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ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLY. i. K GRIST S SONS, Pnbii.her.. j tdM? Jleirspajier: 4n the promotion of the political. Social, agricultural and (Tommcrrial interests of the people. { """/NO^0?,,'Vi,^"cl,N0^""' ESTA BLI8HED 1855. YORKVILLE, S C., TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1911. 'NO. 19. ' ""** ** * '* * l*u?. ?v?a*v,A/j? aiim Adtn "kaodflo" ooom I qoakl^c cticuikia 1 kj ci adth a "Alias Iimmv v"""V Valentine" CHAPTE7R' XIII. "I took?some of?that money," Avery' finally managed to say as he saw his two friends before him. "And you put it back," smiled Valentine. "The minute you touched it you found you couldn't"? "That's it," put in Avery eagerly as he rose and proceeded to aid Red in restoring the scattered money to its place. "I couldn't take it then. Now T ?/> nut r\f hero onH lrnnw that I'll never steal again." "You mustn't go until Doyle comes In, for he might see you on the street," warned Valentine. "When he comes you can go out through the vault room and make your getaway while I stall him here." In talking with Avery, Jimmy Valentine unconsciously fell into the use of the vernacular of his early vocation. With a parting handshake Avery went out into the vault room, where Red was to exhibit to him the big new safe. The assistant cashier, now that the tray of money had been re - I? : v ' ''' V tH^I | p' |?piP HE KIP6ED HEK AGAIN AND AGAIN. placed on the table, picked up the photograph, hung It In the place of another affixed to the wall at the right of his desk and inspected it with pronounced satisfaction. The hall door opened, and Rose Lane came into the office. The girl was in a peculiar mood that day?there was" no denying it. Valentine had always found his benefactor, young though she was, particularly difficult to, fathom, and today she was more baffling than ever. She talked at length re. gardlng her plans for the children's Christmas celebration, and, standing before hii*desk, while he stood behind it, she said, "And I want to know what you want for Christmas." "Is there anything I could want?" he answered in low tones. "Think of what you and two short years have done for me." "And there's never anything more you want? Don't you ever dream? dreams of, say, two years more?" She turned her eyes to tne noor. "Oh, yes, to go on as I've been going these last two, since your father gave me a position of trust, and make everything good and pile up the money for you." She drew away from him. "Haven't you ever thought there might be something I want more than money ?" Valentine hesitated. His voice became intensely serious. "I don't let myself think of you only as your employee," he finally answered. Rose turned sideways to him. so that he could not see her face as she delivered her next question, although she would have given much to have been able to watch the expression of the assistant cashier?her assistant cashier?as she asked it. "But," she ventured, "you must have thought that I would marry some day." Silence, with Valentine fumbling in embarrassment a pencil which lay upon his desk. "Yes?I"? he began, but Rose continued his sentence for him. "And it hurts von to think of it. doesn't it? Say it." "Y-e-s." "Oo on." He could endure the situation no longer. The girl had penetrated his very soul with her questions, had uncovered in Jimmy Valentine the secrets of his new life?the secrets which he had resolved to keep burled forever. But now he must speak. He must tell her the truth about his situation as regarded her?part of the truth, at least. "And the thought of you brings darkness, desolation," he said, keeping a firm grip on the emotions that threatened to unnerve him. "What is the use? You're all there is to live for ?to just see you now and then. You're all there is to life. Men have loved and slaves have loved and animals that have been saved have loved, but never were the three loves fused in one. And you're good, and your life is dean, while mine?but you know all that." He inclined his face from her. "I have forgotten." she said simply. "You cannot. And any day the shadow of other days may fall. But I want you to know this and believe it as your God?my love for you is a holy thing, sacred and deathless." Valentine was looking earnestly into her eyes now. His hand was resting on the desk. She seized it in hers and drew him toward her. "Take me in your arms. Bee." she cried fervently. "I love you. I'll love you till"? Her face was upraised to his as she clung to him. He held her in his arms and kiss her again and Novelized by FREDERIC R. TOOMBS From the Great Play by PAUL ARMSTRONG Copyright, 1910, by American Press Association. I again. "How I have longed for you? years?years"? Her words were smothered in his kisses. "There is no end to the happiness you bring," murmured Valentine at the first moment he thought he could spare his lips for conversational purposes. "Oh," exclaimed Rose, drawing away at arm's length temporarily. "I want to tell you something, Lee, something I've known for years and years?we are going to marry." He caught her into his arms oncel more. "I love you. It will never end," he I ?l- * ?~ J wmspcicu 1UI1U1>. The telephone bell rang at his desk As he released her and placed the receiver at his ear she encircled his neck in her arms and kissed him. "Hello!" he called. As the response came she felt a tremor run through him. Haggardness came Into his eyes. He seemed almost to forget her presence. "Yes, yes," he answered; "I'll see the gentleman in a few minutes." He hung up the receiver. "God," he groaned, "Doyle!" Valentine turned toward the girl, who surveyed him anxiously. "What is it?" she asked. She saw that he was deeply worried. "I don't know," he stammered, "but it is most important?most important." "Well, I'll run downtown; the car is waiting," she said happily. "Then I'll come back and get you and dad and take you home." His face had taken on the pallor that marked the visages of men who came from Warden Handler's game of solitaire. "Yes, but should this man have business which would take me out of town"? "But you mustn't go out of town? now hear me." She, of course, had not the slightest suspicion of the true importance of that telephone call. "I won't if there's a way out." "Well, Just don't?Just don't," pleaded Rose. "I am going to leave the children here to take care of you." "Rose," he cried, going to her, "Rose it was chance that brought us together; it was chance that brought you to a prison one day. Chance is uncertain, capricious, and that same chance may separate us suddenly." "Nothing can separate us," confidently. "Let that be our prayer to all the gods. But this I want you to remember?from my soul I love you. Now BO." She kissed her hand and waved it toward him as she went out of the door. "Goodby, Rose," He stood a moment; then, taking down the telephone receiver, he said into the mouthpiece: "Hello. All right. Send the gentleman in." After a pause: "What? He's gone into Mr. Lane's office?" The telephone receiver fell to the desk with a crash. Doyle gone into the office of Mr. Lane, Rose's father! Here was a new complication, a new danger, one which Jimmy Valentine had not included in his calculations. Well, come what may, he must face the situation. "Miss Taylor?Miss Mabel," he called, taking up the receiver and asking for the "central" of the bank's private exchange, "give me Mr. Lane's office. Hello, Mr. Lane. Oh, now regarding that Germond note, he says that he? Oh, you are coming into my office now with a Mr. Doyle? All right. I'll be here. Very well. Goodby." The receiver clattered into its wonted position on the hook, and Jimmy | Valentine stood at his desk awaiting the arrival of Rose Lane's father and Detective George Doyle. CHAPTER XIV. After a few moments Valentine again glanced at the photograph of the dinner group. Next he opened a drawer at his left and took out a square green book with the legend "Scrap Book" in fancy green letters on its cover. He placed the volume in a drawer at the right of his desk and on top of it laid several other books taken from another drawer. He slammed the drawer shut, straightened himself and walked across the office to the table on which was laid the tray of gold, silver and greenbacks. "I'm going to beat you, Mr. Doyle!" he said fiercely, half aloud. "I'm going to beat you. and I'm going to make you like it." He seated himself before the tray and began counting the money as the door opened to admit Mr. Lane, followed by Detective Doyle. Valentine looked up. "Mr. Randall," began Rose's father, "this is Mr. Doyle, a detective, who has been asking me some questions about you that I feel you can better answer." "Indeed?" looking at Doyle. "What is the name?" Valentine asked innocently iiIS auilllilf ilium* im.vii* smtii ...u. alitor. "Doyle," the detective grunted impatiently, staring at the man h<* had known as No. 12NH. Valentine rose and shook hands with Doyle. "Glad to know you, Mr. Doyle." He seated himself before the tray. "Well, what can 1 do for you?" he asked. The detective's mouth Raped open. He glared at the smoothly speaking, indifferently acting ex-convict before him, then at the tray containing thousands of dollars in bills and coin. Valentine went on counting the money as unconcernedly as though playing a game of jack-straws- with Bobby or Kitty. "What can you Tlo?" exploded Dovle. "You can do nine years for"? "You will excuse me," interrupted Mr. Dine, stepping toward the door. "1 have no interest in the conversation, I am sure. And, Mr. Doyle," he said pointedly to the bewildered detective, "I want you to thoroughly understand that I have every confidence In Mr. Randall, as also have all th? other directors." The door closed behind him and Valentine was alone ^ with George Doyle. "Well, I'll be blowed!" ejaculated Doyle, turning again to the assistant ^ citsnier. mure in picn.v o?cti imv, aren't you?" pointing to the tray. "I really didn't expect to find you here In the daytime." "Why?" perplexedly. "Oh. I thought you'd duck when you got my wire." "Wire? Oh, did you send that telegram?" "Yes. Jimmy." "Jimmy? What's the Idea? I don't follow you"? "Oh, you don't know, eh?" angrily. "Got the old boy?Lane?stalling for you, and you're going pretty strong, eh?" "Exactly what do you mean?" asked Valentine indignantly, rising as he spoke. "Come on, Jimmy, not with me. Sorry to tear you away from so soft a place, but the state of Massachusetts wants you." "From the occasional words of intelligible English you speak from time to time," retorted Valentine easily, "I gather that you imagine I am a person named Jimmy." His words were accompanied by the most aggravating of smiles. The now thoroughly irate detective bent toward the assistant cashier and peered intently at him. "Imagine?imagine! Well, isn't it funny that I should imagine your name to be Jimmy?" "It is, inaeea," suaveiy. as a. mmter of curiosity, might I nsk Jimmy's other name?" "I'll Rive you just one guess," pointedly. f "That's exceedingly kind of you, but , this same experience having happened . before I will likely guess it." He set- . tied hack comfortably in his chair. "Well, what do you think of that?" t Doyle found it difficult to control his . temper. < "Well, what is the other name?" . Valentine responded with the utmost coolness: , "You mistake me for a Mr. Valen- , tine." t "Jimmy Valentine, the very name, and you are Jimmy Valentine, and I want you," snarled the detective. "Now, is it come along or requisition?" { (To be Continued.) ( SIS HOPKINS ON WEDDED LIFE. f "When Yer Hitched Don't Try to Pull Separate," Says She. Rose Melville, "Sis" Hopkins, and now Mrs. Frank Mlnzey, a native of ( Indiana, a citizen of the world and a happy bride of two weeks standing, is spending her honeymoon with her husband and leading man on Diamond Lake, ten miles from Cossopolls, Mich. . It is a very informal honeymoon, says the Indianapolis Star. Mr. and Mrs. . Minzey devoting most of their time to swimming, boating and fishing. It was waist deep in the water that a reporter found Mrs. Minzey with her 1 husband, and asked for some of her ideas on marriage. " 'Don't you never get married to a . man that you ain't knowed a long time. . A man that won't wait ain't worth ? waitin' fer.' M she be^an, quoting "Sis" v Hopkins. "Now, Frank wanted to marry me a ( long time, but I wouldn't. I used to tell him I had a career and it was all ^ I could manage without a husband. But I had to change my mind. I have decided I need the husband to manage , me and let the career take care of ite self. As "Sis" Hopkins would say: "Every woman needs a man to take J keer of her, even if he only teaches her swimmin'!" c "Now, there's more truth than poetry in that. I never could learn to swim before I married Frank, just because r I wouldn't trust any man enough to ^ let him teach me. If you aren't married to a man he thinks it's fun to duck ( you. No husband will do that. He thinks too much of his wife to scare 8 her intentionally. In just the two ? weeks we have been here Frank has j taught me to swim. g "First of all," she went on, "we are going to make one farewell tour of the c United States. Then there will be no c more of 'Sis' Hopkins. c "After that we are going to take a trip around the world. It will last more than a year. And then we are c going to settle down in South Bend, c Ind. Frank is going into the automo- c bile business and we are going to have a nice, cosey house. c "One thing more about marriages? a don't begin the honeymoon with a thoughts of divorce. That is fatal. When you are married, stay married. Being happily married is simply a pro- * cess of accommodation. Accommodate v * - - ?n A _ yourself to your mates uses aim un>- ^ likes. Make up your mind to be happy and you will be: And: 1 " 'When ver hitched, don't try to pull a separate. Keep yer ear agin your c podner's.'" , Difference Between a Profession anc1 | a Trade.?Gov. Marshall in a brief address said that he once watched an ^ Irishman at work tearing up the tiles ( of a ditch which had recently been ^ made under his supervision. "Why do you tear up this ditch?" asked the governor. "The tiles were not laid on a level j. at this point," replied the Irishman. ? "But the water will pass through the tiles as they are now will it not?" "Yes, the water would run through but the ditch would not be right, " re- r plied Pat. , "But why should you make yourself so much work when nobody will discover any defect in the drain?" "It may be that 110 one else will lind out that the tiles are not laid as they ^ should be," replied the ditcher, "but I f. would know that the tiles were not laid a right." "This ditcher," continued the governor, "made ditching a profession. The doctor who makes needless calls (| on his patients, or who makes his pa- ^ tients believe they are seriously ill s when they are not, in order to make money out of them, is following a trade, j, Here is a distinction between a profession and a trade."?Exchange. (| 1 ' a ,t .""in Ri<> Janeiro things are dear be- r yond lielief," writes a commercial t agent, "and it is easy to understand why the Brazilian, buying in Broad- v way. New York city, regards the mar- c] ket as a very cheap one and explains a why he gets the reputation of being a such a good spender." g JUiscflliuuons Reading. MONTE CRISTO HAS A RIVAL. Modern Croeaua, Young and GoodLooking, Startles Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., March 2.?Fortified vith 134 one thousand-dollar bills, a few York certified check for $45,000 ind a suit case and Gladstone bag rammed full of bills of smaller denomnatlon and gold coins, a mysterious itranger has just finished giving Atantlans a perfectly good imitation of Death Valley Scotty's free spending, ind has departed for Havana, Cuba, vlth Miss Louise Whittimore, a pretty nanlcurlst, whom he took as his bride vhile here. After a short stay in ?uba, they will go to New York, rom which city they will go to Europe or an extended tour. The young Croesus registered at a ocal hotel as A. W. Carmlchael of New fork, but Is said to hall from Buenos ^.yres. He asked to be given an entire loor, but finally was persuaded that a luite of four rooms would be sufficient. ie then proceeded to a tailoring esabllshment, where he ordered an outit of sixteen suits, paying for them in idvance, something over $1,000. But his was only the start. Carmlchael visited the hotel barber ihop the first day, where he met and ell in love with Miss Whittimore, and nade an engagement for luncheon. Not latlsfled with her costume, he pulled >ut five $100 bills and sent her out to tet some clothes befitting the occailon. When she reappeared he was iissansnea wun ner iacK 01 jeweis anu ook her to a leading jeweler, where he iresented her with a large diamond ing and pearl necklace. Carmlchael also visited a garage, vhere he rented an automobile at the ate of $5 an hour, for as long as he ihould want it. At the end of his vist he paid the owner $265, although he lad not used the machine more than lalf the time. Accompanied by Miss Whtttimore md her mother, Carmichael went from lere to Tampa, Fla., en route to Cuba, festerday Chas. Belleisle, who acted as lis chauffeur while in Atlanta, recelv*d a telegram from Carmlchael initructing him to meet him in New fork and accompany him on an exended European trip. Carmichael ilso sent transportation and $100. Carmichael is described by the hotel ittaches as good looking, of the blonde :ype, and about 29 years old. He was luiet and unassuming and apparently nterested in nothing but having a food time. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES. 2ase of Dorothy Arnold Recalls Other Instances of People Suddenly Drop? c o:.U4 piny rnim vjiym. Mysterious disappearances such as he disappearance of Dorothy Arnold lave alarmed the public and baffled the >olice before this; disappearances that lave had in their suddenness apparent ack of purpose and inexpllcability nuch in common with the case of Miss \rnold. Leaving out of account the :lass of disappearance for their own onvenience, embezzlers, blackmailers md so forth, there is still a large num>er of recorded cases where the subects have dropped out of sight without ipparent cause or reason, and who lave left behind them untarnished repitations and solvent bank accounts. )f these a small percentage are found o have met with violence, others have >een victims of a suicidal mania; and looner or later a, clew has come to ight which has established the fact. The dead are often easier to find than ire the living. Of the remaining small >roportlon there are on record a num>er of carefully authenticated cases vhere the subject has been the victim if a sudden and complete loss of mem>ry. This dislocation of memory is a vaiety of aphasia known as amnesia, and vhen the memory is recurrently lost ind restored, as alternating personalty. The Society for Psychical Relearch and many eminent psychologist, among them the late William fames. Dr. Weir Mitchell, Dr. Hodg ion of Boston, and Dr. A. E. Osborn if San Francisco, have reported many | ases of alternating personality. Stulious efforts are being made to underitand and to explain the strange type f mental phenomena exhibited in these ases; but no one has ever yet given a lear and comprehensive explanation if them. Such cases are by no means ihvays connected with disappearances, ind exhaustive studies have been made if types of alternating personality that tave from first to last been carefully vatched by scientists of the first rank. The variety known as the ambulatory ype, where the patient suddenly loses ill knowledge of his own Identity and if his past and taken himself off, leavng no trace or clew, is the variety vhlch the present case calls to popular nterest. Dr. H. G. Leigh, Sr., of Petersburg, ,fa., has recorded the case of a myserious disappearance that excited the lopular attention and baffled the police ome twenty years ago. The subject vas a Mr. K., of a small town.in Virginia. At the time of his disappearance le was nO years old, of splendid phyique, in good health and in fairly pros/.Iroiimatfln/'Pfl 14 p wna IfilnU'tl o be a sober, moral and industrious nan, happy and contented in his do- ] nestle relations. Born and reared In ( ,'lrginia, he had conducted business for wenty years in the town where he reided. Coming north on a business trip o purchase Roods for his store in this . ity, he remained here for two days, luring which time he transacted a good j leal of business, met his friends and ^ howed no Indication of aberration of | nlnd. | Starting home by a steamship line on vhlch he was accustomed to travel and ( in which he was a well-known passen:er, he registered and retired to his ^ toiurnnm When the tickets were col " 1 ected he was missing. He had sudden- , y and mysteriously disappeared. No 1 lie had seen him leave the boat, jump, >r fall overboard. His open valise and 11 his clothes were found in his stateoom. The room door was open, but he key had been taken away. ! Police arc! press looked for him in j ain. Finally investigation was aban- , loned, the theory that he was dead was | ccepted, and the courts appointed an ' dminlstrator for his estate and a i uardinn for his children. Six months ] later he suddenly appeared at the hom< of a relative In a distant southern city He was brought home In a composer: but partially dazed state, able to recognize but few of his friends. He wai reduced in weight from 250 pounds tr 150. He wore the same suit he had or when he disappeared, and in his pocket was found the check and key to hi! stateroom. He was put under treatment, and In a month's time had com pletely recovered his previous bodllj and mental health, and has since remained In a perfectly normal state. A day or two after his return home ar abscess In his ear broke, and from tha^ time on his return to health went rapIdly forward. Mr. K?'s own account of this cas? runs as follows: "I was feeling ver\ tired after a busy day in the city; s( I went to my stateroom immediatelj upon going aboard the boat and changed my clothes. Up to that time I wa? thoroughly conscious; but I recal nothing more. All is oblivion with m( until, six months later, I came to myself in a distant city in the south. J found myself driving a fruit wagon or the street. I was utterly astounded Upon inquiry I learned that I had beer there and at work for some time. M\ life since I was in that stateroom sb months before was an absolute blank tc me. I can give no account of mysell during that period." Dr. A. E. Osborn of California, records three cases of a similar kind thai have come under his immediate per sonal attention. The first case Is thai of a man past middle age, seemingly ir robust health, living in a small towr suburban to Philadelphia. He was b> trade a tinsmith and plumber and hac built up for himself a thriving trade His grown sons had already assume< the cares of his business, and he appeared to be entering upon a period ol ease and prosperity. On the Sunday or which he disappeared he had been ir the house all day. About 4 o'clock he rose from the lounge on which he hac been reading, changed his dressing Jacket for a coat and his slippers foi shoes, and announced- that he was going out for a breath of fresh air. He stepped out of his front door and was gone. Two years passed before he was heard of again. Of the 3,000 inhabitants of his native town none saw him leave. Although he was known to the trainmer of the railroad connecting the smal town with the outer world no one coulc recall having seen him. Rewards were useless. Innumerable theorlef were advanced, but they only mad. confusion worse. He had taken nr mnnpv with him. His business affairs were In a prosperous state. In du< course of time the search for him wai given up and his family removed t( Chicago. Two years had passed, when in ? tinshop In a southern city a man suddenly dropped his work and cried out: "My God! Where am I? How did ] come here. This isn't my shop!" n was the missing tinsmith, ? o aftei months of wandering seeme I to b< waking as from a somnambulistic sleep He was known as a wandering tinner, who had drifted Into the towr and sought work at his trade. No ont had suspected that he was not in e normal state of mind. Through th< efforts of the proprietor of the shop hf was able to communicate with his family at once and rejoined it in Chicago A curious part of his story is that whilf working at his trade in the south ht had for over a year received good wages and was noted among his fellow workmen for his careful and saving habits; yet when he came to himself hf was penniless, and he has never sincf been able to recall what he did with his money. The second case of disappearance recorded by Dr. Osborn is that of a brilliant and well known lawyer and politician, a former congressman. He lived also in a town suburban to Philadelphia. One day he got up from his desk In his office, leaving a law book open al a page he had been consulting, a mas* nf nroront nmrk unfinished In his desk and a number of uncashed checks. H walked out of his office and vanished. After several months had passed word came through official government channels that he was In Australia! where he had applied to the consul to help him reach home. He had come to himself on a steamship nearlng an Australian port, quite penniless and broken in health. His passage money was forwarded and he returned home. After a short period of recuperation he returned to his profession. He has been normal ever since. Dr. Obsorn's third recorded case Is that of a young Irish coachman who was severely injured in a runaway accident In which his brother-in-law and a friend were killed. The accident occurred In the presence of a crowd, yet In the confusion when the bodies of the two who were killed had been recovered from the wreckage no trace could be found of the coachman. No one bad seen him after the final catastrophe. The next day, when he was still being sought for everywhere, he reappeared at the door of his home, badly injured and unable to speak. His recovery was axtremely slow and for a time his mind appeared to be gone. He gradually reestablished himself, but memory was the last thing to return to him. Dr. Osborne especially noted a complete though gradual, change of outward appearance of expression, voice, almost of feature. When he began to pull around again he was unrecognizable to his intimate acquaintances. His whole character had altered, and with It his outward .mnpnriinrp. "Why," asked I)r. Osborn. "may not inch changes appear suddenly." Is time a necessary element? We may not yet know the subtle forces accounting for the original disappearing Impulse; but if it shall be found that the liuman face and form can within a few moments undergo such changes as to render thein easily unrecognizable at ordinary sight then we shall have a plausible explanation for the most mysterious phase of these sudden disappearances, the consistent failure of any one to recognize these unhappy victims of loss of memory as they drop ?ut of sight."?New York Sun. tv observations of tides by the I'uited States survey ship McArthur in Turna?ain bay and Knik .arm. Cook inlet, Alaska, show tides of thirty feet variation and a tidal current of eight knots. The only tides known to exceed this record are the tides in the bay of Fundy. ; fttiscrllanrous 25raflin<). 1 _ - " WHEN CAMORRA RULED NAPLES. Famous Society was More Powerful Than the Constituted Government. Another chief of the Camorra is soon to be put on trial for his life at i .... i- ?_J _? i 1?? i? t viieroo. nf i? ucuuh^u ui jiuviub m- stlgated a plot which resulted In the | ' assassination of an adroit and power- j ful rival. The Camorra has declined t L from its old pernicious eminence, but j it is by no means moribund, and the j police are taking extraordinary pre- i caution to prevent disorder. In all of r the wineshops of the Neapolitan un- * derworld the liveliest excitement pre- f vails, for the Ignorant and the Illiterate populace still regards the Ca- J' ' morra with a friendly feeling, not- f withstanding the burden It so long laid a j upon them. t With the trial of this particular Ca- ^ morra the world outside Italy has lit- t ' tie concern. It serves only to revive c a momentary interest In the extra- J 1 ordinary history of a society which t ' yields place to no other In the history s of Europe In the enormity of Its r crimes. At the time of Its chief sway ' r c It revealed the constituted authorities i In power, made terms with unscru- t pulous politicians much as Tammany t does today, levied tributes in the ? highest quarters and maintained as ? ' elaborate and effective machinery of c Imposts as the government Itself. A 1 nicely stratified society, It sent its jj 1 emissaries into the court Itself, and c 1 did not disdain to exact a tax from [ the begga.? who Infested the highways ? or itaiy. 'mere waa no unaertaiting c too arduous, no traffic too mean to t ' call forth Its fit agent among the re- 1 sourceful brotherhood. Its depreda- t ^ tions are now conducted with more i 1 discretion, its members recruited from t 1 a less distinguished circle; but its In- ? fluence is still considerable, as the u i police well know. I ' The Camorra took its rise about the ^ first of the last century In the prisons c of Naples. It was only one society a 1 the more among a multitude, patriotic t ' or predatory, which that wild and tur- 11 ' bulent epoch brought into being. c Wnatever Neapolitans could steal 8 from each other they took out of the v purse of foreign usurpers. In such r ' a state of affairs theft and patriotism ? i were easily confounded, even by those 6 I who possessed a tender conscience. 8 I There is little evidence, however, that ihe entire Camorristi were much trou- r ? bled by such considerations. The so- ? t clety seems to have sprung into ex- 1 , istence to minister to the comfort of ? sundry old rogues who had no taste 1 ' for work, and lived at ease In the 1 ? prisons of the south. Thrown togeth- 1 . er In idleness, the accomplished gen- | try of the period would naturally seize 1 any opportunity of adding to their J5 * general sum of comforts. It was the most natural thing in the world that J , they should have hit upon the Idea ' of levying a tax upon green recruits to their ranks. This, at all events, 8 they did, and all such as could afford 1 [ to add delicacies from the outside to r . the rude prison fare were expected to n contribute to their superfluity to the 8 i. common good. These offerings were ? ostensibly devoted to pious uses. In- 1 cense was required to be offered up a to the Virgin. It was a pretty and in- c genious fiction such as less dlsreput- a > able members of society have been > known to indulge both before and a since. But in those times the organization 8 s had another and more notable func- n ? tlon which commended it to the Jail- ? . er. The rascally crew consigned to ? his care was scarcely of a lamb-like 8 docility. Thieves, murderers, fel- s ' lows who picked locks and fellows e > who picked pockets, the scum and v , offscourings of the earth, were turn- P bled pell-mell into limbo. The prob- ? ' lem of preserving a sort of order J ; among these sad rogues must often fl ? have taxed his Ingenuity and spoiled a , the tranquillity of his slumbers. He T ' was glad to accept the assistance of 8 1 the prisoners themselves, so that the a Camorra became in time one of his f most cherished weapons against re- P volt. Thus it gained a sort of tolera- ? tion which amounted to semiofficial P sanction. For all the friendly offices " I which were exchanged, however, the * jailer would be allowed to entertain 8 no illusions as to his "children." They P maintained under his eyes a secret ar- 81 senal; the state of affairs amounted a to nothing more than an armed n armistice. So much placidity for so 8 much official softness; the terms were h the jailer's to accept or reject. It was a wise Jailer, one may suppose, , who evinced at times a convenient blindness. The organization thus formed was F , transferred in due time to the streets , of Naples in the form of a more or less benevolent despotism. About ' the despotism, at least, there could f be no doubt; it was effective and com- t; i plete. In the early stages of Its ca- j, reer, it will be seen, this society was . not notable for respectability. Its members frequented the shabbiest tl wine shops, established grades, for- F mulated rules for the guidance of new t| members, and administered a formidable oath of fidelity. In certain quar- c 1 ters of the town their nocturnal n i prowess was such as to scandalize jS peaceful householders. The merchant might shut himself in his house at sundown, bolt the door, and put up r the shutters. It was no use; the skill R of picklocks defied his utmost prudence. One street, indeed, was so often the scene of these outrageous ,.( pranks that the citizens besought the authorities to wull it up and fit It with doors that might be secured at night. The official upon whom the final decision devolved was assured that build- ^ ing operations in that quarter would P be the leust healthful activity in which he could engage, and hence- y forth turned a deaf ear to all petltlons. Related citizens hurrying by the j mouths of dark alleys after nightfall .j were roundly beaten and relieved of their valuables. Prosperous merchants tj who possessed greedy and impatient p. heirs, and delayed too long leaving ^ their measures with the undertaker, ^ often met mysterious ends into which p no one inquired too carefully. Notwithstanding the notorious char- ' acter of its doings, however, the Ca- ^ morra enjoyed a certain popularity, above all with the lowest orders. The , indolent and vicious Bourbon rulers who had no higher ambition than to keep themselves in power, were cor- ' dlally detested. The police force was the last word for inefficiency. It coped . on unequal terms with the outlaws if it did not share In their plunder. It , was both simpler and more advantageous to propitiate the Camorra by p making terms with It than rely upon the authorities for redress after the horse had been stolen. So adroit were the early Camorristi, moreover, in slipping through the net |8 >t' the law that their cleverness ex- .. cited a degree of public admiration. The fellowship grew by leaps and w bounds; it passed the confines of Na- w pies and overran Italy. In time It at- u. traded to its ranks young gentlemen of birth, but of fallen fortunes, who " lent it the glnmor of romance. In tf spite of Carlyle and the socialists the Ideal of the gentleman and the rogue ^ sun coinciucs in ufria.111 imiut-uittis, It is always better to get along with- ti out work. The accomplishments of lr these shabby gentlemen were not st wasted by this edifying society. By such means it gained access to the w court Itself. Persons of noble birth tt were suspected of carrying on a traf- 0] He with smugglers; dextrous polltl- . clans kept themselves in power by a system of intimidation which makes tc udimentary and even benevolent. Ai 'or the collection of Imposts, the govsrnment was all but Impoverished b} he activities of the Camorra. Neai ?ach public gate of the city hovered i watchful member of the band, whc idded his exaction to those of the pubic functionary. The revenues shrank :o a derision. The period of Its greatest political ictivlty began, however, in 1848, afer the failure of the first efforts ol he conspirators to rouse the peopU igainst the foreign government. Its nfluence was then so great that ihrewd leaders hit upon the idea of smploying It to forward the revolulon. And, though it had Its effect, t may be doubted whether the Canorristi put much heart into the buslless. The spirit of anarchy had then elgned for so long in Italy that their mthusiasm for a united people must lave been lukewarm at the best. But one service they did perform vhen Garibaldi undertook the llberaion of the south in 1860. After the all of Messina, the last Bourbon trdnghold in Sicily, Garibaldi crossed o the mainland of Italy with an army >f 6,000 men. Francis II. fled Na>les. The excited rabble threatened to >urn and pillage the city. The prisms of southern Italy literally belched rlminals. Anarchy prevailed. Fearul that the city would be destroyed, he prefect of police turned in depair to the Camorra, which alone naintalned its organization in full orce. Quick to avail themselves of an ipportunity to gain more power the eaders organized a civic guard which leld Naples until the arrival of Gartialdi'8 army. They have received ome credit for this "patriotic" act, >ut their subsequent conduct cannot ?e said to have Indicated any real hange of heart. After the establishment of the regilar monarchy the minister of police llsbanded the civic guard with dlfflulty. It was found necessary to im>rison some of the chiefs who vowed engeance after their release. Street umults were of the commonest ocurrence. The Camorristi took a land in the elections, influencing the udgment of the electors with clubs, "his condition lasted until 1862, when he government made the first deermined effort to suppress the sociey. The southern states were delared in a state of siege, and General Mamora cast 300 of the brothertood hi jail or banished them to the stands of Tremitt. But even such Irastlc measures were not long sucessful. fcy 1877 the public insecurity was is great as ever. Stripped of most of heir Influence the Camorristl, once nore recruited from the dregs of soiety, were reduced to their first es^ tate. They preyed upon the peasants irho brought fish and vegetables to narket and upon the poorer merhants and shopkeepers. The vegeta>le market of St. Anna della Paluda .nd the fish market were particularly nfested with them. The vegetable narket was surrounded by a guard >f soldiers and police in plain clothes, "he gates were closed. Fifty-seven f the gentry were placed in durance, 'wo years later fifty were arrested at he fish market. But, so powerful is he influence of habit, the wives of hose who had been imprisoned called wo days later at the same place to ollect the society's regular tax. It i probable that their demands would iot have been denied had it not been or the interference of the police. The society has made two conpicuous appearances of late years. n-1877 a chief of the order, one Borelli, was suspected of treachery and lurdered. His assassin, sheltered for time by sympathetic townsmen, was Inally forced to surrender himself to he police. His progress W" Jail mounted to a triumphal procession, lgars and money being forced on his cceptance and his path strewn with owers. Intimidation was resorted to uring the trial which followed. Another evidence of power was lven about a decade ago. A certain lember of the chamber of deputies, ne Casale, was accused by a socialist rgan in Naples of corruption. Caale sued for libel. At the trial it was hown that he had recommended for mployment by the city men charged .ith crime, that he had filled the ublic offices with his friends, that ffices had been bought and sold and hat creditors of the municipality ound it difficult to collect until their ccounts had been approved by him. 'he defense further proved that Caale, as commissioner of Octroi, had pproved tariffs for a bribe of 2,000 rancs, had charged a steamship com any 30,000 francs for a subsidy and therwlse abused his power. His suport was traced to the Camorra. He .as discredited and forced to resign, 'rom this recent instance it will be een that the Camorra is even yet a ower in Naples. The most aggresIve action by the government has not vailed to crush it, and nobody has lore than a guess as to its real power t the present time.?Chicago Record[erald. A MECCA FOR CATS. 'ittsburg Has $1,000,000 to Stamp Out the Rat Plague. A Pittsburg lawyer, according to the hiladelphia Ledger, makes the asserion that $1,000,000 worth of property i destroyed every day in the depreations committed by rats throughout be United States, and he says that ittsburg is more heavily victimized ban any other community. He delares?though perhaps the assertion is ot to be taken too seriously?that he j authorized to offer $1,000,000 for a at-killing device that will do for 'ittsburg what the Pied Piper did for iamelin. The mere announcement is enough to ring upon him an inundation of crank" letters, models of patents, ketches and blue prints, and his ofce will be thronged with wild-eyed Isitors and inventors of perpetual lotion machines, until he will rue the ay that he was born. But if Mr. fvert seriously wishes to rid his city f rats, the means by which Richard tTiittington became an inordinately ealthy Lord Mayor of London sugests itself. Let him invest $1,000,000 i cats. Just think how many cats lat amount of money will buy. In a short time it is to be expected lat Pittsburg will resemble ancient :gypt, and that a cat will be Installed 9 the tutelary divinity of every houseold. The city hall will be a temple of ubastes, and any one who has a reuest to make about street openings r sewers will bring a propitiatory of?ring of fish or catnip for the comlissloner's cat. It has been decided i New York that the postofflce cats re government employees, and an apropriation is regularly made for their laintenance. The question is whether le cats of Pittsburg would have to be assifled as city employees and whethr they would be compelled to take ivil service examinations. In the leantime, Mr. Evert's ofTer will make ittsburg the mecca for the tramp its of the entire country. A Lucky Cougar Hunter.?C. K. Ordh returned to Libby Monday, from a on hunt on Pipe creek and brought ith him the hides of three fine lions ith the heads attached. Mr. Ordish its a bet with C. C. Cobb of Kalispell mt he will send him twenty lion hides lis winter. So far Mr. Ordish has sent in eleven Ides and sajs that he has all kinds of me to spare and as many more lions i sight. During the last four years he ates that he has captured and killed ith two dogs seventy-four lions. On lis last hunt Mr. Ordish had lassoed ne of the animals that had been treed, lit it cnewen me lanai 111 iwu aim imu > be shot.?Spokane Herald. wr vnwu riwriinv 1r Lvniuni A Vacation Among th# Keys That Can Ba Made to Pay For Itaalf. "One of the most enjoyable of my winter vacations was spent In sponge fishing among the Florida keys," declared a young married woman. "We ' went down to Key West and there made arrangements to take a trip j with a sponger who owned his own i boat, which was also hla family home. ; When I asked what supplies we must tol/A A# #aaJ 4UA iaivr aiuug 111 mc wajr ui 1UUU inr , question brought a hearty laugh from both the sponger and his wife, with a chorus of giggles from their two young daughters. "The wife explained that food was the one thing they never thought about down there. All they had to do was to drop a line overboard for their meat and take a walk along some beach for fruit, while at any habitation vegetables were always to be had for the asking. "The mistake I made was not thinking to ask about the water. Before we were out a week that very necessary commodity became uncomfortably scarce. You see the sponger had depended on replenishing our supply from a cistern on a certain key. When we reached that key it was found that something or somebody had not only emptied the cistern but destroyed it. That meant going without water for another six hours, and was not at all enjoyable for me at least. "As that was the only time it happened and was the only thing that was the least bit unpleasant on the cruise I always tell it first and then go on to the charming and uhusual incidents. "To begin with the boat we were in was both commodious and comfortable. When it was recommended to my husband by a merchant he told us that unless we could go in a good new boat we might find the odor of the sponges rather unpleasant before we finished the trip. We didn't, i not because there weren't enough sponges taken but because we gradually became accustomed to the odor. "The actual fishing is done by two 1 or sometimes three persons in a skiff. , On our boat the wife and each of the girls had a skiff. During the second week a skiff was assigned to me, and I can truthfully say I never enjoyed any possession more thoroughly. All we women did was to scull, while the man who accompanied us did the fishing. This man was supplied with a water glass and a sponge hook. "This water glass is nothing more than a wooden bucket with a glass bottom. The sponge hook is attached to a thirty-foot wooden pole and is placed across the gunwales of the skiff, where it is within reach of the fisher's hand, when by looking through his glass he finds a sponge on the bottom of the bay. "It Is one of the oddest sights to see these sponge fishers sculled about with their heads in these wooden buckets, which are thrust almost rim deep in the water. <The fisherman's hand goes back, reaching for the sponge hook, the sculler stops the boat until the hook is adjusted about the roots of the sponge and It Is pulled up and into the skiff. "Looking through the water glass at the sponge growing on the bottom of the bays and rivers some of them are like fairy trees In a fairy forest. It almost seems a pity to tear them up. Once they are but of the water much of their beauty disappears, though they are not a bit more unsightly than seaweed. The odor that so many people object to is produced by the decomposition of the gelatinous matter. "So far as the cost of such a trip Is concerned it can be made to pay for Itself. We paid our way, though my husband had not planned that we should. We were taken on the sponger by the owner for a stipulated price, not very much to our northern ears, but when one considers the cheapness of all food supplies and the simplicity of our accommodations It was doubtless quite ample to the boat owner and his thrifty wife. "There was the understanding that we were to have all the sponges we took. As I have been accustomed to handling a canoe and rowboat all my life It was not long before I could manage to scull my husband around In our skiff. On two occasions we brought in more sponges than any of the other skiffs, and you may be sure we were praised. "The skiffs always returned to the large boat for dinner and to sleep. The three meals a day are bountiful, and In our boat one would not have found better cooking In any first class restaurant, that Is of the articles we had. Fish we had in an almost unlimited variety. Fruit was as abundant as fish, and vegetables were usually served for dinner. "One old sponge fisher was one of the attractions of our experience. He could remember the keys as they were In the days before the government built lighthouses and when the wreckers reigned supreme. He had any number of yarns about the exploits of these outlaws. One was the way they would tie a lantern to the horns of a cow and chase her back and forth over some dangerous key during a storm. When we showed too much horror he would usually end his story with the assertion that such things only happened occasionally and when there hadn't been a wreck for a good long while." Elsctric Ants. When you happen to sit down to rest or take notes near a colony of electric ants some wandering hunter is sure to find you and come cautiously forward to discover the nature of the Intruder and what ought to be done. If you are not too near the town and keep perfectly still he may run across vnnr foot a <V?iv timp.q ftVPr VOUT leSTS and hands and face, up your trousers, as if taking your measure and getting comprehensive views, then go in peace without raising an alarm. If, however, a tempting spot is offered or some suspicious movement excites him a bite follows, and such a bite! I fancy that a bear or wolf bite is not to be compared with it. A quick electric flame of pain Hashes along the outraged nerves, and you discover for the first time how great is the capacity for sensation you are possessed of. A shriek, a grab for the animal, and a bewildered stare follow this bite of bites as one comes back to consciousness from sudden eclipse. Fortunately if careful one need not be bitten oftener than once or twice In a lifetime.?Atlantic Monthly. W The Russian authorities, it is stated, have ordered that only Russians may fill the higher officers on the railways of the west border, on which troops would be mobilized in case of ?? - ~ no o trorv loro-P nort nf this district is Russian Poland, where Poles naturally hold many positions on the railways, this may result In many changes.