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? ZSSUBD 8BM1-WBBKLT. l. m. GRIST S SONS, Publisher..} Jfamtlg JJetcspaper: ifor the promotion of the political, Social. Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the people. {* E^iFAIlisheI) 1855. ~~ YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1910. NOaC. Truxton [King / Copyright, 1909, by George /1 Barr McCutcheon 11 Copyright. 1909, by Dodd, 1/ Mead ? Company CHAPTER XX. A The Last Stand. Soon after 5 o'clock a man in the topimist window of the tower called down that the forces in the hills were moving in a compact body toward the ridges below the southern gates. * One hundred picked men were to be left inside the castle gates with Vos Engo, prepared to meet any flank movement that might be attempted. Three hundred mounted men were selected to make the dash down Castle avenue straight into the camp of the sharpshooters. It was the purpose of tile house guards to wage a fierce and noisy conflict off the avenue and then retire to the castle as abruptly as they * left it, to be ready for Marlanx should he decide to make a final desperate effort to seize their stronghold. The dash of the 300 through the gates and down the avenue was the most spectacular experience in Trux^ ton's life. He was up with Quinnox and General Braze, galloping well in front of the yelling troops. These mounted carbineers, riding as Bedouins, swept like thunder down the street, whirled into the broad, open arena beyond the duke's palace and were upon the surprised ruffians before they were fully awaken to the situation. m They came tumbling out of barns and sheds, clutching their rides in nerveless hands, aghast in the face of absolute destruction. The enemy, craven at the outset, threw down their guns and tried to escape through the ft alleys and side streets at the end of the common, tiring all the time, the attacking force rode them down as if they were so many dogs. After ten or fifteen minutes of this desultory carnage it was reported that a large force of men were entering the avenue from Regengetz circus. Quinnox sent his chargers toward this great horde of foot soldiers, but they did not falter, as he had expected. On they swept. 2,000 or 3,000 of them. At their t head rode five or six officers. The foremost was Count Marlanx. Quinnox saw now that the Iron Count was determined to storm the gates and gave the command to retreat. Waving their rides and shout0 ing defiance over their shoulders, the dragoons drew up, wheeled and galloped toward the gates. Scarcely were the massive portals closed and the great steel bars dropped into place by the men who attended them when a low, dull explosion shook the earth as if by volcanic force. Then came the crashing of timbers, the ? cracking of masonry, the whirring of a thousand missiles through the air. Before the very eyes of the stunned, bewildered defenders, dismounting near the parade grounds, the huge gates and pillars fell to the ground, t The gates had been dynamited. Then it was that Truxton King remembered. Marlanx's sappers had been quietly at work for days drilling from the common to the gates. It was a strange coincidence that Marlanx should have chosen this day for his culminating assault on the castle. The skirmish at daybreak had hurried his arrangements no doubt, but none the less were his plans complete. The explosives had been laid during the night, the fuses reached to the mouth of the tunnel across the common. As he swept up the avenue at the head of M his command, hawk faced and with glittering eyes, he snarled the command that put fire to the fuses. A moment later his vanguard streamed through the aperture and faced the deadly fire from the driveway. At last they began to advance across tiie grassy meadow. When one man fell under the fire of the guardsmen m another rushed into his place. Three times the indomitable Oraustarkians drove them back and as often did Marlanx drag them up again, exalted by the example he set. "Gad, he is a soldier!" cried Truxton. "Hello! There's my friend Brutus. He's no coward either. Here's a try for you, Brutus." He dropped to iiis knee and took deliberate aim at the frenzied henchman. The discovery that there were three bullets in Brutus' breast when he was picked up long afterward did not af^ feet the young man's contention that he was the one that hail found the heart. The fall of Brutus urged the Iron Count to greater fury. His horse had been shot from under him. He was * on his feet, calling to his men to follow him as he moved toward the stubborn row of green and red. Bullets hissed about his ears, but he gave no heed to them. The commander of the guard gave the command to fall back slowly toward the castle. ^ Citing at every step, they crossed the ^ parade ground and then made a (ptick uasn ror uu> sncner 01 me n>ng uaiconies. Marlanx. down in tin- parade ground. was fairly pushing his men into the jaws of death. I Truxton Kind's chance to pay his debt to Vos Kngo came after one of the fiercest, most determined charges. Tin- young count had been fighting desperately for some time. His weakness seemed to have disappeared. As the foe f.-li back in the face of desperate resistance Vos Kngo sprang down tinsteps and rushed after them, calling others to join him in tin- attempt to f Complete the lollt. Near the edge of tin- terrace he stopped. His leg gave way under him. and lie fell to the ground. Truxton saw him fall. He leaped over the low balustrade, dropping his hot rille, and dashed 9 across the terrace to his rival's assistance. A hundred men shot at him. "It's my turn!" shouted the American. "I'll sipiare it up if 1 can. Then we're even!" o T T w vSVor.^ of GrauslarK. By GEORGE BARR IVrCUTCHEON <$<$? Q O? I He seized the wounded man in his strong arms, threw him over his shoulder and staggered toward the steps. "Release me, curse you!" shrieked Vos Kngo, striking his rescuer in the face with his fist. 'Tm saving you for another day," said King as he dropped behind the balustrade with his burden safe. There were other witnesses to Truxton's rash act. In a lofty window of the north wing crouched a white faced girl and a grim old man. The latter held a rifle in his tense though feeble old hands. Now and then the old man would sight his rifle and fire. The girl who crouched beside him was there to designate a certain figure in the ever changing mass of humanity on the bloody parade ground. Her clear eyes sought for and found Marlanx: her unwavering finger pointed him out to the old marksman. She saw Vos Kngo fall. Then a tall, well known figure sprang into view, dashing toward her wounded lover. Her heart stopped beating. With her ^jjp *W 7' ^ " ~ "YOU ARE SHOT!" SHE CRIED. "TBUXTON! TRCXTON1" hands to her temples she leaned far over the window ledge and screamed ?screamed words that would have Idled Truxton King with an endless joy could he have heard them above the rattle of the rifles. The corner of the building had shut out the picture. It was impossible for ,? biw?u? thfit th*? tnnn nriil lii_vc hill' den had reached the balcony in safety. Bven now they might be lying on the terrace, riddled by bullets. The old man roused her from the stupor of dread. He railed her name. Dully she responded. Standing bolt upright in the window, she sought out tile figure of Marlanx and pointed rigidly. "Ah," groaned the old man, "they will not be driven back this time! They will not be denied. It is the last charge! God. how they come! our men will be annihilated in? Where is he? Now! Ah, I see! Yes, that is he? He is near enough now. I cannot miss him!" Marlanx was leading his men up to tile terrace. At the top of the terrace the Iron Count suddenly stopped. His long body stiffened and then crumpled like a reed. A score of heavy feet trampled on the fallen leader, but he did not feel the impact. A bullet from the north wing had crashed into his brain. "At last!" shrieked the old man at the window. "Come, Miss Tullis; my work is done." "He is dead, your grace?" in low, awed tones. Yes, my dear, saiu me uuHe or Perse, a smile of relief on his face. "Come, let me escort you to the prince. You have been most courageous. A group of terrified women were huddled in the far corner of a nearby I The Duke of Perse held open the door for l?raine Tullis. but she ditl not enter. When he turned to cull she was halfway down the top flight of stairs, racing through the powder smoke toward the landing below. At every step she was screaming in the very agony of gladness: "Stand firm! Hold them! Help is coming! Help is coining!" A last look through the window at tile end of the hall had revealed to her the most glorious of visions. Red and green troops were pouring through tin- dismantled gateway, their horses surging over the ugly ground lifts and debris as if possessed of the fabled wings. Her brother was out then*, and all was well. She was crying the joyous news from the head of the grand stairway when Truxton King caught sight of her. He was powder stained and grimy. There was blood on his face and shirt front. "You are shot'" she cried, clutching the post at the bend of tile stairs. "Truxton! Truxton!" "Not even scratched!" lie shouted as lie reached her side. "It's not my"? He stopped short even as he held out his arms to clasp her to his breast. "It's some one else's blood," he finished resolutely. Site swayed toward him, and he caught her in his arms. "1 love you--oh. I love you. Truxton!" site cried over and over again. He was faint with joy. His kisses spoke the adoration he would have cried out to her if emotion had not clogged his throat. "Eric." she whispered at last, drawing hack in Ids arms and looking up into his eyes with a great pity In her own. "Is he?is lie dead, Truxton?" "No," he said gently; "badly hurt, but"? "He will not die? Thank God. Truxton. He is a brave?oh, a very brave man!" Leaderless between the deadly fires, the mercenaries gave up the fight after a brief stand at the terrace. The prince reigned again. CHAPTER XXI. ' You Will Be Mrs. King." It was late in the day when Truxton King was summoned to the devastated state chamber to be made a baron, and the prince completed the American's reward by presenting him with an ancient gold seal ring, one of the crown jewels. Latf* that night it was reported at the castle that a large force of men were encamped <m the opposite side of the river. A hundred campfires were gleaming against the distant uplands. "The Grand Duke Paulus!" exclaimed Count Halfont. "Thank God he did not come a day earlier. We owe him nothing today, but yesterday?ah, he could have demanded much of us!" In one of the wrecked approaches to the terrace, surrounded by fragments of stone and confronted by ugly destruction. sat a young man and a slender girl. There were no lights near them. The shadows were black and forbidding. His arm was about her: her head nestled securely against his shoulder, and her slim hands were willing prisoners in one of his. She was saying: 'Truxton, dear, I did not love Eric Vos Engo. I just thought it was love. I never really knew what love was until you came into my life. That's what made it so hard. I had let him believe that I might care for him some day. And I did like him. So I"? "You will never, never know how happy I am, Loraine!" he breathed into her ear. i * .. i,11 Iionni. 1 iKipc l Miuii ai waj.t ui nih jcij#i*i noss to you, Truxton," she murmured, faint with the joy of loving. "You will make me very unhappy if you don't marry me tomorrow." "I will marry you, Truxton, when we get to New York," she said, but not very firmly. He saw his advantage. He held her close for a long time, his face buried in her hair. "Listen, darling! Won't you say you'll be my wife before I leave Oraustark? I want you so much. I can't go away without you." She hesitated. "When are you going, Truxton? You?you haven't told me." It was what he wanted. "I am going next Monday," he said promptly. As a matter of fact, he had forgotten the day of the week they were now living in. "Monday? Oh, dear!" "I?I must cable home first." she r? it, "That's mere detail, darling. Cable afterward. It will beat us home by three weeks. They'll know we're coming." "I must ask John, really I must, Truxtoii," she protested faintly. "Hurray!" he shouted?in a whisper. "He is so desperately in love he won't think of refusing anything we ask. Shall we set It for Saturday?" They set it for Saturday without consulting John Tullis and then fell to discussing him. "He is very much in love with her," she said wistfully. "And she loves him, Loraine. They will be very happy. She's wonderful!" "Well, so is John. He's the most wonderful man in all H is world." "I am sure of it," he agreed magnanimously. "I saw him talking with her and the Duke of Perse as 1 came out awhile ago. They were going to the duke's rooms up there. The duke will offer no objections. He'll permit his daughter to select his next-son-inlaw." "I shall be sorry to leave Craustark," she said dreamily after a long period of silent retrospection. "I've had the happiest year of my life here." "I've had the busiest month of my j life here. I'll never again say that the world is a dull place. I shudder when I think of what might have happened to you, my princess sweetheart, if I hadn't come to Edelweiss. I would not have found you." Feeling her trembling in his arms, he wont on with whimsical good humor: "You would have been eaten up by the ogre long before this, or perhaps you would have succeeded in becoming a countess." "As it is, I shall be a baroness." "In Oraustark. but not in New York. That reminds me. You'll be more than il Mill (Plir.in?iiiiFn- iiuiii <1 You will be a queen. Don't you catch tlie point? You will be Mrs. King." The Orantl Duke Paulus was distinctly annoyed. He had traveled | many miles, endured quite a number <>f hardships, anil all to no purpose. When dawn came his emissaries returned from the city with the lamentable information that the-government had righted itself, that Marlanx's sensational revolution was at an end and that the regents would lie highly honored if his excellency could overlook the distressingly chaotic conditions at court and condescend to pay the castle ;i visit. The grand duke resolved that he would visit the castle in a very informal way, extend his congratulations and offer his services, which lie knew would be declined with thanks. Incidentally lie would mention the bond issue; also he would lind the opportunity to suggest to the ministry that his government still was willing to make large grants and stupendous | II Hill mill in iiMiiiihi ihi in could he made by which I he system might lie operated in cunjniiclion with branch lines of the imperial mads. And sii it was that at midday lie rude in pump and splendor through the city gates, attended by his staff and a rather overpowering bodyguard. The grand duke, with all tile arrogance of ;t real personage, was late. It w.ts not for him to consider the conditions that distressed the court of Cruustark not at all. lie was a grand duke and he would take his own time in pitying liis respects. When he finally presented himself at the castle doors it sleepy group of attendants actually yawned in bis presence. No one had .slept during the night just passed. Excitement and *he suffering of others had denied slumber to one and all. even to those who had not slept for many days and nights. Now the reaction was upon them. Relaxation had succeeded tenseness. When tlie grand duke entered the great, somber throne room he was confronted by a punctiliously polite assemblage, but every eyelid was as heavy as lead and as prone to sink. The prince sat far back in the great chair of his ancestors, his sturdy legs sticking straight out in front of'him. The grand duke advanced between the respectful lines and knelt at the foot of the throne. 1 "Arise, your highness." piped Bobby, with a quick glance at Count Halfont. It was a faint, faraway voice that uttered the gracious command. "Orau KUIIK Wfitiiiiics lilt* iiruiiu uurvt- ruulus. It is my pleasure to?to"? A helpless look came into his eyes. He looked everywhere for support. The grand ] duke saw that he had forgotten the rehearsed speech and smiled benignly as In- stepped forward and kissed the hand that had been extended somewhat uncertainly. "My most respectful homage to your majesty. The felicitations of my emperor and the warmest protestations of friendship from his people." With this as a prologue he engaged himself in the ever pleasurable task of delivering a long congratulatory address. After five minutes of high sounding platitudes he again turned to the. prince. It was then that he received his first shack. Prince Robin was sound asleep. His head was slipping sidewise along the satiny back of the big chair, and his chin was very low in the luces at his neck. The grand duke coughed emphatically, cleared his throat and grew very red in the face. The court of Graustark was distinctlv dlsmnved. I "His majesty appears to have?ahem ?gone to sleep," remarked the grand duke tartly, interrupting himself to address the prime minister. "He is very tired, your excellency," said Count Halfont, very much distressed. "Pray consider what he has been through during the"? "Ah, my dear count, do not apologize for him. I quite understand. Ahem! Ahem!" Still, he was very red in the face. "I will awaken him, your excellency," said the prime minister, edging toward the throne. "Not at all, sir!" protested the visitor. "Permit him to have his sleep out. sir. I will not have him disturbed. Who am I that I should defeat the claims of nature? It is my pleasure to wait until his majesty's nap is over. Then he may dismiss us, but not until we have cried 'Long live the prince!'" For awhile they stood in awkward silence, this notable gathering of men and women. Then the prime minister in hushed tones suggested that it would be eminently proper under the circumstances for all present to be seated. He was under the impression , that his serene highness would sleep ( long ;t1111 siiumii.v. StiiT backed and uncomfortable, the court sat and waited. No one pretended to conceal the blissful yawns that would not be denied. A drowsy, ineffably languid feeling took possession of the entire assemblage. The prime minister sat at the foot of the throne and nodded in spite of himself. John Tullis, far back near the wall, had his head on his hand, bravely lighting off the persistent demon. Prince Dantan of Dawsbergen was sound asleep. The grand duke was wide awake. He saw it all and was equal to the occasion. After all, he was a kindly old gentleman and, once his moment of mortification was over, lie was not above charity. Bobby's poor little head had slipped over to a most uncomfortable position against the arm of the chair. Putting his finger to lips, the grand duke tiptoed carefully up to the throne. With very gentle hands he lifted Bobby's ,1# Mi A, "BEAIt LITTLE MAN! GOD BLESS HIM V ' head ;iii?1. infinitely tender, stuffed a ( throne cushion behind the curly head. < A splendid smile in his eyes, he tip- ; toed buck to his chair. 5 As he passed Count Halfont, who ( had risen, he whispered: i "Hear little man! I do not forget j my lord, that I was once it hoy. God . bless him!" ( Then he siit down, conscious of a } line feeling of goodness, folded his , arms across his expansive chest and ( allowed his beaming eyes to rest upon i the sleeping boy far back in the chair ( of state. Incidentally, he decided to | delay a few days before taking up . the bond question with the ministry. ] The grand duke was not an ordinary , diplomat. , In one of tlu> curtained windows, < far removed from the throne, sat Trux- , ton King and Ismiine Tullis. 1 All about them people were watch- , ing the delicate little scene, smiling ; drowsily at the grand duke's tender comedy. No one was looking at the two in the curtained recess. Her hand t was in bis; her head sank slowly to- i ward his inviting shoulder. Her heavy 1 lids drooped lower and lower, refus- j ing to obey the slender will that argued against complete surrender. At last her soft, regular breathing told him that she was asleep. Awaiting his opportunity, he tenderly kissed the soft brown hair, murmured a gentle word of love and settled his own head against the thick cushions. Everywhere they dozed and nodded. The grand duke smiled and blinked ills little eyes. He was very wide awake. That is how he happened to see the prince move restlessly and half open his sleep bound eyes. The grand duke leaned forward with his hand to his ear and listened. He had seen the boy's lips move. From dreamland came Bobby's belated "Good ni-night." THE END. KING COTTON. His Reign Even More Supreme Than We Suppose. From the cradle to the grave every person in the civilized countries of the world is dependent upon cotton, and in this country we raise the bulk of the world's supply, yet our American mills use only about 5,000,000 bales unnually, against 8,000,01)0 bales exported. LI in ? (JliUCI L U1 \> Mill llll' Ulgl'IIUllJk "1Inventors and the manufacturers of machinery have accomplished to produce a fabric for wear or for other purposes, particularly as the average mill worker has no conception of the varied uses his product is applied to, uther than for personal and household uses. On the cars we ride on plush or seemingly leather seats, but the basis Is cotton cloth, generally a duck, heavier or lighter, as the case may be, but principally cotton, nevertheless. The millions of miles of copper wire used by the electrical concerns and by the telephone and telegraph companies call for millions of pounds of cotton yarn md cotton tape annually. The automobile has created an enormous new demand largely in cotton duck, and the product of over 350,000 bales of cotton Is required annually for the tires of the motor cars and for the hoods, cushions, etc. When we read of the bumper crops In the west we do not especially connect them with cotton, yet it is said that one of the great harvester machinery combines is the biggest individual purchaser of cotton in America, it requires thousands of bales of cotton to make bags foi marketing these crops, i)ut for aprons, carriers, etc., for harvester machines put out by one enterprise, fully 50,0000,000 yards of cotton tluck is required. One would naturally suppose that with the passing of our t>ld time ships, with their immense sails, that for shipping the use of cotton would be restricted, but more c<?tton duck is used on a modern warship than on the largest old time sailing vessels that made up our navies. The use of cotton duck for awnings of the warships, for coverings, coal bags and numerous other purposes, not counting the uniforms of sailors, is in the millions of yards annually. Tobacco growers use millions of vurds of cotton cloth for shading the tobacco plant; and on concern uses ibout 4,000,000 yards of cotton for bags for just two popular brands of tobac20. In the neighborhood of 15,000,000 vards of cotton cloth, or rather canvas, ire used for coal bags each year, and [or uniforms and for general wear milIons of yards are used, it being estimated that over 20,000,000 yards of cotton duck is used to make rough overmats, with blanket lining, for use in the American and Canadian northwest. The product of thousands of bales of :otton is required in building operations md for house decoration cotton wall :overlng is growing in favor. Pottery manufacturers use millions of yards of iuck for the purpose of squeezing water out of clay, and about 5,000,000 vards of duck are used by the government each year for corn bags. Paper mills use large quantities of duck, some weighing as much as 10 pounds to the vard, for driers, and millions of yards ire used annually for the purpose of Altering oils. Over 50,000.000 yards are ised yearly for rubber belting and rubier hose, and canvas gloves, leggings, dioes, trunk coverings, etc.. call for several millions of yards annually. The uses above by no means cover the uses of cotton cloth, but they do show cotton to be king and demonstrate as well the strength in the wellmanaged corporations producing the toods to supply this varied demand. Practically every necessity and most of the luxuries, excepting foodstuffs, draw ipon our cotton mills to a greater or ess extent, and the demand increases *ach year with our increasing population.? fib re and Fabric. The Resurrection.?This from the len of the late lamented Carmack of Pennessee, is being reproduced in the newspapers, to the very great pleasure ?f those who have read it before as ...11 hnno il>a\'iii11(]|v ur> UII'.T n IIW nutc uwt |/iv?iwM?ij seen it: "I dispute mi man's freedom <>f opinon, though why any man should bo ivilling to believe that man has no jre-eminence over a beast I do not enow. You say that you cannot beieve the miracle of the resurrection. L?et me tell you the story of a greater niracle than that. It is the story of i poor peasant, a member of a despis d and subject race, himself despised, he place of his birth despised by his >wn countrymen. In a little while he lies a felon's death, and all those ibove him forgot he ever lived. Yet tomehow his words lived on. Philosophy with all its wisdom, priestcraft, ivith all its terrors, kings wielding the run power of all the world, but over irmies, -over dying dynasties and rumbling thrones, rivers of blood and seas of fire, that power swept on ana >n until it has made conquest of the >arth, until every king on every throne jows down in adoration to the dead leasant of Oalilee. and the very instrument of this felon's death has become i symbol of salvation to all mankind. Do you believe that story? It is the story of a greater miracle than that a man died and rose from the dead. I'oung gentlemen, he not among those Alio scoff at religion which is the last lope of the world, whose consolation fou yourself will need in the time of i fll let ion and the hour of death." X' There goes a man I could have aarrled," she said softly. "Some men lever know just what they missed," he eplied quietly, and she is still wonlerlng what he meant.?Detroit Free Press. iUisccllanrous ihadinj). ROOSEVELT EXHORTS EGYPTIANS Former President Speaks at University In Cairo. Col. Roosevelt, in his address at the Egyptian university, at Cairo a few days ago, said in part: "No man may reach the front rank who is not intelligent and not trained with Intelligence. Mere intelligence itself is worse than useless unless it is guided by an upright heart with strength and courage behind it. Morality, decency, clean living, courage, manliness and self-respect are more important than mental subtlety. An ' honest, courageous and far-sighted pol ilician is a guua wuiik hi any country, where his usefulness depends chielly on his ability to express the wishes of the population in which the politician forms only a fragment of the leadership, and where the business man, the land owner, the engineer, the man of ' technical knowledge, men of a hundred 1 different pursuits?represent the aver- 1 age type of leadership. "No people have permanently amounted to anything whose only pub- ' lie leaders were clerks, politicians and lawyers. Remember always that the ' securing of a substantial education, whether by a group of individuals or a people, is attained only by progress ' as a unit. You can no more make a man really educated by giving him a certain curriculum of studies than you ' can make a people lit for self-govern- ' ment by giving them a paper constitu- 1 tion. The training of an individual, in order to fit him to do good work in 1 the world, is a matter of years, and the 1 training of a nation to fit it successful- 1 ly to fulfill the duties of self-govern- 1 ment is not a matter of a decade or 1 two, out or generations. "Some foolish persons believe that the granting of a paper constitution, prefaced by some high-sounding declaration, in Itself confers the power of selfgovernment. This was never so. Nobody can give a people self-government any more than it is possible to give an individual self-help. You know the old proverb, 'God helps those who help themselves.' "In the long run the only permanent way for the individual to be helped is to help himself. This is one of the things your university should indicate. "Man is slow in the growth of character. The final determining factor of the problem with a people, any people possessed of the essential qualities, is to show no haste in grasping power, which it Is only too easy to misuse. The slow, the steady and resolute development of those substantial qualities, love, justice, fair play, the spirit of self-reliance and moderation alone will enable the people to govern themselves. In the long, tedious and abso- ' lutely essential process, I believe your university takes an important part. Do not forget the old Arab proverb, 'God is with the patient If they know J how to wait.' This spirit condemns every lawless act, evil, envy and hatred, and above all, hatred based on religion or race. ' "All good men, all men of every na- ' tion, whose respect is worth huving, 1 were inexpressibly shocked by the as sassination of Boutros Pacha Ohali. It was a greater calamity to Egypt than a wrong to the individual himself. The type of man that turns assassin is the type possessing all the qualities which alienate him from good citizenship. the type producing poor soldiers ' in the time of war and worse citizens < in time of peace. Such a man stands ! on the pinnacle of evil and infamy. ' Those apologizing for, or condoning Ms ' act by wcrd or deed, directly or indl- ' rectly, encourage such an act in ad- ' vance, or, defending it afterward, oc- 1 cupy the some bad eminence. 1 "It is of no consequence whether the 1 assassin is Moslem or Christian, or ' with no creed or whether the crime was j committed in political strife or Indus- 1 trial warfare. The rich man's hired act. performed by a poor man, whether committed with the purpose of preserving order, or of obtaining liberty. Is equally abhorrent in the eyes of ail decent men and in the long run equally damaging to every cause the assassin possesses " THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION Serious Opposition to Its Incorporation By Government. In a letter from New York to the Boston Herald, "Holland" writes: At an informal dinner last evening a purely social gathering, all the professions, some of the educational authorities and some who are esteemed great as men of finance, were present. The understanding was that the social entertainment should not be made formal by speech-making. Each one was to chat wijh his neighbor, exchanging opinions upon events and personalities now attracting attention. But it became apparent in the course of the feast that every one present was much C'/IILXJ IICU u VC1 llir |ji i/|/wpi viwii ik/ii ?/v fore congress that from congress an act should be obtained chartering tlie purpose of John D. Rockefeller and his associates to incorporate the bulk of his fortune, as it is intimated, for the service of all peoples. And it must be reported that this opinion is unanimously, earnestly and even very anxiously set against the incorporation of the Rockefeller endowment by the national government, at least on the lines laid down in the resolution introduced by Senator Gallinger. The reasons are very distinctly and emphatically given. Not a person at the banquet of last night dissented from the statement that the first of the objections to the Incorporation of this endowment is that the purpose set forth in it is altogether too vague. The resolution, if adopted by congress in its present form, will, it was said, place a colossal money power in the hands of a few neisons who are to be utterly irresponsible to any authority hut their p own. and who may do with these bun- ' dreds of millions what seems best to them to do. and that without the possi- s bility of any judicial interference. The second objection raised and !l unanimously supported, was that a charter of this kind had within it the power of creating the greatest money j, power the world has ever known, and p that, too, with perfect irresponsibility r to nation, state or people, one of those p present, who is much occupied with p important financial matters, and whose j, reputation is spotless, made the follow- a ing suggestion. Ho asked what there was to prevent the trustees of the Rockefeller foundation from deciding that they would not, for a period of years, expend any of the money. If it should be proved to be the fact that the greater part of Mr. Rockefeller's fortune, say some $400,000,000 or $!>00,000,000, be delivered to the foundation, then the trustees might say: "We will wait until this principal is doubled through the yearly addition to it of the income." Therefore, in some lifteen years the principal might be as much is $1,000,000,000. In twenty-five years approximately $l',000,000,000 and a few years later as much as $4,000,000,000. It was assumed that there was small probability that action of this kind would be taken, but the trustees would have the power to do it. Then suppose that a generation hence the living hands which are then controlling the foundation .should decide, for instance, that it is necessary that there be a propaganda of free silver. What tremendous power they would have in the possession of so great an amount of money. Suppose they should say that the whole North American continent should be brought under one governmental form; they would be in possession of a powerful agent to compass that purpose. They may, with their hundreds of millions,, do anything anywhere in the world, which is not In violation of the criminal law. All admitted that the plan appeals, by reason of its very magnitude and the fact that there is no historic precedent for anything like this, very strongly to the imagination. But it was also said that congress will not Slant any charter to the Rockefeller foundation until after there has been prolonged investigation, and certainly not until two vital modifications are made. Une of these will contuin the proviso that the government itself is always to be adequately represented upon the board of trustees. The other modification is regarded as most important of all. If adopted, it will provide that the Rockefeller foundation iu to evnire after a term of years?it may be after one generation jr after two?but expire with a definite Hate, and with the expiration the principal and income are to be adequately md appropriately distributed as the wisdom of congress and the president may suggest. That is to say, it is regarded as vital that the charter should contain the proviso that the incorporation is not to be perpetual; its life must t>e limited, and the foundation must jltimately be distributed. Furthermore, if congress charters this foundation, the acts of incorporation will contain some means by which there may be iudiclal appeal. The understanding here is that if these modifications are Insisted upon the chances are that the resolution incorporating the Rockefeller foundation will be withdrawn. HIS TRAGIC DREAM. A Grim Ghost Story That Comes From the Netherlands. The following remarkable ghost story Is told of two brothers, members of a Jistinguished family in Friesland, a province of the Netherlands: The mort u-oro i n Hi#* mimp regiment, and their only fault?a certain rash valor, so different from the juiet prudence so characteristic of their nation?made their comrades alnost idolize them. These young officers were exceedingly anxious to see a ghost and took a jreat deal of pains to plunge into all sorts of gloomy places in the hope of finding them tenanted by beings from the other world. At last they seem to find the orthodox old castle with its launted room. Everybody bore witless to the horrible sights and sounds lightly to be seen and heard therein, md these young gentlemen determined to pass the night there. It was Christmas eve, and they provided themselves with a good supper ind a bottle of wine each, a fire, lights ind loaded pistols. The hours wore in. No ghost was seen; no ghostly tounds were heard. The younger brother, wrappen closely in his warm cloak, aid his head on the table and deliberitely resigned uimself to a comforta )Ie sleep. The elder brother, though xceedingly weary, determined to renain awake and await the issue of ?vents. After awhile a noise roused him from ? reverie into which he had fallen. He aised his eyes and beheld the wall >pening in front of his seat. Through :he opening glided a tall figure in vhite, who signed to him to follow. He rose and followed the figure hrough long, damp, dark passages till :hey reached a large, brilliantly light?d room, where a ball was going on. \bove the strains of music and the lin of voices pierced a strange, sharp, flicking sound, like the notes of castalets. Bewildered and dazzled by this sudlen transition from darkness and slence to this gay festive scene, It was tome moments before he could collect lis senses, but he was shocked by perfeiving that these gayly dressed ladles ind their richly uniformed cavaliers vere skeletons, and the curious sound hat impressed him so strangely was he clicking of fieshless jaws! The figure at his side ordered him o take a partner from the hideous hrong, which he refused to do. Irriated at this refusal, the figure raised lis arm to strike, but the officer Initantly leveled at him the pistol he lad continued to grasp and discharged t full in his face. With the shock and report he started o his feet. The white figure, the ball oom, the fearful, ghastly dangers, all tad vanished, and he was in the room vhere he had supped, hut his brother ay dying at his side. He had shot him in his dream and iwakened only to receive his last uterance. From that awful Christmas light he was an altered man. All the rayety had gone out of his life, all the unsliine had faded from his days, and ifter a few wears ou unavailing anfuish of remorse, he found himself unihle to bear the burden of his regrets mil put an end to his life. A woven basket, so small that it < necessary to use a magnifying glass o appreciate the skill of the workaanship, is claimed to he the smallest a the world. It is a trifle over oneighth of an inch in diameter, hardly irge enough to hold a drop of water, nil every stick is perfect. K<> 10 sieep, ass n now. aim i win wy to answer." Robert thought for a moment, t Ih-ti said: "Mother, how far ran a rat spit?" THE BUSINESS SITUATION. Springfield Republican Refers Whimsically to Disturbed Conditions. Like the traditional duke of York and ids little army the securities markets continue to march up the nut una men march down again. What they gain in quotations during one day or part o( the week they lose the next. At one time last week very substantial price gains had been achieved, but they were nearly all lost at the#close. It is still purely a traders' market, with the public standing far aloof, and all hands waiting for a somewhat clouded way ahead to clear up. Strikes, impending trust decisions, adverse foreign trade tendencies, possible tariff war with Canada, parliamentary revolution at Washington and political upsettlngs throughout the country are proving highly deterrent to speculative commitments, and somber views of the outlook seem to be gathering volume and weight, says the Springileld liepublican. Persons of ordinary optimistic temper are seeing men as trees walking. We hear of one, a large western capitalist, who anticipates social revolution which, he thinks, will center at Chicago and begin with strikes and riots after the Philadelphia manner, but in real western Intensity. So?he says?he has sold all his investments in Chicago and in railroads running out therefrom, and is putting his money out in the country somewhere. Similarly u New Haven capitalist is cited who says he has sold his New Haven and other railroad and industrial stocks and is putting the money into local lightning and manufacturing plants where presumably he can personally stand guard with a shotgun. This Is all very droll and is given merely to show the density of the darkness which is gathering for the moment here and there among those who follow quite too closely the superficial signs of the times. The need of the world may come, but if it does it will be as a thief in the night, and the man is a fool who drops his work and begins to wait expectantly thereon. And so of a social revolution. Meantime widespread strike fails to develop. The country is improving in its manner of and capacity for handling labor troubles. The old-style method of a fight to a finish without parleying is disappearing. Philadelphia has suffered Immensely and needlessly by permitting its arrogant street railway monopoly to resort to that method, but even there the new light seems to be breaking. In striking contrast is the Baltimore and Ohio railroad's peaceful settlement of a threatened strike t\f nfflnlolti kill UU5II klic yj IIIVCO Ufc t VUVIUl UKIVIU.u under the Erdman act; and similar methods are being applied by the western roads with every prospect of success. The week opened with a threatened strike of trainmen over nearly half the mileage of the country, but it ended with Federal conciliators making most hopeful adjustment. If all employers will follow the example set by the managers of these great railroads, strikes will not be the common experience of the industrial world as they are now. Th next week or two are likely to see quite a general clearing away of disturbing factors. President Taft's obviously great anxiety to avoid precipitating tariff war with Canada makes it highly probable that some way of excuse will be found for not imposing the maximum schedules. The revolution in the house at Washington is practically over, and even "the interests," which are supposed to have had large stake in the preservation of the Cannon machine, must feel relief In being rid of the suspense. The clearing up of the work of the session In some faithfulness to the spirit of President Taft's reform programme Is now made a matter of less time and greater certainty. Retail trade Is In the between-hayand-grass season, and complaint is heard of the slow movement of goods. Leading dry goods concerns at New York and Chicago last week reduced their prices for cotton 10 per cent in order to quicken their progress Into consumption. But labor continues exceedingly well employed?no doubt about that, and at high wages, even though not high enough to suit. And there is equally no doubt about the general soundness and solvency of business concerns, nor will the situation become otherwise in the absence of a great speculative inflation as long as commodity prices under a large gold production retafn the element of steadiness of buoyancy. It is not upon such consideration that an Industrial society drifts toward bankruptcy or revolution. Money has worked a little closer under the influence of reduced New York bank reserves and a sharp upturn In the London discount market, where the English bank has raised its rate > A or.,1 ti lll rri? hl<rh iiuiu a cu -r j;ci vvuvi auu ?* ?>? er if this falls to draw in gold. This has had the effect of advancing sterling exchange at New York; nevertheless, Europe continues a buyer of American securities and is likely to take a considerable amount of the large New York city bond offering to be sold today, in which event foreign exchange will continue to be held below the gold export point. Meantime the New York banks, while showing on the week's average a further and slight reduction in surplus reserves, reveal in the actual figures at the week's end an in crease of no less than $7,223,450, which brings the actual surplus reserve up to a figure that does not compare badly with the $19,400,000 reported a year ago, when the stock market began to move out from under the depression caused by price-cutting in the steel trade. Incorrigible.?He asked so many questions that day that lie finally wore out his mother's patience. "Robert," she cried, "if you ask me another question 1 shall put you to bed without supper." Robert promptly asked another and was packed off to bed. Later his mother repented. After all. asking questions was the only way he could acquire knowledge; so she tiptoed upstairs. knelt beside Robert's bed, and told him she was sorry. "Now, dear," she said, "If you want to ask one more question before you