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4 THE BOCK ISILND ARGUS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1911. THE ARGUS. Published Dally and -Weekly -at 1614 Second avenue. Rock Island, IU. En tered at the poatoffice a second-class matter. Boek Island Member of the Associated BY THE J. W. POTTER CO. TERMS. Dally, 10 cents per week. Weekly, $1 per year In advance. Complaints of delivery sui1 vice slodd Tte made to the circulation department,! which shonld also b notified In every Inrtar.ce -where It i3 desired to hare paper discontinued, as carriers cave no authority In the premises. ATI -comnmrrlcatlO'ES of argnmentattv character, political or religious, must have real name attached for publica tion. No such articles -will be printed orer fictitious signatures. Teleptiones In all departments: Central TTnlon, West 145 and 1145; tTnlon Elec tric, SI 4 5. Monday, November 1C, 1911. Contribute to the cemetery sol diers' monument project. It is quite natural that the news from China should be yellow. Canton, Ohio, has g-one socialistic and Canton, China, has gone insurgent. It Is eigrrlficant that all of the papers refer to the present condition of the ! country. Just now the authorities are McNamara trial as Laving "real J;irora" trying to fnid perpetrators of a crime, in the box. j which, in a territory covering three - ; or four states, claimed the lives of There are 32,non,OnO telegraph and j over a dozen persons under circum telephone poles in this country. No : : tacees of the greatest mystery and wonder the joy riders flr.d it such hard ! th most finedish cruelty. At Chi work to miss them. j csgo there is another murder mystery It is a rather interesting fact that the tah'et marking the site of I,ibby prison was not erecd by survivors of the northern armies, but 1 y the Confederate Memorizl literary toeiety. i suggested that the revelations of the i press had anything to do with insti- Lexington, Ky., population 35,003; ; gating the crimes. Lawrence and Ixiwell, Maes., popula- I Horrible crimes were committed be tion 83.S92 and 106,29-, and Salt Lake i for(' there ever was a newspaper pub City, Utah, population 92.777, have I'-hod. History brings down to us the adopted the commission form of gov- ! facts about wholesale butcheries and eminent. I reprisals by the people, and in fact, if - - we read these chronicles which come The weather bureau hit it almt st ; evidently from the revelations of con exactly in Its Saturday's predictions temporary witnesses and then consider and the mercury fetl C7 degrees ! the state of the communities in which that night in less than 12 hours'.'bey happened we may come to the time, transporting us In atmosphere ! conclusion that crime In proportion to from tropical climes to the tempera-; population was more rampant then ture of Winnipeg and Medicine Hat. than now and that men were just as And etill we wonder why the doc- likely to let their brutal passions sway tors who care for them are buying them under the rule of the common automobiles. j gossip as under the rule of the press. Not only this, in the old Roman days Dougherty of Peoria, for a genera- j when thousands of citizens assembled tion a leading citizen of Illinois, for srd when women and children looked years superintendent of schools in Peo- on and applauded while gladiators ria. who was discovered to he a monu- I hacked each other to pieces and tender mental embezzler and sent to' Joliet. j women and children as well as help has been paroled. Probably the most j K'es old men were thrown to beasts remarkable feature of Dougherty's ca-1 to be devoured, was there any fault reer has been his loyalty to his pais- for this to be laid at the hands of any It is generally believed that he could j but the people themselves? have enjoyed much distinguished Peo- The standard of popular education ria companionship at Joliet. but he in the present day has been largely never p?ached and took the medicine raised through the agency of the en alone, lightened church and school supported - ----- -- - - j by the press. The efficiency of the Judging from the manner In! church and the school has been which a Moline paper has been car-! doubled and tripled many times rying on since Colonel James Ham-i through the aid of the press. Justice ilton Lewis made his speech iu that; has been unfettered. Ignorance dissi city before the Rock Island County j pated and freedom of thought and con Bar association the other night, it 1 science been made a reality. The of will be necessary for distinguished , nce of a newspaper is to give the men who may come to that city toiww speak on notable occasions and on i A8 iong as crimes happen they will notable topics hereafter to be quite-be recorded and the public. Including certain In advance that their views tbe ci5es vouId tum theJr b fc coincide exactly with these of that.uron the nwscaper wWch dId not paper. Otherwise the people may , rr-1Iit tLe Eews take a chance of becoming mortified! ' at having everyone who is the guest ' of the city roasted to a frizzle for! expressing hip eon i. tlons on public! questions within the walls of the city. The GcrnK'.ii em i cur's '! st sou and heir apparent if a chip off the old block. He is disposed to fail to tec anything sacred alwvjt the chancellor, and to treat bin; as his father treated Irince IiMrarck in the curlier dnys. Recently ho joined the apph'-use in the German court ess when memi-ors of the opposition were knocking the pecv of : Chicago people are paying for pota his father and the chancellor. The '"' as farmer is getting only 35 errperor himself did st ratline things ; when lie fir? took tie reir.s. a'd al though r.go tins scherod him. he still brews a little ioubte ftom time to time. It ehculd be at least gratifying to note that the yourg prince is capa S !e of an opinion instead of being a ;.ure soc.al machine as is apt to b the rate with royalty nowaday? Savanrry in Warfare. From Af'a snd Africa alike trees v.p :he wall cf tho vict'nia of savc.g.j cruelly hich eii-.ph.-.sses the iayii. of General Sherman that "war is heii " The butchery of telr'W men. wo men ard children iu Tripe;; ', y the ecI diery and the wild excee ef jhe pcrial Chinese at my f t Ka;.'-ow. If truly reported, show that i:c-e is eiiii a good leaven of sategc-ry in humeri i a ture Ylie world stands r.chtist at tho?a out breaks, but what is the xvorld doing tc prevent them? The I'r.i-c; 5?'a:-rs hs blood in the past and stands now rcr;clc.s are ,hose which pass through the a more advanced rolicy In dealing wl a vanjg cf a number of middlemen, all the things out cf which the horrors cf whom manage to squeeze a profit war spring. It dots not come into , court with hauds entirely clean, but St ; i- in bo much better position than the j ;cst of the natioca cf the world to l - fich peaco and arbitration that it Id ; l .-'er Qualified to take the lead in : t-.. movement for the pacification of j warring nations and tactions and the practice of common humanity. The time has not yet come for active intervention in Tripoli or China, hut there is no doubt that the United States of America win be in the fore front when the time comes, pleading for no pert In the a'vision of the spoils of war, hut for the dispensation of equal justice between the -victor and the vanquished. It Is only this nation which occupies the commanding posi tion from which It can command the attention of the civilized world to the demands of civilization and of mercy to the human race. If ttuese atrocities are being- commit ted they Bhould be stopped. ""War is hell." It Is time that the civilized nations of the earth were breaking away from the pit. Crime ami the Press. There Is a desire on the part of come people to attribute the "large In crease In crime" In this countryto the publicity given sensational news by the press. Admitting: that there is a good case against what 1b known as the "yellow press" on many counts, is It really true that there is a large increase In crime as compared with the time when the means of publicity were limited and the population less than one tenth what it is now? For several decades' past the popu "atinn has been concentrating in the cities and of course crimes have he come more frequent and numerous. Even in the country there are still op portunities for abnormal outbreaks of crime as in the recent Gunness case and the Render cafe of a generation p.jro, which in turn horrified the whole in which it is allr .ped nine victims met their death through poison adminis tered by a woman in whose bouse they were sheltered, but in none of these cases is it proven or even reliably Where the Profit Goes, A joker tells a story of a farmer who took two pics to market and re- : c-ived credit for them at current prictK. He asked the butcher to save hint a couple cf hams. When he re- turned a veek later for the hams and ! caiieu for Lis balance in cash, he was presented with a bill in ?2.85 in excess of the price due him for the pigs. A northern farmer writes to a Chi cago paper and wants to know what cu a tush--! for them. The New York grape grower gets 8 c i.Lt; a basket, he furnishing the bas- t. fur his grapes. The consumer tbitiris he. is getting them cheap at 20 t ettts. : Sorr.eone with a head for figures or for exaggeration has set forth the claim that a farmer gets from f0 to ', i'0 for a steer, and that the restaura teur sells this same 6teer for $2,000. Yh- a sells at 92 cents a bushel of Cy- fluuM ard the customer pays for it at the rate of 9 per 60 pounds when he p.-'s it as breakfast food. After writing about these things '.-tr.zr.j writers jump cn the retailer i'h beta feet and prick him wih their r-harp X''js bet-ides. The retailer is not to blaire. at least not to the ex- ; tent 10 which he is roested. He could i.t.-z i xist if he did not charge a cer- ; tain per cent more than he pays. An T.vestigajion will prove that the pnb- : lie has no cause for complaint on these things which the grocer buys direct from the farmer. The expensive artl- of the commodity. ' Thera seems to te little doubt that j the reSrers are the eole causes for' Ugh pris-of sugar which have pre- J ai!ea all summer. The refiners were ' at the bottom, without doubt, but with- out the aselstasce of ipecuiatlzg raid-1 S t WHY SOME GIRLS DOXT MARRY. She and her sister are 'baching" it. That Is, they are supporting them selves and living In a couple of "housekeeping rooms, where they cook their own mears, et cetera. Both girls are young, pretty and re fined. One of them has a "steady" an honest young fellow whose moder ate Income probably equals the total made by the two girls. I suppose yoer sister will soon be getting married," said a friend the other day, to the younger girl. "M-m-m I don't know about that," replied the girl. "Why, I thought she was engaged to that young man," exclaimed the friend. "She hasn't said she would marry him yet," explained the othe "You see," she went on, "both my sister and I are afraid to marry. "We are three sisters, you know, The oldest one married about five years ago. She married a good man who makes from $60 to $70 a month. She has three beautiful children. But our sister's marriage has made us afraid to do the same thing. "She has lost her health. She has the care of those three babies. She basnl had a new dress since she was married and she is making over her own dresses for the children. "The father is a splendid man. He doesn't drink, uor even smoke. bring3 his money home, every He cent of it, when he gets it. They make it go the furtherest possible. Most of it is spent to nourish and cress the children. The children are healthy, but actually, neither my sister nor her husband has enough to eat, and they both go so phabby they are ashamed to visit anywhere. Church Is out of the question. And it isn't because they don't do their level best with the money they have. "I tell you, it's too much of a risk to get married now. It costs too much to raUe a family. If you don't have a family. It's going against nature and isn't that one chief reason why people marry? "My sister and I each would like a home with a husband and children. But we don't dare. It costs too much even to live cheap." WHAT THEY" GET OFT OF IT. "Talk about city boys having fun," snorted the big man. "Say, they don't come anywhere near the good times we had when I was a boy on a farm. "We were five brothers and say! There wasn't much we weren't into. Commandments For Sons Rev. William B. Millard, pastor of the Morgan Park Congregational church, who recently framed new decalogues for fathers and mothers, yesterday laid down 10 up to date commandments for sons. Mr. Mil lard emphasized the need for "chummy" companionship between father and son. Here are the com mandments: I. Thou shalt not despise thy father's council, neither shalt thou bring tears to thy mother's eyes. II. Thou shalt keep thyself pure that thou mayest be worthy of thy God, thy mother, and thy wife which Is to be. III. Thou shalt keep thy tongue from profane and unclean speech. IV. Thou shalt not consume thy strength with strong liquors, poison smoke or midnight revels. dlemen they would not have suc ceeded. And the middleman Is generally in a combine, which is as to the consumer of the necessities of life what the tariff fed baron of the trust combine is to those who depend upon the other com modities that are essential to human comfort and happiness It is an age of combines, where the , protected man between or higher up gets the rake-off. lr. Osier's Joke. The Kansas City Journal no'es that "Sir William Osier, who has just been appointed regius professor of medicine j at Yale for 1912. now confesses that I , his dictum that a man is too old to work at 40 and ought to be chicrororm- j ed at 60 was a 'Joke.' That memo r a-1 hie pleasantry was given to the woTld at the time that Dr. Osier was retiring from his connection with Johns Hop- kins university, ana at tnai ume ne , who did their very best work when was himself near the dead line at j they were over 60 years of age. At 40 which the anesthetic should be ap- years men and women are only reach piled. But here we find him not only j fcg their prime. For a fine example deep in the moet active work of his of active maturity one need only pofnt career, but actually planning a new and strenuous program wcicn wiii oe more exacting than most men in their ; prime would care to undertake. high service of their country. Of course "If Dr. Osier really Intended hie epi-! Dr. Osier may laugh at his 'Joke,' bat gram as a Joke It was rather a cruel he has not contributed to the peace and awkward effort. No doubt many ; and contentment cf some thousands men In this country have taken his of men and women in this and other statement seriously azd grown d'-' lands who have reached their three couraged. At the time he Eave cut the ' Ecore and find themselves still young statement he said nothing about lta ; in heart and active in body." being a Joke, and he hei be?n rather severely criticised for It since. The most charitable view to be taken la that he probably never thought of the eonsec.ueneea and did not dream hla ! remark would be o widely published. I - - -v j w -v j m vw-ft IT It fpi ft Til r i'nf ftT vrv &frA m r. ' thoritlea tiat life la not only growing Tklks We went to every party within" 30 miles. The way we used to rush home to get dressed for a party! The first one there got the best clothes, you know, llany's the time I've got out to a party wearing more of my brothers' clothes than my own. "Of course we played tricks on each other. But It was all taken In good sport. For instance, more than once I've got home late and found all the slats out of my bed. But I always got "em back, you can wager! "Our one regret "was that we had no 6isters. We didn't have any girl company at home because we had no srsters. We could go out all we wanted to, hut It wasn't the same as having a hunch of pretty girls drop- ping in to see a fellow's sister. "And work! How we fellows did j work out there on the farm. We used every muscle we had. But it was i gtxd for us. We had something for it all. We had good health and good spirits and we grew up into big, strong men, with manly ideas. "But what do I get out of this here work in the city?" "I work all day for some money that I've got to hand right out again. Do I get anything for it? A head ache! That's all. "I go home with my headache. I'd like to find my wife home ready to coddle me up a little and that sort of i thing, you know, "Well. I find my wife's been through the mill just the ti me as I have. She's been figuring how to make both ends meet and keep up appearances as good as the neighbors. She wants the house and the children to be a erecMt to me and that takes money. She knows that if she looks shabby the neighbors will begin to gossip that I'm not doing so well, and it might hurt my business. "She's got to keep up with the church which costs money. She tries to keep up with the times by belong ing to a club or so and it costs money. She's got to pay three times as much for everything as we did when we were first married, while our income hasn't kept up in proportion, to say nothing of the children growing up and needing more money. "Well, what's the result? My wire gets a headache, too. "So, when I get home, we both have headaches. And that seems to be all we get out of a'ife the way most of us are living it now. "I tell you, something isn't right somewhere. But what's an ordinary man going to do about it?" V. Thou Bhalt not match pennies. shake dice, bet on ball games, or in dulge in any hazard where money may be lost, or what is far worse- acquire without rendering equiva lent. VI. Thou shalt speak truly, play fairly and work honestly. VII. Thou shalt not be afraid of an enemy's blow or a false friend's sneer. VIII. Thou shalt not exchange school drudgery, with high prospects, for a cheap Job which leads no where. IX. Thou shalt not covet the easy job nor aspire to get rich quick. X. Thou shalt not be guilty of in gratitude, either to thy God who cre ated thee, or to thy parents who reared thee. longer, but that the period of human usefulness is being lengthened. Few men are worn out at 40 or 50 or even 60 years of age. As in many other re lations of life, the personal equation must be taken Into consideration. Some men are worn ont at 30, and others never wear out. A few days af there caDle word that Murdo Mc- Kenzie, a cattleman of the Panhandle had been appointed manager of a 6, 000,000-acre cattle ranch in Brazil, Now it happens that Mr. McKenzie is 70 years of age, a time of life far be yond Dr. Osier's limit of usefulness. Mr. McKenzie is not only going to embark in an entirely new undertak- lng 5 hte age, but he has signed a contract for five years at a Mjary of S50 000 a year Here ja &D inspiring example of the virility of manhood which does not fUnk hpnath the mere weight of accumulated years. "It would not be at all difficult to quote many historic examples of men to the supreme court cf the United I states, where a magnificent group of ! eld men are still In the harness in th Weda a Former 8choo!mate. Elocmlrgton, Nov. U. Daisy Noble, who arrived here from Manchester. England yeeterday, waa married to Frederick Sayera, a former school- ma)a CarM -n a V uiv a"j o vaiu iicie Buiiie unip ago and entered buelzeaa. Humor and' Philosophy rovcAr ft. sntra PERT PARAGRAPHS. A PFEABAXCES are deceptive. Many a meek looking woman has all the bill collectors and grocers scared to death. If a wife's Ingenuity and patience I told the wonderful happenings so of are taxed exceedingly to publicly ac- tea that they have come to believe count for her husband's actions he ; them, while ethers, especially iu sto- need expect little shrift at home. Don't trust any one much unless tha collateral Is ample. With the present brand of girl going around expressing her opinion, the av - erase young man Isn't likely to get very conceited. Snubbing trouble frconentlT onlv seems to Irritate it and make it the more Insistent on cultivating your ae- quaintance. Almost any failure can turn Into an active and troublesome reformer. It is easier to criticise your friend when he is absent than when he has just loaned you a tenner. The man who knows the world Is going to the dog3 probably is helping It considerably. j The fellow who gets what's coming to him generally hasn't the strength and heart to look and see if there's any more. Easy Alternatives. If you cannot write a rcrn That will stir the souls of mn, Housing them to firs and acttoa When election comes tmaln And inspiring them to labor For the bosses' overthrow And for purer public fcusines.1. You at least can shovel snow. If you cannot mount the whirlwind On a modem aeroplane With a gasoline attachment. Beating- out a railroad train, Gcin? up to snatch the secret Ot the life-htninfr's sudden shock And conversing with the thunder. You can wa-llt around the blocK. If you cannot train your muscles For a bout with dusky Jack And within the roped arpna Play the white man cornlnK bacS; If you cannot land your punches On his bright but shifty eye And annex the slugger's title. You at least can swat a fly. Do not stand around complaining That you cannot something start, A a swell and swagger hero That you cannot play the part. There is always useful labor Waiting for the truly good. Tou can after patient searching Get a Job of sawing wood. Their Reason. "The Greens are going south naln this winter." "Trying to beat the coal trust?" "Guess again." "State want him as a witness? "No." "Well, what?" "For Mr. Green's health." Tuberculosis?" "2io. Gardening feves. Commercial Terms. "He Is an unprincipled fellow. "Has he no principal?' "None whatever." "Then as he probably has no col lateral I have no Interest in him, for I am always looking for at least 20 per cent." Ma4 a Eat Something. "You talk as though you had swal - lowed a dictionary. "Well, you aee" "See what?" "Owing to the high price of living" But the other had fled. Some Loneliness. Tie seems to be getting along. "Who told you so?" Well, he Is a prominent citizen." "Prominent citizen! He couldn't be mentioned for the vice presidency." Her Disappointment. "I hear you nre going to be mar ried, Maude." "Yes." "When?" "Soon as Frank can cet a 1ob." "Eob said he saw Frank run- nlng from a Job last week and the last thing he saw of t U e ni Frank was three laps ahead." . ' HeOuohtTo. Ther-P 1b a dark woman on vonr trall," said the fortune teller. "Do I know her?" asked the man. "You know her and you owe hc-r." Hopeful. , "Riches have wings." "Well, maybe the time will when a poor devil can own a machine too." come flyiiig The Cynic Tie is a fool." "Yes. but wbv mention it. ITe be - lonirs to tbe undistinguished herd." Same Old Thing. I bre&tbc-d a joke into the air. And soon I met It everywhere. 7cb roan Who told It mid that he Htd had !t happen to fc!3. See? A Ion Owe after, ripe with a?,e, I met that Joke on printed page. It had been told o! msav r?:tn A&d eaah time paeed aa fresh afaia. i Croup is most prevalent during the dry cold weather cf the farly winter months. Parents of young children should be prepared for it. All that la needed Is a bottle cf, ChamheTlain'a Cough Remedy. May mothers are never without It In their .... .. . ' nnTYAi m n i rem nAVi fl 'ac rnr : r.T.i L&nld by all drugglata. The Argus Conscience Stricken Copyrighted. 1911, by At the Sailors' Snug Harbor at New York, a home for aged seamen, about all the old fellows have to do to keep away the bides is to smoke their cuddy pipes and spin their past experiences J Ctw. Mnll vv. thn. j rt-. i aginations to help them out; some have ties of the ghostly order, did not from the first doubt that they were without the pale of nature's laws. j Terhnps of all such yarns spitn by i these men thi one told by old Bob ! Backstay, eighty-seven years old. Is j the hardest to swallow, and yet he be- lieved every word of it and convinced some of his bearers of its truth. "Mates, we've all been sailers for nigh : on to a ceutury under the tradition i th.it a master's business !.- to go down mth snip. Lanustnen imnK inai LIKE A SKELETON. pretty hard on the old man, and mobbe it is, but we sailors, bein' brought up that way, we can't git over it. The rule has growed and growed till now adays a cap'n won't be tookin' off no matter how many are around to take him and how little use there is of his stayin' on the vessel. A master I once sailed under tried to Save hisself afore the crew when the ship was wrecked, and he never was the same man arter wards. "His act preyed on bis mind night ! and day. lie got thinner and thinner, J his eye got more and more melan cholic, till at last b died o' conscience strickeuin and we h'isted him over board. We all thought thnt his mind end his body would be at rest, but they wasn't, as you'll see by the yarn I'm in- tr. Kr,tn .hmit him "We hadn't more'n dumped him when the wind hauled out o' the 6ou into the nor'east and freshened into a gale. From a gale it riz iuto a 6torm so sudJent that It swept most o' the crew offen the deck, stove in every thing breakable, broke away every mast and left the vessel on her beam ends. "When the storm had cleared away there was twelve of us clingiu'.to dif ferent parts, but the whole vessel was awash, and we hadn't nothin' to eat ! or drink. Jim Ilarkis was holdln' on to me same ratlines wim me. ana ne soon gave It up and let go. One after another the men give in and were washed overboard. After awhile there wasn't a man left but me. I suppose it was because I was born stronger'n the rest, and that's the reason I'm alive today at purty near ninety. "I disrerr.ember how long I was a-clingia' to them ratlines, but one time I looked up and saw what I thort was a sea surpent comiu' for me. I open ed and hut my blinkers to git the salt out of 'em. Soniep'n reached above the sarpent's head, and that soniep'n was a sail, square cut, bi.ited up on a l-v mast. ? I reckoned th'J thing was a ship with a tarieat for u EjTiireueau. "When she pot near enough I eee j onlv one man on her. He was stand n' 0,1 I'oop dr-ck, which was Hot j high. He hadn't no hat on hi bead, and his hair was a-'Iowin about I in the breeze. The craft kept comin' j lrsT and closer till the man staudin' j " llie poop ieck was sis p'am to me a lighthouse. His nose was thin, . his cheeks was boiler, L1h eyes glit- i tered like oTmonds. There was i fomep'n so melancholic in bim, spe- rlallv In them eves o' hU'n. that it give me a sort o' night mar.-?. I looked away from him. but somehow I had ! to look back, and there- he wen still ! f-tarin' at me. ! "lie was th skinniest loofc'u' th!:.g I ever see. KvTieetln' ns I wm that ti e next wave that washed over the ship would put rne where my myites had gone, this rr; -'nn'jhoiic feller was like a second d ;fh. "Then nil on a suddent I thort I rec- ! r'gtd7.ed our ccpialn that had deserted n and the .hlp when we tijort we wes goln' down. 1 knuwcl he w-a- de;:d trnd we'd hi-ted him overboard, but th'-re he was or his gh -'t, I ccniuii t te".! which, walkin' iibout on this queer lookin' craft, wrlngfn' Lis hands and sbxkln' his head, while -v- erv now c:. a tLen ne give n ia.m groan that sounded iike a distant bell buoy, though sometimes it swelled up more like a foghorn. "ni ship come on townrd me. and when he g' t a cable's length from me Le turned, foileria' witn thohe melan-r-hr.Hc c-e end ken' 'em on me till I thcrt they'd burn Into my brain. He didn't say nothin. and I was too far coze to sr-ft-k to Llm myr.elf. I tried - , . - r rn r .ti r r v tti-? ii v.kn if t i;i v il o at u v i ju use. While he was comin be stood J Daily Story By Benjamin Hawkes. Associated Literary Bureau. t on the fo'castle. While he wr.s passln' he walked aft, still kecpin' them eyes o" hlsn on me. aud when be cleared us : he leaned over the tatTrall, lookin j back at me. "Then, seeln' myself feserted by a ship sailln past me that might take me on. 1 got voice enough to cry for help. rut I wlshM I h:uln't a done it. The figure on the serpent ship, our j captain or his ghost or whatever it wa9i began to writhe and to moan, and ! every writhe and every monn seemed j xo pierce me to my heart. Then I was sure u was the captain's gno.it that j couldn't rest under the water and had j to keep sallin" over the water, his con- science borln' holes In his brain for havln' tried te save bteeelf before the crew. He drifted cm past me furder snd I furcjer away, the wind bttrely flllln' the sails of Ills ship, but le didn't change his place from le.tnln' over the taffrail and glarin' at me till he got so far I couldn't see his eyes; then be began to pnee the deck again. He passed on. walkin' from port to star board, from starboard to port tlU he got so far I couldn't see auy trace be tween port and starboard. "lie was gettin' hull down when the wind hauled and purty noon come rtrnight out o' the quarter Into which It had been blowin". Then I looked for the phantom ship with our captain on her, and the marrow In my bones frwe ! up to tee tnat it was n-comin rmcK. It dldr.'t seem ns if I could stand to see that conscience stricken man go ' by me again. I wns hnngln' on for my j life, but I Towed I wouldn't call on ! hlui for help, for I couldn't bear to ! see Ms writhln' and hear his monnln'. i "Waal, he came along r.gnln lookin' nt me from the fo'castle ns he done be I fore, shlftln' as he went by to the i stern. It seemed as If he'd growed ' a hundred years oldT. Somehow It j seemed to mo I had too. I reckoned ! I'd been hangln on to the ship all that 1 time, while theenptnin had been wnn j derln' about on the ocean rcpentln for : leavln' his crew in the lurch for the purpose o' savin his own carrnrts. Fle'd got so thin that it seemed with every gust o wind I could hear bin hone rattle. Ami the places where i his eyes were was great big Muck 1 holes, and way down In 'em there was i two sparks that looked like cut's eyes I In a coal hole. ' "Just as he got abeam of me bis flg- ure went before the reat big ball o' ) the sun that was n settln In the west. ! The light shone through his togs and the flesh If there was any flesh but the bones stood out agalust the blood red sun like a skeleton in the flames o' purgatory. I shut my eyes so I couldn't see It, and when I opened 'eni the sun had sunk and there wasn't nothln but the black water about me aud the shlnln' stars above. "That wus the awfulfst night I ever spent on the water or off of it. It ! Rpnpd to ni hat every wave that I rolled by was savin 'Next. nieanin' that the next one would talie mo sure. Hut at last I beard a shout, and thr-n I slid off into the water uud all wus black as midnight. "I didn't know nothin' after this till I ftlt soniep'n warm goin' duvvn into my vitals and settln' the blood mov in'. Comin to myself, 1 found my.self In a boat and was li'lsted up a ship's side. Laid out on th" deck, I got a tableppoonful o soup ih,v and then, more and more of it as I wus able to stand it, and gradually got on my legs again. I'd been taken up Ju.st In time to save my life." 'if e old sailor stopped, relit his pipe which had gone out during his recital, and awaited criticisms on his story. "I was wrecked on't myself," said one of his uiidience, "and Ihrce days without a bite to eat or a drop o' wa ter. I seen no end o' ships pUMsin', and. though I begged 'fin to take mo aboard, all the crew laughed at ine. When I did git picked up I wan like you. I didn't kno-.v nothin' about It till it was done. Then I knowed th'-re wasn't u real ship passed me. They was all phantoiiiH." j Several others relatr-d fit .Il ir eipf j rieuceH, after whi -li Joe Walker, the j best educated of the lot, spoke up: "The things you f'-Mers fiiw when yen was Marvin' wasn't, either real i t-Lips or phantoms. They v.as wl .it ! the tlctors nJI d-llrimn. That man j I Job Haekstay saw wasn't 1'U rapid In at ail. Hob had U-cti thinUIn about ! th-? eaptain. otid when he was rie;ir riyin' saw the man In bis mind. And that's the fl Iauati'U of all the re:t of tiier v.-iri,'-." These w!e words t rodtje" ! ll'tle cf- j feet on men who had not been edu cated and v.h' at cn early n rro Irnd ' Imbibed the pnperst itpitis usual to i sailors otid who wi re to oi l to be come rational. jse.mv an i""Jiivi l t.li at itere iva r.M rm'ii uy win i cattin should not wander J.ft liko i any other gli"". Ard the re un.vn't a ! timn amoriK them v ! wou'd ; v thr'r was no KU"h thlt-g "s ;!,.. fs. I;,'cl:- stay eald th:it the rn; he l toM i ilioiit was the r,iy or h" hi"l ever een, but he was H're h-.- l.-.-.d v :ii that ane. Nov. 13 in American History 1T7V-Ctnercl Ili'Lirl Montgomery, with l. ol'ii..l ;;ri:;y. rb'tu:i-d Montreal. 120 Sam I'at'h. aiMetc ar.d bridge Jun;per. killed by a U- i of I'Ti feet lr;to O'Tie'ee f.ilV Jf- E:ph;si'-:. ;i) ' V! eori:pany'n ti.it e :ti Cherry. 111., re sulted In the death of 2.".8 n. Inert. 110 Alexander fc'tep'ueni Clay. UnlN ed Stat -e;iat'-r from (leort-.s, o:.e of the re.-.di t debater U; tuut tody, died; born liS3.