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* ISSqgP SEMI-WEEKL^ _ l. m. grist's sons. Publishers. } & 4ami,8 Jlrurspapcr: Jfor ilnj promotion of (he political, Social, gjrieullural antl O'ommertinl Mercsls of the jpeople. j , ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVLLLE. S. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 1<>. H>14. " NO. 48. ' PARRCX By HAROLD * Copyright 1913. The Bobbs-Mei CHAPTER XIII. After Ten Years. The consul-general had. figuratively, a complete assortment of masks, such as any thorough play-actor might have, in more or less constant demand, running the gamut from comedy to tragedy. Some of these masks grew dusty between ships, but could quickly be made presentable. Sometimes. when large touring parties IS came into port, he confused his masks. being by habit rather an absentminded man. But he possessed a great fund of humor, and these masks gave him laughable recollections for days. ' He saw before him an exquisite, as the ancient phrase goes, backed by no indifferent breed of manhood. Thus, he believed that here was a brief respite (as between. acts) in which the little plastic hypocrisies could be laid aside. The pleasant smile on his ^ high-bred face was all his own. "And what may 1 do for you, sir?" He expected to be presented with letters of introduction, and to while away a half-hour in the agreeable discussion of mutual acquaintance. "1 should like a few minutes' private talk with you," began the well-dressed stranger. "May I close the door?" The consul-general, with a sense of disappointment, nodded. The blond man returned and sat down. "I don't know how to begin, but I want you to copy this cablegram and send it under voiir own name. Here it is: read it.' So singular a request filled the consul-general with astonishment. Rather mechanically he accepted the slip of paper, adjusted his glasses and read? "The Andes Construction Company, New York: A former employee of yours wishes to make a restitution of eight thousand dollars, with interest to date. He dares not give his name to me, but he wishes to learn if this belated restitution will lift the ban against his returning to America and resuming his citizenship. Reply collect." "This is an extraordinary request to make to me, sir." "I know it." ^ "Rut why bring it to me?" "Could I possibly offer that to the cable operator? Without name or address? No; I could not do it without being subjected to a thousand questions, none of which I should care to * answer. So I came to you. Passing through your hands, no one will question it. Will you do this favor for a i?oor unfortunate devil?" Oddly enough, tlie other could not get away from his original impression. The clothes, the way the man wore of Warrington." ^ Warrington. The puzzlement vanished from the older man's face, and his eyes became alert, renewing from another angle their investigation of I lie stranger. Warrington. So this was the man? He could understand W now. Who could blame a girl for making a mistake when lie. a seasoned veteran, had been beguiled by the outward appearance of the man? Mallow was right, lie was a handsome beggar. "1 promise to send this upon one condition." "I accept without question," readily. "It is that you must keep away from Klsa Ohetwood, now and hereafter. You made her acquaintance under false pretenses." "I deny that. Not under false pretenses." How quickly things went about! "Let me tell you how I met her." The consul-general listened; he listened with wonder and interest, and more, with conviction that the young man had been perfectly honest. But the knowledge only added to his growing alarm. It would not be ditlicult for such a man to win the regard of any young woman. ^ "And you told her what you had T done?" "Yes." "Your first misstep?" touching the cablegram. "My first and only misstep. I was ^ them, the clarity of his eyes, the ^ abundant health that was expressed l?y the tone of the skin, derided such a possibility as the cablegram made manifest. He forced the smile hack to his lips. "Are you sure you are not hoaxing me?" "No. 1 am a victim of the hoax," enigmatically. "If one may call the <iuirks of fate by the name of hoax." ^ the stranger added. "Will you send f it?" The years he had spent in the consular service had never brought before him a situation of this order. He did not know exactly what to do. He 41 looked out of the window, into the hotel court, at the sky which presently would become overcast with the daily lain clouds. My and by lie remembered the man waiting patiently at his elbow. "What is your real name?" "My real name, or tin- one by which I ant known here?" "Your real one." "I'd rather not give that until I hear fr?>m New York." "Well, that is reasonable." "I am known out here by the name a careless. happ>--go-easy youiiK fool." The sky outside also had attraction for Warrington. A thousand times a foo): "Mow h.ntr aia? did this happen?" "Ten years this coininu April." "Ami now. after all this time, you wish to ;;o hack?" ?f "I have wished to ip> back manv times, hut never had enoiiuh niom*y. I have plenty now. < ?h, I made it honestly." smilimr. "In oil. at IToine. Here's a ell Hilar from a Kanuooii pa% The other read it carefully. It was romance, romance such as he liked to read iu his hooks, but which was luivhtx hewildcriim to have at his elhow in actuality. What a life the man must have led! And here lawas. with no more evidence of the r & co. MACGRATH rill Company. conflict than might be discerned in 1 the manliness of his face and breadth and depth of his shoulders. He dropped the cutting impatiently. "Don't you believe it?" "Believe it? oh this? Yes," ans?!><? insnl -ireneral. "What I cannot believe is that I am awake. I cannot quite make two and two equal four." "Which infers?" "That I cannot?Well, you do not look like a man who would rob his employer of eight thousand dollars." "Much obliged." "Parrot & Co. It's odd, but I recollect that title. You were at Udaipur during the plague." Warrington brightened. "So that's sot about? I happened to be there, working on the prince's railway." "I will send the cable at once. You will loubtless hear from New York in the morning. But you must not see El'ja Chetwood again." "You will let me bid her goodby? I admire and respect her more than any other woman. She does not know it, for as yet her soul is asleep; but she is one of those few women God puts on earth for the courage and comfort of man. Only to say goodby to her. In this office, if you wish." l agree 10 mm. "Thank you again." Warrington rose. "I am genuinely sorry for you. If they say no, what will you do?" "Co hack just the same. I have another <leht to cancel." "Call in the morning. I'll let you know what the charges are." "I forgot. Here are twenty pounds. You can return the balance when I call. I am very grateful." "By the way, there is a man here by the name of Mallow." began the consul-general. "Yes." interrupted Warrington, with a smile which was grim and cruel. "I expect to call upon him. He owes me something like fifty pounds, and 1 am going to collect it." Then he went out. mi.? ??a?a?.o1 A Vi \nno#1 \fnl lilt* liMiaui-griin ui uivppvM ...... low's perfecto into the waste-basket and lighted his pipe. Once more he read tlie cablegram. The Andes Construction company. What a twist what an absurd kink in the skein! Nearly all of Elsa's wealth lay bound up in this enormous business which CJenernl Chetwood had founded thirty odd years before. And neither of tliem knew! "I am not a had man at heart." he mused, "but I like the young man's expression when I mentioned that bully Mallow.** He joined his family at five. He waved aside tea. and called for a lemon squash. "Elsa. 1 am going to give you a lecture." "Didn't I tell you?" cried Elsa to the wife. "I felt in my hones that he was going to say this very thing." She turned to her old-time friend. "Ho on: lecture me." "In the first place, you are too kind hearted." "That will be news to my friends. They say I have a heart of ice." "And what you think is independence of spirit is sometimes indiscretion." "Oh." said Elsa. becoming serious. "A man came into my office today. He is a rich copra grower from Penang. He spoke of you. You passed him on going out. If I had been twenty years younger, I'd have punched his ugly head. His name is Mallow. and he's not a savory chap." Elsa's cheeks burned. She never would forget the look in that man's eyes. The look might have been in other men's eyes, but conventionality had always veiled it: she had never seen it before. "Ho on:" her voice was unsteady. "Somewhere alonir the Irrawaddy. you made the acquaintance of a young man who calls himself Warrington, familiarly known as Parrot & Co. I'll l>e generous. Not one woman in a thousand would have declined to accept the attentions of such a man. He is cultivated, undeniably goodlooking, a strong man, mentally and physically." Klsa's expression was now enigmatical. "There's not much veneer to him. He fooled me unintentionally. He was quite evidently born a gentleman, of a race of gentlemen. His is not an isolated case. One misstep, and tlie road to the devil." The consul-general's wife sent a startling glance at Klsa, who spun her sunshade to lighten the tension of her nerves. "lie confessed frankly to me this morning that he is a fugitive from justice. He wishes to return to America. He recounted the circumstances of your meeting. To me the story appeared truthful enough. He said that you sought the introduction because of his amazing likeness to the man you are going home to marry." "That is true." replied Klsa. "Uncle Jim. I have traveled pretty much over this world, and I never met a gentle man n uiiitiiisumi is inn one. inert; was unconscious helligeri ncy in her tone. "??h, there's the difficulty wliieh wmnen will never he made to understand. Kvery man can, at one time i>r another, put himself upon his v.iiiid behavior. rudiment h lie may he a tine rascal." "Not this ime," smiling. "Ho warned nie against himself a dn/.en times, I hi t that served to make me stuhhorn. The fault nf my conduct," acidly, "was not in malum; this pariah's acquaintance. It lies in the fact that I had nullum; In do with the other passengers, from choice. That is where 1 was indiscreet. I tut why should 1 put myself out to vain the good wishes of people for whom I have no liking; people I shall prohahly never see avain when I leave this port'."' "Vou forget that some of them will lie your fellow passengers all the way to San Prancisco. My child, you know the Archangel Michael would have to obey, did he wish to inhabit this earth for a while." "Poor Michael!" And if you do not obey these laws, people talk." "Kxactly. There are two sets of man-made laws. < ine governs the conduct of men and the other the conduct of women." "And a man may break any one of these laws, twist it, rearrange it to suit his immediate needs. < ?n the otliej hand, the woman is always manacled." "Precisely." "I consider it horribly unfair." "So it is. But if you wish to live in peace, you must submit." "Peace at that price I have no wish for. This man Mallow lives within the pale of law; the other man is outside of it. Yet of the two, which would you be quickest to trust?" The consul-general laughed. "Now you are appealing not to my Knowledge of the world but to my instinct." "Thanks" "Is there any reason why you should defend Mr. Warrington, as he calls himself?" The consul-general's wife despeately tried to catch her husband's eye. But either he did not see the glance or he purposely ignored it. "In defending Mr. Warrington I am defending myself." "A good point." "My dear friend," Elsa went on, letting warmth come into her voice 1 once more, "my sympathy went out to that man. He looked so lonely. Did you notice his eyes? Can a man look at you the way he does and be bad?" "I have seen Mallow dozens of times. I know him to be a scoundrel of sorts: but I doubt if bald sunlight could make him blink. Liars have first to overcome the flickering and wavering of the eyes." "He said that." "Who, Warrington?" puzzled. rie Miiu milium nit- sumc- tiling. Would he say that if he were a liar?" "I haven't accused him of being that. Indeed, he struck me as a truthful young man. But he confessed to me that ten years ago lie rohlied his employed of eight thousand dollars. By the way, what is the name of the firm your father founded ?" "The Andes Construction company. Do you think we could find him something to do there?" eagerly. "He builds bridges." "I shouldn't advise that. But we have gone astray. You ought not to see him again." "I have made up my mind not to." "Then pardon me for all this pother. I know what is in your heart. Elsa. You want to help the poor devil back to what he was: but he'll have to do that by himself." "Tt is a hateful world!" Elsa appealed to the wife. "It is, Elsa, dear. But James is rlsrht." "You'll get your balance," said the guardian, "when you reach home. When's the wedding?" "I'm not sure that I'm going to l?e married." Elsa twirled the sunshade again. "I really wish I had stayed at home. I seem all topsy-turvy. I could have screamed when I saw the man standing on the ledge above the boat that night. No: I do not believe I shall marry. Fancy marrying a man and knowing that his ghost was at the same time wandering about the earth!" She rose and the sunshade described a half-circle as she spoke. "Oh, bother with it all! Dinner at eight, in the big dining-room." "Yes. Hut the introductions will be made on the cafe-veranda. These people out here have gone mad over cock-tails. And look your best, Elsa. I want them to see a real American girl tonight. I'll have some roses sent up to you." j Elsa had not the heart to tell him | that all interest in his dinner had sud- i denly gone from her mind: that even | the confusion of the colonel no longer ( appealed to her bitter malice. She j knew that she was going to be bored \ and miserable. Well; she had prom- ( ised. She would put on her best gown: she would talk and laugh and \ jest because she had done these things i many times when her heart was not in ( tiie play of it. ( When she was gone, the consul-Ren- i oral's wife said: "Poor girl!" < Her husband looked across the . room interestedly. "Why do you say ] that?" t "I am a woman." "That phrase is tlie City of Refuse. , All women fly to it when confronted ; by something they do not under- i stand." ] "Oli. but I do understand. And that's j tiie pity of it." I (To be Continued.) I The War Correspondent. Tiie work of a war correspondent, if ; lie is the real tiling, is no sinecure, i General Sherman once threatened to | hang all of them he found with his t army. < The Japanese would allow no news- i paper men to go to the front with their soldiers. I know one of the Amer- ; I... .lMnllml ..11 . lean army uiiiiitb ? m? v?<*o .. ~.. , observation duty with the Japs. When- t ever anything really big was to occur i the Japanese officers arranged a polite little ceremonial to take the foreign i officer about ten miles from the seat of ,* action. i They didn't want to be "observed" when performing their hardest light- < ing. i 1 knew finite well some of the Eng- 1 lisli correspondents in the South Afri- t can war. <>ne of ti em lost his arm. He i was the original of the "Great War | Eagle" in Kipling's "Light that Kail- < ed." . I Archibald Forbes did more strenuous work, perhaps, than two thirds of the < officers in the wars in which he made i his brilliant reputation as a eorrespon- S dent. .' Napoleon didn't allow eorrespon- I dents, as we know them, to travel with I headquarters. In our Revolution, al- > though many weekly papers were pub- I lished at the time, the news was old. .? Nobody ever mentioned the suffering at i Valley Forge while it was happening. ' Rothschild "beat" the newspaper ' correspondents at Waterloo, because he < got back to Ijondoti lirst with the news I and made millions by his inside knowl- I edge. He bought securities which had < been greatly depressed by a fear of I Napoleon's triumph. Public Ledger. I FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS ^ < As Traced In Early Files ol 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 by the 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 e older people and for the entertainment f fin/4 i not rnof i nn nf thn nro oont era norO . tlon."""" ? " ' j FIFTY-FIFTH INSTALLMENT t (Thursday, January 24, 1861). t "Fort Moultrie, Etc." c We visited this venenible site last 1 Saturday, and greeted many of our 1 friends?friends of you, readers, as well s as of ourself. Corporal "Ruby," whom (3 you have so long and so well known, t extended to us the hospitalities of this seat of war. Our friend Tim?of whom i "Ruby" has told you?also gladdened 1< our visit. Many other gallant friends p too were there; but of those others we t cannot speak, because you, readers, r do not know them as we do. "Ruby," you know, has been promoted; and c Tim, too, has received the public com- t pliments of his captain and is there- 1 the resolute, probable de HugyZZi; : : In the trial of the three yachts, one of cup against the Shamrock VI, th* Resol over the proscribed race course off New Tore in tlie direct line of promotion. He tl has command of a gun, to which in pa- tl lrial pride he named "France;" and he knows that in the hour of work and of ileath France will do her duty. But, promoted or not, both are brave and ^ gallant among those noble fort heroes ^ >f whose daring we made mention last () week. Now, that we have stood upon (j the ground itself, and reliected upon j, lie bravery of their firing upon the Star f the West, under the very "jaws of ileath," the more we are impressed with the heroism of their deed. With such spirits, our war?if war must continue ?is safe. It will take Omnipotence li liimself to conquer such men, and we think He is on our side. We enjoyed the novelty, and the lion- h r <>f taking lunch with our friends tt ibout one o'clock, inside of Fort Moul- Ii trie, under the guns of Fort Sumter, o Everything was soldierlike and in keep- it ng with the time and circumstances, a Tibe and jest and pun, and banter, all 01 ent their cheer; and many a brilliant It tally of wit played near Corporal e' Ruby's "Beautifully Sally." Wo exam- ir ned the guns, especially those bearing tr m Fort Sumter; the Columbiads, that ui ire to do such effective work when the imp comes; the embankments, para- ei Ov-'s, merhirs quarters, and a host of d hings new to us unmilitary individuals, tl Juite a number of ladies?maybe twen- tc y?visited the fort this day. di We visited the fortress next day also, w ind viewed and reviewed the same yi loints, extending our observations to fi lie Moultrie House and other points n ipon Sullivan's Island further out. It We stopped always goin,r and com- is ng at Castle Pinckney. Fort Johnson n: md Morris' Point are visible by the w ivay. di in all we lounti auoui sixteen nun- it Iretl men in regular service, manning ibout one hundred guns, besides mus- n cets, rilles *"d side arms.? Hut all Ir liese formidable weapons are less the ir ihing that impressed one with our q l?ower there than the unconquerable y< lo-or-die spirit that burns in every is Mtsoin there. m The observed of all observers of ir oiirse, is l-'ort Sumter. It looms up in c? allien pride like a defiance with the In ttars ami Stripes waving from her Hag e; itaff. Hul around in all directions? \>rt Moultrie, Castle l'inckney, Morris ci Island. I'ort Johnson, Hird's Key, the Ir sandy shores of Sullivan's island, the t;i ?att? ry all around there breathes a tl spirit of power mightier than the al- B nosl fabulous strength of fort Sumter, et fliat spirit rightly interpreted says, ai I'ort Sumter can must shall betak- m 11." It is not our part to give reasons in or this conclusion, nor to indicate the tl iniits in time that we may put; the ti lid we foresee, and that is ?"We will lii lave I'ort Sumter, peaceably if we can, d< orcildy if we must." And a thousand er men look upon it every day that are willing to crimson the blue waves of Charleston harbor with their life blood rather than see those Stars and Stripes lloat there one week longer. We do not expect it to cost that much. Charleston. S. C. J. W. D. 9 9 Messrs. Editors:?It may not be improper to inform your readers that ompanies of aged men and those exempt by law, from military duty, have ?pen recently formed in the northwestern portion of our district, for the rotection of their homes and families igainst any invasion from without, or nsurreetion within. On the 8th instant a company was irganized at 'Squire McCosh's, which! lumbers between sixty and seventy nembers. J. B. Mintz was elected capain; W. S. Bird, 1st and John K Park>r, 2nd lieutenants, and M. L. Ross, nsign. A constitution and by-laws lave since been adopted, and the commny is being drilled once a week. A meeting was also held at King's fountain muster ground on Satijrday, he 19th instant, and a company of beween thirty and forty members was irganized with M. R. Bird, captain; H. Vhisonant 1st. and R. C. Caveny 2nd ieutenants, and Wm. Crawford, enign. A committee was appointed to Iraft a constitution and by-laws, for he regulation of said company. In a crisis like the present, it is gratfying to see the aged men, with hoary ocks. coming out voluntarily, and ledging their lives, their fortunes, and heir all, in defense of our common ights. We are glad to learn that similar ompanies are being formed all over he state. It shows that South Caroina is a unit in defense of her rights? FENDER OF AMERICA'S CUP \ v, 1 1 i \ . 4 7 J ? : \ / 7't>' 7^M/;kv?A ? ,^ -j,-; g.vfljk "' - \ t- ; : - , ?-; \ which is to defend the America's ute won all three of the trial spins York last week. Iiat she is determined to maintain hem cost what it may. Pine (Trove, January 21, 1861. II. ? Married?In Shelby county, Alaama on Tuesday, January 8th, by Rev. Ir. Roach, Mr. Richmond I>. Looney, f the former place and Miss Mattie J., aughter of Mr. Matthew and Mrs. M. I. Harper, formerly of Yorkville. (To he Continued.) MONKEY AS FEVER CARRIER ivestigations of Doctor Balfour Confirm West Indian Legend. Dr. Andrew Balfour, professor of acteriology at Gordon college, Khartum, has just returned from the West idies, bringing scientific confirmation f a legend among the negrors of Triniad, which is likely to have an importnt bearings upon the future methods f dealing with tropical diseases. The i?r ?^iii w*r<t if ion flint U'llPn ver monkeys are found dead or dying ) the hills above the villages, the lat>r will soon be visited by un epidemic f yellow fever. The discovery that a mosquito namI Stegomyia acted as a carrier for the isease has made the construction of le Panama canal possible, but hither> no one has known how sudden epiemics broke out in isolated places, ' here th fever had been unknown for 1 ears. The mosquito could carry it om infected persons, but there was i u evidence that he could fly across >ng spaces of sea and take it from one i (land to another so, although Stego- i lyia was well known in Trinidad, it as considered unlikely that it could n any particular harm, as it had very >w chances to become infected. Dr. Balfour lias found that what the egroes told him was true. The red nwler monkey seldom comes down ito the swampy parts where the mos- i mines live, iiui in* ?muniKi^ um uvp [ llow fever very easily; so when he : living far away from the haunts of u n lie acts as a reservoir for the storig up of the infection, and when lie tines back for reasons of his own he rings it with liini and the mosquito irries it into the town. Not only in Trinadad, but in Maraiibo and on the Orinoco the same beef exists, and although it is not cerdn as yet whether the monkeys are ie chief preservers of the pest. Dr. alfotir believes that he has enough ridence to bring a strong indictment gainst them. Unfortunately lie has i?t been able to get near enough to an ifeeted colony to secure samples of leir blood, but lie is now on his way > British Colombia, where lie hopes to nd out more about the subject. D011 11 correspondence Philadelphia I.edg I -Miscellaneous ^eaitiun. ?) . 1' A BILLION AT STAKE Why the American Army Must Occupy Mexico. Americans have, ur had 1T? months ago, investments in Mexico amounting to approximately one billion of dollars. Forty thousand of them dwelt in Mexico in peace and security at the beginning of the three years of terror. | These people had come to Mexico at the Invitation of its government and were promised protection to life and property. These promises were fulfilled while General Diaz was president. They were partially fulfilled under Madero, who could never have reached the presidency without the support, moral and financial, that he got from the United States. During the rule of General Huerta, Americans and other foreigners have been protected as well as possible under the prevailing cunuiiiuna. But after Huerta, what? The Huerta government Is to all practical purposes a thing of the past. The Mexican mob is inflamed against Americans by the invasion of Mexican territory. Villa's coming has raised a storm cloud over the capital. The possibility of a siege and bombardment with all its horors is imminent. You at home may dismiss this subject by saying that the Americans in Mexico should get out of the country. But their homes are there, their interests. in many cases representing the savings of half a lifetime, would be utterly lost if abandoned. To leave means a certainty of ruin, to stay r possibility of death. The noliev of the government of the United States may be definite and decisive, but nobody in .Mexico can even puess what it is. To a Mexican on the warpath all fair-haired, blue-eyed folks are "Grinpoes," Enplish, French, Germans. Scandinavians are all imperiled by the attitude of the United States, and on its action their fortunes depend. Any one who knows Mexican character knows that American prestipe has already suffered by the delay in advancinp from Vera Cruz. The Mexican has been taupht throuph centuries to respect only force. Leniency, mercy or toleration he repards a3 evidence of fear or weakness. He is incapable of understandinp such altruism as caused the United States to restore political liberty in Cuba. Today millions of Mexicans believe that the United States is afraid of Mexico because it did not oromDtly follow up the advantage gained at Vera Cruz. That it should pause to negotiate through the intervention of the South American republics means only one thing to the Mexican mind, and that is that the American government is afraid to finish what it has begun. This feeling is reflected in the contemptuous attitude of Mexicans toward Americans. When the awakening comes, when the Stars and Stripes advance from Vera Cruz toward the capital, there may be another outbreak of mob fury that will cost not only Americans but also other foreigners dearly. And the American army must go to Mexico whether the government wants it to or not. For, unless from this point on. the United States follows a vigorous policy in Mexican matters. American interests in Mexico are ruined. And with them the interests of all other foreigners will be fearfully depreciated.?Leslie's Weekly. * *i *ii i * i rs a t-sw i at c i rnu a mto Battue Season Occurs This Year at Mysore, India. This is the year of the "elephant hattue" in the great forests of Mysore, India. The hunting of these gigantic animals is permitted in India only every fifth year. On the average from 200 to 250 wild elephants are captured during the battue season, and these are trained for the various purposes for which the Asiatic elephant is used, writes fJarrett P. Serviss. Everybody knows how conspicuous a part tamed elephants play in the great public spectacles in India. Indian princes and officials sometimes pay thousands of dollars for exceptionally fine and intelligent elephants. After they have been properly trained they are furnished with trappings gleaming with gold and splendid color. The howdah that an elephant trained for hunting carries on its back, and in which its master rides, while its driver places himself just back of its head, frequently weighs more than 200 pounds, but the huge animal regards it no more than a horse does a riding saddle. On a good level road an elephant will march at the rate of five miles per hour, and he is capable of running, for short distances, with a speed of 20 miles an hour. He can carry, in regular service, from 1,200 to 1,500 pounds, and he would not greatly mind a ton or more. With his enormous muscles and his dead weight of live or six tons it is evident that his pulling and lifting power must be immense. He can pull down or root up small trees, can pick lip huge logs with his trunk and carry or throw them around like sticks, and since he is a very tractable beast when well tamed, he often does farm work of which a team of horses would he incapable. He can make a fence or place huge blocks of stone in a wall. He is often employed to drag artillery wagons. One of the most interesting employments of the elephant is in hunting tigers. I-rom the lofty back of his F-lephant, at a height which, increased by ihe howdah, may be 12 or 11 feet lbove the ground, tlie hunter can take his aim at a tiger with a coolness that lie would not possess if facing the animal on terra firma. If, as sometimes iccurs, the tiger makes a leap for the elephant, he seldom succeeds in attaining the man in the howdah, although the driver, in his exposed position on the elephant's neck, is in greater danger. There seems to be a natural enmity itetween elephants and tigers, although an elephant will not attack a tiger unless cornered or compelled to lo so by the tiger's own fault. But then a good fighting elephant will, if lie can once get his tusks to bear on lis enemy, gore him to death, or literilly crush him by kneeling on him. It s said that the mere presence of a dead tiger will drive some elephants to fury. In view of the vast strength possessed by full-grown elephants, it seems at first sight almost incredible that they can be captured in herds, and quickly subdued to the will of their masters. At the present time, in Mysore, the regular method of capturing wild elephants is for a large number of natives to go into the jungle, some mounted on tamed elephants and many on foot, and to make a great noise and hulabaloo, which results in driving herds of the wild elephants ? * ~ 1 1 I ? A 1? - * miu HiuuKaura, ur uiien lino ponus ji water, which have previously been surrounded on all sides, except at the approaches, by immensely strong palisades. As soon as the herd is cornered, the passages that had been left open are securely closed, and then the trained elephants are brought into play to cajole and subdue the perplexed prisoners. In India, elephants are no longer captured, as they still are in Africa, by means of huge pitfalls in the ground. In these traps they are often seriously injured or killed. The Indian elephant is somewhat smaller than the African, and differs from it in other ways, as, for instance, in the fact that tusks are possessed only by the males, while both sexes are provided with them in Africa. In general also the tusks of African elephants are nearly twice as large as those of their Indian relatives, a single pair sometimes weighing as much as 250 or 300 pounds. DON'T FEAR DIRT' The Man Who Will Not Work it No Good. It is commonplace to tell a young man who hopes to succeed that he must work hard and save his money and keep himself filled with mercy and loving kindness. But G. H. Gifford, who is one of the managers for the Standard Oil company in New Jersey, adds another element to the formula. "Don't," says Mr. Oifford, "be afraid to get dirty." Oifford began on the capital of a 40cent suit of overalls and a willingness to abide the peculiarly clinging variety of grease the S. O. company manufactures. Because he has been rather extraordinarily successful he was asked the other day to talk to a class of young men who are engaged in gaining a business education. He didn't want to do it. Generally speaking, Standard Oil men have been encouraged to abjure the graces of conversation. But he consented. Work if You Hate Your Job. "If you don't like your job," said Gif rora, worn narner. men you 11 get another job all the quicker." He had some portion of a high school education when he began to work. That is, he entered high school when he was twelve years old, and managed to get back to school for parts of three more years. Then economic conditions began to pinch the Gifford neck. It wasn't that he merely needed a job?he had to have one. Having an eye to the future, he succeeded in getting into one of the machine shops of the S. O. company, because he thought the chances for promotion were better with a large corporation. But he didn't give that phase of his individual business situation much attention at that time. It was the immediate salary envelope at the end of the week that he was chiefly interested in. That was in 1878. Grease on College Cap. Sweeping the floor of a machine shop is unpleasant for a youngster of 16, with a 16-year-old hankering for turned-up trousers and college caps. Gifford just sw?-pt all the harder. By and by lie was promoted to another position which held a surplusage of mucki ness. This time he was set to oiling shafting. After ten months he became an apprentice in the machine shop. He learned how to make tools and lathes and dies. Perhaps a couple of years passed in this occupation. Then he became a full-fledged machinist of the lower order and went to the general shop. Perhaps?always inside of him? he had been ambitious, but he had never translated that ambition into action, except as he took pride in becoming a good machinist. But in the general shop he found the impetus he needed. Night School Not Easy. "The foreman of the general machine shop," said Gifford, "was an old man. He took an interest in me. " 'Be a good machinist first,' said he, 'but be something else second. The man who gets ahead is the man who knows.'" It isn't particularly easy for the man who has put in an honest day's work in a machine shop to go to school at night There are large beer saloons, billiard academies, dances and other methods by which time may be killed after the 6 o'clock whistle blows. Also, such a man is afraid to open his mouth after 8 o'clock at night for fear he betray himself by a yawn. Just the same, Giffuril went tn niyht ?ehnnl nnrt eanirht ' up with the education he had been compelled to miss as a boy. There was a period of discouragement, for h? stayed in that machine shop for nine years. It began to seem to him that he would never get out of it, but he kept hammering away. Then promotion began. One day he was made assistant superintendent. "I'm through," the superintendent said one day. "I'm not going to spend my life in a greasy oil yard." Beat Job to Frazzle. So Gilford took his place. The other steps followed in regular order. Gif- j ford suggests that luck had a good deal ( to do with his climb, but that hard j work had more to do with it. He holds ? that the way to get along is to beat t your job to a frazzle. He hadn't been s with the S. O. company a year before he , loupiiofi u ivit r..;iI wnrk is Tiie rule in * that organization is that when one en- ? tors upon a job he doesn't leave until f the job is through. t He believes in education, which is j natural for a man who fought for an j education in the way he did. But he a finds that tlie trouble with the average j college bred boy of today is that be has ( been too kindly treated all his life. The ? other day a graduate of Brown univer- $ sity came to him for work. 4 1 it'T What are your reasons for want- t ing a divorce, madam?" \ "Failure to support." a "But you live in apparent luxury." n "He failed to support me for a nomi- s nation 1 wanted." 2 CROP YIELD "'-PEASED Ancient System of China Successfully Tried in France. Great interest is taken in France Just now in a new method by which the yield of crops per acre is enormously increased, says the Chicago Inter(?cean. In one test case the increase of wheat has been three times above that grown in similar soil in the same neighborhood. The remarkable value of the method is indicated by the state is that it has made 20 grains of wheat produce 700,000 in one year. The method consists in preparing seed beds in widely spaced lines on very mellow land; then at the end of two months dividing the tufts springing from each grain, replanting each of these rooted shoots thus detached, and Anally hoeing and earthing up these new plants many times in such manner as to provoke at all the points brought into intimate contact with the earth the growth of numerous adventitious shoots, each of which bear an ear. The system is not really new, but a very ancient one, used immemorially by the Chinese, and to it is due the enormous yield of their fields, which have been treated like gardens. While our farmers throw broadcast handfuls of grain on the harrowed earth, offering rich pasturage to pillaging birds and rodents, the Chinaman, after furrowing the earth with his wooden piowshare, without turning it, crumbles each lump in his hands till It is like fine powder. This done, at planting time he walks slowly down each furrow, carrying a grain drill, which is a marvel of ingenious simplicity. Picture to yourself two pointed plow shares about 20 inches apart and connected by a transverse bar supporting a hopper filled with grain, from which issue two slender bamboo tubes designed to conduct the grains so that each will drop in the wake of one of the shares. The diameter of each tube is just great enough to allow the passage of one grain at a time without letting it drop until it receives the impulse of a slight shock given by means of the handles which complete the apparatus. The sower pushes the drill in front of him, inclining it now to the right and now to the left in such a way that each inclination causes the issue of a single seed, which is instantly pressed under by the track of one foot or the other. Each grain is thus planted at a distance of 16 to 20 inches from its neighbor in every direction. At the end of a few weeks germination begins. When the young plant is 10 or 12 inches in height there are a score of stalks about its stem, each provided with a fringe of rootlets. The farmer covers each with loose earth by means of a careful hoeing, thus raising the level of the furrow. Each stalk again proliferates, and there are soon 15 to 20 new stalks around its stem, which detach themselves. All are the indirect issue of a single grain, which proves, therefore, to have been the parent of 300 to 400 stalks, each bearing an ear. ABOUT HUMORISTS They are Human and Differ from Comedians. Humorists are people who cut, fit and finish jokes, jests and light verse and do plain and fancy writing which is not serious. Male humorists do this by lighting a pipe or a cigar, sticking a sheet of paper into a typewriter and wishing they had adopted a mechanical career. Female humorists accomplish the feat by twisting their back hair into a knot, nibbling chocolate creams or chewing some gum, and manipulating the typewriter in the customary manner. As a general thing, nowadays, says Life, humorists are very human. There are more of them than there used to be. The women dress like their sisters, and the men are perfectly conventional in their attire. Occasionally you run across an oldschool humorist, or a modern one who clings to the old-school traditions. He imagines that he has to wear a most solemn face, never smiles and looks pained when you laugh at what he says. This variety goes great on the rural lyceum circuit. Humorists are always introduced as such. Plumbers, housebreakers, bankers, dry goods men and wholesale grocers are never classified when introduced, but humorists are always specified. Immediately the person to whom they are introduced waits expectantly for them to say something wildly witty. Immediately, also, they are disappointed, unless they are of the class who shriek with joy when the humorist politely says: ' it is a nice aay. Humorists most enjoy the apt retorts of royalty, as reported In the anecdotes about notables. Humorists always have to explain why they are humorists instead of following some more laborious occupation. Also they are expected to deliver after dinner speeches for nothing, because being funny is second nature to them, and they are not supposed to have any remunerative way of spending their odd moments. The difference between a humorist and a comedian is that a comedian uses the humorist's humor. If the humorist used the comedian's humor he ivould starve to death. Another difference is that the comedian makes from three hundred to five hundred lollars a week. Moods of the Bay of Fundy.?The jay 01 r uriuy is lutt ui siruum- <xiiu :ontradictory features. Grand Manan sland, which lies to the port hand of i vessel entering the bay. is one ocky graveyard?on the reef to th? louth-east an impaled ship is a comnon sight. Every identation, nay, ev*ry rocky cranny, bears some terrible ind suggestive name descriptive of some maratime tragedy. On the island, welve miles in length and scarcely inhabited, is a graveyard filled with the )odies of unknown sailors. A little ibove Trinity rock the coast of Nova *cotia rises in rocky parapets from he sea and a narrow inlet admits to he Annapolis vulley where, strange to say, the eye rests on a fertile valley if apple orchards which raise the lighest priced fruit in the world. In his sheltered space is a climate vhich, owing partly to the gulf stream md partly to position, differs altorether from the arctic cold of the stormy sea without.?Westminster Gasette.