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f^SERIA^: f l storyl j , stanton] ' n wins n : I Eleanor M. InqCun Author of "The Gome '< and the Candle." "Tl'he Flying Mercury,"/ etc. lllutlralions fa/{ Frederic Thornt/urgh f l ! i I ? i' 'I 'op? right. UU The Bobba-Morrill Gouipunj ? SYNOPSIS. a*.t tlie beginning of great automobile race tlie mechanician ot' the Meufuiry, Stanton's machine, droj.s dead. Strange youth. Jesse Floyd. volunteers, nnd Is accepted. CHAPTER I. Continued.) "Goin* to throw awjay the race an' wreck your machine, for foolishness?" he Inquired. "That's just like you, Kalph Stanton. You'll risk a blow-out an' a smash to save five minutes in a twenty-four hour race. You can drive, hut you won't use trunnion sense." Something snapped under Stanton's mask. Raging witlj silent fury, ho slowed down his cj r and swung into the paddock gate if* they came opposite it, thundering through to his own ramp. "Fix that tire," he commanded, as the swarm of mechanics surrounded thein.'aud descended from his sent to confront the assistant manager. "Have you got me another mechanician, yet? This one won't do." "Why, no," Mi} Green deprecated. "Tlie driver who [alternates with you wants to keep his mechanician; besides, the man Un't exactly ready to go with you, and, he couldn't do hoth shifts, anyhow. I I've telephoned to the company to find a man and rush liim here. What," ho looked toward the group nroutd the car, where Floyd's bronze head shone In the electric liorVlt 11 a lie I ,1 ( i\rn?A.t,lln,ra "what's the matter with this one? Scared?" "No," conceded Stanton, grudgingly Just. "Insolent and interfering." "Well, If that is all?" Stanton turned his back upon the speaker, recklessly and blindly angry, past all reasoning. When, the brief operation completed, Floyd sprang up beside his driver for the start, Stanton surveyed hiin through his goggles. "If you are nervous about my driving and my sense, you had better get off now," was the grim warning. "For I drive as I see lit, and I'm going to make up these laps." "Why areiyou wasting time here, then?" countered the mechanician, practically. The Mercury hurtled viciously down the line of training camps and burst out on the track like a blazing meteor. Stanton shifted into high gear on the curve, and began to drive?as he saw lit. ?" The elos^ packed witnesses stood during mo^t of the next hour, alternately applauding and shouting dismay, climbing on seats and benches to see. The other racers gave the Mercury room on the turns, after the Alan car tried to steal an inside sweep, and skidding, missed destruction through and with Stanton by the narrow margin of a foot. There was neither opportunity nor wish for speech between the two who rode the verge of death on the Mercury. Floyd attended steadily to his duties; pumping oil, brushing the yellow trackdust from the pilot's goggles to clear his vision for each turn, watching the tires and the other machines. Rut he made no protest at the deadly methods of his companion. Near the end of the second hour, the scream of the klaxon sounded its signmcani warning or trouoie. "It's us?lamps out," called the mechanician, after a comprehensive review of their machine. Stanton shook his head impatiently, and kept on; deliberately passing the paddock gate instead of turning in. As they shot by the grand-stand for the second lime, the klaxon sounded again, long and imperiously. "(Join' to tight the Judges?" llsi>cd Floyd, with careful politeness. The driver did not speak or glance from the funnel-effect of light and dark into which they were boring, hut the catch of his breath was not gentle. However, he swung into the puddock, on the next circuit, and halted a brief instant to have the lamp relighted. Familiar with his usual wants, a man ran bringing a pitcher of water to Stanton; who swallowed a little, then pushed the vessel so roughly toward his mechanician that some of the liquid splashed over the recipien> and trickled down upon them both. ' Here," lie offered curtly. "Thanks," Floyd accepted, and drank as they bounded forward, tossing the tin pitcher back over his shoulder, where a reporter gathered it up and sat upon a keg of oil to write a pretty account of the volunteer mechanician who had made the Mercury's entry possible and of the consequent regard of Stanton for him The next hour passed a trifle more quietly. Perhaps even Stanton was sufficiently tired by the strain to drive with some conservatism; perhaps he acknowledged mentally that no car built would stand sueh viciously gm \ sling work for twenty-four consecutive lours. But he kept the lead gained, or all that, and a pace like the long iwoop of a swallow. "Car coining out of the paddock. Hundred and eightieth lap. Car itoppod Lround the bend." Floyd reported, at intervals. Otherwise there was mute attention to business on the part of both men. "Signal," Stanton abruptly ordered, at last, as they rushed across the stretch of track between the grandstand and the training-camps. "*** Floyd obediently rose in his place, raising his nrms above his head in the accepted signal to their men to stand ready for the car's entrance. On the next circuit Stanton turned into the paddock and came to a stop before the Mercury's tent. "Got out." he directed, and himself left his seat. The two men who alternated were waiting to relieve the two who descended from the machine. The workmen swarmed around to till tanks and give swift inspection, and the fretting car sped back to the track. Left opposite each other in the flickering glare of the swinging electric lamps, driver and mechanician stood for a moment, weary, car-stiff, and still tense. Stanton unclasjied his mask with a jerk, took a step toward the tent, then turned toward his assistant. "The three hours nre up," he observed roughly. "I suppose you leave me." "Why do you suppose that? Are you through with nie?" Floyd asked, with studied quietness. "1 made the offer to any man who would go for the first throe hours. The time is up: you're free to get your money from Mr. Green, and leave." Floyd took o(T his own mask and bared his white, steadfast face and tired eyes to the other's gaze. "1 entered for the raee, or for as much of it as you want me." he corrected. "Until you quit, or And a substitute you like better, I'm with you." They looked at each other. "Go rest, then. There is cofTee inside," bade Stanton, and swung on his heel. At the entrance to his tent he was met by the exultant assistant manager. "I've got you a mechanician, Stanton!" lie exclaimed jubilantly. "I tel ophoncd our fix to headquarters, and Jack Rupert is coming down?the chief tester at the factory, you know, who used to race with the chief himself. He 'phoned that he wouldn't see the Mercury thrown out hut to tell you he was going to cancel his life insurance policy llrst so he would not be accused of suicide for the benefit t J-?Jh i* ki (pS$ r ci ^ tLi! I -Li _ a?-' "I Am One of the Men of his heirs. Funny chap! He'll he here before you go on the track again." "What for?" riem.'indert Stnntnn "If I kill my mechanician, 1 kill my car and myself?I don't need two men, and I've got one." "Hut I thought you said?" began the amazed Mr. Green. "1 was wrong. 'Phone Rupert that I'll k<ep Floyd. Now, I'd like to get some rest." The assistant manager stepped j aside from the entrance, confounded. CHAPTER II. The Risk and the Lady. Two hours later. Stanton emerged from his camp and strolled toward | the paddock exit. It was after two o'clock in the morning; the dark arch of star set sky overhead, the black emptiness of the central field except for the line of tents, contrasted oddly with the glistening white track where | the meteor-bright cars circled tirelessly to the accompanying monotone of many voices, varied by the occasional wail of the official klaxon. One machine was out of the race, after going f throurh tbo fence; a heap of dlso^ dered metal which men were striving frantically to restore to activity, while In the illuminated hospital tent its driver and mechanism were undergoing a kindred process of rehabilitation. Other cars went In and out 'rom their camps, for oil, for gasolene, for tiros and minor repairs?for all the countless wants of a racing machine. Stanton looked for the Mer- j cury, then, satisfied, crossed the track and entered the space before the grand-stand. Aiong uie coge 01 me cement promenade were parked a row of automo- ; biles whose owners preferred to wit- , noss the race from their own cars rather than from the tiers of seats bohind. Past them Stanton turned, j avoiding tlie fire of attention and curiosity he would draw by crossing the lighted space where recognition must follow. He wtis going to the restaurant in the interior of the stand. Hut as he passed a big white touring car at the end of the row, a woman leaned front the shadow of the top. "1 beg your pardon." she summoned. her tone composed and rather Imperious. The apology veiled a command. Stanton halted. "Madam?" he responded, astonished and scarcely pleased. She deliberately stepped down be side him, accompanied by the crisp sound of shaken silk and a drift of faint, rich fragrance. She wore a dark motor-veil, and in the mingling of dense shadows and glaring lights it was not possible to distinguish more j than her general effect of youth and j well-poised grace. "I fancied by your costume that vou were one of the racers," she on plained. "And as I only arrived an hour ago, I wished to beg some information." "1 am one of the men driving," he corroborated. She turned to glance at the cars rushing by, struggling for the lead "Thank you. Can v u till me whether Halph S'anton is now driving the Mercury?" "No," ho answered, interested for the first time. "But he will take the wheel again In half an hour." "Ah'. I have heard so much of his spectacular feats, I." she gave a careless, rippling laugh, "1 confess I should like to see some of them." "Yes? Well, half the people hero conic to see whether some of the men won't take a chance once too often. They say there is a pleasant thrill in watching some one else get killed." "Hardly that," she demurred. "Still, If one comes to an automobile race, one wants to sec something more exciting than a drive in the park; something more exciting than that." She waved a fragile hand toward the v li Driving," He Corroborated. track, shruKtdng her shoulders with an airy amusement and acorn. Stanton surveyed the scene, tha darkness hiding his expression. "The Mercury is marking time with a substitute driver, the Duplex is off with a choked feed-pipe, and the Stern went through the fence," he summed I lip. "The others ?re driving to witf by endurance, playing for accidents to the faster cars. It is a dull period, just now Yet every car there is going fast enough to face destruction if anything goes wrong." She turned to him again, and he knew her gaze swept him interrogatively, eearchlngly.' Hut his closefitting linen costume offered no means of identification, since he purposely kept from the light the silver letters running across his Jersey. (TO HI". CONTINUKD.) No Danger. "I can't understand why you wish to go to the legislature. Don't you think your business will suffer if yot aro elected?" "Oh. no. You sec. I manufacture things which aro needed in famish 1 lug public offices." \ f I munMoMfek^ ? $ULL PUN WTLLFILLD^^ AS IT APPEARS TODAf ^ DESPITE the crippled condition In which the south Found Itself at the close of the Civil war, one of tlio first affairs to receive atW tp tent ion was the provision I for a suitable resting place S; j-* for the soldiers who had j|| yielded their lives In the ' tight for the lost cause. The state legislatures without exception made provisions for establishing special cemeteries in 1 which the bodies of confederate soldiers could be placed. Much of the credit for this work Is due to the women of the confederacy who gave their heartiest effort to this work. Wherever a battle was fought or a hospital was situated within the limits of the confederacy provision was made for suitable care for the dead. While the chief thought was naturally for the soldiers of their own army, even in that early day there was ninny n Union soldier's grave which was also the recipient of tender attention from the hands of the people against whom he fought. There are more than fifty of these confederate cemeteries scattered over the southern states and on Memorial day each still receives some tribute of remembrance. Kach grave in these cemeteries has been marked in some way. either from the appropriations made for the purpose by the state or by the subscriptions and donations made by the people of the vicinity in which it Is located. Special monuments of appropriate design still are being erected in honor of confederate soldiers in each of the states represented in the confederacy and the state appropriations for this purpose have been most liberal Some of the cemeteries have a number of monuments representing different appropriations In the confederate cemetery at Charleston. S (' . there are six memorial monuments and a large number of memorial tablets. Richmond has eleven monuments nnd a number of memorial tablets, and Winchester, in the same state, has nearly as many. In New Orleans the beautiful monuments erected to the memory of confederate soldiers are especially noteworthy. The south also has honored the women whose loyalty and unselfish devotion inspired the valor of the men, and in tlio cemetery at Fort Mill, S. C? thorn recently has bnen erected a monumnnt to tho women of tho south and another one to tho faithful slaves, who. notwithstanding tho temptation of proffered liberty, were loyal to their masters and to the charges committed to their care. A number of new monuments are In process of erection in the south. Some of them are being placed in national ; cemeteries as. for example, each conj federate state which had troops In the battle of Chlckamauga will have Its participation marked by a shaft in the t'hickamauga National park. Sim liar action is to he taken in the near future for the battle fields of Antic tarn. Shiloh and Gettysburg. The united action of the soldiers of the north and the south in connection with the Spanish war was the death blow to whatever factional feeling still existed between the two sections of the country and shortly after Ita close popular opinion began to favor the United States government making some provision for the marking of the graves of the confederate soldiers with Htones similar to those provided for the Union soldiers. President Me Kinley advocated it in a public address in Atlanta shortly after the close of the Spanish war. At a reunion of the United Confederate veterans held a few months later, the matter was discussed and j resolutions of appreciation adopted It was voted, however, that any federal action taken for this purpose should BEATS THE JEWELER'S PLAN Cheerful Chap Saves 100 Per Cent, on His Diamond Purchases by Not Buying. "I notlco an advertisement of a Jeweler's," said tho Gloomy Individual, helping himself to tho sugar "that says for one week only ho enn save buyers T.r> per cent, on their diamond purchases." The Cheerful C.ha? shrugged his { shoulders. v ) l ?r?^1 '| ,?S3SS^s?S2?2a^ refer only to the confederate graves which are In northern states, as the care of such graves In the southern states h; regarded uh a sacred trust. The llrst movement made toward a provision for marking the graves of the soldiers of the confederate army and navy upon the part of the federal government was the appropriation by congress of $2,.r>00 for the purposes of gathering the remains of confederate soldiers buried In Arlington and in various places in the District of Columbia and collecting them at one place I O, I l .? ? ... .... i.iiuuiiui ucuiuier/ ill /vi uiiK" ton. It is assorted that George I.. Rhinehart. a soldier of the 23d (or 26th) ! North Carolina infantry, was the first | confederate interment made in Arllngj ton. Many interments were made afterward of persons held to be "citizens ; in rebellion" until as late as the latter part of 1S67. They were .not all ! confederate soldiers, a few being state prisoners of war who had been held In the Old Capitol prison In Washington In all 370 persons classed as confedj crates were hurled there. When, after the marking of the graves of Union 1 soldiers, there was a surplus left from j the appropriation, part of it was used to mark these other graves, classing; I them as rebels, citizens, contrabands, prisoners of war. etc.. and over their graves were erected plain marble headstones of similar description for all as civilians, having upon each only the number of the grave and the name of the occupant, so that there was nothing to distinguish the graves of the confederate soldiers from other classes. This was the condition until In the '70s, when 211 were removed by the states of Virginia, North and South Carolina, leaving 186. These wero scattered about the cemetery in irrel gular groups intermingled with the i graves of Union soldiers and others. This was discovered about 1898 and It was also found that there was 128 confederate dead in the Soldiers' Home cemetery. These were collected and marked with headstones bearing the name, rank, company, regiment and state of the soldier. In June, 1903, the first memorial exercises I were held over these graves. Out of the reburial of the confederate dead at Arlington arose an investigation conducted by the Charles Broadway House camp of United Confederate Veterans regarding condition and location of the graves of the confederate prisoners, who died in tho federal prisons and military hospitals in the northern states. As a result of this a bill was passed by congress providing for the establishment of a commission to ascertain tho location and condition of all the graves of confederate soldiers who died In federal prisons and military hospitals in the north and who were buried near their place of confinement, and to acquire possession and control over all grounds where such prison dead are burled, which is not under control or in possession of the United States government. TIiIh commission was directed "to propane accurate registers in triplli "I know a way to save more than that," said he. "In fact, I am doing it. Up to date I have saved exactly 100 per cent, on my diamond purchases during the holidays?" Yawning, he folded his napkin, "liy not buying any." But the remarks of the Ihomy Ind'vidual were loet it noiBe the Cheerful Chap made, as he pushed his chair back from the table. Did You Tell Her? "1 suppose youf wife was more ? iH? 1 M rt^ii- Mn* ~ tfuM.CKM TMMCUT cuto, one for the superintendent's office. one for the quartermaster-general's othce and one for the war record ofllce, confederate archives of the places of burial, the number of the grave, the name, company, regiment and state of every confederate soldier so burled, by verification with the confederate archives at Washington; to cause to be erected over said graves white marble headstones similar to those placed over the graves of the "confederate section" in the National cemetery at Arlington. No Iobs than 30,153 confederate soldiers are buried in different places coming under the provisions of this act. No little difficulty was incurred in searching them out nearly forty years after they were buried, but the work was begun in a spirit of earnest zeal and a large percentage of the graveB found have been identified. The task is practically finished and a detailed account is being prepared for the secretary of war, which will be published. In some instances the graves could not be found, but a known number of soldiers were buried in a certain place. One old cemetery containing a number of confederate graves was swept over by fire a number of years ago, so that no traces of the graves were left. In this case it was impossible to erect separate headstones, so a large monument was erected upon which were placed bronze tablets Inscribed with the names of the soldiers burled In the cemetery, i In many Instances the citizens of localities In which confederate soldiers are burled have caught the spirit voiced by President McKlnley and have raised monuments by popular subscription. In somo other places monuments havo been erected by public funds, but so thorough has been the work of caring for the graves of the confederates buried in the north that ft Is beileved there are no longer any unmarked graves In the northern states. Irish Sea a Noval Barometer. The degree of saltness of the Irish sea Is the Indicator Prof. H. Rassett proposes to use for long-distance weather predictions. The salinity is found to vary In a period of about one year, with corresponding changes In temperature, the water being more snltly and relatively warmer In winter and spring and fresher and relatively cooler In summer. It Is argued that the alterations of temperature must afTect the number and character of tho cyclones coming ; from the ocean. The changes of salinity and their time of occurrence have been found ; to precede certain seasonal types of weather, and It Is beileved that month. ! ly observations of the saltiness would give a general weather forecast for ; the Mritlsh isles four or five months 1 ahead. Herman electricians have found that snow never collects on transmission I lines that carry 100.000 volts or more, even when they are not charged and ! cold. than delighted at your raise of salary. wasn't she?" asked Larkln of Robin. "I haven't told her yet, but she will be when Bh^ knows It," answered Robin. "How is It that you haven't told "Well, I thought 1 would enjoy my* self a couple of weeks first." A woman Is almost pretty when she Is heiress to a million, and a beauty when she Inherits It, " 'fttffiB