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) ISSUED SEMI-WEEKL^ l. k. grists sons, Pnbii?h?r?. 1 % Jninilj Jlttrspapfr: dor Iht promotion ij Iht folilital, ?otial, ^griinltnral, and ffommttcial Jntirals of thr |(oplt. {1"8vim> ui^ooii!' established 1855. YOEKYILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1905. NO. 52. ^^^^VMHaBUMMMMBMBRnuunaHna I THE MI By FREDERICK Author of "The Case / ^ (J * <Cop?ii?bl. 19?, by Fra CHAPTER IX, Opposition had no terrors for Mr. I Harlan. He expected it He understood his business, and his business was to overcome it Delays did not annoy him. difficulties did not discourage him. complications only gave him new zest for his task. He had never found anything worth doing which could be accomplished easily. He had often seen his most careful plans miscarry, but never without learning the reason, and with him the discovery of an error revealed the remedy. His success was built upon that solid concrete or mistakes, surprises, and corrections which we call experience. It was with no novel sensations, then, that Mr. Harlan returned to his house, and seating himself In the easy-chair of his library proceeded to work out the secret of his failure with John Kennard, for at the outset he admitted be had failed completely. There was no necessity for deceiving himself. He and bis easy-chair had solved many another puzzle, remedied many another mistake. It was ten o'clock?still early in the evening for Joshua Harlan. He rang the bell, ordered the butler to oring whisky and soda, and then dismissed him for the night. Mr. Harlan fillet a long glass with whisky and soda and began working at the problem. Who and what was this Kennard. anyway? A man who had found his business prepared and ready for his band, who had never had to work his way up or experience set-back and failure. It had all been such plain sailing that he had had leisure to theorize and indulge his theories, coddling his workmen and playing with economic nostrums until the sentimentalist in him was satisfied and his self-suffi , clency complete. Let him experience one year of real competition with no nonsense about it, and the superior smile would be on the other side of I his mouth. Perhaps Trundcll could be j made to see this yet, and, if so, the j amateur economist might have his pet j t theories tested and his cut-and-dried systems disarranged in a way he little dreamed of. He had been inclined to work with rather than against young Kennard. but If that Individual thought the man who engineered the Milling Companies' deal "ridiculous," it was plain they were an ill-assorted i couple. If? Mr. Harlan started as he heard the door-bell ring, and realized as he rose to answer the summons for the first time In. many years he had worked himself into quite a temper. The butler had not yet retired, and when his master reached the hall the man handed him a card with the nam? Peter McMannis printed In flourished script. "Show him in and then go to bed. Perkins. I'll close up." Mr. Harlan threw himself Into his chair with a muttered oath, lit a cigar and picked up the evening paper. He was still reading when his visitor was ushered in. and a curt nod was all the greeting he vouchasfed. But McMannis seemed unabashed by the lack of welcome. He nodded in re turn, and wnue tne servant moveu about tbe room arranging the cigars and glasses, be stood with his back to the fire stroking his black mustache, which had acquired an oily look and a drooping curl at either end. His hair, which was plastered in little scallops over his forehead and deeply parted from the back of his head, bore evidence of the cheap barbers' manipulation. The whole appearance of the man had undergone a transformation since his last visit Every weak line la his face showed plainly, and his rough, coarse features had been tempered until his whole personality fairly reeked with brutal vulgarity. % "Well, Josh." he began afTably, as che butler closed tbe door. "You don't ?eem glad to see me." "Didn't I tell you not to call here again!" The answer came from behind Mr. Harlan's newspaper. "So you did. But what's the dif? ( don't come at reception hours or ask to meet your daughter, do I?" Mr. Harlan siapped his paper together and smashed it down upon the table. "You must be drunk!" he mattered. McMannis laughed. "Dammed if I don't think I am." he retorted, "but you're the winner by it this time." He stepped toward his host as he fnoooH ? mil of bills UDOI1 ayvnc auu wwuw> ? ? the table. "What's that?" "The 50 plunk? I owe you. Don't faint, old man. They're the genuine green." "Then you got?" "Elected? Sure, Mike. I don't promise to pay you all I owe you. I don't even know what it Is, but I said I'd give up this, and, hell?it was worth it to see you jump!" MeMannis helped himself to a cigar, bit the end off. and spat it out in a sputter of laughter. ? Mr. Harlan glanced suspiciously at the man, slowly gathered up the bills, and stuffed them into his pocket without a word. Then he leaned forward, relit his cigar over the lamp, and sat staring at his visitor. "You got a good Job?" NORITY TRIVOR. HEX and Exceptions," etc. g <1 trick A. Bloke * Oo.) The words were a statement rather than an inquiry. "Yes, better than I expected, and we might have a drink on it," he added, eyeing the bottles with a grin. "What is it?" "Whisky, of course." Mr. Harlan's face relaxed for an instant, but became rigid again as ha l ushed the bottles forward. "I meant what job did you get. I thought you'd quit drinking." "So I have, but this in an occasion. If we wait till you get another JJ-.J J 1 ???11 Vc-rv a lAnor Hmo hotWPPTl Ulviueilu II II ur a iuu6 drinks. Wish you may live till then, Josh." He poured out a generous portion of raw liquor, smelt it, nodded over the ijlass, and tossed it off with a peculiar jerk of his neck, following it up with a swallow of water. "That's my third to-day?honest ?ount and polls closed to-night," he vouchsafed, as he wiped his mouth on the back of his hand and picked up lis half-chewed cigar. '* "TOU DON'T SEEM QLAD TO SEE ME." Mr. Harlan lifted a paper-knife from the table, tried its edge absent-mindedly, and then sat silent, bending the blade back and forth between his fingers. McMannis watched him with a broad grin on his shiny face, but spoke no word. "What Is your Job?" The question was sullen and disdainful. "A snap?a soft snap. Chief of tho walking delegates you might call it, though it's known as assistant high workman. Say, but that's good liquor, Josh! Funny such a good hand at buying it don't have no real taste for it. And since you press me so cordial. Josh. I guess I'll take one more teaspoonfu'." h'e poured out another deep drink. and gulped It down wnn a nere a how!" and a shuddering exhalation of hreath like a man In a bitter-cold wind. Then he rubbed his hands together, struck a match on his trouser log. started to relight his cigar, but burst out laughing as he noted Harlan's bored and contemptuous glance. "Say, what's the matter with you, Josh!" he exclaimed. "You're as huffy as hell, and look as glum as Dolan's goat when she swallered the tin-cai erossways. Take a drink. Have one on me. and stop chewing the rag for five minutes anyhow. Gosh, but you do look silly!" McMannts broke into another spasm of merriment, quieted down, wiped his eyes, and then glancing at Mr. Harlan's so!emn, unmoved countenance, burst forth again* into peal upon peal of laughter, until the tears ran down his face and he had to seat himself for very weakness. "What is the?er?the chief of walking delegates expected to do?" The question was asked contemptuously and with weary indifference, but McMannis in his social mood welcomed it eagerly. "What does he do?" he responded, Jocularly. "What won't he do when I'm It? That's the question to ask, Josh Harlan. I've been waiting for a chance like this for years, and now I've got it, I'll work It, you bet. Say, do you know how many men's?how manv men there are in our associa tion?" Mr. Harlan shook his head. "Well, I'll tell you." McMannls drew his chair closer to his host and leaned forward confidentially, pouring out another drink of whisky as he talked. "Thersh?there's more than 25,000 in it, and not more than ten or a dozen ahead of me. Now d' ye see where I'm at? Maybe you think the organization won't take care of me now? Maybe I won't control a bunch of votes worth having, and maybe I don't know the market value of 'em, neither. They thought they'd stall me at Philadelphia for up the state?but not much! New York city's ray mound, and I'm here to stay." He paused to swallow another drink, and then proceeded in an uglier tone, his language coarsening as his tongue loosened. "Yes, ana I'm goin' to make some of these companies set up and count, you bet. Oh, I see you staring at me, but your old milling company is all right. That's what comes of having a friend at court. Josh, for I bet you'r* as rotten as punk. But say, to see ycsittin' over there," McMannis straightened himself and mimicked his host's manner with a drunken leer, "one would never think you could touch anything tougher than a cushion. But I Snow you, you old wood-faced mut?you're as sly as they make 'em and are doin' two tricks a day, I bet. I wish I knew a few of them. Damned if I wouldn't come and pay up so's 1 could give you away and see you squirm!" McMannis paused to laugh at this picture, pointing at Mr. Harlan and rocking himself to and fro in an eostacy of mirth, which ended in a knuckling of his eyes and a long bins' on his handkerchief. "Well, well," he panted at last, "you've stood by me some. Josh, while others have done me dirt, and I don't guess I'll forget anybody. I've been walked on enough to see there's nothln' in playin carpet, and now I'm goin' to try a few steps myself. S-shay? say, but I've been trod on so long, it seems kinder natural to lie down when anybody gets in my way. Just before I went to Philadelphia I was acting delegate In the out-of-town dls trict, and got orders to look up a fellow who keeps one of those model factories on the river. It was way off down th? Hudson, so I telephoned him I was coming, but never got no answer, and when I got there the guy wouldn't see me and I actually vamoosed. Say. but you ougbter heard the way the fellows horsed me about that! The Idea of a delegate lettin* himself be turned down got them. But that comes of gettin' used to bein' pavement. Next time I call, my bird'U see me all right, all right. And I call soon! I won't do a thing but roast him, you bet! Kennard's his name? ever beard of him? Say, did I tell you what I was workln' to get from 'the organization?" he rattled on. "Well, I'm layin'. to have a friend of mine appointed factory inspector, and If I do, the rake-off won't be a thing to what I can pick up on the side. Those fellows has the power to file papers against the companies, and make 'em come near building their buildings over again in complyln' wfth the law. It'd work in great with the delegate business. Now, ? instance, suppose youse ?suppose you had a factory? S-say, are you listening, you frozen-faced goat ?" Yes, Mr. Harlan was listening. CHAPTKR X. To the cynical eye the crowd In the Grand Central station is apt to typify the monotony of life and suggest its littleness. It is always the same. Mingle with it to-day and return an hour, a day, a month, a year, ten years later, and you will And the same people surrounding and jostling you. Some face you may look for in vain, some voice may fail to greet you? that often happens In crowds?but are they lost or are you? Kennard hurried across the muddy floor, dodged through the nearest exit, raced to the barrier, and reached it Just as the iron gate rolled to and bit its lock with a vicious snap. "Next local 5:04 on track 2!" chanted the official, mechanically. The panting passenger dropped his heavy bag with a groan and looked at his watch. There was half an hour to wait, so he sauntered back to the telegraph office and sent a message to Mrs. Parsons at Mamaroneck, saying he had missed his train. It should have been punctually late, as usual, but something had "crisscrossed his luck" that day, he admitted to himself, as he shoved his bag under one of the long benches and settled down to sit it out. By the time his train started Kennard had almost recovered his drooping spirits, and when the lights of the Mamaroneck station twinkled through the haze, not even the damp fog and chilly atmosphere served to depress him. Mrs. Parsons' carriage was not to be seen in the cluster of vehicles near the platform, and Kennard picked his way among the traps and teams, peering closely at the half-hidden drivers. But one by one they drove off, and when Kennard reached the station again, all the cabs had also disappeared, and he faced the prospect of walking to his destination, lugging a heavy bag. Resigning himself to this fate, he started down the road, in the wake of a low dog-cart disappearing slowly into the fog. Hoping against hope, he quid ened his pace in pursuit, and was soon rewarded by recognizing Carroll Parsons' astrakhan coat and furs. With a cheerlul halloo he ran up behind the cart, tossed in his bag. and swung himself into the seat beside the girl. "Well met. Carroll!" he exclaimed. "If you were trying to abandon me, I had a narrow escape." He grasped the girl's disengaged hand in both of hi8 and shook it warmly. She laughed pleasantly in answer as the pony started forward at a brisk pace, striking sparks from the flinty road. "Well, how are you?" he continued. "I'm terribly glad to see you. You don't know how glad. I've been in the worst possible temper all day, and if it hadn't been for the thought of coming here to-night, I believe I'd have assassinated half a dozen people. As it is, there are probably more than that number who'd like to assassinate me. It was mighty friendly of you to meet me a night like this," he ran on, "especially after I'd missed my train. At first I thought you hadn't come, and I was starting to walk when I saw you. Hope you haven't left a house full of company. I'm afraid you have. But do tell me you haven't got a horrid lot of outsiders." "Really, 1 don't think I'm in a posiMon to say." Kennard peered aharply at his companion. "I beg pardon," he began awkwardly, "but I fear I must have?that there must be a mistake. You are not?" "I have been trying to tell you so ever since we started. Now I feel like a criminal. I shall never be able to convey to Miss Parsons the warmth of your greeting!" I The merry laugh which had first answered him broke forth again. "I hope you will pardon me," he began once more. "1 thought this was Mrs. Parsons' cart and?" "It is." "And you are?" . "Unintentionally disguised in Miss Parsons' coat and furs, which she'll never forgive me for wearing in weather like this, even if she condones the theft of your greeting. Hereafter I shall change the proverb, 'We are known by our friends.' to 'Our clothes are known by our friends.'" "I know you now. You are?" "One of the horrid outsiders. I con fess It!" "That's hardly fair, Miss Harlan." "I am discovered!" "I hadn't the slightest Idea you were to be here, but If I had known it, that coat and those furs would have invited the same mistake. Now, honestly, do you blame me?" "Not at all. It is Carroll you must make your peace with. Mrs. Parsons SHAKING HER FINGER AT IT AND MOV I NO HER LIP8 IN DISAPPROVAL. and she went to Rye for other guests, and as the coachman went too, I was assigned to meet you. At the last moment I couldn't; And my own cape, so plcl ed up these and?" "Thus misled me a second time." Miss Harlan glanced at the innocently grave face beside her, and touched the pony lightly with her whip. "I call that downright brutal." she announced, in a tone which implied more mirth than Indignation. "Shall we proclaim a truce?" "Perhaps?I thin, we'd better If?" She hesitated, and looked at him defiantly. "If what?" "If vou ask it." "Well, suppose we both capitulate." "With all the honors of war?" "Certainly." "Very well then." "Let's shake hands on It/* "Not now," she laughed; "the pony's too lively, and besides, we've already done It?at least, you?" "Remember the truce!" "Forgive me?I almost forgot it" TO BB CONTINUED. EXCLUSION OF JAPANESE. Americana Should Think Twice Before Adopting Policy. We note with apprehension that on the Pacific coast?of all parts of the land?there is a small but perceptible attempt at agitation for the application to the Japanese of the outrageous treatment we have accorded to the Chinese. It has almost exactly the same basis, jealousy and fear of a race which is very efficient, pretty numerous, always saving and willing, especially at first to work for low wages or low profits. Stories are current of farming industries embarrassed by the refusal of natives to work with the Japanese and of organized efforts to boycott the employers or patrons of Japanese. If the movement takes shape in the elections there Is some reason to fear that it may produce extremely disagreeable results. Probably few of our readers understand completely how far our antiChinese policy has gone or to what ridiculous and shameful denials of the principles of common justice and of what we have been used to regard as fundamental constitutional guarantees of freedom we have been committed by our legislators and our courts. In the current number of the Independent so conservative a statesman as Mr. John W. Foster criticises with severity the recent decision of the supreme court as to the exclusion of a native American, born of Chinese parents, who was refused admission to the United States at San Francisco by the immigration officer on the ground that he was a Chinaman seeking to unlawfully enter the country. The fact of his birth in the United States was not disputed. A writ of habeas corpus was issued to him by the district court of the United States 011 this specific ground. But the supreme court decided that the judgment or me immigration umwi was final under the law of August 18, 1894, and could not be reviewed through the courts. The further fact that the Judgment of the officer contravened the provision of the constitution guaranteeing the citizens of the United States trial by jury and the security of person unless deprived of It by due process of law was considered by the supreme court as of no weight. The blunder of the officer, the possibly corrupt decision reached by him, is more completely the supreme law of the land than is the constitution of the United States. Now, It Is bad enough In all conscience to enforce such wicked and atrociously unfair rules against a nation like the Chinese, who are practically helpless, or have seemed so until recently. But it will be a very different matter to undertake like treatment of Japanese, a people marked by a keen sense of self-respect and with a government quite willing and quite able to defend their claims to Justice and a decent consideration. Americans who look to the revival of the "sand-lots" movement directed against the Japanese would do well to think twice of their project.?New York Times. JHisrcUanrous ^trading. McKELWAY WILL 8UE. Editor of tKo Presbyterian Standard Makes a Statamant The Preabyterlan Standard of June 27. contains the following In reply to the recent editorial In the Charlotte Observer: Some of the readers of the Standard may have seen an editorial In the Charlotte Observer, of recent date, entitled "McKetway," containing a series of charges against me, and characterisations based on those charges. Mr. J. P. Caldwell, editor of the Charlotte Observer, evidently labors under the impression that he is himself an object of my hatred. He is mistaken. I hate nobody. I have protested with all my might against certain policies of the Charlotte Observer, and other papers and persons, in the interest of public morals. I shall continue that course so long as I edit any paper. Mr. Caldwell ts a man who might have been, as he yet may be, a power for good. Of the blood of gentlefolk, inheriting the perfect manners of his race, with a rig brain, a warm heart, independent in thought, with a gift of expression 'hat Is the despair of his fellow-crafts'nen, of unquestioned personal courage, and only too loyal to his friends, there Is no man living In North Carolina who could have entered, as he may enter, a nobler career of honor and of power. And there is no one who would more sincerely rejoice at his reformation than the one he has recently attacked In language, unparalleled, I take it, In the annals of North Carolina journalism. Concerning his charges, J shall content myself here with saying that tney are without a single shred of fact In warp or woof. They are all directly connected with my battles against the saloon in Fayettevllle and in Charlotte, or with my opposition to child labor In the mills. That of Itself Is a sufficient explanation. I shall not demean myself by repeating th.<*e in detail andj then denying them, to my own constituency. The absolute proof, or the confession of their falsity, will be forthcoming at the proper time and published to the world. The characterizations of myself have put the whole matter beyond the scope ~0 /kaaitaalan tkaoo twkn ha ui nrwapa^n uiotuuniuu, a uvdv t. mV ?v not recognize the Higher Code will say that the attack justifies any reprisal within the bounds of truth and law. Those who acknowledge the Higher Code will agree that a man can be so Identified with the cause which he represents, that an Injury to his reputation will be an Injury to his cause, and that the law of Christ as to the non-resentment of personal Insults and nonresistance to personal Injuries does not forbid, under that condition, the seeking of ail lawful and proper redress. This I shall undertake to do. And as I have been absent from the state for two weeks, I am going to ask this favor of my readers who are my friends, that they send me copies of any paper that has published the editorial of the Charlott/B Observer, In whole or In part, or made offensive comment upon It. I am determined, as In my power lies, to put a stop to the long series of personal attacks upon my character that have been made In the columns of the Charlotte Observer and Its newspaper echoes, persisted In through several years, and now having reacnea me nmu. I take this opportunity to thank my friends from every part of the state, who have written me letters of sympathy and confidence. I trust I shall not prove unworthy of their friendship. And I may be permitted to say that except for the fact that upon me, more than upon any other one man in the south, wisely or unwisely, has been laid the burden of rescuing: the little children of the south from the untimely toll of the mills, and that already one orgran of these exploiters of Infant Industry has attacked me as the children's unworthy champion, on the srround of the editorial In the Charlotte Observer?but for this necessary lden[ tlflcatlon of an advocate with his cause, I should not have troubled my readers with even this much notice of this personal assault. They will bear me witness that I have not been slow to defend others when unjustly attacked. I have not been swift to defend myself. Nevertheless, It Is permitted a man to flgrht for his cause. A. J. McKblwat. A BILLION DOLLAR INDEMNITY. Who Will Raise the Money For Russia, and How. If $1,000,000,000, or half thar sum, is Imposed by Japan as the terms of peace with Russia, where will the stupendous sum be raised? The question would have baffled conjecture half a century agro; it Is easily answered now. China In 1895, after the Japanese Ann nnloll v than | war, wan wuioc vu nuiiviv?..l7 ...... Russia Is today. Most of her revenues were pledged in part already against earlier loans, and Japan demanded $140,000,000 Indemnity. This Is what followed, as told by the London Ecoi omlst, that year: "Great financial houses are scrambling and Intriguing for the purpose of acting as China's agents for the Issue of new loans, and something even of International rivalry Is Introduced into competition. And the Chines? government, entering Into the spirit of the thing, are acting as If, in consenting to borrow, they were conferring a special tsvor upon the lenders. If Paris and SL Petersburg are permitted to lend ?20,000.000, then, as a consolation to London and Berlin, they are being given an opportunity of lending anothuf ?15,000,000." In the end the Russian government actually lent China its endorsement on ?16,000,000?a real stroke of political humor, considering what has happened since. The case of the $1,000,000,000 payment by France tv Prussia, after the war of 1870, is familiar. France issued bonds for the amount, offered them to her own people, who forthwith sold their investments in foreign securities and subscribed for the new "rentes." This French liquidation of other bonds came at the moment when London, and Berlin itself, were also trying to buy the new French rentes. The odd result was that those two money markets suffered the consequent depression more than Paris. Something like this is possible if Pails agrees to finance the Indemnity this year for Russia. It Is often asked, cannot Russia meet the indemnity from her home reserves? She possesses, It Is true. $500,000,000 to $600,000,000 In her home gold reserve and her European credit balances; but a note circulation of $500,000,000 stands against It Russia would certainly hesitate to denude herself of her coin circulation. That plan was tried with China, after the Boxer outbreak of 1900, and with bad results. The powers fixed, as the terms for withdrawing their armies from Pekln, a money penalty of $315,000,000 to be paid to the powers In gold. In thirty-nine annual Instalments after 1901. All of China's customs revenue unpledged In former loans was devoted to this purpose. China floated no new loans; she sent out to gather up her silver currency, sold It and bought with the proceeds sterling drafts to pay the powers. Within a year Europe's Oriental trade was so badly deranged by the consequent break In silver that the whole plan had to be revised.?New York Evening Post. M08T DANQEROU8 BU8INE38. Man Who Has Had Experience 8ays It Is Handling Elephants. Perhaps the most dangerous, constantly dangerous, business In the world Is the one Into which I have been tossed?the business of elephant man with a circus. There is a constant demand for "bull men," but few will accept the position, and most' of us fell Into the business by accident and, showing talent or reckless disregard for consequences. made a success In handling the anlmala, and have since been classed as "buM men" and offered that Job and no other. Despite the perils, the constant watchfulness, the half conscious realization that death Is near, probably not an elephant man In the world today would leave his calling. It has a fascination of a strange kind, and the keeper becomes attached to the great brutes that tremble at his word one instant and the next may turn upon him and trample him. Good elephant men command good pay. Most of them live In a state of constant watchfulness, realizing the treacherous nature of the brutes, and those who do not realize this sooner or later are trampled or hurled to death. The elephant Is the most treacherous, moody, changeable animal ih a menagerie. They are twice as dangerous as tigers, lions or bears. The men who handle the big cats In their cages are forced to watch closely and carefully while they are In the cages with them, but that lasts only a short time. We "bull men" live with our gigantic pets, sleep near them, ride them, order them around, enter with them Into closed cars for long rides. We are not afraid of them. Before many years we become fatalistic. We ' 4 '?1' 1 ?? o?mo /lav Kit# expevi inrni iu nm u? oumc hope It may not be soon, Just as the ordinary citizen expects death some day. Trainers testify that the elephant brain works nearer like that of a human being than the brain of any other animal. The moods and tempers of the big: brutes change suddenly. The weather, a hard night ride on the care, a bruised foot may turn the best natured elephant Into a peevish brute, ready to strike and murder In an Instant. But these moods pass quickly. The great danger is when an elephant Is Just turning Into a rogue. Every elephant turns rogue sooner or later, and they never recover. They may be tractable for a time after quieting down, but the attack will return, and then probably a keeper will be killed. The female elephants turn rogues earlier and are more violent than the males, and the females are more dangerous In ordinary times. Elephants form great attachments for certain men and bitter hatreds of others, a hatred that means murder when the opportunity arrives. But the love of an elephant for Its keeper will not deter It from killing him when the outbreak comes. There was one notorious elephant who traveled with a score of circuses under different names and was Anally executed, who loved one man, a friend of mine, as never maiden loved him. She would do anything for him. He drank. She cared for him and drove away every one who tried to come near when he was drunk and asleep under her feet. He was discharged from several circuses and each time took the elephant no one edse being able to handle her. The owners of the shows understood that to discharge him was to lose the beast, and tacitly she became his property. But she In one rampage trampled him until he Is a cripple for life, and killed one of the rescuers, defending fiercely the man she had crushed. Good elephant men, ones who can train the animals, command big salaries one whom I know receiving 1250 a week, but the ordlnarly "bull men," recruited from among the canvas hands or laborers who have no fear, receive small salaries and accept the positions because the work Is easier, being willing to risk their lives to escape hard work. These men, of course, are under competent trainers.?Cleveland Plain Dealer. * # LEGENDARY DEVICES. How Strang* Animate Appeared In Heraldry In Old Days. Early writers on natural history subjects make mention of many strange creatures thkt never could have existed save in the superstitious mind of the age in which they wrote, and of the many that did exist the aocounts of their structure and habits are so ludicrous that one may seally wonder If it was possible, even in the middle ages, that people could be so credulous. Many of these strangely garbled records of the animal world were, no doubt, due to travelers' tales and probably had a certain foundation in fact. but it is difficult indeed to account for the creation of such things as the phoenix. the cockatrice, the wjrvem, the griffin and the dragon. The belief In the existence of the unicorn may have originated from the fact of some of the early African travelers meeting with certain antelopes that had ost a horn, for it Is a peculiarity with most antelopes that their horns are never shed and if injured or broken never grow again. The horn, growing out of the forehead, betwixt the eyelids, is neither light nor hollow nor yet smooth like other horns, but hard as Iron, rough as any Ale. revolved into many plights; sharper than any dart, straight and not crooked and everywhere black, except at the point. Bartholomew asserted that there were many varieties of unicorn, and this would be feasible If this creature had been created from those horned beasts that had accidentally lost one of the. horns How the phoenix was called Into being it would be Imposslb'e to hasarda guess. It was popularly supposed that there was only one such creature existing in the whole universe and that there was only one tree in which It built its nest. We And mention of the phoenix as fa*- back as Pliny, who says, "Howbeit, I cannot tell what to make of him; and, Arst of nil, whether it be a tale or no, that is never but one of them in the whole world, and the same not commonly seen." In the Afteenth century we And Bartholomew writing of title Imaginary bird; "Phoenix is a large bird, and there is but one that kind in all the wide world, therefore lewd men wonder thereof. Phoenix la a bird without make (mate) and liveth 300 or 600 years. When the which years be pasted she feeleth her default and feebleness and maketh a nest of sweet smelling sticks that be full dry, and In summer when the western wind bloweth the sticks and the nest be set on Are with burning heat of the sun and burneth strongly." The bird then allows itself to be reduced to ashes In this Are?on this point all the writers agree?and In due course rises again from the ashes in the full glory of renewed youth "and Is the most fairest bird that is, most tike to the peacock in feathers, and loveth wilderness and gathereth his meat of clean greens and fruits." The basilisk, or cockatrice, was reputed to be some strange mixture of a bird and serpent, able to slay with his breath and his sight, which power was accredited by some to dragons.?Westminister Qasette. Ounwmi^w ?nwv i inw< A Sport That Calls For All of tho Hunter's Skill and Nerve. Called bison (incorrectly) In India, seladang In Malaya, slang In Burma and gnudang In Slam, the gaur (Bos gaurus) la the largest and fiercest of all the wild cattle, with hoofs small In proportion to its height and of deerlike rather than oxilke character. Its sense of smell Is as acute as that of the elephant and Its vision much keener. When you seek one of these cattle you need all your hunter's skill and your nerve, for next to the elephant and bracketed with the Cape buffalo of AfrlOS f believe Its natural temperament and the character of country In which It Is found make the seladang In the Malay peninsula the most formidable quarry on earth. In India, where the range of the gaur Is the hilly, wooded districts, they are more apt to be found In herds of some else and, because of the more open sections, less difficult of approach and less dangerous to the hunter than in the Malay peninsula, where the jungle Is the densest that grows, and almost Invariably the quarry has the man at a disadvantage. In Malay It Is snap shooting, where the game on being wounded turns hunter, and concealed. awaits the sportsman, who must approach with Infinite caution, with senses always alert and hand ever ready If he would stop or turn aside the vicious charge. You may never In this Jungle survey the field I of operations from some vantage point, but In the close growing angle of anH thorn hushes and heavy coarse weed of grasslike mass, through which you can never get even dim sight for over twenty yards and most of the time can scarcely see that many feet ahead, you must follow the tracks of the sel&dang you have wounded, never knowing at what Instant the maddened beast may burst from the Jungle practically right on top of you. One seladang I was fortunate enough to finally get was only Just at the other side of a bamboo clump when he started his charge full at me. This Is the dangerous and the unavoidable feature of hunting the beast In Malay. Luckily for the hunter, the seladang. If unsuccessful In its charge, passes on to await him at another point Never have I heard of one turning instantly to a second charge afte- missing the hunter on the first rush. Jut on the other hand, If the seladang charges home it remains to gore Its victim.? Outing. W" People ruled by the mood of gloom attract to them gloomy things.