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ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLY. l. h. grist's sons, PubU.her.,} % 4ail,iI8 40r fNmotion "f flolitical, gocial, agricultural and Commercial Interests of (hi; Jpeopl*. { TEfi"VN'OtK0Ltv.7.lK'cE"""C? KSTABLI8HED 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, MAY 26, 19y. ~~~ NO. 42. fwRooi ? =^= BY THOM Copyright, 1911, t Pub. by Doubleday, CHAPTER VI. The Forgotten Man. The suddenness of his dismissal broke the strain under which Stuart had been laborlngr for hours. It was ridiculous. He began to laugh at the silliness of the whole thing?what an idiotic performance anyhow?these lovers' quarrels! He saw the comedy of it, ate a hearty supper, and went to bed firm in the conviction that he would see Nan again the next day. 1 But the morning came with a sense of growing uncertainty. It was raining. He would have enjoyed a storm, but it was Just a drizzle with a penetrating dampness that found the mar, row of his bones. He called a messenger and sent a note to Nan asking her to forget the ugly memory of the night before and fulfill her promise to go to the country when the rain ceased. If it continued to rain he would call at eight. He told the boy to wait for an answer. The messenger returned promptly and handed back his note unopened. Of course she was bluffing. She knew she had the whip hand for the ' moment and meant to use it. "Well, two can play this game," he muttered. "We'll see who wins!" He turned to his work with grim resolution. For two weeks the battle between pride and love raged in suence. cacti day he rose with the hope of some sign from Nan, and each day hope died in a more desperate and sullen despair. At last he began to question the wisdom of his course. Should he not fight his battle at closer range? What if he were in reality engaged in a mortal combat with Bivens's millions for Nan's soul ar.d body! The idea was too hideous to be thinkable. In his anger he had accused her of flirting with Bivens. but in his heart he didn't believe it. The personality of } the little money-grubber made the idea preposterous. He was not only frail, insignificant, and unattractive physically, but he had personal habits which were offensive to Nan's feelings of refinement. His excessive use of tobacco was one thing he knew she could not tolerate. Tobacco was her pet aversion. And yet the more he thought of the scene of their parting, the more sick1 ening became the conviction that her anger at his use of an ugly word was merely a subterfuge to break their engagement.' The perfidy and cruelty of such an act was too hideous for belief ?yet If the thing were possible! He > had left her to struggle alone with the first great temptation of life, and he began to feel that It was cowardly. He should have stood his ground and fought for his love. He made up his mind to go at once and fight Tor his oiu piace oesiue uci on any terms she would grant. He seized his hat and opened the door. To his amazement Bivens was leisurely ascending the steps. What on earth could he want? "Was he making a social call without announcement, as was the habit of his village days in the south? At this moment Bivens was the last man he l wished to encounter, yet a meeting * seemed inevitable. He stepped into the parlor and sat down with resignation to await his entrance. To his amazement he heard the maid say: "This way, sir, Dr. Woodman asks you to wait for him in the library." So Bivens was calling on his arch enemy by appointment. Stuart ref placed his hat on the rack and return. fd to his room, determined to await the outcome of this extraordinary visit. That its significance was sinistei he couldn't doubt for a moment. Little could he dream how fateful for his ' future life was the message the little dark man bore. Stuart closed his door with a sensation of foreboding, sat down and tried to read. On Dr. Woodman's entrance, Bivens rose to greet him with unusuai animation and unmistakable good will. When the doctor grasped the outstretched hand a more striking contrast could scarcely be imagined?the one big, bluff, jovial, sunny, powerful and straight of figure as he was always straight in speech and manners ?the financier, small and weak in body, his movements sinuous, flexible, with eyes that never looked at the man ^ he was talking to, yet always seemed to be taking in everything in the room ?eyes unusually dark, yet seemingly full of piercing light as from hidden II If ft i/riiroiu. "Well, Blvens, what can I do for you? I understand from your note that the matter is important." "Of the gravest importance to us both. doctor," he answered with a * smile. "For a peculiar personal rea* son I want us to get together and settle our differences." "Are there any differences between us? You go your way and I go mine. You run your business to suit yourself > and I'll do the same. The world's big enough for us both?" "That just the trouble," Bivens Interrupted. "It isn't. We are entering a new era of combination, merger, cooperation." "Compulsory co-operation!" the doctor laughed. "It may be so at last," the little man said soberly. "Certainly the old idea ..f competition is played out. We no longer believe that business men should try to cut each other's throats." "< >h. I see," sneered the doctor, "thev should get together, corral their customers, and cut their throats. That certainly is better for business, hut how about the customers?" "Business is business." was the grim answer. "For beasts of the field, yes?but for men?" "Still, you must recognize the fact that the drug trade is a business enterprise. tint a charity organization." "Even so, still I happen to knowthat within a stone's throw of my b store swarms a population of a <piarL ter of a million human beings so poor mm >45 DIXON ^ >y Thomas Dixon. , Page &. Co., N. Y. CSfci that only three hundred of them ever have access to a bathroom. The death rate of the children is 254 in a thou sand. It should be about 20 in a thousand, if normal. I don't want any higher profits out of my customers. If I've got to fight I'd rather fight the trade than fight the people. I choose the lesser evil." "But I don't ask you to do evil." "You ask me to enter with you into a criminal conspiracy to suppress freedom of trade, and use fraud and violence if necessary to win?" "Fraud and violence?" Blvens interrupted, smilingly. "Certainly. What sort of merchandise does the 'organizer' of modern industry bring to market? Tricks and subterfuges in the form of printed paper called stocks which represent no value. From the moment a financier once tastes this blood he becomes a beast. With the first fierce realization of the fact that under modern legal forms he can coin money out of nothning by binding the burdens of debt on the backs of helpless millions, he begins to laugh at the laws of man and God." "Come, come, doctor, you must realize the fact that in the drug business we are bringing order out of chaos and at last putting the trade on a paying basis." "But at what a price! You have closed mills instead of opening them, thrown out of work thousands, lowered the price paid for raw material, bringing ruin to its producers, increased the price charged for your products to the ruin of the consumer, nn/1 on /I/I I o/i rvi illinno nf flnt if InilQ Hfthf aiiu aauuicu iinuivuo v? uwtvivuo uv wiu on the backs of their children yet unborn. Combine, yes, but why not pay the people whose wages you have stolen as well as the owners whose mills you have closed? If combination is so extremely profitable. It should bring some benefit to the millions who are consumers?not merely make millionaires out of a few men. Who is bearing the burden of this enormous increase of fictitious wealth? The people. The price of living has been Increasing steadily with the organization of each industry into a trust. Where will it end?" Bivens's eyes narrowed to the merest points of concentrated light, while an amused smile played about them as he listened patiently to the doctor's trade. When at last the big figure towering above him paused for breath, be remarked quietly: "The trust is here to stay, doctor. Legislation against it is as absurd and futile as a movement to stop the tides. We will never pull down these big department stores or go back to the little ones. The skyscraper will not come down from the heavens merely because a belated traveler rails that his view of the stars has been obscured. You cannot make economy a crime, progress a misdemeanor, or efficiency a felony! If so, you can destroy the trusts." "I'm not clear yet how it is to be done," was the passionate answer? "but as sure as God lives we are going to do something. The spirit of America is progressive, up hill, not down hill, mind you. At present we are putting wreckers in charge of Organr??-?A fomina nrnrlnnoro in nhorp'P of Production. It can't last. At no period of the world's history have the claims of tyranny been so quickly seen and dared, as here and now. Nowhere and in no age has tyranny confronted such a people as ours with life and culture and ideals as high?a people so in love with liberty, so disciplined in its struggles! When the day comes that we shall be confronted with death or degradation, the young American will know how to choose. Patriotism with me is not an empty word. It is one of the passions of my life. I believe in this Republic. For the moment the people are asleep. But time is slowly shaping the issue that will move the last laggard. We are beginning dimly to see that there is something more precious in our life than the mere tonnage of national wealth? the spirit of freedom and initiative in our people! Shall they become merely the hired men of a few monied kings? Or shall the avenues of industry and individual enterprise remain open to their children? Is it more important to grow men or make money? Shall we transform the Republic into a huge money-stamping machine and turn its freemen into slaves who tend this machine, at the command of a master? The people will answer these questions!" Rivens gave a cynical little chuckle. "Then I'm sure we'll get the wrong answer, doctor," was the response. rney will gei u ngiu oye anu uyc. The nation is young. You say you believe in God. Well, see to it?a thousand years are but a day to H>im! Among the shadows of eternity He is laughing at your follies. Nature in her long, slow, patient process is always on the side of Justice." Bivens rose with a movement of impatience. 'I'm sorry you can't see your way to listen to any proposition from me. doctor. I'm a practical man. I wish to incorporate your business into the general organization of the American Chemical company on terms that will satisfy you?" "Such terms can't be made, Bivens." the doctor said impetuously, "Your purpose is to squeeze money out of the people?the last dollar the trade will bear. That is your motto I simply refuse. I refuse to devote my life to gouging out my neighbors' eyes to increase the profits of my trade. 1 put myself in his place, the place of the forgotten man. the . onsutiier, the man you are organizing to exploit The strong and the cunning can always take advantage of the weak, the Ignorant, the foolish am generous. ] have an imagination which makes vivid the sense of fellowship. 1 meet, in the crowds I pass, thousands of friend? I never speak to. but the world i? brighter because I've seen them." "But if I don't sec them?" the little I black eyes mildly asked. . "Certainly! You can't see them. | To you the city is merely a big flock of sheep to be sheared, while to me | its myriad sounds arc the music of a divine oratorio, throbbing with tears and winged with laughter! To you, ' the crowd are so many fools who may be buncoed out of their goods, wh'' I to me, some of their eyes, seen but for a moment, look into mine with infinite I hunger and yearning, asking for friendship, comradeship, and love. I And so, I call them my neighbors? these hurrying throngs who pass me I daily. Because they are my neighbors, I they are my friends. Their rights are sacrad. I will not rob, maim, or kill them, and I will defend them against those who would!" With the last sentence the stalwart figure towered above the li.tie financier in a moment of Instinctive hostility. Bivens merely shrugged his shoulders and answered in measured, careful tones: "Then I suppose I'll have to fight you whether I wish It or not?" "Yes, and you knew that before you came here tonight. Your generous impulse for a settlement on my own terms is a shallow trick and it comes too late. I'm not fighting my own battle merely. I'm fighting for the people. You have heard that I am beginning a suit for damages against your Company?" Bivens laughed in spite of himself, bit his lips, and looked at the doctor. "I assure you I had heard nothing of such a suit, and now that I have it does not even interest me." "Then may I ask the real reason for this urgent call and request for a compromise of our differences?" "You may," was the cheerful response. "And I will answer frankly. I am engaged to be married to Miss Nan Primrose. The wedding Is to occur in a few weeks. In some way she learned of a possible conflict between your interests and mine, and asked me to settle them." "And, may I ask, why? I don't even know Miss Primrose!" "A woman's whim, perhaps. Possi Diy oecause our mutual iriena, Mr. Stuart, lives in your home, and she feared to lose his friendship in the conflict which might ensue." The doctor wa* silent a moment and glared angrily at his visitor. "Bivens, you're a liar," he cried in a sudden burst of rage. The dark face flushed and the slim little hand began to tremble. "I am your guest, doctor?" "I beg your pardon, I forgot myself." "I assure you," the little financier continued smoothly, "that my intentions were friendly and generous. My only desire was to help you and make you rich." Again the doctor's eyes blazed with wrath and he completely lost his selfcontrol. "Damn you, have I asked for your help or patronage? Its offer Is an Insult! I want you to remember, sir, that I picked you up out of the streets of New York, ill, hungry, out of work, friendless, and gave you your first Job." Bivens. breathing heavily, turned in silence and hurried to the door. The doctor followed. With his hand on the knob, the financier turned, his face black with hate and slowly said: "I'll make you live to regret this interview, Woodman!" With a contemptuous grunt, the doctor closed the door. CHAPTER VII. A Vision. When Stuart heard the door close and Bivens's step die away on the pavement below, he came down to see the doctor, haunted by a strange vision. Through every day of his subsequent life the most trivial details of that hour stood out in his memory with peculiar and terrible vividness. From every shadow he saw Nan's face looking into his. He was not superstitious; this impression he knew was simply a picture burned into his tired brain by days and nights of intense longing. But what increased the horror of the fancy was the fact that the picture changed in quick succession, from the face of the living to the face of the dead. He closed his eyes at last and in sheer desperation felt his way down the last flight of stairs. The fiercer the effort he made to shut out the picture, the more vivid it became until he found himself shivering over the last persistent outline which refused to vanish at any command of his will. It was the ghost of Nan's face?old, white, pulseless, terrible in its beauty, but dead. "Of what curious stuff we're made!" he exclaimed, pressing his forehead as if to clear the brain of its horrible fancy. He paused in the lower hall and watched for a moment a scene between father and daughter through ! the open door of the library. Harriet had just bounded into the room and stood beside the doctor's chair with an arm around his neck and the other hand gently smoothing his soft gray hair. She was crooning over his tired figure with the quaintest little mother touches. "You look so worn out, papa dear? what have you been doing?" 1 "Something very foolish, I'm afraid, baby?I've just refused a fortune that 1 might have been yours some day." "Why did you refuse it?" "Because I didn't believe it was clean and honest." i "Then I shouldn't want it. I'd rath er lie pour. , ? The doctor placed both hands on the 1 fair young face, drew it very close and i whispered: I "Had you, dearie?" "Why, of course I had!" The big hands drew the golden head , closer still and pressed a kiss on the young forehead. > "My husband will love me, won't he? . I shall not tnind if I'm poor," she went on, laughing, as Stuart entered the i room. [ "See, boy, how she's growing, this little baby of mine!" the doctor ex' claimed, wheeling her about for Stu. art's inspection. "It's a source of endless wonder to me, this miracle of : growth?to watch this child?and see [ myself, a big brute of a man?growing, growing slowly but surely into the i tender glorious form of a living woi man?that's God's greatest miracle! i Hun now, girlie, and go to bed. I want to talk to Jim." ^ - . She paused a moment, smiling into ? Stuart's fare and softly said: a "Good-night, Jim?pleasant dreams!" Through all the riot of emotions a with which that night ended and " through the years of bitter struggle c which followed, that picture was the a one ray of sunlight which never faded, h "Well, my boy, I've just done a thing which I know was inevitable, but now a that it's done I'm afraid I may have n made a tragic mistake. Tell me If It's a so. There may be time to retract." "Blvens has threatened to ruin your t business?" . J---. c "On tne ntner nana, nc nas juat mfered to buy It at my own price." * "And you refused?" "To sell at any price?but it's not too late to change my mind. I can n call him back now and apologize for r my rudeness. Tell me. should I do it?" n "Do you doubt that you're right in the position you've taken?" "Not for a moment. But the old 11 question of expediency always bobs a up. I'm getting older. I'm not as old as this white hair would make me, but I feel it. Perhaps I am out-of- r* date. Your eyes are young, boy; your soul fresh from God's heart. I'm Just tl a little lonely and afraid tonight. See Cl things for me?sit down a moment." ? The doctor drew Stuart into'a seat ^ and rushed on impatiently. n "Listen, and then tell me If I r? should follow that little weasel and apologize. I'll do It If you say so?at a least I think I would, for I'm afraid of myself." He paused, and a look of pain clouded his fine face as his eye 1) rested on a portrait of Harriet on the ?' table before him. b "There are several reasons why you tl couldn't have a more sympathetic lis- tl tener tonight, doctor?go on." "Grant all their claims," he began n Impatiently, "for the Trust?Its econo- S my, Its efficiency, Its power, Its sue- v cess?this is a free country. Isn't It?" "Theoretically." it well. 1 Wisn lu uu numnt-Bs III III; own way?not so big and successful a way perhaps as theirs, but my own. I express myself thus. ?Vhen I hint at such a thing to your modern organ- C Izing friend, that these enormous profits for the few must be paid out of the poverty of the many?against J< whom the strong and cunning are thus tl combining?a simple answer is always c< ready, 'Business is business,' which translated is the old cry that the first murderer shrieked Into the face of his t< questioner: 'Am I my brother's || keeper?" c< "That's why I'm afraid of these fel- a lows. The unrestrained lust for mon- tl ey is always the essence of murder, s< and the man or woman who surren- ? ders to Its spell will kill when put w to the test. The law which holds a burglary constructive murder is found- lf ed on an elemental truth. The man who puts on a mask, arms himself 01 with revolvers, knife, and dark lan- tl tern and enters my house to rob me k of my goods will not hesitate to kill If a human life stands in the way of his J' success." "I should not put it quite so strong- 81 ly of these men?" y "I do. And I know I'm right. I h saw murder in those black bead eyes of Bivens's tonight. Do you think he 11 - B wouici nesnaie 10 nnse a iwwry 10 increase a dividend if he knew that act a would result In the death of its em- p ployes from weakness and hunger? ^ Not for a minute. He hesitates only at lt a violation of the letter of the crimnal w code. What, then, is the difference w between a burglar and a modern or- 81 ganlzer of industry? Absolutely none." ^ Stuart laughed. "Understand me, boy, I'm not g preaching any patent remedy for so- a clal ills. I'm not in a hurry. I can a wait as God waits. But this question w is with me a personal one. I simply ^ hold the biggest thing on earth is not 1 a pile of gold, stolen or honestly earn- 1 ed. The biggest thing on this earth is n a man. Our nation is not rich by reason of its houses and lands, its gold u or silver or copper or Iron?but be- n cause of its men. I believe in improv- a ing this breed of men, not trying to p destroy them. For that reason I re- ^ fuse success that is not built on the 0 success and happiness of others. I re- tl fuse to shire in prosperity that is not the growth of prosperity." a "But If you sell your business to w these men and retire, will you neces- r saril.v share in their wrongdoing?" "In a very real and tragic sense, a yes. I'm a coward. 1 give up the fight. P I've been both a soldier and a mer- ^ g chant. Why does the world honor a soldier and despise a merchant? Be- \\ cause a soldier's business is to die for his country, and a merchant's habit is to lie for nrofit. Isn't old Ruskln e right ? Why should not trade have its r heroes as well as war? Why shouldn't j. I he just as ready to die as a tner- ? chant for my people as I was on the h field of battle?" ^ The doctor paused, and his eyes a grew dim while Stuart bent closer and g watched and listened as if in a spell. n He realized that his old friend was not [J really asking advice, but that a great )< soul in a moment of utter loneliness v was laid bare and crying for s.vmpa- * thy. a The doctor's voice took a tone of n r dreamy tenderness. p "I am just passing through this f( world once. I can't live a single day f< of it over again. There are some ? things I simply must do as I pass, j, They can't wait, and the thing that w has begun to strangle me is this mod- ? ern craze for money, money, money, J <1 at all hazards, by fair or foul means! p In every walk of life I find this cancer s eating the heart out of men. I must _ fight it! I must! Good food, decent a clothes, a home, pure air, a great love p ?these are all any human being 1 needs! No human being should have " less. I will not strike down my fel- t! low man to get more for myself while e one human being on this earth wants as much." I'ncousciously the young man's ^ hand was extended and grasped the ? doctor's. n "You'll never know," Stuart said ^ with deep emotion, "how much 1 owe " to you in my own life. You have al- e ways been an inspiration to me." v The patient gray eyes smiled. "I'm giad to hear that tonight, my 8 hoy. For strange as it may seem to k you, I've been whistling to keep up my ? courage. I'm going to make this fight t for principle because I know I'm right, t and yet somehow when I look into the f face of my baby I'm a cowahl. I'm J going to make this fight and I've a p lekenlng foreboding of failure. But ifter all, can a man fall who is right?" "I don't believe It!" was the ringing inswer which leaped to Stuart's Hps. I've had to face a crisis like this reently. I was beginning to hesitate >nd think of a compromise. You've lelped me." "Oood luck, my boy," was the cheery nswer. "I was a poor soldier tonight nvself until the little weasel told me n obvious lie and I took courage." "Funny If Bivens should do anyhing obvious." "Wasn't It? He pretended to have ome in a mood of generosity?his of er of settlement Inspired by love." "The devl? must have laughed." "So did I?especially when he told le that he was engaged to he marled." "Engaged?to?be?married?" Stuart lade a supreme effort to appear indifferent?"to whom?" "To Miss Nan Primrose, a young idy I haven't the honor of knowing, nd he had the lying audacity to say fiat he came at her suggestion." Stuart tried to speak and his tongue efused to move. "I was frank enough to inform him fiat he was a liar. For which, of ourse, I had to apologize. Well, ou've helped me tonight, boy, more fian I can tell you. It helps an old lan to look into the eyes of youth and pnew his faith. Good-night!" The doctor began to lower the lights, nd Stuart said mechanically. "Good-night!" in a stupor or nuna aespair ne siowr fumbled his way up to his room, ntered, and threw himself across the ed without undressing. It was one ilng to preach, another to face the ling Itself alone In the darkness. Through the shadows of the long Ight he lay with wide staring eyes, azlng at the vision which would not anlsh?the face of the woman he >ved?cold, white, pulseless, terrible 1 Its beauty, dead. (To be Continued.) FEEDING YOUNG PIGS. lemson College Gives Interesting Information on the Subject. The following article on the sublet of "Feedlne Young Pigs" is from le pen of Prof. A. Smith of Clemson allege: At this time of year most of the dws have farrowed their spring llt?rs and It Is very Important that the ttle pigs he kept In a thrifty, growing andltlon and developed to maturity at minimum cost. A fender around ie farrowing pen made of poles or ?antling about ten Inches from the all and eight Inches from the floor '111 save the lives of many little pigs nd prevent the sow from crushing or jjurlng them. Until the pigs are a month old the nly way of feeding them Is through ie mother, and the amount of milk iven hy the sow has a decided effect n the future development of the Rung pigs. Our plan of handling hogs at Clemin college is to keep the sow with oung pigs in the farrowing pen which as a small lot adjoining, for three to iur weeks after farrowing, then turn lem out on green rye, clover, and ermuda grass pasture or rape, which re the only green crops we have at resent. Separate, small, movable ouses are provided for each sow and \ addition to the feed given the sow, 'hlch consists of a little corn and heat middlings, the pigs are fed in eparate pens on skim milk and mid-, lings made Into a thin slop, and if o milk is available use middlings and round corn or six parts ground corn nd one part tankage. The little pigs iso learn to eat the green feed and hen two montns oia are weanea. laving learned to eat well, they will ;el the loss of their mothers very lite nor are their digestive organs deanged by any sudden change of feed. This system of feeding Is continued ntil the early sorghum, Spanish peauts, and later soy bean lots are ready, nd the corn and cowpeas. It is 1mortant that the pigs be given plenty f clean water and shade and kept free rom lice by using any cheap heavy oil r a five per cent solution of any of tie standard coal tar products used ar this purpose. Farmers must not irget that size is largely the result f feed as well as inheritance, and hile the pig may inherit large size, it equires constant, liberal feeding to evelop it. In our experiments this year we are rranging to determine the number of ounds of pork per acre that can be erived from the different crops easily rown in this state. VVe would also e glad to get in touch with farmers ho are feeding pigs this summer. ? Greenville News: Anticipating the oing into effect on July 1 of the mariage license law in South Carolina, robate Judge John T. Bramlett has lid in a bountiful supply of blanks, tut, sad to relate, it is highly probale that the supply of blanks will have i be consigned to the wastebasket nd new ones imported between now nd the date on which the new law oes into effect. It is agreed that the ew blanks are not made up according i the statute "made and provided" by loot lo.rielotnro ThP hlfl flkfl isued l>y the state authorities and /ere printed in Charleston. It was tated that the law recently enacted oes not specify that the "girl shall ppear before the county officer in making application for license to mars', but only the groom-to-be shall apear. The new blanks make provision or the girl's appearance, and, thereore it is supposed that they are Inorreet. The documents received by he judge of probate are formidable loking articles, over a foot long and /ith blanks enough to be filled out and aths to subscribe to frighten a man i ordinary circumstances, much less "near-groom." Since the law was assed county officers have been bei.iir.wl liv airmita rprirpHPIl t i F1ET eilKXaV ng concerns with samples of fancy Ileuses on parchment, white vellum ml other high grade specimens of the aper makers' art. But the state, for he $1 fee, will only furnish the ordiary blank, though it is agreed that hose desiring to do so may furnish heir own blanks, having them as laborate as desired. Meteoric Showers.?How many now that the earth is getting larger aeh year from t'.a fall of meteoric natter on its surface and that such natter is of no small weight? One lundred tons a day is the estimate nade by Young. This, he says, would nake a layer one inch thick over the ntire earth 111 1,000,000,000 years if i-e assume this meteoric matter to be hree times as heavy as water. But mother effect has to take place at the ame time. As the earth is getting irger the force of gravity gets larger, nd we are heine attracted with more orce toward the sun. But the cenrifugal force keeping us away from he sun gets much greater, too, and, in act, more so than the sun's gravity, he result being that we are gradually ncreasing our distance from the glowng orb.?New York Tribune. #ftisfcUanrou$ #radinfl. APRIL FOOL IN PHILIPPINES. Old Soldier Tells of Some Well-Plan ned Jokes That Miscarried. The ex-regular kicked an old worn out purse Into the gutter and polnte< to an old battered derby hat lying li the street. Xear It was a cobblestone and the three useless, Inanimate ob Jects gave the former soldier mucl merriment. "I was by this way yesterday," h< said, "and I had nearly as much fui as the kids who used those things They had that rock under the hat an* In the short time I watched them oni Indiscreet person drove his toes in ai inch further kicking the hat. The: had a string tied to the pocketbool and fully a dozen people reached foi It. It was April Fool's Day, yoi know, and they were making th< most of It." The ex-regular deftly rolled hlmseli a cigarette and spoke In a remlnlscen tone. "It all reminded me of the firs time an April Fool Joke was Intro duced In the Philippine Islands," h< said. "At least, I think the joke oui outfit played was the first and 1*1 never forget It. Those kids Just hat a little Innocent fun, but when w< tried the foolishness two or three 01 um nearly got shot. "That was out In the islands in th< Insurrection and I was serving In th< infantry. I'd gone off to Tampa fron Baltimore with the Fifth Regiment and after we'd sweltered In Tampt and had r?nm? hank homa without seeing anything of the scrap I'd enlisted In a regular outfit and flnallj found myself In Pampanga Provlnc? helping pacify the bloodthirsty littlo brown brother. "When we weren't hiking through the Jungle keeping Agulnaldo anc some of his friends busy, we wen garrisoning some little wart of a plac< and trying to keep ourselves frotr getting boloed. It was a fine genth pastime in those days?teaching th< Gugus that Uncle Sam was theli friend. "But that April Fool Joke I'm telling about might never have happenec If Corporal Spud Murphy?there wen so many Murphys in our outfit tha^ we called 'em all Spud?and Henderson. his own special buddy, hadn'i K/vam f.vn/I /># otuff nallA/1 irlnn WVCIl DW IWIIU Ul lilt OIUI1 toiltu V HIU or If the carabao hadn't had pecullai Ideas, or if our company commandei hadn't been a kind and gentle man "Our company, with Company B was garrisoning Santa Barbara an< we were having a right quiet time 01 it. We had searched the place ant found a few rifles and some ammu nition, but the natives had called ui 'amlgo' and were behaving them selves very nicely. Our captain, wh< as senior captain was in command o: the battalion, knew well enough w< were sitting on a hot box, even if w< didn't know it ourselves, but he bellev ed that if we treated the half-frlendl: natives halfway right we'd avoid a lo of trouble. So he wouldn't stand foi anything that would hurt the people'! feelings. "It wasn't long before Spud Murph; showed up one day with his chevrom gone. We had seen the order tha busted him, and we saw him latei ripping the stripes from his blousi and trading them oft to the man mad< corporal in his place for a couple o: shocks of booze. Henderson was it the mill and it looked like he'd b< 'bob-tailed'?given a dishonorable dls charge you know. "It all happened to them becaus* they bucked the theory of kind treat ment. I don't know whether yoi know It or not, but the Filipino cara boa?the big, fat-horned bull tha does all the work of beast of burdei In the islands?didn't like Amerlcai soldiers. You could pacify the na tives and maybe get them to trus you. but you'd never get the goo< will of a caraboa. I don't believi they will ever lose their distrust, an< and it makes me laugh now when think of the shifty-eyed glare they'i give a soldier as he passed them. "Don't ever think those bulls an scarey creatures. You could make i pass at one of them as you went b; him on/1 KoM crck? rnoHtf In a aPPnn/ to defend himself. But all you ha< to do if you wanted to stampede hln would be to hiss In his ear, and thei maybe he wouldn't cover ground He'd go through a stone wall If It wa In his way, and when they started t< run after somebody hissed at then they wouldn't stop till they were won out. "Well, Spud Murphy and Hendersoi were coming up the plaza one da; pretty full of vino. In front of th< market place was a bull cart and li the cart was a native, his wife and i load of naked children. The marke place was less than 25 yards from th< captain's quarters, and he was on hi; veranda when the two walked up be side the bull cart. "Murphy and Henderson * went t( each side of the bull, and both hisse< their loudest Into the animal's ear We could hear that hiss clear up a headquarters. Well, It didn't take loni for the action to happen. Mr. Bui started, and let me tell you he wen some. Out went Mrs. Gugu first am landed on her back, and as the car bounced along it spilled children fo 200 yards. Finally the Gugu himsel made a leap and landed all right They caught the bull about 500 yard: down the road, where he had gottei the cart tangled up in some bamboo "Five minutes later the guard hat Henderson In the jug and Murph] was In arrest In quarters. I wish yoi could have heard those fellows swear Ing. They had the best line of talk ever heard?English, American, Span ish and native lingo all mixed up to get her. "That was on March 31, and that af ternoon a bull train on its way soutl reacnea tne town wttn orders to be re Heved and an escort detailed from ou outfit. That's what saved Murphy an< Henderson, although Murphy had al ready lost his corporal's stripes. Botl of them were detailed for the escort and Henderson was let out of the mil to say his last farewell to Santa Bar bara. We were to start that night, af ter the bulls were rested, but as 1 happened we didn't go until the nex night. "Murphy and his buddy both got ful of sop that night and were keen for re venge. They thought they had beei persecuted, and I believe they havi laid for the old man and bayonete* him if we hadn't watched them s< hard. The vino made Murphy quit crafty, though, and we didn't knov what he was up to when we saw hin and Henderson delivering a lot of en velopes around among the natives. "That night in the squadroom Mur ph.v let us in on his deal. He an< Henderson had framed up an April foo joke on the captain. We had actually forgotten what day the next one was and when he told us we couldn't heli but admire him. Of course, planninj jokes on a commissioned officer of thi army is no sensible business for an en listed man, but we thought we'd le Murphy go ahead. "Those two fools had gone around t( every Chino store in the place and le an order for every imaginable sort o stuff. They'd ordered all kinds of fruit wi and things from the natives in the market place, and to each one they had di given a seeled envelope, with inatruc- a.f tions to present it at the captain's de quarters at 4 o'clock in the morning. Inside each envelope they had blocked th out on a piece of paper the words ed 'April Fool. Many happy returns of th the day.' The envelopes they had in pinched at headquarters. i "They even went further, for they on n decided to get the presidente of the , town along with the rest. The presi- P' " dente had been friendly to the Ameri- ?e cans, and because he was afraid some i of the insurgents would get him while r?i he slept we had a member of the guard hl1 detailed every night at his house. s Murphy and Henderson had some dif- j"" l Acuity conning the sentry, but their "a i. sealed envelope quieted him. co j "We turned in early that night so we ye would be up in time to see the fun, 80 e for we were auartered on the plaza i Just opposite the captain's shack and |"j v were in a position to see everything. mi "I don't believe I'll ever get over that . 4 sight. It was the funniest I ever saw. ,,c r About 3.30 two or three bull carts ari rived so as to be on time. They were J1, loaded with all sorts of stuff. A little 101 9 later a couple of Chinos, followed by pr native boys lugging all kinds of dry an f sroods, came along and joined the us . growing mob. They came from every ou direction. j"? "All of them were afraid to knock on 1 ' t the door, but they didn't wait long for , . the captain to appear. When you get . 50 or more Filipinos together and in no s the gang are half a dozen who don't w? r like each other, there will not be si1 lence. Absolutely not. And their chat- lrt . tering had awakened the old man. "?. He broke out of his door to the rail rel - of his second story veranda. He was t In his pajamas, and if I ever heard a nu white man cuss and rant he certainly a" did do it. He scared those Ougus so ?u ? that they didn't move a finger. , i "Right at the height of the storm , , the presidente appeared, ail diked out . in a fresh duck suit but looking like a" ? he was miffed about something. He i had a boy going ahead of him with a t lantern, although dawn was Just beginning to show. He stopped stock Le still when he heard the captain, and ' his faoe looked like a squeezed lemon. |_E > He was sore all through. "Just then the captain saw him and choked off his profanity. He ducked ' inside his room and appeared in about i 30 seconds in his uniform. He called ( I over the rail to the presidente to come In, and in a minute or two the door a i was open and the presidente and the "tc 5 captain were shaking hands very for- thl . mallv on the veranda. "Meantime the mob below was get ting Impatient, and one old Chinaman en1 i with a long, thin beard?I forgot his ret p name?pushed through the bunch and ho called the captain. In pretty rotten pidgin English he explained what he had come for and extended his envel- th< 1 ope. All the rest of the crowd did too, do: ? and the presldente produced his. The ter ' captain took it in a sort of bewildered 1 way and opened It first. aw "The plaza wasn't an extensive of t place, although It was about twice as on wide as an ordinary street, but all the way across that space, with the feeble f light of dawn the only light in sight, r we could see his face get red. He ou looked at the slip of paper In his 8|0 " hand and then began to swear all over by again. The presidents looked ready to rU] 1 run, and the mob below was scared tj0 f considerably. Two Gugus jumped on cjj , the carts ready to beat It. eq, 1 "The captain stopped after a while - and laughed a pretty sorrowful-look- na 3 Ing laugh. He started to talk to the an presldente and we found out later from the captain's native boy that he was tb< 3 explaining that It was a time-honored ro, f American Joke. The presldente i?, B couldn't see any Joke about It, but af- pa ter a lot of explanation the captain w8 B took him indoors and gave him a cou- rel - pie of eye-openers, so that he came out tb, j presently and drove the nativee and wc rthlnno nff ? HIV V^IIIIIWO '/II, qj| "We thought there would be some- ru r thing doing for us that day, but there s wasn't. The captain might have been sore, but he didn't let anybody know it, and that night the bull train left, with thl ^ Murphy and Henderson in the escort. Un s I was a corporal then and was detailed an t too. pa "We spent a good part of the day fe< saying good-bye to our native friends, pe ? most of whom were the vino sellers. thi ? The consequence was that by the time pa t the train was ready to start the whole ce< i outfit of 30 men were all lit up and to ; happy. I didn't like the stuff myself of . and let it alone, and I guees there were only half a dozen other really sober be i men in the bunch when we left. thl . "Henderson always was a bad actor a j and he'd gotten his hide fuller than ab . ever of vino until he had a rip-roaring scl t fighting Jag. We hadn't gotten very wi a far out of the town before Henderson of , began to curse Aguinaldo and the In- ly . surrectionists. He swore that he an t wasn't afraid of the whole blooming re1 j bunch, and if he ever got a chance at tlo e them he'd put them on the run in less m< j than it would take him to roll a cigar- up j ette. Oh, he was brave all right, and th< j the bottle of booze that he was fight- el? ing as he hiked along helped his cour- th< age out a lot.. sol "This was right in the middle of the an v insurrection, you see, and we didn't ua j exactly know how many of the enemy TJi , might be around. So we hiked as If we thl were in the presence of the enemy. I to was marching ahead in command of ho the point, keeping a sharp lookout. ' The responsibility of a point?a non" commissioned officer and three men ^ marching 100 yards ahead to keep a ofl watch for the enemy?Is considerable, ch 1 and we didn't want to be disturbed. _|( "In the outfit back of us the ser- ? 1 geant In command was having his f troubles, and not much attention was pr e paid to Henderson. He'd run ahead to , 1 where we were hiking and yell out his ? J defiance. He'd come running up, curs- h 1 ing the insurgents in Pampanga talk *. and English as well, and we finally th H got tired of it. I? "One of the men in the point?Kelly *, . 1-. ?ll f,Am his W1 gill ma lltri vca an uuau unn .... J fool business that Henderson was car- "r J rying on. 'Corporal, can't we fix this * ' ' guy and keep him quiet?' he said to * me. I told him I'd fix him all right, JP < and I got to thinking that it was the ' first of Anril, and that since Hender- rv 1 son had framed up a Job on the comi oany commander something was due !y? t him. .: r "A short distance ahead the road P f made a half circle to skirt the jungle, 5? and before us was an open space. The P * s army engineers had decided to cut off . ? i the distance of the Filipino road, which 'P' proivably made the bend to take ad- Vj I vantage of the shade, and had built a / road straight through. The Jungle at p i this fork of the road was pretty thick, .Vj - and the two or three trips I had made , I by it had made me believe that it was M - a pretty good place for an ambush. rr! "I had about decided on my scheme FP when I heard Henderson hollering and - shouting, and I saw him leave the rest i of the escort and come busting ahead. p - 'Kelly,' I said, 'run ahead there and get r in the bamboo and we'll send Hender- ' J son ahead. When he passes you fire a pe; - shot over his head. I think that'll fix pu i him. Kelly ran forward and about a fee minute later Henderson arrived and pri I beean to curse the Ougus. mc " "Go ahead and bawl 'em out,' I said, it - and away he went, ranting and swear- no t ing and waving his rifle like he really he t meant It. Don't lose your nerve,' I is yelled at him as he went tearing down W1 1 the road and he yelled back something, oci - We watched him legging It toward the th< 1 place where Kelly was hidden and we mj i; just waited. Back of us we could hear no i the escort gabbing among themselves Of a and cursing the hike. Every one of fe< e them was riding on a bull cart. They m? v wouldn't have walked, as they should, me n for anything that night. "Then we saw Henderson dash past th< Kelly's ambush and we waited for the th( - shot. Instead of one shot, as I had wll J suggested. Kelly fired his whole maga- an< 1 zine, and when five shots come all of a cot \r sudden and there is an echo anywhere cai i, around it startles you so that you th>nk in i a whole army corps is opening fire on wa j you. That was what Henderson It e thought, anyway. del "Honestly, it was pitiful to see the eit t way that fellow came back. He didn't Clf run. he didn't walk, he didn't crawl. ) He just laid right down in that road In t and worked himself along by his eye- scl f brows. I nearly died laughing at him we hen he came up to us. He waa 80 ared that I thought he waa going to e from fright, but about 30 seconds ter I saw him I waa nearly scared to ath myself, "Just as soon as the escort heard ose shots that Kelly fired they openfire themselves. They just sat where ey were and cut loose, firing at nothg in particular. Bullets were flying as thick as a swarm of bees and the ily thing we could do was to beat tt r cover. Right into the jungle we unged and lay flat, all except Henrson, who was too scared to move. 9 thought it was Aguinaldo's crack giment paying its entire respect to m. "The bullets were whistling all ound us, nipping off leaves and .pping away at the bamboo. We uld hear the fellows in the escort Ulng to each other, some cussing, me yelling to hear themselves yell d the sergeant in command bawling s loudest trying to get that crowd to formation for attack. YXTKan oftae all *Wa<?. Anlna a?r ard no response, they quit. Maybe / ?c^1ng: had something to do with for I was bawling 'cease firing* as id as I could. Henderson still lay one in the road when the sergeant d two or three of them came up to , and he paused to shed a tear over r dead comrade. When he found he isn't hurt he was for kicking him, but took chances on his getting mad and lispered in his ear. 'After we had sworn on our words of nor to' Henderson that the enemy is gone and wasn't coming back, he t on his feet and nobbed back to the lin. I didn't go along, for it might t have been healthy for me or the lows in the point. But one of the ?n that came out with the sergeant rrled back and passed the word, d as Henderson, all the vino scared t of him, trailed in, they yelled 'April <oV loud enough to be heard five les away. Henderson never opened his mouth ring the rest of the hike. He was a anged man and he came pretty near forming. So did I. I haven't monyeo with an April Fool Joke since, t the kids do it"?Baltimore Sun. :VER ON WORK OF C0NGRE8S. ilks of Legislation and Party Prospects. Congressman Lever, who has been home for several days, as he says, > get a breath of fresh air and someng to eat," talked enthusiastically the News and Courier correspondt last week regarding the results alidy accomplished by the Democratic use. "We have," he said, "so far we have gone, kept the faith with e people of the country. We have ne more substantial work in the inest of reform legislation since the tembling of this congress on the 4th April, then has ever been done by e congress in the history of the untry In tho same length of time. 'In a harmonious caucus we mapped t a programme for this entire sesn, Involving the election of renators a direct vote of the people, a cor pi practice aci 10 puniy our eiecns, the passage of the Canadian retrod ty agreement, a free 'list bill, uallzing tariff taxes and reducing sir burdens, the admission of Arizoand New Mexico Into the Union; d thus far we have already passed e bill for the election of senators by 9 people, the publicity bill, the reclpcliy bill, the free list bill, and durS this week the statehood bill will ss; and while this Is being done the Lys and means" committee will have idy for consideration by the caucus e bill revising and readjusting the iol schedule. When this Is acted upthe cotton schedule and perhaps bber and steel will be considered. Democrats United. "The encouraging thing about all of is is the Democrats have shown an broken front, a unanimity of feeling d an enthusiasm not seen In the rty since the war. Every man of us sis that the reforms sought by the ople can be reached only through e instrumentality of the Democratic rty, and each man Is willing to conie much of his private opinions as particular propositions for the good the party." Is there any probability of raw wool Ing placed on the free list? "I Ink not; my opinion is there will be reduction of 50 per cent or thereouts running through the whole iiedule, with such readjustments as 11 most nearly destroy the burdens this Iniquitous schedule. It is hardpossible to put wool on the free list d maintain a proper regard for the venue necessary to the adminlstran of the government. A large elejnt, of course, favors placing wool on the free list, but I am confident e more conservative and experienced sment in the party will recognize e danger to the revenues in losing nettling like twenty million dollars nually, and that some plan of grad1 reduction will be worked out. iere will be no split of the party on Is question or any other. We Intend stand together, believing that the pe of the party Is In unity." Clark Far President. What about presidential candidates, was asked. "That's a good distance It is strange how situations ange. A few years ago there was a ithora of Republican timber and a arth of Democratic timber. The uation is exactly reversed today, esldent Taft is certain of necessity be the standard bearer of his party. i is the only man hi It that has a ost of a chance of success, and his ance is only a ghost of a chance. On i other hand the Democratic party rich in presidential timber and there II be no difficulty experienced by a tlonal convention in finding a man to will measure up to the full stand3 as a party leader. Yes, there Is ich talk around Washington about eaker Clark, who possesses many tments of leadership and characterIcs which will appeal strongly to the isses. If this Democratic house conues to make good in the future as has in its brief life I would predict it Speaker Clark will be a formida! factor. He is showing splendid idership In the fact that he is refusr to assume the responsibilities eneiy which belong to the memberIp of the house. He is putting this on the boys with the result that evr man realizes that there is work for n. "Mr. Clark is strongly seconded by \ Underwood, of the ways and ans committee, who is showing nself to be a great leader. It will t do to overlook Speaker Clark in ?sldentlal calculations. Wilson Appears Strongest. 'Governor Wilson is at this moment ? * nrl + Vt t Vin tronnrnl nmps SUUIIfiCsv niui iii? Bvi.vtf. bile. He seems to be an almost per t admixture of conservative and agressive, which makes him an al?st Ideal antithesis of President Taft. gives him a strength which Goverr Harmon does not possess, because Is more of the same type of man as President Taft than Is Governor llson. The contest In the next Demratlc convention will likely be among ?se three men, either of whom, In r judgment, can defeat any man mlnated by the Republican party, course, no one can foretell the ef>t the developments of the future ly have upon the prospects of these sn." What do you think of the future for ? party? "It was never brighter; i country Is thoroughly disgusted th Republican maladministration, d this congress Is convincing the jntry that the Democratic party Is pable of conducting the government a conservative and business-like y In the Interest of all the people. Is a 10 to 1 bet that the next presl nt will be a Democrat, and he will her be named Wilson, Harmon or irk." Mr. I>ever will return to Washington time for the caucus on the wool ledule, which Is likely to be next ek.