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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. * laSOTP SEMI-WEEKLT. t. *. OHIST'S sons. Fabiiiheri.} & Uercsgapet;: 4or thi; ^omotion of thij political, gonial, ^.gri^ultnrat and Commercial Interests of th< |eo{t<. ( ESTABLISHED TsssT ~ YORKVILLE. S. C., FRIDAY. MARCH 28. 1913. ~ ISTO. 26. I I THEA I _ ? | By ETTA 1 * ??. o*yxyr<JiyrcKyixjiyr<x (CHAPTER XXXV?Continued. Miss Vann retired alone to her house * on the Hudson. With the arrival of the summer heat. Bee's baby began to droop, and Eric Saxe hurried mother and child off to the mountains. "It seems so wicked to forsake you!" sobbed Bee, first upon Mercy's shoulder and then in Ethel's arms. ^ "Wild horses could not drag1 me away ^ were it not for poor baby." But her maternal fears pointed mountainward, and reluctantly she went. Ethel and Mercy were left alone with Mrs. Sardis. Those were weary days, yet not altogether devoid of consolation. The two girls?sisters, yet strangers?soon came to know each other perfectly, to love each other devotedly. Mercy's pupils had all fled from the city. Together the lonely pair nursed Mrs. Sardis; together they labored from early morning till late night at great bundles of fine sewing and embroidery which Miss Vann, at their own request, sent them from time to time. Alas! they could not afford to remain idle, even for a few weeks. The days were hot and long and dreary, but neither uttered a word of complaint. Sometimes Ethel would lean her beautiful head on her new-found sister's shoulder, and call her "Little Comfort," or murmur, with tears: ? "My darling, what should I do without you? You are my sole stay and support now." But that was all. Lawrence Harding was still in town. Often he sent rare flowers and fruits to Mrs. Sardis. and now and then he called to inquire concerning her condition, but he never saw Ethel, and never asked to see her. One day an unexpected visitor appeared at the quiet house?Mrs. Jack she found Ethel Dlying her needle as If for dear life, and, without f making: any attempt to suppress her shocked feelings, she cried: "Is it as bad as this? I have come all the way from Saratoga to see you. Lawrence would give me no peace until I made you a call. He says you wish to become a governess. It really f seems very dreadful. Were it my case, I think I would kill myself at once. There! don't look distressed. Lawrence begged me to say nothing to pain you; he declares that I have no tact. Let me explain my errand as briefly as possible. My husband has a little niece who is coming to take up her abode with us in the autumn. She will need a governess, and the situation is yours, if you can bring yourself to accept it." A faint flush swept Ethel's frostwhite face. "Bring myself to accept it?" she answered; "gladly, thankfully. It is no matter of choice with me, but of necessity." "Then I may consider you engaged?" said Mrs. Severne. "Jack, I am sure, will be willing to give you a liberal salary." "Many thanks,' murmured Ethel. "Your mother, I suppose, does not comprehend either her own troubles or yours?" iiiuim uuu?nu. "She was a very worldly, ambitious woman?you will pardon me for saying It?really, one should not be too worldly. Pride goeth before destruction. and a haughty spirit before a fall, as somebody once said?was It ShakeL speare or Solomon? Now, Lawrence will make me repeat every word of this conversation, and he will scold me roundly for everything In It which does not suit him. I will tell you a secret, Ethel; we suspect, mamma and I, that he Is, at last, engaged to Alice Bradford. Dear me! How well I 'remember your engagement, and your wedding, also?the most brilliant that I ever attended. And to think it should have turned out so unfortunate! I hope you will not perish with the heat here. Only a salamander can exist In New York at this season." And she departed, leaving Ethel as white as the embroidery In her hands, and Mercy speechless with Indignation. In the closing days of the summer, when Bee's arrival was expected hour ly, and Mercy began to fold up her fine sewing to make ready for the re turn of her pupils, two events nappened. One miserable, rainy twilight. Lawrence Harding: appeared at the quiet house, looking: particularly grave. "I wish to speak with you alone, Miss Sardis," he said to Mercy: "I have news for you." He followed her into Bee's little parlor. "Where is your sister?" he asked. "With Mrs. Sardis," she replied, alarmed by something strange In his manner. "Oh, Mr. Harding, what has happened now?some new misfortune?" "No. you can scarcely call it that Be calm, my dear child. It is best for me to first tell you the facts, and lei you repeat them, as gently as possible to her. She is not strong. For God's sake be careful that you do not kil her by any sudden shock!" , ? "I will be careful. Don't keep me ir suspense, Mr. Harding?pray don't!" They had let the door opening upor the hall ajar. Ethel Sardis, softly descending the stair from her mother's chamber at that moment, heard their voices and stopped in surprise to listen. Lawrence drew some forelgr noa'inflncrs from his Docket, and lairi them upon the mantel. "You will find In these a full accounl of the matter," he said; "and I havf received a letter from a Paris correspondent, confirming all the statements here made. Miss Sardis, Couni Stahl Is dead!" Mercy uttered a cry. "Oh, Mr. Harding, do you mean it' How ??where ?"? "He was shot in an obscure gambling place in the Rue St. Jacques, when he was keeping an appointment witl that precious scoundrel, his formei valet, known to us hene in New Yorl as Baron strozzi. m;;n woruo ?uu o.v cusations had passed freely betwix the two?the so-called baron wante< money, and the count had none t< give him?this was the testimony o the frequenters of the place?and, a last, Strozzi drew a pistol and shot th< count dead. It seems that dark ru mors have been whispered about Pari: for weeks and months regarding th> latter person. He is said to have kill ed his first countess, after spending al her fortune, and also to have attempt ed the life of his second wife?doubt less your sister will some day tell yoi if this last accusation be true. Strozz escaped, and has not been found. A stilled cry outside the door inter rupted him?a heavy fall. The twi rushed into the hall, and found Ethe lying prostrate and senseless at th< foot of the stair. No need for Merc: to tell her of the count's death; sh< knew it already?knew that the las act in the tragedy of her ambitiou marriage had been played out?tha she was a widow! Lawrence lifted her silently in hi arms, and laid her upon a sofa ii Bee's parlor. "Heaven help her!" he mutterec "Should you need my assistance in an, ^ way, Miss Sardls, do not hesitate t call for it?you know where to fin me." And then he departed from th house, and did not enter it again fo many days. A week later Mrs. Sardis died, an was laid beside her husband in Green wood. ? ? * * AN COUNTESS \l | ? I I W. PIERCE. | $ tl I Mrs. Jack Severne returned to New a] York from her summer dissipations, gj bringing' with her the little niece who w was to be Ethel's pupil. A formal note, n( sent by a footman to Bee's door, in- Q. formed our heroine that Mrs. Severne 1(J was now ready for the services of a Di governess. With a white, saddened face, which told plainer than words n( the tribulation through which she had gj passed. Ethel answered It In person. "Dear me! how dreadfully ill you j-> look!" said Mrs. Severne: "do you gi really feel equal to the work?" t0 "Yes," Ethel answered, earnestly; fl, "and I am most anxious to be about UJ it. 0{ "Very well. Grace Is not a tractable w, child. She will give you plenty of d trouble, I dare say. I wish you to have entire charge of her?I can spare her no time whatever. Keep her In the _j school-room as much as possible. By d? the bye, I hear that your sister has a wonderful voice?the Van Dorns are DI very enthusiastic about her. You must ^ entice her to sing at some of my re- m ceptions." And so Ethel entered upon her labors In Mrs. Severne'B household. The ^ place was no sinecure. Har pupil was ll5 a spoiled, pampered little vixen, who tried her strength and patience almost v beyond endurance sometimes. She was treated, in all respects, like an upper h? servant. She took her meals with the Q VtAMBnl/oanor on/4 roralv nr tlOVAr DO W ^ uuuocncc^i, anu icuvi j v* uv ? v? ? any guest of the house or member of b, the family. For this she was devout- b ly thankful, since it would have been keen anguish for her to have met, in * her altered position, the friends of her h, glad, triumphant days. She never Y( went out, save to the park with her charge; or to make a flying visit to h Bee and Mercy. So the autumn passed, -and winter came. One bleak, snowy afternoon, the sis- ters sat together over a brgiht Are in Eric Saxe's studio, talking of many things. Mrs. Severne had given Ethel a half-holiday; Bee was out with her husband, and the two girls were alone. . save for baby Eric, who lay in rosy sleep upon Mercy's lap. "Ethel, dear," said the little music- ? teacher, anxiously, as she warmed her m, small, wet feet at the bla:;e (she had h Just come in from a lesson), "you do not gain either in flesh or ooolr. I fear H you are not happy with Mrs. Severne. fl Oh, I can guess how it is. She is a miserable little creature?she treats t you, I dare say, like a servant." "And why should she not, you ab- , surd child?" answered Ethel, as she j sat with hands clasped listlessly on the , lap of her black dress, and the flrelight playing on her perfectly colorless face. "I am a servant, you know. Under present circumstances, I cannot expect her to remember our old friendship." "Do you ever see anything of Mr. Harding?" queried Mercy, carelessly, as she twisted one of baby's yellow curls round her fingers. w "No," replied Ethel; "but Miss Bradford, the lady to whom he Is engaged, arrived from Boston yesterday to spend the winter with Mrs. Severne. We were school friends and rival ^ belles once. I met her this morning ^ on the stair, and she stan d and nodded, and said 'How d'ye do t In a manner which defined my position perfectly. Don't grow indignant, dear. It's P. the way of the world. I don't mind It much. Perhaps I might have done the A same thing myself two years ago?I have been heartless enough In my time, heaven knows." h "Ethel are you sure that Mr. Harding is engaged to Miss B-adford?" "Yes; for Mrs. Severne takes par- w tlcu'lar pains to tell me of the fact. It g. will be a very suitable match in all re- . spects. Alice has been In love with ^ Lawrence Harding for years. Now let us talk about your affairs, dear. Bee .. tells me that Archie Van Dorn has fal- i len helplessly in love with his sister's music-teacher, and made her an offer . of his heart, hand and fortune. Ah, ~~ Mabel, Is It true?" The blood ran into Mercy's cheek P? and out again. "Yes," she answered, in a low voice, "it is quite true, Ethel. There is no harm In confessing it to you, I suppose?" \[ "Oh, my dear child, I am very, very " glad! He is wealthy and well-con- " nected, and he is not a bad fellow in f any respect. I did not ask Bee?but, ? of course, you accepted him?" Mabel opened wiae ner vioiet eyes. . "Certainly not!" V; "Mabel!" " "Don't look so disappointed. It was ! very good of Mr. Van Dorn to notice lr me. I do not care for him in the least. I shall never marry any one." "And, pray, why not?" cried Ethel. ?: , "Because I shall never meet any one 8 i whom I can think of in that?that? . i way," answered Mercy, firmly. "Let us ~ not talk of it, darling:. I am going to P live with Bee, and teach music all my . . life, and be happy in my own way, *! ' you know." ? t "You?with your beauty! You rldlc. ulous child! It is simply impossible J to believe such a thing!" 8 I "Ah, you will see!" *! Ethel drew her purse from her pock- 1 ? et and took from it a roll of money? ? her quarterly salary, which Mrs. Sei verne had paid her that day. She gaz ed thoughtfully into the tire a few moi ments, then said to Mercy: "You remember, dear, the story which I told you about the English 11 i stranger who befriended me in the I darkest strait of my life?who went with me from Paris to Havre, and paid 1 my passage to New York?" fi s "Yes," answered Mercy. ii "The time has come for me to dls- j. charge the debt I owe him. I have t realized a little money, you know, from n the sale of mamma's jewels. It is not b pleasant to feel under such obligations n ? to a stranger." "Certainly not," said Mercy. Ethel began to search the different n i compartments of her purse. v i "I hope I have not lost the address 8 r which I asked of him at Havre. He i wrote it down upon a card?ah, here it - is. I knew I should some time be able 1 t to refund the money." 3 Then she drew out a bit of paste- . 3 board, and holding it to the firelight, f for the day was waning in the studio, h t read these words aloud: "Sir Valen- b e tine Arbuckle, Deepmoor Hall, Lin- _ - colnshire, England." 1. s A sudden dead silence. Ethel looked 1 e up and saw that Mercy bad risen from c - her chair, and was standing beside her s 1 with a blanched, agitated face. . "Is Sir Valentine Arbuckle the per son who befriended you, Ethel?" u "Yes, dear." n i "Is he a tall, unhandsome man, with r hazel eyes and red hah*?" "Exactly. Pray, how did you know P r? Hot?" t 1 She paid no heed to the question? s e perhaps she did not hear It. A far-olT y look was upon her white face, as If she e had gone back In spirit to some long- P t past time. Her violet eyes filled slow- c s ly with tears. j t "You are going to write to him?" she said, under her breath?"to send F s him money?" n "Yes." "Here is something of value which I. belongs to him, Ethel, and which ought r y to have been returned long ago. I am F o sure he has wished for it often. Would i d you kindly inclose it in your letter?" v As she spoke she put up her hand to ' e her white throat, and loosed a simple r silk cord which she had worn about it t for many a day. From this she took a d plain gold wedding-ring. "It belonged to his mother," she said simply, holding it out to Ethel. "He e gave it to me long ago, when he r bought I was to be his wife. Shall tell you the story?" "Pray do!" cried Ethel, breathlessly. On the following day Ethel Sardls Ispatched a letter to Sir Valentine .rbuckle, and In It she Inclosed a draft >r the amount to which she stood lnebted to him, and also the little band f gold that Mercy had given her. "At the request of a friend," she rote, "I restore to you this trifle, rhlch, doubtless, you will be glad to scover." And with no other explanation than Ms, the ring went on Its way across ie sea. CHAPTER XXXVI. Happiness at Last. It went on Its way across the sea, , tid reached Deepmoor Hall, Lincoln- 1 lire, late upon a hunting morning, j hen Sir Valentine was away at a \ eighboring "meet." Miss Affry Black jened the post-bag, turned the Amer- ( an missive In her hand, eyed it sus- \ ciously, and finally conveyed It to , te library, with the rest of the baro- i it's mall, and there left it lying on t Ir Valentine's baize-covered table. ] Five o'clock brought the lord of j eepmoor back to the Hall again, fag- ( ?d and somewhat out of humor. He < - *-?? A? ?.IAU SCI TV1? ?1. >Oti Ilia lea W1U1 miss ?>ia^-n, men mg himself down In a great chair ?on his library hearth, with the air ' a man glad to return to hia own ibitation after a dull and wearisome iy. "Well," said Miss Black, watching rn closely over her gold-rimmed asses, "you met Lord Loftus's mghters at lunch, I suppose?" Having failed in her matrimonial oject concerning the Scotch heiress, le was now bent upon another, even ore desirable. "Yes," answered the baronet, dryly. "Florence, the younger, is as pretty i a pink?a genuine high-bred Eng>h girl. You might go through seven unties, and never And her equal, SJr aJentine." He ran his fingers through his red tir till it stood up like porcupine iflls, but answered not a word. "Then Helen, the elder?she is a pure onde, and you admire blondes. And ie can ride beautifully. To see her dlop over hedge and ditch, across eadow and moor, down lane and up gh road, is enough to take the breath. t>u have your eyes in your head, Valitine?how can you resist these two larming girls?" "Give it up?do!" said the baronet, earily; "lay the subject on the shelf r awhile. Aunt Aflfry, for you see I n incorrigible. Have I not told you ores of times that I do not wish to arry?" "Very well!" answered Miss Black, a huff, "you are as obstinate as a ule. I will say no more, for if his rdship's daughters cannot please you know of no living woman who can. here's your mail on the table?you ive not looked at it yet." Sir Valentine picked up his letters, e broke the seal of the American one -st. Something dropped from it, and lied across the tiled hearth, stopping last, upon a rug of Canadian wolfin. He picked it up?his face grew ( bite as death. It was his mothers edding ring?the ring which he had aced on the hand of Mercy Dill years ro in the old lodging-house at Seedy >urt Miss Black recognized it, also, and led out in sore amaze. "Valentine! Good Heaven! your others ring. Who sent it?" He read Ethel's letter, with a few nbiguous words relating to the revered token, then passed it on to 188 Black. "In heaven's name, what can it ean?" he said. The old woman looked, read, and iswered. feebly, '1 haven't an ld6a. alien Sardis's daughter! How on xth did she get possession of your other's ring?" He held the shining band upon his dm. His face looked harsh and fordding. "You will see no more of me, Aunt ffry, till that question is answered to y satisfaction," he said, decisively. She laid her hand on his strong loulder. "What are you going to do? B'.ess e! you are shaking like a woman! 'rite to Miss Sardis, or the Countess :ahl?whichever name she Is called ' r?and she will explain it all, I dare .y." "Miss Sardis has forgotten to men- j on her New York address," said the , iron ft, with a strange smile; "more- j rer, I could scarcely be content to at- ( ck this mystery in any roundabout ( ay. I shall start for Liverpool in the , orning, and take passage in the first , earner which leaves that port for the , nited States." ; Miss Black bristled with indignation. (' "Val! Are you mad? Pushing off , AmAi^/in *a fln/1 QAmn nlno tn thnt t nmci iva iv mm duiuv vtuv w ?..?? , allan's wife?that creature, who la ( amping the streets, I dare say, with j hurdy-gurdy and a monkey, while ord Loftus* daughters wait in vain , >r you to propose! I'm amazed at you j -I'm ashamed of you. I never heard j r such a ridiculous thing In my life! , :'s enough to make all the ArbuckJes i the vaults of Deepmoor church turn . I their graves." Miss Black's wrath fell on unheeding j irs. His determination was made, , nd no argument under heaven could ( lake It 'I am going only to find Miss Saris," he said, calmly. "I want a little j rivate conversation with her." And he went. Three days later, this eadstrong, half-Yankee nobleman was n the Atlantic, speeding away to the few World. He landed in New York one golden fternoon In early spring, determined i rest not, neither to know peace, unII he had found Count Stahl's fair widw. (To be continued.) THE FIRST PRINTING PRESS ts Most Notable Work Was John Eliott's Bible. It !? nnt c-pnprallv known that the rst printing press which was set up n America north of Mexicc was the larvard college press. The establish lent of the Harvard University Press rings that forgotten bit of history to lind. The donor was one Joseph Gloer, as all present students of printing lay chalk down in their note book. He . as a Dutchman, who died on the pasage across the ocean while he was ringing the press to the new world, 'his was in 1639. All praise to Mrs. Glover, who, nothng daunted by the death of her husand, came to New Town, as Camridge was then known, bought a little ilece of land and engaged a Stephen >aye?another name for the chronilers to make a memo of and undercore?and began to take business orers. The energetic Mrs. Glover didn't reaaln a widow very long. President )unster became Interested first in the irinting of university publications, hen in the fair publisher, and he hortly married her. The press was ransferred to his house, and he sulerlntended the business. According to Julncy, the first publication In British Corth America, dene on the Glover iress. was "The Freeman's Oath." The Bay Psalm Book," a catechism, The Laws and Liberties of the Cololy," and an almanac were some other lublications that Issued from the >unster house. In 1658, after the press lad been taken over by the commlsloners of the United Colonies, it irinted its most notable work, John Sllott's Indian Bible. Every honest man will look you itraight In the eye?and so will most ascals. Dtiscrilanrous fkading. HARD TO UNDERSTAND Why the Principle of Equal Righta to All and 8pecial Privileges to None Has not Prevailed. There was a time, way back in the ages, when a king made all the law there was, took the best that his subjects produced, and generally exploited the people for his own benefit. A little bit later a group of subjects got tired of being exploited and decided to get some of the law-making in their own hands. They started a little revolution, grabbed a few franchises and magna chartas, and began to insist that some of the law-making and ruling of the realm be done in their interest And after the nobles and barons got ! i finger in the law-making so that their interests were protected, then , :ame along the merchants, who said, , we are doing all the work, paying all , the taxes, and we want a chance to | participate in the law-making and rul- , Ing of this country, and so they, too, rot certain privileges and were taken ' lare of. Finally the farmers and laboring nen got a notion they were being exploited; certainly they were not being , :onsidered or consulted in the law- 1 naking, so they started an agitation >f their own and succeeded in being 'ecognlzed, and getting the franchise, ind having the opportunity to express 1 hemselves as to the making of laws 1 md general ruling of the country. < And now the women realize that ( hey are the only class of the popula:lon that is being exploited, that has no ( rolce in the law-making or the ruling 1 >f the country. So another little agl- ( ation or revolution has started, and , ve doubt not, will end as all the others lave ended, with the demands of the igitators being granted as to the 1 'ranchlse and a chance to express ( hemselves as to the law-making and 'uling of the people. But here is the lesson, it seems, it is i mpossible for us yet to learn. { Every class seems to think it knows . >est what is good for the other classes. Dvery individual thinks he knows vhat is best for the other fellow. Of ( :ourse, no man knows what is best for , he other man, or at least what the >ther man thinks is best for him. This 1 s something that each man must de- l ide for himself. He may decide wrong , ?so may you?but what popular and lemocratic government guarantees sach man the right to decide- for himtelf rather than to give this privilege ' ;o decide for him and to some other ? nan. And yet, despite all the agitations ' md revolutions and evolutions and t sducatlon that we have, we still And his lesson unlearned in all communi- . :ies. We still have a so-called ruling :la88, the best citizens, representative I itizens, or the politicians and the i josses, in all communities who insist j >n deciding for the other fellow what s best for him. 1 The idea of democracy is to give ivery man a chance to express his i >wn convictions as to what is best for jim. You cannot possibly know what ?nv man thinks is best for him. He is 1 he only man In the world who can leclde that question. And yet, the endency of many of our citizens is to itill try and do the thinking and the lecidlng for the other fellow, despite he plain lessons of history. One of. these days, maybe, we will earn this lesson?give every fellow a :hance to think for himself and to excess himself. He probably won't nake any more mistakes in translatng his own needs, whatever they are, han you will make in trying to do his hinking and expressing for him. In reality you are attempting an im)ossible task when you try to put the >ther fellow's thoughts and needs into aw without first giving him a chance :o express himself and tell you what :hese thoughts and needs are, for, afer all, no one knows these things so veil except himself.?Athens, Ga., Daily Herald. MARTIN NOT MAD. friends Say Virginia 8enator Stood by Tillman to Last. Richmond, March 25.?According to ntimate friends of Virginia's senior senator, no reply will be made by 3enator Thomas Staples Martin to :he vituperative assault made by Senitor Tillman of South Carolina, whom :he Virginian defeated for the coveted , iiaoo an chairman of the senate com mittee on appropriations after a 1 jtormy session of the Democratic cau- 1 :u8. To Senator Tillman's charge of < treachery Senator Martin has no an- j swer except to say that the South Carolinian is laboring under a misappre- ' tiension. "The country will find out the ( truth," Senator Martin is reported to have said, "and I think it better for me not to engage in newspaper mud- ' throwing with Tillman," I The public was made acquainted with Senator Tillman's side of the struggle for the chairmanship of the appropriation committee by the South i Carolinian's philippic which he delivered against the senator in the caucus and which was ordered printed as a senate document. Boldly, Tillman ? accused Martin of having thrown him over in cold blood after the Democratic caucus had Indicated its intention of electing Senator Kern majority leader, although Martin had promised to support him for the appropriations committee. Friends of Senator Martin put quite a ainereni construction on uie uume, now that the smoke has cleared away, and the Virginian has assumed his duties as chairman of the committee on appropriations. Senator Martin, they say, remained the only friend Tillman had on the steering committee, In spite of the South Carolinian's furious rage against him. The senior senator's friends assert that not only did Martin decline to seek the appropriations berth, but, In the steering committee, cast the only vote against the deposition of Senator Tillman. The steering committee, however, deposed Tillman and elevated Martin to the chairmanship of this important committee, as a sop, It Is understood, for taking away the leadership. When the report of the steering committee was placed before the caucus, Senator Tillman submitted a typewritten resolution to strike out Martin's name and substitute his own on the appropriation's committee. On the roll call, say Martin's friends, Tillman received four votes cast by Senator Smith, of South Carolina, his colleague; Bacon, of Georgia, who was deposed as president pro tern of the senate; Martin, of New Jersey, who announced that his vote was cast for sentimental reasons, and Shaforth, of Colorado, who was pledged for Tillman. "ILL-MANNERED CURS" The Expression That Probably Cost Nazim Pasha's Life. According to the official report from Constantinople, Nazim Pasha, commander of the Turkish army, received his death wound when he rushed from the council chamber, faced the rioters and upbraided them as "Ill-mannered curs." The scene as described was Intensely dramatic. It Is probable that the single Turkish or Arabic word "Imshl" cost Nazim his life. Every country has In the popular vocabulary an epithet which rates as an irisult deadlier than a blow, says the Louisville Courier Journal, and must be resented by a blow, or a shot, unless the man at whom It Is hurled Is willing to swallow any insult that can be put upon him. In Turkey, Egypt, Arama, tne epitnet is imsni.- n is very freely translated; the tone of the occasion may change the meaning entirely. The literal translation Is said to be "go on" or "go along" or "go away." But nevertheless it is, when used in anger or contempt, the equivalent of the epithet which no American flings at another unless he is willing to fight or reasonably certain that the other man is unwilling to fight. This word of obscure origin and susceptible of such a variety of translations would spring naturally to the lips of a man in the position of Nazirn Pasha wishing to express fearlessly his utter contempt for a band of rioters who had Just killed a man. And, as naturally, It would bring a bullet In reply from anyone among those addressed who chanced to have a loaded pistol in his hand. "Imshi" uttered as Nazlm Pasha uttered it, is venom boiled down to the CMCUUt'IUIC Jill K11II1U 111. At UlACO tilt; place of a dozen words of English profanity ending In an epithet that Is the "banderilla de fuego" to the most pacific Anglo Saxon. It t&keB the place of a volume of Invective, emphasized by a violent gesticulation, to which a half hour's harangue is devoted by the angry man whose vehicle of expression Is one of the tongues of the garruous far east. Nazlm evidently played his card with the courage of a gambler who 1 will be rich or bankrupt as a result of his "nerve." Falling to bluff the dls- , orderly "Young Turks," he occasioned what is officially referred to as a "re- 1 gTettable Incident" WOMAN A3 A FARMER i ' I Hsr Home Preservation Instincts Fit < Her for Farm Training. < No subject is greater or of more lm- < oortance than food production. Fur- 1 thefmore, It is of vital interest not jnly to every individual of the pres- 1 ;nt generation, but to the generations >f Americans yet to populate these 1 [Jnlted States, says H. H. Bullerton, 1 llrector of agricultural development, 1 Mew York. The subject Is more vital than the ' arid to even the owner of a manufactory, who yearns for the free list on lis particular raw material and a pos- ( tively prohibitive Import duty on the ' ipeclfic brand of finished product he turns out It Is of vastly greater Import than ;ither high or low finance, terms gradjally being recognized as synonymous ind running a neck-and-neck race vith the practices of that portion of ' nanklnd who have for ages been look>d upon as "undesirable citizens." It Is even more far-reaching than , 'hikes" or the destruction of letters ind other personal property belonging to perfectly law-abiding and inoffenilve human-kind. It Is of even greater moment than the "high-cost-of-living" problem, for t Is the one important factor in the lolutlon of that problem which draws the line of demarcation between life ind death. Indications have shown to even ( :hose not deeply interested or keenly >bservant that the writer is not in learty sympathy with that extremely Imited number of women who consider that barbaric methods inflicted upon :hemselves or innocent fellow counxymen are justifiable or laudatory. Fet on the other hand the writer 'ecognlzed that woman was not only equai but superior to mac in all things :hat have to do with the better and jigger things of life. Also that as helpmeet to man she was justly entitled to a good, big, -ousing majority of the percentage points in the partnership. And a careful analysis of the bulk of life's partnerships wiil prove conclusively to jven the most biased analyst that this ' point is well taken. The powers of observation conferred upon the writer show that in all * classes and in all of the many differ- 1 Ing nationalities met during a some- ( what broad life the predominating 1 characteristics selected by nature to 1 rule all others were marked indeed. In i man, when thrown off his guard or 1 stripped of super-civilization veneer, 1 self-preservation was the basic mo- 1 tive actuating his every move. With woman, equally marked and standing ( put with startling prominence as her 1 fundamental instigator 01 every nvi was the bigger, better and far more Important Incentive?home preservation. This Is not a new faddlsm; It Is not even an ultra-radical statement by any manner of means, for It Is a fact, demonstrated wltl: startling force at the present day as well as by the printed, written and symbolic records of the known past and even by the myths and legends linking the twentieth century with a countless aj;e of the prehistoric period. America has, for the trifling number of generations since Its settlement by others than the red race, been able to subsist. Erroneously have American despoilers of nature's eons-built-up fertility, claimed as their own the wonderful successes and marvelous accumulations of wealth as due entirely to themselves, when In truth the waste and destruction of untold uncomputable wealth by the slap-dash, Bkinning and skimming methods of man, with his one Impelling motive, has brought In less than 300 years this most favored of all countries face to face with a food problem of far greater Import than any historic local famine. No marked change can be brought about until supply and demand again are given the proper place In supreme control of America's food. And this can be brought about by women alone. The women of the cities, actuated by their Impelling motive, home preservation, are already banding together only as squads and companies, as yet, but In conformity to normal methods these will shortly coalesce Into one stupendous, compelling ana invinciDie i army, and through public markets, In ( fact as well as name, will obliterate the food speculator, who has In a few ' brief years amassed billions by use of capital belonging to consumers and producers and entirely without their j consent or giving In any way, manner or form value received, but, leech-like, 1 living entirely upon the efforts and be- < longings of others. ( Neither man-nature nor man-education develops the characteristics so vitally necessary to the grower of vege- 1 tables, berries, fruits and flowers or < the raiser of animals or fowls. In wo- ( men is Inherent the love of young living things. Man usually cares but lit- I tie for the seedling plant or helpless i young animal; his thoughts and in , fact all his enforced efforts in behalf of living things Just starting life arc 1 actuated entirely by his predominant i characteristic?self preservation?and i the young thing Is looked upon merely as a necessary nuisance. Therefore, as upon women we must rely for the proper management of our ; gardens, farms and orchards. It Js a vital necessity that schools be established at once where the scientific teaching of the classroom can be drlv- 1 cn home and practically demonstrated In the open under the normal conditions surrounding the outdoor profession. America's first agricultural school < for women, like America's first con- , gress, first mint, first diplomat and first secretary of agriculture, all belong to Pennsylvania's historic Items, l to which Its people point with great pride. Therefore, It Is safe to assert that the descendants of those who did so much In Colonial days of need, will at once place upon a firm foundation i the urgent present-day need?a thor- ( oughly equipped agricultural college for women. VETERANS OF BORIDINO ? v Eight of Th?m Alive on Centennial d Anniversary. t) One hundred years ago this fall the a city of Moscow was burned after Its I occupation by Napoleon, and the ter- a rlble retreat of the grand army fol- t( lowed. Just before the capture of the r Russian capital of those days the g doubly disastrous battle of Bordlno d was fought and officially listed as a tl French victory. Recently the old bat- h tlefleld was again alive with music and banners and resounded to the tread of tl marching men, for Russia was cele- rl brating the centenary of a defeat that N had nearly all the elements of a vie- s< tory. On the field during the celebra- tl tion were eight men who had bravely tc fought Napoleon's soldiers at Boro- ai dlno, the lone survivors in Russia of rl that conflict One was a non-commls- p< The last survivor of the American " revolution on the pension rolls died In U] Mew York In 1869, aged 109. The last w lurvlver of the war of 1812 on the penlion rolls was Hiram Cronk of Ava, N. g< T., and he died May 13, 1905, at the age eJ )f 105. There is probably no soldier of that war alive now to tell of Its bat- g< ties, yet It was being fought at the rery time when Napoleon reached the dl first of the two crisis that cost him his w throne. How short the century that las intervened seens since it is bridg- tc sd by less than the span of a man's P> lfe and how vivid becomes the story 1* it those days. The battle of Borodino, in which tc :hese Russian centenarians fought, w took place September 7, 1812, the oc- Y rupatlon of Moscow seven days later az ind its burning began on the night of w 3eptember 16th. On October 19th, di Mapoleon began his retreat, that coat th llm 400,000 men and practically wiped w jut his great army. The eight men cl iow surviving have become heroes In in Russia and have been the recipients of th many honors. Their long life probably is due to simple living in the Russian w itepes where human wants are few.? Jt Savannah Morfting News. hi . fll QUE8T FOR THE GILDED MAN ar fa Spaniard* 8*arch*d for King 8upposad M to be Covered With Gold. m Venezuela today is known largely aa te i hotbed of revolutions and aa the bt :ountry over which the United States t0 :ame near going to war with Great 'n 3ritaln back in Grover Cleveland's ad- cs nlnlstratlon. It is inhabited by black uid tain persons of undependable char- | icter and excitable temper, and it is lot much thought of, among the na- T ions of the world. But there was a time when Venezuela was a veritable land of romance, si vhen swaggering Spaniards strutted in S' ts seacoast town and galleons loaded b< with gold put out from its harbors to bi 'ar-away Castile. And it was in those ni irave, bloody and Imaginative days ^ :hat the legend of the Gilded Man tl1 lourished. A marvelous, Dr&ve uiie u was, and It served as a wlll-o-the- w wisp to lure many an adventurer to tils death. aj After the first Spanish ships had n! :ome to the coasts of Mexlcp, Peru ind New Granada, there grew up a ru- tc nor of a great civilized nation deep In B :he Interior of, South America, which tJ" was richer than any that had yet been a) :onquered. The Indians told their pi ^astlllan conquerors that the gold they had, came from far inland, and, press- 5 D1 ;d for further details, drew on their tt imaginations as well as on their mem- ol jrles of old legends. The ruler of this elusive and undiscovered kingdom was known as the tt 3Uded Idan?El Dorado, the Spaniards m ?allfid him. And they believed In him a impllcity; a letter from a chronicler n lamed Ovledo to the Cardinal Bempo tl describes him In detail: ? "A great king, bruited In those lands, w covered with golden powder In such lr Fashion that from head to foot he was oi like a figure of gold, graven by the hand of a rare artificer. The gold is e( stuck to his body by an aromatic res- w In. But since this would Irk him as w c< he slept, every night the king bathes ind every morning once more is he w glided, which shows that the kingdom of cf El Dorado Is marvelously rich In ^ mines." ji The capital city of this imaginary U kingdom the Spaniards christened Ma- ^ nao, and they said it was on the shore of a lake called Parlme. And In this w city were palaces with columns of ^ massive gold and porticoes studded {[j with precious stones?these early ad- e< venturers pictured a regulation para- ai dise In Manoa, including the pearly ^ gates. In the streets of Manoa, ac- ^ cording to the legends, walked soldiers wearing golden armor and helmets of J1 gold. Rumor was precise In every detail except the whereabouts of this fabled kingdom. ti Some authorities said It was at the p foot of the Andes, In the highlands of Peru. Others were Just as positive P that the country lay along the upper w waters of the Orinoco river, and many ^ expeditions were fitted out to ascend cl this stream. w The first of these was led by a cer- ^ tain Diego de Ordez, one of the conquerors of Mexico, who bore upon his w coat of arms and shield the burning mountain of Popocatapetl. With his {[ men he pushed far up toward the p headwaters of the Orinoco. Indians r< told him fantastic tales of "a mighty king with one eye, and animals like deer that are ridden as horses." In pi one part of his Journey he saw natives 01 who anointed themselves with turtle q, Bloned officer and the others did a sol- a diet's full duty that day. Each of them 01 la 120 years old or more. n< Records, it is claimed, show that the ol story of these men is no fiction. The di governing generation of today looks a< upon the story of Napoleon as history w almost ancient, but how close it brings Cc the times be made so tempestuous when it is possible to talk with men gi who fought him and who in part were te responsible for his downfall! Some Q| yery old folks often add years to their ages in their claims to longevity; no me wishes to cut any of their years away, but often we can hardly accept ^ the statements of their ages. Most evirybody has met claims with gusto that t tie once saw an old relic of slavery times who claims with gusto that he ^ ince saw Oeorge Washington. Many >f these stories have been regarded as 11 tiarmless fiction and probably still will 06 t>e, even though it is shown that eight e* Russians are living today who meas- ? iired swords with the famous Old e 3uard. J? at and then powdered their bodies rlth glittering mica dust This oubtless explains how the story of he gilded man originated; but such n idea seems not to have occurred to >iego and his men. They saw "emerlds as big as a man's fist" The story Did by Diego and his men when they eturned to the settlements aroused reat excitement Evidently the king* om of El Dorado was not far from his marvelous country which Ordez ad penetrated. Next came a great expedition of two 1 aousand led by Don Antonio de Ber* lo,. son-in-law of the conqueror of i ew Granda. Land owners in Spain < >ld their ancestral lands and crossed < ie sea to Join Don Antonio. The ' >wn was bussing with talk of gold 1 nd emeralds; a native from the inte- < or came to Cumana, where the ex- 1 edition was fitted out and he brought < basketful of golden Images to sell ^ r barter. A man named Juan Marti- < ez arrived In town with a lurid story < having been captured by the In- "< lane and carried to Mano Itself, and, wording to his story, the half of Its ' onders and glories had not been re- ( >rded. t Of the 2,000 men, thirty came strag- * ing back, half famished, racked by 1 ver, quite worn out De Berrlo was ? le of the thirty. Illness, wild beasts c id natives, made savage by Spanish 1 uelty had killed the rest. c In the spring of 1695 Sir Walter 1 alelgh, roving the high seas in search c ' plunder, cast anchor outside of Port s ' Spain, on the Island of Trinidad. He c o, had heard of the realm of the llded Man. So he attacked and cap- 1 ired the Spanish settlement pro- 1 seded to the mainland and sent an c cpedltlon up the Orinoco In search c ! the kingdom of El Dorado. Need- c as to say, the kingdom was not ? und. The British came to water11s which prevented further passage j ? stream; the dense tropical Jungle as more than they cared to peneate. But Raleigh was certain that * >ld was there. He sent out two more . cpedltions, one In 1696, another In >97, and in Callao he actually found J )ld fields. But at that. Sir Walter must have ? rawn heavily on his Imagination hen he wrote, after returning home. "Every mountain, every stone In the rests of the Orinoco shines like the recious metals. If It be not gold, it the mother of gold." In 1617 Sir Walter led a final search r Manoa and the Gilded Man. There as a battle with the Spaniards New ear's day, 1618; the English fell Into 1 ambuscade, and Sir Walter's son as killed. At last the Spanish were *lven back, and Sir Walter sailed up ie Orinoco as far as the narrows, here Cludad Bolivar now stands; he Imbed a hill and looked over the Or* oco, stretching away to the west; ten he turned back. When he arrived In England, he as thrown Into prison, although King imes probably would have received Im with honor had he been success[]. Instead he was sent to the block, id died without ever having seen the .bled Gilded Man. For the Gilded [an was only a phantom which lured en to ruin and death, and the glltring towers of Manoa were never lllded except In the mind of some o fanciful adventurer, looking away tn tliA clnv nf minspt and hulldtnsr . istles In the air.?Kansas City Tlmea MPEACHMENT TRIALS IN U. 8. wo Hsvs Resulted in Convictions? 'Congressmen Exempt. Nine men have faced impeachment nee the establishment of the United bates government. Only three have sen convicted. Six of these cases af(Cted the Judiciary, two the executive ranch of the government and one the atlonal legislature. In this last case te precedent was established that a snator or representative cannot be d peached. The first man to face Impeachment as William Blount, a senator from ennessee. The house of representavea passed the Impeachment charges gainst him when the country was Ine years old. The accusation was lat he had conspired to organize lthin the United States an expedition i conquer Spanish territory for Great rltain, and had planned to foment ouble among the Indians. The addlonal charge was made that he had ttempted to corrupt an official inter- . reter among the Indians. After the house had impeached 1 lount and while an effort was being 1 iade to get the case before the senate le latter body made an investigation f Blount's conduct and expelled him. he senate then took up the impeach- t lent charge and acquitted Blount on , le ground that a senator or represenitive is not an officer of the governlent under the Constitution. i John Pickering, judge of the United c tates district court for the district of ( ew Hampshire, was the defendant in te second Impeachment trial and the 1 rst man to be convicted. At this ( 1ar, in 1803, Pickering was charged { 1th a breach of the law in proceed- . igs to condemn a ship for violations ' the customs law. He delivered the ' lip to claimants without bond, de- t >ite the fact that it had been attach- . ! by a United States marshal. He ~ as further charged with being drunk 1 hile on the bench. He practically ^ mfessed. refusing to appear before f te bar of the aenate. The evidence as heard and he was removed from Bee. The third impeachment trial was lat of Samuel Chase, an associate istice of the supreme court of the nited States. He was charged with rejudlcing the cases of John Ftles, on ial for treason, and Thomas Callener, charged with sedition. He also as accused of an attempt to invade ie precincts of a Delaware Federal rand Jury room in an effort to bring bout the indictment of a newspaper Jitor for violation of the sedition laws nd of making an Intemperate and inammatory and seditious harangue om the bench. By a strict party vote e was acquitted at his trial in 1804. James Peck, whose trial occurred in 330, was acquitted. He was a district ldge and was charged with abusing ie Judicial power. In 1860 West H. Humphries, a dls lct Judge, was impeached for deseron of the Federal bench to take a lace on the Confederate bench. Sixth man to face impeachment was resident Andrew Johnson. His trial as the result of a bitter political con;st In which the tenure of office act as passed over his veto. He wa1" barged with violation of this act and 'lth attempting to induce a general Beer of the army to disobey the law. lie was acquitted in 1000. William W. Belknap, secretary of < ar under Grant, was impeached on J le charge that he had accepted t loney from a post trader whom he r ad appointed. The house voted to lni- e each him a few hours after he had t ^signed. The proceedings were con- F nued in the senate and he was ac- f uitted. c Judge Charles Swayne was im- r eached on twelve counts growing out c f alleged padding of expense accohnts e nd railway deals. He was acquitted C n every count. t ODD WAY8 OF TELLING TIME Many Davioaa To Keep Track of the Flight of Time Before the Advant of tha Clock. Many were the devicea for recording the flight of the houra before the coming of the clock. The moat famoua, of course, was the hour glass, which was made of various sizes and capable of recording, with tolerable accuracy almost any given Interval of time, although seldom one greater than an hour. The burning of candles was another favorite device. Lines were drawn at different elevations for the fractional divisions of the period which the candle recorded. There was also an ingenious water clock which is even now occa uonauy teen in museums. Tne aun aiai. Tor marking true time, waa much In jse in early daya. In our latitude It vould not be atrlctly accurate, except >n a few daya In the year, and ita ac:uracy at other tlmea would be of a varying quantity. A watch or a clock waa aa rare in rurkey as an aeroplane la in some :ountriea today. Even at the preaent line in the amaller cltlea and villages of be Ottoman empire a timepiece In the louae la a luxury indulged in by a few it the wealthy claaa. Nature ia the slock of that land, a clock that never itopa or falla to aerve Ita purpose. The :row of the cock la the simplest, the tun the moat dependable and convenl>nt, and, the cat'a eye the most difficult ind, to Orientals, the moat humoroua it tlmepiecea. The cock crowa regularly morning, 'orenoon, afternoon and evening, and lervea the purpose of the atriklng clock if a belfry tower. Sometimes a cook :rows at Irregular intervals. In that :ase he is unfortunate in Turkey, ilnce superstition demands that his lead be chopped off without delay for o tolerate an "ill-crowing" cook would >e to court disaster! Still another method of telling time imployed by the Turks is this: They told their thumbs touching one another lorlzontally, and extend the forefingers jerpendlcularly. Then they divide the humb and forefinger of each hand into tlx parts, nominal hour points, one land representing the morning and the >ther the afternoon. Where the thumbs join it is IS ('clock the tip of one forefinger repesenting 6 o'clock in the morning and he tip of the other will point to the :orrect time, as Judged by the hours lomlnally marked in mind. The hour livislons may be divided into additlonil parts, as the quarter hours. To tell the time by the cat's eye teems an absurd proceeding, but the Turks do it The average person Is >erhaps not aware that the shape of he cat's eye undergoes changes during he day. In the morning the pupil IS lormally circular, but gradually it narrows until noon, when only a narrow itreak is left As the day progresses It -esumes Its normal shape, becoming >val at about S o'clock In the afternoon, .'n Turkey It Is common for the old 'oiks to call the cat to their sides in >rder to ascertain the time. In Illustration of the accuracy whereiy time can be measured by the shadow last by the sun there may be cited a rial in Nebraska a year or two ago, leld in the month of January. The defendant was acquitted of a charge of nurder by means of the alibi establish>d by the shadow of a church steeple last upon a photograph that contained he two accusing witnesses. These witlesses had testified that they had seen he defendant between the hours of t md 3 in the afternoon while returning !rom church after the picture was tak>n. But from the angle formed by the ihadow and the horlsontal boards of he church in the photograph an expert lalculated the time the photograph was aken, with the result that it was as:ertained that tlfe exact moment was luring the afternoon at 3:31:20, one lour later than the witnesses had tesifled they had met the accused. The testimony given by the astrononer was so clear and conclusive that here remained no doubt in the minds A any one that the accused could not lave committed the crime. It was hnnrn that it would have been lmDOS ilble for the witnesses to have seen the iccuaed at the scene of the crime at the :lme It was alleged to have been comnitted. The accused was acquitted.~ Vew York Press. ? The greatest count of money and lecurlties in the history of the world vlll begin at the treasury department Vprll 1, when John Burke, former rover nor of North Dakota, takes the >ath of office as treasurer of the Unitid States, succeeding Carmi A. Thompton. To safeguard the nation's wealth Jncle Sam requires that the retiring reasurer's record of the transfer of 'unds be verified by a count of the lotes, coin and securities In the reasury. Secretary McAdoo will ap>olnt a committee to take charge of he vaults and each vault and safe vlll be sealed April 1 in preparation or the count Only enough money to :eep the wheels of government re vol vng will be laid aside for dally use vhile the counting is in progress. It renerally requires from two to five nonths to make the count A governnent mathematician has figured hat it would take one person 300 'ears to verify Mr. Thompson's recede. Ordinarily every note, bond and ither security Is counted. Unless a ihortage or error is discovered the rold and silver, stored In bags con alnlng $1,000 each, usually Is weighty a test bag being balanced again., ill others for verification. Armed ruards stand over the counters and vorkmen to protect them from intererence. Losses seldom have been ound in these counts. When the reaaurer was changed some years ago !600 was stolen during the office' :ount. A laborer engaged to lift the teavy bags of coin substituted leaded llsks for silver dollars in several bags, lecessitatng a five months' count of tvery dollar of the $115,000,000 in the >ig silver vault The laborer was conrlcted of the theft and the retiring reasurer relieved by congress of the esponsibility for the loss. When Jarml Thompson succeeded Lee McUlung as treasurer, he received over 11,400.000,000. He must account for ivery cent of that amount, plus the nillions he has since received, minus ixpendltures. While the treasurer of he United States handles no money >ersonally, he is the only bonded oflcial in his office. His $160,000 bond overs every subordinate, and for nany years treasurers have urged longress to order the bonding of the mployes who actually handle the $(,100,000,000 which pass through the reasurer's office annually.