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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-31
FISHBURNE EXPLAINS
PRESIDENCY MATTERS

MFR r. r Fishburne. of Roanoke,
writes to The Nsrginian as follows.
ITO prevent a misunderstanding from
the press announcement that ! have
become the president OF the Southern
Seminary. You will please do me the
favor to call attention TO the fact that
this is Il mistake
81 am the president OF the incorpora-
ton of the southern Seminary There
has been no change. whatever, in the
management of the institution, its life
or government. In fact. the under
standing was that there should be no
change of this sort and that f. II.
Howe and J. s. Engle would remain
in the Institution. having all matters,
except those of business nature. en-
tTely and absolutely in their hands
The public may therefore be assured
that the same spirit and ideals. which
have given the institution its peculiar
character in the past will continue to
dominate ii in the future"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-31
OFFERS TO 60 To
ELECTRIC CHAIR To
SAVE bEATTIE
within an hour after the money is
placed in my hands.
Offers Life for Family,
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within an hour after the money is
placed in my hands.
Offers Life for Family.
Why Here's why. / am a CON
sumptive. Look" He pointed to his
protruding cheek bones, to the tell
tale s3,ess. "a has far., and opening
MS coat. then his shrnken chest Il
have less than year to live | don't
care about that | will he better of
dead But / have wife and chill
dren- / have all / can do now to
ss9Rport them When. ! die they. N i'll
be penniless- And they are dearer
ton or anything else
Give ME $4,000. so that they NAV
be made comfortable for at least a
time, and your Henry Clay Beattie
may go free, with his name cleared
and his fathers fortune 20 inherit I've
thought OF suicide many times.
quick death is better than a slow one.
I'd far rather choose the executioner
than the slow, agonizing finish that is
inevitable for me
And the thing IS possihle--it's
easy, he went on eagerly. las cir
cumstances have it. there Is not a
living soul in the world who can say
that | was not the highwayman, that
was not present at the very Tina
and at the very spot Mrs. Beattie was
Killed. ] was away from nay home
that night No one save myself
knows where l was or what / did"
Pleads In VAIN
For half an hour the stranger plead
ed eloquently for his weird proposal.
pictnring his love for his family, his
own. indifference. 10 death, and great
chance of freeing the strong. healthy
young man to whom Years of life and
prosperity might be grantee.
But he was told, gently. that such a
sacrifice as his, noble as il might be-
could not be accepted
he departed, begging the friend of
the young prisoner to reconsider, to
send him word. so that he might go
forward to death with gladness for
the sake of his wife and babies.
The International News Service
stan correspondent 10 whom this
story came in a direct manner, gives
no names, from motives of fairness
and decency and respect for the ira
gic proposal and the friend of Beat
tie who rejected it, But there I'M
doubtedly is. within a few miles of
this city. such hero, longing for a
chance to give up his own life for
that of the rich young man. who. In
the opinion of almost every one, Is
already as good as doomed.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-31
WELLS RECOVERING
FROM OPERATION

The Rev, Or. J. NJ. Wells. pastor
Of the First Presbyterian church Of
Wilmington. n G.. is slowly recover
ing from an operation for appeudi-
Gifts at Johnston MILLS SalatoFlunl
where he went under the knife ten
days ago. Though most patients re-
cover in this time, DR. Wells was in
a somewhat rundown condition when
he arrived at the hospital. and for
that reason his recovery has not been
as rapid as 1t might otherwise have
been.
Mrs. Wells, who was summering at
Buena Vista when her husband was
taken suddenly i'll at his home in
Wilmington. has been his constant
attendant at his bedside since he was
brought to Richmond in the private
car of one of the officials of the At
lantic Coast Line railway.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-31
CHARLOTTE IS At
me- RCY Of FLAMES

Especial TO The Richmond Virginian.)
CHARLOTTE, v. C., July 3d.
With the big ponds which have fur
nished Gharlotte's water supply for
many years only foundations of sun
baked mud ard the stop cocks to the
small supply in the reservoir shut
down tight since early Friday morn
ing, this city is in the midst of a
period of distress that is as unique
as it is serious. The plan to haul
water in tank cars from the Cataw ba
river, twelve miles away, was gotten
Well under way Saturday, and hun
dreds of thousands of gallons were
dumped into the settling basins. but
this movement received a setback
to- day, when one of the big pumps,
'porarily installed at Mount Holly.
broke down. delaying the program OF
the authorities to resume regular
water service by Tuesday.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-31
NOTED SCIENTIST
SLABS SUFFRAGE

NEW YORK. July 3o--"sufra-
gettes are to a large extent sexless,"
declared DR.. Max 6. Schlapp, one of
the most eminent medical psycholo
gsts in the country. to-day. He was
discussing the causes of the increase
Of crime and incidentally psychology.
They fail TO realize the duties of
Womanhood, and seem to lose their
womanly qualities. In this stressful
age We are getting fewer and fewer
womanIy women. In fact, many can
hardly be called women at all. They
have none of the womanly emotions.
none Of the womanly sympathies.
They are truly sexless. To he sure.
there are some who are estimable.
who have broad domestic feelings.
Yet they are on the decrease.
The only way that / can account
for it is the age. We are striving,
as no nation or age has ever striven.
The advance Of the last one hundred
and twenty-five years is. unparalleled
and We arc paying the cost.
Ceasing to- Be Normal.
We are having more nervous
wrecks and more criminals than ever
before. We are ceasing to he nor
NAL. That liz why We have this suff
rage movement. Our women are be
coming abnormal.
How many children are being
nursed now in the old way? When
you realize this one change you can
appreciate the growing difference in
woman, And our children are suf-
fering as result. They are growing
up less strong, less reliant and more
abnormal
IF women would only leave this
political field alone and with the
various interests that take her away
from the home. we will have a much
more satisfactory generation of chill
dren. Women who disregard their
sex. engage in the pursuits of men
and devote their vital energy to
politics and other male pursuits must
inevitably lose their womanly charm
the feminine character aud even
motherhood itself.
Declining Birth Fate.
1.-THE declining birth rate in the
civilized countries, which in France
in 1907 fell below the death rate,
corresponds with the entrance Of the
women into industry and intellectual
pursuits outside the home.
Not only has the birth rate de-
creased, hut an increase of insanity
and nervous disease among women,
showing the sex Is overburdened
The increase of female suffrage
is doing the race harm and few Of
us realize how much. This I assert
on scientific grounds"
DIT Schlann is a. professor in the
Medical College Of Columbia Univer-
sity.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-31
BELIEVE NEGRO
is WANTED HERE

Believed to have committed sew
erl apartment hoesse r@hberies in,
Richmond in April, a negro. who was
arrested in Hamlet, y. c.. several
days ago for robbing q railroad car.
is being held by the authorities and
probably viii he returned to this
jurisdiction for trial
Although the police Of Richmond
have not even learned the name of
the negro. they believe the man
sought since April is the man in
custody as a suit OF clothes which
he wore when arrested is one of the
suits which were stolen from w. @,
Lewis. of the Hanover Apartments.
The sneak thief who robbed Mr..
Lewis got away with about 5000
worth of clothing, He sold half of
the clothes, which were recovered
by Detective Sergeants Bailey aud
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-31
SHERMAN's PLEA
SHORT IN WEIGHT
CONTINUED from FIRST iase.,


contain two-pound cans were broken
UP.
= The record, however was complete
in Washington. II was there when
the International News Service was
informed of the facts. The inspec-
ter AT Boston had no reason to know
that the Vice President Of the United
States Was even MILDLY Interested in
the shipment of short weight cans
TO the Boston public in violation Of
the pure food law.
Then il was the International News
Service requested an inspection OF the
record in the case and DIR. Wiley
refused TO make them public or even
10 discuss Ehe matter. Secretary
Wilson declined to open the records
until he had investigated the story.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-31
home TO see his sister. who was III
and expected to die.
Social Affair."

Tedium incidental to the strict rOu-
tine of military duties was relieved
during the encampment by series
of social festivities. the most uota-
Bile of which was a reception and
german given Friday night at the ar
mory of the Culpeper Home Guards
in honor OF General Vaughn and his
family.
Major Price also entertained during
the encampment. celebrating the an
nlNersary of his birth on Friday with
dinner party, at which Mrs. f. Vic
tor Williams and her niece, Miss Page
were guests Of honor. Mrs williams
and Miss Page are stopping at Or
ange.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-31
Mr.. smith Confirms Story.

Attorney Harry M. Smith. counsel
in chief for the defense in the Beat
tie case, was asked last night if such
an offer had been made on the part Of
any one.
Mr.. Smith confirmed the statement
that such an offer had been made Sc
rfously by some one. He stated that
Following the offer two anonymous
letters had been received from the
man, asking that the sum of IS, 900
be placed in a certain spot for him,
and Offering to Immediately come for
ward and declare himself the slayer
of Mrs. Beatfie.
The letters gave the same reasons
as those outlined in the above story
by Mr.. ONeill, who has been In Rich
mond for the past several days The
defense declined to pay any attention
to the letters.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-31
CROPS DAMAGED
BY Ions DROUGHT
DRY SPELL WILL CAUSE VIRGINIA
FARMERS TO LOSE MANY
THOUSANDS.
TOBACCO Is SPOTTlNG
CORN WILL FALL FORTY PER CENT
SHORT AND POTATO YIELD
Is ALMOST TOTAL
TOBACCO Is SPOTTlNG

| Many thousands of dollars will be
of the drought this summer. Exact
I ly what their loss will be it is I'M
possible to estimate, but it Is safe to
say that there is hardly a farmer in
the whole State whose crop Will come
up to expectations.
1t Is estimated that the dark tobac-
co crop will be fully 80 per cent.
short of normal production, while the
light grade will hardly be much bet
ter. This is due, however, not so
much to the prevailing drought as to
the long dry season in the spring. In
many instances plants were far over
grown before they could be put into
the ground. it being impossible for
the farmer to turn over the land for
weeks, thus delaying planting. AS a
result Of this late planting much to-
bacco is now reported to be spotted
and such condition will naturally
detract considerably from its market
value.
Blades Arc Curling.
Corn Will be especially short, owing
TO the present drought. In many sec
tons the blades are reported to be
curling like shoestrings, while the
ears are making practically no pro-
gress toward heading out. Il is gem
orally believed that this crop will
fall short fully 40 per cent. unless
good reasona BILE rains come within
the next few days, this being the
most critical period of all for corn.
The Irish potato crop in many parts
Of the State is reported to be a total
failure In Page county. for in
stance. one farmer reports that at
a recent digging, he got only three
potatoes out of five hills, and that he
quit digging after that Mr. George
Bull, who operates a small truck farm
on Cary Street road, says that he in
vested $3.50 in potato crop this
spring. his return being five barrels
and about $40 in coin. In other words,
he is out more than 500 on this VEN
ture alone
Melons Are Stuntcd.
The melon and vegetable crop
around Richmond Is somewhat below
normal though worst seasons have
been known. While rather stunted by
the dry season, the melons are per
haps sweeter and more palatable this
season than usual.
Scientific farming and up-to date
agricultural methods have done much
10 help the farmer weather droughts
somewhat better than formerly.
In some sections dynamite Is being
used in cultivation of apple orchards.
an instance Of this being found on
the Rose Cliff farm near Waynesboro.
where the deep sub-sof reached by
such methods has aided the trees ma
terially in withstanding the dry sea-
son.
However. Mr. Clarence +. Sydnor.
of Richmond, an authority on ap-
pies, estimates that hardly IS per
cent Of a crop will be raised in Nir-
ginia this year. and he estimates that
the price viii be fully as high as it
was last year.
Sixty days ago, he says, an apple
grower near Winchester expected a
yield of 10000 barrels. To- day the
grower will be satisfied with 1000
barrels
Gilpin observer., 1911-06-29
SYNOPSIS.

which he g not guilty. resigns from the
&rmy in disgracs and his erection for Or
psrfscts a dying machine. Willie SOARING
Suriousiy shaped stick he had seen in the
assassin's hand. Mounting again. he dis
eoyess yacht anchored IN the bay; Do.
6irrs name is Jeanne Fielding and tina.
s.piorer. 4 party from the Yacht Is ma. =.
sanns sAn nd. Ahsts shst h. s hsd daopped % Gu:
stously- shaped stick. Captain Planck and
khe suryiying crew OF his wrecked whaier e
man IN named @ Roscoe. % enS had s murdered Fielding
md his two companions. after the ex,
sSok sSommsnd q DC party i a, Develops I912
dor Witnessed BY nc cayiey. Roscoe plans
big load of gold. Jesnn. tell. FL, FanshaE 81 ~.
eky-man and shows him the stick left by
Cayley. Fanshaw declares that 1t is an
darts; Tom Fanshaw returns from the
Searching party with a sprained ankle;
csy Is q Of ths crne bu
believes him Innocent. relief party goes
70 And the searchsrs. Tom processes his his
enters an abandoned hut. and there finds
her fathers diary. which dscloses the ex-
plorers suspicion of Roscoe. The ruff
nan returns to the hut and sees Jeanne
He is intent on murder. when the sky
man swoops down and the ruffian fees
Jeanne gives Cayley her fathers diary
to read. The yacht disappears and Ros-
GOES plans to capture 1t are revealed
seriousness OF their situation becomes ap-
parent to Jeanne and the sky-man. Cay
ley kills a polar bear. Next he finds
clue to the hiding place OF the stores.
Roscoe is about to attack the girl when
he Is sent fleeing in terror by the sight
of the sky-man swooping down. Measures
are taken to fortify the hut
Gilpin observer., 1911-06-29

much with a rifle; and he remember
ed the deadly revolver shooting he
had seen upon the body Of the bear.
Also, he would have to go into the
dark, with the freight behind him.
No. 1t wouldn't do. He must wait
Well, he could afford to wait-much
better than they could.
Reluctantly he rose, turned his
broad back to the gale. and began ma
king his laborious way back to tho
cave.
1t was high time. His face was
frozen already. The intensity Of tho
cold had already rendered his rife
useless. for the whole mechanism of
the breech was frozen fast. His STRAIT
agem had failed in its ultimate inten-
ton, for nature had laid her great icy
hand upon the board and for the pres
ent declared the game draw.
Gilpin observer., 1911-06-29

what once had been a shirt, suflced
to put 1t into commission again.
Then. with the rife over his shoul-
With his first glance abroad. he
started. His devil was being kind to
him today. There could be no doubt
OF that. Only. was he being too kind?
Roscoe wondered a little uneasily.
For. shambling along the ice, through
the thickening twilight. not 100 PAGES
away, was a big bear. Roscoe was
tired Of walrus meat. The thought of
bear steak made his mouth water.
Three years disuse, however, had
made his marksmanship somewhat
uncertain. He fired too soon, and
though he did not miss. the only ef-
feet his shot had was to make the
bear turn about and go shambling
down the glacier toward the beach.
with ungainly haste. Roscoe hurried
after him, and fired two more shots.
Whether they hit or not. he could not
tell Certainly they did not serve to
check the bears flight. The next mo-
ment he had rounded the corner Of
the cliff and disappeared down the
beach in the direction of the hut.
Roscoe hesitated, but only for q
moment; then. with an oath, he set
out in pursuit. 1t was not SO much
the protection which the rifle afforded
him that was responsible for this new
courage as it was that the mere feel
of it in his hands brought him back
in touch once more with the every
day matter of fact world, and made
his visions and ghosts seem little
unreal
1t was fully dark down here IN the
shadow of the cliff. The numbering vel
low shape of the bear was indistin-
guishable against the icy beach. That
didn't matter, for he could follow
along we'll enough by the bloody
tracks the wounded beast had left.
The last of the twilight was still in
the sky, and half his glances were
directed thither, looking for some
thing which he told himself could not
possibly exist. except in his own
fancy, yet fully expected to see never
theless, the shadow of Cayley's great
wings. And at last he saw 1t i'm
pending in the lower air, like brood
ing spirit, just above the tiny square
of light which marked the location Of
the hut.
Roscoe abandoned his pursuit of the
bear; all thought of 1t, in fact was
gone from his mind; but he did not
as on a former occasion, drop down
prone upon the ground, his face buried
in his arms; nor did he turn and flee
like one hag-ridden up the beach. He
Gilpin observer., 1911-06-29
CHAPTER XIX.
Roscoe.

Roscoe.
Roscoe had never been able to clear
up his doubt as TO Jeanne's identity,
nor to solve the mystery Of Cayley's
appearance In the air. The doubt
and the mystery tormented him worse
than any final conviction could have
done. When he thought. as he some
times did, that the cause of all his
terror, the thing which kept him
penned up here in the cave and de-
MED him access to more than the fur
tive edges Of the beach, might be Just
rather defenseless human couple,
man and a woman. and the woman
beautiful. young. alluring-when he
thought Of all that he would go on
into transports Of rage, which left
even his gigantic body limp and ex-
hausted. II that were the situation.
he might have killed the man weeks
ago and taken possession Of the
woman.
The thing that kept him sane was,
in itself, species of insanity, the pas
sion for gold which had led him to
murder Captain Fielding. Every day
he tramped up the glacier to the gold
ledge and there, while the light lasted,
he worked, cutting the precious metal
out Of the rock. and with infinite labor
beating 1t pure.
AS the weeks and months dragged
along, this unvaried routine more than
compensated for the solitude and the
terrors his superstition thrust upon
him. and gradually restored him to his
old normal. formidable, brutal self.
On the day when he made the discovery
that was to terminate the long series
of golden days which Jeanne and
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none of Cayleys shots could have 40
counted for. he explored with prao-
tised hand
Watching him as he did so. the
girl could see that he had found some
thing unexpected, something which
surprised him greatly. And there
was more than surprise. There was
alarmed urgency in his voice when he
spoke to her He offered no explana-
tion. Merely told her to go into the
hut and make fast the solid wooden
shutters over the windows. He would
come in and would tell her what It
was all about, in q moment,
The girl had hardly finished tho
task he had given her, when he came
in. In his blood-stained hand he was
holding out something for her inspec-
ton.
Conquering a feeling Of repugnance,
she bent over the hand. cast one
glance at the thing 1t contained and
then started up and gazed, wideeyed.
into his face.
"A bullet!" she said. "But-but we
thought that Roscoe wasn't armed
not with FIRE arms, mean
Cayley nodded. But this seems to
be pretty good evidence that he is.
Gilpin observer., 1911-06-29

rage against tho two who had baffied
him and enjoyed immunity from him
so long, almost led him to attempt to
break into the hut then and there, and
settle matters; but his saner common
sense told him that the settlement
would almost inevitably be against
him should he attempt 1t.
He was still entertaining this no
ton, however, when a luminous idea
occurred to him. Around on the far
side Of the hut. the west side, which
looked toward the headlands, was a
good-sized heap Of fre-wood, which
Philip had not been able to find
room for inside the hut. Roscoe had
with him a flint and steel and a
quantity of tow. He never travelled
without them.
With infinite precaution against
noise he began laying a fire against
the windward wall of the hut Squat
ting. with his rifle across his knees
ready to use in case of an emergency,
he methodically whitfield quantity Of
dry splinters of few of the sticks.
ignited them and carefully nursed the
blaze, until, under the rising wind, it
grew to the beginning Of fair-sized
conflagration. Then. catching up his
rifle. he slipped around the other side
of the hut, crouching down not more
than 20 PAGES away. and waited.
Already the fire was burning finely
and the silhouetted outline of the hut
was plain against the glow Of 1t.
His plan was a good one. The peo-
pie inside the hut would have no
choice and, probably, no thought, but
of escape When they rushed out, as
they almost certainly would. bewild-
cred and confused, and plainly visible
to him against the glow Of the fire be-
hind them, it would be easy. from the
the man.
1t was only, indeed, by the merest
hairs breadth that Roscoe's plain
failed to work The instinct Of es-
cape by the nearest way from burn
ing building is almost irresistible, and
1t led Philip and Jeanne to the very
edge of the destruction. which Roscoe
had planned for them.
Cayley had his hand upon the bolt
of the great door, whittier he had
sprung when Jeanne's cry had awak-
ened him, before the saving second
thought stayed him and held him
frozen where he was. For perhaps
five seconds he stood there, while the
memory of the unexplained bullet hole
he had found in the body of the great
bear, and the belated observation that
the fire which was DESTROYING the hut
must have been started outside Of it,
Gilpin observer., 1911-06-29

faltered, 1t is true, and his knees
trembled beneath him. and yet, slow
ly and with many pauses he made his
way forward.
He was horribly afraid all the time,
but curiosity was all the while over
towering fear He was not more than
200 yards away when Cayley alighted
beside the girl.
At what he saw then, Roscoe
dropped his rifle on the beach. with
whispered oath, and rubbed his eyes.
The light which diffused itself from
the open window of the hut was not
much, but 1t was enough to reveal the
fact that this great man-bird, this
golden-winged spirit which had kept
him in terror for his own sanity all
these months. was taking on his wings
and folding them up into a bundle. in
as matter-of-fact way as II he were
furling an umbrella. He stood there
now, Just an ordinary human figure
OF man; the very man. in fact. that
he had seen before and would have
killed long ago had It not been for his
over.mastering terror of the thing
with wings.
He presented fair mark now. and
was In easy range, but Roscoe was too
thoroughly astonished to seize the op-
portunity, and In = moment It was
gone again. The two figures shrank
into the shadow Of the hut. and the
next moment the light disappeared.
For . moment. an accession Of