The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 02, 1917, Image 6
PA3T
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MRS. VERNON CASTLE at
Patria Charming.
MILTON SILLS as Donald Parr.
WARNER OLAND as Baron
Huroki.
DOROTHY GREEN as Fanny
Adair.
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SYNOPSIS.
Anticipating the long-threatened Japanese-Mexican
invasion of the southwestern
states, Patria <. "banning, an American
girl of great wealth, with the assistance
of her liance, Capt. i Humid Parr date U.
S. A.) converts iter vast border ranchlands
into what is virtually an armed
camp. Baron liuioi.i, commanding the
allied J:ip.iiH so-.Me\u an lorn s, bains
her preparations, ami thinking to frush
them before they ran heroine formidably,
orders the invasion to begin immedialely.
Warning reaches i'atria at the eleventh
hour.
FOURTEENTH EPISODE
Border Peril.
DAYBREAK.
In the library of the Chnnning
hacienda lights burned late into the
night. Round a great oaken table in
the middle of the room some ten persons
sat in conference. The surface
of the table was strewn with maps and
papers?the former large-scale and
minutely detailed topographical maps
of the dimming properties and the adjacent
country, both north and south
of the border.
A council of war was in progre.s.
Something after midnight it drew toward
its conclusion. A hush of
thoughtful silence settled down upon
the gathering. I'atria and Donald Purr
and their aides?those commanding
Iho several divisions of I'atria's little
force of "watchmen"?mentally reviewing
what had been said, reconiiing
point by point such instructions
us had been issued and the course of
action which had been agreed upon.
It was vitally important that nothing
should lie neglected, forgotten, <^r
overlooked.
This business to which they were
committed was so desperate, their
Iiojh'S for its success so meager and
forlorn, that the little company of patriotic
adventurers dared neglect no
least Item of precaution.
According to reliable information a
treat army was marching to invade
the soil of the United States?an army
made up of the allied forces of Mexico
and Japan which hud for so lonjf
been encamped in the fastnesses ot
Vhe liilis Imuiediately south of iIa
'lander, uw ailing Tokiu's word to ad
vmice. '
Today, apparently, il ;tt word hot;
teen spoken; It was known that tin
allied troops had broken eatnp am
were in motion toward the border.
*r-fAud it heeded only a iaust -?.i i'
fk'lal examination of the maps on tin
_4jible to demonstrate that the out
feasible pt'.t.h or jUy throttgl
the Outlining ; r > "., t.es.
And the fot'C.- whieh l'atria hat
fathered together to oppose tliis long
threatened invasion were so pititull;
outnumbered that their sole hope 0
surviving lay in the thoroughness o
their preparations; only courage tha
held life a thing of little niotm n
guided h.v cool-headed Intelligence o
the highest order could render eft'et
tive the plans these few had made t
surprise, outwit, ami repel the inva<
CVS. .
The shrilling of the telephone he
Interrupted the silence. Parr took u
tlie instrument, spoke brielly into i
and lianded it to I'atrla.
"A telegram for you," he said.
The girl listened attentively to win
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^ ilO V'JIJllllllllH U I ' U I" in I I? > III* n ?
graph operator ;it the nearest railron
station, some twenty miles away, tie
thanked liim niel eoolly hung ti 1 ?
"Washington," she said, "acknov
edging my wire warning them of th
invasion. There will he an investig
tion ordered immediately, and if n
information proves well-found
troops will be sent."
"Nothing could be fairer than tha
I'arr commented grimly.
"1 think," said I'atriu to the co
f?any "we have said all that could
said tonight. We all know our duti
The instructions you have received i
not subject to change except in em
gency?and then you must rely ui
your wits to suve yourselves?and 1
rest of us. Now let us adjourn, t
If we can, get a little sleep."
Th aha teou o rrnn oeo 1 nwitmmont
I ii'"i c n ur* n ^nivi ui hum v uu.iit
chairs heing pushed back from
table. The men rose, and waited
little groups while one after anot
went to say good-night to Patrla.
shook the hand of each, and Dor
did likewise. There were few w<
spoken?but the handclasps were 1
and significant.
These were possibly their last f
wells. This unuttered thought
formed every mind. Dawn would
each at his post. Where sunRet sh<
find them, none dared guess.
One by one they went their v
Into the night. At length Patrla
lone with Donald Parr. He tui
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in r. offering to take her in his arms,
hut slu? shook her head with a little
smile.
"Not here," she he.cjred, "not here,
Don dear?whilo there's moonlight in
tho patio!"
Oatehini: his hand she drew him
with hoi* through tho doorway. . . . j
Tho patio was vary still and peaceful
and deserttd. Tho moonlight silvered
it exquisitely. Its air was sweet
With the seeiit of llowers. In the
shadow of the old well in its center,
l'atria released Donald's hand, and
turned to him, lifting up her l'aee to
his lips. . . .
l'erhaps for the last time
llow she found it possible to let him
?o. in the <. tuL she never understood.
With a soiiM* of the unreality of it all
she watehed his s. Idierly figure, in its
khaki lie!d uniform. stride awa.v
through the ehia.roseuro of milk-white
moonlight and inky shadow, till he
disappeared in {ho passageway loading
to the fmnt of tlio house.
Ami for a long tinio allot* ho li <1
gone she stood clasping tho ltamls
upon w hit It his parting kisses had
boon jift sstmI, ami slating at tin* spot
where sho had last soon him.
ll sooinotl so hideously wrong that
those things otnild ho. that this world
so hoauiilu! could ho tnado tho slaughter-pen
of oinhaltlotl humanity. Sho
thought of Franco, tlto land sho know
tint! loved so well ; her last night in
Franco had boon tt summer's night, '
mtioiisinil ton ami warm and sweet?oven
as this night. Sho had sailotl
l't?r Now Vork tho next day; ami tt
week later tho grout war had brt>kon
out. And now all northern France
was the theater of horrors unspeakable.
Ami tomorrow would see tin* inception
of an effort to render her own
United States a counterpart of
Frame . . .
The most she could hope for was
that the preparations she had made
would check temporarily the invading
forces, give the country time to realize
Its peril and arm against it. For
the invasion, once launched, would
never be stayed but by overwhelming
force. If checked where the Chalining
property met thp border, it would
only recoil to strike a new and more
effective blow. Even assuming the im,
possible?that the dimming ranch
should prove an Impregnable obstacle
In Its path?it would need only to
, sweep round It In order to reach a
peaceful and defenseless land and
blacken It with the Infamy of war,
turn it into u place of death and terror
t and torment and hideous waste, make
. it a .sister to Belgium.
. | And all because a purblind people
j refused to see that the one way to
i , stave off the sin of war was to make
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, tlie country so strong for defense that
I no invader wen,pi ever dare set foot
I across its ljoruei'8. "WtramL'Wfei*
S:o\. ly the girl ascended to lier bed*
. chamber.
Its window.s "overlooked the south;
j she stood in one of them for a Ion*
J time staring incredulously at tin
] i mysterious distances that lay beyoni
. i the boundary line between the tw<
r i countries, the shadowed enigma o:
% , >T"yp?o thMf rested so quietly there ii
r | ? # * ^
1 the face of the moon. *
t ! Somewhere out there, soinewhen
I between the border and those serratet
mountains that walled in the southeri
. hori/.on, thousands upon thousands o
n men, armed ami equipped, wer
1- marching northward; troops of caval
! ry were marching with them; train
II of ammunition, companies of artil
p Icrv, machine-gun corps, all the dl
i% visions of modern military service
^ were astir, under the clonk of th
night. ?
,t Her imagination conceived tlui
army of invasion In the guise of
id great serpent crawling through til
>n shadows to strike at the heart of
sleeping giant, a loatliv, deadl
, |. vicious thing that squirmed fotlll
ds upon its way to do a ?i. e?J of inexeu
j. able treachery and cruelty,
ny The vision of that grout sorfV^i
dl haunted all her dreams. She sleiit i
fitfully. Between naps she lay awak
t,"' staring wide-eyed into the darkne?
every sense alert, straining to he
m- any sound tluit might be the ov<
!>< ture to tomorrow's tragedy, fan<
es. Ing that she heard the confused h
n*e rythmic shuffle of those thousands
op. marching feet.
ion Towards dawn she fell into a p
the found and dreamless slumber of <
ind haustlon, from which she was awi
ened In broad daylight by the sou
of of distant firing.
the Leaping from her bed she sol:
in binoculars and ran to the window,
her But the glasses showed her nothi
She at first. The sounds of firing pers
laid ed?great thudding detonations
>rds compauiod by the screaming of shr
firm nel in the air and shattering oxj
slons as the shells found their hill
are- But nothing In the face of the 1)
In- beyond the border revealed the sou
find the firing or betrayed the fact t
ould ?n.v considerable body of troops i
neurlng the boundary line,
rays Only !n the air three wnrpla
was hung, like buzzards, soaring, dar
rned swooping above the border coum
nn<l from thorn, now and again, smoke >
Lm?id!is wore dropped, signaling in code I
to the gunners of that liuUlon battery. I
Dressing in the maddest haste, l*a- i
Iria ran from her room, and without j 1
pausing to liml and question anyone}i
who might be about the house, left the <
patio by the passageway. <
In front of the house her motor- 1
car was watting?by prearranged order?in
charge of an orderly. From 1)i
111. as she drove toward the aviation ]
lield, she learned little or nothing, lie ]
had arrived at the house with the car i
at about the time when the tiring began.
lie could tell lier no more limn
that the end of a sleepless night had
found every man upon the ranch at his
post and prepared to sell ids life to
the highest bidder.
On the way they passed a squad of
men operating an anti-airplane gun?
which they had just brought into action.
They worked steadily, methodicallv.
intelligently, as if thev were
well-aceustoinod to their business instead
of the novices they were in all
save drilling.
And the accuracy of their firing was
astonishing. Ry the time Ratria arrived
at the aviation field, a lucky
shot had brought down one of the hostile
aircraft, another was winging
southward as fast as its engine would
move it, and the third was engaged in
a duel with two planes sent lip by
Ratria's corps.
Fascinated, she stood Watching this
spectacle long after her own biplane
had been wheeled out of its hangar
and made ready for her ascent.
The three in the air were so high
that they seemed little larger than
swallows, and like swallows they
wheeled and swooped, spitting fire at
one another, their planes (lushing in
the young sunlight like swords.
In the end the invader took refuge
in flight, the two defenders snapping
at his heels; and so they drifted from
sight, far south of the border.
The distant firing had now become
more fast and furious.
Clambering into the seat of her bl
plane. Fatria grasped tIn* controls and
gave the word to start the engine.
Five minutes later she was at an
elevation whence she commanded a
view of the country north and south
of the boundary line.
That report had not erred in saying
that the Japanese and Mexicans meant
to Invade in force was dismayingly disclosed.
The roads to the south of the
arroyo which marked the international
line were choked with regiments of
horse and foot. Fatria's wildest fears
laid not prepared her for the sight of
so vast an army. Her heart sank; the
handful of men with which she had
thought to oppose this army seemed
more than ever pitifully inadequate.
She had expected them to be outnumbered
ten to one; the truth was that
they were outnumbered a hundred to
one.
Yet they were fighting gallantly?
as gallantly n? if they imagined that
the odds against them were less brutally
disproportionate. Which none -did.
Under cover of the sand-lmg parapet
of the first trenches?immediately to
the north of the bridge spanning; the
arroyo?several companies were doing
good service under gulling conditions,
sweeping the approaches to the bridge
with machine-gun fire while suffering
a rain of shrapnel. .
This last Caine from that hatterj
which had awakened Fatria wllh it?
first shots. It was sheltered behind i
[I hill at some distance south of tin
bridge, and its gunners, having got th<
range of the trenches, were subjecting
, them to a idtter fire, constant an<
I deadly. Already (Pntria saw) then
f was a constant procession of wounde<
- moving by communicating trenches t<
1 ihe rear, either in stretchers or mnk
> ing a laborious Journey afoot?assisted
f jierehanee, by some comrade's shoul
1 tier. And already the ground beyon
, the paranet was littered with bodie
? . of their dead.
1 And this was only the beginning. . .
i To the man in tlie observer's seat b
f her side Pntria communicated certal
e Instructions which lie swiftly tram
I- !?> /. M'lfiilncc tin iticU'iwt UH h
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s the operator at the headquarters Pi
I- tria's people had established well bar
i- of the main line trenches. Within fiv
, minutes the effect of her orders \\?j
e apparent. The first line trenches wet
, being rapidly vacated, their occupnn
it hastening hack to the greater seotirit
a of the main line. While one of PaiT
ic masked batteries, going on inform
a tion communicated by Patria, got tl
y, range of the Japanese guns beyond tl
ly ( hill and began to pound them rner<
s- lessl.v.
rI*ho evacuation of the flrst:lli
r>t trenches was accomplished barely
11. tinie, even as Patria had fores'e
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try; Th?y Were
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vhen issuing the order. They conld 1
uive been held only at a cost too high
or their value. As they were emptied, >
eghnent alter regiment of Japanese
nfantry which had been waiting till
lie batteries had prepared their way,
/horned across the bridge with irresistible
impetus and swept over the
trenches like a living wave.
Not, however, entirely without opposition.
One man had, for reasons of
his own, elected not to retreat. Alone
he greeted the onslaught with machine-gun
lire, spraying death over the
bridge and its approaches. Dozens of
the charging troops fell before he run
out of ammunition or was silenced by
a shot well aimed ; Putriu never knew
how the fellow met his end. He was,
one minute, working his weapon busily
and methodically; the next, he was silenced
; ami his fate was masked by
the hordes that took possession of the
trendies.
As this happened, Patrla's observer
touched her arm to draw her attention
to their personal peril. So absorbed
had she been in the action beneath j
her that she?and for that matter, her t
observer as well?had altogether neglected
to look sifter the safety of the *
biplane. (
It was now menaced by no less than '
three Japanese sdr scouts?lightly *
armored biplanes carrying two passengers
and equipped with machine '
guns. . '
Soaring out over the battlefield sit a
great height, these assassins of the air
had chosen shrewdly the right moment
to strike at Patria's 'plane. The hitter
happened to occupy the lower levels
of the air alone, at that time; no other
machines of I'atria's living corps wore
at hand; the two which had pursued
the first hostile airplane beyond the
border wore lost to view in the heat
haze that veiled the south, their fate
a mystery; all others were still in the
hangars or delayed l*y minor circumstances
at the aviation field.
Upon the lonely craft piloted hv I'atria,
then, the three Japanese dropped
down from their high level with the
ferocity of hawks, opening tire with
their machine guns as soon as they got
within range, and attacking the dovoted
biplane from three sides.
Taken utterly by surprise?with no
more than the touch of her observer's
warning hand upon her arm by way
of preface to a hailstorm of bullets?
I'atrla did the only possible thing permitted
by the conditions, that is,
sought safety in forthright tlight. And
since she was hemmed in on the north,
east and west, she was obliged to drive
into tlie south.
For a few moments she expected
each breath to he her last. Pullets
whistled and sang between the planes
or tore their flimsy surfaces or glanced
from twanging struts and cables like
sleet through the ribs of a coverless
umbrella. It seemed nothing short of
Tnt rn r>n litn < Hint mme fmiml lodirment
in either Patria or the observer.
I Then, however, the slightly superior
speed of the American engines began
to make Itself felt. Patria drew slightly
ahead and at the same time tilted
the nose of her machine ?and begun to
climb. Immediately the tiring of the
machine guns ceased, and the three
Japanese closed in behind and stretched
out in determined pursuit.
The four swept away Into the southern
skies like leaves whirling before
a squall.
* Climbing steadily, Patria gained tlie
1 5.000-foot level at a distance of some
2 miles within the Mexican side of the.
2 border, her three pursuers outpaced
S but undiscouraged hovering in the ofi
ling like wolves that wait for a winded
e stag to fall.
1( And now forP.r \\ *'o to favor tlie
o American for u lit tie. out of the haze
- in the south a fifth aircraft was npI,
proachlng. For some time in doubt a*
I- to whether it was another enemy craft
d or possibly an American survivor of
s that triangular duel which had resulted
from the first air skirmish of the
. day, Patria was quickly able to recogy
nize certain peculiarities of const rucn
lion which unmistakably Identified the
*- newcomer as one of her own corps,
y There was. however, no way of tell
i- ing how it was manned, whether by its
k original crow or by tbe Japanese who
e might have captured the 'plane. But
is all doubts us to this were soon set at
e rest by the action of one of I'atrin'h
ts pursuers in abandoning his first ob
tv Jective and sweeping off at a tangent
's to engage tire stranger?who cheerful
a- ly greeted this new antagonist with t
le withering blast of machine-gun lire,
le ("Mrclin'g warily, like prizefighter:
1- sparring for an opening, Spitting fin
and hatred, tlie two were te'uipornrli;
he J forgotte\ by Patria. who bad presslni
in personal matters demanding IhstriVi
en attention.
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Patria's Fears Had Not Prepared Her \
With this re-enforcement reduc'lny |
he odds against iter to two to one. she
'Xocuted a maneuver which her suterior
speed had made feasilde through
.:i\iny her a tolerably lony lead,
wheeled figuratively oil her heel?that
Is, in as narrow a circle as the biplane
I'otild compass?and ^avc battle.
Handling the machine yun outplaced
beside her, the observer opened lire at
lony ran ye, as soon as he could briny
the weapon to hear, and scored iirst
blood by winging one of (heir two
antagonists so severely 111:it In* was
forced to abandon tin.* combat :i11< 1 descend
for repairs.
The other proved more elusive and
stout-heniled. I M i vi n with superb
skill. It danced through the siir \\ i111
tipp.'iront ly :is little stability its tt
midge, making Itself a target wellnigh
as fugitive ?s a mote lit a sunbeam.
Bolt after bolt of ammunition was
fed by i'atriu's observer Into his machine
gun and wasted on empty air,
thanks to the evasiveness of the Japanese.
That the latter laid no better litok
in scoring off I'atriu's 'plane %\as little
satisfaction. There was only room
for exasperation In the minds of the
Americans, that the end must be so
long delayed?aside from the settled
determination that weighed upon their
senses with the power of obsession
that tlx' duel could and should end
hut one way?with the extermination
of their opponent.
Providing that were accomplish! d.
and assuming that the other American
biplane was similarly successful in the
contest now raging between it and the
Japanese, something like a thousand
feet below them, the hostile air fleet
would he rather effectively crippled?
judging ny ine minuter or piauex
which it had thus fur discovered?ami
the disparity between the forces of
invasion ami defense would, by that
much at least, bo reduced.
And yet?moment after moment
passed without either side scoring a
crippling hit. The 'planes of both
were fairly riddled by the streams of
bullets they exchanged; Patria's observer
had suffered a slight flesh
wound In the shoulder. She herself had
repeatedly felt the wind of bullets
winging past her face?as though the
Icy tongue of I>eath were licking It.
i As for the other side, there was
reason to believe, from what they
Could see. that the pilot was nursing a
wounded hand. Hut this had not served
to discourag" him. lie pursued his ef'
forts to enable his observer to deal
I'atrla's craft a mortal blow with unabated
jurrimncss, skill and cunning.
Then, of a sudden, it was manifested
that the store of ammunition at
the command of the Japanese had run
out. He fired one final gust of bullets,
then in a tw inkling abandoned the field,
dropping almost headlong from thai
high level whereon they had fought.
AVM+l. ?n/?rn luitl/in i\f VlUilV'V 1 F1
IT I I || li'' IIIWIV I1WI n/ai W in \ . V ,?
her luimar tTinn she would have f< ! 1
had the Japanese been a tiger-shark
Patria tore down the air lanes In pur
suit, the planes of her machine at
'! times so steeply Inclined that the.)
I j seemed well-nigh vertical. Only th<
' | most consummate mastery of the ar
'! of flying could have made such a fen
II possible*.
'j And then. In a twinkling. It. was al
I over. They were dropping like twit
*' plummets, the Japanese airplane sonn
II two hundred feet below Putrin's an<
a little distance to one side. Tbe ot
* [ server, training his weapon with th
' ' greatest coolness, ran his last hoi
^ j'of cartridges through the machine 1
% , oqc last roaring blast?and scored.
*' The Japanese 'plane seemed jriomor
' tortly to be mysteriously checked 1
mldflltfht. It huhg for a little as I
checked by the grasp of some groa
Invisible hand. Then, as If that han
were slowly closing upon It, the thin
, crumpled like n broken toy?crumple
pitifully in upon Itself and fell flutto
1 ing aimlessly, turning over and ov?
with ever Increasing rapidity, at
throwing off two limp, sprawllr
i shapes of men that distanced It to tl
earth, Whirling horribly.
With a supreme effort Pntrin right*
her machine, brought It to an ev<
1 keel, und steadied it upon a nomowai
I 'course.
i Only fixed refusal to permit hersc
to think of what had happened o
rtbled her to accomplish this. She w
afflicted with violent Inclination
nausea. Of nil forms of death, for t
time being, this seemed to her t
imrst terrible?this death of vlolen
In midair which she hml savogt
dealt out to the enemies of her cm
try.
But what was needed to restore 1
nerves to their normal steadiness w
presently accorded by the enemy hi
self.
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ror the Sight o* Vast an Army. fl
The linnl act of the tragedy ha<T I
taken place barely fifteen hundjWd I
feet above the earth; and in thCjfen- I
suing struggle with herself I'atria hud I
negleeuMl to tilt the 'plane so as to lift I
them t<^ a higher and safer level. Now I
abruptly something that sounded as- Afl
tonishingly like the voice of tin angry
dog 1?;irkt'il sharply at them from he
low, lour times in swift sueeession, I
ink! a second later tour shells of I
shrapnel sprayed out a trille to the- I
right of tin- biplane anil well above it.
An ani i-airera11 gun, a two-pounder
p<111i piiai ununited in an armored >notorear,
was getting their ran^e. Its
next bell of shells would explodfl^ ill
liiueli more uneoinforiabl(> pi'oxliuitScw to
ilieiu?and did. lbit by this time Pntria
was aiming for the zenith at tho ^
sharpest angle eonipatible with safety..
I'or something like live minutes the
shells pursued them, then gave up the
task as hopeless, and diverted their
attention to the other American airplane.
which had apparently coine off
a victor in its encounter, and wum
winging horderwards about half a mile
astern of Pallia's 'plane.
Put in this instance, us- well, the
pom-pom failed to accomplish more
than to frighten its target to a level
beyond Its range.
As they swept bick across the boundary
line tin* progi" ?s of the battle^
raging below was disclosed to them in
painlul detail.
The initial ro\eises dealt out to 1ho
d? tenders were being driven borne by
the .I a pum-so ami Mexicans in the
most iiieihodieal and businesslike tashloi?.
Thousands of troops had been
thrown across the border, occupying
the lirst-line trenOhes abandoned by
ratlin's oi'di r. and busily intrenching
themselves still further close In under
the main-line trenches, undismayed by
the withering rifle and machine-gun
i lire that was sleeted upon them from
the latter. )t r
Klsew here tiny were taking ad'
vantage of everything left open to
them. The hacienda?left open to cupI
ture through design?was a center of
amazing activities, apparently having m
been commandeered as a- held head- rfM
quarters. The Japanese and Mexican
tlags flew ahove It. Armored motor- I
cars were parked before lb A field
telephone was being wired; to the ecu- 1
t tral switchboard established in one of
its rooms. Men in uniform swarmed I
in and around it like ants.
! lieyond the ridge that stood between )
it and the border, a field battery was
unlimbering to shell the main-line
trenches.
As I'atria descended to the aviation
field, stretcher bearers were moving
along one side of that cleaned space*
, in apparently interminable procession,
to each pair its burden of mangled and
I . .
tormented humanity. V
With a sharp pang of four for Don- 1
aid, 1'utria ran to the Held tteftfalqunr- J
tors and had herself put into coUB/nunl- jfl
1 cation with the main-line trenches. I
It seemed that she was never to sue- fl
ceed in getting Donald to the tele- 1
! phone. Not till Ids accents greeted her 1
' | was she able to draw a free breath. 3
' i (KXI) OK roritTKKNTII KTISOD 10.) jfl
Lifting Power of Heat. 4
1 Weight can he raised by heat, and
in this agent is a great source of me- *
' chanlcal power.
1 A potind of coal produces by its
'' combination with oxygen an amount of
heat which, if mechanically applied,
would suffice to raise a weight of ldO ,
** pounds to a height of 20 ndlestfjbove >
* trie earth's surface. Conversely, 100' f*
n pmtfids falling from a height of 2(>
nilles and striking agtiinst the earth
*" would generate an amount of heat ?i
equal to lhat. developed by the com- c
bust ion of a pound of coal. jfl
Wherever work is done by heat, heat M
disappears. A gun which fires a bull fl
* is loss heated tliiin one which 11 res ft <i
^ blank cartridge. The quallty'of boat Jj
r" communicated to the boiler of n work"r
lug steam engine is greater than that, j
1(1 which could be obtained from the re- l|
condensation of the steam after It bad t.
10 done Its work, and the amount of work J
performed Is the exact equivalent of ^
^ the amount of heat lost.
?n ?? i.
rd No Help. 3
"Why don't you get married and
have a wife to soothe your troth'sV" v
n" "I don't see much to It. (lot a friend j
as who even married two women. When j
1? he was pinched for bigamy neither
he | wife went near him."?Kansas Olty il
he Journal.
ce
'ly Maybe He's Modeat.
in- "I can't understand It." jb
"What?"
ier | "He's been working at his present.W
'us Job for f.vo months now and doe.-'n t ^
iu- ' claim that lus pay has been raised #
| three times already." M