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g??? gggg P ???g?S?BB? ?MITOP SEMI-WKEKLY. L. K. ORIST'S SOHS, PubU.h?r., } % 4am'I$ 5mww?1: 4or (h< {promotion af th< ?otitii;al, Social, ^jrienlluijat and Commftciat Jnttresfs oj fh< Jtoj|t<. | established 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., TUESDAY, ISTOVEMBERr25, 1913. AAA /TiA/r> /tVj TljJT VwT wV VW VTy? VTw wTvT vi WITHIN 4 BY MARt FROM THE PLAY 01 | Copyright, 1912, by the H. K. F A A<?\A A^A /T\AfT\ A/ f^T vTw wV \VTv VT37V ^?TV WXy Tt CHAPTER XV. Within the Toils. The going of Garson left the room deathly still. Dick turned to Mary and took her hand In his. His arm swept about her In a protecting embracejust In time or she would have fallen. A whisper came from her quivering lipa Her face was close to his, else he could not have caught the uncertain murmuring. The muscles of her face twitched. She rested supinely, against him as if bereft of any strength of body or soul. Yet. In the Intensity of her utterance, the feeble whisper struck like a shriek of horror. "I?I?never saw any one killed before! " Before he could utter the soothing Kin Una Tilnlr uroa wuruo uiai iuoc iu **io upa, ^?v.. Interrupted by a slight sound at the door. Instantly he was all alert to meet the exigencies of the situation. He stood by the couch, bending forward a little as if in a posture of intimate fondness. He heard the noise again presently, now so near that he made sure of being overheard, so at once he spoke with a forced cheerfulness In his inflection. "I tell you, Mary,** he declared, "ev. erythlng's going to be all right for you and me. It was bully of you to come here to me like this." "Hand* upl All of youl* The girl made no response. Dick, in nervous apprehension as to the issue sought to bring her to realization of the new need that had come upon them. "Talk to me." he commanded very softly. They'll be here in a minute. When they come in pretend you Just came here in order to meet me. Try, Mary. You must, dearest!" Then again his voice rose to loudness as he continued: "Why, I've been trying all day to see you. And now here we are together, just as I was beginning to get really discouraged. I know my father will eventually"? He was interrupted by the swift swinging open of the hallway door. Burke stood Just within the library, a revolver pointed menacingly. "Hands up. all of you!" The inspector's voice fairly roared the command. The belligerent expression of his face vanished abruptly as his eyes fell on Dick standing by the couch and Mary reclining there in limp helplessness. "What are you doing in this house at this time of night?" Dick demanded. "I recognize you, Inspector Burke. But you must understand that there are limits even to what you can do. It seems to me, sir, that you exceed your authority by 3uch an intrusion as this." Burke waved his revolver toward Mary. "What's sne aoing nere: ne uskcu. "You forget yourself, inspector. This 's my wife. She has the right to be with me--her husband!" "Where's your father?" he questioned roughly. "In bed. naturally," was the answer. "I ask you again. What are you doing here at this time of night?" "Oh, call your father," Burke directed. "It's late," Dick objected. "I'd rather not disturb him, if you don't mind." Suddenly he smiled very wlnningly. and spoke with a good assumption of ingenuousness. "Inspector," he said briskly, "I see I'll have to tell you the truth. It's this: I've persuaded my wife to go away with me. She's going to give all that other sort of thing up. Yes, we're going away together. So, you see. we've got to taJk it over. Now, then, inspecJng"? As he spoke the white beam of the Hashing searcnugm num U|C lunc, fell between the undrawn draperies of the octagonal window. The light startled the Inspector again, as it had done once before that same night. His gaze followed it instinctively. So within the second he saw the still form lying there on the floor. There was no mistaking that awful, motionless, crumpled posture. The inspector leaped to the switch by the door and turned on the lights of the chandelier. In the next moment he had reached the door of the passage across the room,' and his whistle sounded shrill. His voice, bellowed re-enforcement to the blast. "Cassidy! Cassid.v!" Cassidy came rushing in with the other detectives. "Why, what's it all mean, chief?" he questioned. "They've got Griggs!" Burke answered. There was exceeding rage in ? ? +?+ ?+# *t3+ *& ?+? +#+ rHE LAW riN DANA ? BAYARD YEILLER ji ly company. ; EiX mA(f\ iCtAiTV A/TkA A/T\ . irw wnc wT?v ti/Ttr w tcrvry TU'T -*- w his voice as he spoke from his kneeling1 posture beside the body, to which he had hurried after the summons to his aids. 4TH break you for this, Cassldy," he declared fiercely. "Why didn't you get here on the run when you honrri tha ?hnt "But there wasn't any shot. I tel\ you, chief, there hasn't been a sound. Burke rose to his feet. His heavy face was set in its sternest mold. "You could drive a hearse through the hole they made in him," said Cassidy. Burke wheeled on Mary pnd Dick. "So," he shouted, "now It's murder! Well, hand it over. Where's the gun?" He nodded toward Dick as he gave his order, "Search him!" Dick took the revolver from his pocket and held it out. At this incriminating crisis for the son the father hastily strode into the library. He had been aroused by the inspector's shouting and was evidently greatly perturbed. "What's all this?" he exclaimed. Burke In a moment like this was no respector of persons. "You can see for yourself." he said gruiriy iu me uuiiuuuhucu uiagiiatc. "So," he went on, with somber menace in his voice, "you did* It, young: man." He nodded toward the detective. "Well, Casldy, you can take 'em both downtown. That's all." The command aroused Dick to remonstrance agrainst such indignity toward the woman he loved. "Not her!" he cried Imploringly. "You don't want her, inspector! This Is all wrong!" "Dick," Mary advised quietly, "don't talk, please." "What do you expect?" Burke Inquired truculently. "As a matter of fact, the thlng^s simple enough, young man. Either you killed Griggs or she did." The Inspector with his charge made a careless gesture toward the corpse of the murdered stool pigeon. Edward Gilder looked and saw the ghastly, Inanimate heap of flesh and bone that had once been a man. He fairly-reeled at the spectacle, then fumbled with an outstretched hand until he laid hold on a chair, into which he sank helplessly. ( "Either you killed him," the voice repeated gratingly, "or she did. Well, then, young man, did she kill him?" "Good God. no!" Dick shouted aghast. "Then it was you!" ' , "No, no! He didn't!" Mary's words , came frantically. Burke reiterated the accusation. "One of you killed Griggs. Which one of you did it?" He scowled at Dick. "Did she kill him?" "t fam vaii nnl" A IV1U /UU <1V? "Well, then," he blustered to the giri, "did he kill him?" The nod of his head was toward Dick. Then as she remained silent, "I'm talking to you!" he snapped. "Did he kill him?" The reply came with a soft distinct- ' ness that was like a crash of destiny. 1 "Yes." Dick turned to his wife in reproach- 1 ful amazement. "Mary!" he cried incredulously. "You'll swear he killed him?" Burke ' asked briskly. "Why not?" she responded listlessly. 1 At this Intolerable assertion as he 1 deemed it, Edward Gilder sat rigidly erect in his chair. 1 "God!" he cried despairingly. "And that's your vengeance!" "I don't want vengeance?now!"? she said. "But they'll try my boy for murder," the magnate remonstrated, distraught. "Oh, no, they can't!" came the reJoinder. "What's the reason we can't?" Burke stormed. "Because my husband merely killed a burglar. He shot him In defense of his home." In his office next morning Inspector Burke was fuming over the failure of his conspiracy. He had hoped through this plot to vindicate his authority, so sadly flaunted by Garson and Mary Turner. Instead of this much to be roonit fmm his ofhpminc the outcome had been nothing- less than disastrous. Some one had murdered Griggs, the stool pigeon. The murder could not go unpunished. The slayer's Identity 1 must be determined. To the discovery < a ifl VH W; U "You could drivo hearae through tho hole they made in him." of this identity, the inspector was at the preseat moment devoting himself j by adroit questioning of Dacey and Chicago Red. who had been arrested | in one of their accustomed haunts. , "Come across now!" he admonished, i His voice rolled forth like that of a bull of Bashan. He was on his feet, facing the two thieves. His head was j thrust forward menacingly, and his eyes were savage. "I don't know nothin'!" Chicago Red's voice was between a snarl and i a whine. "Ain't I been telling you that ] for over an hour?' Burke gave Dacey, who chanced to , be the nearer of the two, a shove that sent the fellow staggering halfway across the room under its Impetus. "Dacey, how long have you been out?" "A week." "Want to go back for another stretch ?" "God, no!" "Who shot Griggs?" The reply was a chorus from the two: i uoni Know?nonesi, i oon u In his eagerness Chicago Red moved toward his questioner. "Honest to Gawd, I don't know nothin* about it!" The inspector's fist shot out toward Chicago Red's Jaw. The thief-went to his knees under the blow. "Now, get up?and talk." Burke's voice came with unrepentant noisiness against the stricken man. Cringingly Chicago Red obeyed as far as the getting to his feet was concerned. While he got slowly to his feet he took care to keep at a respectful distance from the official. Ca8sldy entered the Inspector's office to announce the arrival of the district attorney. "Send 'im in," Burke directed. He made a gesture .toward the doorman and added, "Take 'em back!" '1 came as soon as I got your message," the district attorney said as he seated himself in a chair by the desk. "And I've sent word to Mr. Gilder. Now, then, Burke, let's have this thing niiipblv " The Inspector's explanation was concise: "Joe Gar8on, Chicago Red and Dacey, along with Griggs, broke Into Edward Gilder's house last night. I knew the trick was going to be pulled off, and so I planted Cassldy and a couple of other men Just outside the room where the haul was to be made. Then I went away, and after something like half an hour I came back to make the arrests myself. When I broke into the room I found young Gilder alone with that Turner woman he married, and they were just talking together. "I found Griggs lying on the floor? dead! The Turner woman says young Gilder shot Griggs because he broke Into the house. Ain't that the limit?" "What does the boy say?" "Nohlng. We've got Chicago Red and Dacey, and well have Garson before the day's over. And, oh, yes! They've picked up a young girl at the Turner woman's place. And we've got one real clew for once!" He opened a drawer of the desk and took out Gar son's pistol to which the silencer was st111 attached. "You never saw a gain like that before, eh?" he exclaimed. Demarest admitted the fact. 'Til bet you never did! That thing on the end is a Maxim silencer. There are thousands of them In use on rifles, but they've never been able to use them on revolvers before. That thing Is absolutely noiseless. I've tried It. Well, you see, It'll be an easy thingeasiest thing in ttve world!?to trace that silencer atatehmeMt. Cassidy's working on that end of the thing now." (To be Continued.) THE AUTOMOBILE More Machines in the United States Than in all nf Euron# That European auto manufacturers become periodically alarmed over what they term the "Invasion" of their markets by American makers, does not seem surprising, in view of the enormous production in this country. England, for instance, the largest of the foreign producers, turns out only about 20,000 cars a year; whereas over here. , one concern, the Ford, reports having made and sold 185,000 during the season closed about a month ago. The output for all American concerns has been estimated at 400,000 for the 1913 season. Germany, In 1911, produced about 17,087 cars; In 1910, 13,113; and In 1 1909, 9,444. Italy is credited with having manufactured 7,305 in 1912, and 4,665 in 1911, most of which were made ' by the Fiat company. Russia, which turned out 100 machines last year, 65 in 1911 and 13 in 1910, imports about 15,000,000 worth annually. Probably In all Europe there are not over 250,000 autos in use, as against more than 1,000,000 in the United States. The figures are incomplete, but France, according to consular reports, had 28,641 motor-cycles in use on January 1 last, most of which came from England, that style of machine having become popular because of the siden44#\nk?v?A?*t flnrrw o nif of fho ho _ ginning of the year, had 57,464 autoa In use, including the number in government taxlcab, and omnibus service. According to the consul at Frankfort on-Main, the competition of the t American auto is not yet apparent in Germany. The manufacturers of that country have done their best to create a sentiment against American-made cars, and many prospective buyers are afraid of their alleged flimsiness. In 1912, the German tire producers exported about $8,300,000 worth of tires. Denmark has about 8,000 machines in service, about one-third of which are of American make. Portugal, with a population of 6,000,000, has only some 2,000 cars, and most of these are of French manufacture. Foreign makers have not yet adopted quantity production, and they cannot see how the immense output here is going to be absorbed locally, year after year. The fact that our exports have increased from $5,277,847 in 1908, to $31,253,533 in the 1913 fiscal year, would aDnear to furnish some basis for their fears.?Wall Street Journal. ? Washington, November 18: Good roads in the future should be built on the zig zag plan for the avoidance of hills and steep grades, the Federal office of good roads announced today in declaring that the lives of horses and automobiles could be lengthened thereby and the cost of hauling re- < duced materially. The experts contended that "the longest way around often may be the shortest and most economical way home," and decry the natural tendency to build straight roads whenever they must breast heavy grades. Disinclination of communities and individuals to sacrifice rich and fertile land to road purposes the government exnerts think. stand In the way of carrying out the . proposed reform. They are seeking to impress on the rural communities however the economic advantages to be gained by the elimination of steep , grades from the seats of supply to i the markets. |i FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced Id Earty Flies ol The Torkrllle Enquirer NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTEIDAT Bringing Up Records of the Past and ?u. v....... .? T?. T iny hi is vwnyvi iieauBi wa ' w day a Pratty Comprehensive Knowladga of the Thing* that Moat Concerned Genaration* that Hava Gone Before. The following notes are being published as time and opportunity permit their preparation. FOURTH INSTALLMENT. Thursday, June 5, 1858.?A public meeting was held in the court house last Monday for the purpose of approving the conduct of Col. Preston Brooks in inflicting chastisement on Chas. Sumner, of Massachusetts. Rev. A. Whyte presided, and John L. Miller was appointed secretary. Col. R. G. McCaw offered resolutions of approval. They were seconded by Col. I. -U. witnerspoon ana unanimously adopted. .The laat resolution was: (3) That a committee of hve be charged with the duty of selecting a suitable testimonial expressive of the esteem In which Col. Brooks is held, and the manner in which his conduct has been approved by the people of York district." In compliance with the third resolution the chair appointed the fol-, lowing committee: Edward Moore. Samuel W. Melton, Col. R. S. Moore, John L. Miller and J. C. Chambers. There is a half column account of an "exhibition" at Union academy on Friday previous. It is stated that there were fully one thousand people pres-; en* from near and far. The academy U'Qa in r>ha vera r\f Tnhn R Punlrav u nH William L. Sandlfer. ,j A special committee of the house has reported In favor of the expulsion of Mr. Brooks. They also censure CoL Ketltt, and Mr. Edmundson of Virginia. Judge Butler has returned to the senate, and when the Massachusetts resolutions are presented, promises to speak for himself. * An article from the St. Louis Republican describes the stories that have been coming from Kansas as very much exaggerated, and there is an expression of editorial confidence that the situation out there is not nearly so bad as has been reported. " Thursday, June 12.?Cols. L D. Witherspoon and R. G. McCaw, candidates for the senate, publish a card in which they pledge themselves not to uo any xreaung in xne campaign or xu pay any bills made for whisky by others in .their behalf. ? The first annual commencement of the Yorkville Female college is advertised for July 2. The aecond session of Bethel academy is to commence July 14. J. T. Harry Is principal and Mrs. Harry is assistant. * * There is a column account of the Cincinnati convention which met on the 2d instant, and adjourned to meet in Charleston after having nominated James Buchanan of Pennsylvania, tor president on the seventeenth ballot and John C. Breckinridge, on the second ballot. Editorial regret is expressed at the nomination of Mr. Buchanan. The paper says that while of course it acquiesces In the result, and will support the nominee it thinks that the nomination of Stephen A- Douglas would have been the wiser. A division of the "Sons of Temperance" was organized on Monday evening with the following officers: John G. Enloe, W. P.; J. C. Miller, W. A.; James Mason, R. S.; I. N. Withers, A. R. S.; J. N. Lewis, F. S.; S. R. Moore, T.; L. M. Grist, C.; J. E. Jefferys, A. C.; D. J. Logan, I. S.; J. E. Smith, O. S.; J. G. Schorb, P. W. P. * "Since the departure of our little Kansas company, we have been unable until now to gather any intimation as to their progress westward. Indeed, our very kind and attentive contemporaries, the Columbia papers, having so studiously avoided any mention of them, we had reached the conclusion that they had "swamped" in Cockwell's lane, or thereabouts. From the following letter of Mr. Rice to the Anderson Gazette, however, we have found the track, and henceforward we shall endeavor to keep,to it. Ere this, doubtless our "brave little band" have been In the "fray" and we expect shortly to tell a good story of them. Mr. Rice's letter was dated at Nashville, Tenn., May 25: Dear Edie: It may be of some little interest to your readers to know that the company of Kansas emigrants. under the command of Gen. A. C. Jones of Laurens, have safely reached the city of Nashville. Major Jones left Laurens with twenty-three faithful followers, and has received reinforcements from the districts of York and Edgefield, respectively until his company now numbers forty men. The general is accompanied by his accomplished lady, who by her kindness and amiability, contributes much to the comfort and enjoyment of the company. We lodged the first night at the Congaree house, in Columbia, and were charged full price. Had we stopped at Hunt's hotel we would have passed "Scott free." Do you and your readers take a note of this and patronize Hunt, who is a friend of southern rights. The Greenville and Columbia and South Carolina railroads each complimented us with tickets; but that "Yankee concern." the Atlanta road, made us open oar purses and shell out the cash. Can't you "hit 'em again," Major? The Georgia state road evidenced the attachment of that state to our cause by sending us on our way rejoicing without fee or reward. 'Tis well that these things be known, so that the public may know "which way the wind blows." At Augusta, the Globe House, of which a Yankee is said to be proprietor), also fleeced us. But upon tbej hole we have not any severe charge; 'O allege againoi nuiei (Jiupneiui^auu. railroad companies. We have been treated so kindly, and met with such, hearty receptions from the public generally, that we are disposed to forgive be few, who by their acts at least, declare their hostility to the success of the cause of the South in Kansas. By the way, we hear from both public and private sources, that hot times are expected in Kansas. This eveninga respectable gentleman, who had just; returned from Kansas, visited us, and trave it as his opinion that a regular pitched battle would soon come off between the pro-slavery and anti- < slavery parties! Our brave little band are eagerly panting for the fray and are prepared for any emergency. We lodge tonight on board the steamboat 1 Rocky City, and leave tomorrow at 8 o'clock for fjt. Louis, which city we expect to reach on Monday evening next, 26th of this month. We have al- j renrtv traveled more than 700 miles." i > Thursday, June 19, 1866.?Nearly l^alf of the Inside of this paper is tak4n up with communications discussing the pernicious habit of treating in 1 lections. There is a communication Igned "Bullock's Creek" and another ^igned 'Turkey Creek," both endorsing 4nd backing up "Juvfenal," and there Is another long communication from Juvenal. The writer from Bullock's Creek commends the manly stand taken by Cols. McCaw and Witherspoon in their card published in the previous issue, and calls upon other candidates to do likewise. He says: 'The public voice should not be tardy or niggardly in uttering its approval. The people should take them warmly by the hand, and feel as well as express, their regrets that they cannot send them both to the senate. Religion should utter its approval also, and tell them that when men seek noble ends and noble means. Its encouragement and sympathy shall not be withheld." "Juvenal" says: "Timidity in the Bupport of any right and virtuous cause is Itself a vice. Whenever Christianity and the press omit to rebuke public vice and hold it up boldly to the public gaze and the public reprobation, they compound with it in a degree, and come in like degree partlceps criminis." The Charlotte Whig announces the death of Mrs. Susan Alexander, in Mecklenburg county on Thursday last at the age of 94 years, and says that by thiB event 'the last link that bound the present with the past of our country Is broken. Mrs. Alexander was one of the purest and beat as she was the last, of the Women of the Revolution. May she rest In peace." The latest advices from*Kansas confirm the tidings of a renewal of hostilities between the pro-slavery and abolition settlers, and bring intelligence of the destruction of the Free f>tate towns of Ossawatomle and Paljnyra by the southerners, and of the 'tpwns of Bernard and Franklin by the tree state rorcea. rne ieeing tnrougnout South Carolina Is that if the Abolitionists win Kansas the institution of slavery is doomed. The first part of the reply of Senator Butler of South Carolina to Senator Sumner of Massachusetts, is published in today's paper. (To be Continued.) "Made a comedy of a duel An American's Fight With a Frenchman Fine for the Movies. The French liner La Touralne, arriving recently from Havre, brought, among Its passengers, John B, Miller, who formerly lived in Brooklyn, but who for a year has been living In Glay, France with his wife. Mr. Miller fought a final with an (rata Frenchman, and that no blood was shed was due to his sense of humor. Living in the same town was a Frenchman for whom he conceived a great dislike, and his feelings apparently were reciprocated. Mr. Miller didn't like the cut of the gentleman's coat nor the top hat he invariably wore. But quite by accident, he contends, he stepped on the Frenchman's foot. It was In a cafe, and his friend, the enemy, had one foot out in the aisle. "Pig!" Bald the Frenchman. "What's that?" queried Miller, doubting the evidence of his senses. "Swine!" cried the other with dis dain. Miller swung* on the gentleman's Jaw and the latter yelled "Assassin!" Gendarmes rushed Jn and Miller was arrested. "And believe me," ?aid Miller, "1 found that it was quite a different matter walloping a man in France than handing him one on this side. It was lucky that I had friends over there or I might have gone to jail for something like life. My friends told me that the proper thing over there was to cane a man; that it was not only unpardonable to strike a man with your hands, but that it was criminal. Well, I got out of it all right. Then I bought a stick wilh a lot of knots in it, and what I handed to that gentleman was plenty. "Instead of an arrest this time I got a challenge to a dueL My wife's cousin was the second who brought me the challenge. I told him thai I didn't want to fight any duel, and he said that there was no way out of It. Well, he was a good fellow, and J told him that I would get a second and that they could 'Job' the bloodthirsty gentleman. He agreed to have the pistols loaded with black powder. "There was a 'movie' man In town, and I asked him what It was worth to give him the exclusive privilege of taking pictures. He said ten francs, and I told him to go to It. We went out In the gray morning, and never a word was exchanged between us. My man and I backed up against each other and at the word walked ten paces, then turned and blazed away. 'The yell I let out of me could have been heard all over town, I think. I dropped to the ground and squirmed. That Frenchman's sense of honor was thoroughly satisfied. He beat It, and his second with him,* and I think he's going yet. for I never saw him again. When he was gone I got up and went to where the 'movie* fellows were grinding away with their camera, and got my fee. The manager of the concern grinned and said the performance was well worth the price."?New York World. Prize Winner.?Another one has started, and promises to become a worthy successor to "How much wood I would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" Many heretical versions of the new teaser are at large, but the true form is as follow^ and must be strictly adhered |to by the faithful: Bill had a bill-board and Bill had a board bill, and Bill's board bill bored Bill till Bill sold Bill's bill-board to pay Bill's board bill, and then Bill's board bill no longer bored Bill. PiSttUanroiw grading. HUERTA TO HI8 CONGRE88 Summary of Massage Delivered Last Thursday. Huerta's message, which he read last Thursday night to the Mexican congress, was in part as follows: "In accordance with the constitu nunai provision, li is ine uuiy 01 ine :hlef executive to inform congress twice every year of the status of public affairs. "By virtue of the solemn promise I liave made before the nation and the world, the country is resuming its bourse under the straight and inflexible provisions of the fundamental bhart of the republic and this within luch a peremptory time necessarily so lets in relief before persons not actuited by passion the indisputable good will with which the government has been making efforts to re-instate the lupremacy of peace. "The embodiment of our political itructure having as a base a perfect equilibrium among the three powers by means of which the people exer:lse its sovereignty, it can be easily inderstood to what extent of dlfflcul:y we could be dragged by the least in:erruption or alteration of this equilibrium. The very moment that any >f the three powers should go beyond the boundaries limiting their activity, the province of action of .the >thers would necessarily be Invaded ind constitutional functions would be iltered, thus menacing the life Itself it the political state, and unless that the trespassing power be brought wlth>ut delay to its exclusive province of ictlon it has to cause against the oth>r Dowers invaded a defensive reaction, the vigor of which Is and must be proportional to the gravity or frequency )f the infraction. This situation appeared before the country since the ast days of September. "I refer to the attitude principally >f the house of representatives, which affronted the other two powers but preferably the executive, whose action the aforesaid assembly endeavored to prevent and defend. "The house on account of the assemblage of certain elements became i focus of insurrection, a bare-faced agency of the rebels. "It endeavored to prevent every effort of the government, aggressively Invading not onl^' the province of the ludiclal power, but that of the executive. Having come to this extreme, the government under my direction, had to face this painful dilemma, the decision of which could not be held any further?to consent in the preservation of Hip hnnut of ranraiientAtlves as an assembly of demagogues, so that it would end by strangling the other two powers, draggingthe country to a chaos of a bloody anarchy or in taking a legitimate reaction of defense and public health, waiving during a short period of time the so-called national reputation and appealing to the people to come before the polls, In order that It should express its ultimate and sovereign desire; and it being impossible to hesitate before such a situation, the executive adopted the extreme measure and dissolved congress. "Congress having been dissolved, and in absence of this important organ of the government from that date until the assembling of the new chambers, It became necessary to decree extraordinary powers. "This would seem as a propitious moment to give you an account of the use made of the above powers; but Inasmuch as It Is the purpose of this congress to pass upon them, I shall in '>?"> onii tinHor aftnorntA distribu tion, give you an itemized account of the use made of them by the executive to the end that if you And his action useful, honest and patriotic, you should afford him your support, and in case that you are of a different opinion, you should lay the responsibilities upon him who may deserve them." NEW U8E FOR THE "MOVIES" Once in a While the Criminals Find Cinema Pictures Very Convenient, "Stop thief! Stop thief!" As the man came running down the street about 100 yards ahead of the crowd, a big determined-looking nav?. fn,uforH an/1 cH nnpd him v y oicj/ptu tv? TfM* v> ?..? 0..ri firmly. "That's right," gasped the almost breathless runner. "Jerk me aside?we are doing this for a cinema picture." His captor, with a laugh at once released his hold, and the man, darting swiftly round the corner, continued his flight and disappeared. He was a real thief! This incident occurred recently. It seems that a woman had been looking in a shop window In the Finchley road, London, when a man snatched her hand-bag and bolted. Though a hue and cry was raised at once he escaped by the ingenious ruse related above. It is more than probable that he obtained his idea from a recent film which actually sHowed this very incident on the screen. And he is not the first criminal who has called in the aid of the cinema. Last December a gang of thieves robbed a banker In Paris of $6,000 worth of valuables In an exceedingly clever way. The banker was away with all his family, and the constable on duty near his house was accosted by ten well-dressed men who produced a letter stating that they had permission to make a cinema film at the banker's house, and requested the police to keep the public out of the way of the actors. One of .the strangers placed a cinema machine In position and vigorously turned the handle while the others reared a ladder against the wall, broke a window and entered the house. Several of the men, dressed as policemen, pretended to hide themselves around the corner In order to surprise the supposed burglars when they emerged. When the "actors" taking the part of burglars appeared with sacks on their shoulders and were seized by the "actors" dressed as policemen the real policemen watching were greatly amused. They laughed still more when they read in the evening papers an account of the banker's house having been burgled. They thought the report was a Joke on the part of one of the onlookers. It was not till the bank er returned that it was discovered that I the "cinema thieves" were real! Early in 1911 a film was taken show- I lnp a burglar at a goldsmith's shop in CVoydon. The film was exhibited and very shortly after the shop was broken ] into, the thieves getting away with 1 $2,000 worth of gold ornaments. They 1 had watched the film, noted the ar- i rangement of the interior of the shop, 1 and, using this information, carried 1 out their burglary successfully. 1 Since then tradesmen have been extremely chary in allowing their shops 1 or houses to be used for moving pic- | tures! One Aim, showing the robbery i of a bank safe, had to be withdrawn. < for the safe was actually robbed several times In a few months. Now. If a bank robbery Is shown on the screen the pictures are taken In such a way that no Important detai!s of a safe construction or protection for doors and so on are allowed to appear. Last year there was a great?and a Justifiable?outcry against the way crime was shown at picture palaces. In a very few days a number of cases occured where boys and young men were arrested for crimes which they copied from scenes on the screens. One boy at Sutton gave a moet vivid account of two men who had attacked him, and the entire metropolitan police force were kept busy searcAlng for them. He went thoroughly into details. One man, he said, was about 35 years of age and wore a morning coat and dark trousers. The other was about 25, and he further stated that both men wore false beards. The description of the men was circulated throughout the police stations, and it was pot until it transpired that the description of the two men tallied exactly with two actors In a recent moving picture that the police realized that the attack was a clnemaglnatlve one.?Pearson's Weekly. A 8INLES8 TOWN If* Blackwell, in England's Coal Mlning DistrictAll America knows of the existence of a "Spotless Town," but who from Maine to Texas or from Washington to Florida ever heard of a "Sinless Vilage?" There is one in England, and it is a mining town, too?the little town of Blackwell, in the colliery district, where one would naturally suspect riotousness and vice, says London correspondence In New Tork Tribune. Instead of vice owning Blackwell, virtue triumphs, almost to a degree, the visitors say, of monotony. "I just won't allow any sin or wickedness; that's all," says the King of Blackwell, who is in private life J. T. Todd, manager of the Blackwell Colliery company. The sojourner and sociological Investigator tramps a mile and a half from the railway station to Blackwell, only to And a town built in small, compact rows, fashioned with a precision that absolutely reflects its righteousness. At one corner there is a public house, as a saloon is called In England, but this Is the neatest and ; trimmest of resorts and turns its face In shamefaced fashion away from the < main thoroughfare. Inside a few quiet spirits sit and discuss Home Rule and ' foptbp.ll, the two predominant subjects in gngtand, without the slightest ran- , cor and almost subdued topes. , Under a September moon, and with the faint Incense of field and hedge- , row stirring through the streets, Blackwell looks to be the best place j In the whole world, If the adjective Is , applied in the right way. The wayfarer walks along, and only his footsteps break the stillness. No lights , show in the fronts of the tiny houses, , and this is soon explained when it is ( found that the occupants sit in their j kitchens, so that the streets will not be , garish at night A cat slinks out from a doorway try- ( in? to be wicked, as is the natural , wont of a cat, but before It reaches the ( next shadow, a shocked and reproach- ( ful voice calls, "Now, Tabby, corns ( right in," and the cat slinks hopelessly back. , "And everybody is good in Black- { well?" the Tribune correspondent asked Mr, Todd. "They are," succfntly responded his majesty, who, pressed to account for it, explained. "We don't aJlow them to be anything else," and Mm, Todd < put in, in kindliest fashion, "I think it is because we take such an interest , in them." "Perhaps it Is," rather reluctantly admitted Mr. Todd. i The benevolent despot went on to say that the collieries owned every thing: In Blackwell, Employed every man and boy, about 5,000 workers, to whom $30,000 is paid weekly, and controlled everything in the village, "except the public house, which we don't notice." "We have the best cricket grounds in England and on it we've played 42 matches this year, losing only six. We hav# tennis, bowls and football, besides, and musical evenings, too," said Mr. Todd. "And during the tennis season we have teas on the ground," |nterpe|at- ( ed Mrs, Todd, "the wives acting as , hostesses." "We have a first-class band and a t boys' brigade," proudly said the king. "I tell you, sir, they're a fine class of people here; the nicest and most respectable colliers In the country," he went on. "You see, I don't allow anyone here to be prosecuted. We have one policeman, and I object to his prosecuting anybody whatsoever. If anybody is bad the policeman reports him, and I deal with him, and if he is very bad I send him away." Mr. Todd did not admit that the po. Iceman's lot was merry and gay, and iho nmv hnou to the station the Tribune correspondent met two men coming homeward with a walk more like a sailor's than a collier's. But even if they were a bit worse for wear, they had a cherry greeting. On the bridge stood a lonely figure, as austere and majestic as the ghost in "Hamlet." A street lamp glinted on his helmet. "Are you the One Policeman and are you truly happy?" began the Tribune correspondent, but just then the train to Nottingham busily bustled into the doll's house of a station and the policeman's answer was drowned in the clatter. tsr Another sure way to get in bad is to try to please everybody.?Luke McLuke. MANY FAMOUS SPENDTHRIFTS Kings and Rulsrs Oftsn Sat Paoa Hard For Followers to Kaap Up. Thrift ia a state wherein one is prosperous. fortunate, increasing in worldly possessions and generally successful. A spendthrift, however, ia one who succeeds In spending and parting with what has come to him, either by tils own endeavors or through the interest that others have had in him. The art of economising is unknown to the spendthrift, and the word fru**4a ? a* fan Visa IavIaam Ta onnihaS word he is a stranger also, that Is forethought, says Dr. W. E. Evans. It lever occurs to him that a day of disaster and trouble may come Into his Ife wherein he shall wish that he had >een provident I suppose the spendthrift will abide imongtus as long as men's wants are 10 excessively beyond their usual leeds, and as long as men permit other people to decide how they should live, ind as long as people suffer society to llctate the style In which they should mtertaln and dress. The provident man will think for ilmself In all these matters. He knows exactly what he may spend and keep jp a speaking acquaintance with his Mink account. If he cannot afford It he will not buy an automobile simply bemuse some of hLi neighbors havechoten that manner of transit. He will not permit other people to decide where le should live. He will remain in the >ld neighborhood where living Is less ixpenaive, rather than move Into a more stylish part of the city. If he cannot afford It. Many of his old ft lends lave gone, and he feels that "the old n?iirhhophnni1 < nnt what It onea was." but hi* friend* are not to set the stand* ird of his method of living. Ho?and lot they?know* the entries In his lank book. He had better "Range with humble livers In content. Than to be perked up In a glistening grief, And wear a golde nsorrow?" such as a fine bouse In a fashionable lection, all covered with mortgages, ind himself trying to meet an Infinitude of burdensome debts! Tet there are men who spend all that they possess and give no thought to the horrible sequel?debt! They have no idea of the value of money, but let It slip away from them as little shlldren let dry sand flow through their separated fingers. Kings and rulers have sometimes set the bad example of most extravagantly nun/llf<* mnnav whfrh nnhlnmon Slid others In high social rank have not been slow to follow, forgetting the old principle of noblesse oblige. Henry VIII, set an example of the most extravagant splendor, which ruined many of the nobles in trying to Imitate. In Hood's "Life of Cromwell." we read that, while the people were starving onder the weight of oppression and forced loans the king was spending fortunes right anj left either for himself or for his immediate friends. We read of over $50,000 being paid to William Rogers, a goldsmith; of $60,000 ulil tn Phllln Jiteohaon. a leweler. for a ring; of $20,000 paid to Henry Oarway for one diamond; of $40,000 paid to Sir Manrlll Abbott for a diamond set in a collar of gold. And the people were already bending low under the yoke of financial oppression. If It any wonder that they finally shopped the king's head from his shoulders? Msen a worm may turn at last. Gibbon, In his Immortal work, says that at one time it was the habit of the spendthrifts of Rome to send away annually about $4,900,000 for foreign ornaments. And. this sum went to hostile nations, which used it In strengthening their arms against the Romans. Pliny says that he himself saw Lollla Paulina dressed for a betrothal feast In a robe that was covered with pearls and emeralds which had cost 40,000,000 sesterces. I have Just consulted the dictionary to ascertain the value of these sesterces. I find that a single sestertius was about equal to twenty-five golden ducat 1; a gold duc&ti was equal to about $2.25. Now. multiply for yourself and you will learn the cost of this spendthrift's dress?Oh, I beg pardon, it was not a dress, bless your soul. It cost enough to b# pallpd ft Mft?wp." Spending <nen#y, after the empire succeeded the old r??ubfl? (n Rome, was a mania of almost universal Infection. Cicero looked upon |t pJf and said, "The world has net learned fh# wealth of frugality." Anlclus a Dent S4.000.00d. and finding that he had only about $400,000 left, he hanged himself in order to escape the poverty that stared him in the face. The precious spendthrift Elagabalus spent a fortune at a dinner. Those who attended sat down to a feast of partridge eggs, pheasant brains and thrushes' tongues. It was his custom to have his peas sprinkled with grains of gold, pearls scattered In his rice, and costliest amber was used to make his beans more palatable. At the funeral feast of his dgifghtejr Caesar provided 28,000 tables fof tyf m mot a oriW oooli t o hi a a ppnmmrwifltpd three of his friends. At this feast 9 fortupe was spent. Tiberius would gylp down crushed precious stone* jn his wjne nod pile up the plgte* of his guests with gold and jewels, which were borne away. He built boats of cedar and covered them with goldNero's crown was said to be worth 13,> 500,000. When he went fishing he used lines of purple silk and hooks of gold. In his Journeys through his dominions 300 asses were taken along to supply milk for the bath of himself and his wife. In those ancient times and long before Nero there was a passion for display in all clrclea Plutarch, I remember. tells of some Dtrates whose oaten tation was remarkable. Their ships had masts covered with gold, the sails were woven of purple and the oars were encased in silver. All of which reminds us of tne ship in which Cleopatra sailed: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne.?Birmingham Age-Herald. tr Any woman who has tried to discover a flat building wherein four children are welcome knows that Columbus was a mere piker.?Luke McLuke. ts~ Moses isn't the only man who had a bullrush for a family tree. But Moses was the only man who was not ashamed of It?Luke McLuke.