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Episoopalian or Roman-we prefer the
Aatter notwithstanding the strong words
Saf our neighbor. 1t is at least not liable
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GUS truths

THIS Convention and
Ahe onio oon- it's auxiliary bodies is
1vention. IN soss;or Of cIavo-
land this week. If the weather of Mon
day and Tuesday, with the mercury in
the '90s. prevails later in the week-and
the weather man promises no relief
the Convention will have heated time.
I'm years gone by this Convention itself
generated heated atmosphere, but in
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mosphere that has been troublesome.
We look for an interesting series of re-
ports in our next issue, when Ohio will
have the right of way for it's Convention
Week
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OLOvERNOOK PURCHASED.
MRS. M. LOUISE THOMAS BUYS THE
BIRTHPLACE OF THE POET SISTERS
ALICE AND PHOEBE CARY.

1t Will be Kept as Memorial of the Gift
ed Girls by Their Dearest Friend.
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Who from the farm field singing came,
The song whose echo now is fame.
And to the great. false city took
The honest hearts of ClovernoOk,
And made their home beside the sea.
The trystipg place of liberty.
Meantime Mrs. Thomas had preceded
the Cary sisters to the East. and the ac-
quaintance continued and was cemented
by constant and familiar intercourse.
The last intelligent sentence spoken by
Alice Cary was addressed to Mrs.
Thomas, and from the beginning until
the close their friendship knew no dim
mutton or change. In 1869 Alice Cary's
last surviving sister except Phoebe died.
This was Rowena, the wife of Isaac Van
Zandt Carnahan, of Cincinnati. She was
the eldest of the family and bore a
striking resemblance to Alice, being a
woman of broad intelligence and decided
talent. Upon her death her daughter
Lucy went to live with her aunts in
New York. She was the companion Of
her Aunt Alice the last summer of her
life, when she travelled hoping to regain
her health, and stood by her bedside
when she breathed her last. Immedi-
ately after the death Of Phoebe, which
SO soon followed that of Alice. she mar
ried Mr.. Thomas. Mrs. Lucy @. Thorn.
ass children are Lucy and Ethel. Rhoda
Cary and Abel Cary Thomas. 1t is the
intention of Mrs. M. Louise Thomas to
make these grandchildren the future
guardians Of Clovernook. 1t is now the
home of Warren Cary. the youngest
brother Of Alice and Phoebe, and the last
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A STAG,S ANTl.ERS.
Tho Finest Trophy That Deer slayev
sny,

Tho Finest Trophy That Deer Siaysx
| Can Possess.
i "A stag and his antlers are almost as
fnseparable in the mind of the sports
man as In the mind of one to whona
aeeF-stalking is nothing but name.
Yet there are not orIy hornless yarie-
/ lies OF the family cervidae but not q
few members of the great red-deer
/ group are found to have been denuded
Dy hatuFe as well as by accident of the
crowning glories of their race and SEX
| Stays without hofus are called Hum
mie stays, and they are, far from being
the helpless creatures one might rea-
sohably have imagined them. They
have been known to fight and conquer
heavily antlered stays of their own
weight The appendages' known as
antlers are so far from being universal
among the cervine tribes that nstural-
lists prefer TO rely upon other char
actefistics in their definitions Of the
several families and groups. But q
hornless stag is So far an exception
Shat the system of Judging the merit of
the stalkers' spoil by the character Of
the head and the number of the tines
or points is certainly the best that
could be devised.
Many years ago an antler with if
teen points was dug mp from the Irish
bog. Assuming an equal number ON
sfe antler that was missing, the nsighty
Hsft to which the horns belonged
would have been d stag not Of twelve
or thirteen, but of thirty points. Such
prizes are. nots however; nowadays,
likely to fall into the lap OF the Scot
tish deer-stalker, still less will they be-
able to send to the suffers such mag
nlhcent examples as those which nay
0s found In many an old German
schloss The continental deer have al
ways been more heavily antlered than
the British,.a fact which may partly be-
accounted for by their having access to
much better feeding than they are able
to procure In Scotland. But, renem-
bering that heads of eighteen and
twenty points have been killed in this
country it seems quite reasonable that
any head with tines in excess of the
royal" should be distinguished by a
special designation. There is some diff
ference OF opinion as to what consti-
tutes a royal hart. Strictly speaking,
the head should not only possess
brow" bay" and stay, and three
On the top, bat these last three the
'surroyals," as they are called should
form cups IN order to qualify the head
rs royal 4he more generally ae-
cepted proposition, that o royal hart IL
q head of twelve tines. is, however, also
the most convenient in the awarding
of honors Where honors are due
There are two ,sidessof the questions
Of how to procure the largest possible
number of the finest heads. The sci
suee Of the stall and the skill of the
sliaOter s. prese ut ona side and tEa
vork az the forester t4he oI Iaes
Iues zion 81 FOOD is of plid ainstln
ssss III ffSa spring
means good heads in the autumn. The
most points are generally found in for
SITS where there Is the most wood, and
he best feeding and shelter Country
feYrtfamaYr
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Nd steam vessel could keep afoat an,
soaled DIP 6vef q week Without fnis
ming across q cfniser. Tns speciia
conspiracy and the abandonment 8
the San Pedro were therefore newt
able deductions. The purchase of tho
use of the San Pedro, the shipment o;
the men at New Orleans, the landing
OF the men on the southern coast must
all sooner or later focus the search al
New Orleans. But by that time he
would be out of sight.
Two facts were OF special import,
The officer and boats crew that had
boarded the Corinthian had been pho.
tugraplted by one of the passengers an
the steamship, hitit willie tiiis fseI fiad
been. communicated to New YORK: fla
photographs had been carried to Err
land. The other fact was that the
passengers all had the impression that
the vessel and crew were Spanish and
had gone eastward.
Two days had not elapsed before the
two pirogues with their masts cut off
were taken in tow by small side
wheeler md pulled up the river. They
were loaded with derricks and heavy
timber. Hendricks had inserted an
adverti', ,ement ii the papers md It was
known ne was purchasing material fof
his improvements somewhere on the
Mississippi
On the morning that the little side
wheeler went slowly up the river ii
plain view of New Orleans, the United
States cruiser Dakota picked up and
identified some of the upper works OF
the San pcdf9 ii the gulf, and q sensa-
tiona story appeared in a New York
paper which stated that the conspiracy
to rsb the English steamship had been
hatched in the United States treasury
department, and that the San Pedro
had transferred her cargo In the bay
OF Campeachy and the treasure was
npw, hiding at or near the Bnncas ali
Sisa1. 6ff YHeatari:
Everything now depended on tie
Dirogues reaching the Wash bayou be-
Tore the true clew led to New Orleans.
It was a seven-hundred-lnile Journey, /
md the vessels crawled along at pace
If only eight miles an hour. Her ,
tricks himself went direct to Memphis
~ rail, and after several days of intol-
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CHAPTER VII.

NO one knew SO well as Hendricks.
who sat in the cabin of the San Pedro
that all this was child's play to-
what was to come. He had sixteen
hundred miles to run. He was loaded
heavily with coal and the gold had
weighted his vessel too seriously to
think of getting anything like the
speed out of her that he desired. She
was schooner-rigged and there was
stiff wind blowing from the northeast.
That was In his favor. But he calcu-
lated that If one Of the westward bound
ocean greyhounds spoke the Corinthian
and got her story, the news would
reach New York and set the telegraph
in operation much too soon for his
safety. He had informed himself az
the position of all the government yes
sells and he knew that there was at
last accounts fast cruiser in Mobile
bay. He, therefore, calculated as close
II as he could the chances of the Cor
inthian being intercepted; for, dis
abied as she was, it would be her cap
taln's plan to put her in the route of a
westward bound steamship.
He betrayed his anxiety to the cap
tain, but that parsonage filed himself
with Medford rum and insisted that the
worst part OF the job ysas done.
The first thing that Hendricks did
was to throw his guns overheard to-
gether with all his superfuous shot
and ammunition. He then got up steam |
and stood off in Q southeasterly direc-
tion until the Corinthian was hull
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down; wheH he shifted Ills course siId
iysnt directly west. . 80

down; wheH he shifted Ills soursa si,d
went directly west.
There was another source ST anx;esty, ;;stt,
IN his crew, but here his matchlass
cunning and self-reliance stood him
well in hand. He linew what he could
do with them If hegot within America y
waters, and they were EQUALLY anx;ons !
with himself to get off the h;ph saas
It blew stiff gale all the first NIGHT
and his vessel labored badly. FINALLY
he took his captain's advice. which was
to save his coal till he wanted to s,,e,., ~,
his heels 70 soliaethfng and take IL easv
under sail. The consequence was TINT
It was nearly six days before he strt,elt
the aHH stfeaM ff1d be had not ssga a
ps1H 81 Black smoke on the horizon,
He had provided shimself with four
boats, and managed to land thirty Of
his men with ) thousand dollars Of Of
American gold eagles in each mans
pocket, at San Justine in the night.
.lhey We're as anxious as he to part
company, and with thousand dollars
every man OF them felt as rich as his
J leader The moment he had reduced
ms crew, he elupped on steam, went
aoMH .p bng coast ana Rounded Cape Fear
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for Panama with his pirogues an,
cargo.
Instead Of doing this. he wen
straight to New Orleans and hauled
both vessels ttp at Algiers where Hi
Remaining crew Were kept aboard, ant
for two, days disposed OF theft fish
These men were evidently picked and
retained for their reliability and were
thoroughly cognizant of the whole
/ scheme.
Hendricks managed to arrive Iii New
Orleans as if by rail, and registered nj
the st. Charles as Archibald Hendricks,
of Tennessee. As he was already
known by that name Mt the hotel and
was known to be interested in some
land improvement scheme, his subse-
| quent operations attracted no suspi-
| cion. His captain and NIL but four OF
| the men had been sent north in differ
ent directions to meet at the Laran
portal and the two badly smelling
pirogues that had slipped into Az
giers lay among q lot of old craft in an
out OF the way place, securely guarded
by the four men.
The moment Hendricks gotto the ho-
tel, he was able to learn ali the facts
of the search. The Corinthian had
been two days and half at sea under
sail before she spoke o westward bound
steamship, the Ang1o-Saxon, and COM
municated the news. II was three
days and half before the Anglo
Saxon reached New York and the news
of the robbery preceded her from Eng
land by cable just six hours. Twelve
hours elapsed after the reception of
the news before the navies of England
and America were looking for the San
Pedro. Hendricks smiled as he saw
how narrow margin he had sailed ON.
Before the search was well under way.
he had been in the gulf and the
wreckage of the San Pedro, which he
was sure would come to light was, he
thought, a fairly good chance of per
plexity and delay on the one hand to
the pursuers and safe location OF the
plumber up to the moment of transfer
on the other. The betrayal of that
transfer depended on the twenty-five
men whom he had still in his service
and upon whom he believed he could
depend
Hendricks was too shrewd man not
to see that his scheme however cum
ming would only hold for time. He
knew perfectly well that the sailors
whom he had got rid of, would proceed |
to get drunk and in their
recklessness expose the plot up to a
certain point. But he believed their
stories under whatever promise of /
pardon or compulsion of punishment /
could get no farther than the state I
ment that the San Pedro had sailed for |
Panama or Venezuela. The knowledge
If the transfer to the pirogues was {
ocked up in his own immediate con-
.ederates This fact he reasoned /
would not prevent the ultimate discov-
,ry OF the real truth, but it would de-
ay it sufficiently for him to get safely
% his subterranean retreat with his
olunder Common piracy was not an
dea that anybody would entertain
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d resist the impression that it had been
at one time IN incandescent bubble
i that had cooled without breaking. He
stood in the center and threw the light
! into the space above. few stalaetites
gleanfed faffttIy like stars. Moth
ing else in the cave so Impressed him
as this magnificent natural rotunda.
Indeed the rest of the subterranean
passages and. openings were such as
are seen in al1 the, underground tracts
OF Kentucky and Tennessee Vast ac-
cumulations of limestone debris;
choked and narrow alleyWays; bottom
less holes; enormous stalacfites and
mounds of their fragments where they
had fallen. Here and there streams of
water flowed sluggishIy across their
path afid ,5nce they encountered a pond
or lake about d TITLE in extent and at
one point half mile In width.
The exploration mainly impressed
Laport with the prodigious expense
and the comparative futility OF con-
strueting narTow-gnage road on the
varying and stony levels. But he saw
that it could be built on iron benches
against one Of the walls with only two
breaks that needed blid
When Hendricks returned nIld HAD
cspsated lliHaself III what
aia seallsd Illf aboEa
1T will cost an enormous sum to put a
track down. he said, .'and il is for
you to say that the end will warrant
the extraordinary expense .
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and fenced II with an impregnable
steel ferlEa for sest.araf an,.fas. a..e,ar,rl

and fenced II with an impregnable
steel fence for several acres around
each entrance 30 the cave.
During his absence; Laport had gone
over the entire Place with subordi-
nate who appeared 10 be famifiar with
every part ii il. they had set out with
lanterns, ladders and other appliances
which were loaded upon couple of
Rocky mountain burros that Lapors
found In the place.
Through the alley or corridor that
led from the rugged space at the en-
trance, Laport noticed that the coal
measures showed themselves on both
sides. The passage opened into vast
room almost circular and with a vault
Ad fUafs lis superficial ares was at
least thfee aefes atia taap6H could mot
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During that month he remained at
Laran, as ne called the place, superin-
tending the Improvements that he had
He had purchased the land
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erab'e anxiety and constant expectu
tiun OF meeting with the news that the
plumber hud been tracked to the river
he had the satisfaction of sec
/ ing his cargo from the hotel win
dow. slowly and taborious1y crawling
| up the stream iindisturbed.
/ He got aboard the steamboat about
/ ten miles above Memphis, and, finding
Capt. Blidn aboard, lie having been
similarly picked up, they congTatu-
lated each Other.
The vessels were run safely into the
Wash bayou Mt night unobserved, md
the whole energy of Hendricks and his
confederates was then directed to the
transportation of the specie to the
western end of the Laran cave.
In spite Of the urgent need of haste,
| this was done deliberately and method
ically, and the wild, deserted coun-
! try favored the task. Mule teams
| We're provided; the two journeys were
made at night under guard, and In
!, three days after the landing there were
two million nine hundred thousand
dollars In the Laran cave.
Hendricks plans for the immediate
use of some of the money are In part
known. Three months before the rob-
berry OF the steamship, he had, by some
scheme, managed to borrow six thou
sand dollars. which he converted into
gold and deposited in the First ma
tional bank of Memphis TO be drawn
against. He now went to the Second
national bank of Louisville, KY, with
the certificate of deposit and expressed
o desire to change the specie from one
bank to the other as matter of con-
venience. It was an ordinary business
transaction and created ne suspicion.
He then instead of drawing the six
Thousand from Memphis, made fresh
deposit of six thousand In Louisville.
This gave him a bank capital sufficient
Tor ordinary and immediate use in cur
rency. and the fact that he had not
withdrawn the money from one bank
to put II In the other either escaped
notice at the time or was not regarded
as of any significance.
His next move was the formation OF
q supposititious syndicate TO purchase
the land in Tennessee for national
sanitarium. This project was exploit
ed in the Kentucky papers with great
cunning A corporation of medical
men had surveyed the land and were
about to purchase it and erect mag
nificent hotel. and they had made Mr..
Hendricks q handsome offer for III.
While all this was maturing the woman
whom Laport had met as Miss Frank I
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CHAPTER vI.-CoNmS1rFn
FCopYRlGHH 1921

CHATTER VL--CoNTINUED.
10 the captains utter amazement
twenty other passengers shouted
Ave, ave. shut off your steam.
Even then some horrible Suspicion 5i
the truth must have flashed upon The
| wretthed officers mind as he locked
down upon this group. tie caught the
ran moment with both hands, then
Wheeled round and, folding his arms.
sad to his companion ON the bridge:
Stop her!''
| AS II in anticipation of this, the San
| PEDRO had slackened speed and was
/ now blowing white cloud of steam.
ror ten minutes everybody on the
Cor1ntlian watched the vessels an
proach each other md; wheh thew
were less than d thousand feet mart,
every one could see the line of heads
along the smaller vessels taffrail.
Inc sea was unusually calm and
CLASSY, and presently boat manned
~ SIX men put off from the San Pedro.
When the young man who repre-
sented the pirate had reached the deck
OF the Corinthian he found himself
facing crowd of men and women IN
every condition of alarm and anxiety.
lie was dressed In blue shirt and
g. common duck trousers and glazed cap;
z ~ ms beit ne carried q REGULATE ion navy
revolger, He saliated the enftain g,ss
a.aa nd N q ls u ]. !. 3,
order your people below. We will
come alongside and remove your spe-
n I'm ~,
dignity offered to your crew or passen-
gers
Damn your impudence, sirf"< re-
torted Capt. Jamison. Eve a great
mind to chuck you into the sea myself.
TO back and tell your buccaneer that
British captain sinks with his shin
and cargo. He doesn't hand them over
to the first cowardly rascal he meets" /
AS you please, sir" the young man
replied. "Itwould be cruel necessity
TO send this vessel and It's people To
the bottom
lie turned to go to his boat after
making another salute and one of the
passengers again interfered
We object to the arrangement he
said, "and are not going to be mur.
dered on the high seas to save your
gold. .
Whereupon twenty other passengers
armed with revolvers stepped out and
repeated: AYE, aye. Take the gold,
but we want to reach our destination.
The npshot was that the captain and
ais officers were locked in the cabin.
5he passengers ordered below and the
San Pedro 1ashed alongside 1t took
'eventy-five men two hours and half
% transfer the gold from one vessel to
another, and sharp lookout was kept
or approaching steamships. When
he task was accomplished, the en-
'ineers were ordered on deck and
hree of the Pedro's crew went below
nd effectually disabled the ma
hinery of the Corinthian.. This took
mother hour.
The last thing the pirates saw was i
he white hair of Capt. Janiison blow.
ng in the wind that had sprung up {
rom the northeast, as he shook his |
st at them. And the last words thev {
card We're: IN hang every dog Of ]
on before die II
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WEB re ART.
u tah never paint d picture;,;

II eah never paint b picture;s
So she said;
and she cut In twain the canvas
She had spreads
.Puf her paints and brushes bv.
Had one little harmless crv
Still she said: Resolved am I
Art to weds'
SO I'll write wondrous poem
To the moon,
Nhen II shines In solemn spiendor
At nights noon
Though paint not, can write.
now my poem I'll indite,''
And she rhymed the Iiyeionr night
'Moon-roon-spoon. !,
But she ne'er became poet
Her young head
AEd sufficient sense 10 know II,
,et.,...zt.,s .He she said:
.stnfe fsys missed the muse of SONG.
md I'd art m9y not belong,
Would II then be very wrong,
Jim to wed.''
Ne"'she makes her home picture
Cunning arti
LIVES tender poem daily,
Fame apart
better these than written rune.
hhSmed tremendously with spoon,
Poems OF love honeymoon,
or tho heart
Mrs. M. { Rasnes ii Detfoit Fec Press.
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KOREANS AT TABLE.
They Are Not Noted for Their Strict oh.
seryance of Etiquette.

i They Are Not Noted sor Their Strict Oh.
1 servance of Etiquette.
| One striking fault of the Koreans of
table is their yoraeity. In this respect
there is no difference between the
| rich and the poor, mobiles and plebeians.
To eat much is an honor In Korea, and
the merit of feast consists not in the
| quality but In the quantity of the food
served Conversation is not encour-
aged at table, for one cannot eat and
talk. DR.. William Elliot Griffis writes
OF this peculiarity OF the Koreans:
Since capacious stomach Is high
accomplishment, it is the aim from I'M
fancy to develop one having all posi-
BILE elasticity. Often the mothers take
their babies upon their knees, and after
stuffing them with rice, tap them from
time to time with the paddle of a Iadie
on the stomach, to see that Ii is fully
spread out and filed, and only cease
their efforts when it is physically i'm
possible for the child to swallow more.
A Korean is always ready to eat; be
attacks whatever he meets with, and
rarely says Enough. Even between
meals, he will help himself to any edible
that is offered.
The ordinary portion of laborer is
abouta quart OF rice, which, when
cooked makes good bulk. This, hoy-
ever, is no serious hindrance to his de-
vouring double or treble that quantity
when he can get 1t. Dog meat Is d
common article of food, and the canine
sirloins served up In great trencherg
f..sI L