THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURO. PA.
THE PRICE
By FRANCIS LYNDE
SYNOPSIS.
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Kenn?tli Orl.iwolri. nn unmieepssful
Titer trf-etilm of tUH'tnllHtti' U'lhlt-nrte(
mipn wild hi friend Ulnlirllm- nt Chnu
dliTe's rixtuurant In New (Uiniiis and
d'Tlufn tiiat If nt;r-aniiry ho will hu-nI t
kep from olHrvlnit. He holds up Andrew
KalbrHlth, president of t lie lUyou Stale
Bi'urity, tn Ms private ottlre ninl esr ipos
wiih uo.i) In rush. Hy i.rlliml tm'thoda
h eitrupus the hue ttnd cry.
CHAPTER III Continued.
"The dragon may have teeth and
claws, but tt can neither see nor
mell," he said, contemptuously, turn
ing his steps rlverward again. "Now
I have only to choose my route and go
In peace. How and where are the
only remaining questions to be an
swered. '
For an hour or more after his re
turn to the riverfront, Griswold Idled
up and down the levee; and the end
of the Interval found him still undecid
ed as to the manner and direction of
his flight to say nothing of the choice
of a destination, which was even more
evasive than the other and more Im
mediately pressing decision.
His first thought had been to go back
to New York. Hut there the risk of
detection would be greater than else
where, and he decided that there was
no good reason why he should Incur
it. Besides, he argued, there w ere oth
er fields In which the sociological
studies could be pursued under condi
tions more favorable than those to be
found In a great city. In bis mind's
eye he saw himself domiciled In sotne
thriving Interior town, working and
studying among people who were not
nnindividuallzed by an artificial en
vironment. In such a community
theory and practice might go hand in
hand; be could know and be known;
and the money at his command would
be vastly more of a molding and con
trolling influence than it could possi
bly be In the smallest of circles In
New York. The picture, struck out
upoa the instant, pleased 1)1 ni, and hav
ing sufficiently idealized it, he adopted
It enthusiastically as an Inspiration,
leaving the mere geographical detail
to arrange Itself as chance, or subse
quent events, might determine.
That part of the problem disposed
of, there yet remained the choice of a
line of flight: and it was a small thing
that finally decided the manner of his
going. For the third time In the hour
of aimless wanderings he found him
self loitering opposite the berth of the
Hello Julie, an up-river steamboat
whose bell gave sonorous warning of
the approaching moment of departure.
Tolling roustabouts, trailing in and out
like an endless procession of human
ants, were hurrying the last of the car
go aboard.
"Poor devils! They've been told
that they are free men, and perhaps
they believe It. Rut Burely no slave
of the Toulon galleys was ever In bit
terer bondage. . . . Free? yes,
free to toll and sweat, to bear burdens
and to be driven like cattle under the
yoke! Oh, good Lord! look at that!"
The ant procession had attacked the
final tier of boxes in the lading, and
one of the burden-bearers, a white
man, bad stumbled and fallen like a
crushed pack animal under a load too
heavy for him. Griswold was beside
him In a moment. The man could not
rise, and Griswold drained him not un
tenderly out of the way of the others.
"Where are you hurt?"
The crushed one sat up and spat
blood.
"I don't know: Inside, somewheres.
I been dyln' on my feet any time for
a year or two back."
"Consumption?" queried Griswold,
briefly.
"I reckon so."
"Then you have no earthly business
In a deck crew. Don't you know
that?"
The mnn's smile was a ghastly face
wrinkling. "Reckon I hain't got any business
anywheres out'n a horspltal or a hole
In the ground. Hut I kind o' thought
I'd like to be planted 'longslde the
woman and the childer. If I could make
out some way to git there."
"Where?"
Tbe consumptive named a small riv
er town tn Iowa.
In Griswold Impulse was the domi
nant chord always struck by an appeal
to bis sympathies. Ills compassion
went Btralght to the mark, as it was
sure to do when bis pockets were not
empty.
"What Is the fare by rail to jour
town?" he Inquired.
"I don't know: I never asked. Some
wheres between twenty and thirty dol
lars, I reckon; and that's more money
than I've seen Bcnce the woman died."
Griswold hastily counted out a hun
dred dollars from his pocket fund and
thrust the money Into tho man's hand.
"Take that and change places with
me." he commanded, slipping on the
mask of gruffness ngain. "Pay your
fare on the train, and I'll take your
Job on the boat Don't be a fool!" he
added, when the man put his face In
his hands and began to choke. "It's
a fair enough exchange, and I'll get as
much out of It one way as you will
the other. What Is your name? 1
may have to borrow it."
GOING BACK INTO HISTORY
Italian and Greeks, With 8mall
Forces, Captured Constantinople
in Yesr 1453.
On account of the fact that the
Turks are In this great European war
tt is Interesting to recall from the
pages of hUtory that on May 29, 1453,
the forces of tbe Italians and Greeks,
numbering only about 14,000, con
quered Constantinople against an esti
mated defending army of Turks of
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"fiavltt John Wesley Gavltt."
"All right; off with you," said the
liberator, curtly; and with that he
shouldered the sick maa's load and
fell Into line In the ant procession.
Once on board the steamer, he fol
lowed his fllo leader aft and mado
It bis first care to find a safe hiding
place for the tramp's bundle In the
knotted handkerchief. That done, he
stepped into the line again, and be
came the sick man's substitute In fact.
It was toll of the shrewdest, and be
drew breath of blessed relief when the
last man staggered up the plank with
ills burden. The bell was clanging its
final summons, and the slowly revolv
ing paddle-wheels were taking the
strain from the mooring lines. Being
neur the bow line Griswold was one
of the two who spring ashore at the
mate's bidding to cast off. lie was
hacking the hawser out of tho last of
Its half-hitches, when a carriage was
driven rapidly down to the stago and
two tardy passengers hurried aboard.
The mate bawled from his station on
the hurricane deck.
"Now, then! Take a turn on that
spring line out there and get them
trunks aboard! Lively!"
The larger of the to trunks fell to
the late recruit; and when he had set
it down at the door of the designated
stateroom, he did half absently what
John Gavitt might have done without
blame: read the tackedon card, which
bore the owner's name nud address,
written In a firm hand: "Charlotte
Farnham, Wahaska, Minnesota."
"Thank you," said a musical voice
at his elbow. "May I trouble you to
put It Inside?"
GrUwold wheeled as if the mild
toned request had been a blow, and
was properly ashamed. Hut when he
paw the spe.iker, consternation prompt
ly slew all the other emotions. For
the owner of tho tagged trunk was the
young w oman to whom, an hour or so
earlier, he hud given place at the pay
ing tiller's wicket in the Bayou State
Security.
She saw his confusion, charged It to
the card-reading at which Blio had sur
prised him, and smiled. Then he met
her gaze fairly and became sane agaiti
when he was assured that she did not
recognize him: became sane, and
whipped off his cap, and dragged the
trunk into the stateroom. After
which he went to his place on the
lower deck with a great thankfulness
throbbing in his heart and an Inchoate
resolve shaping Its-elf In his brain.
Late that night, whes the He-lie Julie
was well on her way up the great
river, ho flung himself down upon the
sacked coffee on the engine room-guard
to snatch a little rest between land
ings, and the resolve bvcame sufficient
ly cosmic to formulate itself In words.
"I'll call It an oracle," he mused.
"One place Is as good as another. Just
so It is inconsequent enough. And I
am sure I've never heard of Wahaska."
Now Griswold the social rebel was,
before all things else, Griswold the Im
aginative literary craftsman; and no
sooner was the question of his ulti
mate destination settled thus arbitrari
ly than he began to prefigure the place
and Its probable lacks and havings.
This process brought hint by easy
stages to pleasant Idealizlngs of Miss
Charlotte Farnham, who was, thus far,
the only tangible thing connected with
the destination dream. A little farther
She Saw His Confusion, and Charged
It to the Card Reading.
along her personality laid hold of him
and the ideallzings became purely lit
erary. "She Is a magnificently strong type!"
was his summing up of her, made
while he was lying flat on his back
and staring absently at the flitting
shadows among the deck beams over
head. "Her face Is as readable as only
the face of a woman Instinctively good
and pure in heart can be. Any man
who can put her between the covers
200,000. This has been disputed In
history as to numbers engaged, but
the salient fact remains that the city
founded by the Emperor Constantino
was captured by the Italians and
Greeks at that time.
The days following the Crusades had
been marked by changes Indescribable
In brief description. The Mohamme
dan element had become dominant.
Then In a political movement the Ital
ians and Greeks assaulted the very
citadel of Mohammedlsm and after a
long fight against tremendous odds
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of a book may put anything else he
pleases In It and snap his fingers at
the world. If I am going to live In the
same town with her. I ought to Jot her
down on paper before I lose the keen
edg of the first Impression."
Ho considered It for a moment, and
then got up and went In search of a
pencil and a scrap of paper. The duz
Ing night clerk gave him both, with
a sleepy malediction thrown In; and
ho went buck to the engine room and
scribbled his word picture by the light
of the swinging Incandescent.
He read It over thoroughly when It
was finished, changing a word here
and a phrase there with a craftsman's
fidelity to the exactnesses. Then he
shook his head regretfully and tore the
scrap of paper Into tiny squares, scat
tering them upon the brown flood
surging past the engine room gangway.
"It won't do," he confessed reluct
antly, as one who sacrifices good liter
ary material to a stern sense of the
fitness of things. "It Is nothing less
than a cold blooded sacrilege. I can't
make copy of her If I write no more
while the world stands."
CHAPTER IV.
' The Deck Hand.
Charlotte Karnham's friends their
number was the number of those who
had seen her grow from childhood
to maiden and womanhood com
monly Identified her for inquiring
strangers as "good old Doctor Bertie's
'only,' " adding, men and women alike,
that she was as well-balanced and sen
sible as she was good to look upon.
She bad been spending tho winter
at Pass Christian with her aunt, who
was an Invalid; and It was for the
invalid's sake that she had decided
to mako the return Journey by river.
So It had come about that their
staterooms had been taken on tbe
Belle Julie; and on the morning of
the second day out from New Or
leans, Miss Oilman was so far from
being travel sick that she was able to
sit w ith Charlotte In the shade of the
hurricane deck aft, and to enjoy, with
what quavering enthusiasm there was
in her, the matchless scenery of the
lower Mississippi.
At Baton Rouge the New Orleans
papers enme aboard, and Miss Farn
ham bought a copy of the Louisianiun.
As a matter of course, the first page
leader was a circumstantial account
of the daring robbery of the Hayou
State Security, garnished with star
tling headlines. Charlotte read It.
hulf-absently at first, and a second
time with Interest awakened and a
quickening of the pulse when she real
ized that she had actually been a wit
ness of the final act in the near-tragedy.
Her little gasp of belated horror
brought a query from the Invalid.
"What Is It. Charlie, dear?"
For answer, Charlotte read the news
paper story oi the robbiry, headlines
and all.
"For pity's sake! In broad daylight!
How shockingly bold!" commented
Miss Oilman.
"Yes; but that wasn't what mado
me gasp. The paper says: "A young
ludy was at the teller's window when
the robber came up with Mr- tJal
bralth ' Aunt Fanny, I was the
'young lady'!"
"You? horrors!" ejaculated the In
valid, holding up wasted bands of dep
recation. Charlotte the well bahinced, smiled
at the purely personal limitations of
her aunt's point of view.
"It Is very dreadful, of course; but
It Is no worse just because I happened
to be there. Yet It seems ridiculously
Incredible. I can hardly believe It,
even now."
"Incredible? How?"
"Why, tliero wasn't anything about
It to suggest a robbery. Now that I
know, 1 remember that the old gentle
man did seem anxious or worried, or
at least, not quite comfortablo some
way; but the young man was smiling
pleasantly, and be looked like anything
l rather than a desperate criminal."
Miss Oilman's New England conserv
atism, unweakened by her long resi
dence In tbe West, took the alarm at
once.
"Hut no one In the bank knew you.
They couldn't trace you by your fa
ther's draft and letter of Identifica
tion, could they?"
Charlotte was mystified. "I should
suppose they could. If they wanted to.
Put why? What if they could?"
"My dear child; don't you see': They
are sure to catch the robber, sooner
or later, and If they know how to find
you, you might be dragged Into court
as a witness!"
Miss Furnham was not less averse
to publicity than the conventionalities
demanded, but she had, or believed she
had, very clear and well-defined ldens
of her own touching her duty In any
matter Involving a plain question of
right and wrong.
"I shouldn't wait to be dragged,"
she asserted quietly. "It would be a
simple duty to go willingly. The first
thing I thought of was that I ought
to write at once to Mr. Galbraith, giv
ing him my address."
Thereupon issued discussion. At
captured the then rather Insignificant
capital of the Gateway to the Orient,
which has been tbe scene of many
strifes since that time and is now one
of the main issues of the greatest of
all wars. The Arable peoples had been
aroused by the growth of Mohamme
danism. The thought that if a devotee
of Islamlsm died for his faith he was
at once destined to translation to the
seventh heaven was paramount to all
other thoughts. , Then It was that tbe
uprising of the Christian Latins and
Greeks Intruded into the long years of
D. RHODES
the end of the argument the conserv
ative one had extorted a conditional
promise from her niece. The matter
should remain lu abeyance until the
question of conscientious obligation
had been submitted to Charlotte's fa.
tlier and decided by him.
An hour later, when Miss Oilman
was deep In the last Installment of the
current serial. Charlotte lot her book
slip from her fingers and gave herself
to the passive enjoyment of the slowly-passing
panorama which Is the chief
charm of Inland voyaging.
From where she was sitting she
could see the steamer's yawl swinging
from Its tackle at the stern-staff; and
after many minutes It was slowly
borne In upon her that the roves were
working loose. A man came aft to
make the loosened tackle fast.
Something hulf familiar in his man
ner attracted Charlotte's attention,
and her eyes followed him as he went
on and hoisted the yawl Into place.
When ho came back she had a fair
sight of his face and her eyes met his.
In the single swift glance halt-formed
suspicion became undoubted certainty;
she looked again and her heart gave a
great bound and then seemed sud
denly to forget its office. It was use
less to try to escape from the dismay-
The Niche Between the Coffee Sacks
Was Empty.
Ing fact. The stubble-bearded deck
hand with the manner of a gentleman
was most unmistakably a later rein
carnation of the pleasantly smiling
young man who had courteously made
way for her at the teller's wicket in
the Hayou State Security; who had
smiled and given place to her while
he was holding his pistol aimed at
President Galbraith.
It was said of Charlotte Farnham
that she was sensible beyond -her
years, and withal strong and straight
forward In honesty of purpose. None
the less, she was a woman. And when
she saw what was before her, con
science turned traitor and fled away
to give place to an uprush of hesitant
doubts born of the sharp trial of the
moment.
She got upon her feet, steadying her
self by the back of her shalr. She felt
that she could not trust herself If she
once admitted the thin edge of the
wedge of delay. Tbe simple and
straightforward thing to do was to go
Immediately to the captain and tell him
of her discovery, but she shrank from
the thought of what must follow. They
would seize him: ho had proved that
he was a desperate man, and there
would be a struggle. And when the
struggle was over they would bring
lit ni to her and she would have to
stand forth ns his accuser.
It was too shocking, and she caught
at the suggestion of an alternative
with a gasp of relief. She might write
to President Galbraith, giving such a
description of the deck-hand as would
enable the officers to Identify hlra
without her personal help. It was
like dealing the man a treacherous
blow In the back, but she thought It
would be kinder.
"Aunt Fanny," she began, with her
face averted, "I promised you I
wouldn't write to Mr. Galbraith until
after we reached home until I had
told papa. I have been thinking about
it since, and I I think it must be
done at once."
Griswold had come upon Miss Farn
ham unexpectedly, and when he passed
her on his way forward he had seen
the swift change In her face betoken
ing sotne sudden emotion, and the rec
ollection of it troubled blm.
What If this clear-eyed young person
hud recognized him? He know that
the New Orleans papers had come
aboard; he had seen the folded copy
of tho Loulslanian In the Invalid's lap,
Consequently, Miss Farnbam knew of
the robbery, and the Incidents were
fresh In her mind. What would she
the rule of Islam and conquered Con
stantinople. Buenos Aires.
No building In Buenos 'Aires Is per
mitted to be higher than tbe width of
the street upon which It Is erected,
hence tbe skyscraper will never be
come popular there, despite the splen
did growth and wldeawakeness of tbe
city. Much as this metropolis is
known, it ia not generally thought of
In the light of age. However, It is one
of the oldest cities In the new world.
do K she had penetrated his disguise?
He had a shock of genuine terror
nt this point and his skin prickled as
at the touch of something loathsome.
Up to that moment he had suffered
none of the pains of the hunted fu
gitive; but be knew now that he. had
fairly entered the gates of the out
law's Inferuo; that however cunning
ly he might cast about to throw his
pursuers off the track, he would never
again know what It was to be wholly
free from the terror of the arrow that
flleth by day.
The force of the Scriptural simile
came to him with startling emphasis,
bringing on a return of the prickling
dismay. Tbe stopping of the paddle
wheels and the rattling clangor of the
gang plank winch aroused him to ac
tion and he shook off the creeping
numbness and ran aft to rummage un
der the cargo on the engine-room
guards for his precious bundle. When
bis hand reached the place where it
should have been, the blood surged
to his brain and set up a clamorous
dinning In his ears like the roaring
of a cataract. Tho ulche between th
coffee sacks was empty.
CHAPTER V.
The Chain Gang.
While Griswold was grappling
afresh with the problem of escape, and
planning to desert the Hello Julie at
the next landing, Charlotte Farnham
was sitting behind the locked door of
her stateroom with a writing pad on
her knee over which for many min
utes the suspended pen merely hov
ered. She had fancied that ber re
solve, once fairly taken, would not
stumble over a simple matter of de
tail. Hut when she had tried a dozen
times to begin the letter to Mr. Gal
braith, tho simplicities vanished and
complexity stood In their room.
Try as she might to put the sham
deck-hand into his proper place as an
Impersonal unit of a class with which
society Is at war, he perversely re
fused to surrender his Individuality.
At the end of every fresh effort she
was confronted by the inexorable Bum-mlng-up:
In a world of phantoms there
were only two real persons; a man
who had sinned, and a woman who
was about to make him pay the pen
alty. It was all very well to reason about
It, and to say that he ought to be
mado to pay the penalty; but that did
not make It any less shocking that
she, Charlotte Furnham, should be the
one to set the retributive machinery
in mot. Yet she knew she had the
thing to do. and so, after many in
effectual attempts, the letter was writ
ten and Bealed and addressed, and she
went out to mull It at the clerk's
office.
As It chanced, the engines of the
steamer were slowing for a landing
when she latched her stateroom door.
The doors giving upon the forward
saloon deck were open, and she heard
tho harsh voice of the mato exploding
In sharp commands as the steamer
lost way and edged slowly up to the
river bank. A moment later she was
outside, leaning on the rail and look
ing down upon the crew grouped about
the Inboard end of the uptilted landing
stage. He was there; the mun for
whose destiny accident and the con
ventional sense of duty had made her
responsible; and as she looked she
had a fleeting glimpse of his face.
It was curiously haggard and woe
begone; so sorrowfully changed that
for an lnstnnt she almost doubted bis
Identity. The sudden transformation
added fresh questionings, and she be
gan to ask herself thoughtfully what
bad brought tt about Then the man
turned slowly and looked up at her as
If the finger of her thought had
touched him. There was no sign of
recognition In his eyes; nnd she con
strained herself to gaze down upon
him coldly. But when Hello Julie's
bow touched the bank, and the wait
Ing crew melted suddenly into a tenu
ous line of burden-bearers, she fled
through the deserted saloon to her
stateroom and hid the fatal letter un
der the pillows In her berth.
That evening, after dinner, she went
forward with some of tbe other pas
sengers to the railed promenade which
was the common evening rendezvous.
The Belle Julie had tied up at a small
town on the western bank of the great
river, and the ant procession of rousta
bouts was In motion, going laden up
tbe swing stage and returning empty
by the foot plank. Left to herself for
a moment, Charlotte faced the rail
and again sought to single out the
man whose fate she must decide.
She distinguished him presently; a
grimy, perspiring unit In the crew,
tramping back and forth mechanically,
staggering under tho heaviest loads,
and staring stonily at the back of his
file leader In endless round; a picture
of misery and despair, Charlotte
thought, and she was turning away
with the dangerous rebellion against
the conventions swelling again in her
heart when Captain MayQeld joined
her.
"I Just wanted to show you," he
said; and he pointed out a gang of
men repairing a slip in the levee em
bankment below the town landing. It
was a Bquad of prisoners In chains.
The figures of the convicts wero
struck out sharply against the dark
background of undergrowth, and the
reflection of the sunset glow on the
river lighted up their sullen faces and
burnished the use-worn links in their
leg-fetters.
"The chain-gang," said the captain,
briefly. "That's about where the fel
low that robbed the Bayou State Se
curity will bring up, If they catch him.
He'll have to be mighty tough and
well-seasoned If be Uvea to worry
through twenty years of that, don't
you think?"
Hut Miss Farnbam could not an-
The first white settlement was made
Just 42 years after the discovery of
America by Columbus, and the first
buildings were mud cuts thatched with
straw. Then a brltk kiln was made
and later tiles and bricks were Import
ed from Spain. The first city was of
Spanish architecture, and that style
prevailed for more than 300 years.
Despite the many great changes which
have come through the passage of time
and the general building advance in
the world, four-firths of the houses or
Buenos Aires are still of one story, al-
swer; and even the unobservauc cap
tain of river boats saw that she was
moved and was sorry he had spoken.
In any path of performance there
Is but one step which Is Irrevocable,
namely, the final one, and In Charlotte
Farnham's besetment this step was tbe
mailing of the letter to Mr. Galbraith.
Many times during the evening she
wrought herself up to the plunging
point, only to recoil on the very brink;
and when at length slio gave up the
the struggle and went to bed, the
sealed letter was still under her pil
low. Now It Is a well-accepted truism that
an exasperated sense of duty, like
remorse and grief, fights best In the
night watches. It was of no avail to
protest that her Intention was still
unshaken. Conscience urged that de
lay was little less culpable than refus
al, since every hour gave the criminal
an added chance of escape. The min
utes dragged leaden-winged, and to sit
quietly in the silence and solitude
of the great saloon became a nerve
racking Impossibility. When It went
past endurance, she rose and stepped
out upon the promenade deck.
The Hello Julie was approach
ing a landing. The electric search
light eye on the hurricane deck
was just over her head, and Its great
white cone seemed to hiss as It poured
Its dazzling flood of fictitious noonday
upon the shelving river bank and the
sleeping hamlet beyond. Out of the
dusky undorglow came the freight car
riers, giving birth to a file of grotesque
shadow monsters as they swung up the
plank Into the field of the searchlight
The foot plank had been drawn in,
the steam winch was clattering, and
the landing stage had begun to come
aboard, when tho two men whose duty
tt was to cast off ran out on the tilting
stago and dropped from its shore end.
One of them fell clumsily, tried to rise,
and sank back Into the shadow; but
the other scrambled up the steep bunk
and loosened the half-hitches In the
wet hawser. With the Blackening of
the line the steamer began to move
out into the stream, and the man at
the mooring post looked around to
see what bad become of his com
panion. "Get a move on youse!" bellowed
the mate; but instead of obeying, the
man ran back and went on bis knees
beside the huddled figure In the
shadow.
At this point the watcher on the
promenado deck began vaguely to un
derstand that the first man was dis
abled in some way, and that the other
was trying to lift him. While she
looked, the engine-room bells jangled
and the wheels begun to turn. The
mate forgot her and swore out of a full
heart.
She put her lingers In ber ears to
shut out the clamor of abusive pro
fanity; but tho man on the bank paid
no attention to the richly emphasized
command to come aboard. Instead, he
ran swiftly to the mooring post, took
a double turn of the trailing hawser
around It and stood by until the strain
ing line snubbed the steamer's bow to
the shore. Then, deftly casting off
again, he darted back to the disabled
man, hoisted him bodily to the high
guard, and clambered aboard himself;
all this while McGrath was brushing
the Impeding crew aside to get at him.
. Charlotte saw every move of the
quick-witted salvage. In the doing, and
wanted to cry out in sheer enthusiasm
when it was done. Then, in the light
from the furnace doors, she saw the
face of the chief actor; it was the face
of the man with the stubble beard.
She could not hear what McGrath
was saying, but she could read hot
wrath in his gestures, and in the way
the men fell- back out of his reach.
All but one: the stubble-bearded white
man was facing him fearlessly, and he
appeared to be trying to explain.
Griswold was '.rylng to explain, but
the bullying .first officer would not let
him. It was a small matter; with the
money gone, and the probability that
capture and arrest were deferred only
from landing to landing, a little abuse,
more or less, counted as nothing. Hut
he was grimly determined to keep Mc
Grath from laying violent hands upon
the negro who had twisted his ankle
In jumping from the uptilted landing
stage. "No; this is one time when you
don't skin anybody alive!" he retorted,
when a break In the stream or abuse
gave him a chance. "You let the man
alone. He couldn't help it. Do you
suppose he spra'ned an enkle purpose
ly to give you a chance to curse him
out?"
The mate's reply was a brutal kick
at the crippled negro. Griswold came
closer.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Cynical Recipe for Success.
Oliver Onions, author or "Mush
room Town," etc., recently remarked:
"A cynical friend told me the other
day that the secret of success was to
get a name for Incorruptibility and
then go ahead and corrupt It for much
gold. I'm sure there's a weak spot In
this somewhere, but judging from a
good many, both of writers and poli
ticians, perhaps there's something In
It. Only unfortunately I enn't apply
the recipe to my own work, because
I have too much fun writing to think
dbout corruption one way or the
other."
"Cozy" Is Hardly the Word to Use.
"Of course," said Mrs M. T. Click
lcr. "It Is real nice In the newspapers
to describe the new Muehlebach ho
tel as cory and homelike, Aut I Bhould
call a building with a iea furore and a
cafe centurion, with marble floors and
pillows of lapsus linguae and male
faction, and with gleaming chanti
cleers Impending from the doomed ceil
ings, a great deal more rotund than
cozy." Kansas City Star.
though there are streets lined with
slx-ntory palaces.
Only Safe Kisses.
To make ktsBlng perfectly tare, tbe
secretary of the American Social Hy
giene association recommends these
precautions: Cut out a square of tis
sue paper, give it a bath In an anti
septic solution and place It over your
mouth. This safeguard will prevent
the kiss doing you harm provided you
don't wear but the paper or break
through It
OUTLINES PLANS FOR
LABOR INSURANCE
Department Officials Take Steps n
Move To Safeguard Families.
Harrlsburg. Establishment of the
State Workmen's Insurance Fund,
which is to be the nucleus of the State
Insurance for the Workmen's comper,.
sation system, will be completed by
the end of this month and an official
depository will be designated.
The last Legislature appropriated
$300,000 for the start of the fund and
It will be Increased by the sums to be
paid by employers for tbe purpose of
Insuring their employes. This State
fund Is to be. handled without liability
on the part of the State. The em
ployers who desire to go Into tho fund
are to pay premiums by a schedule
made according to the risk of injury.
The State Treasurer is to be the
custodian of the fund and he will in
vest the money paid to the credit ol
the fund. The premiums are to be
paid under a schedule to bo Issued
by October 1 annually, and Ave per
cent, will be set aside for creation
of a' surplus. The fund is to be di
rected by a board, consisting of the
Commissioner of Labor and Industry,
State Insurance Commissioner and
State Treasurer, with tho Attorney
General an counsel; and the board mar
name a manager at $7,500 a year and
other officers. First steps in the work
now are being taken by the Insurance
Department officials.
Brashear Modest At Highest Honor.
Dr. John Hrashear, who has bees
named first citizen of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania by Governor
Brumbaugh, takes no credit to himself,
but rather gives it to his wife.
"My success In everything even be
ing selected as one of Pennsylvania'!
leading citizens," said Dr.' Brashear,
modestly, "I attribute to her help."
"I first consider it a joke, not know.
Ing what it was all about," said Dr.
Hrashear, "until a few weeks ago,
when I received a lotter from an editor
in Punxsutawney telling me that be
had sent fourteen votes, naming me
as the leading citizen. I sent that gen
tleman a letter and told him 'that he
would probably be arrested for repeat
ing. "Why should any one name me as t
leading citizen? I'm sure there were
many great men In this State who
could have been given the honor.
While I have been honored as presi
dent and member of some of the great
est mechanical and academy of Bclence
societies in America, I consider It I
signal honor to be named one of the
State's leading citizens.
"I believe my most notable achieve
ment was the raising of the $300,004
fund for the erection of the Allegheny
Observatory and securing permission
to make part of tbe observatory free
to the people. Since Its erection fire
years ago, more than lfi.OOO persona
have visited the observatory."
Cost Of Militia Encampment
The Adjutant General's Department
announced that the total of the pay
warrants on account of the recent Na
tional Guard encampment at Mount
Gretna was $101,098.70.
The disbursement In detail was si
follows:
First Regiment, $11,279; Second, $10,
887; Third. $10,731; Fourth. $12,831;
Sixth, $12,698; Eighth, $12,650; Ninth,
$11,457; Thirteenth, $12,192; Separate
Battalion, $3,922; Division Headquar
ters, $1,036; Headquartors First Brig
ade. $735: Third Brigade, $747; Fourth
Brigade, $827.
StateHighways Official Dies.
George A. Barclay, of Pittsburgh,
superintendent of sign erection of tbe
State Highway Department died In the
Harrisburg Hospital as tbe result of
Injuries received May 7 when a High
way Department auto truck on whlob
he was riding plunged over an em
bankment on the road leading front
this city to Sunbury.
Farm Advisers Ready For Call.
The ten experts In charge of that
branch of agricultural activities of the
State known aa the Farm Adviser'
Servlco, will resume work August 1
and the department announced that tt
was prepared to receive appllcatloni
for the services of the advisers. Soil
improvement and general crop produc
tion, poultry and poultry products, ani
mal husbandry, fruit growing and mar
ket gardening, so-operative buying snd
selling and domestic sclerc rP ''
subjects taught and tho experts will
be sent to any part of the State upon
request to the Secretary of Agriculture.
Named To Highway Congreas.
Governor Brumbaugh has appointed
State Highway Commissioner Robert
J. Cunimlngham and Chief Engineer
William D. Uhlor as delegates to tho
Pan-American Cougress to be held 1
California In September. He has al
Invited Dr William D. Martin, of Call
fornla, Washington County, who Is the
father of the "Good Roads Day" id
In Pennsylvania, and A. P. Irwin, ol
Chadd's Ford. Junction, Chester Coun
ty, to be delegate representing U"
jiUzens of the State at the Congrei
Detailed Report On Cities Soon.
The new Bureau of Industrial S
tlstlcs In tho Department of Labor wl
Industry, is about to make the flf1
collection of figures bearing on ret
enues, expenditures, taxation, vsh
tlon, bonded Indebtedness and finance
condition of cities ever' compiled W
the Commonwealth. - The data w"1 "
at the command of municipalities see
Ing information, and, it is belle"
will be helpful tn framing future l
lslation, as well as enabling the cttW
of the State to become familiar wtJ
conditions prevailing in other town
Big Saving On Trees.
The contract for furnishing
truck tires for use on trucks of tj
State Highway Department was swarf'
ed to O'Brien & Hoover, Phlladelpb
Thin mrH ... tv,.,i fi rthe t'"
had been readvertised, aa the first loj
from ten to twelve dollars on esch tlrJ
Is effected by tho new contract pn i
over those in force last year. A CD4I1f!
hv PnmmloaiAnaF Pitnntnirhcm. SO
contract covers a two-year period, o
piling June 1, 1917.
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