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ISSUED SEMI-WEEgL^^ __ l. m. grist s sons, Pobiuher.. } % 4ami,8 J'Trspiipn; i Jf'or the promotion of the political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Mercs Is of the people. | A ESTABLISHED is.YORKVI LLK, S. C.. TUESDAY, JUNK 3, 1!)14. NO. 44. PARROr By HAROLD ? Copyright 1913. The Bobbs-Mer CHAPTER IX. Two Short Weeks. When Elsa stepped out of the com* panionway the next morning she winced and shut her eyes. The whole arc of heaven seemed hung with tireopals; east, west, north and south. wnicnever way snc iuukcu, nm<; 1 dazzling iridescence. Tlie long flowing swells ran into the very sky, for there was visible no horizon. Gold-leaf and 4 opals, thought Elsa. What a wonderful world! What a versatile mistress was nature. Never two days alike, never two human beings; animate and inanimate, all things were singular. ^ She paused at the rail and glanced * down the rusty black side of the ship and watched the thread of frothing water that clutched futilely at the red water-line. Never two living things alike, in all the millions and millions swarming the globe. What a marvel! Even though this man Warrington ? and Arthur looked alike, they were not so. In heart and mind they were as different as two days. She began her usual walk, and in passing the smoke-room door on the ~ port side she met Warrington com^ ing out. How deep-set his eyes were' lie was about to go on. but she looked straight into his eyes, and he stopped. She laughed and held out her hand. "I really believe you were going to snub me." "Then you haven't given me up?" "Never mind what I have or have not done. Walk with me. I am going to talk plainly to you. If what I say is distasteful, don't hesitate to interrupt me. You interest me. partly ^ because you act like a boy. partly because yo? are a man." "I haven't any manners." "They need shaking up and readjusting. 1 have just been musing over a remarkable thing, that no two ob% jects are alike. Even the most accurate machinery cannot produce two nails without variation. So it is with humans. You look so like the man I know back home that it is impossible not to ponder over you." She smiled into his face. "Why should nature produce two persons who tire mis w taken for each other, ana yet give two souls, two instincts, totally different?" "I have often wondered." "Is nature experimenting, or is she 0 slyly playing a trick on humanity?" "Let us call it a trick, by all means let us call it that." "Your tone?" "Yes. yes." impatiently: "you are going to say that it sounds bitter. But why should another man have a face like mine, when we have nothing in common? What right has he to look F .like me?" "It is a puzzle," admitted Elsa. "This man who looks like me?I have no doubt it affects you oddly? probably lives in ease: never knew A what a buffet meant, never knew what a care was, has everything he wants; in fact, a gentleman of your own class, whose likes and dislikes are cut from the same pattern as your own. Well, that is as it should be. A woman such as you are ought to marry an equal, a man whose mind and manners arelitted t?? the high place he nuius in your affection and in your world. ^ How many worlds there are, manmade and heaven-made, and each as deadly as the other, as cold and implacable! To you, who have been kind to me, I have acted like a fool. The truth is, I've been sulking. My # vanity was hurt. 1 had the idea that it was myself and not my resemblance that appealed to your interest. What makes you trust me?" bluntly, and he stopped as he asked the question. "Why, 1 don't know." blankly. Instantly she recovered herself. "But I do trust you." She walked on. and perforce he fell into her stride. "It is because you trust the other * "Thanks. That is it precisely: and for nearly two weeks I've been trying to solve that very thing." After a pause he asked: "Have you ever read Keade's Singleheart and 1 toubleface?" "Yes. But what bearing has it upon our discussion?" ".\one that you would understand." evasively. His tongue had nearly tripped him. "Are you sure?" "< >f this, that 1 shall never understand women." "Ho not try to," she advised. "All those men who knew most about wo" men were the unhappiest." They made a round in silence. Passengers were beginning to get into their deck-chairs: and Klsa noted the hacks of the many novels that ranged ? from the pure chill attitudes of classic and demi-classic down to the latest popular yarn. Many an eye peered over the tops of the books; and envy and admiration and curiosity brought their shifts to bear upon her. It was something to create these variant expressions of interest. She was obvious. "We stop at Penang?" she asked. "Five or six hours, long enough to see the town." "We went direct from Singapore to Colombo, so we missed the town coming out. I should like to see that cocoa nut plantation of yours." "It is too far inland. Ifesides, I am a persona 11011 grata there." As indced. he was. His heart hurtled with shame and rage at the recollection of the last day there. Three or four times, during the decade, the mis fortune of being found out had fallen to his lot. and always when he was ? in ployed at something worth while. Klsa discreetly veered into another channel. "You \ ill go back to Italy. j I suppose. How cheaply and delightfully one may live there, when one knows something of the people! 1 had the Villa Julia one spring. You know it: Sorrento. Is there anything more stunning than oranges in the rain?" irrelevantly. r & co. MACGRATH rill Company. "Yes, I shall go to Italy once more. Hut first I am going home." He was n<it siwnre nf (hp trrimness that enter ed his voice as he made this statement. "1 am glad." she said. "After all. that is the one place." "If you are happy enough for a welcome." "And you will sec your mother again?" He winced. "Yes. Do you know it does not seem possible that I met you but two short weeks ago? 1 have never given much thought to this socalled reincarnation; but somewhere in the past ages 1 knew you: only?" "Only what?" "Only, you weren't going home to marry the other fellow," She stopped at the rail. "Who knows?" she replied ruminatingly. "Perhaps 1 am not going to marry him." 1 "Don't you love him??I beg your pardon. Miss Chetwood!" "You're excused." "I still need some training. I have ( been alone so much that 1 haven t got over the trick of speaking my thoughts aloud. "No harm has been done. The fault lay with me.'" "I used to learn whole pages from stories and recite them to the trees or to the parrot. It kept me from going mad. I believe. In camp I handled coolies: none of whom could speak a word of English. I didn't have James with me at that time. During the day I was busy enough seeing that they did their work well. When things ran smoothly I'd take out a book and study. At night I'd stand before my tent and declaim. I could not read at night. If I lighted a lantern the tent would become alive with abominable insects. So I'd declaim merely to hear the sound of my voice. Afterward 1 learned that the coolies looked upon me as a holy man. They believed 1 was nightly offering prayers to one of my gods. Perhaps I was; the ' god of reason. In the mornings I used J to have to shake my boots. Frogs and KUUKt'S WOU1U gfl 1,1 uurillg lilt" Ill^lll, the latter in search of the former. Lively times! All that seems like a had dream now." "And how is Rajah?" "Ugly as ever." "Are you going to take him with you?" "\\ herever 1 go. Looks silly, doesn't it. for a man of my si/..- to tote around a parrot-cage? Hut I don't care what people think. Life is too short. It's ' what you think of yourself that really counts." "That is one of the rules I have laid down for myself. If only we all might go through life with that idea! There wouldn't he any gossip or scandal, then." "Some day I am going to tell you why I have lived over here all these years." "I shouldn't, not if it hurts you." "On the contrary, there's a kind of happiness in unburdening one's conscience. I called that day in Rangoon ' for the express purpose of tolling you everything. l>ut I couldn't in the pres- 1 ence of ii third person." "I do not demand it." "But it's a duty I owe to myself," he insisted gravely. "Besides, it is not impossible that you may hear the tale from other lips: and I rather prefer to ' tell it myself." "But always remember that I haven't asked you." "Are you afraid to hear it?" "No. What I am trying to convince you with is the fact that I trust you, and that I give you my friendship without reservations." lie laid his hand on hers, strongly, "(lod bless you for that!" She liked him because there was ' lacking in his words and tones that element of Mattery so distasteful to her. Men generally entertain the fallacy that a woman demands homage. first to her physical appearance, next tn Iter taste in gowns, and finally to ; Iter intellect, when in the majority of cases it is the other way around. Elsa knew that she was beautiful, but it no longer interested her to hear men state 1 the fact, knowing as she did that it was simply to win her good will. "Would you like to sit next to me at the table?" "May 1?" eagerly. "I'll have Martha change her chair for yours. Do you speak Italian?" "Enough for ordinary conversation. It is a long time since I have spoken the tongue." "Then, let us talk it as much as possible at the table, if only to annoy those around us." He laughed. "I was educated in Rome." she add- 1 ed. "Are you religious?" Elsa shrugged. "At present I don't ' know just what my religion is. Scan- 1 dalous. isn't it? Rut for many weeks a thousand gods have beset me. I've got to get back to civilisation in order to readjust my views. At luncheon, then. I am beginning to feel snooxy." Craig had been eying the two, evilly. Set the wind in that direction? An idea , found soil in his mind, and grew. He , would put a kink, as he vulgarly expressed it. into that afl':tir. He himself wasn't good enough for her. The little eat should see. Warrington's ultimatum of the night before burned and rankled, and a man of Craig's caliber never accepted the inevitable without meditating revenge, revenge of a roundabout character, stub as would insure his physical safety. The man could not play fair; there was nothing either in his heart or in his mind upon which square play could tind foothold. i There was nothing loyal or generous or worthy in the man. There is something admirable in a great rascal: but a sordid one is a pitiful thing. Craig entered the smoke-room and ordered a peg. At lunch lie saw them sitting together, and he smothered a grin. Couldn't play cards, or engineer a pool, eh? All right. There were other amusements. That afternoon Martha chanced to sit down in a vacant chair, just out of the range of the cricketers. She lolled hack and idly watched the batsmen. And then she heard voices. "She is Elsa Chetwood. I remember seeing her pictures. She is a society girl, very wealthy, but something of a snob." Martha's ears tingled. A snob, indeed, because she minded principally her own affairs! "They think because they belong to the exclusive sets they can break as many laws of convention as they please. Well, they can't. There's always some scandal in the papers about them. There was some rumor of her being engaged to the Duke of What'shis-name, but it fell through because ^li? wnnMn't sottlo :i fiirtiine on him. Only sensible tiling she ever did, probably." "And did you notice who sat next to her ut luncheon?" "A gentleman with a past, Mr. Craig tells me." "1 dare say Miss Chetwood has a past too. if one but knew. To travel alone like this!" Husybodies Martha rose indignantly and returned to the other side of the deck. Meddlers! What did they know? To peck like daws at one so far above them, so divinely far above them! Her natural impulse had been to turn upon them and give them the tongue-lashing they deserved. Hut she had lived too long with Elsa not to have learned self-repression, and that the victory is always with those who stoop not to answer. Nevertheless, she was alarmed. Klsa must be warned. All Elsa said was: "My dear Martha, in a few days they and their tittletattle will pass out of my existence, admitting that tin y have ever entered it. I repeat, my life is all my own, and that 1 am concerned only with those whom I wish to retain as my friends. CJossip is the shibboleth of the mediocre, and, thank heaven, 1 am not mediocre." While dressing for dinner Elsa discovered a note on the floor of her cabin. The writing was unfamiliar. She opened it and sought llrst the signature. Slowly her cheeks reddened, and her lips twisted in disdain. She did not read the note, but the natural keenness of her eye caught the name of Warrington. She tore the letter into scraps which she tossed out the port-hole. What a vile thing the man was! He had had the effrontery to sign his name He must be punished. It was as late as ten oclock when she and Warrington went up to the bow and gazed down the cut-water. Never had she seen anything so weirdly beautiful as the ribbons of phosphorescence which fell away on each side, luminously blue and fluked with dancing starlike particles, through which, ever 1 ,ia>,nlno illiu lUH'll, I1J 111ft - IIOII, Ul 1U|/I1I^ *? ? V . : the tire, spun outward like tongues of tlame. "Beautiful, beautiful! This is the nnp spot on the ship. And in all my travels 1 have never seen this before. All silence and darkness in front of us, and beneath that wonderful tire. Thanks for bringing me here. 1 should not have known what I was missing." "Often, when I was stoking, during an hour or so of relief, I used to steal up here and look down at the mystery, for it will ever lfe a mystery to me. An! I found comfort." "Are you religious, too?" "In one thing, that Clod demands that every man shall have faith in himself." How deep his voice was as compared to Arthur's! Arthur. Elsa frowned at the rippling magic. Why was she invariably comparing the two men? What significance did it have upon the future, since, at the present momen:, it was not understandable? "There is a man on board by the name of Craig," she said. "I advise you to beware of him." "Who introduced him to you?" The intrpi- ill his voice was verv aareeable t<> her ears. "Who dared tc??" "Nd one. He introduced himself on I lie way ii)> to Mandalay. In Rangoon L closed the acquaintance, such as it was, with the aid of a hat-pin." "A hat-pin! What did he say to yon'.'" roughly. "Nothing that I care to repeat . . . Stop! I am perfectly able to take care of myself. 1 do not need any valiant champion." "He has spoken to you about me?" "A letter. 1 saw only his name and yours. T tore it up and threw it overboard. Let us go buck. Somehow, everything seems spoiled. I am sorry I spoke." "1 shall see that he does not bother you again," ominously. I iu\v rriunifu i" i or- |'i i>Uu< il?ek in silence. When Warrington found Craig tlie 111:111 was helplessly intoxicated, lie lay sprawled upon his mattress, and the kick administered did not stir him. Warrington looked down at the sodden wretch moodily. Craig's intoxication was fortunate for him. otherwise lie would have been roughly handled; for there was black murder in the heart of the broken man standing above him. Warrington relaxed his clenched hands. This evilbreathing thing at his feet was the primal cause of it all. hi- and a man's damnable weakness. Of what use his new-found fortune? Better for him had he stayed in the jungle, better have ilied there, hugging his poor delusion, i ?h. abysmal fool that lie had been! (To tie Continued.) Waterbury. Conn.. American; Lying under a clump of bushes fast isleep. his faithful dog watching over him. little Peter Pepovich, aged three soil <>t .MirlKKI 1'CpuVlCll, WilS IIIIIIIU today at 1 ..10 o'clock in the woods of the Lake wood I'ark section of the city, l'eter had eaten nothing since noon yesterday. The lad strayed away Wednesday with his dog and gi i lost in ti>e woods. (Jiving tip all hopes of ever seeing the hoy alive again, Ids anxious father appealed to the police and detectives and special police searched tinwoods all day and night without success. Then the hoy scouts, inspired h.v <!eor?c \V. Sea ton. a manufacturer, determined to find little l'eter. and tiny did after several hours" vigil. Tinscouts who found the child are Chris Mums, Richard Miller, Dudley .\1unger. .John Walter and Louis Watson, and they are proud of their work. l'eter prohahly would have perished as he was in a lonely section of the woods and all other searchers had given tincase up as one of kidnapping, the police having heard a report that a lad and dog wen taken out of town in a farm wagon. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced In Early Files of The Yorkvllle 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 Concerned Generations that Have Gone Before. The first installment of the notes appearing under this heading was published in our issue of November 14. 1913. The notes are being prepared ny tne editor as time and opportunity permit. Their purpose 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. FIFTY-SECOND INSTALLMENT. (Thursday, July 3, IStil). Bethesda Vigilance Committee. McConnellsville, Dec. 2ti, 1S60. .Messrs. Kditors: I take this method of informing you of the excitement in this neighborhood, relative to a contemplated insurrection, in order that facts may take the place of many rumors, I, myself being an eye-witness. The lirst discovery was made by m.v brother, John l>. Mrt'unneil, on Friday last, when about to chastise his boy Dave, who got away, but was arrested 111? same evening, with the assistance of a neighbor. The boy exclaimed, "It was hard to be tied like a dog," in a manner that led to a suspicion of something wrong. When about to chastise him, lie promised to make some revelations, viz: "that as soon as he (J. D. Me.) was taken from home, (alluding to the Minute Men) that the negroes are going to rise and sweep the country: that Thomas Pugh said he intended to complain of being sick when the call is made on your company (he was a member of the Turkey Creek M. M.) and not go; and as soon as you are all gone, that he will head us boys and sweep the country; kill all the old women and children, keeping the pretty young women for themselves." Pugh was to be a colonel, and make him captain, he said Pugh gave him whisky when wanted (P. kept whisky or always had liquor). Mr. McConnell offered Dave a reward if he would betray Pugh. to which he consented; it was arranged that he would go on Saturday night as he promised to do; and that a detachment of Minute Men would be sent for to be at the place at the same time. About 12 or 1R of the company, with other citizens, met at McConnellsville at (l o'clock Saturday night to arrange a plan. John D. McConnell and James E. McKnight volun* * un/1 tnl-n It'fITU III i J lilt: i\ iiiruiorivrouiiu ?.w.?v v..v negro with them, giving him a bottle and nnfhey. tvr.(H called on to form a detachment to he near the house in case of need. In about a mile from Hugh's, we came up with some 7?> or 100 o fthe citizens of Turkey Creek, who it was agreed should stay where they were and my squad to go on. with J. W. Moor\ who voluntered, viz: \V. R. McConnell, Captain; John D. McConnell, J. R. McKnight, C. K. Williams. Jas. W. Love. Reuben McConnell, P. W. Lindsay, Jr., A. Jackson Hood, (minute men), J. W. Moore, (volunteer). The house was surrounded; when we approached; everything was quiet?the negro went to the window and knocked, when Thomas Hugh answered; the boy asked if he "had any of the good stuff?" to which he replied "yes." On seeing it was Dave, he said "hold on," and returned with a shot gun and revolver, saying, "damn you, what made you betray me," and when A. F. Love rushed between the parties, begging them to give up. It was all the old men could do to keep the company from killing the Hughs right out, and on two or three occasions, A. F. Love, H. W. Lindsay, Sen.. o James Lindsay, with others, saved the Hughs from the fury of the outraged community. The Hughs were 1.111 m.vor uurrpnilfrml: they were bound and taken to Yorkville, when the sheriff refused to receive them: tin y were brought back to this place on Sunday morning, and well guarded until Monday, when we gave them up to the Vigilance committee at Bethesda church, who after due trial, sentenced them each to receive fifty lashes on the bare back, shave the left side of their heads, and then be sent by Adams' Fxpress to the Free States. While the trial was in progress, Thus. I'ugh, Sen., nephew of John Pugli, a notorious character, made his appearance in the crowd, when he was arrested, tried, and sentenced to receive :!!"> lashes. This Pugh had been sworn to leave the country. W. F. Mc(\ A Call for Volunteers. ...wlrvool.r.wol oiiin.Snln/l nl ?i rr. - ill** uiiuriniHin it, v. ... .. .. cent meeting of the "Jasper Light Infired on the hoy. hitting him with some lT> sliot in the thigh, continuing to fire with a pistol, without effect. Several shots were exchanged between John 1). Met'onnell and Pugh, when tlie latter was wounded in the foot: as he ran into the house he was fired on by Mr MeKniglit?then a general engagement took place, in which rocks supplied the lack of pistols. John Pugh and his wife defended the front door with rille and shot gun; Jack Pugh the north window or side, with a rille. Thomas Pugh, after going in the house, I think fought from the east window with his sister, as there was some eight or ten shots tired from that quarter. Tin Pughs exposed themselves very little, as they shot from under, only opening a part of one blind. Some SO or 40 shots were tired, when the company retired to reload: then a general rush was made for the house. A. T. hnve, who was til" lirst to advance, begged the 1 -'nulls to surrender, or they would all he .slain they replied hack, "damn yon. we intend to light to the last." I'ugh hatted the doors, hut the .Minute Men soon stormed them down, when there stood John I'ugh and his wife, with rilie and fowling piece some half dozen of pistols were leveled at him in an instant, faulty." do cordially invite the gallant and patriotic sons of York to come forward and till the ranks of that company. so that a prompt response may he made to the governor's call for volunteers in defense of the rights of South Carolina and the liberties of her children. A cheap service uniform will he i "" HUER SK8RII72AIMBB wmBBI General Huerta does not live In ( Herrera In the City of Mexico. The t adopted; and if there be gallant men unable to provide themselves, but still anxious to aid their country in a righteous cause, let them come forward and they will be uniformed. This call, citizens, we make in the earnest spirit of resistance to tyranny, and cordially request those who are in earnest, to give us the hand of fellowship, and side by side, with us, to stand forward as champions of southern rights. James Mason. A. F. McConnell, E. B. Clinton, I. N. Withers, James B. Allison. (To be Continued.) PLATFORM OF THE PARTY Democratic Views as Declared by Recent Convention. "The Democratic party of South Carolina in convention assembled reaffirms its allegiance to the principles of the party as announced and expounded bv Jefferson. "We endorse without qualification tit admmisUwtinn of President Wilson and commend congress for the cordial and intelligent support it has given him. The South Carolina Democracy pledges anew the faith in Woodrow Wilson that its delegation in the Baltimore convention so staunchly manifested in supporting him for the nomination. "Under the leadership of the president the government has been restored to the people. Revision of the tariff in the interests of the people has been accomplished, and the control of the government arrested from the hands of the great interests. The income tax shifts to wealth, a fair share of the burdens of governments. A brighter industrial and commercial day is dawning under a banking and currency law that distributes the country's accumulation of capital among the people whose labors have created it. it is constructive legislation enacted for the benefit of the many and not for the few, this Democratic administration has already achieved more than Republican administrations have ever ac complished, and it will be known in history as the restorer of tlie rights of the people that have been taken from them during the long period when the government in the hands of the Republican party was a partner of the privileged classes. "The Democratic administration will curb the monopolies that have been built up under the fostering care of the Republican party; it will make plain the way of honest business; it will further provide the facilities of 1 credit to the farmers and small producers and it will go forward through the agricultural department in the great work of education, for increased production and better living, for improved health, and for the development of the people as the principal American asset. ' "In dealing with other nations, our - '- ? <? ,1! i i i it, ,,f I'rnsi. > llliui'i III* Ull \ ... - dent Wilson's intelligent anil sincere patriotism, has acknowledged no standard of honor and sense of justice lower than that which prevails among highminded men and controls their conduct. (liiided hy these principles and his own strength of character and the patience of genius, President Wilson has had the courage to avoid war in Mexico when a weaker man would have brought on an armed conllict that would have cost us millions of treasure and thousands of precious lives, at the same time preserving the honor of our country and the sanctity of our flag. "To such a record and such a man the Democratic convention of South Carolina pledges its co-operation in the performance of the tasks that remain and the continuation of the support which it commenced in faith and finds justified in fact. We especially . .1 ,i,? t.i-i.uiil.mi mil- irrateful I appreciation for preventing a money ' panic anil placing in the hanks of the 1 agricultural districts large sinns of money, thereby enabling the producers id' our great agricultural crops to secure a renumerative price for their products. Recognizing in the president the greatest moral force that has been in I the White House during the past ceil- i tury, we heartily commend his efforts to secure a repeal of the Panama free : tolls act, a law enacted by a Republican congress and signed by a Republi- : can president, regardless of national ' honor. We condemn this law as un- t democratic and against the economic I policy of our party and country. W believe that this law would create a i shipping trust and would repeat th" outrageous scandals of the building of i our transcontinental railways. We ile- : TA'S HOUSE IN MEXICO V*' ,' S -t' ViiMBr 'j'Mi^: /.- .^ " ..y~* ^ U? ?.M?l/1An*lA1 MA.f1/v A# PKntMiUnnAo 1 -ue preBiueiiumi uoouc v/i viiapuitcpct, i iuilding is guarded by soldiers and a m mand that our senators vote for the unqualified repeal of this act and thus support the president in upholding Democratic principles and the honor of this nation. "We commend and heartily endorse any legislation tending to establish a drainage fund to reclaim overilowed lands in the United States, and for the promotion of the general welfare by preventing the dissemination of malaria and other diseases among the states. We urge our senators and representatives in congress to work for and support sucli legislation. "We commend the efforts now being made to advance the cause of education throughout the state and especially commend the efforts to foster and develop the common schools. "Recognizing the vital need of better i roads, we commend any legislation tending to improve our highways. We i approve the legislation in congress If So ?*r/?n/icorl t r* OVtpnH nfl - VVIIl-l .1 M .w tional aid to the states for the purpose i of building good roads. ] "We commend to our lawmakers i that they enact such legislation a is necessary to protect primary elec- I tions from fraud. "We favor biennial sessions of the i general assembly." 1 The report was adopted as presented 1 and certified copies of the platform 1 were ordered sent to President Wilson ! and tlx- representatives of the state in congress. The committee was thanked for drawing up a platform which met < so thoroughly the sentiments of the i convention. i GOLD MINING IN ALASKA ( The Bonanza Days are Past, U. S. ' Geological Men Say. The days of bonanza mining in Alas- j ka are over, but there still remains a j vast treasure of gold, says the New York Times. This is the opinion of Fred H. Moffit, who has just completed for tlie United Geological survey an investigation of the geology of Nome and the region of the Seaward peninsula. The investigation of the mineral resources of Seaward peninsula by the survey began in 1809, and geologic and topographic surveys have been made at various times since. The report just made public brings together all the information at hand regarding the auriferous gravels of the area. The naming of Seaward peninsula in 1 S!t8 was a somewhat tardy recognition of the man who had negotiated, amid jeers and ridicule, tlie purchase of the great territory from Russia years before. Mis foresight has been justified and the small arm of the country named after him has proved worthy of the name, while the bonanza mining in the Nome region, which has produced over $50,000,000 of gold, many times more I ban what Secretary Seward paid for the whole of Alaska, is now a matter ?f History. The region still contains large bodies s nf gold gravels many of which can be ( prolitably exploited. It is not unlikely, s iccording to the Geological Survey, that in the future more gold will be won from these deposits than has been ( mined in the past. The officials of the survey say that while a less definite r statement is possible concerning lode j( mining, the field is well worthy of ( HtrefuI prospecting for gold vein deposits. In the earlier days of the mining on the rich seashore sands at Cape Nome -speculation was rife as to the origin of j [he gold, even the theory that the gcdd pa me from the sea being advanced. Old miners knew better than this, but it remained for a couple of geologists of { the survey who were passing through inil observing the great city of tents 1 <tretching along the gold-rich beach to recognize an ancient beach on the higher level which was presumably ilso rich in gold. A statement of this bservation was immediately given out ?>* the Geological Survey, and prospeclors were also advised to investigate lhe beds of streams cutting into the ----- ..... ? s ' i hi si winch had originally iransierreu i the gold particles to the beach sands. >nl>s>i|iient develnpnieiit showed the , >hl and prehistorie beach as well as the stream beds to be rich in sold. ? 1 Berths Engaged.?The arK was about f to leave the dock for its fatuous forty s lay cruise. v "All aboard!" called Noah. "All pas- s senders ashore!" Ii At that moment a young couple was s ?een rushing madly for the gangplank. t fhe skipper took a look and observed c that it was the family that had been o kidding his scheme the day before. v "Hey! Wait for us!" shouted the nan. wavin.it his umbrella. d "Too late!" grinned Noah, pulling li ii thi- gangplank. "We already have s i pair of asses!"?Judge. |i CITY ^flfy f fi ,/^jI p?;*^3p * ^SgmLm^^ "[ ' / v.v .:. .? .y.-.?^??^y.-.... ^^^' <^-/T<x*c<c>?ff?^.^ ..., ggg-^^^^'WMMMW) , .. , ....;;gg5 Dut in this house In the Calie Alfonso lachlne gun on the roof. OCEAN STEAMER DISASTER Empress of Ireland Goes Down With Nearly 1,000 Souls. Rimouski, Que., May 29.?Sinking in 90 feet of water within 15 minutes after being rammed amidships in the upper reaches of the St. Lawrence river early today, the Canadian-Pacific liner Empress of Ireland ca-ried down with her more than 900 of her passengers and crew. Of the 1,367 persons on board the liner, only 433 are known to have been saved, making the probable death list 934. Looming up through the river mists, the Empress of Ireland was lying to, waiting for the fog to lift or day to break, the Danish collier Storstad crashed bow on into the side of the big , Canadian liner, striking her about midway of her length and rippi 'g her side open clear to the stern. The crash occurred not far from the shore off Father Point, 150 miles from Quebec, which the Empress of Ireland left yesterday afternoon bound for Liverpool, and ten miles from this point n the St. Lawrence. In reality, there- ' fore, although the liner was heading J for the sea and the collier coming in from it, the disaster was not one of the,ocean, but of the river. Unl'ke the Titanic's victims, the Empress of Ireland's lost their lives within sight of shore?in land locked waters. Wireless Call Sounded. Immediately the ship's crew recover?d from the shock of the collision and t was seen that the liner had received v vital blow, a wireless "S. O. S." call ivas sounded. The hurried appeal was picked up by he government mail tender Lady Eveyn here and the government pilot boat Kureka at Father Point, and both set >ut to the rescue. So deep was the nirt of the Empress, however, and so 'ast the in-rush of waters, that long lefore either of the rescue boats could each the scene the liner had gone lown. Only floating wreckage and a 'ew lifeboats and rafts from the steamer, buoying up less than a third of hose who had set sail on her, were J o he found. The rest had sunk with ( he liner, had been crushed to death in 3 he Storstad's impact with her, or had ?een forced from exposure in the ice ( hilled waters to loose their hold on 1 >its of wreckage and had drowned. ' < >nly a few persons were picked up ? ?y the Storstad, which was badly crip- 1 tied herself, and these were brought " lere by the colliers, as were those sav- * ?d by the Eureka and the I^idy Evelyn. * Twenty-two of the rescued died from ' njury or exposure. 1 Survivors Go to Quebec. The others, most of whom had jump- ' d into the boats or plunged into the ' vater from the sinking liner scantily lad, were given such clothing as the < own could supply, and later those who s ould travel were placed on board a > rain and started for Quebec. I Accounts agree that in the brief t (pace of time?not more than 14 min- s ites -between the shock of the colli- ? lion and the sinking of the liner, there vas a little chance for systematic * narshaling of the passengers. Indeed t verything indicates tliat hundreds of t hose on the steamer probably never e cached the decks. Few women were v imong the saved, not more than a do/.- c n, the lists make it appear. I "It all happened so quickly we did t lot really know what was going on and lobody had time to cry 'Women first," F me of the passengers told Captain Belinger, of the rescue boat Eureka. "The stewards did not have time to t iw.nulo from thpir liArthS." i? "VI fr VIIV |/v ? waas . . . _ _ _ f n he survivor added. "Those who heard d lie frenzied calls of the officers for the ? assengers to hurry on deck and rush- d d up, piled into the boats, which were apidly lowered and rowed away. Mary i; vho waited to dress were drowned." v Explosion Adds to Horror, v The horror of the interval during the 1; ime the Empress was filling and the a rightened throngs on board her were l> lurrying every effort to escape before a he sank was added to by an explosion t< vliicli ipiickly followed the ripping riven the liner by the Storstad"s bow. b According to one of the rescued, the s \plosion, probably caused t?y the wa- s er reaching the lioilers bulged the f inor's sides and catapulted persons c roni her decks out into the sea. The F hip's heavy list as water poured in i< weighted her on the side she was f< truck, made the work of launching h mats increasingly difficult and when y he tinally took her plunge to the hot- ii om scores still left on her decks were arried down, only a few being able to c tear her sides and llnd support on t: wreckage. w From all accounts, ('apt. II. O. Ken- o la 11, of the Empress of Ireland, bore p lirnself like a true sailor. He retained U ucli command of the situation, it ap- f: ears, that while the Storstad's stem F still hung in the gash it had made in the Empress' side, Captain Kendall begged the master of the collier to keep his propellers going so that the hole might remain plugged. The Storstad, however, dropped back and the Empress filled and foundered. Both men and women were picked up with children clasped in their arms. There was little opportunity for officers of the illfated steamer to put into effect the old rule of the sea, "women and children first." The disaster came so quickly and was so overwhelming that it was a case of every person for himself. In the darkness, with the stillness of the sea all about them, the victims went down to their death. One of the survivors on the damaged ship gave a brief and graphic description of what had happened. He said: "I was asleep In my berth when I was suddenly rolled to the floor by the pitch of the ship. As soon as I awaken >d I heard a sickening crash of steel and timber rending our ship. I realized at once that we had been rammed by another ship. I rushed from my stateroom. and even in my fright and excitement I marked the quietness of the ship. In a few minutes stateroom doors were filled w!'h pale faces and men and women were engaged in a wild scramble to get to the decks. Water Cuts Off Lights. "Officers, partially dressed, were running about the decks urging the passengers to be calm. Others were running to the boat decks to get the lifeboats off. It was dark as pitch, and the blackness was intensifed by the fact that the water soon got Into the engine room and stopped the dynamos, cutting off the electric lights. As the lights died it added to the gloomy depressiveness. From all parts of the deck arose cries, either men or women passengers calling to their relatives or the officers of the ship shouting orders. The sea was not running high, and yet the lash of the water as It rose higher and higher on the hull made up a sound that was extremely terrifying. "Through the fog we could mistily make out the figure of the ship which had run us down. She was limping badly and we did not know whether she was going to the bottom or not. This feeling of uncertainty and the likelihood that our neighbor might be sinking with all on board aroused us to a still higher tension of excitement. "Both men and women dropped to their knees upon the decks. Some prayed aloud. Some buried their faces in their hands and sobbed with a frenzy born of despair and the presence of death." KINO HEARTED DRUMMER8 They Show Their Practical Sympathy for a Youthful Couple. "Well, I've read and heard a lot of this romance talk, but I never got mix d with the real thing until last Saturday night a week ago over at Charlotte," said William P. Carter, auditor >t a Baltimore guaranty company. "I was passing a Queen City hotel at fvening and was attracted inside; by I know not what. When 1 went into the parlor I found a very anxious couple, t-ery much in love and just dying to get narried. In conversation with them was an unyielding register's clerk, who refused to grant a license because the foung folks were strangers and appeared rather juvenile. About ten trav?ling men had gathered round and .vere adding their earnest pleas to hose of the young couple. The prayer vent on till midnight without avail, rhe couple had been to Gastonia twice vith no better results. It began to ook like 'love's labor lost' and the budling dream of love nipped, when some jne of that bunch of drummers sugrested that the crowd hire two auto nobiles and speed away in the wee smallest hours of Sunday morning to South Carolina and find a register of leeds whose heart could not resist foung loves' stender pleading. "The whole crowd chimed into the fhortM, and of course I jumped into J >ne of the cars, too, and away we sped J oward Rock Hill. We were informed it Fort Mill that we would have to go o Yorkville to get license. On we went ' ?and we kept on going, passing the same road sign no less than twice be'ore we realized that we were lost. Filally we asked some one the distance o Yorkville, and were told five miles. iVe rode what seemed fifty miles and vere again told that fifteen miles ahead ay the capital of York. . ^ "We had expected to be back In V * Charlotte at five o'clock, but it was six-thirty when we arrived at Yorkrille. But anyway the license and the ireacher were secured, and as we had lie couple with us, the ceremony was shortly over. The married pair are now Hr. and Mrs. Cooper of Valdese. "The funniest thing is that before starting there were only two people in he entire crowd that knew one another?the bride and groom. Nobody on arth but a bunch of traveling men rould ever have thought of carrying nit such a caper. But there are two seople who will love the ten earthrotting strangers long after they find diver threads among the gold."'? taloigh News and Observer. Great Truths Were Decided.?H'sory shows that many discoverers of reat truths have been the subjects of lerision and persecution. They have ften been treated as visionaries and langerous innovators. Harvey, the discoverer of the circuition of blood, lost his practice and t-as lampooned over the then civilized J forld. Bartholin, who discovered the I icteals, was treated with contempt ? nd ridicule. Even Harvey, when he ecame old, never believed in the thorclc duct, but believed the lacteals all erminated in the liver. Horace saw his odes despised. Eliza eth regarded Bacon as an unsound peculative genius and as incapable of erving her with judgment. Socrates, or teaching the unity of God, was impelled to drink hemlock and die. 'ythagoras was banished for his opinms. Democritus was cast into prison or dissecting a human body. Every istorian knows that Galileo, at TO ears old, was imprisoned for announcig the motion of the earth. Aristotle's books were burned. Desartes was persecuted because he lught the inatenes of ideas; his books ,'ere burned by order of the University f Paris. It is said of the Newtonian hilosophy that "authority scowled pon it; taste was disgusted by it and ishion was ashamed of it."?New York 'ress.