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THE CHASl THE HOI By KENNETH CA1 A man whose size was as unusual as his good looks, rode up to the hitching post in front of the Silver Dollar Saloon, the only establishment of lis kind In Martinez, Ariz. Jim Pierce, sitting within, his hat shoved carelessly back from his brow, his chair tipped comfortably against the wall, a brown little cigarette in the process of formation between his fingers, lazily watch ed the newcomer as he dismounted and came in. "Howdy, Dick," he heard him call familiarly to the bartender, who was stooped beneath the bar arranging some bottles. The latter looked up with quick interest. "Well, if it ain't Tom Stevens!" he cried, extending his hand across the bar. "How are you sheriff? Ain't seen you since you was elected. How's the world going up in Coconino county?" "Fine's could be," answered the sheriff. Ain't this one lulu of a day? Say. Dick,"?he leaned over confidentially?"let's open the biggest one you've got in the house. I'm dog-gone near burned up." "You're the doc," he agreed. "Say, sheriff, what brings you down here, anyway? After somebody?" The sheriff poured himself a drink and studied the liquid thoughtfully. "Remember that hold-up in Prescott last year, the time the postofflce was cleaned out?" he presently asked. Jim Pierce had been fast losing all interest in the conversation, when he heard this question. Suddenly, though his position and expression did not change in the least, his pulse quickened and he leaned forward to hear more clearly. From mere force of habit. perhapB. his right hand drifted quickly to a spot just below the waist line where his chaps bulged significantly. "Sure, I remember," replied the bartender. "Made a clean get-away, didn't they?" "Ye-a, We got a tip up In the office that the man that pulled that ofT Is laying low down around here," went on the sheriff. "We know just about where to And him, If the tip's straight He's aiming to keep near the border so's he can jump over Into Mexico If he thinks anyone's on his trail." "That so? What's he look like? I mlghta seen him around." "To be right honest, Dick, I don't know. I ain't never seen him. A man's gonna meet me here today, though, that used to work with him before he turned hold-up man." "Know his name?" "Name's Pierce?Jim Pierce. We don't figure to let?" But Jim had heard quite enough. Rising quickly from his chair, he walked out to where his horse?a lean, sinewy soriei was hitched. Untying him he swung into the saddle and rode over to the railroad station. Here he dismounted, stepped unhesitatingly onto the platform, and walk ed into the waiting-room, a uim, pasty-faced nervous little man with a ' green eye-shade sat in the office taking a message from the clicking receiver. Jim leaned over the ticket counter, ( his right hand suspended and hovering close about that lump in his chaps, j "Say, sonny, is that message right important?" he asked, with the man- j ner of a man who had a right to know. The operator looked up with an air of annoyance. i "Cause if it ain't," Jim went on, "I got some business that is. And I ain't < strong on waiting." , The other glared angrily at him for a moment, then turned back to his , writing as If to ignore htm completely. "Oh, all rightey," grinned the ignored one. "I'll wait then. I wouldn't , 'a* cut in on you that way when you was busy, only what I gotta see you , about is so blamed important. But I reckon I can wait. Sure." ( The operator shoved back the paper he had been writing on and looked up rpsisrnedly. 'Well?" he snapped, starting to rise j from his chair. "What is it?" In the act of rising he paused, grew suddenly tense, and stood as one transfixed. Under the green eye-shade his face looked ghastly. His eye, wide and staring, fixed Immovably on the heavy revolver that Jim's right hand had brought above the counter and leveled. "Put your hands up?way up?and act nice," Jim pleasantly commanded. "If you hurry we'll have this little business over in no time. Now, walk over to that safe and open it. That's the way." The frightened operator, his whole body trembled, walked over to the safe. Twirling the handle about with unsteady hands he finally succeeded in getting the combination right, and ; swung open the safe door. "Now," further instructed Jim. , "take out all the money and gold, and bring it over here." The other fumbled a little inside the safe, then brought back a handMPnnnt inc it IUI %Jl papci iiivuvj . n/vu*??*"o ?. Jim found there was a little over $200. He promptly handed It back. "I ain't taking up no collection for a Sunday school." he said. "Recollect, I said money and gold. Sonny. I happen to know the Big Flush brought In gold bullion this morning that oughta bring $6,000. Just trot *hat out, and I'll let you keep this $200 as a r'memberance. Might as well, never think but what I took It right along with the rest. Now, let's have the gold." The operator hesitated, looked at the gun, shivered, then went for the bullion. It was done up quite as an ordinary package. "This is the real goods, all right," grinned Jim as he weighed it between his hands. "Now, sonny, lemme tell you something. As soon as I clear out you trot right over to the Silver Dollar. You find a big, pretty looking kid there. He's the sheriff of Coconino county. You'd never think he was a sheriff to look at him, but he is. You tell him Jim Pierce has Just been In town and robbed the Wells-Fargo. i He'll be plumb tickled to death. You tell him, too, that I'm hitting a straight i line for Vulture Pass, to get to Mexico. They's only one trail there, so he ? won't have no trouble following me. You see," he explained, backing to- < little right r of ~ er ea :d-upman E prett look scare ULYLE BEATSON ST "A your can't ward the doorway. "I wanta get him ,.y started after me. I don't see no fun that in pulling oir a noia-up it noooay a gide gonna come after me and make it Interesting. Ther Reaching the door he stepped out you on the platform and walked over to a ho where his horse Btood. He fastened ?y the package of gold to the rear of the ?hon saddle and mounted. but? He reasoned that it would take at Why least ten minutes for the sheriff to be wjth, warned and get started In pursuit. ..j This, he mused, was exactly as he moC) wished it. He could, without the least t0 le trouble, lead the sheriff some distance out of town, then dismount and en- jjj gage him In the kind of best-man- ^ ( come-out-of-it-alive fight that to Jim M was the greatest sport on earth. gyn Presently, when he thought sufflcl- gjve ent time had elapsed to enable the boni sheriff to have started, he mounted a one little knoll and looked back along the to m trail. At first he saw nothing but a thin cloud of dust that seemed t-j be moving toward him. He fixed his gaze trot ( on a little rise in the trail over which wast, he knew his pursuers must ride, and far , which was Just a little ahead of the hlm approaching dust cloud. As he watch- fh ed, a rider suddenly appeared. He piayj leaned forward, his gaze Intent; then apro suddenly sat up stlfl with a muffled by b curse. Following the first man to ap- turn( pear on the rise, fu'.ly eleven others h0rg) had come into view. g0 All thoughts of a stand flew from gtev< Jim's head. He could flght one man? up ti possibly two or three?and have the terln time of his life, but twelve men! rj<jjy That was not to be thought of, even her by Jim. "Blazer, old horse," he muttered, arms patting his mount on the neck and of 01 heading him around, "I reckon we stool gotta beat the doggone bunch to the awfu pass. That's all the h?1 there is to it You We can beat them, all rightly. They you ain't got a horse in the ouuu mat can ins i keep the pace we're gonna set." ' and Jim's knowledge o? horses was ex- He c tensive, to say the least This knowl- hors< edge enabled him to know that an so if hour and a half of hard riding through dad't a country as rough and broken as thiit Two through which led the trail he follow- me b ed would be something more than give could be expected of an ordinary sure horse. The horse he rode, however, "M he knew to be far from ordinary, and smlh felt certain could be relied upon to herst cover the entire distance to the pass migh at a speed which those following you 1 would And hard to duplicate. "B For an hour he urged his horse see! along, now forced to proceed at a walk herebecause of the rocky trail, now able "V to spread into a jogging trot, now gal- Do j loping gaily along level stretches. At with the end of that time he began to look 'wast for signs that would indicate that his Th pursuers, or part of them, were drop- sucn ping behind. He had paid them lit- time tie attention so far, but had given his was whole attention to hi-t own riding. On "J1 a rise he paused to gaze back for a she i moment. With great satisfaction he seem saw that all of those following but two hirns had dropped behind. These followed he w at a distance of about a mile and, a you < half. The one whose horse seemed "Jto be the stronger he surmised to be "Wh; the sheriff, although at that distance he w he could not be certain. "Y "They'll give out pretty soon, all His rightly," he assured his horse. "This self, trail's sure to get them. There ain't "M but one horse in Arizona can take this trail full tilt. Not by a whole lot." Iff of Spurring his horse he swung round, very The horse started forward at a trot, Th stumbled suddenly, pitched forward, She then floundered to its feet. Jim leaned ment over In the saddle and looked at the cd si right front foot. right With an oath he leaped from his "T seat to the ground, and lifted the foot "Whi between his hands for a closer in- think Bpection. "Hurt bad, too," he thought, horst "There ain't no chance now. He woul couldn't go another mile." had He straightened up and looked over You the country ahead. For several sec- down onds he stood looking, then he finally I1 saw something, something off to the know right of the trail, that sent a new But i hope through him. n,m "A ranch house," he muttered. "Say, mile. I oughta be able to get a horse here." horst Casting one short glance back to see volve how much his pursuers had gained y?u by the delay, he swung into the sad- * die and urged the crippled horse on. At The horse limped painfully, but he stare made good progress He was the surpi sort of beast that will give everything "w in him, and then keep going. a ,ul The house waB nearer than Jim had judged. Coming out of a little draw her he found himself almost upon it. A speal girl, a young and pretty girl, was out by the chicken yard feeding a flock of fowl. She ceased scattering wheat and out t looked up in surprise as she saw him ^ approaching. wJn "Howdy, ma'am," he greeted, as soon ^ as he had dismounted. . . "Why?how?how do you do," she ? Sami stammered. .. , the 1 "You don't know who I am, I reckon," said Jim, "but maybe you mighta pjrst heard of me. I'm Tom Stevens, sher- . Iff of Coconino county. I want you streg to do a little favor for me, and I'm ? ^ in an awful hurry. I wanta get a t^e j horse. Have you got one right . _ even hardy? the , The girl was reading him open- prop| eyed. The flush that came into her past, face made her seem prettier. great "Why?I don't know," she hesi- ?T tated. "We've got several horses, but?" now "Well, ma'am, I wi3h you would get the f me one." said Jim. "I'm after a man Woul who's hitting the trail for Mexico, and destr if I don't get a move on he'll be so aday far ahead of me I won't have a chance a lib of catching him. If he beats me to "T uic pass, uc it uc 11 cc. ??v* wv ua^. stumbled and hurt his leg. He could dren not go more'n a mile, the way he Is. that If you'll trot out that horse, ma'am, of bt I'll see that the county makes It right the with you." will The girl, while he had been speak- to J Ing, had been staring thoughtfully at for t the ground, her lower lip caught be- ChrU tween her teeth. One might have kan thought she was wrestling with a of 1 problem. She looked up quite sud- way denly as he finished. "T1 "I'll tell you." she said, the flicker cur I of a smile appearing on her face, geddi "I'll let you have a horse on one con- of th dition. If you'll promise to do one adelp thing I auk, I'll bring the horse out" n considered. Time was pa. sing and the sheriff was drawing near.ch second. For a moment he was ted to i -aw his revolver and ! the girl Into bringing out the i. But she was so young and y, and?somehow, she did not like a girl who would be easily sd. A delay, though slight, might i his capture, and he could not it. .11 right," he grinned. "Let's hear demand, but make it quick. I ; lose much more time." Veil," she said promptly, "give me gun that bulges so on your right If I give you a horse and you \ this man, you might shoot him. t I'd feel responsible for it. If will give me your gun I'll bring rse right out." Vhy?ma'am," stammered Jim, iest, I'd do anything else for you, -I couldn't give you my gun. , how could I capture this man out my gun?" know a sheriff?know him well," ted the girl. "He'd be ashamed 11 anyone he couldn't get his man out his gun." n looked at her. After all, what It matter? If he got the horse 'ould have no further use for the until he could get a new one. him a fresh horse this close to the er, and he had little fear of any* ever getting close enough to him take the use of his gun necessary, guess what you say goes," he handing her the weapon. "Now out the horse, miss. Please don't - Irr.o Ar thnt m A n'l 1 b? SO iway I won't be able to catch In a week." e girl smiled, stuck the revolver tolly In the belt that held her n, then stepped quickly to a neararn. In a scant moment she reid, leading a fine looking black 5. me five minutes later Sheriff Tom sns, the real Tom Stevens, rode 0 where the girl still stood scatg grain to the chickens. Hurhe dismounted and approached lary!" he cried, taking her In his 1 and kissing her with the manner ie who had a perfect and underI right to do so. "I'm In an 1 hurry," he went on hastily, know that man Jim Pierce I told about? Well, I bee n fol!owhim along the trail for an hour a half. He's headed for Mexico, an't be more'n a mile ahead. His j oughta be pretty well spent, you'll let me have one of your i horses I can catch him sure, more of th6 boys are waiting for >ack on the trail, and if you could me a horse apiece for them I'd appreciate it" [y, but you are excited about it," id Mary, finally disentangling ilf and drawing back. "One t think it to be the first outlaw were ever after." ut, Mary," he cried, "don't you Every minute we're wasting 'asting here! Well I like that, rou count all of the time spent the girl you've promised to marry ;ed* time?" ' e sheriff was frozen into silence, actions and speech at such a were quite beyond him, and he astonished, to say the least, im Pierce himself was Just here," Bmiled, "and he, even, did not to be In such a rush to tear elf away. Really, I hardly think ould be gone yet had I not seen coming and warned him." ?Jim Pierce!" cried the sherifT. y, Mary?you don't mean to say as here?Just now?" e-es. He wanted a fresh horse, horse had fallen and hurt him Of course, I?I?" ary! You didn't give him one?" fell, he?he said he was the sher' Coconino county, and I couldn't well refuse the sheriff, could I?" e sheriff was amazed, utterly, paused to watch his face a mo. Then her whole manner changjddenly, and she laughed outom, you silly old boy," she cried, at kind of a little goose do you : me to be? I did give him a >. What else could I do? He d have taken one anyway, If I refused. I?I gave him Sally, know old Sally. She can't walk i to the creek alone^vlthout goame. She looks flna^PHe'd never i the difference toi-Took at her. she 11 he so lame she can t carry by the time he's ridden her a Besides, before I gave him the i I made him give me his reir. If you just follow the trail won't have much trouble captur?im." loss for words the sheriff simply d at her, his face blank with ise. [ary," he finally exploded, "you're u! Why, dog-gone it?" irds again failed him, he seized in his arms and let his actions t for him. re-el," she said?when she could wondered if you'd rush off withaking me!"?Los Angeles Times. omsday After 1933.?The Jews return to Jerusalem in 1915, and Battle of Armageddon will be ht in 1033, according to Rev. S. uel Clements, superintendent of Wesleyan Methodist society, who liverlng a course of lectures in the Wesleyan church, of PhlladelFlfty-second and Thompson ts, on "The Second Coming of st." Mr. Clements declares that tfew Testament has foretold these ts, and that by a careful study of Scriptures and by comparing the hecles with happenings of the specific time can be set for these t events. he sign of the times plainly show the fulfillment of all prophecy Is at hand. St. Paul declared that ailing off from the Christian faith d be the forerunner of the final uction of the world. People nows are not going to church. This is eral fulfillment of the prophecy, he world is getting worse every The extreme disobedience of chilto their parents Is another sign the world Is getting worse Instead (tter. The time is not far off when final consummation of all things be at hand. The Jews will return erusalem in 1916, In preparation he second and literal return of it to the world. The present Ralwar is simply another fulfillment Biblical prophecy and paving the for the second coming of Christ, he decline of the Papacy will ocin 1923. and the Battle of Armaon will be fought In 1933. The end le world will soon follow."?Phllihla Record. pistrllanwus grading 2 FACT8 ABOUT DEAD STAR8 d o: Thsrs are Ten Thousand Million of " These Heavenly Bodies Chasing About in Space. q Perhaps It has never occurred to many people that there are such bodies as n dark stars; but so great an authority w as Sir Robert Ball has said that the 0 dark stars are to the bright for num- n bers as the cold horseshoes in existence 0 are to the red-hot ones. In these e days of motor vehicles it is evident n that horseshoes are much less numer- 0 ouh than they were; but doubtless the proportion of cold ones to those at e any given moment red upon the black- 0 smith's anvil remains as it always 8 was. For every such hot one there ? must be many hundreds of cold ones; ^ so that if the siipile is sound, the ^ heavens must contain an incredible i- ?? . u ,1 ?_?11 ?? ((,? 1 UUlllUd ui incac uciciico uu mr uuctui ^ of space, which, having lived their life, have grown old and dead, but are still racing about at star-speed until In their wanderings they meet some ^ other heavenly bodies in terrific colli- ^ sion. ^ Such gigantic catastrophe as the ^ clash of two suns each perhaps mil- b lions of miles in diameter, rushing at CJ each other at the rate of twenty or thirty or even more miles per second, would result, so the mathematicians tell us, in a world-splitting explosion b exactly as If each were composed of n billions of billions of tons of gunpowder; and as when gunpowder explodes nothing is left but gas and smoke, so in the clash of stars nothing would be left of the two great solid bodies which ^ had collided, but an immense whirling mass of Incandescent gas called a nebula, of which, as most people know, p there are quite i number dotted over ^ the heavens. This maelstrom of gus t( would sail about among the stars for n ages, in the course of which it would 0 naturally cool down and condense into n a star-system much like our own, with probably a central sun, planets and p moon. d Some of these would sooner or later r< arrive at a condition of temperature t( suitable for the support of life, and as w the centuries passed would become e' peopled with sentient beings. Gradu- 81 ally they would grow too cold for life F to exist, and Anally become frigid, cold, dark, stars once more. The number of n stars visible to the naked eye is only a 81 few thousands. With the best telescopic and other instruments it is calculated we can detect about a hundred !1 millions?not a large number (there are Afteen times as many people as p that living on this globe); but judging lr by Sir Robert Ball's horseshoe simile, 81 and reckoning only one hundred dark ? ones to every bright one, we may take ai it that there must be at least ten F thousand million dark stars chasing le about in space, most of which we have ^ never seen and probably never will see. p I mv most of which, for nerh&ds it * may come as a surprise to some that ^ the earth we live on Is a dark star; so 11 are all the other planets and planet- ** olds of our solar system, which with al their moons, of which bodies, shining 18 only by the reflected light of the nun, there are at least 600 known to astron- c< emere. Nor must we forget to mention those bodies called shooting stars lc which may be seen almost any clear el night If patiently watched for. These. ^ though they look like stars, are hardly, ,8 as every one knows, to be dignified by 8< that name, being mostly but very ai small masses of matter flying about In space. They are quite cold and dark ^ until they enter our atmosphere, which they do at such speed as raises them at once to a white heat by friction of 01 their passage through it, and thus they rl are revealed to us. For every one we see there must be many thousands 11 whose paths miss us entirely, ships 82 that pass us In the night, silently and ,r unknown. These too, we must class as la dark stars, though very humble ones. g All these are cold and dead compared with our sun or any of the stars we lc see. From the nearest they would be w quite invisible; and, vice versa, we w cannot see the planets which revolve around the stars, if such there be, as Is likely enough; for it is hardly to be u supposed that our sun alone, among ?' a hundred million others, possesses ai such attendants. But we have one or two other rea- cl sons for thinking that there a'-e dark stars much larger than any of these. ? Here and there are bright ones, which ,e are found to vary in magnitude at regular intervals. One, Algol in Perseus, a< not far from Cassiopeia, varies every three days from a star of the second magnitude to one of the third, and pi gives us only one-third as much light ai at its dullest as it does at its bright- w est. It seems probable that Algol is really two stars revolving about each ai other much as the two ends of a dumb- p bell would revolve were it set spin- ** ning. One of these is supposed to be fr dark and cold, or comparatively so. w and the other bright; it is easy to see how at each revolution the dark one ? might come between us and its bright- w er companion, and cut off part of the C1 light, thus causing the changes we see. c< About thirty of these variables have tc been discovered. It seems a small c' number, but it is plain enough that for one of such a pair to eclipse the other w Its path would have to lie exactly be- " tween us and its partner. Probably eI there are many whose paths do not 0< fulfill this condition, and therefore P' cause no variation of light coming to fr us. Others are doubtless flying about ? the heavens on haphazard paths, and it Is conceivable that one might come along and collide with us or our sun. tr The result of such a collision would undoubtedly be the end of this earth te and its inhabitants. m If this intruder were of any respect- ci able size, a collision with any of the larger members of the solar system tr would produce such a conflagration as in would raise the temperature of all the rest above the point at which life as we know it could exist. "The earth tI and all the inhabitants thereof would cl be burnt up, and the elements would m melt with their fervent heat." Even ^ if such a star did not collide, but t!< merely passed through our system, the to effect of Its attraction would altogeth- *n re er upset present conditions, and almost jj certainly bring about the cassation of fo life on the earth. d? Neither can we encourage ourselves ^ with the hope that the collision would tr be too sudden for us to know much vc about it. No such thing. Our astronemers would see the star directly It Qf got near enough for the sun to light it up, probably fifteen or twenty years before It arrived, according to Its size ^ and speed. They would he able to calculate Its path and foretell to a few at minutes the precise moment of the ca- oc tastrophe, and we would have the add- fo ed horror of the anticipation of our slowly advancing doom. Indeed, the w assage of even a small star quite outide our system by many millions of tiles would still have a sufficiently '' Is.urblng effect on us to draw us out f our path and alter entirely our clljate and temperature. C? The organic life of our globe reuires for Its continuance a tempera- ni Lire range of about 100 degrees Fah- a enheit, an exceedingly narrow one lo rhen we consider the possible range a f heat and cold. Outside of this 8t othlng can live and grow, and it Is ne of the marvels of creation that the arth has for many millions of years laintalned an average temperature f? ver some part of its surface within 111 his limit, and goes far to prove the P1 xlstence of a mighty Mind at the bac'i f It all who planned It with infinite ei 1,111 ? ?.J * lk? tl rwin aiiu iui CDiKUi iui iiic vet y puipuac ? f evolving the human race as we w now It. And who shall say to what al eights of Intellectual and moral per- 81 action man Is desired to climb? It lay be that the end of all things la at tc and. and that some one of these dark ** odles Is even now swinging along to- cl rard us from the depths of space; but o1 eelng the many millions of years the olar system has continued in "splen- e< id isolation," we may take courage A' ar the future, and believe that the ly lind that has by unchangeable laws ol rought man to his present state will P< arry him on to such perfection as he lay be capable of. Judging by apearances this will take many aeons n< et, so let us sleep peacefully In our ct eds for the present.?Chambers' Joural. A' 8ANDING THE CHICKENS J" lc eeders Work Swindle Involving $2,- 1,1 000,000 a Year. oi New York faces a famine in live n' oultry. Not a live chicken was sold In ere yesterday, says a New yoric let- ~ ;r of May 22. Ordinarily on brisk 8t larket days 125,000 fowls are disposed w f. Yesterday Gansevoort Market did b< ot record a single sale. T The jobbers who distribute live oultry to the shops and the wagons a ecllned to buy a pound because the tc scelvers wouldn't bind themselves not > stuff the crops of their chckens ith weight producing sand and gravI. Fifty angry Jobbers yelled and tormed around Gassevoort Market at b< ourteenth and West streets. By the ** me the stubborn receivers quit busl- 8C ess or an attempt to do business, a tr mall riot was boiling. 8' The jobbers got together early In al le morning and agreed not to buy 81 ve poultry unless the receivers (the fteen or twenty big dealers who buy al oultry In the country and ship It here w ) cars) agreed to fix prices before the tv ind and gravel stuffing process be- b< an. The receivers declined to make w ny such terms. Then the storm broke. Ifty excited men, supported by at :ast 200 small dealers, shook their p< Bts at the Importers. For blocks their cries of "Fix rices!" "We aren't buying sand" and 81 31ve us an honest deal" could be 8t eard above the rumble of traffic. Po- ,n cemen, expecting that blows would ** b struck, edged toward the market ct nd kept a wary eye on the elocutionits. , The result of the firmness of the jmblnation of Jobbers was that twen- a r cars of live poultry were not un- hl ** mu. O taaea over in ixew Jersey. i?te cuiw ? [is can stay there until next year, the 01 ibbers say, unless the receivers prom- *c ie to abandon their unfair feeding tc iheme. Sixty-three ars of poultry al re In sight this week, but the Job1 **s tl re firm In their determination not to ** uy unless they are assured that they CI 111 not have to pay from 10 cents to J I cents extra for every fowl, because b< f the load of sand and gravel it car- ai es in Its crop. w If they stand fast there will be no m ve chickens procurable anywhere, ive at a few shops supplied by small, th (dependent breeders from Long Is- se md and Jersey. But these can't be- ni In to supply more than 1 per cent of It ie trade. Only three cars were un- tl iaded yesterday and the chickens hi ere held In stores while the receivers w aited for the Jobbers to knuckle uner. w It Is estimated that the profits of the m ;celvers from the extra weight they oi t>taln by sand and gravel feeding In mount to $2,000,000 or more even* si ear. It used to be customary to feed oj ilckens that were received here from fi ie west all of the corn they could eat. 'a ut that method soon became obso- th T>v.?o-h or?ro nrnflt to i it, the Jobbers say. So the receivers iopted this scheme: w The night before the chickens were w ? be unloaded the man in charge pre- re ired for them a supper of thin meal rid red pepper. That course merely w< hetted their appetites and made them as lirsty. Then a mess of soaked bread *ii rid buttermilk mixed with sand and th ravel was prepared. The chickens ate ol lis ravenously. Often they gained tr om fourteen to sixteen ounces in ac eight. it As there were about 4,000 hens to a m irload it was not unusual for the th eight of the whole carload to be ln eased 3,500 pounds. In dollars and ca ;nts that meant over $500 extra profit ca ? every car. Dealers throughout the ct ty claim that all of their profits have sc .<,n eaten up by the shrinkage in b? eight of the chickens they bought w om the receivers. Very often chick- ce is fed by the sand and gravel meth- nt 1 sickened and died soon after they issed from receiver to jobber and ar om Jobber to dealer.?New York bi un. pt , 9 , hj ? Defective railroad equipment and acks were responsible for 68 per th rnt of all derailments in the United hj tates during July, August and Sep- aj mber, 1912, and during those three onths there were 935 more train acdents, including 901 more collisions Yi id derailments than there were dur- in g the same months of 1911. All ^ aln accidents on steam roads durg that time killed 288 and injured Wl 698, an increase of 87 in the killed id 315 in the injured during the cor- |n spondlng period of the year before. . hese facts are disclosed in the acdent bulletin of the Interstate com- a erce commission. Accidents of oth- ca kinds, including "industrial acci- th ;nts," make the number of casual!- . es 2,995 killed and 22,447 injured, a Dr tal increase of 237 killed and 3,340 tu jured. The damage to equipment and ladway by the accidents aggregated 1,366,401, a large increase. It was und by the commission that of the t'r bailments, ten per cent were due to th oken rails and 31 per cent to de- th ctlve wheels. Casualties to "Indus- . ial accidents"?such as are not in- 1 lived in train operations?amounted be 114 killed and 28,884 injured, a op icrease of 17 killed and an increase 1 5,233 injured. ? sic Groom 70, Bride 52.?Mr. James W. to reir, aged 70, and Miss Rosalind Beat- let e, aged 52, both of Kings Mountain, hy ere married here Saturday afternoon the parsonage of Main Street Meth- ' list church. The ceremony was per- 801 rmed by Rev. J. E. Abernethy. The be lde and groom left Saturday afterion for Kings Mountain, where they ill live.?Gastonia Gazette. mi TRANCE BALKS AT CRIME. b ii ri possible to Hynotize a Parson Into g Doing Wrong, 8ay Scientist*. 8 Scientists who observed keenly the t! use of Ramona Borden, daughter of le millionaire New York milk mag- a ite, declare it was not the power of 8 superior mind and mental suggest- a n that prompted her to escape from c sanitarium within which she was y seklng rest on her father's orders, j, "No person ever was hypnotised ito committing a crime or a wrong p lat might reflect discredit upon their n imily," Is their unqualified state- n lent, and they dare the world to dis- fa rove it. ii Dr. John D. Quackenbos, the most q nlnent authority on hypnotism in 0 le United States, gives a clean bill of fa *? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? <1 laAttaO/ul mm noitJsuinencjMi IU mc un-umtua^v* *j ad much criticised power of mental a iggestion and control. f "Hlpnosis cannot compel a person B ? commit a wrong of any nature if a lat person does pot want to," he de- j ares. "It is true that the intluenoe j f one person frequently Is applied to 8 ad another from the path of right- ] >usness, but this Is not hypnotic iniience. Such transgressions general' are obtained through the influence f word of mouth?the persuasive ( owers of speech. "I have searched the records of le New York police department, and i ever have succeeded in finding a , ise where the ultimate results show- | 1 crime instigated by hypnotic In- ( uence. ( "This fact, coupled with experi- , lents and observences covering a , >ng period, has established the be- | ef among scientific investigators ( mental phenomena that a man can- j at be hypnotized to commit wrong, A fen in the deepest trance stages? f i other words, that the subliminal t slf of an individual is intrinsically < holesome and honest and will not \ 3 swayed without being dellberate subjugated by the objective mind, f "I mean by this that the mind of > man in hypnotic trance, while open f ? suggestions of wrong, and I be- ( eve that Providence has arranged ) thus to protect from Just such t kings as hypnotic Influence in crime. ] "Several years ago, when hypnosis ) egan to be practiced more widely in lis country, it was observed that per- ( thrown In nlmnlo mflsmorlp . ances?put to sleep, as the expres- t on goes?could be made to commit II manner of ridiculous tricks at the iggestion of the hypnotist. "Sedate Judges rode broomsticks 3out the parlor, Imagining they ere horses; men stretched between vo chairs sustained weight on their idles that would have crushed them hile out of a trance; old ladies uiced, believing they were young rls again, and other absurdities were jrformed by all degress of persona "This showed the wonderful power ie hypnotist could exert upon the tbjective minds of persons in trance ate. Naturally the question arose i the minds of the hypnotists and in le minds of the public, if such things in be done in trance at the mere biding of a mesmersit, where will the ilng stop? " 'Cannot a mesmeric operator put millionaire into trance and make Im write a check for all his wealth?' r, 'what power has a mesmeric rer the moral character of those who >r a few moments lend themselves i his will and go into trance?' Or, sain, broadly and brleflly, 'what is lere to prevent '.hose possessed of ie power of mesmerism making 'imlnals out of all who become subset to them? Surely, nothing could 3 easier than to hypnotize a man nd send him out to steal for you,' ere common questions and com* ents. "The apparent possibility of such lings did much to throw popular ntlment against hypnotism and Its any estimable uses for a long time. was .only comparatively recently lat it has been proved that hypnosis is no powers to make a man do rong. "Through countless experiments It as ascertained that the subjective lnd has a strange stamina all its vn. We found that, while a subject trance might do all manner of abjrd tricks at the suggestion of the jerator, the subjective mind was illy aware that the body was making fool of itself,' and was enjoying ie fun quite as much as the operar and spectator. "Also, when the trance suggestions ere good this subjective personality as aware of that, and lent itself ;adl!y to carrying out the suggestion. "But when the suggestion was evil? ell, the subjective person was just n i perceptive of that, and fully cap)le of resisting. In other words, t ie subjective self might obey the will ? ' the mesmerist to do a foolish o Kowmlaoa A?? CTAA/1 1 IUA., UI 1U1 III C* Iiai luicoa vi J it. but when wrong was suggested, ] flatly refused to act. There Is no > lstaklng the hand of Providence In j Is. 1 "Quite another state prevails in C ises of dual personality. In such f ises, Jekyll and Hyde Instances oc- L ir frequently. A man, when one per- 0 mallty Is In control of his body, may i ! a lawabldlng citizen, and in a flash, / hen the other personality gains as- i ndancy, may become a fiend Incar- 2 ite. "The historic instances of this sort ] e too well known to need repetition, X it it must be remembered that dual 1 srsonallty has nothing to do with ? rpnotic influences." , Dr. Quackenbos pointed out 4hat V e only authenticated case where J rpnotlc power seemed to have actu- ? ly been exerted to cause unjustified ? Hrtn hv o naismn tnnlr nlono In Maw m ork several years ago, and In that A stance, the individual believed to 9 ive employed the hypnotic Influence ^ as not a living entity. The wife of a well known physical 2 vestigator, it was said, was induced x leave her husband by the spirit of ? dead person, who, it is believed, V st a hypnotic spell over her from y e spirit world. S:..a subsequently f oke away from the influence and re- ? rned to her husband. ? "I have the greatest respect for the a blimlnal self," Dr. Quackenbos con- A lued. "Experiments with several I ousand cases have shown me that 2 e mind of a subject in mesmeric X ance is pure, above reproach and z yond the influence of evil, though X en to suggestion of good."" ? The statement of the eminent phy- jj :ian, who has devoted many years y the study of the practical, theorat tl and theurapeutic application of ? pnotism, throws a dissolving ray of P fht for the first time upon the as- * elation popularly believed to exist A tween hypnosis and crime. :l For several years the courts In 1 iny parts of the land have been g low with roses, is witching no longer, dre tnd old Francis Martinka sits discon- and lolately in his quaint shop on Sixth the tvenue, with the dust deepening over a ? ;he closets containing his illusions and der, Ticks. gret It you are a New Yorker, and par- the icularly if you are a New Yorker >r vhose tastes have leaned toward leg- Peri irdemain, there is no need to tell you app >f Martinka, the man who for 35 years ima ias manufactured every trick and illu- waj lion for the great magicians from Her lerrman down. Martinka is too well 0f.] mown to require another account add- grei id to the many written about him. But ] >ut of the decline of the popularity of ent naglc he looms a striking figure not to c]ev >e overlooked. Her "Yes," he said, when seen in his store Thi >n avenue, "magic is on the de- gr& iline. People hare lost Interest In the ceai ilack art. Theatrical managers throw new lp their hands when asked to bill it p]e V.11 the greatest magicians are dead or The etired. The moving picture business ] s adding to the trouble. I do not know tlm vhat we shall do." bef< With a sad shake of his gray head C|ai ie swept an arm disconsolately across )n , he dust-covered closets and shelves, wa{ klled and crowded with strange boxes c{a, ind gilt horns and cards and innu- Thi nerable other oddiiies that filled the 8Ch, iny front room of his establishment. t0 t From the street one glancing at cou dartlnka's would believe it but anar- fon ow boothlike hole in a brick wall. )nce within, however, the miniature g^j lustomer's room at the front flares art vldely into a larger one Immediately yni >ehlnd, which in turn expands into trie itlll another, fitted with a real stage d0 , ind seats enough for 100 persona It the s here that the great magicians of his- trie ory gave private performances of We heir tricks and planned out new ones. can Behind the theater is a long alley of ilosets containing tricks, and still be- for( lind these is a great workshop filled vith machinery. The store, starting vlth a mere slit in the wall, reaches A 100 feet deep into the brick bowels of coai he block, and spreads out to a width Pre1 hrice that of its beginning. cov' usy discrediting pleas of wrongdo- thes ig committed by one person, but line upposedly, done because another per- oak, on exerted hypnotic influence over "we he actual criminal. mor Whenever a crime has been done by person whose friends cannot under- flow tand it, It Is the popular method of favc ccounting for it, or rather of not ac- this ountlng for it, by expressing the be- fror lef the man acted under the hypnotic perl nfluence of another. or i Bums detectives, who have had ex- retii ierlence In the most elusive cases of awa ourder and gigantic robbery, declare thrc oental suggestion in no Instance ever "I las been found to have played a part trie a criminal operations. Speech fre- 11,0 uently wins a man over to the ranks covi f the crook, thug and blackmailer, $76. >ut never the mesmeric Influence. "< 'hey cite innumerable cases of theft, yea .rson, and murder in which the de- ing ense of hypnotism has been set up by You hrewd lawyers, whose sole hope of Tha cqulttal lay in the confusion of the gici ury's mentality by reference to a sub- trui ect they had come to believe held a the lnister Influence for crime.?New bou fork Press. '1 ? ? due DAY OF MAGICIAN PA88ING. ers in < Jo Says the Man Who 8uppliaa tha mat World With Trioks. and Magic has lost Its grip on the Amercan people. New Yorkers no longer out narvel at the flower beds that burst ven nto bloom from the air, as Kellar used his, :o conjure them to do. The dark witch- coo ?ry of beautiful maidens levitated abr vithout visible support, of spirit cabi- Nei lets and vanishing cards and cornuco- see. lias of paper that needed but the "] ouch of the magician's w.ind to over- niai In the shop at the rear have been dev nunufactured every one of the great the ricks of the first Herrman, and all the clfl< lensatlonal illusions used by Kellar be- exc< ore that master of this particular on >hase of the conjurer's art retired a bull nilllonalre. n.ai It was there that was created the le- -fe itating device the secret of which is i Cellar guarded so jealously. There, a P oo, was born the flower-growing illu- for ilon, the marvelous rapping hand and is i he spirit cabinets. And to this day law At. Martlnka and his wife, who for too, rears has aided him in his business, pail done guard the secrets of the master's a g< nventions of magic. froi "When Kellar retired at Los Ange- T es, a rich man, the star of magic be- moi ran to set. He was the last of the moi Teat magicians," continued Mr. Mar- It I inka. "It is true, there were other Coq lever men, but none who possessed Chil he power of Kellar or Herrmann, Gua lone who could set the fashion in unk nagic as these. reli< "Little by little our business began coai 0 fall ofr illusion cioseis sucn annuo , s [ REBUILT it 1 ' Before You, Mr. Business Man, I for a New Typewriter at $100.0 ! tell you what we can offer in a 1 [ the Make and Model that you pi | a machine Rebuilt in a thoroug \ thoroughly trained mechanics, v I All Worn Parts, and turn out in 1 detail, in short, "AS GOOD AS ! will do as good work and as mi I chine, and you save from $40 t ! saving of this amount means an; ! fore you buy a Typewriter. AI i i Remington, Nos. 10 and 11 Oliver, Wo. 6 Oliver, No. 5 1 Smith Premier, No. 2 Smith Premier. No. 10 Monarch, No. 2 1 L. G. Smith, No. 1 Underwood, Nos. 4 and 5 If you expect to buy a Tyj Machine and keep the difference We also sell Typewriter Ribl Carbon Copy Paper, Carbons. L. M. GRISl YORKVILLE - ie," he waved his hand along the of dingy doorways set In solid each with a huge brass padlock, have had no occasion to open for iths at a time. Vhen Kellar was performing bis er-growing illusion, which was his irlte, we had calls every week for trick from lesser magicians, and n wealthy amateurs, who wished to orm privately among the wealthy n lyceums before friends. With the rement of Kellar this demand fell ,y. Now we sell one or two every ie or four years. t was the same with the levitating k. Kellar's famous levltatlon cost 00. We have them now out there, erea witn tne ausi or years, ro? Dur business was in its heydey 20 rs ago. In those days we were sellillusions that brought big prices. I remember Kellar's 'Blue Room.' it cost 12,500. In all, this great maan's paraphernalia cost $75,000. His iks alone cost $5,000. Nowadays, majority of tricks we sell can be ght for from $1 to $20. Not alone is the decline of magic to the departure of the great leadamong the magicians. It also is, i measure, due to the fact that the iter Inventors of magic are dead I their places have not been filled, rhere was De Kolta, who passed in 190$. He was the greatest intor of them all. The flying flsh was as was his greatest illusion, the oon. This was first presented oad, and then, in 1897, brought to v Tork and done at the Eden MuDe Kolta, you remember, pasted a In sheet of paper across a frame, w a picture of a silk worm upon It 1 then smashed the paper. Out of hole burst a monster cocoon. With iAifAMAfit Ks ran* *kn /?A/>AAn 011111*1 lUTQlllCUi lie iOUV btivi WWVM M... , and from its depths emerged a at butterfly?his wife. This was master illusion of them all. When Herrmann, with his magnetic sonality, was in the Held his mere earance on the stage gripped the glnation of the audience. They airs were ready to expect anything of Tmann. He was a better sleightland artist that Kellar, but not so at an illusionist [ do not wish to disparage the presmaglctans. A few of them are very er. There are Ooldln and Mrs. rman, and Carter and Howard irston, all excellent but not such it leaders as some of their predeiors. To see Herrmann perform a r trick was to send a hundred peohurrylng here to buy it next day. i same was true of Kellar. Nowadays we even have a hard e holding the annual performance ire the Society of American Magiis. This was for years a great event the world of magic, and it always i easy to get one of the big maglis to furnish the entertainment, s year the entertainment was eduled for Carnegie Hall, but had >e declared off because no magician Id be obtained to conduct the pernance. While we naturally have felt the dual slipping of this once popular our business will, of course, conic, for we supply all other couns with magicians' paraphernalia. I not think it is generally known that fnJrira of India nurchase all their ks from us, but such Is the case, ship boxes there ever so often. I look forward to the time, however, jn magic will become one of the gotten arts."?New York Press. i Rainless Shore.?For 2,000 miles of Bt, as more Americans than are at sent Informed, will doubtless dlser as soon as the Panama canal elops more neighborliness between north Atlantic and the south Pa!, one need not carry an umbrella ept to keep off the sun. In Peru, the sea side of the Andes, they Id out of mud what seem to be gnlflcent palaces, and clapboard cts are popular also, though wood vorth Its weight in gold. Stucco, aint brush and a lively fancy, serve this stagey decoration, but there lot even a pretense of cultivating ns, though that might be indulged with the help of a pot of green it. Rain enough would not fall In meratlon to wash the green off the it yard or the patio, hat stretch of coast is one of the it remarkable of all nature's delstrations of waterless desolation, s an elongated Sahara. From ulmbo, one-third of the length of ti below the Peruvian border, to .yaquil, in Ecuador, vegetation is nown. An agreeable effect is to ?ve the equatorial heat aloi.g the it and the slope of the An les of lanlty.?Princeton Journal. K>-r<x>txx>t<<xyivKy? GOOD AS EVER WE WRITERS pay out your good coin 0 each, come and let us REBUILT MACHINE of refer. We can sell you hly equipped factory by rho Replace and Rene?r tachines perfect in every EVER"?Machines that ich of it as a New mao $60 on the deal. If a rthinor tn vnn ?pp m hp. few prices: $52.00 to $60.00 30.00 to 36.00 42.00 to 50.00 28.00 to 35.00 40.00 to 52.00 42.00 to 50.00 41.00 to 48.00 42.00 to 60.00 >ewriter, buy a Rebuilt in your pocket. See us. bons, Typewriter Paper, Let us supply you. "S SONS, - - s. c.