Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, April 01, 1913, Image 4
tumorous Jlrpartmcut.
Diamond Cut Diamond.??It falls
now and then to a law officer to attend
a meeting of the British cabinet
In order to keep members right on
points of law, and a story is told about
a remarkable conflict of wit across the
table between Mr. Gladstone and an
attorney general of the day who had
been called in.
The attorney general was Sir Richard
Bethell, who was never a very
manageable man and was proving a I
thorn In the side of Mr. Gladstone,
then chahcellor of the exchequer, with
some bis schemes on hand.
Mr. Gladstone was determined to
take a certain course and Sir Richard
Bethell was equally determined
against it.
He told the cabinet that It would be
contrary to the law and, by way of
supporting himself, produced a bulky
and forbidding book of law, from
which he read at great length.
Mr. Gladstone asked to be allowed
to see the volume and, turning over
the leaves, began to read another passage
which qualified away the one the
attorney general had read and set
matters right from Mr. Gladstone's
point of view.
Coming away from the meeting, a
member of the cabinet asked Mr.
Gladstone how he came to know that
such a passage as the one he had read
was in the book.
"It was not," said Mr. Gladstone,
"and neither was the passage which
Bethell read." ?
Tommy's Misfortuns.?The teacher
in looking round the room saw a new
face. It pertained to be a little boy.
She called him to her desk, says the
Detroit Free Press.
"What is your name, dear?" she
asked.
"Tommy Hunter, ma'am," he answered.
"How old are you?"
"Six going on seven."
"You don't look more than five," she
said, after a careful scrutiny. "I shall
have to ask you to bring me a certificate
of your age. When you go home
at noon ask your mother to write me
a note telling me when and where you
were born."
After lunch, when the children had
re-assembled in the school room.
Tommy presented himself at her desk,
flushed with triumph. The glow soon
faded from his face, however, as he
felt in his pockets one after anothei
and failed to find the note his mother
Uo Kacon tn nrv
Iiau nilUCil. AAV WQW? %*r -w- ^
"What is the matter?" asked the
teacher.
"I?I've lost my excuse for beln'
born!" sobbed Tommy.
He Wae Bom That Way*?Charles
8. Whitman, the district attorney,
presented to the grand Jury Investigating
the police graft in New York a
few days ago a flashily dressed negro,
said to be the keeper of a gambling
house In Harlem, from whom he hoped
?in vain, as It afterward developed?
to obtain evidence of police blackmail,
says the Saturday Evening Post.
"Do you know how to shoot craps?"
asked a grand Juryman after the negro
had denied being a gambler, denied
any connection with the police,
and in fact all knowledge of official
crookedness.
"Oh, yas, suh, I kin shoot craps,"
said the witness.
"Where did you learn?In Baltimore?"
The negro had given Baltimore
as his home before he came to
New York.
"No, suh, I didn't learn In Baltimor"."
"In New York?"
"No. suh, not In New York."
"Well, where did you learn?"
"I didn' learn nowhar?hit jes' come
nach'ul to me, suh."
Last Thing He Did.?There had
been an explosion in a powder mill,
according to a story told by Congressman
Rucker, of Colorado, and the
proprietor, who was away on a pleasure
trip, hurried home to make an Investigation,
says the Los Angeles
Herald.
"How In the world did It happen?"
he asked the foreman of the mill as he
viewed the wreck. "Who was to
blame?"
"Well, you see, sir," replied the foreman,
"it was this way. Bill went Into
the mixing room, probably thinking of
something else, and struck a match
in mistake. He?"
"Htmioir a mfttrh!" ?xclalmed the
proprietor In amazement, "I should I
have thought that would have been
the last thing on earth he'd do!"
"It waa, sir," was the calm rejoinder
of the foreman.
Swapping Yarns,?Stories of Booth
Tarkington are many and varied, and
to the long list Jean Galbreath and
Lowell Sherman added a late one
while "swapping yarns" and waiting
for. their cues the ?ther day at the
Harlem opera house.
"While Tarkington was on his last
stay in Paris," said Sherman, "some
people from his home town, old neighbors
in fact, looked him up, and after
exchanging the usual pleasantries 'of
the season, one of them said: "By the
way, Booth, did you know that some
of the important citizens have placed
a tablet on your old home?'
" 'No, I wasn't aware of the honor,'
' replied Tarkington; 'and what does it
eay?'
" 'Why, it's very simple,' said the
other, it Just reads, 'To Let'"?New
York Telegraph.
Misunderstanding.?A Philadelphia
business man tells this story on himself:
"You know in this city there are
two telephone companies, and in my
office I have a telephone of each company.
Last week I hired a new office
boy and one of his duties was to answer
the telephone. The other day
when one of the bells rang he answered
the call and then came In and told
me I was wanted on the phone by my
wife.
" 'Which one?* I inquired quickly,
thinking of the two telephones, of
course.
" 'Please, sir,' stammered the boy, 'I
don't know how many you have.'"?
Birmingham News.
A Fascinated Spectator,?The Washington
Star tells this conversation:
"What's the matter with you?" asked
the moving picture doorkeeper.
) "This Is about the 20th time you've
looked this film over."
"Yes. I can't keep away."
"And It Isn't such a great film at
that."
"You don't understand. My wife
was the leading woman in that photoplay.
You don't know what it means
to a man to be able to sit down and
see his wife busily occupied day after
day and at the same time not hear
her saying a word."
Always Merry and Bright.?Stan. V.
Henkels, an auctioneer, was talking
about the wonderful Hale autographs
which he sold last month, relates the
Washington Star.
"Benjamin Franklin's autographs,"
said Mr. Henkels. "showed him, as always,
shrewd and witty. It was Franklin,
you know, who, replying to a revolutionary
letter which said, 'The cream
of the English army is now in the
field,' answered:
" 'I suppose you mean the whipped
cream.'"
Its Advantage*.?"I wish you'd get
rid of that absolutely worthless poodle."
"Absolutely worthless?"
"That's what I said! Absolutely?
absolutely worthless! What does It do
that makes it good for anything?"
"I was thinking of what It doesn't
do."
"Oh-h, what it doesn't do!"
"Yes. It doesn't chew tobacco,
smoke a pipe, fight booze or use profane
language."?Houston Post.
A Lark Song.?Yeast?Did you ever
hear the song of the lark in the early
hours of the morning?
Crimsonbeak?Why, yes. You mean.
"We Won't Go Home Till Morning,''
don't you??Yonkers Statesman.
pisrfltaiuous iSradioq I
P
THE MILLENIUM COMING 1
Burdstts Talis Why Ha Balisvss It Is t
on Its V/ay. v
"I do not expect to see poverty eliminated
from this earth of plenty in my
generation. I believe the happy years
of perfect life and government are [
coming by and by. The millenium has
been on the way for many, many centuries,
and every year brings it a little '
nearer," says Robert J. Burdette in the j
Los Angeles Times. "The apostles {
would have ben so happy, their hearts ?
would have broken with rapture could ^
they have beheld and dwelt in a world j
so good and kindly and generous and t
brotherly as the one of which we are
citizens. But I don't suppose any per- ^
' ? ~ ? -.W-?? ??/! aWaotapa /i n tr f a 4
sun uuacivcu uic vii?'<5c uum w
day. The shortest day in the year was
December 21. But I don't believe you
noticed that the twenty-second was a
minute longer. Poverty will starve to
death by and by. But that is a slow
death.
"Poverty is not wholly - bad, as a
principle, and as a condition is the
paedagogus' that drives us to work?
the most of us. A few days ago a rich
young man up in San Francisco shot
his young wife dead as she sat at her
dinner and immediately killed himself.
It is a great pity that he hadn't begun
with himself. One of his relators
speaking of the tragedy, said of the
murderer: "He was rich; he didn't
have to work,' which explained much.
Had the young man been holding
down a $60-a-month job. sobriety had
probably been compulsory.
"The wealth of the United States is
1130,000,000,000. Let that soak into
your comprehension for a couple of
minutes. I say minutes because you
couldn't comprehend it any more
clearly if you meditated over it for a
hundred years. To get some sort of
an idea of what a billion is, just contemplate
that only a little more than
1,000,000,000 minutes have run through
old Time's hour-glass since the birth
of Christ Now if you have some sort e
of sense of a billion, just think again a
that the wealth of the United States Is v
$130,000,000,000. And then fix in your b
mind that the entire population of the (
earth is 1,500,000,000 of human beings, E
"We've got enough property here In t
the United States to go around, with- ^
out calling on the other wealthy na- p
tions to put anything in the hat at all. r
"We ought to be able to abolish v
nAtiortv if lunnla thmicrht It n rpn 1!v .
wise thing to do. j,
"Somehow or other, we seem to ?
have become addicted to poverty. It ?
is one of the hardest things in the j<
world to convince a man that poverty t
is such a crying evil that it demands b
his co-operation to secure Its ellmina- n
tlon. A preacher has to fairly agonize 0
when he calls for offerings for the *
poor. And then, out of a million-dol- _
lar congregation he is mighty lucky to v
get a hundred-dollar collection. Mighty 8
lucky. People don't want to abolish w
poverty.
"Poverty is not a crime; it is not an a
immorality; it is not a disgrace; it is t
not always a misfortune, nor is it a vlr- 0
tue. Men and religious orders have
taken upon themselves vows of poverty.
They were good and holy and _
useful as they were, not because of _
their poverty, but in spite of it
"I certainly do believe in the ulti- ^
mate extinction of poverty. That will
come with the destruction of other ,
disagreeable things in a world that is _
going to be made new some day. But ,.
we can't destroy poverty by specifl- J
cally organising to eliminate that while _
we keep a few other things that Beem a
pleasant to us. Poverty will go out _
when we quit all our multifarious
meannesses. When we quit stealing. v
and lying, and cheating, and loafing,
and envying, and backbiting and coveting,
and fighting, and Reno-ing, and j
afflnitizing, and dynamitng, and a
whole lot of other sorts of deviltry 8
which we are all of us more or less in- ,
clined to, in one way or in another; ,
then we may be more ready to get rid tj
of poverty. J
"I rather think that poverty will be
tne last tning to go. .Because u ?n i p
an unmixed evil, as these vices are, ,
and it certainly has its place ,of use- 1(
fulness in the human economy. e
"So long as men hate and fear pov- t,
erty so fiercely and bitterly that they
are willing to abolish it even if they
have to steal the money to do It with, v
so long poverty is going to abide with
us.
"There are two men mentioned in
the New Testament who were eminently
successful in the crusade to G
abolish poverty in their own families.
One of them was a fool and the-other
was in hell. ..
"Now suppose we could so success- J
fully abolish poverty from this earth !
of plenty that every man in the world 11
would be as rich as either of those two
men?would that make the world 0
any better?
"Well, then?" J
WHY KINGS DON'T CALL s
II
This Country Could Not Receive One ^
Officially. tl
If King Alfonso of Spain can per- w
suade his government to let him visit ?
our shores?a feat he is trying hard
to accomplish-'-he will be the first n
reigning European king to drag the 81
royal purple over the land of the free ?
and the home of the brave. 1
We have had monarchs here be- tl
n?*/? in/)aA/) miffn(nar Anoa oa iro C
L\Jl C, aiJU 1UUCCU A VJQUUIQ ww/w
the New York Evening Sun, but they t]
were usually from the cannibal is- ti
lands and coral reef circuits. For in- ti
stance, about a quarter of a century ?
ago. that distinguished potentate, y
King Kalakaua, of the then primi- e
tive and un-Amerlcanized Hawaiian ?
Islands, u?ed to transport his august
person across the Pacific and favor s<
us with a visit now and then. With- c
in the last few years the highly civil- t;
ized and progressive Gaekwar of ti
Baroda has twice visited America, t<
and his son is even now a student at c<
Harvard. The Gaekwar's throne is
under British protection. ti
Kings do not call on us as a rule, t!
though they frequently drop in on n
Republican France, and are welcom- ii
ed there. The reason is simple?we u
could not receive a king officially, p
Though we have all kinds of systems, w
from the tipping system to the civil d
service system, we lack the system f<
that nearly every other nation revels a
in, the system of official rank, which \
recognizes hereditary dignities. b
King Alfonso goes to visit the
Kaiser. Just before he reaches Ber- fi
lin he will remove his common clothes c
and don the uniform of a Prussian T
regiment of dragoons of which he is d
titular colonel. The kaiser simultane- ti
ously will hurry to the storehouse, p
called his wardrobe, and array him- 1<
self in the uniform of the Royal
Spanish Lancers in which he, in turn, p
is a titular colonel. The emperor will T
meet his august brother at the station 1<
with a full military escort, the crowds o
will cheer, the bands will play, the
monarchs bow, and so triumphantly d
they will arrive at the palace as self- u
respecting monarchs are accustomed d
to arrive. c
Now. if King Alfonso comes to this a
country his reception will, sad to say, tl
be far, far different. He cannot don c
the uniform of an officer in a crack
American regiment, because he has no
authority to do so; neither can President
Wilson, for various reasons,
don the uniform of a Spanish regiment
of lancers. Nor will there be
any considerable part of the United
States of America waiting to greet
his majesty as the ship comes in. n
As he st^ps down the gangplank a oi
newsboy may very likely brush the
royal sleeve with a newspaper. A cus- H
toms man may insist on the king
signing his declaration with his last H
name. Once the king is allowed to step n
on our little island, the best he can do
is to proceed incognito to a good hotel.
register as Count something or si
other, grant an interview or so and
take the earliest train to Washing- w
ton.
There the president and he will ex- si
change visits, in the course of which
the president will address him not as ai
"Your Majesty," but as "Great and
good friend." Such is the formal fc
Vhlte House phrase for all similar
urpoBea The poor monarch will have
o look for entertainment as a private
ersons wherever the official represenatlves
of this nation are concerned.
Can anyone wonder that no king
who has been nicely brought up can
hink of an official visit to America
without a shudder?
AFTER THE CHINE8E PEACH
)epartment of Agriculture Expert
Will Travel 25,000 Miles for It.
Twenty-flve thousand miles looking
or a peach?that is the stupendous
ourney which has been undertaken by
Yank N. Meyer, agricultural explorer!
or the United States department of
igriculture, says a Washington letter.
Che peach Is worthy of the effort, ac:ordlng
to the stories that have crept
nto coast areas of Manchuria and
sastern China.
The peach Is described by travelers
vho have seen and tasted it as the
>lggest and most marvelous comblnaion
of external beauty and Internal
usciousness. Three pounds is the
tpocryphal limit ascribed to the. fruit
... lWMAnrv/xn.(klA nnWl..AO ?KA tiHMo
'J iiicayuiioiuio uaiivco vt uio nuuo
>f west China. Mr. Meyer, In a report
o the department, promises a. peach
hat will weigh at least a pound and is
arge as a muskmelon. This wonderul
peach grows in the province of
Shantung. It is known to the Chinese
is the Felt Ching, or Felt Tau. No
peclmens have ever been brought to
he coast of China. Mr. Meyer did
iring back with him from a previous
ourney several scions of the . Felt
Thing peach and a number of seeds.
The scions failed to produce when
rrafted upon American grown seeding
stocks. They had failed to withtand
transportation. The departnent
experimenters took a <chance
irith the seeds and have grojvn severJ
trees at the experimental station at
i'ayetteville, N. C. None of them has
ret fruited, and it is the belief of the
xperts that nothing /extraordinary
trill be developed from the seedlings.
.Ike other fruits, the seedling peach
nly develops desirable fruitings in
are instances. According to Luther
lurbank, hardly more than one desir.ble
seedling out of planting of 100,000
eeds is to be expected by the agriculurlsts.
The 25,000-mlle Journey of Mr. Meyr
began a fortnight ago, when he
ailed for London for a conference
trlth notable European agriculturists
>efore he takes the final dive into the
>rient It is not only the Felt Ching
teach which is sounding the call of
he east for the American explorer.
Jnder the direction of the bureau of
ilant industry, Mr. Meyer is inauguating
a three-year sojourn in the
rilds of southeastern Russia and wesern
China for the purpose of studyng
suitable crops of all sorts for
rowth and development in those secions
of the United States where the
Imit of frostless days is not more
han 85 or 90 per annum. Not one
ranch of the activities of the department
of agriculture, but all branches
f its work will be observed by Mr.
leyer. Fruits, vegetables, cereals and
,lso treed especially suited for the deelopment
of windbreaks in the windwept
areas of the great plains region
III /vK^AmraA Ki? h(m
r III UUOCt VCU KM J lillila
At the last session of congress an
pproprlation of $50,000 was made for
he establishment at Mandan, N. D.,
f a government experiment station,
or Just this particular class of vegeation.
Quick growing crops of all
orts will be observed, and shade trees
nd ornamental plants .which can be
ransported and transplanted to the
Tnlted States will be examined.
Mr. Meyer is accompanied by no
imerican assistant He will, upon his
rrival in southeastern Russia, organte
his own caravan. He carries with
im materials for the packing and
reservation of the scions of trees
nd for the carrying home of roots
nd seeds of other plant organisms.
Interpreters will be engaged for the
arious stages of the long journey and
oolie carriers and camel drivers will
lake up the remainder of his party,
le expects to arrive at his starting
oint east of the Black Sea very
oon. From then on he will be, for
he greater portion of his time, out of
he sight of a European face, and for
he next three years he will devote all
is time to the study of the plant life
f the Oriental regions. He expects to
etura to the United States late in
915, but whenever possible during his
>ng sojourn specimens for American
xperlmentation will be dispatched to
he department, and he will send in
rom time to time detailed reports of
rogress.
HOME OF THE TWI8TER
Ireat Storms That Have Hit the Mississippi
Valley.
The Mississippi valley, the home of
he twisting tornado, furnishes a long
st of storms, among wnicn tnat or
tie most disastrous.
The storm which swept the city of
ialveston on September 2, 1900, was
robably the most terrible disaster reulting
from purely natural causes in
tie history of the North American
ontinent. A West Indian hurricane
trayed out of its path held the city in
s gasp for more than eighteen
ours. The wind velocity reached
35 miles an hour and the waters of
tie bay were forced up into the city,
rith a resulting loss of more than
,000 lives. The property loss was
early twenty millions.
Adams county, Miss., will long retain
remarkable as having been the
cene of two deadly tornadoes only
(vo years apart. The first came in
lay, 1840, and the second in June,
842. The first killed 317 persons and
tie second was even more severe,
ausing the death of 500.
Although the west is the , home of
tie "twister" and the cyclone celler,
lie east has suffered occasional dlsurbances.
Louisville, Ky? is one
ity of large size that stood in the
ath of a tornado. Twenty-three
ears ago this month a tornado travrsed
part of the city, killing seventyIx
and injuring 200, with a property
)ss of two millions.
Much nearer home, we find that a
torm visited Wallingford, New Haven
ounty, Conn., in August, 1878. Thirr-four
persons lost their lives and
fie violent windstorm was reported
5 have blown off monuments In a
emetery.
Fannin county, Texas, was the cenre
of a disturbance In May, 1880,
hat blew at a rate of one hundred
illes an hour, killing forty and Injurlg
ninety-three persons. Six years
iter the cities of St. Cloud and Sauk
Laptds, Minn., were tornado swept,
ith the death of nearly half a hunred.
Prescott county, Kansas, sufered
from a destructive storm in
pril, 1887, wh|ch killed twenty,
lore than 300 buildings were levelled
y the wind.
Of recent storms the hurricane
rom off the Gulf that swept Pensaola
In September, 1906, is notable,
'he town was inundated by water
riven in by the gale and great destruction
was wrought among the shlping.
Half a hundred lives were
>8t.
In April, 1908, Louisiana, Misslssip1,
Alabama. Georgia. Arkansas, and
'ennessee were storm swept with a
iss of life of 350 and an Injured list
f more than 1,500.
The cyclones, great, widespread air
isturbances, are not in themselves
sually destructive. It is the local
isturbances within the great area
overed by the cyclone, and most usully
in the southeast quadrant, that
fie damage is done. This was the
ase in the last big storm.
They Say.
Look before you leap?and the char?ur
will probably get you anyway.
Gray horses live the longest.
While bread is the staff of life no
lan has a right to make his existence
ne long loaf.
Two miners are killed for every milon
tons of coal mined.
Be sure to seize the opportunity of a
fetime in the lifetime of the opportulty.
Caterpillars shun black.
We're all artists at drawing concluons.
Russia is the only country where the
omen criminals outnumber the men.
The Lawrence and Little Falls strikes
iggest that there, is trouble looming.
They who> live Male and hearty to 30
re apt. statistics prove, to live to 73.
Blonde wives are said to be the most
>rgivlng.
rAfTlA AAA AAA *** *
f NAPOLEON OF M
I
The Great Conspiracy
| Brought to Naught Bj
?+ ? ? +? ?*? ?+ ? ? <? ?
Organized banditry doesn't flourish
under our contemporary conditions in
th? TTnited States. Sporadic crimes
such as those of the train robber, of
the so-called Black Hand, and the lone
highwayman are pregnant enough to
occupy a considerable portion of the
newspapers as they are In all civilized
communities. But we must look back
to a much earlier period to And a
chronicle of an attempt Vo bring together
in a widely extended conspiracy 1
under a single head, ail ti e forces of
evil which festered over 6( ,000 square 1
miles of sparsely settled territory.
The held of this satanic campaign
extended from Cairo, 111., to the Mia- 1
slsslppi delta and cut the width of a 1
broad swath through a half score of
slave states. Wholesale and retail !
robbery, counterfeiting, land swindling,
negro stealing and selling, blackmailing
and even murder and assassl- '
nation, all played their part In this 1
vast campaign of crime.
John Murrell, the apostle and leader :
of this Infernal cult, the would-be Na- ,
poleon of chaos and crime in the Mis- 1
slsslppi valley, the organiser of ades- !
perate clan of some twelve ] hundred
miscreants, taught his followers that 1
, it was the safest way In most cases to
kill the victim, unless there was some
obvious reason to the contrary.
His organized money-getting schemes J
through robbery and web of afflUated
crimes, which had extended over a !
period of ten preliminary years, gave J
htm the means of gratifying the basest '
forms of lust and riotous living. These '
he Indulged in to a swinish .extent at
New Orleans, Charleston and other !
southern cities at periodical times. His 1
appearance of wealth, his fine clothes, ]
his lavish extravagance, and a certain
dashing vivacity, which he could as- ]
uimA at will >rav? him thA AntrAA ?vnn '
into the aociety of the wilder young
men of fashion, against whom his Inner
spirit gnashed its teeth in the
thought that he would one day cut
their throats.
But such use of wealth was entirely
subordinate to the zeal with which he
purchased arms?rifles, pistols, pikes
and knives?and cached them at numerous
convenient places. The time'
of the uprising he had fixed for Christmas
night, 1835. i
About eighteen months before this
expected climax, an Interesting encounter
occurred in the woods of Madison
county, west Tennessee, in what
was then known as the Choctaw Purchase.
Virgil 8tewart, a young Georgian,
had come into a small inheritance
from his father a year before and had
then concluded to invest in the virgin
lands of that newly opened tract. He
had made his entry, paid the fee, and
after keeping the store of one Clanton,
a probate Judge, for a while, had returned
to Georgia to complete the
purchase and take residence.
Stewart was out riding one evening
in the early dusk when he overtook a
striking: figure mounted on a fine
hunter, which he sat with the ease of
a finished horseman. The stranger, a
man of erect spare figure, had a peculiar
face which at once riveted Stewart's
attention. The eyes, of a cold,
piercing gray, were set close together
under beetling brows, and the mouth
had thin lips, which in their curves
carried a suggestion of cruelty. Otherwise
the features were good, and the
manner was perfect of its sort, as he
accosted Stewart with well-bred ease
and resonant voice of one accustomed
to public speaking:
"Good evening sir. I hope that you
are enjoyin' your ride in the twilight
gloaming. There is something delightful
at this hour in the woods. Nature
declares the glory of God"?partly
shutting his eyes with an air of pensive
enthusiasm?"but this meetin' of
day and dark among the tree-pillars
always makes me think of a great
church made without hands." 1
aiewan siarea ai mis saiuiauon,
which he politely returned, and for a
moment fancied the stranger an itinerant
minister of the better class. But
he thought it odd that a gospeler
should ride a thoroughbred hunter and
carry heavy pistols in his holsters,
with a knife in his belt and a sawedoff
shot gun on his pommel. Yet almost
all white men were wont to ride
armed then in that country and there
was nothing suspicious in the fact, except
the pious twang of the overture.
"My host, who lives about ten miles
from hyar, is out of venison, and so I
thought God would send me a chance
for a buck. I don't believe in slayln'
the beasts of the held wantonly, but
they were created for the use of man,
we are tar.ght in the Holy Scripture.
Do you reside in this district, sir?"
"Probably I shall," answered Stewart,
"as I have recently bought land
here, and am on the outlook now for
some likely slaves. I may have to run
down to New Orleans to get them,
though it is a costly trip, for a good
lot of them have disappeared from
here of late?run away or stolen.
That's a fine horse you're riding."
"Yes," said the other with a sinister
twinkling in his eye which Stewart's
keen observation noted, "I'm a good
judge of a hoss, or of the sons of Ham
whom God made for service. I trust
sir, you will find a nag as good, and
all the black boys you need. I shall
be hereabouts for the next fortnight,
and then I shall obey the command of
God to call sinners to repentence at
the campmeetin' over in Shelby county,
up Memphis way. Pardon me, sir,
tut I took an instant likin' for you
and I hope we shall get further ac- <)
quainted. I ride in these woods every "
evenin'. Good-by till we meet again." a
He doffed his hat with great punc- a
tilio and spurred his horse through by 1
a byroad in the darkling woods. Neith- t
er had mentioned his name to the oth- t
r
er. f
A few days later he again crossed <3
the stranger not far from the scene of 1
the first meeting, and the latter greet- a
ed him with an air of unmistakable f
pleasure: f
"I have thought a good deal about a
you, sir, since I met you the other t
night. I reckon we're kindred spirits t
somehow, for I know human nature a
pretty well and rarely make a mis- r
take," with an air of great complacency.
"I thought I'd like to have a f
long powwow, for I'm a lonely man, e
though I know many people. I am un- ?
expectedly called away tomorrow eve- 1
ning. Pray, sir, come and spend the r
night with me at the Corners. My host t
of the tavern has fine old 'apple,' and t
brace of wild ducks fit for a king for a
for?" stopping with Hps pursed into <3
an enigmatic smile.
Stewart gladly assented, and they a
rode together a few miles farther to r
the Corners, which consisted of a log 1'
tavern, a ramshackle store and a rude t
blacksmith shop. I
After supper under a huge gum tree,
and with a tongue well loosened by e
frequent libations of apple toddy, the c
man of mystery begun to unbosom
himself. c
"You are a speculator, Hues, and so s
am I, though not perhaps In the sam' n
line. The world has treated me bad- c
ly and you, too, I reckon, If I read you t
aright See the swarms of the rich, a
whose claws are fastened on all the c
good things of life, the best to eat, the v
best of drink, the finest of clothes to h
wear. The world has nothin' too good
for "em, and they get it without turn *
In' their hands over. Under the law c
they've got the top cyards, and, by
, they rook the game! After all it's A
the law of cunnln' and of the strong n
hand at the bottom." t
The young man had listened with- r
out a word, with the same feeling that h
a hidden spectator would have at tl
watching cannibals at their ghastly fi
banquet. Ho had had time enough to b
make up his mind, and he nerved him- a
eslf to see the thing through. t<
"Sir" he said, extending his hand, "I c
don't know who you are, but put
right there! What you've said has t<
sounded a hidden chord. I feel you're w
exactly right, sir, and that we ought h
to get even with our oppressors in any d
way we can. You reckoned straight "V"
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when you saw in me a congenial fl
spirit" c
So they parted for the night, leaving a
one of them little chapce for sleep in
the thoughts that swept over him. ?
w ny naa inis man taaen Him Into his "
confidence, bearing the hideous con- ?
tents of his soul to a stranger at the p.
second meeting, when commonplace
prudence would dictate great care In d
trusting one who was not even as yet 8
Bworn a proselyte. P
The next morning, as they rode 8
through the woods, talking of lndiff- ?
erent matters, Stewart was accosted J?
with the sudden interjection, "I am
John Murrell!" accompanied by a look 11
of piercing question. P
"I suspected so last night," was the
answer, "and was rejoiced to know a *
man of my own kidney."
A handclasp seemed to relieve the ?
other's mind of any passing doubt, and c
Murrell said bluntly: a
"I need a lieutenant, a man of grit, ?
of brains an' resources. Will you be c
that man, Hues? I picked you out by c
an unfallin' instinct, instantly I saw 8<
you." *1
The young man agreed, and two 8
hours later they parted, arranging a 8.
rendezvous for two weeks later, as 11
Murrell was compelled to go away on c<
lome call of his nefarious work. *
Stewart met the bandit chief, and as *
they rode west Murrell told him that
they were on the way to one of the ~
principal headquarters of the clan, "
which was on an island in a Mississippi
bayou, Just across the river from "
Memphis. Here ho would meet some k
if the principal men and be sworn into 81
the band. ?
They found themselves on the banks n
it the Mississippi, at that time storm- 8'
lashed, at dusk, but the rowboat on "
which Murrell relied was gone. So
they applied for hospitality at the "
mnap nf A nlnntar namoH Phamnlnn CI
Fie looked askance at Murrel when 81
the latter requested the loan of a skiff JI
>n which to cross. Stewart at once ?
ippraised him as an honest man and b<
lot one of the many secret confeder- n<
ites of the robber gang. Champion Y}
'elt a note slipped into his hand as the s
twain parted from him next morning, 01
ead warning In Stewart's eyes, saw a
inger motioned to his lips.
The island rendezvous was a slnls- 81
ter-looking place set In a little river
>end that somewhat concealed it.
F*ringed with cane-brake and manrrove
swamp, a narrow passage of
slear water led up to higher ground in E
the center, though that, too. was am>ushed
by dense forest growth, a fitting
home of secret crime and consplr- 8,
icy. Five miles away on this Arkan- rc
ias side was the nearest settlement,
ind a very small one at that. A great b,
iquat one-story log house with several V(
>utbulldings, a number of rude shacks w
>n the edge of the clearing, where 8t
Stewart saw a score of blacks, crown- ei
id the little hill q
All day long small parties arrived at a,
he Island. To these "Adam Hues" was c(
ntroduced as a new and trusted re:rult,
until about fifty were assem- w
Jled, a few of whom would never have B
:>een suspected of other than a repu- m
able life. These were some of the g.
>rincipal members of the "Grand Coun:il,"
and this was the night of the CI
egular quarterly meeting. f0
During the day Stewart witnessed h(
in episode that gave a fresh touch to
lis horror at Murrell and his plans. j8
The negroes assembled there were fc
iwalting the coming of the flat boat ft
hat was to ship them to the New Or- ei
cans market, but one of them had be:ome
so suspicious as to instigate fear g,
n me omers. mm Murren Deguuea n(
iway on the pretense of catching flsh s,
'or supper, and, having led him to a M
emote place by the riverside, burled a n.
>owle knife In his back and flung the e.
deeding corpse Into the bayou to be tj
aken care of by the river cats. 8t
Stewart saw this through the manrroves,
and half an hour later met d(
Hurrel, whose face was smiling and c
inconcerned as ever. tv
Tae council was held in the evening j
n the log house. We can imagine the
icene, though Stewart describes it j
vith prosaic simplicity and directness. ttl
Phe great, rude barn-like place, light- D>
>d by the smoky glare of pine knots; ?
he long table strewn with Jugs of
vhlsky and apple-jack; the raucous _
:lamor of nlghtbirds, Innumerable In- <n
lects and wild animals In the encircl- .1.
ng Jungle; the blasphemy, obscene .
itorles and , anecdotes of personal
Times that punctuated the business; (
he terrible presentment of things to
:ome; the dank and rotten odors of .
he swamp mingling with' those of
>erspirlng and fldthy ruffians, and the _
>ungent gases of the flaming torches? th
10 we can fancy the scene.
Yet business was transacted with th
lome order, and Murrell, the leading J.
iplrf.t, drank nothing lest he should {"
ose his ascendancy over these rude
ind violent spirits. Reports were read ^
rom local centers as to the progress
if the slave-uprlsng conspiracy. Fig- L
ires were given for the three months
>ast as to the various money-making
Times which had been committed In 72
lome Ave states. Plans were discussed ? f
or perfecting the methods of propa- ,
-anda among the hosts of negroes on
he plantations.
The last business done was the fornal
Initiation of "Hues" as a member
>f the gang and as a Grand Councilor.
Itewart made Ms plunge boldly; his
mAAAV. Ul <4 Ka ni
ipcoiiii, no lie iiiiuocii ori it uuwu, uc- wi
ran in these words:
"My youth and inexperience must
dead the cause of any deficiency I
nay betray before this worthy and en- ,s
ightened congregation. I am better 8?
[ualified to acquiesce in the plans and al
neasures of others than to advance si'
inythlng of my own. I have received
til my ideas from our honorable die- d'
ator. I should feel guilty of presumpion
were I to offer any amendments hi
o his present deep and well-arranged <h
lans and purposes. Your schemes, un- *e
ler the guidance of our experienced dl
eader, appear to me to be practical m
tnd praise-worthy. My opinion of the a*
aith and principles of this lordly band a8
nay be expressed in a few words; and ce
is I have been honored by the instrucions
and confidence of our leader, to 8C
>e whose creature only is my highest
Lspirations, I flatter myself of its cor- ?*
ectness." J*1
This and the inflated harangue that J11
ollowed gained the confidence of the 'n
rang. The robber chieftain wrung
itewart's hand and glowed with de- th
Ight at the fulsome praise. The young
nan was initiated, sworn in under
ilood-curdling penalties, taught all wl
he grips and signals of recognition, wi
ind the night was worn out in a mad 811
lebauch. 8P
The next day the grand council disolved,
its members departed and Mur- w
ell, who stayed to superintend the th
oading of the black cattle in a flat- wi
oat for the slr.ve-market, was finally F?
ert alone wun us lieutenants.
"There's S20.C00 in that batch," he ta
xulted, "and we will have another th
argo next monti""" m
The bandit chief, in his unbounded P<
onfldence, then Insisted that Stewart tr?
hould do what he had feared he might
lot be able to accomplish?make a tr
omplete list of the grand councilors, oli
heir occupations, places of residence 1U
nd their assignments in a consplra- of
y of murder, arson, robbery and de- to
astatlon unparalleled in American oti
ilstory. wl
It was necessary, said Murrell, that us
lues should know all the leading ac- mi
omplices and how to identify them.
There were also 650 "strikers"?ruf- nu
[ans of the common sort, whose busl- rei
less it was to execute ordjers, or prac- nu
Ice any kind of outrage that came to
eadily to their hands at every-day rei
azard. Stewart was Informed, too, Ar
hat the signatures of either class feil of
ar short of including all the affiliated ah
rethren, and among them was his in
cquaintance, Judge Clanton, alleged Th
9 be an adept in all the secrets of the we
lan. asi
Stewart narrated his amazing story sla
j Mr. Henning, and the old preacher mt
ras stricken dumb, suspicious though nu
e had been in a vague way, by such a ra]
Isdiosure as seemed almost incredible. Lo
(That would the discovery do to bring fai
lis titanic criminal, literally an enely
to all society, to justice? Reading
etween the lines of Stewart's written
arrative we can fancy such answer
s this:
"Murrell must be arrested at once,
hough I am the only witness on whose
estlmony an indictment could be
ound. Murdered men tedl no tales and
egro statements have no legal value,
'here will be scores to give perjured
vidence to rebut my charges. I know
uite well that the story of the slavensurrectlon
conspiracy and its extendd
network will be considered so montrous
as to be food for ridicule, and
he conspirators will take advantage
f that. Yet we must move promptly,
nd at any risk, in the seizure of the
:ing villain, and keep him under lock
nd key while we hunt testimony to
orroborate mine and have time to
waken public opinion. ,
"If we wait and take chances on the
uture, suspicion of me may kindle at
ny time, and it will be such hairrigger
work, with Murrell free to do
is will, and with so many accomplices
hat my life wouldn't be worth thistle
uwxi. dui it w? ai rrsi iiiiii, 111s auence
will leave the gang temporarily
aralyzed, for no one of them will be
ure of his own safety in the first
rash of the shock. He's the brain,
eart and soul of everything. Let us
asten him by the throat, and then
rust to the future to build up further
roof."
So it was determined that John
lurrell should be arrested in an adlinlng
county and not in the vicinity
f Tuscahoma, as it might mean that
!lanton, who was justice of the peace
s well as probate judge, would at
nee discharge him from custody,
rhampion and some of his friends
ame at Stewart's call and with Paron
Henning, his son, and half a dozen
rusty spirits, all armed to the teeth,
ervlng as posse, a warrant was duly
worn out and Murrell taken. When
le robber marked one face among his
aptors he spat on the ground and
rowled out between his teeth with a
ort of frozen rage:
"It's well for you that I was such a
? fool; but mark you, traitor, this
usiness isn't done yet, I reckon!"
Stewart half confesses that for a
joment, demoniac-like villain as he
new the other to be, he felt a pang of
tiame that it had fallen to him, for
rhom a wretch like this had shown
Is one human weakness, to be the intrument
of his betrayal, necessary as
lat was for the good of the commonealth.
While awaiting the action of
ie grand jury, the arch-desperadoesiped
by connivance, but was retaken
nd lodged in a Memphis prison, where
e couia De more errecuveiy guaraea.
here he remained for several months
efore trial, the Indictment being for
egro-steallng, as the proofs of his
Eiatly more heinous crimes were, as
tewart had anticipated, difficult to
larshal. Murrell was convicted and
mdemned to ten years in the penlintlary
for kidnapping and selling
ave property.?Answers.
PREPARING FOR WAR
uropsan Countris* Excited Over
Possible Eventualities.
A passion for war seems to be
veeping over all the countries of Eu>pe.
The Balkan states have found a
?ld of expression for their militancy,
it countries which have not this
;nt are expending their energies In
ar-like preparations. The small
ates are involved equally with the
eater powers, and today France,
ermany, Austria, Russia, Belgium
id Switzerland are taking serious
>unt of their military preparedness.
Belgium is raising her army from a
ar footing of 100,000 to 150,000 men.
aron de Broquevllle, the Belgian
Inlster of war, In concluding a
>eech on this subject before the Belan
chamber, urged that the army Inease
be voted as quickly as possible,
ir the sake of Belgian security and
jnor." The country lives under the
ladows of the great states, the mlnter
declared, and Belgium must put
>rth great exertions to protect her
ontiers should her neighboring pew's
fall upon each other.
The most important newspapers of
wltzerland are publishing the official
jtlces of the government warning
wlss citizens residing In European
>untries to hold themselves in readl588
to return Immediately in the
rent oi' war, and Swiss living in the
nlted States have been requested to
and ready to come back to Swltzernd
on call. The Swiss republic, unjr
its present military organization,
>uld put into the held 100,000 men in
irenty-four hours and 200,000 in forty
ght hours. One-third of the governent's
revenues are spent on military
)jects. In case of supreme necessity,
le government expects to be able to
ace 275,000 men under arms within
week.
The French cabinet has adopted a
easure extending the term of service
. the army from two to three years;
lis adds something over 200,000 men
i the peace footing of the army.
Cvery Frenchman," said M. Cheron,
flclal analylst of the appropriations
immittee of the chamber of deputies,
a recent address, "must at the presit
moment fix his attention upon the
llltary activity on the other side of
te frontier." He then compared Gerany's
expenditures on her army with
le expenditures of France during the
ist ten years. The cost of the Geran
army had augmented constantly
itil now it was double that of France,
ext year, under the new German law
le outlay on the army would be $100,10,000
more than that of France.
The new German military bill wil!
id 84,000 recruits to the army, givg
a total of 806,000 men, excluding
fleers. Compared to this France, inuding
the latest numerical increase,
is a total of 578,783 men in her army
i a peace footing, excluding officers.
TOO MUCH TALKING
i?r?oterized as Dangerous Disesse
and Menaoe to Civilization.
This Isn't a new disease; In fact, it
ancient, but its terrible dangers to
ciety are just beginning to be reized,
says M. Osslp Lourie, a Rusin
writer, in a startling article rankg
excessive talking as a dangerous
sease and a menace to civilization.
Civilization is responsible for it, in
s opinion, and nothing but strenu18
regime to enforce temporary sinces
on those afflicted can stop its
-eaded ravages. And he urges huanity
to inaugurate a campaign
;alnst verbosity Just as it wages war
;ainst tuberculosis and against exssive
alcoholism.
Progress is decidedly hindered, he
>es on to say, by this prevalent vice,
id he urges the Immediate attention
the teacher and the minister and
ie doctor. According to his history,
iman language developed from signs
to articulate speech and then was
ied by writing. Then people, like
e pianists who can render difficult
impositions without thinking about
iem, acquired the power to talk
Ithout thinking about what they
ere saying. So words became posble
without ideas in the mind of the
eaker.
If it were impossible to speak
Ithout thinking, M. Lourie insists
at the greater part of mankind
Duld grow dumb in a few years.
)r, far from being creatures that
ink, "men are nothing but animated
Iking machines." They carry with
emselves a principle of verbal
ovement which is determined by a
iwer over which they have no conol.
Whnn fVizx nrnrH a hororriA HI VHTOftd
om the Idea talking became pathogical,
a disease, for a man's intelrence
Is not measured by the number
words he speaks, but according
his power of comprehension. Idls
frequently express themselves
th great facility, while men of genli
are often able to talk In only the
ost poverty-stricken terms. I
Verbomania, he Insists, affects (
imbers of people who are In other
spects quite normal, and whose I
alady does not prevent them, un- |
rtunately, from taking part In the ,
gular business of everyday life.'
nong its victims he counts leaders I
sects and of political parties and |
>o habitual gossips, whom he places
the same class as dipsomaniacs. '
lese verbomanlacs become moral |
akllngs, and their disease becomes |
soclated with all kinds of vanity, "
inder, calumny and perjury. It Is '
>re frequently found among wo- |
m than men, and It spreads more J
pldly among the southern races. M. '
urie urges preventive remedies for (
iriily, school and general social use. I
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J a machine Rebuilt in a thoroughly equipped factory by
f thoroughly trained mechanics, who Replace and Renew
t All Worn Parts, and turn out machines perfect in every
C detail, in shprt, "AS GOOD AS EVER"?Machines that
Swill do as good work and as much of it as a New machine,
and you save from $40 to $60 on the deal. If a
? saving of this amount means anything to you see us be
{ fore you buy a Typewriter. A few prices:
? Remington, Nos. 10 and 11 $52.00 to $60.00
j Oliver, No. 3 30.00 to 36.00
? Oliver, No. 5 42.00 to 50.00
V Smith Premier, No. 2 28.00 to 35.00
? Smith Premier. No. 10 40.00 to 52.00 <
V Monarch, No. 2 42.00 to 50.00
? L. G. Smith, No. 1 41.00 to 48.00
7 Underwood, Nos. 4 and 5 42.00 to 60.00
I If you expect to buy a Typewriter, buy a Rebuilt
I Machine and keep the difference in your pocket. See us.
We also sell Typewriter Ribbons, Typewriter Paper,
? Carbon Copy Paper, Carbons. Let us supply you.
L. M. GRIST'S SONS, I
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