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Wr '""" " " " " kvj: ? . DAYIE RHYS,COWARD |\ By WILLIAM MACLEOD RAISE and WILLIAM HENRY EADER. His great frame filling ihe doorway, "Dynamite" John glanced up at the snow-comb hanging over the mountain edge far above, "She'll rip loose some day and smother us for sure," he said. "That's what." agreed Brawn, with a sly glance at Davie Rhys, the butt of the mine. "Bet nil she comes down this very night." "Hello, Davie, bye! Be thee going to get out of the track of un?" jeered a third. "I am," said Davie. "Th .re be no nlflpA for mp in a snowslide. I'm no top man." "That ye're not," scoffed Brawn; 4'an no first-class headsman would ' v own you for his trammer, either." A slow flush crept into Davie's homely honest face. He knew himself for a born coward, and he knew that these rough, reckless miners also knew him for one. The risks they took without a thought in the dark depths of the mine made him shudder. Yet he was a man grown, as big and strong a Cornishman as they. "Aw, leave the bye alone," spoke up Jemmie Lord, the cook. "It he's no fault of his that un's a six-foot babbv. I mind of a story I heard SWT; when I was a little un. ' "Ye an' yer stories!" growled Dynamite. "What matters it to. thee if we have bit fun with the bye?" and the man slouched out into the c.; siarut mgnr. "Better get outside. Davie," said . Brawn, leering at Jemmie. "I will, mon. If there be snow& slides comin', I want to be where 'I can run," said Davie, contemptuous of his own weakness. SHe strode out of the cabin in a rage with himself, a voliey of guffaws following him. He stood on the* ledge in front of the cabin; looking down into the canon below. From the edge there was a sheer drop of fifty feet, and below that a descent for nearly a mile to the river, on the. edge of which he could sec the shining lights of the Blue Bell stamp-mill. Half Pa mile to his right ran the ore tramway of the Blue Bell, connecting the mine far up on the shoulder cf the mountain with the mill in the canon. Except for that aerial route, there was no means cf communication bet . ,.tween the miners above and the mill below. Davie glanced up at the great snow-comb above, and shuddered. If it should break, and if the slide t N should catch their bunk-house in its descent! A moment, and he ,was frantically tearing open the cabin door. The miners looked round, to I"'. see framed in the opening the face of Davie, wild and haggard. mere uu ue a. bixuwsuue acomin'?" he yelled. "I hear the comb breakin' awa from the ridge now. Git i ye out quick, 'cause Dynamite's gone an' left thee, an* I'm a-goin'!" "Ha! ha!" yelled the chorus of " miners. Brawn snoiued, "Ho, ho, Davie,' bye! Think thee is goiu' to work our own game on us? Go awa! Go ^ awa! But Davie had already gone, daring to pause no longer before the downward sweep of the swirling, crackling, roaring white terror. He clambered madly up the side of the gulch in a desperate, heart-pounding scramble for life. Behind him he beard the thunderstorm rush of the slide scoring its way down the mountain ravine. Safe on the rim he paused at last, his ears deafened with the roar, his eyes dilating fear]{ fully, his head reeling. Gradually the terrific noise sub' sided, the white swirling pall settled. Davie, trembling on the rock ledge, peered fearfully down into the path of the slide. The cabin he had left not' five minutes before was nowhere to be seen. The avalanche bad wiped the bluff clean. knew his comrades must be buried, alive or dead, under forty feet of snow at the foot of the ledge on which the cabin had stood. He knew, too, that even if they were alive help must reach them soon or they would smother. Turning, he sped swiftly along the trail in the direction cf the comr pressor-house. From out of the darkness his voice rose in a shriek: "Dynamite! Dynamite!" But no answeri-ner vnina roinorloH with tV)O I ? VIVV <? *va* ^ of the shrill cry. "Dynamite, the men he covered in the snowslide!" Yet although the hills cried his terror back and forth, no other answer came. Davie, before the black depths of the unlighted compressorhouse, stopped to wring his hands despairingly. "I cannot dig tin out alone! Where be Dynamite?" He would have given anything for a glimpse of Dynamite John, the camp bully and hero, that he might thrust the responsibility upon his broad shoulders. Eut that doughty champion, well aware that where one slide had come others were likely soon to follow was running swiftly for safety across the hills. Into Davie's tottering mind leaped a picture of the one chance for his buried mates. Half a mile away the tiny tnread of the Blue Bell .tramway spun its course down at a dizzy height over the cliffs and gorges. If he could fling himself into one of the descending orebuckets he might perhaps carry the ? news of the accident to the men at the mill, and they might bo able to rescue his comrades from their snowy grave. "C . /\ ; \ Snow - filled gulches lay between him and the aerial tramway, and above them huge white razor-edged snow-combs hung suspended fronv the rocky lidges, threatening to crash down without warning upon him. He knows that a pistol-shot, a sharp call, even the bark of a dog, is often sufficient to precipitate tbe menacing masses of snow which hang on the giant crests of the Rocky Mountains. But he plunged headlong into the first drift. He could not quell, but he would not yield to the deadly iear clutching at his heart. Interminable seemed his slow advance through the great snow billows, around boulders and over fallen trees. At times he was buried in the depths, wallowing he knew not where, oppressed by dread lest at any moment he might fling himself over a precipice. Yet he worked steadily forward till he came to the base of the forty-foot height of timbered tramway station. At intervals of about two hundred yards these stations were built to support the tramway. On the platform of each station was a shaft bearing two heavy iron wheels grooved to receive the cable, on which were suspended every hundred feet the iron ore-buckets running from the min^ to the mill and back to the J mine in an endless chain. These buckets were so nicely ad- j justed, to facilitate dumping, that any unevenness in loading would ! cause them to empty themselves. It ! was into one of these swaying buckets that Davie meant to make his j flying leap. To miss the cable- j clutch, to strike the side of the bucket in such a way as to cause it j in its wild rebound to fling him out, ' i would be sure death. ! Somewhere above Davie a neglect- j erl whepl shrieked an uncanny wail ! of complaint. Occasionally the click of a bucket-grip rang out in the darkness. The trammer shuddered as he began to climb up the icecoaied ladder. When the trammer reached the | slippery landing his nerves, were | quivering and his head swam. The i swaying buckets seemed to click a : warning to him as they passed. He J nad once seen a man, under the spur i of whisky and a foolish boast, attempt the leap i^ito one of these ' buckets. He had later helped carry j his crushed, lifeless body from the { sharp rocks below. That had been j in the daytime and this was black j night. He shrank back. "I don't know," he murmured, j "whether it can be did in the dark ! or no. I saw Black Tom miss, an' j heared un shriek as un cracked un j bloody'skull on the rocks." Eucket after bucket passed, and j the man still fought with his fears. He cursed himself for a coward, he i crouched for the leap once and again, but he hung back, trembling. He promised himself it should be next time, but as the buckets came down j out of the darkness he wavered. His j lips were parched and shriveled, his j blazing eyes strained in their sockets. In an instant it was done. As the black bucket ^slipped down at him he leaped far out into dizzy space and caught tfye clutch. The bucket swayed from the impact, tossed like a Doat in a neavy sea, and seemed to hurl him from it. His mind was a tortured chaos as he found himself riding in a wild flight downward. The terrific i;oar in his ears churned all sounds to a | scream of malignant triumph. Round the new stove in the tern- J porary and hastily constructed cabin, ! Brawn, Dynamite, Jemmie Lord, and j the other survivors of the snowslide, j sat in the glow of the firelight. "Quite a boost for Davie," said j the cook. "I hear the super is going ! to make un timekeeper on the j Mary H." "Hd earned it," said Brawn. "He did more'n Dynamite here thought o' doin', an' more than any o' the rest of us would have done. I say he earned it." "That's what he did," said Jemmie. "It was him told un to bring along the pipes to poke in the snow for us, too. They never would have got us out if they hadn't brought those pipes along." "That's right," agreed Brawn. "They might have dug for a month without finding any of us. 'Twas Davie bye saved us." The other mea. noaaea snenuy. "All right to talk about it now," continued Brawn, "but if it hadn't been for Davie's nerve, we would be J down in the gulch here, frozen stif- ' fer'n square sets by this time. If ! anybody asks me who's the bravest j man I ever knew, I'll say Davie, an' lick un if he disputes it." "Brave!" sneered Dynamite. "I saw un hangin' round the dump today, skeered to go in under that talc drift for the last car-load." "You may drop that, Dynamite! We'll not stand for it any more!" growled one of the men. "All the more reason," said Jemmie, "that he should get to be timekeeper. He won't have to go into anything he's skeered on then, unless he gets sore on somebody, an' that ain t L>avie s v. ?,>. "Well," said Brawn, "we*s a-goin' to give him that 'ere gold watch for what he done, no matter what he's skeered on, an' we's go in-' to say special it's for bravery." "O' course." assented Jemmic, unu the other men nodded vigorous approval.?Youth's Corneaiiion. The thin paper on which the Oxford Eibie is primed is made t.ugr a secret process by the Oxford University Press. The secret is valued, at $ 1,2 50,0 00. r V -%> , ^ THE "UNWRITTEN LAW" Saves Louisiana Judge Who Slew His "Friend"?Grand Jury Refuses a Second Indictment Democratic Congressman George K. I Favrot was set free at Baton Rouge. La., Thursday night, after having been in jail continuously for about five months, unuer arrest on a charge i of murder, and awaiting action of a j grand jury. Thursday morning, by an j unanimous vote, the second grand jury, i which has considered his ease, refused to indict the congressman. Favrot, last .November, shot and killed Dr. R. H. Aldrich, of Baton Rouge, who had been his lifelong friend. The congressman declared that \ the physician had made disparaging remarks about itfrs. Favrot. The shooting occurred after an exciting election, in which Favrot had demonstrated great popularity, and while ! Favrot was still judge of the Baton | Rouge court, which has just set him ! free, lie resigned, and was indicted j by a split vote by a grand jury, which j had been selected under his juriouicj tion before the shooting. Because one I of the jurymen, who indicted him, was an illiterate Italian, unable to read the English language* the finding was quashed, the supreme court of Louisiana sustaining the quashing only a few days ago. CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH. One-Tenth of Total is Possessed By Not Over 200,000 Families. At Thursday night's "Session of the American Church Congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in New I Orleans, there was a discussion on "The Moral Strain in Social and Commercial Life." Rev. H. C. Garrett of St*. Louis said that the question of regulating corporate wealth was the first source of strained conditions, and the second "the widespread departure from the simple to the artificial mode of living." Speaking on corporate wealth, he said: "It is a remarkable fact that nearly eight millions of families in this country average in holdings a little less than $500 each, while not over 200,000 families possess one-half the entire wealth of the country. Out of1 the total annual income, one-half goes to one-tenth of the people. The other half is divided among the remaining nine-tenths." ENGINE HOSTLERS STRIKE. About 200 Employed by Central of Georgia Demand Higher Wages. Engine hostlers employed by the Central of Georgia railroad went on strike at Aclanta Thursday, as the result of a refusal on the part of the . oilrnn/l tn errant an increase in waees laaivuu vvr o4Vk"w ? ?- w and to do away with switching duties. The strike was general all over the system and probably 200 men in all, including helpers, walked out. The strikers, who were making $2.09 a day, made a demand or $2.75 a day. This demand is based on the statement that a hostler must have a thorough knowledge of firing and be a practical engineer, which equipment calls for a good deal of experience. ROOSEVELt SHOULD RETIRE To Make Way for W. J. Bryan, Say Missouri Legislators. In the Missouri legislature Thursday a resolution, endorsing President Roosevelt on his stand on "unprincipled use of wealth," was adopted and tabled after bf^ng so amended as to read that it was the sense of the Republican members that Roosevelt should run for president again. A resolution lauding Bryan, and declaring that President Roosevtlt should retire to make way for Bryan, was adopted. STRIKERS USING FIREARMS. I Montgomery Trolley Car Perforated by Several Bullets. Car So.- oi the Traction Company, at Montgomery, Ala., was fired on by strikers, or sympathizers, Thursday night. Five or six biillets hit the car, one of which glanced and struck # a motorman, witheut wounding him. A number of passengers were on the car *t the time. KANSAS FIGHTING BOOZE. Move Made to Oust All Breweries and Liquor Jobbers. Application was made to the supreme court at Topeka, Kans., Thursday by Attorney General Jackson for writs of quo warranto and injunctions | against eight brewery companies, [ mostly Missouri and Wisconsin conj corns, and against a number of whis! key jobbers. It is sought to compel j the defendants to cease doing business in Kansas through their agents. This action is considered the most drastic ever taken to enforce prohibition laws in Kansas. # | ii*-? fllhi i ! ii m i0i i *? i Palmetto Siate Newsf ! i I ; VVVVVVVV'V V 'V Potato Crop Knocked Out. The heavy frost did great damage to all truck farmers through the sections about Charleston. Potatoes are killed and other young vegetables are seriously damaged. * * * Band and Federal Troops Wanted. A Washington dispatch says:, Col. I T nf Qnnrli Carolina. I .J. .1. Ljai ftan, ui wuuiu ? , chairman of the committee in charge of the erection of the monument to General Sumter, the revolutionary' war hero, at Sumter, S. C., has asked the president to have the marine band and the soldiers stationed near Charleston ordered to Sumter next August when the monument is to be unveiled. The president gave Mr. Dargan a note to Assistant Secretary Oliver, of the war department, asking that the request be granted, if possible. * * * Death Recalls Turbulent Times. A Charlottesville, v'a., dispatch says: Daniel Chamberlain, who was governor of South Carolina during turbulent times immediately following jthe reconstruction era, died a few days ago at the home of William C. Chamberlain, near the University of i I Virginia. He was takm ill of cauI cer of the stomach last fall upon his j return from a pleasure trip to Egypt. I He had recently disposed of his properties in Massachusetts with a view of locating in Virginia. He was a graduate of Yale and of Harvard law school and was 72 years old. * I * . * Municipal Ownership Probable. With the view of either purchasing I the plant of the Home Water Supply Company, or building a new plant, the Spartanburg city council has engaged J. L. Ludlow, of Winston-Salem, X. C., a well known consulting engineer and expert on water works, to furnish an estimate of the worth of the present water works plant and tho cost of I making improvements and' also to furnish estimates on the cost of an entirely new plant. There is a strong sentiment among the members of the city council for municipal ownership of the water works plant and the indications are that the city will own and operate its plant within the nex; lew months. c * . Whiskey, Dispenser Arrested. W. H. Wolfe, a whiskey dispenser under the new fcary-Cothran dispensary act, was arrested at Columbia on the charge of embezlement, having'been checked up $1,500 short in his accounts, 'the alleged shortage oc curring within the past three weeks. I The 'shortage was discovered after his being discharged for drunkenness. In the period in which the alleged shortage occurred Wolfe's deposits were normal, showing that if there was stealing it must have been from the stock itself. Wolfe says that his alleged shortage is a surprise to him, and that he does not know how it happened. A thorough investigation is to be made, both by the state authorities and the bending company. This is the first revelation of graft in the new county dispensary system and may give impetus to the movement to vote the dispensaries out of Richland county. ? * Georgia Got More Than Half. A recent issue of the Atlanta Constitution contained the following: As surprising as it may seem, it is stated that Georgia has received more- than half of the ship load of European immigrants recently brought to Charleston on the steamship Wittekind. There were some 600 or 700 of them on that ship, and the passage war paid by the state of South Carolina. Yet it is reported that more than half of these have, of their volition, gone over into Georgia and secured posiitinnc At least one instance of a | large body of them going to Georgia is known, some sixty of them having gone to work in the cotton mills of Columbus, Ga. Not that they were unable to find good positions in South Carolina, but there is said to have been a fear on their part that some attempt might be made to make them pay back their passage money. It is well known, however, that no such step was contemplated; it would be directly contrary to the federal statute. * * * Officer's Arrest Being Probed. At the instance of Governor Ansel, Governor Terrell, of Georgia, has in slituted an inquiry into me iaeis cuunected with the arrest and prosecution of Sheriff T. B. Raborn, of Aiken, while he was in Georgia after a fugitive from justice, whom he captured i in Jefferson county, that state. The sheriff alleges that he was arrested by Sheriff J. J. Smith, of Jefferson county, for carrying concealed weapons, and that he was fined $20 and costs by the judge of the county court of Jefferson. Governor Ansel has asked Georgia's \ ;/ .?* ' ' V / > J" " ' - f; " ' *" ' v - ' ' ' ' oe. - ' X> , . y \ - - / v' w V * / [chief magistrate to investigate the matter and ascertain if his lawful agent is amenable to the Georgia law, while in Georgia prosecuting h.s autes as such. ll seems that Sheriff Raborn went to Georgia, armed with requisition papers from Governor Ansel for one Sam Harrison, a negro. The requisition was honored by Governor Tertell, and the negro was located on a farm in Jefferson county. He was there arrested by the South Carolina officer, who showed his papers, etc. As he was about to leave the place, | he claims he was arrested by the Jefferson county sheriff for carrying i concealed weapons, was arraigned 111 the county court and fined. 4c * Teddy Will Fire First Shot. ' President E. H. Jahnz of the National Schuetzenbund, which will hold its fifth triennial national shooting festival in Charleston, May G to May 14, has received a letter from President Roosevelt, commending the purposes of the organization and the service it is doing for the country .in 1 raising the standard of marksmanship among citizens. j The president will fire the first sho.. [at the festival, discharging a rifle, carefully sighted and secured in position, by electrical connection leading direct from the white house to the target box at the < Schuetzenplatz at Charleston. The president was invited to attend the festival in person but his engagements would not perj mit him to accept. Baron Speck von Sternburg, German ambassador at Washington, is expected at the festival as the representative of Emperor William. The German emporer, William the Second, is an honorary member of the Charleston Club, this being the only association in tne united States in which he has accepted such membership. He was elected in place of his grandfather, the first emperor, who was elected shortly after his ! proclamation as head of the German empire. The club has six French rifles which were presented by the old emperor, trophies of war captur-. ed 'in the Franco-Prussian conflict. [These rifles will be exhibited in the grand parade with which the fest will be opened. ? r I BIG MOB IS DEFIED By Strike-Breakers in Montgomery Who Refused to Obey Orders of Strikers to Leave Town. With the announced intention ol driving E. C. Curry, the famous Chicago strike-breaker, out of Montgomery, Ala., three hundred striking street car men and their sympathizers made 1 a demonstration in the down-town districts Monday night which required several platoons of police to disperse. Curry arid Joseph Peeples, a minor official of the company, were eating supper in a restaurant early in the evening v when the place was sur, rounded by strikers who called to Curry that he had to leave Montgomery by 9 o'clock. When Curry and .f66pi6S leit me piaue mc xiu&unc crowd closed in on them . crying "Scabs," "scabs," and using other epithets. Curry and Peeples with drawn pistols backed into a corner and defied the crowd, Curry saying 1 that when he left Montgomery against his will it would "be in a pine box." Squads of police were rushed to the scene and sticks were freely used to disperse the mob. S. K. Fleming, deputy organizer of the strdet car union, reached the scene, and urging the men to follow, took them to the room of the police ?ourt where he addressed the assemoly, counselling moderation in speech and action. ; Officers of the tracton company declare that if names of the men who started the demonstration can be lorn red they will be prosecuted. Street ;ars are running on full schedules. CRUM TURNED DOWN. No Commission Allowed for Repairs on Charleston Custom House. W. D. Crum, the negro collector of the port at' Charleston, S. C., has again been turned down. He will not be allowed any commission on $2,500 disbursed by him for repairs on the Charleston custom house. Congress authorized the repairs, bijt the comptroller of the treasury states that the law only allows commission on work of construction, and not on repairs. It is supposed that this was an effort of Crum to secure money he be* lieved due him while serving as collector at the port of Chariest^ under appointment of the president. His salary was held up on the ground that such recess appointment was unauthorized. STANDING ARMY FOR CUBA. Project for Enlisting and Maintaining M T 1 Ifllivt I I wvpw* The general staff at Washington has transmitted to Governor Magoon a complete project for the creation and maintenance of a standing army for Cuba, composed entirely of native troops and numbering about 32,003 lien. This project involves the abandonment of the original plan for the inn-ease of the Cuban rural guard. . - i IN LOTTERY TANGLE Prominent and Wealthy Me^ Rest Under Indictment. . j TWO DOZEN TO ANSWER ' II . Five of the Most Prominent Citizens r>i,l?ane Rnnr*e?niinn ' One Hundred Millions, Are Among the Accused. The United States grand jury, in session at Mobile. Ala., issued twentyfour indictments Saturday for alleged conspiracy in violating the anti-lottery law. The following have been -rrested and given bond, among them being a number of millionaires of New Orleans, Los Angeles, Cel.; Bos- M ton and other places: / j Albert Baldwin, sr., president of . J ! the New Orleans National bank. Chapman Hyans, capitalist. Frank T. Howard, receiver of the > J New Orleans water works and capi1 taiist. ' v . > David Hennen Morris, of New Orleans. Albert Hennen Morris, of New Orleans. Paul Conrad, of New Orleans." Edward L. Penac, Lewis S. Graham, | of New Orleans. ' /; j Francis X. Fitzpatrick, Boston. Mas-! | sachusetts. James L. Shaw, Washington, D. C. William P. Johnstone, formerly of Cincinnati, now of New Orleans. C. W. Brewdow and James Kea, of New Orleans, j Gen. William L. Cabell. Dallas, Tex.. ( E. J. Demarest. W. J. Demarest and , > John M. Demarest, of New Orleans. Robert K. Thompson, Mobile, Ala. William C. Henderson, Harry W. ' ? - . ?? ?-.! il- r?_?S. i .Henderson, iormeny iivmg iu orwnlyn, X. Y., but now residents of New Orleans. United States District Attorney W. H. Armbrecht says that twenty-four indictments were issued, but as a number of them had not been arrest- i | ed he declined to give their names. 5 | Five of the number who are indict- 2 ed are estimated to be worth to- ,<| gether $100,000,000. A conference was held in the office -*? of United States District Attorney ' S, Armbrecht Friday night, lasting until 1 o'clock Saturday morning after which a number of the secret servicer: ih men left for various parts of the couni try to keep their eyes on those who : 9 are to be arrested. Three hours after the indictments were issued by the | grand jury the parties were under arrest and were allowed to give. bond. < Francis K. Fitzpatrick, of Boston,, ||| pleaded guilty, and sentence will be '.'J passed the fourth Monday in May..'. -}>? Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Hyans, who ^ were in New Orleans, immediately .-Ja upon hearing of . the indictments pur*' rendered to an officer and appeared-^ before United, States Commissioneor ' ^ Chisorella. Both pleaded not guilty,, M waived examination and were released on $1,000 bonds to appear before ^ ! the court at Mobile. I Mr. Baldwin, speaking of the lot- vV tery company, said for himself and *:u| j Mr. Hyans: v. "We do not own a share of slock , > in it and we do not know anything ! about this matter." David and Alfred Morris are -at present residing in New York. FIGHT FOR BAIL IS NEXT. M ^Thaw's Attorneys Will Seek to Havf jjjj Him Released. A New York .dispatch says: Setting at rest all rumors as to their ? present intentions, J. R. Peabody; as- . sociated with Deimas, chief counsel . for Thaw, said, after a forty-five minutes' conference with the prisoner, that an application for Thaw's re- / % lease on bail would be made. On the other hand, District Attorney Jerome announced that he would make a strong fight against granting of bail and added that he intended t? prosecute Thaw for murder in the first degree. tri/Mj-r i ivcc QNiirrrn ftiiT Man and Seven Children Die in Flames Caused by Kerosene. Eight persons were burned tp death. 3| early Saturday morning near Gunter, . J Texas. The dead are J. C. Price, . Y and his four children, Belle, Annie, ^ : Homer, Elmer, and a baby, name not learned; Jottie Byers, stepdaughter of Price; Aline Upchurch, niece of Price. " Mr. Price attempted to start a fire 'Y -' i ^ Willi Ktriuscuc nucu au cajcusiuu w curred. The victims were burned beyond recognition. QUAKE STARTLES MEXICANS. m ? Earth Rocked for Four Minutes, But ? no Damage Was Done. An earthquake lasting for four and a half minutes startled the City of Mexico Sunday night. The earth J rocked in a long, swinging motion, ter- j rifying the inhabitants, but doing no . damage st> far as can be learned. j Clocks in the city stopped and tete?f? I graph wires were put out of commis- : sion. For a short time the city was in darkness owing to the failure of the electric lights. '