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i ^^^^^IS^UKD SXSIWII-WEEKI^?^ _ ^ ^ ^ L *. OUSTS 80H8, PubUiisr.. } % 4amiIS Ifewsjaper: Jfor the $romotion of th< political, gociat. Agricultural and Communal Interests of the |eojt<. {TB^S^2A.n?5ilLiSILI'A"0* ^rAn. iauiolir^K YORKVILLE, 8. C., TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1909~ NX). 40. ftAft AKA XAX AHA *A* AKA KAK A I Heron i ? ? By ETTA 1 3 UK AHA XAX AKA KAK AKA KAK CHAPTER XXV. Jael. With pale, quivering nostrils?with her whole majestic figure braced as if for some desperate struggle, Jael stared from face to face of the aghast group. "I am the thief!" she repeated, with! the shrillness of intense excitement. "Mr. Heron, you did well to believe in your wife's Innocence?yes, I was listening outside the door. I heard you say that you had married Miss Ferrers. She is good, she is blameless, i am me sinner, and she the victim!" In the general consternation, Pitt Rivers was the first to find his speech. With a serious air he advanced toward the girl and simply spoke her name: "Jael!" His voice, always like his temper, under perfect control, expressed nothing but profound astonishment; nevertheless, the effect upon Jael was startling. Her boldness vanished; a tremor went over her tall figure. She drew back a step, staring at Rivers in a sort #oa/>lnotlnn or inguicuru iuuv..?.. "Jael!" he said again, even more * gently than before. She put out her hands as if to hold him off. "I will not unsay It!" she half screamed. "I will die first!" "Unsay It? I should hope not," answered Colonel Rivers. "Why did you not speak before? Why did you suffer us to acuse Miss Ferrers wrongfully?" All the courage was gone from her look?she shrank like a terrified child. "Because I was a coward," she faltered. with chattering teeth; "because - - ? i I was desperately arraia, sir; uui, with arrowing Intensity, "I'll speak now. If I die for it! Mind, I take all the guilt on myself; I Implicate no other person ?I stand alone, sir. Weeks ago, I stole Miss Carbury's money and Jewels?I've kept them In my possession ever since. Her dog Punch knew me on the night of the robbery, and so failed to bark and waken her. I stole Mrs. Van Wert's bracelets while she and her maid were sleeping after the ball. I entered her chamber by the door through Annette's closet. I put the things In Miss Ferrers's trunk that you might fasten my wickedness on that innocent gin. uive me u?oi ?? ?? lice?punish me as you like?I do not care what happens now!" "My poor Jael," said Colonel Rivers, in a very gTave tone, "we will decide about your punishment later." Then he turned to Heron, with the air of a man who can hardly credit his own senses. "I never heard of such an extraordinary thing in my life!" he began. "You have me at your mercy. Heron. What can I say?what do?to express my mortification and regret? It is useless to hope that either you or the new Mrs. Heron will be able to pardon the mon strous blunder made by us today." "Oh. poor Hazel!" cried Miss Carbury, wringing her hands in the deepest contrition. "I will apologize upon my knees, Mr. Heron. We will all apologize. To think that we should lay the sins of this brazen creature at her door?It is really too dreadful!" Mrs. Van Wert was looking at Jael in what she meant to be a penetrating fashion. "Your Blackbird lover, Bagley, must be at the bottom of all this," she said. "No, madam," dissented Jael, sharply. "Blame no one but me?accuse no one Dut me. joe ttagiey Knew noining about it." Not till this moment had the colonel betrayed any anger against the culprit; but now a hard, cold look came into his face?he waved Jael imperatively toward the door. "You have said enough?go to your own quarters!" he commanded, "and remain there till Mrs. Steele returns from the town. Then report to her? she will settle your accounts with you. Of course, you leave my service immediately." With her eyes on the speaker, Jael made a precipitate movement across the threshold of the drawing room. At the name of Mrs. Steele a blank terror overspread her face. She seemed to see some sight of horror?some Damoclean sword suspended?Invisible to others. "Sir, sir!" she cried, in a wild, entreating way, "don't send me to Mrs. Steele?settle with me yourself?punish me yourself!" But Rivers made a single gesture, as though taking final leave of her. The door closed?Jael vanished. Francis Heron looked around on his companions. "It seems that the mystery of the day X_ ~_1 J 9* V. ~ /ImOtf ??T if/vnU IS SOIVCU, lie naiu, uijij. a nuuiu like to ask if, in any mind here, a doubt is left concerning Hazel Ferrers's innocence ?" "Pray, do not humiliate us with such a question," groaned Miss Carbury. "I am ?ure we all feel as though we were partners in Jael's guilt." "Even if Mrs. Heron should condescend to forgive us, we can never forgive ourselves," said the colonel. Heron bowed coldly. " 4 - tr. " hp in y i art iv m utu'inpiioiicut ?v said, "I need not detain any of you longer." And he took his hat and immediately left the house. Turning homeward through the Wolfsden garden. Heron looked as he felt?deeply disturbed. Hazel was fully exonerated?her Innocence, by the unexpected aid of Jael, established beyond a doubt. But as he went, he mused: "Gracious Heaven! how that girl's face changed the instant she met Rivers',serene eyes, and heard his silky voice! What terrific power does he ^ wield over her that his first word should take all her courage like that? And when he mentioned Mrs. Steele, the poor thing looked as if she had been ordered to report to Apollyon of the Pit"? Something crashed suddenly through a thicket behind him?he heard a hoarse breath, and lo! Jael herself tore A*A *A* A*A *A* A*A *A* AKA * sWlFE. I N. PIERCE. 5 f AXA *A* AKA KAK AXA *Aft AHA past him like some wild thin? flying for life. She was without bonnet 01 outer garment. Her ashen face, turned back over one shoulder toward Wolfsden, was full of a mortal fear?a deadly apprehension. Poor, guilty creature! Plainly she did not mean to report to Mrs. Steele! She shot by Heron, as tknxn.t, ha waq fmru?rrv>ntihlf> to mortal eye, and plunging headlong into the shrubbery, disappeared in the direction of the high-road. "Jael!" he cried. "HI, there! I want to speak to you." But he called in vain ?the waiting maid was gone. Heron experienced a sudden unpleasant thrill. In spite of her guilt, which he laid wholly to the charge of her long association with the Blackbirds, he was deeply interested in Jael. How could i v.- urviiw that she had ren ll'C AVIQVb fcllV OV? ? ?*rw . dered at the mills, on the night of the strikers' visit? or the warning given to Vivian, whereby the robbery of Heroncroft had been averted? Surely he had good cause to think kindly of the girl. [ He followed through the shrubbery, to which shreds of her cotton gown clung, In witness of her wild flight, and on to the fence bordering the highway. There the road described an abrupt curve, and he could see nothing of the fugitive. Doubtless she had fled to the Nest?her only home. He leaped the wall, Into his own grounds, and Immediately came upon Graham Vivian, pacing about under the old pear trees of the garden. "The seed sown by you at Black River has borne fruit today, Vivian!" he began, slipping his arm through his friend's. "As I feel sure that this denouement Is due entirely to your Influence, you must be the first to hear the story." He told It briefly. In conclusion, his voice took a troubled tone. "I am disturbed about Jael," he said, "for I have an impression that, bad as things appear on the surface, there is something worse remaining untold. Her face, as she tore through the garden, looking back to Wolfsden, was tragedy itself. She seemed to see a death's-head at her shoulder. Some spur move powerful than the fear of being delivered to the police urgred her headlong flight from that house." "We must find her at once!" cried Vivian, with lively concern. "We must befriend her at this crisis, Heron. She has noble elements in her character. All her Impulses are true?generous. She must be saved from the Blackbirds?her voluntary confession will certainly bring her to grief, and from this hour render the Nest unsafe for her. She must be rescued from thieves and vagabonds, and given a chance in life." "Right!" said Francis Heron. "I have an urgent errand in town. When It Is done, I will meet you at the mills. Meanwhile, take my best horse, and ride down to the Nest and And jaei. My housekeeper shall make a place for her here at Heroncroft till we can decide about her future. They turned about and started for the stables. "Do you think that Rivers and the ladles design to enter complaint against Jael and bring her to punishment?" asked Vivian. "Our neighbor has hitherto been very lenient with the Blackbirds. Will he make an example of this girl, who is merely a tool In the i ?9 auII naonnlatao? \A7I11 nnf IiailUS Ul CTU aoovviavvo . mv? your coustn, Miss Pole," his voice changing a little, "Intercede for her?" Heron's face clouded. "I forgot to tell you that Sergla Is 111, and, so far as I can discover, knows nothing about the nefarious business." "111?" echoed Vivian, In a constrained tone. "Not seriously, I hope?" "I cannot say. You must know, Vivian, that the events of this day have not increased my esteem for Colonel Pitt Rivers. I told him to his face that he was a liar and a coward. I believe him to be both." "Yes; but my poor uncle was a whimsical invalid, of unsound judgment, as was plainly shown when he trusted both his daughter and his ducats to a perfect stranger?perhaps an adventurer. As you have doubtless heard. Rivers chanced to win his gratitude In some railway accident abroad. Being a clever fellow, he knew how to make the most of his good fortune. In his will, my uncle left him fifty thousand dollars and the care of Sergla. Bah! I tell you, Vivian, the man who can gamble with a moneyed guest, like Sir Griffin Hopewood. and fleece him nightly?the man who can keep for a housekeeper a dubious, dual character, like Mrs. ssieeie?is naruiy me pe??<jn to inspire confidence In his neighbors. I am not sure that it is safe to leave Sergia to such guardianship." Not without strong emotion could Graham Vivian hear the name of the blonde beauty who had so cruelly scorned and flouted him. She was ill! The news sent a suffocating thrill thrnnsrh his heart. He had thought himself strong:, well-disc'plined; now he knew that he was we^k?unstable as water?that the fight was not yet fought nor the victory won. "Rivers Is the guardian appointed by Miss Pole's father," he said In a low voice. "You cannot interfere with his authority, Heron." "I do not design to interfere, without just cause," replied Heron briefly, "But, being nearest of kin to Sergia. it Is plainly my duty to watch the polished colonel, and his methods of guarding a ward who is both rich and beautiful." He turned his gaze toward the greer knoll, crowned with chestnuts, where the dust-brown house stood, high above the hollow of Heroncroft. Twilight was now closing in. From the uppei windows of the mansion lights begar to twinkle. "A mysterious house!" muttered Heron. "I do not half understand the things that have happened there o) late! One word more. Vivian, about my cousin Sergia: For weeks I have entertained a secret hope that she L.,;: sR 4S9^Dw!^NflH|jBVfflnSilflB ORVILLE WRIGHT. &NAPSHOT Of TiLt WiLiUUT Bt Few Americas celebrities ever bav to the Wright brothers, Inventors of tl they returned came up the bay at Ne\ craft In the river and harbor, and dags the riddle of the ages and conquered tb them and extend Invitations to tbem. < The brothers were entertained at luncb In Dayton, O., where they are to begit June they will go to Washington, whe "Wright week" will be celebrated in Dn might fall In love with you, and lure j you, somehow, to abandon your deter- i mlnation to lead a celibate life." i Vivian's face was like a marble mask. ) There were secrets in his life which he could not confide even to his friend. "That is great nonsense, Heron," he answered. "I am the last man on earth to be mentioned in such a connection? a poor clergyman, with an empty purse, and a tainted name." "Pooh! You dwell too much on that latter subject, dear boy. Where is the person that, once knowing you, would stop to ask about your family secrets? I would like well to see my cousin and her fortune safe in your possession. Vonp views are all wrone?vou know i nothing about women?they are kinder , ?more generous than they seem"? He saw the curious look on Vivian's j handsome face, and stopped short, bit- i ing his lip. "No?I err!" he corrected hotly, i "Women are as cruel as death?shun them, man, as you would the pesti- i lence!" j And with long, nervous strides he hurried on to the stable door in advance of his friend, and called to a i groom to saddle the horses and lead ] inem oui. "We will meet at the mills," said l Vivian, and he mounted first, and rode away through the fast falling night. Heron tarried long enough to draw out a notebook and by the aid of a sta- i ble lantern, held aloft by the groom, to , pencil Jael's story hurriedly on a blank i leaf. This he tore out and gave to his j servant. "Take It to the house?to?to Mrs. Heron," he said, speaking the new name with some difficulty. The next i moment he was in the saddle, riding i out of Heroncroft. He had told Vivian that an urgent errand called him to the , town. About its urgency there could be no doubt, for at breakneck speed he dashed across the bridge, and away over the narrow, dark road to Black i River. The events of the day provided amI pie food for thought on the way?his i mind was as busy as his horse's heels. , He clattered into the principal street of the town, just as a church clock was . I striking: eight, and pulled up before the : door of a telegraph station. Several hours had elapsed since the > flight of Sir Griffin Hopewood from ; Wolfsden, but Heron felt assured that his rival had gone no farther than Bos- 1 ' ton. Fortunately he chanced to know the hotel which the baronet was most i likely to honor with his presence there. Grim as fate?full of a bitter satlsfac: tion?he entered the little office, and . dispatched to Sii* Griffin the following : laconic message: "Miss Ferrers innocent. Guilty party conresses." God pity the man when he should read those words! If there was any i love for Hazel left in his heart, he would surely call on the earth to open > and cover him! His errand done, his t Parthian shaft sent to the breast of his ' rival. Heron closed the door of the lit i tie station, mounted his horse again, and turned homeward. There was no urgency now in his ! pace. In a sudden revulsion of feeling, f he let the rein drop on the animal's t neck, and suffered him to fall into a > sober walk. What had he done? Stabi bed Sir Griffin to the heart, but also ^mwWft&xi'&fc--;-I^^^^DHK . m *' ?WmWBX ajgtfMt -1 ^ BBflS j. v ^' nn luSEB^^h^H^^^B^Kv);.^HpHH ^MR^ . ., ^HHj " - ' fflHHd^^^B : ..^HjH . WNKB/BUk DB^^^*S?: :?: ' DH s m K fgfc "5M OAfJIbr W#7^B KATHERINE WRIGHT. LOTHERS, WOULD FAMOUS AVIA!] THE IB RETURN FROM EUROPE. e received a heartier or more dcmonstr te aeroplane, when they returned from v York there was a wild chorns of shriek dipped right and left In honor of the two ie air. Committees from various parts o 3blef among these were the representatl' leon by the club and announced that tb i the construction of an aeroplane for 1 re President Taft will present to them i j'ton In honor of the Illustrious Inventors provoked a dire catastrophe, for would not the baronet, In his penitence and ? emorse. flv at once to seek Hazel's for jiveness? Then how would It be with t the unhappy girl, divided forever from f the lover whom she might have par- J Joned, and bound Irrevocably to He- li ron?the man whom she could only hate? He sickened at thought of the scene that must ensue?at the Inevitable anguish and despair awaiting his bride. He could have cursed himself for the bonds which he had helped Judge Ferrers to impose upon her. What was wealth to the girl, compared with liberty and love? Great Heaven! 8 He had made a sad, mad marriage in- ? ieed, and there was no remedy for it j on this side of the grave. Moody and absorbed, Heron took the v road to the silent mills. There Indus- a iry was still suspended, for the strike was not yet "off," nor the breach be- r twixt master and men healed. He J waited some time in the mill yard before Vivian appeared. The latter wore e a disturbed look. "What news?" said Heron. "None," replied Vivian. "Jael is not ' at the Nest?has not been there. I e have searched all the ins and outs of a the place, and can glean no tidings of * her." 1 t "Strange! Of course, you have In- v tervlewed the Bagleys?" "One at least?old Sal was at the 8 shanty alone. She swears she has not 1 seen Jael for eight and forty hours. I % attempted to quicken her memory with 1 a banknote, and failed, so It is plain f that Jael has not been nigh the Nest." "By Jove! where, then, shall we look 8 for her? The terrible fear on her face 8 as she fled through the Wolfsden gar- ' den haunts me still. She cannot have r thrown herself into the river?eh, Vlv- r r iuu : "Out of the question!" answered Vivian, promptly. "Jael is no coward, v to add self-destruction to her other * sin. The girl would be more likely to (| meet punishment with a brave front." * The two went down to the river ( bank, and stood there, looking silently ' around. Bruce was somewhere about, c but not visible. The night was dark, s save for myriad stars, and all the winds were laid. Did Vivian remember an- J other night of moonlight and glamour ?the little boat?the fair woman with u ? roses in her bosom, who had deluded and mocked him?the Love that was lost, ere it came to birth. Weed of the wave, without fruit on 1 earth?" \ Surely he did remember! In the r sheltering shadow, his Antlnous face a grew very pale. f "Hark!" said Heron. "Is anything a stirring here?" c They listened, but heard only a wa- a ter-rat scurrying down the bank. I "It is evident that we must give over ? the search for tonight," said Heron, in c a disappointed tone; and the two turn- r ed back to the mill gate, where the j horses waited. t As Vivian stood with a hand on the s pommel of his saddle, looking out into c the dark, still road, he suddenly dis- i cerned a woman's figure, black, slender, 1 graceful, moving swiftly, noiselessly, i along the highway, straight past the i mills, and into the ingulfing night be- < yond. "Who was that?" whispered Francis Heron. J ' tl mp% bi Ti| e< Wr Ml J/BMMiu k ? ^^^TSgt^m' Ml Kft|| .; K Wiff^l^WPBi^Kr^ p ui pi '-! 'J at -^| ai i '< ; $M w *' ~''M ^ in If i w pi m of iy a ru pi tf " ai til iaj or E^b&h^Bh^^ fi > 41 to B^hS3BBH&?^ ' IP bj ^ 8ti mBS^BSff^m': '| tt? 1 I us ar 8C HBbm 9gEg0& m HH USK SMHBK*' 4% w ^K^^^^K&S&ej? 2? ;: mm ^H(MB^^BHflnK^Cir:: ' vS ot or at w ca of WILBUR WRIGHT. a* rOES, AND THEIR SISTER ON be Is 8C ative welcome than that extended P( Europe. As the steamship on which wi 8 from the whistles of all the steam te modest, silent men who have solved fr< f the country were on hand to greet ed res of the Aero Club of America. co ey must go at once to their home ar :he United States government. In re the Aero club medal. Later In June op * . pe srr "The Wolfsden housekeeper, Mrs. th Steele," answered Vivian. "Ah! She has returned from the own. She is hurrying down to the fest?to find Jael, perhaps. Let us ^ eave the horses here, Vivian, and foldw her." To be Continued. ti( - se IN U I ALIUUtinttt Dnu> pa Ibdul Hamid Has Credit For Some to Good Points. As Yet the fact remains that the sultan tic las in many ways been an eminently jn ;ood and successful ruler. He has prob- ga ibly done more for education than all th lis predecessors put together. He Is, er believe, the only sovereign in the co vorld who entertains at a picnic annu- Su illy all the school children in his captal of both sexes and of every denomi- ev lation. More than three thousand ele- <ji nentary schools have been opened since w le came to the throne. He has endow- Ch J n unliropoitv Tl/ith rnQTlV Df ;u me viiuiuaii uuit vidhj ?..? x v cholarships and founded schools of w< aw and medicine. He has been espec- 8y ally active In promoting the better sa ducation of women. He has museums be ind galleries. Though precious porions of his empire were torn from him ar >y the Treaty of Berlin, he has con- ni rived to keep what was left all but In- tlx act, and has showed consummate er ibility in playing oft one European wl tower against another. He has sur- "t 'ived war, insurrection, treason, at- tu empted assassination, bankruptcy. m; So far from being in himself a cruel br nan the testimony of all observers pa igrees in depicting Abdul Hamid as mi ibsolutely the reverse. "There is in mi tbdul Hamid," wrote a former Servian te; ninister who knew him Intimately, "a cil lecullar modesty, timidity and tender- ce less which are quite womanly. He al- an vays looks earnest, almost sad, as if he re vere subdued by the consciousness of co lis great responsibilities. He smiles [uietly, almost sadly, very often, .but co le hardly ever laughs loudly. He is th iistinctly a man of aesthetic taste. He an s fond of flowers, of beautiful women, su ?f fine horses, of lovely views of sea br ind land, of everything that is beauti- ev iful. He is an affectionate father. He re :an be, and is, a devoted friend to his ph rlends. He is able to contract deep ca ind faithful friendships. He la consid- er irate, modem, cnaruaDie iinu iuikui. n? lis consciousness of his responsibility th oward God makes him hesitate to >unlsh any one severely. Certainly he wl vas never carried away by impulsive- mi ?ess. He even exaggerates in his de- co tire to consider every question from all of mints. He is slow; often much too St ilow for the nervous and impatient sons In if the west. Terribly earnest as he is wl ind so sensitive to everything touching ac lis personal dignity, he has much of In luiet humor in him. He quickly per- fo ;eives the cbmic feature in things and re lien and in a peculiar, quiet way enoys it. His sky is generally and al- pr nost permanently covered by clouds of sti date anxieties and personal melan- th :holy. Hut from time to time, and W nost unexpectedly, those clouds are ml ilerced by the sunny rays of a mild hu- co nor. Personally I could never detect CI n his character even the shadow of th ruelty."?Harper's Weekly. a ? M ? >}' Silence is sometimes the best ar- B< ,rument. to JtUscftlanrous grading. !, - , ? ONTROLLING THE POTATO BUG. * s asy to Route Pest If You Know How To Go About It. 8 Clemson College, May 12.?Com- ' lalnts reach the entomologist about a le Injurious work of the Colorado bee- * e, commonly known as the potato ug. The insect is very easily controll- r i, probably more so than any other a isect In America. While most people v se Paris green for poisoning it on the n [ant, they generally use the Paris 1 reen without the addition of lime. h aris green can never be used on plants v Ithout being diluted in some form, g alesa a special powder gun for this * jrpose Is provided by which the oper- ^ :or can gauge very accurately the a nount of Paris green put to an acre, 11 hich should be approximately a pound. *' There the farmer has no spray pump a callable, of course, the next best a ilng Is to apply the Paris green dry. 8 i that case it is considerably diluted ith some dilutent, like road dust, land aster, flour, or some similar cheap aterlal, at the rate of about fifty parts ' dilutent. It can then be applied free- C through a dust, which may consist of tin can with perforated bottom, or a ig of osnaburg cloth. The material is d it In this bag and then shaken over le plants. Where a spray pump is > callable, it is best to spray the insecclde at the rate of one pound to 100 n - 125 gallons of water. When it is s rayed it should not be forgotten that h every pounu me uihk ui umc, uuuc u r slacking 3 pounds of quick lime, e tould be added, to the mixture. When tl >is lime is added, the solution may be tl ted with safety on potato plants in 2 ly quantities, und no trouble from tl orchlng will be experienced. tl Other measures frequently recom- o ended consist of sprinkling :he plants ith road dust, ilour, air slaked lime, o dmney soot, sulphur or even cotton p ed meal. Most of these are very g leap, while some are expensive. All a these have practical value by killing si e younger larvae of the beetle, and t< r causing others to decamp. The k feet is not as thorough, however, as fi at of a good poison, like Paris green, d >plled according to directions given e; >ove. Where a powder gun is avalla- Jr e, a person can set this at the rate of v ie pound to the acre, and by a little actice can guage his steps by walk- b g across the field so that the proper is nount is applied. In the morning, ji hen the dew is on, a large territory lr .n be covered in this way, and la one b< the simpliest and cheapest ways of rr >plying the poison. w In buying Paris green it should be H >rne in mind that a coarse Paris green G not good as an insecticide. It w oojIIu than a Ann rround hi V/|\yIICO IllVkV V4*OH/ VUW?? *< ... D _ iris green. It 1b a good plan to al- ci iys obtain the composition of the ma- ir rial in buying, or know the house o' om which the Paris green is obtain- hi . Paris green, ordinarily, should not ntain more than 6 per cent soluble al senic, while in some states the law ti quires that no Paris green sold in the ti en market shall contain more than 4 oi r cent The extent to which Paris tl een scorches the plant depends upon m e percentage of this soluble arsenic, tl , ^ , w AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS. cl si Million Women Enlisted In the Great w Fight. cl One million women, representing cl- a >s, towns, villages and Isolated rural ttlements In every section of the lo untry are today enlisted in a cam- al Ign against tuberculosis, according tl a statement issued by the National p< isociation for the Study and Preven- to >n of Tuberculosis. In legislatures, hi congress at Washington, In society d( .therings, in church and clubs, w rough speaking and writing?in ev- s< y possible way, the women of the ai untry are persistently iigiumg wu- ui mptlon. tl With an organization established in di ery state of the country, under the w rectlon of the General Federation of d< omen's Clubs, and with associated Ji ubs in Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands, w >rto Rico and the- canal zone, the uj jmen of the country have entered a o) stematlc crusade to carry the mesge of the prevention and cure of tu- h< rculosls into every American home, ei The organization of the women's c< itl-tuberculosis campaign was defl- si tely begun In St. Paul in 1906, at the tr neof the biennial meeting of the Gen- di al Federation of Women's Clubs, at hen that body sanctioned a resolution vl o make the prevention and cure of hi berculosls a subject of study," and ade Mrs. Rufus P. Williams of Camidge, Mass., chairman of the new de.rtment, called the "Health Depart- ^ ent of the General Federation of Woen's Clubs." For the purpose of exndlng the campaign Into the many ties and towns of the country, the w ntral committee makes every local b; id state club under Its jurisdiction 81 sponsible for the work in its own 8J mmunlty. S< The executive board of the mothers' li| ngress has also recently entered into Si e crusade, and the prepared circulars w id literature on the prevention of con- d< mptlon, which are being circulated si oadcast throughout the country. In tr ery city where the congress is rep- c? sented an advisory Doaro 01 iocai m lyslclans is being formed to help edu- th te mothers about tuberculosis. Oth- te national organizations of women T ive given favorable consideration to vt e campaign against tuberculosis. n< One of the moat noted campaigns w tiich is being carried on by the wo- sc en is that in the southern states in v< nnection with the traveling exhibit a< the National Association for the re udy and Prevention of Tuberculosis, to Tennessee, Florida and Alabama, hi hole states have been stirred by the 01 tlvlty of the women's organizations. 01 North and South Carolina plans r similar campaigns are now In prog- Si ss. b< A large number of women occupying es ominent positions In society or on the ai age, are taking an active interest in ol e anti-tuberculosis campaign. Mrs. 1 . K. Vanderbllt has recently given a al llllon dollars for sanitary homes for in nsumptives. Mrs. Keith Spalding of ai licago, has erected a sanatorium for tfc e Chicago Tuberculosis Institute at T cost of about fifty thousand dollars: ol rs. Collls P. Huntington and Mrs. is trden Harriman have given largely fl: the consumption flgh*. In Porto M llco Mrs. Albert Norton Wood, wife t , prominent army officer stationed a Ian Juan, has stirred the entire islan hrough the anti-tuberculosis crusad he inaugurated. Mme. Emma Calv a a most enthusiastic worker and ha Iven largely of her talent and mone or the relief of tuberculosis suffereri nd Miss Olga Netheraole has even lec ured before the public on tuberculosis And the fight is not only being car led on by women organized in club nd by the wealthy women, but by th working women in the general labo lovement against tuberculosis, and b he women who are battling hand li and with the disease in connectio: ith the religious and philanthropic or airlzatlons of the country. The specie uberculosls nurse, too, is a recent ad ition to the fighting force enllste gainst consumption, and almost all o hese are women. No city campaign i complete today without such a nurse nd on this account hundreds of ther re devoting their lives In unselfls: ervice for the relief of human suffer ig. DOG TRACKWALKER. log Follows the Habit Acquired Fror Dead Master. Forming a touching Illustration ofi og's devotion to a dead master is Bot the unsalaried trackwalker" of th lorthern Pacific railroad In Tacoma. Following In the tracks of his dea mater, who walked tracks and tend* wltchllehts for the Northern Paclfi i the local yards, and who was ru own and Instantly killed by a switc) ngine in the passenger yards mor nan a month ago. Bob, the pet dog o he family of William H. Gehring o 801 South J street, continues to patrc he tracks and guard the lamps, al hough his master has answered th all to the Great Beyond. No amount of coaxing, bribe offer f meat, or even a collar and chain cai revent this little faithful brown shag y-dog from going to work each da: nd returning home with the settin) un on the same hours of his dead mas 3r*s arrivals and departures. Cursei icks and stones will not drive Bol rom the tracks, and he appears to uty every day, bringing tears to th< yes of those who knew his master dur lg his seventeen years of railroad ser Icc. "Bob, the trackwalker," as he ha een nicknamed by the railroad men i not a dog with blood or pedigree, bu ist a plain dog with a few fleas throwi 1 'to keep him from worryin' 'bou ein' a dog." His ears are scarred fron tany battles and his stub of a tai ags pathetically when he is petted [e came into the possession of th< ehring family about four years ago hen he was an ungainly little puppy elng given to one of the children be iuse his owner could not see anythinj i the pup but Just plain dog. Th< tvner did not look beyond the skin an< e missed the big, grateful heart. It is Bob's daily habit to leave hom< I 7.30 o'clock in the morning and re' irn shortly after 4 p. m. Between th< me he leaves home and returns he ii i the Job every minute. He coven >e same ground covered by his dea< laster, and when tired lies in front o: ie shanty that was used by the. track' alker. By growling and showing vl' ous rows of teeth the dog guards thii lanty during the noon hour. If th< arning is not heeded Bob dnaps vlously and rarely falls to take awa] piece of cloth. After his master's death Bob wsu st. He would roam about the houa< I night and run from one member o: ie family to another with a mute ap' wil in his eves. The second day Bol ELStened oft to the railroad yards an< as made his appearance there even ay since. For several nights the dof ould not sleep. There seemed to b< >mething missing about the house ad it was not until he was given on< t his master's old coats as a rug 01 le back porch that he would settli awn to rest after his wearying day's ork. The first sniff at the coat seem 2 to fill the dog with great delight. Hi imped about, wagged his tall an< hen it was laid down curled himsel pon the garment after venting a slgl f peaceful content Bob has found a warm spot in th< eart of every employee of the North n Pacific with whom he has come it mtact.each day he haa worked. Th< ght of the shaggyy, dirty little anlma otting up and down the tracka eacl ly bringa tears to the men'a eyes, ant t meal hours switchmen and fiagmer le with each other in looking aftei Is welfare.?Seattle Times. KING COAL. fhile He Lives His throne Is Fixec In the United State*. --* - J V.. l In +>W Tiie pan piuyeu uy ww w orld's affairs can well be Illustrated i assuming the available supply to b< lddenly cut off. The huge railroad 'stems of America would stop at once 9 also would the electric power and fhtlng in ail cities and suburbs teamship service would cease everyhere. Transit facilities would be ;ad. Factories, manufacturies and lops would close down. Vast indusies like steel, iron, copper, etc., would tase. Armies of laborers would be irown out of work. Malls, schools le navy, newspapers, foreign and in rnal trade?all wouia cease 10 exisi he trilogy governing commercial adince, heat, light and power, except s igllgible amount of water, oil, etc. ould be annihilated?all this unti ime other form of power could be dedoped. The possibility of such a cat:lysm is not imminent, for coal wil. ign for some time yet and is destinec i become a power whose capability ive as yet been comparatively fell lly more faintly than would a feathei 1 the hide of an elephant. The world needs coal. The Unitec tates has that coal to deliver. It wll i wholly natural that so potent a necisity will make for continued peace id understanding among the powers ' the world. The coal mines of Europe are sun! lout 3,000 feet deep. Coal Is still beg quarried on the banks of the Ohio id the mines of Europe are nearlng le limit of commercial possibility he manufacturing supremacy of the d world is passing to the new. Coa king, and while he lives his throne is iced forever in the United States.? etropolitan Magazine. >f OUR ROAD8 ARE TOO WIDE. it d Government Heads Movement For le Narrower Highways. e Automobliists all over the country, & says a Washington letter, are showing y the greatest possible Interest in the efs, forts that are being made by the gov. ernment to induce the various state au3. thorltles to construct r irrower and . better highways. Not only would this g be of advantage to the users of autoe mobiles, but it would save the different > states manv thousands of dollars every y year. As an example of the tremendn ous highway mileage in some of the n states, and what their width would ? mean, the following figures are given: il Minnesota has 80,000 miles, Wisconsin . 60,000, Michigan 60,000, Iowa 70,000, d Kansas 70,000, Nebraska 60,000, Mis,f sourl 80,000, Illinois 80,000, Indiana 70,n 000, Ohio 80,000, the total of these s, states alone being 700,000. n Reducing the width of these public h highways, which now average 66 feet, . to 36 feet, would give back to the farmers of those states, for cultivation, J, 600,000 acres of generally tillable land, which, at an average valuation of $100 per acre, would mean the restoration to the producing values of the states named, of $260,000,000. This sum has an annual interest value of $12,600,000 a an amount which might be recovered, ' and If applied to the proper scientific e construction of roads in the United Stites, would In a few years give us ? the modt extensive and finest road sysd tern to be had. German Roads tha Boat. n Some of the best country roads in * h the world are found in Germany, and for that reason the United States government recently set to work to ascertain just how they are made and kept in good condition. A report just made by Consul Thompson of Hanover, is therefore, more than ordinarily interesting. In this report Mr. Thompson says: "German roads, are perhaps, subjected to a hundred times more traffic than similar roads in the United States. These ~ roads range from 20 to 20 feet In width while in our middle, or western states, where the traffic Is comparatively light, we take land of an average value of $100 per acre, and cut it up with roadways 60 feet in width, practically two-thirds of the same being given over to weeds, which furnish an inexhaustible supply of seeds for adjoining lands. The farmer in Germany, who has conquered the weeds on his ground, need have no thought of their being started again from uncultivated or uncared for land along the roadways. There are no weeds, no mud or no chuck holes, no sand stretches in - the roads. Looking into the valleys from one of the thousands of look-out towers which have been placed on the summit of nearly every high elevation of land or mountain in Germany, the road lies before one's view like bright white ribbons running past squares of green or brown fields, along the verges of cultivated woods, and binding village to village?a solution of the first and most important problem of human economy and evolution, that of transportation. It is not an infrequent sight, when 1 traveling by rail through the more level stretches of country in Germany, Holland or Prance, to see an automobile flying over some main highway, running parallel with the railroad, keeping pace with the train for miles, it being generally necessary to slacken speed only when passing through the larger villages and towns and never on account of poor roads." Our Roads too Wide. The good roads question for the United States, may seem almost hopeless, when considered with such plctiiroa +Via aira Kilt Ana A# tho tlm. U1CO LUC MUW VtIV V* kMV ' pleat and most practical measures that * could be taken for their betterment, 8 would be to reduce their width from lf one-third to one-half of what they are 3 now. Work could then be concentrated 1 on the roadway and drains, the waste 3 land returned to the farmers or abut3 ting property owners, and by these perfectly natural economies make both the 3 building and the maintenance of the 1 roads a much simpler and less expen' slve proposition. 1 No road can be called good If It Is bordered with weeds or mud, and to 3 care for and keep up a road from 60 to 70 feet In width not to mention the loss 1 of land, means, In the long run, nearly ; double the expense of a 30 or 35-foot 1 road. i , , 1 , CENTRALIZATION. View of a Chicago Lawyer Upon a Tendency of Government Newton B. McDonough of Chicago, a lawyer of that city, spoke about the modern tendency toward centralization ' in the American government He said to a Washington Herald reporter: i "We have recently had brought forceI fully to our attention the difference be> tween European government of olden 1 days and today. Europe has been ad, vanclng toward liberty ever since I America set the pace, but along differ. ent lines. We have led the advance to. ward liberty from the time of the Rev5 olutlon, but today we talk of centrall[ zation in government. It Is because we are so busy with our industrial activ1 itles that we have no longer any time > for politics, as in the old days. We have , departed from the old debate, and even . the town meeting Is not what it used . to be. In our cities we have tried to . remedy civil evils by centralization of l government, but this has failed, and t Wily OIIUUIU we CA^CV-l WS |>KUI W UUV I ceed for the nation? An executive to. day Is expected to control the leglala. ture and his congress, and we have I been building up executives at the exI pense of our legislative bodies. It is j time to stop and look and listen and t see if there is any mistake. Madison, Jefferson, and Washington all said that a? lone as w*> kent the three depart I merits of the executive, the legislative, 1 and the judicial separate there would . be no danger of the preservation of > liberty, but once let one attempt to do i the duty of the other, and the nation would weaken. We ought, even, to pass t a law to prevent executives In the fu. ture from getting too much power from the legislative branch. There Is no f student of the times, so far as I know, who does not say that the president j has more power than any king or em1 peror." s ? - Xir The fires of self-love never die from lack of fuel.