Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, January 21, 1908, Image 1

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^ ^ " ISSTTKD SEMI-WKEKL^^ l. m. grist s sons, pubiuhers. } % ||amilt) JlpirspHpfr: Jtor fhe promotion of (he jjSolitical, foetal, Agricultural and (Eommercial Interests of the people. {TEI '2opVri cksth.a!"'k" established 1855. " YORKVILLE, S. C.> TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1908. MO. 6. luc: By ETTA ^ CHAPTER XXIX. Jetta Still Speaks. He lay without motion?seemingl; without breath. I made no attempt t< restore him. Bitterly I reflected that i would be well if both of us could die then and there. All night long I sa V... LI? ?J,1? hoard the clock tick UJ Illfl aiuc, anu ?v? ? and counted the interminable hours a: they dragged on. The horror of tha vigil I shall never forget on this sid< of the grave. Morning came, and Sarah, the maid crept to my door, and knocked softly. "Oh, dear Miss Ravenel," she sobbed "are you there?" "Yes," I answered. "May I come in, miss?" "No. You can do me no good, Sarah Has Mr. Sutton left the house?" "Lor", yes; last night he was turnet out shameful, miss, and Parker ant Miss Rokewood with him. Mrs. Otwaj is wild about you?says she will get ui and come to you here, but she can't d< that, for her ankle is dreadful. Shal I bring your breakfast, miss?" "No; I do not care for breakfast "Where is Vincent Hawkstone?" I shuddered as I pronounced th< name. Sarah answered, dryly: "He's been drinking wine in th< drawing room all night, and is quit* helpless at present, and will be, 1 , should say, for hours to coine." > Sarah departed, and I resumed m\ | wdtch by Gabriel. So long as he reI mained unconscious I would not leavt him. By-and-bye he would recovei from the effects of Vincent Hawkstone's drugs, and learn that he wai pardoned?that he had nothing to feai from George Sutton; and then he woulc take me under his protection?he woulc stand betwixt me and the man whe pretended to be my husband. My lif< was now as bankrupt as his own?ir all the world we had nothing left bul each other. Noon came. Again Sarah crept to mj door, begging me to take a little food and again I sent her away. As the afternoon shadows lengthened in th< room, I began, at last, to feel the exhaustion of so many sleepless houn combined with poignant fear. I put m> weary head down on the pillow beside Gabriel, and, in spite of all my effort: to continue conscious, I fell immediately asleep. When I awoke, the cedar chambei was dark. I groped my way to the table and lighted a lamp. Then I turned to look at the bed, and my heari leaped into my throat. Gabriel wa: gone! I rubbed my eyes. Was I dreaming' No. While I slept he had risen anc departed?left me alone and without i word. The door was unlocked. H? hail simply turned the key and gone ou' noiselessly?whether in delirium, or ir full possession of his senses. I had n< means of .knowing. If the latter, fears for his personal safety had probablj urged him to flight; and, as he coulc not possibly know the dire distress intf which I was plunged because of him it was not strange that he should desert me. The hands of the clock on the rnante pointed to seven. I listened. The housi was very still. In a moment my mine was made up. I ran to my own room, threw on mj outer garments, and. fearful of bein* discovered and intercepted. crep stealthily down the oak stair, out o: Tempest Hall and through the horseshoe gate and into the island road. To whom should I go in this, m3 hour of desperate need? Both Harris and Mrs. Otway were powerless to helj me now. I determined to take refug< with Peg Patton in her Inlet House. I flew down the tawny slope, and ovei the salt dunes with the familiar son* of the sea in my ears, and all arouni me shadow and desolation. Never di< any sight appear more welcome to inj eyes than the "Old Woman." rearing her red column near the entrance to tn< wooded creek. I turned into the fores path. As I stumbled along through thi salt pools and over the projecting root! of trees, I heard of a sudden, a singula sound near at hand?the steady, vigor ous thud, thud of a spade in the we earth. I followed the noise, and cami directly to a spot on the border of th< creek near to the brown house. Here the moonlight wavered am trembled through the gloom of thickl; braided branches, and the water gur gled mournfully In the frost-bittei reeds; and here, too. under a spreadini tree, I found Peg Patton alone in th night, digging a strange, sinister-look ing hole in the ground. She was down in its depth, throw ing up spadeful after spado ful of browi earth. I could see her upraised armf like fine bronze, and her head bourn with a red cotton handkerchief. "hvg: i called, Mne nrieu ner nan face over the uneven brink. "Peg, am in great need. Will you give m shelter at your house?" She scrambled out of the hole an< flashed down her spade. Her scant; skirts were turned up from her bar ankles, the fresh mold clung to he hands?she wiped them quickly on he apron, and faced me. "Is it true, Jetta Ravenel, that yoi have married the wildest and worst o all the Hawkstones?" she cried. "Yes," I answered, "I have marriei him." "Then 'twas by foul means?neve by fair!" she said, looking at me close ly in the moonlight. "Will I give yo shelter? Yes, that I will?come wit me." She started for the house. I follow ed. She hurried me into her living room and bolted the door, then uncov ered a bed of red coals on the heart! and heaped it high with driftwooc The friendly warmth and light, th sudden sense of security, overcame m for a moment. Peg placed me on settee, and held a cup of water to m lips. "I see," she said, dryly, "you are i great trouble. Have you tasted foo today?" *V. PIERCE. I shook my head. "Food would choke me, Peggy." ^ "Pooh! you are faint with fastinf 5 l*nhappy folks must eat to sustain l!f< * as well as other people. Sit here an '? rest while I get your supper ready." * Immediately a fish and a pan of po tatoes were frying on the hot coals s and a pot of bubbling coffee perfume * the room. Peg said nothing till she ha s ministered to my bodily wants, then sh began: "Why do you start and turn pale a every sound, girl? Is any one pursuin * you?" "I do not know." I shuddered. "Tell me the whole story." "Vincent Hawkstone spread a nei * and I fell into it!" "Tell ine all." I told her, in a dull, unmoved voice ' as though I was relating the woes o ' another instead of my own. * Peg took her pipe from the mante ) and lighted it at the fire. ' "I wish to the Lord that I had neve interfered 'twixt you and Basil Hawk * stone, if this is the outcome of it!" sh growled. "Better that you should hav i married the master, in spite of the cir cus-woman, than this devil-may-car r Vincent: .no aouDt your uruuier gu 5 away from the island as soon as h 1 came to his senses?there are alway boats at the landing-place. Well, yoi 7 shall stay with me till the maste " comes back, and I'll defy, even Vincen i Hawkstone to take you from this hous r against your will." She pulled gloomily at the pipe for i ' few moments, then continued: r "God only knows what that youni ' scoundrel may do if his cousin doesn* ' appear soon! The Islanders have live* > so long under a Hawkstone that the; - seem afraid to lift hand or voice ngains 1 one of the name. Resides, Vincent i t the heir. You see. Miss Ravenel. thi Tempest is a little world in itself, anr 7 in a measure, out of reach of help: fo fearful things might go on here, an* no one on the mainland be the wlsei so long as boats were kept away frori Whit haven. Did you see what I wa doing when you found me out in th woods tonight?" "Digging a grave!" I said. "Yes?come, and I will show you whi i- all if >' I? IU nil It. Peg took up the lamp, and we wen r down the j>assage to the room o " Hawkstone's mad mother. There, on i low couch, I saw something lying, lik ' spotless Parian?the whitest, most un ' earthly thing my eyes ever rested oi ?Philip Hawkstone's murderess. He ' eyes were closed, her moonlight hand ' lay peacefully on her breast. A loni 1 garment, white as hoar-frost. covere< i her slender body, and her wonderfu 1 hair, like raveled white silk, had beei 1 carefully arranged in massive braids It needed but one glance to show m ' that she lay there, not in sleep, but ii r the pathetic majesty of death. I start ' ed back and looked at Peg. Her eye ) were full of tears. "Yes. she is dead!" she said, simply "Last night I missed her. and abou the time Vincent Hawkstone was fore ' ing you into marriage. I found her l.v ; ing by the rock of the 'Old Woman' lying: with a smile on her lips, and he hands full of sea-shells, and the tid foaming; up at her feet. As you loo] at her now. Miss Ravenel, you mus forget what she did long years age I've often thought she exhausted all th evil in her on that one deed, for she" been like an angel ever since. Fo more than a quarter of a century I'v tended her faithfully in this room; bul as you see, my work is over now There she lies?the poor, wronged, ma< wife of the man I once loved!" "And you were digging that grav for her?" I asked, wondering. "I fancy she would not rest in th Hawkstone tomb. They did not wan her in life?they shall not have her ii death. 1 have made her ready with m own hands. I have dug her grave wit my own hands. I shall bury her my self; she would not like to have othe service than mine, I'm sure, becaus mine is a service of love." Amazed at the tenderness in the bar brown woman's voice, I could only say "And her son?" "I am keeping her like this till h comes." answered Peg. "He will let in do as I like?he will not deny that sh can sleep better under the tree by th - nivuiL- til.in 11 n vnnilcii' with thf> df?n Hawkstones." ? Peg bent and smoothed the grea e plaits <>f pale hair, then covered th - dead face with reverent touch, and w went silently back to the living-room. "When Mr. Basil comes we will bur 11 her secretly." said Peg; "as secretly a ' she has lived for the last eight-and A twenty years. Now I'll put up the shut ters. Miss Ravenel. and you'd better g k to bed. for you look clean beat ou I Sleep while you can. for Vincer p Hawkstone won't leave you unmoleste many hours." 1 knew this only too well. Peg open y ed an adjoining bedroom, and bade m e lie down there. I threw myself, sti r dressed on the bed, and presently th >' brown woman stretched her muscula body. like some big watchdog, on a ma 11 by the door. She was soon asleep, bi f I lay with wide-open eyes and sense all alert, listening to strange noises out side the house?the wind soughing i the autumn wood, the stealthy move r inent <>f wild things in the frosty braki * the distant bark of a fox. the far boot 11 of the sea. breaking on a sunken reef h CHAPTER XXX. Peg at the Hall. About the middle of the night a ma l, rode up to the door of the Inlet Hous< 1. and beat upon it with both fists, e "Peg! Peg Patton!" he shoutei e "Open, you she-pirate!" a Hut the she-pirate failed to appea y He spurred up and down, and roun about the place; he thundered at thi n threshold, he banged on the shutter d The silence of death reigned. Peg house was her fortress, and a tolerabl g&SBBtm Kt^L - f A* ^1 : J%\TO >1 _ r secure one, too. With curses loud and . deep, the man cried: e "Is Jetta Ravenel in there, Peg? I e have married a wife and lost her! . Come, wake up, woman, and help me e in the hunt." t The echoes alone replied, e His brain was still full of the fumes s of liquor; he had been drinking madly u for twenty-four hours. He put his r horse's head to the nearest shutter, i t with some vague purpose of spurring , e through, when suddenly a hoarse, stern voice called from within: a. "You have no wife, you young reprobate! Be off, or I'll*put moonlight ej through you! Is Basil Hawkstone 1 t dead, that you have taken possession of j Tempest Island?" 1 y .An iron bar. thrust out through the t window, struck the horse violently, and 1 s sent him galloping down the forest s path, with his drunken rider clinging I, about his neck in a state of savage he r ? lUHTIllflll. [1 "Prince Lucifer dead?" he muttered. \ "No; but, by Heaven! it's time for him a to die! If he comes back to the Tems pest alive, he'll make short work of e me!" Nothing further occurred to disturb the peace of the Inlet House that night. 0 When morning dawned, Peg prepared ' breakfast for herself and her guest; ' t then she said to Jetta Ravenel: ( f "I'm going up to Tempest Hall to see a what that man is doing there. Dare ' e you stay here alone with the dead till I 1 - come back?" 1 "It Is not the dead that I fear, but the r living, Peggy!" 8 "Well, bar the door after me, and ? don't open it again till you hear my 1 i voice outside." 1 With that Peg Patton stepped out 1 a into the day, and set her face grimly t. toward Tempest Hall, e In the great grain fields the harvest- : r> ers were moving about at their labors; - sheep and cattle grazed on the tawny s moors; the fishing boats were out?life seemed to be going on at the island In Its usual grooves. With her grim, t grenadier stride, Peg mounted the slope - to the horseshoe gate and looked over - into the garden. - l <1. .oLa/1 /if ?%lo-onnu nnnf?/l in thp ?lin r about the old dials; in vague disquiet e the dogs whined in the stone porch. " Not one of the servants was visible. I Presently she heard a shuffling' step in > the lane behind her, and turning, saw e Joe Derby. He looked terrified and des moralized. r "Oh, Lord! Peg Patton," he cried. ( e "there's strange things going on here this morning! Mr. Vincent has been ' out about all night, looking for the governess that's run away, and he's as mad as a March hare. Bless you, he's e locked Harris in the granary, and taken all his keys and accounts, and what he'll e do next, nobody knows?go off in deli * rium tremens, most likely, for one II thing, as he's drinking at an awful y rate." h "Why did you let him land on the " Tempest?" demanded Peg, sternly. ' "v^? ni.Hori! from the master e not to receive him here." Joe looked discomfited and shaky, d He rubbed his sunburnt ear and sighed. "Lor*, Peg. Mr. Basil was gone, and afore any of us knew it. here he was, e rampaging around, ordering us as if e we were dirt. And being a Hawkstone, e nobody but Harris dared say a word. 0 He were always a dare-devil sort? d were Mr. Vincent?and at present he's that wild no man can hold him." 1 "You coward!'' snorted Peg: "why p didn't you help Harris." e "Lor'," said Joe, in an aggrieved voice, "women have no logic. Mr. Vincent walked into Harris with a sixshooter. Who was a-going to inter fere then?- He said the money and keys 0 were hls'en?he's got 'em, anyway!" t resignedly. "And Mrs. Otway, she can't lt move a step, and the servants are (l afraid of their lives. He's threatened us all with lire and slaughter if we don't find Miss Ravenel. All last night e he was a-tearing round the island lookII ing for her, and ruining Mr. Basil's best e horses. My advice to that young lady r is to make tracks for the mainland as quick as maybe, for the Lord knows lt Vincent Hawkstone is bent on mis >s > "You coward!?you coward!" ren "She's a whole handful?is that Pes!" he muttered; then he shuffled inp, to the garden, and. led by a fatal curin osity, drew near to the library window, and peered in at Vincent Hawkstone lying1 on the oak floor, bound hand and foot?helpless as a llv in a web?vanquished?made captive by a woman. As Derby's shadow darkened the pane n the prisoner turned his prostrate head, e, and his eyes met the islander's. "Joe!" he called, in a persuasive (1. voice. "Well, sir?" faltered Derby, r. "Come in here and cut this rope!" d "Lor", sir?I can't! I'm afraid!" le "Joe Derby, cut this rope, I say, and s. be quick about it, too! I shall be lord 's of Tempest Island some day?then I y will remember you. If you refuse, I'll shoot you dead the moment I am again n free man." "Oh, sir! Lor', sir! you do go on dreadful!" "Make haste! I've a hundred dollars in my left-hand vest pocket, Joe? , take it, it is yours!" Derby's hand clutched the window. There was a moment of suspense, then j he slowly raised the sash and scram- j bled through, hanging his head in , shame. < "Out-with your jack-knife!" com- ( manded Vincent. I He was frightened beyond measure? ( too frightened, perhaps, to fully understand what he was about. "Look here, Mr. Vincent," he faltered, "will you behave like a gentleman, and go peaceably away from the Tempest, and leave what doesn't as yet belong to you, if I do this thing, which, Lor* knows, I oughtn't to do?" "Try me and see, Derby, but don't keep me waiting! That she-devil drew the rope so tight it cuts me like a sword. There! you have your knife out?now open the blade, you cowardly blackguard! My wrists?free my wrists first!" And Derby, groaning at his own weakness, bent down, with knocking knees, and severed the cords that held Vincent Ilawkstone! To be Continued. FRITZ AUGUSTUS HEINZE. Stirring Events Crowded Into His Thirty-Eight Years, Fritz Augustus Heinze has crowded stirring events into his 38 years of life. A strikingly handsome man, with all the ability of the trained actor and experienced orator, he would probably have been a huge popular success as a minister of the Gospel had he followed the calling marked out for him oy nis parents, piain uermans, residents of Brooklyn. Helnze, with a wonderfully keen mind, daring, ambitious and possessed of boundless confidence In his ability, had not thought of confining his career within the narrow limits of the Lutheran ministry. Heinze was an importer, the head of a prosperous concern. The family lived on Pierrepont street, the aristocratic section of Brooklyn a quarter of a century ago. Heinze was born there on December 5. 1869. As each of his sons became old enough to go to school the elder Heinze sent them to the Fatherland. Fritz went there when he was 9 years old. He attended a school in Hildesheim, and, returning when he was 15, told his mother: "I am going to call myself Augustus, not Fritz. Before I went to Germany the boys here called me German Fritz, and in Germany they called me Yankee Frank." Ever since then he has been known as F. Augustus Heinze, but by members of his family is still sailed Fritz. Fritz graduated in mining engineering at Columbia University and went to Butte, Mont, where he got a -job as inside engineer at $5 a day, working hard 11 hours a day. He gained practical knowledge in this way for five years, and when his grandmother died and left him $50,000 Fritz branched out and with his brother Arthur begran to succeed. Helnze engaged in all sorts of law suits, suing right and left c J" wherever he was opposed. He won a suit over the Estrella mine from James A. Murray, and then bought other ? mines and railroads. Heinze got con- ' f trol of the Leroy mine, added branches to his narrow-gauge road, and finally was doing so well with it that the v Canadian Pacific paid him $1,200,000 J for the property, chiefly to get rid of such an energetic rival. When Heinze returned to Butte, in 1SQ7 Ha \vn?s rmlv 9 R vpnrs nld hilt hnd the reputation of being1 ore of the ablest mining men and hardest fighters J in that section of the country. Heinze ' came into conflict with Marcus Daly over mining property, and later with the Standard Oil company, which formed the Amalgamated Copper r Company and took over the Daly interests. In a short time Heinze had 60 8 law suits under way. Once Henry H. Rogers sent for him and offered to pay 1 him $2.r>0,000 for the Minnie Healy e mine. Heinze calmly asked $10,000,000 ' for it. In October, 1903, Heinze got a 8 decision in the Minnie Healy case that was worth more than $10,000,000 to r him. In February, 1906, Heinze and r the Amalgamated settled most of their 8 differences on a basis that put several ? millions into the young man's bank ( account. Ugly charges of bribing the judiciary were made against him but never Droved. He bought newspapers { and started banks, and was a power ' fj in politics. He put all of his mines into the United Copper Company, an $80,000,000 corporation, chartered in New Jersey in 1902. The real leaders in Wall street never took kindly to Heinze. He was too willing to gamble on a huge scale and the substantial element in the financial district fought shy of him. He established his brothers Otto and Arthur in the stock exchange firm of Otto C. Heinze & Co, then bought control of the Mercantile National Bank from Edwin Gould and became its president. Given the cold shoulder by the highclass banking element, he took up with ^ Charles W. Morse, E. It. Thomas and Wall street men of that iype and entered the directorates of several of the banks in the chains which these men established. Heinze was never a success in Wall ' street.?New York World. A Too STRhwrors Dbscrnt.?The housewife was showing her new cham- ( bermaid through the upstairs when finally they came to a staircase leading down into the rear yard. "Mary." said she, stepping out on the landing, "whenever you wish to pass down to the back yard go down this way." Just then the speaker slipped and I was precipitated with a great clattering to the bottom. "Are yez hurt, mum?" cried the af- ( frighted chambermaid, staring down ( from above. "No; it's nothing," came the return as the dishevelled mistress rose to her . ieei in prooi. "Thin ye've grot it down foine, mum; but th' jobs too shtrenuous fer me."? Judge. Mexico is very musical, and a great deal of the demand for musical instruments is taken care of by the United States. PtettltanfMi? grading. $1,000 A YEAR FROM TURKEYS. A Connecticut Woman's Way of Making Money. "White Holland turkeys have added >1,000 a year to my Income for the last three years," Mrs. E. N. Munson of Connecticut told a Sun reporter when ask?d to suggest ways by which women in the. country might make money. "Being a farmer's wife and living some ' listance in the country. I am accus- < :omed to work, so I don't mind putting I n'my spare time on poultry. "When some seven years ago I de- i Jld/ed that I wanted to try making i ltofciey of my own I talked the matter ?V$r with my husband and we both I igfeed on turkeys. He had a prefer- i snce for the bronze, because they were he largest and, he had heard, the ' tardiest. 1 "I had a longing for the white Hoi- ' and, because I wanted something or- i lamental. I hadn't any other reason, I ink I knew absolutely nothing about |i alsing turkeys. < "As a beginning I bought two setJngs of eggs. All the eggs hatched, i tut so many of the young chicks died 1 hat only eighteen birds reached ma- i urlty. There were ten hens and eight 'oejis. "Fortunately, they were all vigorous I tirds. I decided to keep all the hens i ind one of the cocks for stock?, selling )ff the seven others. My husband had 1 igreed to give me the food needed for i he first two years, so I invested the < noney received for my extra turkeys n eggs. i "When the spring came around again i kpew quite a good deal more about i aising turkeys than I had the pre- 1 rious season. As a consequence I lid not lose so many chicks in com mrfson with the number hatched as I tad lost the year before. } "The autumn of that year after sheeting my young breeders I sold the I >alance for upward of $200. The mon-iy 1 vent into the bank, and before the end ; >f the following year by far the largest i mlf had gone to pay for food. That i ear my profits amounted to over $300. "The fourth year I increased my i lock and my profits were more than 1 loubled. In the fifth year I cleared I 11,000 for the first time, and feeling that 1 ny flock was as large as I.could com- i brtnbly manage I have kept the num- ' ler about the same. < "Although I had no reason for seecting white Holland turkeys beyond I rty love of their beauty, I now know I nany points in their favor. The first i s that I believe they suit the climate j >f Connecticut better than either the 1 >ronze or the ordinary domestic tur- i [ey. 1 "Then their color enables me to pick ! ny flock out from those of my neigh ors. They don't get mixed, and when flfcy happen to stray, which is very < eldom, they are easily identified. "They are more domestic and require i , smaller range. They are not nerv- j ius, and are so gentle that any one to i vhom they are accustomed can pick I hem up. "Though a size smaller than the >ronze turkey, they are larger than the ordinary domestic fowl and an ideal i narket bird. When properly fattened heir flesh Is yellow, delicate in flavor ind very* juicy. Their breast is very ' arge, which is another point in their I avor for table use. I "My methods of rearing them are < 'ery simple. In the winter my flock < oots in a large and very airy shed and j lave access to a barn in which is kept i denty of good, clean chaff and g"air. \ itter. When the weather is unusually I levere all their food is warmed and i tpiced with pepper. For the cold : nonths I use a mixture of wheat, 1 >uckwheat and corn almost exclusive- i y. < "They are never kept indoors even i n the coldest weather, except in case i >f rain. They go out into the snow reely, although the doors of their shed I ind barn are always left open for them, j "It has to be admitted that until a i urkey passes its third week it is an | xtremely delicate bird, but by observ- j ng a few rules it may ue easuy j?uu'd through this dangerous period. To >e successful with the young birds you nust see that they have plenty of the i ight sort of food, that their troughs , tnd coops are kept clean and that they ire kept from getting wet even in the lew. i "For food I begin with bread sea- | toned with pepper and curds, and let i hem gradually work into hard grain. ; \s a rule a turkey will begin to eat i train freely when it is about the size j >f a pigeon. I give wheat and buck- | vheat before corn. Even to grown urkeys I give corn sparingly, except < luring the coldest weather. < "Earthen vessels or old iron pans ( mtke the best troughs for drinking wa er or sour milk. I wouici never rectmmend the use of wooden vessels , or such purposes, as it is next to im- j >ossible to clean them, and nothing is i so sure to breed disease among fowls is a dirty drinking vessel. "It is my rule to keep the young , >inls confined until they are able to i 1y over the two foot high fence of | heir yard. After this* they are al- | owed to run with their mother, but I | tm careful to keep therm in in wet ; veather and until the dew is off in the | nornings. "As a rule, after the third week, if a | >'oung turkey has been properly cared 'or it should be able to stand almost inything. There are some years in , .vhich care over them should be exended one week and sometimes even hree weeks longer. A clear season, vhen there is plenty of sunlight, is i iiucli better for young turkeys than ainy or cloud weather. "I have been urged to use gluten rteal and gluten feed hy other turkey ireeders, who say that it is just as good is the whole grain and much cheaper. ( That it is cheaper in price I must adnit. but it has never been proved to ny satisfaction that it was as healthful for the fowls, or that young birds , latched from the egg.s of gluten fed lens were as vigorous. "I am fond of my turkeys, and while [ make a point of killing off every chick hat is not up to the mark it gives me lain t<? do it. When there are no puny thicks in a brood it makes me very iappy. So I am not willing to try any .'ood that I am not sure will not increase the number of little creatures 'or me to put to death. "Though I am in the business for the money and am willing to try any little economy that promises a saving, r am not willing to risk the health of my birds. Good food produces good birds, and even when the best food is generously given there is a fair profit in turkey raising."?New York Sun. A BURGLAR'S STORY. Told By an English Thief In the Language of Thieves. Some time ago there appeared a somewhat curious book, "The Autobiography of a Thief In Thieves' Language." A glossary is provided for the benefit of those whose unfortunate ignorance of the predatory classes may render such aid necessary. From one of the anecdotes related It appears that honor among thieves is not always to be found. "One day," says the writer, "I went to Croydon and touched for a red toy (gold watch and red tackle (gold chain) with a large locket. So I took the rattler home at once. When I got into Shoreditch I met one or two of the mob. who said: 'Hello! Been out today? Did you touch?' "So I said 'Usher', (yes). So I took them in. and we all got canon. When 1 went to the fence he bested (cheated) ine because I was drunk and only gave ?8 10s. for the lot. So the next day I went to him, and I asked him if he was not a-going to grease my duke (put money into my hand). "So he said 'No.' Then he said, 'I will give you another half a quid,' and said, 'Do anybody, but mind they don't do you.' "So I thought to myself, 'All right, my lad, you will find me as good as my master,' and left him. Some time ifter that affair with the fence one of the mob said to me: " 'I have got a place cut and dried. Will you come and do it?' "So I said 'Yes. What tools will rou want?' "And ne said, \>e snail warn some twirls and the stick (crowbar), and tiring a Neddie (life preserver) with )'ou.' And he said, 'Now don't stick me up disappoint); meet me at 6 toliglit.' "At 6 I was at the meet (trysting place), and while waiting for my pal I tad my daisies cleaned, and I piped the fence that bested me go along with lis old woman (wife) and his two kids (children), so I thought of his own voids. 'Do anybody, but mind they jon't do you.' "He was going to the Lyceum theater, so when my pal came up I told tiim all about It. So we went and icrewed (broke into) his place and ?ot thirty-two quid and a toy and tackle which he had bought on the crook (dishonestly.) A day or two after this [ met the fence who I'd done, so he said to me, 'We have met at last.' "^5o I said, 'Well, what of that?' "go he said, "what do you want to Jo me for?' "Wa T OQM 'Vnu m 11 at rAmpmhPr VOll clone me, and when I spoke to you about it you said, "Do anybody, but mind they don't do you." ' That shut tiim up."?London Tit Bits. WINE AND TYPHOID FEVER. Acidity of White Wines Has Been Proved of Antiseptic Value. The generating agent of typhoid ferer, known as the Eberth bacillus, is in most cases introduced into the organism in the drinking water, says a writer in Journal de Medicine de Bordeaux. As wine is credited with an antiseptic action, it was of interest from the point of view of public health to determine in the first place whether this reputation could bo justified as regards the typhoid bacillus: in the second place, whether its action varied with the different kinds of wine, and, finally, whether the microbicidal action if wine was diminished in a sensible manner by mixing drinking water with it. The solution of this problem could be the work of bacteriological experts ilone. For this purpose It has been undertaken and successfully accomplished by two Bordeaux savants, MM. Sabrayes and Marcandier, who have succeeded in proving that wines preserved for a long time in bottles are sterile, while those which are kept in barrels, from which they are drawn iailv, contain bacteria. On account of this general asepticity wines kept for a long time in bottles may be considered fit for use by surgeons in urgent cases in the absence r?f other antiseptics. They have been used for this purpose by certain country practitioners who have already for i long time foreseen tbe sterility of bottled wine. As far as typhoid fever is concerned, experimentations seem to have demonstrated beyond doubt that pure wines exercise a powerful action on the Eberth bacillus, but that this action varies in intensity with the nature and quality of the wines. White wines proved themselves to be more active than red wines, and among the white wine champagnes occupy the first rank. The acidity of these wines may be considered as the preponderating antiseptic agent and its degree is the measure of their antiseptic value; this is proved by the fact that if by employing an alkali this acidity is diminished, the resistance of the Eberth bacillus remains so much the greater when the original degree of acidity has been most diminished. The alcohol in the limit of eight to fifteen degrees has scarcely any influence on the bactericidal power of the wine. The addition of water to the wine, which attenuates the proportion of all the elements constituting the wine, has the same effect upon its antiseptic power; thus an ordinary red wine which killed the p]berth bacillus In two hours required four hours to produce the same result when diluted with its own volume of water. In the same manner a champagne which sterilized this microbe in ten minutes had the same effect only at the end of an hour and a half when doubled in volume by the addition of water. The differences, however, are less when the presence of sulphur in the wine has been perceptible. And, apropos of this, the Bordeaux savants desire that the United States customs should be more tolerant with regard to the quantity of sulphurous acid in the sweet white wines of the Gironde district, the more so since these wines cannot acquire their exceptional qualities without the action of this acid. THE TELLTALE LETTER. ai Where Mr. Lyon Got Something Tangi- ul bie About Black, Et AI. d< Durin* the dispensary' Investigation ai last Thursday, the winding up commission published a letter that gave an in- ai sight into what has been doing. M. A. at Goodman, the representative of Uliman to & Co., was on the stand. He was ask- d( ed about certain Incidents referred to in in a letter that was afterward produc- T1 ed; but of the existence of which In the st hands of the commission he had no ta knowledge. He denied all knowledge of ci the circumstances referred to. Then he sli was made to identify his own writing 01 in several letters, and then he was of made to acknowledge his authorship of cc the letter that follows v< "The Commonwealth Distilling Com- ar pany, Incorporated Distillers, Office 228 Tl 2d street, Louisville, Ky., August 17, su 1904. sa "My Dear Barney: I do not know th that I was ever in such an uncomfort- h? able and mean position, as there is a meeting of the board in Columbia, of Monday, August 22. I would like to w be there, but so far the company have w refused to let me off. I wired to Myers ec to have them release me on the 15th, n< but he positively refused. Now I want w you to go to Columbia. Be there Mon- fu day morning early. Telegraph Major sc John Black, 1,007 Assembly street, to <h meet you nt the Columbia hotel, and do er everything you two can to have them pi to postpone the buying until next lit month. sc "I enclose you copy of Ullman & Co's gc bid, and it is such a poor one that there Is very little for them to buy of us, but e\ if they are goin^ to buy get them to S( buy of us the goods I checked off. I th want you to tell Boykin particularly of ar my position and ask Black if you ar should explain things to Towill; to tell ur Boykin on account of my leaving here bi on September 1, I would be unable to tl( pay any commissions for the purchase to they make from the Commonwealth, th consequently under no circumstances d? buy anything from them. You might gr ask Boykln's and Major Black's opln- tv ion if you should say anything regard- sa ing this to Towill. I am also writing of Black to meet you and tell you what th you should do. You had best also show ca him this letter in case I overlook writ- ns ing him fully about anything. "I would, above everything else, like hi to see them not buy and wait until their ar next month's meeting. Tell Boykin to oh please, under no circumstances, though, flc to purchase any Henrietta, apricot dc brandy or bottled in bond, and to save, at If possible, that for us until we put in at a new bid next month. I wired him If 1I{ he could possibly come here before the ar meeting to do so, but not receiving any pt reply presume he was absent from ex home. Please tell him I shall come out co to his home some day before the Sep- iti temher purchase and will let him know pe just when. fr "Now If there Is anything you and ex Major Black don't understand wire or st call me up. I guess if you want to call (ti me up on the long distance it would be w best for you to wire me to call you up, te otherwise the message comes through the office and the people here will know be too much. of "I hope you will be able and sue- bj ceed in getting the buying postponed, m It has almost worried me sick to be th fixed with my hands tied like I am, but in I do know you and Black will do your fr best. If anything unexpected occurs tu that I can get away will do so, but ha hardly expect that to happen. Went ti< over everything with Strauss Saturday; will fix the papers the next time th I go up. th "Trust you are having a good trade, de Ad montlnndH hAfArp it VOU don't tin- fr derstand everything wire me. Sincere- <ji ly yours, Morton, A. G. ar "Since writing above received a tele- ar gram from Mr. Boykin. He could not come this week. I am writing him you St would see him in Columbia. Also re- co mind Black not to forget the Indiana- th polls people." fe th LAW AND ITS STORY. cc A Dry Subject Made Interesting In the th House. st The object of this bill Is to perfect er the organic law of the land; to present er the permanent laws of the United ar States in the most authentic and au- bj thorltative form, to the end that these gc organic laws, these great fundamental ar legislative declarations, shall exist be- nt fore the country in such clear, system- in atic and conspicuous_focm that they cr may be known Uy'a.U men; that the of great principles of life, liberty and property that they are intended to er safeguard and make clear shall be ex- r> trieated from the great confusion into th which they have been allowed to fall or by many years of inattention, and be er written clearly and legibly on our stat- gr ute books as forcible and conspicuous uj evidences of our national justice, na- w< tional probity and national advancement. to It requires, Mr. Chairman, but little ur thought upon this dry subject to arouse (t the student to enthusiasm. The his- pi tory of the world establishes the fact to that the richest legacy that the nations fu of the past have left to succeeding ages th has been their principles of organic fu law. Do you ask me of the religion, of of the morality, of the intelligence, of the chastity or the purity of a nation of an- qi tiquity? I will point you for answer cl to the permanent laws of that nation as tli they existed upon its statute books of to stone or papyrus, and by that standard ? chiefly, if not alone, will the status of or that nation, in all that goes to constl- C? tute individual or national honor, be established. Authentic history affords emphatic po and convincing illustrations of the pj truth of this great principle?tnat me tl< most valuable tribute of the nations of the past to our present twentieth century civilization comes to us in the sa form of permanent organic principles or of law that have survived the destruction of time and the obliteration of jn states and of monuments. Apart from the scheme of divine salvation, which tj. Is our distinctive and peculiar inher- ev itance from the early Hebrew nations, c.'l the great gift of the world of that th grand historic people is the Mosaic code of laws. From that code this nation |8 and all other civilized nations today derive the great basic principles of the ^1 moral law; the law regulating marriage; consanguinity and the sacred- w ness of human life. No nation today places upon its statute books the inhl- _ hit inn "Thou shalt not kill," that was written indelibly upon tablets of atone I t by the hand of Clod amid the thundersjje id tempests of Mount Sinai. We reflate the punishment of the crime, but ?rive its existence from that historic iclent source. The old Roman nation has passed ,vay. Its place and its monuments *e crumbled to dust, and even its mbs are tenantless of their heroic >ad; but the Roman nation lives today every nation of the civilized world, he corner stone of our present legal ructure' is drawn from the fundamen1 organic principles derived from the vii law. uur Knowledge or parcnerilp, oyr law concerning corporations, ir law concerning wills, the creation admiralty courts, the creation of urts of chancery, nay the very de lopment of the law merchant Itself, e derived from that historic source, hese benefactions to humanity will irvlve when the conquests of her Caer, the eloquence of her Cicero and ie strains of her divine Horace shall tve been forgotten. Mr. Chairman, the same thing is true the Dark Ages, that great period hen the learning and religion of the orld seemed to have been extinguishI. Out of that void, out of the dark?ss that hovered over the mediaeval orld, has come to us as one of our indamental principles of national vereignty, come to us directly from ie feuddl law, that great principle of nlnent domain, which enables the jbllc to take private property for pub; use, which declares the ultimate ivereignty of all property to be in the ivernment itself. And, Mr. Chairman, if the time should rer come when Macaulay's fabled )uth Sea Islanders should sit upon e broken arches of London Bridge id mourn over the ruins of St. Paul, nid the wreck of these ruins trinphing over that universal desolation, irning as a beacon and an inspira)n and guide for all great civilization follow, would rise the great fabric of e common law of England, those instructive principles of right, those eat principles ot remedial justice oereen man and man, that effectual ieguard of human liberty, the right trial by jury, the contribution of at common law, of which the Amerin constitution is the highest culmiition. So, Mr. Chairman, while the written story of a nation may be sometimes locryphal, its traditions involved in iscurity. the story of its heroes mere tlon?their written permanent, fununental, and organic law is Imperlshile and definite and a tangible and isolutely reliable record of their Intelfence, of their religion, of their ethics id of their-civilization And as some lysiologlst from the vertebrae of an ;tlnct mammoth can reconstruct the mplete animal and tell its habits and i habitat; can reveal the geological iriod of the world in which it lived, so om the fragment of the laws of an ;tlnct nation historians can reconnect the civilisation, character, habs and customs of that nation and relite with striking accuracy its forgot n history. The scholarly world has recently ien amazed and the historic character a great period practically rewritten r the discoveries, in 1901, of the peranent laws of Hammurabi, antedating e Christian Era by nearly 2,300 years, the light of these enactments and om the spirit and language of the states carved upon that famous stone ls the history of Babylonish clviliza>n been reincarnated. In this light, therefore, Mr. Speaker, e philosophic statesman may regard e task before us as one of a high ortr. This elevated view may rescue it om the tiresome plodding of patient udgery, and place it upon the high id patriotic plane of a broad, sacred id inspiring duty. The permanent laws of the United ates of America ought to be the most implete and perfect of any nation in e world, because the distinguishing ature of the American constitution is at it places its courts above the urts of any other nation of the world. If I were asked to state in brief form e respect in which the American conitutlon differed from that of any oth nation that had ever existed, whethof a monarchy or a republic, I would lswer that the great departure made r the nation builders in forming this >vernment was to make its judiciary 1 independent organic and co-ordiite part of that government and to vest in this great third estate thus eated the power of reviewing the acts ' both the legislative and executive. These permanent lav^s which we are igaged in perfecting are the necessa' machinery of these courts and upon lese courts have been placed by the ganization of this government great power, greater responsibility and * eater dignity than were ever placed >on the courts of any nation of the orld. It is safe to say, as a matter of hisrical accuracy, that this great, silent, lobtruslve and inconspicuous power he judiciary) that bears neither the irse nor the sword, but that controls an almost Immeasurable extent the iture destinies of the nation, has in e past accomplished more than Its ill share in the substantial creation the sovereignty of this nation. It is a demonstrable fact, though frelently forgotten, that upon the judlary of this country rests the distlncon of giving life, viatllty and power the paper made constitution of 1789. Representative Moon of Pennsylvania i the Revision of the Federal Penal ode. Incipient Knowledge. ? That the iyal road to learning Is full of strange tfalls is shown by some of the deflni ons and statements given by school illdren?some of whom are well along le way. The following are bona-flde imples coming under the knowledge of ie teacher. About this time Columbus was cursg around among the West Indies. Jackson's campaign In the valley was ie greatest piece of millinery work rer known. The Valkyrie were the hoosers of the Slain, and the Valhalla ie Haulers of the Slain. The eldest son of the king of France called The Dolphin. The duke of Clarence, according to e usual custom, was killed In battle. Heathen are paragons (pagans) that ash up idle things. The Indians call their women squabs. Harper's Weekly. tST The best tea sells in China for ss than 10 cents a pound.