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SEHI'WEEKL^ t. M GRIST S SONS, Publishers.} 1 Jamili| Heirspaper: $at the promotion of the political. Social. Agricultural and (Commercial Interests of the people. {1 KKs*nolk""oel.'rivick,1mAMlt ESTABLISHED 1855. YORK!VILIAE, S. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1910. NO. 21. Trlxton ' [ King I! CoovritfKt. 1909. bv Gtorle ( j1 Barr McCulcheon I / Copyright, 1909, by Dodd, / Mead Gt Company Synopsis of Preceding Chapters. Chapter I?Truxton King arrives in I Kdelwelss, capital of Graustark, and meets the beautiful niece of Spantz, a gunmaker. II?King does a favor for Prince Robin, the young ruler of the country, whose guardian is John Tullis, an American. Ill?Baron Dangloss, minister of police, interviews King and warns him against Olga, the gunmaker's niece. IV?King invades the royal park, meets the prince and is presented to the lad's fascinating Aunt Loraine. V?The committee of ten, conspirators against the prince, meets in an underground chamber, where the girl Olga Is disclosed as one who is to kill Prince Robin with a bomb. VI?John Tullis calls on the beautiful Countess lngomede, who warns him that her hated and notorious old husband. Count Marlanx. is conspiring against the prince. . VII. VII, IX and X?King visits the house of the witch of Ganlook gap and meets the royal houhehold there. He sees an eye gleaming through a crack in a door, and while searching for the person he is overpowered and dragged into a loft. He is confronted by Count Marlanx and then taken to the underj ground den of the committee of ten. XI?Olga defends King before the committee of anarchists. CHAPTER XII. A New Prisoner Arrives. It was far past midnight when King was aroused from the doze into which he had fallen. Was it the 26th? Loud, quick commands came to his ears. "They are here at last," he heard some one say. "God! This suspense has been awful. But they are here." "Stand ready, then, with the guns!" cried Peter Brutus. "It may be a trick, after all. Don't open that door down there, Spantz, until you know who is on the outside." "It's all right," came at last in the relieved, eager voice of Peter Brutus. "Clear the way, comrades. Give them room. By our holy father, this is a brave triumph. Ah!" Heavy footsteps clogged into the room, accompanied by stentorious breathing and no small amount of grunting from masculine throats. Not one but three or four languages were spoken by tne excited, intense occupants of the other room. King could make nothing of what they said. Finally the sharp, incisive voice of William Spantz broke through the babble, commanding silence. "Still unconscious," he said when some measure of order was secured. Yes," grunted one of the men. "We will have our instructions tomorrow. The count is to inform us before nightfall where she is to be removed to. Next week she is going to go to Schloss Marlanx." Brutus added a cruel, heartless laugh. A woman, thought Truxton. The countess! They had brought her here from Balak. after all. What a remorseless brute Marlanx must be to maltreat his beautiful wife! "To my mind she is more beautiful than his own wife," observed Anna Cromer. "She will be a fine morsel for the count, who has even cast longing eyes on so homely a mortal as I." "All women are alike to him," said Spantz sententiously. "We must put her in the room with the American for the present. You are sure he will take her away before Saturday? A woman's cries are most distressing." It was Spantz who spoke. "I'll stop her crying," volunteered Anna Cromer harshly. "She's regaining her senses!" ex^loimaH r\r?o nf thp mon "Stnnri hnrk. every one. Give her air." Presently the door to King's room was thrown open. He had got to his feet and was standing in the center of the room, his eyes blinking in the glare of light. "Hello!" cried Peter Brutus. "You up. eh? We've got a fair lady for you, my friend. Get back there, you dog! Keep in your corner." "You are a fine bunch of human beings!" blurted Truxton. A man with a lighted candle entered lirst. holding the light above his head. He was followed by two others, who supported the drooping, tottering figure of a woman. "Ivet her sit there against the wall, Drago. Julius, fetch in more candles. She must not be left in the dark. He says she is not to be frightened to death. Women are afraid of the dark and strange dogs. Let there be light." i scoffed Peter Brutus, spitting toward King. Ill S?-I ?"u ?" ?..?? . prated the American, white with anger. "Enough!" commanded William Spantz. "We are not children." Turning to King, he went on. a touch of kindness in his voice: "Cheer her il you can. She is one of your class. Do not let the lights go out." Raising his hands, he fairly drove the others from the doorway. Kor a time King stood in his corner. watching the figure huddled against the opposite wall. Sudenly he started forward, his eyes wide and staring. He had seen that gray riding habit before. Two eager steps he took :il)(l men n.uieu nuiivtn.*. "Oreat Jehovah!" ho gasped, unbelieving. "You! My Ood, is it you?" He dropped to his knees before her, peering into her startled eyes. A look of abject terror crossed the tired, tear stained face. She shrank away from him. "What is it? Where am I?" she moaned. "Oh. let me go! What have I done that you should bring me here ls-t me go. Mr. King! You are not so wicked as"? "I?I bring you here!" he interrupted. aghast Then lie understood. I'tter dismay filled his eyes. "You think that 1 have done this thing to you? Ood above us! Look! I. too. am a prisoner here. They are going to kill me after tomorrow." "Oh. Mr. King, what does it all mean? Forgive me' I see now. You are bound: you are suffering: you arr Q SVorj' of Graustarft By GEORGE BARR IVrCUTCHEOlM <$?($ q years oilier. What have you done? What have I done?" * Hon' f uKHnlr from mp *' )lP llFffPfl. "Try to calm yourself." Then, with the utmost gentleness, he persuaded her to rise and walk about the little room with him. "It will give you courage," he urged. "Poor little girl!" She looked up into his face, a new light coming into her eyes. "Don't talk now," he said softly. "Take your time. Hold to my arm, please. There!" For five or ten minutes he led her back and forth across the room very tenderly. At first she was faint and uncertain; then, as her strength and wits came back to her, courage took the place of despair. She smiled wanly and asked him to sit down with her. "Where are we? What is it all about?" she asked. "Not so loud," he cautioned. "I'll be perfectly candid with you. You'll have to be very, very brave. But wait. Perhaps it will be easier for you to tell me what has hatmened to vou. so far as you know. I can throw light on the whole situation, I think." She became more excited. Her eyes flashed; she spoke rapidly. On the morning of the 23d she had gone for her gallop in the famous Ganlook road, attended by two faithful grooms from the royal stables. "I was in for a longer ride than usual," she said, with sudden constraint. She looked away from her eager listener. "I was nervous and had not slept the night before. A girl never does, I suppose. He looked askance. "Yes?" he queried. She was blushing, he was sure of it. "I mean a girl is always nervous and distrait after?after she has promloo/? vvm qpp " "No; I don't see." "I had promised Count Vos Engo the night before that I? Oh, but It really has nothing to do with the story. I"? Truxton was actually glaring at her. "You mean that you had promised to marry Count Vos Engo!" he stammered. "How very strangely you talk! Are you sure?I mean, do you think it is fever? One suffers so"? He sighed deeply. "Well, that's over! Whew! It was a dream, by Jove!" She waited a moment and then, looking down, said very gently, "I'm so sorry for you." Then she resumed her story. She had gone six or eight miles down the Ganlook road when she came up with five troopers of the royal guard. One of the troopers came forward and respectfully requested her to turn off into another road until a detachment passed, in charge of a ?ang of desperadoes taken at the inn of the Hawk and Raven the night before. Unsuspecting. s)ie rode off into the forest lane for several hundred yards. It was a trap. The men were not troopers, but brigands got up in the uniform of the guard. Once away from the main highway, they made prisoners of her and the two grooms. I m 1 n thrniuh I 1111*11 iuiiomcu a iwiib mui i. roads new to her. When night came they were high In the mountains back of the monastery, many hours ahead of any pursuit. They became stupidly careless, and the two grooms made a dash for freedom. One of them was killed, but one had escaped. Some time during the slow, torturing ride through the forest she swooned. When she came to her senses she was in a dimly lighted room, surrounded by men. The gag had been removed from her month. She would have shrieked out in her terror had not her gaze rested upon the figure of a man who sat opposite, his elbows on the back of the chair which he straddled, his chin on his arms. He i was staring at her steadily, his black eyes catching her gaze and holding it as a snake holds the bird it has charmed. She recognized the hard, hawklike face. There could be no mistake. She was looking into the fact that made the portrait of the Iron Count so abhorrent to her?the leathery head of a cadaver with eyes that lived. She broke down and cried herself into the sleep of exhaustion. All the next day she sat limp and i helpless in the chair they had brought to her. She could neither eat nor f drink. Late in the afternoon Marlanx ' came again. She knew not from ? whence he came; he stood before her suddenly as if produced by the magic 1 of some fabled genie, smiling blandly, his hands clasped behind his back, his attitude one of designing calculation. I "He laughed when 1 demanded that ' he should restore me to my friends. I He chided me when I pleaded and beg! ged for mercy. My questions were ; never answered. Where am I, Mr. King? oh. this dreadful place! Why are we here?you and I?" King's heart throbbed fiercely once , more. A vast hunger possessed his ; soul. In that moment he could have ' laid down his life for her with a smile i of rejoicing. Then he told her why she was there, why he was there and of the 26th? ' the dreadful 26th! "God in heaven!" she repeated over ? and over again in a piteous whisper. The light was going out. "Quick'" he cried. "The candle! Light a fresh one. My hands are bound." ' She crept to the candles and joined i the wicks. A new light grew as the I old <>ne lied. Then she stood erect. looking down upon him. I "You are bound. I forgot." i She started forward, dropping to her ' knees beside hint, an eager gleam in her eyes. 'If I can untie the rope? 1 will that help? There must be one , little chance for you?for us. Let me i try." "By Jove," he whispered admiringly, l his spirits leaping to meet hers, "you've got pluck. You put new life in me. I I ?I was almost a?a quitter." i At last, after many despairing tugs, I the knot relaxed. "There!" she cried, sinking back exhausted. "Oh, how it i must have hurt you! Your wrists are raw!" His arms were stiff and sore and 1 hung like lead at his sides. She watch- 1 ed him with narrowed eyes while he ' stood off and tried to work blood and ! strength back into his muscles. "Do you think you can?can do any thing now, Mr. King?" she asked after ] a long interval. "We must escape," < she said as if it were all settled. 1 "It cannot be tonight," he gently in- 1 formed her, a sickness attacking his ' heart. "Don't you think you'd better try to get some sleep?" ' He prevailed upon her to lie down, ' with his coat for a pillow. In two minutes she was asleep. > For an hour or more he sat there looking sorrowfully at the tired, sweet ' face, the utmost despair in his soul At * last he stretched himself out on the floor near the door, and as he went to t sleep he prayed that Providence might open a way for him to prove that she ? was not depending on him in vain. CHAPTER XIII. A Divinity Shapes. 1 It was pitch dark when he awoke. The sound of breathing came to his ' ears. He sat up. His hands were free. It had not been a dream. She was lying over there asleep. The candle had burnt itself out; that was all. He crept ! softly across the flodr. In the darkness he found her and touched the garments she wore?and drew back enthralled. * Arraid to move ror rear 01 uisiuiu- t ing her, he sat quietly for an hour or more. All this time his brain was i working like mad in the new found desire to perform miracles for the sake . of this lovely, unattainable creature. ^ He was forgetting the prince, the hor- ^ rors of the 26th; he was thinking only of saving this girl from the fate that Marlanx had in store for her. Vos Engo may have had the promise, but what could it profit him if Marlanx f had the girl? Footsteps in the outer room recalled ' him to the bitter reality of their posi- * tion. He awoke her and whispered words of encouragement into her be- j wildered ears. Then he put on his coat j and threw himself on the floor, first wrapping the rope about his wrists to deceive the guard. A key turned In the padlock. Old man Spantz stood in the doorway. "It is noon," said the old man irasci- j bly. Then he came In and lighted a candle. "Noon of the 2,r>th," said Truxton bitterly. "In twenty-four hours it will be all over, eh, Spantz?" "At noon tomorrow." Julius Spantz brought in the food J for the prisoner, sotting in on tlie " floor between them. 'It is usually the duty of our friend Julius to feed me," observed Truxton to his fellow prisoner. THE WHOI.H WEIGHT OF TBUXTON KINO'S BODY WAS BEHIND THE TKRIFF10 BLOW. < "Julius?" queried the girl from the castle, peeling at the man. "Not Juli- i us Spantz of the armory?" i "The same," said Truxton. Julius laughed awkwardly. "Enough," snarled William Spantz. i His manner changed completely, how- ( ever, when he turned to address the young lady. "I beg to inform you, < madam, that your stay is to be brief, j Tonight you will be removed to more pleasant quarters that a friend has prepared for you. As for you, my ] friend." turning to Truxton and smil- ; ing ironically, "I deeply deplore the j fact that you are to remain. When j we next gather in the room beyond a 1 new dispensation will have begun. ( You may be interested then to hear ] what we have to say out there." I With a profound bow to the lady and i a leer for King he departed, bolting the i door behind him. Instantly King was at her side. i "An idea lias come to me," he whis- | p? l ed eagerly. "I think I see a way." "Mr. King, what is it you intend to | do? Phase tell me. I must know. , You heard what lie said about taking me to tile count's. He meant Mar- ] lanx. 1 will (lit* lirst." "No. 1 will die lirst. Hy the way, I may as well tell yrni that I wasn't thinking altogether of how we are to ( escape. Why should I save you from , Marlanx just to have you hurry off and get married to Vns Engo? It's a mean thought. I know," hastily: "but, ] just the same. I hate to think of your ] marrying some one else." I "Some one else?" she questioned, a pucker on her forehead. I "till. I know I wouldn't have a ghost of a chance even if there wasn't a Vos ( Engo. It isn't that." he explained. "I recognize the?er?difference in our . stations and"? I "What has all this got to do with your plan to escape?" < "Nothing at all. The point I'm try- | ing to get at is this: Don't you think | It's pretty rough on a hero to save the girl for some other fellow to snap up iml marry?" "1 think I begin to see," she said, a touch of pink coming into her cheeks. "That's encouraging," he said, staring gloomily at the food he had put nside. "You are quite sure you promised Vos Engo that you'd marry him?" "No. I did not promise him that I'd marry him." "You said you had promised"? "You did not allow me time to finish. I meant to say that I had promised to let him know in a day or two. That is all. Mr. King." There was a auspicious tremor in her voice. "What's that?" he demanded. "You ?you don't mean to say that? Oh, Lord, I wonder?I wonder if 1 have a ^hance?just a ghost of a chance! He eaned very close, incredulous, fascinated. "What is il that you are going [o let him know?yes or no?" "That was the question I was considering when the brigands caught nil " cha qnou'Drdr^ "Of course he Is In your own class," said Truxton glumly. She hesitated an instant. "Mr. King, las no one told you my name?who I un?" she asked. "You are the prince's aunt. That's ill I know." "No more his aunt in reality than rack Tullis is his uncle." "Who are you, then?" "I am Jack Tullis' sister, a New Iforker bred and born, and I live not nore than two blocks from your"? He stared at her in speechless imazement. "Then?then you are not i duchess or a"? he began again. "Not at all?a very plain New York>r," she said, laughing aloud. "You ire not disappointed, are you? Does t spoil your romance to"? "Spoil it? Disappointed? No! By 3eorge, I?I can't believe that any >uch luck?no, no, I don't mean it Just :hat way! Let me think it out. Let lie get it through my head. "Miss Tullis," he said, a thrill in his Mice, "you ai'e a princess just the same. I never was so happy In my ife as I am this minute. It isn't so ilack as it was. I thought I couldn't vin you because you"? "Win ma 9M cha era ana/1 '' Quupvu. "Precisely. Now I'm looking at it lifferently. I don't mind telling you nat I'm in love with you?desperately n love. It's been so with me ever dnce that day in the park. I loved ,'ou as a duchess or a princess and ivithout hope. Now, I?I?well, I'm pting to hope. Perhaps Vos Engo ias the better of me just now, but I'm n the lists with him?with all of hem. If I get you out of this place? ind myself as well?I want you to unlerstand that from this very minute I im trying to win you if it lies in the jower of any American to win a girl vho has suitors among the nobility." "Are?are you really in earnest?" she nurmured. "I mean every word of it. I do love rou." "I?I cannot talk about it now, Mr. King," she lluttered, moving away "rom him in a sudden panic. Pres ntly he went over to her. She was standing near the candle, staring down it the Hume, with a strangely preoc,'upied expression in her eyes. "Forgive me," he said. "I was hasy, inconsiderate. I"? "You quite took my breath away," me puiueu, idukiiik up ai mm, uuu u lueer little smile. "I know," he murmured. Her troubled gaze resumed its sober contemplation of the flame. "You won't leave me to my fate because you think I'm going to marry? some one else?" He grew very sober. "Miss Tullis >'ou and I have one chance in a thousand. You may as well know the :ruth." "Oh. I can't bear the thought of that Ireadful. old man," she cried, abject listress in her eyes. He gritted his teeth and turned t way. Late in the afternoon Anna Cromer ippeared before them, accompanied by two of the men. Crisply she comnanded the girl to come forth. She was in the outer room for the Setter part of an hour listening to \nna Cromer and Mme. Drovnask, who tinned the praises of the great Count Nlarlanx into her ears. They bathed the girl's face and freshened her garments. It occurred to her that she was being prepared for a visit of the redoubtable Marlanx himself and put the question plainly. "No," said Anna Cromer. "He's not coming here. You are going to him. He will not be Count Maxlanx after tomorrow, but Citizen Marlanx, one of the people, one of us." Little did they know Marlanx. "Julius and Peter will come for you tonight," said Mine. Drovnask, with an rvil suggestive smile. Truxton was beginning to tremble with the fear that she would not be returned to their room when the door was opened and she came in. Some time in the tense, suffocating iiours of the night they heard the sounds of many footsteps shutlling iboui the outer room. There were loarse, guttural, subdued good by s and well wishes; the creaking of heavy joors and the dropping of bolts. ICventually King, who had been listen ing aiei wy, realized mat uui nvu in iuc men remained in the room, Peter Brutus and Julius Spantz. An hour crept by and another. Kin,? tvas groaning under the suspense. The time was too slowly approaching when lie was to attempt the most desperate act in all this sanguinary tragedy. He had told her of his plan. She knew the part she was to play. And if all went well?ah, then! Suddenly lie started to his feet, his jaws set. his eyes gleaming. The telegraph instrument was clicking in the outer room. Taking his position near the girl, who was crouching in real dismay, he leaned against the wall, his hands behind him, every muscle strained and taut. The do* r opened, and Julius Spantz, bewiskered and awkward, entered. He wore a raincoat and storm hat and parried a rope in one of his hands. "Time you were asleep," he said stupidly, addressing King. He turned to the girl. "Come, madam, I must"? He did not complete the sentence. The whole weight of Truxton King's body was behind the terrific blow that landed on the man's Jaws. Julius Spantz's knees crumpled. He lunge against the wall. The man was stun ned beyond all power of immediat action. It was the work of an instar to snatch the revolver from his cos pocket. "Guard the door!" whispered Kin to the girl, pressing the revolver int her hand, "and shoot if you have to!" A handkerchief was stuffed into th unconscious man's mouth. The Ion coat and boots were jerked from hi limp body before his hands and fee were bound with the rope he carrie< The bushy whiskers and wig were re moved from his head and transferre in a tlash to that of the America! Then the boots, coat and hat found new wearer. Peter Brutus was standing in th stairway leading to the sewer. "Hurry up, Julius," he called im peratively. "They are below with t'n boat." Wht-n a tall, grunting man emerge from the Inner room bearing the 11m figure of a girl In a frayed raincoat h did not wait to ask questions, but rush ed over and locked the cell door. The he led the way down the narroi stairway. His only reply to King1 guttural remark in the Graustark lan guage was: \ "Don't speak, you rbol! Not a wor until we reach the river." A moment later the \girl was beln lowered through the h\le into rougl eager arms. Brutus and his compan ion dropped through, the secret bloc of masonry was closed, and off throug the shallow waters of the sewer glide the party riverward In the nolseles boat that had come up to ferry them. There were three men In the boa not counting Truxton King. To be Continued. PLUCKY VOYAGERS. Schooner Sailed From Nome to Seat tie By Landlubbers. As an illustration of adaptabilft to circumstances and the willing ness to take chances In order t achieve results of any kind of th men who open up a new country t civilization, a recent Incident is in structive. A little 3chooner reache Seattle recently from Nome, on Ber ing Sea. She made the voyage dow during the most tempestuous seaso of the year in the North Pacific an had survived storms which tried well found steamships of the better clas; Yet there was not a man on boarc from the captain down, who had eve made a voyage at sea, save as pas sengers on a boat running to Alaskt There were no navigating instrument on board save a compass and an ob solete Russian chart of the Xort Pacific. These men wanted to come out fo the winter, and there was no othe way within their means to accom plish the trip. They got hold of th schooner and they started with hei They were not seamen or naviga tors, simply handy men who wer accustomed to doing things for them selves. This was out of the routine but they did it. It is spoken of i maritime circles as the most remark able voyage in the annals of the Pa cific, but it is hardly that. Men o like type have done as remarkabl things on this coast, and even mor remarkable ones. For exampU many years since, two men who ha been prospecting in Bering Sea mad the voyage down to Seattle in a two man bidarka. a native skin cano< They had to land through the sur on the beach every night, and the did it, drying out their canoe care fully so that it might not fall apar In the early days of the rush t the Klondike many men made thei way to Skagway and Juneau in sma sloops or in Columbia river fishin boats, open to the weather. Whe tne uassier rusn siuiicu m mc c?i.. seventies some men made their \va to Fort Wrangell, Alaska, and as fa up the Stikine river as possible i open rowboats, some flat-bottome skiffs. For the matter of that a large per centage of the men who went int the Klondike first, including men wh at the start knew absolutely nothln about boats or boat-building, whip sawed out lumber from the fores trees, built boats, and in these boat braved the rapids and made thei way down the river to the Klondike some, indeed, finally going all th way down, upward of 2,000 miles to the mouth of the river. The men who made the voyag down from Nome in a little schoone without any previous knowledge c seamanship probably saw nothing re markable in the feat. They wer used to doing things that had to b done with the material that cam to hand, whether they knew anythin about how it should be done or no ?Seattle Post-Intelligencer. THE HEIGHT OF TREES. How Growth Is Influenced by Locatio ?Difficult of Correct Measurement. A tree 100 feet high, accuratel measured, is not as tall as it look: There are not many trees in the gar dens and parks of this country tha exceed 100 feet, notwithstanding th records of reputedly much highe trees than this. We have been tol that the highest tree in Kew garden carefully measured with a tape wa 103 feet and that the tallest pine, Corsican near the entrance is 86 fee' There .are some specimens of Atla and Lebanon cedars in these garden: but not one of them is 70 feet higi A larch that had been drawn up b surrounding beeches and was looke upon as a giant was blown down i 1002 and it proved to be 110 feet Ion* Beech, among the tallest of our tree: rarely reaches 100 feet, though Di Henry measured one in Kilkenny i 1904 which was 117 feet. The famou deciduous cypress, Tarodum desti chum, in Syon Park, Brentford, is, ac cording to Mr. Elwes, 110 feet higl the tallest of its kind in Europe. The same authority gives 105 fee as the height of the tallest horse chest nut he had seen, though there ar ners estimated to be even highe than this. The tallest walnut is fior 80 fret to 85 feet, and the tallest blae walnut, at Marble IIlll, Twickenhair was 08 feet high when measured b Dr. Henry in 1905. Oaks have bee measured up to 130 feet, but they ar <iuite exceptional, 100 feet being abov the average for our tallest oaks. The height of trees is influenced b the company they grow in. For ex ample, a larch growing in the ope would most likely fail to reach 10 feet in height, whereas larches grow ing close together or pressed upwar by other trees have been known to ex ceed 130 feet in this country. Th California giant trees of the welling tonia owe their great height to th same influence. Not even in the country would this tree have growto 300 feet or more if it had not bee forced to grow upward because 1 could not prow outward. According to Mr. Elwes, one of th tallest wollinptonlas in this country i at Fonthill Abbey, which in 190 measured "certainly over 100 feet an probably 105 feet hiph." This is a least 10 feet hlpher than the talle> at Strathfieldsaye. Tt is next to im possible to ascertain th-> correc height of a tree by any other mear than that of careful measurement there are, we know, ingenious contri vances for doing it otherwise, hut the are not reliable. Of course the ap proximate height may be near enoug and yet be a long way out.?The Fieic '! iUisccllaucous Sradiiij). :e --- _? 11 THE CASE OF BALLINGER. it Usefulness of the Secretary of the Interior Seems to be Destroyed. ? In the course of Its determined and persistent campaign against Secretary a BaI linger, Collier's Weekly has gone K hack to the early business operations 's of that distinguished statesman and raked up accounts of his alleged misdoings in connection with the development of certain properties in Alabama. The story presented this week 1* under the title "Some Lighter Aspects a of Rnlllneer" is most hnlii in its man. ner and not unconvincing in particue lars. It is set forth that after graduating from college, Bailinger soon married g and went to live in Decatur, Ala., opening an office for the practice ol law, but also took up the developp ment of industrial enterprises, one ol c which was a nail factory, with which this story has to do. It is related that Bailinger went back to the Massa* chusetts town where he had married g and induced many of his wife's friends to invest in the stock of his nail factory, also persuading some of the Mas^ sachusetts people to move to Decatur and accept positions with the concern. g In the course of his operations, it is alleged that Bailinger went to Mr. Casey of Lee, Mass., and secured a loan k of $1,000 for one week on the representation that a Lenox banker had sub^ scribed for $3,500 of stock in the nail s factory, to be paid on the receipt ol the stock certificate which should, Ballinger said, reach him in a few days. Upon the plea that Bailinger was fore ed to go to Boston to close up important matters, Casey let him have the $1,000. It is then alleged that at the end oi ; tie week the money was not repaid to Mr. Casey, who began to investigate, y hnding that the Lenox banker had r never subscribed for any of the stock, o Letters to Ballinger, it is stated, were e not answered, and subsequently Ballino ger moved to Seattle, after the failure - of the nail factory. Hearing some d years later that Ballinger was a candi" date for district Judge in Seattle, Mr. n Casey undertook to collect the long 11 standing loan, and succeeded in doing d so oniy after threatening to make the " whole matter public. ' Boiled down to its essentials, the ' charge in the article referred to Is r that Ballinger j..ayed a bold and out^ rageous game of swindle, both upon s the people of Lee, Mass., and Decatur, Ala. It would seem that no periodical ^ would make such a charge against a r cabinet officer unless the facts were r certain and provable. But on the oth" er hand, the reputation of Collier's for ^ reckless assertion is well known and in this particular case It must be re e membered that the period during which Ballinger is said to have operated in n Alabama was the boom period, when many men of otherwise sane and judi cious dispositions chased mere raln? bows and at the end found themselves e utterly unable to carry out pledges i. honestly made. It is quite possible ^ that this was the experience of Ballinger in Decatur, j. But at any rate, this and other allef gations now being advanced deroga^ tory to the secretary of the interior, t. are seriously injuring, and have se0 riously injured, his reputation, so 1 much so that his retirement from the g cabinet of President Taft can be but n a matter of time. In the end Mr. Taft y must .repudiate Ballinger, avowing ^ that he has been grossly deceived, or n Ballinger must himself insist upon d his resignation to relieve the president of further embarrassment.?Columbia Record. o , m T g boy and girl inventors. if ? s Astonishing Record of Thoir Achievor m?nts, p Never in the history of the country 3, have so many boys and girls been Interested in practical scientific and me? chanical inventions and experiments as now. From all quarters come re ports of achievements by mere young0 sters which are astonishing. ? Boys who a generation ago would g have been told that " children should t. be seen, not heard," are today taking out patents. The records show that during the last year many boys and girls from 11 to 20 years of age applied for and received letters ol n patent on a variety of inventions ranging from a corn husker to a new y signalling device for which the inventor refused $18,000. In addition to those who did apply e for patents there were thousands of r others who built for their own amused ment various forms of mechanical and s scientific instruments and never s bothered protecting tfheir ideas ina corporated in their construction. When the government took steps to g suppress the amateur wireless operators the secret service men found, in two weeks' investigation, that there y were not less than 400 boys In C1 Greater New York capable of intern cepting any message which might be r sent from or to the tleet. Hundreds of other boys in this city are working / with wireless apparatus but are less n expert in its use. s Of course the early training that tho m ndern hnv reeeives does much _ to stimulate his inventive faculties. Manual training Is now taught in many schools and the boys and girls t are encouraged to make tools and In. struments they may need. For the e past two years special instruction in r the making and use of wireless apn paratus has been given at the Chilk dren's Museum of the Brooklyn Ini, stitute. The results are visible on y several hundred roofs of that city, n Paul Worth, aged 15, and his chum, e Eric Leavers, aged 16, have con?. structed two high power instruments. Each made his entire apparatus, v young Worth constructing most of his > out of old blocks. William Pearsall. n another sixteen-year-old Brooklyn 0 boy, built an instrument with which - he caught messages coming from a <1 thousand miles at sea. Alfred Fage Lane, 17 years old, of e Manhattan, has sent messages several hundred miles by his home-made t> instrument. Emil Krebaum, only 14. it has put up two poles, each 125 feet n high, which support his aerials out n in The Bronx. Over at Hastings on It the Hudson, Reginald Wand, aged 7, invented his own wireless, for h/e e never saw any other machine. He s lacked poles, so he climbed a tree f, and put a jacket, as wireless folks d call it, on that. it That science and morality do not il always go hand in hand was shown - in Los Angeles. Four boys, ranging t in age from 14 to 17 years, who were s arrested for burglary by the police, ; tipped off the other members of their - gang by wireless. It was discovered y that the gang had been operating an i- up-to-date burglars' club. Wireless h stations were installed by the boys I. and operated In various parts of the city and the members of the gang kept informed of one another's movements. Then there was William Langar, aged 18, arrested not long ago by the New York police because it was alleged that he had stolen about $1, 800 worth of fixtures and machinery from various yachts along Long , land Sound and used the material to equip a high grade wireless station ' which he had constructed near his ? home in The Bronx. , Weddle Stokes, whose father, W. E. D. Stokes, owns the Ansonia hotel, 1 had constructed betore he was 12, an unusually line wireless apparatus on . the roof of the hotel. He has accomplished good results with his outtit, but this has been superseded in '< his interest by a wireless telephone t which he invented some time ago. He has also constructed a glider. It worked so well from the roof of ' a barn in the country, says Van Norden's Magazine, that the lad had it . shipped to New York. When it arj rived he with a few chosen spirits went to the eighteenth floor of the > Ansonla hotel and was about \o step ; off into space with his glider when his father arrived on the scene. It , is hardly necessary to note that W. E. D. Stokes, Jr., gave up his ideas i of immedate flight and retired from ; the scene chastened if not convinced. Lawrence Lesh, 17 years old, of New York, holds the world's record ' for gilding. Last year he flew six i miles over the St. Lawrence river in a glider of his own design. He has attained the height of 135 feet in his most successful glides. He is designing a new machine from which , he expects to obtain even better re. suits. Ralph Barnaby, Bryant Battey and Walter Phlpps are among the hundred or more boys, members of the V?... 4>c? iuia acLiiuin ui iuc JUIIIUI Aero club, who have designed and built gliders. One enterprising New York boy is making money by designing and building model aeroplanes and gliders. He is Percy Pierce, a flfteen' year-old school boy, and in the last year he has made fifty or more of these models. Probably the youngest , of the youthful experimenters is little Wilson Marshall, Jr., the elevenyear-old son of a New York yachts man. Wilson has built a large glii der with which he is making successful flights. E. Irving Harnes, 14 years old, of Los Angeles, Cal., has also built a glider with which he has won many prizes. Another schoolboy inventor is Jack Rogers of New York, who has built an aeroplane different from the well known machines. The frame is made ! of white wood, very few screws and bolts being used. Where possible the joints are fastened with waxed linen cord to give elasticity and prevent the frame from splitting in case of accident. The whole is securely braced by wires in the usual manner. At each end is a wing which is operated by a drum from the centre. The machine has two propellers and is controlled by two rudder planes. Alfred P. Morgan and Harold E. Dodd, of Upper Montclair, N. J., have completed a biplane. The machine is twenty-nine feet long and has a width of five feet and is driven by a gas motor. For several years young Morgan, who is a freshman in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been experimenting in aeiro<M fV,nf Kno Kit i 11 uauuta aiiu in uiai nine .icvo uum many model planes. The present aeroplane Is the result of this work. Before installing the engine the boys used the plane as a glider. Cromwell Dixon, Jr., a boy of Columbus, Ohio, has for some time been making flights in a dirigible balloon, propelled by a device of his own invention. He is a slender lad and while only now in his sixteenth year has for several years been known as the world's youngest aeronaut. Dixon has also invented a mile a minute motorcycle and a practical tent for dirigibles. One of the most remarkable inventions made by a boy is a device for signalling on elevated roads, the work of Morris Schaeffer, aged 15. From Indiana comes the story of Claude Moore, the twenty-year-old son of a coal miner. Young Moore's worldly wealth had got down to the sum of two cents when he received word that the patent office had given him a patent on a corn husker. Being a thrifty person, he thereupon sold it to the harvester trust for real money. Francis Lee Herreshoff, the young nephew of the yacht designer, has constructed a high power racing automobile which has developed a speed of eighty miles an hour. He has patented also a device for subduing the glare of acetyline lamps. A sman Doy wno possesses more than the average amount of mechanical skill and inventive genius Is Danny Chatfield of Detroit. Two years ago Danny's father gave him a well equipped workshop and ever since the boy has spent most of his spare time absorbed In making models of various mechanical inven1 tlons. He Is only 11 years old, but in the past two years has invented an engine for toy boats and a model of an Improved toy engine. Wonderful as Is the record of these boy inventors their small sisters are not far behind them in the exercise , of their inventive faculties. The compartment tray for holding eggs while In transit was invented by Ella Marsh, the fifteen-year-old daughter of an Illinois farmer. , Miss Sophie Hellburn has patented a machine which will open four hun dred letters a minute. Miss Hellburn is the head of one of the biggest mall order concerns in New York. Some time ago she saw that It required too much time and labor to open the day's mall. The present machine is designed to obviate this and opens ten thousand letters a day. Another girl, only fifteen years old, who has secured letters of patent on an invention is Ernesta Carston dl Luisi. She has devised a turntable which, fixed to any vehicle, will enable it to reverse at once. Realizing the fallibility of her sex when it comes to keeping engagements, Adele Cox has invented a bracelet which will remind the fair owner that she is not on time. This bracelet Is equipped with a needle which will prick the arm at a given time and call the attention of its owner to the fact that time files. Mourning Customs.?The widow's mourning cap dates back to the days of ancient Egypt, says Harper's Weekly. Egyptian men shaved the beard and the head as a token of mourning. The women, instead of cutting off the hair, concealed it with a close cap. The Romans, who were as a race cleanshaven, shaved the head in mourning anil wore a wig. The black band on the sleeve, as a sign of mourning, comes to us from the (lays or chivalry, rne lany ucu a scan or napkin, as the handkerchief was called, about the arm of her knight. If he was killed in battle she wore the band in memory of him. Black has so long been the color of grief in Anglo-Saxon countries that it seems a part of the upside-down civilization of the east that Japan and China wear white. But no longer ago than the time of Elizabeth the unfortunate Mary of Scotland wore white on the death of Darnley. Even now the hearse used for children is white, and in England the mourners at funerals of young unmarried persons wear hatbands and ' sashes of white. A queer English custom is that of i decorating the black hearse horses with long black tails. They attract no more attention on a street of an English city J than do the black nets used In this country to cover the horses. GETTING IT BY MAIL. How a 90 Cents Article Is Made to Cost $125. We wish everybody In Anderson could have heard Mr. Norman II. Johnson's address to the Retail Merchants' association last night. It was a plain, business talk, and was in structlve as well as entertaining. While speaking of the mall order evil, and the need of educating the people along this line, he told a capital story which illustrates the point better than anyhing we have ever heard. A farmer went to a merchant In a country town In North Carolina, he said, to buy an axe. Tne merchant priced the axe at $1.10. "That is too high," said the farmer, "I can get it from Shears, Sawbusk and Co. for 90." "All right," said the merchant, "I will will sell you the axe as cheap as you can get It from those people. Give me' -? the 90 cents." The farmer handed over the money, and then the merchant said: "Now, give me 8 cents that you would have had to pay for a money order. And 2 cents additional for postage that you would have had to pay." "I hadn't thought of that," replied the farmer, "but you are right Here's your money." "And now," give me 25 cents which you would have had to pay as express on the axe from Chicago." "By gum!" exclaimed the farmer, "I see. But you are right, and I am a man of my word. Here's your quarter. I am out 15 cents on your original price, but I've learned a lesson." The merchant wrapped the axe In a neat package and laid it on a shelf behind the door. "Come around in ten days from now and get your axe," he said. "You would have had to wait that long if you had ordered it from Chicago." The farmer almost fainted, but he couldn't say a word. The merchant had him dead to rights. But the merchant, after teasing him for a while, gave him his axe, and returned 15 cents, this being the excess of his original price on the axe. But that farmer hasn't ordered anything from a mall order house since.?Anderson Mall. KRUPP'S UNLIMITED. Story of German Firm Which Employs 150,000 Men. The great German firm that is known to every one as "Krupp's," and which supplies half the civilized world with what it wants In the way of can non, is buying a large tract of land in Holland with the object of erecting new works there. If so, this gigantic business, which already gives employment to about 150,000 men, and owns a city and several towns and villages in Germany, will soon possess no fewer than nine different groups of works. The rise of the firm has been remarkably swift. In 1810 a working mechanic called Frederick Krupp set up a forge in the village of Essen. Wretchedly poor, he yet contrived to keep four workmen in his pay. He had ideas which, he hoped, would revolutionize the manufacture of steel. Handicapped by his poverty, however, and by a ten years' lawsuit, he accomplished nothing, and died, worn out by failure, in 1826. When his son Alfred, for whose schooling the widowed mother had scarcely been able to pay, entered the Dusiness in iota, ne luuuu, to use ma own words, "three workmen and considerably more debts than cash." Before his death, fifty years later, he was -,ne of the most powerful factors In the wars of Europe. Wedged In between two huge workshops in Essen, which is now a city of 250,000 inhabitants and is practically the property of the firm, there stands the tiny oldfashloned cottage in which the founder of the firm struggled for a livelihood. It bears an inscription in the handwriting of Alfred Krupp, commending the example ot his parents to the work people. The site of that cottage is worth thousands, but it still stays unused. It would be difficult to name three European countries in which the Krupp firm have no interests. In Germany they own, besides Essen (their headquarters), the Germania Dockyard at Kiel (where they build nrpnrinmiehts). three coal mines, many iron mines and foundries, and great steel-making works at Rheinhausen on the Rhine and at Madgeburg. They have iron an J c< al mines all over Europe. The famous Iron-mining town Bilboa in Spain is partly theirs. It is from Bilboa that Britain gets "most of her supplies of iron ore. Everything the Krupp's do is on a gigantic scale. At Essen they keep a hotel solely for the use of the firm's guests. These are chielly foreign military and naval officers inspecting the wora Krupp's are carrying out for their respective countries. No bills, of course, are presented. This hotel costs Krupp's a clear ?25,000 a year. Alfred Krupp was succeeded by his son, the second Frederick Krupp. The new head of the firm was a peaceloving scientist with a passion for botany and zoology, and a positive distaste for cannon making. Rumor has It. however, that on at least one occasion he made his presence felt. On one occasion he bearded Bismarck in his den and told him flatly that a certain war must not break out. And it did not. There are several uncrowned kings in Europe, ana tne neuu 01 me Krupp firm is certainly one of them. There are very few nations that can wage a war without the assistance of Krupp's. The firm is now managed by a board of twelve directors, the chairman of which is the second husband of Frau Krupp, the late Frederick's widow. Frau Krupp, as she is still called, is the largest shareholder. The name, by the way, is pronounced "Koop." Frau Krupp and her two daughters have all married German barons, friends of the kaise?\ The emperor, indeed, is said to have done the matchmaking, as he naturally wishes to bind the Krupp interests as firmly to those of the state as possible. Around Essen four towns have been specially built by the Krupp firm for their workmen. Two of these are garden cities, much like those of England, and are reserved for retired and disabled employees. In Essen itself the Krupp institutions are innumerable. There are two "housekeeping" schools for Krupp girls. Reside the usual libraries and technical colleges there are Krupp cafes, Krupp churches, a Krupp park?all solely for the use of the firm's employees. There Is a Krupp restaurant. In which 2.000 Krupp workmen can dine at one time. ?Pearson's Weekly.