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* l SEKI-WESKL^ ^ l. m. grists sons, publishers.} 4 #amitj ileicspaper: Jor (he promotion of the goliucal. Social. Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the fieojle. {TE^*lNo'S'oop^.8^lRvic^^^^N, 8 establish ei) 1855. ' YORKVILLE, S. C., TtTKSDAY, MARCH -2i), 1910. NO. 25. Trixton f King / Copyright, 1909. by George ? I] Bsrr McCutcheon 11 Copyright. 1909, by Dodd. / Meed ? Company Synopsis of Preceding Chapters. Chapter I?Truxton King arrives in Edelweiss, capital of Graustark, and meets the beautiful niece of Spantz, a gunmaker. II?King does a favor for Prince Robin, the young ruler of the country, whose guardian is John Tullis, an American. Ill?Baron Dangloss, n minister of police, interviews King and warns him against Olga, the gunmaker's niece. r\'?King invades the royal park, meets the prince and is presented t<> the lud's fascinating Aunt Loraine. V?The committee of ten, conspirators against the prince, meets in an underground chamber, where the girl Olga is disclosed as one who is to kill Pr nee Robin with a bomb. VI?John Tullis calls on the beautiful Countess Ingomede, who warns him that her hated and notorious old husband. Count Marlanx, is conspiring against the prince, a VII, VII, IX and X?King visits the house of the witch of Ganlook gap and meets the royal houhehold there. He sees an eye gleaming through a crack in a door, and while searching for the person he is overpowered and dragged into a loft. He is confronted by Count Marlanx and then taken to the under* ground den of the committee of ten. XI?Olga defends King before the committee of anarchists. XII?Loraine is brought to the den and thrown into the same >m with King. XIII?King fells a jau-r, dons his doming and, disguised, carries Loraine into a os.ot at night in which several of the anarchists are about to depart. XIV? King manages to get Loraine, whom he loves, ashore, and they hide in a freight car. XV?Olga waits on a A SUeei comer Willi u lmmiiu 10 Mil i Iiuir * Rubin as he passes in a parade. Kins and Loraine are carried off into the country in the car. They start back in an ox cart and warn the prince when almost In front of the girl Olga. XVI? The bomb is thrown, but the prince escapes to the castle. Marlanx is in ^ control of the city. XVII and VIII? King goes from the castle to notify Tullis of the prince's danger, Tullis being absent in tlie hills with a force of soldiers. He linds Tullis. CHAPTER XIX. The Return. From the highlands below the Monastery Captain Haas and his men were able to study the situation in the city. The impracticability of an assault 00 ^ any one of the stubborn, well guarded gates was at once recognized. A force of TOO men, no mutter how well trained or how determined, could not be expected to surmount walls that had often withstood the attack of as many ^ thousands. The wisdom of delaying until a few thousand loyal though poorly armed countrymen could be brought into play against the city appealed at once to Prince Dantan and John Tullis. Squads of men were sent without delay into tile hills and valleys to call the panic stricken, wavering farmers th.. r..1.1 T.ilin T11IHa h.-nrieri the ^ company that struck off into the well populated Ganlook district. Marianx, as if realizing the nature of the movement in the hills, began a furious assault on the gates leading m to the castle. The watchers in the hills could see as well as hear the conflict that raged almost at their feet, so to speak. The next morning Captain Haas announced to his followers that Marianx had begun to shell the castle. Big guns in the fortress were hurling great shells over the city, dropping them in ^ the park. On the other hand. Colonel (juinnox during the night had swung three Gatling guns to the top of the wall: they were stationed at intervals along the wall, commanding every point from which an assault might be % expected. That night recruits from the farms and villages began to straggle into the camp. They were armed with rifles, ordinary shotguns and unique blunderbusses, swords, staves and aged lances. All were willing to die in the service of the little prince. By the close of the second day nearly 3,000 . men were encamped above the city. hate that night John Tuliis rode into camp at the head of a great company from the Ganlook province. He had retaken tin- town of Ganlook. seized the fortress and recruited the entire / fighting strength of the neighborhood. More than that, he had unlimbered and conveyed to the provisional camp two of the big guns that stood above tile gates at the fortress. Marlanx trained two of his big guns on the camp in the hills. From the fortress he threw many futile shells toward their place of shelter. Thev did no damage; instead of death, tln-y brought only laughter to the scornful camp, t'nder cover of night tin* two Ganlook cannons were planted in a position commanding the southeastern city gate. It was the plan of the new besiegers to bombard this gate, tearing it to pieces with shot. The knowledge that Marlanx had no big guns except those stationed in the fortress was most consoling to Tullls and his friends. He could not destroy tli.' castle gates Willi sneiis. cxri-pi uy purest chance. He could drop shells 9 into the castle, but to hit a gate twenty feet wide? NeVel'! Truxton King was growing haggard from worry and loss of sleep. He could not audi island tie- abominable. ? criminal procrastination, lb- was of a race that did tilings with a dash and on the spur of the moment. His soul sickened day by day. John Tullls. cipially unhappy, but more philosophical. often found him seated upon a rock at the top of the ravine, an tinlighted pipe in iiis lingers, his eyes intent upon the hazy castle. "Cheer up. King. Our time will ^ come.** be was wont to say. Then came the night before the proposed assault on the gates. The guns were in position, and the cannonading w is to begin at daybreak. Truxton was full of the bitterness of doubt and jp misgiving. Was she in love with Vos Kngo? Was the count's suit progressing favorably under the fire of the enemy? Was his undoubted bravery having its effect upon the wavering suscepi Utilities of yio distressed I .oral lie? A S*tory of Graustarft By GEORGE BARR M'CUTCHEON II II ?$4? Q Q^= . The sound of a voice in sharp com- i inand attracted his attention. There i was a bright moon, and Truxton could i see other pickets hurrying to join the " lirst. A few moments later several < trespassers were escorted through the I lines and taken directly to headquar- ? ters?a man and two women, King ob- 1 served. t John Tullis was staring hard at the ' group approaching from the roadway, i One woman wi Iked ahead of her com- l panions. Suddenly he sprang forward t with a cry of amazement. It was the Countess Ingomede. ' Her arrival created a sensation. In a moment she was in the center of an * amazed circle of nu-n. Tullis, after his first low, eager greeting at the ' edge of the fire circle, drew, her near J to the warmth giving Humes. Prince Dantan and Captain Haas threw rugs 1 and blankets in a great heap for her 1 to sit upon. Every one was talking f at once. The countess was smiling 1 through her tears. "Make room for 1 my maid and her father. They are 1 colder and more fatigued than I," she f said, lifting her tired, glorious eyes to John Tullis , who stood beside her. J "We have come from Balak. They suffered much that I might enjoy the lender comforts I was so ready to share with them." "Thank God. you are here!" he said in low, intense tones. She could not 1 mistake the fervor in his voice nor : the glow in his eyes. "I knew you were here, John. I am not going back to Count Marlanx. It is ended." . "I knew it would come, Ingomede. You will let me tell you how glad I am some day." "Some day, when I am truly, wholly free from him, John. I know what you will say, and I think you know ' what 1 shall say in reply." Both un- ' derstood and were exalted. No other word passed between them touching upon the thing that was uppermost in their minds. Food was provided for the wayfar- ( ers, and Tullis' tent was made ready for the countess and her maid. The countess' story was soon told. ' Sitting before the great fire, surrounded by eager listeners, she related her experiences. She had been seized on the night of the bull as she started across her father's garden, and escape had become possible only through the aid of Josepha and the girl's father. Farmers' wives told them of the newly formed army and of its leaders. She determined to make her way to the camp of those who would destroy her husband, eager to give them any assistance that her own knowledge of Marlanx's plan might provide. One bit of information she gave created no end of consternation among the would be deliverers of the city. It had the effect of making them all the more resolute: the absolute necessity , for immediately regaining control in v the city was forced upon them. She ^ told them tiiat Count Murlanx had lately received word that the Grand j Duke Paulus was likely to intervene before many days, acting on his own ( initiative, in the belief that he could force the government of Graustark to . grant the railway privileges so much desired by his country. Murlanx re- , alized that he would have to forestall | tin- wily grand duke. If lie were in , absolute control of the Graustark gov- j eminent when the Russian appeared he, and lie alone, would be in a position to deal with the situation. "The grand duke may send a large ( force of men across the border at any nine, saiu me cuuihpsd in conclusion. "Count .Marian\ is sure to make a decisive assault as soon as lie hears that tlie movement has begun. He had hopes of starving ihem out, thus saving the castle from destruction, but as that seems unlikely his shells will soon begin to rain in earnest upon tne ileal" old pile." Truxton King was listening with wide open ears. As she finished this dreary prediction lie silently arose to his feet and. without a word to any one. stalked off in the darkness. Tullis looked aftei him and shook his head sadly. "I'll be happy on that fellow's aceoiint when daybreak conies and we are really at it." he said to Prime I'aiitan. who knew something of King's atllictioii. I tut Truxton King was not there at daybreak. When lie strode out of the camp tiiat night lie left it behind forever. The unfortunate lack of means to communicate with the occupants of the castle had been the source of great distress to Captain Haas. If the defenders could be informed as to the exact ii1 ?ur mi iin assaun irom mc miisitle they could illi nnicl' toward its speedy success l?y making a tierce sortie from lu liiiiil their own walls. A liiick 11 a si i from tile castle grounds wmilil serve to ilraw Marlanx's attention in that direction, diminishing the force that lie wiiiilil seiiil to check the onslaught at the Kates. Truxtoii King hail all this in mind as he swung off ilown tie- mountain roail. having stolen past the sentries with comparative ease. The danger from Marlanx's scouts outside the city Was not great: they had lieeii scattered ami heateu by Haas' recruiting parties. He I in iinire danger from the III! II lie would help. tlle.V who Wel'C the watchful defenders of the castle. It must have been 2 o'clock when he crossed the king's highway, a mile or more above the northern gates, and struck down into the same thick undergrowth that had protected him and ll< bbs on a memorable night not long If fore. At :! o'clock a dripping figure threw up his hands obligingly and laughed with exultation when confronted by a startled guardsman inside the castle walls and not more than fifty yards from the water gate. Hi- shouted a friendly cry as he advanced toward the man, calling out his own name. Ten minutes later he was standing in the presence of tiie haggard, nerve racked Quinnox, pouring into his astonished ears the news of the coming attack. The colonel lost no time in routing out the sleeping guardsmen and reserves and in sending commands to those already on duty at the gates. When the sun peeped over the lofty hills he saw inside the gates a restless, waiting company of dragoons ready for the command to ride forth. Meantime King had crossed the grounds with Colonel Quinnox on the way to the castle. He was amazed, almost stupitied, by the devastation that Already had been wrought. A dozen or more balls had crashed Into the facade, fawning fissures, gigantic holes, mark ?d the path of the ugly messengers from Marlanx. Nearly all of the winlows had been wrecked by riflemen a1 ho shot from the roofs of palaces in ind about the avenue. Two of the smaller minarets were in ruins. A rage pillar in the lower balcony was tone. The terrace had been plowed up jy a single ricochetting shell. "Great God!" gasped King. "It is frightful!" "They began bombarding yesterday ifternoon. We were asked to surrenler at 3 o'clock. Our reply brought ;he shells, Mr. King. It was terrible. \ftor the first two or three shells we found places of shelter for the prince ind his friends. They are in the stone ower beyond the castle. The most florious courage is shown. Count Vos ?ngo guards the prince and the ladies if the household. Alas, it was hunger :hat we feared the most. Today we should have resorted to horse's llesh. rhere was no other way. We knew hat relief would come some day. John Pullis was there. And now it is today! Phis shall be our day, thank God!" Attendants sped to the tower, shoutng the battle tidings. The prince came tumbling down the lurrow iron stairs from his room tbove shouting joyously to Truxton King. No man was ever so welcome. Je was besieged with questions, handshakings and praises. Even the Duke >f Perse, hobbling on crutches, hud a cimlly greeting for him. Tears stream d down the old man's cheeks when ving told him of his daughter's safe trrivul in the friendly camp. Hut just now Truxton was staring it the narrow staircase. Vos Engo ind Isuaine were descending slowly. Phe former was white and evidently ,'ery weak. He leaned on the girl for support. Count Halfont offered the explanaion. "Vos Kngo was shot last week hrough the shoulder. He is too brave o give up, us you may see. It hapjened on the terrace. There was an inexpccted fusillade from the houseops. Eric placed himself between the uurksmen and Miss Tullis. A bullet hat might have killed her instantly struck him in the shoulder. King never forgot the look in Loaine's eyes as she came down the steps. Joy and anguish seemed to ombine themselves in that long, inense look. She gave him her hands. Tiie look 11 her tired eyes went straight to his leart. Vos Engo drew back, his face "* oi :i frown of disnlensure. "My brother?" she asked, without aking her gaze from his eyes. "He is well. He will see you today." "And you, Truxton?" was her next luestioii, low and quavering. "Unharmed and unchanged, Loraine," le said softly. "Tell me, did Vos Engo stand between you and the lire from the"? "Yes, Truxton," she said, dropping ler eyes as if in deep pain. "And you have not?broken your iromise to him?" "No; nor have 1 broken my promises to you." "He is a brave man. 1 can't help saying it." said the American, deep lilies suddenly appearing in his face. ??Wl I liy lit" IU1IICU III \ OS Vjllfi", l Alrnuing his hand. "My hand, sir, to a brave man!" Vos rCngo stared at him for a moiin lit and then turned away, ignoring llie friendly hand. A hot llush mounted to liorailie's blow. Vos lingo's response was a short, bitlei laugh. To be Continued. Our New Type of Jews. A rich and respected Jewish financier of New York is quoted as having said not long ago: "When 1 came to New York from Kuropc, years ago, I came for purposes of business, and 1 have pursued tliein, not without results. 1 *iit these Jews that have been coming in in such numbers lately are of another type, more concerned with things of the mind, and less with profit. Many of them are thinkers and idealists. They a re not the sort of Jews the Americans are used to and will not develop on the same lines." The sense of these remarks is worth iiomlering. (if course, there are Jews and Jews; (In- usual variety of indivilluaIs which all races show. Hut we have hceii used to associate certain eharaelcrist ies and capacities witli Jews as we have known them. Will tin* ilew Jews, from Itussin and south' eastern Kit rope, hriujj it to pass in the course of a generation tiial "Jew" will suggest ideas to our minds that are different from those now suggested hy that woid? The Jews we have known were zealous for material things, eminently practical. getters-ahead. The new Jews are extremely ca*p-r for education. take kindly to Socialism and tile kindled persuasions; ale altruists? some of them; seem more concerned i.._ with iiDsuiii'i nmus in.in inc ri-sstii's ill' tlii-ir ii\vii i'jn*i*. Art' limy K"intf tn <- >111 i ii in - In In- likt- ili.it, ami will they In- thrifty tun'.' They am int< lliui'in. active ami lima^litfnl, ami llii'ir ili-vi l<i|iin?'iit is KniiiK In he worth wali-hiiiK. Harper's Weekly. .t In a new fnrin nf an electric an* lamp tlm ?-arbnns am formed ami supplied as consumed. Tim lamp is prnviili'il with Hvn receptacles, in which ilm plastic material is placed, ami this is fcil tlimuKh tubes to form tin- two electrodes of tlm tire. The ends nf tlm electrodes are baked by means of elnntrie lmatiim mils, and tlm process is ;i eoiitinuoiis mm. iUiscrllanrous grading. DAMON AND PYTHIAS. According to Ye Editor of the Anderson Daily Mail. News and Courier. [Editor's Xote: In the Issuo of The News and Courier of March 11, appeared an inquiry by Mr. A. E. Evison of Barnwell, regarding the real history concerning Damon and Pythias. We are here reproducing thi* real "history" of the story, as told by the editor of the Anderson Daily Mail, and trust that it will prove satisfactory. Perhaps. Mr. Evison is not acquainted with our good friend. Brother Car penter; if not, this will prove a most excellent introduction.] The "history" is as follows: Pythias was a married man in ancient Syracuse. He went on a whiz one night and got into an awful scrape. He smashed a show case in a cigar store, and ate a steak in the cafe and wouldn't pay for it, and raised a rough house generally, and finally wound up by trying to go to bed in the piano at the moving picture show. The police got him, of course, and the next morning the recorder. Dionysius, gave him a sentence of thirty days without tlie alternative of a fine. Now, as they were taking the prisoners down the street to the rock pile, Damon, one of Pythias' neighbors, came along. "Hail!" cried Pythias, or words to that effect. "Say. you've got to be a friend. I want you to go to my wife and prove an alibi for me. Tell her the firm has sent me to Greenville to look after some bad debts, or any other lie that you can think of if it is a better one, and make her believe it. I'll do as much for you some day." He would have talked more, but the guard punched him in the ribs and told him to gadap. Now, about three months before this Damon and Pythias had both been trying to hire the same stenographer and rytnias nau won out. So, on this beautiful, blight spring morning Damon didn't do a thing but go to Pythias' house and told just what had happened. He told the whole naked truth without concealing a single thing. And about fourteen minutes later he came hotfooting it into the police station, minus his hat and with his face torn and his shirt front all blooded up, and this was the story he told: "Run for your lives, you fellows. Pythias' old wife, Philopena. is on the warpath. She is armed with a gun and a razor and a hat pin, and she says she is coming up here and clean out this whole works. And she'll come jolly well near doing it, too, for you seo what she has done for me." Now, the sergeant was a married man himself. He sent an officer post haste to the chaingang. and had Pythias broifght back to the station house. They took the stripes off him and gave him back his clothes and a bromo seltzer, which braced him up, and sent him to his office, and when Fhilopena got there they said they hadn't seen Pythias in a month and didn't know anyming aooui nun. Philopena went on to her husband's oflice, and when she got there he was working on the books like all possessed. Hut he wasn't napping?no, indeed. He beat her to it and lit in and gave her a line of talk about how he had been called out of town suddenly the afternoon before, and couldn't get her on the 'phone, and had told the boys in the office to let her know about It and they had forgotten it, and he had just gotten in and had to stop by the office and go over the books because he couldn't depend on anybody to keep tilings straight, and he was going 011 up to the house in a little while, for he came from over yonder 011 the early train and hadn't had any breakfast, and, oh d? ar, do sit down, he said. Wheat Philopena told him what Damon had ssiid he was verv much astonished. anil then looked sail, and he said he did not intend to tell her, but that he had noticed that Damon had been acting strangely for sime time, and, really he was afraid he had begun doping. Philopena believed it, or pretended that she did. which always amounts to the same thing. She said she had been so worried, but it was all right now, and it was a pity he had to work so hard and be away front home so much, for site did miss him so much when he was away. And then she signed and said it was such a pity about Mr. Damon, but she wasn't surprised, considering the kind of a wife he had, for she was so extravagant. and didn't half keep the house, and was always nagging at him. Whereupon 1'ytliias shook hands with himself behind his back. Then Philopena straightened up the papers on the desk and lidgeted about for a while, and then sighed again and again and said that now that as she was up-town she guessed she had better do that shopping that she had been thinking about, as it would save another trip and it was so much trouble to lix up, and would Pythias please let her have forty dollars. Pythias coughed up the money without hutting an eye, and Philopena took it and went out, winking at herself as she went, and Pythias spent the rest of the day talking to himself and kicking the chairs around. And now we come to the saddest part of it all. for Damon and Pythias were never friends any more. In fact they never spoke to each other again as long its they lived, and they always acted a> if tlicj were afraid to get within reach of each other. Damon moved to Newberry not long afterward and that was the last that anybody ever heard d' hint. This, children, is the true story of it. <>f course it is told somewhat differently in the histories, but histories are always unreliable. You would do Well if yoll would never believe anything you read in the histories unless you just know it is so. Now. 1 ythias was a pretty good sort of a clian in a wav. and he had ii lot of friends. ami they managed In cover up the scandal. It woulil have been awful if it had gotten out on him, you know. The way they managed to cover it up was that they organized a lodge, and in this manner they kept the secret all to themselves. They called the Lodge the Knights of Pythias, other lodges were organized. from time to time, to meet similar emergeiieies, and the thing kept on growing, until today the Knights of Pythias is one of the strongest secret societies in the country. It also claims to be one of the most noblest. Some of the very best people belong many people into a tiling without having Millie of thrill itliiive tllr average. Your papa belongs in it. Thank you. ehihlren. The Knights of Pythias is really a splemliil organization, and it does a lot of good. The only deception il practices on the public is in the name, for il is not the Knights of Pythias at all. but the Nights of Pythias. For when the lodge meets the members gel up and talk about what an old soak Pythias was. and how lie used to spend his nights, and how we must never go and do likewise. When new members are brought in, the first lesson impressed upon them is that while it is possible to fool a woman if we will all stick together, it can t he done eve** *i* , and it is ever so much better if we don't do anyth'ng to make it necessary to try it. Another lesson impressed upon the young membors Is that if they will stay at home of nights and behave themselves they may not have uuite so much fun, but they will feel a whole lot bett'?r the next morning and they won't be afraid to go up-town. It is a very beautiful lesson. You just ought to hear Prank Lander giving the lecture. He is fine on it. One of the mottoes of the Knights of Pythias is that those who make hay should live in glass houses. Another is that an honest man never gets fat. It has been said by envious anil malicious people?those who have boeu blackballed, perhaps?that another of the mottoes is that the Lord admireth a cheerful liar, but that is a mistake. There Is no such motto in our noble order. We have told you all this, children, so you will understand why it Is tl:nt papa has to go up-town tonight. You see. all the Knights of Pythias In Anderson county are coming to the city tonight to be the guests of Chiquola Lodge at a banquet in Maple hall. There are six or eight lodges In the county, and every member is coming, or most of them, so there will be a big crowd. It is a great honor for Chiquoia Lodge to be able to entertain all her brethren, and we are going to spread ourselves. It is going to be a scrumptious affair. There will be eatables and drinkables and smokebles from who laid the rail, and speech making to beat the band. There will be speeches by such men as George Rembert and Elbert Aull and Paul Sullivan and other big noises, and your papa may have to make a speech himself. You see, when a man belongs to a lodge he has certain duties which cannot be shirked. Of course, this banquet is putting a lot of hard work on some of us, but we don't mind it, for there is nothing nobler in all this world than to make other people happy. Remember that, children. Now, children, it may be 2 or 3 o'clock before your papa gets home. He will be all tuckered out and will want to sleep late in the morning. Please don't make any fuss when you get up. And now, children, good-night. Pleasant dreams! FARMERS CO-OPERATE Three Mutual Companies Operated In Kansas. Farmers in Dlrkinson county, Kan., are working out an interesting experiment in co-operation. They own three successful mutual companies, each paying a good dividend and undeir competent management. That part of Kansas was settled forty years ago by Germans, who are still the majority of population. Later came Swedes and then farmers from Indiana and Illinois. -Upland is the headquarters of the telephone, insurance and mercantile companies. It boasts less than 100 population, but" the amount of business transacted there is wonderful. Farmers attribute the success of their jcompanies to the low cost of administration, no official receiving more than $2 a day and that only while he Is actually employed on the* com The community idea took root [ during the Farmers Alliance (lay*, (back in 1891. A meeting of farmers was called to take up the question [and each farmer was constituted an agent without pay to solicit new members. It was decreed that any time a fire occurred an assessment should be levied to make good the loss. Six years later it had 241 members, with $168,000 insurance in force. Today it has 3,500 members, with insurance representing $4,000,000. When the company started in business it was decided that $2 a day was enough to pay any ofllcer, and that amount has never been raised. This is paid only when the oittcer works. The average yearly salary list is about $800, due to the simple methods by which records are kept and the fact that everybody pays his assessment promptly under pain of be II.h UIU|ipviU Ul ...... In 188f> the farmers decided to build a ereamery. Later the advent of the farm separator caused it to be closed up, as there was more money in selling the cream to the central butter making station.'.. One day when a number of farmers were waiting for their tickets from the creamery it was suggested that it would be just as easy to bring farm produce along with the milk every morning. Why not have a store? Within in a few days a co-operative organization with a capital of $25,000 was formed. Only a part of this was used at the beginning, but the store has been so profitable that the stock is <|Uoted at $1G0 and the cash value of its resources is around l ?.?- ""oi- tho s:t<wak umi. nun' ,, holders meet in the town hall, hear the reports, declare a Rood dividend and elect ollieers. No one. is permitted to hold more than $100 worth of stock and this entitles him to one vote. By the articles each stockholder binds himself to sell all of his grain and product* to the Oohlen Rule company, which is its incorporated name. The business is done largely by cr (lit. Farm produce brought in is credited to the man who furnishes it. and he is debited with whatever lie buys of groceries and dry goods. t'asli settlements are made at the end of each month. The company owns a grain elevator, but this is at Alda, on the line of the nearest railroad. ,\ few years ago after a full discussion it was agreed that as there was ll<* lit* pt* 111 llif to (Tpiaml the company ought to buy A Ida. It did, taking in the elevator, stoekyards, everything except the town's name. The telephone company servos over 4,0(10 persons, most of them being farmers, it is one of the biggest concerns in the state. It is purely mutual, with no capital stock, and this serves to make certain tlie retention of the control in the hands of the farmers. Fifteen or twenty trunk lines radiate from the stone building in Upland. The otiieers conteliil dial t he sm'cess of I he enterprise lies in the fact that no lixed rental is charged, each owner of a telephone paying a proportionate expense of operation and maintenance. ICaeh farmer must buy outright his 'phone. These, it is insisted, must be -long distance Instruments. They cost about $ia apiece. The cost of becoming a stockholder, that is of making a connection, is $10. Thereafter he is a stockholder and all receipts from tolls are credited to him proportionately. The otlicers| of the company are paid only for the actual time they devote to the business. The tirst year's cost is about l-'i'i. This includes instrument, connection and dues. After that the cost is about $:" a year. LAWYER'S PHONEY FEE. Sank Cashier and Treasurer Experts Took It. A noted lawyer of one of the southern states, fa:nous not only for his brilliant mind ind legal ability, but also for his rigid code of honesty, used to tell this story on himself, says ( the New York Herald. Soon after the civil war the judge was called on to defend a man accused of passing counterfeit money. , The old lawyer ufter investigating the matter and satisfying himself that the ( man was innocent of any intent to do wrong and had only paid out money ?.|,ii.l, t... hull raiulvml ill cr,.i-..l fulfil undertook the case. When the case came up for trial the jury was so im- ] pressed by Judge 's plea for his client and his explanation of the circumstances that a verdict of not guilty was rendered without delay. The acquitted man was very grateful to Judge , and after thank'ng nim profusely for getting him out of the ugly scrape, said: Judge, I'll never forget what you've done for me, and some day 1 hope to be able to prove my gratitude; but the only thing ! can do now is to pay your fee, and I'll pay whatever you ask. How much it is?" "Well, 1 think ubout $1,000 will be fair," replied the judge. "That's fair enough, sir," agreed the client, "but, judge the only money I've got is tile same kind of money that I have just been prosecuted for spending. Some of that money is good and some of it is the counterfeit tiiat was worked off on me, and I don't know t'other from which. Now, I will pay you $1,500 in the bills thut 1 have got and you do the best you can with it." As there seemed nothing else to do, tile judge agreed to this, and tiie client paid him $1,500 in bills and left him. The judge took the $1,500 to his bank and explained the circumstances to the cashier and asked him to take out the bills which he as an expert pronounced good. The cashier did so, and the judge deposited the accepted bills to his credit, and then taking the package of doubtful money to another bank he made the same explanation and re quest of the cashier, the bank re- | ceivlng on deposit the money, which, as experts, they pronounced good. , "And do you know," said the judge, "after I had visited six banks I had ( got rid of all the money except live ( $20 bills, which all the banks had , agreed were counterfeit, and my fee | in the case instead of being the $1,000 which I originally charged the man ( netted me $1,400, and I've always had a suspicion that if there had been a few more experts in the town I would have got rid of those last live $20 bills." "What became of the five bad twenties?" some one asked the judge. "I'm not sure," replied the old law- ( yer. "My wife asked me for them and shortly afterward she made a trip to Washington. When she returned she showed me a brand new hundred dollar bill, which she said she had got at the United States treasury?but I never asked her any questions. I knew the treasury department had experts, too." " # ' 1 P. 0. CURIOSITIES. Some Curious Stories of St. Martin's-le-Grand. From among the millions of missives which pass annually through the general postofflce there are always a few which go to swell the numberless interesting relics in the G. P. O. museum. But the museum does not contain letters only. Every kind of curiosity connected with the postal system seems to have gravitated to it, each forming a link with the past, and in many instances having a sufficiently startling story attached to it. There is the old mail bag which was stolen by a highwayman in 1798, and found in 1876 in an old inn which was being demolished, where, when fresh foundations were being dug, several skeletons were discovered. There are some old brass-bound watches, once used by tlu- guards of his majesty's mail. These watches were provided with a lock and 1 key, so that after being regulated at headquarters they could not be tarn- ' pered with. There are two of the staves used by all ranks in the postal ' service during the Chartist riots and ' the ancient horse pistols, without which ' no guard felt secure In olden times. hut perhaps the most interesting ! relic, leaving documents out of the I question, is one which must perforce remain where it is?on the Brecon road. This is the mail coach pillar, "erected by John Bull, inspector of mail coach- ' es, with the aid of ?13, 16s, Cd., re- . ceived by him from forty-one subscribers, in tlie year 1S41." It was put up "as a caution to mail drivers to keep from intoxication." It appears from the inscription that on Dec. 1!?, 1833, one Edward Jenkins was driving the ^ Gloucester and Carnarvon mail coach. Unfortunately, he was very drunk, and ' when lie met a cart coming the other way he was too fuddled to pull over to his proper side. The leaders swerved and went over a precipice 121 feet. The coach was dashed to pieces at the ' bottom against an ash tree, and of course the passengers were killed. To erect the pillar eight years after the catastrophe seems rather late in the 1 day, but no doubt the subscriptions did not come thick and fast. Tin- undelivered articles 311 the re- | turned letter office, perhaps better known as the Dead Letter office, form ' a remarkable collection. The number j of letters and parcels which arc im- : properly addressed is simply astound- ' ing, and even more so are the extraor- ' dinary articles which people think lit ] to send through the post. Pal so teeth, 1 puddings, snakes, lizards, leeches, weasels, tarantulas, tortoises, tame rats J iind mice, are only a very few of the specimens which startle the Dead Letter office clerks, and are kept as long ' as possible in ease they should be . claimed. Hut most Interesting of all < ' !%? I,.t..u 1 Jilt' llll" IHH'Ulllfllin il Mo nit- un< which are carefully treasured in the ( inusoum. A bag of letters which had | been stolen was recovered almost intact and the following notice was sent ] with each letter: "This letter was en- . closed in the Newport letter bag for i London, of Nov. ?, 1X22. which had been stolen, and was found on the 17 j instant. (1X2.7), concealed over a hay- i loft at the New Passage Inn. with the ' contents mutilated." The postoffice also acted at one time as an iniptiry ( office, police agency, and so on, the mailmen distributing handbills all over the country. The dearth of news less than a hundred years ago Is shown by the following story: In 1821 the duke of Manchester, who was postmaster general, had gone to Jamaica owing to ill-health. The secretary of the postoffice, being in utter Ignorance of what was happening to his chief, caused this bill to be circulated: "Mr. Freeling requests the postmaster to make inquiries of the master of any ship arriving from Jamaica into the state of the duke of Manchester's health and to inform him of the result by first post." Many amusing stories, which are also perfectly true, are told at the U. P. O., of which the following are among tlu best: A certain archbishop, who had to travel a great deal, found that he was spending too much in telegrams, and set to work to devise a mode of re trenchment. One day his chaplain received the following cryptogram: "John's Epistle ill, 13, 14." The chaplain was nonplussed until he found the text indicated, which read thus: "1 had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee; but 1 trust I shall shortly see thee, md we shall speak face to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Sreet the friends by name." A lady who was stopping at a hotel at Aixes-Bains wrote to her servant In England. She used the hotel note paper, which was so covered with advertisements of the hotel's attractions that the address was hardly visible. The servant did not answer, and the lady wrote again, but receiving no reply she wrote to a friend asking her to go to the house and see what had happened. This the friend did, to lind the servant greatly distressed, as she had written to her mistress, but the letter had been returned marked "not known." She produced the envelope, which she had addressed thus: "Mrs. , Hotel Britannique, Ouvert toute l'annee, Ascenseur Hydraulique." Letters written by people who misapply their ingenuity purposely, by addressing them in an extraordinary manner, have their place among the archives. Lately the postofflce issued a notice that it would not be responsible for letters addressed in such a fashion, and this may tend to check the persons who love to add to the already heavy burdens borne by post office officers. However, if the postoffice sees that the address is not intended as a problem to be solved, but Is the result of forgetfulness or ignorance every effort is being made to find the addressee. A curious instance of this is the following: "Mrs. , wearing a large Bear Boa, Violet Flowers in Bonnet: Promenade (mornings), Abervstwlth." The letter, which ultimately reached its destination, was from the lady's son, who had completely forgotten his mother's address.?I?ndon Globe. THE GOLDSBORO SWINDLE. Liner Loaded with Goods Unpaid For, Sailed Away. Francis G. Bailey, the leading spirit in the Goldsboro venture a year ago last spring, has been found guilty of grand larceny in the first degree in the criminal branch of the supreme court. The jury was out less than fifteen minutes. It was the wind up of a string of circumstances of unusual nature beginning in March, 1908, .vhen the Export Shipping company at 11 Broadway, of which Bailey was presi3ent, and his brother, Albert VV., was treasurer, sent out a lot of circulars to manufacturing firms in this country. They were in the field, it ap peared, to buy everything from machinery and tools to phonographs and champagne for the Central Supply company of Townsville, Austraia. They placed orders, directed the ?oods sent to New York for transportation, and in most cases made Irst payments. Then Bailey and his brother secured the former Clyde liner Goldsiaoro in Philadelphia and brought her to this city, where she was loaded ivith about $35,000 worth of merchandise. They drew on the General Supply company, discounted the shipping drafts, and with all the available ready money in English ?old on board the Goldsboro sailed away, not to Australia but to Honduras. What was left of Ihe Export Shipping company went bankrupt and the National Association of Manufacturers got busy. The brothers were arrested in Puerto Cortez, Honduras, and consented to give up their proM ? ? rr moUitcrnnv tn nnmo |cici <>i ucaiius ill IHUIIXBU.., back to New York. That night Francis Bailey slipped over the side, stole a boat and escaped. He wrote to a friend in this country that he was so close to the officers searching for him that night that he could have touched one of them. Police Lieutenant Beery, who had him in harge, lost his job. A year later Albert Bailey was brought back and convicted. He was sentenced to seven years in Sing Sing. Through a letter sent to the prison the elder brother was traced ;o Vancouver. He was posing as Col. Kdward Shannon Kileonnel on a ranch near Whennock, New Westminster. One afternoon last spring Detective Wilber of the Central office saw him hoeing corn with a Japanese laborer. Bailey denied his dentity, but he consented to go to Vancouver. There lie admitted that he was Bailey, but declared that he wouldn't be extradited for his crime, he had had a lawyer look it up, he said. When Wilbur showed him the law Bailey found that his solicitor had consulted an out of date code. II lie nau kikiwii me iiiv? lie ivuiu not have settled there, he told the .leteetlve. Assistant District Attorney Xott picked out from many the complaint if the Keystone Driller company, which hud lost $1,926.IX. Bailey's lawyer tried to show that the Ooldsboro might have been on its way to Australia for all the court could tell ind declared that were sixty-five lays grace, allowing for mail transportation to Australia, before /t irould be said that a crime had been committed. IJuiley was arrested before this time had elapsed. Mr. Nott brought Into evmence loiters showing that Hailey ha<l secured i 6.000 acre concession in Honduras, i country that the United States had no extradition treaty with at that time. The goods on board the Goldaboro seemed to the prosecutor to show that Honduras was the ultimate destination. Such things as hammocks, seeds, photographic supplies and other things that were rare down there but could be bought in Australia, made up the cargo.?New York Sun. POISON THAT KILLS FEAR. Mysterious Concoction Defies Investigations of Scientists. Curarl, the vegetable poison with which the Indians of the Upper Amazon tip their hunting arrows, remains a mystery in Its composition after 100 years of investigation by scientists. The Indians will sell it for Its weight In silver, but will not reveal the plants from which It is derived. Not long ago a professor in a German university was sent to the Amazon wilderness for the express purpose of discovering the secret, for curari, or urarl, as it is otherwise called is now thought to be of great value in medl cine. The professor lived two years In Indian villages, and while he was permitted to witness the boiling of the "witches' broth," which lasted several days, he could not tell what plants went into the brew. Returning from this baffled quest down the Amazon with a quantity of the poison, the professor was met by another traveler, Dewey Austin Cobb, who had got possession of a native blow gun. The latter tells how he put some of the professor's curari on some of the blow gun arrows, which are like toothpicks feathered with cotton, and tried It on a buck deer In the forest. "After deliberate aim our hunter fired," says Mr. Cobb, "If I may use such a word for the little puff, scarcely heard by us, and entirely Inaudible above the rustling corn leaves at the distance of the deer. The animal gave a start as It felt the prick of the arrow on Its flank and turned partly around, sniffing the air for a scent, .and looking about as if searching for the Insect that had bitten or stung It. Detecting nothing. It stood still and unalarmed. At the end of a minute, or a minute and a half, at most, its head dropped a little, as If It was sleepy. "When the hunter saw this he arose and stepped out in plain sight. The deer turned his head and looked at htm, and moved forward, not away from htm, a few steps and stopped. It showed no fear, but simply curiosity. After another minute the professor and I arose, and all three walked quietly to within reach of It. It made* no movement to run away, but watched us Intently, and shifted its position a little. Its movements seemed perfectly easy and natural. Absence of fear was the only observable change, until at the end of three minutes more; then It lay down, not falling, but as naturally as a cow or sheep when ready for sleep. "We all approached Its side, and the hunter laid a hand on Its shoulder. It looked up at him, but showed no resentment or fear. Even Its breathing seemed easy and natural, which surprised me, as I had heard that death resulted from paralysis of the lungs when caused by urarl. At the end of ten minutes, though, It opened Its eyes when touched, its breath became shorter and slower. Eighteen minutes after It was struck by the arrow It was dead.?National Geographic Magazine. Some Royal Treasure*. The little boy shah of Persia owns ? omniroH hv his father on state a J>l OUivuvu W,, .... occasions, which is set with diamonds, rubies and emeralds, to the value, it is asserted, of no less than $500,000. This pipe of the former shah is ten times more valuable than his sword, which is set down at the comparatively insignificant figure of $40,000. The Gaekwar of Baroda, who visited us not long ago, is the possessor of what is probably the most precious blade in existence. Its hilt and belt are incrusted with diamonds, rubies, sapphires and emeralds, and its value is stated to be something like $1,000,000. There are some costly swords in the treasure rooms of eastern and European potentates, notably those belonging to the czar of Russia, the sultan of Turkey and the king of Slam; but this sword of the Gaekwar outshines them all. The most valuable sword in Europe is that presented by the Egyptians to Lord Wolse ley. The hilt is set with brilliants, and the whole sabre is valued at $10,000. Another Indian ruler?the Maharajah of Ghened?owns the finest broughan in the world. The handles of the doors are of solid gold, while the rest of the carriage Is silver. The new emperor m muiu?u came into possession of a curious piano manufactured to the order of his predecessor, which is probably the most costly instrument of the kind ever made. This piano was made in parts, each being small enough to be carried by a slave, as it appeared that the former emperor firmly refused to trust them to the care of his camels, which formed the only other available means of transport. This exceedingly expensive musical instrument was made principally of tulip and orris woods, inlaid with unpolished jacaranda parquetry, and decorated with scroll work of pure gold. The actual sum paid for it was $20,000.?Harper s Weekly. Lake Chad. On the map Lake Chad makes a very fine appearance, and is, to look at. a very imposing piece of water. It is also the central point at which meet the lines of demarcation between the English. French and German spheres of influence in that part of the world. It is even now not j thoroughly explored and not so well known as the great lakes in Eastern Africa. But the trouble about it is that it is drying up, and will shortly disappear. Last night at the Royal Geographical society Capt. Tilho, who has just returned with the French mission from Lake Chad, gave a lecture on the work that had been done. Lake Chad is a vast closed depression of yllght depth, and is entirely Independent of the great rivers which flow Into the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. It is the shallowest lake in the world, its average depth being onlv five feet. It is. in fact, a sort uf gigantic dewpond, and its losses are due to evaporation and intiltra tion. When the mission arrived ^ the lake last year, they found that the northern part, over which they had navigated In 1904, had been dried up and that the central part was a swamp which no boat could puss. But in spite of this Capt. Tilho does not believe that the lake will disappear altogether, but that it will never be useful for navigation. In the meantime what is needed is the effective occupation of the whole district, in order to stop the slave trade. ?London Globe.