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i i il ?ggggg"?? YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. 2 IMPED gEKI-WEKHLT. i. x. oiiSTS wis, Pabiuhen. } % Jfamiljj S?Mll?a|)tr: 4for th< ?romotton of th* ^olitlqal, jSoqiai. ^jrigiiltoiial and <^ontin<iiciaX Jnttrjsts o)f the f topl^. { SINOLE COPY, nn cmi ESTABLISHED 1855. , YORKVILLE. 3. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 19Q5. ISTO. 31. nKWMll ...M By Will J? [Oopywrlght, 1900, by A. J CHAPTER XIIL Whjn Evelyn reached home, after leaving the message with Dave, she found ber sister waiting for her in the gardeQ. Caroline Hasbrooke said nothing until the groom had led away the pony. then, with a malicious glance at Evelyn, she opened up: **l guess you've heard about Ronald Fanshaw.** Evelyn nodded; she could not trust ber fQice to calm utterance just then; besides, it behooved her to dlssemwe. "lie to" murdered Sydney Hart." , Evelyn drew a quick brettb and retorted: "He did it in self-defense?absolutely iq self-defense!" "1 don't believe a word of it." Evelyn bowed her head, and passed on up the stepa. realizing that even if she could justify her lover in Caroline's' ejei it would not benefit bis cause in the slightest, and she bad heart for nothing that could not lighten his woe. But Miss Hasbrooke was not satisfied. Nagging was an amusement to which every brain-cell she possessed was adapted. She followed Evelyn into ber room and closed the door , with significant care and softness. t . "So you see what you escaped." This was her first shot, and she coolly ranged her guns again on Evelyn, whs stood at the dresser, removing her gloves and h'at. "1 don't understand you," said Eve' lyn. Caroline came a step nearer, ber sharp eyes flashing. "You came within an inch of falling in love with him last summer. Capt. Winkle has told me a thing or two. I Intended to report it to father if you had not changed your tactics. Suppose you had let your silly romanticism run ^ on. how would you have felt now?" This sort of goading was maddening. Evelyn turned upon the offender. "1 don't see how I could be more miserable than I am," she said, with sharp frank' * a _% ness oi voice ana wo*. The elder girl grasped the ipeaker't arm md ber bony fingers tightened on it. "Evelyn,*' she said, raspingly, "you are not in love with that man?" "More deeply, Caroline, than yon will ever love?or #ver could love anybody with |bat stony heart of yours. Yea, I lovelorn! If It would give him one mo* ment'i relief, I'd go to hi* cell to-nfght and share bis sufferings." "Evelyn Hasbrooke!" Caroline stood Hke a figure of atone. "You cannot mean'ltl" But'Evelyn simply sank into a chair in tbq semi-darkness of the room. Her sister's voice sounded as if it came from a great distance. "1 mall not tell father," Caroline was saying. "It would humble him to tbe dust. It would simply break bis heart." She paused. The plantation bell rang for the last time. It was a signal for all loiterers in tbe fields to come into the quarter, a custom which had been kept alive since the days of slavery. The elder , slater drew up a chair and sat down near Evelyn. "Tell me how It came about," she said, t For a moment Evelyn seemed drawn out of a stupor of gloomy reflections. * "He bad threatened to kill Ronald," the began?"to kill him on alght?and Ronald's brother gave him a?" "Oh,1 I mean how did you ever happen to fall in love with such a creature ' as he Is?" broke in Miss Hasbrooke, almost angrily. "How can you admit such a thing, when you remember who and what the Hasbrookes are?" "I have never thought of them as being gods, nor even angels," Evelyn blurted out, and then she laid a firm, determined hand on her sister's arm. "I must beg you, Caroline, to leave me alone this evening. I cannot bear to ' hear you run him down for what be cannoi help. Please go!" Caroline drew herself up from her chair and moved to the door with a step full of dire prophecy. "1 shall not tell ' father," she repeated. "No, I shall not tell him." "But I shall," answered Evelyn. "1 am helpless to aid the man I love?the ( man I'd die for willingly, but I shall not conceal the truth from a single sou!. At least I can do that much. 1 can be true to him. I shall not deny him." Caroline leaned on the swinging door, her cold, vindictive face rested on her arm. It was on the tip of her tongue to maVe an angry retort, but she evidently' thought dumb silence on her part would be more crushing, so altb a look of forced incredulity on ber face she turned away. M1 shall not tell father," came like a belated echo from the hall, "I shall not be the one to break his heart." The colonel bad come in from a tiresome ride across bis domain and sat in his study looking over some legal papers. The soft light of a German student lt^mp brought his fine face out strongly and clearly from the darkness round'him. He had spread the papers on the top of his mahogany desk. Only the day before he bad insured his life for another large amount, and he was thinking of making a will which would divide his property equally between his two daughters. One of the i servants approached with a card. 'Tell Capt. Winkle," said he, as he ?1 ?h? oard "that I cannot see ? "?-i biro t*n#gbt, unless It is something of Importance." "He said it was very important, auh." Tbe old man fumbled his papers with ?nervous fingers. "It has oome at last." was tbe thought in bis mind; "but abe shall not be coerced. 1 shall never ask a child of mine to marry against her inclinations, and v Evelyn has acted strangely in regard to him. "Well, send him In here, Nebo, and then see .that we are not disturbed." Col. Hasbrooke opened tbe door of a big iron safe and thrust into it bis papers. He remained standing, bis eyes on the door. Capt. Winkle wore riding boota and held bis gloves and whip in bis hands as be entered. I } IftHIST ItW I, Harben. I. Kellogg Newspaper Co.] "1 dropped In only for a minute, coloneL" That was hit greeting, bat It was a cold one, uulike the young officer's usual suavity. Indeed, his tone seemed almost to carry a menace. The colonel's perception was keen, and he fell to wondering and drawing hasty de d actions. "You are always welcome at Carnleigh, Capt. Winkle. Nebo, take the captain's things. What will you drink. sir r Winkle waved the servant away, and stood watching him till he had gone, then be leaned on the back of a chair. "I called to see you in regard to your daughter," he said,, still coldly. "I hope you will pardon the informality of my visit, colonel." "1 must admit that I suspected that you might wish, to speak of her?of Evelyn," answerec! the old man, now reassured as to Winkle's intentions. Capt. Winkle sti rted. It bad flashed upon him that he was being misunderstood. and yet there was a dogged something in his eyes which seemed to say that a little thing like a temporary misunderstanding -even in so delicate a matter?would amount to nothing as an offset against the humiliation Evelyn's conduct had brought him. Hasty reflection on# this line made him unusually blunt ol speech. "Yes, I want to talk to you about her, but not in the way you perhaps anticipate, Col. Basbrooke," said the captain, almost patronizingly. "I felt it my duty as a personal friend of yours to come directly to you." "It must be a proposal, after all," thought the old gentleman, whose f*ce was divesting itself of its look of perplexity, "the fellow is badly rattled." He waved his hand towards the captain's chair and sat down himself. Winkle took his seat and crossed his tightly clad legs, lilt spurs jinglingas he moved. "That's right, (apt. Winkle," went on the older man, "that's always best; 1 like the old way?a father has the biggest interest in a daughter after all has been said." Winkle's attention seemed not to fasten to this last remark. "May I ask if Miss Evelyn is at home?" he asked, ;ntroductively. Hasbrooke could not restrain a smile. He told himself that he had never dreamt that Winkle would be knocked off his feet by sucb a formality, and yet it showed that the fellow was hard hit, and that was what he ought to be. "I don't know," replied he, "but," he added, "of course 8he is; she is never out so late as this alone, and she went for a drive shortly after dinner. Shall I send up your card?" The colonel reached out for the old-fashioned tasseled bell-pull. "1 should like to know if she is at borne, for sure," itald Winkle; "if?if she is, there can be no immediate danger--though I feel certain?" "Danger!" ejaculated the colonel, "what the devil do you mean, sir?" "Colonel, you may regard me as meddlingwhere I have no right, but 1 flatter myself that you cannot fail to appreciate a thing done purely in your interest, and under a sense of duty. The truth is, 1 saw Miss Evelyn id the cart with Ronald Fans haw driving rapidly away from the scime of the shooting. They were going towards the railroad station. 1 have hesitated for three hours over what I ought to do, aDd at last?" The colonel stepped towards him, and raised his two hands as if to clutch the speaker's throat, but be restrained his fury and stood staring in Winkle's face. "What damnablit nonsense is this?" he thundered. "1 have known lor some time, colonel," answered Winkle, calmly, "that she was falling in love with this fellow; but I could not feel that 1 had the right to speak?" Hasbrooke was as pale as death, and he shook from head to foot as a man with palsy. He put his hands behind him and held them tightly one in the other. "You have made a serious, culpable mistake, sir," he naid. "I don't believe my daughter has even a speaking acquaintance with Fanshaw?if she has that?and as to you'- extravagant statement that you saw hei^-" "I am your friend. Col. Hasbrooke," protested the younger man, quickly, "and X do not want to leave your house until I am assured that your daughter is safe under your roof. Every minute we are talking here may be valuable to you. Let me beg of you to ascertain if she is at home." "You shall have your wish, sir." The old man's step across the room to the bell-pull was majestic. As he drew the silken cord towaru him he smiled. "You shall certainly have your proof," he said, "and then"?the old soldier looked significantly at the door and bowed. James entered noftly and stood waiting. "Ask Evelyn?say to her," corrected the colonel, "that: I should like to see ber here for only a minute. But, bold; bat sbe returned from her drive?" "Yes sub; des it minute 'fo' you got back, sub." The colonel swept a triumphant glance at Winkle, and then concluded his command to tbe servant. "Ask her to come down." "J trust," said tbe captain, when the man bad withdrawn, "thatyou will pardon my fear that?that the couple really had the intention of eloping; but, seeing tbem together at such a time, 1 was naturally disposed to wonder what could have caused such a meeting; and a few minutes later, when I came across tbe dead man, and learned that Fansbaw bad killed him, it was natural that I should think?" "You shall be convinced, sir," burst from Hasbrooke's lips, "that you have had an attack of blindness that is dangerous to tbe reputation of honorable women!" "I shall not dispute with you, colonel," said Wi akle, in a conciliatory tone; "but I passed as near them as I am to you now. 1 shall leave it to her. She will rot deny my statement."* , The old officer shrugged his shoulders Is stern unbelief, and five minutes of sullen silence bore down on the two men. It wai lifted by the approach of Evelyn. Both men were on their feet as she entered the room. Capt. Winkle bowed low, but no word of greeting passed his lips. Her father placed a chair for her, but she signified her desire to stand. Her lip curled with disdain as her eyes fell on Winkle's face, and then she gave her undivided attention to her father. "You are to decide a point between Capt. Winkle and myself," began the old man, as he released her hands, which he had taken to lead her to the chair. "He is sure he saw you in the cart with F&nshaw, driving away from the scene of the tragedy. I, of course, firmly denied It." Evelyn held her head high, her arms tightly folded; she seemed to have stopped breathing. "Cant. Winlfli- ii nultr rlchl." the an* swered, in a low, tense tone. The colonel reeled as If he were dizzy. For the ensuing moment there was no other sound in the room save his labored breathing. Suddenly he steadied himself before her, his eyes expanded. "Are you crazy, my child ?" he blurted out. "Almost!" Evelyn laughed harshly. "The only man I ever loved as women love once in their lives is facing the most horrible crisis of his existence. I happened to meet him. on his way to give himself up to the sheriff, and, as 1 love him and wanted to be with him as much as possible, to coihfort him, and assure him of my fidelity, I insisted on driving him to Ilatcliff's. He bagged me not to insist on it, but I would have it so. If you cast me off a million times I shall have all the more heart to bestow on him?the more pity in his sorrow!" m mj "WHAT DAMNABLE NON8EN8E 18 THIS?" HE THUNpERED The old soldier seemed to wither like a plant under a fierce heat; his hands hung limply at his sides for a moment, and then he drew himself up as erect as if he were on parade and faced hi* visitor. ; "You have rendered me a valuable service, Capt. Winkle," he said distantly, "and I hope some day to be able to show better appreciation for it." He moved backward to the beltpull, his eyes studiously avoiding those of his child. "Capt. Winkle's horse!" he called out to the servant. His words rang tike pieces of falling metal. When Winkle had gone, Hasbrodke stood for a moment eying bis daughter sorrowfully, then he sank into his big revolving chair and lowered bla bead to thd desk. Evelyn looked down on him pityingly, and then ahe atepped to him and laid a cold white hand on hia head. "Father," her voice cut aharply into the alienee. "I love you aa fondly aa any daughter ever loved a father, but aa aure aa God la in Heaven that lore will die?you will kill it if you turn against me in my drat hour of actual woe! I am Buffering for the man I love aa I never fancied even a lost aoul could, suffer, and yet you have no pity for me. You demanded more in your daughter, but I tell you I demand more in a father! God made me love Ronald Fanahaw; He did it by opening my eyes to his greatness of mind and character. I will not allow you to insult him by your tears," her voice rose to a sharp command and she atamped her small foot. "I will not, I say!" The white head was raised. The old man's eyes gleamed with the fires of despair; but as they rested om the calm, undaunted face of his best-loved child their glance wavered. "Do you mean that, Evelyn?my God?are you in earnest ?" "Thoroughly in earnest, father; you have often told me about the strength of the Carnlelgh women in their love. Would the Carnlelgh you wedded have allowed her father to weep because of her love for you?" The colonel stretched out two trembling hands and took hers in his grasp. "You are right, my daughter, in a way"?he kissed her lightly on the brow?"but I am right, too. Pardon me if I have been impolite; you and 1 have never had a disagreement before, but I can see farther than you?the light of calm reason is stronger than the flare of Infatuation. Now go to bed, and let me think; ah, let me think!" Without a word she moved away. At the door she turned and looked back. He stood where she had left him, his arms folded as If in death. "It iaawful! My God, it is awful!" she beard him muttering. CHAPTER XIV, All that night Ronald Fanshaw lay awake. The coming of dawn?its first gray streaks in the east?was like the sight of land to a starving, shipwrecked man, and yet when the sun was up its genial rays failed to disperse the shadows in his heart; be found that it ached as well by day as by night. After breakfast Mr. Redding called to see him. "Well, this is a pretty howdy-do!" he exclaimed, in a cheery voice, as the Iron door clanged to after him. "The sheriff rode out to King's plantation fast night to tell me the news, but I couldn't get back till this mornin'. He's bent on gettln' you out o' this If he can." "I am awfully sorry to have to call on you in such a disagreeable matter," returned Ronald. Redding thoughtfully pinched hla nose between his thumb and forefinger. "Ratcliff told me the particulars," he said, frowning a little. "There is no use cryin' over spilt milk?or split blood, either. This case will give you a chance to practloe a little on your own hook. The main thing is to keep a stiff upper Hp and take a cheerful view." "I am afraid I take a dejected view of It," aald Ronald. "You will And me a hopeless sort of client. I feel so awfully knocked out over taking a human life that even the prospect of being publicly justified does not brighten my horizon." "I can sympathize with you, my hoy," the voice of the lawyer softened and he pinched his nose again. "I once told you?or rather I hinted at a great eor tow In my life?a big drawback to nj energies, well?" Bedding broke off and waved his hand, as he sometimes did when expression failed him. "I remember you hinted at some diaagreeable occurrence; but as you were unmarried?" "My trouble didn't wear petticoats," Interrupted the lawyer, forcing a little smile, and as he went on his face grew more serious than it had ever appeared to Ronald. "It took place right down thar in front of the courthouse doorjust after the close of the war. I never pass In or out of the building without stepping over his body. People don't mention it to me now; I sometimes wish they would rank it with other events in my career; it's their danged silence that hurts. "Me'n him was candidates for the legislature; It was a sort of duel. 1 was ready for Mm?certainly was loaded for bear; I had three revolvers an' a axhandle. I proved, without much trouble, that he pulled down on me fust. A feller come to my counsel an' said he would swear Le Roy bad said he was goin' to kill me on sight. His testimony cleared me, but the same skunk come to me after It was all over an' wanted ten dollars. I can't forget the hell in his eye. I knew he had perjured himself, but I was afraid to refuse him the money. Then thar was the young widow. It left her as pore as Job's turkey. She let me aupply her an' the boy, that bad his daddy's eyes, with the necessaries of life, an' then she began mat. .ru at m?. finmphnw I took a fool notion that I ought to marry *er, an' the thought weighed on me till I nearly got off my cut. Jeat about then Judge Batea began to aee whar the wind was blowin' her banga an' aaid one day: 'Looky heer, Reddin', let that elide?it never will mend matteraabit; you'll alwmya feel aa if you killed 'im to get hia wife.' She married another fellow. Oh, yea," Redding broke off with a deep drawn breath, "I know all about it, an' that'a why I didn't aleep much laat night. The worst feature in yore caae ia the evidence Thad Williams threatena to give. Aa far as I know, hia oath would be valid. Do you think that the dead man told him you attacked him first?" "If be did he was out of his mind," answered Ronald; "I think Thad Williams told me that to frighten me." "But Ratcliff Rays you actually heard the two tali together just before 8yd died." Ronald nodded. "That is a fact, 1 waa not near enough, however, to overhear what was said." Redding mused a moment and then he looked up suddenly. "I must see him at once, my boy, before the prosecution gets 'im to commit 'imaelf to the'r side. I shall try to show up the consequences of perjury in s strong light, and frighten him off o' that line. He's a good natured sort of feller if you strike him right. I never shall forget" (Bedding seemed bent on cheering up his friend) "Thad was captured about five years ago as a moonshiner, an' Jim Lowe, who was in the employ o' the government, an' no better 'n Thad, started with 'lm to Atlanta for trial. They made a sort of picnic of it an' got drunk together, an' postponed their trip till that night. They was waitin' in the office ot the bote) to ketch a train, an' Jim had gone in to his supper, leavln' Thad smokin' at the stove. Then amongst us we got up a joke on Jim an' went to his prisoner an' told 'im if he wanted to, he could git away as easy as shellin' peas. But Thad shook his head an' helt out his hands to the Are. 'Me'n Lowe is sorter chums,' he said, 'an' if you will have the truth, I never have had much of a ride od the cyars in my life, an' I sorter 'lowed I'd like the trip.' Then we proposed a compromise. We told him he could ride within a few miles of Atlanta and jump off while Jim was not lookin', and in that way he could get his ride and liberty also. You ought to have beard 'im laugh. 'Don't you give me away, an* I'll play it fine,' he said. And he did work it. He turned up here two days later, making for the mountains. He was the worst bunged-up chap you ever laid eyes on. Not being familiar with the running of trains, be had hurled himself at a bank, eight miles out of Atlanta, when the train was goin' like greased lightnin'. But Lowe never did try to arrest him again." Bedding's smile vanished as he turned to the door. "I'll try to win 'im round to us this mornln' if I can get at 'im,"' he concluded. "He'll be apt to be at the funeral. Now, don't you worryl I'll do all I can, an' we'll try to have 701 out on bail to-morrow." to be continued. Mysteries of Steel and Iron. Although the steel and iron -industry is one of the mightiest of the world, and offers such rewards that some of the greatest chemists and other scientists study nothing else, there are lots of apparently simple puzzles about It that no one has been able to solve yet. The man who discovers the right answer to one or two of them may make a million dollars out of it. Every one who handles steel knows that It gets "tired" at times. After a r>lor>o nf stppl has been sublected to a severe strain for a certain period. It may suddenly show a decided weakness. Then the experts say that It Is tired; and so It Is, for It Is allowed to rest awhile. It regains Its old strength. Recently It has been found that a steel beam can be made stronger by Increasing the load on It gradually? In other words, by exercising It Just as a man exercises his muscles when he wishes to make them stronger. Very often new steel will not pass tests that It should pass, but after a few weeks It is found that It has grown better and passes the tests beautifully. Then, again, steel that was perfect when It was tested often gets "sick." It cracks or becomes brittle, although other steel made at the same time In the some way remains perfectly sound. No man knows today why these things happen; but lots of people are trying to find out. PtettUanroujS fleading. THE WORK OF CONQRES8. Result* of Last 8*ssion Roviawod by Loader*. Tbe last session of the Fifty-eighth congress, which began Dec. S, has not been productive of much general legislation, says a Washington special dispatch to the New York World. About the things which congress did at Its last session and the things which It did not do no men are more competent to speak than the floor leaders. Republican and Democratic, of the house of representatives, Sereno E. Payne of New York and John Sharp Williams of Mississippi. They prepared the following statement just before the adjournment of congress. Representative Sereno EL Payne, chairman of the ways and means committee, Republican floor leader, said: "In reviewing the work of the Fiftyeighth congress it will be necessary to bear in mind that this congress came in when the Republican party had been in power in both branches for six years. It had already legislated upon every great subject then agitated, such as the tariff, the isthmian canal and our island possessions. "This congress, therefore, practically confined itself to the enactment of Judicious amendments to that legislation and to the perfection of it. For example, It perfected the civil government scheme for the Philippines, revised the tariff and the revenue laws of the Island, perfected civil government for Porto Rico and made effective reciprocity with Cuba. "It has strengthened the laws dealing with great corporations. It is to be regretted that the statehood bill and the railroad rate bill cannot be completed at the present session; also the bill from the ways and means committee cutting down the tariff on sugar and tobacco from the Philippines. "The subject matter of these bills has been pretty well digested, and congress will be prepared to take them up at the beginning of the next session, with the prospect that legislation will result This session of congress has been occupied largely with appropriation bills, with a view to economy, so that the appropriations will not exceed the revenue. I believe that result has been accomplished. The revenues have been decreased because of the repeal of the war tax acts amount* ing to $100,000,000 annually. They have also been reduced this calendar year on account of the reciprocity with Cuba. But this is a growing county. Ex* penses naturally increase, as do revenues. It would seem that wise economy will avoid deficiencies and the occasion for any increase In taxation." ' Representative John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, Democratic floor leader, said: -"Congress at this session has done nothing but pass the appropriation bills. It is true the house passed a railroad rate bill, with twice as many Republican recalcitrants as Democratic ones. That Is virtually all. Even the rate malting diii, in section 11, wafers two or three opportunities for endless litigation, which makes it far less useful than it might be.. "Congress should have revised the tariff, especially the steel schedule, such as structural steel and agricultural Implements. It ought to have passed some legislation to curb the trusts more thoroughly, for It has been shown that even when we win a lawsuit against them and even bring to bear the machinery of the Injunction, as was fhe case In the beef trust, the trust continues to do that which It has marked out and pays no attention whatever to the government. "It should have admitted the new states and should have kept faith at any rate with Arizona by not attempting to put her In with New Mexico over the protest of the people of both territories. Even If congress could not agree on that it ought to have admitted Oklahoma and Indian Territory either as one state or as two. "Congress has made no progress in line with the boasted presidential policy of making easier opportunities for arbitration In case of quarrels with foreign nations. But It Increased the war expenditures under the pretext of being prepared for some war which nobody expects, although holding In abeyance needed appropriations for international Improvements. "The truth Is the Republican party has ceased to be a party of progress and affirmation and is doing its best to remain, notwithstanding the restlveness of the president, dancing on the same spot without going forward or sideways except in one respect. It has progressed away from the Monroe doctrine toward the new and startling Roosevelt doctrine peculiarly illustrated In the recent executive dealings with Santo Domingo. "Whether the senate will follow the president and make public declaration to the world that our army and navy are international constables for the collection of debts due American and European speculators In the tropics remains to be seen." LAND OF WONDROUS CAVES. Were Hiding Placet of Outlaws of the Indian Territory. Jim Friday, desperate negro outlaw, was the terror of the Arbuckle mountains for many years, but was finally hanged at Fort Smith. Ark., in 1882, for the murder of a man and his wife near Fort Arbuckle, says the Kansas City Journal. He first murdered the husband and carried the wife away into a cave near by and here forced her to remain until he grew tired of her and then murdered her. The bones of both victims were taken in a box before Judge Parker and a Jury, and when Friday saw it was no use denying the charge he confessed and told of several other deeds still more horrible. United States Marshal Mershon, who was known as the "Sleuth" of the Arbuckles, captured Friday In the cave, and it Is said that Mershon knew of other caves in that locality more wonderful than this one. It appears that outlaws would live In these caves for months at a time and the officers were powerless to dislodge them. A man living In Davis says that he knows of caves within ten miles of Davis where cattle have been slaughtered and their heads and horns are still there as evidence In a perfect state of preservation. There are nooks and corners down there, he says, where an army of men could hide themselves, and unless one knew Just where to look he would never And an entrance. It Is believed there Is a large stream of water running through all of the caves in that vicinity. A ranchman says thai- Honey creek comes through the caves and offers proof by showing the large springs which gush out of the mountain side just above Turner's falls on .Honey creek. These falls are widely known as the "Little Niagara" of the Chickasaw nation, and are vis !ted by thousand* of people every year. The spring Is believed to be the king cure-all and Indians have made It their health resort for many years. Thomas Grant, a cattleman and farmer, who lives with a mile of the old fort/ says caves abound In that part of the country, and mentions one midway between Elk. and Foreman, small inland towns, that can be seen from the "Wagon road. It Is on the very top of a big hill In the prairie and a few feet down it widens out into one vast cavern. From all appearances It must be a wonderful place. The cave Is known as "dead man's hole," ftjgm the fact that some years ago the remains of a man were found there who hod been murdered. The cave Is well ventilated and perfectly dry as far as It has been explored. THE PRESIDENTS TRIP. Features of the Wild Region In Texas Where He Will Hunt. The "big thicket," into which the Texas friends of President Roosevelt are arranging to take him on a bear hunt some time during his coming visit to Texas on the occasion of the rough riders' reunion at San Antonio, probably, is the biggest and queerest streak of forest country In the United States, says a special dispatch from Orange, Texas, to the Chicago Tribune. Although it lies in one of the most thickly settled sections of the state, it has no population save bears, wildcats, wolves and other wild beasts and winged and creeping creatures. The big thicket Is from five to fifteen miles wide and seventy miles long. It extends from the Sabine river, the boundary between Texas and Louisiana. twelve miles north of Orange to the Trinity river region, almost west. IS is the line of demarcation between tlmhor Haifa mv bicm piuv MU?I/V? www. With the exception of scattered dwarfed pines, red oaks, gums and other varieties of trees that have secured root room in the density of the thicket's prevailing undergrowth, there is no timber in the big thicket The black haw, the wild peach and the wild plum trees give food to the sweets loving bear. Wi)d grape vines, the rattan vine, the scrambling briers and other growths cling to a variety of oak that stands almost as thick as cane in a. brake and grows but little larger. The bottom of the thicket Is soft and in the rainy season is covered in many places with deep water. Hunters or others without guides who venture into the thicket beyond the hearing of companions on the outside do so at the risk of being lost. The only way. bear can be hunted successfully in the big thicket is with trained dogs. The dogs can make their wuy through the dense growths of the thicket faster than the bear and soon bring it to bay. The hunters drag and squeeze and cut their way to the spot where the bear has made its stand, sometimes with its back against a tree sometimes in the tree. If against the tree, It is likely the hunters will And a dog or two lying dead among the briers. A ride bullet usually ends the hunt. ' , The bears of the big thicket are said to be large and fierce. Jim Simpson, an Orange county hunter, killed ten bears In .the thicket in the last year. The wildcats In the great waste are bigger than prairie wildcats and are aggressive. Oliver Clark of Orange county killed the biggest wildcat on record recently. The cat attacked him after he had thrown a lighted pine knot at it. The beast leaped upon the hunter. It bit Into Clark's left arm, and the hunter drew his knife from his belt and, thrusting It under his arm, won the fight. He could not use his arm for weeks. The Orange and Northwestern railroad and the Kansas City Southern cross the big thicket. In the waters of the great swamp fish of many varieties abound. During the summer the alligator, the moccasin snake, the rattler and other cheerful representatives of reptile and Insect life abound in the thicket. Upon miles and miles of the big thicket's area no man ever has set foot. Ten feet in from either edge of the thicket a person is lost to view. During the civil war the thicket was the refuge of many deserters from the Confederate army. Some deserters remained hidden there until the end of the war, and many feuds resulted from the resentment they felt toward provost marshals for their efforts to capture them. One instance cited Is that of a prominent citizen who was two years in hiding in the woods. The war no sooner was over than this deserter at once set out to hunt the man who had hunted him. He found his man, but himself was killed. Lbe's Surrknuibr.?After General Robert E. Lee's last attempt was made u/Uh rinrdon nnd Fltz Lee to break through the lines of the enemy. Colonel Venable Informed General Lee that it was not possible. He said, "Then there la nothing left me but to go and see General Grant," when some one near him, hearing this, said: "Oh, general! What will history say of the surrender of the army in the field?" He replied: "Yes, I know they will say hard things of us. They will not understand how we were overwhelmed by numbers. Bi/t that Is not the question, colonel. The question Is, Is It right to surrender this army? If it is right, then I take all the responsibility." And he did.?"Recollections and Letters of General Lee." tv A great many people have consciences that would require an alarm clock to wake up. tArtificial roses never appear to so poor an advantage as when they bloom on a girl's cheeks. INVENTIONS DUE TO BOYS. Grsat Achievements In 8?iene? and Mechanics Brought About by Uoys. Captain Cody, the Inventor of the aeroplane kite, who recently gave an exhibition at the Crystal Palace of hla new man lifting air machine, wai considerably astonished when, on the morning of the trial, a couple of models of his Invention came fluttering gayly over the grounds from outside. Subsequent Investigation, says Pearson's Weekly, proved that the tiny duplicates had been built to scale by a couple of precocious Penge youths, who had made mental notes of the principles upon which Mr. Cody's originals were constructed while on a visit to the Palace some days previously. The boys had spent the whole of their pocket money in materials, had occupied their spare time In putting the kites together, and had utilised the spacious coal yard attached to the Penge Railway station tor the conduct of their preliminary experiments. Sir John Brown,'who made the first roller armor plates for modern battleships, was but a lad of sixteen when the sight of a carriage worked by a spiral spring at a village fair suggested to him the conical spring buffer for railway trucks, out of which, after a long struggle, he ultimately made a fortune. Ell Whitney, the Inventor of the cotton gin, got the germ of his great idea from seeing, through the Interstices of a hut, an old negro work a handsaw among v the freshly picked cotton stored within. The teeth of the saw tore the lint from the seed easily and quickly, and young IT IllillCJf V<IC WM IHUCli tun ?vu at the time), realised at once that a machine working a number of ulmllar sawn simultaneously would revolutionise the cotton growing industry He said nothing to anybody, but set to work building models and experimenting. His difficulties were enormous, for he not only had to meke his own wheels, cogs, etc., but he had also first to forge his own tools, and even to manufacture the paint wherewith to color his many plans and drawings. But he succeeded in the end, and though the outbreak of war and other hindrances prevented the Invention from belnp actually placed upon the market until many years afterward, the first complete cotton gin ever constructed .was built from those very models and plans, and with scarcely a single alteration. At Attercliffe, near Sheffield, In 1740, there lived a watchmaker named Huntsman, whose temper had often been tried by the defective quality of the watch springs then In use. He sometimes wondered if it were not possible to make these articles of like nature, and at last came to the conclusion that if he could only melt a piece of steel and cast it into an ingot, Its composition would be the same throughout. He experimented, and at last sucThe aunrtlv created the de mand. And ere long Huntsman was turning out cast steel Ingots by the hundreds of tons, and reaping a fortune. The workmen of the mills were paid very high wages, and were sworn to secrecy. Nor did they betray their trust?at least not wittingly. But one bitter night they gave shelter to a wan, half fro sen lad, dressed in tattered corduroya He asked no questions. Indeed, he seemed dosing most of the time in the warm glow of the furnaces. Nevertheless, when he went he took the secret of steel casting with him, and within half a dozen weeks there were as many mill owners in Sheffield working the new process. Samuel Crompton, a boy of 16, copied the best features of the spinning machine invented by Hargreaves and Arkwrtght, added to them some of his own and, after thirty months of anxious and secret experimenting, produced the first spinning mule?so-called because it was a kind of hybird between Hargreaves's jenny and Arkwright's waterframe. The raw apprentice lad was, however. no match in cunning for the cotton lords, who soon found out the se- ( cret of his new machine and shamelessly robbed him of the fruits of his j ingenuity. Many years afterward, it is true, I] they used their influence to secure for him a parliament grant of ?5,000, but i he was then a broken hearted and dis- j appointed man, to whom the money came too late to be of any real ser- < vice. i The late Sir Isaac Holden's inven- ; tlons in connection with the wool | combing industry have almost obscured from the public's remembrance the fact that he was also the originator of the luclfer match. This happened while filling the position of lecturer on chemistry at the Castle Street Academy, Reading. He used to rise at 4 In the morning in order to pursue his studies and found the old fashioned flint and steel extremely inconvenient. So, one day, he made a paste of phosphorus and other substances, stuck it on the end of a sliver of wood and found it would Ignite on being rubbed against any 1 rough substance. > Holden himself did not realise the importance of his discovery. Not so, < however, a pupil of his to whom he t showed It. This youngster, who < chanced to be the son of a London < manufacturing chemist, at once wrote 1 to his father about it, and shortly after luclfer matches were Issued to the i world. t Lord Armstrong as a boy was in- i tended for the law, but as it happened there was a water wheel of curious I construction near the office where he I worked, and the man who owned it ] explained its mechanism to the inquls- t itlve lad. He also explained to him an Idea he had for utilizing the power I of falling water in order to lift great \ weights. * 1 A few brief words set young Arm- < strong thinking. A little later he i started experimenting. And the re- i suit of it all was that there was per- t fected, in due course of time, the enormously powerful hydraulic crane, { which has rendered possible the ambi- < tlous enterprises of the modern build- t er. t Last and most wonderful of all, i comes the case of the little Italian lad 1 Qugllelmo Marconi who, through see- f ing a conjurer perform certain tricks t by means of electrical agency, was e enabled not so very long afterward to astonish the world with wireless telegraphy. His first experiments were carried on in a field on his father's farm, and his apparatus consisted merely of tin biscuit boxes set up on poles of . varying heights, one of which was connected with a crude transmitter and the other with an equally crude receiver, both of his own rrnnufactue. This was in 1886, when he was in his fourteenth year; and he was barely 21, a shy, modest, beardless stripling witen he was in London explaining to the greatest scientists of the age the griatest discovery of the century. RUSSIA MENACING INDIA? Steadi y Reinforcing Her Military Strength en the Frontier. Rum la ie steadily reinforcing' her military strength, both In inen and guns, In the direction of the Indian frontier, says an Associated Press dispatch of a few days ago. Sensational rumors of the dispatch of reir forcement* for Russian Turkestan wire current two monthu ago, but they were then denied. The Associated Pnws la now In position to affirm their truth on the authority of a traveler of unimpeachable veracity, who his just arrived from Tashkend, and who waa a personal witness of military activity on the recently completed Orenburg-Tashkend end other * strategic railroads through Merv to Krasnc vodsk. Troops, guns and munitions of war have beer moving southward for two months. Between the middle of January and the middle of February fifty-six military trains, mostly carrying artillery, arrived at Tashkt nd. The Associated Press Informant said that the greatest tranquillity prevailed in the Turkestan region. The only explanation of the renewal of Russia's military activity there Is that It probably is a demonstration to Impress Afghanistan. The Associated Prets is unable here to obtain any official admission that an umisual military move If. in progress, but a Russian of high position made the following statement: "Russia has not any designs on In-al ? ? J i? mm** 4a(|4 a# alls wtng Ultt Ha ?|||(UMU W Kl IVIUi VI Mnaiu?. If Great Britain would onlir let ua alone we would not trouble her; but we an; not blind to the iranner in which Great Britain has seized the occasion of the present war to buttress all her interests in Central Asia, where we have as vital interests as she; nor can we Russians vet over the idea that, sooner or later, a con diet with our traditional enemy is inevitable and we realise that our only pat* to victory 11 >s In the direction of India. "Great Britain has been making hay while the sun shone. But Russia can not hold her hands and see Thibet and Afgharlstan converted into Bhutans or Nepals nor Persia placed complete* ly und tr British influence." ^ The traveler In question was informed although he had no person.il knowledge on the point, that Russian troops had crossed Pamir through Terek Pass and garrisoned Kash.far. The Orenburg-Tashkend railroad was so crowded that the traveler was forced to return by way of Krasnovodsk. The Associated Press's Informant states (hat the greatest secrecy is observed. Travelers, who are rare, must be provided with special permits from the minister of war and are kept under the closest surveillance. The baggage of this traveler was twice seised and searched, although his papers were regular. It is most significant that local officials have been ordered not to permit Englishmen to travel in Russian Turkestan. The Dislikes or Animals.?Smoking a clay pipe, the circus actor sat in the winter training quarters, says the Philadelphia Bulletin. Under his supervision a thin boy was learning to ride erect on a quiet horse with a broad flat back. "In nome towns they won't let us show," said the man, "unless we have no camels with us. Camels are a serious drawback to shows. Horses are so mu h afraid of them that lots of towns won't let a camel enter their gates. "A horse won't go near a piece of ground a camel has stood on. The very smell of a camel in the air will make a horse tremble and sweat And this feir Isn't only around occasionally In a horse here and theirs. It is , found in every horse all over the world. Queer, tsn't it? I often wonder why it Is. Cattle hate dogs in the same way, and cats hate dogs so, too. Here, though, we can account: for the hatred. Dogs in primitive times fed on cattle, no doubt and even today here a:id there, they kill and feed on kittens. . "Horiee love dogs, Tm sur? I don't know why. Dogs fear no animals but pimas and leopards. Tou can Cake a dog up to a lion's or a tiger's cage, and he will show no fear; but Cake him up to the cage of a puma or l leopard, and he wlH tremble and moan and slink away out of sight "All very puzzling, isn't it?" A D.j^oerous Liquid.?A solid gold bottle stood on the chemist's table, lays the Philadelphia Bulletin. "In chat bottle," he said, "my hyJrofluorlc acid is kept. Hydrofluoric icld is used In glass etching. The itching on glass thermometers is all lone with it It is colorless. It looks ike water. "But a drop of it on your hand nrould bore clean through to :he other lide like a bullet. Its lnhalsltoa Is lure death. "Hydrofluoric aciu an be kept safe* .. u mm Ka??Im q Inn a Sometimes jr >11 liuivi w>uw ? >ottle8 of India rubber, of lead, or of platinum are used. None of these, hough. Is as safe as gold. "Even when this acid is in a gold xjttle, precautions must be taken with It. It Is volatile, and hence a Darafflr e covered plate must be :lamped tight over the bottle's mouth. Uso, the temperature of the room nust r ot rise over sixty degrees, or he gold bottle will burst "Thlfc: acid, whose sole use is In class etching. Is probably the most langemus thing In the world to work vith. The steeplejack, the Hon tamer, he diver, even the Japanese and Rusilan soldier, do not take their lives n their hands to half the extent the Class etcher does when, with his gold rial of hydrofluoric acid, he etches the icales on our thermometers."