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igg ^^DSEMI?'^EEKI^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ L. M GRIST S SONS, Publishers, j % dfamilt) Jtnrspapc^: jfor (he promotion of the political, Social, Agricultural and (Tomuicrcint Interests of the peoplg. J ^jj^BLISHEDlSgS. YORKVILLE, S C., FRIDAY, .1AXUARY IS, 1911. iNTO-iT *3*A *?*A ??*+A I&+A "*?+A ?t?*J j .FORTUNE * + Novelized by Loi & From the Play of * b- by Wind ? Copyright 1910, by Winchell Sr *?*A ***A **+A *?+A *<J*A *?+i CHAPTER XIX. A customer came and went after Kellogg had gone upstairs to meet Sam Graham, and then Nat noticed that twilight was beginning to darken the store. Tracey returned to look after the store during the supper hour, but was delighted to hear that he need not remain, but could go back to his beloved Angie. Now Nat moved to the windows and switched on the bulbs behind the huge glass jars filled with tinted water. Returning, he was about to connect up the remainder of the illuminating system when Josie, entering, stayed him. Later he was glad of this. "Nat." He knew that voicee. "Why, Josie!" he exclaimed in surprise, swinging about to discover her standing on the threshold, very dainty and fetching? / 4 \ V flKA b 4 v iBbeBm aKACEY WAS DELIGHTED. Indeed, in one or rne summer.v uuma she had brought back from New York. She moved over to him. holding out her hand. He took it with disgusted reluctance. "I'm so glad." She sighed. "I wanted to see you?to talk to you alone." He bit his lip in his annoyance, shivering with a presentiment. "What about, Josie?" "About Wednesday night, after prayer meeting. Why didn't you wait for k me?" A "Why?ah?I had to get back to the store, you know. There were some checks to be made out and sent off, and I'd forgotten them. Besides," he added on inspiration, "you were talking with Roland, and I didn't want to interrupt you." "So you left me to go home with him?" "Why, what else"? "You're making me asvful unhappy." Her voice trembled. "You knew I didn't want to walk home with Roland." "How could I know that?" "I should think you ought to know it, Nat, unless you're blind. Besides, I told you once." "True." he fenced desperately, "but that was a long time ago, and how could e you hadn't changed your ( Besides, you know, 1 musti. t 'i opolize you. If I do"? ?||| "Well?" "Why, if I do?ah"? "If you're afraid people will talk l&pf; about us, seeing us so much together. you needn't worry. They're doing that now." "Why, Josie!" "Yes, they are. We've been going together so long. And even now you don't seem glad to see me." "You should know I am." "You don't act like it." "It's so unexpected," he muttered wretchedly. "You didn't really think I wanted Roland Barnette to go home with me Wednesday night, did you, Nat?" "It seemed so, hut that's all right. Why shouldn't you?" She turned to him, trembling a little. "Must I tell you, Nat?" "Oh, no!" he cried in dismay. "Please don't!" "I see I must," she persisted. "You're so Mind. It"? "Josie, don't say anything you'll be sorry for," he entreated wildly. "I can't help it: I've got to. It was ?it was because I wanted to be with you. There!" she gasped, frightened by her own forwardness. "Now I've said it!" Duncan grasped frantically at straws. "But you don't really mean it. Josie. You know you don't," he floundered. "You're just saying that because you?you have such a kind heart and?ah?don't want to hurt tne ?ah?because"? "Nat." she said gently, looking up into his face, "would it make you happy to know I really meant it?" "Why?ah?why shouldn't it, Josie?" "Then please believe me when 1 say it." "But 1 do believe it. 1" He stammered and fell still. "Because I do like you. Nat, very much, and?and it's very hard lor tne to know that folks think I'm pursuing you and that you're trying t.. avoid me." "Josie!" he exclaimed reproachfully. "Well, that's the way it looks." she affirmed plaintively. You don't want it to, do you?" k **+A *<5*A **+A H?*A : //lflV7ER. I X Liis Joseph Vance J : the Same Name M lei Smith ^ ^ rilth and Louis Joseph Vance. g k *?*A *?+A *?*A H?4?A *5* A %fl "Why, no; of course I don't." "Then why don't you stop it?" She watched his face, her manner coy and yielding. "Nat," she said in a softer voice, "if you like me as well as I nae you"? He moved away a pace or two. "Ah, child," he said, with a feeling that the term was not misapplied somehow, "you don't know what you're saying!" "Yes, I do," she pouted. "I don't believe you care anything about me." "Oh, Josie, please"? "Well, anyway you've never told me so." She turned an indignant shoulder to him. "How could I?" "Why couldn't you?" "But don't you see that I shouldn't, Josie?" He turned back to her side, looked down at her, pleaded his defense with the fire of desperation. "Just think, you are an only daughter"?just what this had to do with the case was not plain even to him? "an only daughter," he repeated?"ah, not only your father's only daughter, out your mother's only daughter. Vour father?ah?is my friend. How unfair it would be to him to"? But the girl interrupted with decision. "But papa wants you to. He told me so." He could only pretend not to understand. "But consider, Josie. You are rich, an heiress. I'm a poor man. Would you like it to lie said I was after your money?" "No one would dare say such a thing," she asserted, with profound conviction. "Oh, yes, they would! You don't know the world as I do. And for all you know they might be right. How do you know that"? "Nat!" A catch in her voice stopped him. "Don't say such horrid things! I could tell?a woman always can. I know you would be incapable of such a thing. Papa knows it too. No one has ever got ahead of papa, and he says you are a fine, steady. Christian man and he would rather see me your wife than any"? "Josie!" The interjection was so imperative that she was silenced. "Why, what, Nat?" she asked, rising. "The time has come," he declared. "You must know the truth." "Oh, Nat!" "I'm not what you think me," he continued dramatically. "Oh. Nat!" Nor what your father thinks me, nor what anybody else in this town thinks me. I'm not a regular Christian?it's all a bluff. I didn't know anything about a church till I came here. I FOUND HIMSELF CAUGHT BT THE GIRL'S ARMS. smoke, and I drink, and I swear, and I gamble, and I only cut them all out in order to triek you into earing for me!" "Oh, Nat, I don't believe it!" "Alas. Josie," he protested violently, "it's true, only too true!" "But you did it to win my love, Nat?" "Ye-es." He saw suddenly that he had made a fatal mistake. "Then. Nat. I will be your wife in spite of all." He found himself suddenly caught about the neck by the girl's arms. His head was drawn down until her cheek caressed his and he felt her lips warm upon his own. "Josie!" he gasped. "Nat. my darling!" With a supreme effort he pulled himself together and embraced the girl. "Josie," he said earnestly, "I?I'm going to try to be a good husband to you. And that," he concluded, sotto voce, "wasn't in the agreement." She held him to her passionately. "Dearest, I'm so glad!" "It makes me very happy to know you are, Josie." he murmured miserably, and to himself while she still trembled in his embrace: "What a cur you are! Rut I won't renege now. I'll play my hand out on the square with her." I "poll this tableau there came a sudden intrusion. The back door opened, and Graham came in, Kellogg at his heels. It was the voice of the latter that told the two they were discovered. a hearty "Hello! What's this?" that rang in Nat's ears like the trump of doom. In a Hash the girl disengaged herself, and they were a yard apart by the time that Graham, blundering in his surprise, managed to turn on the lights at the switchboard. But even in the full glare of them he seemed unable to credit his sight. "Why, Nat!" he quavered, coming out toward the guilty pair. "Why. Nat!" Duncan took a long breath and Josie's hand at one and the same time. |"Mr. Graham," he said coolly, "I'm I glad you're the first to know it. Josie has just ask?agreed to be my wife." Old Sam recovered sufficiently to take the girl's hand and pat it. "I'm mighty glad, my dear," he told her. "I congratulate you both with all my heart." "And so will I when I have the right," Kellogg added, smiling. "Oh, I forgot!" Xat hastened to remedy his oversight. "Josie, this is my dearest friend, Mr. Kellogg; Harry, this is Miss Lockwood." Josie gave Kellogg her hand. "I?I," she giggled?"I'm pleased to meet you, I'm sure." "I'm charmed. I've heard a great deal of you, Miss Lockwood, from Nat's letters, and I shall hope to know you muen netter oeiore long. "It's awful nice of you to say so, Mr. Kellogg." "And Nat. old man"?Kellogg threw an arm round Duncan's shoulder?"I congratulate you! You're a lucky dog!" "I'm a dog, all right," said Nat glumly. "But we mustn't disturb these young people, Mr. Kellogg," Graham broke in nervously. "They'll?they'll have a lot to say to one another, I'm sure, so we'll just run along. I'm taking Mr. Kellogg up to the house. Nat. You'll follow us as soon as you can, won't you?" "Yes?sure." "I've got some news for you, too, that'll make you happy." "Never mind about that; it'll keep till supper, Mr. Graham." Kellogg laughed, taking the old man's arm. "Goodby, both of you?goodby for a little while." "Goodby." "Wasn't that terrible?" Josie turned Honb- tr* XTot when thpv ivptp Jilnnp_ "I think it was real mean of Mr. GraA J IMjW *? "I'M A DOG, ALL RIGHT," SAID NAT. ham to turn on all the light that way," she simpered. "Somebody else might 've seen." "Yes," agreed the young man, half distracted, "but of course I daren't turned them off again." "Never mind. We can wait." Josie blushed. "I'll just sit here and wait. We can talk till Tracey comes, and then you can walk home with me." "Yes, that'll be nice," he agreed, but without absolute ecstasy. Fortunately for him, in his temper of that moment, Pete Willing reeled into the shop two-thirds drunk, with his face smeared with blood from a cut on his forehead. "Souse me," he muttered huskily. "Kin I see you a minute, doc?" He reeled and almost fell?would have fallen hail noi Duncan cuukiu his arm and guided him to a chair. "Creat Scott, Pete!" he cried. "What's happened to you?" "M' wife," Pete explained thickly. [To be Continued.] Military Punishments. In tim?s past the military code was no less stern and uncompromising than the civil. Sentence of death was readily decreed and as promptly executed. Where offenses multiplied and wholesale executions would have weakened the army numerically, decimation?the slaughter of every tenth man?was the rule, or the troops gambled for their lives by casting dice upon a drumhead or drawing lots under the gallows tree. Lesser penalties, not capital, but physical, and causing pain with permanent degradation, were maiming, branding the cheek or forehead, boring the tongue, or cutting the nose and ears. These last named were retained upon the military statute hook until the reign of Queen Anne. The "trappado" was a fiendish device by which a delinquent was hoisted on high by a rope fastened to his arms, and then dropped down by a sudden jerk that often dislocated his shoulders. Hanging by the thumbs, sometimes called "picketing." was also practiced; while the body was raised to such a height and its whole weight rested on one toe, and that again on a sharppointed spike. To "ride the wooden horse" was to be mounted on a razor-edge, with weights fastened to the extremities. Running the gantlet, or "gantelope," was as old as Cromwellian army, and it is thus described in an army order about 104!*: The culprits (who had been guilty of blasphemy as well as deer-stealing) were to be "stripped naked from the waist upward, and a lane made l?y half the lord aeneral's regiment of foot and half Colonel Bride's. with every man a cudgel in his hand. They were to he run through in this posture, so that every soldier might have a stroke at their naked hacks, hreast or arms, wherever it might alight."?Tit-Hits. .t " In a churchyard an old man deep in thought sat on a flat tombstone. It had been raining, and all the trees looked fresh and green. A tramp, passing by made a remark on the weather. "Grand morning." "Yes," said the old man. "Just the sort of weather to make things spring up," said the tramp. "Hush! Hush!" said the old man. "I've got three wives buried here."?Tit-Bits. iWiscrilanrous iiradinq. PEARY IN CLOSE PLACE. Naval Affairs Committee of the House Develops Interesting Facts. Admitting that the north pole is just as much lost as ever and that all future attempts to find It must be independent enterprises unaided by his own work, Capt. Robert E. Peary, the Arctic explorer, answered a cross-fire of questions at a hearing before the house I committee on naval affairs last Tues-1 day. He told how he wanted the glory of the polar achievement for himself, declining to let any member of his expedition, other than the negro Henson, go on the last dash with him; how his publishing contracts had precluded him from testifying before the committee last spring and how members of his expedition had been prohibited from writing about the trip. Capt. Peary was asked to throw light on why, as a naval officer, he made no report to the navy department. Mr. Roberts asked him if It was not customary for an officer to report on matters for which he was detailed. Capt. Peary said he had made some report to the coast and geodetic survey and had advised the navy department of that fact. It was his impression that the superintendent of the survey had made a report to the navy. Pressed by Mr. Roberts, Capt. Peary said there was a letter of his on file somewhere asking secrecy for his written report to the survey as to soundings, etc. "Why, being detailed to get certain information for the government, did you ask the government not to use this information until later?" insisted Mr Roberts. "I would rather not give the information except to the committee," replied Capt. Peary, who objected to testifying in the presence of newspaper representatives. He was given permission to file his reason in writing. "Why did you not take white members of your party with you on the final staee of vour trip northward, so that they might be creditable corroborative evidence?" asked Representative Roberts of Massachusetts. "In this first place," replied Capt. Peary, "I have always made the final spurt, with one exception, when Lee was with me, with one man and the Eskimos, because the man I took with me (Henson) was more effective for combined demands of extended work than any white man. The pole was something to which I have devoted my life, for which I had gone through such hell as I hope no man in this room will ever experience and I did not feel that I should divide it with a young man who had not the right to it, that I had." Capt. Peary was asked by Mr. Roberts if any injunction of secrecy had been made as to what members of the expedition might say. He replied that members of his party were not free to write or to lecture after their return except with his written permission, explaining that they were paid for their services. Mr. Macon of Arkansas, interpected that Capt. Peary was also paid for his services through the salary paid him as a naval officer. Capt. Peary, replying to repeated questions as to the results of his Arctie trip, said that he had not yet prepared such a chart as would enable any one to follow in his footsteps to the pole, but he "imagined" that he had data by which he could prepare such a chart. He said the position of the north pole could be determined just the same as the equator, but the trouble was the comparative low altitude of the sun, which never gets higher than 22J degrees above the horizon. For that reason ordinary observations could not be relied on with accuracy. IT HAPPENED IN JANUARY. Events of the Month That Have Changed the Course of History. When Juan Diaz de Solis, cruising down along the coast of South America, discovered a new port on January 1, 1513, it was the height of a tropic summer, and he named the port Rio Janeiro in honor of the day. It was on January 19, 1534, that Vasco Nunez de Balboa came back to the little town of Darien after he had discovered the Pacific ocean. On January 26, 1788, the first company of English settlers sailed through summer seas to Australia. January has been rather an eventful month for England in several different ways. It was on January 18, 1486, that Henry VII. married the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV., and so ended the Wars of the Roses by joining the houses of York and Lancaster. It was on a January day that Henry VIII. married beautiful Anne Boleyn. He died on January 28, 1 r?47. Twelve years later, on January ir>, 1559, his daughter Elizabeth was crowned queen. Less than a hundred years after Elizabeth came to the throne England was to see for the first time in the history of the world a king beheaded by his own subjects, for it was on January 30, 1649, that Charles Stuart lost his life. i."v,r Vmmtrpfls of vears this dav was kept in fasting and mourning by Royalists all over the world. On the other hand, says the American Boy, some of the descendants of the Puritans kept it as a feast day. Many people still living in this country remember eating calf's head for dinner on January 30, though they do not always know why it was done. It has been said that revolutions always begin iti summer, but by an odd freak of destiny both the kings who have been victims of revolutions met their fate in January, for Louis XVI. of Prance was guillotined on the 21st <>f January, 1793. In January, 1788, the last Charles Stuart, Prince Charlie, who had landed in Scotland more than forty years hefore to fight gallantly to win back the throne of Great Britain, died exiled and almost forgotten, an old man, in Rome. In the days when speaking pieces was part of the Friday afternoon programme in every school many a hoy hegan solemnly to recite "The Ihirial of Sir John Moore," hut very few of them had any idea who the hero was or when his hurial took place. He was in the British army in America before the end of the Revolution, he fought against the Irish in 1798 and he was killed fighting Napoleon in Spain at the battle of Corunna, January lfi. 1809. So it was on a January night that his friends went through that weird ceremoney and "left him alone in his glory." A little more than 200 years ago. on |, January 21, 1707, the Great Mogul died, the last of the Moguls of India. Today his name is only a proverb, for people still say "as rich as the Great Mogul," w but during his lifetime the tales that v were told of his thrones crusted with h precious stones, his treasure chambers 1( full of gold and diamonds, emeralds, 11 rubies, sapphires, were not only won- e derful but true. " The French Jeweler Tavernier saw c and handled some of these jewels and ^ it is supposed that the Great Mogul '' diamond was split and recut and that part of it is now the Kohinoor of the f* British crown jewels. The Great Mo- w gul ate from golden dishes and drank w from a cup of carved rock crystal, and C one of his thrones was completely cov- c< ered with diamonds. n All through January in 1762 there % was a great frost in England, and it is said that the ice on the Thames was Ave feet thick. On January 27, 1800, h a great storm swept over a part of 11 England and blew down what was P known as King John's Castle at Old s Ford, near Bow. a The union of Great Britain and Ire- el land took place on January 7, 1801, and 11 we probably owe to this a great part of tl the early Irish population of the United States, since many patriotic Irishmen rather than yield to the hated n power of England betook themselves 11 to America. On January 13, 1847, the o Young Ireland party formed the "Irish w Federation." which enrolled a hundred and fifty thousand men, and the re- h suits of this struggle against England, rl together with the famine year, brought ? another great Irish migration to our c< shores. tl January has the credit of still anoth- tl er event, which has changed the world's u history and which happened in our own e: country. Gold was discovered in Cali- s< fornia January 14, 1848. Seven years nr later, on January 27. 1855, the Panama s? railroad was opened and got its share lc of the gold of the returning Califor- n nlans and the gold seekers who had money enough for travel by that route, ei And the first telegraph was estab- a lished January 6, 1844, and the first si penny post and postage stamps in the si world came into being In England Jan- tl uary 10, 1840. e< ?, b; FRENCH FISH STORY. tl di Three Days' Carnival of Marpignon's S Intrepid Anglers. Though their lakes and ponds are " few and their rivers comparatively destitute of fish, the French people are extremely fond of angling. Indeed, cs nervous and excitable as the average t( Frenchman may be, he is content to h sit by a stream with a pole and wait pl all day for a bite. In a certain country town not far a ? 1- .1 oli.K hi irum .rails inert; tAisicu a. nan named the Intrepid Fishers of Marp- 0:1 lgnon. A pretty stream goes through c< Marpignon, but for many years not one fish had been seen in this stream, ni from which circumstances. It followed, the Intrepid Fishers had little to do, says Harper's Weekly. The excitement may be imagined, pi therefore, when the word ran through n Marpignon that a large barbel?a " tough and gamy fish?had been seen ir in the stream. The Intrepid Fishers turned out and, having ascertained s< T that there was Indeed a barbel in the stream, immediately stopped the wa- 01 ter some little distance above and below him with gratings so that he e" ri could not get away. Then thev ranged themselves joy fully along the stream with hook and line, and all went to fishing for the e one fish. By and by one Intrepid Fisher ? caught him and immediately threw him back into the water. In the ' course of time another caught him and did the same. ci For three days one veracious account has it the Intrepid Fishers kept at work catching this one barbel, and at the end of that time the fish died ? of exhaustion and loss of blood. Then the Intrepid Fishers counted up the notches that thev had made on their C( fish poles, and the man who had D caught the barbel the most times was declared the champion fisherman of Marpignon and received great honors. v How Spartanburg Was Named.?Mr. rj O. B. White of Chester, has recently ^ addressed a letter to the State, giving ^ an interesting version of how Spartan- g| burg got its name. In his communication he says: I notice in the State of yesterday h( that when the party that recently vis- p) ited Cincinnati on the first Carolina Special was asked: "Where did Spar- ..| tanburg get its name?" Mr. Meek, one of the party, suggested, as the best ex- a planation, that the city took its name Q] from the Spartan spirit shown by uen- p eral Morgan whose statue stands in Spartanburg. I believe there is a better answer to w this question: ^ At the beginning of the "Revolution" l)( a regiment was organized under the g name of the "Spartan regiment." This j)( regiment, which was made up largely Q| of men who lived in what is now Spar- q, tanhurg county, served through the e] Revolutionary war, engaging in most of the hattles in upper South Carolina. cj John Thomas, who lived on Fairfax |e creek, in what is now Spartanburg a county, was the first colonel of the si Spartan regiment. He was captured jr at an early stage of the war and im- n prisoned at Ninety-Six. He had seven tj sons and three sons-in-law. who serv- s| ed in this regiment. His eldest son, p John Thomas, served first as a captain ^ and afterward succeeded his father as w colonel. (j Capt. McJunkin was a son-in-law of the first Col. John Thomas. I)r. Jos. H. n) Saye of Sharon, one of York county's present legislators, is a descendant of ^ Col. Thomas, through Mrs. McJunkin. Q| The town of Roebuck, Spartanburg county, was named in honor of Capt. w Roebuck, who was a captain in the ^ Spartan regiment. Senator Howard B. p Carlisle of Spartanburg is a descendant of a sister of Capt. Roebuck. js I believe Spartanburg was named in tl honor of this famous Spartan regiment. Can any person give a better g( explanation? n L X'' Most workers in Switzerland are 01 employed about eleven hours a day. " Xy:' England's shipping Industry, ac- u cording to report, is steadily improv- 01 ing. dl SOLDIER'S NEW EQUIPMENT. ifantryman Will Carry Thirty Pounds ' Instead of Fifty. I Uncle Sam's Infantryman?the boy , ho has to walk as well as fight?may , rell call the year 1911 the luckiest of is soldier's life. His load is to be , ?ssened almost by half. The regulaion 56 pounds is cut to 46 pounds with J very thing on; and stripped for real ,-ork in the field the foot soldier will arry but 30 pounds now, thus fitting im the better for marching and flghtj Ever carried a fifty-six pound pack , ir 20 miles in a broiling sun? Those J ho haven't couldn't possibly realize hat cutting down the weight means. | avalrymen can't do it, for their horses , arry the loads. Nor can those who j lan the red artillery?their dunnage ( oes on the caissons. But the infan- ( ryman?he knows. For a year past the war department ( as been working over the problem of J ghtening the foot soldier's load which erforce he has to carry on his back, uggestlons were invited of all officers, nd samples of equipment used in for- . ign armies were procured as a preminary. Right at the beginning, says ve report of the equipment board:The board was much impressed with te great superiority in material, work- ' lanship, finish and promise of durabily of the articles manufactured by our wn ordnance department as compared 1 ith those from every other source." But, what to carry and what to leave 1 *- *?i n tt.... nV.A*.M , V... 1...1.1 Vi,i nnr_ ' eillllU : nuw SIIUUIU mc luau wv. V u>& ied? What would be the easiest way 1 f distributing the weight? How ould marching with the load be made le easiest? These were the problems lat presented themselves. Six featres were considered objectionable? sccessive weight, complicated conduction, components not segregated, larching and fighting equipment not ?parable, improper suspension of the >ad, faulty distribution of the ammuItion. Demanded was: Reduction of weight, ise and comfort, facility of putting on nd taking off, ease of adjustment, implicity of construction and repair, anltation, general efficiency. And so le new equipment was gradually volved from the heavy, cumbersome, ack-breaking knapsack and load of le civil war, though the more up-toate but still fatiguing equipment of panish war days, to the smart, light, lore effective load which the infan y will now carry. When a soldier goes into a fight ] lere are certain things which he must irry if he is going to be of any use > his country. These are, first of all. Is weapons?rifle or revolver?and the ' roper ammunition; the first-aid pack- ' t; one intrenching tool; water? 1 thirsty soldier can't hit a flock of arns?a mess kit, and then more am- j lunition. Nowadays 210 rounds is not ansidered any too much for the first ole of ammunition. What he doesn't ^ eed in a fight are his shelter?the "dog f mt," overcoat, blanket and poncho. ' Today the Intrenching tool is regard- , J as next in importance to the weaon. Each man carries either a picklattock, a shovel or an ax. Certain len also have wire clippers. With lese a whole regiment can hide itself 1 little holes in 30 seconds. And dead jldiers are no use to the government, he old days of standing up in the face f the bullets are gone now. The only me a soldier shows himself to the nemy, if he can help it, is in the final jsh. Advances are not permitted un1 "superiority of fire" is assured. But there are a score of marches to /ery skirmish, and this is everything lat each infantryman must lug along, ne rifle, one gun sling, one bayonet, ne bayonet scabbard, one cartridge elt, 100 round of ammunition, one rst-aid package, one first-aid pouch, tie canteen, one canteen cover, one up, one intrenching tool, one in enching tool carrier, one haversack, ne bacon can, one condiment can, ne meat can, one knife, one fork, ne spoon, toilet articles, one pair socks ivnnlpni one haversack rations, one nergency ration, and the pack, which ' ansists of: one pack carrier, one lanket, one poncho, one shelter half, ' ve shelter ten pins. Omitting the fractions of a pound, ( te full load will now weigh 46 pounds. ] Without the pack, which is to be caried on the wagons wherever possi- j le, it will come down to 37 pounds, nd stripped of everything but the ahDlute essentials, it weighs just 30 ounds and one-third ounce. The foot soldier's little tent has een made much lighter. Nowadays ich man lugs half a shelter tent, with ( ve pins and one pointed pole. His i tunkie" lugs the other half. Now the ^ oles are abolished. The rifle acts as front pole and a rope takes the place f the rear pole. In case of a sur- , rise the rifle is even handier to get j But even better, the lessened weight ] ill be carried in much easier fashion. [Itherto the man's chest has been ound in by straps and suspenders, ome of the weight lopped against the ack on the kidneys and upper ridge f the pelvis, thus unduly and too 1 uickly fatiguing the soldier. Now ev ything is in a small, compact pack on te back, with no straps across the . lest and nothing dangling about the ( gs. Even the bayonet, now sharp as ( razor, is carried on the back at the , de of the pack. Best of all, the fight- , ig equipment has been wholly sepaited from the comfort equipment, so , tat the latter may be instantly un- | ung to be left behind under guard or , iled on the wagons, leaving the soller with nothine on his hack except hat he needs in the impending bate. Scores of other recommendations are o\v before boards of officers further ? make the soldiers better able to ght. An ambulant kitchen?a range a wheels which can cook a meal on le march?is one of the newest rinkles proposed. Antomobiles for a lobile army are demanded now. The lanket has been cut to weigh about iree pounds. It is proposed to abolih the coat in the field and substilte a sweater in its place. Other recommendations are that the ?rgeants carry no ritle, but have fvolvers and bolos instead in the field, likewise the cooks are to be relieved f the ritle and have revolver and bolo, ius enabling them to carry sufficient tensils to cook for the company when ther transportation has been abanoned. It is proposed to do away with ; the old campaign hat, too, and aubsti- S tute the "mounted police hat," which 4 has a lower crown, and a wider brim Gua and is more comfortable. With it goes | the individual "housewife." The com- C pany will carry a kit for mending for isla the entire outfit. A neckerchief is to Car be made p&rt of the uniform. Officers stoi will not carry their sabers in the field, thei And tobacco and soap will be made lan< part of the ration. p Most of this great relief to the s pile dier who fights on foot is due to the hau untiring efforts of the officers who stoi make up the United States Infantry on association, which was organized some botl cears ago. Its president is Lieutenant beai General John C. Bates, Brigadier Gen- of ( =>rn1 Plarence R. Rdwards is vice ores- stra Ident and Major George H. Shelton, evei Is secretary and treasurer. Its mem- In \ Ijership Includes the officers In all the infantry regiments of the United States dro ind most of the National Guard regl- tanl ments In similar service In all the com states. The association, publishes the wot Infantry Journal, a magazine in the stra forefront of the military profession to t and regarded as one of the authorities as f on the work of the foot soldier.?New "1 Y"ork World. on m , we ALEXANDER THE GREAT. mtl broi Some Interesting Features of the Great tbln Man's Boyhood. ,n 1 King Philip of Macedon had received baY from Thessaly a magnificent war horse The named Bucephalus, that was still wild not' and unbroken. He and all his cour- '00'' tiers went one day to see it tried, says we the New York World. The master of 8oni the horse mounted the animal, which ou^ threw him immediately. It was a sann fierce and mettlesome brute and acted as if in terror of something. A cavalry officer mounted him, only to be thrown bus in the dust. The best riders in the retr army tried to ride him, but all in vain. "1 Besides the king watching this triumph of horse over human stood Alex- boa ander. the young son of Philip. He was a 8 deeply interested in the exhibition, for tbe he was already a famous athlete?one let of the swiftest runners, highest Jump- 8un ers, strongest wrestlers and cleverest ba<^ riders and drivers in the country. He 9ho' had been asked to compete in the be ' Olympic games, but had replied: "If a c r tho onn nf a Iflnt- (infpp these carries trea [ must have the sons of kings as my m'g competitors, otherwise those who com- aw8 pete with me will not have fair ^or choice." So Alexander watched the 8eei ilscomflture of the horsemen with the 'ons eyes of a critic. King Philip said the he horse must be sent back to Thessaly. he But Alexander cried out in protest: *he 'What a noble horse we shall lose for 8001 want of a man to ride him! I think thel tie might easily be managed by any caiT sne who knew the way to do it. Let ^ea' ne try!" a" Philip was angry at the presumptu- 0^* cus words of his son. But Alexander Insisted, and his father, perhaps to tak< teach him a lesson, told him to mount was the horse. Alexander seized Bucepha- crei lus' bridle and turned his head to face sacl the sun, for he had observed that the pre< inimal was afraid of his own shadow, the rhen he mounted boldly, patted the pile ;lossy neck reassuringly and spoke eov< <lndly to the horse. Bucephalus was heri won by his confidence and sympathy Isla ind made no attempt to throw him. san< rhe lad gave him his head and the In Horse dashed off at full speed. Alex- and mder guided him steadily around the lin irena and finally brought him up be- the 'ore the king. There was a tremen- gua ious applause for the intrepid rider, " md Philip threw his arms about the wer noy's neck, saying: "My son, seek a whc <ingdom more worthy of thee for Ma- on :edon is below thy merit." tak< It was unwise advice to give to a aliv Hoy like Alexander, already wilful, wot leadstrong, vain and imperious, but thei ivith a generous heart, noble emotions wer md a deep love of truth and justice, croi It was flattery of just this kind that thei spoiled what might have been one of capi :he noblest men the world ever saw, deal Alexander had as a tutor the fa- and nous philosopher Aristotle. He would "i not study, but wanted always to be Dor playing. Aristotle insisted upon dill- the ?ence, and Alexander replied that he indl lid not see the use of learning so much, him Aristotle reasoned with him awhile, thoi md then placed him alone in a room mat to think. Alexander did think, too. It he occurred to him, first, that if he had Not never learned he could not read the for ttories of great men's deeds of heroism, we from which he derived his greatest mer pleasure. This started a train of a g< thinking that brought him rushing to of t Aristotle, penitent and eager to apply mac nimself to his studies. This he did at I ivith such good effect that he became thej nroficient in all the learning of the thai lay. Under his pillow at night he al- wor .vays placed a sword and Homer's wag Iliad. awa Alexander's father died when he was noti inly just 20. That was in the year said 136 B. C. Immediately the empire that hlgl Philip had conquered rebelled. Alex- fter mder marched from victory to victory, seai subduing the rebels, and then setting and f Up )ut to conquer ,ie world. At the head )f a little army he defeated the vast sett losts of Darius, king of the Medes, wo? ook Syria, Egypt, Babylon, Persia and stru >arts of Northern India. w^' He conquered the then known world, *ou >ut there was one thing he could not e onquer, himself. Outbursts of violent aho aassion led him to commit terrible . rimes, and excesses in eating and ^our Irinking cut short his triumphant ca- for eer when he was only thirty-five t0 11 ears old. cam Such was Alexander the Great, a 'mrr loble, generous boy, who might have not* >een a greater man if he had not been W spoiled by indulgence and flattery. bu* _ trea The Size of the Oceans.?An officer >f a liner once remarked to the writer hat most men seemed to be as igno- 1 re ant about the size of the sea as they ^at 1 ne of the distance between the heav-, J"'n illy planets. Here are a few facts: fhe Pacific covers 68,000.000 miles; * er he Atlantic 30,000.000, and the In- and .... Kan Han ocean, Arctic ana Antarctic iz,M)i),000. To stow away the contents >f the Pacific it would be necessary tsr o fill a tank one mile long, one mile aski vide and one mile deep every day for "Mo 110 years. Put in figures, the Pacific the mlds in weight 948,000,000,000.000,- the >00 tons. The Atlantic averages a min lepth not quite three miles. Its wa- er? ers weigh 325.000,000.000.000.000 t& ons. and a tank to contain it would com lave each of its sides 430 miles long. Tow rhe figures of the other oceans are . n the same startling proportions. It vould take all the sea water in the the vorld 2,000.000 years to flow over Whi Niagara.?Tit-Bits. piac ^ORY OF BURIED TREASURE. irded By Murdered Men's Bones It Eludes Generations of Searchers. onnected with almost all the small nds in the Mexican gulf and the ibbean sea there is some ' treasure y," but perhaps none so well auitlcated as that of the Mugueres Isi. irates' exploits and their buried s of gold and gems are the inexstible sources of all the romantic ies that the fishermen love to tell moonlight nights, seated on the :om of some boat turned up on the ch. They suspect that others drearn :reasures as much as they do, for .ngers are closely watched. Whlehr way we strolled some one kept us Mew. Mien we mentioned this to Don PePobedano, one of the oldest lnhabi:s. he said: "They think you have ie for the treasure, which they ild never allow to be taken by a nger." So we Invited Don Pedro ell us about It and he gave it to us 'ollows: Nearly all of us are from Yallahu, the opposite coast (Yucatan), but always come here to flsh. I was a e shaver when my uncle first jght me. yet I remember everyig. One morning a schooner hove sight; It soon cast anchor In the . There were armed men on board, y came ashore, but seemed not to ce us. We watched and saw them i all around. One evening when returned to our camp we missed ie Mexican bread and could not And who had taken It. Next day the ie thing happened, and so the next; i a boy was set to watch. He hid self, saw an old man steal from the h, snatch some bread and quickly eat. Hy uncle resolved to capture the f. Next day we started In our ts as usual, but soon anchored in mall cove near by and walked to camp, where we hid ourselves. We the old man enter the hut, then we ounded him and learned that he come on board the schooner to w the others where a treasure was, laving1 seen It burled. Overhearing onversation to kill him when the sure was unearthed so that he ht not demand his share, he ran ly and hid in the woods, watching our absence to procure food. He ned greatly afr/ild of the compani he had left; so my uncle told him was welcome to share with us, but had better keep out of sight until other schooner had gone. Very i the treasure seekers went off in ir ship, no richer than when they le, probably believing the old man d; but he was bale and hearty with his wits about him, though 70 years Concerning himself he said:* en quite young I was kidnapped and ?n on board a pirate ship, where I i made cabin boy. One day the v entered a city on the coast and ked it, taking lots of gold coin and :ious things from the churches, and bishop's Jewels. What a glittering it was! They put it all in boxes ered with lead and brought them e, landing on the north end of this nd, where they dug a trench in the d sixty steps from the water's edge, the trench they laid the treasure, covered it with a piece of tarpauand a light coating of sand. Then captain asked for volunteers to **/1 It 'Two negroes stepped forward and e Instantly shot by the captain, > ordered their bodies to be thrown the boxes, saying that they would i better care of them dead than e, because anyone finding bones ild look no further. The trench was i refilled, and on it three stones e placed forming a triangle, a ivbar being buried ten steps from n. Our ship was soon afterward tured, and everyone on board put to th except me, because I was young had been kidnapped.' Vfter much persuasion," continued i Pedro, "he pretended to look for treasure, but I think he feared to cate the spot lest we should kill , as the others had promised to do, jgh we would not have hurt the old " 1. We took him to our village, and went to Campeche, where he died, hing was heard about the treasure several years, during which time formed this village, when one day i arrived from Campeche, bringing ivernment permit to dig for it. All he trenches back of the church were le by their order. They did not look the north point of the island, but r were so sure of finding the money t they paid the people here who ked for them double the usual res, and spent many dollars, going ly much poorer, for they found ling. They had lost a map, they I, that indicated the position of a l stone in front of which the boxes e buried. Another party came to ch on the south side of the village, the last comers looked in vain on north point. In 1847, when the first lers came, a youth, looking for fired, let fall his long knife, and it ck something sounding like metal, ch proved to be a crowbar. The th took it away without marking spot, for he had heard nothing lit tne treasure; unu yei nc wao lln ten steps of It. It can only be id by the one that it is intended Once I thought I had it. Digging nake the foundation of a house we e upon human bones; then I had an lense trench opened, but found ling more." 'e thanked Don Pedro for the story, never had a chance to look for the sure, though we had no difficulty in ing the stone at the north point of island, and, 60 steps from it the e stones forming a triangle. In , an old negro in the city of Tezihad given us the proper directions, we never had a chance to dig; e were too many eyes watching us it might have cost us our lives.? sas City Star. When do you wind your watch?" ;d the man with the bulging brow. ?rning or evening?" "Generally in morning," answered the man with bulhous nose. "I always wind e just before I go to bed." "Wellso do I."?Chicago Tribune. Subbubs?"I see Blinkins has e out as a candidate for governor." rnley?"Yes, he has declared his at ambition to be the servant of people.'" Subbubs?"Servant? it! doesn't he mean to keep the e if he gets it?"?Exchange.