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R XfS JXD SEMI'WBEHL^^ l. m. grist s SONS, Pnbu.hen. } % ^atnilp Beirspaper: |[or thq promotion o)f the political, ?oqiat. Ijriqnltoqal and flJommerria! Interests oJthe peoptq. { ier8?nOLe2'copAt.VVve ce^?va!<cgestablished 1855. . YORKVILLE, 8. C., TUESDAY, MAY y8, 1907. NO. 43. ^ ^vrtfC#r/9C7 arOmLftwAKff C | SYNOPSIS. Chapter I?Bob Brownley creates a panic In Wall street He is a friend oi Jim Randolph of Randolph & Randolph. bankers and brokers. Brownley and Randolph had gone to college together and entered the employ of Randolph's father at the close of college days. Brownley is a Virginian by birth. Beulah Sands, daughter of an old Virginia house, calls on Brownley and tells him her father has been 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 his condition becomes known, and asks tui employment in the office tfiat she may have an opportunity to better understand how her money is invested. She does not want it used in a purely Wall street gamble, but In the buying and selling of legitimate securities. Brownley agrees to help her, and falls in love with her. Chapter II?Brownley plunges in sugar stock. He uses the money of Miss Sands, his own and in addition is backed heavily by the Randolph millions. His coup seems successful, and he tells Miss Sands that she has cleared $1.800,000. But the market had not closed. Chapter I'I?Barry Conant. head broker for Standard Oil and sugar interests, suddenly begins to sell "sugar." In the midst of a panic he breaks the market and with its fall carries away the earnings and much of the capital of both Miss Sands and himself. A (ho preiiy love scene occurs ucinccu ?.??? two at the office when Bob attempts to tell her the terrible truth of their fall. Brownley takes a trip to Virginia Chapter IV?Beulah Sands and Bob become engaged. Randolph wants to loan her father the money to meet his obligations. She refuses. Bob figures on hQw to beat Wall street at Its own game. Sugar takes another sensational spurt upward, but Brownley keeps out. Chapter V.?The "bulls" toss sugar to record breaking point, and the "street" goes wild. Barry Conant, for the "system," pushes prices up and up, and a wonderful clean-up is promised when the exchange closes, Thursday, November 12. Sugar opens higher Friday morning, November 13. When the price had passed all bounds Brownley steps Into tne pn ana Begins to sell. He sells every share "the system's" brokers will take, and pounds the price down and down until failures are of momentary occurence, and "the system' has lost millions. He has made millions for Beulah Sands and her father. Chapter VI?Beulah Sands insists upon being assured that there is no dishonor connected with the money he has made for her, and he cannot honestly answer "no." He leaves her to think it out. When he returns he finds her staring at the glaring headlines of a newspaper extra announcing that her father, while temporarily insane, had killed his wife, his daughter and himself, and Beulah Sands had gone crazy. Chapter VII?Bob Brownley marries beautiful, insane Beulah Sands, and takes her to Virginia. The sight of the old home does not restore her reason, and he returns with her to New York and builds a palace for his bride, one floor of which is designed especially for her. He begins plunging on the "street" and adds millions to his now great fortune. He always opposes the "system." His every appearance on the floor of the exchange means panicky conditions. Time after time he has "the street" seemingly at his mercy, but relents before the great crash comes. Chapter VIII ?Brownley proposes to breaw Wall street. In the midst of a panic he has created Randolph threatens to commit suicide if he does not stop. He stops, but assures his friend that It is the last time he will stop, that the next time he will complete he Job when he begins i. CHAPTER VIII?Continued. "No, you don't, Jim Randolph, no, you don't. You came here for something: and, by heaven, you will tell me what it is! You know me; you are the only human being who does. You know what I was, you see what I am. "Sou know what they did to me to make me what I am. You know, Jim Randolph, you know whether I deserved it. You know whether in all my life up to the day those dollar-frenzied hounds tore mv soul, I had done any man. woman, or child a wrong. You know whether 1 had, and now you are going to sneak off and leave me as though I were a cur dog of the Reinhart-'Standard Oil' breed gone mad!" He was standing over me, a terrible yet a magnificent figure. As he hurled these words at me, I was sure he had really lost his mind: that I was in the presence of a man truly mad. But only for an instant; then my horror, my anger turned to a great, crushing, all-consuming agony of pity for Bob, and I dropped my head on my hands and wept. It is hard to admit it, but it is true?1 wept uncontrollably. In an instani the room was quiet except for the sound of my own awful grief. I heard it. was ashamed of it. but I could not stop. The telephone rang again and again, wildly, shrilly, but there was no answer. The stillness became sc oppressive that even my own sobs quieted. I gasped as the lump in my throat choked, then I slowly raised my eyes. Bob's towerintr figure was in front of me. His head had fallen forward and his arms were folded across his breast. But that he stood erect 1 should have thought him dead, sc still was he. I jumped to my feet anc looked into his face, down which great tears were dropping silently. 1 touched him on the shoulder. "Bob, my dear old chum. Bob, forgive me. For God's sake, forgive m? for intruding on your misery." I looked at him. I will never forge his face. No heartbroken woman's could have been sadder. He slowlj raised his head, then staggered ant grasped the ticker-stand for support. "Don't, Jim, don't?don't ask me t< forgive you. Oh, Jim, Jim. my olt friend, forgive me for my madness forget what I said to you, forget tin brute you just saw and think of me a; of old, when I would have plucked ou my tongue if I had caught it sayini a harsh word to the best and trues friend man ever had. Jim, forget i all. I was mad. I am mad, I havi been mad for a long time, but it can not last much longer. I know it can't and, Jim, by all our past love, by th< memories of the dear old days at SI Paul's and at .Harvard, the dear old I days of hope and happiness, when we t ; planned for the future, try to think of t me only as you knew me then, as you S know that I should now be, but for t the 'System's' curee." s i The clerks were pounding on the a door; through the glass showed many t forms. They had been gathering for s minutes while Bob talked In his low, fc sad tone, a tone that no one could be- lieve came from the same mouth that t a few moments before had poured d forth a flood of brutal heartlessness. 1 Bob went to the door. The office n was in an uproar. Twenty or thirty of e Bob's brokers were there aghast at c not getting a reply to their calls, s Many were pouring in through the h outer office. Bob looked at them cold- r ly. "Well, what is the trouble? Is ii it possible we are down to a point c where the stock exchange rushes over h to a man's office when his wire hap- a pens to break down?" I They saw his bluff. Tou cannot de- E ceive stock exchange men, at least a not the kind that Bob Brownley em- d Dloved on panic days, but his coolness o reassured them, and when they saw s me It was odds-on that they guessed II to a man why Bob had ignored his f< wires?guessed that I had ^een plead- p ing for the life of "the Street." ii "Well, where do- you stand?" ? Frank Swan answered for the h crowd: "The panic is in full swing, b She's a cellar-to-rldge-pole ripper, d They're down 40 or over on an aver- u age. Anti-People's is down to 35, and fl still coming like sawdust over a brok- ii en dam. Barry Conant's house and a tl dozen other of Reinhart's have gone h under. His banks and trust compa- p I ! "No, You Don't Jim Ra nles are going every minute. The ^ whole street will be overboard before ^ the close. The governing committee P has just called a meeting to see whether it will not be best to adjourn ^ the exchange over today and tomorrow." n Bob listened as if he had been a h master at the wheel in a gale, recelv- e ing reports from his mates. a There was no trace now of the 11 scene he had just been through. He 8 was cold, masterful, like the seasoned 0 sea-dog who knows that in spite of a the ocean's rage and the wind's howl, P i the wheel will answer his hand and '' , the craft its rudder. "Jim, come over s to the exchange." The crowd follow- 0 - ed along. "We have but a minute and r i I want to have you say you forgive v [ me," he said to me. "I know, Jim, ' ; you understand it all, but I must i tell you how sorrowful I am that in 1 my madness I should have so forgot- 1 ; ten my admiration, respect, and love I for you, yes, and my gratitude to you, i as to say what I did. I'll do the only > thing I can to atone. I will stop this f i Danic and undo as much as possible 3 of my work; and now that I have 1 I wrecked Reinhart I am through with r this game forever, yes, through fori ever." * , He pressed my hand in his strong, c s honest one and strode into the ex- 1 [ change ahead of the crowd. All was 2 > chaos, although the trading had toned * I down to a sullen desperation. So ? t many houses, banks, and trust com- 1 panles had failed that no man knew ^ whether the member he had traded 1 with early In the day would on the 1 ; morrow be solvent enough to carry 1 out his trades. The man who had ' t been "long" in the morning, and had 1 s sold out before the crash, and who ' ; thought he now had no interest in the ' 1 panic, founc himself with his stock ! again on hand, because of the failure ' ) of the one to whom he had sold, and ' 1 the price cut in two. The man who ' ; was "short" and who a few minutes e before had been eagerly counting his s profits now knew that they had been t turned to loss, because the man from ? whom he had borrowed his short t stocks for delivery would be in no ( t condition to repay for them, the next e day, when they should be returned to - him. The "short" man was himself, ;, therefore, "long" stock he had bought e to cover his "short" sale. In depres^sl. ing the price he had been working against his own pocket instead of against the bulls he had thought he was opposing. All was confusion and black despair. There is, Indeed, no blacker place than the floor of the stock exchange after a panic cyclone las swept it, and is yet lingering In its :orners, while the survivors of its fury io not know whether or not It will again gather force. CH4PTRR TX The governing committee was holdng a meeting In Its room. Bob rush;d In unceremoniously. "One word, gentlemen," he called. ' 'I have more trades outstanding, both j'jvs and sells, than any other mem>er or house. Before deciding whether 0 adjourn In an attempt to save 'the Street,' I asked your consideration of his proposition: If the exchange will uspend operations for 30 minutes, tad allow me to address the mem>ers on the floor, I will agree to buy tocks all around the room, until they lave regained at least half their drop -all of it, if possible. I will buy un- 1 11 I have exhausted to the last hunIred my fortune of a billion dollars, "his should make an adjournment unlecessary. I know that this is a most xtraordinany request, but you are onfronted with a most extraordinary ituation, the most remarkable in the istory of the stock exchange. Aleady, if what they say on the floor 1 correct, over 200 banks and trust | ompanies throughout the country ave gone under, and new failures re being announced every minute, lalf the members of this and the Boston and Philadelphia exchanges re Insolvent and have closed their oors, or will close them before three 'clock, and the shrinkage In values 0 far reported runs over fifteen bllions. Unless something is done beore the close, there will be a similar anlc in every exchange and bourse 1 1 Europe tomorrow." The committee instantly voted to ty the proposition before the full oard. In another minute the presient's gavel sounded, and the floor ;as still as a tomb. All eyes were xed on the president. Every man i that great throng knew that upon tie announcement they were about to ear, might deperd, at least temorarily, the welfare, not only of i i indolph, No, You Don't" j Vail street, but of the nation, per- t aps even of the civilized world. The , resident spoke: j "Members of the New York Stock ( Exchange: ] "The governing committee instructs j le to .say that Mr. Robert Brownley , as asked that operations be suspendd for 30 minutes, in order that he be t flowed to address you. Mr. Brown- . ey has agreed, if this request be j ranted, he will upon resumption of , iterations purchase a sufficient , .mount of stock to raise the average irice of all active shares at least oneialf their total drop?all of it, if pos- ( ible. He agrees to buy to the limit ( f his fortune of a billion dollars. I , iow put Mr. Brownley's request to a j ote. All those in favor of granting | t ,1.111 oirrnlftf tho sarrio hv savine . i'es.'" I A mighty roof-lifting "Yes" sounded hrough the room. ] "All those opposed, 'No.'" , There was a deathly hush. , "Mr. Brownley will please speak , rom this platform, and remember, In j 0 minutes to the second, I will sound ( he gavel for the resumption of busi- ( less." j Bob Brownley strode to the place | ust vacated by the president. The rowd was growing' larger every mln- j ite. The ticker was already hissing , l tape biograph of this extraordinary , situation in brokerage shops, hotels, | ind banks throughout the country, , ind in a few minutes the news of it , vould be in the capitals of Europe. Vever before In history did man have such an audience?the whole civilized vorld. Already arose from Wall, Broad and New streets, which surround the exchange, the hoarse below of the gathering hordes. Before [he ticker should announce the resumption of business these would lumber hundreds of thousands, for the financial district for more than an fiour had been a surging mob. To Be Continued. f.*> Manager?I can't do a thing with Smith, the new clerk. I've had him in three departments, and he sleeps all day long. Proprietor?Put him at the pajama counter and fasten this card on him: "Our night clothes are of such a superior quality that even the assistant who sells them cannot keep awake."? Tit Bits. Ittisfrttapmis grading. RURAL POLICE. A System That Might Be Established With Advantage. Newberry Herald and News: The report of the grand Jury for Richland county contains the following paragraph: "That we the grand Jury, desire thai they carefully consider the pressing needs of a mounted county police service and make such recommendations as will promote the Inauguration of such police protection." We think their recommendation la a jood one, and in fact at the last session of the legislature we introduced a bill providing for a rural police throughout the state. The bill was held up pending some other legislation, and final action was not taken on the other matters until too late to have this bill considered, and in fact, it tvould have been necessary to make some changes in it. The bill was continued and will come up among second reading bills at the next session of the legislature. In order to get data on the subject tnd the working of such a system in >ther states we wrote letters to all of the governors In the United States, -equesting a copy of laws pertaining to rural police in their states. To our surprise we learned that' there is no system of rural police In any state in the union. In Georgia a member of the legislature had a bill providing for l patrol system, which was the near ist to a system of rural police of any itate so far as the Information we ob;ained in reply to our letters. We are rlad to see the grand Jury of Richland ecommendlng something of the kind, ind we hope to get our bill in such shape at the next session that we nay be able to get some legislation Llong this line. There is a system of rural mounted jolice in the county of Charleston, and ve are Informed by Sheriff Martin hat it works remarkably well in that :ounty. Our idea was to have the rural poice in every county and so organized hat in the event the assistance of a )ollce from one county should be leeded for another it could be obtained promptly and without delay. There S no auuui ill ulu jiuuu mat outii a. lystem Is needed, and while we could lot have a sufficient number to cover he county thoroughly, yet the very 'act that there was a mounted police n each county and no one knowing ust what part of the county the poice would be at any one time, would ict as a restrain' 'o the violation of aw. Such a sys jm could take the ilace of the constables specially ap>ointed to look after the enforcement if the law against the illicit sale of vhisky, and while they could be espe:ially charged with this duty, they :ould also have general supervision of he enforcement of all laws, and as our >ill provides that they shall be under he direction of the sheriff, we believe hey could be used to very great advantage for the protection of those of >ur citizens who live in the rural comnunitie8. NURSES OF ROYALTY. tfost of Them Have Been English Women. Some of the tenderest and most afectionate remembrances of royalties ire naturally of those who tended and vatched over them in their happy hildhood days. And it is a fact of which the women >f this country may well feel proud hat in the leading royal families of Europe the nurses have been British, vho, by their devotion and faithful lischarge of their onerous duties, have ;amed the love and lifelong friendship lot only of their illustrious charges iut of the royal parents who commited them to their care. Naturally Queen Victoria of Spain on T7l?o?ilah nnrtiP her engagement of Mrs. R.' H. Green, a turse of great experience and tact, ias been a very wise choice. Her najesty has also engaged Miss Gerrude M. Bunting to tend the Spanish 'oyal baby. In this important task Miss Bunting will be assisted by an)ther English nurse Miss Alice Mary Svans, who was engaged last October jy the queen's mother, Princess Hen y of Battenberg. It may not be out of place to men:ion here that probably the most prized possession of the king of Spain's nurse s a gold ring in which is set the first :ooth shed by her royal charge. The ing bears the curious inscription: 'My tooth to my nurse?Alfonso XIII." For centuries past it has been the eustom of the Spanish royal family to Jispose of the lost tooth of the heir ;o the throne in this way, and the ring n which the precious tooth is set is ooked upon and Jealously guarded as in heirloom in the family of the forunate recipient. The imperial court of Russia had an fcngllsh, or rather a Scottish nurse, vho held her post for a great many ^ears. She was Catherine McKinnon, ivho was born and bred on the Ross of Mull. The daughter of an humble :rofter, she was first in the service if a Russian nobleman, whence she passed into the Russian royal household. She was trusted implicity by her Imperial master, and how she was esteemed by the late czar was shown by the fact that a couple of years before his assassination he ordered a tweed suit, which was to be woven unuei the sooty cabers of a Ross of Mull weaver's house. The cloth was dyed with the lichen which grew on the rocks where Catherine McKinnon had romped and skipped when a barefooted Highland lassie. It Is a little known fact, too, that until a few months ago an English nurse had charge of the children of the present czar. She was only driven from her post by the secret terrors of the Russian court, the extraordinary behavior of the second nurse being the cause of her resigning and returning to England. She discovered that this woman was in reality a spy in the employ of the secret police. She could not leave a room without being followed by her; and every evening the cupboards and nooks and corners of the nurseries were carefully searched for bombs No wonder that this spying got on the nerves of the English nurse and thai she resigned her post. It Is to this English nurse that the present czar owes his ability to speak our language ; without accent and the planting In his mind of a love of England. Queen Wllhelmina of Holland, It Is I interesting to recall, received her education under the superintendence of an English governess, Miss Saxton Winter, and an affecting little Incident which took place on the occasion of the queen's marriage shows how deeply attached her majesty was to the governess. When about to leave the palace, after the ceremony with her husband, ' the queen caught sight of Miss Winter in one of the corridors, and turning back, gave her an affectionate embrace and hade her a. tearful farewell. It was an English lady who nursed the queen of Italy when the heir to the throne was born a couple of years ago. She was Sister Margaret Brown, an English hospital nurse, who was specially selected for the important duties by the matron of Queen Charlotte's hospital. The recent death, by the way of Mrs. Johnson, who as Mile. Vauthler was French governess to the children of the king and queen, Is much regretted In the royal family. The deceased lady was regarded with a friendship that did not wane after her retirement {rom office, and the queen of Norway, when Princess Maud of Wales, paid frequent visits to Mrs. Johnson. To avoid publicity her royal highness elected to be known on such occasions as Miss Mills and the fact gave rise to some highly romantic tales concerning hopeless aspirants for the hand of the princess. It is hardly necessary to say that little truth lay behind such stories, and the young princess always thoroughly enjoyed the peace and simplicity that marked ncr visits nei luiiiici ^i/vciucoo.? Tit-Bits. PARSON WEEM8. One of the Most Curious Characters In Our Country's History. To the little hamlet of Dumfries, Virginia, belongs the credit of having sent out into the world one of the most curious characters In all our country's history. It was in the above mentioned village, in the year 1760, that the subject of this sketch. Mason Locke Weems first saw the light of this world. By the advice of friends young Weems went to London to prepare himself for the ministry. Returning to his native Virginia he filled various pulpits, being finally called to the rectorate of the historic Pohick church, near Mount Vernon, of which Washington was a vestryman. Notwithstanding the fact that Parson Weems had in his congregation the "Father of His Country," and other social magnates of the Old Dominion, his salary was so small that he could not live upon it. Here was Of "condition, not a theory," and the f*fcraon had to decide whether he would keep on along the old way or take up some new business that would give him a little more of the "needful." He took the latter alternative and became a book agent, representing a well-known Philadelphia publisher. Selling: enough of his worldly goods to buy him a horse and saddle, he filled up his saddle bags with books, strapped his fiddle behind him and set out to dispose of his wares to the best possible advantage. Riding through the southland he stopped wherever he could find a crowd and began to tell stories and crack jokes, and when he had got his audience interested in his yarns he would spring upon them the main business of the occasion?the subject of his books. As a general thing he succeeded in exchanging them for the cash, of which he was in such pressing need. The parson was a fine fiddler as w?ll as an accomplished story-teller, and when he could not sell his books by wagging his tongue he would set his fiddle-strings to vibrating, and as a rule the results were more gratifying. On one occasion, the story goes, Mr. Weems was playing with might and main at a young people's dancing party, when the screen behind which he was hiding fell down, revealing the fiddler, In his sacred grab, "very much to the scandal of the beholders!" About 1800 the book agent and fiddler turned to literature, meeting with such success as seldom comes to an author. Weems' "Life of Washington" is said to have been "one of the most popular books ever written by an American," going through some seventy editions. "The Life of Washington" was followed by biographies of Marion, Franklin and William Penn, all of which were successes. Parson Weems, while an intensely interesting writer, cared little for the trifles over which some people haggle. It made no difference to him whether a story was true or false, so long as it was attractive. The parson was probably all right at heart, but he dearly loved a "taking yarn." inai is wny ne puunantu i<> mc world "and the rest of mankind" the story of George Washington and the cherry tree. It was a very pretty story. pretty enough to be true?and that settled it. .But whatever we may think of Parson Weems* usefulness as an historian, no one can doubt his patriotism. He was a patriot to the core. Nobody, In his opinion, was greater than George Washington, and no cause holler than the one for which Washington made so many sacrifices.?New York American. GOLD BURIED IN GUAM. Coin Heretofore Sent, Quickly Went out of Circulation. Fifty thousand dollars of greenbacks, to be used in paying govern| ment expenses at Guam, will be sent to that Island by the next transport. I The greenbacks are from 51 to 55 de| nomination, says the San Francisco Chronicle. As there is a shortage of small pa' per money at the sub-treasury, the greenbacks were gathered at the difi ferent banks. The money Is sent In , this form at the request of the governor of Guam. He sent word to the 1 navy pay office that gold sent to Guam went out of circulation almost imme[ diately, as the natives bury it as soon as they receive it. The island is full ! of burled treasure pots, the location of which is known only to the own> ers. The natives look upon greent backs as stage money and their desire to pass them along keeps up a healthy 1 circulation of currency. SOME FAVORITE SONS. Most Prominent Presidential Timbt In Different States. Regrardless of what the present na tional administration may think of i says a Washington dispatch, there ar to be "favorite sons" in several state; The Republican state convention c Pennsylvania, which meets June i will ppt forward the name of Senate Philander Chase Knox. The Indorse ment will not be perfunctory, eithe; The resolutions to he adopted nav already been prepared. The declslo has Just been made and Is Irrevocable They go to a great length In com mending the head of the governmer at this time, but they go further 1 pointing the way in which Senate Knox has, at all times, held up th hands of the administration, and hoi he is the logical man to succee Roosevelt. Senator Penrose, who fell heir t much of the machine influence c Matt Quay, is in the movement In fa vor of Knox. Senator Hemenwajr of Indiana, th manager in that state of the interest cf Vice President Fairbanks, is her today, and makes it clear that what ever may be the prosperity of the Tal boom in and out of Ohio, it will hav no foothold in Indiana, but that th Hoosler delegation will be for Fair banks first, last and all the .time. Still another favorite son is assure In the person of Mr. Speaker Cannor Only the other day Senator Shelb Cullom, on leaving the president, an while still in the shadow of the execu tive office, made it clear that Illlnol would Consider no other course tha the putting forward of Mr. Cannor The last state convention in his stat declared for him, and there will no be another, nor will there be a chanc for party expression on the presidenc; in Illinois until the next state conven tion, which names state officers, an at the same time names the delegate in lilt; IlCAl l\cpuuuca.u uanuuat vvt? ventlon. Yesterday Mr. Cannon was up a Albany and called upon Gov. Hughet The meeting was watched from her with the keenest Interest. It Is real Ized that the present national admin istration has sought to work In wit! Gov. Hughes, or to aid him In his flgh for control of the state legislature an the management of the political futur of the state, and has been rebuffed. Now, soon after this exchange c amenities, Mr. Cannon drops Into A1 bany and calls upon the state execu tive. One account of that call, whlc came to Washington today, contain the following significant paragraphs: "Gov. Hughes was asked whethe 'Uncle Joe' came as a messenger c peace or envoy of any sort from th White House and whether they talke national politics. " 'Our conversation was general,' sal Gov. Hughes. 'Speaker Cannon cam here last night to attend the annus banquet of the National Periodic! Publishers' association. He was ac companied to the capltol today by S Clair McKelvey of Brooklyn and Ar thur Dunn of Washington.' "While the speaker and Hughe were talking, McKelvey remarked t Senator Raines: 'Wouldn't it b strange If the ticket should be Canno and Hughes for. 1908?" Senator Ralne later said that he told the governor thl remark, and the latter replied: " 'Stranger things than that hav happened."' STINGY MILLIONAIRES. Some Miserly Americans, Two Rus sians and a Frenchman. Not long ago there died In Net York Samuel Dunlap, an octogenarla who, although he could any day hav written a check for a million and ye have remained rich, lived for fort years, with a housekeeper as sole at tendant, on the expenditure?apai from drink?of a worklngman. Dur Ing all this long period he was onl known to purchase one suit of clothe! a cheap pair of gray trousers and tw top coats; he had four straw hats 1 sixteen years, and for the last of ther he paid a shilling. Mrs. Ealden, his housekeeper, use to cut his hair once a month, and sh had Instructions to save the hair an put It In a mattress, "as It was a pit to waste It," and when Mr. Dunlap' frock coat showed signs of wear sh cut off its tails and converted It int a Jacket. For the last eight years c his life t*hls odd man lived entirely 1 a back room of his house and spen his time In drinking whisky and cham pagne?his one extravagance?o which he would often consume flv bottles In a single day. A similar eccentric was George 1 Cllne of Chicago, who left a mlllio pounds sterling at his death a nhor time ago. After the World's Fair, Mi Cllne bought a hotel of seventy-flv rooms and lived there alone In a slngl room, occupying his time in playln the violin. For days together not glimpse of him was seen, and then h would repair to a cheap restaurant an eat a meal which cost his 5d, and fo which he provided the tea. He allow ed himself 12s a monin ior iouu, a.u apart from his beloved violin found hi principal pleasure in seeking out Irish men with rich brogues and buyin food and liquor for them in order t hear them talk. In a tiny, creeper covered hut on th summit of a mountain in Pennsylvani there Is living today a member of on of the richest families In America, man reputed to be enormous! wealthy. From year's end to year' end this hermit of the hills spends hi days alone; he does his own cookln, and housework, washes his own line In a neighboring stream, catches hi own trout, shoots his own game, cul tivates his own vegetables, milks hj goat and makes his own bread. H never receives or sends a letter, neve sees a newspaper and holds no com munlcation with the outside work with the exception of an occasions chat with a young farmer who bring him flour, eggs and meat once .a week. Another millionaire hermit, who, very few years ago, died in Moscow was Mr. G. G. Solodovnikoff, who ha made a fortune, variously estimated a from four to ten millions, by colosss speculations on the Bourse. So man and varied were his investments tha o ua? said the handline of coupon alone gave employment to ten glrli And yet this lord of millions, wh might have rivalled kings in the splen dor of his palaces, lived for years i a tumbledown two storied cottagi surrounded by sordid and rotting: fur nlture. For weeks together he nev? ir put his head outside his front doo: and he spent half .his time in hi dressing gown. When his will wa t, opened It was found that he had lei e the whole of his stupendous fortune to s. philanthropic purposes, from buildln >f schools for girls to providing chea 6, lodgings for the working classes, r When M. Paul Colasson, the famou >- hermit of Paris, died recently, It wa r. stated that for the last twenty-seve e years of his life he had lived exclu n slvely on a diet of eggs and breax a. ha Vilm avopv third dav hv A i- old servant, the only human being h it evtr allowed to enter the magnlflcer n mansion to which he had retired o >r the tragic death of his favorite neph e ew. During all these years he ha v nuned his grief In solitude, neve d ones, so far as Is known, leaving th gor.reous palace which he had con o verted into a prison. >f St. Petersburg recently lost her mot remarkable character In the person c a millionaire count who, in spite of hi e Immense wealth, lived a life of th s most sordid poverty and self-denla e His figure, clothed In rags, was a fa - miliar spectacle in the streets of S !t Petersburg, and many a sympathetl e passerby pressed alms into the hand e of the man whose daily Income wa - estimated at ?1,000. Nor must we forget the mllllonair d baronet who died a few years ago 1 ?. the garret of a house in Waterlo y Road, London, at the advanced age c d ninety-one. For many a year no ser - vant had entered his poor attic; hi s meals were served and placed outsld n his door at stated intervals. He wa i. never known to cross his threshoh e and he died alone In the one-ill-fur >t nlshed room In which, though he ha e an annual income of ?30,000, he ha y spent so many years of sordid an * Ti+.m+ff " seil-impuacu uuiiiiiiciucat.? xiwiw d a A 8CIENCE WONDER. Success of an Experiment in Wireles t Telephony. J. According to reports In the FTenc e newspapers, M. Maiche has made a re - markable discovery in the direction c - wireless telephony. Particulars of th h invention are not yet given, but it i t stated that conversations can be car d ried on with ease between two smaJ e experimental stations 100 feet apar Each station consists of a telephon >t battery, a special form of inductlo - coll and a frame like contrivance con - slstlng of a number of insulated wire* h It is believed that the distance be s tween the parts can be gradually In creased by augmenting the powe r employed in the operation of the In strument. The inventor, M. Match* e holds to this belief and insists that hi rl Anlv ronnlmn n. more thO( * " u^];atakuo w?.ij- w - ough test to establish Its rellabillt d and general usefulness. It Is to b ? feared, however, that the wireless tel d ephone will be subject to the lame dla d advantage that besets the telegraph! - systems dependent upon the radlaz t- form of electricity for their opera tion. The messages from the trans mittlng station will radiate therefror 9 in all directions and will be heard a o all receiving stations within th ? sphere of influence. In this case ther n can be no sort of privacy about th 9 conversations; but that is not th 9 worst, for, supposing half a doze transmitting stations to be workin e simultaneously, the corresponding hal dozen receiving stations will each re ceive six messages at once. The re sultant confusion of tongues would pi to shame even the worst inductio " noises of the telephone system wit which we are now familiar. v If, however, wireless telephon n comes to be accomplished, as its in e ventor insists that it will, it will n !t doubt find a sphere of usefulnes y quite apart from the wire systems a " present in use, Just as pireless teleg raphy. has done. It is said, for in stance; that the new system will b y applicable to submarine vessels, an 3? for that reason alone its developmer 0 will be awaited by the naval powers c n the world with anxious interest. It ii n perhaps, a natural consequence of th great amount of attention which ha d heen attracted to telegraphy .withoti e wires that the dreams of Inventor d should turn toward telephones slm y llarly operated. So far the result s have given rise to no very buoyan e hopes of success; but M. Maiche seem ? to be confident that he Is on the rlgh road, and time may prove that hi n self-assurance Is based upon a practl lt cal knowledge of the possibilities stl ' latent In radiant electricity. e THE DANCE. ^ As It Is Out In Paw Paw Kansas. n "We attended the fine dance give by the local lodge of Sons and Daugh r< ters of Sunlleht last night," says th e Paw Paw Bazoo, "and we had a nlc e time stepping around the hall with g iady or two hugged to our mani a breast. It was a delightful ball, n e doubt, but where Is there anything 1 d the world that cannot be criticised r Now, last night it might have bee " better had the boys in the band bee less full of tanglefoot than they wen 3 We don't care what you say, no bas horn player can grunt pleasant musl on his horn when he's got a load of E' Bramley's rye under his belt and n bass drummer can keep good time to e circling about with your lady whe: ? ' 1 *? ? v.it iKa Hpiirr tie's so loaaeu ne uau i m<. ?.? ? ?- ?? 6 Of course, there arc no personalitie a in this, but let us suggest that the flut * players put the right end of the flute 8 In their mouths hereafter, lest the 8 spoil the tunes, as they did last night g unofficially. The snare drummer wa n fine, he having lost his drum whe: 3 half drunk, and the two cornetist certainly smeared glory all over thfem 3 selves, being Indeed almost sober, ye e insidiously in need of practice. Th r alto horn was fine, but It is rather ob streperous to try to dance to the um ' pah pah music of an alto when th l1 other horns are constantly lnterferin 3 with bad notes. However, the danc was fine, even though Hump Brisb a did fall on his sitting posture in on r' two-step with his slippery feet, mak ing Henry Gaines laugh too loud for 1 gentleman. Another thing, why doe 1 George Devlin spit on the floor at y ball; does any one know? These, out ,t side of the drunken fight between He a Leslie and Martin Hart, which brough _ on many rather vile exclamations fror s* them, were all that could be criticise o at the dance. It certainly was a fln !- affair and society was there an wrestled each other around with smll Ing faces. Let us repeat it soon."Denver Post. LAS T DULL IN int NMVT. ir r, Took Place as Far Back aa 1830 Whan Is Officer Was Killed. -s That settlement of quarrels by apft peal to the code of honor was no ?r longer to be the unwritten law of the g American navy was determined by a p duel in which William Miller, Jr., a Philadelphia lawyer, was slain in a s personal affair fought along the north* - -l?U Tka mnti whn a Cl ii CHV1C VI j^Ciavvai C. xuc hum! ff ??v n fired the fatal shot was Midshipman - Charles Q. Hunter, and the encounter 1, took place along Naaman's Creek on n the afternoon of Sunday, March 21, e 1830. it Singularly enough neither Miller, n who lost his life, nor Hunter, who killi ed him, was principal In the original d quarrel that led to the meeting on the x bank of the little creek in Delaware. e Neither had seen the other until a few i- hours before the challenge was sent and accepted, it Simply a misshot In a game of bll>f Hards played at Third and Chestnut a streets led (o the tragedy that plunged e the homes Into sorrow and embltterj ed the life of the man whose shot . causelessly shed human blood. t Henry Wharton Griffith and R. Dilc Ion Drake, prominent society men of i8 Philadelphia, played the game of blljg Hards and Griffith made the misshot which called forth a taunt from Drake, ^ who was immediately struck In the n face with a cue by Griffith. A chal0 lenge to a duel was sent to Drake, but Griffith declared that the challenger was beneath his notice and that he s would not demean himself socially by e consenting to meet him. a Then followed a long and wordy j warfare, in which each posted the other a? a coward. Lieut Duryee, of the . d United States navy, was called in to d make an effort to settle the dispute, d and it was then that Miller, the lawyer, and Hunter, the midshipman, became involved in the quarrel. In the heated discussion Hunter accused Miller of publishing a confidential letter, a and a challenge was at once sent by the midshipman and accepted by the ^ attorney. It was decided that the duel should be fought on early Sunday morning of e March 21, but it wa? nearly 10 o'clock s before carriages containing the prlncipals, seconds and surgeons left a II house that stood on the present site t of the German Democratic office, on e Chestnut street above Sixth. The presn ence of the company excited some suspicion at Chester, where the party s stopped for lunch, but, they hurried J down the post road, tied their horses close to the highway, and proceeded tr 200 yards behind a clump of trees that would shield them from observation. 8 As the sun was setting two pistol 8 shots rang out slnultaneously as one of the seconds counted, "One, two, y three?Are!" Hunter stood unharmed 2 as the ball from his opponent's pistol struck at his feet, but Miller cried out that he was shot, placed one band on c his breast, and fell with a bullet lying lt dose to his heart. In & few minutes he died, while pale anu ? ixlous faces watched the convulsive breathing of n the dying man. t "Gentlemen," said Hunter, "I had no e enmity against this man. I never ' heard of him until two days ago. Let e those whose quarrel embroil him be e responsible for his death." Q After a hurried consultation lt was g decided that the midshipman should ^ leave the state at once, and he was driven rapidly to New Castle, Delaware, where he boarded a boat for [t New York, and rejoined the navy. In Q order to hide the tragedy it was deh elded to wait until dark and take Miller to Philadelphia In a carriage, y Seating the dead man between them two seconds held him In an upright ' position on the long Journey to Phllaa delphia. News of the duel had reachLt ed Chester, and a crowd of men stood at Third street bridge to Intercept the carriages. The first buggy contained e the surgeon, and as his explanation d was satisfactory, he was permitted to lt proceed. The dead man in the second f carriage was driven through the crowd 3 without the ruse being detected, and g at midnight the body was placed In a M house on Walnut street, where vigil lt was kept by the seconds, wno arann ^ heavily to support them In the terrible strain under/ which they had been s placed. Miller's father said that he heid no 8 malice against Hunter, but the mldlt shlpman, who was suspended for a 8 year for punishment, was haunted by the specter of the dead man lying on II the bank of Naaman's Creek, slain by his hand, and died a prematurely old man after a lonely life, shut out from all hope of preferment in the navy. He was buried by the newspaper men of New York, who erected a tombn stone over his grave.?Philadelphia . Public Ledger, e e The Importance of Cotton. a Since 1900 the value of the south's y agricultural products has been ino creased to at least $2,000,000,000, the n advance between 1900 and 1906 of ? $950,000,000 being more than $2,000,n 000,000 greater than the advance in n the preceding two years. The impor5. tance to the, south of the higher price 8 of cotton ruling since 1900 and 1901 is c indicated in the fact that the crop of d 1898-99 of 11,275,000 bales, was worth, o including seed, about $332,000,000, r while tne crop or isuo-isu< win a?Kicn gate In value 1750,000,000 or more. It l Is true that this year's crop will exs eel that of 1889-90 by puobably 2,250,e 000 bales, but at the prices then pre- * s vailing this difference In yield would y have made a difference of only about t, $65,000,000. The real difference due to s the higher price will be nearly or quite n $420,000,000. While It Is conservative s to put the total for this year at $750, 000,000, It Is quite within the range it of possibility that when the final e roundlng-up has been made the real - value of this season's orop will prove p to have been not less than about $800,e 000,000.?Manufacturer's Record. g ? e An Oakland, Mo., farmer one day y last year found a score of men pute ting up telegraph poles all over his field. He ordered the men away, but a they wouldn't go. They showed him a a paper that gave them authority to put a their poles wherever they wished. The * old man looked at the paper, saw It ? was lawful and walked away In sln lence. He went to the barn and turnd ed a savage red bull Into the field. ? The bull made for the men, the men I. fled at top speed, and the farmer - shouted after them: "Show him your paper! Show him your paper!"