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* / * \ . . . -". i j V v'. ^ ISSUED SBKI-VEEKL^ l. k. oeist's sons, Pubinhtr.. I % Jamil? jRfirspapfr: Jfor tht promotion of the |olitttaI, Social, fJjrirnUoral, and (Eommtuial Jntertsts of the mLS1"1'' * W ' i ? ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1905. NO. 42. &=== THE GR x I FRANCI! (r= ? ( Copyright, 1904, by Tht CHAPTER XXVI?Continued. The afternoon had been all that a summer afternoon on the brown highlands can be, and the powerful touring car had swept them from mile to mile over the dun hills like an earthskimming dragon whose wing-beat was the muffled, explosive thud of the motor. Through moat of the miles Elinor had given herself up to silent enjoyment of the rapture of swift motion, and Ormsby had respected her mood. as he always did. But when mey were on the high hills beyond the mining-camp of Megilp, and he had thrown the engines out of gear to brake the car gently down the long inclines, there was room for speech. "This is our last spin together on the high plains, I suppose." he said. ^ "Your mother has fixed upon to-morrow for our return to town, hasn't sher Elinor confirmed It half-absently. She had been keyed up to face the inevitable in this drive with Ormsby, and she was afraid now that he was going to break her resolution by a dip into the commonplaces. "Are you glad or sorry?" he asked. Her reply was evasive. "I have enjoyed the thin, clean air and the freedom of the wide horizons. Who could help It?" "But you have not been entirely happy?" It was on her lips to say some conventional thing about the constant jarring note in all human happiness, but she changed it to a simple "No." "May I try if I can give the reason?" ' * She made a reluctant lit tie gesture of assent; some such signal of acquiescence as Marie Antoinette may have given the waiting headsman. "You have been afraid every day lest I should begin a second time to press you for an answer, haven't you?" She could not thrust and parry with him. They were past all that. "Yes," she admitted briefly. "You break my heart, Elinor," he said, after a long pause. "But,"? with a sudden tightening of the lips? "I'm not going to break yours." She understood him, and her eyes filled quickly with the swift shock of gratitude. n%n/1a o ofn/^v e\t wnmon. 11 J UU Iiau IliUUC ? Otuuj v* nwu*WM kind through ten lifetimes Instead of a part of one, you could not know when and where to strike truer and deeper," she said; and then softly: , "Why can't you make me love you. Brookes?" He took his foot from the brakepedal, and for ten seconds the released car shot down the slope unhindered. Tlien he checked the speed and answered her. "A little while ago I would have said I didn't know; but now I do know. It is because you love David Kent: you loved him before I had my chance." She did not deny the principal fact, but she gave him his opportunity to set It aside If he could?and would. "Call it foolish, romantic sentiment, if you like. Is there no way to shame roe out of it?" He shook his head slowly. "You don't mean that?" "But if I say that I do; If I Insist that 1 am willing to be shamed out of it." M At-A -m - v?a.v?u~ MIS smite wag mat ui a uruiuer wuu remembers tardily to be loving-kind. "I shall leave that task for some one who cares less for you and for your true happiness than I do. or ever shall. And it will be a mighty thankless service that that 'some one' will render you." "But I ought to be whipped and sent to bed." she protested, almost tearfully. "Do you know what I have done? ?how I have?" She could not quite put it In words, even for him. and he helped her generously, as before. "I know what Kent hasn't done; which is more to the point. But he will do it fast enough if you will give him half a chance." ^ "No," she said definitively. "I say yes. One thing, and one thing only, has kept him from telling you any time since last autumn; that is a sort of a finical loyalty to me. 1 8aw how matters stood when he came aboard of our train at Gaston?I'm asking you to believe that I didn't know 11 DeiOre?HQU J aa?r men mai ui; uui; hope was to make a handfast friend of him. And I did It." "I believe you can do anything you try to do," she said warmly. This time his smile was a mere grimace "You will have to make one exception, after this; and so shall I. And since it is the first of any consequence ^ In all my mounting years, it grinds. I can't throw another man out of the window and take his place." "If you were anything but what you are, you would have thrown him out of the window another way," she rejoined. "That would have been a dago's trick; not a white man's." he assorted. "I suppose 1 might have got in his v way and played the dog in the manger generally, and you would have stuck to your word and married me. but I am not looking for that kind of a winning. I don't mind confessing that 1 played my last card when I released you from our engagement. I said to myself: If that doesn't break down the barriers, nothing will." She looked up quickly. ^==!! :AFTERS r i LYNDE . ; J Bobbs-Mcrrill Company.) "You will never know how near It came to doing It. Brookes." "But It didn't quite?" "No, it didn't quite." The brother-smile came again. "Let's paste tnat leai uuwu auu turn the other; the one that has David Kent's name written at the top. He is going to succeed all around. Elinor; nnd I am going to help him?for his sake, as well as yours." "No," she dissented. "He Is going to fail; and I am to blame for it" He looked at her side-wise. "So you were at the bottom of that, were you? I thought as much, and tried to make him admit it. but be wouldn't. What was your reason?" "I gave it to him: I can't give it to you." "I guess not," he laughed. "I wasn't born on the right side of the Berkshire hills to appreciate it. But really, you mustn't interfere. As I say, we are going to make something of David; and a little conscience?of the right old Pilgrim Fathers' brandgoes a long way in politics." "But you promised me you were not going to spoil him?only it doesn't matter; you can't." Ormsby chuckled openly, and when she questioned "What?" he said: "I was just wondering what you would say if you knew what he is into now: if you could guess, for instance, that his backers have put up e cool hundred thousand to be used as he sees fit?" "Oh!" she exclaimed: and there was dismay and sharp disappointment in her voice "You don't mean that he is going to bribe these men?" "No" he said, relenting. "As a matt r of fact, 1 don't know precisely what r is doing with the money, but I guess i is finding its way Into legitimate channels. I'll make him give me an itemized expense account for your benefit when it's all over, if you like." "It would be kinder to tell me more about it now," she pleaded. "No; ('11 let him have that pleasure, after the fact?if we can get him pardoned out before you go back east." She asked no more questions, being unwilling to tempt him to break confidence with Kent. But she was thinking of all the desperate things a determined man with temperamental unbalancings might do when the touring car rolled noiselessly down the final hill Into the single street of Megilp. There was but one vehicle in the street at the moment; a freighter's ore-wagon drawn by a team of mules, meekest and most shambling-prosalc of their tribe. The motor-car was running on the spent velocity of the descent, and Ormsby thought to edge past without stopping. But at the critical instant the mules gave way to terror, snatched the heavy wagon into the opposite plank walk, and tried to climb a near-by telephone pole. Ormsby put his foot on the brake and something snapped unuer me car. "What was that?" Elinor asked; and Ormsby got down to Investigate. "It is our brake connection," he announced, after a brief inspection "And we are five good miles from Hudglns and his repair kit." A ring of town idlers was beginning to form about them. An automobile was still enough of a rarity in the mining camp to draw a crowd. "Busted?" inquired one of the onlookers. Ormsby nodded, and asked if there were a machinist in the camp. "Yep," said the spokesman; "up at the Blue Jay mine." "Somebody go after him," suggested Ormsby, flipping a coin; and a boy started on a run. The waiting was a little awkward. The ringing idlers were good-natured but curious. Ormsby stood by and answered questions multiform, diverting curosity from the lady to the machine. Presently the spokesman said: "Is this here the steam-buggy that helped a crowd of you fellers get a way from Jud Byers and his posse one day a spell back?" "No," said Ormsby. Then he remembered the evening of small surprises ?the racing tally-ho with the Inn auto-car to help. "What was the trouble that day?" he as.'ed, putting in a question on his side. "A little ruction up at the Twin Sisters. There was a furss, an' a gun went off, accidintally on purpose killin' Jim Harkins," was the reply. The machinist was come from the Blue Jay, and Ormsby helped Elinor out of her seat while the repairs were making. The town office of the Blue Jay was just across the street, and he took her there and begged house-room and a chair for her, making an excuse that he must go and see to the brakeinending. But once outside he promptly stultified himself, letting the repairs take care of themselves while he went in search of one Jud Byers. The deputy sheriff was not hard to find. Normally end in private life he was the weigher lor the Blue Jay; and Ormsby was directed to the scale shanty which served as the weigher's office. The interview was brief and conclusive; was little more than a rapid fire of question and answer; and for i he greater part the sheriff's affirmatives were heartily eager. Yes, certainly; if the thing could be brought to pass. he. Byers, would surely do his part. All he asked was an hour | or two in which to prepare. "You shall have all the time there is." was the reply. "Have you a Western Union wire here?" "No: nothing but the railroad office." "That won't do: they'd stop the message. How about the Inn?" "Breezeland has a Western Unloa all right; wire your notice there, and I'll fix to have It 'phoned over. I don't believe It can be worked, ihough," added the deputy, doubtfully. "We can't tell till we try," said Ormsby: and he hurried back to his car to egg on the machinist with golden promises contingent upon baste. Miss Brentwood found her companion singularly silent on the five-mile race to Breezeland; but the lightning speed at which he drove the car put conversation out of the question. At the hotel he saw her into the lift with decent deliberation; but the moment she was off his hands he fairly ran to the feleernnhpr's ntrnve in the main hall. "Have you a Western Union wire to the capital direct?" he Inquired. The young man snapped his key and said he had. "It h.is no connection with the Trans-Western railroad offices?" "None whatever." Orrasby dashed off a brief message to Kent, giving three or four addresses at which he might be found. "Send that, and have them try the Union station train platform first. Don't let them spare expense at the other end, and if you can bring proof of delivery to room 261 within half an hour. It means a month's pay to you, individually. Can you do it?" But the operator was already claiming the wire, writing "deth," "deth," "deth," as rapidly as his fingers could shake off the dots and dashes. CHAPTER XXVI. BY ORDER OF TlfE COURT. Between the hours of 8:30 and 10 p. m. the Union passenger station at the capital presents a moving and spirited spectacle. Within the hour and a half, four through and three local trains are due to leave, and the space within the iron grille that fences off the track platforms from the public part of the station is filled with hurrying throngs of train-takers. It was the evening of the last day in the month; the day when the Federative Council of Railway Workers had bent its ultimatum to Receiver Guilford. The reduction in wages was to go into effect at midnight: if, by midnight, the order had not been rescinded, and the way opened for a Joint conference touching the removal of certain officials, a general strike and tie-up would be ordered. Trains in transit carrying passengers of United States mail would be run to their respective destinations; trains carrying perishable freight would be run to division stations: with these exceptions all labor would cease promptly on the stroke of 12. Such was the text of the ultimatum, a certified copy of which Engineer Scott had delivered in person into the hands of the receiver at noon. It was now 8:45 p. m. The eastbound night express was ready for the run to A. & T. junction; the fast mall, one hour and 35 minutes late from the east, was backing in on track nine to take on the city mail. On track eight, pulled down so that the smoke from the engine should not foul the air of the train-?hed, the receiver's private car, with the 1,010 for motive power and "Red" Callahan in the cab, had been waiting since seven o'clock for the order to run special to Gaston. And as yet the headquarters office had made no sign; sent no word of reply to the strike notice. Griggs was on for the night run eastward with the express; and "Dutch" Tischer had found himself slated to take the fast mail west. The change of engines on the mail had been effected at the shops: and when Tischer backed his train in on track nine his berth was beside the 1,010. Callahan swung down from his cab and climbed quickly to that of the mall engine. "Annything new at the shops, Dutchy?" he inquired. "I was not somet'lngs gehearing, nein. You was dot Arkoos newsbaper dis evening seben? He says nodings too, alretty, about dot strike." "Divil a word. Ye might think Scotty'd handed the major a bit av blank paper f'r all the notice he's taking. More thin that, he's lavin' town,, wld me to pull him. The Naughtseven's to run special to Gaston?bad cess to ut!" "Veil, I can'd hellup id," said the phlegmatic Bavarian. "I haf the mail and egspress got, and I go mit dem t'rough to Plghorn. You haf der brivate car got, and you go mit dem t'rough to Gaston. Den ve quits, ain'd it?" Callahan nodded and dropped to the platform. But before he could mount to the foot-board of the 1,010, M Tosh collared him. "Patsy, I have your orders, at last. Your passengers will be down In a few minutes, and you are to pull out ahead of the express." "Is it to Gaston I'm goln\ Mlsther M'Toeh?" The fireman was standing by with the oil can and torch, ready to Callahan's hand, and the train-master drew the engineer aside. "Shovel needn't hear," he said, in explanation. And then: "Are you willing to stand with us. Patsy? You've had time enough to think it over." Callahan stood with his arms folded and his cap drawn down over his eyes. " 'Tis not f'r meself I'm thinkln,' Misther M'Tosh, as ye well know. But I'm a wlddy man; an' there's the bit colleen in the convint." "She'll be well cared for, whatever happens to you," was the quick reply. "Thin I'm yer man," said Callahan, and ? hen the trainmaster was gone, he ordered Shovel to oil around, while he did two or three things which, to an initiated onlooker, might have seemed fairly inexplicable. First he disconnected the air-hose between the car and the engine, tying the ends np with a stout cord so that the connection would not seem to be broken. Next he crawled under the Naught-seven and deliberately bled the air-tank, setting the cock open a mere halr'sbreadth so that it would leak slowly but surely until the pressure was entirely gone. r Then be got a hammer and sledge out of the engine tool-box, and after hooking up the safety-chain couplings between the private car and the 1,010, he crippled the points of the hooks with the hammer so that they could not be disengaged without the use of force and the proper tools. "There ye are, ye ould divil's bandwagon," he said, apostrophizing the private car when his work was done. "Ye'll ride this night where Patsy Cal lahan anrives, an* De aoramea 10 ye. Meanwhile the trainmaster had reached the iron grille at the other end of the long traca platform. At a small wicket used by the station employes and trainmen, Kent was waiting for him. "Is it all right, M'Tosh ? W1U he do It?" he asked, anxiously. "Yes, Patsy's game for it; I knew he would be. He'd put his neck in a rope to spite the major. But it's a crazy thing,. Mr. Kent" "I know it; but if it will give me 14 hours?" "It won't They can't get home on our line because we'll be tied up. But they can get the Naught-seven put on the Overland's Limited at A. ft T. junction, and that will put them back here before you've had time to turn around twice. Have they come down yet?" "No," said Kent; and just then he saw Loring coming in from the street entrance and went to meet him. "I have the final word from Boston," said the ex-manager, when he had walked Kent out of earshot of the train-takers. "Your terms are accepted?with all sorts of safeguards thrown about the 'no cure, no pay' proviso; also with a distinct repudiation of you and your scheme if there is anything unlawful afoot Do you still think it best to keep me in the dark as to what you are doing?" "Yes; there are enough of us involved, as it stands. You couldn't help; and you might hinder. Besides, if the mine should happen to explode in our direction It'll be a comfort to have a foot-loose friend or two on the outside to pick up the pieces of U8." Loring was polishing his eye-glasses with uncommon vigor. "I wish you'd drop it, David, if it isn't too late. I can't help feeling as if I had prodded you into it, whatever it is." Kent linked arms with him and led him back to the street entrance. "Go away, Grantham, and don't come back again," he commanded. "Then you can swear truthfully that you didn't know anything about it It is too late to Interfere, and you are not responsible for me. Go up to see Portia; she'll keep you interested while you wait." When Lorlng was gone Kent went back to the wicket in the grille; but M'Tosh, who was always a busy man at train-time, had disappeared again. TO BE CONTINUED. WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? A Definition Which Is "Accurate and Complete." Once upon a time, when the general convention of the Episcopal church was in session, a question of doubt arose and speaker after speaker attempted to clear it up, but each succeeded only In making confusion more confounded. Finally a certain Bishop Benjamin arose and spoke and so completely tangled the skein of discussion as to give to the assembly the sensation of despair. It was at this point that Bishop Wllmer said soito voce. "But Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs." Yes, verily, we have heard, of late years, such discussions of Democracy, and it has seemed to us that each speaker who has tried to mix Democracy with Socialism has made the mess worse. But in the midst of the confusion a clear note rings out from Charlotte, N. C? like a trumpet call in the fog. "Democracy," says the Charlotte Observer, "means individualism?the right of the man to make his own contracts unhampered by law; to do what ever he please, except trench upon the rights of his neighbor or make a nuisance of himself to others, to stand upon his own feet: to do for himself [unhindered and unassisted by government. Any law that contravenes any of these propositions is an un-Democratic law." The definition Is accurate and complete, and should go Into the lexicon of every student of politics and government. Democracy means Individualism. Democracy guarantees and conserves individual liberty. Democracy promotes individual development and manly self-reliance. "Any law that contravenes any of these propositions is an un-Democratlc law," call It what you will.?Richmond TimesDispatch. Jimmy's Remarkable Story.?A school teacher who was giving a lesson on "Food" was interrupted by one of his pupils. "Please, sir." he said "Jimmy says he knew a baby that was brought up on elephant's inilk, and it gained ten pounds in weight every day." "James ought not to tell you such rubbish." the teacher said. "James, whose baby was it that was brought up on elephant's milk?" "Please, sir," answered Jimmy. "It was the elephant's."?Harper's Weekly. GREAT MIDDLE WEST, Yorkville Man Describes Trip to Kansas City. SCRNK8 AND INCIDRNTS BY THK WAY. The Southern Baptist Convention? Where People Live on the Run? Tremendous Meat Packing Eetab* liehmente?The Big Bridge Across the Mississippi?Other Notes. Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. It had long been my desire to visit the west. That section of the United States has for years claimed a large proportion of the Interest of the people of the other sections, due to the Intoeootlnor o nfton thrllllncr fltnriM published in papers and magazines of the east and south describing things and occurrences in the vast territory lying beyond the Mississippi river, so when what was considered a most excellent opportunity to gratify this long cherished desire recently presented itself I determined to brush aside the few remaining obstacles and go. Along about the latter part of March I received a letter from my brother, Reg M. Grist, whose home is in Kansas City, Mo., extending me a cordial invitation to visit his home, attend the Southern Baptist convention and incidentally to see the country. Among other things he promised that it would be the most enjoyable experience of my life, that I would see and learn more In a week than I had ever seen or learned In any previous ten years of my life, and closed by saying that I would be so thoroughly pleased with Kansas City and Its business possibilities that I would hardly return to o!d slow-going Yorkvtlle, but would reremain there and send for my folks to come out. etc. On the morning of May 9 I started. I left over the Southern for Blacksburg and from that place went to Atlanta arriving in that city at 3.30 p. m., that afternoon, and remaining there until the next afternoon, when I left for Chattanooga. The distance Is about 154 miles. The train started about 40 minutes late; but it soon became apparent that it was the purpose of the engineer to either go in the ditch or into Chattanooga on time. He literally "burned the wind" and before he had gone 100 miles 25 minutes of the lost time had been caught up and by the time Chattanooga was reached he was "dead on time." At Chattanooga there was a delay of about 35 minutes, when the start was made for Memphis, a distance of 310 miles. The train arrived there n-xt morning at about 10.45, something like one hour and twenty minutes late. Alighting from the train I asked a colored porter about the Frisco train for Kansas City. Pointing down an adjoining track toward a moving train he said, "That's it. Just started boss.' Inquiry developed the fact that the next train would not leave until 8.25 o'clock that night. Feeling rather lonesome and knowing "obodv In the place I decided to see the town, or at least a part of it, by the street car route. On going uptown I had a first glimpse of the Mississippi river, which is said to be a mile wide at this Doint. After seeing numerous points of Interest from the cars I concluded to spend a while looking at the river and with this Idea In view chose a seat on the bluff overlooking the stream Just In the rear of the U. S. government building, where I sat. In company with others, and looked for perhaps an hour. My attention was especially drawn to a small tug boat and a steamboat that were making trips to and fro across the river at intervals of about every twenty minutes and each time carrying crowds of passengers. As the boats approached the Tennessee side of the river droves of men and boys were to be seen rushing down to the landing and on to the boats. Finally I decided that I would go over also and got aboard, asking no questions as to what was the attraction on the other shore. On landing I followed the crowd up a slight incline to a one story frame building about 40x80 feet. At the door a ticket marked "good for return trip" was handed me as well as every other man entering. On going In I soon discovered the secret of the Interest for the visitors. It was nothing more or less than a pool room In which the crowd was betting on the horse races then taking place on all the leading tracks In the United States. The names of the horses entered for each race on each track were written on blackboards, as also were the odds offered by the bookmakers. The plungers were making their bets, and as the races were run the results were received by telegraph In the building and announced on the board. It did not take me many minutes to see all I cared to see and without delay I returned to the other shore. It Is contrary to law to operate pool-rooms In Memphis and entirely legal to operate them In Arkansas, where this one Is located. Subsequently I made a five mile trip up the river on the sajne boat on which I had my first ride. Much to my relief the hour for leaving Memphis finally arrived and boarding the train I was soon en route on the 488 miles stretoh between Memphis and Kansas City. The first notable incident after leaving Memphis Is the crossing of the Mississippi on the great bridge that spans that mighty stream. The bridge Is a magnificent structure and Is perhaps the longest of Its type In the United States. It Is said that It cost |S.000,000, and Is the property of the Frisco System, but Is used by the passenger trains of all the roads going west from Memphis. Each passenger who crosses on the train of any road using It, including the owner, Is charged 50 cents In addition to regular mileage. It Is safe to say that during: the fifteen or twenty yearn irmi the structure has been In use It has paid for Itself several times over. After crossing: the river our train got down to a steady run of something: like 40 miles an hour and kept at It until about twelve o'clock when It was held up for perhaps an hour on account of a derailed freight train. After the wreck had been cleared and the engineer was given orders to proceed he did so at a 50-mlle clip. About daylight Springfield. Mo., about 200 miles from Kansas City, was reached. From this point on most of my attention was devoted to seeing as much of the country as possible under the circumstances. While the country Is not entirely level, still it la enough so to enable one to see a long distance and the sight was new and Interesting. There were fields of wheat, Just heading. hundreds upon hundreds of acres of gras.i. each field or section being enclosed In a neatly kept hedge-row. In many of the fields were to be seen herds of cattle and droves of horses and mules, with an occasional bunch of hogs. There were but few trees and they were small. Every few miles were ponds of water, with no visible Inlet or outlet. For a time I was somewhat puzzled at this, but soon discovered that they were artificial and were constructed for storing water for various uses on the farms. Some of them covered as much as one or two acres of ground. While the dwellings and outbuildings were neat and substantial looking they did not appear to be so attractive as numerous country homes to be found in all sections of York county. About 100 miles out from Kansas City, in the state of Kansas, we passed through a part of the oil region, and on every hand could be seen derricks erected for the purpose of boring wells. There was no sign of activity; the fields were deserted and indicated that oil had not been struck In paying quantities in that section. At about 11 o'clock on Friday, May 12. I arrived at Kansas City, where I was at once taken in charge by brother Reg. After the greeting natural between brothers who had not met for five years, he commenced right on the spot to exploit the marvels of his adopted city. He broke off in the midst of his talk as we passed into the union depot and pointing to a sign, (we were in the second story of the building) said: "There is where the water rose to during the flood of June, 1903." .The sign indicated that the water was about 8 feet 6 Inches above the floor level and probably 35 feet above the normal height of the Missouri river at that point. But the big flood of 1903 Is another story, and anclpnt history now. I followed my guide out of the station at a lively- pace, or one that would be considered lively In our section, and was soon enroute on an electric car for his home, five miles distant. Points of Interest were Indicated and bits of Information about each given with such rapidity that I failed to absorb much of It. Among other things I was told that the city was less than fifty years of aee: had a population of more than 300.000. and had doubled in size during the past ten years and would in the next five or ten years catch up and pass its rival. St. Louis, in size, and was already ahead of It In many other respects. The visitor, on arriving at Kansas City. Is at once Impressed with the fact that It Is a wide-awake, hustling city; everything is on the move. The streets, as a rule, are broad and well kept and most of the business houses as well as the private dwellings are substantial and of pleasing architectural proportions and effect. The pavements as well as the streets are laid in asphalt and the private vards. as a rule, are neat and attractive. The streets are not level, In fact the principal business section as well as a large portion of the residence portion Is a succession of hills and valleys, many of the hills being quite cteep. The street cars do an enormous business, as everybody rides, even though the distance to be traveled Is short. In'many of the streets there Is a car eyery three minutes. I found soon after my arrival that owing to the fact that the Calvary Baptist church, in which the convention was being held, would hold only about 2.000 people and as there were about 3,000 delegates and visitors In attendance the chance of getting a seat was rather slim, and made no special effort the first day to get in. On Saturdav morning, In company with a friend I went around to the church about one hour In advance of the appointed time for assembling and vot a seat, and saw and heard many nt tho notable nersonasres of the con vntlon. Aft*r being In the building for a abort time I met Rev. Dr. R. Q. Patrick. Whos? first paatorate was Yorkvllle and Union churches, and who for several years has been the honored and successful president of Judson Female college at Marion, Ala. He and T retired to the basement of the church, where we spent an hour or two very pleasantly. For the information of Dr. Patrick's numerous friends In this section I will say that ?o far as the eye or ear can judge he is In every respect the same genial, Christian gentleman that they knew fifteen years ago. He made special inquirv as to the welfare of many Yorkville people he knew when here and stated that he hoped at some time In the near future to pay us a visit. While Sunday is not entirely ignored in Kansas City, still its observance is more negative than positive. The theatres are wide open, as a rule, and receive a large patronage, as they do on all other days. Baseball is played and liberally patronized and in fact all kinds of amusements are allowed full swing. Drug stores remain open during the entire day and sell anything called for, while grocery stores, markets, etc.. are open during certain hours in the morning. Barrooms are closed Saturday night and remain so until Monday, so far as outward appearances go. This has only been the case during the past two or three months. All the public parks which are open on Sunday are much frequented. On Sunday. May 14, practically all the Protestant pulpits in the city were occupied by ministers attending the convention. The most notable occasion of the day was the memorial services held in the Convention Hall, beginning at 3 p. m. A brief history and description of this hall will doubtless interest the reader. It will be remembered that the National Democratic conven[tlon of 1900 met in Kansas City. Long before the appointed time the public spirited business men of the city had completed a huge building for the accommodation of the convention. About ninety days before the appointed meetl 'g time the building was destroyed by fire. Word was sent out that another hall would be ready in time, and it Was. The present hall has an actual seating capacity for 35.000 neonle. It Is practically fire proof, built of brick, cement, steel and wood, but an exceedingly small proportion of lotto,- Ths hitildlntr at this time Is said to represent an outlay of about $400,000. It Is used for various purposes and on numerous occasions where the housing of huge crowds is necessary. The exercises above referred to were held In memory of distinguished members of the convention who had Joined the great majority since the last meftlng of the convention, they being ex-Oov. J. P.-Eagle of Arkansas, who at the time of his death was president of the convention; Col. James A. Hoyt of South Carolina, and Rev. Dr. C. C. Meador of Washington, D. C. Appropriate eulogies by speakers selected for the purpose, were delivered on the llvs of each of the departed. At the conclusion of the above mentioned addresses. Dr. W. E. Hatcher of Richmond, Va.. who Is loved and honored by Baptists throughout the entire territory Included In the bounds of the convention, by reason of his exalted Christian character as well as his gigantic intellect, arose to introduce Rev. Dr. A. C. Dixon, who had been selected to preach the sermon of the occasion. Dr. Hatcher said In substance; "My friends. It Is my esteemed privilege to Introduce to you the man selected to preach the sermon on this occasion, Rev. A. C. Dixon, a native of North Carolina, and now pasr tor of the Ruggle Street church, Boston. He Is not a brother of Thomas Dixon, the author of Leopard's Spots, but Tom Dixon Is a brother of his." Dr. Dixon came forward and preached a sermon of about one hour in length to a congregation conservatively estimated to have been composed of at least 20.000 people, and during the entire discourse, which was on the subject of evangelism, held the undivided attention of the vast throng. It was a notable sermon, preached by a notable man, of whom his native town of Shelby, N. C., has reason to be proud. The occasion too was notable not only so far as the visitors were concerned, but to Kansas City, as the papers of the city stated the next day that It was by far the largest congregation that had eyer assembled In that town to hear a gospel sermon. The convention adjourned on Monday night. May 15, and the session was pronounced one of the most pleasant and successful of the fifty annual meetings so far held. On Tuesday I undertook to see the sights, which are numerous and interesting, but time and space forbid general details and I will mention only a few that Impressed me most forcibly. One of the first places visited was a huge department store, which oov- ers ten acres of floor space. The building is about eight stories high and half as wide and altogether as long as it is tall. A customer can buy anything he wants, if he has the money, in this store from a paper of needles to a steam engine. About five hundred clerks, mostly women, are employed, and it is safe to say that there are as many goods under this one roof as are now in all the '.tores of all kinds In York, Chester and Lancaster counties, and why not? It has a constituency of approximately 400,000 people, including Kansas City, its suburbs and nearby towns, while In the counties named there are possibly 100,000 people. There are two or three other stores in the city almost equally as large. We also visited a 5 and 10 cent store, in which there were possibly 50 clerks, all of whom are kept busy from opening to closing time. On the same street is a penny store ?no single article sold for more than one cent It is literally packed with people all the time. The rent bill of this store is $800 per month, to say nothing of the hundred and one other expenses. The negro Is a factor in politics in Missouri and especially so in Kansas City where, comparatively speaking he is numerous and his vote being sought by both Democrats and Republicans, he feels his importance to a marked degree and is far more insolent than would be tolerated In any one of the South Atlantic states. One afternoon?not Sunday?I concluded that I would see a game of professional baseball at the National park, between the Kansas City and Columbus teams. I went without a chaperone and although I had that lonesome feeling, still saw a good game and enjoyed it to a degree, notwithstanding the fact that a showpr of raia fell while the game was in progress. At the end of the eighth inning I concluded that in order to avoid the rush Incident to the wind up I would make my way back to Eighth street and catch an Independence avenue car for my brother's home. Before reaching the car line that I thought I wanted it commenced to rain again?one of the gully washer and toad strangler variety?and the great crowd made for the cars. I stood in the door of a corner drug store for perhaps 30 minutes and saw cars literally packed with humanity pass about every three or four minutes. Although such an experience was not new to me. I Anally decided to squeeze into the next one, but when it came my nerve failed and I waited for the next and pushed my v in Th?i? wm hardlv Standing room. At the next stop a dirty, black, greasy negro crowded in. He had just lighted a cheap cigar and was puffing It with all his might and as much unconcern as if he had been out In the open. White men and women?as respectable and genteel appearing as any I had seen In the city or anywhere else, for that matter?were standing all around the smoking coon. Finally a well-dressed and gentlemanly appearing man said to him: "You should not smoke here In the faces ot these ladies." The brute heard the protest, of course, but paid no attention whatever to it, continuing to puff his vile smelling cigar as unconcernedly as before. The protest was repeated several times, but there was no response or result. The experience was a novel and exceedingly unpleasant one to me and while I realized that the negro acted as he did because he felt secure by reason of the position of his race politically, still my mind involuntarily drew a picture of what would have happened to that coon had he conducted himself In the same way under similar circumstances in South or North Carolina. The reader, if he resides in either of the states named, will be able to reproduce my picture without my giving its details. Notwithstanding the fact that an impudent, Insolent negro Is almost invariably summarily dealt with in South or North Carolina, there is no doubt but what the negro who knows his place and stays in it Is shown infinitely more consideration here than in Kansas City or other northern or western communities. Every newspaper or magazine reader In this section has some idea of the beef and pork packing Industry In the west. Kansas City claims to rank next to Chicago in this business in some respects and ahead of it in others. Kansas * City spielers say that while the capacity of the Steele yards at Chicago Is greater than their town, the Missouri town leads the Windy City as to facilities, for slaug htering and packing. It is said that the Kansas City stock yards have a capacity sufficient to take care of 32.000 head of cattle at one time, and that the slaughtering capacity is suiflclent to dispose of the yard capacity in one day. There are not fewer than five distinct packing house plants in Kantas City, Kansas, Just across the river from the Missouri town of the same name. To visitors, especially of mon, they are Interesting and each one is expected to visit one of them. In company with several friends I went over one afternoon. We selected the plant of the Armour Packing compa-y. A permit to go through the various departments was readily granted and a guide furnished by the management. A detailed description would not be specially interesting, and besides It would consume more space " w.. thla ant'pp .nan win De occupieu uy m?o article, so I will only try to touch the high places. After leaving the reception room, we walked for perhaps 200 yards, through various buildings, and Anally stopped at an elevator. There were 15 or 20 persons In the party, including a man and his wife, she being the only woman in the crowd, so It required two trips of the elevator to take us up to floor desired. When we got there we were taken into a room possibly 150 by 75 feet, and thirty feet from floor to ceiling. Hanging all over the room, suspended by hooks attached to pulleys, the latter arranged so as to move slowly along metal tracks, were the carcasses of perhaps 100 beeves of the kind we read about but seldom see In this section. Some of the beeves had Just been slaughtered, others were tei ig skinned almost as rapidly as one would skin a rabbit, two men performing the operation. Still others were being disembowelled so rapidly that one could scarcely realize what was being done until it was over, and on the far side of the room from where the visitors were standing could be seen the carcasses that had gone [Continued on Second Page], t*