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pressed passion, right into my face II
uoi KNOW what's worse, their fury or
tneir pity The childishness of it! The
childishness Do you imagine, Sc
nor, that Manuel or the Juez O'Brien shall
some day spare you in their turn? If /
oidn Know the courage of your nation
despise the Juez and Manuel alike, "
l interrupted angrily. / despised Castro,
too, at that moment and he paid me back
with interest. There was no mistaking his
scathing tone.
Il know you well. You scorn your
friends, as well as your foes. 1 have seen
so many of you. The blessed saints guard
us from the calamity of your friendship"
mo friendship could make an assassin
of me, Mr.. Castro ~
Which is only a very little less
ued. In a cold rage "A very little less.
You let Manuel go Manuel!
Because Of you'd mercy Mercy. Bah!
1t Is all your pride-your made pride.
You shall rue 1t, senior. Heaven is just
You shall rue 1t, senior"
He denounced me prophetically, wrapped
up with an air of midnight secrecy; but,
after all, he had been a friend in the act,
II not in the spirit and l contented myself
by asking, with some pity for his imbecile
craving after murder:
why? What can Manuel do to me? He,
at least, is completely helpless"
Did the Senior Don Juan ever ask him.
self what Manuel could do to me-Tomas
Castro? To me- who am poor and a vaga-
bond, and a friend of Don Carlos may his
soul rest with God. Are ell you English
like princess that you should never think
OF anybody but yourselves?'
He revolted and provoked me, as il his
opinion of the English could matter, or his
point of view signify anything against the
authority OF my conscience. And 1t is our
conscience that illumnes the romantic side
of our life. Brusquely L turned my back on
him. and heard the repeated clicking of flint
against his blade He lighted a cigarette
and crossed the deck to lean cloaked
against the bulwark, smoking moodily un-
der his slouched hat
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dark as If coming after me across the OBJ
scure threshold of sleep, his voice medi-
tated, II am sorry, though, We are bound
for Havana. Pity. Great pity! Has 1t oc-
CURED to you, Mr.. Kemp. that 81
1t is very possible that he did not finish
his sentence; no more penetrated, at least,
into my drowsy ear. / awoke slowly from
a trance-like sleep, with a confused notion
of having to pick up the thread of drop
ped hint. / went up on deck.
The sun shone, faint breeze blew, the
sea sparkled freshly. and the wet decks
glistened. / stood STILL touched by the
new glory of light falling on me; 1t was a
new world-new and familiar, yet disturb
ingly beautiful l seemed to discover all
sorts of secret charms that I had never
seen in things / had seen hundred times.
The watch on deck were busy with brooms
and buckets; sailor, coiling a rope over a
pin, paused in his work to point over the
port-quarter with massive forearm like
a billet of red mahogany.
/ looked about rubbing my eyes. The
Lion, close-hauled, was heading straight
away from the coast, which stood out, not
very far yet outlined heavily and flooded
with light. Astern, and to leeward of us,
against a headland of black and indigo, q
dazzling white speck resembled a snowflake
fallen upon the blue of the sea.
That's schooner, said the seaman.
"And II means" said Sebright. coming
up most likely, that the fellow with the
curis that made me think of my maiden
aunt has managed to keep his horse-face
above water" He meant Manuei-dsl-Po-
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CHAPTER v

Manners escape was the last event of
that memorable night. Nothing more hap
pened, and nothing more could be done;
but there remained much talk and wonder
ment to get through. l did all the talking
of course, under the cuddy lamps WILL
1ams red and stout sat staring at me
across the table. His round eyes were per-
fectly motfonless with astonishment-the
story of what had happened in the Casa
Riego was not what he had expected of
the small, badly reputed Cuban town.
Sebrfght, who had all the duties of the
soiled ship and Clipped men to attend to,
came In from the deck several times and
would stand listening for minutes with
his fingers playing thoughtfully about his
slight mustache. The dawn was not very
far when he led me into his own cabin. 1
was half dead with fatigue, and troubled
by an inward restlessness.
Turn In into my BERTH said Sebrfght
l protested with a stiff tongue, but he
gave me friendly push, and tumbled like
log on to the bed clothes. AS soon as my
head felt the pillow the fresh coloring of
his face appeared blurred, and an arm
mistily large, was extended to put out the
light of the lamp screwed to the bulk
head
II suppose you know there are warrants
out in Jamaica against you-for that row
with the admiral he said.
An irresistible and unexpected drowsiness
had relaxed all my limbs.
Hang Jamaican 1 said, with difficult
animation. I'VE are going home"
Hang Jamaican he agreed. Then, in the
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front, at the snug little sum of nine millions
OF dollars.
Amazing Commercial Activity.
The Interpolation, so to speak. Of the
business centers of the city has gone for
ward at a wonderful rate since consolida-
tion During the first three years $500. $780,
600 were spent for all kinds Of buildings in
the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx
while since January. Of 19O2-two years and
a quarter-$159 900 has been spent in
Manhattan; nearly half billion of dollars
for buildings in five years and quarter in
only two boroughs
During this period 1893 office buildings,
costing s48,0O0.0 COO, have been erected on
Manhattan Island. Office building in New
York Is another way of saying skyscraper,
and skyscraper means q building ten sto-
ries or over In height.
How many skyscrapers there are IN New
York 1t is impossible to say definitely. The
first was erected around 1891. The years
following they were sandwiched along lower
Broadway among buildings of ordinary
height: even up to 1900 nearly all were
on lower Broadway. Now they are every
where. Lower Broadway Is lane be-
tween two almost unbroken towering walls.
The side streets in the financial districts
are lined with them, and they have now
turned the tables and small buildings are
sandwiched among them. Walk on any
street leading or Broadway as far up as
z2d street and you will not take many
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regard for me, had abandoned the inten-
ton of making an affair of state of the
outrage committed on his ship. He would
not lodge any complaint in Havana
nothing at all. The old women Of the adj
mfralty wouldn't be made to sit up this
time. No report would be sent to the ad-
mfral, either. Only. If the ship were in
terfered with and bothered under any
pretense whatever. once they had every
FACILITY to have one good look every
where, the admiral would be asked to
stop 1T. And the Spanish authorities
would have not leg to stand on, either
for this simple reason. that they could
not very well own to the sources of their
information. Meantime all hands on board
the Lion had to be taken into confidence;
that could not be avoided. He, Sebright
answered for their discretion while sober.
anyhow; and he promised me that no
leave or money would be given in Ha-
vana Tor fear they should get on a spree
and let out something in the grog-shops
on shore.
So that was settled. Now, as to our re-
Joining the Lion. This, of necessity, must
pc left to me. Counting from the time we
parted from her to land on the coast, the
Lion would remain in Havana sixteen
time, and the cargo was all on board by
them Capt. Williams would try to remain
In harbor on one pretense or another a
few days longer But sixteen days should
be ample, and 1t was even better not to
hurry up too much. To arrive on the fif-
teenth day would be the safest proceed
Ing In a way, but for the cutting of the
thing too fine perhaps
Go be continued.)
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building operations reach an aggregate val
na Of s47O. 600 600 This, subtracting the
tan millions for municipal buildings and
few other millions. represents the contribu-
tfon of private NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. half bill
Hon with three other boroughs unaccounted
for among them that Of Kings. In which
;s Rroolklyn, where tens of millions OF
monev have been put into buildings. Then
consider how the city has spent money like
water for such improvements as new streets
and sewers since 1899. During the past
two wears alone fourteen millions were
snent for streets and sewers alone.
Spending Still More Millions.
billion and half dollars ia a conserva-
five estimate, and 1t does not take into con-
alteration the numerous plans of all sorts
for the spending of still moro millions. Sew
eral of these schemes will undoubtedly be
edopted and pushed forward in the near
future: such as the erection Of new
Belleyue Hospital at a. cost OF eleven MIL
lions. the further extension of the famous
R,verside drive from the end OF the one
mile extension, now being made at a cost
Of "a 600 COO up to the end Of Manhattan
island. and increasing the entire city,
water supply at a cost estimated at $780,
100000.
No other city in the world has ever au-
,thorized the expenditure of SO much money,
or had 20 many millions expended upon 1t
by private enterprises, in so short period
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by the Pennsylvania railroad to enter the
island of Manhattan under the Hudson
and leave it under the East river, and on
its new freight route to New England from
Constable Hook, New Jersey, across the
Upper bay to and through Brooklyn and
the borough of Queens to the Sound, and
thence over the East river by bridges to
the mainland
The New York Central is also making
extensive improvements. After recent
costly remodelng of it's Grand Central sta
ton. 1t is now completely rebuilding IL ana
making other improvements along It's right
of way. which, all told, necessitates an
outlay of half what its new rival In Man
haitian is spending.
Apfng the railroads are the trolley COM
panies The New York and New Jersey troll
ley tunnel has just been driven across the
North yer from west to east, and with the
supplementary tunnel in Manhattan calls
for cool ten millions. A like sum is being
spent on the tunnel under the East river at
42d street, which is to be used by various
electric Enes on Long Island.
AS for bridges, some S60,o00,ooo are being
spent for steel spans across the various
rivers
The Williamsburg suspension bridge, now
nearing completion, has cost, with the nee
essary land, which was got by tearing down
blocks of houses and closing teeming
streets, $40, 000, 900. For the Manhattan sus-
pension bridge, the piers for which are being
constructed, a like sum is to be expended
The cantilever Blackwelfs Island bridge,
also under way, will require S16,000OO0
while On minor bridges, affording easier &C
cess to the outlying districts of the north
east ABOUT two and half millions are be-
ing expended.
Staten Island is the one borough off all by
itself II order to bring it in close touch
with its sisters, the city is shortly to spend
So coo coo to establish an up-to-date ferry
system between 1t and the Battery.
Another big municipal water front i'm
provement now well under way, is that of
nine piers, big enough to accommodate the
largest ships, on the Hudson river water
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The records show that. For example the
city Is spending more than two and a half
times as much for parks as the next four
teen largest American cities combined; 1t
Is spending more for schools than any
other city, London not excepted, and where
is the city In and on which one private cor
poration-the Pennsylvania railroads.
spending sixty millions of dollars?
Staggering as these figures are to the
average mind, yet the cry is still and ever
for more-more-more. Not city depart
ment but feels that It Is not getting half
what 1t should have In other words no
one is content to rest on his oars, and other
tens of millions will undoubtedly be spent
until such time as the city feels that 1t is
no longer five or more OF less connected
boroughs, but the American metropolis.
For Rapid Transit.
BY common consent the city is pushing
Its rapid transit plans ahead of everything
else. For this reason the most imposing
item is that of rapid transit. 1t is also the
most important by far; on quick transpor-
tation depends the development of a
metropolis. Rapid transit is binding the
boroughs together, wiping out by tunnels
and bridges the heretofore unsurmount "a BILE
natural barriers of rivers and bays and
sound. 1t is making access easy to and
causing the building up of parts of the
city that two or three years ago were
deemed inaccessible except for country es-
tates.
When the present plans are completed,
New York will have spent quarter of a
billion dollars for rapid transit and pos
sess ffty-fve miles of subways and tun-
nels. This sum named excludes bridges
The present subway represents an ex-
penditure of nearly s7OOO0.0O0. The East
Side tunnel. contracts for which will be let
in the near future. is estimated to cost
$50, 100000; and the scheme to connect the
bridges now over the East river calls for
at least eight millions.
These improvements are more or less
municipal in character, but others, equally
as extensive and costly, are being made by
various corporations that have realized the
Importance of taking a prominent part in
the rebuilding of the metropolis.
Sixty millions of dollars are being spent
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Gentle Queen of Greece.
From Leslie's Weekly.

From Leslie's Weekly.
The Queen of Greece, who is Russian
grand princess by birth. has brought some
good things into the land of her adoption
along with her own gracious personality.
prior to her advent at the Hellenic court
charitable institutions were unknown in the
land of Homer. Her majesty at once es-
tabIished an elaborate system of sick-nurs-
ing. and out of her own not-too-abundant
private means helped to found the first ma
ffonal nursing school. The Evangelismos, the
famous hospital in Athens. is the outcome
of her endeavors, and Athenian ladies Of
the highest degree, following the example
of their queen, take a personal share Ia
the nursing ana management
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steps before you run across "sorapers"

steps before YOU run across "seSapers"
aplenty.
tons of the various boroughs has also
been consuming millions. Since 1899, ex-
GLIDING the Bronx for the last two years,
1915 tenements-the term used in the law
have been erected at a cost of little less
than two hundred millions in Manhattan
and the Bronx alone. The ma jority of these
buildings have been modern apartment
houses from six to twelve stories in
height. Over 500 have been erected in
Manhattan, mostly the upper West Side,
since 1862. That region, like the Bronx,
is now torn from center to circumference
with building operations, and the last OF
the squatter houses are disappearing with
the quickness of snow under a summer sun.
Federal Governments Contribution.
Since consolidation the federal govern
ment has authorized the expenditure. In
round numbers, of twenty millions OF dol
lars within the greater city's limits.
The greater part of these millions is be-
ing spent on the harbor. Four millions of
dollars alone are being expended to short
from the sea. Half this sum. plus half a
million, is being expended on two impor-
tant channels just inside the Narrows.
The government is giving particular at
tention to Governors Island. headquarters
of the general commanding the Department
of the East Nearly 81 100000 have been
set aside to reclaim from the sea and add
to the island 10l acres of land which will
make the island about four times its pres
ent size.
Within the last five years the forts that
guard New York from the sea have had tens
of thousands of dollars spent on them.
The heaviest improvements have been made
at Fort Hamilton, where acres of adjoin-
ing land have been added to the fort until
it's circumference is at least five miles in
length.
I.
biggest structure of its kind in the world,
is TO cost, approximately, s6000,0O0; and
81, 100000 have been appropriated for
branch offices in the new terminals of the
Pennsylvania and New York Central rail-
roads
This stupendous development is not pare
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-21
RE BU|LO|NG A CITY
New York Spending a Billion
and a Half
ALONG MANY LINES
IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE HER
SELF A METROPOLIS.
Rapid Transit and New Bridges
Two Hundred Skyscrapers-
Health and Education.

Written for The Evening Star by Raymond NJ
Thomas.
New York is sprucing up. 1t is doing so
at an expenditure at something like a bill
lion and half dollars. No other city in
the world, not even London, is spending
so much money by a good many tens Of
millions.
Sprucing up is the short way of saying
that the greater city is now deep in the
task of rebuilding itself in order to make
of itself a metropolis.
consolidation took place the 1st of jan
uary, 1892" said Nelson P. Lewis, chief
engineer of the board of estimate and ap-
portionment recently. Shortly after that
event the city awoke to the realization of
the fact that 1t was not metropolis, as
1t had always dreamed 1t was, but pro-
vincial conglomeration of five boroughs.
1t was astonished at first and confused.
Then came a strong popular determination
t, make over the five inharmonious boz
roughs, bound together by law only, into
a real metropolitan center. This has been
our aim during the past five years, and
this is why we are spending millions"
Actuated by this desire to make New
York a metropolis in fact as well as in
fancy, the city. big corporations and private
enterprises of all sorts. and even the feder-
al government, are practically rebuilding
the entire city from center to circumfer-
ence- What was good enough before con-
solidation. what is plenty good enough else
where Is being ruthlessly wiped out of ex-
istence by blocks. and In its stead are
springing up hundreds of skyscrapers,
stately buildings for the use of people or
their representatives, beautiful parks and
driveways. rapid transit systems under
ground and bridges over head-all taking
millions and still more tens of millions.
Astounding Figures.
While 1t is practically impossible to
ascertain definitely. or even within several
millions the amount of money that New
York is spending or has spent in this task
of rebuilding since consolidation, the fol-
lowing figures, which have been obtained
from official sources, clearly serve to con-
vey to the mind the stupendousness of the
undertaking, which has caused the city to
be torn up the past few years and will
keep 1t in a more or less chaotic state for
some time to come:
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-09-30
The School Levy.
Not Political Issue - VIII it
be Made One ?

The voters OF this county have an
important question TO decide Mt the
election next month, viz. that OF the
school levy for this county. The
School Board will ask for an increase
of the levy for public school pur-
poses from 20 cents to 40 cents for
County and District purposes.
The need OF better schools has
been acknowledged for long time
In Tazewell. The want of money
has stood in the way of progress.
Some time ago the Supervisors were
asked for an Increased levy for this
purpose, which they declined 10
grant, and the question will now be
submitted To the people at the No
yember election. 1t has heen ru-
mored that the question will be made
a political issue this fall. This, If
true, rs not only inexplicable but
much 10 be regretted. However.
there can be little doubt that the
question will carry. The good peo-
die OF the county, of all political par
ties, are Interested IN better schools
for their children. The increase
asked Soc will not burden the people,
as the county levy has been reduced
otherwise. If tho voters of the Coun-
ty allow this measure TO be defeated
for the sake of political predJudicG or
any other selfish reason it will not
only be an incalculable injury done
our children but n lasting and stand
ing Disgrace to the county. They
won't do it..
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-09-30
DAMAGE SUIT
WITHDRAWN
Habeas Corpus Proceedings Oc-
tober 9th. - Norfolk and
Western will Assist in
Prosecution.

1t is understood that in the Joint
suit of the n. & W. Railway and
Harris against Leedy, the Norfolk Il
Western has Withdrawn it's suit, but
will assist in Harris prosecution of
Leedy.
The trial for bail for leedy, who is
now in jail, has been set. we learn
for October 9Th. Leedy. it will be
recalled, who killed Harris at Graham
last Winter, came in some time ago
and gave himself up to the authori-
ties, and has been In jail here ever
since. He is said to be model
prisoner, and has been allowed
special privileges at the Jail When
Whitaker escaped last Friday night,
Leedy. who was ir the same room,
could have left also, it is said, but
declined TO DO so.
His good conduct, and his course
generally during the whole unfortu.
nate affair. will, 1t is thought, have
weight In procuring bail for him
when the trial Comes up.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-09-30
Obituary.

Mrs. Aurelia Hunt was born January
the 18th, 1888, and died August the 7th.
1904, at her home in Horsepen Cove,
Tazewell County, Va. She Joined the
Methodist Episcopal Church South
when girl and lived faithful till
her death-was sick near four months
before her death, and realized fully the
end was near, often spoke Of going
home TO be at rest, yet she regretted
vefy much to leave her children, and
this care, prompted by mothers love
for her children manifested it's self al
most in her dying moments. She was
perfectly willing that Gods will be
done. She gave directions concerning
her burial, and the distribution OF all
her possessions. A more thoughtful
person In these matters we have never
seen, especially on the very brink OF
eternity.
The writer Visited her before and
during her sickness, and found her TO
be true christian and loyal to her
church and preacher. i prayed with
her several times, and the last time
shall never forget. At her own request
with most Of her children present and
several friends, we knelt by her bed
side and prayed; we felt that that was
the gate way to Heaven. All hearts
were touched, and mothers God was
surely there. On the following day
she was laid 70 rest In the family grave
I yard near the foot OF Clinch mountain
Truly a good woman Is gone, as was
attested by all, she was devoted to heI
children, and they 70 her. Family
circles and ties must be broken here
but we trust they will all be bound up
in Heaven. With mothers prayers
and parting benedictions to encourage
them, and Gods grace to help, may
each OF her loved ones reach Heavens
happy cline and be at rest with mother
j. w. Christian.