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% ??????^????^1^^?I ?^?1 ?^?? ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLY. l k. grist's sons, PnbUiher.. | H 4amit8 Deicsgagcr^ <^or lb? promotion 0)1 thij political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Jnteresta o) fh? geopty. J CK'1)?|j;"ctESTABLISHED 1856. TORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 191-3. NO. 96. t | THE SHERIFF | By HELEN (Continued from last issue.) "So you are quite the hero!" he remarked, ironically. "The jail has been ringing with your exploits all day. Thov tnik of 'the sheriff of Bradley' as though there had never been a sherift before. The sheriff, if you please!" Lorimer looked at him quietly. "You got right sharply rattled last nignt, oner, uiun't you r" he asaed. oner husned. "1 guess I did." he said, coolly. "Why aid you spring that push on me?" "Why, you fool, I had nothing to do with it! Cartwrignt is a suspicious old granny, anyway, and you piayed tne aevll. You kepi me so busy dodging pistol balls that it made me sick. You'd have winged me, too, if I hadn't got that crack on the skull." Oner frowned. "How is she?" he asked, and jerked his head in the di rection of the town. "bhe had a hemorrhage last night," lied Lorimer, "and they are keeping her as quiet as possible. Of course some fool had to tell her about the trouble at the court house last night, and that naturally made her a little nervous about me. So they made an exception in my case and allowed me to see her. I left her in good spirits, however." He hesitated a little, but Grler did not speak. "See here, Grier," he said, at last, "your gun play last night has mixed things up a litttle." The younger man had averted his face, but he turned again and stared at Lorimer indifferently. "I don't see it," he said, curtly. "It don't make any odds, anyway. Have you brought that money with you? It will be growing dark in an hour. In T nmrlit tn ho nn mv WAV tO Mfix ico." There was a little stir outside. "1 beg your pardon, Mr. Loflmer, but here is a note that Mr. Cartwright asked me to give you right away. He said that it was important." Lorimer took the note and sent the messenger back to the court house. A lantern swung just outside the cell door. He turned the wick a little higher and the stench of coarse oil filled the cell. "Get back to the court house as soon as you can," wrote Cartwright. "A mob is being organized to lynch Grier. You will have to swear in a lot of deputies. It is all a farce any way, 01 course, ior x am ioiu m?i uki c are 500 men waiting on the outskirts of town for the signal to move on the jail. You will have to make a play at defending him, though." Lorimer's face blanched. A queer so-t of helplessness took possession of him. If Grier had any suspicion? He went back into the cell. "I don't know who will guard the Jail tonight," he said hurriedly. "I will have to find out, and Cartwrlght has sent for me." "What for?" asked Grier, suspiciously. "His note didn't say?it Just said business," lied Lorimer, glibly. "I'd better not give you the money now, Grier. They might find out that you had it. I will come back before midnight, or just as soon as it is safe." "You had better," warned Grier. "You have drawn me into this scrape. I ought to have had more sense; but| I suppose you know why I did it. i would make any sacrifice for her!" Lorimer nodded, awkwardly. "But I look to you to see me safely out of it, do you hear?" Gner's voice rose, dangerously. "If you don't? well, there will be an early vacancy in the sheriff's office. I am a desperate man, Lorimer. Remember that, and don't try any monkey tricks." Lorimer'8 head was bowed as he walked away from the jail. He was In a hard place and he realized it There had, as yet, been no lynching during his term of office, but there had been more than one during the incumbency of his predecessor. He had a keen realization of his own delinquencies, and knew that with his past rec'ord the *- ? J ~M UtM Ua moo wouia leei nine awe ui mm. nc might as well try to stem the current of the Terre Rouge at the flood as try to conciliate the mob after It was thoroughly organized. He was not blind to the fact that cutting the knot of his difficulties by letting the mob have its will might be a very good thing for himself. Since he had thought the matter over coolly, he had little hope that Grier's discretion would last any considerable time, even if he did not go to Mexico. A man who drinks to excess is seldom a safe confidant, and Mexico, after all, was not so far away. He had chosen the road back to the court house unfortunately. He realized this when, looking up, he saw that he was passing the Watson residence, and that Agnes herself was beckoning from the window. "I thought that I was never to come back again," he said, half sullenly, as he followed her into the sitting room. She was too agitated to notice his Ill humor. His words passed unchallenged. "I have Just heard a miserable story about an attempt to rob the safe at the court house last night," she said hurriedly. "Of course I knew that It was not true." "It Is true." The brutality of the man came to the surface. "It makes very little difference, so far as I can see, whether you believe It, or not." "I never will believe It until I hear It from Jack Grier's own lips," she said defiantly. "As for that, why don't they accuse you? You had quite as little reason for being at the court house at that hour?" "I am the sheriff of Bradley county," he expostulated. "Agnes, you talk as If you were taking leave of your senses!" "There Is some rascality below the surface," she declared. "Jack Grler has been a tool In your hands all his life. I know It, If others do not." s OF BRADLEY j TOMPKINS. | | "If lirier has been wronged, let him [ say so," said Lorimer. "He is not I dumb." "He shall say so," she asserted quickly. "I will see that he does. He owes so much to ms inenas." The reference was unfortunate. "Jack Grler has no friends," he said coldly, although his temper was fast mastering him. "I do not think that there is a person in Roston, save the tooush girl whose passion tor him has been the subject of common talk for years, who would defend him by a word now. A mob?" "I have heard of that, too," she declared feverishly. "What are you going to do about It? Is the jail guarded now?" "He is now In the jail which I propose to defend," he said pompously, but the words wrung a cry from her lips. "You defend the jail!" she cried with contempt in her voice. "You! Cartwright understands that you will make an attempt to get out of town with Grler?he told me so himself. Anything else Is sheer madness. There will be a litttle display of force that will deceive nobody, and then the keys will be surrendered!" He turned away. "Cartwright has sent for me," he said sullenly. "What are you going to do?" she persisted, following him to the door. Her voice was strained, and her face drawn and old. Her words, her evident anxiety, swung the balance against the man whom she sought to help. "I will defend the jail?until the last!" he said stiffly. "In plain words, then, you mean to give him up?you coward!" He pushed her aside roughly, and went down the steps with her words still ringing in his ears. She followed him. "If you do not save him, I win: sne said quietly and her threat followed him to the court house, where he found Cartwrlght waiting for him. "I thought you had better show yourself." explained Cartwrlght. "Not that it Is going to do any good; I have never known a case where public sentiment was so aroused." "I could slip him out of jail and across the mountains," said Lorlmer irresolutely. "I am sure that no one is watching the Jail now." "Do you know why?" Cartwrlght said slowly. Some men were approaching, and he leaned forward a little. "Eecause they know that you are not blamed fool enough to try any such thing. They have made up their minds to have him?" "But why?" asked Lorlmer, feebly. "He is not the first man who has attempted to steal money?" "Oh, they don't care a straw about him," said Cartwrlght coolly. "He is not going to figure In this thing, one way or the other. There is politic* back of it, Lorimer, and you don't know any more about politics than a baby. It is a mighty good thing for you that you have friends who will look after your interests. Chichester Is heading the mob?not openly, of course; and he is the man they are going to put up against you in the convention. They'll fix you, sure, if you try to sneak Grier away, and that is exactly what he hopes you will do. Of course they expect you to put up a fight all right. They know that will follow as a matter of course. And they are sending Doty and Sanders here now to find out what you are going to do about it. You might deputize them to guard the Jail. They are supporters of yours, and stand in with the mob too. We were just discussing the situation, gentlemen," he said to the other men who just then came up. Lorimer cleared his throat. His face was white. "Sanders, I'll deputize you and Doty to help guard that jail tonight," he said. "Cartwrlght thinks that we may have trouble." A glance of satisfaction passed between the two men. "All right," said Sanders. "Get your gun, Doty," and Doty nodded. "Mr. Lorimer is determined that this county shall not be disgraced by any more lynchlngs," said Cartwrlght loftily. "So you may have hot work, Sanders." Sanders nodded. "We understand, all right," he said, winking at Doty, wVia innaH rnannnalvA'v a n H thft tWO men walked away together. "I think that you are unnecessarily alarmed," began Lorlmer, when the two were again left alone. "I can see nothing to Indicate that a mob?" "See here, Lorlmer, are you a fool or are you not? I'll tell you now, It Is going to take pretty close sailing to get you out of this without a wreck. Sanders and Doty will want to know what to expect. If a sufficient show of force Is made, are you going to give Grler up, or are you not?' "I ought not?" "Yes or no!' "Yes." "Well, then what are you palavering for? Go home now and get your supper. Of course, we shall send for you. By the way, It will look better if you come back without being sent for. Anxiety for the prisoner, and all that. you Know. He smiled In approval of his own wit, and walked away In the direction of the jail. Lorimer did not go home to supper. He wrote a note instead, saying that he would probably be kept in town latet and in that event would not go home at all. Then he sat down in the sheriff's office and thought things over. Grier might be saved even yet?at the cost of his own political aspirations. Lorimer ground his teeth as he thought of Chichester and of how idiotically he had played Into his hands. In case Grier was surrendered to the mob. would he hold his tongue? Even if he did accuse Lorimer, would his words be taken seriously? Would it not be expected that he would seize felted life? He would not have time to talk much. Lorlmer shuddered. After a time he went down to the jail again. It was growing late, and few people were on the streets. Even in his absorption, Lorlmer noticed this, and knew that the fact was omnlous. Sanders and Doty greeted him approvingly. "He has been calling for you," said Doty languidly. "I guess he is getting suspicious." Lorlmer unlocked the door of the cell and went in. "What Is the matter, Grier?" he asked. "I am getting: tired of this," said' Grier sullenly. "A mighty little more and I would have given the whole thing away, and then where would the sheriff of Bradley be?" "Speak lower!" said Lorimer. "Here is your monrv, Grier." Grier struggled to his feet. "No?not yet." Lorimer's keener ears had caught the sound of muffled voices and his heart grew cold. "You will have to wait a little, Grier. I will see that you "get your chance?later." "Lorimer," exclaimed Grier, "on your honor, there is nothing wrong? I can leave here in an hour?" "In less than a hour," said Lorimer. "Yes?on my honor.' He closed the door behind him and went outside. The Jail was a flimsy affair, ill constructed to resist assault. Five or six men, Cartwright among them, stood outside wnispenng togeuier. The whispering ceased as Lorimer appeared. Once outside the jail, the sound, made by an advancing multitude was plainly audible. The night was a dark one, and a thin rain was falling. "What Is It, boys?" asked Lorimer. "The Jail is to be attacked," said Cartwright. "The streets outside are thronged with men. Most of them are sober, but a few of them have been drinking at the Spread Eagle since before supper. The sober ones are the worst. I hate to say it, Mr. Lorimer, but there is nothing we can do. I have seen the crowd and I know what I am talking about. They don't want to hurt anybody?" "Do you mean that you are standing , in with the mob, Cartwright?' asked Lorimer deliberately. "No, I don't. I do mean, though? and I don't care who hears me say it? that I am opposed to the useless sacrifice of life, and that is what this thing is going to amount to if we resist. "We will resist, however," said Loriof 111 rk1o\r|ncr to thp Cfl llprv Rl though fifty feet away the dark bulk of the mob could be dimly seen through the gloom and falling rain. "A word with you, Cartwright." They walked a little to one side together. "Grier thinks that he has some claim upon me," said the sheriff hurriedly. "We went to school together, you know And there is going to be a devil of a row, Cartwright, when he finds out ( that I am not able to do anything for him. If be apeals to the crowd?" "He won't appeal to the crowd," said Cartwright. "He won't get a chance. I don't mind telling you, Lorimer, that this thing will be rushed through in a hurry." Lorimer muttered something which ( the other could not hear. Then there came a hail from the darkness. "Is that you, Lorimer? We want the keys of the Jail. In a hurry, too. Do you hear?" "Come and get them, then," said Lorimer boldly, strong: in tne Knowi- , edge that no harm would be allowed to come to him In any event. "Hold your fire, boys," he said In a lower voice. , There was a murmur?a shout?and Lorimer's pistol exploded in the face of the mob, harmlessly. He was overthrown, and there was a rush Into the jail over his prostrate body. It seemed to him that only a moment of dazed confusion had passed when he found himself standing upright again and looking down the barrel of a pistol. A man stood at each elbow. Some one had dragged Grier from his cell with a rope around his neck. Sanders and Doty as well as Cartwright had mysteriously vanished; the place was lu minous with torches, and oy tneir naring light, Grler, bleeding, dusty and disheveled, faced Lorimer steadily. He hurled a curse at the sheriff once, but some one struck him across the open mouth with a pistol, and the rest of the sentence was drowned in a rush of blood. It was a cowardly blow and, somehow, Lorimer felt that Cartwright must have dealt it, although he had not seen him since the Jail was rushed by the mob. He tried feebly to protest?too feebly. "This is as good a place as any," said a rough voice. "Here?over that timber, boys with the rope. Now stand aside, please. You may as well save your breath. Mr. Sheriff.V Grler was dragged under the heavy rafter and the rope fastened more securely about his neck. "Say, boys, give him a chance for a last word, will you?" said a burly Irishman, and the rope was loosened. It had been drawn too tightly however The body collapsed like a bag of rotten grain when the rope was removed, and Grier slid forward on his face. Lorlmer made one step forward .then fell back. "He is d'ad!" he said, and there was a little catch in his voice. "Not much. Here, boys, bring some water," said one of the men. Some one brought a pall, and the contents were dashed over the unhappy man, who staggered to his feet, wiping the blood and water from his face with his sleeve as he arose. "Have you anything to say before we swing you up?" somebody asked. The tortured, baited creature faced them resolutely, with all the fear gone from his face. The blood was still flowing from his mouth, but, half suffocated, he looked beyond them all at Lorlmer's shrinking figure. "If you ever pray," he said, slowly, "pray that there be no other world beyond, this; for I swear that if there Is. my spirit will haunt you until the day you die." One or two of the men shrank back a little, but there were many others ready and anxious to take their places. The rope was speedily adjusted. Just as the body was drawn unresistingly upward, there was a little commotion in the crowd; some one pressed the men aside roughly, and a young girl hurried up the steps of the Jail. "My God! am I too late?" One of the men, with his hand upon the rope, swore softly. "Cut him down, you cowgrds! There THE POPU Wilson Received Over 6,( a Maj New York, November 26.?The po of 1912 shows that Wilson polled throi votes: Roosevelt 3.928.140; Taft 3. amounted tt> 673,783, with the Socialist In 1908 Bryan's popular vote was ( States. Wilson. I Alabama* 81,622 Arizona* 10.244 Arkansas** 76,100 California** 283.374 Colorado** 112,364 Connecticut** 73,730 Delaware* 22,189 Florida* *a 35,864 Georgia* 93,171 Idaho* 33,983 Illinois** 407.470 Indiana* 281,890 Iowa**b 172.231 Kansas* 143,670 Kentucky* 219,584 Loulslana*c 59,241 Maine** 50,987 Maryland* 112,674 Massachusetts* * 170,995 Mlchigan**d 63,556 Minnesota**e 106.426 Mississippi* 57,277 Missouri* 330,947 Montana* 28,023 Nebraska* 109.109 Nevada* 7,986 New Hampshire* 34,724 New Jersey* ..... . 178,289 New Mexico** 17,982 New York** 650.721 North Carolina** 134.663 North Dakota*" zs,??o Ohio"" 405,120 Oklahoma""? 119.057 Oregon"" 42.363 Pennsylvania" .. .. 395.619 Rhode Island"" 30,299 South Carolina" 48,355 South Dakota's 48.977 Tennessee"* 132,096 Texas" "h 221,435 Utah"" 35 566 Vermont" 15,354 Virginia"" 90,338 Washington"" 89,674 West Virginia" 112,564 Wlseonsin"*a 164.409 Wyoming"" 18.600 Totals 6,156.748 3,} ?Official. ?Unofficial, a?Ot missing, c?Two parishes missing, d-; Incomplete, f?Roosevelt electors not o lots, h?3 counties missing. cognize. Johnson?Pollett?Andrews? Smith?Bryan?Thompson?I swear that you shall be prosecuted to the ! fullest extent of the law for this night's work!" A man had followed her closely ! through the press. They were his hands that cut the rope and laid the body of Jack Grier gently down at her feet. "ov,? '? " ho uiM ooollv. "I be OHO 10 IIQIIVI MV -w.- - ? lleve that the man is dead; and If he is, this will be a hanging business for some of you fellows." "Get out of the way, if he ain't, and we will finish the Job," said a voice from the crowd. The man standing ever the motion-; less body of Jack Grier turned a little, and a pistol flashed In his hand. "I don't ask any odds of any man or set of men in Bradley county," he called out, "and you fellows know it You know me end that I am acting within my lawful rights as deputy sheriff in ordering you to disperse. And I want you infernal fools to know that I am not afraid of the whole pack of you! I will give you Just two minutes to clear out, and the man who stays after that will eat his breakfast in hell!" A mob is a creature of impulse. "IJurrah fer Hardy!" some ope shouted. "Hurrah for the next sheriff of Bradley county!" said another, and the mob wavered a little. "The man is dead anyway," some one near Lorlnjer whispered, It was Cartwright "You had better get out of the way, boys, as soon as you can. You know what a fool Hardy is." One or two men on the outskirts of the crowd drifted away In the darkness. The example was contagious, and others followed. Lorimer would have held his ground, but Agnes WatBon looked at him?once. Hardy had forgotten Lorlmer?had forgotten the mob. He stooped and touched the young girl on the shoulder. "Let me take you home, Miss Agnes," he said softly. "He is dead. No body with life in it falls as his did when I cut the rope," "Oh, no!" she sobbed. "Not too late! Oh, Jack?Jack!" "It Is too late, Miss Agnes!" Hardy was as tender-hearted as he was brave and he was crying a little and swearIng a good deal out of sympathy with the young girl In her grief. He stooped again and tried to lift her away from the silent figure on the floor. She drew away from him and laid her fresh, young lips on the stained ! ones, under the flickering light of the dying torches. "Oh, Jack?Jack!" she breathed. "I love you?I have always loved you!" And then she shrank away with a little cry. The eyes so near her own were staring blankly Into her white face. The swollen lips were whispering. "Aggie, dear, I am not fit, darling, Oh, Aggie, for Qod's sake, do go away, dear, while I can let you go!" She shook her head, "I am not going!" she declared. Never again!" "Poor, pitiful little soul," he whis-1 pered. "I am weak, dear, and there is this cursed appetite?and you would hate me afterwards?" He olosed his eyes resolutely and tried to lift his head from her clinging arms: "Hardy! he called again, desperately, but Hardy did not turn. And Agnes stooped again and laid her cheek against his lips. * "You have given me my chance," she whispered, "and I refuse to take it. I will not leave you, Jack." He got to his feet, somehow, and held her in his arms. "Come away Jack!" she pleaded. "They will be back presently." But he only held her the closer, while the rain still fell drearily and the smoking torches faded, one by one, into darkness. It was Hardy, at last, who recalled them to the present and its difficulties. "You had better come away, Grier," u ~ oHViAiitrVt Vila nvPI IIC JSU.IU, OICi III J I un,?ivv.3.. were wet. "You are still under arrest, you know, and an unexplained criminal charge Is hanging over you?one, too, that will puzzle your lawyer to explain away." Grler frowned. "I don't know how or why yon appeared go opportunely tonight, Hardy,'' he said, "when you were supposed {o be 200 miles away and traveling In the opposite direction. But you were klpd to ipe In the old days, and fpr tfte sake LAR VOTE )00,000, but Failed to Get ority. pular vote for president In the election lghout the country a total, of 6,156,748 376,433. The Socialist vote for Debs count still unfinished in seven states. J,393.182 andt hat of Taft 7,637,676. ? 1* wuuaeveii. xtui, ucuo. v_iia.nn. 22,620 9,671 3,019 6,468 2,989 2,964 254 22,000 24,900 10,200 1,010 283,250 3,340 73,000 19,500 69,737 60,007 16.942 4,775 33,439 67,949 9,878 20,010 8,061 16,222 360 434 4,207 4,212 4,825 1,826 22.010 6,161 1.014 147 26,651 ' 32,873 391,365 256,625 85,000 30,000 162.007 151,267 36,931 19,248 150,777 113.902 120,123 74,844 26,867 102,766 115,515 11,647 3.233 203 3,744 5,065 48,479 26,538 2.674 864 57,789 54 596 3,996 2.244 140.152 162.265 12,660 2,760 85 513 62,294 125.856 64,334 27,505 7.786 3,645 1,695 2,061 123,111 207,409 28,148 5,222 22,443 18.404 10,828 72,726 54,348 10,219 3,419 5,605 3.190 4,500 17,749 32,927 1.980 535 145,410 88,835 15,901 2,878 7,988 15 612 2,024 300 382,463 450,466 65,874 29,017 3,100 24,668 22,892 6,740 1,090 209,793 273,287 90,784 41,674 2.860 33,169 31,842 444,426 273,305 80,915 19,533 16,488 27.755 1.960 595 1,293 536 164 57,360 4,192 2,788 54,260 60,266 3,397 775 26,740 28,668 25,742 1,738 23,035 40,694 22.073 23,334 928 1,155 21,737 23,277 787 699 111,797 71,252 29,555 7.467 76,608 56,282 20,000 4,500 58,661 130,878 34,120 8.410 7.536 17,412 1,400 500 >28,140 3,376,422 673,783 160,443 le county missing, b?Four counties r66 out of 83 counties, e?26 counties n ballots, g?Taft electors not on balof the past and?Agnes?I should like you to believe me when I say that although I am nominally guilty, I never had the slightest intention of diverting a cent that did not belong to me to my own use. It Is a long story, Hardy, and part of It Is not very creditable to me or?others." "Hardy's eyes met his gaze squarely. "I believe you, Drier," he said. "But it has a nasty look, my lad, and before a Jury?" "It will never come before a Jury," said Drier, quietly, but there was a look in his eyes that meant much, "Lorimer can exonerate me, Hardy, and he will." He was able to walk home with Agnes. After that he and Hardy spent the night together. Through the long hours they talked little, and that to the point, but neither slept The result of (foelr deliberations wag" that Hardy carried Lorlmer a note from Grier next day that sent him incontinently to bed with a nervous headache. "Grier, too, kept his own rooip that day, and no one iqolested him. Cartwright wondered much; things began to have a queer look, and he tr}ed several times to see Lorlmer, but the sheriff kept to his bed and his room and would see no one. "There was a wedding that evening in the Watson home. Hardy, who was one of the invited guests, aent for Lorlmer, but the sheriff still obstinately refused to leave his room, until Grier ' sent another note. Then he yielded to the inevitable. Grier received hjrn alone. What passed between thern none but Agnes ever knew. At the cloBe of the interview, however, the two entered the sit? ting room and faced the others. "J only wanted to say," said LorL mer, in a low voice, "that there ha? been a mistake end ope which I pin* nerely regret. Mr. Grler wag Jn the courthouse night before lagt by my express invitation. By previoug appointment it was understood that he was to meet me there. Mr. Grler was very reluctant to meet me at that time and hour, and it was only after the strongest pressure was brought to begr that he yielded to my wishes. At the time of his arrest I tried to explain, but was given no time; tried to resist the mob?" His voice trailed into silence. Cartwrjght looked at him in utter utter surprise, as did the others; but he went away without another word. One by one his friends averted their faces as he passed. MIND-READING IS EASY Man Who Paia For Secret rei|s now It if Done. "Gentlemen," said a young: man In evening clothes to a group 0f men In the exclusive Apollo c'.ub at Ypnkeps, N. Y., "we have had conalderable talk tonight for and against mind reading, but I note that the majority do not believe the mind oan be read, I think, however I can prove to the satisfaction of all that It can be done. There is no doubt whatever about It, Mind reading is a science," "How do you propose to demonstrate it?" inquired a skeptical listener. "I'll bet 550 you can't do it." "Well. I would use a deck of ordinary playing cards. You would select a card, look at its face, place it in a book, hand it to the secretary and have him hold it. He will decide whether the card you chose has been read In your mind. I shall not touch the card at any time during the experiment. Moreover, the test will be made by telephone." "By telephone!" the clubman exclaimed. "Yes," by telephone. "Announce the face of the card to the persons here, and a mlnd-readlng friend of mine whom you will get on the wire, will tell you the name of the card you have selected. You will not see hitr^, nor will he see you, but he will tell you the card Just the same." The clubman put $50 In the secretary's hands and It was covered by the young operator. On request the secretary produced a new deck of cards from his desk, shuffled them, hqd them cut, and {he cl^brr^n n^akjng thq wager drew a cap^. folding It above his head, where all might see, he cried, "Gentlemen, I have drawn the Jack of Diamonds." Then, placing it In a bpofc, hp gave it t? the secretary, who sat on It. "Now," said the operator, "go to the telephone and call up Palisade 7,977. Ask for Mr. Fred Jones. When you tell him what you want he will tell you the name of the card." The clubman called the number. The connection was made without delay. "I want Mr. Fred Jones." "I am Mr. Fred Jones" a voice replied. "What do you want?" "I have drawn a card from a deck at An/xlU ~1.?K -?--J ? !*- n}/uiiu viuu aim nave wtigci eu Ulal you can't tell what It la without seeing It. What card did I draw?" "I can see that card plainly pictured In your mind," replied the voice. "It ?\Pa the Jack of Diamonds." "Right," said the clubman, and hung up the receiver. So the stakes were handed over to the operator. He was urged to repeat the performance on another bet of $60, bue he declined. "I would surely win," he remarked, "and I don't like the Idea of betting on a sure thing, especially with friends. It can be done every time without fall. The mind of the man who goes to the telephone Is just like an open book to my friend Jones. But I have another reason for not asking him to duplicate the feat. It Is very exhausting, and consequently too great a strain on his nerve. He has done the work so often lately that he Is on the verge of ner vous prostration. I hope you will excuse me." And, bowing himself out of the room with the clubmen who had Introduced him, he disappeared. Two weeks later Dlok Clayton, the man who had lost the wager, met the same group of men in the Apollo billiard room. "Fellowa" he said, "I can do that mind-reading trick myself, now. it was a trick, not a mind-reading stunt at all. i "The trick is done with the aid of a confederate and a code. I have a copj of the code in my pocket That stran followed the fellow around town for a number of days and nights. He visited various clubs and saloons and got acquainted. So he Introduced the mindreading topic, got only one bet in each , place, won it and made himself scarce, j Just as he did in this club. "At the Belvidere I'made myself < known to him. ; " 'That's a pretty s'ick game you are working," I said. "8uppose you let me In on it? " 'All rights he replied. 'I'm going to skip the town tonight. I'll tell you how the trick is worked. You seem to < be a good fellow, and you certainly ( were a good loser of that fifty up at the Apollo. You fell easy and bit hard i all the time. That's the kind of fish I ; like to land. They don't squeal and | make trouble. But the game doesn't , last long In any one place, for various { reasons that will be perfectly plain , when you are acquainted with the de- ( tails of the fake. " 'All that is necessary is ts have a. i deck of cards, a code and a planted ^artner. You station him In a saloon or any other convenient place that has ( a telephone. |n your code every one of the fifty-two cards is given a different name. All the partner has to do Is to ] sit still and answer questions when , they are asked over the wire. Here Is , the code we use. Copy It, If you wish.' ] "I did copy it, fellows, and here It Is, It being the very one that those smooth ( scoundrels memorized and used w|th such good effect |n their business of taking ahout $1,500 out of Yonkers Inside of two weeks or less. When the victim goes to the telephone and asks , for the mythical person whose name the operator gives, the planted partner , Instantly knows the card that has been drawn, for the name ne cans is vhb name of the extracted card, "Here is the code for the diamond suit: Ace of diamonds, Mary Andef- , son: king of diamonds, Henry Lee: queen of diamonds, Jack of diamonds; ten of diamonds, Samuel Hunt: nine of diamonds, Arthur Wade: eight of , diamonds, Charles Douglass; seven of diamonds, Benjamin Burton; six of diamonds, John King; Ave of diamonds Thomas Terry; four of diamonds, Louis Ooss; three of diamonds, Samuel ColLJns; two of diamonds, Sarah Thomas. "I have the code for the remaining , three suits; It Is mereTy a matter of names, But the trick could hardly be worked a second time In the same company.?New York World. ( Fooling the Hens.?Owners of hens are frequently greatly annoyed by the persistent desire of their fowls to set, | In season and out, on eggs, stones or i other objects to hand, but a western man has evolved a plan to circumvent i the hen In this respect, says the New I York Press. i The oure consists of a cheap watch, ( w|th a loud and clear tick, Inclosed In , a case that is white and shaped like an ] egg. When one of the hens belonging i manifests a desire to iu U1(B nrcaici in.! set out of season he gently places the \ bogus egg under her sheltering breast. ( The "egg" ticks cheerfully away, and ) soon the hen begins to evince signs of | uneasiness and stirs the noisy egg around with her bill, thinking no doubt j that It is already time for it to hatch. , She becomes more and more uneasy as the noise continues, and soon jumps off , the nest and runs about a while to coo! ] off, Soon, however, she returns to her , self-imposed task. Matters get worse , and worse; she wiggles about and | cackles, ruffles her feathers and gen- , erally show* distress. Finally, with a wild squawk, she abandons the nest , for good and all, and the Incubating , fever is broken completely. , The westerner has found use for , half a dozen of these noisy eggs, and , he claims that they pay for themselves , again and again during the year by ] holding hens to their business of l^y- ( ing and preventing them froifl w^atinj^ , the golden hours Jn useless incubating. , ? iTI a tegeher in ene of the primary grades of the public schools had noticed a striking platonlc friendship that existed between Tommy and lit- , tie Mary, two of her pupils. Tommy was a bright enough young- , ster, but he wasn't disposed to prosecute his studies \yith much energy, and his teacher, said that unless he starred himself before the end the year he wouldn't be prompted. "You mus| study she told him, "or you wop't pass. How wopld ! you like tp stay back in this class pn-s i other year and have little Mary go ahead of yotl?" . "Oh " said Tommy, "I guess there'll be other little Marys."?London Standard. ijftistcllatuous grading. BATTLE AT KIRK-KILES8EH Dreadful 8tory as Told by an Eye Witness. The most graphic description yet published of the scenes which are attending the Bulgarian advance upon Constantinople is given by Mr. Francis McCullagh in a letter to- the New York Evening Post written from Chorlu under date of October 27. Mr. Mcr*lltlao-H'a ?-? v/uiiugit o w iitio luiiuwa; When Mr. Gladstone spoke of driving the Turk "bag and baggage" out of Europe, he had probably no very clear conception of the horrors covered by that simple alliterative phrase. These horrors were borne in on me very fully at Seldler on October 24. when, in the early morning, the first fugitives began to arrive from KlrkKillisseh. Those unfortunates were without baggage of any kind, and consisted of some women, a boy. and several men, all splashed with mud, utterly exhausted, and as wet as If they had fallen into a river. Coming north from Constantinople during the preceding night, I had been kept awake by the thought that my horses were standing in open trucks under that cold. Incessant rain, but here were human beings, who, dressed in the thinnest of garments, had been flying all night under the same plllless downpour, The first refugees arrived on foot and without baggage. I do not know how they managed to outstrip the refugees who came later on horseback. Perhaps thftv utirtoii abpUpp Tn??n(? n/vnr, tha fugitive!, with bag and baggage, began to arrive. That was three days ago, and I am now much further south, at Chorlu. but that stream of OsmanlII has never ceased for a moment Some of the fugitives were mounted on < horses, mules, or donkeys, and all their worldly belongings were tied on their 1 backs. Many came in creaking bullock-wagons, laden with children, women, fowls, bedding, furniture and i clothing, all thoroughly wetted by the 1 rain. Behind the bullock-carts stag- I gered Moslem women, their faces un- ' covered and their wet mud-splashed 1 garments clinging closely to their ) figures. 1 ' Hills Black With Fugitives. < Old men with patrlarchlal beards i tugged at the unwilling mules and bullocks. Little children were carried by other children not much larger. Sons i carried infirm fathers on their backs. ? Fathers helped the mothers to carry i small children. They were innumer- i able. The hills were black with them, i Swarms of them splashed and flounder- ' ed In the muddy flelds close to the 1 station. Through my binoculars I i could see them pouting down the hills < afar off. They reminded me of clouds 1 which from mountain summits I had I seen moving slowly beneath me. It was the emigration of a people. To i And anything approaohlng It one must < go back to those ancient and mediaeval i wars wherein the vlotor swept out the 1 whole of the conquered population, i men, women and children, landowners i and laborers saints and sinners, and j swept away along with them their i language, religion, habits and customs. < It would be difficult to Imagine a i cleaner sweep than that which has 1 beep made In the Kirk<K!llleeb region, 1 Not a Moslem has been left, If the rest of Turkey In Europe Is subjected to similar treatment, a red fes will he ] as rare, twenty years henoe, in Stamboul as It Is today In Budapest, another ancient capital of Islam. North of , Haha Esk| and east of Bunal Hissar, the departing Turks have taken with them in tneir great exoaua, uui uui; their furniture, but also their domestic animals, their cows, sheep, goats, poultry, dogs and cats. I had left Stamboul on October 23 in the same train as the other correspondents. We were told that we would be brought to Klrk-Kllllaeh. but at Seldler we were informed that we must return to Chorlu. The explanation was that the country to the north was bare of provisions and we would consequently starve there. But the incoming flood of humanity told Its own story and the fugitives confirmed it ( beyond all doubt , The Wounded Abandoned, The Bulgars had made a terrific on- , Blaught on the Turkish light flank at , Deri Kol, near the frontier. The at- , tn?lr Vio/1 huonin on the mOHllng Of OC- < tober 23. North of Deri Kol the Turka had been constructing: trenches for three days previous, and besides Infantry, they h?d artillery and horsemen. But after a stiff light they were forced to evacuate their intrenchmenta and fall back of Klrk-KiUlsaeh. They entered that town an hour before sunlet In great confusion, many of them having lost their arms and equipment Considerable numbers of them seem to have fallen Into the hands of the enemy and all their wounded seem to have been left behind, for they did not bring a single wounded man with them. tVhole companies melted away completely, for the time being, in the direction of Baba Eskl and Lule Burgas. Through my Interpreter I questioned stray soldiers who were wandering barefooted and disarmed in the fields iround Seldler; but most of these masteries* men were afterwards drafted into other commands further south, at ^ Chorlu and Chirkesskul. ( "? *v- nt fmritivA and un vvncjl II1C uunu irmed soldiers poured Into Klrk-Killis- ' seh a panic seized upon the gai-rlgori ( ind when the commander got news , that the Bulgarians were advancing on j the town in overwhelming force, and svould be there In less than an hour, . he issued orders for the retreat. The , confusion in the streets then became j ten times worse. Civilians and soldiers rushed Into the trains. The last train j consisted of seventy carriages, but the Bulgars blew up a small bridge callod Bogloutja Dere, a mile south of Kirk-. ( Klllsseh, just as this train was passing , over it. The result was that the train | waq cut in two the first half coming . south, with its load of frightened soi- , cilers and civilians, the other half failing Into the river or into the hands of | the Bulgarians. The retreat of the troops was s ver- ( itahie rout, many of the men throwing away boots, fezes and rifles as they ran. All lights had been extinguished by order of the military authorities, but powerful searchlights thrown on tne town by the Bulgars, flooded the I streets with light and greatly accentuated the panic. Pew casualties occurred. owing to the fact that there was next to no resistance. The Bulgarians afterward advanced until they had almost reached Baba Eski. Their swift progress and their tremendous strength created among the peasantry in the whole vast district between Adrianople and Bunar Hissar that terrible and universal panic of which I saw the effects the same day tit Seidier star tlon. Layers of Humanity in Trucks. The fugitives came not only on foot. vii uuiBcuovK, ana in cans; tney came by train. Three enormously long trains steamed from the north Into Seldler station on October 24, and not only were the lnsldes of the carriages crowded with fugitives; frightened soldiers and townspeople stood on the steps of the carriages and were even massed thick on the little platform which runs round In front of the engine. The goods-wagon and horsetrucks were filled with people packed layer upon layer. Unfortunately, the first train ran off the rails Just after It had passed us, damaging the line, and therefore rendering impossible the immediate return, which those In charge of us had announced early In the day. Thus we remained all day and part of the night a witness to scenes which the censor would have given his right hand to have hidden from us. Among the fugitives were many armed soldiers and not a few officers, who had come by train, beside a fair number of Irregulars, who had come by train or on horseback. Riding on a horse was a Moslem boy. who could not have been over fourteen years old, but who wore sever&i oeiu lull or dum-aum bullets and carried a rifle across his saddle-box. When my Interpreter questioned him as to where he came from, he answered over his shoulder curtly, and in a low voice and passed on hdstily, whether in pride or In timidity I could not say. I afterwards saw him among the fugitives at the station. He was still sitting perfectly erect in his saddle and not a muscle in his face moved. Another boy, who could not have been over nine years old, had no rifle?he could not have carried one? but he was in possession of quite a load of cartridges, and when a man made him pert with some of them he wept bitterly. Very old, white-bearded men were also armed, though not always with modern rifles. Feared Looting of Train. The officer in charge of the press train evidently became afraid that this crowd of armed and famishing fugitives would loot our stores. And certainly there was great temptation to do so. Had we been In their position we could hardly have resisted It. For the correspondents were only about thirty in number, all had brought provisions with them, and some had afAMfl snfflrlnnt tn loaf thpm For three months. The air was filled with an odor of tinned sausage and ? meats being gently warmed over varldus varieties of cooking stoves, and the wet, hungry soldiers sniffed eagerly at the smell. As night approaohed the officers posted all round our train lentlnels, who prevented us from leaving our oarrlages, or made us enter them again it we happened to be wandering outside. These sentinels at the same time compelled all the fugitives to keep at a distance from the train. These precautions were not needless, for at a station only half an hour up the line an officer who tried to prevent his men from getting into a southward bound train was murdered by them. A train which reached Seidler towards evening from Alaplie was full of soldiers who had insisted on boarding it despite orders to remain where they were. Luckily a gang of workmen and an overseer who had been telegraphed for to Chorlu arrived after nightfall, and began with great energy and expedition the repair of the line. At 1 o'clock In the morning our train was able to leave for the south. Rotten to the Core. The greatest danger waa at the moment of departure, for the soldiers might then rush the train, as they had done at Alaplle. Consequently the officers and soldiers In charge of us stood on the steps of our carriage to prevent any one forcing his way in. A soldier In bashlik, gray overcoat and knapsack, squatted on the step Just below my window, but an officer reasoned gently with him for a long time, and finally he abandoned his perch and probably went Into some carriage containing soldiers. This Incident threw a flood of light for me on the condition af the Turkish army. That once dreaded military force la utterly demoralized. The military conspiracies and revolutions and counterrevolutions of Stamboul during the last five years might have made that Fact apparent, but we have been blind i!l of us?all of us save the Bulgarians. rhe officer has to coax his men; he foes not command them. The soldier Is as likely to blow out his superior's brains as to salute him. The great military system is rotten to the core. ind we never knew it. Only a touch y was required to send it toppling over. The sword of the Khalifa has broken in his hand. The army of the Khalifa las gone to pieces. Francis McCullagh. School Uses No Textbook.?One public school In Kansas City, which loes not use text books nor teach grammar and where nothing Is taught any pupil which will not have some practical use for the boy or girl later, Is the Lathrop. Every subject studied begins with something that has a bearing on Kansas City, says the New Fork Herald. The Lathrop Is Intended for pupils who have failed In other schools. Children who are not book-minded learn about townships In arithmetic by figuring out what parts of the city were owned by early settlers. A class in geography and history studies about the rrench and other settlers. The boys are building in miniature ?n exact representation of the first log cabin. They will furnish It with relics. In the civic class, pupils are learning how the city is governed and will work Into state and national afTairs. Every child has a bank account and deposits money every morning.. Stamps are given, and when fifty cents has been sav< d an account is opened in the chllJ's name In a downtown bank. Manual training for boys and girls occupies half of each school day.