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By HAROLD
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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
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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.
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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
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As Traced In Early Files ol The !
Yorkvllle Enquirer
NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY
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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 .
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.