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The Elbert County tribune., 1910-01-28

cloth Of Broadway stage you are
wrong He has nothing at all to do
with musical comedy. On the con.
trary. he is very much alive person
age who holds sway over the indie
pendent state of Oman. which is set
like another Gibraltar at the entrance
to the Persian gulf
Though nominally Seyyid Feysil
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-01-28

The boy Kabaka. though his kingdom Is the smallest
of the four probably to be envied for his posi-
ton is free from the many which win assuredy
beset the of China the shah of Persia In
later years.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-01-28

OU have heard of the sultan
" OF Turkey. the sultans of
Morocco and Zanzibar. but
but who on earth is the
sultan of Oman? II you
u y imagine that his kingdom is
bounded on the south by sthe foot.
lights. on the east and west by the
wings. and on the north by the back
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-01-28

IRST among the four in
Importance is undoubt-
edly the baby emperor
of China. little Pu VI.
who was born SO lately
as 1906. Only as may
be surmised, the actual
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smoothly undulating sea. She break
tasted sparingly from her scanty store
and resumed her post at the wheel.
She was tired and sleepy, but while
the little engine was alive she could
not leave it to its own devices. She
must hold on her chosen course as
ing as the motive power remained.
81: could not lose a moment while
that motor throbbed and beat. She,
must be alive with it. There would.
be time to sleep when it was ex@'
hausted. She must put as many,
leagues between her and pursuit by
holding the direct course as long as
was possible.
And so she sat there grimly, hands
clutching the wheel through the long
day and through the longer night and!
we'll into the following morning It
must have been half past ten on the
morning of the second day before the
motor stopped. The silence, after the
ceaseless drumming Of a night, long
day, longer night and still longer
morning, struck her with the same
strange sense Of shock. She calculated
that the motor had been running for
80 hours and that she had gone $3.50
miles at least on her course She had
seen nothing whatever of the yacht.
The chances that it would pick her
up, even if it came about and cruised
for her, lonely speck in the ocean,
were millions to nothing. At any rate,
she had done all she could. Her phil
osophy for once stood her in good
stead. There was nothing more to be
done. She was dead for want. Of
sleep. The sky had been slightly overs
cast since she had left the yacht, but
there had been no storm and weather
conditions looked just as they had and
seemed to be permanent.
Taking the precaution to examine
the gasoline tanks and finding that I'M
deed they had been drained of the last
drop, she carefully closed and locked
them, thereby assuring her salvation.
and spreading the boat cloak In the
stern sheets with her bag for pillow
and her straw hat tied over her face
to shield it from the sun, she instantly
dropped to sleep.
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CHAPTER Vl-Continued.

She began to realize how helples}
:she was. Under the inspiration of 4
belief, which was as honest as it wal
mistaken, she had put herself in thd
power of this man. Even if she were
ashore, there would be no one I'd
whom she could appeal, and here on
the ship she was helpless. Lingering
remains of better things had kept him
from the last resort of the tyrant-l
;,Sorce!-but how long these would b}
operative in restraint she could not
tell. She fancied not for long. What
should she do then?
She saw the end coming when in hi}
anger he resorted to drink, to drinA
which exploded the last yestige of hia
philosophy, however he had protested
1t. She was frightened beyond meas
.ure when she realized the depths to
which he had sunk and to which, in
spite of herself, he had dragged her
What further descent was before her:
Sne did not even yet abandon thal
philosophy which had served her Sd
ILL. She chung to that with the mora
tenacious pride because Of it's very
weakness, but she loathed mankind
On that yacht he summed up for hel
the whole human race, and she hated
him and it. To what sorry pass had {
few weeks practical experience re-
sduced her!
She had begged and pleaded with
him to alter the yachts course, but
he had sworn he would go farther
south into those unknown seas anl
keep her there until she crawled tt
&his feet. So the long hours dragged
.on. The inevitable rupture drew
nearer. At last it came. In its details
1t was horrible, but there was in il
"a great relief after all.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-09-02
CHAPTER VII.
The Joy of Freedom.

One night at dinner she had fled
.from him. He had been drinking more
heavily than usual and was in an ugly
mood His handsome face was flushed,
ia savage frown overspread his brow.
He had risen during the meal and with
"a coarse endearment had attempted
TO lay hands upon her-at last! She
Rhad broken away and darted into the
nearest cabin, which happened to be
This own. She had closed the door and
turned the key against him before he
realized what she was about. She
sstood within the little room, painting,
,enraged, fearful, yet ready to defend
her all and almost glad the crisis had
arrived. She could hear his drunken
laugh outside the door.
why, you little fool" he cried, do
you think can't break that lock down
IN moment? The ships mine, every
man on it's mine I pay 'em. They
sdo my bidding. I have you where l
want you and can have you when l
please, now-or later"
Was it true? Could she appeal to the
men? But what could she say? Al
though the world knew there was no
binding tie between them, to the Off
scers and men of the yacht she was his
wife. They would not interfere. And
IL she declared the truth, she would
put herself beyond the pale of their
ssympathies. Being merely stupid men,
with conventional ideas about pro
priety, in that event they would be
less apt to interfere than ever. It was
true she could do nothing She sank
down on a hassock, clenching her
hands.
AS she sat, Sner eyes fell on chest
sof drawers screwed against the bulk
head. The top contained various toilet
4 articles Of silver. Among them was a
picture, the picture Of a woman. It
was not her picture. Moved by what
Impulse she did not stop to analyze,
she rose and picked It up. The face
s,she looked ut was ineffably vulgar and
common. Across the bottom was writ
ten In a scrawly uniformed hand Your
devoted wife" There was a date sew
eral years before that hour. Your de
voted wife! She had been in that
::statemom before; she had never seen
that picture. He had only brought it
aout. since the rupture between them.
And SO while entering intc this re.
latlonship with her, in compliance
with principles and ideas which she
at least regarded as sacred and holy,
D he had not been free man! There
was another woman to whom ne had
been bound. Oh, not by the marriage
ga tie that she disdained, but by the
honor which was supposed to exist
among thieves and which certainly
should exist among philosophers. Aud
such d woman! A cold fury filled her
mind as she looked at the picture.
ys tast completing touch had been
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CYRUS TOWNSEND
v Y BRADY
Observation-Disclosures
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SYNOPSIS.

A young woman cast ashore on lone
.ly island, Ilnds a solitary inhabtant, a
young white man, dressed like a savage
and unable to speak in any known Ian
guago. She decides to educate him and
mold his mind to her own ideals. She
finds q human skeleton the skeleton Of a
dog, Bible and a silver box, which
lead her to the conclusion that her COM
,panion was cast ashore on the island
when a child, and that his name is John
Reyell Charnock Of Virginia. Near the
5keleton she finds two woman's rings,
one Of which bears an inscription ~ r..
c. to M. P. r. Sept. TO- 1859" katharine
Brenton was highly specialized product
Of e leading university. Her writings on
the sex problem had attracted wide at
tention The son of a multi-milli onairq
becomes infatuated with her, and theyt
decide to put her theories into practice|
With no other ceremony than handt
clasp they go away together. A few days
On his yacht shows her that the mani
only professed lofty ideals to possess herI
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given. To contempt and pity for him
was added hatred. The combination
transformed her. Instead of avoiding,
she would seek him.
He was still in the, cabin. She could
hear him muttering thickly to himself.
Impulsively she stepped to the door,
turned the key in the lock, threw it
open and entered the brilliantly
lighted luxurious cabin. He had dis
missed the attendants some time
since with orders not to reappear I'M
less he summoned them, and they were
alone There was no likelihood Of any
interruption whatsoever. The man,
who was leaning back in his chair,
bent forward when she opened the
door. He laughed viciously. If she
had reflected, she would have mar
veled at the change that few weeks
had wrought in one whom she had
alberto deemed worthy of her affec-
but she had eyes and thought for
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-09-02
CHAPTER Viii.
Cast Up by the Sea.

Day was just breaking again when
the woman awoke. Reference to her
watch which she had taken the pre-
caution to wind just before she re-
tired disclosed the fact that it was
four o'clock in the morning. She had
slept unbrokenly since II o'clock the
morning before. Her sleep had been q
stupor of utter and complete exhaus.
ton. Added to the tremendous physi-
cal strain of keeping awake and at.
tending to the duty to which she had
enforced herself had been the further
strain of the terrible events on the
night in which she left the yacht, and
the apprehension Of pursuit which had
been continually with her. Her first
motion, indeed, was to rise to her feet
and scan the horizon. With relief in,
describable her scrutiny discovered
nothing. She was still alone. Neither
the yacht nor any other vessel nor
any smallest speck Of land was sill
houetted against the circling sky line.
She sat in the boat musing long
time and then woke to the fact that
she was hungry. Again she satisfied
her appetite sparingly from her scanty
and rapidly diminishing store Of food
and drink, and then putting the past
resolutely behind her, hoping and per-
haps fancying by some exercise of her
will power finally she could put it be.
hand her forever, she gave serious
thought to her condition.
She realized at last that she In.
the hands-another would have said,
of God! she said of chance The fact.
that she was so helpless; that all her
learning and all her training, and
all her skill and all her power were
of no avail, made the situation the
more CALLING. Was there nothing
that she could do? She reflected
deeply and as she did so the
breeze sprang up. She judged that
the period during which she had slept
had been calm and still. Any violent
rocking Of the boat would have aWaks
ened her. Indeed, she felt bitterly
cramped and stiff from having lain so
long on the hard floor, which only thu,
boat cloak, thick and heavy, made q
tolerable bed.
The coming Of the breeze stimu
lated her imagination. twas gen.
tie breeze. She noticed that it blew
from the direction whence she had
come by her compass course. If sha
only had sail of some kind the boat
would be driven along. She must
move somewhere. She had heard Of
ocean currents and drift but she
doubted whether the boat was moving
at least sufficiently fast or in any
definite direction to make any differ
ence. Unless she got somewhere, she
would slowly starve and die just
where she was. She stepped forward in
the boat and examined the oars. There
was a sort Of a deck forward over
the gasoline tanks. She thought that
she might make shift with the remains
| Of the painter, of which she had a
good length, to fasten one OF the oars
in an upright position against It.
There were bolts and rings of various
sorts on. this little deck. She could
step the handle Of the oar between
cleats or ribs at the bottom. At least
she would try.
(To BE coNT1NUEn)
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bag with what things she fancied she
would need, returned to the table,
took from it every scrap that was
edible and portable; without much re-
gard for the niceties she made it up
!, in heavy parcel which she tied with
napkins. She remembered that the
water tank in the launch had been
filled, so that for a time at least she
would lack nothing. Carrying bag and
bundle in her hands and with the boat
cloak over her arm and a straw hat
tied on her head, after one long look
at the man, she turned and went aft
and re-entered the starboard after
stateroom, her own.
The boats painter had been affixed
to the starboard side Of the yacht. She
opened the stern window and looked
out. She leaned far out and by great
good fortune in the darkness caught
the painter. The boat Of course, was
swinging to long rope. She pulled
at this line cautiously, although the
effort taxed her strength to the ut
most. Indeed, she seemed possessed
of a fictitious. strength for the time
being else she never could have &C
complished her hard task. But she
managed to get the boat practically
under the cabin at last She fastened
the painter to her bed, which was of
brass and securely screwed to the
floor Then she cut off the line and
! tied the bundle Of provisions and her
bag and cloak to the end of it. These
she dropped down into the boat
I Among the petty articles was a sharp
! sailors sheath knife fastened to Ian.
yard. She slipped this lanyard into her
blouse. Then she climbed up on the
port sill and essayed the dangerous
descent herself. She was glad that
she was a strong, athletic woman
used to trusting to her own skill and
powers, for it was no easy task tc
slide down that rope and get into a
boat trailing along beneath the coun
ter Of a yacht going perhaps II knots
an hour Fortunately the engine was
well aft and the bow Of the launch
was high out Of the water; else he1
weight would have pressed it down
and the. back wash from the yacht
would perhaps have swamped the
launch.
At any rate, she succeeded, although
| after she got her foot in the bows she
slipped and fell. But that she fell
straight aft upon the cloak and bun
dies she would have hurt herself Sc
/! yerely If she had not fallen that way
! if she had pitched to the right or the
left. she would have gone overheard
/ and that would have been the end
for she knew that she would have died
rather than appeal to that ship fol
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=
folly. 3
'You needn't be jealous of her, my
DEAR" he mumbled on. IT used to
think l loved her and we were mar
ried, damned foolishness; as you might
say. She can't hold a candle to you,
if you are little touched" he tapped
his forehead impudently-"in the up
per story
And this man, this degraded thing,
regarded her as a mad woman. There
might be no God, but there was devil
and he stood before her. There might
be no heaven, but there was a hell
and she was in it.
ION second thoughts he rambled
on, Il couldn't introduce you to her.
You aren't respectable and she is"
He stopped and poured himself an.
other drink.
"Respectable!" he laughed. 'To hell
with responsibility We know a better
thing that that! Soul to soul, heart
to heart, the union of equals without
the trammels of conventional bonds
for weaker beings Yes, that's what
you said.'
And she recognized with horror that
he was quoting her own words.
but it doesn't go, you see. It's
all very we'll in theory, but it doesn't
work out in practice. The worlds
got some ideas of it's own. It's been
holding, 'em for good many thou
sands of years and you can't change
EN-. You belong to me now. To hell
with your equality! You are nothing
more nor less than my property, and
mark you" he reached out trem-
bling finger and shook it at her, your
salvation is with me- If cast you off,
you go into the gutter
She wondered vaguely how much
more of this she could stand and live.
"But don't be afraid" he went on
with drunken attempt at reassur-
ance, you are too fine and too hand
some, even if you are cracked, for
that--yet. I'm glad to see you've come
to your senses
He rose. heavily as he spoke and
felt his way around the table hand
over hand. He approached her. She
let him do it. She shrank a little
closer together, every muscle tense for
action. She was no longer woman;
she was a human tigress and her phil.
osophy was gone. He was too drunk
to see it, too incapacitated to take
warning
That's right he continued as he
lurched nearer to her. "Stay right
there. I'm coming to you as fast as
/ can and when l get close to you,
we'll kiss, and
He was by her side now. He
Strengthened himself up with a spas
modic effort, released his hold on the
table and stretched out his arms to
ward her. And then she sprang at
him. How she did it, she could never
tell, but in some way her outstretched
arms, grasping for his throat, struck
him in the breast. Unsteady on his
feet, he went down as if he had been
shot. Such was the violence of his fall
that the momentum carried her with
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-04-08

William Sidis, the 11-year-old math-
ematical wonder at Harvard, has turned
his attention from problems Of the
fourth dimension to aerial navigation,
and as a result is now authority for the
statement that an aerial journey to
Venus inside of 20 minutes is posi-
bility.
According to Sidis, he has solved
the problem of aerial navigation, and
all that remains is to put his conclu-
sions into practice. His plan is to at
tach piece Of radium to the stern OF
an airship. Radium gives off the alpha
rays, which leave the radium with
great force.
These rays, Sidis says, would be suf-
fcient to drive an airship at tremendous
speed. Sidis has figured his theory
out mathematically, but so far has made
no attempt at practical demonstra-
tion
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Trouble For Hubby.

At q recent tea party where the fare
provided could not by any means be
termed palatable guessing game was
instituted, and the lady who won it
was asked to say what she would have
as prize She greatly fiattered her
young hostess by requesting a slice of
the cake with which some of them
had desperately struggled at tea time.
why did you ask for that stuff?'' a
disappointed and Ctill hungry youth
asked her. You know very well it
isn't fit to eat"
Il have a definite purpose in view"
answered the young lady, carefully
placing the piece of cake where there
would be no possibility of her forget
ting it. II mean to make my husband
eat tiff necessary, to force it down his
throat crumb by crumb-and thus con-
vince him that somewhere in the wide,
wide world there is an even worse
cook than he imagines his inexperi-
enced young wife to be."-Pearson's
Weekly.
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Needed an Explanation.

A little boy was often whipped by
his father for lying. He usually took
it as matter of course but ON one oc.
casion II seemed to excite him to re
lection. After II was all over he stood
before his father in a thoughtful way,
which attracted that worthy's atten-
ton.
MY son." said the father. what are
you thinking aboutT
Father" said the son. when you
was little boy, did you use to tell
lies?
mo. my son. When | was a little
boy did not tell lies"
Father" returned the son. when
mother was little girl. did she use
to tell lies?"
mo. my son." replied the father.
when your mother was a little girl
she did not tell lies. But why do you
ask me these questions?"
well" said the little fellow, draw
ing long sigh, lit is the most mys-
terious thing In the world to me that
father who never told lies when he
was little boy and mother who
never told lies when she was little
girl could have a boy that tells as
many as do"
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1t is a curious fact and one scarcely
known outside of Russia, and there
hardly ever mentioned. that the ia
nous Orloff diamond was once the
right eye of the great idol Serringham
in the temple of Brahma. This pre-
cious gem was stolen at about the be-
ginning of the eighteenth century by a
French soldier who had made pre-
tense of being converted to the Hindoo
religion in order to gain the confidence
of the priests and admission to the
temple. The Frenchman first sold the
diamond for $4,000 On the next turn
1t was bought by banker Of Con-
stantinople for f12,000. The banker
kept it until 1774 and then sold it to
the Russian empress for 100000 and
life pension. The gem has been in
the Russion royal family ever since.
AS it is now set In the imperial scepter
of Russia it presents fattened, rose
cut surface and weighs exactly 1941a
carats.
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The tiger is possessed at times of an
almost supernatural cunning. a won.
derful sense of smell and a fine in.
stinct with regard to traps and the
like, which make him as difficult an
animal to take alive as any existing
Sometimes he can be shared. but not
often. On one occasion the writer's
native Indian servant ran in in a
great state of excitement to say a
tiger was trapped in the jungle half
a mile away. and the entire camp, of
course, at once fiocked over to see the
prisoner. The trap was exactly on
the principle of a humble mouse trap
with a falling door. and built of strong
timbers laced together with rattans
The imprisoned tiger was full grown
mate, and it would be difficult to
imagine anything wilder than his rage
as he reared and stormed and hurled
himself in futile fury on each part of
the structure in turn. There he was
to stay until hunger had rendered him
manageable, the incident showing that
the tiger can be trapped. although not
often. Globe.
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President Lincoln once told the fol-
lowing story to ID. II. Bates, manager
of the war department telegraph office:
Pm like an old colored man | knew.
He spent so much of his time preach
ing to the other slaves it kept him and
them from their abors His master
told him he would puniSh him the
next time he was caught Steaching.
But marsa.' said the old man, with
tears in his eyes. l always has to
draw Influences from Bible texts
when dey comes in ma haid. l jes'
CANT help it. Can you. marsaY
"'Well said his master, i suspect
| do sometimes draw differences. But
there is one text never could under
stand, and if you can draw the right
inference from it I'll let you preach
to your hearts content
"'What is de text. marsaY asked the
colored man.
- 1.-The ass snuffeth up the east
wind" Now. what inference do you
draw from thatT
well marsa, rs neber heard dat
text befo' nohow. but | 'spects de in
fruence am she got to snuff long
time befo' she get fat "-Pittsburg
Chronicle Telegraph.
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Plaid and Tartan,

VIII the southron ever learn that
plaid" is not synonym for "tartanY'
Not long ago an Englishman came into
a hosier's establishment in Glasgow
and asked a man behind the counter
to show him some plaid ties" The
attendant, perhaps wondering what
this new and weird article of wear
ing apparel could be, was completely
baff1ed until explanation ELECTED the
fact that necktie with a tartan de-
sign was required Dickens. too. is a
sinner in this respect, for he makes
Bob Sawyer say with regard to wheth-
err his political proclivities are buff"
or "blue"-"I'm kind of plaid at
present, compound of all sorts of
colors" Moreover. an English die
tionary gives an adjectival meaning
of plaid" as "colored in squares"
I've never heard such use in Scotland.
Has any one else?-Scottish Field.