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V . , * * ' ' YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. ISSUED SEKX-WEEBLT.! l. h. oeist's sons, PuMi.her.. } % ^amitg Uftosppr: jfor the fromotion a| <ht folitital, facial, gijritaltaral, and flfommnrial guests of tht fj {TEB^8ra^o^8ooiT1!^?1^Slf''cg ' established 1855. YORK"V"ILLE, 8. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1903. NO. 45. _^^^^^M < ^ ? * MGRAU < %A> < * 'tk * '' iL^jJ: GEORGE BAR '>.^.! \ Copyright, 1901, by Herbert 8. Sto " tBrT' ' *?T%i m ^.... ?.^;... t.. t, t ? CHAPTER XIII. UND8B MOON AND MONASTERY. FOR two days Lorry lived through intermittent stages of delight and despondency. His recovery from the effects of the blow administered by Dannox was naturally rapid, his strong young constitution Coming to tbr, rescue bravely. He saw much of the princess, more of the Countess Dagmar, and made the acquaintance of many lords and ladles for whom be cared but little except jwhen they chose to talk of their girlish ruler. The atmosphere of the castle was laden with a depression that could not be overcome by an assimilated gayety. The princess could not hide the trouble that had sprung up in her eyes. Her laugh, her gay conversation, her rare composure and gentle hauteur were powerless to drive away the haunted, worried gleam in those expressive eyes of blue. Lorry had it on his tongue's end a dozen times during ' the next day or so after the count's narrative to question her about the condition of affairs as they appeared to her. The Countess Dagmar, when not monopolized by the very progressive or aggressive Anguish, unfolded to Lorry nn Ares in the Dersonal history of | the princess, and be, of course, encouraged her confidential humor, although there was nothing encouraging in it for him. Down by the great fountain, while the soldiers were on parade, the fair but volatile countess unfolded to Lorry a Story that wrenched his heart so savagely that anger, resentment, helplessness and love oozed forth and enveloped him in a multitude of emotions that would not disperse. "She will not mind my telling you, because she considers you the very best of men, Mr. Lorry," said the countess, who had learned her English under the Princess Yetive's tutor. It seems, according to the very truthful account given by the lady, that the princess, had. .it in her power to save ? -a 1 Graustark from disgrace aiiu prueuum destruction. The Prfcce of Axphain's son, Lorenz, was deeply enamored of her, Infatuated by her marvelous beauty and accomplishments. He had persuaded his father to consider a matrimonial alliance with her to be one of great value to Axpbaln. The old prince, therefore, some months before the arrival of the Americans In Graustark sent to the princess a substitute ultimatum, couched in terms so polite and conciliatory that there could be no mistaking his sincerity. He agreed to give Graustark a new lease of life, as it were, by extending the fifteen years or, in other words, to grant the conquered an additional ten years In which to pay off the obligations imposed by the treaty. He furthermore offered a considerable reduction in the n* intoroat for the next ten vears. But he had a condition attached to this good and gracious proposition?the marriage of Graustark's sovereign. His ambassador set forth the advantages of such an alliance, and departed with a message that the matter should have most serious consideration. The old prince's proposition was a blow to the princess, who was placed In a trying position. By sacrificing herself she could save her country, but In so doing her life was to be plunged Into interminable darkness. She did not love nor did she respect Lorenz, ?k* #n tTAnnKlvr onnnHnH with .wuu nas uui laiviuuij ou|;pivu <1 >? > civilized intelligence. The proposition was laid before the cabinet and the nobility by the princess aBCJ 1 3H) "Cannot the loan be extended a few yearvt" herself, who said that she would be guided by any decision they might reach. The counselors to a man refused to sacrifice their girlish ruler, and the people vociferously ratified the resolution. But the princess would not allow them to send an answer to Axphain until she could see a way clear to save her people in some other manner. An embassy was sent to the Prince of Dawsbergen. His domain touched Graustark on the south, and he ruled a wild, turbulent class of mountaineers and herdsmen. This embassy sought to secure an indorsement of the loan from Prince Gabriel sufficient to meet the coming crisis. Gabriel, himself smitten by the charms of the princess, (7^> <^pS> O5^! O jfc <^|^*? , ?M"H? ? ? ! ! * ! ! > < ? > ! ! > > ?? ! > ? * STARK ( M .By... ? R McCUTCHEON j! i * ne ) | Jo at once offered himseir in marriage, agreeing to advance, In case she accepted him, 20.000,000 gavvos at a rather high rate of interest for fifteen years. His love for her was so great that he would pawn the entire principality for an answer that would make him the happiest man on earth. Now, the troubled princess abhorred Gabriel. Of the two, Lorenz was much to be preferred. Gabriel flew into a rage upon the re- j eeipt of this rebuff and openly avowed < his intention to make her suffer. His j infatuation became a mania, and up to , the very day on which the countess , told the story he persisted in his ap- , peals to the princess. In person he had ( gone to her to plead his guilt on his j knees, groveling at her feet. He went , so far as to exclaim madly in the pres- . ence of the alarmed but relentless ob- ( ject of his love that he would win her , or turn the whole earth into everything ] unpleasant., ( So It was that the Princess of Grau- , stark, erstwhile Miss Guggenslocker, , was being dragged through the most , unhappy affairs that ever beset a sov- : ereign. Within a month she was to , Sign away two-thirds of her domain, , transforming multitudes of her beloved ( and loving people Into subjects of the ] a vnii.itn nr tn sol] herself, body uaicv* v> ?... r w ^ and soul, to a loathsome bidder In the guise of a suitor, and, with all this confronting her, she bad come to the realization of a truth so sad and distracting that it was breaking her tortured heart. She was in love, but with no royal prince! Of this, however, the countess knew nothing, so Lorry had one great secret to cherish alone. "Has she chosen the course she will pursue?" asked Lorry as the countess concluded her story. His face was j turned away. "She cannot decide. We have wept , together over this dreadful, this horrible thing. You do not know what it . means to all of us, Mr. Lorry. We love her, and there is not one in our ( land who would sacrifice her to save this territory. As for Gabriel, Graustark would kill her before she should , go to him. Still she cannot let herself ' sacrifice those northern subjects when by a single act she can save them. You | see, the princess has not forgotten ! that her father brought this war upon the people, and she feels It her duty to J pay the penalty of his error, whatever the cost." ' j "Is there no otLer to whom she can ] turn?no other course?" asked Lorry. "There Is none who would assist us, , bankrupt as we are. There Is a question I want to ask, Mr. Lorry. Please look at me. Do not stare at the fountain all the time. Why have you come to Edelweiss?" She asked the ques- ( tlon so boldly that his startled embar- ( rassment was an unspoken confession. ( He calmed himself and hesitated long ( before answering, weighing his reply. t She sat close beside him, her clear gray eyes reading him like a book. ( "I came to see a Miss Guggenslock- ( er," he answered at last , "For what purpose? There must ( have been an urgent cause to bring von so far. You are not an American banker?" j "I had intended to ask her to be my J wife," he said, knowing that secrecy was useless and seeing a faint hope. . "You did not bud Miss Guggenslock- , err "No; I have not found her." ( "And are you going home disappointed, Mr. Lorry, because she is not < here?" "I leave the answer to your tender imagination." There was a long pause. "May I ask when you expect to leave Graustark?" she asked somewhat timidly. "Why do you wish to know?" he asked in turn. "Because I know how hopeless your rtuoot has lwn You have found Miss Guggenslocker, but she is held behind a wall so strong and Impregnable that ( you cannot reach her with the question you came to ask. You have come to that wall, and now you must turn back. I have asked how soon?" "Not until your princess bids me take up my load and go. You see, my lady, I love to sit beneath the shadow of the wall you describe. It will require a royal edict to compel me to abandon my position." "You cannot expect the princess to drive you from her country, you who have done so much for her. You must go, Mr. Lorry, without her bidding." "I must?" "Yes, for your presence outside that wall may make the imprisonment all the more unendurable for the one your love cannot reach. Do you understand me?" "Has the one behind the wall instructed you to say this to me?" he a9ked miserably. "She has not. I do not know her heart, but I am a woman and have a woman's foresight. If you wish to be kind and good to her, go." "I cannot!" he exclaimed, his pent feelings bursting forth. "I cannot go!" "You will not be so selfish and so cruel as to Increase the horror of the wreck that is sure to come," she said, drawing back. "You know, countess, of the life saving crews who draw from the wrecks of ships lives that were hopelessly lost. There Is to be a wreck here. Is there to be a life saver? When the night is darkest, the sea wildest, when hope is gone, is not that the time when rescue Is most precious? Tell me, you who know all there is of this approaching disaster." "I cannot command you to leave Edelweiss. I can only tell you that you will have something to answer for if you stay," said the countess."Will you help me if I show to you that I can reach the wreck and save the one who clings to it despairingly?" he asked, smiling, suddenly calm and confident "Willingly, for I love the one who Is going down in the sea. I have spoken to you seriously, though, and I tnst ivmi will nnt mlannriprfltfind mp. I like you, and I like Mr. Anguish. You could stay here forever so far as I am concerned." He thought long and Intently over what she had said as he smoked his cigar on the great balcony that night He saw in one moment the vast chasm between the man and the princess; In the next be laughed at the puny space. Down on the promensde he could see the figures of men and women strolling-in the moonlight To his ears cams the occasional laugh of a man, the alleery gurgle of a woman. The royal military band was playing in tne siana near the edge of the great circle. There svere gayety, comfort, charm and security about everything that came to his ayes and ears. Where was she? He bad seen her In the afternoon and had talked with her, had walked with her. Their conversation had been bright, but t>f the commonplace kind. She had said nothing to indicate that she remembered the hour spent beside his couch a day or so before; he had uttered none of the words that struggled to rush from his lips?the questions, the pleadings, the vows. Where was she now? Not in that gay crowd below, for he had scanned every figure with the hawk's eye; closeted again, no ioubt, with her ministers, wearying ber tired brain, her brave heart into fatigue without rest. Her court still trembled with the excitement of the daring attempt of the Eibductors and their swift punishment Functionaries flocked to Edelweiss to Inquire after the welfare of the princess, and Indignation was at the high?1 TOAna fhoArloa In nil. CHI pilCU. 1UCIC II 1,1V vuvv..v? merable as to the identity of the arch conspirator. Baron Dangloss was at sea completely. He cursed himself and everybody else for the hasty and 111 timed execution of the hirelings. It was quite evident that the buzzing wonder and intense feeling of the people bad for the moment driven out all thought of the coming day of judgment and its bitter atonement for all Grntustarlc. Today the castle was full cf the nobility, drawn to its walls by the news that had startled them beyond all expression. The police were at work, the military trembled with rage, the people clamored for the apprehension of the man who had been the instigator of this audacity. The general belief was that some brigand chief from the south had. planned the great theft for the purpose of securing a fabulous ransom. Grenfall Lorry bad an astonishing theory In his mind, and the more he thought it over the more firmly it was Imbedded. THe warm, Diue coiib ironi uie ugai wafted away Into the night, carrying with them a myriad of tangled thoughts ?of her, of Axphain, of the abductor, of himself, of everything. A light step on the stone floor of the shadowy balcony attracted his attention. He turned his head and saw the Princess Yetive. She was walking slowly toward the balustrade, not aware of his presence. There was no covering for the dark hair, no wrap about the white shoulders. She wore an exquisite gown of white, shimmering with the reflections from the moon that scaled the ? ?a Ko liia. mOUUlUUi iup. OUC D LUUU Bl LUC uuiuu trade, her bands clasping a bouquet of red roses, ber chin lifted, her eyes gazing toward the mountain's crest, the prettiest picture be had ever seen. The strange dizziness of love overpowered bim. How long be reveled In the glory of the picture he knew not, for it was as if he looked from a dream. At last he saw her look down upon the roses, lift them slowly and drop them over the rail. They fell to the ground below. He thought he understood?the gift of a prince despised. They were not twenty feet apart He advanced to her side, his hat in one hand, his stick?the one that felled the Viennese?trembling in the other. "I did not know you were here," she exclaimed in half frightened amazement. "I left my ladies inside." He was standing beside her, looking down into the eyes. "And I am richer because of your ignorance," he said softly. "I have seen a picture that shall never leave my memory?never! Its beauty enthralled, enraptured. Then I saw the drama of the roses. Ah, your highness, the crown is not always a mask." "The roses were?were of no consequence," she faltered. "I have heard how you stand between two suitors and that wretched treaty. My heart has ached to tell you how I pity you." "It is not pity I need, but courage. Pity will not aid me in my duty, Mr. Lorry. It stands plainly before me, this duty, but I have not the courage to take it up and place It about my neck forever." "You do not, cannot love this Lorenz?" be asked. "Love him!" she cried. "Ach, I forget! You do not know him. Yet I shall doubtless be his wife." There was an eternity of despair In that low, steady voice. "You shall not! I swear you shall not!" "Oh, be Is a prince! I must accept the offer that means salvation to Graustark. Why do you make it harder with torture which you think Is kindness? Listen to me. Next week I am to give my answer. He will be here in this castle. My father brought this calamity upon Graustark; I must lift it from the people. What has my happiness to do with It?" Her sudden strength silenced him, crushed Blin with the real awakening of helplessness. He stood beside her, looking up at the cold monastery, strangely conscious that she was gazing toward the sanle dizzy height "It looks so peaceful up there," she | said at last "But so cold and cheerless," he added drearily. There was another long l silence In which two hearts communed r through the medium of that faraway t sentinel. "They have not discovered a a clew to the chief abductor, have they?" s he asked In an effort to return to his proper sphere. "Baron Dangloss believes he has a clew?a meager and unsatisfactory one, he admits?and today sent officers to Ganlook to Investigate the actions of a strange man who was there last week, a man who styled himself the Count of Arabazon and who claimed to be of Vienna. Some Austrians had been huntings stags and bears In the north, howover, and it is poaslbla he Is one of 1 them." She spoke slowly, her eyes still bent on the home of the monks. "Your highness, I have a theory, a bold and perhaps a criminal theory, but you will allow me to tell you why I am possessed of it. 1 am aware that there , Is a Prince Gabriel It Is my opinion that no Viennese is guilty, nor are the brigands to be accused of this masterpiece in crime. Have you thought how far a man may go to obtain his heart's desire?" She looked at him instantly, her eyes wide with growing comprehension, the solution to the mystery darting Into her mind like a flash. ; j "You mean"? she began, stopping as If afraid to voice the suspicion. "That Prince Gabriel is the man who bought your guards and hired Geddos and Ostrom to carry you to the place where he could own you, whether you would or no," said Lorry. "But he could never have forced me to marry ni^ should sc^ Mf yy ^ i The prettiest picture he had ever seen. * later have exposed him," she whispered argumentatively. "He could not ex- t pect me to be silent and submit to a ? marriage under such circumstances. ( He knows that 1 would denounce him t even at the altar." "You do not appreciate my estimate of that gentleman." "What is to become of me?" she al- ? most sobbed in an anguish of fear. "1 r see now?1 see plainly! It was Gabriel, 1 and be would have done as you say." 1 A shudder ran through her figure, and ? he tenderly whispered in her ear: 8 "mL- J In noof Ha r?Qn Hn nn " A lit! unugct to (/am, uv ? more, your highness. Were I positive 1 that he is the man?and I believe he is ? ?I would hunt him down this night." ? Her eyes closed happily under his 1 gaze, her hand dropped timidly from t bis arm, and a sweet sense of security i filled her soul. c "I am not afraid," she murmured. 1 : "Because I am here?" he asked, bend- 1 Ing nearer. "Because God can bless with the i lame hand that punishes," she answer- > ed enigmatically, lifting her lashes i again and looking into his eyes with a r love at last unmasked. "He gives me a man to love and denies me happiness. He makes of me a woman, but he does not unmake me a princess. Through I you he thwarts a villain; through you he crushes the innocent. More than ever, I thank you for coming Into my t life. You, and you alone, guided by the J God who loves and despises me, saved t me from Gabriel." "I only ask"? he began eagerly, but ^ she interrupted. t "You should not ask anything, for I t have said I cannot pay. I owe to you 1 all I have, but cannot pay the debt." t "I shall not again forget," he mur- ( mured. t "Tomorrow, If you like, I will take t you over the castle and let you see the squalor in which I exist?my throne- , room, my chapel, my banquet ball, my f ballroom, my conservatory, my sepul- ? cher. You may say It Is wealth, but I ? shall call It poverty," she said. \ "Tomorrow, if you will be so kind." , "Perhaps I may be poorer after I have saved Graustark," she said. "I would to God I could save you from that!" he said. "I would to God you could," she said. Her manner changed suddenly. She j laughed gayly, turning a light face to his. "I hear your friend's laugh out 1 there in the darkness. It is delightfully Infectious." TO BE CONTINUED. Bugs Eat $250,000,000 a Year.?An < entomologist estimates that bugs cost 1 this country about $250,000,000 a year. The grasshopper eats up $90,000,000 ' worth of vegetation if he is feeling 1 well, the Hessian fly $50,000,000, the' * chinch bug $10,000,000 and the potato 1 bug $8,000,000 worth. Tobacco worms, moth, squash bugs, beetles, etc., make f up the rest. Entomologists have been * studying the problem of bug destruc- 1 tion for many years, but progress to- 1 ward the desired end is not rapid. < SILK HATS ON THE FRONTIER. How the Wearers of the Early Ones Were Greeted and Treated. Recently the telegrams brought from ^agan, Texas, a story of how the town -oughs had set upon and killed a Bible igent whose sole offense was that he vor? a long-tailed coat, patent leather ihoes and a plug hat Commenting in this story, the Wellington, Kan., dall declares that "a similar incident iccurred in the early days of Caldwell." However, the plug hat shooting in Caldwell was a different affair from hat of Fagan. In April, 1872, one Mccarty, a local "bad man," entered a itore In Caldwell and found there Dr. Anderson, who was known throughout he southwest as "the plug hat man," >ecause he was usually adorned with hat kind of headgear. Anderson was . iot a "tenderfoot." He had been a irominent member of the Butler couny vigilantes, and It was known that HcCarty had a grudge against him. iVhen McCarty entered Thompson's itore and found Anderson there he lulled a six-shooter and said: uWatch ne put a hole through that hat." He lid put a hole through the hat, and vhen Anderson protested he fired igaln, this time putting a hole through Anderson's head and causing his lntant death. McCarty was pursued by he indignant citizens of the town and ook refuge at the ranch of Curley Marshall. When the ranch house was urrounded he refused to surrender and hen the house was set on Are. In the unning fight which followed he manLged to escape, after wounding severil of his pursuers, but a few days later le was overtaken and his body was eft on the prairies. There is no well-authenticated ac:ount of a killing in Kansas on account if the wearing of a plug hat, though it s popularity supposed that the incllents were frequent. It is quite true hat when a stranger appeared in one if the border towns wearing this kind if head covering, he was always greetd uproariously, and the hat came to rrief, but the affair usually went off In he best of humor. The first plug hat vorn into Hays City, for example, was in the head of the late Connell Heney, who died at that place a few years' igo. In 1868 he went to Fort Hays to >e a clerk in the quartermaster's de>artment. He was a good dresser, and vhen he stepped from the train he vore a tall silk hat. At once the town oafers and Joshers, and ^killers congregated at the depot. They said noth|^f.) Lt all to Henley, but they formed clqise lehind him a procession, and wherever le walked they walked, keeping up the ocksteD. The foremost man walked so ilose to Henley that he could not even urrt around to see his tormentors, and t was a sight?that procession soltmnly moving along, each man with lis hand on the shoulders of the one In ront of him and all keeping step. Henley tried to shake the crowd off >y walking around the block. He lid not succeed. On the contrary, he crowd kept augmenting un11 pretty much everybody on the ownsite was marching. Then an inipiration seized Henley, and he steered itraight for Tom Drum's saloon, the nost popular place in town. Walking ip to the bar he set his silk hat down, lowed politely to the barkeeper, and aid: "These are my friends, and they ire all drinking with me." It happened that there was a big >owl of torn and jerry on the bar. Some one emptied it into the plug hat, ind some one else got a dipper and >assed the drink around. Presently he liquor soaked through the top of he hat, and thereupon it was placed >n the top of a post, and every man In he crowd took a shot at it, riddling t into rags. Henley came off from the encounter vith every man his friend. He had net the rude introduction of the west vith good nature, and his place was nade.?Kansas City (Mo.) Journal.. SHARKS TO BE MADE USEFUL. Vmericans ProDose to Turn Nicara-1 guan Monsters Into Soup and Canes. Commerce proposes now to convert he sharks of the great bay of San Tuana del Norte In Nicaragua Into facory products. Americans have been led by the -*ast number and size of the sharks lown there, and the ease of matching hem, Into studying the possible uses 'or the monsters, and they find that ;here is a lot of money in sharks. Inleed, there hardly is a part of the >rute that cannot be utilized for someihing. Shark's fins furnish a jelly that nakes a delicious soup. There is an ixcellent market for it wherever there tre Chinese, and if it were once offered is an American product it might not >e long before Americans and others vould relish it as much as the Chinese lo now. The livers of sharks produce a clear )il that is very valuable, being in great lemand for watches, clocks and fine runs. It is held In almost as much esimation as the oil obtained from porjoise and dog-fish liver, which is the inest animal oil there is. The skin of the sharks is of a beauiful burnished gray or bluish color. It ooks like finely grained leather, be ;ause it is full of tiny pricles, all set >ne way. Under the name of shagreen t has a variety of uses. Even the bones of sharks are useful. The backbone is in constant demand by valking cane manufacturers. The ;eeth and jawbones are salable to colectors and tourists. When the American business man jets after the sharks in the bay of San Juan del Norte there will be disnay in the tropical fish world, for the mtives have left the monsters practically undisturbed for centuries and the result Is that from Greytown north and south the sea Is thronged with sharks of all species, ranging In size from two feet to fifteen and even more." Among them are the swift blue sharks, the savage striped tiger sharks, spotted leopard sharks, hideous hammerheads, threshers or swingle-tails, and the immense but lazy basking sharks, which often grow so large that they have been mistaken for whales.? New York Sun. MA80N AND DIXON LINE. Historic Boundary Is Being Reaurveyed. The engineers who are making the new survey of the Mason and DIxoh line, under the direction of the United States coast and geodetic survey, are progressing rapidly with the work. The commission directing the survey includes the superintendent of the coast survey and a representative from Maryland and Pennsylvania. The original running of the line was done according to the terms of the final agreement concluded In 1760. after protracted negotiations. There was a conflict of grants of Maryland and Pennsylvania, and other complications affecting the titles. The Penns .had a friend at court, and the Calverts were finally coerced Into conceding everything demanded. It is the belief of many that the line formed the dividing line between the slave and anti-slave states. This Is erroneous, although It was generally understood to be the division during the civil war and was frequently spoken of as separating the north and south. In the briefest way, the Mason and Dixon line is the boundary between Maryland on one side and Pennslyva nia and Delaware on the other side. It formed the northern and eastern boundary of Maryland, so far as limited by contiguous states. At the time of its survey Delaware was part of Pennsylvania, and was known as "the three lower counties on the river Delaware." The term is, however, often extended to cover the whole southern boundary of Pennsylvania, and not without good reason, as Mason and Dixon had received instructions to complete the whole of that line and had actually progressed some thirty miles to the westward of Maryland, then unmarked and unknown, when their operations were stopped by the Indians, who were then all-powerful west of the Alleghanies. This was in 1768, and was the final act of a longmaintained and rancorous dispute between the lords proprietors of Maryland and Pennsylvania, which had its birth in the grant of King Charles I of T-i 1 -J i- Damn ?jIJg lttliU iu vacviuuo vaiTCtvi Baltimore,. of the province of Maryland, carved froiri the parent province of Virginia, and extending on the north to the 40th parallel of latitude. This included the whole of Delaware and about fifteen miles width along the southern border of Pennsylvania. When, many years later, William Penn obtained from King Charles II the grant of the province of Pennsylvania and established his town of Philadelphia, he found to his dismay that the 40th parallel would pass through that town, and he therefore refused to accept that charter limit as his boundary. It was only after nearly a century of controversy, of litigation, almost of civil war, that Penn's descendants finally acquired the fruition of his * ? ? 4 - ? * ?*???? 1 AA tio' OKAI*. st'nemes. Aiier scvciai jcam auditive attempts by local surveyors to carry out the mandates of the English courts of law, the proprietors employed two noted English mathematicians ?Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon? to come to this country and mark out the boundary on the ground. They brought the best instruments of the day, and entirely discarding the compass needle, so generally and unfortunately-' employed in similar work, they made a survey that Is really monumental in its way and undoubtedly the best of all the provincial boundary surveys. Arriving at Philadelphia in the fall of 1763, they began active operations the following spring and continued the work until the fall of 1768, when they were discharged. The object of the present survey is to restore the old monuments, many of which have been destroyed or removed and to erect additional monuments for the better definition of the line. Owing to the fact of Maryland being a slave state, while Pennsylvania was a free state, this line was frequently mentioned in the long discussion over that burning question and many confound it with the "Missouri compromise" line. It was also generally forgotten that the boundary between Maryland and Delaware was a part of the Mason and Dixon line. These were both slaves states, and there was, therefore, no distinction to be drawn. Since the appointment of the survey commission, under acts of the legislatures of Pennsylvania and Maryland, in 1899 and 1900, the engineers have run across many of the stones used by Mason and Dixon to mark the line. It has long been the desire of the government to have a correct division, and the commissioners were appointed for this purpose.? Baltimore American. "Keep Your Top Cool."?It is reported of Artemas Ward that he once offered his flask of whisky to the driver of the stage on which he was riding through a mountainous section. tvio ofoo-o HHv?p refused the flask in most decided tones. He said: "I don't drink; I won't drink; I don't like to see anybody else drink. I am of the opinion of those mountains? keep your top cool! They've got snow, and I've got brains; that's all the difference." There is a deal of wisdom in his remark?"Keep your top cool." Without a sound brain man is not of much use in the world. Alcohol, whether in beer, cider, wine, brandy or whisky, is a foe of the brain; and when It gets there inflames it, and renders it unfit for use. Be like the veteran stage driver, and resolve to "keep your top cooh" GIRAFFE8 DEAR AND SCARCE. They Are the Coetlieet of All the Wild Animals. "What Is the most valuable animal now?" was asked of one of the most experienced wild animal collectors and dealers of the United States. "The giraffe," he answered. "It is the most expensive animal now, not only because It is rather rare, but because It is at the same time one of the most difficult to catch and to keep after you catch it, and the worst kind of an animal to ship. "A captured giraffe has to be han died like bric-a-brac. And It Is a mighty big piece of bric-a-brac, too. "Imagine a delicately carved cabinet twelve feet high, aa crazy aa a whole lunatic aaylum and aa powerful and quick and dangerous aa an automobile. It may be hard to Imagine such a thing but It isn't any harder than It Is to handle a fully grown giraffe. "A wild animal dealer has to take all the risks. The shows and menageries and parks that buy from him don't pay for an animal until It Is de livered. Consequently the risk is enormous and we have to charge a price that will make up for the danger of l08S. "Now we have Just had one experience that illustrates my point. We shipped an Immense lot of exceptionally fine animals to Calcutta?four baby elephants, five tigers from Ben gal, four leopards and about one hundred cranes, some of which were so tare that they had not even been Identified by Indian zoologists. We also had thirty-five serpents, among them a python twenty feet long. "Well, our animal men who accompanied the shipment got them through all right for thirty-three days until we struck the Newfoundland banks, when a sleet storm hammered the ship, and Tor a night she labored through tremendous icy seas that swept her decks continually. "Canvass and straw were piled around the animals and everything was done by our men that was possible. But when morning came three elephants, three tigers, two leopards, almost all the rare cranes and every on? of the snakes lay dead and had to be thrown overboard. "This shows why wild animals cost so much. And there are many other risks. Last year one of the big American animal dealers heard from a beast catcher in Rangoon that he had seven line full-grown rhinoceroses in perfect condition. <* # "He sent a message at once accepting the animals and then hurriedly had timbers cut and shaped to build the great pens that are necessaiy tr? hnM nnwsrfnl hoaitl tllm thpRP on a .steamship. The expense, ^f these pens and the freight charges for shipping them from Afnerlca more than half way around the world made a big Item In themselves. Then there were the expenses of the dealer and the three assistants whom he had to take with him. "After their long voyage to Rangoon they found a difficult trip Into the Interior before them. They had to t drag the heavy timbers for the pens with them, knowing from bitter previous experience that the Oriental animal catchers would be provided with nothing except bamboo cages?tough and strong enough so long as they are stationary, but almost sure to work apart when they are moved over bad roads. "At last they reached their objective point and then after all their work and expenditure, they found three small, sickly and poor specimens. Not one of them was in condition to be shipped even to the coast, not to mention the long voyage to,. America. So here were almost four months wasted, many thousands of dollars lost, and worst of all, no rhinoceros, at the very time, when a dozen menageries were offering big amounts of money for specimens. "Shipping the beasts is always a hard Job. Sailors are afraid of wild animals and they handle the cargoes with such unwillingness that they of ten drop a cage into the hold and kill or injure the beast, because they axe afraid to get hear enough to it to guide or swing it properly. "I have often put my arm into a cage and rubbed a tiger or a lion merely in order to show the crew of the ship that they need not be apprehensive. But they generally don't do anything except to grin sheepishly and say: " 'All right, mister. You're welcome to do them kind of foolish things all you please. We'd rather not' "The consequence is that when a storm comes and the seas sweep the vessel and tear a few cages from their fastenings, the wild animal men rarely get any help from the crew and many a rare and valuable beast has been lost merely because everybody was afraid of it "The least excitement drives a giraffe so frantic that it leaps with uncontrollable fear. The greatest danger "In shipping one is that it will break its legs. They are so long and thin and the brute is so ungainly and awkward when confined in a small space that the least trip or stumble will bring it crashing down and then it is good-bye giraffe. "A giraffe catches cold easily, and It is no fun to dose it when it has to be done on a rolling, staggering ship. "The giraffe is a bad sailor, too, although not so hard as camels, which usuallv act like SDiteful. fretful, vin dlctive children. They get homesick and moan and complain like selfish human beings. "The elephant is a good old sailorman. He takes whatever comes along and never says a word. It is a little hard on him to get no green food on a long voyage and sometimes the dry food disagrees with him. Then we have to give him a mighty dose of physic. He doesn't like that, and as there isn't much room to jump around on a ship, there are more comfortable Jobs than being a doctor to sick elephants on the ocean. "No, the wild-animal dealer does not have an easy and delightful life. It's a hard calling, and only a few grow rich from it. Yet none of us ever seems to want to leave It once he gets well into It."?New York Sun.