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i ISSUEI^EMI-WEEKLY^ ^ ^ ^ ^ L. M. GRISTS SONS, Publishers.} % <#???!! S'wspaptr: Jor the {promotion of the political, ^ociaL^gricultura! and (Enmmercial Jnterests of the jptojlt. { " ESTABLISHED 1853. YORKVILLE, S. C. TUESDAY, .T1TNK 7, 1910. JSTQ. 46. %JTt JFTGBY EMERSOl I 1 Copyright by Bobl CHAPTER XXXV. > 1 The Proxy of Pakenham. j A man can not possess anything that 5 is better than a good woman, nor anything that is worse than a bad one.? ' Simonides. When I reached the central part of the city, I did not hasten thence to Elmhurst Mansion. Instead, I returned to my hotel. I did not now care to see any of my friends or even to take up matters of business with my chief. It is not for me to tell what feelings came to me when I left Helena von Ritz. Sleep such as I could gain, reflections such as were inevitable, occupied me for all that night. It was midmorning of the following day when finally I once more sought out Mr. Calhoun. He had not expected me, but received me gladly. It seemed that he had gone on about his own plans and with his own methods. "The Senora Yturrio is doing me the honor of an early morning call," h< began. "She is with my daughter in another part of the house. As there is matter of some importance to come up, I shall ask you to attend." He despatched a servant, and presently the lady mentioned joined us. She was a pleasing picture enough in her robe of black laces and sulphurcolored silks, but her face was none too happy, and her eyes, it seemed to me, bore traces either of unrest or tears. Mr. Calhoun handed her to a chair, where she began to use her lan guid but effective fan. * "Now, it gives us the greatest regret, 1 my dear Senora," began Mr. Calhoun, ! "to have General Almonte and your husband return to their own country. s We have valued their presence here 1 very much, and I regret the disruption 1 of the friendly relations between bur ' countries." 3 She made any sort of gesture with her fan, and he went on: "It is the regret also of all, my dear lady, that * your husband seems so shamelessly to have abandoned you. I am quite < aware, if you will allow me to be so 1 frank, that you need some financial as- i sistance." ^ "My country is ruined." said she. i Also, senor, I am ruined. As you say, ' I have no means of life. I have not ? even money to secure my passage home. That Senor Van Zandt?" < "Yes, Van Zandt did much for us, ( through your agency, Senora. We have t benefited by that, and I therefore re- " gret he proved faithless to you per- i sonally. I am sorry to tell'you that he has signified his wish to join our army I against your country. I hear also that I our late friend. Mr. Polk, has forgot- j ten most of his promises to you." "Him I hate also!" she broke out. "He broke his promise to Senor Van < Zandt, to my husband, to me!" 1 Calhoun smiled in his grim fashion. ' "I am not surprised to hear all that, t my dear lady, for you l?ut point out a i known characteristic of that gentle- < man. He has made me many promises which he has forgotten, and offered me 1 even of late distinguished honors 1 which he never meant me to accept, s But. since I have been personally res- ' ponsible for many of these things 1 which have gone forward. I wish to i make what personal amends I can; and 1 ever I shall thank you for the good ' which you have done to this country. ! Believe me, madam, you served your own country also in no ill manner. > This situation could not have been pre- ' - ? ? .> i i i vented, ana u is not yuur muu. i < *-& you to believe that. Had you and I 1 been left alone there would have been ^ no war." ' "Rut I am poor, I have nothing!" she rejoined. There was indeed much in her situation to excite sympathy. It had been through her own act that negotiations between England and Texas were broken off. All chance of Mexico to 1 regain property in Texas was lost through her influence with Van Zamlt. Now, when all was done, here she was, deserted even by those who had been ' her allies in this work. "My dear Senora," said John Cal- ' houn, becoming less formal and more kindly, "you shall have funds suffi- ' cient to make you comfortable at least for a time after your return to Mexico. 1 1 am not authorized to draw upon our exchequer, and you, of course, must 1 prefer all secrecy in these matters. I regret that my personal fortune is not so large as it might be, but, in such measure as I may, I shall assist you, because I know you need assistance. In return, you must leave this country. The tlay is down which one** noaieu over the house of Mexico here." She hid her face behind lier fan. * and Calhoun turned aside. "Senora. have you ever seen this slipper?" he asked, suddenly placing upon the table the little shoe which for a purpose I had brought with me and meantime thrown upon the talde. She Unshed a dark look, and did not speak. "One night, some time ago, your husband pursued a lady across this town to get possession of that very slipper and its contents! There was in the toe of that little shoe a message. As you know, we got from it certain information. and therefore devised certain plans, which you have helped us to carry out. Now. as perhaps you have had some personal animus against the other lady in these same complicated affairs. I have taken the liberty of sending a special messenger to ask her presence here this morning. I shall like you two to meet, and. if that lie possible, to part with such friendship as may exist in the premises." I looked siuhb-nlv at Mr. Calhoun. It seemed lie was planning without my aid. "Yes." he said to me. smiling, "I have neglected to mention to you that the l Marouess von Hits? also is here, in another apartment of this place. If you please. I shall now send for her also." lie signaled to his old negro attendant Presently the latter opened the a 1 A s ... _ dc Af\ :: V HOUGH SM M U 3S-Merrill Co. flB ????? rli "I Joor, and with a deep bow announced he Baroness von Ritz, who entered, followed closely by Mr. Calhoun's in- m separable friend, old Doctor Ward. The difference in breeding between hese two women was to be seen at a 1S fiance. The Dona Lucrezia was beau:iful in a way, but lacked the thor- kl >ughbred quality which comes in the er tighest types of womanhood. Afflicted jy nothing but a somewhat mercenary 0(1 >r personal grief, she showed her lack >f gameness in adversity. On the oth>r hand, Helena von Ritz, who had liv- ^ ?a tragedy all her life, and was now in he climax of such tragedy, was smil- w ng and debonaire as though she had ^ sever been anything but wholly con- vv ent with life! She was robed now n some light filmy green material, 'e aught up here and there on the shoullers and secured with silken knots. st Her white neck showed, her arms ,vere partly bare with the short w sleeves of the time. She stood, com- ec msed and easy, a figure fit for any ompany or any court, and somewhat shaming our little assembly, which lever was a court at all, only a pri- ^ ate meeting in the office of a disored- at ted and disowned leader in a republi- ltl an government. Her costume and her '? >earing were Helena von Ritz's answer a( o a woman's fate. A deep color (lam- Sl d in her cheeks. She stood with head t0 ?rect and lips smiling brilliantly. Her a' urtsey was grace itself. Our dingy \ ittle office was glorified. "I interrupt you. gentlemen," she legan. lis "On the contrary. I am sure, my gr lear lady." said Doctor Ward. "Senaor Calhoun told me he wished you to neet Senora Yturrio." "Yes," resumed Calhoun, "I was just (peaking with this lady over some J natters concerned with this little slipgt ler." H>e smiled as he held it up gin- p{ ;erly between thumb and finger. "Do pi ,*ou recognize it, Madam Baroness?" ? "Ah. my little shoe!" she exclaimed. 'But see, it has not been well cared or" so "It traveled in my war bag from n( Dregon to Washington," said I. "Pertaps bullet molds and powder tlasks nay have damaged it." O: "It still would serve as a little post- '-a >ffice, perhaps," laughed the baroness. jjt "But I think its days are done on sueh rrands." sc "I will explain something of these >rrands to the Senora Yturrio," said "t Calhoun. "I wish you personally to say y( to that lady, if you will, that Renor pi yturrio regarded this little receptacle jn rather as official than personal post." sj For one moment these two women f ooked at each other, with that on their m faces which would be hard to describe. rj \t last the baroness spoke: C1 "It is not wholly my fault, Senora 5fturrio, if your husband gave you rause to think there was more than di- jn plomacy between us. At least, I can say to you that it was the sport of it s, ilone, the intrigue, if you please, which interested me. I trust you will not accuse me beyond this." -j A stifled exclamation came from the Dona I.ucrezia. I have never seen a, nore sadness nor yet more hatred on i human face than hers displayed. I n( nave said that she was not thoroughl>red. She arose now, proud as ever, it is true, but vicious. She declined ^ Helena von Ritz's outstretched hand, j iliu Sttl-lJl US il lU.lW). ! 3hf. "I go!" _ Mr. Calhoun gravely offered her an arm; and so with a rustle of her silks sj there passed from our lives one un- st happy lady who helped to make our a) map for us. fp The baroness herself turned. "I ought je not to remain." she hesitated. S{] "Madam." said Mr. Calhoun, "we can not spare you yet." p, She (lashed upon him a keen look. fa It is a young country," said she, "hut P] it raiser statesmen. You foolish, dear j, Americans! One could have loved you p, all." f) "Eh. what?" said Doctor Ward, turning to her. "Mv dear lady, two of us tj are too old for that; and as for the pj other?" ai He did not know how hard this st r ha nee remark might smite, hut as c< usual Helena von Hit/, was brave and smiling. at "You are men," said she, "such as we in do not have in our courts of Europe. men ana women?inui is wnui una i country produces." m "Madam," said Calhoun, "I myself am a very poor sort of man. Iam old, and rt 1 fail from month to month. I can not c< live long. at host. What you see in A me is simply a purpose?a purpose to ai accomplish something for my country r< ?a purpose which my country itself gi does not desire to see fulfilled. Repuh- ? lies do not reward us. What you say tc shall he our chief reward. I have ask- h ed you here also to accept the thanks of all of us who know the intricacies p of the events which have gone for- O ward. Madam, we owe you Texas! tl 'Twas not yonder lady, hut yourself, s; who first advised of the danger that d threatened us. Hers was, after all, a ol simpler task than yours, because she S only matched faiths with Van Zaudt, \\ representative of Texas, who had \\ faith in neither men, women nor na- \v tions. Had till gone well, we might perhaps have owed you yet more, for a Oregon." t< "Would you like Oregon?" she asked, it looking :il him with the full glance of \\ her dark eyes. \\ "More than my life! More than the life <>f myself and all my friends and h family! Mom than all my fortune!" It His voice rang clear and keen as that n of youth. V "All of Oregon?" she asked. ii "All? W'e <I > not own all! JVr- el ha|>s We do llttt deserve it. Surely We ft could not expect it. Why, if we got w one-half of what that fellow I'oik is w claiming, we would do well enough? t< that is more than we deserve or could expect. With our army already at war 1' on the southwest. Kugland. as we all I; know, is planning to take advanage of our helplessness in Oregon." tl Without further answer, she held u it to hini a document whose appearice I, at least, recognized. "I am but a woman," she said, "but chances that I have been able to do lis country perhaps something of a ,vor. Your assistant, Mr. Trist, has me me in his turn a favor. This uch I will ask permission to do for m." Calhoun's long and trembling fingers ere nervously opening the document, e turned to her with eyes blazing ith eagerness. "It is Oregon!" He opped back into his chair. "Yes." said Helena von Ritz slowly, t is Oregon. It is bought and paid ir. It is yours!" So now they all went over the docuent, signed by none less than Paken im himself, minister plenipotentiary r Great Britain. That document exts today somewhere in our archives, it I do not feel empowered to make lown its full text. I would I had nev need to set down, as I have, the cost it. These others never knew that ist; and now they never can know, r long years since both Calhoun and octor Ward have been dead and gone, turned aside as they examined the icument which within the next few eeks was to become public property, he red wafers which mended it?and hieh she smilingly explained at Oal>un's demand?were, as I knew, not ss than red drops of blood. In brief I may say that this paper ated that, in case the I'nited States It disposed to reopen discussions hieh Mr. Polk peremptorily had closI. Great Britain might be able to 1 isn to a compromise on the line of the rty-ninth parallel! This compromise id three times been offered her by di(iniacy of Cnited States under earlier Iministrations. Great Britain stated lat in view of her deep and abiding ve of peace and her deep and abiding lmiration for America, she would regn her claim of all of Oregon down the Columbia; and more, she would cept the forty-ninth parallel; proded she might have free navigation ghts upon the Columbia. In fact, lis was precisely the memorandum ntrrfwment which eventuallv estali ihed the lines of the treaty as to Ore>n between Great Britain and the nlted States. Mr. Calhoun is commonly credited ith having brought about ihis treaty, id with having been author of its rms. So he was, but only in the sinilar way which in these foregoing iges I have related. States have their ice. Texas was bought by blood, regon?ah, we who own it ought to ize it. None of our territory is half ? full of romance, none of it is half > clean, as' our great and bodeful far irthwest, still young in its uays 01 ?stiny. "We should in time have had all of regon, perhaps," said Mr. Calhoun; it least, that is the talk of these ;rce politicians." "But for this fresh outbreak on the nithwest there would have been a ?tter chance," said Helena von Ritz; >ut I think, as matters are today, >u would be wise to accept this coin omise. I have seen your men marchg, thousands of them, the grandest ght of this century or any other, hey give full base for this comproise. Given another year, and your ties and your plows would make your aims still better. But this is toly?" "Believe me, Mr. Calhoun," I broke i, "your signature must go on this." "How now? Why so anxious, my m?" "Because it is right!" Calhoun turned to Helena von Ritz. las this been presented to Mr. Bulanau, our secretary of state?" he iM-U. "Certainly not. It has been shown to > one. I have been here in Washing* m working:?well, working in secret i secure this document for you. I do lis?well, 1 will be frank with you? do it for Mr. Trist. He is my friend, wish to say to you that he has been a faithful?" I saw her face whiten and her lips nit tight. She swayed a little as she ood. Doctor Ward was at her side id assisted her to a couch. For the rst time the splendid courage of Hena von Ritz seemed to fail her. She ink back, white, unconscious. "It's these damned stays, John!" *gan Doctor Ward fiercely. "She has tinted. Here, put her down, so. We'll ring her around in a minute. fJreat >ve! I want her to hear us thank t*r. It's splendid work she has done >r us. Rut why?" When, presently, under the ministraons of the old physician, Helena von itz recovered her consciousness, she rose, fighting desperately to pun ner lf together and get hack her splendid Mirage. "Would you retire now, madam?" sked Mr. Calhoun. "I have sent for ty daughter." "No, no. It is nothing!" she said. Forgive me, it is only an old habit of line. See, I am quite well!" Indeed, in a few moments she had gained something of that magnifi?nt energy which was her heritage, s though nothing had happened, she rose and walked swiftly across the ?om. Her eyes were fixed upon the reat map which hung upon the walls -a strange map it would seem to us ulay. Across this she swept a white and. "I saw your men cross this," she said, ointing along the course of the great regon trail?whose detailed path was len unknown to our geographers. "I iw them go west along that road of estiny. I told myself that by virtue F their courage they had won this war. ometime there will come the great ar between your people and those ho rule them. The people still will in." She spread out her two hands top ml bottom of the map. "All. all. ought > be yours.? from the Isthmus to the c. for the sake of the people of the .rid. The people?hut in time they ill have their own!" We listened to her silently, crediting er enthusiasm to her sex, her race; lit what she said has remained in one lind at least from that day to this, t'ell might part of her speech remain i the minds today of people and rulrs alike. Are we worth the price paid >r the country that we gained? And lien we shall he worth that price, hat numerals shall mark our terriirial lines? "May 1 carry this document to Mr. 'nkcnham?" asked John Calhoun, at ist, touching the paper on the table. "Please, 110. Do not. Only l?e sure !iat this proposition of compromise ill meet with his acceptance." "I do not quite understand why you do not go to Mr. Buchanan, our secretary of state." "Because I pay my debts," she said simply. "I told you that Mr. Trist and I were comrades. I conceive it might be some credit for him in his work to have been the means of doing this much." "He shall have that credit, madam, be sure of that," said John Calhoun. He held out to her his long, thin, bloodless hand. "Madam," he said, "I have been mistaken in many things. My life will be written down as failure. I have been misjudged. But at least it shall not be said of me that I failed to reverence a woman such as you. All that I thought of you, that first night I met you, was more than true. And did I not tell you you would one day, one way, find your reward?" He did not know what he said; but I knew, and I spoke with him in the silence of my own heart, knowing that his speech would he the same were his knowledge even with mine. "Tomorrow," went on Calhoun, "tomorrow evening there is to he what we call a hall of our diplomacy at the White House. Our administration, knowing that war is soon to he announced in the country, seeks to make a little festival here at the capital. We whistle to keep up our courage. We listen to music to make us forget our consciences. Tomorrow night we dance. All Washington will he there. Rareness von Ritz, a card will come to you." She swept him a curtsey, and gave him a smile. "Now, as for me," he continued, "I a man old man, and long ago danced my last dance in public. Tomorow night all of us will he at the White House?Mr. Trist will he there, and Doctor Ward, and a certain lady, a Miss Elisabeth Churchill, madam, whom I shall he glad to have you " - a * SI ?n meei. j nu niuai um i.m no, urm lady, because I am going to ask of you one favor." Ho bowed with a courtesy which might have come from generations of an old aristocracy. "If you please, madam, I ask you to honor me with your hand for my first dance in ye ars ?my last dance in all my life." Impulsively she held out both her hands, bowing her head as she did so to hide her face. Two old gray men, one younger man, took her hands and kissed them. Now our (lag floats on the Columbia and on the Rio Grande. I am older now, but when I think of that scene, I wish that flag might float yet freer; and though the price were war itself, that it might float over a cleaner and a nobler people, over cleaner and nobler rulers, more sensible of the splendor of that heritage of principle which should be ours. [To be Continued.1 THE SHORT ROAD TO HEALTH. Sioux City Man Thinks That He Has Found It In Fasting. Six days wltnout rood or urniK, except occasional sips of hot and cold water, which seem like the greatest hardship to most men, but to W. D. Reid, who. Wednesday, dined on a bowl of breakfast food, a piece of toast and a glass of milk for the first time since last Wednesday morning, the fast has acted like a drink from the fabled fountain of youth. Six weeks ago, when Mr. Reid was in Milwaukee preparing to go out on the road for his firm, he felt like an old man with one foot in the grave. He wasn't exactly ill, but he lacked the spring in the heel and the confident smile which was necessary in his line. He couldn't go out and Jolly a man into good humor when he was out of sorts himself. He concluded that there was something very much wrong. He thought at first of taking a course in physical culture, but abandoned the idea. Then he says: "I made up my mind to fast until I felt better, if I had lO 1USI ill 1 SUIIIIIIt-I . OIIHI- HIV- Iiioi day of fasting he began to feel better until today, so buoyant were his spirits, that he again decided to stake stimulant. Mr. Reid is not a fanatic. He believes in the gospel of fasting and views it from a scientific standpoint. "From the first I began to improve," he said. "From being a man of 55. who cared not whether he lived or died, 1 began to grow daily more optimistic. Nor did I lie down and worry about my fate. I got out every day and hustled. Not once did 1 experience a feeling of nausea. I knew nothing of the headache on the first day of fasting that Sinclair describes. With each day my head cleared a little. until now my head is as clear as a bell and the vigor of youth is again in my limits. 1 was never more thankful for doing anything in my life than 1 am that I fasted those six days. I think it is something that every man Minimi mi uiu i: tx ,? cai , aim imicmm * necessary. Of course, on the first day I had a little craving for food, hut at such times I would take a drink of hot water with a pinch of salt in it and make myself believe I was drinking beef tea."?Sioux City Journal. Snap Shots. How to be wealthy?quite wishing you wore. Do not tell your troubles to the census-taker. He is probably a married man, too. When a girl knows that she doesn't love a man it is a sign that she's got sense. About tlie surest thing in the world is that the letter that never came wasn't a dun. Another advantage which a speculation has over an investment is that the agony is over sooner. In time somebody will propose a free school to teach baggagemen how to smash baggage. Do not judge by appearances. The man who walks home for exercise sometimes has car fare. It is getting almost warm enough now for the average man to begin boasting of taking a cold bath every morning. A girl is a person who hasn't any more judgment than to turn down a good provider in order to marry a good looker. The fact that it takes all sorts of people to make a world probably explains what is the matter with this one. Whatever may be the result of the suffragette movement, women will still prefer that the sins of the children be visited upon the fathers. Dallas News. ittiscfUiUKOus i'ratlinfl. ? f! FROM ALBANY TO NEW YORK. J. a Glenn H. Curtiss Tells of Remarkable S1 Aerial Trip. Olenn H. Curtiss's own story of his flight from Albany to Now York Is as follows: My feelings at the start? All 01 I wanted or thought at the moment tl was to get started at the most favor- n able time. We had taken every pos- j,, sible precaution and onee started I is I found myself going well and (lying I' I high and strong. I rose Immediately I to a height of about 700 feet and kept I at that average most of the way. It is w I a hard thing to tell just what height M I you are traveling at. I could tell much I bettor from the ground than from oJ I above. -'M "Presently I found a wire vibrating ^1 I It was supporting one of the controls I and if it had broken In two. as might it ?2' ''' REV. ALBER1 The venerable Albert Allison James, v one of the oldest and best known min- j, isters In South Carolina, if not in the t] south, died at his home in Paeolet, last ^ Friday night at 11 o'clock, after a long g and lingering illness, in the 86th 0 year of his age, and was buried at e Union yesterday, the funeral services j, being conducted by Rev. Dr. T. II. Law ^ of Spartanburg. h A complete sketch of the life and p. career of Rev. A. A. James would come pretty nearly including a history of the 0 moral, religious and educational development of large sections of Spar- w tanburg and Union counties, and it s would be a story of faithful, earnest {, labor in the service of Christ and hu- ,s inanity, the like of which few mortals r are ever permitted to perform. P Rev. Mr. James was born in York- t( vilie on June 26, 1824, received his k elementary education in the old field u schools of this county, took a full ci course at Davidson college and was <> graduated from the Columbia Theolog- fi ical seminary in 1851, entering the r? Presbyterian ministry immediately af- h terward, and continued steadily in the harness up to a few months ago, when, b by rerson of bodily infirmities, the still u willing spirit had to cease its labors, h Mr. James's first charge was Fair Forest in Spartanburg county, and he ti continued to minister to that church tl for many years, later dividing his ser- h well have happened, through friction in vibration, the consequences might have been disastrous. However, I l watched it closely and it held out. "My sensations in flying so high and over the water? Well, I don't know .. just what my sensations were; I was ? too busy to have any. At Poughkeepsic I was a little afraid that in land- ^ ing I might misjudge my distance. Landing from such a height is quite a j stunt; and I remember that I was going at fifty miles an hour. I had to get very close fo the ground before shutting off the power when a nasty bump might be disastrous and if I u were to shut off the power too high up e I might get a nasty drop, and ruin the machine. So it is a ticklish matter " that takes up all a man's energy and T attention. tl "One thing I noticed particularly, j. The engine 1 usyd has no mulller and . it makes so much noise that I could " not hear whistles Mowing though I r< could see the smoke. My ears became j, so accustomed to this noise that when I landed ai Poughkeepsie 1 was just *' deaf or nearly so for a while and had it a humming and buzzing in my ears. g "At Storm King Mountain, win.'re I S( had been warned of treacherous air currents, ] was nearly upset. With- ? out warning my machine took a sud- s den plunge downward and sideward. s 1 dropped with her about thirty or forty feet and I assure you that it is ' not a pleasant sensation. It's just like " dropping that far in an elevator shaft, tl if you can imagine the feeling. 1 mean. I managed to regain my equilibrium and dropped to a lower level. "About the time i passed West Point o I began to experience some anxiety < about my supply of lubricating oil. My indicator showed the oil to be falling in the tank and as I proceeded the " gauge sank lower and lower with as- p tonishing rapidity. s, "Hy the time I readied Yonkers my oil tank was practically empty. The automatic engine pump that supplies n it seemed to lie working overtime and h 1 1 1 ? o I.. IIC. I lw. 1 II.Ill mucin ll in-? II I .? ... ... . .... s foot pump for a little while. I had hoped to go right on to Cnvernor's Island, but then the question arose, can it I reach New York at all? Lubricating tiil is essential to these hitrli power engines?just as essential as gasoline. "It was with a sense of relief that " I found myself passing over the city w limits, for I knew then that I ltad won j; the prize. The landing tit Spuytenduyvil was unusual, for there was but a short slope and I had to jump out of the machine and grab her to prevent t: her running into the creek. f. "I got some lubricating oil from an j automobile and before much of a crowd could gather I was ready to <> start off again. (Jovernor's Island was my destination and I saw no reason for tint making it. I found a small plateau on the top of the slope I had stopped on and 1 got the machine tip . there and started away without much dillieully. I ran her along until she " went over the edge and rose in the air b after a drop of several feet. iv "And light here let me say that tills , experience shows the possibilities of tailing an aeroplane. With my ma- Tl bine light as it Is. I have to get up a peed of forty-five miles an hour be- ~ >re she will rise. Now it is hard to nd a spot where one can run along 11 the level for the necessary distance 1 ml that was my difficulty in finding a |es nitable place at Poughkeepsie. .. "Hut I showed by the start at SpuyMiduyvi! that one can get away with- vis! ut trouble from a small plateau if ove icre is a nice drop at the edge. Thus ne takes the ascending rise easily on ne wing as it were. Perhaps one Par light he able to start from the top of fou tall building that way or from a pre- l tired platform, at any rate. Hut that ing mere conjecture except that my exerlence opened my eyes to the possi- a" ilities. set "Down toward the Statue of Liber- ten r some currents of air struck me mj( hich required all my energy in man- t}ie tulating the controls, but I got safe- o1 ' past that and then?after the hill- the des the blub' highlands, the tree- , [ftvercd farms at Poughkeepsie?I can t Isure you that the big sandy place ^ I Governor's Island looked very welErne. ,. "Then I felt relieved and glad that j was over. I was not a bit excited." ? tisli 't oth W rne HP me W' "'' B1M?^ I<"1 pri < ?1111 the tac ' A. JAMES. tioi ice with the church at Spartanburg. i the years following, he organized ers tie Presbyterian churches at Glenn's ^si the prings, Pacolet, Jonesville, Trough hoalp, Enoree and perhaps others. At der ne time or other he has served almost rhe very Presbyterian church in Spartan- us^ urg and Union counties, and during t^e is long ministry he has a record of pea aving performed the marriage cerelony for more than five hundred cou- t^e les. This is a matter of actual rec- the rd. not a guess. ope At the breaking out of the war, he Jjm as elected chaplain of the Eighteenth outh Carolina volunteers, consisting of bed nir companies from Union, two from '1 partanburg, two from York, one from >arlington and one from Anderson. tor] re accepted without hesitation, went mo i the front with the regiment, and ant ept close to his work to the end of the ar. While, of course, he was a non- exj, nnbatant, he shared all the dangers gra f the men that he could, and won l,ea rom all of them the highest possible wej gard for himself, and the great cause Rai e represented. $7,1 After the war. Rev. Mr. James went * gro ack to Pair Unrest, and continued his tjle oik as stated <>n up to the end of his Au: ?ng and useful life. the Rev. Mr. James was married in 1853 ter| am: ? Miss Sarah M. Collins, who, with nea live sons and one daughter survives mo im. a tl I tot. A YOUTHFUL "JIM BLUDSOE." ant pot est ike the Hero of the "Prairie Belle," the Post Met Fate Unflinchingly. 300 one Those who have time to mourn will the ne incentive to sorrow In the fate of nisi 'owler post, aged 10, third elerk on the Learner City of Saltillo. The City of ^ altillo struck a rock in the Mississip- tho I river twenty-four miles from St. ing outs and went to the bottom. Young ^ ost perished while endeavoring to ^ ' ave the lives of the passengers. ed When it was apparent that the boat *>' as sinking, the stage plank was low- jjjjj red and the officers urged the passen- jng ers to make their way to the shore, day 'he river was high and there was a c'es liick growth of timber on the banks. : was dark and the steamer was sink- ieci ig rapidly. Fire had broken out in the woi ear and crew and passengers were to Will anie stricken. There was no ado- sor uate landing place for the big, swing- bra ig platform. It was tilted at a dan- ^ erous angle, but a number of the pasi-ngers attempted to make their way rje, ver it to safety. Young Post was as- ter, isting the women and children. The fee tage plank struck a tree and was tiped sidewise and a dozen persons were a|0 row nod, among them - the youthful ati< lird clerk. ren Despite his youth, the l>oy had been mployed on steamboats for a number tur f years. On the maternal side he 1 ame of a family of steamboat men, to hich has been identified with river avigation for half a century. His to rogenitors had lived on the river and five ame of them had died on the river. he influence of heredity was para- (>or louiit and was early manifested. He hot card "the call of the river" and an- arc wored it as hopefully and as fearlessly s do "those who go down to the sea 1 ships." in 1 History?in this case family history mo lias repeated itself and Fowler Post, ( l:j| nly sou of a widowed mother and |n,j ortliy descendant of a long line of ty a-iitlickv steamboat men. has met an 'h'l ntinu'lv but heroic death. Like "Jlnr't^' der lludsoe of the Prairie Belle," humor- t, il in song and story, he went to his ma ite iinlliuchiugly, solicitous only of ',a!i tie safet.v of others, oldivious to his wii: failhfill to duly even to the end. fil(. Louisville Courier-Journal. to unf 1 1 Dei t The London Zoological Gardens er ave recently acquired a specimen of ,|11' ie takin, an animal In appearance ors el ween a goat and an antelope. This do i the only specimen in the whole of to I airope. (lm HE GREAT PEARL FISHERIES. In we >rlon is First, With Lower California on* Second. or ^ho oldest and richest pearl fisher- rel In the world are those of Ceylon. beds are under government super- ba on, and when one is to be fished ha r the fact is published beforehand, dlt j season usually begins the first t of March and continues from by r to six weeks. di\ toats and divers from the neighborcoasts and pearl merchants from over India assemble before the day go As many as 25,000 persons of- 19 gather on the fishing grounds. At wa rei inight, when the wind freshens, pg| boats start for the banks in groups i litty to seventy, so as to arrive a re before sunrise. ro, iach boat carries from ten to jja ive uivera, says me isuneun oz ine re. reau of American Kepublics. They frc tk in puirs, one diving while the br( t-r tends the signal line, and reiiev- pei each other from time to time. At frt rise a signal gun is tired and the Pe ling begins. js he diver usually carries a stone or er weight of about lifty pounds at- wt lied to the haul line to facillate his id descent, and in addition carries asket made fast to the girdle about jev waist m which lie places the oys- jg t as found. wa iome divers working in shallower pe< Ler use no weight in descending, vu while at the bottom make good (ja ot bolii hands and feet to seize jat ?n and wrench loose any oysier n 11 within the limited area over ich they can Work. The diver pr( u works without uiving apparatus i wiio is called a "head diver," iking in from thirty-five to forty- pei feet of water, which is the aver- er| , can make from forty to lifty de- ca] nts in a morning and can bring up go m fifteen 10 thirty oysters each ' br< it the firing of another signal gun >ut noon the diving is suspended va I the boats race ashore and beach, ^li dy for unloading. On their arrival an re tne oysters are carried into the fol eminent corral and there piled fG] j three heaps, each boat's load be- ge kept separate, the government Qf ing two heaps, or two-thirds of the tj0 r.ovinln/lAM hnlnM Lit, ami Lite i v iimuiuvi ucnife uiv iu- jjjr among the divers and the crew, the ro ers usually receiving the largest tion. There are aboui 4,500 divers fOI work, thb daily catch averaging r|r 1)0,000 oysters, which are often nd clustered closely together. fa] he government's share is then auc- [,]t led olT by the inspector in lots of t}j( JO and usually bought up by small thi rchants, divided into smaller lots I resold. The price obtained de- on ids largely 011 the average run of mJ pearls found, which can be closely 'pj, imated by experts. However, chance jsj, ys a great part, and the lucky ' i reliant quickly pockets any valu- ^ri e find to prevent a possible rise In wj ce and returns to buy more from tj0 same lot. qs; .'he true Indian diver never de- as nds without first providing for at- cjf k against sharks or other danger- wa i fish by invoking immunity ough the shark charmer's incanta- pa is, a hereditary endowment among ca, East Indians, one of these charm- j? usually accompanying each boat, jjg de from this danger, which in se waters, however, is compara- wa .ly small, the diver, working un- pa a tropical sun and exposed to fa( lumatism and often paralysis, is -na tally short lived. sja Jp until a few years ago this was en method employed In gathering jj,, iris, and the British government co India derived a revenue of from (0,000 to $750,000 annually from no product of these fisheries, but for Th last few years they have been sol (rated by an English corporation pr ler a twenty year lease for a stipu- tyj( ?d sum a year in addition to the pe iper care and cultivation of the [a. Is under government supervision. jn' lie ivuriu uu? ncvei ivuunn iiviici irl fisheries than those of Ceylon. 8 pearls of finest orient and color TI ne from these waters, and the ther of pearl shell is the largest jl 1 most iridescent. It was from here t La Pellegrina came, said to be finest and most perfect pearl in stence and which weighs 112 ins, as well as most of the crown or .rls of Europe. For centuries the tic lian princes have amassed great o\\ ilth in pearls, and those of the ,j1( na of Dholpur were valued at 1 500,000. QU 'he most extensive pearl oyster ly unds of the world are situated on v|( northern and western coasts of stralia. These are located within jurisdictions of Queensland, Wesn Australia and South Australia kn I extend In irregular patches from ir Cooktown on the northeast alst to Freemantle on the southwest, qu istance of nearly 3,000 miles. je< n 1905 these fisheries employed a of II of 773 vessels, with 6,075 men, I had an output valued at 356,000 inds sterling. Here is found the finmother of pearl, which exceeds "si i value of the pearls by more than srr per cent. The city of Singapore, * > of the largest pearl markets of ^ world, is the headquarters for fur- &i' liing labor and supplies for the TI eenslaiul fisheries. te< 'he richest pearl fisheries in the ierieas at the present time are ?r se of the Gulf of California centeraround La Paz and along the out- an coast of Lower California in MexiThese fisheries were discovered Hernando Cortez when he march- *a' across Mexico in 1526. Up to thir- ed years ago only "head divers" were ployed. Put on tne revival or me . . leries about this time modern divapparatus was introduced and to- wl ' they are being worked under con- ' sion by San Francisco firms, who im ploy from 800 to 1,200 men and a nber run schooners, which colt the oysters from the smaller boats of rking on the beds and carry them dw the companies' sheds on shore, . ere they are opened and the pearls ted by passing them through small ^ ss sieves of graded sizes. or; lost of the diving is done by di- ^ei s using the most improved appara- , ' , helmet and air pumps, and is car1 on in from 4 0 to 120 fpet of wa- coi an average depth being 60 to 80 t. The work can only be continu- , from three to three and one-half irs at a time, due to the tide, which l)ri ng this coast has a maximum vari- tiu >n of over 20 feet, creating cur- pr< ts that make it impossible to work . more than an .hour and a half bee and an hour and a half after the wl n of the tide. sh "he divers take little or no food in- na their stomach before commencing rk, as this would hinder deep w* athing and make them more liable im cramps. A diver wearing twenty- wl > pounds of lead on each shoe, rubgarments, and brass helmet to ich are attached air tubes, signal *?ri d and life line, can remain at the inl torn from one-half to three hours, (j,v ording to the depth at which he is . i king. The pressure is so great at ' < -.?. n.. ikiwIIv remains un- I'll but ten to 11 ft?-**n minutes, wi.lle a i fifty feet of water lie might be seen |)0 ving about 011 the bottom for sevl hours. 'ir 'he head diver, who usually works set ependently, operates in from thir- CO| to fifty feet of water, at whieh >th tin- oysters can lie seen on the 1 IP cniiif bottom, and remains un- co1 from fifty to ninety seconds, al- Ca >ugh some of the most inured re- tj)( in under much longer. The writer ! seen a native Pa tinman diver re- ' in submerged for two minutes and Sh seconds, but on reaching the sur- stf e he was so exhausted that he had jn be dragged into the boat and was it for further diving that morning. 001 p diving causes deafness, and af- he several seasons work this becomes ni( to acute. p 'here are two classes of head div- * , those that go down head first, as many East Indians. Malays and x ynesians and who use no weights facilitate descent, and those who go mi vn feet first, with one foot caught th a loop of the rope attached to the ight, while others have the weight stened to their waists, releasing It ascending. On Ailing the basket, on becoming exhausted, the diver eases his foot from the loop and at;hes the latter to the basket, asriding independently or at times nd over hand up the rope when uled taut. Both classes carry the rer's knife Incased in a tubular path, with which he cuts the oyster >se from the rock to which It clings a greenish black fibrous beard. The rcr receives a monthly salary and a ith of what he finds. The greater part of the shell is Ipped to San Francisco, the pearls lug to Mexico city and Paris. In 08 the production of these fisheries is valued at 15,000,000, the pearls presented {3,000,000 and mother of arl shell the rest. The Lower California pearls are of great variety of shapes and color, and pear shaped, button pearl or t on one side, baroque or pearl of ir;ular shape and In color ranging ?m white and pink to blue, green, iwn and black. Some very famous aria of history have been taken >m these waters. One of the most autiful gems of the Spanish crown an enormous Mexican pearl found ar Loreto by a native diver and ighing 400 grains. With hardly an exception there are aerican pearls among the crown vels of every ruler In Europe. In 89 at the world's fair in Paris there s exhibited a set of seven black arls from these Mexican fisheries lued at $22,000 at that time, and toy worth much more. One of the gest pearls ever found here was sold Paris to the emperor of Austria for 0,000, and the Spanish government esented Napoleon III. with a black ?xican pearl valued at $25,000. In i early '80s three magnificent black arls were found on the La Paz flshles ranging in weight from 28 to 45 rats and worth from $5,000 to $6,0 each. A very beautiful pearl of a delicate [>wnlsh tint was also found about s same time, weighing 75 carats and lued at $8,000. The brown, green, je and black tints are very unusual, d Mexico and Panama are famous r the combinations of these colors . tind in the pearls from their coasts, nora Diaz, wife of President Diaz, Mexico, has a magnificent collecn of Mexican pearls which rivals uiy of the famous collections of Eupe. Among the poorest natives of *xico Deautiful nearls are often to be und, usually crudely mounted In igs, combs, earrings, chains, etc. The Gulf of Mexico was at one time mous for its production of the rare ick pearl, and quite a number of ese have recently been taken from e beds In the Gulf of Campeche. Other American pearl fisheries are the coasts of Venezuela, of Panai, of Colombia and of Costa Rica, lese fisheries are famous for green i black pearls. The twin towers of the old Catheal of Panama are thickly studded th mother of pearl shells of excepnal size and beauty from the nearby heries, and on a clear morning, Just the sun seems to rise out of the Paic from behind Cheplllo to the eastird and suddenly lights up its gray lite walls through the line of royal 1ms on the eastern side, their conve nacreous surfaces rellect the rays thousands of tiny pink and white hts. In the clear depths of the sheltered iters of many an atoll of the South iclflc, often 60 feet below the sur_-e, pearls of great beauty and value ve been found by the expert Polynein head divers. The women here gage in diving too, often rivaling e men in endurance. They first ver their bodies with a preparation cocoanut oil and in many cases use weights to facilitate their descent, le bronze tinted pearl so much Light after by the collector comes Incipally from these islands, alough the brown and gray tinted arl of the west coast of the Ameris is equally as beautiful and as much demand. HE PURPOSE OF PUNISHMENT. le Protection of Society and the Reformation of the Offender. In the matter of our administration justice there is a very simple quesin to be asked by every man of his n conscience: What do I believe is e object of punishment? Until this estlon has been asked and coherentanswered by the community it is objusly as mad to apply punishment as r a man to set out to dine with a end of whose address he has no owledge. The whole administration our justice at present treads the icksands of ambiguity as to the ob:t of punishment. The vast majority us have never put to ourselves the estion at all, being quite satisfied at the object of punishment is to erve people right;" and out of the mil minority who have asked the estion the far greater number have fen themselves no coherent answer, le object of punishment is the pro tion of society and the reformation the offender. This is the simple, sensible truth, d everything In our administration justice which conflicts with it is Isely, unjustly and stupidly conceiv. But it is the commonest thing in e world for people to accept that def Ition without considering in the least lat it means. The confusion arises from not keep? the idea of the protection of socieclosely enough coupled with the idea the reformation of the offender; from elling too much on the past, and not >king enough to the future; from e continued existence of the old their, "an eye for an eye," condemned to ath over 1,900 years ago, and still ing very hard in this Christian untry. Fes, to noncomprehenslon of the ie meaning of that golden rule, "to utection of society and the reformain of the offender," can be traced actically every defect of our system. In its name men are prosecuted ten with better comprehension they ould be warned or helped. In its me first offenders are imprisoned, len with better comprehension the prisonment of first offenders, of latever age, for whatever offence, ould be unknown; for an infinitely eater danger to society arises, and finitely less chance of reforming the linquent exists, when that delinquent s once Deen commuted to prison, ice him on probation, or send him to reformatory institution, for whatever riod may seem necessary?but to a ison, as prisons now are, never! To id him there is fatal, hopeless, unenotnic, unscientific. In its name, ? continuance in prison of closed-cell nfinement is defended. O Irony! n we reform men by consigning em to the operation of what, in the ids of Its stanch supporters (the late r Edmund Du Cane) is "an artificial ito of existence, absolutely opposed that which nature imints out as the ndition of mental, moral and physical alth?" Can we protect society by a >thod that does not reform??John ilsworthy in London Chronicle. ?T Nothing1 short of a stick of dynato will ever make some men rise to. e occasion.