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The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-01-31
CHAPTER vI.-(continued,)

Some one was sitting down beside
him. 1t was Ryanne, in evening
clothes, immaculate, blase, pink
checked. There are some men 80 hap
PLY framed that they can don ready
made suits without calling your atten-
ton to the fact. George saw at once
that the adventurer was one of these
fortunate individuals.
Makes a rather good picture to
look at; eh?" began Ryanne, rolling
a faketobacco cigarette. Dancer"
mo. Wish / could. You've done
quick work." with admiring inspection.
mot flaw anywhere. How do you
do it,"
Thanks. Thanks to you, might
sly. did some tall hustling, though.
Strange, how we love these funeral
toggeries. We follow the dance and
We follow the dead, with never a
variation in color. The man who in
vented the modern evening clothes
must have done good business during
the day as chief-mourner."
why don't you send for your lug
gage%
Ryanne caressed his chin. "My
luggage is, | believe, in the hands Of
the enemy. 1t Is of no great import
ance. never carry anything of value,
save my skin. I'm not like the villain
in the melodrama; no discriminating
documents, no lost wills, no directions
for digging up pirates gold"
II suppose you'll soon be off for
American" George asked indifferently.
II suppose So By the way, saw
you at the game today. Z
mo! Where were your"
"Top row. l am going to ask a
favor Of you. 1t may sound rather odd
to your ears, but know those two
ladies rather well. l kept out Of the
way till l could find some clothes.
The favor l ask is that you will not
tell them anything regarding the cir
cumstances Of our meeting. l am
known to them as globe-trotter and
Q collector"
That's too bad" said George cor
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-01-31

Because it wouldn't be real; It
would be going to the moon la
Coney Island"
Wrong, absolutely wrong If
told you that l am a stockholder in
this company. and that the adventure
of the Yhiordes rug was arranged for
my special benefit, what would you
say?"
"Say?" George turned a serious
countenance toward the adventurer.
"Why, the whole thing Is absurd on
the face of 1t. AS a joke. 1t might 60;
but as a genuine affair, utterly impos-
sible."
NO." quietly. 'T admit that It
sounds absurd, yes; but ten years ago
they'd have locked up, as insane, a
| man who said that he could fly. But
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-01-31

trttely. "But | have already told
them"
"The devil you have!" Ryanne drop
per his cigarette into the ash-tray. If
II remember rightly, you asked me to
say nothing"
ri know" said George, visibly en-
barrassed. II forgot"
well, the fat is in the fire. ! dare
say that can get round 1t. 1t was
risky. Women like to talk. I expect
every hour to hear Of some one ar
irving from Bagdad."
There's no boat from that direction
ILL next week." informed George, who
was q stfckler on timetables.
There are other ways Of getting
into Egypt. Know anything about
iEsoinaaamAlsas
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-01-31
"You don't believe

You don't DelleVe
my friend, I believe in all things
that haven't been proved impossible.
You've been knocking about here long
enough to know something of the
tenacity of the Arab and the East In
dian. Given a just cause, an IDOLS
eye or holy carpet, and they'll fol-
low you round the world ten times, II
need be. l never worry needlessly.
but lay out before me all the points
of the game There is one man In Bag
dad who will never cease to think OF
me. This fellow Is an Arab, Mahomed-
El-Gebel by name, the real article,
proud and savage, into whose keeping
the Holy Yhiordes was given; Ma
homed- El-Gebel, the Pasha's right
hand, a sheik in his own right"
But you haven't got the rug now"
"No, Mr.. Jones. l haven't; but on
the other hand, you have. So, here
We are together. When he gets
through with me, your turn"
George laughed. Ryanne grew
thoughtful over this sign. Percival
Algernon did not seem exactly wor'
ried.
Aren't you little afraid?"
~? Why should be-" inquired
George innocently. Certainly, what
ever your Arab friends arguments
may be, moral or physical, I'm going
to keep that Yhiordes."
Was he bluffing? Ryanne wondered
Did he really have nerve? Well
within forty-eight hours there would
come test
Say, do you know, rather wish
you'd been with me on that trip-that
Is, If you like rough game" Ryanne
said this in all sincerity.
Il have never been In rough game
as you call 1t; but I've often had q
strong desire to be, just to find out fol
myself what sort of duffer l am
Ryanne had met this sort of man be
fore; the fellow who wanted to know
what stuff he was made Of, and was
ready to risk his hide to find out. His
experience had taught him to expect
nothing of the man who knew just
what he was going to do in a crisis.
did you ever know, Mr.. Jones,
said Ryanne, his eyes humorous, that
there Is an organization in this world
of ours, company that offers a try
out to men of your kidney?"
whats that? What do you mean
What Isay.; There is an established
concern which viii, upon application
for a liberal purchase Of stock, ar
range any kind Of adventure you
wish"
"What?" George drew in his legs
and sat up. What sort Of jolly Is
this?"
"You put your finger upon the one
great obstacle. No one will believe
that such concern exists. Yet 1t Il
fact. And why not?"
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-01-31

gaze at sea shreds a canvas. He felt
a bit panicky. He had always planned
courtship of year or SO, meetings,
separations, and remeetings, pleasur.
able expectations, little junkets to the
dters and country places; in brief, to
witness the rose grow and unfold.
Somewhere he had read or heard that
courtship was the plummet which
sounded the depths of compatibility.
Tie knew nothing of Fortune Ched-
soye, save that she was beautiful to
his eyes, and that she was as different
from the ordinary run of girls as yon-
der moon was from the stars.
Again she stopped. leaning over the
parapet and staring down at the wa
ter sWirling past the stone embank.
ment. He did likewise, resting upon
his folded arms. Suddenly his tongue
became alive; and quietly, without
nesitancy or embarrassment, he began
to tell her OF his school life, his life
at home And the manner in which
he spoke Of his mother warmed her;
and she was strangely and wonder
ingly attracted.
OF course, the mother meant the
best in the world when she gave me
Percival Algernon; and because she
meant the best, have rarely tried to
hide them. What was good enough for
her to give was good enough for me
to keep. 1t is simply that l have been
foolish about 1t, supersensitive.
should have laughed and accepted the
thing as joke; instead, made the
fatal move Of trying to run away ant
hide. But, taking the name in full,
lightly, ut sounds as incongruous a.
playing Traumerei on a steam-piano."
He expected her to laugh, but hel
heart was too full of the old ache
This young man, kindly, gentle, intel
ligent, II shy, was a love-child. AM
she? An offspring, the loneliest o
the lonely, the child that wasn't want
ed. Many a time she had thought O
flinging all to the winds, of running
away and hiding where they neve
should find her, of working with he
own hands for her bread and butter
Little they'd have cared. But Away
the rebel spirit died within her as sh
cfoppad o,,tcido Tho x,il1o rofoe n,
leave behind for unknown privation
certain assured comforts, things {
which she was fond, things to whic
she was used, she couldn't do 1t, st
just couldn't. Morally and PHYSICAL
, she was little coward.
Let US 60 in," she said sharpl
Another moment, and she would ha,
, been in tears.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-01-31

officers and directors in the United
Romance and Adventure Company,
It'd sat In the majors room, round
the boudoir-stand which had tempo
rarily been given the dignity OF
table The scene would not have been
without interest either to the specula'
tive physiognomist or to the dramat'
lot To each 1t would have represent
ed one of those astonishing moments
when the soul of a person comes out
into the open, as one might express IT,
incautiously, to be revealed in the e.
nressions of the eyes and the mouth.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-01-31

fore are unable to prepare for It. Too
do not see 1t, my dear, but Il II thsrs.
nevertheless"
Wallace nodded approvipsly. Ry.
anne shrugged.
Failure is practically impossible.
And I want excitement; I crave It -
you men crave your tobacco"
And there We are, Kate. II really
isn't the gold; it's the excitement Of
getting 1t and coming away unscathsd.
II / could only get you to look at a
sides Of the affair! It's the Rubieoa.a
Go III coeTufUEpA
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-01-31
CHAPTER VII,

Ryanne Tables His Cards.
During this time Mrs. Chedsoye, the
major, Messrs. Ryanne and Wallace,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-08-01
Volcano Dust Changes Climate

Volcano Dust Changes Climate
There Is a growing tendency to regard
glacial periods as due to variations in
the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide
and water vapor always present form
a heat-retaining blanket, and a much
favored view has been that during
times of land elevation and extension
much carbon dioxide has been absorb
ed, while evaporations has been reduc-
ed, the natural effect being a general
lowering of temperature on the earth's
surface.
A quite different theory has been
brought out by Prof. w. J. Humphreys.
In recent volcanic explosions-such as
those Of Krakatoa, Pere and Katmai-
vast quantities of fine dust have been
projected into the upper air, and
spreading out, have formed immense
clouds that seem to have prevented a
material portion of the suns rays from
reaching the earth's surface.
Long continued volcanic activity of
great intensity might give a heat-re-
fecting dust-belt that would create
quite new climates. Such volcanic pc
riods are recorded in the rocks, and
one of them, which began before the
last ice age. still continues, having
dwindled enormously in intensity.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-08-01
VAST PETRlFIED WOOD
Natural Curiosity in the State Of New
EIt sa.af, York. .sfsf ..l1

,t ga.af, York. t.sfs,s 51-
Near Mumford, in the southwestern
corner of Monroe county. New York, .
said a native of that locality, lis a
stone quarry that perhaps has no
counterpart in this state or elsewhere.
"A dense grove of cedars northeast
of the village grows on a wide and
long level Of blush gray muck down
into which the prevailing lime rock
dips out Of sight. The grove and the
muck land are on thick deposit of
what appears to be a white rock mot
tied or streaked with a mixture of
green, it's appearance having been de-
scribed as that of huge slices of
Roquefort cheese. .r..
when the idea was advanced that
this rock would make a novel building
stone and blocks of it were removed
from beneath the muck 1t was found
that 1t came to the surface soft and
with a tendency to crumble, thus pre-
senting additional resemblance to
stroying its availability. After a few
hours in the sun and wind, however,
the rock became hardened to flint
like consistency, a solidity and tough
ness not exceeded by the hardest
granite. ......
1.-The discovery was then made that
there was not particle Of basric rock
in the deposit at all. 1t was all made
up of fossil vegetable fibers, petrified
cedar leaves, branches, twigs. broken
bark and even whole stumps and knots
welded and knit together into one
dense tangle.
1.-The theory is that as those parts of
cedar trees, the growth Of an unknown
past, fell one layer upon another into
the mucky depths. once the bed Of a
prehistoric lake. they were saturated
with the dampness of the swamp and
with the lime held in solution. AS the
vegetable matter decayed and the wat
er evaporated every line, fiber and grain
was preserved by the lime sediment,
in time to be turned into the fiintiest
Of limestone.
"a church built Of this fossil stone
is an architectural feature Of Num-
ford. A stranger glancing at the walls
Of the church would regard them as
having been constructed of rough
sand stone, smeared with an uneven
coating of gritty. coarse plaster, but
from a closer view he would see in
stead Of plaster, traceries Of delicate
leaves, lace work of interviewer twigs,
bits of broken branches, fragments of
mussy bark, splinters of wood, every
block of stone in the four walls a
closely cemented mass of dainty fos-
sils. an exhibition of prehistoric vege-
tation standing forth in bold relief as
imperishable stone"
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was lost in q gray veil, and he could
hear the patter Of drops on the tar
paper roof of his shop. He stood for a
moment in the enrolling night, listen
ing to this lulling murmur, the great
dried lands sucking in the water, en-
riching themselves. The scar pastures
would green, the black corn bottoms
and the fall sowing of the wheat
would lave themselves and rest until
the freeze came. And slowly 1t seemed
to Curran that never had he loved 1t
all before. The fat Midlands, the new
endangered country! Here were the
best men and women. Afar in the glut
Of the cities Of which he had dreamed,
Of which he remembered, the future
might be hideous with wrong and
hate; but here were the best people,
Endangered, unfearing.
He was carrying in the wood for
Aunt Abby's kitchen box, thinking how
friendly would be the stove glow after
this wet chill, how fine his eagerness
for the supper; the kerosene lamp un-
der its red shade upon the table, and
the hale, CHEEKY old woman, her glasses
dim with the kettle steam. But he
heard wagon stop, mans gruff
voice on the crossing below his shop.
He watched curiously the figure come
up the hill and lean over his fence.
It was Hemminger, the lonely and
defeated farmer His pale eyes shone
in the lamplight from the window.
II just thought I'd come back to say,
Mr.. Curran," he blurted, that you
amt no money much or any way Of
gittin' about for congress. Well, our
folks can drive you about all over the
county, some takin' turns and then
passin' you on, SOS you see everybody.
See everybody! And live right among
us. Then when you git to Washington,
folksll kind of own you!" He brushed
the wet off his cotton sleeve-'T just
thought I'd drive back and tell you.
It's our folks way" f
Then he was gone out In the night,
the clatter Of his wagon coming down
the hill road, until the falling rain
drowned the sound of wheels.
Curran went in, piled his wood, AMI
stood before the cook-stove, watching
dreamily the fire, needless that ne was
in the housekeeper's way. She BAN
tered him, and suddenly he kissed her.
holding down her fat arms as she
laughed, astounded, shining-eyed. This
was unlike Wiley; he, the dilettante.
who never quite gave himself to any
thing. He began to reason absentl"
over the faith, the friendliness, the
goodness he seemed to have found
about him so curiously. Love, that was
it. He had awakened; and all about
him had awakened, discovering good In
him.
(To be Continued).
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CONTINUED on Fourth Page).
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We should call the attention of cap
ltalists and people who wish to invest
in mineral deposits to the mines
which lie buried in our township and
I am indebted to r. L. Campbell for
data concerning clay.
In 1866, Mr.. Samuel Campbell, ia
miliarly known as Blind Sam Camp
bell, was having a we'll dug on his
place and at eighteen or twenty feet
down came upon white Tight clay.
and had to abandon the we'll and Of
course, he thought nothing Of the pos
sible value of this clay. Near the same
place less than 100 yards from II, In
sinking shafts in order to secure drink
ing water the same substance was
found in 1880. 1884, and also in 1908.
The late DR.. Tom Campbell told me
that he had examined this clay, and
that he was reasonably sure that It
was alumina from which aluminium is
made. There are other deposits Of this
clay or bampite, being found in well
shaft, on the B. G.. Brown place now
owned by Henry Hoke, also In a gully
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-04
President Taft.s Farewell

President Taft will go out Of office
today personally popular-one of the
most popular of Presidents. He is not
a brilliant man either in speech or
with pen in his hand, but there is
a general belief that he is we'll
meaning man. He favored the estab-
lishment of postal banks and of q
parcel post, and both were we'll
started during his administration. He
pushed the Panama canal towards
completion, and he has endeavored to
enforce the Sherman law, giving the
guilty in one instance jail sentences.
His errors were, however, heavy.
The reciprocity treaty with Canada
was repudiated by the latter, and his
determination to hold the Philippines
in subsection indefinitely is neither
American nor popular. When he de-
clared the Payne-Aldrich tariff the
best ever written, he put limit upon
his official career, for no instrument
was ever more overwhelmingly re-
pudiated. Nor will he escape criticism
for putting upwards of 10000 south
ern fourth-class postmasters under
civil service law after he knew that
the November election would result in
a democratic victory. Such snap YER
dict was not in accordance with the
spirit of civil service reform. 1t was
wholly and undeniably partisan, and
some way will no doubt be found to
defeat this piece of party reward.
Mr.. Taft is kindly, genial man un-
der ordinary circumstances, and his
personal popularity is fully as great
today as it was when he went into Of
flee. He accepted in an excellent man.
ner the worst defeat recorded in ma
tional politics, and all will wish him
long and happy life in his new col
lege vocation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-04
Work of the Expiring Congress

Today at noon the work of the
Sixty-second Congress will be ended,
and it will pass into history as one in.
which was wrought out the downfall
of the republican party. It's legisla-
tion was considerable although the
House was democratic and the Senate
was controlled by progressive repub-
licans, and the President was not in
sympathy with either.
In the House the rules were liber-
allied to begin with. Important in
vestigations were conducted which
will be heard from in the next Con-
gress. A resolution was adopted pro-
viding for the popular election Of SEN
ators, and New Mexico and Arizona
were admitted to statehood. A toll bill
for the Panama canal was adopted,
and the Webb bill protecting "dry"
states from shipments of liquor was
passed over veto. The Senate ex-
PEELED Lorimer and tried and con-
victed Archibald, commerce court
judge.
With the Sixty-second Congress
passes perhaps for all time the long
period of legislation by the republic
can party. When the tariff is revised
to revenue basis and tho banking
and currency laws brought to a basis
that prefers the mass of the people 20
Wall street, it is safe to say that the
republican party will never again con-
troll both houses of Congress, even If
it escapes annihilation altogether. The
expert observers consider it's work
completed. 1t is now due dismissal
from the political stage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-04
Freeze Damage in California

As the truth comes out the freeze
of this winter in California proves to
have been repetition of the one that
was inflicted on Florida IA years ago.
Not only were the oranges on the
trees frozen but so as rule We're the
trees, and the replacing of the trees
will cover several years. But instead
of abandoning large sections as the
orange growers of IA years ago did in
Florida, the growers in California
have lost no faith in their state and
will proceed to reset their trees. They
will not even wait until they sprout
from the roots.
The Florida oranges are now large
ly grown in the southern counties of
the state where freezing weather is
unknown. The orange belt in Califor-
MIA is an irrigated belt and it cannot
easily be shifted, and it will not be.
San Diego and. Pasadena and Los An
geles will continue to be in the orange
belt of California, but for few years
at least California oranges will be
scarce and higher in price. This is
Floridas opportunity and that state
stands readyito improve it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-04
DICKENS CARIcATURED FRIENDS

DICKENS CARICATURED FRIENDS
Brander Matthews in the Munsey NIaga-
zine.
When an American authoress spent a
summer on ''the right arm of Massachu-
setts." and then put the people she had
lived with for little while into story
called Cape Cod Folks she painted
not only the flesh and blood persons she
lad studied from life, but also certain
OF the skeletons in their closets And this
rural story was so close to the fact that
the victims of this indiscreet snap
shooting were moved to such wrath that
some of them sought redress in the la~
courts. The authoress had taken her fits-
ures absolutely from life; she had not
artistlcally ioated off into freedoni--how-
over free she may have been with her
Unconscious and involuntary sitters.
This is a literary crime of which Dick
ems was repeatedly guilty. wantonly and
without excuse. Ills irascfble and vol
canic Boythorn wa sexternally taken
from his iriend Walter Savage Landor;
and his genial swindler. Harold Skimpole,
was plainly recognizable portrait of an
other friend, Leigh Hunt, who was genial
CROUCH. but not in the least a swindler.
1t was not good to be friend of Dickens,
for he had his own ideas as to the priv.-
leges of friendship.
And it was not good. either, to be rel
ative of Dickens, for he did not hesitate
to repeat the sin of Noahs son. He drew
the hen minded and feather Drained Mrs.
Nickleby from his own mother; and he
took his own father as the model of the
immortal Mr.. Micawber, always waiting
for something TO turn up. 1t is marvellous
that man SO self-conscious and so self
satisfied as Dickens should have been
willing to como before the world as the
! child of the marriage of Mr.. Micawbei
and Mrs Nicllleby.
Disrae1i, the contemporary of Dickens,
| filled his tales of fashionable and politi-
cal life with characters taken from con-
temporary English society, SO little dis
guised that the publication of his later
novels was always followed promptly BY
the publication of key to each OF thenl'
giving the real names of The ladies and
gentlemen who had suggested the person.
ages in the story. But Disraeli, unlike
Dickens, was not q caricaturist. Rather
did he resemble a popular portrait pain
ter who feels it his duty to fiatter his sit
tors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-04
EARLY DAYS IN GOTHAM

From the Chicago News.
Describing New York as it was when
JOAQUIN Miller first saw 1t, and Miller
when New Workers first beheld him, a
writer in the New York Evening Post
says: THAT was the period when the gos-
sips were thrilled on learning that Mark
Twain helped himself TO olives with a
fork; when Bryant, his white beard now-
ing out over the folds of a long Spanish
cloak, moved through the bustling streets
In scholarly abstraction, and Whitman set
his verse to the rumble of Broadway
omnibus. 1t was against this background
that Miller, poet of the Serras, project
ed himself on his first tour of the east.
He played the lion for a season, coming
to evening parties In velveteen coat.
corduroy trousers and brilliant scarlet
necktie. The tawny hair on his head and
face gave him the outward appearance OF
a human sunburst. THUS equipped for ac-
ton, and having selected divinity tor his
homage, he would throw himself on the
drawing room floor at her feet, resting
on one elbow and devouring her beauty
with his eyes. while he recited fol her
benefit appropriate passages Of his own
verse;"