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; jj. . t ' ?*v ^????^????^? " ISSUED SEMX-WEEKLT. 11. *. GRIST'S SONS, Pobu.h.r., | % Jfantilj; gtmgagw: 4" <M gromotion of th> folitital, gaiiial Sflricnltniiat and (Eommtmial Jnttrwts of th< |toj)l<. {""jLff RaTARTTaHED~i8i5i5^ YORKVILLE, B. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1910. NO. 12. Synopsis of Prseoding Chapters. Chapter I?Judith Bartelmy. society woman, goes to the office of the Daily Advance to protest against a story which had severely criticised her father, a judge of the United States court. She discovers that the author of the article was Wheeler Brand, a brilliant young writer whom she had promised to marry. He refuses to cease attacking ber father. IL?Judith discards her engagement ring. Dupuy, a lawyer, representing big advertisers, calls and _ demands Brand's discharge, as his cli' ents are friends of Judge Bartelmy. Ill?Brand is discharged by the managing editor, for the paper, long owned by an Insurance company, had been an/^ltr f a aai?anro flnna Vf IaViq al KTa_ il IVUUI/ IV Wl ^Vt?UVUO< MAiVtlUV* A1Vlan, who buys the paper, comes in the office and finds Dupuy to be an old { enemy of his. IV?Nolan calls for Brand and makes him managing editor. V?Brand tells Nolan and his socially ambitious family that the dishonest Judge, Bartelmy, and his unsuspecting daughter have taken them up socially so as to try to lnduco Nolan not to attack the judge in his newspaper. VI? Dupuy aids Bartelmy in endeavoring to have Brand and the Advance avoid attacking the judge regarding a tricky opinion be has rendered in the Lansing Iron case. "Every man has his price, even Brand," says Dupuy. VII?Nolan says if Brand will trap Bartelmy in the act of offering him a bribe to keep silent that the Advance will print the story in full. VTII?Bartelmy agrees to pay Brand $10,000 to keep quiet about the Lansing Iron case. IX.? Brand lays the trap for Bartelmy. X?Bartelmy arrives at the Advance office to pay Brand the $10,000. XI? Brand, aided by three reporters, takes a flashlight photograph of Bartelmy offering the $10,000 bribe money and obtains by a most ingenious telephone trick and accurate record of the Judge's words as he counted out the money. XII?Sylvester Nolan, son of the paper's owner, endeavors to prevent publication of the story and photograph in the Advance. Dupuy also proves powerless to influence Brand. CHAPTER XIII. Brand, busily engaged in writing the caption for the cut that was to reveal Bartelmy in his true light, was interrupted once more?this time by the entrance of the greenish hued face of the poet reporter, Powell. "You sent for me, sir?" asked the new scribe. "So you've covered a suicide?" said Brand. "Powow's," eyes rolled wildly. He clasped his hands and his knees shook in his horror at what he had learned. "Oh, yessir?a terrible sight! I shall dre-e-a-m of it, sir. It would take a Dante to write of it Oh, I"? "What was this girl's name?" asked Brand in matter of fact tones. "Madeline." "Madeline what?" "Her last name," the poet asked dazedly. "I guess I don't remember, vea It was .Tanks ? Madeline Jenks!" He spoke feverishly. Brand picked up the poet's first newspaper story and began to read It In spite of the high pressure of events that night In the Advance office, in spite of his ever present fear that Bar ir "Remember the story of the creation woe told in 600 words." telmy and Dupuy might in some way persuade Nolan to order the sensational bribery story killed, this many sided young man found the time to bother with the fantastic young poet reporter and his fantastic first article. "Madeline Jenks, eh?" commented Brand, turning over the pages. "Well, | the first place you mention her name is on page 3." He plucked off the first two pages and threw them on the floor. Powell winched painfully at the massacre of his first reportorial offspring. "Begin there," said Brand. Powell lunged downward to rescue his first two pages, but Brand kicked them away from him. "Where'd she live?" he next asked. Powell clasped his hands and gazed plaintively at the celling. "Over a chop suey cafe, sir." "Number and street?" Two forty-three and a half West Pearl street." Brand threw away two more pages, Powell watching him anxiously the wnne. "Put that next. Here. Madeline Jenks," Brand began to write, "an inmate of 243} West Pearl street. What did she do?" "She destroyed herself utterly!" the new reporter wailed. Brand went on writing. "Is she dead?" "Yes, sir." "Shot and killed herself?when?" "Tonight at 9 o'clock." Brand wrote on. "Last night at 9 o'clock. Why?" Powell answered very intensely: "Oh, she could no longer face the Fourth Novelized by FREDERICK R. TOOMBS From the Great Play of the Same Name by Joseph Medill Patterson and Harriet Ford. 0 0 COPYRIGHT. 1*5. BY JOSEPH MEDILL PATTERSON AND HARRIET PORDl ghastliness of her existence. She knew she?" 1 "She was weary of life In the streets." "I don't blame her," Brand commented to himself. He turned to Powell. "There's your story. Thirty words ?you had 3,000. And remember the story of the creation was told In 600 words." Powell picked up the pages of his story which Brand had discarded and walked dejectedly away. "Mac," Brand ordered, "here's a dance hall suicide. Put It with local brevities, will you?" Had Brand at this moment been able to see through the wall that separated the composing room from the hall he would have witnessed a sight that would have deprived him of some of the self possession that marked his present demeanor. A figure clad In an elaborate evening gown crept softly up the stairway, stood irresolutely at the landing and then turned Into the managing editor's office. Judith Bartelmy probably never looked more beautiful in her life than she did that night A flush of excitement enhanced the soft allurement of her exquisite features, and the low cut neck of her sleeveless gown completed a picture of feminine loveliness that, innocently enough on her part, was admirably adapted to the purpose Judge Bartelmy had in his unprincipled mind when he sent her to the Advance office. "You are my only hope," he had told her after Dupuy had at first failed to locate Nolan. "You must go and plead with Wheeler Brand or else I am ruined. Your father will be ruined absolutely." At the sight of her father's emotion and yielding to the fervent pleadings of her only living parent she had willingly consented to undertake the mission. Unpleasant though she knew it would be, she believed it her duty to stand by in his hour of dire need the father whom she loved, the . father whom she did not know. As she entered the office and paused in conjecture as to Just how she would s proceed she heard footsteps hurriedly f ascending the stairs, and, withdrawing s into the shadow in a corner, she saw 1 Michael Nolan and Mrs. Nolan cross 1 the hall and disappear into the com- * posing: room. "Thank heaven!" she murmured fer- 1 vently. "They will stop this story, ? which father says is a horrible lie." I Wherel Brand will never forget?he 8 has since said so from the depths of his soul?the shock that went through * him when he saw Nolan, accompanied by his wife, making their way toward * him on that memorable night. i McHenry was speaking when they 8 entered. "There is your first page, Brand," he ' was saying, "and it sends Bartelmy to state prison." The managing editor gazed approv- 1 ingly at the appearance of the page of s type and the cut in the form as it lay 1 exposed on one of the stones under a ' shaded electric light He looked up c to congratulate McHenry on the manner in which he had completed the makeup of the page when his Jaw sud- 1 1 denly fell. His eyes took on an amazed 1 stare. He was looking straight over i the night editor's shoulder. McHenry { caught Brand's expression and whirled 1 about. Then he, too, saw the owner J of the Advance and his wife dnaw 1 near. The triumphant air with which ' the wife and mother sailed along by his 1 1 ? *- * J J Vt(a Side DOQea IK) guuu iu umuu emu liia story. 1 Nolan paused in front of the form without looking at the contents at < first. < "Wheeler," he said kindly, "I've been notified about this story, and I think t It best that I read It carefully myself, 1 analyze it and learn all the circum- 1 stances under which It was procured 5 before I allow It to go to press. That i Is a task which cannot be done in the J short time that remains before press 1 time, so we had best let it go over until tomororw?delay it one day. That < won't hurt the story any." Mrs. Nolan clutched at the ex-miner's arm and cried shrilly: ! "Now, now, Michael, that's not your ; usual way to explain things to one of 1 your employees. Order him to de- 1 stroy all this miserable stuff about the i Judge at once. Don't hesitate like this, i Think what it means to me, to the children, to us," she pleaded. "There, there, mother; you keep out of this," said Nolan kindly, yet firmly. < "I'm trying to do the best I can for you. It's because of you that I'm here now. But you see"? i Ed Dupuy burst excitedly in upon i them nnd aa the tvDesetters were be- 1 ginning to become distracted from their work owing to the unusual situa- i tion. Brand began to fear that this new ; intruder would prove the final demoralizer of the entire night shift. "Mr. Nolan," cried Dupuy, "we . haven't a minute to lose! They are i almost ready to go to press." He looked Intently at the newspaper owner. "Yes, quite right. We do go to press < very soon," cried Brand confidently, "and I know Michael Nolan is the man i who will order it done." "Michael," cried Mrs. Nolan at the top of her voice, which rose sharply over the din of the typesetting ma" fr?r I cnines, are yuu n"ms iu .nunu ??. this? Mr. Brand acts as if he owned the Advance and treats you as if you were the office boy. He thinks he's a great reformer and knows it all. "We other people have a right to our opinions. too, and I don't see why you and your family should be made to suffer ' PSTATfi on accont of him as we have had to ever since you took him up." Judith Bartelmy heard the stormy scene, lived a part of it herself huddled in the managing editor's office. She felt that Nolan would not let the story be used from what she had heard, and she could not suppress a pang of pain that pierced her heart at what she believed to be the fanatical vindlctivene8s of Wheeler Brand against her father. Yet she was a true woman, and she could not, in *H? tfUnJu Mt a great reformer and knows it alL" ipite of her loyalty to her parent, Lvold feeling a touch of pride at his itrength of character, his determinaion, at the sacrifices he had made, to iccomplish what he believed, even if .'oolishly, to be his duty. "They don't need me," she finally nuttered, and, gathering up her costly iklrts, she tripped daintily across the >aper strewn floor, out Into the hall ind down to her carriage. Nolan dropped his head in thought vhen his wife had finished her tirade. He paced up and down nervously. He looked at the clock, then at the orm with its accusing contents, then [ it Brand, then at his wife. "I'll go and telephone Judge Bartelny," put In Dupuy. "He'll be anxious." The lawyer took himself off. Brand saw the danger of delay. He loubted if any man would be able to tuccessfully withstand the pressure hat Bartelmy and Nolan's family vould be able to bring to bear on the >wner in another twenty-four hours. "No, no!" he exclaimed to Nolan. 'You would fail me again. I have rled to prove this judge's guilt to the 1 >eople, but I fear I have only succeed- ' ;d in proving it to his daughter. A lay's delay would be fatal, I know. U least Bartelmy could get another udge to issue an injunction against js even if he would not dare to do t himself. And there are other steps le might take." His voice rose higher, and he worked limself into a frenzy of earnestness. He stood before the little group gathered around the ink black form and continued his impassioned words: "You know I thought we were going :o be absolutely unmuzzled here. You ivere a free man. Poverty couldn't .'righten you, and you had seen both sides of life. You promised to back ne up, not matter what it cost, so long is we printed the truth, but at the first jig test you fail me." Mrs. Nolan was on the point of becoming hysterical in her agitation. "Michael, Michael"? she began. mnthor vnn en home with Sylvester. He's waiting outside for pou. After all, this is a man's Job we've got here. I am the head of the family, and I will settle this matter n my own way," he said sternly. "You tnust not attempt further to interfere." He led her out of the room. Brand spoke to McHenry. "Did you hear, Mac?" he asked. "He won't decide to run it." "It's tough, old man?it's tough!" "This is such a live thing I don't see how I can kill it," the managing editor said, rubbing his hand over the face of the form. "That's the best first page ever made up in America," said McHenry, with justifiable professional pride. Brand was inconsolable. "I've been working ten years for just this thing," he said, "something ?* ? I ? * ? * QOP SO {Jlitlll lllill even williui en rtvu.u ~ what the big thieves are doing." "You go home!" Brand suddenly ordered McHenry. "What!" was the surprised exclamation. "I said go home!" Brand's face was beginning to twitch nervously. He stood in the middle of the composing room, under the flooding white glare from a sixty-four candle power electric light, and clinched and uncllnched his hands, not daring - * *- -TT- ? ? ?ol(n fano lo lOOK ML'nrill> aquatcij in i?i; 4?*w, The night editor began to guess what was passing through Brand's mind. "Yes, but," he began to protest? "but"? Brand cut him short, saying agitatedly: "I am still managing editor." McHenry now realised plainly that the intensely earnest Brand had decided to run the story that very night regardless of Nolan's attitude. It would be an easy matter, as Nolan, of course, wniils not remain at the nfflce much longer. And McHenry well knew that such an act would not only bring about Brand's discharge from the Advance, but that it would as well Injure his reputation in other newspaper offices, where obedience to one's superior, as in any well regulated organization, is a man's first duty under all circumstances. "Why, man," he exclaimed questioningly, "you're surely not going to run this story?" Before Brand could give an answer to this last question, even if he had Intended to do bo. Nolan broke in on the pair. "Mr. Nolan," began Brand, "you have heard the whole story of this miserable affair, both sides of it?Bartelmy's and my own, from our own lips. Whatever defense or explanation Bartelmy gave you I don't know. But, so far as I am concerned, I told you the facts and the truth. You must know that by this time. You must be- i lieve it. Therefore why do you or how in heaven's name can you hesitate?" Michael Nolan's face shone with the light of determination. "Wheeler, my boy," he Bald, "I have learned much from you. I have needed contact with such a man as you. I have led a rough life for most of my career. When I rose to be chairman of the Street Railway Workers' Union I did so simply through my rugged ness of character, my ability to master men. Then I was driven out into the world, an outcast, and became a day laborer in the mines. When the day came that I owned my own mine it was again a case of fight, fight, fight, for the lawless claim Jumpers threatened me above ground, and the lawless floods asalled me below ground. So in the life I led I did not get thfe opportunity to study or even become familiar with the important questions and the problems that confront the men that guide the policy of newspapers." Nolan drew close to Brand and placed his hand affectionately on the young editor's shoulder. "But you, Wheeler?you have taught me much about those big Issues that I did not know, and you have shown to me the high ideals that should guide the newspaper writer, the newspaper editor and the newspaper owner as , well. You are right in this case." His voice rose to majestic heights. "Wheel- , er Brand, I have learned from you that the Advance Is more than a newspaper. It is a great, throbbing, potential force. It is the strong arm of the , Right standing against the evil arm of the Wrong. So we must not falter. We must not delay. Show the big , thieves up, Wheeler. Let the story go to press." Nolan turned quickly away and has- : tenea out ana sown mio me street A warm glow of enthusiasm spread over the face of Wheeler Brand as he picked up a bundle of proofs. "We'll show them up!' he cried exultantly. "We'll show them up, and we'll put them down!" To be Continued. POLITICAL POT 18 BUBBLING. i News and Gossip About the Campaign This 8ummer. In the closing days of the general assembly the political pot bubbles a little more than ever. As the summer i time draweth nearer and nearer thos^ whose eyes are centred upon guberna- i torlal honors are watching the turn of : political events, and are framing their i platforms and basing their hopes I thereon. 1 If there is one man In South Carolina who can tell today with any degree of | certainty who the next governor of the I state will be, he deserves to be ranked i with the prophets of old. Even more < bo than in the days when there were i grave political Issues before the people, Is the task of "picking the winner" difficult. I It must always have something of whisky in It, this South Carolina plat- i form. For generations this question has vexed South Carolinians. Yet fresh 1 In the minds of politicians and others Is the state dispensary fight, then the establishment of the county dlspensa- i ry system after the old state dispen- ] sary had passed away. Then came < this new wave?prohibition. Although i no governor has gone into office upon < the billows of that heavy sea?It so ap- . pears to be?it has been a platform i more than once. And again it will be. 1 Possibilities In the Race. i During the approaching campaign, In so far as whisky and alleged absti- \ nence from it are concerned, there will ] be three platforms supporting candidates as follows, as the situation appears today: 1. A prohibition candidate. 2. A local option candidate. 3. A high license candidate. Just at this stage of the game those whose caps will fit the above bid fair to be: C. C. Featherstone, prohibition candidate (announced;) R. I. Manning, local option; T. Q. McLeod, high license. In addition to these three upon specific platforms, Cole L. Blease of Newberry, will be in the race with his usual vigor. F. H. Hyatt of Columbia, has also been mentioned by his friends for the race. However, only two have come out officially and they are: Cole L. Blease and C. C. Featherstone. John G. Richards of Kershaw, has also been urged to run, but so far there has been no definite announcement from him as to whether or not be would be in the race. J. Fraser Lyon, attorney general, had pressure brought to bear that he run, but It is stated by his friends that he will not be in the race. In this interesting line-up of possibilities for the gubernatorial battle there ought to be some development of more than usual import. The probability of the withdrawal of at least one of the above named candidates, if not two or three, will only add to the stiffness of the conflict in the summer, when the running will be the hardest.? Columbia correspondence of the News and Courier. 'Jtfl" The man who is always putting his i foot down is pretty sure in time to en- i counter a tack. g piswllanfous grading. , f NEW COTTON PLUNGER. a P .His Nam* Is 8cal#s and Hs Is From ? Louisiana. The plunge of E. Q. Scales, the Intrepid southerner In recent bull cam- n paign on cotton market, is graphical- c ly given In a late Issue of the Public 8 Ledger of Philadelphia and is all in- y terestlng and thrilling story. It Is as t] follows: b "When James R. Keene threw up t] his hands, made composition with his 3 creditors, saying, T will some day pay 3 my debts In full, and will never again w speculate In an agricultural product, J1 the common report was that he reck- * oned his losses at between $6,000,000 " and $7,000,000. So also when young 0 Leiter acknowledged that more wheat grew and was in farmers' bins and the b elevators than he with all his father's 8 millions could gain the ownership of, w and confessing defeat, turned his back Cl nn Iks mViaat n(f Vila Irtaaoa u'ora vaH. k ously estimated, the more conservative 1{ Judgment being that at least $8,000,- h 000 good money were needed to meet P them. The spectacular and comet- a tike approach of Alfred Sully to the c speculative cotton market a few years ago was followed by rout and defeat, t( Which cost him perhaps $9,000,000?it u may have ben a little more, or a lit- a tie less. P "There would seem to be, therefore, h in these figures the hint of some se- ,r cret and yet fundamental law which 01 fixes somewhere between $6,000,000 and $8,000,000 as the amount of money needed to teach a speculator in agricultural products that in the United States he cannot buy a monopoly. Ir Possibly it was some unacknowledged recognition of this law which persuaded James A. Patten to flee from the fc wheat pits of Chicago to Colorado as it soon as he could reckon on his grains in ai me neignuornoou ui *o,vuv,vuv. wi tf course, these figures are in reality no hi more than symbols of the popular es- d timates of the gains or losses to the at giant speculators in one or another of dl American crops. For no great speculator ever confesses to the exact or bi erven approximate amount of his loss- p] es, and it Is almost axiomatic that great winners refrain from reporting p, the amount of their winnings. ti Scales and His Plunge. c< "And yet there does seem to be a n< limit fixed by some fundamental law beyond which individual or even pool 0j speculation in agricultural products & with Intent to create something like a fc corner cannot go. The successful specu- 8t lator stops just short of this limit, ca content to turn what he has bought in- qi to cash. 0, "Very likely the report that E. G. ci Scales, Instead of making (10,000,000 w or $15,000,000, has had his violent, intrepid attack upon those who sell cot- dl ton defeated at a loss of $8,000,000 Is r explained by this popular estimate that 0j ihe tide turns when a speculator <p stands to lose some $8,000,000. No one tt, but Mr. Scales knows whether profits ^ which he reckoned only In his daily a, figuring, but had not realized In cash, at one time reached as great a sum as i0 $8,000,000 or $10,000,000 or not. Tet p< there must have shrivelled away paper profits In a few days which, could they to have been realized in cash, would have bl Justified naming Mr. Scales among the p( multi-millionaires. For it Is the habit g( In these times to begin to rank a man ^ as a multi-millionaire as soon as he Is ^ possessed of $10,000,000. Typical Man of Silence. "The sudden appearance of this th hitherto unknown Louisiana man; the ai report which accompanied him to New dc York that he purposed buying cotton se until he could market all he bought tor sc 20 cents a pound; something myate- A rious, or at least quaint and eccentric in in his personality, and the fact that he pi was transported from Louisiana to New oj Fork, with almost cyclonic energy, ap- w pearlng in the cotton exchange, or in pi Its vicinity, firm-footed, the typical man of silence, for he made no boasta Si or comments, and the individual, al- m most unique in manner in which he w began and led his campaign of ad- gc vance, Instantly fixed attention upon pi him. He became one of the notorities, w with the possibility that at a future clay he might gain that celebrity in er which he imbedded the chances of ll< fame. af "Mr. Patten's appearance in New ta Fork earlier in the fall caused excite- til ment, but none of that spectacular effect and illusion of mystery which were of characteristic of Mr. Scales' appear- bt ance. Mr. Patten was known as one w of the few men of recent times, whose p{ Judgment was not impaired by success, th so that he knew the exact moment V? when the market would receive the full amount of the millions of bushels of si wheat which he had bought and ap- fo proximately at the price which his in purchases had fixed for it. ' ne "James R. Kene brought a tragic lei reputation as a most successful bear Al operator upon the Pacific coast and p8 intensified the curiosity in his per- th Bonality by wearing a white overcoat df that identified him as Commodore w Oerry's fur cap establishes his person- ot llity. And then he stood like Horatius cc at the bridge one entire day in tne stock market, staying the midsummer- So panic of 187?. Mr. Keene did not ven- ar ture into speculation along stupendous ;h lines in an agricultural product until th he had lived in New York fifteen ja years. . co Sully Likened to Scales. th "Possibly Mr. Sully's guerilla-like P* advent into the cotton market a few d'l years ago may be best likened in the A suddenness with which his personal- 'n Ity and purpose dazzled New York for y( a time with the recent appearance of Mr. Scales. "These, nowever, are mere lnci- sl dental considerations, superficial as- ro pects of some of the individuals and some of their purposes, whose careers they typify In recent American at- ?* tempts practically to corner some one of the greater American agricultural J products. Something of much greater n< imnnrtnnoe than the mere monetary consideration of Mr. Scales and the lo others or any view of the personal ec- al centricitles or peculiarities lies behind al these immediate aspects. Mr. Scales sp in hiB recent career is one of the In- w evitable phenomena associated with pi opportunity to enter a market where bi prices and to some extent values are cl fixed by competitive bidding, the com- pr modity being an American agricultural h< product. fo "Apparently the overloaded banks of he south, carrying millions of bales or the syndicate, reached their limit of ccommodatlon before the top notch rice of cotton was attained. Apparntly 16, or It may be 15 cents a pound nstead of 20, represents the normal qullibrium between supply and demand. At one time Mr. Scales was arrylng on his speculative back posIbly half the entire cotton crop of last ear, and considering the enormity of he purchases, the magnitude of the anklng accommodations, especially In he south, and the range of prices, the reatest ever known since we began to row cotton excepting In civil war days re And good and sufficient evidence to ustlfy the statement that at one time fr. Scales could have written his prof % upon paper at as much as $10,000,00. "Now If it be true, as Is generally elleved to be the case, that while Mr. icales figures his paper loses at anywhere between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000, otton at present prices would be mareted at some $5,000,000 or $6,000,000 !8s than would have been the case had e been able to market It at the higher rice, nevertheless he can easily reckon conversion of paper profits Into hard ash of from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000, len what good business man is there ) deny the proposition that In a speclative boom a greater speculator can fiord and even must expect to see paer profits wither, not regretfully, if e can contemplate an ultimate market i cold cash of from $1,500,000 to $2, 90,000, representing the net pronts or Ix months' speculative activity?" JAPAN AND UNCLE 8AM. i Dispute Over Railroad In Man* churia. The proposition of the United States >r the neutralization of the railroads l Manchuria, says a Toklo letter, came 3 a surprise and the publication of le details of the note, which was anded to the Japanese government ecember 18, by the American ambasidor, aroused an Immediate chorus of Isapproval. Putting aside all question of the Lisiness of political advisability of the reposition, sentiment entered largely ito the attitude of the people of Jain. The foreign office, which admltng that such a note had been reslved, would give no Intimation as to 3W it had been or would be treated. Count T. Hayashi, the last minister ! foreign affairs and former ambasidor to Great Britain; Count Okuma, irmerly one of the most active of atesmen, and everyone whose name irries any weight whatsoever, were noted in the newspapers in strenuis objection to giving up what Is aimed to be the harvest of the war 1th Russia. "Tens of thousands of our soldiers ~ J 1_ 1. ..... M.Uk cu iu mauviiuna ui me war wiui ussla," they said. "We got little out the war except what was political, he material side is represented by ie South Manchurlan railway and the ntung-Mukden. The leased territory id Port Arthur were only recovered, hese we won ten years before and st again by the Intrigue of certain iwers when we were a weaker na- ( on. Now the United States, hltheri always our friend, comes into coronation with other powers and pro- | >ses that we should give up the j outh Manchurlan railroad, a paying i ad, and the Antung-Mukden, the con- j nuation of our railroads in Korea to ie control of foreigners and strangers. "The reasons assigned for this are 1 at the principle of the 'open door* id 'equal opportunity' for all nations ] )ing business in China must be pre- ] irved. But Japan has entered into (lemn agreement with the powers of merica and Europe to preserve the tegrlty of China and to maintain the | inciple of the open door and equal , jportunlty in concert with China and | ith all other nations, and to this Ja- | in has adhered religiously. i "In two ways, therefore, the United | tates attacks the honor and sentl- , ent of the people of Japan. Is it any j onder that we refuse to permit our ( ivernment even to suggest that the i oposal has been received by Japan ith equanimity?" This statement practically voiced the i itire expression heard from the pub- 1 : during the first forty-eight hours ( ter the news of the receipt of Secre- | ry Knox's note. But the further sen- j ment was expressed thus: , "The riot that followed the making ( the treaty of Portsmouth would not , s a circumstance to the trouble that | ould follow the relinquishment by Ja- , in of her rights in Manchuria, even , ough she received twice the Intrinsic , ilue." , So far as can be learned by respon- | ble investigators, there is little or. no | undation for the charges of discrim- \ atlon brought against Japan in con- , ictlon with trade in Manchuria. The ] adlng business firms of England and merica are, in common with the Ja- < inese, suffering from a depression in j ie trade in this territory, but that | >preclation is due to conditions over | hich neither the Japanese nor any , her country, for the present, has any , mtrol. < One thing may be set down as ab- \ ?a that Ton. 'luieiy tenmu, anu mai u mat uu^ j i Is not going to give up her right in ] e South Manchurian railway until j ose rights shall be terminated by the pse of the term for which Japan has mtrol. Japan was given control of e South Manchurian railway for a ;rlod of thirty-six years from the ?nlng of the Portsmouth treaty. The ntung-Mukden railway will remain possession of Japan for fourteen >ars. There are now in Manchuria about irty thousand Japanese settlers, and nee they are within the zone of the iad where Japan has a sphere of inlence, the proposed taking over by ie powers would place the interests ' these In jeopardy. a#* The ruler of the roost provldeth >t the egg. ST When 70 per cent of cerium Is alu'lth 30 nor nsnt nt trnn the met thus produced posseses the remark- j )le property of giving off a shower of ] iarks when struck lightly by a steel heel. This substance has been emoyed for making auto-Igniters for gas jrners, miners' acetylene lamps and gar lighters. Recently It has been oposed to utilize It for Igniting motor >adlights, and even as a substitute r electric Ignition in the cylinders. PER8IA'S EXILED RULER. Mohammed Ali Joint In tht Qty Lift of Odessa* From the ceaseless turmoil of foreign affairs many strange and tragic figures emerge; some withdraw disillusioned, others are thrust forth as the current of a stream whirls twigs from its eddies into some dark and secluded backwater. Of these none are more strange than the exiles whose authority and occupation in high affairs is suddenly torn from them, to be replaced by a life of futile effort, trivial pastime, and empty honors which often hide a sneer, wTltes a staff a correspondent of the Pittsburg Oasette- f Times. By some strange metamorphosis or character, Mohammed All, the ex-shah of Persia, Is In banishment a very different person from the indolent, sensuous, and obstinate monarch of the days of power. Coming to Odessa from the eastern to the western world, he has found a whole range of Interest of which he had always been Ignorant The change has not left him apathetic or contemptuous. He has welcomed It with enthuiasm. His strenuous activities and newly cultivated pursuits are a revelation to his household. He has entered upon a course of European instruction, and is proving himself both an apt and intelligent student His new programme began with vis- 1 its to the chief industrial establish- ' ments in the city, and he at ones 11 showed remarkable perception in grasping the details of the scientific ' and other processes explained to him. Among other things, the mysteries of the production of a dally newspaper have been revealed to him, and on one occasion he even spent three hours inspecting the Central Odessa prison. In his recreations Mohammed All patronizes the theatres, the cafe-chantants, and the race course. He cruises in the harbor in a steam cutter, and his latest ambition Is to make & balloon ascent By no means prepossessing in ap- * pearance, Mohammed All is short. ratner sioat, squat in Duua, snorc-necited, bullet-headed, and sallow In complexlon. His features are redeemed by " his piercing black eyes. He dresses simply, in dark, close-fitting tunic and trousers and the conical black Persian headdress. Daily Life. t] This energetic exile is an early riser. ? Before the weather became severe he might be seen regularly taking his cof- * fee on the balcony of his mansion, * which commands a splendid sea view. * A little later he would promenade the garden with his two young sons, Mohammed Mehdl Miraz and Mohammed 01 Hassan Mlrza, aged respectively seven * and five, to whom he is fondly devoted. a From 9 to 11 the ex-shah deals with his correspondence, which Is of no small volume, and dictates dispatches and * telegrams to a couple of Persian secretarles. From 11 to noon, on alter- e nate days, he applies himself with creditable zeal to the study of Russian a literature under the tuition of a local ? professor. Between midday and. 1 e< o'clock dejeuner is served. The menu, -n both at luncheon and dinner, consists * of a combination of Persian and Euro- w pean dishes. On Mohammed All's arrival here a local restaurateur was engaged to cater for the royal table and for the household, but subsequently his services were dispensed with and replaced by those of a special chef sum moned from Teheran. After lunch the ex-shah takes his a "constitutional," but never on foot. He usually drives in a motor car, or a pair-horsed victoria, and occasionally he Is seen in the saddle. When riding p oj In motor car or carriage he is sometimes accompanied by his official host, ai the city prefect, but more frequently ^ by some member of his suite, his Russian adjutant, and a dragoman. The w latter is more or less indispensable, as * his majesty's drives generally include a noil nf Inaiunttnn at arvmfl nigra of " Interest or public works. The only, rt and scarcely noticeable, bodyguard Is a police officer, in mufti, who follows at some little distance in the wake of the royal equipage. B The Exile's Visitors. The appearance of the ex-shah in the streets has become so familiar to w the citizens that he no longer attracts 01 any public attention. The only sa- bl lutes he receives are those from the P police and police Inspectors on point ? duty. Mohammed All is quick and m alert in movement, but of Invariably h; serious demeanor; he is gracious and & amiable to those about him, but is nev- Ii er seen to smile. He dines at 6.30, b sometimes with his wife and children, is an which occasions no one else is pres- ft ent, but when the dinner is not a fam- it lly party his Russian adjutant and a tl few members of the suite are invited F to the royal table. Modern music by tl a small local orchestra frequently forms ta part of the evening's entertainment el The ex-shah's principal visitors are T Sen. Kaulbars, Gen. Tolmatcheff (the J< prefect,) the mayor, and a few other ai local dignitaries. It is a rigid rule of ai the royal exile never to discuss his country's affairs with his official hosts ai pr visitors. It is exclusively with his al pwn Persian entourage that home mat- 1< ters are debated in the privacy of his cl najesty's cabinet. One not Infrequent- w ly hears the question asked whether al Mohammed All Shah, domiciled in this gi :ountry, may not, in certain eventuall- Ci ties prove to be a trump card in Rus- B sia's capacious sleeve. Were it not re tor the existence of the Anglo-Russian w jntente there might, indeed, be some al substantial basis for that hypothesis. J< The royal exile may possibly entertain in tome latent hope of his restoration to fe the throne of the Kajars, but he never to ilvulges his innermost thoughts to ta those about him, and, for the present, tie remains the honored and luxurious- fg y domiciled guests of the Great White ia Czar. H Russian Hospitality. In Mohammed All's harem consists of x thirteen women. They are frequently w seen in public, but always thickly veil?d, of course, going to and from the 0] Slavlnskl public baths under the es- iy ;ort of the chier eunucn ana a puuce ?uard. A lady of my acquaintance who w happened to be at the baths on one oc- w ;aslon when the harem arrived, and ti vho saw the women unveiled, tells me 01 :hat she did not consider any of them ^ particularly prepossessing ? that Is, Cl from the western standpoint of feml- 01 line beauty. With two or three stout bl exceptions they were young, of good Igure, and passably good-looking, and r hey all had the same nonchalant and Jreamy expression. The ex-shah's palace In the Qogol itreet is a 2-storied, 40-roomed manilon of old Qothlc architecture and it&ndlng within Its own grounds. It s sumptuously furnished throughout, >artly in Persian and partly Europein style. The cost of the interior quipment, of carriages, horses and moor cars and the rent for one year [?1,200) Is borne by the csar*s private sablnet Mohammed All is in all resects treated as a royal guest of Rusila, and the hospitality -accorded him :ertalnly leaves nothing to be desired -xcept & personal audience of the csar, ind that favor his imperial majesty has >olltely, but firmly, refused to grant MODOC8' EXILE ENDED. rhey Return Not to tno Lava B*da of California, But to Oregon. The Modoc Indiana in Oklahoma are :olng home?not to the lava beda in ^adlfornla, whence they were taken to he Quapaw Indian reservation nearly orty years ago, but to the Klamath eservatlon of the Mod oca in Oregon, /here they will get lands in exchange or their allotments in Oklahoma. It i a peculiarity of the Modoc that he lesires to die on the spot where he /as born. The Modocs have been iomesick ever since they went to Ok* ahoma, and their return to the northzest is the result of their constant appeal to the authorities at Washington. The removal of the Modocs to Ok ihoma followed their aereat arter heir bloody campaign against government troops In the lava beds, where hey were commanded by Capt Jack, "hey assassinated and butchered all zcept two of the peace oommlsston ent to them by the secretary of war. Then the Modocs reached Oklahoma here were thirty-nine men, flfty-four romen and sixty children, many of rhom were sorely wounded. Among hem were such notable leaders as carfaced Charley, Steamboat Frank nd Shacknasty Jim. Their arrival In taxter Springs Is well remembered by Id citizens. Age and disease have out own the Modocs until only sixty retain. Nearly all their old leaders ave died. In going to the Klamath country, com which they fled when they' ensred the lava beds In California, mese Modocs will be among the Klatath Modocs, whom they thoroughly ate and despise because of the arroance of the Klamath band. The OkLhoma Modocs were moved from Calornla to Oregon, only to have their >regon kinsmen say to them: "You can stay here, but It is our ountry. Your horses can eat the rasa, but It Is our grass. You can itch fish, but they are our fish." This was more than Capt. Jack and Is people could bear, and they stole way and returned to their old haunts i California. When the Federal govrnment tried to make them go back ) Oregon the Mod oca began fighting, nd sought refuge In the Inaccessible iva beds. The commission establish3 Its camp about two miles from the streat of the Mod oca In the lava beds nd midway was pitched a tent at hich the council should be held. No sooner had the commissioners' ssembled In the tent than they found tat death was at hand. Capt Jack iddenly shot Oen. Csnby, adviser of tie commissioners. Canbyfs throat as cut and his uniform stolen. The ev. Eleazer Thomas, a commissioner, I so was slain and his body robbed nd mutilated. Two of the commlsoners escaped. The United States government then ut a large body of troops In the field, nd the Modocs were pursued night id day until they surrendered. Oc>ber 2, 1872, Capt Jack, Black Jim, oston Charley and Schronchin Jim ere hanged at Fort Klamath, Oret>n, for the murder of Canby and homas. Soon afterward the Callforla Modocs were taken to Indian Tertory.?Kansas City Times. HE WAN I 9 mo nCYENUc. uffalo Jonas'* Trip to Africa An Anti-Rooaovalt Demonstration. Down In that triangle of Arlaona hich is between the Orand Canyon f the Colorado River and the aouth oundary of Utah, says the St. Louis ost-Dispatch, is a bit of country bo loated by its canyons, walled by its lountalns and guarded upon every and by its deserts that it has been illed the last stand of the old west 1 this place lives Buffalo Jonea He as a ranch there, and his specialty cattalo, a queer creature, half bufilo and half cow that is raised for 8 head and hide. Buffalo Jones was le first keeper of the Yellowstone ark. He cowed the grlszlies that te tourists might snap them. He imed the puma and intimidated the k. He made it possible for one heodore Roosevelt and his friend shn Burroughs to follow him there id camp in the wilderness unafraid id unarmed. Persons familiar with the west id its living colossi have wondered ? AV'- DAAoavalf onH Rnffa JUUl tuts OOI11C awwotvw** ?Ni%. > Jones. Why did Roosevelt exude Jones from his set? Where as the greatest Westerner of them 1 while the former president was ving those White House dinners to atches-Em-Alive Abernathy, Viking en Daniels, Bat Masterson and the sat? How was it that Roosevelt, ith all his hunting, did not go out Iter mountain Hons with Buffalo )nes? Why did he lend his pen to nmortallzlng other men for lesser ats, leaving It to unknown writers i relate how Jones roped his mounJn lions out of the plnon trees? We have wondered too, how BufJo Jones has felt about It, and this st, at least, we have just found out e is mad about it, or, as they say i the west, piqued. He has gone to ew York, and there he has fallen in ith Hornaday, the Bills (Buffalo -J UAiiffh or.H nu ravYucc;, umviovu mvuB?? ? ?> tat crowd. They are nagging him i to his vengeance, and he Is short ' to go to Africa. There he will leld that wonderful rope to the onders of which Zane Grey has reintly devoted an entire book of ime 300 pages. He will rope and e every kind of big game there la i the Dark Continent. He will make oosevelt ridiculous?Roosevelt, who loots them with some kind of a innon. Roosevelt will bring home ily dead ones, Buffalo Jones will ring live ones. This will be the terrible vengeance ! Buffalo Jones, whom Theodore oosevelt slighted.