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CHAPTER XV.
THE JUNKETER8.
When Receiver Guilford took possession
of the properties, appurtenances
and appendages of the sequestered
Trans-Western railway, one of
the luxuries to which he fell heir was
private car "Naught-seven," a commodious
hotel on wheels originally
used as the directors' car of the Western
Pacific, and later taken over by
loring to be put in commission as the
general manager's special.
In the hands of a friendly receiver
this car became a boon to the capitol
contingent; its observation piauorm
served as a shifting rostrum from
which a deep-chested executive or a
mellifluous Hawk often addressed admiring
crowds at way stations, and its
dining saloon was the moving scene of
many; little relaxative feasts, at which
Veuve Cliquot flowed freely, priceless
cigars were burned, and the members
of the organization unbent, each after
his kind.
But to the men of the throttle and
I oil can, car Naught-seven, in the gift
of a hospital receiver, shortly became
a nightmare. Like most private cars,
It was heavier than the heaviest Pullman;
and the engineer who was constrained
to haul it like a dragging anchor
at the tall end of a fast train was
prone to say words not to be found in
any vocabulary known to respectable
philologists.
It was in the evening of a windblown
day, a week after Kent's visit
to Oaston, that Engineer "Red" Callahan,
oiling around for the all-night
run with the Flyer on the western division,
heard above the din and clamor
of Union station noises the sullen
thump betokening the addition of another
car to his train,
w "Now fwhat the divvle will that be?"
^ ~ he rasped, pausing, torch in band, to
apostrophize his fireman.
The answer came up out of the shadows
to the rear on the lips of M'Tosh,
the trainmaster.
"You have the Naught-seven tonight,
Callahan, and a pretty severe
head wind. Can you make your time?"
"Haven't thim bloody fools in the
up-town office anything betther to do
than to tie that sivinty-ton ball-an'chain
to my leg such a night as this?"
This is not what Callahan said; it is
merely a printable paraphrase of bis
rejoinder.
M'Tosh shook bis head. He was a
hold-over from the Loring administration,
not because bis place was not
worth taking, but because as yet no
political heeler had turned up with
the requisite technical ability to hold
It.
^ "I don't blame you for cussing it
\ out." he said; and the saying of it
was a mark of the relaxed discipline
? i i-*? ?11
WQ1CQ was creeping UUU ail uiautuca
of the service. "Mr. Lorlng's car Is
anybody'^ private wagon these days.
Can you make your time with her?"
"Not on yer life," Callahan growled.
MIs It the owld potgutted tbafe lv a
rayceiver that's in her?"
"Yes; with Gov. Bucks and a party
of his friends. I take it you ought to
feel honored."
"Do I?" snapped Callahan. "If I
don't make thim junketers think
they're in the scuff iv a cyclone whin
I get thim on the crooks beyant Dolores
ye can gimme time, Misther M'Tosh.
Where do I get shut iv thim?"
"At Agua Caliente. They are going
to the hotel at Breezeland, I suppose.
There Is your signal to pull out."
Breezeland Inn, the hotel at Agua
Caliente, is a year-round resort for
asthmatics and other health seekers,
with a sanatorium annex which utilizes
the waters of the warm springs
for therapeutic purposes. But during
hnt mont'is the caDital and the I
plains cities to the eastward send their
quota of summer idlers and the house
fills to its capacity.
It was for this reason that Mr.
Brookes Ormsby, looking for a comfort
able resort to which he might laki
Mrs. Brentwood and her daughters for
an outing, hit upon the expedient of
going first in person to Breezeland,
partly to make sure of accommodations
and partly to check up the attractions
of the place against plc^
turesque descriptions in the advertise*
ments.
When he turned out of his. sleeper
in the early morning at Agua Caliente
station, car Naught-seven had been
thrown in on a siding a little farther
up the line, and Ormsby recognized
the burly person of the governor and
the florid face and pursy figure of the
receiver, in the group of men crossing
from the private car to the waiting
ipn tally-ho. Being a seasoned traveler,
the clubman lost no time in finding
the station agent.
"Isn't there some way you can get
me up to the hotel before that crowd
reaches?" he asked, adding: "I'll make
it worth your while."
The reply effaced the necessity for
haste.
"The inn auto will be down in a few
minutes, and you can go up in that.
Naught-seven brought Gov. Bucks and
. the receiver and their party, and
1 J ?? \H1 v. mln.
liiejr re guuig uunu lu mcsuy, ,
Ing camp on the other side of the state I
line. They've chartered the tally-ho
for the day."
Ormsby waited, and a little later was
whisked away to the hotel In the tonneau
of the guests' automobile. Afterward
came a day which was rather
hard to get through. Breakfast, a
leisurely weighing and measuring of
the climatic, picturesque and healthmending
conditions, and the writing
of a letter or two helped him wear out
the forenoon; but after luncheon the
time dragged dispiteously, and he was
glad enough when the auto-car came
to take him to the station for the evenI
i"g train.
As it happened, there were no other
passengers for the eastbound Flyer;
and finding he still had some minutes
to wait, Ormsby lounged into the telegraph
office. Here the bonds of ennui
were loosened by the gradual development
of a little mystery. First the
telephone bell rang smartly, and when
k s the telegraph operator took down the
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ear-piece and said '"Well?" In the Imperious
tone common to his kind, he
evidently received i communication
that shocked him.
Ormsby overheard but a meager half
of the wire conversation; and the excitement.
whatever Its nature, was at I
the other end of the line. None the
less, the station agent's broken ejaculations
were provocative of keen interest
in a man wh > had been boring
himself desperately for the better part
of a day.
"Caught him do)tig It, you say?
Great Scot:! Oh. I
don't believe that, you know
yes ? uh-huh ? I hear. But
who did the shooting?" Whether the
information came or not. Ormsby did
not know, for at this conjuncture the
telegraph Instruments on the table
set up a furious chattering, and the
railway man dropped the receiver and
(sprang to his key. .
In an instant the telegraph operator
dashed out of his bay-windowed
retreat and ran up the track to the
private car. In a few minutes he was
back again, holding in excited conference
with the chauffaur of the inn automobile,
who was waiting to see if
the Flyer should bring him any fares
for the hotel.
Ormsby saw the chauffeur turn his
car in the length of it and send it
spinning down the road and across
the line into the adjoining state; heard
the mellow whistle of the incoming
train, and saw the station man nervously
setting his stop signal; all with
no more than a mild desire to know
the reason for so much excitement
and haste?a desire which was content
to wait on the explanation of events.
The explanation, such as it was, did
not linger. The heavy train thundered
in from the west; stopped barely
long enough to allow the single passenger
to swing up the steps of the Pullman;
and went on again to stop a second
time with a jerk when it had
passed the sidetrack switch.
Ormsby put his head out of the window
and saw that the private car was
to be taken on; remarked also that
the thing was done with the utmost
celerity. Once out on the main line
with car Naught-seven coupled In. the
train was backed swiftly down to the
station and (he small mystery of hurryings
was sufficiently solved. The
governor and his party were returning,
and they did not wsb to miss connections.
On this particular evening David
Kent's wratb-flre was Tar from needing
an additional stoking. Once more
Miss Van Brock had given proof of
her prophetic gift, and Kent had been
moodily filling in (he details of the
picture drawn by her woman's intuition.
He had gone late to the house
in Alameda square, knowing that
Portia had dinner guests. And It was
imperative that he should have her to
himself.
"You needn't tell me anything but
the manner of its doing." she was
saying. "I knew tbey would find a
way to stop you?or make one. And
you neeon i dp spu^tm m iuc, duc
added, when Kent flipped the arms
of his chair.
"I don'l mind your saying 'I told
you so'." he fumed. "It's the fact
that 1 didn't have sense enough to see
what an easy game I was dealing
them. It didn't take Meigs five minutes
to shut me off."
"Tell me about it." she said; and
he did it crisply.
"The quo warranto Inquiry is instituted
in the name cf the state; or
rather the proceedings are brought by
some person with the approval of the
governor or the attor- -y general, one
or both. I took to-day for obtaining
this approval because I knew Bucks
was out of town and I thought I could
bully Meigs."
"And vou couldn't?" she said.
"Not in a thousand years. At flrat
he said be would take the matter under
advisement: I knew that meant a consultation
with Bucks. Then I put the
whip on; told him a few of the things
I know, and let him imagine a lot
more; but it was no good. He was as
smooth as oil, admitting nothing, denying
nothing. And what grinds me
worst is that I let him put me in fault;
gave him a chance to show conclusively
how absurd it was for me to expect
him to take up a question of such
maenitndp nn thp snnr of the mo<
ment."
"Of course," she said sympathetically.
"I knew they would find a way.
What are you doing?"
Kent laughed in spite of his sore
amour-propre.
"At this present moment I am doing
precisely what you said I should:
unloading my woes upon you."
"Oh, but I didn't say that I said
you would come to me for help. Have
you?"
"I'd say yes. if I didn't know so
well 'just what I am up against."
Miss Van Brock laughed unfeelingly.
"Is it a man's weakness to fight better
in the dark?"
. "It is a man's common sense to
know when he is knocked out," he retorted.
She held him with her eyes while
she said:
"Tell me what you want to accomplish.
David: at the end of the ends, 1
mean. Is it only that you wish to
save Miss Brentwood's little marriage
portion ?"
He told the simple truth, as wno
could help, with Portia's eyes demanding
It.
"It was that at first: I'll admit
But latterly?"
"Latterly you have begun to think
larger things?" She locked away from
him, and her next word seemed to be
part of an unspoken thought. "I have
been wondering if you are great
enough. David."
He shook his head despondently.
"Haven't I just be<m showing you
that I am not?"
"You have been showing me that
you cannot always out-plan the other
person. That is a lack, but It is not
fatal. Are you great enough to run
fast and far when it is a straight-away
race depending only npon mere manstrength
and indomitable determination?"
"Try me," he said, Impulsively.
"Would you like to have your quo
warranto blind alley turned into a
thoroughfare?"
"I believe you can do it if you try,"
he admitted, brightening a little.
"Maybe I can; or rather I can put
you in the way of doing it. You say
Mr. Meigs is obstinate, and the governor
is likely to prove still more obstinate.
Have you thought of any way
of softening them?"
"You know I haven't. It's a stark
impossibility from my point of view."
"Nothing is Impossible; it is always
a question of ways and means." Then,
suddenly: "Have you been paying
any attention to the development of
the Belmount oil field?"
"Enough to know that it is a big
thing; the biggest since the Pennsylvania
discoveries, according to all ac
counts.
"And the people of the state are enthusiastic
about it, thinking that now
the long tyranny of tbc oil monopoly
will be broken?"
"That is the way most of the newspapers
talk, and there seems to be
some little ground for it, granting the
powers of the new law,"
She laid the tips of her Angers on his
arm and knotted the thread of suggestion
in a single sentence.
"In the present state of affairs?
with the present party as yet on trial,
and the public mind ready to take
Are at the merest hint of a foreign
capitalistic monopoly in the state?tell
me what would happen to the man
who would let the Universal Oil company
into the Belmount Aeld in deAance
of the new trust and corporation
law?"
"By Jove!" Kent exclaimed, sitting
up as if the shapely hand bad given
him a buffet. "It would ruin him politically,
world without end! Tell me;
is Bucks going to do that?"
She laughed softly.
That is for you to And out, Mr.
David Kent; not by hearsay, but in
good, solid terms of fact that will appeal
to a level-headed, conservative
newspaper editor like?well, like Mr.
Hildreth, of the Argus, let us say. Are
you big enough to do it?"
"I am desperate enough to try," was
the slow-spoken answer.
CHAPTER XVI.
SHARPEN I NO THE SWORD.
In the beginning of the new campaign
of investigation David Kent
wisely discounted the help of paid professional
spies?or rather he deferred
it to a later stage?by taking counsel
with Jeffrey Hildreth, night editor of
the Argus. Here, if anywhere, practical
help was to be bad; and the tender
of it was cheerfully hearty and enthusiastic.
"Most assuredly you may depend
on the Argus, horse, foot and artillery,"
said the editor, when Kent had
-gnardedly outlined some portion of his
plan. "We are on your side of the
fence, and have been ever since Bucks
was sprung as a candidate on the con
ventlon. But you've no case. 01
course, it's an open secret that the
Universal people are trying to break
through the fence of the new law and
establish themselves in the Belmount
field without losing their identity or
any of their monopolistic privileges.
And it is equally a matter of course
to some oT us that the Bucks ring will
sell the state out if the price is right.
But to implicate Bucks and the capitol
gang in printable shape is quite another
matter."
"I know," Kent admitted. "But it
"YOU CAN COUNT ON THE ARGUS.
FOOT. HORSE AND ARTILLERY,"
SAID THE EDITOR.
Isn't impossible; it has got to be possible."
The night editor sat back in his chair
and chewed his cigar reflectively. Suddenly
he asked:
"What's your object, Kent? It isn't
purely pro bono publico, I take it?"
Kent couid no longer say truthfully
that it was, and he did not lie about
it.
"No, it's purely personal. I guess.
I need to get a grip on Bucks and I
mean to do it."
Hildreth laughed.
"And, having got it, you'll telephone
me to let up?as you did in the House
Bill Twenty-nine fiasco. Where do we
come in?"
"No; you shall come in on the ground
floor this time; though I may ask you
to bold your hand until I have used
my leverage. And if you'll go into it
to stay, you sha'n't be alone. Giving
the Argus precedence in any item of
news, I'll engage to have every other
opposition editor in the state ready
to back you."
"Glad! you're growing, Kent. Do
you mean to down the Bucks crowd
ded-deflnitely?" demanded the editor,
who stammered a little under excitable
provocation. "Bigger men than you
havo tried it?and failed."
"But no one of them with half my
obstinacy, Hildreth. It can be done,
and I am going to do it."
"The sercetary of state's office is the
place you want to watch," said Hildreth.
"New oil companies are incorporating
every day. Pretty soon one
these will swallow up all the otherB:
that one will be the Universal under
another name, and in its application
for a charter you'll And askings big
enough to cover all the rights and
privileges of the original monopoly."
"That is a good Idea," said Kent,
who already bad a clerk in the secretary
of state's office in bis pay.
And on that read he had' traveled
far, thanks to a keen wit, to Portia
Van Brock's incessant onmptlngs,
and to the help of the leak> clerk In
Hendricks' office; so far, indeed, that
he had found the "stool pigeon" oil
company, to which Hildreth's bint had
pointed?a company compose!,' with a
single exception, of men of "straw,'*,
the exception being the man Romford,
whose conferences with the governo^
and the attorney general had aroused'
his suspicions.
ft was about this time that HunnW
cott reported the sale of the Oast on
lots at a rather fancy cash figure, and
the money came in good play.
"Two things remain to be proved,"
said Portia, in one of their many connings
of the intricate, course; "two
things that must be proved before 70a
can attack openly- that Rumford la
really representing the Universal Oil
company: and rhnt he Is bribing the
Junto to let the Universal Incorporate
under the mask if his 'straw* com*
pany. Now is th? time when you cannot
afford to be e< v>aomlcal. Have you
money?*'
Since It was the day after the Hunnicott
remittance. Kent could answer
yes with a good conscience.
"Then spend it," she said; and he
did spend It like a millionaire, lying
awake nights to devise new ways of
employing it.
And for the abutments of the arch
of proof the money-spending sufficed.
By dint of a warm and somewhat
costly wire Investigation of Rumford's
antecedents. Kent succeeded In placing
the Belmount promoter unquestionably
as one of the trusted lieutenants of
the Universal; and the leaky clerk In
the secretary of state's office gave the
text of the application for the "straw"
company charter, showing that the
powers asked for were as despotic as
the great monopoly could desire.
But for the keystone of the arch,
the criminal Implication of the plotters
themselves, he was indebted to a
flt of ill-considered anger and to a
chapter of accidents.
TO Bit OONTOTtTUn.
Miscellaneous sReadinfl. !
STORY OF ENGINE PETE.
He Held First Locomotive That
Crossed the Plaint.
"I see there is a new house going up
here. Some newcomer settled among
you?" I asked the liveryman who was
driving me through from Munden to
Prairie Centre. No new house had
been "built and no old one repainted In
the ten years I had made that territory.
"No, that's old Pete Hanson's en-i 1
glne house. Haven't you heard that?
old Pete has sold his railroad at lastT'l
"Didn't know he had a rallroad.1
What do you mean?"
"Gee! I thought everybody, hadl
heard about Pete Hanson and h|S
trackless railroad."
"Ah, an inventor, eh?" my Interest
was aroused.
"I see I'll have to tell you. 'Bout
thirty years ago this country was on a
boom. Nothln' sleepy about it then.
It was the liveliest section In the
country. They were going to run a
spur right through here to connect
with the main line of the Union Pacific;
condemned a piece of Pete Hanson's
land. Pete was young then, and
had three little towheads, and lived In
a shanty. With the money h$ got for
his land he was going to build a decent
house. Well, the road was never
built, scheme fell through, and they
never paid Pete for his land. Pete
was bound to have his money. He
went over to Prairie Centre and got
out a writ of attachment. Got the
sheriff and a lot of chains and swore
he'd chain to the track and serve the
writ on the next freight train that
came along.
"The section agent wired down to
the division superintendent what was
up and they sent out the oldest and
most useless engine you ever heard
of. The sheriff pulled his gun and
made the engineer run the engine 011 a
siding. Pete chained her down and
the writ was served. The company
telegraphed to Pete that they guessed
he had the right of It and the only
way they could see It was that that
engine was his huckleberry. So they
gave him twenty-four hours to get It
off their tracks. Well, that about got
Pete, but he was game. He hired half
the men and horses In the country and
lugged his engine home. It broke him,
and he never seemed to be able to get
another start In life. People nearly
guyed him to death. Called him "Engine
Pete* and 'Railroad Hanson* forever
afterward.
"So there that old engine set out In
his backyard. The hens hatched their
chickens in the boiler and the children
played summer house in the cab. As
years went on the old engine rusted
and sunk deeper in the earth. The
children grew up and went away, but
still old man Hanson stoutly maintained
that he had done right, and
that some day he'd get the money
from the railroad to build that new
house which his wife and he had
wanted when the children were babies.
"Well, the funny part of it is that
last year he got a letter from the railroad
company telling him that they
had been tracing the whereabouts of
the first engine that ever crossed the
plains on the Union Pacific, which was
the first road to span the continent
and connect the two oceans with an
iron highway. They wanted their engine
for the transportation building
exhibit at the World's Fair. Old Pete
Hanson held out for (2.000, and got
It: and now him and his women are
getting the new house he had been
, Klo Hfo ' VanQfiQ OitV
prOIIIIMUK UK mo *..
Star.
m - The
Scriptitie Complied With.?
It was In an experience meeting in an
I African Methodist church over in
Virginia, writes a Washington correspondent.
A new convert had been
giving in his confession. He told the
brethren and the sisters all the sins
of his life, and more too. with all
their aggravations. He had confessed
to every crime in the decalogue. When
he paused for breath, gasping at his
own wickedness, a brother in the gallery
shouted solemnly:
"Put out dat lamp!"
"What for?" asked the pastor.
"Coz," said the solemn brother, "de
vilest sinner done return."
NOBODY TO ACCU8E.
Prosecution of Alleged Lynchers a
Fiasco.
The result of the proposed preliminary
examination of the alleged Morrison
lynchers at Lancaster last Friday, was
published in Thk Enquirer within an
hour after the case fell through. The
following story told In a Lancaster
special to the News and Courier of
Saturday, Includes comprehensive details
of the proceedings before Magistrate
Caskey.
The preliminary hearing before
Magistrate Caskey today in the case
of the parties charged with the Kershaw
lynching resulted in the dismissal
by the Magistrate of the defendants
In court and the entering of a
nolle prosse by Solicitor Henry as to
those who had not been arrested.
No evidence whatever was submitted
by the state. The case attracted
an Immense crowd, the court house
where the hearing was held being literacy
packed. Several hundred came
from Kershaw In private conveyances,
having failed to charter a special
train. Business was practically suspended
both at Kershaw and Heath
Springs.
The magistrate called the case
promptly at 10 o'clock. The following
defendants were In court: Burrell
Truesdale. W. E. Belk. S. Frank
Houeh. 8. W. Heath, John T. Stevens,
H. J. Gardner Dock Belk. Steve L.
Gardner, Jr., John Holden, Steve W.
Welch. They were represented hv
A.ttornevs E. D. Blakeney, T. Y. Williams,
Charles D. Jones and D. Reece
Williams.
No one appearing for the prosecution.
Maeistrat" Caskey waited for an
hour or so, when Solicitor Henry floplly
arrived from Chester. The solicitor
moved for a continuance until
Wednesday on the ground of unpre "aredoess.
He said he had been engaged
at the York court and had had
no time to prepare this case and that he
'eft a death chamber this morning to
come to Lancaster. That It was the
policy of the state to prosecute o"lv
those who did the killing, "the killing
->f Morrison" at the tree. When therefore
the warrants for Stevens and
Heath were taken out he was at York.
Before his return he found that the
evidence against them was not sufficient.
He consulted the governor and
he agreed with him. The detectives
were then Instructed to get evidence
onlv against those directly engaged
In the killing.
Asks For Continuance.
He said It was not the purpose of
the prosecution to arrest Stevens and
Heath untl! It was thought that they
were In Chester, trying to run down
n.U?aaur.n Ua tko.iffkt fKof 4i?a_
^Miir n unronrn. nc iiiuugui. turn, juntlce
to the defendants themselves, as
arell as to the state and community,
aempjided a continuance until the
niWcution was ready. He aald he
Wad no witnesses present and It was
fbt his duty to hunt up evidence. That
tafe of the case was turned over to
dmectlves some time afro. He assumed
full responsibility for the Investigation.
Mr. Blakeney, on behalf of the defendants,
demanded an Immediate
hearing, as they were charged with
the most heinous offence known to the
law. He asked If a prosecuting officer
had the right to hound down by detectives
men engaged in lawful pursuits
and then, when arrested, deny
them ball, as was done In Chester In
this case. He believed the policy of
the prosecution to be to put these men
in Lancaster Jail Just as they were
Jailed In Chester. He ridiculed the
Idea that the prosecution had had no
time for preparation. One of the warrants
was Issued April 1 and yet no
action was taken until April 25.
Referring to the report that the governor
has something to do with the
case, Mr. Blakeney said the governor
told him that he had nothing to do
with the prosecution, which was left
to the solicitor of the circuit. He said
he did not believe that the governor
was undertaking to say how this case
shall be conducted. He never knew
the state before to try to Incarcerate
Innocent men. He did not believe the
nrosecutlon wanted Justice done in
this case.
*kA ah ooM 11 onv
rvrpi jiii^ inr nuiacitui nuiu **
blunders had been made he was responsible
for them, that he would rather
blunder than do nothing at all. that
his conscience would not allow him to
*o nothing In this matter; that he advised
the governor to make the I ivestleatlon.
He said he not only had no
witnesses here, but had only talked
casually with the detectives about the
case. He declined to give names of
his witnesses who were absent. H
questioned the right of the magistrate
to hold this preliminary and expressed
a willingness to go with the parties
tonight before Judge Oage In Chester
or Judge Purdy In York.
Mr. T. Y. Williams, addressing the
court, said the question was not
whether It would give Mr. Henry
further time or whether It would give
H. B. Howie further time to travel In
Pullman cars over two states spending
the state's money In gambling dens,
etc., money drawn on the solicitor's
endorsement, but the question Is
whether the testimony Is sufficient to
hold these men charged with murder.
He regarded the who<!e proceeding as
an outrage on justice, a conspiracy to
rob South Carolina. He did not know
all the conspirators, but he knew that
H. B. Howie was one of them.
Th# Arrests Monday.
He said the arrests were made Monday
night and the solicitor had had
several days for consultation with his
detectives. Mr. Jones emphasized the
fact that the defendants were asking
no favors of any one; that they were
demanding their right to a speedy Investigation?right
guaranteed to every
man accused of crime. He said How
le's affidavit, on which warrants were
issued, was not on Information and
belief, but absolute knowledge. He
wanted to know, therefore, If Howie
was present to substantiate his grave
charges.
The Inquiry developed the fact that
Howie was not here, the solicitor admitting
that he had told Howie It was
not worth while for him to come. The
fact was also brought out that Magistrate
Caskey had signed the warrants
In Chester and not In Lancaster, and
Mr. T. Y. Williams accordingly attacked
the legality of the warrants on
that ground.
Mr. D. R. Williams also made a
strong plea for an Immediate hearing.
He said It was a right given the prls
oners themselves by the law and that
they were not responsible for the unpreparedness
of the solicitor.
Mr. Hehry closed the discussion with
a statement of his opinion as to the
jurisdiction of magistrates in criminal
cases. He said he did not think Mr.
Caskey had authority to hold this preliminary;
that when a magistrate issues
a warrant for murder he is at
his row's end. He also disclaimed any
feeling in this matter and said he was
doing only what he conceived to be
his official duty. He admitted that
Howie had charged of the investigation
and that he was being paid by the
state. All the speeches were unusually
flne and some of them truly eloquent.
The magistrate announced his
d< cision. " discharging the prisoners
before him In a few words.
As he closed Mr. Henry arose and
stated that he nolle prossed the case
aaalnst the defendants at large, thus
ending the most interesting preliminary
held in Lancaster In many years.
T
JOHN PAUL JONE8.
Carver of the Founder of the Amsrican
Navy.
Out of the mass of prejudice, which
has never been justified, surrounding
his name has sprung a desire for
knowledge of Paul Jones' life, which
has steadily grown, until vague facts
have I* en either strengthened and Incorporated
in histories or else, with
an added shadow, woven into romance.
James Fennlmore Cooper worked
some of the man into his novel, "The
Pilot" and that was the beginning.
Had he-died in 1779 he would still
have lived ip the memory of every
schoolboy ^as the hero of the most terrible
hand-to-hand naval fight in
American history.
What schoolboy, reciting his Friday
afternoon declamation, has not fancied
the school room platform the
deck of the rotten Bonhomme Richard
and the pupllB before him the Serapis'
boarders, as he piped forth:
"'I have not yet begun to fight!'
cried the lion-hearted commodore."
At the outset the historian is met
with a moot point. Paul Jones' birthplace,
however, is generally given as
Klrcudbrightshihe, Scotland, and the
date as July 6, 1747. His father was
John Paul, a gardener, and the name
Jones was not assumed until 1773, and
why at all has never been explained.
Paul Jones went to sea at twelve as
an apprentice and made his first voyage
from Whitehaven to Virginia,
where he settled for a time in Fredricksburg,
with a brother. During the
next eight years he made two voyages
as a mate on a slaver, but, finding
even his love of adventure quenched
by the revolting nature of the trade,
left the colonies in disgust in 1768 as
a passenger on a brigantine bound for
Scotland. Master and mate died during
the voyage and Jones' experience
was a godsend. He took the vessel
Into port and was rewarded by the
owners with the captaincy of a West
Indian trader.
Continuing In the trade, he had accumulated
a considerable fortune by
personal commercial speculation, when
in 1773 he took charge of the Virginia,
plantation on his brother's death. It
was at this time that he strangely
added Jones to his name, although he
continued to correspond with his ramHy.
The monotony of a planter's life
wore on him and at the outbreak of
hostilities with England in 1775 he
ofTered his services, and after aiding
the naval committee of congress with
his advice and serving on a commission
for the purchase of naval vessels
for the new government, was made
first lieutenant of the Alfred, flagship
of the first American squadron which
rendezvoused in Philadelphia harbor
for an attack on New Providence. On
the day of sailing Jones raised on the
Alfred what Is said to have been the
first American flag unfurled on a manof-war.
Its background was white,
bearing a pine tree with a rattlesnake
colled at its foot.
After a successful attack on New
Providence and the capture of a British
squadron, Jones was made captain
of the sloop Providence, armed only
with four pounders, on which he made
a dare-deyll voyage through West Indian
waters In forty-seven days, taking
sixteen prizes and destroying the
fishery at Isle Madame.. Transferred
>to the Alfred In 1776, he swung to the
north, destroyed the Cape Breton fisheries,
captured a number of British
transports and liberated 100 Americans
who were confined by the English
at hard labor In the coal mines.
When, early In 1777, congress established
the relative rank of naval offlc<
rs, Jones felt that he had been unjustly
dealt with and remonstrated
somewhat arrogantly. His services to
- 1 ?- ~ ?? AHi.kll/1 n.AMa trtrt tTQ 111.
ine riew-uuill rcpuuuv; ncic IUU
able to be thrown away, even for reasons
political, and he received command
of one of the new ships, the
Ranger, and general Instructions to
"distress the enemies of the United
States by sea or land." This was the
sort of commission for a fighter of
Jones' temperament, and he set sail
for the English channel late In 1777,
stopping in France to deliver to the
American commissioners the official
announcement of Burgoyne's surrender.
And now with his one vessel he
began a series of exploits which the
English have never forgiven his memory.
Harrying the channel coast so 1
that signal fires were kept alight ev- i
ery night, telling the presence of the
little Ranger, he captured prizes, <
swooped Into Whitehaven, where he I
tried to burn the shipping, made an <
attempt to capture the Earl of Selkirk,
and capped everything when off i
Carrlckfergus he fell In with the
Drake, British man-of-war, of twenty i
guns, which he captured after a handto-hand
fight. Most of the Ranger's
men were put to man the prize, and i
on this account Jones was forced to
drop down to Brest.
The French government, as pdeased i
at his exploits as the Americans, i
showed Its gratitude by fitting out for <
him a squadron of four vessels, the
fiagship of which, the Bonhomme <
Richard, which he had named In hon- ;
or of Dr. Franklin, was a rotten East I
Indian, which would have shivered be- 1
fore a good hard gale. His officers
were either Americans without expe- I
rlence, or Frenchmen, who In the hour <
of need deserted him. His crew was a 1
motley crowd, many of then foreign- <
ers. It was the best he could do, *
however, and ofT he sailed on a daring i
mission to destroy the shipping at '
Lelth, which was abandoned on ac- !
count of a gale. I
On September 23. Jones sighted the 1
two British warships Serapls, forty- i
four guns, and the Countess of Scar- 1
borough, twenty-eight guns, with a I
convoy of forty merchantmen.
The Pallas engaged the Counters of
Scarborough, and the Bonhomme
Richard and Serapls, after a few
broadsides, grappled. Late into the
night the flgbt went on. The Alliance
of Jones' fleet poured broadside after
broadside into the Bonhomme Richard.
killing many of her men, an occurrence
which has never been explained.
Two of Jones' 18-pounders
exploded at the first fire, ripping her
decks to shreds.
The recoil of the heavy guns disjointed
the timbers of the old merchantman;
all but a few light guns on
the spar deck were rendered useless;
the boat was afire in two places and
with half her men killed or wounded.
was beginning to sink when Jones was
called upon to Surrender. Instead, he
lasted the Richard to the Ser&pis to
keep her afloat, and headed a board1
ig party. The Serapls struck her
flag at half-past ten and Jones, boarding
her, cast off the lashings and the
Bonhomme Richard sank with her
dead Into the hollows of the North
sea.
For this Jones received a vote of
thanks from congress and a decoration
and a gold sword fi-om the king
of France. Captain Pearson of the
Serapls, even though defeated by a
far inferior force, was knighted for
his bravery. When Jones heard of it
he laughed.
"It I meet him again," he said, 'Til
make a lord of him."
It was proposed to create the rank
of rear admiral for him, but that project
was never realised and the commodore
had no further opportunity for
active service in the United States
navy. He accepted, in 1778, the commission
of rear admiral hi the Russian
navy, with the understanding that he
should return to the United States
service when called. He conducted a
successful campaign against the Turks
for Russia then, discouraged with
Russian Intrigue, returned to Paris, in
broken health.
His friends Interceded for him, and
Anally a sop was thrown to him in
the shape of an appointment as commissioner
and consul to Algiers. But
even this came too late to relieve the
bitter memories of his last hours. The
papers reached Paris on the day of
his death.
It has been said that if he had commanded
the navy of the First Empire
Napoleon Bonaparte could have carried
out his plan of a world conquest.
The congress of the United States flnally
struck off a medal In commemoration
of the Bonhomme RichardSerapls
fight.?New York Sun.
HIGH 0FFICIAL8 A8 MA80N8.
President, Vies President and Most
Members of Congress Are Affiliates.
A Washington special to the New
York Evening: Post says: Both Mr.
Roosevelt and Mr. Fairbanks went Into
Masonry after they had been chosen
for the office of vice president Mr.
Roosevelt was popularly elected In
November, 1900, and before the winter
was over he had become a member of
the Matincock lodge, at Oyster Bay.
He has been elected to receive the degrees
In the Royal Arch chapter but
has never taken them, because of the
pressure of public business. He
might, of course, take these degrees
during the summer vacation at Oyster
Bay, but this would now attract so
much attention as to embarrass him
and the chapter at that place, and so
he has decided to wait until he Is once
more a private cltlxen.
Mr. Fairbanks took the symbolic
blue lodge degrees at Indianapolis, under
a dispensation from the grand
master of Indiana, during the recent
holiday recess, the three degrees be-*
Ing conferred in one day. He has
since, immediately following the adjournment
of the special session of the
senate, taken the chapter degrees, also
under dispensation, and In one day.
It is said to be his purpose during the
present year to take the remaining
degrees of the New York rite, ending
with that of Knight Templar, and then
to take the Scottish Rite degrees up to
and Including the thirty-second degree.
He will thus be shown all the
mysteries of the order far ahead of the
man whose place In the White House
he hopes to All after 1908.
It is rather a noteworthy fact that
the great majority of presidents of the
United States from Washington to
Roosevelt have been members of the
Masonic fraternity. In the later years
the best known of these are Garfield,
Harrison and McKlnley. Garfield was
i Knight Templar and held his membership
In all the York rlie bodies In
this city. He was a charter memo-.r
of a Washington blue lodge and remained
on Its rules until his death.
McKlnley was also a Knight Templar,
but his membership was In Ohio.
John Qulncy Adams, who came Into
the presidency during the days of the
anti-Mason excitement, talked and
wrote against the order with considerable
vigor. Andrew Jackson at one
time was grand master of the grand
odge of Tennessee.
An informal poll was made of the
two houses of congress a few years
ago by a Washington Mason, and it
was discovered that more than 87 per
cent of the members of the house were
in the order, and more than 80 per
cent of the members of the senate.
The city of Washington Is perhaps
the strongest Masonic city of the
world. Of Its population of 278,000,
after deducting 95,000 negroes, 183,000
people remain from whom to draw for
Masonic purposes. The register of
the grand lodge of this city shows that
there are uwards of 8.000 affiliated
Masons here, belonging to twentyseven
blue lodges. There are fourteen
Royal Arch chapters and five
commanderles of Knights Templar.
Washington Is also the headquarters
of the Scottish Rite of the southern
jurisdiction, and on that account the
Scottish Rite bodies here are especially
strong.
Several earnest efforts have been
made by local lodges to have President
Roosevelt visit them, but thus
far without avail. He feels that he
cannot accept one Invitation of this
character without accepting others,
and to accept all that would come
would be highly Inconvenient. He has
been made qji honorary member of
two of the local blue lodges. Mr.
Fairbanks has already visited several
of the local lodges, and It is probable
that these visits will be continued
next winter and during the rest of his
term as vice president.
8PADE C0NFIRM8 THE BIBLE.
???
Investigation* Furnish Corroboration
of 8tories In 8sripturea.
Palestine was until recently a country
closed to all save superficial research
by the Biblical scholar". He has
not been able there, as he has In the
Nile and Euphrates valleys, to test the
pictures of their old life given In the
Bible with the spade of the explorer.
He could not prove these pictures
correct by producing the things they
represented from the ruins of ancient
cities.
Within the last few years systematic
archeologtcal research has become
possible In Palestine. The sites of
several ancient cities have been thoroughly
excavated?among them Oeser,
which, according to the Bible, Solomon
received as part of the dowry of his
Egyptian wife, the Biblical Taanuch,
on the plain of Neglddo, and the city
of Neglddo Itself. Prof. E. Sellin of
the University of Vier.na, In the Neue
Klrchllche Zeltschrlft, summarises the
results of these explorations as they
bear on Biblical problems.
It has become clear says Professor
Sollln In aiihilanp? thai from 2F.00
to 1700 B. C. there existed in Palestine .
a native culture and civilisation distinguishable
from the Babylonian,
Egyptian and Phoenic an types. Evidences
of an Israetitbih period begin
to appear about 1200 B. C.?that is,
about the time when, (according to the
Bible, Israel obtained leal control over
regions formerly Chnianlte or "Philistine."
These excavations have furnished
accurate data regarding the Canaanite
religion; have shown that its superstitious
and sensusl character is
correctly represented 11 the Bible, and
have made it clear th it the life and
death struggle of the Israelltish
prophets against this religion depicted
in the Bible was one of self preservation.
We see that that contest
was no mere warfare of sects or of
schools of philosophy, but a conflict
between systems as dl.Ierent in spirit
as Christianity and paganism.
Despite certain external resemblances
of rites and ceremonies, more or
less common to all the religions of
Western Asia, the evidence produced
by the spade confirms the evidence of
the Bible. Both show that the creeds
of the tfenaanltes and the Israelites
were totally different in spirit?that
between them was a gulf which could
not be bridged?that Israel's religion
could thrive only by adopting an attitude
of uncompromising hostility toward
all the religions around It. The
Ood of Israel was not and could not
be, as the gods of nations roundabout
though Israel might use the external
forms of these hostile faiths?
might adapt them as the Christian
church later adapted the Roman Saturnalia
and other pagsn festivals.
"But Israel in appropriating: these
forms," as Professor Sellln says,.
"gave them an entirely new and different
spirit, which jan only," he
holds, rbe attributed Je Divine reve- '
latlon." Whether we go that far with
Professor Sellln or not, archeologlcal
research Is making: it clear'that "the
reiiglon of Israel was not of a kind,
not even the begt of.u kind, but the
only one of its kind." That there waft
none other like It amor gr its neighbors
is a fact proved by the spade of the
explorer as well as by :he Bible.?Chicago
Inter-Ocean, *
BRIDGING THE ZAMBE8I.
Will 8pan the River lielow Victoria
Falls, ->*sl
Another link in the Cape to Cairo
railway Is now being: made by the
construction of the railway bridge
across the Zambesi rWer, Just below
the Victoria falls. The formation of
the river at this point is most curious,
the entire falls being* merely a narrow
crack made by some mighty convulsion
of nature in the hard basaltic
rock right across the river, and then
prolonged from a point; near the left (
bank, away through thirty or forty
miles of hills in a seres of zigzags.
The Victoria falls are 4*50 feet hifeh and
1,900 yards long, or two and one-half
times the height and twice the width
of the falls of Niagara. The Cape to
Cairo railway, which has recently
been completed from Cape Town to
- r* ? 1 ' 1 ate anri < nrtnr
lilt; ^iuuucai \i,y?iu iuu?-o/ miu ?? .?
being: carried on toward Tanganyika,
traverses the peninsula of rock immediately
in front of the falls, and
will cross the gorge by the bridge Just
below the "Boiling P"t," as the narrow
outlet Is called, th. jugh which the
whole river rusnes after its tremendous
fall. The clear span of the arch,
which is now under construction, will
be 500 feet, and owing to its height
above the river?400 feet?no staging
or scaffolding can be employed in Its
erection. It is, therefore, being built
out from each bank of the ravine, on ,
the cantilever principle, until the
steel work of the arch meets in the
centre. The bridge, which will be
sufficient!)' wide for a double line of
railways, Is being built by Sir Douglas
Fox and Partners, the englneers'of
the Rhodesia Railway company. In
order to carry across the gorge the
materials for the northern half of the
bridge and the rails for the extension
northward, an electric jable-way of a
novel type has been employed. One
end of the cable is attached to a rigid
tower, and the other '?nd to an Inclined
hinge support, which is loaded
with a heavy weight to counteract
the sagging of the cafre as the conveyor
travels along it. The carrier Is
suspended from two traveling wheels
running on the rope, and consists of
a frame carrying a chair and the driver
and the electric mo'or which propels
the apparatus. The conveyor is
capaoie UI curr/uig a. iviu w..>,
and can transport 800 tons of material
across the river in one day; the
amount of railway construction plant
which will have to be carried over the
river before the work is finished being
estimated at 40,000 tons.?London (
Graphic.
tf Friend?Well, your old love has
married your rival, I see.
Discarded Suitor (fiendishly)?
S'death! I've got even with him. They
will quarrel the first week, fight the
second, separate forever in the third.
Friend?Great heavens'. What have
you done?
Discarded Suitor?I presented the
bride with one of those fluffy, redeyed.
snarling, barking pet dogs.?
New York Weekly.
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