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A WO HERO By WILLIAN' John, dear." said little Mrs. Twining ruefully, "everything is getting cold." She stood in the doorway, looking into the narrow study where her hus^ hand sat In the midst of bottles. ....,,i?i ofld-shaned CI1I1ICUI lliri llltnurii . L little knives in glass cases on the "I thought that Italian woman would never go," she added. "John dear" was one of those quiet men, often bald, always preoccupied, who are encountered in public places carrying black satchels, and are carefuly avoided until the baby swallows its lucky penny, or some similar domestic tragedy occurs. "That Italian woman Is going to help me a lot. even if she is a charity patient." said John Twining thoughtfully. "I couldn't have found such a tough test for the discovery if I had searched the hospitals with a finetooth comb. When I finished with her?which will be tomorrow?I shall get to work on my paper for the medical society." "And then you I! be famous," rejoiced his wife, giving his arm a squeeze. "And we'll move to a new flat where the children will have plenty of room to grow, and you will get on speaking terms with a good tailor." She gave his arm another squeeze. A "Oh. I'm so glad, dear." John Twining ruffled his sparse i v. ? i _ ?'iHi Vil? hand and stood k regarding his wife rather anxiously. The commercial side of his discovery had not yet occurred to him. and now it startled him to find that his wife had not been so altruistic. "To tell the truth, Maria. I never thought about it that way." said he. He frowned thoughtfully as he entered the narrow dining-room, where a table, four chairs, a small sideboard, and a miniature glass-closet jostled one another. "Medical men don't make much out of their discoveries," he went on. "That is, except those chaps who get up patent medicines." ^ Mrs. Twining took her seat at the small table and the room immediately ^ became full to bursting. A larger woman would have been obliged to take refuge on the sideboard. "But I thought it was your discovery. dear," said she. "And I thought every one would have to come to you, and that your hats would no longer survive to a green and fringy old age. And. John, dear, I am afraid that blue of mine isn't going to make over for the fall." "Isn't it?" asked her husband absently. "You see. dear." he went on, ^ "that discovery is something I hold In trust for the world. And all the world must have the benefit of it." Mrs. Twining's face clouded. When <a woman's love of the beautiful has to be satisfied with the various shades her dress develops with the passing years, she may be pardoned if she is tempted to rail at Fate. "Oh. course I don't count." she said coldly. John Twining stirred his tea with the uncomfortable feeling that deep down he must be a villain. He changed the subject rather abruptly. "Did you get your money?" he asked. Mrs. Twining's "money"?a small legacy left by her father, which she had increased by judicious investment a ?was the sacred subject in the * Twining home. Dresses might have to be turned a thousand times, but the "money" was never touched. For some day it would serve to send the children to college. Mrs. Twining nodded. "I sold out my steel last week, and brother Robert brought me the check today. Robert has a wonderful knowledge of Wall Street." "I was so busy, dear." said her husband after a pause, "that I clean forgot to ask what you did with your m check." " , Mrs. Twining's brown eyes?she had soft brown eyes set in an oval, wistful face on which time had already begun to engrave its lines?lit up with pride. "I invested it." she declared. "I intended it as a surprise for you." "It is a surprise," her husband admitted. He broke the shell of an egg with deliberation. "Good investment?" he asked. "The very best! Robert told me about it. You see. Kingsley, the big railroad man, is going to die, and the stock market is bound to go down. Robert explained it all to me very clearly. So I gave him the money again. And when the market goes down I will have a great deal of money. It's what they call a margin." "And if the market goes up?" Mrs. Twining gave a little shudder of dismay. Her face grew suddenly red and then pale again. "Oh, but it must go down." she cried. "Whatever would I do if it didn't?" "The papers all say it's going down." ? he declared reassuringly. "I wouldn't ?>" ' f I^ater in the afternoon, however, when he had returned to his office, he was seized with a vague uneasiness. What would Maria do if the market should go down? And he found himk self smiling at the thought that he. B whose work it was to save life, should W now be indirectly interested in a man's death. Nevertheless, he stole out secretly to the corner to buy the afternoon papers, and was relieved to find that the market had held steady, although with a panicky undertone. In the morning he would have Maria close up her account, he decided, as the first of his patients appeared. The afternoon was unusually crowded. The janitor's boy. with an Interesting case of fishhook in the finger, which had to be attended to free of charge, made the earliest demand on his attention. Then came a Herman with a sprained ankle, followed by a little girl with spinal trouble, one of his regular paMents, These three were all charity patients. Next arrived a red-nosed individual, minus purse, to be treated for the morning after feeling, succeeded by an asthmatic person with a charge account that seemed likely to remain "f?i. until the end of time. After which an <>|<i lady with a had ease of rheumatism laid upon the table the first dollar that John Twining had seen that afternoon. And the doctor, sighing a little, put it away in his pocketbook with as much care as a scientist bestows upon a rare specimen. As there still remained an hour of his official time for afternoon consultations. he now began reading over the notes which contained the record of the several steps tflitt had finally f culminated in the great discovery, fie wits still engrossed in ft is reading when his wife?the Twinings kept no servant?ushered into the room a short, dapper little dark-haired man. with glasses and a silver-headed cane. The newcomer broached his errand promptly. "I>r. Mason sent me here." MAN'S ! HOLLOWAY he explained. "He heard through your friend. Dr. Stanton, that you had made some surprising discover, ies in the treatment of indigestion in ' its most aggravated form. ' , Twining shook his head. He had . had previous encounters with enterprising reporters, which had dulled j his enthusiasm for the press. "I shall have nothing to say for publication until I have made my re- ] port to the medical society." "Oh. I am not a reporter." said the young man with a smile. "Far from it. But a friend of mine, who is waiting outside, would like to have | you treat him. if you will. Had many j cases? I mean, where have you used the discovery?" j Twining briefly explained that he had treated ten cases, most of them ( hopeless ones, and that his success had been uniform. The young man listened with every , appearance of satisfaction. "That j will do. I shall send in my friend j right away." he announced when the story had been told. He strode out from the room, and t in a few minutes returned with a tall man of about sixty, who leaned heavi- . ly on a stout stick as he walked. "My friend. Mr. Dickson," said the ( dapper young man with a wave of his , hand. With a quick nod he vanished. The newcomer turned to Twining * with a smile. "I suppose you wonder , how 1 came here," he remarked. , "You see. I have scoured the world . o ""fo onH oil rr? v frlan^Q u rp nn the alert for anything new. Consequently when my friend, Mason, heard from your friend. Stanton, of your discovery, he telephoned the news to me. Of course." he ended with a lift of his bushy eyebrows, "after all I have gone through. I am naturally from Missouri." John Twining nodded absently. For a moment an outsider would have thought that he had quite forgotten his visitor. "The discovery is genuine," he said at length. "And best of all, the process of recovery is extremely rapid." Mr. Dickson leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes wearily. Deft without the brilliance of his keen, dark eyes, his face was gray and haggard. the face of a man whose days on earth are numbered. "I wonder if we are going to make out." he said slowly. "Make a cure, I mean." "Surely." said John Twining. He was standing in the middle of his study, staring at the array of glass bottles that had served him in his experiments. His face, generally fresh of color, had faded to a dull white. His Angers were playing nervously with his watchguard. "If there are no cancerous complications I hope to cure you in a week," he went on. "But of course I promise nothing." Then the tall man opened his eyes, and swept a hawk-like glance about the room. "I am a business man," he said railltr leeuiy, tiuu j. vtani lu m know Just what you will charge me for the cure. I want to know because I am tired of being bled. Suppose we arrange a price now." "The price, did you say?" John Twlning's voice seemed to himself to come from a thousand miles away. "I have only one price?twenty dollars." The tall man smiled. "Is that a bargain?" he asked shrewdly. John Twining looked once more at the most disagreeable patient he had had the misfortune to receive. "That's every cent. Mr. Kingsley," he said firmly. The older man started slightly. "Confound those newspapers!" he cried. "So the Dickson didn't fool you." He looked closely at Twining. "You don't seem to consider me in the light of a possible gold mine." "No." said Twining grimly, "I don't." Henry Kingsley. master of a dozen railroad systems, lifted his bushy eyebrows. but was silent. He had gained his place by keeping silence when other people talked, and his vast interests combined to render him insensible to personal curiosity. Twining, meanwhile, as he proceeded to diagnose a case with which from report he was already entirely familiar. was busy in the back of his brain with the problem of Kingsley. Should he defer the treatment for a day. by giving hint a harmless tonic? Just long enough to get Maria's money in out of the storm? He could easily do it. he reflected. And it would do absolutely no harm to his patient. It would merely bring things around as they would have been had Kingsley j deferred his call until the next day. t He turned away and busted himself with his note book. And temptation i assailed him more fiercely than ever. Life was a battle, he told himself? N a battle in which the strong survived 'r and the weak went to the wall. And v in this battle it was his duty to tight ^ for the woman who loved him. not r for this stranger who had hired his skill for money. He threw back his r shoulders with decision, and began to v prepare a pleasant tonic, which would hold the case exactly steady until next ^ day. x Henry Kingsley. surveyed him from r the depths of his chair, went through a his examination with an habituated air. s "This makes about the twentieth v time for all those questions. I suppose if I had taken time for my meals t years ago this wouldn't have hap- | pened." a "You never can tell." Twining as- r sured him. "My worst case, a poor r Italian woman, took plenty of time c and ate little." The brilliant dark eyes held him a <1 moment. "Charity patient?" Twining nodded. "A lot of them are that." The dark eyes closed wearily and the sick man sighed as though to himself. "I put myself in your hands. " doctor." he said after a pause. "I have played the game so long that I don't really care if 1 do have to lay down my cards." s ii? lo?n?>ii hack in his chair, his . thin hands clasping his stick, his cavernous face haggard and worn as ' the light fell across it. And Twining, f looking at him. found himself, almost , without thinking, throwing aside the tonic he had been so carefully pre- 1 paring. The simple little phrase: "I c put myself in your hands," had 1 brought all his professional pride to \ the surface. ? f During the next half hour his wife i and the problem of her savings dis- i appeared from Twining's mind, and t only the question of his patient re- c mained. He worked hard, gave the case his undivided attention, and was 1 rewarded by a gleam of pleasure in s the tierce dark eyes. I "I actually feel better already," \ cried Henry Kingsley. i Twining smiled at the other's en- i thusiasm. "Of course you do." he i said encouragingly. He rose to his f feet. "Had anything to eat lately?" r "<>h. I can't eat." said the sick man | with a quick return to his old atti- \ tude of passive endurance. "The t Wall Street vultures know that. They \ follow up my diet and figure out just > how long 'the old man' can last." ; "Never mind the vultures." said Twining carelessly. "Are you bun- i gry ?" i The great financier looked reproach- ^ fully at his questioner. "Hungry? 1 wtiiiiuri i yi>u !? miiiti v ji'? . starving; t?? death?" t Twining smiled. "I am hungry, i too." said he. "And if you'll wait a t few minutes I am going t? let you eat < a small piece of steak." > The master of millions, and of mil- t liotiaires as well, sat bolt upright in t his chair. t "Say. if you can make good on s that!" ? "< ?h. I'll make good all right." I laughed Twining. "Just you wait!" < Me tan into the next room, where I his wife sat reading. "A porterhouse t right away. Maria. please." he t cried. t Mrs. Twining lifted iter face to his. ? She was looking pale and anxious, and her paper, as he casually noticed, was upside down. "For the new patient?" she asked. He nodded, but kept his eyes averted. He was no weakling, yet he shrank from meeting her gaze. "For the new patient." he said. ' Mrs. Twining sprang briskly to her I feet. "I'll have it ready in a few , minutes." she said gaily. "The market held fairly steady today." She caught ' up the paper. " 'Despite rather alarm- i Ing reports regarding the grave condition of a well known operator.'" | she read. -?.<I/1a t Uo r\o r?or oho hli'liutl 1 I'lWiHB aniuv intr toward the door. At the threshold she paused an Instant. "When Kingsley goes?it seems terrible, doesn't It? ?the market will fall to pieces." The parting remark left her husband to paze after her wonderlngly. The little dinner in Twining's study was a very pleasant one. The moment Twining took the tray from his wife's hands at the door he knew that she hud made one of her big successes, and the childish look of unbelieving ecstasy on Kingsley's face confirmed him in his opinion. Finally the great financier laid lown his fork after a hearty attack upon the beefsteak and potatoes. "They starved me for a year," said he with a grin. "If you had starved for a whole year, you would understand just what that beefsteak means ;o me." Twining gazed at him curiously, onscious of a slowly rising feeling of egard for the cavernous, indomitable 'ace in front of him. Then the hought of the trouble he was bringn on his wife came to torment him. He rose impatiently to his feet and drode into the diidng room, returnng in a minute with a pitcher of nilk. "Next week you'll have strawberry pie and coffee," he remarked. "Strawberry pie and coffee!" cried :he old man with a stare of Incredulity. "If you are a New Englander, rou'll know how I feel!" A few minutes later, as he stood iy the door to say good-by. he gave rwining a swift, sidewise glance. 'Steak only once a day for the present. eh? Would you mind if I had s t here with you?" "Surely not!" John Twining 11 milled. He flung open the door in i he face of a regular encampment of \ vaiting reporters. Sharp requests 'or statements came from a dozen hroats. and as many cameras were eveled. t "Xo statement, boys," said Henry j, Kingsley, raising his hand. "I have ust had my first square meal in nonths, and I don't want to be both- t red with statements. Tell them what t [ ate, doctor!" ? Twining faced the array of expect- I mt pencils. "Porterhouse, potatoes, J ind two glasses of milk," he said v iromptly. quite unconscious that he o vas laying the foundation of the fa- t nous "Steak and potatoes" bull mar- 1 tet that started next day. ? "And you may quote me as intend- c ng to come back tomorrow for more," t inin Kinesipv with a wave of his hand, t -le shook Twining warmly by the a land, and made his way to a touring I :ar, in which the dapper young man a iwaited him. i John Twining went slowly back to i lis study, threw himself Into a chair, 1 ind. with his face buried in his hands, f ainly tried to think. He had done t lis duty, he told himself; he was sur- f ir'sed to find how little enthusiasm he thought brought him. There was d Haria, he reflected uneasily. What t lossible excuse could he make for the J oss of her money. He sprang to his s eet and came face to face with his a vlfe. fi "He liked the steak? He will get e letter?" The questions fairly hurled r hemselves at him. "Oh, I am so glad, n Tohn, dear." y "Are you?" asked Twining blankly, o 'There will be a rising market to- a norrow." He hesitated. "That vas?" s "Kingsley, of course," his wife in- a errupted. "The reporters told me t hat. They follow him everywhere, e rou know." She gave his arm a a iqueeze. "And, John, dear, I was just b iraying for you to do your best. I n mew you were having a struggle." b "John, dear" stared at her an instant ere he spoke. "You don't seem g o understand," said he. "That k noney of yours is practically wiped v >ut. You've lost it." a Mrs. Twining flung her arms around 1 ler husband's neck. "But I have my b lero," she whispered. "Don't you b enow, dear, that's what we women fi vant?heroes and not money?" s \iac utniifiinp- hv hpr. half- b mzzled, half-awed by his sudden 1 rllmpse into the unfathomable mys- n er.v of a woman's heart, when the a itreet door was pushed quickly open, md Henry Klngsley appeared on the s hreshold. d "Excuse me." he said hastily, "but s he Atlas Life Insurance company s hooses a new medical director to- d norrow. As I have a little influence t vith the board of directors"?he k miled grimly as he spoke?"I thought d if having the matter go over for a b ortnight. Then if my cure goes on as c feel sure it will, perhaps you will al- f ow me to recommend you for the ii losition. it pays. I believe, ten housand a year." 1 "Oh. but you musn't," began Mrs. c Twining in dazed tones. C "Interfere with his. research work, J nu mean, Mrs. Twining?" asked the fi ild man with a courtly bow. "There <1 vi 11 he no danger of that, as his office g lours will be only from nine until t me." n He flashed upon them one glance if his piercing eyes, bowed again and t] vas gone. u Left alone Mrs. Twining caught her v lusband's face between her hands. It a vas a plain, everyday face, which was si edeemed from the commonplace by p i pair of honest blue eyes. v "John. dear. I'm so proud of you." n he whispered. "I always knew you v vera my hero." 1< "What a funny idea you have of n leroes!" cried "John dear" with a ti uzzled smile. He leaned forward r ind kissed her tenderly. And as he tl narched off to his bottles and ther- u nometers. he condensed the wisdom if ages into one little sentence. a "I don't believe any man ever un- X lerstood them." said John Twining. ii c I, GERONIMO IN ACTION. ?' The Indian Chief's Story of How He f) Whipped the Mexicans. p About noon we began to hear them a peaking my name with curses. In k he afternoon the general came on the jj ield. and the fighting became more ^ minus. I gave orders to my war iors to try to kill all the Mexican k dicers. About 3 o'clock the general ailed all the officers together at the w ight side of the field. The place t< vhere they assembled was not very ti ar from the main stream, and a little v liteh ran nut close to wnere me om ers stood. Cautiously 1 crawled out p his ditch, very close to where the ouncil was being held. n The general was an old warrior, p The wind was blowing in my direction, p to that I could hear all he said, and s understood most of it. This is about t< vhat he told them: "Officers, yonder p n those ditches are the red devil tie- tl oninio and his hated band. This h nust be their last day. Ride on them tl roni both sides of the ditches. Kill e nen. women and children. Take no n risoners: dead Indians are what we .vant. I)o n<>t spare your own men: f xterininate his band at any cost. I d v i 11 post the wounded to shoot all de- o ierters. <?o back t<< your companies ti ind advance." s Just as the command to go forward r vas given I took deliberate aim at the v teneral. and lie fell. In an instant the P pound around me was riddled with |i nil lets, but I was untouched. The ii \paehes had seen. Kroni all along I he ditches arose the tierce warcry of h my people. The columns wavered |i - ... Tlmv f 111 insiaiii ami men ...... . lid nni retreat until <>ur lire had de- < itrnyed the front ranks. After this heir lighting was not so lieree. yet hey continued to rally and leadvance intil dark. They also continued to a i|ieak my name with threats and a urses. Thai night before the tiring a tad ceased a dozen Indians had n rawled out of the ditches and set j| ire to the long prairie grass behind p he Mexican troops. During the con- ? usion that followed we escaped to P he mountains.?Front "t.eronimo's (j hory of His Life." by S. M. Barrett. ,. LIFE IN CHINA. How the Lower Classes of the Flower) Kingdom Exist. For the past few weeks I have had laily glimpses of life in Chinese villages. I do not live In one. No whiW man of the type one finds in the fat f>ast is capable of that, not even t missionary. We found ourselves compelled lat< n the summer to leave Pekin and its iccumulated villainies of stench and heat: and we came here to Peitaiho ivhere missionaries, diplomatists and >ther foreigners seek a few weeks ol fresh air before entering upon an ther winter s worn in tne misnamec elestial capital. And what a grift ol lature Peitaiho is to this foul-smellng country! Surrounded by a rang* splendid mountains that seem t<" neet the sea in a crescent, this bit ol andy rolling shore, studded with Eu opean bungalows. Is entirely cut ofl rom the great expanse of country mown generally as China. There are. it is true. Chinese vllages within the mountain barrier? luaint. peculiar villages: but this place teems to belong to the foreigners. Ex ept when one is passing through hese villages on days when the air is rery still the scene of the sea pre ails. and that of China Is only a emlnder of what we have shaken IY for a while. Yet China Is not unattractive here vhen one is not compelled to live at lose quarters with her people in the tottest weather. Indeed the Chinese lllages round about attract us daily o pay them visits and to take our codaks. Who, indeed, could resist the ittle village temples, with their itrange gods and the haunts of salt unugglers many of whom look remark ibly like American Indians, convincng one that the man of the red skin rent to the new continent by way of ho Rerlng Strait! From the hilltop on which our cotage stands fields of gowllang?or taollang. as some translators spell It ?cover all the slope back as far as he crescent of pineclad mountains hat lend color to the splendid landicape. The gowliang, early in September, turns brown, and the >eople begin to cut it. One conders why they do not raise corn r other products that would nring hem foreign money, whose purchasng power is double their own. The tnswer is that commerce is not yet rganized extensively except along he waterways in China and that the all gowliang supplies food for man nd for beast, and fuel for the winter, ts brown, bushy flower, in appearince like the tops of maize, is made ip of grain, which the villagers are low beginning to thresh by hand; its ong, thin leaves are being dried for odder: its stalks, resembling small lamboo, are being staked as firewood or the coming winter. You go by paths to the villages on lonkeys hired from boys, who drive hem to your door and pester you till 'ou leave our hom,e?for this is the leason when the man who owns . donkey reaps a rich reward. The rowliang paths are hardly wide nough in places for your donkey to ass with you. Often the little beast loses fallen stalks out of the way, and ou must needs lift them over your wn head. Sometimes it is like an rbor through which you pass. You come upon villagers at work, mall villagers and tall villagers; but I ways male villagers, and always hin and always dirty fellows. Of lothes they have very few; the men nair of blue linen trousers, alwavs ilue linen: the hoys a square napkin, nuch shrunk, strung from the neck >y one of the corners. The villages of this part of China ;ive one an impression of the past that s unusual. The houses are low built, vith roofs almost flat, reminding one f rows of tombs in some ancient -atin country. There is a touch of larbarity in the dress of the women? iobble-footed all. because outside the reat cities the belief is still unhaken that women with bound feet ear children better than others, 'here Is a look of the red Indian in nany of the faces, and the smell of Res. Children and dogs in numbers camper out of your way as you pass own the village street, the former houting "Foreigner!" as our youngters would cry "Chinaman!" the logs growling and making slowly for heir doors. The Chinese do not ill dogs, because of a superstitious read growing out of the Buddhist elief that a human soul may be ocupying the body of one; hut if a oreigner should slay one they rejoice n having meat to eat. Since the years of 1900, 1901 and 902, when foreign soldiers were amped in this neighborhood, the "hinese hold the white man and the apanese in great respect. Women, oreign women, go unescorted on onkeys through the villages and the owliang fields. and only the ultraimid sleep with doors barred at ights. Upon the hills?and this is a thing hat strikes the newcomer to Peltaiho ,ith weird effect, especially at night ,hen the moon shines on the water nd the fields of gowliang and the ombre black mountains?there stand erhaps a hundred ruins of houses, ,-hich the Boxers wrecked in their ind campaign. And on the walls of illnges are to be seen still in black stters in German and Russian the antes and numbers of regiments that rtok up winter quarters in them? egiments whose soldiers plundered he peasants and assaulted their omen. Children whose hair is not black nd eyes are not squint, children of or it years of age, are to be seen t these villages hobbling on rumpled feet if they are girls, carrytg the short mattock and the heavy asket if they are pigtailed boys. In their home life the Chinese have vidently many virtues. Adultery and rostitution hardly exists in these viliges. The system of early marriage, lural wives and general family life re so well ordered that vice of the ind that is known in the west has ttle room to thrive. It would seem, :>o. that their respect for traditions olds them in check. Religion, as religion is generally nown, seems to play little part in heir lives. In the southern part of hlna idols and images are everyhere in evidence and much kowiwing and burning of joss sticks ikes place. But here, though every illage has its temple, or at least its hrine, the average one-time hoy lace seems to have fallen into disuse. A family of itinerant beggars will take their temporary home in a temle from which the shaven-headed riest has taken his departure. A hrinp in i\ fwhini* villiiL*-^ will ho n?orl i) store the seines in. A lone temle out on <i promontory, not far from he Russian archimandrite's summer ome and chape), may he entered hrough a vast hole in the wall, made vldently by a shell from a foreign tan-of-war. An eerie place this last, to enter! >n a search for wild orchids the other ay we happened upon it and poked ur way in through the (till grasses, reading carefully lest we come upon nukes. Not even the gods had been amoved, being perhaps of insufficient a I tie in this day. There they sat, errilde in visage and in coloring, robahly twenty warriors of the past, tale and female, round the squatting tuddhn. fearful weapons in their lands, charred sticks of joss stuck in nits before them. Rut these dreadtil gods no longer intimidate the 'hinese of the north.?London News. A New Metal.?The coming of the eroplane has produced a demand for 111 v i <t i w nit n nimiMiu^ lilt- Hiit-IIKIII tnl toughness of stool with tho li^htoss of aluminium, which arc qualities nvaluable for many other purposes, irovided that tho metal will not rust r corrode when exposed to the weathr. Such a metal has recently been iseovered bv Mr. H. B. Weeks, the hief chemist to the well-known bat tleship and gun builders, Messrs. Vlckers, Sons, and Maxim. The new alloy, . which has been patented throughout the world, is only slightly heavier than aluminum, while it is as strong as or. dinary steel, and can be rolled into sheets or drawn into wire. These qualities, together with the absence of ? any tendency to rust or corrode, have . not been commercially produced hitherto, and duralumin, as the new metal 1 is called, will no doubt be extensively' used in future where conditions de, mand the especial features alluded to above. Duralumin is to be manufac' tured near Birmingham, where a facI tory for this purpose is nearlng completion.?Chambers' Journal. 1 ? r AS SEEN IN 1837. I Many Wonders of the Present Day Were Prophesied Then. Traversing the air with the speed of an express train, snugly seated In r an aeroplane, biplane or monoplane: soaring among the clouds while mak, ing scientific research from the basket of a balloon, racing through the country in elegantly upholstered carriages propelled by motive power, all of which are actual realities of the present era, were foretold nearly 100 years ago, clearly indicated in an Illustration and description that was published in London, England, in the i Gallery of Comicalities, under the date of May 1, 1837, an original copy of which is in possession of W. Arthur Jenkins, a St. Louis attorney, residing at 1398 Temple place. A glance ut the Illustration reproduced gives an idea of the splendid conception of the future had by the author of the article. True, modern day motive power vehicles do not present the grotesque appearance outlined in the picture: however, the idea is there, and the conception has been fully carried out, only on a more eniargen iinu mooernizeti scan*. un1 der the caption, "What We Are To Come To?Or a Look Into Futurity," the author of these many years since began a review of the achievements of time in common prose and concluded in verse. Following is the article, just as it was published: "WHAT WE ARK TO COME TO?OR A LOOK INTO FUTURITY. "Those as live longest '11 see most, and I'm thinkipg those as come arter us '11 have some changes to witness. Everything now is done by machinery ?steam or gas?and if one could see into the 'womb' of time I'm blessed if I don't think as we should find that i his majesty's army and navy will i herearter will be hatched like chicki ens in an Egyptian oven; and the trouble of bringing up family will be altogether superseded by the selfgenerating principle of matter. But 'no matter:' 'live and let live' is my maxim. Let us enjoy the Ills we have, without 'flying to others we know not of;' and let us hope the march of happiness will keep pace with the march of mind." Farewell to old traveling, and hail to ; the time When cattle and drags will be quite superseded; And intellect's march, with a progress sublime. Will still hasten forward, by nothing impeded. Of steam folks will then know the wonderful power, Applied in a manner ne'er thought of before; And traveling with ease 50 miles an K May wonder their ancestors ever went slower. On railroads and viaducts thousands will throng. Every risk of collisions and accident) daring; And ladies undauntedly dashing along. On cast-iron nags, sally forth for an ^ airing. Xo longer content with discoveries below Folks will hold daily converse with men in the moon; And, spurning the earth, it will then he the go To dash thro' the clouds in a "patent balloon." Oreat nations in those intellectual days For a new and improved mode of war will prepare; And as soon as the wind they are ahle to raise. Will fiercely set to in the regions of air. Then vessels of war. and for commerce on high. Thro' ether will hold their course steady and free; Steer'd by pilots well skill'd in the track of the sky. And when vessels will scarcely be seen on the sea. "Come. who's for Calcutta'.'?no longer I'll stop? So. pilot, make ready to sever the rope; At Madeira I've got a few parcels to drop. And for passengers call at the Cape of flood Hope. "Come, friends, be alive; 'tis beginning to blow. And this easterly gale is confoundedly bleak. My company says it is high time to go. And back I must be in the course of a week!" Thrice happy who live in such marvelous hours. When science shall shine all unclouded and clear. While we boasting still of our wonderful powers. In knowledge and wisdom tire all in the rear. Then farewell to coaches and horses, alas! Doom'd to pass with your drivers away like a dream: Your giory eclips'd by ballooning and gas. And your splendid turnout superseded by steam. ?St. Louis Globe-Democrat. GIANT GUNS COST $75,000. The Bethlehem Steel Company Lowest Bidder. The Bethlehem steel company of South Bethlehem. Penn.. was the lowest bidder for the 10 14-Inch guns with which one of the new 27,000ton battleships will be equipped. That company proposes to build the guns for $74.77'i each, exclusive of mounts, the first gun to be delivered within 13 1-2 months and the others at the rate of one gun every two months. The Midvale Steel company of Philadelphia was the only other bidder, naming $74,000 as the price for each gun. The Midvale company was the lowest bidder for four mounts for these guns. The figure which that company proposed was $52,854 each, the first mount to be delivered in seventeen months and the remainder at two months intervals. For these mounts the bid of the Bethlehem company was $53,000 each. In accordance with this bid the first delivery would be made in fifteen months and the remainder at intervals of two months. Kach of the two new battleships ...mi i... ,..?inno,i with ten 14-inch Will in- ri|uip|>. . .. . guns. Ten of these guns and sixteen of the mounts will he built by the government at the Washington navy yard, which has already begun work on them. The question of awarding contracts to the Kethlehem and Mid vale companies depends largely upon the action congress will take upon the request for an additional appropriation of $1,000,000 for the government to undertake the construction of the new battleship New York at the New York navy yard. The appropriation of $6.000,000 for this vessel is declared to he insufficient. t'' There has been a marked decrease in Canada's merchant marine during the last thirty-five years. In 1X74 the tonnage was 1.1 r.X.sti.l: in it was : i s.r.r.rt. IF ANIMALS DON'T REASON What Was That Big Buck Doing? Asks Col. Hamp Stone. "If animals don't reason out the ' whys and wherefores of things and act accordingly," said Col. Hamp Stone of the Big Thicket county, Texas. "what was that big buck that I didn't shoot doing that time down Devil's Mountain way? "They had put the dogs out, and I was to get to a bull pine tree on the east bank of the river, at a place where they said the dogs would be apt to send a de,pj- into and across the stream, giving me a fine chance for a successful shot. Before I got there I heard the dogs baying off on tne west side of the river, which was about 300 yards wide there. "1 was still quite a way from the tree when a doe came in sight on the opposite shore, jumped into the river, swam across and bounded away Into lh? u-nnilu aw av <V,.m TV.? were still yelping off in the woods across the river, and not yet in sight. I made a few big strides and got to the tree, as I didn't know what might he ahead of the dogs yet, just out of the opening where the doe had leaped and taken the water bounded a big buck. "I dropped down behind the tree, expecting the buck to come on across. The doe had run out on a tongue of < land that extended into the river about twenty feet, and from the extremity of that bit of land had jumped into the water. Supposing, of course, that the buck would seek the same course 1 was ready to let him have it as soon as he pulled himself out on my side of the river, but he had other ideas. "The dogs hadn't broken from cover yet. I could hear them coming out far behind the buck. Two or three rods from the shore, on that side of the river and the same distance be- ' low the tongue of land, was a big rock that rose perhaps eight feet above the water. "Instead of coming on as the doe had. the buck took his leap from where the bar joined the mainland, dropped quickly down alongside the rock, hugging it close with his head up stream. There he remained mo- , uomess, entirely niuaen irom anything on the side from which he had come. "The buck had scarcely gotten into that position when the dogs came dashing out of the woods. They followed the doe's trail to the tip of the bar. plunged into the water and swam , toward the opening on my side of the ( river where the doe had landed and , bounded away. i "The buck lay against the side of the rock as motionless as the rock itself until the dogs got well out into the middle of the river with their i noses pointed in the direction in which the doe had gone. Then he backed down to the lower end of the rock and passed around it to the other side of it, thus hiding himself against possible chance of being seen by the dogs when they landed on the opposite bank. "The dogs landed and went baying off on the doe track. As the last sound of the dogs died away the buck's head came slowly in sight at the upper end of the rock, until at last the wary deer was peering across the river to see if the coast was clear. Satisfied that it was, the buck swam boldly back to the bar, drew himself out on land, threw up his head scornfully as he gave one glance . 1/- tkn rlifor lii tho Hirontinn tVto dogs had gone and then bounded back into the woods out of which he had been driven to save himself by that remarkable bit of strategy' and dis- ; appeared. "I could have dropped him in his tracks as he stood there in his scornful pose, but after witnessing that act of almost human Ingenuity 1 hadn't the heart to do it. Animals don't reason out the whys and wherefores of things and act accordingly? What was that buck doing, then? "Yes, we got the doe. One of our party brought her down two miles up the river as she was taking the water to cross back again, still way ahead of the dogs."?New York Sun. ] BURN YOUR BRIDGES. 1 i When All Retreat Is Cut off, Then j You Must Go Ahead. Young men often make the mistake when they start on an important undertaking of leaving open a way of retreat if things go too hard, says Orison Swett Marden in Success ? Magazine. No one can call out his greatest reserves, do the greatest ' thing possible to him, while he knows that if the battle gets too hot he has a line of retreat still left open. Only when there is no hope of escape will 1 an army fight with that spirit of des- J peration which gives no quarter. Many a great general in his march 011 the enemy has burned his bridges . behind him. cut off his only possible 1 retreat, for the bracing, encouraging 1 effect upon himself and his army, be- t cause he knew that men only call out ^ their greatest reserves of power when all retreat is cut off and when fight- c ing desperately for that which they I count dearer than life. We are so made that as long as there is a chance to retreat, as long as there are bridges behind us. we are ? tempted to turn back when the great ( test comes. e "Will you hold this fort?" asked General Rosecrans of General Pierce I at Stone river. "I will try. general." "Will you hold this fort?" "I will die in the attempt." "That won't do. 4 Look me in the eye. sir. and tell me if you will hold this position." "I * will!" said General Pierce, and he did. 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Those who have no insurance and desire to reduce the chance of having their buildings burned are advised, if they have other than stundard flues, to have them torn out and standardized immediately and those who have insurance and expect to continue to carry it, are also advised to have their flues standardized in order to reduce their chance of being burned out and at the same time keep their rate from being raised when their policies are renewed. The foregoing statement is made for the information of all property owners, including my own clients, and as I am paying for the space in which it is made, do not feel called upon to go to the additional expense of describing what's meant by a "standard flue," but will take pleasure in informing you if vou will ask me about it. SAM M. GRIST. All Kinds of GOOD Insurance. SEE THE Piedmont Marble And ? Granite Company YORKVILLE, S. C. | I ] Fop High Grade ? lirv\TTTlfT?\TT*n murs uivii^rN i d In Granite and Marble. 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LIST YOUR PROPERTY WITH MR IP YOU WAX* TO SELIs? 150 Acres?Near Clay Hill; 1 dwelling; all necessary outbuildings?part of the A. A. Barron place?$10.00 an acre. 136 Acres?Including the Balrd & Hudson place near Concord church; 3 ?ood houses; 60 acres In cultivation? |15.00 an acre. Property of M. B. Massey. 115 Aci-en?l dwelling, and two tenint houses; 90 acres under cultivation. !0 acres in timber: 21 miles of Smvr la. Price. $15.00 per acre. T. B. Nichols. 62 Acres?Property of M. C. Lathan, lear Kind's Creek and Piedmont Springs, on public road. Price $15 per icre. 201 Acres?1 house, 5-rooms; 75 teres, under cultivation; 40 acres In :imber, fine orchard; 3 miles of Newjort. Price $12 per acre?W. W. Auten. 95 Acres?Mrs. J. Frank Wallace dace, 2 dwellings on it; 8 miles of forkvllle on public highway, near New Sion church. Price $1,425. 171 Acres?J. J. Scoggins mill and tome, 1 dwelling, 8-rooms, 2 stories; 10 acres very fine bottom land?proluce corn every year; 30 acres barbed vire; also 30 acres hog wire pasture; 10 acres under cultivation; 25 acres n forest timber. A new barn, 40x60; louble crib. One-third Cash. (1) Parks Parish place 91 acres; 1 louse, 4 rooms; 50 acres under culti atlon, 40 acres in timber, orchard 2) 128J acres at New Zlon, joins J. t. Faires and others; 1 house, 5 rooms; 15 acres under cultivation; 90 acres In imber; 3 miles of Smyrna, good barn, lutbuildings. 32,100 for Parish Dixon ilace, 1st. $21.00 per acre for place lohn Dixon now lives on 2nd. John ?\ Smith. 285 Acres?Joins Wm. Biggers, Meek "aulkner, Jim McGill; 5-horse farm: . house, 6-room8, 75 acres upder culIvatlon; 185 acres in timber. Some aw timber; near to Enon church; 21 lies Smyrna; 4 tenant houses, 35 teres of bottom land. Price $15.00 per icre. A. J. Boheler property. Miss Dolly Miller residence?a barlain. 150 Acraa?75 acres in cultivation; r5 acres In timber; 3 miles Sharon, ery cheap. 50 Acres?Joins A. J. Boheler, Westnoreland and Ed Whltesidea corners tt London siding; 1 house, 1 story, 3ooms, 20 acres under cultivation, ilenty of firewood; orchard, good ipring, 1 mile of Canaan church, 1 mile >f Smyrna station, good barn. Price 116.00 per acre. 98 Acres?Adjoining Forest Hill academy; property of Perry Ferguson. Price >1,600. Forty acres in cultivation, some if which has made over a bale to the .ere; 58 acres on timber; plenty of lne saw timber. 125 Acres?One dwelling, one story md half, 5-rooms?Perry Ferguson dcCullum place. Price $1,600. 55 3-5 Acrea?One dwelling, lj stoles; good well water: J mile of Concord church and school; 25 acres under cultivation; plenty of wood. Price $650. ["erms to suit purchaser. Property of if W. H. Baird. 97 Acres?And a new 6-room house, ! tenant houses; new barn 30x40; two unco v^iuvci. uwuci wioucd iu uu.v arger farm. This Is a great bargain, 'roperty of T. J. Bradford. House and half acre lot in Clover; 1 Iwelllng, 3 rooms, 2 piazzas, splendid louse, electric lights. J. Ross Parish tome. Price $856.00. 186 Acres?In King's Mountain town* hip; one 3-room dwelling; about 600,'00 feet timber. Price $10 per acre. 3951-2 Acres?Known as the OatesLUlson place; produces 8 bales of coton; one 2-story, 7-room building; 4 enant houses, 3 rooms each, 100 acres n cultivation, 160 acres in timber; balance in second growth and pasture; miles of Hickory Grove. Will cut ino small tracts. Pries $12.00 per acre. 455 Acres?Property of Jas. A. and 5. Bankhead; 3 houses. Nearly 200 .cres of bottom land, raises about 1,000 lushels of corn, very productive place, 'rice $9X0 an acre. 128 Acres?Home place of J. F. Caron; good 6-room dwelling; land level; lew barn, crib, cotton house. All necssary out buildings. A beautiful farm t Delphos. 119 3-4 Acres?Joins lands of Mrs. '. L. McGill; one new 4-room house; 5 acres of fresh, new ground, balance n wood; 1J mile Bethany High School. 234 Acres?One 2-story, 8-room Iwelling; good 6-horse farm open; 80 cres in timber; 4 good tenant houses, -rooms each; good barn. Land in ilgh state cultivation. Joins J. J. ilatthews; 3 miles Bethany. Price $25 ier acre. 112 3-4 Acres?Joins John F. Smith; 0 acres in cultivation; 62 in timber; dwelling, 2 tenant houses; good newv arn. Price 2,000. R. D. Wallace. One Lot, East Jefferson, near Graded lear Graded school. Property of Mrs. Jerry?very cheap. J. C. WILBORN. W You are measured by the Stationry you send out. Use The Enquirer :ind. TAX NOTICE-1910 Iffice of the County Treasurer of York " County. Yorkville, S. C.. Sept. 15, 1910. OTICE Is hereby given that the 31 TAX BOOKS for York county will e opened on SATURDAY, the 16TH >AY OF OCTOBER, 1910, and remain pen until the 31ST DAY OF DECEMtER, 1910, for the collection of TATE, COUNTY, SCHOOL AND LO'AL TAXES for the fiscal year 1910, ithout penalty; after which day ONE 'ER CENT penalty will be added to 11 payments made in the month of ANUARY. 1911, and TWO PER ENT penalty for all payments made i the month of FEBRUARY, 1911, nd SEVEN PER -CENT penalty will e added on all payments made from he 1ST DAY OF MARCH, to the 5TH DAY OF MARCH. 1911, and afer this date all unpaid taxes will go nto executions and all unpaid Single oils will be turned over to the several lagistrates for prosecut.'on In accordnee with law. And at Yorkville from Monday, Noember 14, until the 31st day of Deember, 1910, after which day the enalties will attach as stated above. HARRY E. NEIL. Treasurer of York County. 74 f 4t * PLEASE! 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