department at the southwest end of the Government Palace. These works were planned by their commanding officer, Captain Archibald Campbell, and} erected under his personal supervision. For the convenience of slght-seers one side of the model In the pit has been left open by the removal of a section of 120 degrees. It otherwise differs from those actually In use on the sea coast only In containing but one mortar instead of four. The piece itself Is of the standard variety, a breech loading, built up,(l. e.. Jacketed or concentric tube) gun, with a calibre of 12 Inches, on a spring-return carriage. Its Immense weight of nearly 15 tons Is-sustained by the five great double springs on the forty-ton carriage, which takes up the recoil. Four shots can be fired in six minutes, with a muzzle velocity of 1,325 feet per second, and capable of penetrating solid steel to a depth of 11.5 Inches at a distance of two miles. The muzzle Is loaded while in a horizontal position, but In order to be fired it must be given an elevation of 45 degrees. When desired any higher elevation may be grlven to It up to 65 degrrees. At no time- Is there the slightest degrree of exposure of men or mortar to the enemy's observation or Are. The piece Is aimed according to the instructions from the commander of the fort or "firing district," the gunner ascertaining the horizontal direction needed by means of a graded azimuth circle surrounding the edge of the movable platform to which the carriage Is attached, while the gurv commander makes with a quadrant the observations necessary for determining the required elevation. For a range of from four to seven miles a projectile weighing 800 pounds Is used, and for lesser ranges one of 1,000 pounds. The projectiles vised are shell-piercing shots, deck-plerclng shots, deck-plerclng shells, which are more explosive, and torpedo shells, which have a very thin crust and contain a large quantity of moximlte, and are designed especially for' destroying the men on the decks of the enemies' ships.?Washington Post Cured By Half a Seoond Sleep. A well-known man in England had among his .ancestors a number of men and women who committed suicide. He himself became melancholy and his children, who knew the hereditary taint, were much worried about 1 lm. A physician told him that mental fatigue was his trouble and persuaded him to try an experiment. The man was a very busy man and scoffed at the Idea of taking a nap in Mia middle of the day. He Anally agreed to do the following: He would sit up In his easy chair every aftcrne-in with his hands over his knees, holding a dinner bell in both hands. If he lost consciousness and went to sleep he would be willing to sleep for so long a time as It would take for the dinner bell to fall to the floor and wake him up. The doctor who suggested this urrangement declared that the real mental relaxation of going to sleep, If only for a few seconds, would suffice to save him. He invited his patient to study activity of the brain by noticing while the dinner bell was falling to the floor. Every day for several months the man with suicidal heredity sat down after luncheon with the dinner bells in his hands. Every day he went to 'leep and slept for half a second while the bell fell to the floor, and his mental condition improved steadily, partly because of the rest which his mind got by losing consciousness for a second, and partly because of his interest In the extraordinary dreams which passed through his brain while the bell was falling. These dreams carried him all over the world, and seemed to last Indefinitely. A dozen or more human beings were mixed up In them. A long succession of events which were perfectly clear, passed before his eyes, gradually Interrupted by a sound from a distance, which at first would mix up with the dream, and ultffnately would prove to be the dinner bell striking the floor. The ordinary person who says he has been dreaming all night probably does not realize that he actually dreamed about a second and a half while he was waking up.?World Magazine. The Industrial Loafer. The really busy man Is often the man who appears to have nothing to do. Sometimes the alleged busy man Is simply a fussy man. J. P. Morgan is said to be slow to move and slow to speak. Admiral Togo, it is said, Appears to have more leisure than any man on his fleet. Mr. Rockefeller is very deliberate in speecn ana action. A tendency to talk much, far from proving a man importantly busy, tends to stamp htm an amateur in large af? fairs. Some of us have heard the story of the fellow Just out of Jail bragging of his busy days. "What do you mean?" said a bystander who knew his record. "You've Just left solitary at Concord prison. How could you be busy there?" "Well," was the reply. "I had a thirteen puzzle and prickly heat." One man's work is another's leisure, and the busiest man may seem to be a loafer.?Saturday Evening Post. 80ME NOTABLE SURRENDERS. How Groat Generals Have Behaved When the End Came. "General Wllllama, you have made yourself a name In history, and posterity will stand amaxed at the endurance, the courage, the discipline which this siege has called forth In the remains of an army. Let us arrange a capitulation that will satisfy the demands of war without disgracing humanity." In these noble and generous words did the Russian General Mouravieff address the gallant man who for six months had conducted the defense of Kars against overwhelming odds, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. And It was only when cholera had devastated his garrison and there was no longer a scrap of food left that the Intrepid Fenwlck Williams would even listen to such a word as surrender. When the great Napoleon had played his last card and realised that the rams was over he wrote this letter to the prince regent: "Royal Highness?A prey to the factions which divide my country and to the enmity of the greatest powers of Europe, I have terminated my public career, and I come, like Themlstocles, to seat myself at the hearth of the British people. I place myself under the protection of Its laws, which I claim from from your royal highness, as the most powerful, the most constant and the most generous of my enemies." Then Napoleon walked with proud step and gallant bearing on board the Bellerophon and surrendered himself to Captain Maltland?the first stage of his Journey to exile and death in St. Helena. Another historic surrender was that of General Lee to his adversary, Grant, In the civil war. When, at the end of his long and keenly fought duel with Grant, the Confederate general found himself hopelessly hemmed In by an overwhelming force of the enemy, he accepted Grant's invitation to surrender "In order to avoid useless effusion of blood." The conditions were made easy and honorable for him by his generous foe, and on April 9, 1866, General Lee handed his sword to Grant at the Appomatox court house, while the remnant of his once great army, now reduced to 27,800 men, followed in his wake, leaving their weapons behind them. Thus one of the most destructive wars In human history came to a dramatic and honorable close. At that sunreme moment in the des tiny of Napoleon III, when he found himself at Sedan with the demoralised remnant of his defeated army, surrounded by 250,000 of the enemy's troops, he sent the following note to his conqueror, the Prussian king: "My brother, as I am not able to die at the head of my troops, I place my sword at your majesty's feet" On the following morning the , crushed emperor and Bismarck met in the sordid upper room of a weaver's cottage, and the terms of surrender were arranged. "It was the most uncomfortable hour I ever spent in my life." Bismarck used to say later. "In fact, I felt more awkward than when, as a young man, I had a partner at a dance who wouldn't or couldn't talk." The surrender, we need scarcely recall, was absolute. Napoleon was sent a captive to the castle of Wilhelmsohohe, near Cassel; and 39 generals, 230 staff officers and 83,000 men became prisoners of war. But perhaps the most gallant gen eral who ever surrendered to the enemy was Osman Pasha, the immortal defender of Plevna. Surrounded by an immeasurably superior army of Russia. Osman kept his flay flying for 142 days, inflicting a loss of over 40,000 men on the enemy, and losing 30.000 of his own garrison; and it was only when both provisions and ammunition failed that he decided on that desperate attempt to cut ^ Is way through the investing army. The attempt, one of the most daring and resolute in history, failed, and Osman was at last compelled to throw up the sponge. So impressed, however, were the enemy with his valor that, as he was carried wounded through their ranks, they greeted him as a conqueror with cheers and presented arms. IN A SUBMARINE BOAT. Morgan Robertson Says It is Safer Than on the Surface. A descent in a submarine is not as harrowing an experience as might be imagined, writes Morgan Robertson in the November World's Work. At first thought two distinct forms of death present themselves to the mind?suffocation and drowning. But there is less danger of drowning than there is in a surface craft of the same size; for the submarine, strongly built to withstand a calculated pressure at 350 feet depth, cannot spring a leak from any accident less than a collision with a stronger craft ?which can be avoided by diving deep enough. As for suffocatiotn, that fear disappears when the mind dispassionately considers the 40 cubic feet of air, compressed to a pressure of 2,000 pounds to the square inch, and carried in tanks conveniently distributed about the boat's interior. Most of the perils incident to a seafaring life are avoided in the submarine. Yet there are dangers and inconveniences, of course, peculiar to this mode of navigation, that do not pertain to the surface craft. Aside from the nervousness that one feels at first when inclosed In an air-tight cylinder with several feet of water overhead, there are no bad sensations to afflict one. You are practically in an engine room, with the smell of oil and gasoline in your nostrils and the buzzing of a motor in your ears. While the boat is on the surface, you can feel the motion of the waves and hear the wash of the water; but not when It is submerged. There is no sinking sensation, such as is felt in an elevator or on a toboggan. A depth dial will tell you how deop down you are, and an inclination dial will apprise you of the angle at which you are diving or rising; but, aside from the vibration of the motor, you feel nothing, except, perhaps, in a heavy sea. Then, as the submarine, whether submerged or not, is tossed about, and lifted up and down by the passing waves, there is a feeling of lateral pressure, such as conies urjgvu m swing:. This Is rather raparkable, since you feel no "vertlcaf* sensation. There are rules to be jobserved. Tou must sit still In the P#ce given to you; for, should yoq wander around, you would bring tipuble to the mind and profanity to the speech of the man at the horizontal steering gear. In the lakh type of boat, two men can walk f#wardand walk aft without disturbing the trim more than a few degrees, frit In the short, more mobile HoUl&d type, thin Is not practicable. Tou must not smoke, for there axj? gasoline fumes, and "battery gas" About you, and a lighted match at the right onrt mrwrent mierht cause an ex plosion that would overcome, by Internal pressure, the 350--wounds of external resistance in the stout steel wails of the hull, and yoa might not live long enough to be drowned. You cannot enjoy the scenery ^f the sea, except through a limited* periscope, but you may eat hot mills oooked on electric stores, and real line print under as goca electric llttt as you have on shore. Should water come In through a leak or m carelessly opened sea-cock, and ovlrcome the 300 pounds severe buoyancy, you have a means of escape denied to you In the close compartment of a surface boat. FREE ADVERTI8INGI ABUSE. Ingenuity and PersiatonAr Used to Cheat the Newspaper Publisher. The demand for free advertising Is In extent, persistence aid Ingenuity beyond the belief of arnr but those who have had experience^ In the business. A man who woulq never think of going Into a grocery ftore and requesting the proprietor to donate a barrel of flour or Into a shoe store and telling the owner that if he has no objection he thinks he'll help himself to a pair of shoes, will waft confidently Into a newspaper office and prefer hie request for several dollar's worth of free advertising and feaf mightily offended If refused, says {he Salt Lake City News, All of which is true, agrees the Nyack (N. Y.) Star. The^eUcitorof free advertising Is always sure that the proprietor would be "glad of some thJng to neip mi up urn papar.- n? la juat aa grind aa the froceryraan la glad of some one to hefe carry pff bis stock wlthou; payment. Time and again, under the gulae of news ltema, mutter la preiiented which la plain advertising and If used at all ahould be paid for aa such. The newspa per proprietor expects to furnish a certain amount of free advertising to religious, .charitable and public enterprises. If he didn't be would be looked on aa ? heathen, hardhearted, mercenary, lacking In pu&llc spirit. His contribution la . accepted at a matter of couraa and rarely la | he accorded a word or thanks. Sometimes he ref uses to fonate as much space as the promoter of some enterprise desires, and then he Is looked upon as unreasonable and disobliging. The proprietor also expects and la willing to give a little free advertising to tboae who run paid advertisements in his paper. This la a matter of business courtesy which is rarely abused. But with the horde of solicitors for free adverti-iing which constantly besiege the newspaper offices, with no possible claim upon Its courtesies save tbe hope of getting something for nothing, the proprietor ha? no sympathy whatever. The duties that newspaper proprietor and editor owe to the public are numerous, diverse and exacting. It la high time that public should understand that these duties do not Include the sacrifice of a considerable amount of valuable SjM.ce for the benefit of Individuals or enterprises which give nothing In return. PAYING IN CENT8. Creditor* May Refuse Large 8um? of Small Change. Ordinarily when a debtor appears before a long- i;ime creditor there la no questioning of the United States coin In which the debt Is to be paid, but the wide possibilities possessed by an aibitrary creditor In stipulating Just what coins and In what amounts he will receive :>aymdnt are enough almost to discourage borrowing. You can't force a mean creditor to take more than 25 cents' worth of nickels, or 23 cents' worth of copper cents. If you could get as much as $5 worth of old silver three cent pieces of another generation you could unload 25 worth on Um, Just as he would have to take $5 .worth of the silver five cent pieces 2nd $5 worth of the obsolete twenty cent pieces, which made so much trouble In the late seventies. But you can pay out 210 in silver dimes and silver quarters 'and silver half dollar*. The trade dollars, of which there ale a few still coming into the treasury of the United States for redemption, are worth nothing, while the standard dollar is an unlimited legal tender, as is the old "dollar of our dads:" the first of which was coined in 1794 and the last In 1873. Coins that virtually h$ve disappeared from circulation are gold three dollar and one dollar pieces, the trade dollar of silver,-the nickel three cent piece, the copper two cent piece, the copper half cent and silver three and five cent pieces.?Omaha World-Herald. ? "Whoa" the World Rouhd.?"When I started on my trip around the world I intended," said a horseman, "to find out what was the word for 'whoa' in every languege*- I had a little book, and in it I Intended to make a long list of the various words for 'whoa.' "Do you know what I discovered? I discovered that 'Whoa' is the same *? !???~ Kho -Ritaaiaji in an me languages. iuv ?-? stops his horse with 'whoa,' the Persian stops his with 'whoa,' the China- < man his wltlL'whoa,' and the Dutchman his wltl^whoa' "And 'who# I discovered, has been from the de.Wn of time the word to stop horses Vlth. The Greeks and Romans used It In a slightly different form?*ohe.' 'The old English 'whoa' was 'ho.' 'I "A phllol #ist told me the other day that many of our 'animal words'? the words wij order our animals about with?are as old af or older than 'whoa.' Takej for Instance, 'co-boss,' the soothing; call to the cow. *Ooboss* conaei'jfrom the Sanscrit root 'gu,' meaning to TBW.? ftnsthsr wcrd, 'soh. soh,' which might be trans. ' 1 ?-? - _ lated 'Please keep still,' comes from the Sanscrit 'sough,' meaning to stay motionless. And you know our chicken word?'chick, chick, chick'?the word spoken In a high key, wherewith we summon our chickens to their meals? Well, that comes directly down to us ."rom the Sanscrit, 'kulc,' a domestic fowl."?Louisville CourierJournal.