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established 1855. Y(^KYILLE, S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL?O, 1907. . NO. 35.
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SYINUKSIS. t
Chapter I?Bob Brownley creates a (
panic in Wall street. He is a friend of t
Jim Randolph of Randolph & Ran- j (
dolph. hankers and brokers. Brownley
and Randolph had gone to college together
and entered the employ of Ran- ?
dolph's father at the close of college t
days. Brownley is a Virginian by e
birth. Beulah Sands, daughter of an
old Virginia house, calls on Brownley '
and tells him her father has been r
practically ruined by the stock operations
of Reinhart. She hopes to utilize
her own money in Wall street in
retrieving her father's fortunes before e
his condition becomes known, and <1
asks for employment in the office that v
she may have an opportunity to better
understand how her money is Invest- 8
ed. She does not want it used in a li
purely Wall street gamble, but in the {,
buying and selling of legitimate securitles.
Brownley agrees to help her, ^
and falls in love with her. t
Chapter II?Brownley plunges in tl
sugar stock. He uses the money of ||
Miss Sands, his own and in addition; Vl
*- DaM/lAlnh I U
129 UttCRCU lirav ii j uy uic ivauuvit/u i
millions. His coup seems successful. v
and he tells Miss Sands that she has h
cleared $1,800,000. But the market
had not closed.
Chapter III?Barry Conant, head
broker for Standard Oil and sugar In- b
terests, suddenly begins to sell "sugar." t
In the midst of a panic he breaks the 0
market and with its fall carries away c
the earnings and much of the capital
of both Miss Sands and himself. A t
pretty love scene occurs between the ?
two at the office when Bob attempts c
to tell her the terrible truth of their
fall. Brownley takes a trip to Vlr- 1
ginia. t
"Bob, Forgive Mo, But I I
CHAPTER IV. t<
The following week Bob returned to e
the office. He had not changed, and d
yet he had changed greatly. Rest had a
apparently done much for him. His v
color was good, his step elastic as of I
old. and his head was thrown back as t
If he were buckled up for the fray and f
wanted all to know It Tet there was l
something in the eye, in the setness of s
the Jaw, in the hair-trigger calm, yet
fiercely savage grip In which he closed c
his strong hands on the arms of his t
chair, that told me more plainly than t
words that this was not the optimistic, g
soft-hearted Bob Brownley I had c
known and loved. I could not help ?
feeling that If I had been a leader of r
the Russian terrorists, and this man (
who now sat before me had come to t
my ken when I was selecting bomb- I
throwers, I should have seized upon 1
him of all men as the one to stalk the 1
czar or his marked minions. Surely ?
the Iron that had entered Bob's soul a
week before had affected his whole be- 1
Ing. I think Beulah Sands had sotne t
such thoughts. For I saw a shadow i
of perplexity cross her broad, low fore- '
head after her first meeting with him,
a shadow that had not been there
before.
For days after Bob's return I saw
little of him. I think Beulah Sands
saw less. During stock exchange hours
lie spent most of his time on the floor,
but he executed few of our orders. He
merely looked them over and handed
them out to his assistants. As far as
I could learn, he spent much of his
time there yesterdaylng through
hope's graveyards, a not uncommon
pastime for active exchange members
whose first through specials have been
open-switched by the "System" towerman.
So strong had become this habit
of going about from pole to pole with
bent head and a far-off gaze that his
fellow members began to humor and
respect It. They all knew that Boh
had gone up against the Sugar panic
hard. No one knew how hard, but all
guessed from his changed appearance
and habits that it must have been a
bone-smashing blow. Nothing so
quickly and so deeply stirs a stock exchange
man's feelings for his brother
member as to know that "They" have
ditched his El Dorado flyer?that is, if
he has been a good fellow. They will
humor his every whim and patiently
await the day when he shall be again
in normal condition; for all stock
gamblers whom Fate, or the old hag's
hunchback twin, the "System." has
dumped, either remain below the surface
or eventually round to. Every
day as soon as the stock exchange
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closed. Bob disappeared, whither I n
;ou!d not learn. I had tried once or y
wice to draw him out, under pretense
>f insisting upon his accepting my n
vife's invitation to dine with us. He
Llways had a ready excuse for .me to 1
ake to Kate, but that was all. Appar- a
sntly he had no idea that I took any ai
nterest in his movements after busi- pl
less hours.
As for Beulah Sands, there was but
?ne change noticeable In her. When- w
ver a footstep stopped in front of her m
fflce she looked up from her work *
irith an expectant, almost appealing ?
IC
aze, as though she were always waltng
for some one. I had not seen Bob
n her office since that disastrous *
iugar day. and as he went directly to ^
he exchange every morning and left
here every afternoon without return- ,c
Ki
tig to the office, doing all his business
y messenger or over the wire, there
ras but little chance of his meeting OI
w
er fa
November 1st had come and gone.
?M
nd the books showed no change in ^
leulah Sands' account. There was
he poor little $30,000 balance; no
'ther entries. One afternoon Beulah
'and* had asked for a meeting be- '
ween Bob and myself in her office. *
?he coull hardly have asked Bob to ^
ome without me, but I knew It was ^
lob she wanted to see, and I felt that
he best thing I could do for them was
/jr^jf v J hi
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* ij 1 :
* I lit
Lov? You, Love You, Bob." cc
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o leave them alone. So I made some aI
xcuse for a moment's delay at my cc
esk telling Bob to go Into her office, tj.
,nd promising to follow shortly. He 8j.
t-ent in. leaving the door partly open. p)
think that from the moment he en- w
ered the room both of them utterly n
orgot my existence. From her desk fa
ieulah could not see me, and Bob sat
0 that his back was half toward me. jj
1 dislike to trouble you about my ac
I hiMJtvl h^r.hpffln In a voice a *
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rifle uneven, "but as I must go back
o father Christmas week, I wanted to
ret your advice as to the advisability g
>f writing him that, though there is g
till a chance for doing wonders, I do
lot think we shall be able to save him. ^
)f course I won't put it in Just that
ilunt way, but It seems to me I should Jt
>egln to prepare him for the blow. I p,
lave not talked over any more plung- ^
ng with you. Mr. Brownley, since the
inlucky one in Sugar, and?" a
"Miss Sands, 1 understand what you V(
nean." Bob broke In. "and I should ^
ipologlae for not having consulted r(
vith you about your business affairs.
The fact Is, I have not been quite clear
is to the best thing to do. I hope you t]
lon't think I have forgotten. Never j.
'or a moment since I took charge of ^
four affairs have I forgotten my prom- ^
se to see that they were kept active. ^
Truly I have been trying to think out )t
iome successful plunge, but?but"? _
here was a hoarseness In his voice? 0
'I have not had my old confidence in t|
uyself since that day In Sugar when I g
tilled your hopes and destroyed the w
chance of saving your father?no, I s
lave not had that confidence a man a
nust have In himself to win at this t
tame." c
There was a silence, and then I
leard an indescribaole fluttering rush
hat told as plainly as sight could have 0
lone that a woman had answered her o
Heart's call. Looking up involuntarily, ^
I saw a sight that for a long moment ^
field my eyes as if I had been fas- f
ilnated. It was Bob bowed forward h
with his face hidden in his hands and
beside him. on her knees, Beulah ^
Sands, her arms about his neck, his t<
head drawn down to her bosom. "Bob, j>
Bob." siie said chokingly, "I cannot p
atand it any longer. My heart Is break- s
Ing for you. You were so happy when s
T came Into your life, and the happl- ?
ness Is changed to misery and despair, g
and all for me, a stranger. At first I p
thought of nothing but father and how n
to save him, but since ithat day when "
those men struck at your heart, I have r
been filled with, oh! such a longing to c
tell you. to tell you. Bob?"
"What? Beulah, what? For the ?
)ve of God, don't stop; tell me, Beuih,
tell me." He had not lifted his
ead. It was burled on her breast, his
mis closed around her. She bent her
ead and laid her beautiful, soft cheek,
own which the tears were now
treaming, against his brown hair.
Bob, forgive me, but I love you, love
ou. Bob, as only a woman can love
fho has never known love before,
ever known anything but stern duty.
:ob. night after night when all have
(ft I have crept Into your office and
it In your chair. I have laid my head
n your desk and cried and cried until
seemed as though I could not live
11 morning without hearing you say
lat you loved me, and that you did
nt mlnH tho ruin T hnri hmnirht Into
our life. I have patted the back of
our chair where your dear head had
isted. I have covered the arms of
our chair, that your strong, brave
onds had gripped, with kisses. Night
fter night I have knelt at your desk
nd prayed to God to shield you, to
rotect you from all harm, to brush
?ay the black cloud I brought Into
our life. I have asked Him to do
1th me, yes. with my father and
lother, anything, anything if only He
ould bring back to you the happiness
had stolen. Bob, I have suffered, sufred.
as only a woman can suffer."
She was sobbing as though her
?art would break, sobbing wildly,
mvulslvely, like the little child who
i the night comes to Its mother's bed
> tell of the black goblins that have
*en pursuing It. Long before she
id finished speaking?and It took
ily a few heart-beats for that rush of
ords?I had broken the power of the
iscinatlon that held me. had turned
vay my eyes, and tried not to listen.
nr fear nf break inc the anell. I did
>t dare cross the room to close
eulah's door or to reach the outer
>or of my office, which was nearer
?rs than It was to my desk. I waited
-through a silence, broken only by
eulah's weeping, that seemed hourng.
Then In Bob's voice came one
w sob of Joy:
"Beulah, Beulah, my Beulah!"
I realized that he had risen. I rose,
k>, thinking that now I could close
ie door. But again I saw a picture
tat transfixed me. Bob had taken
eulah by both shoulders and he held
ir off and looked Into her eyes long
?d beseechingly. Never before nor
nee have I seen upon human face
iat glorious joy which the old masts
sought to get into the faces of
telr worshippers who, kneeling here
Christ, tried to send to Him,
irough their eyes, their soul's gratlide
and love. I stood as one enralled.
Slowly and as reverently as
e living lover touches the brow of
8 dead wife, Bob bent his head and
ssed her forehead. Again and again
> drew her to him and implanted upon
tr brow and eyes and lips his kisses,
could not stand the scene any longer,
started to the corridor door, and
en, as though for the first time either
id known I was within hearing, they
rned and stared at me. At last Bob
ive a Ion*, deep sigh, then one of
oee reluctant laughs of happiness
>t wet with sobs.
"Well, Jim, dear old Jim, where did
?u came from? Like all eavesdroptrs,
you have heard no good of yourlf.
Own up, Jim, you did not hear a
ord good or bad about yourself, for
Is just coming back to me that we
ive been selfish, that we have left
?u entirely out of our business conrence."
We all laughed, and Beulah Sands,
ith her face a bloom of burning
ushes, said: "Mr. Randolph, we have
>t settled what it is best to> do about
tiler's affairs."
After a little we did begin to talk
isine8s, and finally agreed that
iulah should write her father, wordg
her letter as carefully as possible,
avoid all direct statements, but
towing him that she had made but
ttle headway on the work she had
me north to accomplish. Bob was a
langed being now; so, too, was Beuh
Sands. Both discussed their hopes
id fears with a frankness in strange
ntrast to their former manner. But
lere was one point on which Bob
lowed he was holding back. I finally
lit It to him bluntly: "Bob, are you
orklng out anything that looks like
jal relief for Miss Sands and her
ther?"
"I don't know how to answer you,
Im. I can only say I have some
leas, radical ones perhaps, but?well,
am thinking along certain lines."
I saw he was not yet willing to take
s into his confidence. We parted,
ob going along in the cab with Miss
ands.
Two days afterward she sent for us
oth as soon as we got to the office.
"I have this telegram from father?
makes me uneasy: 'Mailed today 1mofto
n t letter Inauror a a anotl M VflU
>celve.'"
The following afternoon the letter
ime. It showed Judge Sands in a
ery nervous, uneasy state. He said
e had been living a life of dally ter>r,
as some of his friends, for whose
states he was trustee, had been reviving
anonymous letters, advising
lem to look into the judge's trust afllrs;
that the Relnhart crowd had
een using renewed pressure to make
Im let go all his Seaboard stock,
hlch they wanted to secure at the
>w prices to which they had deressed
it, In order that they might rerganize
and carry out the scheme
ley had been so long planning. Judge
ands went on to say that the day he
as compelled to sell his Seaboard
tock he would have to make public
n announcement of his condition, as
here could be no sale without the
ourt's consent. His closing was:
My dear daughter, no one knows
etter than I the almost hopelessness
f expecting any relief from your
perations. But so hopeless hh.e I
ecome of late, so much am I reliant
pon you. my dear child, and eternal
ope so springs In all of us when conronted
with great necessities, that I
ave hoped and still hope that you
re to be the savior of your family;
hat you. only a frail child, are
hrough God's marvellous workings
a be the one to save the honor of
hat name we both love more than
fe; the one to keep the wolf of povrty
from that door through which
n far has come nothing but the sunhine
of prosperity and happiness; the
ne, my dear Beulah, who Is to save)
our old father from a dlsnonoreci
rave. Dear child. forgive me for
lacing upon your weak shoulders the
ddltional burden of knowing I am
ow helpless and compelled to rely
bsolutely upon you. After you have
ead my letter, If there is no hope. I
ommand you to tell me so at once,
or although I am now financially and
lmost mentally helpless, I am still a
ands, and there has never yet been
one of the name who shirked his duty,
however stern and painful It might be.
When I handed the letter back to
Miss Sands, she said:
"Mr. Randolph, let me tell you and
Mr. Brownley a little about my father
and our home, that you may see our
situation as It is. My father is one of
the noblest men that ever lived. I am
not the only one who says that)?if you
| were to ask the people of our state to
name the one man who had done most
for the state as a state, most for her
progressive betterment, most for her
people high and low, white and black,
they would answer 'Judge Lee Sands.'
Un koo Knnn on/1 la fho I/)a1 f\t nilP
AAV IIUO UWI1, UItU 10, hllV 1UV1 V* ? ? people.
After he was graduated from
Harvard, he entered the law office of
my grandfather, Senator Robert Lee
Sands. Before he was 30 he was In
congress and was even then reputed
the greatest orator of our state, where
orators are so plentiful. He married
my mother, his second cousin, Julia
Lee, of Richmond, at 25, and from
then until the attack of that ruthless
money shark, led a life such as a true
man would map out for himself If his
Maker granted him the privilege. You
would have to visit at our home to appreciate
my father's character and to
understand how terrible this sorrow is
to him. Every morning of his life he
spends an hour after breakfast with
my dear mother, who Is a cripple fnm
hip disease. He takes her In his arm*
and brings her down from her room to
the library as If she were a child. He
then reads to her?and he knows good
books as well as he knows his friends.
After he takes mother back to her
room, he gives an hour to our people,
the blacks of the plantation and his
mKhn tanonlo fhrnnahnnt thn omint!*V
He Is a father to them all. He settles
all their troublee, big and little. Then
for hours he and I go over his business
affairs. Every afternoon from four to
Ave he devotes to his estates and the
men and women for whom he acts as
trustees. He has often said to me:
'We have a clear million of money and
property,. and that is all any man
should ha 5 in America. It is all he
is entitled to under our form of government.
Any more than that an
honest man should in one way or another
return to the people from whom
he has taken it. I never want my
family to have more than a million
dollars.' When he went Into the Seaboard
affair, he explained to me that
It was to assist the Wilsons?they
were old friends, and he acted as their
solicitor for years?In building up the
south. He discussed with me the
right and advisability of putting In the
trust funds. He said he considered It
his duty to employ them as he did his
own In enterprises that would aid the
whole people of the south. Instead of
sending them to the north to be used
in Wall street, as belting for the System's'grinder.
These fortunes were
made In the south by men who loved
their section of the country more than
they did wealth, and why should they
not be employed to benefit that part
of the country which their makers and
owners loved? I remember vividly
how perplexed he was when, at the !feginntng,
the Wilsons would show him
that the investments were returning
unusually large profits.
"'It is not right, Beulah,' he said to
me one morning after receiving a letter
from Baltimore to the effect that
Seaboard stock and bonds had advanced
until this investment showed
over 60 per cent profit, it Is not right
lor ub iu iiutnc hub iiiihic;. nu uwu
in America should make over legal
rates of Interest and a fair profit on
an investment, that is, an investment
of capital pure and simple, particularly
in a transportation company,
where every dollar of profit comes
from the people who patronize the
lines. I have worked it out on every
side, and it is not right; it would not
be legal if the people, who make the
laws for their own betterment, understood
their affairs as they should.'
"He was always writing to the Wilsons
to conduct the affairs of the Seaboard
so that there would be remaining
each day only profits enough to
keep the road up and the wharves in
good condition and to pay the annual
Interest and a fair dividend. And
when the Wilsons came to our house
to lay before him the offer of Reinhart
and his fellow plunderers to
pay enormous profits for the control
of the Seaboard, he was indignant and
argued with them that the offer was
an insult to honest men. It was he
who advised the trusteeship control
of the Seaboard stock to prevent
Reinhart from securing control. I sat
In the library when he talked to the
elder Wilson and the directors.
"He appealed directly to John Wilson
to make an effort to stop the
growing tendency, to use the people
as pawns to enslave themselves and
their children. He said some man
of undoubted probity, standing, and
wealth; some one whom the people
trusted, must start the fight against
these New York fiends, whose only
thought Is to roll up wealth. And
he told John Wilson he was the man,
since he had great wealth, honestly
got by his father and grandfather;
no one Wv>uld accuse him of being a
hypocrite, seeking notoriety, and hi?
standing In the financial world wa*
so old and solid that It would have tc
listen to hLm. I remember how emphatically
father said: 'I tell you,
John, even the discussion of such a
proposition as thnt scoundrel Reinhart
makes Is degrading to an American's
honor.' He said It didn't make
the least difference if Relnhart counted
his millions by the score, and wa#
director In 30 or 40 great Institutions
and gave a fortune every year foi
charity to the church?that he waf
a blackleg Just the same. And so if
any man. he said, who dares to sa>
he will take the stock of a transportation
company, which represent!
a certain amount of money invested
ar*H HaiiKIo ar mult Inlv It hv flv'P fl,nC
ten, simply because he can compe
people to pay exorbitant fares anc
freight rates and so get profits on thli
fraudulently Increased capital.
"It was the decision arrived at bj
father and the Wilsons at this meeting:,
a decision to refuse in any circumstances
to allow our southern people
to be bled by the Wall street 'system,'
that started Reinhart and hh
dollar-fiend on the war-path. Yoi
can see from what I tell you of mj
father the terrible condition he Is li
now. At night. when I Ret to think
Ing of him, hoping against hope, wltl
no one to help him, no one with whon
he cnn talk over his affairs, when
think of his nobleness In devoting hh
time to mother and by sheer will-power
concealing from her his awful sulTer'
ing, it nearly drives me mad." '
"MisB Sands, why will you not let
me lend you the money necessary to
tide your father over for awhile?" I .
asked. <
iou are so gooa, air. nanaoipn, .
"but you don't quite understand my ]
father In spite of what I have said, t
He would not relieve his suffering at
the expense of another, not If It were <
a hundred times more acute. You <
cannot understand the old-fashioned, '
deep-rooted pride of the Sands." 1
"But can you not, at least tempo- 1
rarlly disguise from him Just how you 1
have arranged the relief?" 1
Her big blue eyes stared at me In '
bewilderment. t
(To be Continued).
iHioccUanous heading.
1 \
GREATE8T NATURAL BRIDGE.
1
Most Remarkable Span In the World |
Is Found In Southeastern Utah. r
For some ten years It has been c
known that in a very arid and Inac- r
cesslble part of southeastern Utah \
within what Is known as San Juan )
county, south of the Colorado and g
Grande rivers, exist natural bridges c
of great span. It is only a few years g
ago that definite knowlege of three a
such bridges became public through t
an article by Mr. Dyar In the Century
Magazine, that explorer having made
the dlflcult trip under the guidance i
of Horace J. Long, the first discoverer, r
and taken photographs of them with s
a small kndnlc >
The Geographical Mazazlne now a
publishes in the March number repro- a
ductions of three paintings by H. L a
A. Culmer from his own measurements 1
and those of others in the party, from r
photographs and his water color
sketches made on the spot. o
There are three bridges, the Augus- t
ta, the Caroline and the Edwin, the c
first having a span of 320 feet and a f
height of 265, the second a span of d
360 and height of 182 (which Is the v
largest in the world) and the third t
a span of 205 feet and a height of c
111. I
The Caroline bridge, as the largest, a
Is painted on a canvas 7| feet long t
and five feet high. Through the arch g
one sees high canyon walls and the t
bastions of lofty buttes; cottonwood li
trees come down to the stream that 1
runs forward beneath the bridge, v
The artist has shown a stormcloud s
which appeared at midday, at the v
time he was making his sketches, h
Men on horseback are seen by the a
mo toroiria nnrlar tKo oroK u
MUiUIOIUL UIIUCI WIIV UiUII> T
The Augusta and Edwin bridges t
are on smaller canvases, five feet long r
by 3| high. The former is without t
clouds, but is a late afternoon effect c
with dark shadows and strong level
sunshine. Under the arch atxa great 1|
distance are seen converging slopes f
of hills, the scattered trees ,on the t
nearer slope showing faint green. y
Edwin bridge, the smallest, has less d
perfect curves in the spring of the t
arch, looking more like a huge slab
of stone 30 feet wide and only 10 feet a
thick laid across from steeper abut- P
raents. In this bridge the rock is f
creamy gray in color and takes a pur- t
plish tone in shadow. Mountain pine I
and cedars in considerable groves are v
seen below the arch and also back t
through the middle distance. The r
time chosen is midday. There are t
faint white cloudlets scattered over ?
the soft blue sky. t
The material for these bridges is a f
light sandstone, but the erosion which c
hollowed them out must have been at t
work many ages ago, for under the
Caroline arch are caves where pottery r
and other signs of ancient inhabitants t
have been found. There is no likell- s
hood that these wonders will disap- d
pear, since there is nothing that can p
affect them seriously short of an t
earthquake.
It has be%n suggested that this re- t
gton be reserved for a national park, f
ana roaas construciea 10 enuDie pen- c
pie to reach the bridges conveniently, a
The nearest town Is a small place called
Bluff, on the San Juan river, sixtyfive
miles off, and the nearest railway
station is Dolores, 106 miles to the
eastward, on a narrow guage branch
of the Denver and Rio Grande southern.
A large portion of this region has
never been surveyed.
The Caroline and Augusta bridges
are over White river, while Edwin
bridge spans Armstrong creek, which
enters the White a few miles below.
All three are within a radius of about
twenty miles.
These bridges are not only great curiosities
In themselves, but are very
beautiful In outline, their rugged surfaces
and seams suggesting the work
of titans and repeating on an Immense
scale the effects of architecture among
the ancient races who made an arch,
not by stones or bricks fixed In place
over a false arch of wood,, but by piling
great blocks of stone on top of
each other, and after bringing them
gradually together until the top stones 1
met, proceeded to cut away projecting
1 angles until the arch was formed.
1 It Is curious that the only approach
1 to the arch found In America was produced
in this manner, as, for example,
' In prehistoric buildings that still ex1
1st In Yucatan and Chiapas, Mexico.
A Stonk of Grbat Valuk.?There
! is n Hlab of black stone In the British
museum which, If you could walk
1 away with It and establish your claim
as the owner, you could sell any day
for a quarter of a million, and find
1 half a dozen money kings In England
' and America ready to buy It.
There Is nothing very striking about
this stone; It might be a piece of
' black marble, witn some peculiar
' hieroglyphics upon It. Hut, It Is Just
' these hieroglyphics which make It so
' valuable, because they are the key to
' all the ancient writings of the Egyp'
tlnns. and without this stone, called
the Rosetta Stone, we should be unr
able to read the Egyptian writings
" which have been discovered from time
" to time.
Some French tourists found the
" Rosetta Stone In Egypt, and trans*
ported It to Paris, where an Engllsh1
man took a fancy to It for a garden
r ornament. He paid JC5 for It?five
, sovereigns, and got a treasure which
you could cover with gold, and yet
not represent Its value; but till the
i day of his death he did not know
! what that bit of stone was worth.
-. ?
tw A good way not to wrong people
' Is not to get a chance.
PRE8IDENT AT JAMESTOWN.
Ml Natrons Welcomed to American
Birthday Celebration.
The feature of the opening1 of the
Jamestown exposition last Friday, was
the address of President Roosevelt.
His theme was international peace,
progress of the American nation and
l better understanding of all Interests.
President Roosevelt began his adiress
by welcoming the different nations
of the world who sent their representatives
to assist in celebrating
;he birthday of the American nation,
rie paid a tribute to England and Ireand,
as it was of this stock the coun "?
A anH U/hn did
. I y nao inot in. uivu, nuu ?. ..w ?
nost In casting the mold Into which
he national character was run.
He also paid special tribute to the
Asiatic nations of the "Newest East,"
md a hearty welcome was extended to
Tapan, which in learning from the
vest, has so very much to teach the
vest In return,
"The world has moved so far," said
^resident Roosevelt, "that It Is no
onger necessary to believe that one
lation can rise only by thrusting an?ther
down. All far-sighted statesnen,
all true patriots, now earnestly
vish that the leading nations of mankind,
as in their several ways they
itruggle constantly toward a higher
livlllzatlon, a higher humanity, may
tdvance hand in hand, united only in
i generous rivalry to see which can
lest do Its allotted work In the world.
International Peace.
"I believe that there Is a rising tide
n human thought which ' tends for
ighteous international peace; a tide
vhich it behooves us to guide through
atlonal channels to sane conclusions;
nd all of us here present can well
tfford to take to heart St. Paul's coun-1
el; 'If It be possible, as much as
leth in you, live peaceably with all
nen.'
"Three hundred years ago a handful
f English adventurers, who had crossed
he ocean in what we should now call
:ockle-boat8, as clumsy as they were
rail, landed in the great wooded willerness,
the Indian-haunted waste,
vhich then stretched down to the wear's
edge along the entire Atlantic
oast. This landing at Jamestown
>oe8e88es for us of the United States
n altogether peculiar significance, and
his without regard to our several oririns.
The men who landed at Jamesown
and those who, thirteen years
ater, landed at Plymouth, all of Engish
stock, and their fellow-settlers
vho during the next few decades
treamed in after them, were those
vho took the lead in shaping the life
ilstory of this people in the colonial
nil revolutionary davs. It was they
trho bent into definite shape our naion
while it was still young enough
nost easily, most readily, to take on
he characteristics which were to become
part of its permanent life habit
"The pioneers of our people who first
inded on "these shores on that event|al
day three centuries ago, had before
hem a task which during the early
ears was of heartbreaking danger and
lit jlty. The conquest of a new Conine
it is iron work.
"At last they took root in the land,
jid were already prospering when the
lilgrims landed at Plymouth. In a
ew years a great inflow of settlers
>egan. Four of the present states of
Jew England were founded. Virginia
vaxed apace. The Carollnas grew up
o the south of it and Maryland to the
lorth of it. The Dutch colonies beween,
which had already absorbed the
iwedlsh, were ir their turn absorbed
>y the English. Pennsylvania was
ounded and. later still, Georgia. Then
ame the successful struggle for nalonal
independence."
'J?? Mn/tn 1 la/1 I # a
ine piemuciu men icuiiieu uu vw.?
ilal period, the expansion of the nalon
across the Alleghenies, the MIslsslppl
river and to the Pacific. The
lays of the pioneers fighting fever,
testilence and famine, making smooth
he ways for their successors.
"In the Revolutionary war." he conInued,
"It Is but fair to say that the
oremost place was taken by the solliers
and the statesmen of Virginia;
ind to Virginia was reserved the hon>r
of producing the hero of both movenents,
the hero of the war, and of the
jeace that made good the results of
he war?George Washington; while
he two great political tendencies of
he time can be symbolized by the
names of two other great Virginians?
Tefferson and Marshall?from one of
vhom we inherit the abiding trust in
:he people which is the foundation
done of democracy, and from the oth?r
the power to develop on behalf of
the people a coherent and powerful
government, a genuine and representative
nationality.
The Civil War.
"Then came the civil war, terrible
ind bitter In Itself and In Its aftermath.
but a struggle from which the
nation finally emerged united in fact
is well as in name, united forever.
Oh, my hearers, my fellow countrymen,
great Indeed has been our good
fortune; for as time clears away the
mists that once shrouded brother from
brother and made each look 'as
through a giass darkly' at the other,
we can all feel the same pride In the
valor, the devotion and the fealty toward
the right as it was given to each
to. see the right, shown alike by the
men who wore the blue and by the
men who wore the gray. Rich and
prosperous though we are as a people,
4 *? 1 1 ~J * ? /a# ii a hao
ine proud ntrninge mm cuwn ui uo
no matter where he may dwell, north
or south, east or west. Is the Immaterial
heritage of feeling, the right to
claim as his own all the valor and all
the steadfast devotion to duty shown
by the men of both the great armies,
of the soldiers whose leader was Grant
and the soldiers whose leader was Lee,
The men and the women of the civil
war did their duty bravely and well In
the days that were dark and terrible
and splendid.
"We can not afford to forget the
maxim upon which Washington Insisted,
that the surest way to avert
war is to be prepared to meet it
Nevertheless, the duties that most
concern us of this generation are nol
military, hut social and Industrial
We of this mighty western republic
have to grapple with the dangers thai
spring from popular self-government
tried on a scale Incomparably vastet
than ever before In the history of mankind.
and from an abounding material
prosperity greater also than anything
which the world has hitherto seen.
"In Industrial matters our enormous
prosperity has brought with It certain
grave evils. It Is our duty to try
to cut out these evils without at the
same time destroying: our well-being:
Itself. This is an era of combination
alike in the world of capital and in the
world of labor. Each kind of combination
can do good, and yet each,
however, powerful, must be opposed
when It does ill. It is our business to
put a stop to abuses and to prevent
their recurrence, without showing a
spirit of mere vindictiveness for what
has been done in the past. .
"The wrongdoer, the man who
swindles and cheats, whether on a big
scale or a little one, shall receive at
our hands mercy as scant as If he
committed crimes of violence or brutality.
We are unalterably determined
to prevent wrongdoing in the future;
we have no Intention of trying
to wreak such an Indiscriminate
vengeance for wrongs done In the past
as would confound the innocent with
the guilty. Our purpose is to buildup
rather than to tear down. We show
ourselves the truest friends of property
when we make it evident that we
will not tolerate the abuses of property.
We are steadily bent on preserving:
the institution of private property;
we combat every tendency toward
reducing the people to economic
servitude; and we care not whether
the tendency is due to a sinister agitation
directed against all property, or
whether it is due to the actions of
those members of the predatory
classes whose anti-social power is immeasurably
increased because of the
very fact that they possess wealth.
"The cornerstone of the republic lies
1n our treating each man on his worth
as a man paying no heed to his creed,
his birthplace, or his occupation, asking
not whether he is rich or poor,
whathar hp Inhnrs with haad nr hand!
asking only whether he acts decently
and honorably In the various relations
of his life, whether he behaves well to
his family, to his neighbors, to the
state. We base our regard for each
man on the essentials and not the accidents.
We judge him not by his
profession, but by his deeds; by his
conduct, not by what he has acquired
of this world's goods.
"This great republic of ours shall
never become the government of a
plutocracy, and it shall never become
the government of a mob. God willing,
it shall remain what our fathers
who founded it meant it to be?a government
.in which man stands on his
worth as a man, where each is given
the largest personal liberty consistent
with securing the well-being of the
whole, and where, so far as in us lies,
we strive continually to secure for
each man such equality of opportunity
that in the strife of life he may have
a fair chance to show the stuff that is
in him. We are proud of our schools
and of the trained intelligence they
give our children the opportunity to
acquire. But what we care for most
is the character of the average man;
for we believe that if the average of
character in the Individual citisen is
sufficiently high, if he possesses those
qualities which make him worthy of
respect in his family life and In his
work outside, as--well as the qualities
which fit him for success in the hard
struggle of actual existence?that if
such is the character of our individual
citizenship, there is literally no height
of triumph unattainable in this vast
experiment of government by, of and
for a free people."
< 1
ATTACKING THE POLE.
Peary and Wellman Prepared For New
Advances By Ice and Air.
The navy department haa granted
a three years' leave of absence to
Commander Peary, to be employed In
a new assault upon the pole.
The Peary Arctic club has ordered
the Ice steamer Roosevelt to be put
into condition for service and tendered
to Peary with a complete outfit.
The explorer is to sail from New York
July 1, and the coming summer will
see the Peary party again camped upon
the shores of the Arctic ocean
ready for a sledge dash over the ice
next spring. Commander Peary thinks
that the experience he gained on his
last expedition will make success almost
certain next time. He expects
to reach the lce-flelds by the middle
of July, with practically the same
equipment as on his former expedition.
In Greenland he will buy two
hundred dogs. He intends to follow
almost the same route as before. "It
will be the supreme effort of my life,"
he says, "and if I am not successful I
may be ready to say that the pole is
beyond the reach of man."
Some ill-natured critics have complained
that the Navy Register records
only ten years and seven months of
public service for Peary against fourteen
years and seven months put down
under the head of "unemployed." They
ask how the "obscure and quiet gen
lor^ on" U-KA hatro ATI HAN
forming the prosaic duties of civil engineers
in the navy, feel as they contemplate
the meteoric rise of one who
who has been "unemployed" for nearly
fifteen years, and now receives
another leave of absence for three. Of
course, the question is absurd. There
are plenty of capable civil engineers;
there are only a few born arctic explorers.
If the government had detailed
Peary to command a Polar expedition
of its own, as it detailed
Greely, and as Great Britain detailed
Nares, it would have paid the whole
cost of the enterprise, Including full
salary to the leader, and everybody
1 would have admitted that the commander's
time had been well occupied
' and the money well and brilliantly
' earned. The fact that Peary and his
1 admirers have raised the whole cost
of his expeditions without calling upon
the government for a cent does not
in the least diminish the merit of his
services or the folly of wasting his
I rare qualities on the ordinary routine
i work that could be done Just as well
, by any graduate of an engineering
school.
But there is a chance that when
^ *?-?? crcxt a tn fhn nnln Ha
! I 'OlllllUlIIUt'I x CU1J Rtvo IV ?..v f-v.v ..V
may And Mr. Walter Wellman's card
already tacked upon It. Mr. Wellman
sailed for Europe on April 11, ex
pressing the belief that he would be
: at his headquarters in Spitsbergen by
the middle of June. The trials of his
airship are to begin In July, and he
hopes to spread his wings for the pole
s by the end of that month or the beginning
of August. Then he will either
succeed or fall within the ensuing few
[ days. Before the Roosevelt is laid up
In the ice for the winter, Mr. Wellman
will either have found the pole
I or lost the chance for this year. He
says that he will not start on his flight
' from -Spitsbergen unless the conditions
are so favorable as to give good reai
son to expect success. If the outlook
seems bad, he will reserve himself and
the airship for another year.?Col'
Iter's Weekly.
CIRCUS nCJHStb.
How Thoy Are Trained to Perform In
the Ring.
In purchasing an animal for circusring
work?bareback?Intuition in the
purchaser is perhaps a more Important
factor than mere technical knowledge,
but both are important. However,
beyond such intuition, the points
to be looked for are a broad breast,
straight, broad back; short-coupled
body, and a broad, intelligent forehead.
H<3 must be young and, of
course, sound and well marked. After
he and the trainer come to know each
other, the latter gets on him for a trot
around the ring, giving the animal his
own gait for a while, then bringing
him into a lope. Next he is given a
little spur?always pointless, and usually
a ten-cent piece with the milling
worn down so that it does not cut the
skin?and the kneed of the rider are
pressed in gradually until the animal
comes to canter. This is continued
patiently and with many encour
aging worcui unui me norse geia ms
right leg out?the left leg out Is what
Is known as a "false gallop." The wise
trainer acts on the theory that all
horses, candidates for the ring, are
from the Iron Mountain state?must
be shown, not whipped and when once
the animal gets the Idea that his trainer's
motives are of the kindliest, it la
surprising how quickly he responds
in kind.
After the horse has been broken into
a proper gait, large pieces of paper ,
are scattered about the ring, sacks
thrown up before his head, dummy
figures cast on and off his back, pistols
fired into the air and under the
feet, drums beaten on his back and
under and around him, to accustom
him to all sorts of Intimidating noises
and sights. To be a nervous animal
this Is a trying experience, and confidence
in his master, who continually
soothes him with reassuring words, Is
all that keeps the pupil from going to
pieces. But even then some are panic
stricken, and the trainer's motto Is:
"Takfe time?have patience." He then
works the novice around the ring with
an experienced animal, allows him to
smell of the saddle and other objects
Klt? If hA wanta to
iiovu, auu uuc uiviu * uv ?.
Bat sometimes, even after all this, the
subject Is found to be too nervous to
stand the strain, and he Is turned out
for a few days, week or months, or
longer, as may seem best.
Early In his training the horse is
handled all over, until he becomes so
used to it that he will not flinch. After
he has been broken to gait and noises
a dummy rider is put up in such a
manner that it will flop pretty much
all over his back. When he has got
use^ to this a real rider takes the
place of the dummy. However, even
after the circus horse has been
through all these experiences he will
sometimes sulk. In that event the
trainer gives him "one?two" across
>>? ian with ft whin, and there
la no more aulkinf after that, for the
impression, of this, hia first real punishment
Is a lasting one. An "Ah, ah
there!" usually la sufficient thereafter
to correct him.
Some horses will break in two weeks
but put a new rider up and the animal
seems possessed, throwing the
equestrian the moment he essays a
stand, but this generally la found to
be the fault of the rider. Some, with
feet at horse, standing In one place
too long, will get an anljpal ticklish
after a while, causing him to kick and
squeal, thus ruining an otherwise artistic
performance, and then the rider
has to be requested to move about
more on ^he horse's back. The feet
of an experienced rider, you will observe
If you take notice, are never in
one spot for more than Instant; they
are constantly on the move, working
much as a ballet dancer's do. For
bareback work the animal is taught
to "spread" by the pushing of the feet
of the rider, attacking with the reins
and heel at the same time.
One difficulty hard to overcome Is
the speed of young horses. Imbued
with the spirit of the moment. Inspired
by the music of bands, the
crack of the ringmaster's whip and
the cries of the rider, they go faster
and faster, until, by and by, the equestrian,
unable to maintain his poise,
takes an inglorious tumble. Therefore
the older the horse the better fitted
he is for bareback work, because he
is so slow and sure. There are, in *11
of the big circus organizations, horses
that have been in the ring for twenty-five
years and more?faithful,
steady, lazy old fellows, plump, sleek
and wise, and highly valued by their
owners. Many performers train and
own their own stock, the show paying
for the keep, or rather furnishing it.
?Leslie's Weekly.
CHINESE TIME 8TICK8.
Each One Will Burn Throughout a
Period of Twelve Hours.
The Chinese have several contrivances
for keeping the time of day.
The water clock has often been described,
but the use of burning sticks
Is less familiar, says Youth's Companion.
These are described by Colonel
Bridges In his book. "Round the World
In Six Months."
We bought a small bundle of time
sticks. The sticks each of which Is
32 Inches long, are used, as their name
implies, for the purpose of measuring
time. For use by day some are especially
made, while others for service by
night are particularly constructed.
Each burns during a period of twelve
hours. Of these "King Alfred's candles."
as some of our party termed
them, we bought two, and from a printed
circular or advertisement which
was at the same time handed to us by
the man who sold them we learned the
following particulars:
The materials of which these timemeasuring
sticks are made are prepared
according to the direotions of
the official or Imperial astronomers or
astrologers. The duration of each
time stick is adjusted according to the
I clepsydra, or water clock, so that the
i time which It indicates when burning
i may be regarded as correct.
1 Time sticks which are manufactured
! to mark the hours of the day must be
lighted at day dawn, when the lines
1 on the palm of the hand are Just visible,
while those which are constructed
, to mark the hours of the night must
be lighted at dusk, when the lines on
i the palm of the hand are not discernible.
Each stick when burning must
be placed in a perpendicular position.
It Is also necessary that it should be
placed in a room free from currents of
air.