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^ ISSUED SEHX-WEEKL^ L x. grist s sons. Publisher., j $ .^amilg J) ta-sgajer: ^for the promotion of % political, gocial, lijrieulfiira! ami (Tommertinl jntwtsts o)f lh< | '""iio^upv'^vJcraTi"0'' ^ e8tabh8hed i8s5. ~ YORK VIlXTcTsTC.Tlh'RipA^VAPHlL I 0,1914. JSTO. 397 j SEVEN 1 ... BALE J BY EARL DE * X Copyright, 1913 by the Bobbs-M CHAPTER XX. The Profeseor Sums Up. The mayor of Reuton slid into the shadows. "As I was saying, Mr. Magee," continued the professor, "Mr. Kendrick and 1 came up here to secure this package of money as evidence against Cargan and?the man above. I speak with the voice of the law when I say you must turn this money over to A me." r For an answer Magee smiled at the girl. Potior CA nnu' " hp said. 1 UU U U^VIVI ?V **V??y ? _ "It's a long walk down the mountain." ^ "'You refuse?" cried the professor. "Absolutely. Don't we, Miss Norton?" said Magee. "Absolutely," she repeuted bravely. "Then, sir," announced the old man crushingly, "you are a little better than a thief, and this girl is your ac^ complice." "So it must look on the face of it," assented Magee. The girl moved to the big front door, and Magee, with his eyes still on the room, backed ^ away until he stood beside her. lie handed her his key. "I give you," he said, "to the gods of the mountain. But it's 6nly a .oan ?I shall surely want you back. I can't follow ten feet behind as I threatened?It will be ten hours instead. Good night, and good luck." "Billy Magee," she wmspereu, "yours is a faith beyond understanding. 1 shall tell the gods of the nointain that I am to be?returned. Good night, you?dear." If She went out quickly and Magee locked the door after her. thrust the key into his pocket. For a moment no one stirred. Then Mr. Max leaped up and ran through the flickering light to the nearest window. * There was a flash, a report and Max came back into the firelight examining a torn trousers leg. "I don't mean to kill anybody," explained Mr. Magee?"just to wing him. But I'm not an expert?I might shoot higher than I Intend?so 1 sug* _ gest that no one else try a break for % it." "Mr. Magee," said Miss Thornhill, "I don't believe you have the slightest idea who that girl is nor what she wants with the money." ^ "That," he replied, "makes it all Jhe^ more exciting, don't you think?" "Do you mean," the professor exploded, "you don't know her? Well, you young fool!" "It's rather fine of you," remarked Miss Thornhill. "It's asinine if it's true." the profes^ sor voiced the other side of it. "I hope every one is quite comfortable," remarked Mr. Magee, selecting a seat facing the crowd. "It's to be a long wait, you know." In Upper Asquewan Falls the clock % on the old town hall struck 9. Mr. Magee. on guard in Baldpate's dreary office, counted the strokes. She must be halfway down the mountain now. Tonight there will be no need of a troubadour to implore. "Weep No More. My Lady." William Hallowell Aiagee nan remuveu uic muor ?v. tears. It was a long vigil he had begun, W but there was no boredom in it for Killy Magee. He was too great a lover of contrast for that. As he looked around on the ill assorted group he guarded he compared them with the happier people of the inn's summer nights, about whom the girl had told him. Instead of these surly or sad folk sitting glumly under the pistol of romantic youth he saw mails garbed in the magic of muslin Hit through the shadows. Lights glowed softly. A waltz came up from the casino on the breath of the summer breeze. Under the red and white awnings youth and joy and love had their day?or their ^ night. The hermit was on hand with his postal carded romance. The trees gossiped in whispers on the mountain. 1 rAnb I n or ohuir flPPt niiu, U'U, IIIC I\'VI\|?ID V..vv. gossiped in whispers on the veranda, pausing only when the admiral railed by in his glory. Eagerly it ran down Its game. This girl?this Myra Thornhill?he remembered, had herself been a victim. After Kendrlck disappeared she had come there no more, for there were ugly rumors of the man who had tied. Mr. Magee saw the girl and her long absent lover whispering together in the firelight. He wondered if they. too. imagined them^ selves at Baldapte in the summer; if they heard the waltz in the casino and the laughter of men In the grill room. Ten o'clock, said the town hall pompously. She was at the station now. In the room of her tears she was waiting?perhaps her only companion the jacky of the "See the World" poster, whose garb was but a shade bluer then her eyes. Who was she? What was the bribe money of the Suburban railway to her? Mr. Magee did not know, but he trusted her, and he was glad she had won through him. He saw Professor Bol ton walk through the flickering half light to join Myra Thornhill and Kendrlck. It must be half past now. Yes? from far below in the valley came the whistle of a train. Now?she was boarding it?she and the money ?boarding it?for where? For what purpose? Again the train whistled. "The seige," remarked Mr. Magee. "is more than half over. Indies and gentlemen." The professor of comparative litera" ture approached him and took a chair at his side. "I want to talk with you, Mr. Magee." he said. "A welcome diversion." assented | Magee. his eyes still on the room. * "I have discussed matters with Miss Thornhill." said the professor in a low voice. "She has convinced me that in this affair you have acted from a wholly disinterested point of view. A mistaken idea of chivalry. KEYS TO ] )PATE ... :rr riggers { lerrill Company. ^ perhaps. The infatuation of the moment for a pretty face?a thing to which all men with red blood in their veins are susceptible?a pjleasant thing that I would be the last to want banished from the world." "Miss Thornhill," replied Billy Magee, "has sized up the situation perfectly?except for one rather import ant aeian. ?i is noi int nua.iua.nun ui the moment, professor. Say, rather, that of a lifetime." "Ah, yes," the old man returned. "Youth?how sure It always is of that. I do not deprecate the feeling. Once, long ago, I, too, had youth and faith. We will not dwell on that, however. Miss Thornhill assures me that Henry Bently, the son of my friend John Bentley, esteems you highly. She asserts that you are in every respect, as far as her knowledge goes, an admirable young man. I feel sure that after calm contemplation you will see that what you have done is very unfortunate. The package of money, which in a giddy moment you have given into a young lady's keeping, is much desired by the authorities as evidence against a very corrupt political ring. I am certain that when you know all the details you will be glad to return with me 10 Reuton and do all in your power to help us regain possession of that package." And now the town hall informed Mr. Magee that the hour was 11. He pictured a train flying like a black shadow through the white night. Was she on it?safe?" "Professor Bolton." he said, "there couldn't possibly be any one anywhere more eager than I to learn all the details of this affair?to hear your real reason for coming to Baldpate inn and to have the peroxide blond incident properly classified and given its niche in history. Bat let me tell you again my action of tonight was no mere madness of the moment. I shall stick to it through thick and thin. Now, about the blonds." "The blonds!" repeated the professor dreamily. "Ah, yes, I must make a small confession of guilt there! 1 did not come nere to escape me results of that indiscreet remark, but I really made it?about a. year ago. Shall I ever forget? Hardly. The newspapers and my wife won't let me. I can never again win a new honor, However dignified, without 4>e4ng?referred to in print as the peroxide blond advocate. On the night when Mr. Kendrlck and I climbed Haldpate mountain I remarked as much to him. And so it occurred to me that If I found any need of explaining my presence here the blond incident would do very well. It was only ?a white lie." "A blond one," corrected Mr. Magee. "I forgive you. professor." "To begin with." continued the professor. "I am a member of the * u" ~ TT?j..?wnu? /vf Dontnn liU Ull.V Ul lilt" univrinii/ v/. "What you have done it very unfortunate." situated, as you no doubt know, in the city of the same name. For a lonig time I have taken a quiet interest in our municipal politics. I have been up in arms?linguistic arms? against this odd character Cargan. who came from the slums to rule us with a rod of iron. Every one knows he is corrupt: that he is wealthy through the sale of privilege: that there is actually a fixed schedule of prices for favors in the way of city ordinances. 1 have often denounced him to my friends. Since I have met him?well, it is remarkable is it not. the effect of personality on one's opinions? I expected to face a devil, with the usual appurtenances. In sip&a i nave iouiiu u numau, i auic? a likeable man." Mr. Magee smiled over to where the great bulk of Cargan slouched in a chair. "He's a bully old scout," he remarked. "Even so." replied the professor, "his high handed career of graft in Reuton must come to a speedy close. He is of a type fast vanishing through the awakening public conscience. And his career will end, I assure you, despite the fact that you, Mr. Magee, have seen fit to send our evidence scurrying through the night at the behest of a chit of a girl. I beg your pardon?I shall continue. Young Drayton, the new county prosecutor, was several years back a favorite pupil of mine. Returning from law school he fell under the spell of tin- picturesque mayor of Ruton. Cargan liked him and he rose rapidly. Drayton had no thought of ever turning against his benefactor when he accepted the first favors, but later the open selling of men's souls began to disgust him. When Cargan offered him the place of prosecutor a few months ago Drayton assured him that he would keep his oath of office. "It was in me, remember,'' he went on, "that Drayton confided his resolve to serve the public. I was delighted at the news. A few weeks ago he informed me his first opportunity was at hand. Through one of the men in his office he had learned that Hayden of the Suburban Electric was seeking to consolidate that road, which fnllAn nn.Hnl ,1 t n*.sx r> ? + a uau laiicu iwiu >^ai nai uioi cpuic uuuci his management during the illness of Thornhlll, the president, with the Civic. The consolidation would raise the value of the Suburban nearly two million dollars?at the public's expense. Hayden had seen Cargan. Cargan had drafted ordinance No. 45 and informed Hayden that his price for passing it through the council would be the sum you have juggled in your possession on Baldpate mountain? $200,000." "A mere trifle," remarked Magee sarcastically "So Cargan made Hayden see. Through long experience in these matters the mayor has becomes careless. He is the thing above the law, if not the law itself. He would have had no fear in accepting this money on Main street at midday. He had no font, u'lian ho on m o horn n ml found he was being spied on. "But Hayden?there was the difficulty that began the drama of Baldpate inn. Hayden had few scruples; but, as events tonight have well proved, Mr. Magee, he was a coward at heart. I do not know just why he lies on your bed upstairs at this moment a suicide. That is a matter between Kendrick and him and one which Kendrick himself has not yet faUhpmed. As I say, Hayden wus afflud of being caught. Andy Rutt?<v manager of Baldpate inn for the last few summers, is in some way mixed up in the Suburban. It was he who suggested to Hayden that an absolutely secluded spot for passing this large sum of money would be the inn. The idea appealed to Hayden. Cargan tried to laugh him out of it. The mayor did not relish the thought of a visit to Baldpate mountain in the dead of winter, particularly as he considered such precautions unnecessary. But Hayden was firm. This spot, he pointed out, was ideal, and the mayor at last laughingly gave in. The sum involved was well worth taking a little trouble to gain." Professor Bolton paused and blinked h!?-dim old eyes. "So the matter was arranged," he continued. "Mr. Bland, a clerk in Hayden's employ, was sent up here with the money, which he placed in the safe on the very night of our arrival. The- safe had been left open by Butter." Bland did not have the comnut ln?ld? _ swung shut the door and waited the arrival of the mayor." "I was present," smiled Magee, "at the ceremony you mention." "Yes? All these plans, as I have said, were known to Drayton. A few nignis ago ne came iu mr. rcc waiu.cu to send an emissary to Baldpate?a man whom Cargan had never met? one who could perhaps keep up the pretense of being here for osme other reason than a connection with the bribe. He asked me to undertake the mission, to see all I could and if possible to secure the package of money. This last seemed hardly likely. At any rate, I was to gather all the evidence I could. I hesitated. "I had loudly proclaimed my championship of civic virtue, however, and here was a chance to serve Reuton. I acquiesced. The day I was to start up here poor Kendrick came back. He, too, had been a student of mine, a friend of both Drayton and Hayden. Seven years ago he and Hayden were running the Suburban together under Thornhill's direction. The two young jmen became mixed up in a rather shady business deal, which was more of Hayden's weaving than Kendrick's. Hayden came to Kendrick with the storv that they were about to be found out and suggested that one assume the blame and go away. I am telling you all this in confidence as a friend of my friends, the Bentleys, and a young man whom I like and trust despite your momentary madness in the matter of yellow locks. We are all susceptible. "Kendrick went. For seven years he stayed away in an impossible tropic town, believing himself sought by the law, for so Hayden wrote him. Not long ago he discovered that the matter in which he and Hayden had offended had never been disclosed after all. He hurried back to the states. You can Imagine his bitterness. He had ben engaged to Myra Thornhlll, and the fact that Hayden was also in love with her may have had something to do with his treachery to his friend." (To be Continued.) Saved by His Whiskers.?"Long years ago when 1 was a student, I gathered vertebrae specimens for the university on the plains of western Kansas," said Doctor Moody in the University Kansan. "One evening while I was on such an expedition I lay in my tent sleeping. Little did I dream of the impending danger. It was a dark and gloomy night. The wind whistled through the pine trees. The camp fire burned low. My beard had not been shaved for weeks and my beautiful brown whiskers reached almost to my belt. "Suddenly I awoke. I seemed to feel the presence of other human beings in my tent. Several minutes passed, but before I had time to move a muscle a huge Sioux warrior (lashed his cigar lighter and held the little blue Maine not more than three inches from my face. "My friends, for the first time in my life, I knew the meaning of the word fear. My whiskers fairly quivered. But luckily my life was spared. "The bloodthirsty savage took one glance at my features and whispered to a companion: 'We are fooled. The villain has escaped. Only the hay for his horse remains.' "My trusty whiskers had saved me. Then and there I resolved never again to clip a single whisker. Can you blame me?" '<*' Luck has a perverse habit of favoring those who don't depend on it. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced In Early Files of The Yorkville Enquirer NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of Today a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Most Concorned Generations that Have Gone Before. The first installment of the notes appearing under this heading was published in our issue of November 14. 1!?13. The notes are being prepared by the editor as time and opportunity permit. Their purpose is to bring into review the events of the past for _1 1 tln^ntUn r,t thft lilt* pifUBUir anu oauoiavnuii VI W?*? O der 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 tliey existed immediately preceeding the Civil war. This will he followed by a review of the war period, Including the names of York county soldiers who went io the war singly and in companies, and then will follow the events of the re-constructlon period and the doings of the Ku-Xlux. All along the editor will keep in mind incidents of personal int^est, 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 arcInvited to call at the office of the editor and examine the original records. THIRTY-NINTH INSTALLMENT Thursday Morning, August 30, 1860. ?Much excitement, we learn, exists in Talladega, Ala., on account of the discovery of a plot of several Abolitionists ill crruif u. nn vnc iiiauiimiuu, i uu> white men and eight negroes have been discovered armed in the neighborhood of the town; and everything goes to corroborate the statement of the negroes of the community relative to the wicked plot. Such reports as this are brought to our ears by almost every day's mall. We do not wish to sound any unnecessary alarm; but we are forced to the belief that these ville agitators and anarchists are fantastically and fratracidally bent upon their foul purposes in sheer contempt of all the laws of earth and heaven. L>et every man of the south look well to his own household, and "keep his powder dry." Thursday Morning, September fi, 1860.?Death of Allan Harris.?Col. D. J. Rice returned on Saturday from a visit to the Choctaw nation, bringing with him intelligence of the death of Allan Harris. It was rumored here some time since that Allan was dead, but seemingly conflicting statements and frn'M S in tbe^-datea of letters induced the belief that it was all a hoax. Al lan, Deiore leaving ior ine unuuuiw nation, prepared a memorandum of his debts, and directed them to be paid out of his present crop, and v/e believe he made a formal will. Allan, being the oldest of the Catawba tribe, was considered and revered by them as councilor. He had by industry and economy, accumulated the means of a comfortable and independent livelihood. Although an Indian, the recollection of his ancestral race and his own good behavior, commanded public respect. He died on the 26th of July, far from home. Alas, poor Yorick!?Rock Hill Chronicle, 31st ultimo. * Although the general health of Charleston was never better, yet one or two cases of yellow fever have occurred in that city. The Mercury says "but a single case." That was a gentleman who had been in declining health for months, and his malady assumed the yellow fever type but a few days before his death. The Mercury thinks there is not the least danger yet; but promises to report faithfully. t t Married??>n the 29th of August, by James JefWys, magistrate, Mr. Jonathan E. MciJiin and Miss Lucy Ann Chambers, ell of this district. Thursday, September 13, 1860.?A correspondent of the Chester Standard nominates Wade Hampton, Esq., as a candidate for congress in opposition to Hon. W. W. Boyce. One of the arguments used by the writer in favor of Col. Hampton is "that he is in no way tainted with the heresy of secession." York District Bible Society.?The unnual meeting of the York District Bible society took place at York court house on Thursday the 6th instant. The president, Rev. J. M. H. Adams, being present, took the chair; ant'l the meeting was opened with prayer by Rev. R. A. Ross, vice president. The Rev. S. L. Watson, who was selected at the last meeting, delivered an appropriate sermon from the 72d verse of the 119th Psalm: "The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver." After the sermon the minutes of the last meeting were read; the report of the executive commitee was read, received, adopted, and ordered to be placed on the minute book. The treasurer's report was also received and adopted. The sum of $45 was ordered to b; paid out of the funds of the society tJ the parent society. A resolution was pissed making James Jefferys, Esq., the depository of the books of this society; also a resolution that the executive committee be instructed to devise such means as may commend themselves to their better judgment, for carrying out the resolution of the state convention to raise $5,000 for the foreign circulation of the Bible, and that the members be eurnestly requested to contribute to this very desirable object. The present officers were eletced to retain their respective offices for the ensuing year. The same gentlemen were ap- 1 pointed as an executive committee, 1 with the exception of Col. W. C. Beatty, who declined re-election. Edward Moore, Esq., was substituted; and ('apt. F. H. Simril appointed chairman. 1 The thanks of the society were extended to Rev. S. L. Watson for his I sermon on this occasion. Mr. J. R. 1 Schorb was re-appointed to deliver the ' address at the next annual meeting; < the Rev. W. T. Hall was elected tJ de- ' liver the sermon. The place of the ; meeting is Bethany church; the time I ?r of the meeting to be determined by the executive committee and the pastor and session of the church. It was ordered that the proceedings of the meeting be published in The Yorkville Enquirer. There being no further business before the society, it was closed with prayer by Rev. J. M. Anderson. J. C. Miller, Secretary. Meeting at Fort Mills.?Pursuant to notice, a meeting of Fort Mills and its vicinity was held in the academy on Wednesday, the 5th instant. On motion of Mr. John M. White, Benjamin Massey was called to the chair and Butler P. Alston appointed secretary. At the request of the chairman the object of the meeting was duly explained by John M. White. On motion of Col. A. B. Springs, a committee of seven was appointed to draft resolutions and present them for the occasion. I The following gentlemen composed the committee, viz: Col. A. B. Springs, John M. White, B. J. Patterson, J. H. Faulkner. R. M. Miller, John Burns and T. B. Withers. They retired and after a short absence, reported the following preamble and resol jtions, which were unanimously adopted: Whereas, late events which have transpired in Virginia, and are now beinO" ono ot o/l in Tc v o u A InKnmn nml ??r? tiuiv icu tit x v Alio, niuuainu unu elsewhere, should stimulate every southern community to place themselves against any and every violation whatever, of their rights of either person or property. Therefore, be it resolved, That in consideration of th.; fact that we are impresssed with the belief that danger may even now be lurking in our midst, we the citizens of Fort Mills and vicinity, do hereby appoint a committee of vigilance, with a view to detect and examine such persons as may be regarded dangerous and suspicious characters. Resolved, That the chairman be and is hereby authorized to call the committee together at such time and place as occasion may require. Resolved, That each member of said committee shall report to the chairman thereof, every person or persons who shall be suspected of evil; and that upon conviction thereof such person or persons, shall be dealt with in such summary manner as the majority of said committee shall deem most wise for the peace and protection of thp rnmmnnitv In accordance with the first resolution, the following gentlemen were appointed a committee: Robert H. Fulwood, Sr., chairman; Franklin H. Harris, John H. Stewart, Wm. Campbell, A. M. Kee, Isaac Spencer, Joseph Kimbrell, Maj. James Johnston, Benjamin Massey, J. J. Watscn, A. Jackson Giles, J. H. Faulkner, F. E. Moore, J. C. Jones, John Bone, R. M. Miller, R. C. Potts, T. N. Pettus, T. B. Withers, John M. White. B. F. Powell, A. S. White, Col. A. B. Springs, B. J. Patterson, Joseph Nomina. ?After it was resolved that the proceedings be published in The Yorkville Enquirer and the Rock Hill Chronicle, on motion, the meeting adjourned. Benjamin Massey, Chairman. Rutler P. Alston, Secretary. * * Public Meeting.?At a meeting of a portion of the citizens of Spartanburg, Union and York districts, held at Limestone Springs on the 6th day of September to consider the propriety of petitioning the next sitting of the leg islature for a new judicial district to be taken off of the aforesaid districts, John B. Goudelock was called to the chair and Col. Wm. Gaffney and A. M. Latham, Esq., were requested to act as secretaries. On motion it was ordered that a committee consisting of two from each district be appointed to determine boundaries and report at the next meeting, when the following gentlemen were appointed: York?A. Hardin, Esq., and Col. Wm. W. Gaffney, Capt. S. H. Anthony and Obadiah Sarratt, alternates. Spartanburg?Capt. D. B. Rose and Wyatt Lipscomb. Willis Smith and Wm. R. Lipscomb, alternates. Union?Maj. M. M. Montgomery and L"?r. H. Goudelock. Eleazor Parker and James Lockhart, alternates. Moved to adjourn to meet again at Limestone Springs on the 27th instant, and that the papers in Spartanburg, Union and York be requested to publish the proceedings of this meeting. Wm. W. Gaffney, A. M. Latham, Secretaries. (To Be Continued.) Important Question Overlooked.? Cross-examinations are sometimes too restricted. For instance, one of our railroads was sued for injuries which occurred at a highway crossing one dark night. The watchman was a darky and testified on the trial of the case that he heard the train coming and also heard a wagon approaching the highway crossinr, the railway crossing at right angles. He testified that he grabbed two lanterns, one a red and the other a white lantern, and rushed out on the highway and waved the lanterns frantically, but the driver of the wagon paid no attention and drove upon the railroad track right in front of the engine. His testimony was clear and positive and the cross-examination oerfunctory. The railroad got a verdict. something unusual, but all based on the darkey's testimony. After the rial the attorney of the railroad comnanv commended the darky for his satisfactory testimony, but the darky evidently had something on his mind and the lawyer inquired. "Oh," says the darky, "that gemman on the oder side had me in a powerful hard place ance." The lawyer expressed surprise at the statement and assured the darky he had told a plain, true narrative, and he did not see how the attorney for the plaintiff could have put him in any tight place, and want* ed the darky to explain. "I tell you," said the darky, "I was awful scared when he axed me 'bout dem lanterns." "Why," the lawyer asked, "what on earth could there be in that? You had the lanterns and waved them and the man paid no attention, but came right along upon the crossing. How could his question scare you? What could he have asked you that you were afraid of?" "Why, sir," the darky said, '"spose, just 'spose, he had axed me if dem lanterns was lit?"?The Docket. iNisccllancous grading. DREADNOUGHT OF THE AIR Other Aeroplanes Toys Compared With Russian Giant. The first great dreadnought of the air has been completed in Russia and is making daily flights over St. Petersburg, Its four big engines driving two 24-foot propellers that enable the machine to carry 16 persons at a high rate of speed. The whole machine weighs two tons. The significance of this is in more than that a giant aeroplane has been made. It lies principally In the fact [ that inventors have apparently overcome one of the arguments of those who said the aeroplane could never be more than a rich man's toy, because It could carry only two or three persons at a time. All the details of the new machine are not easily obtainable. For a long time the greatest secrecy has been maintained in St. Petersburg by orders, it is believed of the war department. Until recently no pictures of any j part of the mechanism were permitted ( to leave the country. Naturally this ( mystery has heightened world-wide in- i terest in the dreadnought. The builder is a Russian named SI- , korski. Before the present model was ( completed, he made a slightly smaller ( one that carried 11 persons. Announce- , ment of its exploits were received with , wild enthusiasm by the Russian people, who believed their nation had outstrip- | ped the world in aviation and that It had invented a war machine that would snake its armies Invincible. The first model, at its try-out, lifted , 11 persons 110 feet in the air and cir- ( cled them around an airdome at a height of 110 feet. Its four engines j made a tremendous roaring. Encouraged by this success Sikorski ( went to work immediately upon an ( even bigger model, in which some of the t defects of the first one were to be cor- ( reefed It wan not onlv to have seats for 20 persons, but was to have sleep- ( ing cabins in which part of its crew might rest while the other half was ( running the machine. The new model was even more sue- | cessful than the first one. It was named the Ilya Mourementz. It had four ( motors of 100 horsepower each, two in ( front and two behind The inventor ( declares that any two of the motors will keep the aeroplane aloft at a fair rate of speed. It is known to have run ( on three motors while some disorders , of the fourth was being repaired by its t crew. I Public Interest, increased doubtless , by the air of secrecy, focused the at- j tention of the whole of St. Petersburg ( upon the floating car. It is watched by , thousands on its almost daily flights { over the city. Sikorskl has declared he , will soon be able to make a 2,000-mile < flight from St. Petersburg to Sebasta- ( pol, by way of Moscow, with a full j -<tuota-of 20 passenger* ^ A special workshop had to be con- , structed for the manufacture of the j parts. Of these, the most remarkable ( single piece is the propeller. It is 24 . feet long?so long, indeed, that It takes , seven men, each stretching out his hands until the finger tips touch the | fingers of the next man, to measure its , length. It weighs 240 pounds and is ( capable of withstanding a pressure of , 2,000 horse power. In comparison with this machine the ( biggest aeroplane elsewhere in use is , nothing but a toy., The motor of the , average American biplane has but 40 horse power, while each of the four mo- , tors of the Russian dreadnought , weighs two and a half times as much. , Bach wing is 60 feet long, or about j three times the length of the average j American biplane wing. Its total plane surface is about 185 square yards. The complete independence of each ( of the motors was shown in a recent Might of Sikorski's airship. As it soared over St. Petersburg one of the en- ( gines became frozen and stopped. The ^ aviators did not think of ending the flight just on that account. They calm- J 1 \r lhonro/1 nut tho onclno no thpv flpw and, when it was in working order ( again, started it up as if nothing had ' happened. This flight lasted more than an hour and a half. In common with all other European | countries Russia is perhaps more in- ( terested in the aeroplane as a war ma- ( chine than anything else. Russia is actively increasing its aerial fleet, and | is sparing no expense. Only recently the government appropriated $2,000,000 , for building and equipping small aero- | planes. It is regarded as significant elsewhere that its subsidies toward ( Sikorski's machine have not been made , public, but, on the contrary, have been , wrapped in all the secrecy that has characterized other matters relating to the big sky boat. Germany, France and England are , watching the Sikorski experiment with great interest. It is not at all unlikely that France wishes to promote a series t of flights between St. Petersburg and $ Paris, but the German government per- t sistently refuses to allow any alien ?] craft to fly over its territory. I An English paper recently said of Sil- f korski's aeroplane that it was a matter s lur lilt; unusii wui utpai Iiutrm in- j vestigate carefully. It pointed out that c 100 such machines could transport 2,- g 000 men quickly to any point in a military emergency. In the wide extent of r modern battlefields, usually many miles r such a thing would be of inestimable value, if 2,000 men could be carried, g say 60 miles, in a single flight and if a g dozen or more flights could be made in v a single day, it would mean that a ^ very large military force?enough to decide a battle?could be transported in an incredibly short time. Outside of any question of transport service, it would be an invaluable aid to mining and sapping operations. A n squad of eight or ten men and a store 1 of powerful explosives could be car- r ried. Such a squad might operate far 1 into the enemy's lines, blowing up a bridges, mining embankments, destroy- a ing food and ammunition stores, and in '' various other ways harrassing an army. a One such ship with one such squad, if ? the men were experts, might in a few 11 hours undo the labor of thousands of & men. Nor would a squad need to suffer 8 serious inconvenience from being ab- f' sent from its base of supplies. In addition to the cabin and sleeping quarters, c the skyboat has a small kitchen and tl cooking arrangements. Fortified by 1< enough emergency rations to carry d them for a few days, the squad could n do its work almost at its own leisure, k if it kept the proper lookout as to where it were going. And if any general could achieve the victory of an important campaign through the sacrifice of such a small number of men and equipment, the cost would not be considered excessive. Outside of the military value, Sikorski's machine, which already has been called fancifully an "aerobus," has industrial potentialities. If it can carry 20 men it can carry their equivalent In dead weight. That is, it may be useful both as a carrier of freight and of passengers, once the cost of construction and operation can be reduced to figures which will enable the transportation to be done at a profit. That these problems will be worked out in the not very distant future seems highly probable. Already a St. Petersburg suburban passenger service is being talked of.? St. Louis Post Dispatch. HE FOUGHT WITH WALKER Perhaps Last Survivor of Nicaragua Campaign Diet in Kansas. One of a few remaining if not the last survivor of William Walker's historic filibustering expedition into Nicaragua in 1855, died in Topeka, Kansas, on March 15, according to a letter from Topeka. He was W. H. Stuart, a veteran Santa Fe employe and a resident of Topeka for 40 years. He retired from the Santa Fe service on a pension in 1907. His death ended an illness of three weeks. Up to his death Mr. Stewart carried in his left thigh a bullet received while fighting under Walker in Nicaragua. Taciturn, silent and self-contained, Mr. Stuart lived a life time in Topeka with scarcely a hint to any of his friends of the stirring events in his life. Ambitious and adventurous, he was of :he stuff that would lead a forlorn hope. At the age of 19 he enlisted in Walker's expedition to Nicaragua, a filibustering expedition that attracted the mention or tne woria, ana panicuiany 3f the Latin-American states. William Walker was called "the gray-eyed man destiny." Prior to his expedition to Nicaragua he had been tried and acquitted in California for a breach of the neutrality laws in seeking to raise a force in the United States for his foray nn Nicaragua, or any of the adjoining states that offered him inducements to 5et up an insurrection or take part in nne of them on the boards. Walker organized his.expedition in June, 1855, and went to Nicaragua to sngage in a civil war then raging there, similar to the present Mexican distvrbince. He took with him less than 100 followers from the United States, Stuirt being one of them. Walker ranged himself against the Nicaraguan government. With his little force he landed it Realego, where a company of native troops joined him. He fought and won Lwo battles at Rlvas and Virgin Bay. Walker attacked and captured the city jf Granada in October, 1855. He also had encounters with the forces of CosEd 1 KICA ~ETid Honduras. He made a treatv with the general commanding his forces, proclaiming himself president, issued unlimited worthless currency and took away the charter of the Vanderbllt Ship company. Walker was a real president while he lasted, Mr. Stuart declared. He re-established slavery and showed his power and authority in many things. He was finally defeated and burned Granada, In the spring of 1856 he surrendered with less than 200 followers to Commodore Paulding, then commanding a vessel of the United States navy. Stunrt was of this number. The Americans were taken to New York, where they were released on their written parole, In which they promised not to bear arms against the United States until exchanged. They were set at liberty by JefTerson Davis, then secretary of war of the United States, afterward president of the Confederacy. Stuart went south, and there the Civil war found him. The Confederacy conscripted him into the rebel ranks, but Stuart demanded his release on account of the parole held by him. The matter was rererrea 10 jenerson uuvis, then president of the Confederacy, who as secretary of war had authorized his release on parole. Davis respected the parole and Stuart was released and made his way north, coming to Topeka In the early seventies and entering the employ of the Santa Fe, then an infant among railroads. Stuart was with Walker in all his battles with the government forces of Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Honduras, but during his long residence in Topeka, he seldom referred to the adventure of his younger days or of the stir he helped to make all over the United States and Central America almost 60 years ago. HUMAN PERSONALITY ^ Product Not of Brain or Heart, but of the Nervous System. To Galen is ascribed the belief that he brain was the seat of the rational iouI, the heart the location of courage ind fear, and the liver that of love. This distribution of ine element of >ersonality over the physical body inds its expression in the common ipeech of today, particularly in relaion to the heart, which is widely acepted by the popular mind as the lource of the more tender emotions. It was chiefly through the anatonists and physiologists of the early enaissance that the modern movenent, which has tended to limit peronality to the nervous system, was eriously begun, a movement which, vith the increase of knowledge, has rained support to such an extent that t can now be maintained beyond any easonable doubt. Human personality is in no true ense the outcome of the non-nervus organs, such as the digestive or he circulatory organs, but is the diect product of the nervous system, 'his system, to be sure, is embedded mong: the other organs of the body, nd the environment thus provided ufluences profoundly its condition nd action, but acuteness or dullness f sense, quickness or slowness of aclon, temperamental traits, such as a loomy or bright disposition, lncapaciV, selfishness, honesty, thriftiness or weetness, are all, strictly speaking, unctions of the nervous organs. Although only the higher animals an be said to possess personality in his sense, traces of It occur in the jwer forms, and Its evolution is lnissolubly connected with that of the ervous system.?Professor G. H. Parer, in Popular Science Monthly, NEWSPAPER FAILURES Always Difficult to Support Two Whoro One Will Do. The cost of establishing a newspaper and of successfully conducting it is now becoming so great that few daily newspapers can be established and put on a paying basis without the expenditure of a great deal more money than is usually possessed by the men who aspire to become publishers. Particularly is this true where the held is already covered by papers already in existence. 'Some recent illustrations of the futility of trying to maintain newspapers in a crowded field are very pertinent examples of this fact. Some months ago a new afternoon paper. The Post, was launched in Mobile to compete with the other afternoon paper, The Item, which already covered the field. After what must have been the expenditure of a great deal of money the Post was consolidated with the Item and it leaves the Mobile afternoon field with one newspaper?right where it was before. A short time ago it was attempted to establish a new paper in Jacksonville. A modern and expensive equipment was installed and the paper was launched with a large force of men to compete with the Metropolis in a field which the Metropolis already adequately filled. The result was the same as with the Mobile case, except the new paper suspended absolutely. Previous attempts have also been made in Mobile, in Jacksonville, in Tampa, in Pensacola, in New Orleans and in numerous other cities, but all with the same result?failure. Attempts by afternoon papers to establish Sunday morning editions have also been made in numerous fields and in many of them failure has been the ultimate result For years the Memphis News-Scimitar, an afternoon paper tried to establish a Sunday morning edition in a field already completely filled by the Memphis Commercial Appeal. As a result the News-Scimitar hovered on the brink for years, part of the time being operated by a receiver, and it ultimately was forced to suspend Its Sunday paper. The St Louis 8tar had an almost similar experience. The Pensacola News put on a Sunday morning edition in a field already covered by the Journal, and after but little more than a year of operation it went the way of similar enterprises. In New Orleans the Times-Democrat and the Picayune are said to be negotiating a consolidation. These are the two oldest papers in the Crescent City, but the cost of operating two morning papers where one would do just as well. Is reason for consolidation. Nearly every city of any size is strewn with the wrecks of newspaper enterprises which finally had to succumb to the inevitable. In the future the tendency will be to limit and probably reduce the number of papers rather than to establish new ones. The busIness^rrien of a city do not want more papers where the morning and evening field is adequately covered. The busi ness man can get more for his money by concentrating his advertising in one morning paper and one afternoon paper, and he can get it for less cost, than when he scatters his business amongst a number of papers. In fact, the costliest burden which a business community can bear is a surplus of newspapera ?Pen8acola, Fla., Journal. NOTED 8COUT DEAD Captain Jeffords, "Blood Brother" of Cochise, Led Stirring Life. Who has not heard of Qeronlmo, the Apache, and of that other Apache warrior. renowned for qualities very much like statesmanship as well as for his cunning and fighting prowess? A scout of the Geronimo days, a "blood brother" of old Cochise, is dead, according to a Tucson, Arizona dispatch. He was CapTaffoeoAn Toffnp^fl ATlH hifl UX1II X IIUUIOO ?ICUC< OVM wv?w> ? ? tall, spare frame, stalwart for so many years, fell at the age of 83. Captain Jeffords was a genuine Indian fighter. He was the first scout to get through the Apache country of Arizona with messages from the California division of the army to Tucson in 1860. Scouts before him had gone and had never again been heard of. It was afterwards that Captain Jeffords and Cochise, whose stronghold was in a rugged canyon in the Dragoon mountains, south-west of Tucson, went through the ceremony of transfusing blood into each other's veins. Cochise presented the captain with a doublebarreled shotgun. He still had it when he died. It was said by some that only Jeffords knew the location of Cochise's grave, somewhere in those same Dragoon Mountains. Either he kept that secret through sentimental loyalty to the old chief, or because he feared what the Indians would do, should he reveal it. After his death, Madame Alice Morajeska, an author and former newspaner woman, whom Jeffords once took .nto the Cochise stronghold, said that he had shown her the location of the grave. He showed her also that underground passage, miles in length, by which Cochise used to give the United States troopers the slip. Jeffords died at the Owl's Head mine hplnntrinsr to Madame Morajeska. about 35 miles west of this city. He had a small ranch there. His title of captain was acquired on a steamer plying between the upper Mississippi river to New Orleans. After the Indian wars he was a post trader at Fort Huachuct, near here. Undoubtedly Genuine.?The mistress observed one morning that her dusky butler was wearing a ring with a setting almost large enough for a beacon light, if it had possessed the proper brilliancy. Later in the day she chanced to hear a conversation between the butler and the maid: "Am da a genuine dimont yo' is sportin', Jake?" the maid asked, suspicion and hope about equally balanced in her tone. "Am dis a dimont?" reproachfully. "Does yo' 'spose I'd buy anything else fo' a 'gagement ring? Huh; ais is a dimont an' it am gold what it sets in." "Ef yo' mean you bought it fo* me, yo' will have to tell de price 'fo' I'll believe hit's a dimont. I wuz fooled once wid a brass ring, an' I don't mean to be caught again." "Cose hits's a dimont, Lucy. Hit cost $2.50." "Well, gimme here. Long as hit am a genuine dimont I'll 'cept it fo' a 'gagement ring."?Housekeeper.