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> YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. ISSUED SEMI-WEKKLT. l. . gbist'S sobs, Psbiiahert. } %^amilg jfcrcspagtr: jfor (hi |romotion o)[ the political, Mortal, ^gricnltnral, and Communal Jfnterqsts of the |togIt- {TgBM^^?wpr! cm?f'lcg' > ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE. S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1903. MO. 34. ?The Truant C The Shark; \ By P. Y. BLACK / r Copyright, 190$, by American \ % Press Association / j 1|y i*Mt I'd like to Bee mel" ITil The small boys looked at knflJVH Master Wat with admiring "You chaps can go and be taught by a burgher if you like, but not me." "Won't your father lick you, Wat?" "8hut up I He's got no father, and his mother never licks him." Wat walked on, witn nis nose m uie air, and jnst around the corner he ran squarely into the schoolmaster who was to take the place temporarily of the regular teacher, who had broken his leg. Wat sniffed impudently and Would have walked past, but Jan de Jough put out a hand to stop him?put it out with diffidence, hesitatingly, almost as an inferior might do. "It is time for school, Master Thorns," said he. "1 am not going to school today." "And tomorrow?" "Not tomorrow." "May I know why?" Wat looked to one side and another, rather abashed, and then insolently at the young schoolmaster. "White men," said he, "should not be taught by?by black men." He ran away and did not see the flush of anger and sorrow that reddened De Jough's olive cheeks. The schoolmaster looked after him for a second and then slowly proceeded to open the school. This happened in Natal, where are many men of different races?English, Dutch descendants. Portuguese, Ma lays, descendants or tne coo lies brought in old times from the East Indies as plantation workers, and Kaffirs. So there are many social ranks and grades. Wat was an 'English boy, brought out to the colony when a baby, and as the English rank highest in the country and never would think of mingling Intimately with the other races Wat being only twelve years old. had a rather exaggerated idea of his own and his people's worth. Jan de Jough was not a black man, though his skin was dark, like most * Italians. He was the descendant of Dutch and Portuguese ancestors, who long, long ago had owned the country before the Englishmen took it as the spoils of war. Just as America today has come into possession of the Philippines. Mr. de Jough was downhearted. ^ ? -4 most; or me ooyu were ut niugusu parentage, and If Wat, their leader, rebelled he foresaw a falling off In attendance and the consequent loss of his first position, bis first stepping stone. He was right The boys, small as they were, were Impudent and unruly. and Jan dismissed the school despondently. Meantime Wat for sufficient reason, did not go straight home. He doubted his reception by bis mother might not be altogether cordial and appreciative. It was hot as it usually is on the coast of the Indian ocean. One advantage th? hpflt brines to the bovs Is that one cod go swimming any day almost all the year round. Wat wandering along by the anrf. soon felt the sun oppressive, and when he came to a cove which he and his chums knew well as a swimming place where the surf did not break too violently be naturally came to the conclusion that a bath would be a good thing to break the lonely monotony of the morning. He was, like most boys In warm countries, a first rate swimmer, and he had no hesitation In plunging Into the huge Indian ocean even when quite alone. He left his clothes on the beach near some rocks without fear of pilfering wanderers, for the cove was some distance from the town and a spot where few ever wandered. He ran In with a dash, paused to catch an Incoming breaker just at the right moment before It broke, dived beneath Its crest, swam vigorously uuder water for a nvfl Aft w>/v niifflni* on/1 uiiuuic uuu tauic up puuiu^ auu wvnlng on the glorious swell oT the waves, with the sun glowing down upon him In warm hearted approval. Wat turned ?n his back and let himself be rocked luxuriously. One moment he would be lifted up so that he could look far out to sea or Inland at the vast extent of greenery, and the next he was down In a great hollow, with nothing before his eyes but the cloudless blue above and the glassy waters reaching up at his sides like precipitous mountains. "Poof?oof?ow!" crlod the boy. "This is fetter than n stuffy schoolroom, with a low burgher making you study the Idiotic history of the country. He had a cheek to think he could tench English boys. I wish he was here, and I'd teach him to swim. Wouldn't I duck him? Oh, no! Certainly not!" He was like a fish. He reveled and played In the sea like one of Its own Inhabitants. A home bred boy of a colder climate, used to one or two months' swimming in the summer holidays, would not have believed a twelve-year-old youngster could be so much at ease on the breast of the fathomless ocean. Wat struck out to deeper water with a bold, swift side stroke and soon was standing, monarch of all he surveyed, on a great black rock which broke the force of the waves as they strove to dash, with headlong strength, Into the quiet cove. As he stood there, with Joyous eyes, facing the ocean defiantly, as his race's eyes have done for centuries and do today, sudden Interest increased their wide brightness. A quarter mile out from the beach of the little bay, but only hrlf that distance from the rook on which he stood, lay on a reef the dark timbers of a recent wreck. Wat remembered hearing of a little bark rushing on the reef In a gale a month ago, but school and cricket had prevented his going out to the cove until now. At once he was filled with the desire to explore, and without a moment's hesitation he plunged into the deeper outside waters and swam for the hulk, it did not take him long to cover the 200 or 300 yards to the wreck. When the vessel was wrecked, monster waves, driven^ in by a landward gale, had broken over the reef, but now the sea about the dead ship was comparatively quiet, and on the lee side Wat had no difficulty in climbing aboard. Mere were new auu eAuimrtuiug ue* lights of the rarest sort To explore strange corners, to stand waist deepnow the tide was out?In the skipper's own cabin and. poking about with fingers and toes, unearth strange things, worthless now, but interesting; to peek and pry with an excited heart In the hope that he might light upon a wonderful find?perhaps -treasure overlooked. perhaps? At the thought of perhaps seeing something ghastly, although he knew all the crew had been saved. Wat suddenly felt lonely and afraid. He ran quickly up on the broken deck. He was startled to note how long by the sun his walk and his swim and his explorations had taken. Now he felt hungry, and he knew it must be long past time at hlB mother's house. Tiffin? He looked again at the sun and the shadows of the rocks upon the sea and calculated correctly that It must be 2 o'clock and school would be coming out In an hour. Wat ran to jump overboard. His foot was on the broken rail, and his hands were raised to dive. In an Instant he would have been in the water, when he staggered back, white as flour, shaking at the nearness of bis escape. Slowly, with lazy complacency, with hardly a flick of its great tall, there swam be neath the boy most leisurely a great shark. It moved about close to the surface, its dorsal tin sometimes above the water, like a sail and its cold, cruel, vicious, hungry eyes stared up at the truant Wat sank down, sick and faint He had been foolish, worse than foolish. Time and again be had been warned, with the other boys, about the Wat looked cautiously overboard. sharks, which, though they do not actually Infest these waters, are by no means rare. The cove was comparatively safe, but beyond it there was always danger. It was the old story of the wolf. "Shark!" had been cried so often to young Wat that he paid little attention to It. Now he was trapped. After a time Wat got up and looked cautiously overboard. The shark was nr?t there hut. when he ran to the other side it was there! The monster knew bis meal was safely cornered. Round and round he swam, lazily and unconcernedly enjoying the warmth of the sun near the surface. Wat was unable to withdraw his eyes from It It fascinated him as a snake does a monkey. Now and then the fish would roll over on its back, and then Wat would hide his eyes, shuddering at the sight of that hideous mouth and those gleaming teeth. Once, when the shark had been on guard for an hour or more, It paused at the seaward end of the wreck and then swam slowly outward. Hope sprung in the boy's heart and he slipped quietly to the other end, intending to glide noiselessly Into the water and strike out for shore. If he had done so, he might have got safely away while the shark continued to swim about, thinking its prey was still there, but Wat had not the great courage to risk it. He hesitated, and in another two or three minutes It was too late. The brute came back, and Wat fancied ,A ^ TTTO US 11 ri'HUUieu HO U1CIUUU1I.UI ???* tvu that it looked up at him mockingly. The truant grew hysterical with fear and horror. He was quite able to realize his position. If he swam shoreward, he would meet a certain, cruel death, perhaps the most horrible of deaths. But the cove and the hulk lay far below the sea road, and between that road and the ocean were great masses of trees and jungle which shut( out the sea from land passengers. Not once in a week perhaps might any one seek that secluded spot, while ships passed far, far out. Thus there wasi little chance of speedy help and an al-| most inevitable end by starvation and| exposure, for, although the days arei warm, the nights in Natal are often, cold, and Wat was naked to all the chill winds of the sea. When his hysteria grew uncontrollable, his moans and tears gave place to loud sobs, but still the placid sentry of the hulk swam round and round. The I sobs at length ceaseu, aiiu in iueir I stead came loud cries which soon were shrill resounding shrieks. But the shark swam round and round till the truant was crazed, driven almost to madness by that relentless watch. At length toward evening, when the sun was sinking fast, one piercing scream from Wat was answered from the beach of the little bay?answered by a long, full toned "Hello!" Wat ran up and down, jumping and throwing i his arms in the air, shouting "Help! | Shark! Help! Shark!" with all his strength and all his might To the highest rock a figure ascended, the sun shining fully upon It and Wat recognized the humble student, the poor schoolteacher, Jan de Jougb, whom he had so grossly Insulted In the morning. The boy's heart sank. "I called him a black man," he thought "and he isn't, and I tried to break up the school He'll go away and leave me to die, and nobody will ever know." Still be shouted and cried and pleaded, and the schoolmaster, to his great joy, Instead of going away, came along from rock to rock to a promontory where his words could be distinctly heard. "I don't understand," cried De Jougb. "Are you hurt? Can't you swim ashore?" "A big shark Is swimming around the wreck," yelled Wat "and I can't get away from It! Oh, Mr. de Jough, forgive me and save me!" The schoolmaster did not reply for a moment He was startled. There was no small boat nearer than the harbor, three hours away. There and back would be six hours at the very least and by that time it would be cold and lark, and-Wat might get so crazed wltl cold and terror and loneliness?might grow delirious, In fact?that he would Jump overboard to swim ashore, when his fate would be awful These things the master thought of in a moment thought of something else for a moment just the value of his own life, thought for not a single moment of that boy's attempt to raise a mutiny in the school and the next moment he was stripped to the skin. "Cheer up, Wat my boy!" he shouted. as If Wat was a good comrade instead of an Insolent pupil "Keep a good heart I'm coming." He was coming! Wat could not reply. How could Mr. de Jougb pass out If he could not pass In? He looked and eonr fho mnotor fin hid nrflvlnif. and Wat knelt also. When De Jougb rose op, be bad a long bladed open claspknlfe In his moutb and Immediately dived Into the water. The shark felt the vibration caused by that plunge and darted a little way in, at once on the alert Wat still kneeling, watched with clasped hands and anxious eyes. The bead of the master appeared, bis strong arms striking out resolutely. A few yards he came, when the monster detected him and made a rush. For a moment Jan de Jougb paused, then suddenly dived, and the next Instant the shark leaped clear of the water and, sinking again, left behind It on the surface a great red stain. De Jough came up. Wat saw the enraged shark's fin near the surface, saw the gleam of its white belly as it turned on its back so that Its hideous mouth could bite, saw Jan dive once more and then saw the great fish roll over In a mess of blood and, slowly sink. Jan had killed the shark In Its own element Wat leaped thenj with a glad shout of thanks, and In a short time was safe on shore. "I thank you," he cried, clinging to the student's side, "and. Mr. de Jough, I was an awful cad to say that this mornlug. Lick me as much as you please, and I won't cry out You can kill me if you like. I'm ashamed of myself." De Jough only pressed bis hand and smiled. "We'll try to forget all that Wat" said he. "But, though I am not a black man and couldn't help It if I were, yet It was a DiacK man wno saveu you from the shark." "How?" "Because a Kaffir on the coast, a famous diver, taught me that trick, with-' out which I could not have saved you. So. you see. Wat, it is unwise to sneer at any person of any race, black, brown or white, for It is more than likely that person may be able, knowing what you don't know, to be of service to you." Wat bowed his head, abashed. "Mr. de Jough," he said after awhlle,i "I'm coming to school tomorrow, and? were the boys rude?" "A little." "Well," said Master Wat "thej| won't be any more. They know me, and I like you. Mr. de Jough." thb end. The Candidates With the Hoe.? Up In Lee county the farmers have a most unique organization, the purpose of which is to make the candidates pay in hard labor for the support of pledges they receive. At a mass meeting ofi the farmers recently held in that county the following remarkable resolutions were adopted: Resolved, That we purchase a supply of hoes to be used by the candidates in this campaign: and be it Resolved, That when a district candidate appears on a farm we are to require him to hoe two rounds of 400 yards each; and be it Resolved, That all county candidates be required to hoe 10 rounds of 400 yards each; and be it further Resolved, That state candidates who canvass in buggies be given a double dose of work in the manner above outlined. By this method the Lee county farmers hope to make up for the valuable time they lose each campaign year In talking to candidates, and if the plan Is generally adopted over the state it will doubtless detract in a large measure from the strenuousness of the contests.?Jackson, Miss., special to Atlanta Constitution. W Running lessens the blood supply in the legs. Ptettltettwros fading. SULTAN MULAVS HUNT FOR FUN. An English Visitor Tells of Morocco's Ruler. "Come to Marakesh and see the Sultan. He's the best fellow you ever met, jbut It's a tough contract to keep him amused. For goodness' sake, think of something fresh in the amusement line." That was the message I got while in Morocco in 1900 from an English friend of mine who was then holding the position of official entertainer to Mulay Abdul Aziz, sultan of Morocco. As I knew my former school chum for a conjuror, a mind reader, a hypnotist, a photographer and a Jolly good fellow In a half dozen other different ways, I wondered at his plaint The more I thought over It the more I marvelled, and so, at last, I made up my mind to give up my plans and accept the Invitation. And that Is how I learned of Sultan Mulay's hard hunt for fun. I arrived at Marakesh one sultry afternoon. Hardly had my friend greeted me, when he rushed me off to see the sultan, who had expressed a desire to see the stranger as soon as he had entered the palace. We found his majesty In the middle of an Immense courtyard In the palace. He was learning to ride the hlcycle under the instruction of Kaid Harry MacLain, a Scottish soldier of fortune, who commands his army. He had Just received a large consignment of 'cycles from the principal makers In London onh pa ha and he had made ud his mind to master the machine even If he smashed e* ery one In Morocco. Now, the courtyard was more like a dry river bed than anything else. From end to end there was hardly ten yards of smooth ground. Where there were no boulders there were deep ruts; and where there were neither boulders nor ruts, there were small heaps of bricks. His majesty had smashed three fine machines when we arrived, and was himself considerably battered. After civilities had been exchanged with all the fine, old-fashioned Moorish courtesy, nothing would content him except all of us riding. "There are plenty of machines," he said, cheerfully. "There are over a hundred, and we will smash them all if you like." Of course, in Morocco, the sultan is He-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, so we mounted our machines and did our best. I am a pretty fair cyclist, but I came a cropper over a big rock before I had ridden thirtifr.y-ards. Soon my machine was hopelessly smashed and I had to take another. The same mishaps befell the sultan, Kaid MacLean and the court entertainer, and I am safe in saying that in the hour the sultan kept us awheel we succeeded In hopelessly wrecking a dozen bicycles. At the end of that time the sultan thought the sport was not sufficiently exciting, so he suggested that we vary it by riding into one another and seeing who got hurt most. Even that palled on him presently, and he sent for some of his ministers and a couple of venerable gray-bearded ulemas, and made them cycle, too, despite their piteous protests. AS tftey naa never seen v;i.ico ... their lives before, they were better hands at smashing them than any of us, and before that afternoon was over the courtyard was strewn with what had once been the finest machines in the market. Altogether we must have smashed nearly fifty cycles. After we had rubbed ourselves with liniment and changed our tattered clothes, the sultan invited us to inspect his new billiard table, which had Just arrived from England. We duly - '' 1 admired it, reu me euamuus auu ivimu the balls about and then the sultan put us In a quandary by asking: "Well, who Is going to teach me how to play?" As It happened none of us was a billiard player. I had handled a cue once or twice, but knew practically nothing of the game. My friend, the court magician, knew less. We were wondering what the sultan would say about our Ignorance when Kaid MacLean gallantly stepped into the breach. "I used to play when I was a boy," he said, "but haven't handled a cue for forty years. However, here's the table, and we must do something with it. I'll try to teach your majesty." After we had cured the sultan of his desire to swing the cue around his head like a club and hit the ball with the but end, the game proceeded. It lasted about three hours, and then the sultan gave It up In disgust. He had torn the cloth Into ribbons, broken his cue and only scored eleven. Sir Harry had made less than twenty. That was the end of billiards so long as I was at Marakesh. The sultan voted It too tame. Next day the sultan, who told me - " " x'x that I had won mm iui a. menu uccause I knew how to ride a wheel, took me to see his private zoo In the palace grounds. I was rash enough to admire a fine herd of wild boars. "We'll have them out and chase them about the ground," he exclaimed delightedly, overjoyed to have found a new amusement to divert the English stranger. I hardly saw the beauty of the sport. The boars had magnificent white tusks and wicked little eyes. I thought they looked much better behind the bars, but the sultan, having got the idea, was determined to carry It out. He sent for ponies and spears. Half a dozen of us mounted and the boars were let loose. As they stood stock still In the courtyard the sultan rode up and gave one a gentle prick on the shoulder. Instantly it rushed at him, but he swerved his horse aside neatly and gave the beast another prick. We did the same to the rest of the 1 herd, and soon the place was like half Y a dozen Spanish bullfights rolled into r one. Fortunately I had played polo, I and so knew how to dodge on horse- r back. My conjuring friend was a bad li rider, and the boars would have rolled him over and over again if the sultan 2 had not gone to his rescue. e His majesty was in the thick of the a scrimmage all the time, darting over v the grounds like a streak of lightning r and showing fine pluck. Luckily, no- f do ay was nun aunng me miemuuii ui > pigsticking:, but there were some nar- p row escapes. a A few evenings later we had a pyro- h technic display. The sultan had not li seen fireworks before, and of course, t they tickled him like a child. But Sir A Kaid MacLean had a better scheme to t propose. q "Let us have the boars out again," a he said, "and chase them with lighted 1 squibs." The sultan was overjoyed. If MacLean had not already been commanderin-chief of the army I believe he ^ would have rewarded him with that rank on the spot. The ponies were ordered out, the boars let loose and we mounted and lighted our squibs. ^ It was the wildest, queerest, and most b indescribable scene I ever witnessed. Imagine us, yelling like maniacs, riding 1 at a breakneck gallop over the bould- P ers and ruts, whirling our fireworks ? over our heads, and chasing those 8 boars around and around the court- 8 yard. n It wan a mlraola wp wprp not all kill- H ed. The only person hurt was the sul- 0 tan. He held a squib by the wrong end t and lighted it in the middle. Natur- " ally, he burned his fingers, and began i*1 to think that the game was not such a o nice one after all. 8 Not a day passed without some new h amusement. As for the cares of state U and the government of the country, no- t< body seemed to worry in the least about F them. Certainly the sultan did not, at n that time. d Large quantities of mechanical and scientific novelties had been ordered J< from Europe?Abdul Aziz was Just a g big child, with unlimited money to " spend on toys. One day he tried an tl automobile and nearly blew himself e up. Then he soon smashed it, as he E smashed everything. The phonograph c, sent him into ecstasies, but he was not it thoroughly happy until he pulled it to p pieces to see where the voices same h from. 5 My friend used to amaze the unsophisticated Moors by his conjuring F tricks, his ventriloquism, and his hyp- g notic seances. They thought it was s; the black magic, but the sultan was not p taken in. He has a shrewd mind, of a a sceptical 'turn. He made' my friend ? show him how to do the tricks, and d before long he became "pretty good at li parlor magic himself. h Photography interested the sultan p intensely. He had a magnificent as- p sortment of cameras, and soon learned a how to use them, although in doing so he broke one of the tenets of the Mo- n hammedan religion, which forbids the s representation in any form of any liv- o lng person or thing. He liked being h photographed, but it had to be done on t! the quiet, to avoid raising a storm s among the fanatical Moors. fi One day he was photographed in a d curious way. It was a solemn feast n day. The populace assembled by thou- c sands outside the palace, and the sul- v tan, who, as head of the Melekite sect of the Sunnlte Mohammedans, Is pope p as well as king, in Morocco, had to go a out and bless them. v Against the law he permitted us to r< be present and witness the ceremony h from behind a screen which hid us h from the people. As the sultan blessed s them, my friend, the conjurer, took a n snapshot of him with a tiny kodak b which he had hidden beneath his coat, p with the lens exposed through one of tl the buttonholes. If he had been de- 0 tected he would probably have been b roughly handled by the fanatical mob, and the sultan could hardly have saved him. % p" Among the numberless toys Imported from Europe were several fine rifles 8 and revolvers. These the sultan un- ^ derstood, for he had been trained to 11 arms from his youth, like all the Moors, n I have never seen a finer shot. He has a nerves of iron, and an unerring eye. ? One day he told my friend, the conjurer, that he would shoot an egg off fl the top of his head without hurting him. My friend naturally suggested e that he should make the experiment with some body else. At that the sul- c tan good-naturedly called up one of his c officers and did the trick again and p again. * Then he made the officer, much p against his will, shoot the egg off his p ruler's august head, which the man did e successfully. b Mulay Abdul Aziz struck me as be- a lngr in every way a capital fellow, a s' thorough sportsman, and an excellent 31 type of the Mohammedan gentleman. He is generous to a fault, brave as a " lion, gifted with a good deal of native T shrewdness, and eager to learn the ways of the great world beyond the borders 11 of his own country. He was perputal- p ly questioning us about European - ? H ways, European institutions, and ii;u- " ropean inventions. America he seemed to have hardly C) heard of. He regarded England as the 31 greatest power in the world, France a as the second, and Spain as the third. a These are the powers with which he h comes most in contact. He had heard d vaguely that Spain had been beaten in war by America, but when I described to him -the thoroughness of the defeat, ti he was quite surprised. d, The Moors are an intensely fanatical c] people, and they objected strongly to the sultan's dabbling with European tl inventions, which they regarded as h new-fangled devices of the evil one. ii This sentiment was growing when I d was in Morocco, and was one of the things that led to the recent revolt. j The sultan Is anxious to travel and f< earn from Europeans how to govern lis country in a just and progressive nanner. Those European? who know lim best say that he has in him the naklng of a great monarch, as soon as lis play time is over. But just now he is a young man of 5, full of the joy of life, eager to see verything and do everything, and nxious to make up for the time lost rhile he was kept secluded in the haem, for the first six years after his ether's death, by a Bismarckian Grand Hzier, since dead. He Is never hap>y unless he is doing something fresh nd exciting, and he contains in his eadVs much devilment as a score of usty American college students. And o satisfy this longing for fun, Sultan lulay Abdul Azir has a treasury con- i aining millions?and there is no inulsltive finance committee to audit ccounts.?William Thorp, in New rork Sun. % + % { THE REPORTER'8 IMPORTANCE. 'he World Does Not Realize Its Dependence Upon the Newspapers. The vast power and responsibility of | he newspaper reporter have never , een more strikingly shown than in he recent career of "Capt. Bellairs." ( 'his man. who is charged by two | rominent newspapers, one of which { mployed him for' a time, with being ( former .convict and professional ] camp, was in Cuba chief among the len who made history by sending the | ews. In the Philippines, as agent { f the Associated Press, he was for ( wo years practically the sole infor- l lant of the American people upon the esults of the momentous experiment i f governing little brown men "out- ; Ide of the constitution," ana oy senaig and coloring all the news from the ( ilands he no doubt contributed more Dward making public opinion on the < 'hlllpplne question than any other j lan?except Mr. McKlnley, the presi- ] ent of the United States. j Modern progress in the utilization of i sumalism by great statesmen who | enerally denounce it has made the < authorized statement," the seml-au- j tiorized statement and the mere "feel- i r," printed in the public press, do in iurope most of the work of diploma- j y and home politico In this country < : has evolved a new scheme for ap- ] ealing direct to public opinion which i as been well illustrated in President j loosevelt's trip. ] The reporters who have attended Mr. < Loosevelt to the happy-hunting j rounds have not really reported, his < peeches at all, though millions of peole have so supposed. Every editor of t New York newspaper having the As- i ociated Press service had upon his esk, before the president left Wash- , igton, all the Important speeches that | e has since made. They were all pre- 1 ared at the White House, carefully i rinted in good type, closely revised t nd Dut in proper numerical order. ( It was of course stipulated that no ewspaper should use any of these peeches until "released" by the news f its delivery; and no editor would i ave dreamed of violating this condlk>n. In a word, the speeches were not peeches at all, but compositions, care- i Lilly written, carefully revised and i oubtless carefully read by cabinet i lembers and political leaders, ' and ] riticised by them as to matters of 1 rhich they had special knowledge. < The audience of 1,000, 2,000 or 4,000 ] eople who actually hear one of these i d dresses is insignificant compared < 1th that audience of millions who i ead it by the help of the press. Nor 1 as any king or premier or president i time past ever had the advantage of j uch means of prompt appeal to his ] ation and to the world as Is afforded i y the modern press through the re- i orter, whose duties are so important 1 hat statesmen everywhere seek means I f becoming reporters themselves.? i lew York World. I > i Toxin and Antitoxin.?Pasteur, the ] reat French savant, founder of the clences of bacteriology and prevenIve medicine, proved in the first place 1 hat the epidemic diseases are due to ilnute living organisms, plants and ' nimals and that for each definite dis- ' ase there is a specific micro-organ- 1 un. This was the great fundamental 1 act. Later it became evident that hese microscopic parasites cause dis- ' ase by certain chemical poisons which ley produce, called toxins. In many ases the micro-organism, if grown in ulture tubes outside the body, will roduce the same toxins. After being sparated from the living germs which roduced them these substances will roduce all the symptoms of the disose when injected into an animal ody. The body at the beginning of n attack of fever is not, however, pasIve. Its cells react against the poions introduced and a struggle ensues, tie end of which is life or death, the ghting being purposeful and definite, 'he body cells secrete a specific chem:al body which has the power of neu-alizing or rendering harmless the * articular toxin introduced. This an- 1 dote to the poisonous toxin we call 1 le antitoxin. When a man recovers om an attack of smallpox it is be- * ause his antitoxins have proved too ' trong for the toxins of the disease, * nd his after immunity, it seems prob- ' ble, is due to the persistence within is body of the antitoxins once prouced.?C. E. A. Winslow in Atlantic. Revised Version.?"Never put off 11 tomorrow the things you can do toay," remarked the man with the hronic quotation habit. "That axiom's moth-eaten," rejoined le up-to-date specimen of bustling umanity. "What the matter with dolg them yesterday and resting toay?"?Chicago News. t&~ Men laugh at feminine folly, but it jols them just the same. EVERY FARM H0U8E ON MAP. Detail of Rural Mail Delivery Experiment. Within two years a man standing: in Indianapolis will be able to- put his finger on every farm house in Indiana ?that is, on the map, says the Indianapolis News. This is one of the details of the rural mail delivery experiment that the government is working out in Indiana. If in this state, where the experiment is tried first, it is found to be practicable to locate every farm house and keep a constant record of Its changes in location and the building of new houses, it will only be a few years when a person will be able to put his finger on any farm house in the country. The work now being quietly done in an upper room of the Majestic building, is the beginning of one of the most InfAMafln 9 a fliA (rAirornmonf has I1UC1C011U5 ICVU1UO IUC BVT IIMIVUV u?w ever made. - . The announcement la made from Washington that every farm house In Indiana Is to be reached by rural mail delivery carriers within two years, which means that the work of locating every house In the state will be completed in that time. , . Since April 1, seventeen Indiana counties have been supplied with rural mall feervlce. In fourteen of these the work of making a complete record of the rural districts has been completed. .Every farm house and the population of the country districts have been set forth In carefully prepared maps, which located all roads and Indicate their character?whether dirt or gravel, good or bad. These beautiful maps are rolled up and filed away In the office of Superintendent F. B. Rathbone, of the Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan district, located in the Majestic building. So complete is this information, by counties, that the 41,997 farm houses Ln fourteen of the seventeen bounties have been located down to their very acre. It is found that the rural population /Of these 41,997 homes Is 216,565 persons. Information can be had concerning ages and sex. The following Is part of the Information compiled of these counties: The measurements of roads, both gravel and dirt, ln counties whose records of this kind have been thus far left vacant are being made now. The statistics for the maps of Gibson, Posey and (Delaware counties, whose complete county service was instituted by experts from Washington, are now beting compiled ln Indianapolis, and they will be complete ln a short time. It Is not known yet how valuable these complete records will be. There ire many ways ln which the maps, when completed for the entire state, can be used with very great effect -In promoting business, and they will be very valuable for the Information of the public, If the government decides to give the information by a reproduction of the maps. IMMUNE TO BEE P0I80N. Apiarists Get 80 Thsy Don't Muoh Mind Boing 8tung. That a person who has been often stung by bees becomes in time immune to the poison of the sting is as serted by Dr. H. P. Parker. He reports that when he first began to keep Pees he was frequently stung, and that ?ach sting was attended with acute pain; but that as time went on the* pain and swelling becames less. In .. the following year, while transferring i hive of bees, he had an experience which be thus relates: "Sting followed sting in succession, In legs, arms, fingers, neck and face. [ imagined what a picture I would present?closed eyes and swollen hands ind feet I worked on, a^d so did the bees. 1 could feel the needle-like thrust but then it did not seem to pain as much, and at last I finished the task. With aching neaa, sugm nausea and vertigo slowly coming on [ left my task with a sigh of relief for what was accomplished and fllledwlth wonderment as to what my personal v appearance would be. "Imagine my astonishment to find merely slightly raised red spot, like little pimples, with the red sting in the centre, as the result of each and \ every sting. I must have had something like forty of them on various parts of my body. My clothes were full of them; but, they being so thick, 3id not allow the sting to penetrate. The dizziness, nausea and headache left me and 'Richard was himself again.' "When I again visited my bees I did not dread the stinging properties any longer, at least, not as much so as formerly, and then, and ever since, I nave found that when a bee does sting no the nain is only sharp for an in stant and there Is an absence of the ifter-swelling. "I have since been stung: maviy more imes than I was at that time, and yet* lone of the symptoms above referred :o have been reproduced. Am I not, herefore, immune of the poison of he honey bee, at least to a certain exent? "All authorities on bee culture state he fact, as a crumb of comfort to nev- ^ ces in beekeeping, that the poison'Jof i bee will produce less and less ef^ ect upon their systems. 'Old beekeep-'* trs,' It is said, 'like Mithridates, appear ilmost to thrive on the poison itself.' rlulsh speaks of 'seeing the bald head >f Bonner, a celebrated practical apia* ' J -Al oflom. '181, covereu wim aiuigo, r>bw... id to produce upon him no unpleasint effect/ Rev. Mr. Klelne advises jeginnera to allow themselves to be itung frequently, assuring them that In two seasons their system will become accustomed to the poison/ "In conclusion, let me state that I Irmly believe that the beekeeper becomes lnocculated with the poison of :he bee, and usually becomes proof, or it least immune, against it, is no more :o be doubted than the fact that vaciination is a preventitive against small jox."?Indianapolis Journal. ,