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* " ISSUED SKMI-WKSigl.^^ ^ ^ l. k. grists sons, Pnbiisheri. } % u^amilg Jieirs|).tj){r: J[sr the promotion of thi[ political, Social, JJjrieultural and (To mm mint 3 literals of the |eojt<. { '""Vnoieoopv."" 1"dm!"0' established 1888. ~ yorkville' s. c.7tuesda-y, xpr1l 7,1914=. no. 38. . . ?? i I SEVEN I ... BALE { BY EARL DE ^ I Copyright, 1913 by the Bobbs-M< CHAPTER XIX. A Man from the Dark. For fully Ave seconds Mr. Magee > and the man with whom he had collided, stood facing each other on the balcony. The Identical moon of the summer romances now hung in the sky, and in its white glare Baldpate mountain glittered like a Christmas card. "A lucky chance," said Magee. "You're a man I've been longing to K meet, especially since the professor ^ left his window open this afternoon." "Indeed!" replied the other calm^ ly. "May I ask what you want of ~ me?" ^ "Certainly!" Mr. Magee laughed. "A little package. I think it's in your pocket at this minute. A package no bigger than a man's hand." The stranger made no reply, but looked quickly about over his shoulder at the path along which he had come and then past Mr. Magee at the T road that led to freedom. "I think it's in your pocket," repeated Mr. Magee. "and I'm going to find out." "I haven't' time to argue with you," ^ said the holder of the seventh key. His voice was cold, calculating, harsh. "Get out of my way and let me pass or"? "Or what?" asked Billy Magee. He watched the man lunge toward him in the moonlight. He saw the fist that had the night before been the Walterloo of Mr. Max and the mayor start on a swift, true course for his head. Quickly he dodged to one side : and closed in on his opponent. i Back and forth through the snow they, ploughed, panting, grapplng, straining. Mr. Magee soon realized that his adversary was no weakling. He was forced to call into play muscles he had not used in what seemed ages?not since he sported of an afternoon in a rather odorous college gymnasium. In moonlight and shadow, up and down, they reeled, , staggered, stumbled, the sole jarring notes in that picture of Baldpate on a j quiet winter's night. "You queered the game last time," j ^ muttered the stranger. "But you'll , never queer it again.'' Mr. Magee saved his breath. Together they crashed against the side of the inn. Together they squirmed away across the balcony to the railing. Still back and forth, now in the , moonlight, now in shadow, wildly they rought. Once Mr. Magee ieu his feet slip from beneath him, but caught himself In time. His strength was going?surely?quickly. Then * Up and Down They Reeled, Staggerad and 8tumbled. suddenly his opponent seemed to . weaken in his grip. With a supreme effort Magee forced him down upon the balcony floor and tumbled on top of him. He relt the cnwi 01 tne snow under his knees and its wetness in his euffs. "Now!" he cried to himself. The other still struggled desperately. Hut his struggle was without success, for deftly Billy Magee drew from his pocket the precious package ^ about which there had been so much * debate on Baldpate mountain. He clasped it close, rose and ran. In another second he was inside No. 7, and had lighted a candle at the blazing logs. ^ Once more he examined that closely packed little bundle; once more he found it rich in greenbacks. Assuredly it was the greatly desired thing he had fought for the night before. He had it again. And this time, he told himself, he would not lose sight of it until he had placed it in the hands of the girl of the station. The dark shadow of the man he had just robbed was hovering at his windows. Magee turned hastily to the door. As he did so it opened and Hayden entered. He carried a pistol in his hand; his face was hard, cruel, determined; his usually expressionless eyes lighted with pleasure as they fell on the package in Mr. Magee's possession. "It seems I'm just in time." he said, "to prevent highway robbery." - "You think so?" asked Magee. r "See here, young man," remarked Hayden. glancing nervously over his shoulder, "I can't waste any time in talk. Does that money belong to you? Xo. Well, it does belong to me. I'm ^ going to have it. Don't think I'm ^ afraid to shoot to get it. The law permits a man to fire on the thief who tries to fleece him." "The law. did you say?" laughed Billy Magee. "I wouldn't drag the law into this if I were you, Mr. HayL iEYSTO | iPATE ... RR RIGGERS 5 ?rrill Company. ^ den. I'm sure it has no connection1 with events on BaJdpate mountain. You would be the last to want its attention to be directed here. I've got this money and I'm going to keep it." Hayden considered a brief moment and then swore under his breath. "You're right," he said. "I'm not going to shoot. But there are other ways, you whippersnapper"? He dropped the revolver into his pocket and sprang forward. For the second time within ten minutes Mr. Magee steadied himself for conflict. But Hayden stopped. Some one had entered the room through the window behind Magee. In the dim light of the candle Magee saw Hayden's face go white, his lips twitch, his eyes glaze with horrible surprise. His arms fell limply to his sides. "Good God, Kendrick!" he cried. The voice of the man with whom Billy Magee had bat a moment before struggled on the balcony answered: "Yes, Hayden. I'm back." Hayden wet his lips with his tongue. "What?what brought you?" he asked, his voice trailing oft weakly on the last word. "What brought me?" Suddenly, as from a volcano that had long been cold, lire blazed up in Kendrick's eyes. "If a man knew the road from hell back home what would it need to bring him back?" Hayden stood with his his mouth partly open. Almost a grotesque picture of terror he looked in that dim light. Then he spoke in an odd, strained tone, more to himself than to any one else: "I thought you were dead," he said. "I told myself you'd never come back. Over and over?in the night? I told myself that. But all the time I knew?I knew you'd come." A cry?a woman's cry?sounded from just outside the door of No. 7. Into the room came Myra Thornhill. Quickly she crossed and took Ken* drick's hands in hers. "David!" she sobbed. "Oh, David, Is it a dream?a wonderful dream?" Kendrick looked into her eyes, sheepishly at first, then gladly as he saw what was in them. For the light there under the tears was such as no man could mistake. Magee saw it. Hayden saw it, too, and his voice was even more lifeless when he spoke. "Forgive me, David:" he said. "I didn't mean"? And then as he saw that Kendrick did not listen he turned and walked quietly out of the bedroom of No. 7. taking no notice of Cargan and Bland, who, with the other winter guests of Bald pate, now crowded the doorway ? 11 4- nloaofl tVlP leauing iu me ncwi. najuv<* v.wWV?. ...? bedroom door. Mr. Magee and the others stood silent, wondering. Their answer came quickly?the sharp cry of a revolver behind that closed door. It was Mr. Magee who went into the bedroom. The moonlight streamed in through the low windows and fell brightly on the bed. Across this Hayden lay. Mr. Magee made sure. It was not a pleasant thing to make sure of. Then he took the revolver from the hand that still clasped it, covered the quiet figure on the bed and stepped back into the outer room. "He?he has killed himself," he said in a low voice, closing the bedroom door behind him. There was a moment's frightened hush; then the voice of Kendrick rang out: "Killed himself? I don't understand. Why should he do that? Sure iy not because?no"? He looked questioningly into the white face of the girl at his side; she only shook her head. "Killed himself," he repeated, like a man waking from sleep. "I don't understand. On tiptoe the amateur hermits of Baldpate descended to the hotel office. Mr. Magee saw the eyes of the girl of the station upon him. wide with doubt and alarm. While the others gathered in little groups ar.d talked; he took her to one side. "When does the next train leave for Reuton?" he asked her. "In two hours?at 10.30," she replied. "You must be on it," he told her. "With you will go the $200,000 package. I have it in my pocket now." She took the news stolidly and made no reply. "Are you afraid?" asked Magee gently. "You mustn't be. No harm can touch you. I shall stay here and see that no one follows." "I'm not afraid," she replied. "Just startled, that's all. Did he?did he do it because you took this money? because he was afraid of what would happen?" "You mean Hayden?" Magee said. 1 'XT~ T?US? woo pnnrpmpd in his?death. That is an affair between Kendrick and him." "I see," answered the girl slowly. "I'm so glad it wasn't?the money. I couldn't bear it if it were." "May I call your attention," remarked Magee. "to the fact that the long reign of 'I'm going to* is ended and the rule of 'I've done if has begun? I've actually got the money. Somehow it doesn't seem to thrill you the way I thought it would." "But it does?oh, it does!" cried the girl. "I was upset for a moment. It's glorious news. And with you on guard here I'm not afraid to carry it away?down the mountain?and to Reuton. I'll be with you in a moment ready for the journey." She called Mrs. Norton, and the two went rather timidly upstairs together. Mr. Magee turned to his companions in the room and mentally called their roll. They were all there?the professor. the mayor. Max, Bland, Peters. Miss Thornhill and the newcomer Kendrick, a man prematurely old, grayed at the temples and with a face yellow by fever. He and the professor were talking earnestly together and now the old man came and stood before Magee. "Mr. Magee." he said seriously, "I learn from Kendrick that you have in your possession a certain package of money that has been much buffeted about here at Baldpate inn. Now, I suggest?no, I demand." "Pardon me, professor," Mr. Magee interrupted, "I have something to suggest, even to demand. It is that you and every one else present select a chair and sit down. I suggest, though I do not demand, that you pick comfortable chairs, for a vigil that you are about to begin will prove a long one." "What do you mean?" asked the mayor of Reuton, coming militantly to Professor Bolton's side. Magee did not reply. Miss Norton and her mother came downstairs, the former wrapped in a great coat. She stood on the bottom step, her cheeks flushed, her eyes ablaze. Mr. Magee, going to her side, reflected that she looked charming and wonderful and wished he had time to admire, but he hadn't. He took from one pocket the pistol he had removed from the hand of Hayden; from the other the celehrotnH nnolrnco nf mnnAV "I warn you all," he said, "I will shoot any one who makes a move for this bundle. Miss Norton is going to take it away with her. She is to catch the 10.30 train for Reuton. The train arrives at its destination at 12. Much as it pains me to say it, no one will leave this room before 12.15." "You crook!" roared Cargan. Mr. Magee smiled as he put the package in the girl's hand. "Possibly," he said; "but Mr. Cargan, the blackness of the kettle always has annoyed the pot." The little professor of comparative literature stepped forward and stood pompously before Magee. "One moment," he remarked. "Before you steal this money in front of our very eyes I want to inform you who I am and who I represent here." "This is no time," replied Magee, "for light talk on the subject of blonds." "This is the time," said the professor warmly, "for me to tell you that Mr. Kendrlck here and myself represent at Baldpate inn the prosecuting attorney of Reuton county. We"? Cargan, big, red, volcanic, interrupted. "Drayton!" he bellowed. "Drayton sent you here? The rat! The pup! Why, I made that kid! I put him where he is! He won't dare touch me!" "Won't he?" returned Professor Bolton. "My dear sir, you are mistaken. Drayton fully Intends to prosecute you on the ground that you arranged to pass ordinance No. 45, granting the Suburban railway the privilege of merging with the Civic in exchange for this bribe of $200,000." "He won't dare!" cried Cargan. "I made him!" "Before election," said the professor, "I believe he often insisted to you that he would do his duty as he saw it." "Of course he did," replied Cargan. "But that's what they all say." "He intends to keep his word. (To be Continued.) THE BOOK OF PARDONS Governor's Reasons for Clemency Fill Many Pages. The Enquirer has received a copy of Governor Blease's statement of par dons, paroles and commutations during the year 1913. The statement makes a book of 333 pages, and goes into details as to the why and wherefore of each and every exercise of clemency. In most cases it appears that the petitions upon which action was taken were signed by the judges and solicitors and jurors who tried the cases. The governor's letter of transmittal is as follows: State of South Carolina, Executive Chamber. Gentlemen of the Senate: I herewith transmit to you reasons for the pardons, paroles and commutations granted since your session of 1913. I am glad to have had the opportunity to help these unfortunates. Some of them may fall by the wayside, but if I have made one good citizen and saved one soul, I will have done a good work. "We are sitting in the shadow Of a long and lonely night, Waiting till some gentle angel Comes to lead us to the light. For we know there is a magic That can give eyes to the blind. O well filled hands be generous! O pitying hearts, be kind! Help stumbling feet that wander To find the upward way; Teach hands that now lie idle The joys of work and play. Let pity, love and patience Our tender teachers be, That, though the eyes be blinded, The little souls may see. Your world is large and beautiful, Our prison dim and small; We stand and wait, imploring; 'Is there not room for all? Give us our children's garden, Where we may safely bloom, Forgetting in Gods sunshine Our lot of grief and gloom.' A little voice comes singing, O, listen to its song! A little child is pleading For those who suffer wrong. 1 Grant them the patient magic 1 That gives eyes to the blind! o well filled hands be generous! O pitying hearts, be kind!" 1 Very respectfully i Cole L. Blease, Governor. i As He Passed By.?That the aged J are not easily roused to enthusiasm or excitement is well known, but they are not often as calm as the old woman that the Windsor Magazine tells about. An old man fell from a second-story window into the street, where an anxious crowd immediately gathered to see whether he was seriously injured, i One of her daughters rushed frantically into the first floor room, where i his wife sat knitting, and cried: "Oh. mother, mother! Father's fal- I len from the top of the house into the i road! Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" 1 "Yes, my child," answered the old i lady, placidly looking up from her work, "I saw him pass the window."? Chicago Daily News. , FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced Id Early Files of The Yorkvllle Enquirer NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of To* day a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Most Concerned Generations that Have Gone Before. The first installment of the noteu appearing under this heading wan published in our issue of November 14. 1913. The notes are being prepared by the editor as time and opportunity nermit Their nurnose is to bring Into review the events of the past for the pleasure and satisfaction of the older people and for the entertainment and Instruction of the present generation. Having commenced with the year 1856, It Is the desire of the editor to present from the records, a truthful and accurate picture of conditions as they existed immediately preceeding the Civil war. This will be followed by a review of the war period, Including the names of York county soldiers who went to the war singly and In companies, and then will follow the events of the re-constructlon period and the doings of the Ku-Klux. All along the editor will keep in mind Incidents of personal Interest, marriages and deaths of well known people, weather events and general happenings out of the ordinary. In the meantime persons who may desire further Information about matters that may have been only briefly mentioned are invited to call at the office of the editor and examine the original records. THIRTY-EIGHTH INSTALLMENT Thursday morning, July 26.?Within the past week we have had two refreshing showers in portions of our district. The prospects of our planting friends in these places, begins to look up a little. But the drought still prevails over the greater part of the district, and the crops are prescient of an unprecedented scarcity. The heat is not so intense as it has been. The health of the people remains good. * * * On the night of the 24th instant, two prisoners, York and John Mincy, escaped from jail by passing through the provision hole of their cell, and streaking it down the lightning rod. One hundred and fifty dollars reward is offered for their apprehension. As leaky a jail as this seems to be. should be seen to at once. Such lightning rods ought to be made non-conductors; such provision holes ought not to be large enough to admit a leg of mutton or the escape of a nigger. ? mai i ini in una UI.HI iti uu IUC luiu instant, by O. W. Cobb, Esq., Mr. D. Crockett Ramsay and Miss Martha Childers, all of this district. Thursday morning:, August 2, 1860.? Mr. Stephenson, the contractor, has commenced work on the Presbyterian church to be erected in Yorkville. The building is to be of brick, ninety-four feet in length and fifty feet wide, one story and surmounted by a spire one hundred and forty feet in height. For the accommodation of the colored people there will be a gallery running all around the building. It is designed to warm the building in the winter season by means of one of Chilson's hot air furnaces. The work is to be completed by the 1st of July, 1861, at a cost of $10,400. ? * * The price of mules in Kentucky is quite high. At a sale in Clark county recently, a very large number sold at prices ranging from $136 to $170. Thursday Morning. August 9, 1860.? Married?In this district on the 26th ultimo, by J. D. P. Currence, Esq., Mr. P. B. Philan and Mrs. Charlotte L. McQuinn, all of Mecklenburg, N. C. On the 1st instant, by Wm. McGill. VTan Mr Pohprt A Tark?nn nnri Miss Sarah C. McCarter, all of this district. At Rose's Hotel, on Sunday evening the 25th ultimo, by Rev. L. A. Johnson. Mr. Sylvanus Simmons and Miss Mary Clinton, all of this district. According to the promise of the contractors, our town was lighted with gas for the first time on Monday evening. The light produced was excellent and all parties interested appear to he entirely satisfied with the result. * ? A Lincoln and Hamlin pole was raised in Wheeling, Va., on Saturday last. Thus step by step the irrepressible conflict is marching upon us. Thursday, August 23, 1860.?Lincoln's Cabinet.?We hear it rumored in political circles here, as coming from reliable Republican sources, that the following is to be the composition of Mr. Lincoln's cabinet in case of his election: Wm. H. Seward, secretary of state: Henry Winter Davis, attorney general: John Sherman, secretary of the treasury: Passius M. Clay, sec retary of the interior; Benjamin F. Wade, secretary of the navy; John Hickman, secretary of war; Schuyler Colfax, postmaster general. * * A Secret for One Hundred Years.? The treasurer of Amherst college has lately received from Mr. Daniel Sears of Boston, a heretofore liberal benefactor of the college, a small and carefully sealed box, with instructions that it be not opened for one hundred years, on pain of a forfeiture of the gift which it contains. Speculation Is at fault as to the contents and the reason for the accompanying condition. The shrewdest guess is that the box holds a deed of real estate in Boston, now under ' lease for one hundred years; but then to be transferred to the college. But let us be patient 'till 1960, and then we wh:itl knnu.- snv? llip Snrinpllolil Ro. ' publican. * * * Married?(tn the 16th instant, by Rev. J. B. Watt. CoL W. H. McCorkle, af Yorkville, S. C'., and Mrs. Elva M. Dixon, of Mecklenburg county, N. C. On Thursday evening, the 9th in- ' stant, by J. W. Smith, Esq., Mr. Jasper ' Ragan and Miss Elmina Pierce, all of 1 (laston county, N. C. 1 On Tuesday evening the 21st instant, ' by Rev. W. W. Carothers, Mr. A. L. 1 Henderson and Miss Martha P., daugh- ' ter of Mr. Robert H. Craig, all of Oaston county, N. C. 1 ( Excitement in Texas.?By our Texas ' exchanges we receive further particu- 3 lars in regard to the excitement growing out of the abolition conspiracy. The Macogdoches Chronicle of the 7th instant, has the following on the subject. Ellis county?A young man who has been employed in a store at Waxhatchie, was hung a few days ago for giving strichnine to slaves to put in wells. Smith county?The man who was shot in the attempt to s^t fire to Tyler, has been found dead. Cherokee Nation?The Paris Press speaks of a rumor that a bloody fight has taken place in the nation between the Abolitionists and Pro-slavery men, in which 150 of the former were killed, and seven of the latter. The story is most probablly a fabrication. Cherokee county?The citizens of Cherokee have organized for their pro ICVilUll. The Houston Telegraph of the 11th says: We learn from a gentleman who passed through Henderson, in Rock county, on last Monday morning, that the town of Henderson was set on fire last Sunday night, the fth instant, and was almost entirely consumed. Every house in the square except one, Including all the business houses In the place, was destroyed. The people of Henderson, our informant says, put no faith In the reported conspiracy, and neglected to appoint a patrol or keep watch. The fire was discovered on Sunday night about nine o'clock. No clue has been discovered to the perpetrators of the deed. The Fort Worth Chief of the 1st Instant, has the following brief notice of an Abolitionist conspirator: "We learn that a preacher by the name of Buley was hung at Veal's station last week, for being an active abolitionist. A majority of three hundred men condemned him. The Brentham Ranger of the 10th instant says: "A few days since several negroes were arrested on Mill Creek in this county, who acknowledged to their having poison given them by white men for the purpose of poisoning their owners and the familie.) of their owners, and that the day of the election was the time llxed for the general insurrection. They also implicated some negroes about town as being implicated in the murderous plot. Hon. Howell Cobb, secretary of the treasury, states that the people of Georgia will not submit to the inauguratioh of Lincoln as president; that they will secede first. A correspondent of the New York Herald, writing from White Sulphur Springs, Va., communicates the following as occurring in a conversation with Governor Ledger: Speaking of the probable contingency of Lincoln's election and a secession Jn a# thfl ui.nf hprn utotoq hnth nf which events he feelingly deplored, as theyimight lead to ei conflict between the Federal and some of the state authorities?he said with emphasis, "but while I live, no Federal troops shall march across Virginia against a southern state in arms for the defense of its sovereign rights and its equality in the Union." A Virginian who heard the remark and who had been very moderate in the views he had expressed, afterward said to me, "Ledger may not be as strong as some of our leaders; but he differs from Governor Wise in l.his that you' may always count upon his acting up to what he says." The annual meeting or tne lora County Bible society will be held in this place on Thursday, September 6. A sermon for the occasion will be delivered by Rev. Samuel Watson, and an address by Mr. J. R. Schorb. The auxiliaries and all persons friendly to the cause, are respectfully invited to attend. J. C. Miller, Secretary. Extraordinary Challenge?We find the following extraordinary challenge in the Petersburg Intelligencer: Prince George, July 22, 1860.?The subscriber, feeling himself to be the champion of Pro-Slavery men In the south, will say that he can whip the champion of Anti-Slavery north, either on land or water. I will enter a room with him?the president of the United States shall lock the door behind us, and inspect us for every half an hour until the contest is ended. Or I will ' enter a beat on the Mcunt Vernon side of the Potomac and meet him near the middle. Both shall simultaneously leap ' from the end of his boat, and swim until we meet, when we will engage; ' .1 < 4 A i.nlll u4? Knfh ' neiiiicr uum lu ujjj.ii uavu uiuu .?*. u?... agree as to the victory. My address is , Ternpleton, Prince George, Va. L. Lee. (To Be Continued.) ORIGIN OF THE PEARL I The Ancients Thought It Was a Drop ] of Dew From Heaven. ? No record exists or even tradition I as to the discovery of the first pearl. The mystery of its origin has doubt- i less contributed in no small degree I to render it the prime favorite that it i has ever been in the eyes of the ori- I entals. t From time immemorial the nations i of antiquity have used the pearl to i decorate their persons and adorn 1 their temples and we find many curi- ( ous beliefs existing as to its origin, s The one most prevalent in Pliney's i time was that pearls were formed i from the dews of heaven, falling in- 1 to the open shells at breeding time, 1 and it was in allusion to this pretty conceit that a noble Venetian lady ! named Corraro, had a gold medal \ struck (bearing the date 1620) on the ' reverse side of which is an open shell I receiving the drops of dew from 1 heaven which form into pearls as f tney iiui. rne mono woo muc m- ?. vino" (by the divine dew). In these more practical but less t poetic days the generally accepted i theory is that some foreign substance, 1 possibly even a grain of sand, having 1 by accident entered the shell of the J oyster, a certain amount of irrita- t tion is induced which causes the ex- 1 udation of a pear'y secretion (known 1 is nacre), and this effectually covers i up the intruder, and also that with i the growth of the oyster the pearl i Increases in size. ( The pearl, unlike all other gems, c requires no assistance from man to enhance its value, or from art to add t one iota to its perfect loveliness.? 1 National Magazine. t pi$rrUnntou$ Reading. TALENT BEHIND PRISON WALLS Many of the Men Serving Sentences in Penitentiaries are Mental Heavyweights. The Kansas state penitentiary is a little world of its own, not so very different from the big world on the outside. Within its walls are confined all sorts and conditions of men, a very few that are very good and a very few that are wholly bad. There Is the same average intelligence on the inside as on the out; the same proportion of religion and irreligion, sincerity and hypocrisy, of men who ( work and of men who shirk, of men who can afid who cannot be trusted, and about the same sprinkling of | genius as in the days of Francys Vll- ] Ion and Jonathan Wild, and from every mother's son behind those grim walls, whether he be genius or low grade moron, comes the universal prayer, "Give me another chance." The human Interest which attaches to these derelict geniuses is all the kneener because the stories of their failures are the saddest of all human documents. How to deal with these men is one of the problema with which the governor, the parole clerk and the parole board are brought face to face almost every day. Convict No. 3943 sat in the warden's office of the Kansas state penitentiary a few weeks ago making the familiar plea for "another chance." His language and accent stamped him us a southerner of good education. Notwithstanding the signs of dissipation, there was in his manner evidence of refinement and good breeding. A few questions brought out the fact that No. 3943 is a Kentuckian of > good family: that he is a graduate of | the University of Kentucky and of Harvard University, and that he is an architect of much ability. A letter from President Patterson, of the state University of Kentucky, states that, 10 years ago, he designed and built the gymnasium for that institution at Lexington, Ky. His design for this building was accepted in a contest in which there was 18 competitors. At that time he had also become the intimate friend of Stanford White, whose comment upon his drawing for the gymnasium at Lexington are contained in a letter, which are altogether complimentary. He also knew John Fox, the Kentucky novelist, whose book plate he designed. To convince the parole board that the spark of genius has not left him and that his hand has not lost Its cunning, No. 3943 unrolled a bunch of architectural pen drawings which he had recently executed; among them a design for a Methodist church, which is soon to be built in one of the smaller cities of Kansas. No. 3943 is 48 years old, and with his fine ability, education and the opportunities which were open to him, ought to be occupying an honorable, useful and distinguished station in life, instead of a cell in the Kansas penitentiary. j How came this man here? It Is the < same ild story! Fast horses, fast women and Kentucky whisky. No. 3943 could not stand success. 1 Dissipation lost him employment and i friends. He drifted west, and in < a western Kansas county forged a check for $3.50, for which, on March i 2, 1911, he was sentenced to the peni- < tentlary for a term of from one to ten i years. After working 18 months for ] three and one fourth cents a day, he < was given a parole, and violated it t within a few days by getting drunk. ] He has now served something over < three years and is asking for another ] chance. 1 The board has decided to try him ] again if some one with the milk of \ human kindness in his heart will take i charge of him and give him a Job. On a Sunday afternoon not long < ago in the chaplain's office another i human wreck sat detailing his story t to a parole clerk. Number 4555 is a j man 51 years of age. He had never j Deen in any serious irouoie oeiore. j He had raised a family of boys and i girls, now gTown to manhood and oc- t cupylng honorable positions in soci- < ety. He had been superintendent of c several large machine shops and is ? a line mechanic. He has invented and patented a valuable keybolt. He has r also Invented and patented a pipe c wrench which is said to be a decided s Improvement upon the Stilson wrench i in that it does not mash or mar the a pipe, and is a less expensive tool. <] Number 4555 had one besetting < sin. But for whisky he would never have seen the Inside of a Jail or pen- ( Itentiary. A drunken spree led to y Ills conviction and an indeterminate j sentence of from one to ten and a <3 half years for a statutory ofTense. I When he had finished his plea for y mother chance and the parole clerk t nformed him that the governor had v ilready signed a parole for him and s :hat a good job was awaiting for him o it his old home, the man gave way 10 a i series of conflicting emotions which v ranged from tears of joy at his re- c ease to indignation at his conviction q if a crime, innocence of which he c stoutly asserted. And there are those s ,vho believe that the case against him y ,vas a frame-up; but if it had not h ieen for whisky there would have f jeen no chance for even that. n Out in the machine shop Convict p S'o. 4738, serving one to five years for I vhlte slavery, and another convict t: .vith a sentence of 10 to 21 years for f >ank robbery, were working at a athe. They were making a nonre- h lllable bottle, for which No. 4738 has g i patent. t McGlnnis, as No. 4738 is called? t ilthough that is not his right name? s a remarkable prisoner, with a long s 1st of inventions to his credit. He f las two patents for a binding rail n s\lri + u'hinh la aof/1 tn Ha jinnaHor to n IW,Ht' " *"V" IO 0t*,X* fcW M-KV..W. - ? I' hat now In use by railroads and can tl >e manufactured and put in place for n '5 cents per joint, less than the one a iow In use. If this Is true, it will n )ay some railroad to take McGinnis's a latent over and pay him enough to nable him to live in luxury the rest h >f his life. b McGinnis has also patented an auomatic car stake, by means of which ogs, gravel and ore can be unloaded ^ ?y the engineer from the engine by ^ use of air. McOinnis's invention enables the engineer to thus unload automatically any particular car in the train. He has also invented a detachable toe-cork for a horseshoe. Some of the prison officers have investigated these patents and are organizing a stock company to manufacture them at i put them on the market. Convict No. 3839 is a "threetimer" and at present is the warden's cook. "Jim," as he is called, has a genius for mechanics and has invented a mechanism by which a railroad switch can be opened and closed from the engine. He has given this invention years of study and believes that when his time is up he will be -1-1 - A- 11 KA Una ttuie lU IC<U1?0 UII mc muo ac aao spent "thinking it over." Convict No. 3183, when on the outBide and in a mood to work, was a lather by profession. He has invented an automatic lathe carrier, into which bundles of laths are fed and automatically placed In position for nailing, which is done by automatic hammers operated by air. "Jim" has five terms in the Kansas penitentiary to his credit and has jerved an aggregate of 18 years. He charges his criminal record up to the fact that he has been a wanderer almost from childhood. Like all the rest he too, wants another chance. Convict No. 4461 has served four terms?ten years in all?and is a very :lever electrician. He has invented a combined machine which is motor, dynamo, alternator , step-up, stepdown, high and low tension transFormer, all in one. Convict No. 3467 has invented a imlmt a AlntVlAarnAlr Ann nf laiuci u?U4uc viviucaiavn, vt?v w* which is in use in the warden's residence. This is his first time in prison, but he has already had two paroles ind has violated both of them. Convict No. 4299 is serving 5 to 21 fears for a statutory offense. He has Invented a vacuum street-sweeper ind an acetylene gas machine, both if which look practical and appear to be improvements upon existing inventions of like character. John Doe, No. 10, is an engineer, carpenter and plumber. He is serving one to seven years for grand larceny, and is wanted at Fort Madison as a parole violator from that Institution. "John Doe," like many other prison names, is assumed for the purpose of concealing his identity. He puts in spare time making violins. He has made eight or nine and has sold several at fair prices; and several ire used by the prison orchestra. Convict No. 3631 is the man who built the new prison twine plant He Is an expert bricklayer and builder. There was only one other bricklayer In the penitentiary besides No. 3631. This man took untrained convicts, put them on the job and made brick* layers of them. The two buildings ire each 260 feet long and 46 feet wide, with buttressed walls and cement doors. Beneath the cement noors there is a complicated network if conduits for ventilation and heating. All this work was done under the direction of No. 3631; and the state architect told the writer not long ago that 3631 had built better and cleaner walls than one would get in the outside from a contractor. No. 3631 has served dve years of a 1 10 to 21-year sentence for bank rob- 1 Dery, ana tne u eaerai auinonue? are waiting for him at the door with a 1 :harge of postofflce robbery. This man is not only a good brick- 1 layer and builder, but he is an expert 1 rtenographer and typewriter, and last iummer, after working all day in the hot sun, would go to the record :lerk's office after supper and get out ; :hat officer's correspondence. He has now been transferred to the medical iepartment, where he has worked so hard in nursing sick prisoners recenty that the warden sent him out to a little house on the hill overlooking :he Missouri river to rest and recoupe*ate. No. 3631 has served five terms in iifferent penitentiaries, although he s now only 39 years old. It is not oo late for him to renounce his crim- ' nal career and become a useful cltlsen. He says that he is done, and ;he prison authorities believe that he ( neans it. No. 3631 is one of that ype of men who take pride In doing ^ well and excellent in whatever they lo, whether It be bank robbery or lome honorable occupation. If this man should go out and , nake good it would be a great vindl- ( :ation for the parole system. The | itate can probably arrange with the . federal authorities to dismiss its case ( igainst him. What would the reader ( 10 if possessed of th? power to give t )r refuse this man a parole? , Another remarkable prisoner Is t Convict No. 1023. After serving ten ( ears for killing a Joint-keeper in j Uchison, Ike was paroled the other ( lay and will take a position as nurse j 11 a big hospital. During all the ten ( ears of his servitude Ike has nursed i he sick prisoners, dressed their rj rounds and acquired considerable c kill as a surgeon in the performance t f minor operations. The parole clerk Irst heard of Ike through ex-convicts c k'ho remembered his kindness and i ame to the governor's office to re- t uest that something be done for him. I Jovernor Stubbs had commuted the c entence of Ike's pal from life to 15 ' ears with good time off. The "pal" t lad influential friends. Ike's only e riends were ex-convicts. When the * natter was called to Governor * lodges's attention, he commuted ' ke's sentence to 15 years with good s Ime off and recently signed a parole ' or him. ' When the writer told No. 1023 that f ie was going out, he said: "Tell the 0 overnor I am mighty grateful and e hat I am going to show my grati- v ude Dy making gooa. This man's case affords a curious a tudy of human nature. Outside and 8 ull of whisky he and his "pal" com- 0 iltted a brutal murder, and he was a a retty bad citizen generally. Inside e he prison he develops a genius for 1 ursing the sick, takes the place of an a sslstant surgeon and cares for his ^ lore unfortunate mates with remarkc ble tenderness and gentleness. The governor of Kansas has given im another chance. What will the ^ ig world do??Kansas City Star. ? . t Radium ore has now been found a a large quantities in the Ferghana a istrlct of Russian Central Asia. s EFFECT8 OF BULLET8 ON BODY A "M?u?*r" Generally Goes Clear Through a Man if it Hits Him, Says This Authority. I am writing this paper to be read before a society of doctors. It is not for medical men unless they happen to be sportsmen or gun cranks. After the Spanish-American war Dr. Senn wrote a book telling of the effect of the (then) new high-power bullet on the human being. The United States army had recently adopted the Krag-Jorgensen rifle, with its highpower steel-Jacket, bullet, and surgeons were anxious to know how it would act. Dr. Senn's patients were either shot with the .30-caliber Krag or the somewhat smaller 7-mm. (equal to .28 caliber) Mauser. Both were military bullets, 1. e., full metal-Jacketed. During the Madero revolution in Mexico his men were killed with all kinds of weapons, from the tiny 6 mm. Lee straight pull to the old-style .60 caliber Remington lead bullet I do not know how many wounded I treated during that revolution, but a thousand would be placing the estimate very low. Being a sportsman and a gun crank, I constanly found myself speculating as to the caliber of the bullet that made the particular wound I happened to be treating. And 1 soon came to be tolerably expert in my guesses. Unfortunately I was too busy and had not the opportunity to hold * post-mortems on those who were killed, else I would have learned much more. My experience smashed several theories I had previously affirmed. I discovered that the modern highpower military bullet is not always the merciful thing I had heard it was. Up to 300 yards it is a smasher. It does not "drill a neat hole in the bone and pass on" by any means. Some of the worst cases of shattered bones I had were made by Mausers at close range, while the abdomen or head wound at such ranges is invariably fatal. I do not recall a single case where a soldier received an abdominal or brain wound from a Mauser at close range and recovered. The bullet makes the usual "neat little hole," but the soft tissues around it receive severe injuries?due to the high velocity of Its passage. At ranges of over 300 yards the Mauser becomes a bullet of mercy?if there is any such thing. I have seen men shot squarely through the lungs and it didn't stop them from smoking cigarettes. An American machine gun operator received such a wound and never went to bed. I remember one battle, in which there were over a doz?ka.. AII ci* 1UU5 nuuuuo, aiiu uicjr cm* iowtw ed. The metal jacketed bullet* fired from lower power gains, like the .30-10, .303 and .32 special, made a clean cut hole, similar to the Mauser and .30-40, . but were not so fatal at close range. I have seen several cases where & Mauser bullet shattered the bone of the upper arm for a distance of two inches. On the other hand I can recall two cases where it BBted a small Hole through the angle of the lower jaw bone. The Mauser bullets used were full metal patched so I have not had an opportunity of observing the effects of a Mauser soft nose. The .30-40 soft nose made the most wicked wound of any bullet used during the war. One soldier was struck in the hand by one of these bullets and the member was bo shattered that amputation was necessary. Another carried away the entire upper set of teeth, the upper lip and an inch of the tongue of one poor fellow. He nearly died of hemorrhage while being carried to the rear. The .32-40, .32 Bpecial, 38-56, soft nose were nearly as bad in their effect Next in severity comes the .30-30, .303 and calibers of that class. Being shorter in range many of the wounds made by these bullets struck at long range and failed to expand. Of course, the effect was not so severe. The old .44 is inef fectlve at military ranges, ana u was not until the three days' flght at Cludad Juarez (May 9, 10 and 11) that I had an opportunity to observe wounds made by this short range bullet The fighting was at close range?across the street and from house to house?and they were about as effective as any. I do not recall more than half a dozen cases where the bullet was found imbedded in the flesh, and these were fired from either short-range guns or revolvers. I have yet to And a Mauser bullet remaining in the body of a man struck by cne. They go through and pass into the next country. A flesh wound from i Mauser bullet is usually a trivial affair. The patients are out of the hospital in a week or ten days. Some of them never go to the hospital to have them treated. A round ball from a shrapnel shell makes a very ugly wound. Each shell contains from 200 :o 300 round balls weighing about three quarters of an ounce, and when the ihell explodes these are scattered all )ver the held in front. If the shell explodes directly overhead there is no langer, but if in front of a column of nen several of them are sure to be hit. The soft nose bullet fired from a pistol loes not expand for the reason that here is not sufficient velocity. All in all, the wounds most to be Ireaded in battle are those through the ibdomen. In civil life the mortality is lot ro great, for the reason that the patient can be got to the hospital and >perated on at once. In war this caniot be done, as it is generaly from 10 o 24 hours before they reach the geniral hospital. The Mexicans do not tave a well equipped hospital corps vith their army, and the first aid work s done under the most unfavorable lurroundings. Borne days elapse beore the wounded receive medical ftt* ention. It is no uncommon thing to find patients who have been wounded three ?r four days and who have not had ven a piece of gauze applied to their vounds. But they are a hardy race of people .nd come through where it would eem others would surely die. I had me patient who walked 100 miles with . broken arm without having It dresad once. To make It worse, he was raveling through the enemy's country .nd did most of his traveling at night, ,nd he had very little to eat during the ime he was making the trip. He reovered in good shape. I have had no xperience treating wounds made by he sharp-pointed or spitzer bullet. 1 iave been told that they are bad medline. I have yet to see a case of hospial gangrene, so much dreaded by the oldiers during the war between the tates. My father nearly died of it from . wound in his leg received at Keneaw Mountain.?Pearson's Weekly.