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. I8BPKD BEKI-WEEKL^ ~ " ^ _ _ ?? ??? ?? _? l.m.grist's sons, publisher* ) % ^amilg $cujspapeii: $:? fromotion ojf foliiiral, ?o?[ial, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of th$ feopty. { n**wotMmwncm***' established 1855. ~~~ yorkville, 8. o., tuesday, may 27, 1913. no. 42. ? , _ ? THURSDAY i By DAVID GRA IL k At eight the next morning, as Day ton had finished shaving: and was going: into hli. bath, there was a knock at the outer door of his sitting-room. "What is it?" he called. "A gentleman to see you sir," came through the door. "Carpenter," he said to himself. Then to the servant: "Show him up, please. Bring him into the sitting-room and tell him I will see him directly." With this he unlocked the outer door and went back through the bedroom Into his bathroom. Soon he heard the outer door open and the servant showing his caller In. When he had bathed he returned to the bedroom? the portiere was drawn across the door into the sitting room. He could wait no longer. "I say, old man," he shouted, "did you get a good yarn?" There was a sharp rustling, then silence. He went to the portiere and threw It back and stood In the doorway, his bathroom half open, his face and neck red from the cold water, his hair tumbled. He was transfixed. Before him, gaping at him, sat an old man, a study In the black of broadcloth and the white of linen and skin, and wool-like hah* and side whiskers. His head was wagging end his mouth was ajar as he stared stupidly at Dayton. He raised himself with the aid of a gold-headed cane and adjusted his eyeglass. "I must apologize to you, he quavered. 'Tm so disturbed that I hardly know what I'm about this morning. I fancied I was In the rooms of a Mr. Fenlmore Dayton." 'Tm Fenlmore Dayton," said Dayton. And then a horrible thought flashed into his mind. The old man's mouth had flown open again. "What?" he exclaimed. "Impossible!" Dayton, all the blood in his body In his face, stood there, unable to speak or move. "Great heavens!" he thought, "what shall I do? What has Carpenter been up to?" Lord Frampton passed his hand over his face. "Impossible!" he muttered. "Incredible!" And he again rubbed his face confusedly. "Tell me!" He looked strangely at Dayton. "Did you or did you not have a talk with me at the Atheneum club yesterday In the afternoon?" Dayton opened his mouth several times before he could articulate: "I did not?that is?" "Then who was it? Where is he?" Lord Frampton looked angTily around. "I insist upon an explanation, sir!" "Excuse me?Just a few minutes?I must finish dressing?I was and I wasn't there?I'll explain." Dayton withdrew to the bedroom, pulling the portiere over the doorway. He sat on the end of the bed. "What can have happened?" he said to himself. "Did Carpenter sneak away and get some drinks while he was waiting? What has he done? What shall I say?" He could hear the old man muttering and mumbling. He hurried into his clothes and returned to the sitting room. He stood before Lord Frampton, looking ashamed, repentant, honest. "I am going to make a clean breast of it, sir," he said. "I could not keep my engagement with you yesterday. I sent a perfectly competent man, thinking it made no difference to you, as you did not know me or care especially who did the interview, so long as it was done properly." "But?where is he? Where is he?" Lord Frampton tapped his cane angrily on the floor. "I don't know, sir. I?" "ThiB is outrageous. A person representing himself to be a Fenimore Dayton, an American Journalist, wrote me a note. I don't know what demon of Ill-luck possessed me 1 had never submitted to an Interview?I am a very old man and in poor health?I permit no strangers to come near me. But somehow?perhaps in the note?I don't know?at any rate I consented to receive this person at my club. He?or some one representing himself to be him?came and we talked for about two hours. He was most agreeable? most intelligent?but he had been drinking?at least, I feared so?I became nervous about the interview. He promised to bring me what he had written last night. As he did not?I came here this morning?I wish to recall the interview?I forbid the publication of a word from me?I shall hold you responsible, sir! It is an outrage! It is scandalous! I shall protest publiclv. sir!" The old man, who had risen In his excitement, seated himself again, and, trembling from his exertions fell to rubbing his face violently with the head of his cane. "At my age! What follv!" he fumed, more to himself than to Dayton. "To intrust my reputation to an unknown, irresponsible creature! He may publish anything?have the whole world laughing at me." "I've no excuse to offer, sir," said Dayton, humbly. "I can only throw myself on your mercy. But first let me say that your Interview is safe?ai least it has not been published?and will not be." Then he went on to confess the whole truth, holding back nothing?his love for a young American the impossibility of keeping both engagements, the impossibility ol breaking either. "And I suppose, sir, he said, in conclusion, "that Carpenter slipped away and took several drinks before seeing you, and ther kept on drinking afterward. In spltt of his habits, sir, there isn't a man ir the world more competent to get suet an interview than Henry Carpenter." "Hasn't he written on sociology?' inquired Lord Frampton. He had beer interrupting Dayton's narrative with 9 descending series of exclamations, beginning with "Shocking!" and "Depraved!" and "Insolent!" and ending with such milder ejaculations as "Most astonishing!" "Extraordinary!" "Surprising!" "Yes," replied Dayton, eagerly entering the opening, and hurrying on tc AT THREE lHAM PHILLIPS. J remind Lord Frampton of the titles and subjects of Carpenter's best known essays. Lord Frampton was somewhat mollled. He said: "It was a disgraceful trick to play upon an old man, sir?but ?I've been young myself. You Americans! A wonderful people, sir, but," ?with a sudden twinkling In his old eyes?"will you get the young lady?" "I think so," said Dayton. "I don't doubt It, If impudence Is cs effective with the ladles as It was when I was a young fellow." Lord Frampton chuckled. "Would you mind If I showed you a photograph of her, sir?" asked Dayton, Bhamelesly using his bride-to-be as a pacifier of the old man's wrath. He brought the photograph?a fair-haired clear-eyed girl with a resolute face looking straight out of the picture at you. "A fine American type," said Lord Frampton. They talked for a. few minutes of America, then Lord Frampton suddenly remembered his wrongs and was angry all over again. "I am very old," he said peevishly. "This will shorten my life. And where, sir, is that associate of yours?this Carpenter?" "We'll land him," said Dayton, and after he had hastily taken coffee and a roll, they set out for the far end of Plmlico. They found Carpenter's lodgings, down a dismal alley In a house which, had It been built of wood instead of stone, would have been obliterated decades before. A pinched New England female face answered the knock at the door, to which the slattern In charge had directed them. "What do you want " said she, In what Is sometimes called the "pie and pickles" voice. "Where Is Mr. Carpenter?" "That's what I'd like to know," Mrs. Carpenter answered. While Dayton could not blame the woman for any degree of exasperation against Carpenter, still the tone, the manner, the look, combined to convince him that she was not without her share In the responsibility for the disintegration of Carpenter's character. "She would have either held him together or left him years ago," he said to himself, "if she'd been of the right sort." And If to strengthen this conviction, four dirty and Ill-mannered children now swarmed rudely from behind her and stood gazing at Lord Frampton and Dayton. A few minutes' talk made It clear that no news was to be .got there. "We'll have to look for him," said Dayton, as If they were sure to find him. And on the way back to the PiccadillyStrand district, he tried to persuade Lord Framptom to go quietly to his club and wait. "No," said Lord Crampton, crossly, "I go with you. Really, Mr. Dayton, this Is a most extraordinary proceeding. When peace and quiet are absolutely necessary to me, I find myself rushing about London In search of a wild drunken creature. My whole life has been spent in quiet. And now, at ninety, thanks to my accursed folly In answering a note from a wandering American Journalist?I must have been out of my mind! I feel like pinching myself to see whether I am awake. I shall not leave you until we find him. I must look to my reputation. Why did I, why did I answer that devilish note?" It was a strange afternoon and ev ening they spent, looking for Carpenter in his haunts, sc far as they were known to his newspaper acquaintances. The world-famous philosopher went through a succession of diverse moods. Now he would heap reproaches on Dayton, and now would make sly inquiries about Elsie. Now he would rage frantically against Carpenter, and now would be profoundly interested In the unfamiliar sights of the seamy side of London. Most of the time he seemed to be in a daze. "Did ever a man of my age and habits and reputation have such an experience?" he repeated again and again. "Why did I answer that note?" Toward nine at night, Dayton, In the effort to calm one of the old man's tirades?he was very tired and sleepy ?told him that Elsie and he were to be married on Monday. As her mother won't consent, we shall go quietly to the American consulate. I've arranged it all with a friend of mine." "Most extraordinary!" muttered Lord Frampton. "More impudence! And what am I doing here?at my age?in my health?" "Will you come?" interrupted Dayton. , "Come! Come where?" "To the wedding. We'd be delighted." i Lord Frampton starea. uoa mess i my soul!" he ejaculated. "Am I dreaming? I?Invited to take part In a runi away marriage?I!" "I suppose you're afraid there will he I a mistake and you'd bethebricier groom. s Lord Frampton smiled, then chucklt ed. then laughed. But they were Just I at Carpenter's lodgings?their fourth visit. Yes, Carpenter had returned; ; had staggered in about an hour before, and was now upstairs. His wife? openi ed the door. There he lay upon the f bed, his clothes torn and mud-bedaub' ed. He was in a stupor, and was ex haling fumes like an open barrel of I bad whisky. Dayton shook him viol lently. He snorted and struck out with ! his fists, but did not awaken. Lord l Frampton, very dignified and very dazi ed, looked on in disgust. "Roll Mm on the floor," suggested the ' eldest boy. "Let me throw water on i Mm?mar'm always does; donM you, i mar'm? All, including the renowned philoso pher, who used his cane vigorously as ; a proud, joiner, in the effort to revive t the drunken man. When he at last opened his eyes, Dayton said: "Here, here. Carpenter, where's that inter view?" and kept on shaking him to ) prevent his lapsing into the stupor. "Pocket," mumbled Carpenter. "He's a gran' ok' man. 01* Frampy passed *t i out hot. Gran' ol* man, Frampy?" Dayton reached Into the Inside pock- 1 et of the coat and drew out a notebook. "Ha!' "01* Frampy" clutched it, put on his eyeglass and glanced over 1 the pages. "Yes?that Is It. I never expected to see It. Bless me, what a relief!" Dayton gave Mrs. Carpenter a sovereign?"on account," he said, for lack of any other disguise of the charity, "and when he comes around tell him I want to see him." Dayton and Lord Frampton hurried away. "Where shall I set you down, sir?" bui a i/uyiuu. Lord Frampton grave the number of a private hotel In Dover street. They drove in silence for ten minutes, then the philosopher chuckled. Dayton glanced at him futlvely. He had been devising a plan for approaching the subject of the Interview?perhaps he could Induce Lord Frampton to give up the notebook. When the old man chuckled again, he ventured to speak: "Will you forgive me, sir?" "Forgive you, you young rascal I oughtn't, but?it Is certainly very ridiculous?how many friends, my readers all over the world, would laugh If they could know what I've been doing." He chuckled again. "Then you'll come to the American consulate on Monday at ten?to the wedding?' 'The spirit of adventure has got Into my blood. Yes?I'll be there?If I don't die of he reaction." "And that nterview?" "There?there! Not a word about that. I'll overlook It?" "But I mean?it's a great Impertinence to ask It?only?" Lord Frampton turned In the cab and looked at Dayton's calm, earnest face In amazement. "You don't mean, my dear sir, that you are daring to : ask me to?no, It's Impossible?even you wouldn't dare!" "But, sir, it seems a shame for you to have all this annoyance for nothing. I can transcribe the notes and have them typewritten and bring them to you. And if you are not satisfied, you can tear them up, or use them for some other purpose." Lord Frampton was laughing. *1 have always held," said he, "that surprising results were to come from your race under the political, social, and geographic conditions of the New World. But?I must say?" "And," pursued Dayton, "I could cable it over tomorrow for Sunday's paper, and I'm sure It would be a great hit. The Americans are tremendous admirers and readers of your work." "Yes?I have been much gratified at the sales of my books over there?far better than here. But it is tempting fate." "Dayton was discreetly silent. "You Americans!" Lord Frampton exclaimed humorously, as he after a few minutes handed over the note-book. 'Tve rescued my reputation from a drunken ] man oniy io give 11 iniu ui? Keeping i? i a harum-scarum rascal who Is prob- i ably crazed by?by?she Is a devilish i pretty girl, young man!" < "But wait till you see her on Mon- i day," said Dayton. 'Til call with the < copy at?what hour In the morning?" \ "I shall rise late. I need rest. Call < at eleven." i And at that hour the next morning? i Saturday?Dayton brought the type- < written Interview. Lord Frampton was ] looking fresh and cheerful. i "How do you feel, sir?" Inquired Dayton. i "I ought to feel done. But the fact < is I never felt better. I think It did me ' good?stirred me up. Astonishing! I < must be out of my mind!" Lord Frampton sat at his desk, reading, muking slight changes, nodding approval. "A most Interesting young man," he mumbled, "in spite of his bad habits?most Intelligent. I cer- I talnly talked surprisingly well?bless me! I had no idea I had put that so effectively." "Are you satisfied to have It go, sir?" asked Dayton, when the old phllosoDher had finished. "I think so?I think so." "And I'll see that you get a copy of it, and also that is said about it in the American journals." "That will be very interesting?I think it will cause & profitable discussion?I've long wished to say those things?but there seemed no way?I knew of no way?of getting them before the public I wished to reach?the wider public." On Monday, at the appointed hour, with Lord Frampton as one witness and the consul-general as the only other, Dayton and Elsie were married. Lord Frampton was more than cheerful?he was gay. He had come with his top hat a little back on his head, and noticeably tilted to one side. "Oh! I almost forgot," said Dayton. "Here's a cablegram from the office on your interview." Lord Frampton read: "Dayton, Carleton, London: Framp lull SlU 1L HUWllllg \^v*o tlons." "Stuff"?"Howling:"?Lord Frampton repeated the words as If he delighted In them. "Most gratifying," he said, "most gratifying, I'm sure. God bless me! I'm getting demoralized." "And now for your mother," said Dayton to Elsie. Lord Frampton noted with astonishment the calmness of these two young people. "Will she be angry?" he inquired. "Angry! She'll be wild," said Dayton, cheerfully. "She's mad on the subject of titles. Now, if Elsie were going to tel) her that she had married you?" Lord Frampton laughed till his sides ached at the Implications of this Idea. It seemed to take another ten or twenty years from his rapidly rejuvenating mind. "That suggests an Idea," he said. "If I went with you?Interceded for you? do you think It would help?" Elsie put out her hand to him. "Isn't he fine?" she said to Dayton. And the three of them advanced upon Clarldge's In a cab. Lord Frampton with his arm along the back of the seat, patting Elsie on the shoulder? merely to encourage her. Mrs. Grant went rapidly through her moods?from fury to hysteria, to tears, to reproaches to a discussion with Lord Frampton, to acquiescence; to "making the best of It." Lord Frampton left them, but came toddling back. "Oh!" he said, and took Elsie to one side. "If there should be?you know"?he chuckled?"my name is Hubert, and I haven't got any of my own." Elsie blushed and he almost ran away, his old legs springing: with a ludicrous affectation of youth. "How can I thank you?" said Dayton as he put him In a cab. "Thank me? How can I thank you!" said the old man heartily. "Send "hat disreputable friend of yours to me. Something may be done for him. Goodbye! You Americans!" THE MYSTERY OF WOMAN She Can Make Herself Enchanting Evan in Hideout Fashion*. Whether the women ever succeed In wresting the control of public affairs from their brothers or not, the fact will remain that woman has always been the cause and Inspiration of the deeds that stand out most prominently In the annals of the world and upon the pages of romance. If it had not been for woman Homer would never have had a chance to exhibit the agility of his muse, and Adam would have had to bear the blame himself. The law of Moses would be unknown to us [f it had not been for a woman, and "Hamlet" would not have been written If there had been no Ophelia. America might still be an undiscovered country if a woman had not given Columbus the help and encouragement he needed, and Reno would be an obscure way station if woman had not given it prominence. As the poet touchlngly says: Oh, woman, In our hours of ease, uncertain, coy ana nara to piease, Sweet Is the charm that clings about you; We've all been laid upon your knees When your hand felt like a swarm of bees, But how could man get on without you? Woman Is the only creature that can manage to be lovely In spite of unfavorable circumstances. She can dress herself In the most hideous fashion and still be enchanting. When men were compelled to take private jumping lessons In order to be able to get around her hoops they considered her adorable. Having gone to the other sxtreme and adopted a skirt which la so narrow that she Is helpless If she happens to be knock-kneed, she seems to be more beautiful than ever woman has been In the past. Speakingr of woman's dress, what do you suppose would have happened in Athens 2,300 pears ago If a woman dressed as women dress now had appeared In the streets of that city? There would have been a riot, perhaps a revolution. If she had been accompanied by a man the mob would have fallen upon him and destroyed him. He would have been accused of subjecting the poor lady to Inhuman torture, and h s pleas for mercy would have been futilo. For some reanon woman refuses (p have pockets. She tucks her handkerchief inside her glove and carries her money in such a way that she will be sure not to spend It unless she has a charge account. Woman has a strange tendency to be late at everything except a bargain sale. She possesses extraordinary qualifications as a crossexaminer, and while she is afraid of a mouse, she will fearlessly stop a teamster who weighs 250 pounds and call him a brute because he has overloaded or beaten a poor, old halfstarved horse. Ever since man learned to walk upright he has been sneering at woman and trying to convince her that she was not worthy of his serious consideration, but We dream, we scheme, we risk, we save for woman; We lie, we cheat, we fight, we slave for woman; We think her weak, we sneer because She decks herself with beads and gauze And feathers and such foolish thlnrs As spangles, ribbons, furs and rings; We call her vain, and she Is scorned Because her first and dearest thought Is how to keep herself adorned. But who would shave If It were not For woman??Chicago RecordHerald. The Driest Dry Year.?A few persons remember 1845 as the dry year In this country. There was moisture enough In the ground to bring corn up to a stand. Early in May tne raina ceased, and there was nothing but very light showers occasionally until fall. Upland corn was a failure. Gardens amounted to nothing; small streams dried up. The larger streams and rivers furnished about one fourth the normal supply of water. Frequently clouds would appear for a day or two, but they would pass without rain, The tradition is that the wind was blowing more than half the time. Many families pulled out and moved to Tennessee In the fall because corn was abundant there. In September, farmers began to look after a supply of corn for the next year. They heard that it could be bought for 37 cents a bushel in Rutherford county. Per1 11 ?,??hoonra Cfr\ 1 If of thai IliipH Lilt; HI OL |;u?ciiaog?o ftuc iv uv price, but In consequence of the rush of South Carolina wagons the price coon rose to 50 cents, and then mounted to 75 cents before the winter was ever. No weather records were kept in those days, but It Is probable that the drought covered only a few Piedmont counties. Crops were excellent In western Ncrth Carolina, and In the lower counties of the state. It was In the fall of that year that the famous prayer meeting for rain was called. A large crowd came from the county and met in the Methodist church. They continued In prayer for some time and when the meeting was dismissed, there were some clouds on ?- .1 V. II ?,V,r ine nuriuwcnicui IIUI I6UU, iviaiijr ni?v attended the meeting from the county got drenched before they reached home. That shower was the breaking up of the drought. Others followed and put the ground in fine condition foi sowing wheat. A larger acreage than usual was soon planted and the yield was excellent. In the fall of 1845 fleld? and pastures were the picture of desolation. There was nothing green anywhere Many of the forest trees had died, There are a half dozen or more people living who remember the apparently hopeless condition of the people al that time.?Greenville News. Miscellaneous Reading. DEMANDED ENGINEER'S LIFE. Arab* Sought Vengaano* For 8on Who Waa Killed By Train. Alzakln the former traffic inspector of the Egyptian Delta railway, leaned back in his chair, and drew several long, meditative puiis on his nargileh. "When the Egyptian railroad was flrst put through," he said, "the natives regarded it as a creation of evil I spirits. They not only disapproved of it, but they attacked its employes. | ? - ?* ?"?"oi for a band of I 11 WtUH UUl Uliuou^. -? _ _ natives to gallop up on their swift I Arabian horses, coming apparently from out of the sands of the desert, , and then, aa they rode alongside the train, take a pot shot at us, wheeling and going off at a gallop the moment the shots had been fired from their long-barreled guna Their holy men used to make incantations and cast spells upon us Just as they did on any evil thing, and the Ignorant natives :hought that they were fulfilling the will of Allah if they maimed an employee or threw a train off the tracks. "The road had been built by France ^hen it held its protectorate over fegypt. It was a narrow-gauge line, and it was not a particularly difficult task to make trouble for the men who trvire to keep things running I *???V W ^ ...Q _ I straight I "One day a little Arab boy toddled I out from the cover of the palms which l^ned the tracks just as a train came liiong. There wasn't a chance for him llnd there wasn't time for the engineer I even to shut steam off before we were Ion top of the little chap. His father, Ht chanced, was working in the palm jprrove, and saw It all. r "A couple of days later the father (called at the office of the general manlager with a dozen of his clansmen, all larmed with long rides with inlaid listocks and chased barrels. It was the I policy then to attempt to conciliate I the natives, and the general manager I promptly made an offer to settle. J "Money damages, however, were I dot what the Arabs wanted. They I dpurned the offer with contempt and I demanded that the engineer be given I up to them so that they could take his I life In place of that of the little boy. (That was a compensation that the Igeneral manager could not concede; I In fact, he had already transferred tne I engineer to another part of the line, I fearing the natives might try to wreak I vengeance. "The delegation finally left when I they found that the man would not be ?j i ipft with threaten pruuuueu, ing gestures and warnings that 'Arabs never forget.' "A month later I was riding on a train which was nearing Beltan, on the main line. At the junction there was a triangle of tracks, the main line and the Kafr Hamza section coming together at the point. A cross track from one to the other formed the base" of the triangle. "The train from Kafr Hamza, to which my car was attached, was due at the junction three minutes ahead of a train on the main line, and both were due at Beltan the same number of minutes apart We had the right of way, and unless we were very much behind time the main-line train was always held for us. There was no telegraph, you know, and the length of time that the other train would be held, depended largely upon the discrimination of the signalman at the junction. "I was not surprised that we were signaled to proceed, although we were five minutes behind time. This was largely due to the weather, which was foggy that morning. "You have never seen one of our Egyptian fogs. They are worse than any I have seen In this country. The mists lie close to the ground and seem to be held down by the trees where there Is any foliage. Not until the sun gets high do they begin to swirl about in the air and finally ascend to the heavens like so many wnite-roDea spirits. "When our engineer received the signal to proceed he went on cautiously, as was the custom, until we passed the switch into the main line. I stood in the open door of the baggage car, having come forward from my own , car, which was attached to the rear , of the train. i "The engine, two freight cars and the mail car had passed the cross-over [ track and the baggage car was Just passing over it when I saw coming out of the mist the engine of the malni line train. , "It was evident that the signalman had give us notice to proceed and > then given the other train the same signal, but instead of sending that i ahead on its own track and causing a side swipe he had thrown the switch [ that sent it on the cross-over, so that i it was coming at us head-on. , "For a moment I stood at the open door of that car watching certain I death heading toward me. I was not afraid; in fact, I did not tnina ai an that I remember. The feeling that In an instant more that engine would crush my life out seemed to fascinate me. "Then the guard who stood beside me grasped me by the back of my neck and, yelling, 'Jump!' fairly pulled me through the door on the other side of the train at the same moment that he jumped himself. "The next thing I knew I heard a crash and a crackling of timbers, the car careened and, as I glanced up at it from where I lay on the ground, I could see It slowly toppling over on top of us. "I was considerably surprised a minute later to see It settle and slide so that the door opening came directly on/1 an vo I over us as we my lugcmo, ~ ? for the heel of one shoe, which was - caught by the edge of the doorway, I I was absolutely untouched. ; "When we climbed out and had atI tended to the Injured among the pas sengers I began to think about that i signalman. He was nowhere to be I found, and we at first concluded that, I appalled at the result of his stupidity, he had run away. Later, though, we found him. He was trussed up with ropes, like a turkey ready for roasting, , and was lying on his face in a tangle s of vines a quarter of a mile from the ' Junction. "It was some time before the poor fellow could talk. Then he told us that shortly after he came on duty that morning a band of Arabs appeared out of the fog, fell upon him and, binding him so that he could not get loose, carried him to where he lay. "My mind went back at once to the Arab whose boy had been run over a few weeks before, and I realized that this was the way in which he had wreaked vengeance upon the railroad. It was he who had given us the signal to proceed and who had switched the main-line train on the cross-over track so as to wreck the other. "He had succeeded, for the cotton fields which surrounded the junction point were stained red where the Injured had been laid, and the smoke which curled up from the wreckage testified that a good many piastres of the Egyptian Delta railroad hod van lished that morning. "It was not surprising that the engineers thought the Arab to be the regular signalman, for In their native costume, heads swathed in white linen and the figure entirely concealed, one Egyptian looks very much like another, especially In a thick fog. The rascal must have watched the passing cf the trains at that point for days In order to know Just how he could effect the most damage In the shortest possible time."?Railroad Man's Magaslne. NOVELTIE8 IN TAXE8. Whin Whiskers, Babies, Bachelors and I Horses Had to Pay Fines. The happy lot of Lloyd George, chancellor of the British exchequer, who, it is estimated, will have a budget surplus of 11,125,000, forms a striking contrast to that Austen chamberlain, who in 1904, had to provide for a deficit of 93,000,000 in the national balance sheet Some startling suggestions were made to the member for East Worcestershire on that occasion by those who considered themselves fully capable of teaching the chancellor of the exchequer his business. Among other things on which it was said duties should be imposed were such necessities as boots, baths, lamps, hats, umbrellas, perambulators and theatre tickets. Extraordinary though these suggestions were, I hnwsver. they were not more so than some budget schemes which have actually been carried out in the past, in order to raise the country's revenue. In 1895, for instance, a tax of 2 shillings had to be paid by the parents ol every "little stranger" born in England, except by people in receipt of alms. This tax fell heavily on the masses, to whom a florin meant a great deal more than it does today. The nobility and the gentry too, found the tax very irksome, for it Increased according to rank, the birth of the duke adding $150 to the revenue. No small amount of fun has been made the New Jersey state legislature sometime ago imposing a graduated tax on men with beards. But It is by no means an original proposal. Queen Elizabeth put a tax of 3 farthings on every beard of a fortnight's growth, while two centuries ago Peter the Qreat insisted that all nobles who wore beards should pay 100 rubles for the privilege. On several occasions it has been said that the selfish individual who refuses to lead another man's daughter to the altar and provide for her for the rest of his life, should be muleted a certain amount each year. it. is an old idea, for at one time a resident of England who reached the age of 25 was liable to a tax of 1 shilling par annum, until he married. wlrtdWAra without chll Je UtiUCt U1V4 V| MMW..W.W ? dren were obliged to pay the same amount until they married again, while the gentry and nobility paid a higher tax in proportion to their rank. As chancellor of the exchequer, Pitt rendered himself very unpopular by the extraordinary means to which he resorted in order to improve the state of the country's finances. He it was who first Introduced the income tax in 1798, and he also levied one upon horses, which caused a certain farmer to use a cow for the purpose of riding to and from the market.?Philadelphia Ledger. Grass.?Lying in the sunshine among tho huttercuDs and the dandelions of May, scarcely higher In Intelligence than the minute tenants of their mimic wilderness, our earliest recollections are of grass; and when the fitful fever is ended and the foolish wrangle of the market and forum Is closed, grass heals over the scar which our descent Into the bosom of the earth has made, and the carpet of the Infant bosoms, the blanket of the dead. Grass Is the forgiveness of nature? her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass, and carnage Is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown like rural lanes and are obliterated. /lonorr hnrvpats nerlsh. flowers vanish, but grass Is immortal. Beleaguered by the sullen hosts of winter, it withrdaws into the impregnable fortress of its subterranean vitality and emerges upon the first solicitation of spring. Sown by the winds, by the wandering birds, propagated by the subtle agriculture of the elements which are its ministers and servants, it softens the rude outline of the world. It bears no blazonary of bloom to charm the senses with fragrance or splendor, but its homely hue is more enchanting than the lily or the rose. It yields no fruit in earth or air, and yet, should its harvest fail for a single year, famine would depopulate the world.?John J. Ingalls. ? Letter to Wateree Messenger: On last Wednesday a rather unusual discovery was made in our home. My wife went out to look after a turkey nest where a turkey was sitting in a pen. She noticed two very large snakes lying near the turkey, and one partly under her. She called someone to kill them, when one of the hands on the place responded. When he struck the snakes he found they were both dead. Judging from the swollen head of the turkey she must have been badly bitten, and her bloody beak indicated a fight. The reptiles were rattle snake pilots and measured three feet respectively. Their deaths remain a mystery, while the turkey still lives. RE80URCEFUL PRESS AGENT 18 fa A Circus "Spieler's" Speech at aUni- to varsity. Je In the June American Magazine ap- th pears the "Autobiography of a Theatrical Press Agent," in which the story is v< told of a famous Shakespearean actor, w now one of the foremost and richest men on our stage, who in his early m days was scheduled by his press agent wi to make an address at a university in P? a city where he and his company were th to appear. The arrangement was made K! without the actor's knowledge or con- At sent and when the day came for him ar to appear before the university, he M sent word to his press agent a few hours before the gathering that he ah would not be able to appear. The ot press agent was angry at his employ- m er, the actor, and decided to resign, hi but before be resigned, ne resolved to a "get even," so he went to a "spieler" pi for Barnum'a Circus and hired him to Is go before the unlverlsty audience and Impersonate the actor. The press wi agent and the "spieler" hastily got bi hold of a second hand copy of George gc Henry Lewe's "Art of Acting" and h? copied extracts from it, which the lb "spieler" memorized for delivery as his speech. The story goes on: th "At 2.30 that afternoon, In a big mo- T1 tor-car, the spieler, the circus press- ce agent, the dean of the university fa- ta culty, and myself drove to the campus or where we found the biggest auditorium P? packed with the intellectual flower of the state, and most of the counties ad- th joining. I had previously given out ni copies of the oration to the local news- 1* papers, and had sent others to the leading journals In surrounding cities, m The spieler turned nary a hair. He w ?almnat ?? nl woo au uiu ucuiu av (uiuwob a,u/ suittv, ? but when It came to 'wind-Jamming' in he took off his high hat to nobody. Fol- dc lowing out the instructions, he main- cc talned an impenetrable dignity, lie- m tened meditatively to the organ obli- ni gato which started the exercises, bow- w ed his head modestly while the presi- cc dent of the university uttered gaudy ht encomiums on the art and artistry of the celebrated guest of the afternoon, 01 and aroce amid a torrent of applause to deliver his speech. th "And it was some speech! Carefully ai tossing back a stray lock from his gray wig, he shouted, 'Lad-ees and Gen- cc telmen!' in a way that gave me ht th cold shivers, and then, quickly regain- fo ing himself, sailed into 'The Art of k< Acting* precisely as Dewey sailed into th Manila Bay. He was a revelation and ta a riot A dozen times applause inter- th rupted his flow of George Henry an Lewes's diction. Once, when be let himself out a bit, he had to hold up his e<l hand to stop the cheering; and when nt he had finished, the audience rocked w with wild-eyed enthusiasm and pressed P? forward to grasp the great man's fist ly "None of my* company was present at the affair, and so the star was not tipped off as to what had happened ai until he alighted from the train Mon- In day afternoon and was handed a bun- tv die containing copies of his speech hr -th ' J ~ til ail me papers anu a uuA-uuik.o maw- ? ment showing that his house was sold out for that night and most of the remalnder of the week. Attached to the m statement was my resignation to take hi effect immediately. I went to the cir- hi cus that night. After the show the th circus press-agent, the spieler, and I 8C had a blowout in the palm-room of the ol local hotel. At an adjoining table sat cl my late star, his leading lady, to whom he was married, and his business man- hi ager. He eyed me gloomily, but ut- d? tered no word. Next day I headed back ai to New York. "The Shakespearean company did a ei land-office business throughout the g1 state, but although I have passed him scores of times on the street, in clubs ct and in hotel lobbies, the head of It has never addressed a syllable to me." 1 1 ! ir WITH THE KAI8ER si w Two Hours of Hurry and Hustle at t? Potsdam. J & It is a bright spring morning, and ^ Berlin is bathed in a glorious sunlight; in which the windows of the great ImV/ Derial Schloss glisten and gleam. ,, The band of the First Dragoon guards are on sentry duty, and they 1 bring their rifles with a sharp rattle to ^ ground as they come to attention when 1 we pass up the steps and through the e open portals. In the entrance hall there are a number of soldiers on guard, and, Indeed, n' throughout the castle the military element Is far more In evidence than It Is at any of the British royal palaces. As one ascends the wide central ,a hi marble staircase, one glimpses remote backgrounds of beautifully painted ^ walls and ceilings, and vistas of Immense windows. Everywhere there Is ^ a sense of great spaciousness and color and light. We halt opposite a large apartment a on the second floor, the great double ^ doors of which are wide open, and by which two soldiers stand erect and as w motionless as statues. It is the morning reception room, '? ? mnmant fill) of visitors? ttliu to ai mc liivixvx?. v. _ ffl they are mostly men, who for the greater part are In military, naval, and 11 diplomatic uniforms. Grizzled-looking ai generals, fresh-complexioned and rath- 04 er cheeky-looking young officers, anp * graver looking older men, some of a whom are wearing ordinary black ? frock-coats. There are perhaps half a dozen la- pi dies In the room. ' The clock In the square booms out eleven, and almost on the last stroke there comes the sound of the clinking of spurs outside the room. The buzz of tl an/1 Via noTt Vv conversation uiea uunu, moment the emperor, followed by the L crown prince, enters the room, and pi hard upon his heels follows the prince's ti regiment tr The kaiser stands talking to a small group for a few minutes, and leaves cl the room, and hard upon his heels fol- e< lows a short, spare, wiry, sharp-fea- w tured man wearing ordinary morning- T dress. e^ He is Herr Henser, the kaiser's bus- tl iness secretary. In the British royal si household there Is no such office which at all corresponds to that which Is so c< ably filled by Herr Henser. w The kaiser's business interests, both cl public and private, are much wider ir than our monarch's. His imperial ma- g: Jesty is the actual owner of a big pot- tl tery establishment, and is largely In- nr terested In many business ventures: w the royal opera Is under royal control, d> and in many other ways the emperor T directly Interested In business af.Irs, and Is much closer In personal uch with the business life of his subcts than the Britsh people would like lelr king to be. The kaiser's "working-room" Is a >ry large apartment with four big Indows. On the walls thene are a number of aps, and several framed designs of arshlps that were drawn by the emtror himself. On one of the walls ere Is a first-rate pencil sketch of Ing George and Queen Mary, and a te oil painting of Queen Alexandra, id In a corner of the room there is a g marble bust of King Edward. About the room are model* of warilpe, aeroplanes and aircraft of vaiits kinds, and In one corner a finely odelled bronze statue, some four feet gh. of the kaiser In a suit of armor, powerful work of art that greatly eased the "War Lord"?as the statue entitled. The kaiser takes his seat by the rltlng-table, and by his side sits his islness secretary. Soon both are busy ling into the papers and letters that ive been arranged for the emperor's spectlon. There is a lengthy document from e manager of the imperial factory, tie business secretary has marked irtain portions of It In red ink and kes down the emperor's Instructions i the points dealt with In the marked issages. Then there is a communication from e manager of the Royal Opera which akes emperor and secretary smile. It not an uncommon type of communiitlon; it relates to a "grievance" of a lnor singer at the Royal opera house ho threatens to resign unless she is lowed to wear a certain style of dress the opera, of which the manager >es not approve. The matter, of >urae, its irni in tne nanus 01 me anager, but. In accordance with the ilea, any singer In the Royal Opera ho thinks he or she Is aggrieved, can mi pel the manager to lay her case ifore the emperor. The secretary scribbles a few words 1 the letter, and It Is dealt with. More serious business soon engages ie attention of the emperor. There e letters from captains of industry id lords of finance dealing with great immerclal enterprises, about which ie emperor likes to be kept well inrmed. The kaiser scrutinizes them >enly, marks a passage here and are in each, and, If necessary, dlctes a reply; but In most Instances ese letters are simply acknowledged id carefully filed for reference. Then a little Incident occurs. An luerry enters the room and hands a iwspaper cutting to the secretary, hlch the latter puts before the emjror. His majesty reads It attentiveIt la the sort of matter that no one ould take any notice If It appeared in 1 English paper?such passages do deed sometimes appear in one or vo papers in the provinces?papers jmng. The passage referred to wu a perinal attack upon the emperor, Hia ajeety frowns aa he reada It, clenchea a flat, and mutters something: under a breath. Then he signs a paper tat has been put before him by his icretary, and an hour later the editor the jkiper has been arrested on a large of lese-majesty. At one o'clock the emperor rises, the is In ess secretary la dismissed, and 3parts with his sheaf of letters, and i equerry enters the room, "I am ready," saya the kaiser. The nperor is lunching with the dragoon uards at the barracks today, and luerry and kaiser ore to leave the istle at 1.15 sharp.?London Answers. Strang*. Uses for Gold.?Curious and iterestir.g facts regarding India's pason for gold, and the strange uses to hich the natives put the precious null, are cort lined In a report Issued by le great b illion merchants, Messrs. amuel Montagu & Co. After mentlonig the fact that last year India lmarted gold bars worth ?47,185,000, as -it .. /no t.o nni\ in oAVATttlima OH as A 10|ai?|VVV lit v? v.g..., [essrs. Montagu state that, as a conas t to the savings of Ftance, "which re utilize*.' to promote trade, those of ldla are hurled or hoarded. "At presit nearly all the gold dug from the u-tb In South Africa is by a fresh Iggliu; operation deposited again beeath the soil In South Asia. In :ndla, gold is put to uses unusual mong nations of the west Consumpon cf gold does not Imply In Eng.nd the actual swallowing of extreme' thin gold leaves for medicinal purises t hough It is so taken in parts of ldla. A frequent form of piety Is to igild the domes of religious buildigs; such operations oan easily abird ?10,000 or more. Sovereigns with shield on the obverse are In conant reqjest A rajah of rococo tastes aported some thousands to form a inter to each minute pane in the indows of his palace. India ccuples the position of a creItor as .ion on an immense scale, a ict v n ch renders the size of its gold apor s a matter of primary importace to the rest of the world. It seems Mured that these imports last year ere not only a fresh record; but will ttain a total not less than 28 percent ! tl: j world's output. This total, it is a d, Is owing to the uninterrupted ronaerity of the country, following a iccesslon of good monsoons.?TitIts. CI >ok Without a Spring,?A unique mepiece has recently been Invented y Eugene Walser, a watchmaker In 08 Angeles. Four years of work has erfected a clock which keeps accurate me but is without a spring in its take-up. The motive power Is gained by the >ock rolling down an incline, regulat1 by a wonderful arrangement of eights on the inside of the clock, here Is no winding to be done, but rery thirty days the clock Is lifted to le top of the Incline and begins to Ide downward. The dial does not revolve with * the Lse, but remains as an ordinary dial 1th the figure 12 at the top. The Inlne is of polished wood, sixteen ichec long with an 81-3 per cent rade. There Is no relation between le wood and the clock; it is simply a latter of properly adjusted weights hlch move the hands and control the ownward motion of the timepiece.? he Strand.