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the threat. "Retract or I'll cut your throat"
received the reply from Stephens Then
cut But before he could execute his
threat Stephens seized the blade In his
right hand. which was forever disabled so
that he could never again write easily
In 100 Mr.. stephens opposed the seces-
SION movement in the south. In 1859 he re-
tired from Congress and made a speech
declaring that the only way to get more
slaves was to reopen the African slave
trade. and in that way control the terri
tories by means of slave holding votes He
always supported his contentious with
strong reasons that carried great weight
Vice President of Confederacy.
In 1850 he made a union speech. and the
next year became vice president of the
Confederacy. In 1866 he was at the head
OF the peace commission on the part of the
confederate government in the Hampton
roads conference. After the downfall
or the Confederacy he was arrested and
confined for five months in Fort Warren
Boston harbor, as prisoner of state. he
was released on his own parole and made
reconstruction speech. In 1857 he pub
lished the first volume of his War Between
the States" After that he was confined
to his house four years by rheumatism.
But he continued active in literary work
and in the field of politics.
He was defeated for a seat in the United
States Senate in 1S71, but was elected to
Congress in 1874 In 1880 he was elected
governor OF Georgia He died in 1883. Dur
Ing the latter part of his career he walked
only on crutches. and his health was ex-
tremely poor. but il appeared not to affect
the yigor OF his intellect.
Discoverer of Anesthesia.
DIR. Crawford w. Long is probably most
prominently known as the discoverer of
anaesthesia, his right to that claim being
almost universally recognized The fame
OF DIR. Long has been commemorated In
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Elkins and Scott to take up the hustling
young secretary of state Is significant of

Eikins and Scott to take up the hustling
young secretary of state Is significant of
the plans to line up the big cogs in the
machinery as early as possible for the band
wagon effect on the little fellows later.
Senator Scott will not stand for Swisher,
it is said, If he can help it. In the first
place, the senator does not want to get
tangled up in a fight that may complicate
his chances of succession two years hence.
Personally Senator Elkins is friendly to
SWisher, but Is averse to active participa-
ton In political fight not directly con-
corning himself, and he will have to re-
verse history If he comes out in definite
statement of his position before the battle.
In deciding to boom Mason for governor
the Dawson element will not be boosting
Senator SCOTS game. and that fact is no
doubt familiar to the boomers. For years
there has been a clamor from the southern
end of the state for one of the senatorships,
and fuel would be added to this flame IL
the first congressional district should be
given the governorship also. In such an
event the southern section fellows will get
more insistent for senatorship and Sena-
tor Scott would probably suffer from this
condition.
1t is easy to see that Gov. Dawson. or
his choice to succeed Senator Scott, from a
southern county, would have a good argu-
ment to displace the junior senator IL Ma
son were put in the governors chair. The
territorial argument would not only appeal
forcibly, but the candidate on that argu-
ment would logically have the support of
Mason allied with Gov. Dawson could GER
tainly make Senator Scott's road rocky
one.
Senator SCOTS Tactics.
For the reason that he would prefer
southern candidate for governor Senator
Scott will not be found enthusiastic for
either Swisher or Mason, but will be found
behind a gubernatorial candidate from the
lower end Of the state. He will not be
active in any event, through fear of future
complications, but he will hardly care to
rest idle while Dawson plays game that
promises trouble for him.
Judge Mason, 1t is conceded, would make
Q splendid candidate for his party to name.
He is an old-line party man possessing
qualities that appeal. The state admins
tration leaders will play good politics
should they decide to push him. regardless
OF the other advantages to follow directly,
as In the senatorial proposition.
For time the Anti-Saloon League will
be more In the lime,ight in boosting Judge
Mason. but the Dawson following win
come to the front of the stage later on
When the Dawson-Teter contest first ragged
the judge was counted by the Teterites,
but he got around satisfactorily to the
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Dawsonites. his decisions in upholdng the
new laws being eminent1y satisfactory to
them. Just as he was considered good ma
terial for compromise candidate three
years ago, he will now be able to allay fac
tiona1 feeling, having ardent admirers in
both clans.
The Anti-Saloon League will have to
demonstrate it's strength decisively in a
material contest, however before it will be
regarded with alarm by the politicians. It
Is in its infancy in West Virginia and has
had no opportunity of developing its re-
sources.
The league has opened headquarters in
Wheeling and has look-outs in other parts
Of the state Theodore Alvord the state
manager. watches the political trend close
ly and continues to urge Gov. Dawson to
call a special session of the legislature for
more license laws. The governor tells him
and others that he is still celebrating on
that proposition, but cannot yet see suffi-
cient encouragement to justify the call.
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NEW FACTOR IN STATE
WEST VIRGINIA ANTI-SALoON
LEAGUE IN POLITICS.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
WHEELING. w. Va, May 25, 1907.
The Anti-Saloon League Is mentioned as
en- active participant in the matter of nam.
ing the next governor OF West Virginia.
and there is some likelihood of the leagues
manifesting the extent of it's strength in
the preliminary and final heats. The men,
ton of Judge John w. Mason of Fairmont
in Marion county, for the republican gu
tcrnatoral nomination is said to have been
introduced by the active members of the
league both because of the judges decis-
;cns on temperance questions and of a de-
sire to- trim Charley Swisher. who Is an
avowed candidate for the Office.
Judge Mason has been doomed as re-
ceptive candidate in prior campaigns
There was q strong effort to bring him out
as compromise candidate three years ago,
which the judge finally ruled out of order,
stating he was content to follow the judi
cial path because of the more congental
lines and the increased emoluments pro-
vided just about that time by new legis-
lative enactment
He attained renewed prestige by a decision
few weeks ago in the Interpretation Of a
recent law affecting the sale of liquor in So
cial clubs. His stand has been particularly
pleasing to the Anti-Saloon League. The
fact that Swisher's home county is Marion
and that he will seek an instructed delega-
ton makes the league managers DESTROYS
of bringing out another candidate from the
same county. Swisher is persona non grata
with the league because of his vote on GER
tain measures when he was a member of
the legislature and because of his attitude
on the question OF putting a further In
crease on liquor licenses last winter
Approved by the Boss.
1t Is also beginning to be evident that
Gov Dawson and his administration fol-
lowers will take up Mason IL he will con-
sent to run, also because they are not par
tial to Swisher. So far the governor has
not shown his hand The Swisher men
AFFECT to believe that Swisher viii even
tuaIiy have an organization so strong that
the governor will be forced to come in, and
their persistent work to induce Senators
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ARE STILL IN HOSPITAL
PROGRESS TOWARD RECOVERY
OF MR.. AND MRS. KUNLo.

John A. Kunlo and his wife, Elizabeth
Kunlo. two Of the passengers injured in
the wreck at Terra Gotta, on the Baltimore
and Ohio railway, nearly six months ago,
are still under treatment, the husband at
Casualty Hospital and Mrs Kunlo at Prov
idence Hospital. They have been in the
institutions named, respectively, since the
night the disaster occurred, December 80
last. 1t is expected that Mrs. Kunlo will
be able to leave by the middle of next
month, but her husband will probably not
be able to go home for several months.
Both were almost dead when they reached
the hospitals, and 1t was believed neither
would live until morning.
When the surgeons took charge of Mr.
Kunlo 1t was found that both legs of the
and that he had also received numerous
cuts and bruises, including internal in
juries.
His Serious Condition.
For five weeks the patient was unable
to converse with the surgeon or nurses
and during all that time he was not aware
of MS surroundings nor of what had oc-
CURED the night of December 80. When
he finally recovered consciousness and real
lied his condition he did not ask for in
formation. and 1t was not until there had
been considerable improvement in his con-
dition that he was told Of the death of
his children. One Of his legs is still in a
plaster cast, and the other is in such con-
dition that he Is barely able to raise 1t.
He Is wheeled about the hospital in a chair,
and much of his time is spent on the wide
porch In front of the hospital. He is In
good spirits. however, and frequent mes
Bages are exchanged with his wife,
Unless there Is a change for the worse
In the condition of Mrs. Kunlo she will
probably be able to call upon her hus-
band before July A. She is able to walk
with the aid of crutches. At the time she
reached the hospital with about score
Of other victims of the wreck she was
unconscious and there were but the faintest
signs of life visible. She had fractured
arm and leg one ear was nearly severed.
a tooth was missing, and she had cuts and
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Thrown From Wagon and killed.

WILMINGTON, Del, May 2o--One man
was killed and another probably fatally
hurt here today as result of being thrown
from a repair wagon of the Wilmington
City Railway Company The man killed
was William Jackson, a wireman for the
company. Charles Kelley, the chief engi-
OF the wagon. is in hospital presumably
with fractured skall. The horse the
men were driving became frightened and
ran away The wagon coilided with post,
throwing the men out with great violence.
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men were classmates at the University of
Georgia.
Stephens was perhaps one of the most
unique characters portrayed in the political
history OF this country He was vice presi-
dent of the Confederacy. member of Con-
gress and governor of his state, and during
much of that time a physical wreck.
although mentally a giant in strength
Stephens grandfather, Alexander Stephens,
was an Englishman WAC settled in the Penn
colony in 1T46 and was engaged in sew
eral conflicts with the Indians and in the
old French war, serving under Col. George
Washington. The son, then known also as
Ale~ander stephens. became. an orphan at
the age of fifteen years. He took the middle
name of Hamilton from the Rev. Alexander
Hamilton Webster, WHO became his tutor
after the death of his father, and who was
much interested In his career. He accepted
an offer of the Presbyterian Educational
Society to send him to college. with the un-
Outstanding that he would refund an
amount sufficient to pay for his educate
81 he changed his mind about becoming a
minister. He paid the cost of his education
as soon as he could earn the money. In
that way he was graduated from Franklin
College. now the State University of
Georgia.
Stephens Great Scholarship.
He was in very delicate health, but his
scholarship attracted attention. After two
months of the study of law he passed what
was declared to be the best examination his
examiners had ever supervised. In 1896 he
entered the lower house of the legislature of
Georgia. Successes both in his profession
and in the political field followed fast He
was bold III his advocacy of measures that
were of doubtful popularity.
stephens had great PHYSICAL courage
which showed itself by total indifference
to consequences which was manifested in
his encounter with Judge Cone. who had
cut him terribly with knife, and when
about to bring the blade to his throat, with
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bruises about her body from her head to
her feet The injured woman remained
In comatOse condition for long a
time that DR.. Crook. the attending surgeon
had but little hope that her life could he
saved. She has gained steadily during the
past few weeks. however. and her physician
feels greatly encouraged.
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STATESMAN AND SCIENTIST
Alexander Hamilton Stephens and DR..
Crawford W. Long.
WERE CLASSMATES AT COLLEGE
Discovered of Anesthesia Receives
Reccenition-Career of Vice Pres
ident of Southern Confederacy

The state of Georgia has decided to take
advantage of the invitation of the Congress
to place statues OF two of her leading
citizens in statuary hall at the Capitol
The state has chosen for this honor Alex
ander Hamilton Stephens and DIR. Craw-
ford w Long both Of whom played a con-
spicuous part in the history of the country
the one in the field of craftsmanship and
the other in the scientific world. The two
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1 sbuldn't say sol I'm a great ex.
ceptiol -and--I really shouldn't be
talking you at all! It's against the
rules! land we don't encourage smok-
ing"
Tho haplain doesn't smoke, l sup
pose"
mot h chapel; / believe it isn't
done! ND we rarely see him any
where q e."
She d idled with the paddle so
far, but ow she lifted her eyes and
drew bad the blade for long stroke.
But II the wood,-this morning
by the wit"
l hate gself to this day for having
so startlf her. The poised blade
dropped Ito the water with splash;
she brou9 the canoe trifle nearer
to the w1rf with an almost imper-
ceptible stke, and turned toward me
with wond. and dismay In her eyes.
so you be an eavesdropper and de-
tective. ar%ou? / beg that you will
give your nster my compliments! /
really owe pu an apology; | thought
you were a Gentleman" she exclaimed
with withehg emphasis, and dipped
her blade dep In fight.
L called, ltammering incoherently,
after her buther light argosy skinned
the water stadily. The paddle rose
and fell With rained precision, making
scarcely p ripple as she stole softly
away toward the fairy towers of the
sunset. sbod looking after her,
goaded with slf-contempt. A glory of
purple ana sorlet and gold filed the
west. SuTeny the wind moaned in
the wood fhind the line of cottages,
swept oVerhe and rippled the surface
or the lake. | watched it's flight until
1t caught nj canoe and l marked the
himsy crafs quick response, as the
shaken watts bore her alert figure up
ward on theswell. her blade still main
tanning its gular dip, until she dis
behd little peninsula that
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CHAPTER Al
The Man on theWaII.

l was so thoroughly AIRY with nv.
self that after idling alds the shores
for an hour | lost my wa in the dark
wood when landed and bought up at
the rear door used by Btes for com.
munication with the villaers who sun
piled us with provendeA | readily
found my way to the kltoen and to a
flight of stairs beyond, with connect.
ed the first and second fiors | STUN.
bled up the unfamiliar wann the dark
with, | fear, maledictid upon nv
grandfather, who had builtand left in.
complete a house so uttay prepos-
ferrous. My objectionable ing at the
girl still ranked; and | wa cold from
the quick descent of the niht chill on
the water and anxious to geAnto some
comfortable clothes. Once Il the sec
ond floor | was sure of the ocation of
my room, and | was feeling my way
toward it over the rough flof when |
heard low voices rising APPARENTLY
from my sitting-room.
1t was pitch dark in tha hall. I
stopped short and listened. rhe door
of my room was open and a lint light
flashed once into the hall al disap-
peared, | heard now a soun4 as of a
hammer tapping upon wood-wak.
Then it ceased, and vois whis-
pered:
He'll XIII me if he finds ID here.
III try again tomorrow. | ssear to
God I'll help you, but no morepow-"
Then the sound of a scuhe and
again the tapping of the hmmer.
After several minutes more II this
there was whispered dialogueYhich
could not hear.
Whatever was occurring tW or
three points struck me on the insant.
One of the conspirators was an upill.
ing party to an act as yet unkntgn
second, they had been unsuccesful
and must wait for another oppttu.
nifty; and third, the business, whatVer
it was, was clearly of some importace
10 myself. as my own apartments IN
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/ the sweetest | ever had. 1t was
sweeter than the apples / stole when
was a kid and the kisses / stole
when"
IF you came here to dilate on the
joys of sin, Mr.. Travers." began the
widow coldly
And" proceeded the bachelor.
I've made up my mind to stop fiirt-
Ing with girl, because / found out
that she was beginning Toto"
II understand" interrupted the
widow sympathetically.
And, by Jove!" finished the bache-
Tor, Il had to restrain myself to keep
from going back and proposing to
herr"
How lucky you did," commented
the widow witheringly.
But | wouldn't have" explained
the bachelor ruefuIly, IF the gorl had
restrained herself"
Nevertheless" repeated the widow.
1T was lucky-for the girl"
(which girl?" asked the bachelor.
THE girl broke off with or the girl
that came afterward?"
Il suppose" unused the widow ig-
noring the levity and leaning over to
arrange bunch of violets at her belt,
that is why II is so difficult for a
man to keep a promise or a VOW
even marriage VOW"
"Oh, | don't know" The bachelor
leaned back and regarded the widows
coronet braid through the smoke OF
his cigar, 1T isn't the marriage VOWS
that are so difficult to keep. It's the
fool vows man makes before mar
riage and the fool promises he makes
afterward that he stumbles over and
falls down on. The marriage vows
are so big and vague that you can get
all around them without actually
breaking them. but II they should in
terpolate concrete questions into the
service such as, DO you. William.
promise not to growl at the coffee
"or, DO you, Mary. promise never
to put daub of powder on your nose
again." broke In the widow.
Nor to look twice at your pretty
stenographer," continued the bache-
lor.
NOT 10 lie ABOUT your age, or your
foot or your waist measure"
Nor to juggle with the truth when
ever you stay out after half-past ten"
"Nor to listen to things that-that
anybody your husband may
say to you in the eonservatory-oh
see how 1t feels!" finished the wild
ow with sympathetic little shudder.
And yet reflected the bachelor
"a woman is always eXacting vows
and promises from the man she loves
always putting up bars--for him to
jump over; when if she would only
leave him alone he would be perfectly
contented to stay within bounds and
Craze in his own pasture. A man
hates being pinned down; but a wom-
an doesn't want anything around that
she can't pin down, from her belt and
her theories TO her hat and her hus,
band"
We'll" protested the widow study
ing the toe of her slipper 1T Is sat,
isfaction to know you've got your hus.
band fastened on straight by his
promises and held in place by his
own VOWS and that he loves you
enough to-"
Usually" Interrupted The bachelor.
"a man loves you in inverse ratio to !
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my grandfather's strange honse no.
been chosen for the investigation
Clearly was not prepared to clos,
the Incident, but the idea of frighteJ
ing my visitors appealed to NV sons
OF humor. ] tiptoed to the front stait
way, ran lightly down, found the fror.
door, and, from the inside, opened AMI
slammed 1t. l heard instantly bu
ried scamper above, and the heavy FAX
of one who had stumbled in the dar,I
l grinned with real pleasure at mi
sound of the mishap, FASTENED to tbl
great library, which was as dark as
well, and, opening one of the long win
dows, stepped out on the balcony. AL
once from the rear of the house CAM
the sound of a stealthy step, which
increased to run at the ravine bridge
l listened to the fight of the fugitive
through the wood until the sounds died
away toward the lake.
Then. turning to the library window
l saw Bates, with candle held above
his head, peering about
Hello, Bates" / called cheerful,v
Il just got home and stepped out 10
see If the moon had risen. | dom
believe / know where to look for II in
this country"
He began lighting the tapers with
his usual deliberation.
Its a trifle early, think. SIR
About eight o'clock, should say. was
the hour, Mr.. Glenarm."
There was. of course, no doubt what.
ever that Bates had been one of the
men l heard in my room. 1t was
wholly possible that he had been com.
PEELED to assist in some lawless act
against his will; but why, if he had
been forced into aiding a criminal
should he not invoke my own aid to
protect himself? l kicked the logs
in the fireplace impatiently at my un.
certainty. The man slowly lighted
the many candles in the great apart.
ment. He was certainly a deep one,
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New Years Calls.

The custom Of visiting and sending
presents and cards ON New Years day
is recorded almost as far back as his.
tory goes. The practice of using visit.
ing cards can be traced back for thou
sands of years by the Chinese. Their
New Years visiting cards are curiosi-
ties Each one sets forth not only the
name, but all the titles of its owner
and as all Cinnamon who have any
social position at all have about a
dozen, 1t makes the list quite appall-
ing. These cards are made of silk or
else of fine paper backed with silk and
are so large that they have TO be roll
ed up to be carried conveniently They
are, indeed, so valuable that they are
returned to their ownerk
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and his case grew more puzzling as I
studied 1t in relation to the rifle shot
of the night before, his collision with
Morgan in the wood, which l had wit
messed; and now the house itself had
been invaded by some one with his
connivance. The rifle shot might have
been innocent enough; but taken in
connection with these other matters
1t could hardly be brushed aside.
Bates lighted me to the stairway,
and said as passed him:
There's baked ham for dinner. l
should call it extra delicate, Mr.. Glen
arm. l suppose there's no change in
the dinner hour, sir?"
Certainly not, said with asperity;
for l am not person to inaugurate a
dinner hour one day and change it the
next. Bates wished to make CONVEX
sation-the sure sign of guilty con-
science in a servant-and l was not
disposed to encourage him.
| closed the doors carefully and be-
gan thorough examination of both
the sitting-room and the little bed.
chamber. | was quite sure that my
own effects could not have attracted
the two men who had taken advantage
OF my absence to visit my quarters.
Bates had helped unpack my trunk
and undoubtedly knew every item of
my simple wardrobe. | threw open
the doors of my three closets and
found them all in the good order
established by Bates. He had carried
my trunks and bags to a store-room,
so that everything | owned must have
passed under his eye. My money
even, the remnant of my fortune that
mad drawn from the New York bank,
mad placed carefessly enough In the
drawer of a chiffonier otherwise filled
with collars. 1t took but a moment to
satisfy myself that this had not been
touched. And, to be sure, a hammer
was not necessary to open a drawer
that had, from its appearance, never
been locked. The game was deeper
than | had imagined; | had scratched
the crust without result, and my wis
were busy with speculations ash
brushed my clothes, pausing frequeit
ly to examine the furniture, oven ne
bricks on the hearth.
(ro BE CONTINUED)
French is the language that carries
hest over the telephone.