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CHAPTER XIX.
^ Anjiuith and Bliss.
Garson shouted his confession
without a second of reflection. But
the result must have been the same
had he taken years of thought. Between
him and her as the victim of
the law, there could be no hesitation
for choice. The prime necessity was
to save her, Mary, from the toils of
the law that were closing around her.
For himself, In the days to come,
there would be a ghastly dread, but
there would never be regret over the
cost of saving her. He had saved her
from the waters?he would save her
until the end, as far as the power in
him might lie. i
The suddenness of it all held Mary
voiceless for long seconds. She was ]
frozen with terror of the event When
at last, words came, they were a ]
frantic prayer of protest.
"No, Joe! No! Don't talk?don't <
talk!" J i
"Joe has talked," Burke said, sig
? niflcantly. <
p "He did It to protect me." she stated,
earnestly. i
The inspector disdained such futile j
argument. As the doorman appeared i
in answer to the buzzer, he directed ;
that the stenographer be summoned at i
once. ]
"We'll have the confession in due i
form," he remarked, gazing pleasedly '
on the three before him. i
"He's not going to confess," Mary
insisted, with spirit ]
But Burke disregarded her com- <
pletely, and spoke mechanically to i
Garson, the formal warning required j
by the law. i
j "You are hereby cautioned that <
anything you may say may be used j
* against you." Then, as the stenographer
entered, he went on with t
lively interest. ]
"Now, Joe!"
Yet once again, Mary protested, a <
little wildly. '
"Don't speak, Joe! Don't say a ]
word till we get a lawyer for you!"
^ The man met her pleading eyes ]
steadily, and he shook his head in re- <
fusal.
"It's no use, my girl," Burke broke
"T tnM von T'd eet VOU.
^ I'm going to try you and Garson, and i
the whole gang for murder?yes, ev- ]
ery one of you. And you, Glider," he
continued, lowering on the young man
who had denied him so obstinately,
"you'll go to the house of detention
as a material witness." He turned his
gaze to Garson again, and spoke authoritatively:
"Come on now, Joe!"
Garson went a step toward the
desk and spoke decisively.
( "If I come through, you'll let her
go?and him?" he added as an afterthought,
with a nod toward Dick Gilder.
t "We'll get the best lawyer in the
country," Mary persited desperately.
"We'll save you, Joe?we'll save you!"
Garson regarded the distraught girl
with wistful eyes. But there was no
trace of yielding in his voice as he
replied, though he spoke very sorrowfully.
"No, you can't help me," he said
simply. "My time has come, Mary.
And I can save you a lot of trouble."
"He's right there," Burke ejaculated.
"We've got him cold. So, what's
the use of dragging you two into it?"
"Then they go clear?" Garson ex
claimed, eagerly. "They ain't even to
9 be called as witnesses?"
"You're on!" Burke agreed.
"Then, here goes!" Garson cried,
and he looked expectantly toward the
stenographer.
^ "My name is Joe Garson."
"Alias?" Burke suggested.
"Alias nothing," came the sharp
retort. "Garson's my monaker. I
shot English Eddie, because he was a
skunk and a stool pigeon, and he got
just what was coming to him." Vitu- j
peration beyond the mere words beat '
in his voice now. I
"Now, now!" Burke objected, se- i
verely. "We can't take a confession ]
^ like that."
Garson shook his head?spoke with j
fiercer hatred.
"Because he was a skunk and a i
stool pigeon," he repeated. "Have you
* got It?" And then, as the stenographer
nodded assent, he went on, less violently:
"I croaked him just as he was i
going to call the bulls with a police i
whistle. I used a gun with smokeless
powder. Jt had a Maxim silencer on i
it, so that it didn't make any noise." |
Garson paused, and the set despair i
of his features lightened a little. Into ]
his voice came a tone of exultation
indiscribably ghastly. It was born of i
| the eternal egotism of the criminal,
fattening vanity in gloating over his
ingenuity for evil. He stared at
Burke with a quizzical grin crooking
his lips.
^ "Say," he exclaimed. "I'll bet it's the
first time a guy was ever croaked
with one of them things! Ain't it?"
The inspector nodded affirmation.
"Some class to that, eh?" Garson demanded.
still with that grewsome air
of boasting. "I got the gun and the
Maxim silencer thing off a fence in
9 Boston," he explained. "Say, that
thing cost me $60, and it's worth every
cent of the money. Why, they'll
remember me as the first to spring one
of them things, won't they?"
"They sure will, Joe!" the inspector
conceded.
"Nobody knew I had it," Garson
continued, dropping his braggart manner
abruptly.
At the words, Mary started, and her
lips moved as if she were about to
speak.
_ "Nobody knew I had it?nobody in
the world," he declared. "And nobody
had anything to do with the killing
but me."
"Was there any bad feeling between
you and Eddie Griggs?"
4 "Never till that very minute. Then
I learned the truth about what he'd
framed up for you." The speaker's
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of one whom he had trusted.
"He. was a stool pigeon, and I hated
him! That's all, and It's enough.
And it's all true, so help me God!"
The inspector nodded dismissal to
the stenographer, with an air of relief.
"That's all, Williams," he said heavily.
"He'll sign it as soon as you've
transcribed the notes."
Then as the stenographer left the
room, Burke turned his gaze on the
woman, who stood there in a posture
of complete dejection, her white, anguished
face downcast. There was
triumph in the Inspector's voice as he
addressed her, for his professional
pride was full fed by this victory over
his foes.
"Young woman," Burke said briskly,
"it's Just like I told you. You can't
oeai me law. uarsun uiuugiu ne
could?and now"? He broke off, with
a wave of his hand toward the man
who had just sentenced himself to
death In the electric chair.
"That's right," Garson agreed, with
somber Intensity. His eyes were
grown clouded again now, and his
mice dragged leaden. "That's right,
Mary," he repeated dully, after a little
pause. "You can't beat the law."
He hesitated a little, then went on,
with a certain curious embarrassment.
"And this same old law says a woman
must stick to her man."
The girl's eyes met his with
passionate sorrow in their misty
deeps. Garson gave a significant
glance toward Dick Gilder, then his
gaze returned to her. There was a
smoldering despair In that look. There
were, as well, an entreaty and a command.
"So," he went on, "you must go
along with him, Mary. Won't you?
It's the best thing to do."
The girl could not answer. There
was a clutch on her throat Just then,
which would not relax at the call of
her will.
Of a sudden, an inspiration came to
him, a means to snap the tension, to
create a diversion wholly efficacious.
He would turn to his boasting again,
would call upon his vanity, which he
Knew wen as ins cmei iuiujc, anu
make it serve as the foil against his
love.
"You want to cut-- out worrying
BEfew SB?? r/;
"That's all right. That's all right,
Mary."
about me," he counseled, bravely.
"Why, I ain't worrying any, myself?
not a little bit! You see, it's something
new I've pulled off. Nobody ever
put over anything like it before."
He faced Burke with a grin of
gloating again.
"I'l bet there'll be a lot of stuff in
the newspapers about this, and my
picture, too, in most of 'em! What?"
The man's manner imposed on
Burke, though Mary felt the torment
that his vainglorying was meant to
mask.
"Say," Garson continued to the inspector,
"if the reporters want any
pictures of me could I have some new
ones taken? The one you've got of me
in the gailery is over ten years old.
I've taken off my beard since then.
Can I have a new one?"
"Sure you can, Joe. I'll send you up
to the gallery right now."
"Immense!" Garson cried boisterously.
He moved toward Dick Gilder,
walking with a faint suggestion of
swagger to cover the nervous tremor
that had seized him.
"So long, young fellow." he exclaimed
and held out his hand.
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xouve ueeil un me squmr, anu ?
guess you always will be."
Dick had no scruples in clasping
tha extended hand very warmly in his
own.
"We'll do what we can for you," he
said simply.
"That's all right," Garson replied,
with such carelessness of manner as
he could contrive. Then at last he
turned to Mary. This parting must be
bitter, and he braced himself with all
the vigors of his will to combat the
weakness that leaped from his soul.
As he came near, the girl could hold
herself in leash no longer. She threw
herself on his breast. Her arms
wreathed about his neck. Great sobs
racked her.
"Oh. Joe, Joe!" The gasping cry was
of utter despair.
Garson's trembling hand patted the
girl's shoulder very softly, a caress of
infinite tenderness.
"That's all right," he murmured
huskily. "That's all right, Mary."
There was a short silence, and then he
went on speaking more firmly. "You
know, he'll look after you."
He looked up over the girl's shoulder
and beckoned with his head to
Dick, who came, forward.
"Take good care of her, won't you?"
He disengaged himself gently from
the girl's embrace and set her within
the arms of her husband, where she
rested quietly, as If unable to fight
longer against fate's decree.
"Well, so long!"
tie aarea not utter anotner wora,
but turned blindly, and went, stumbling
a little, toward the doorman,
who had appeared in answer to the
inspector's call.
"To the gallery," Burke ordered
curtly.
Garson went on without ever a
glance back.
There was a long silence in the
room after Garson's passing. It was
broken at last by the inspector, who
got up from his chair and advanced 1
toward the husband and wife. In his 1
The above is a panoramic view of i
last Friday night. The damage was ci
ground from which the smokestack rii
on the right and the smaller building I
right of the office is a portion of the se<
The brick section which forms the left
are in the rear of the main building am
full, and the others were empty. They
hand he carried a sheet of paper, i
roughly scrawled. As he stopped be
fore the two and cleared his throat, <
Mary withdrew herself from Dick's <
arms and regarded the official with i
brooding eyes from out her white j
face. <
Burke extended the sheet of paper
to the husband. 1
"There's a document," he said gruffly.
"It's a letter from one Helen Morris.
in which she sets forth the interesting
fact that she pulled off a theft
in the Emporium, for which your Mrs.
Gilder here did time. You know, your
father got your Mra. Gilder sent up
for three years for that same Job?
which she didn't do. That's why she
had such a grudge against your father
and against the law too!"
Burke chuckled, as the young man ^
took the paper, wonderingly.
"I don't know that I blame her <
much for that grudge, when all's said *
and done. You give that document 1
to your father. It sets her right. He's
a just man according to his lights, '
your father. He'll do all he can to 1
make things right for her, now he '
knows. Now. you two listen. I've '
got to go out a minute. When I get 1
back, I don't want to find anybody (
here?not anybody! Do you get me?"!'
11
When the official was gone, the two
stood staring mutely each at the other
through long seconds. What she read
in the man's eyes set the woman's
heart to beating with a new delight.
What he read in her eyes set the husband's
pulses to bounding. He opened
his arms in an appeal that was a command.
Mary went forward slowly,
without hesitation, in a bliss that forgot
every sorrow for that blessed moment,
and cast herself on his breast.
The End.
HISTORIC SHRUB FOR TRINITY
It is a Descendant of Joseph of Arimathea's
"Holy Thorn."
Passersby paused to watch two of
Trlnltv nVtnrnhvorH era r^onprQ
yesterday as they busied themselves '
in the old churchyard with the plant- 1
ing of a tiny shrub. A shallow hole
was first carefully excavated and in it 1
was placed the plant, which to the 1
lookerson appeared to be nothing 1
more than a cutting from some com- '
monplace tree. 1
The little plant, however, was sent 1
from the Abby of Glastonbury, Somer- '
setshire, England, and it is a cutting '
from the tree or shrub which in turn
is a true descendant of the famous
shrub known as the Holy Thorn.
The history of this plant dates back <
to the year 63 A. D., and in the history
of its original planting figures the :
name of Joseph of Arimathea. The
legend runs that Joseph, a disciple 1
of St. Philip, in the year 63 A. D.,
carried a hawthorn stick in his hand
when he went into Great Britain and
this he stuck into the ground. It
took root and flourished and has since 1
been known as the Holy Thorn.
The little shrub planted in old Trinity
is the gift of Walter Sully of
Glastonbury, who sent along with it
an ufflilnvlt nf tho Vionrl cnrrtn?r nfj I
the Abby of Glastonbury, giving: <
pedigree.?New York Sun.
John Bright and Queen Victoria.?In
the "Life of John Bright" the author
relates that the great man's first visit
to Queen Victoria was an ordeal, but it
passed off well. The incident was described
in a letter from Lord Granville
to Mr. Gladstone in which the writer
says:
The beginning of dinner was awful?
the queen with a sick headache and
shy?Princess Louise whispering unintelligibly
in my ear and Lady Cliff den
shouting ineffectually into the still
more impenetrable receptacle of sound
belonging to Charles Grey, Bright like
a war horse champing his bit and dying
to be at them. At last an allusion
to children enabled me to tell Bright
to repeat to her majesty his brother's
observation. "Where, considering what
charming things children were, all the
queer old men came from." This amused
the queen, and all went on merrily, j
ti:' The man who spends his time <
sitting on a nail keg at the grocery (
store ranks as a producer along with
the hen that sits on a doornob?only
the hen is honest in her intentions. 1
FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS
As Traced In Early Files of The 1
Yorkvllfe Enquirer
NEWS AND VIEWS OF VESTEIDAT
1
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Bringing Up Records of the Past and t
Giving the Younger Readers of To- !
day a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge
of the Things that Most Concerned
Generations that Have Gone (
Before. I
The following notes are being pub- 1
llshed as time and opportunity permit '
their preparation. t
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EIGHTH INSTALLMENT.
Thursday, December 18, 1856.?"We ]
publish somewhere In this issue, a e
somewhat remarkable ordinance emi
.
VICTOR
COTTON OIL MILL PLANT
the Victor Oil Mill plant which suffered
onftned principally to the main building
ses. All the other buildings were saved.
Immediately to the left is the office. The
twl Wniion on/1 o aonHnn r\f tha hull hnilflA
wing of the main building is used as a
d are not visible. There are several ofthi
were all subjected to tremendous heat
nating from the town council of York- t
ville. It is the most remarkable exer- 11
else of a 'little brief authority,' that ?
we have ever heard of. If the prosperity
of the village or district would be
promoted by this extraordinary pro- p
needing on the part of the council we i:
would remain silent; but as it is at war I
with every consideration of interest p
both to the planter and merchant?in \
fact with every class of the communi- |i
ty, we most solemnly protest against it. f
Where do you get your authority gen- v
tlemen? The broadest possible con- t
struction will not give it to you under
the charter. There is not a provision in
the charter that gives you the slightest (
semblance of authority. Even if .there j
was ample authority for such a course, ^
what good purpose would be subserved ^
by adopting it? jj
"Is the interest of the planters of the >]
iistrict protected or promoted by such
in ordinance. Will they be enabled to I g
set better prices for their produce? I g
We have tried to learn the why and j.
wherefore of this strange proceeding ^
md the only pretext that Is liven. Is 0
:hat non-resident cotton buyers pay no n
laxes! This is simply ridiculous. The c
noney they scatter broadcast through- p
>ut the district is a far greater consldjration
than a merely nominal tax paid n
into the treasury. Is it the small tax 2
paid by a few resident cotton buyers v
that establishes a market here? Will g
planters of the district be content to n
receive a less price for their produce c
simply because the buyer pays a tax g
nto the treasury of the town council? j,
If you impose this tax on the cotton v
suyer, of course the farmers have it to n
pay. The presumption arises that the B
ocal buyer can afford to pay 50 cents
nore on the bale than other buyers; but e
when the tax is im]>osed, he must low- *]
?r his price and the interest of the y
planter suffers to that extent. It sure- 0
ly was a short-sighted policy that orig- d
Inated such a measure, and one that
will seriously effect the pecuniary affairs
of our district. It can result in
?ood to none, not even to resident cotton
buyers themselves because It Is a
direct stab at our trade, and will cause ?
It to seek another channel, and leave
us without a market. We hope, there- p
fore the town council will at once retrace
their steps and avoid the evil c
consequences that will inevitably result
from it. Not that we consider their 0
action legal; but if persisted in it will
certainly create a prejudice that will
operate unfavorably to the best interest
and prosperity of our village and
district"
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The ordinance against which the
Q
foregoing editorial was a protest was
?
as follows:
"Whereas, certain persons not citizens
of this village, have been in the
habit whilst occupying temporary resi- *
dence here, and contributing nothing in e
the way of taxes to the improvement of *
the village and the support of munici
pm auuiui ii) , iui-i t*iim t*
"Be it ordained by the town council a
uf Yorkville and by the authority of
the same, that herj^fca&^miMlAKon i)r
bei ?f
this
e i. 1 r
ville, on every bal? of coT(rVtatfC^|BiP
50 cents per bale; and one pe^QgSjtfi T
the price given by him or them on all r
grain, flour, etc., purchased.
"And to ascertain the number of 1
bales purchased, or the value of all
grain, it shall be the duty of such person
or persons, once in every month or *
oftener if required, to return the same t
on oath." s
Thursday, January 8, 1857.?An editorial
on the new volume commencing *
with today's issue, mentions the re- ?
turns of several clubmakers Including a
the following; "Maj. Myles Smith, New T
Centre, 20; Capt. S. G. Brown, Meek's
Hill. 20; Dr. Wright. Hopewell, 12."
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A communication from Thos. J. 1
Eccles, recorder of Mackey Chapter *
and Gibson Council. Royal Arch Ma- s
sons, held on the 27th, the M. E. Scribe r
James L. Clark, presiding, tells of a 1
certain eloquent discourse from Rev.
J. D. Gibson and an address by M. E. a
Comp., Dr. J. R. Bratton. A committee *
consisting of Comp. R. Hare, A. F. v
Wood and S. J. Kuykendall was ap- t
pointed to secure a copy of the dis
course and address for publication.
Married?In Charleston on Thurslay,
25th ultimo, by Rev. Dr. Blackman.
Capt. Asbury Coward, of the
King's Mountain Military school, and
Miss Eliza Corbett, youngest daughter
jf Mr. John A. Blum.
On Tuesday, the 23d of December by
Ftev. Donald McQueen, Rev. James McDowell
and Miss Mary Pauline, daughter
of Dr. J. B. Witherspoon, all of
Sumter.
There Is a column article in this is?ue
devoted to the schools of the district
and representing them all In a
prosperous condition. Among the
ichools mentioned are the following:
rhe King's Mountain Military school,
he Female college, the Brick academy,
>f Yorkville; "Bethel Academy" under
Hr. J. T. Harry, a graduate of DavldlOn:
"ITnlnn nrndpmv" nndpr Mr. J H.
31ack, a graduate of Ersklne;"Ebenezir
Academy" under John R. Shurley;
'Rock Hill Academy," under Gen. Ala
very considerable damage from fire
, the brick structure In the backThe
ginnery is the large building
small section of a building to the
hows up to the left of the picture,
warehouse for meal. The oil tanks
em. One was full of oil, another half
; but were not materially damaged.
on; "Blairsvllle Academy" under Willam
B. Russell, a graduate of the
louth Carolina university.
Another instance of the very high
>rices negro property is now commandng
is furnished by the estate of Wm.
3. Anderson, by the commissioner in
quity in this district, on Tuesday. A
voman twenty-one years old and her
nfant brought $1,301; and a imeiy gin
our years old, $751. A tract of land
irhich five years ago could have been
ought at $4 was bid off at $10 an acre.
*
A correspondent of the Savannah
leorglan, _ writing from Tallahassee,
i'lorida, on the 10th instant, states that
ton. Broome had sent a message to the
^gislature, enclosing Important matter
h regard to the Indian disturbances?
'he writer says:
"The matter was transmitted to the
:eneral assembly today, and caused
;eneral rejoicing as the action of Gen.
larvey has cleared the state from the
luty of protecting the frontier at her
wn expense any longer. Things look
iow as though the war was either to be
'.osed without bloodshed, or that a
eace is to be conquered.
"Gen. Harvey will have ten compares
of mounted volunteers and about
,000 regulars to operate with?a force
fhlch in the hands of such an ener
etic and experienced inaian ngnier,
lust end the war. While enjoying a
essation of hostilities, Gen. Harvey
hows his good sense in collecting an
ncreased force with which to strike
Igorous and prompt blows the molent
peaceful overtures are rejected,
hould such unfortunately occur.
"I apprehend, too, that this augmentd
force will operate as a persuader on
he wily savages, and particularly
.'hen they learn that so large a portion
f the force is composed of the much
readed volunteers."
Thursday, January 15, 1857.?In the
dltorial conduct of The Enquirer, the
ical department has been assigned exluslvely
to Mr. Miller. Those, .thereore,
who have business with that de?
nnmmiinipationa advertise
nents, notices, etc., will call at the
ommissioner's office. The books are In
he keeping of Mr. Grist at the printing
fflce.
*
Married?On the 13th of December,
856, by Dr. Wilson, of Georgia, Mr. S.
t. McETlwee and Miss S. A. Wilson,
>oth of York district.
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Tuesday evening last, a "goodiie
ompanie" of our people, ladies and
,'entlemen, heard a lecture by Paul H.
layne, Esq., of Charleston at the court
louse. The announcement of such a
reat was, it seems, quite sufficient to
nsure a large attendance as creditable
o the character of the Yorkville peo
?le as it was to the reputation of the
.lready distinguished young lecturer?
. just .tribute to that native worth and
alent which it should ever be the obeet
of Carolinians to foster and reyard^As
the lecture is private propZun2e"*ftt>ght
not make a too general
Ifljj^^baf it;. but we must at least
Hfisa^^tagoibe ,,f it8 features pro
HuMfiB The subject was the
GBSBBCtnto} Literature," and it
Bpratiidiaft'ih a chaste, beautiful and
fl&sterly style. Every hearer, great
ind small, as far as we can learn, was
harmed with It. [Then follows a sumnary
of the lecture].
* *
Died?At his residence in this district,
on the 31st ultimo, William Braton,
in the 41st year of his age. [Obitu
try tribute roiiowsj.
* * *
J. A. Brown, treasurer advertises
hat on and after February 16, a divllend
of 5 per cent will be paid to the
itockholders of the King's Mountain
allroad.
When in the course of human events
t becomes necessary for one people to
eave one house and go to another?
his is therefore to cite and admonish
dl men that I, Miles Johnson, have
noved my saddle and harness factory
o Weikort & Walker's Carriage shop,
vhere can be found as good and cheap
issortment of home made saddles and
larness as can be happened upon anywhere
this side of Mason & Dixon line.
Adv).
(To be Continued.)
DtiiSttUanrou* Reading.
PARCELS POST IMPROVEMENTS
Important Change* Have Been Approved
for Early Adoption.
Important changes in parcel post |
regulations, including general reduction
In rates and Increase In maximum
weights, were approved last Saturday
by the inter-state commerce commission.
The revisions were made upon
recommendation of Postmaster General
Burleson, and in a majority of
cases are effective January 1, 1914.
Books are admitted to the parcel
post; weight limits are increased in
the first and second zones from 20 to
50 pounds, and In all zones beyond
the second, from 11 to 20 pounds, and
rates are reduced in the third, fourth
and sixth zones.
The changes in rates to be in effect
January 1, 1914, follow:
To reduce the rates for the third
zone from seven cents for the first
pound and five cents for each additional
pound, to six cents for the first
pound and two cents for each additional
pound;
To reduce the rates for the fourth
zone from eight cents for the first
pound and seven cents for each additional
pound, to seven cents for the
first pound and four cents for each
additional pound;
To reduce the rates for the fifth
zone from nine cents for the first
pound and seven cents for each additional
pound, to eight cents for the
first pound and six cents for each additional
pound;
To reduce the rates for the sixth
zone from ten cents for the first
pound and nine cents for each additional
pound, to nine cents for the first
pound and eight cents for each additional
pound.
Will Promote Service.
"It seems obvious," says a statement
by the commission, "that the
service to the public will be promoted
by these changes, provided the revenue
from the service is not less than
the cost thereof. Experiences seem to
show clearly that the revenue will not
be less than the cost of the service.
"We can conceive of no opposition to
the increased weights and reduced
rates except from the carriers that
transport the mails. We have heard
some objections from them on the
ground that the Increased weight
should not be permitted until provision
for additional compensation to
the carriers has been made."
It is provided by the postmaster
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trated write-up of the town of Yorkvl
labor and expense. Because of difficul
It was impracticable to get a photogra
ing, and it was necessary to take sev
to produce what was wanted. The
tion of the building, except the w:alls,
natural brick. The original engravin
Enquirer office in 1890, and this pictur
the cut as it was printed in 1889.
general, with the consent of the commission,
"that the rate of postage on
parcels containing books weighing
eight ounces or less shall be one cent
for each two ounces or rractlonal part
thereof, and on those weighing in
cess of eight ounces, the zone parcel
post rates shall apply."
This to be effective March 16, 1914.
Consent also was given to admission
of shipments of gold, gold bullion
and gold dust in Alaska and to
and from Alaska in packages weighing
not more than 11 pounds. The
rate of postage fixed is two cents an
ounce or fraction thereof for all distances.
"The postmaster general issued an
order effective August 15, last, increasing
the weight limit in the first and
second zones from 11 to 20 pounds
and materially reducing the rates of
postage for these zones, and stated at
that time that this step was in the
nature of an experiment," said a statement
Issued last Saturday night by
the postoffice department. "After
these changes had been in operation
for some time, a record was kept of
the number of parcels handled in a
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offices throughout the United States,
and the reports received from these
offices show that the changes in the
service have been greatly appreciated
by the public."
The statement says of the change
relating to books, that it "has strongly
been urged by circulating libraries,
schools, colleges and publishers ever
since the establishment of the parcel
post service as the present restrictive
limit and rf 'es on books are prohibitive
to a g. .t extent except in the
case of catalogues" and that it was
not "deemed advisable to place the
order changing the classification of
books in effect on January 1, as it
was desired to give at least three
months' notice to firms whose catalogues
were now being printed."
? "Gratifying progress has been
made during the past year by the
public schools of this state in enrollment.
local taxation, teaching corps
and professional supervision," says
State Superintendent of Education J.
E. Swearingen, in the introduction of
his annual report to the general assembly,
released for publication last
Friday. The enrollment this year to
tals 361.161?167,914 white pupils and
193,247 negro pupils. During the year
1912-13, 156,280 white pupils and 175.307
negro pupils were enrolled showing
a gain for 1912-13 of 11,634, or 7
per cent for whites; and 17,940, or 10
per cent ofr the negroes. The total
enrollment for the state is 6,891 pupils
larger than ever before, showing a
normal gain of nearly two per cent
during the year. It was pointed out
that in the larger cities of this state
that both the per centage of the population
of school age enrolled and the
per centage of enrollment regularly at
tending' school showed marked variances.
"These disparities, however,
are also true of the rural schools and
population," he states. "In the main,
the urban children attend school longer
than the country children, though
the urban attendance is not as regular,"
the report continues. He deplored
in the reoort the wide variances between
the financial support of the urban
and rural schools, and between
schools of the same class.
FATE OF THE CARELESS PIRATE8
Lack of Caution on tha part of 8ta
Bandits Proves Their Undoing.
This is the story of the careless pirates,
and the moral of it, from a piratical
standpoint at least, seems to
be that a knife in time saves nine. It
Is a true story, though it is not widely
known at all. and it was told in a paper
read before the Essex Institute,
February 21, 1898, by Edward C. Bat
tis, one of the men who profltted by
the pirates' carelessness. Battis* account
has recently been reprinted by
Houghton-Mifflin, in a book entitled
"Wonderful^ Escapes By Americans."
These things happened in the year
1832, when sailing ships still ruled the
sea, and the town of Salem, Mass., of
witch-craft fame, was a famous seaport.
Out of Salem harbor, the 29th
of August, sailed Captain Joseph But- ;
man, in command of the merchant
big Mexican. He was bound for the
Caribbean sea, which in those halcyon
days was still "the Spanish Main,"
and because banking facilities were
feeble in those days, he carried, stored
under his cabin floor, 320,000 in silver,
with which he meant to purchase
a return cargo.
Everybody aboard the Mexican was
bothered by an unexplainable feeling
that this vovaire to the SDanish Main
was going to be a Jonah trip. Two or
three seamen who had gone to fetch
the cook from his home to the docks,
had seen a black hen fly up on a fence
and heard her crow?and everybody
knows that when a hen crows there Is
something mighty bad In the wind.
Then too, several Salem ships had
come to grief at the hands of pirates
in the last few months?and, as everybody
knows, the Spanish Main Is
the prime place In the whole universe
to encounter pirates. No, decidedly
the crew did not relish this voyage.
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made. It was secured for an lllusIle
in 1889, and was the result of much
ties well understood by photographers,
ph that would take in the entire bullderal
pictures to enable the engravers
above picture is a faithful reproducwhlch
appear to be stucco, showed
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They sat around and told pirate stories
In the dusk of the evening, and
even Captain Butman admitted that
he was worried, and began to talk to
his officers about selling his life dear.
It was September 19, however, before
anything happened. That night
a schooner crossed the Mexican's
bows. Next morning this same schooner
was .plainly visible, hovering to the
windward like a hawk ready to swoop.
It was a long, slim craft and it was
painted black, with a white band
above the water line. Captain Butman
looked at it through the glasses
and the appearance of the vessel was
anything but reassuring. He counted
thirty men clustered on deck?more
men than any respectable merchant
vessel of that size had any need of.
The captain ordered more canvas
spread. Maybe it would be possible to
sail away from this unpleasant stranger.
It wasn't. The schooner soon
overhauled and headed the unhappy 1
ung.
There were only two small cannon
aboard the Mexican, and it soon appeared
that the round shot that had
been brought aboard were several
times too large to go into these guns.
So when the strange schooner fired a
shot that sailed over the Mexican's
decks, Captain Butman ordered his
ship to heave to. Then the schooner
came within hailing distance.
It was flying the flag of Colombia,
and its captain, after inquiring where
the Mexican hailed from and where It
was bound, ordered Butman to lower
a boat and come alongside, and bring
his papers with him. The captain had
little hope that this Colombian ship
was anything but a pirate, but his
men were unarmed, and there was no
choice. He went over the side with
four of his men, and rowed alongside
Kionir ?>hnnnpr. Before any of
the merchantment could go aboard,
Ave pirates leaped into the Mexican's
boats, pushed off and ordered Captain
Butman to return to his brig. Before
leaving the schooner one of the pirates
shouted to his captain In Spanish
to ask what he should do with the
American seamen. j
"Dead cat's don't mew," replied that
worthy.
Then the boat's crew, with its five
ferocious looking passengers, rowed
back to the Mexican. The pirates were
a hard looking crew. They carried
pistols in their belts and long knives,
and they rolled their eyes and ripped
out oaths in the moat approved style.
When they reached the Mexican two
of the pirates went to the cabin with
Captain Butman, while the other three
loistered on deck. In a minute the
first mate came up and told several of
the sailors to go down and bring up
the money. Luscomb and Battis, two
of the sailors, started for the cabin;
as they did so they met one pirate
coming up the companionway, who
gave the signal to the three on deck
to attack the two seamen. The pirates
swung at the heads of Luscomb and
Battls with their knives; a heavy
woolen hat saved Battia and Luscomb
dodged in time to escape with a slight
slash. Then, apparently, the pirates
decided to postpone the blood letting.
The seamen passed up the sacks of
silver dollars from their hiding place
under the cabin to the deck, where
they were loaded into the boat and
taken aboard the pirate vessel. On
lha roturn trin sixteen more Dirates
swarmed aboard. They ruahed into
the cabin and attacked Captain Butman
and two of his sailor*. They
beat the captain with the flat and the
backs of their long knives and smash*
ed a speaking trumpet over his head,
but did not try to kill him. Then the
ship was ransacked and several hundred
dollars that had been hidden in
other places was dragged to light
Sailors were running to and fro all
over the ship with pirates chasing
them. Eattis remembered $60 belonging
to various members of the crew.
This money had been hidden in a
pickle chest and Battle got it out and
dropped it down between the Inside
and outside planking of the ship.
Two sailors were chased so hard
that they dived head foremost into the
forecastle to avoid their pursuers, and
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Finally the whole crew waa In the
hold. Whenever a man stuck his head
above deck a pistol was thrust at It
and he pulled It In again. Butman
was a prisoner in his own cabin.
Finally the pirates battened down
the hatches, cooping up the men of
the Mexican, who armed with sticks
and chair legs, crouched in the dark,
prepared to take a few pirates with
them to death when the invaders
should decide to follow out their captain's
suggestion about dead cats and
mewing.
But the careless pirates failed to
carry out that order. Maybe they
realized that it would probably cost a
life or two; possibly they were Just too
lazy, or it may be that they figured it
would be a much more original bit of
barbarity to burn the crew of the
MATican alive. At any rate these pi
rates, after tearing up and cutting to
pieces all the ropes, 'sails and rigging
they could lay hands on, throwing the
nautical Instruments and everything
else that was loose Into the sea, filled
the cook's galley with combustibles,
set Are to the mass and left the sfrlb.
Tou have heard of the horseshoe
nail whose absence caused such international
complication. Well, it has Its
parallel in the case of these careless
pirates. They had fastened every
opening securely?all except one.
There was a little skylight in the top
of Captain Butman's cabin that had
been overlooked. And when Butman
saw the pirates Anally board their
own ship and set sail, he climbed out
the skylight, cautioning the crew to
remain below. Too much energy In
the work of Are Aghting would bring
the pirates back In a hurry, he knew.
So Butman had the crew All buckets
of water. One bucketful at a time
was handed him, and, crouching low
along the rail, so that the departing
pirates could not see him, Butman
a Hll?lr Atf t< 1 (i t A time 8J)d
sprinkled the Are in the cook's galley.
He kept it In check, but he purposely
did not put it out as soon as he might
have, for he knew that if the smoke
ceased to pour up the pirates would
know their plans had gone awry and
would return.
Finally, when the topmast of the
black schooner had disappeared over
the horizon, Butman released his men
and they put out the Are that they
had held in check. Then temporary
sails were rigged up, and the brig
sailed safely home to Salem.
As for the careless pirates, they
paid the penalty for being careless.
Butman was able to give an excellent
c. .criptlon of them and their ship,
and the vessel was captured by a British
warship off the west coast of Ar
rica. The prisoners were handed over
to the United States, tried in Boston
for piracy, and the pirate captain, Pedro
Glbert, and six of his men were
sentenced to be hanged. One of the
condemned pirates, a benevolent soul,
who had saved the lives of seventy
persons who had been wrecked in the
Bahamas, was pardoned. But six of
them were hanged, among whom was
the astute Captain Pedro, who had so
truly remarked that "dead cats don't
mew." If his men had only taken his
advice they would have saved themselves
and their commander a world
of inconvenience.?Kansas City Times.
? Columbia, December 6: For several
days Commissioner Watson of the
department of agriculture has been
receiving communications from textile
plants in various parts of the
state, asking whether or not under
the law relating to the hours of labor,
in textiles the operatives could be
worked extra in order to secure certain
holidays at the Christmas season.
The law provides without any discre11
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lion Dcing leu lu tuiyunc wiai iuoi
time to the extent of sixty hours In
the course of a jear may be made up
by the mills, provided that time has
been lost "from accident or other unavoidable
cause." It makes no provisions
whatever for the making up of
any time that is purposely lost and
certainly none for time that has not
been lost at all prior to the extra
working. Commissioner Wason yesterday
said that the law is perfectly
plain in its terms, and every year
heretofore since 1909 when it was enacted
the mills have been advised to
that effect. However, before replying
to any of the mills this year Commissioner
Watson consulted with the attorney
general, and both are of the
opinion that the law Is specific and
plain in its terms and requirements,
and that no extra work can be done
except for the purpose of making up
time that has actually been lost from
some accident or other unavoidable
cause. This is the advice that has been
given the mills. The commissioner
says that he has no discretion in the
matter whatever, and any violation of
the law will of necessity be handled
just as any other violation.