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| not turned a hair today. l don't mink
her pulse is up an eighth tonight.
She has not sent home a word Of en-
couragement since she has been here,
more than to tell her father she Is do
ing we'll with her stories. 1t seems
they both agreed the only way to work
the thing out was whole hog or none,
and that she was to say nothing until
she could herself bring the word saw
ed or lost l don't know but she Is
right. She says If she should raise her
fathers hopes, and then be compelled
to dash them, the effect would be IA
tal"
Bob rushed the talk along. Fitting
from one point to another, but invar1a-
bly returning to Beulah Sands and to-
morrow and it's saving profits. Final
ly, he got to a pitch where it seemed
as though he must take off the lid' and
before Kate or 1 realized what was
coming he placed himself in front OF
us and said:
Jim, Kate, cannot go into-tomor-
TO" "llllOuI yOe
that neither Of you suspect. I must
tell some one, now that everything Is
coming out right and that Beulah Is to
be saved: and whom can / tell but
you, who have been everything to me?
i love Beulah Sands, surely, deeply,
with every bit Of me. I worship her,
tell you, and tomorrow, tomorrow II
this deal comes out as it must come,
and I can put s1,500,000 into her
hands and send her home to her IA
ther, then, then, will tell her / love
her, and Jim, Kate, If she'll marry me,
good-by, good-by to this hell Of dollar
hunting, goodby to such misery as
have been in for three months, and
home Virginia home, for Beulah and
me-" He sank into chair and tears
rolled down his cheks. Poor, poor
Bob, strong as lion in adversely
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SYNOPSIS.

Chapter bob Brownley creates a
panic in Wall street. He is friend OF
Jim Randolph of Randolph & Ran
dolph, bankers and brokers. Brownley
and Randolph had gone to college to-
gether and entered the employ Of Ran
dolph's father at the close Of college
days Brownley is Virginian by
birth. Beulah Sands, daughter Of an
old Virginia house, calls on Brownley
and tells him her father has been
practically ruined by the stock oper-
ations Of Reinhart. She hopes to util-
ize her own money in Wall street In
retrieving her fathers fortunes before
his condition becomes known, and
asks for employment in the office that
she may have an opportunity to better
understand how her money Is invest
ed. She does not want 1t used in a
purely Wall street gamble, but in the
buying and selling Of legitimate Sc
curities. Brownley agrees to help her.
and falls in love with her.
Chapter ll-Brownley plunges In
sugar stock He uses the money or
Miss Sands, his own and in addition
is backed heavily by the Randolph
millions.
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hysterical as woman with victory IN
sight.
The next day sugar opened with a
wild rush: "25,O0O shares from 14O to
1872" That is the way it came on the
tape. which meant that the crowd
around the sugar-pole was mob and
that the transactions were so heavy,
quick and tangled that no one could
tell to a certainty just what the first
or opening price was; but after the
first lull, after the gong, there were Of
fcially reported transactions aggre-
eating $4,000 shares and at prices va
rying from 140 to 152. l was over on
the floor to see the scramble, for it
was noised about long before ten
o'clock that sugar would open wild,
and then, too, l wanted to be handy If
Bob should need any quick advice.
A minute before the gong struck
there were 300 men jammed around
the sugar pole: men with set, deter
mined faces: men with their coats
buttoned tight and shoulders thrown
back for the rush to which, by COM
parison, that of football team Is
child's play. Every man in that crowd
was a picked man, picked for what was
coming. Each felt that upon his indl-
yidual powers to keep a clear head, TO
shout loudest, to forget nothing, 10
keep his feet, and to stay as near the
center of the crowd as possible, de-
pended his floor honor" perhaps his
fortune. or, what was more to hlm'
his clients fortune. Nearly every man
of them was a college graduate VINO
| had won his spurs at athletics or d
! seasoned floor man whose training
had been even more severe than that
Of the college campus. When 1t was
known before the opening Of the ex-
| change that there are TO be things
doing" in a certain stock, it is the rule
to send only the picked floor men into
the crowd. There may be a fortune
to make or to lose in a minute or a
silver of minute. For instance, the
man who that morning was able to
snatch the first 5000 shares sold at
140 could have resold them few
minutes afterward at 152 and secured
100000 profit. And the man who was
sent into the crowd by his client to
sell 5000 shares at the Opening" and
who got but 140, when the price would
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-19

THE MOONS ATMosPHERE.-Water
cannot possibly exist on the moon as
a liquid, for the temperature Of the
moons surface during the long lunar
night is probably not far from 460 de-
grees below the zero mark Of Fan
renheit thermometer. Ice and snow
are the forms, then, which lunar water
must assume.
Because of the present scarcity OF
water the moons atmosphere Is so ex-
ceedingly rare that startling effects
are produced Perhaps the most strik-
ing is that of the sunrise. Dawn, and
the soft golden glow that ushers In our
day, cannot occur on the moon. The
sun leaps from the horizon, a flaming
circle, and the loftier peaks immedl-
ately flash into light
There Is no azure sky to relieve the
monotonous effects Of inky DlacR
shadows and dazzling white expanses
The sun CLEANS in fierce splendor
with no clouds to diffuse its binding
light.
Even at midday the heavens are
pitch black, so that despite the sun
light, the stars and planets CLEAN with
a brightness that they never exhibit tc
us even on the clearest Of moonless
nights. They shine steadily, too; tol
1t Is the earth's atmosphere tna'
causes them to twinkle to our eyes
Philadelphia Inquirer.
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ON THE NORTHERN TRAIL.
Bearer of Government Dispatches
Walked Ninety Miles In q Day.

Walked Ninety Miles In a Day.
H. M Huber, better known as
Reindeer Bill" has. just completed a
record breaking trip to Nome, making
the distance Of 80 miles on foot In "a
hours walking time, says the Council
City correspondence Of the Seattle
Times. Bill carried private govern
ment correspondence and registered
mail which 1t was important to get on
the steamship Indiana, the last boat
to leave Nome for the outside.
1.-The Indiana was discharging freight
at Solomon on my arrival" Huber said
in speaking Of his trip, but drew her
anchor next morning. She caught me
at Cape Nome roadhouse and beat me
into Nome about three and half
hours. 1 got my mail aboard on time.
81 returned to Council with a supply
Of newspapers. In addition, my load
included magazines, two pairs OF
skates, one woman's bonnet for Christ
mas and Nome newspapers for sub
scribers along the TRAIL There were
also a lot Of lamp chimneys, as the
electric light plant which is in transit
has not yet reached here"
In order that there may be no dis
pute, Reindeer Bill' has the arriving
and leaving time at all way stations
made on the trip and the final time is
attested by tine United States marshal
and commissioners in Nome and
Council During the Spanish war he
served in the Philippines and earned
the name of Hiking Hube" because
he was the best man In his regiment
on the tramp, hitting only the high
places.
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to make that money for the Virgin
ians that he grabbed at my accept
ance.
Thank you, Jim," he said, fervent-
ly, and he continued: "Of course, I
see what's going through your head,
but I'll accept the favor, for the deal
is bound to be successful. l know
your reason for coming in Is just to
help out, and that you won't feel bad
ly because your last $4,000 shares Will
be used more as a guarantee for the
deals success than for profit. And
Miss Sands could not object to the
part you play, as she did at the un-
derwriting, for you will get big profit
anyway"
Next day sugar was lively on the ex-
change. Bob bought all in sight and
handled the buying in mastery way.
When the closing gong struck, Beulah
Sands had 10000 shares, which aver
aged her lis; Bob and 1 had 5000 at
an average of 125, and the stock had
closed 1872 bid and in big demand.
MISS SduuS ZU,OUO SHO"Su 7O1N'NNN
profit. while our 10000 showed $4,000
at the closing price. All the houses
with Washington wires were wildly
scrambling for sugar as soon as it be-
gan to jump. And it certainly looked
as though the shares were good for
the figures set for them by Bob, s175,
at which price the Sands profits would
be $1,2OO,O0O. Bob was beside himself
with Joy. He dined with Kate and Inc,
and as l watched him my heart al
most stopped beating at the thought
IF anything should happen to upset
his plans!" His happiness was pathet-
ic to witness. He was like child.
He threw away all the reserve OF the
past three months and laughed and
was grave by turns. After dinner, as
we sat in the library over our coffee'
he leaned over to my wife and said:
katherine Randolph, you and Jim
don't know what misery l have been
in for three months, and now-will TO-
morrow never come, so l may get into
the whirl and clean up this deal and
send that girl back to her father with
the money! l wanted her to telegraph
the Judge that things looked like she
would win out and bring back the re-
lief, but she would not hear or II
She is q marvellous woman. She has
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-19
THE RICE CROP.
Labor Saving Methods of Production
Demonstrated.

DemOnSCraI6os
In 1884 a small band Of farmers
from the wheat fields Of the northwest
emigrated to the Louisiana gulf coast
prairie, says the American Monthly
Review of Reviews for June. They
found the pastoral 'Cajuns growing
some rice for family use by leisurely
oriental hand methods, in low spots
where standing water reduced irriga-
ton to its simplest terms.
But the prairie, although sometimes
swampy, averaged from five to fifty
feet above sea level, and could quickly
be drained dry enough to hold up
teams Also, the rich drift soil lay
level-so level that single fields ran up
to eighty acres as fiat as your hand.
II these could be planted to rice, fig
ured the northerners, they could be
flooded evenly to bring about uni
formly ripening crop and would also
afford a wide sweep for gang plows,
harvesters and the like.
Now, the settlers had seen labor
saving implements make wheat for
tunes in the Dakotas and California
Why could not they themselves make
these gulf prairies blossom with rice
at a profit? Accordingly, they brought
on the wheat machinery they were
used to: they adapted it to the new
crop: they worked out irrigation
methods, and with government help
found the best seed varieties.
Here is one result of their labors:
Before the civil war South Carolina
produced about three -fourths Of our
home rice: North Carolina and Georgia
most of the rest. Today, 1t Is Louis
lana and Texas that produce three
| fourths Of the whole.
However, the greatest result Is that'
for the first time in history, labor
saving method Of rice production has
been demonstrated The American,
although he pays higher price for
labor than any rice grower in the
world, may eventually find himself In
control Of the worlds markets. The
| patient Chinaman, with his mud rake
| and his $25 a year profit; the Punjab
! ryot's women welding their slow
hand sickles. the toiling fellah of the
Nile Delta, the Japanese mattocking
his plot, too tiny for plow to turn
all will be undersold by the progress
sive American driving his four mule
twine binder to his power cultivated
fields, past the steam plant where 9
battery of clanking pumps, impelleo
by 500 horsepower, has sucked up tc
his growing crop It's seventy-day bath
| CT vital, fresh river water.
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CHAPTER II-Continued.

had never speculated in a share
of stock since I entered the firm Of
Randolph & Randolph, and on general,
special, and every other principle was
opposed to stock gambling, but I saw
how Bob had worked it out, and that
to make the deal sure it was necessary
for him to have a good reserve buy
ing power to fall back on it, after he
got started, the System" masters,
whose game he was butting in to and
whose plans he might upset should
try to shake down the price to drive
him out Of their preserves. Bob knew
how I looked at his proposed deal and
ordinarily would not have allowed me
to have the short end Of it, but so
changed had he become in his anxiety
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-19
MAPLE SYRUP A MEMORY.
Sugar Tree MoIasses and Buekwheat
Cakes No More.

There are many farms which still
contain groves Of this Incompatible
wood, says the American Farmer.
There Is still sweet water running
from the reeds and troughs or buckets
to catch 1t, and there are kettles to
boil 1t and final stirring off," But
alas! long before 1t reaches the city
consumer II has been adulterated, re-
duced, debauched and has become
sham and fraud. There Is deceitful
resemblance, a look like and a taste
like. but the real thing has departed
never to return. Commercialism and
greed, the characteristics Of the age,
have got In their fell work on sugar
tree molasses, just as they have af-
fected everything else. Even the far
mers have yielded to the temptation
and sneak off in the corner while they
adulterate the very nectar OF the gods
with base brown sugar. Here and
there Is an exception, but only in out
Of the way places, like the hills OF
Kentucky and Virginia, and the
amount produced is usually only
enough for home consumption, none
for sale.
The buckwheat cake, inseparaole
companion Of tree molasses, has Jared
no better than it's disconsolate lover.
Not that buckwheat is not still grown
In PENNSYLVANIA, New York, Virginia
and other places. There is plenty OF It,
but who ever sees the real stun any
more? Call at the fashionable hotels
and see the white-livered abomination
they impose on you as the genuine
thing. In the older days they were
twin delicacies in the land Of fairies
and honey bees. Not more inseparable
were Laura and Petrarch, Romeo and
Juliet, Heloise and Abelard, than the
tree molasses Of the pioneer period
and the lovely cake that bucks. One
could not live without the other; there
was no existence except in indissoluble
union. Each sang the praises Of the
other. each grew for none other, their
hearts beat in unison, the fairest
among 10000 and altogether lovely
Even II water mill be found to grind
the buckwheat properly, the villain still
pursues, and long before 1t has reach
ed the table the adulterator will have
accomplished his vile design. AS to
tree molasses, his lovely companion is
all faded and gone before 1t gets out of
the kettle by the black art Of modern
metamorphosis.
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| rise, tnat Is certain. IHe news puic]o
have just published the story that
am buying for Randolph & Randolph
and they for the insiders; that the new
tariff Is as good as passed! and tina
at the directors meeting tomorrow th'
Sugar dividend will be increased, ant
that 1t Is agreed on all sides she won
stop going until she crosses 200. Pyt
been obliged to take on only $4,000 o.
your $4,000, and at present prices there
is over two hundred thousands prom
in them. think could go back there
and in 80 minutes have 1t to 180. Ther
] II rested on 1t until about one O'CLOCK
and threw myself at 1t for real fire.
works up to the close, I could, undel
cover Of them, let slip about half oul
purchases, and tomorrow open hel
with a whirl and let go the balance
If Pm in luck I'll average 1SG-1S5 fol
the whole bunch, but I'll be satisfied
IL get an average Of 175, which would
allow me to sell it on dropping scale
to 160."
agreed that his campaign was per-
feet, and Beulah Sands said In hei
usual quiet way, 'Tt is entirely in your
hands, Mr.. Brownley. I don't see how
any advice from us can help"
Bob went back to the exchange and
into my office. Bob had been right
again. In ten minutes the tape began
transactions 1t ran up in Is minutes td
1873 in three more it dropped to 1Sl
and then steadily mounted to 1863
dulled up, and was healthy steady
Presently Bob was back and we sal
down again.
1--WE bought 10000 more for you
Jim, on that bulge. I've $4,000 IN al
Of the last $4,000, which leaves me
10000 reserve. The average is way
under rs, and there must be 100000
for you in it now and strong 1,4OO,-
900 in Miss Sands 10000, and $780,
900 in our $4,000. They say it's bad
business to count chickens in the shell
but ours are tapping so hard to gel
out can't help Ing 1t this once. I'm
going to keep away from the floor FOL
an hour or so, then will go over and
wind it up and-good God, Beulah-
Miss Sands-are you ill?"
The girls face was ashen gray and
she seemed to be gasping for breath
I rushed for some water while Bot
I,ar ha1 hut In, n
stant the blood came to her cheeks
with a rush and she said, 'T was dizzy
for a moment. 1t must have been the
thought of taking $1,S00,000 back tc
father that upset me. With thai
amount father could make good al
the trust funds. and have back enough
for his own fortune to make US seem
after what we have been going
through, richer than we were before
Pardon me, Mr.. Randolph, won't you
when I say-God bless you and every
one whom you hold dear God bless
you? What could or my father have
done but for you and Mr.. Brownley?
She turned her big eyes full upor
Bob, filled with a light such as car
come only to a womans eyes, only tc
woman before whom, as. she stands
on the brink of hell, suddenly looms
her heaven.
Sharp and shrill rang Bob's ex-
change telephone. The ring seemed
shriller; 1t certainly was longer thar
usual. Bob jumped for the receiver.
To be Continued.
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So intimate was the association Of
these two that when the former disap-
peared in the shadows Of the past the
latter went along also. So tender was
their companionship that they could
not bear to be separated, and so they
went down into the halls Of memory
hand In hand, and have never return
ed. They who have enjoyed the glad
companionship of these choice spirits
have some difficulty in imagining that
what are regarded as their successors
are purely legitimate.
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Motor Bicycles Record Speed.

. \
What is unquestionably the most
powerful, as well as the fastest motor
bicycle ever built in this country
made it's appearance at the races at
Ormand Beach recently, but owing to
the breaking Of universal joint and
subsequent buckling Of the frame.
this machine made no official record.
It was built by Mr.. G. II. Curtiss, a
we'll known motor bicycle maker. with
the idea Of breaking all records.
The machine was fitted with an eight
cylinder air cooled v-motor Of 36 or
40 horsepower. The motor was
placed with the crank shaft running
lengthwise of the bicycle and connect
ed to the driving shaft through a
double universal joint. A large bevel
gear on this shaft meshed with sim
liar one on the rear wheel Of the bi-
cycle. The total weight Of the COM
plete machine was but 275 pounds, or
6.8 pounds per horse power. In an
unofficial mile test, timed by stop
watches from the start by several
persons who watched through field
glasses a flag waved at the finish, Mr..
Curtiss is said to have covered this
distance in 26 2-5 seconds, which
would be at the rate Of 1868 miles
an hour-a faster speed than has ever
been made before by a man on any
type Of vehicle. Unfortunately before
this new mile record could be corrob-
Grated by an official test, the univer-
sal joint broke while the machine
was going ninety miles an hour. For
tunately, 1t was brought to stop
without injury to its daring rider
from the rapidly revolving shaft,
which was thrashing about in dan
gerous manner. Later on the frame
buckled, throwing the gears out OF
line, and the official test had to be
abandoned. With his two cylinder
machine, Curtiss rode mile In 46 2-5
seconds in a race with Wray on a
two-cylinder IA horsepower Pugeot
motor bicycle, only to be beaten two
seconds by the latter in q subsequent
race, where in a speed Of about SOB
miles an hour was obtained. With
one Of his single-cylinder machines
Curtiss made a mile in 1 minute S-5
seconds on January 2i.-Scientifc
American.
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WAR PRICES IN THE SOUTH.
ouinine $1,7oo an ounee-Flour $500 q
Rarrel-Eish s. q Pound.

In 1866 an ounce Of quinine could
not be purchased for less than s1,7oo
in the south. Provisions were simply
enormous in price. Here are just a
few instances. In February a ham
weighing fifty pounds sold for exactly
$3.50, or at the rate of IS a pound.
Flour was $500 a barrel.
Fresh fish retailed all over at IS a
pound and ordinary meal was at $50
bushel. Those who lived In board
ing houses paid from 5000 to $500 g.
month. White beans retailed at $76 a
bushel. Tea went for anything from
$50 a pound to $50. and coffee in like
ratio.
The most ordinary sugar was sold
for $40 a pound. Ordinary adamantine
candles were sold for $40 a pound. In
cafe breakfast was ordinarily $40.
In April sugar went to 5000 a barrel
and articles Of wearing apparel sold,
at $3.50, trousers at 800 and boots at
$3.50.
Butter was SIS a pound. Potatoes
went for 50 a quart. Tomatoes Of the
size of walnut sold for $50 q dozen.
Chickens varied from ss5 to $50 a pair.
The prices on the bill Of fare Of the
Richmond restaurant in January, 1854.
were: Soup, $1.50; bread and butter,
$3.50; roast beef, plate. So: boiled
eggs, 81; ham and eggs, $3.50; rock
fish, a plate $5; fried oysters, plate.
s5; raw oysters. So; fresh milk, a glass
81; coffee, cup, So; tea, a cup, 80.
These figures are taken from vari-
Gus sources and have the virtue Of ac-
curacy, II nothing else. Always was
present the fear Of famine, and time
and time again did the soldiers donate
a portion Of their r. Il rs, taken from
their apportionment in the field, to re-
lieve the pressing necessities.
The shrinkage Of the currency was
of course responsible, and some idea
may be gathered from q story that
went the rounds at the time. A SOL
dier galloped along country road and
a farmer leaning over fence admired
| the animal. He called to the trooper
offering to buy the horse:
"Give you $4,000 for him, Johnny"
he said.
mot much, old man, just paid $15,-
900 to have him shod," was the reply.