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? ^ ^ _____ i. m. grist s sons, Publisher., j % 4amil8 D?rs#apn;: gt,or the promotion of the political, .Social, glgricullu/al and ffommrrrial Slnfrrcsts of the jDcoplii. J Jce"""" ESTABLISHED 18557 YORKVILLE, S, C., FRIDAY, JUXF. ati, i!)14. KO. 51. PARRCT By HAROLD Copyright 1913. The Bobbs-Mer CHAPTER XVI. Who is Paul Ellison? For some time Warrington sat upon 1? tne edge of the bed and studied the cigar, balanced it upon his palm, as if striving to weigh accurately Mallow's part in a scrimmage like this. The copra-grower assuredly would be the last man to give a cigar to a Chinaman. His gifts kept his coolies hopping about in a triangle of cuffs and kicks and pummelings. He had doubtless given the cigar to another white man likely enough, Craig, who with reckless inebriate generosity, had in turn presented it to the Oriental. Besides, MallOw was rich. What stepy ping-stones he had used to acquire his initial capital were not perfectly known; but Warrington nau nearu rumors of shady transactions and piratical exploits in the pearl zone. Mallow. rich, was Mallow disposed of, at least logically; unless indeed it was a bit of anticipatory reprisal. That \ might possibly be. A drunken Mallow was capable of much, for all his knowledge of letters of credit might necessarily be primitive. Pah! The abominable odor of fish ^ still clung. He reached for his pipe and lighted it, letting the smoke sink into his beard. Yet, Mallow was no fool. He would scarcely take such risk for so unstable and chancely a thing as revenge of this order. Craig? He hadn't the courage. Strong and muscular as he was, he was the average type of gambler, courageous only when armed with a pack of cards, sitting opposite a fool and his money. But, Craig and Mallow together. . . . He slipped |r off the label. It was worth preserving. With an unpleasant laugh he began to get into his clothes. Why not? The more he thought of it, the more he was positive that the two had been behind this assault. The belt would # have meant a good deal to Craig. There were a thousand Chinese in Singapore who would cut a man's throat for a Straits dollar. Kither Mallow or Craig had seen him counting the money on shipboard. It had been a jxastime of his to throw the belt on the bunk-blanket and play ^ with the gold and notes; like a child with its Christmas blocks. He had spent hours gloating over the yellow metal and crackly paper which meant a competence for the rest of his years. And Craig or Mallow had seen him. He looked at his watch; quarter after two. If they were not in their rooms he would, have good grounds fur his suspicons. He stole along the gallery and down the stairs to the office, just in time to see the two enter, much the worse for drink. Mallow was boisterous, and Craig was sullen. ^ The former began to argue with the light manager, who politely shook his head. Mallow grew insistent, but the night manager refused to break the rules of the hotel. Warrington infer^ red that Mallow was demanding li <|Uor :tri?1 ins iiurrrutc noa ......... IN* ninvcil a little closer, still hidden behind the potted palms. "All right." cried Mallow. "We'll go l.ack to town for it." "I've had enough," declared Craig sullenly. "Yah! A little sore, eh? Well. I can't pour it down your throat." H "l.et's cut out booze and play a lit V tie hand or two." "Fine!" Mallow slapped his thigh as he laughed. "Nice bird I'd be for you to pluck. Think of something else. You can hit me on the head when I'm not looking and take my * money that way. What do you think I am, anyhow? The billiard-hall is open." Craig shook his head. When Mallow was argumentative it was no time to play billiards. "Hah!" snarled Mallow. "Since you won't drink like a man nor play billiards, I'm for bed. And just its the fun wits beginning!" * Craig nudged him warningly. Mallow stalked away, and Craig, realizing that the night was done, followed. Warrington had seen and heard enough. He . /its tolerably sure. It ^ might have been out of pure deviltry ^ so far as Mallow was concerned; but Craig had joined in hope of definite prolits. A line pair of rogues! Neith f ul...i.l.l 1... nl,|B tl? llr.lW against the letter. He would block tli.it Kiimp tlic? first tiling in tin-mornins;. lie would simply notify the local hunks and cable to Rangoon. He eyed indecisively tlte stairs :?n<l then glanced toward the brilliant night outside. It would not he possi? Ide to sleep in that room attain. So lie tiptoed out to the cafe-vertinda and dropped into a comfortable chair. He would hunt them up some time during the day. He would ask Mallow for ^ fifty pounds, and he sincerely hoped that Mallow would r> fuss* him. For he was grimly resolved that Mallow should pay for those half-truths, more domains; than hold lies. It was due to Mallow that he was never more to see or speak to Klsa. He emptied the ash from his cutty which he stowed away. The great heart ache and the greater disillusion would not have fallen to his lot had Klsa been frank in Rangoon. had she but toid him that she was to sail on the same steamer. He would have put over his sailing. He would have gone his way, still believing hints* If to be a IViyard. a Oah)had or any other of those simple dreamers who put honor and chivalry above and fore all other things. Klsa! He covered his face with his hands and remained in that position for a long while, so long indeed that -w ti e coolies, whose business it was to scrub the tilings every morning tit four, went about their work quietly for fear of disturbing him. Klsa had retired almost immediate ly after dinner. She endeavored to finish some initial-work on old embroideries. but the needle insisted upon pausing and losing stitch after stitch. She went to bed and tried to concentrate her thoughts upon a story r & co. MACGRATK rill Company. but she could no more follow a sentence to the end than she could fly. Then she strove to sleep, but that sweet healer came not to her wooing. Nothing she did could overcome the realization of the shock she had received. It had left her dull and bewildered. The name echoed and re-echoed through her mind; Paul Ellison. It should have been an illumination; instead. she had been thrust into utter darkness. Neither Arthur nor his mother had ever spoken of a brother, and she had known them for nearly ten years. Two men, who might be cwin-brothers, with the same name: it was maddening. What cou'd it mean? The beautiful white-haired mother, the handsome charming son, who idolized each other; and this adventurer. this outcast, this patient, brave and kindly outcast, with his funny parrakeet, what was he to them and they to him? It must be. it must be! Thov were brothers. Nature, full of amazing treaks as she was, had not perpetrated this one without calling upon a 3ingle strain of blood. She lay back among her pillows, her eyes levtled at the few stars beyond her door, opened to admit any cooling breeze. Her head ached. It was like the computations of astronomers; to a certain e:.tent the human mind could grasp the distances but could not comprehend them. It was more than chance. Chance alone had not brought him to the crumbling ledge. There was a strain of fatalism in Elsa. She was positive that all these things had been written long before and that she was to be used as the key. Paul Ellison. She drew from the past those sali ent recollections or Artnur ana ms mother: first, the day the two had called regarding the purchase of a house that her father had just put on the market?a rambling: old colonial affair: her own mother's birth-place. Sixteen: she had not quite been that, just free from her school-days in Italy. With the grand air of youth she had betrayed the fact almost 'nstantly, while waiting for her father to come into the living room. "Italy!" said Arthur's mother, whom Elsa mentally adopted at once. The stranger spoke a single phrase, which Elsa answered in excellent if formal Italian. This led from one question to another. Mrs. Ellison turned out to be a schoolmate of her mother's, and she, Elsa. had inherited her very room. What more was needed? The Ellisons bought the house and lived quietly within it. Society, and there was a Rood deal of it in that small Kentuckian city, society waited for them to approach and apply for admittance, hut waited in vain. Mrs. Ellison never went anywhere. Her son Arthur was a student and preferred his books. So eventually society introduced itself. Persons who ignored it must he interesting. When it became known that Mrs. Ellison had been the schoolmate of the beautiful and aristocratic wife of General Chetvvood: when the local banker quietly spread the information that the Ellisons were comfortably supplied with stocks and bonds of a high order, society concluded that it could do very well without past history. That could come later. When her father died, Elsa became as much at home in the Ellison house as in her own. But never, never any where in the house, was there indication of the existence of a brother, so like Arthur that under normal conditions it would have been difficult to tell them apart. Even when she used to go up to the garret with Mrs. Ellison. to aid her in rummaging some old trunk, there came to light none of those trilling knickknacks, which any mother would have secretly clung to, no matter to what depth her flesh and blood had fallen. Never had she seen among the usual amateur photographs one presenting two boys. Once she had come across a photograph of a smooth-faced youth who was in the act of squinting along the top of an engineer's tripod. Arthur had laughingly taken it away from her, saying that it represented him when he had had ambitions to build bridges. To build bridges. The phrase awoke something in Elsa's mind. Bridges. She sat up in bed, mentally keen for the first time since dinner. "I have built bridges in my time over which trains are passing at this moment. 1 have fought torrents, and floods and hurricanes, and myself." He was Paul Ellison, son and brother. and they had blotted him out of their lives by destroying all physical signs of him. There was something inhuman in the deliberateness of it, something unforgivable. Thev had made no foolish attempt to live under an assumed name. They had come from New York to the little valley in order to leave behind the scene of their disgrace and all those who had known them. And they had been extremely fortunate. They were all gently born. Elsa's friends and acquaintances, above ordinary inquisitiveness, and they had respected the aloofness of the Ellisons. Arthur was an inveterate traveler. Half the year found him in Europe, painting a little. writing a little less, frequenting the lesser known villages in France and Italy. He let it be understood that h?- abhorred cities. In the ten years they had appeared at less than a dozen social affairs. Arthur did not care for horses, for hunting, for sports of any kind. And yet he was sturdy. < l. ar-eyod. fresh-skinned. He walked always: he was forever tramping off to the pine-liooded hills, with his painting-kit over his shoulders and his camp-stool under his arm. Later. Elssi began to understand that he was a true scholar, not merely tin educated man. He was besides a linguish of amazing facility, a pianist who invariably preferred as his audience his own two ears. Arthur would have been a great dramatist or a great poet, if . . . if what? If what? Ah, that had been the crux of it all, of her doubt, of her hesitance. If he had fought for prizes coveted by mankind, if he had thrown aside his dreams and gone into the turmoil, if he had taken up a man's burden and carried it to success. Elsa, daughter of a man who had fought in the great arena from his youth to his death, Elsa was not meant for the wife of a dreamer. Paul Ellison. What was his crime in comparison to his expiation of it? He had built bridges, fought torrents, hurricanes, himself. No, he was not a scholar; he saw no romance in the multifarious things he had of necessity put his hand to: these had been daily matter-of-fact occupations. A strange gladness seemed to loosen the tenseness of aching nerves. Then, out of the real world about her, came with startling distinctness, the shriek of a parrot. yhe would have recognized that piercing cry anywhere. It was Rajah. In the next room, and she had not known that Warrington (she would always know him by that name), was stopping at the same hotel! She listened intently. Prooontlv cVio hpjirH mnfflpfl aminria* .1 clatter of metal. A few minutes later came a softer tinkle, a scurry of pattering feet, then silence. Elsa ran to the door and stood motionless by the jamb, waiting etherelly white in the moonshine. Suddenly upon the gallery pillars flashed yellow light. She would have gone back to bed, but a thrill of unknown fear held her. By and by the yellow light went out with that quickness which tricks the hearing into believing that the vanishing had been accompanied by sound. She saw Warrington, fully dressed, issue forth cautiously, glance about, then pass down the gallery, stepping with the lightness of a cat. She returned hastily to her room, threw over her shoulders a kimono, and went back to the door, hesitating there for a breath or two. She step? j 1 *u ? ?11...... id |,?1 V.., A peu oui upon uic- KaiiKTif. iimui 11<1 >.i roused him at this time of night? She leaned over the railing and peered down into the roadway which in daytime was Riven over to the rickshaw coolies. She heard the crunch of wheels, a low murmur of voices; beyond this, nothing more. Fut as the silence of the night became tense once more, she walked as far as Warrington's door, and paused there. The gallery floor was trellised with moonlight and shadow. She saw something lying in the center of a patch of light, and she stooped. The light was too dim for her to r ad; so she re-entered her own room and turned on the lights. It was Warrington's letter of credit. She gave a low laugh, perhaps a bit hysterical. There was no doubt of it. Some one had entered his room. There had been a struggle in which he had been the stronger, and the thief had dropped his plunder. (As a matter of fact, the Chinaman finding himself closed in upon, had thrown the letter of credit toward the railing, in hope that it would fall over to the ground below, where, later he could recover it). Elsa pressed it to her heart as another woman might have pressed a rose, and laughed again. Something of his; something to give her the excuse to see and to speak to him again. Tomorrow she would know; and he would tell her the truth, even as her heart knew it now. For what other reason had he turned away from her that first day out of Rangoon, hurt and broken? Paul Ellison; and she had told him that she was going home to marry his brother! (To lie Continued.) CATS TRAINED TO HUNT Huge Tabbies Work Like Pointers for Mississippi Man. T. OS. Nimmo, of Sturgis, Miss., probably has the "strangest pack of hounds" in the.United States, if not in the world. It consists of two huge domestic cats, which he has been training for more than three years, until they trail, point and retrieve small game as well as any dogs ever seen in the Mississippi, says the Chicago Tribune. The cats are named Tom and Jerry, and are used principally in hunting rabbits, tree squirrels and quail, though they have tracked and helped kill opossums and raccoons, both of which are plentiful in that part of the south. According to their owner, who began training the cats when they were kit tens, on sight of a rabbit, squirrel or quail, they assume rigid positions, like that of a pointer, except that they move their tails slightly, and wait for him to come up and shoot the game they have found. They have never, since he finished their training, rushed forward to kill the game themselves, or to attempt to stalk it. When the shot is fired they retrieve the fallen animal or bird, and if it is not quite dead give it a quietus by biting it in the neck. Mr. Nimmo, who is 75 years old, lives with an unmarried daughter, one mile from Sturgis. He and the cats keep the family larder full of meat. The felines are never allowed t<> hunt alone, and are kept as carefully in the house as any petted Maltese or Angora cat of high degree could be cared for. The especial value of these cats, Mr. Nimmo says, is their ability to trail, capture and kill wounded squirrels which flee to the tree tops after being shot. He estimates he has secured some 200 squirrels which otherwise would have been lost to him during the last scasnn liv the :iid nf these cats. When lie takes his shotgun from the rack in his home the cats leap about him, like hunting clogs, only they meow their pleasure at going afield, rather than hark, as would a setter or hound. Their owner says they are better at trailing coons, those well-known game animals of the south, than the best coon dogs in the state. Last December he captured 22 raccoons with the aid of these cats, and neither cat got as much as a scratch from the animals. "Tom and Jerry," he said, "will follow me like dogs for miles through the woods, until they see or scent a rabbit, bird or squirrel. Then they squat down close to the ground, wag their tails from side to side, and remain motionless until 1 see the game and shoot. Then they dash forward, seizing the animal or bird and holding it until 1 arrive." The Worth of the Money.?A woeful waste of Roman coin is thus deplored: tkey. Jr. (fresh from school)?Fader, von Caesar von a battle vonce; he chust wrote "veni, vidl, viei" in his message to Rome. Ikey, Sr.?Ach, such a fool?und he could have sent seven words more for his quarter. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced In Early Files of The Yorkville Enquirer NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY ? Bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of Today a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Most 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 older people and for the entertainment and instruction of the present generation. FIFTY-EIGHTH INSTALLMENT (Thursday Morning, February 7, 1861). The "Catawba Light Infantry."?North Battalion, 46th Regiment. Officers?R. H. Glenn, Captain; H. A. Wallace, 1st lieutenant; S. L. Campbell, 2d lieutenant; W. L. Thompson, 3d lieutenant; James A. Glenn, 1st sergeant; A. A. Harnett. 2d sergeant; J. H. Barry, 3d sergeant; J. T. Thompson, 4th sergeant; J. B. Tate, 5th serivnnl fi O Simril 1st enrnnrnL -T. R. \V. Wallace, 2d corporal; J. C. Stewart, 3d corporal; Robert I^atta, 4th corporal; W. D. Glenn, 5th corporal; Geo. W. Mason, 6th corporal. Privates?J. P. Anderson, W. N. Abernathy, J. R. Adkins, J. M. Barnett, J. J. Barnett, A. A.- Barron, B. F. Boyd, T. M. Baxter, John O, Barnes, J. B. FIRST LINER THROUG CS3 i? M ggg^ :, m^A? q Mtf&JzK f2tifl88S8P^^ mmm ^. $# :* :?^i ^h - ^ * y* * ^ E^-x:::'x:::::::::::::::: xXjx-xvXv: ^^YX'SVXVA C-. ~ SnS :'*\] The Panama railroad steamship through the Panama canal, in the Gatu Governor Goethals and was eminently i Brown, J. H. Barry, D. F. Barnett, W. i J. 1 *<iw? :i. J. V. (Mm,-it, J. U. Cmik, N. 1 Campbell, D. T. Cook, W. E. Campbell, R. W. Choat. J. H. Cathcart, \V. J. Cul- j lender. J. J. Divinny, W. G. Elnley, B. I-'. Fewell, J. W. Kelts, R. Finley, S. A. Glenn, J. H. Glenn. S. H. Glenn. W. Garrison, Thomas Grier, T. J. Hudlestone, S. J. Hutchison, W. G. Johnson I). M. Johnson, S. \V. Jackson, J. H. , Kincaid, L. L. Laney, J. S. McKenzie. ^ W. R. Moore, W. A. J. McCollum. J. W. , McCully, R. H. McCully, P. A. Mitchell, , R. McCaw, A. A. McKenzie, J. A. Mc- ( Carter, Jas. F. Nesbitt, J. W. Pierce , 0. A. Patrick. R. V. Patrick, L. D. Quinn, W, B. Poov.v, J. A. Stewart, J. i J. Simril, J. Timberlake, J. F. Wallace. ( R. S. Wilkerson, S. M. Wallace, T,. R. , Williiims O C_ Wood. W. D. Watson J. S. Wright, W. H. Ward, T. W. Youngblood. O. N. Youngblood, A. Yearwond. B. P. Bryson, J. R. Warren. "The "Wh.vte Guards."?South Rattnl- J ion, 4fith Regiment. ' Officers?A. E. Hutchinson, Captain: . T. B. Meacham, 1st lieutenant: J. S. Williamson, 2d lieutenant: James Ratterree. 2d lieutenant; I>. D. Moore, 1st sergeant: J. N. Moore, 2d sergeant: ( Leopold Levi, 2d sergeant; W. M. j Gordon, 4th sergeant; W. T. Hanna, ] fith sergeant: J. T. Shaw, 1st corporal; J. A. Henry, 2d corporal; J. M. Mc- ( Dowell, 3d corporal; J. S. Sandifer, ] it H nurnnro 1 \\* P T^nnlnti ?\tV? poral; Alfred Moore, 6th corporal. Privates?J. M. Adams. Wm. Adams, W. J. Adkins, Wm. Aiken, D. M. Allison. W. O. Beckham. J. M. Rlack, E. Blakkmon, K. G. r.. Boyd. J. T. Brown, H. Burnsides, A. L. Byers, Harvey Carter, Samuel Carter, R. P. Chambers. 1. N. Clark. W. B. Cline, Thomas ?'ollins, E. T>. Crawford. J. C. Crowson, James Daniel. T. N*. Dunlap, Wm. El kins. Perry Ferguson, Wm. Findley, J. W. Garvin, W. 11. Gray, Dr. R. ('. Hanna. J. T. Harrison, J. C. Kicklin, T. D. Henry, It. L. Johnson, G. M. D. Jones M. H. Kennedy, Josiah Lock, T. H. Marks, V. J. Massey. M. H. McCammon, Robert McConnell, John McDowd, Joseph McGarity, A. R. McClain, J. F. Miller. E. R. Mills. Wm. Moore. W. R Murphy, R. H. Neel.v, John Nelson, J J. Nichols, J. G. Nowland, J. F. < )'Neall. 11. N. Owens, S. A. Parker. A. W. Poag, T. W. Richardson, R. G. C. Ried. T. J. Roach, W. D. Rogers, Allen Ross, N. M. Sandifer, J. J. Shaw, W. A. Steele, Sr.. W. A. Steele, Jr., W. Smart, M. Sparks, O. G. Stewart, T. W. Sturgis, T. S. Tipping. C. C. Westbrooks, J. A. Westbrooks, T. C. Williams, J. I). Williamson, W. W. White, J. H, Whitesides, James R. Westbrooks, Wm. White, James J. Wilson, J. A. Wren, William Ferguson. m m m Married?At the residence of the bride's father, on the 31st ultimo, by Rev. J. M. H. Adams, Mr. William C. Gist, of Union, and Miss Fannie D. Crenshaw, of this place. (Thursday Morning, Feb. 14, 1861). The New Magistrate. John G. Rnloe, Esq., has been appointed and qualified as magistrate, in place of James Jefferys, Esq., resigned. The resignation of Esquire Jefferys deserves more than a mere mention, at our hands. He had been in office twenty-two years, and during the entire period has discharged his responsible and oftimes irksome and difficult duties, ' with a conscientiousness, ability and ( strict regard for justice, unequaled. The cordial and undivided esteem and confidence of our community is the ( fitting reward to such an officer. , Town Council. \ An election for town council was held ( on ftionaay jasi, wnicn resuuea in iuvor of the Dry Ticket, by a majority of 25. There was no excitement, and a comparatively small vote was taken? an indication that the dry policy is fixed and determined in Yorkville. The ticket elected is as follows: Intendant: Dr. A. I. Barron. I Wardens: Richard Hare, W. H. Mc- ] Corkle, R. P. Smith, Dr. J. B. Allison. ( * * * i Flag for the Catawbas. We have been permitted to examine ( a very handsome banner, made by a bevy of town ladies?namely, Mrs. H. F. Adlckes and Misses Mattie Henley, Bell Williams, Lizzie Massey, Sallie ( Adickes, Fannie Witherspoon, Mollle , Adickes and Map Wright?for the Ca- ( H PANAMA CANAL k Alllanca, first ocean vessel to pass locks. This was & test ordered by satisfactory. , tawba Light Infantry. The design and ' execution of this flag, are both very good. The Held is blue silk, with a 1 large star in the centre, surrounded by ! the name of the company in needle- ! i worn. un tne omer a wen painieu palmetto, with the sea and vessels In ! the distance, enwreathed in the motto: "Our Rights We Defend." We must be allowed to compliment the ladies on this highly creditable display of their taste and skill as well as patriotism, ind the "Catawbas," on the possession [?f such a talisman to lead them on to victory and to glory. We are requested to say that the Rev. W. T. Hall will present this flag for the ladies to the Catawba Light Infantry, on Saturday week at noon, at the Catawba Parade ground. (To be Continued). No Secret Telegraph System.?Many persons are of the opinion that the wireless system of communication is particularly subject to tapping; but, iccording to the Scientific American, no telegraph system is absolutely se rret. Any one familiar with the Morse code can read ordinary messages entering any telegraph office. At Poldhu. on a telephone connected to a long horizontal wire, the message passing >n a government telegraph line a quarter of a mile away can he distinctly ' read. It has heen shown that it is pos- s sible to pick up at a distance, on an- ' )ther circuit, conversation which may c he passing through a telephone or tele- 1 ?raph wire. On one occasion an inves- * tigator was able to interfere from a * jistanco with the working of the or- N iinary telephones in Liverpool. ( 1 m 1 r Why Rain Clouds are Black.?The a color of a cloud depends on the man- | ier in which the sunlight falls upon it \ ind the position of the observer. It will | he noticed that high clouds are always t mp liirht in r>*tliit' ?inr1 this: i? li??- i cause the lijjht by which they are seen i s retlected from the undersurface by \ the numberless drops of moisture | tvhich ?<? to form the cloud. Heavy rain clouds, on# the other hand, are t round much nearer the earth, and so j :he litfht falls on them more direetl" c From above, Kivinjr a silver lining to I he cloud, though the undersurface | ippears black owing to the complete ( reflection and absorption of the light j >y the upper layers. Seen from above r jy an observer in a balloon, the black- t >st rain clouds uppear of the most | lazzlingly brilliant white. t iUisccUancous heading. THROUGH THE GREAT CANAL How the Ships are Handled on Trip From Ocean to Ocean. Suppose, now, our vessel enters from the Atlantic side, approaching the channel in Limon Bay, which is an arm of the Caribbean sea. From this e/itrance the vessel sails about seven miles through a made channel to Gatun. There it enters a series of three locks, which lift it 85 feet to the level of Gatun Lake. At the entrance to the locks at Gatun, or Miratlores, the captain will deliver over his vessel to the absolute control of an official of the canal, who will be in charge until the ship leaves the great waterway. Many nrera ntlnna nro mlten to nrpvont no cident in entering or leaving the locks. In the level stretches and on Gatun Lake the ship will proceed under its uwn steam. While going into and through the locks, however, the electric locomotive of the canal operating force will be the propeling force. The abservation niche in the center of each of the locks is so placed as to command an unobstructed view of the whole. The operator there directs and controls every operation in the passage of the vessel except the movements of the towing locomotive. He has before him on a table a control hoard with water levels and switch lever. Standing before this board, he directs the movements of the vessel and watches on the minature model before him the levels rise and fall and the levers go back and forward, as they do in the great waterway itself. After leaving the highest lock, as Bas Obispo, the ship will go under its own steam at full speed, if its captain desires, through the twenty-four miles of Oatun Lake. There it will enter the famous Culebra Cut, a deep slice in the mountains, the only break in the continental backbone of the two American continents from Alaska to Cape Horn. For nine miles the channel passes through this cut, ending at Pedro Miguel. It is in this section of the canal that so many slides and breaks have occurred?26 in all, covering a total area of more than 200 acres. For the satisfaction of those who fear that this may be a permanent danger, it should be mentioned that a recent special report on the geology of the cut concludes that, when the banks have been properly terraced and the pressure on the sides thus properly adjusted, there is no danger of the on/lnnrrnninrr * U a. nnnrnflnn l\f the completed canal. At Pedro Miguel the ship will enter another lock on its downward trip to the Pacific. This lock will lower it 33^ feet to Lake Miraflores, a small body of water, itself at an elevation of 54 2-3 feet above sea level. A sail of a mile and a half across this lake brings the ship to the station of Miraflores, where it will enter a series of two other locks and be lowered to sea level. At Miraflores eight and a half miles of channel separate the vessel from the Pacific. The canal has been graphically compared to a huge water bridge divided into two sections, with the locks acting as water elevators at each end.?Review of Reviews. FAMOUS FIELD OF HONOR Many of Nation's Most Notable Duels Were Fought at Bladensburg. The old Bladensburg dueling ground where the nation's great once fought to uphold their honor, is soon to be converted into building lots for happy homes, and the happy shouts of childhood will soon echo where once t?"? murderous pistol barked, the swords clashed, the dying duelists moaned. The famous dueling ground borders a small brook and is about fifteen acres In extent, fiat and low, and covered with weeds, grass, vines and an occasional cedar. It was convenient to Washington, close enough to Bladenshurg, Md., for a night's lodging, and ?asy of escape from legal authority on ?ither side of the district line. More than fifty hostile meetings Look place on the banks of this lonely ind melancholy brook?some fatal, some bloodless. The first victim was Edward Hopkins of Maryland, an ensign of infantry. He fell early in 1814. Two duels were fought on the ground .nai were especially uespeiuic. uur vas between General Mason, senator from Virginia and Colonel McCarty, from the same state. Although they tvere cousins they had a violent tilt at :he polls in Leesburg, Va, M?ason chalenged McCarty's vote and McCarty it once challenged Mason's life. Mason at first declined, was called a cowird and then determined to die, if need je, to refute the charge. Neither would consent to terms in vhich there was the least escape from leath for the other. They proposed to eap from the Capitol dome together ind tight on the way down, or to fight in a barrel of powder to be ignited by i slow fuse, but objections were raised >y their seconds. They finally agreed :o fight with muskets charged with juck-shot and at ten feet distance. The parties spent the night previous o the battle in what is now known as he George Washington house at Blad nsburg. At S o'clock on the morning >f February 6, IS 19, they repaired to he field of honor. The citizens of 31adensburg congregated in a snowstorm to witness the event. The wea>ons were chosen, ground measured, hoiee decided, antagonists placed, sec >nds and surgeons at hand, word was riven, both find simultaneously. Maion fell dead and McCarty was badly vounded. The other notorious meeting was the me that made the ground forever fanous. It was fought by James Barron ind Stephen Decatur. Both were imminent in the navy, but Decatur vas the "bright and shining star," the ride of the service, and when he fell he nation sorrowed and grieved. This luel is said to have been caused solely >y gossip and slander, and came off vithout a formal challenge from either arty. Commodore Decatur was a member if the court-martial and voted to sus>end Barron in ISO" for allowing the 1 rew of the British ship Leonard to loard and search the frigate Chesa- 1 eake, which Barron commanded, 'ommodore Decatur opposed every ap- ' dication in after years that Barron nade for restoration in rank, and al- j hough it is said Decatur acted the i art of a true man at the court-mar- i ial and subsequently, nevertheless i Barron naturally considered him his enemy. Some one reported that Barron had been challenged to combat by Decatur. Decatur denied the report and wrote: "I do not think that the fighting of duels under any circumstances can raise the reputation of any man, and have since discovered that it is not even an unerring criterion of personal courage." From this report insults and correspondence accumulated. The following is an extract from a letter of Barron to Decatur, dated November 19 1819, the original of which is in the possession of Mrs. Janey Hope Marr oi Virginia.: "You acknowledged that you had formed and expressed an opinion unfavorable to me, and yet your conscience was made of such pliable material that because the then honorable secretary of the navy was pleased to insist on your serving as a member of the court-martial, and because I did not protest against it you conceive that duty constrained you to take your seat as a member, although you were to act under the solemn sanction of an oath to render me impartial Justice upon the very testimony from which you formed an unfavorable opinion of me. How such conduct can be reconciled with the principles of common honor and justice to me is inexplicable. Under such circumstances no consideration, no power or authority on earth could or ouirht to have forced any liberal, high minded man to sit in a case in which he had a prejudice." The final result was that these two men, unquestioned in courage and holding the highest grade in the navy at the time, stifled their better judgment and on March 22, 1820, took their places eight paces apart on Bladensburg. Face to face they raised their pistols and took deliberate aim although it has been asserted that Decatur intended only to wound his opponent. The fact that Barron was hit in the exact spot Decatur had indicated seems to hear out this claim. Commodore Bainbridge was Decatur's second. while Captain Elliot acted for Barron. Before the command to fire was given Barron addressed Decatur: "Sir, I hope on meeting in another world we will be better friends than in this." Decatur replied: "I have never been your enemy, sir." Both fired at the same instant. Both fell, revived, forgave, regretted the act, and parted. Both were taken to Washington, Decatur to his home near Lafayette square, where he soon died. Barron, after 18 days of convalescence was removed to Hampton, Va. A few days later the two met and renewed their old friendship. No duels have been fought there since the Civil War. The superstitious say the place is haunted.?Kansas City Times. PHENOMENON OF HYPNOTISM Leading Authority Explains Strange Power in Rational Way. During the last twenty years there have been no lack of professional expositions of the facts of hypnotism, yet there remains a widespread belief that hypnotic treatment involves giving up one's will or self-control into the keeping of the hypnotist, and many even believe that once this is effected he can exercise his sway unseen and remote from the one-time subject of the treatment. It will interest many to learn, says Professor Marcus Harton, what is the real nature of the phenomenon of hypnotic suggestion by a practitioner and how far it may lie applied to oneself. He says: "It is familiar to all of us that emotions and sensations are under the control of our conscious will to a certain extent, and that there is also within us an intellectual process resembling in its effects and powers our conscious reasoning and will which has been variously called the unconscious reason, the sub-conscious, and even (at least in Ireland) the unconscious consciousness. We may term it for shortness "The unconscious.' "Now, the control over feelings and processes exerted by our consciousness is far weaker than that of the unconscious. If we have a bad attack of toothache and we will not try to feel the pain it disappears in a moment? and then returns ten times worse. But if a friend who interests us comes in for a chat we exert ourselves to give him civil company and the pain goe: of itself while he is there because our attention is on our conversation and JOSEPH B. FORAKER A new photograph of Joseph B. Foraker, former United States senator from Ohio, whose friends think he has an excellent chance to succeed Senator Burton in the upper house when the latter retires next March. iway from the pain. The probability < s that after his departure we shall iiul that the worst of the pain also departed. I "Now, if we can by any artifice engage or put to sleep the conscious part of ourselves and at the same time by some device induce the unconscious part to work on a directed object, it would appear probable that we could obtain results in the direction of our feelings and processes that would be otherwise unattainable. Now, this is just what hypnotism does: the conscious attention is either occupied or suppressed hy the various methods in use, and the unconscious is thereby enabled undisturbed to receive directions?directions which may be such as the conscious could not fulfill, like the banishment of pain and other things that we shall refer to. "In this way the patient or subject who invokes the help of the hypnotist is enabled indirectly to exercise a command over the processes of his own body, including sensations which he could not by direct willing control. We shall show that with a little training he can do for himself inst what he asks the hypnotist to do for him, and that hypnotic treatment is essentially a training in self-control, such as can be obtained in no other way. "The method of the older hynotists was the almost mechanical suppression of the activity of the conscious by passes, by fixing the gaze on light with the eyes in a strained position and by other like artifices. Dr. J. Milne Braniwell has informed us that he uses these methods mainly because his patients expect them, and consider themselves, or their performance, bound to give a rest to their waking consciousness. But he finds like most modern practitioners, that it is enough to ask the subject to compose himself as if to sleep in his wonted manner, and then in a dull, monotonous voice to repeat a suggestion of sleeping, which, however, the subject is to disregard as far as possible. , "This is a hard task for the observant and the mentally active no less than for the unstable, the neurasthenic and the hysteric, constantly occupied with their own experiences of the moment. Accordingly these two classes are difficult to hypnotize, whereas children and soldiers and sailors, accustomed to passiveness and to being bored in monotonous duties, are, on the contrary, extremely good subjects. The result of the treatment is that the patient feels a very complete sense of rest, his thoughts become vague and in some cases?not in all?he loses consciousness and passes into hypnotic sleep. During this sleep, as well as in the mere resting state, his unconsciousness remains open to suggestion, and this is the point in which it differs from the normal sleep. "The method I myself adopt for selfsuggestion is when comfortably settled i bed to count each full break inspir ation plus expiration, and after every 'five' or 'ten' to make the verbal suggestion?each word formulated in thought as if in silently repeating a lesson?what I wish to be accomplished. The formulation should be by rote without thought of the sense. Thus my first suggestion was that I should sleep by the completion of 150. I found that this worked ve?-y well; but that I was apt to wake up suddenly after a short time too sleepy to suggest and too wakeful to sleep. "The next thing was to put in at the 'tens.' My sleep shall be continuous, alternating with the other suggestion at the odd 'five,' and this succeeded. Another difficulty was that in counting I got into a state in which again I could neither count nor rest. This difficulty was overcome by altering the 'tens' suggestion. 'My sleep shall be sudden and continuous.' Suggestions for relief of pain, etc., have to be very carefully formulated, for the unconscious is somewhat of a foolish servant, and is apt to act on the strongly emphasized word rather than on the meaning of the behest. "Thus if we want to inhibit toothache and the formula be 'I shall have no more pain,' the word pain seems to impress the unconscious. I must put it 'the pain will cease,' or 'my teeth * will be comfortable.' The only time when I find It difficult to insure sleep Sc t om vopv tir*?d and find count ing a burden; it is hard to be both hypnotist and subject. "Inherited muscular tremor has been cured by the suggestion that all movements should be very steady. For nervousness at examinations, stage fright and other such trouble self-suggestion the evening before is invaluable. But after a little practice has been obtained I recommend every one to follow my example and go to a professional with the request that the suggestion to be impressed be 'that the method grow in ease and efficiency:" this will, as it were, clinch the capacity in the mind.?London correspondence New York Sun. Mr. Finley Calls on President.?A proposal to honor the late Col. David DuB. Oaillard, who died from an illness aggravated by overwork on the Panama canal, by naming Cuebra cut after him, was laid before President Wilson yesterday by Representative Finley of South Carolina, according to an Associated Press dispatch. Mr. Finley brought with him a resolution adopted by the Federation of Women's Clubs of South Carolina, pro posing the change. The South Carolina congressman said the suggestion had met with the hearty approval of the president. .Mr. Finley also invited the president to attend the 150th anniversary of the founding of Cheraw, S. C., on July 8. The president took the invitation under advisement. ? Detective William J. Burns today was ousted from the International Association of Chiefs of Police, says a Grand Rapids dispatch of Friday. Not only that, but if he does not desist in using the insignia of the association he will be prosecuted. Led by J. L. Beavers, chief of police at Atlanta. CJa., the seat of the Leo Frank case, the chiefs opened their closing session by bringing Burns' name for discussion. Henry Gallagher announced that the honor roll of the association had been revised and that Burns' name had been stricken off. Chief Heavers then declared that Burns' conduct in his city was disgraceful and that he should be denied the right to use the insignia of the association in conducting his "so-called" detective work. Chief F. W. Hall, of Chattanooga, called Burns a "grafter." a "fakir" and a "misrepresenler.'" and offered a motion empowering President Sylvester to cause the arrest of and prosecution of any person, and especially Burns, for using the insignia of the association unless given special permission to do so. The (luestion caused a great deal of excitement and when Chief Monohan, of Jersey City, intimated that he wanted to defend Burns he was hissed. The vote on Hill's resolution was unanimous.