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bearded. From the angle sc which
they saw him it was impossible to rec
OgniZe him, nor was he in his frantic
progress assuming the usual attitude
and bearing of man under ordinary
conditions which sometimes hetray
him to those who know him well. Nor
could Helen Illingworth with her
trembling hands focus the glass, which
she took from Rodney before the strug-
Cling adventures had passed; and yet
there was. something in the figure be-
low that made her heart beat faster.
She pressed her hand to the wet gar
ments over her heart and stared. Sud-
denly Rodney raised his voice and
shouted at the very top of it. Winters
Joined in, and even Helen Illingworth
found herself screaming. The three
men below were not more than five or
six hundred feet away, but evidently
they could not possibly hear In that
tumult of nature. No voices would
carry through any such rain and wind.
They were too intent on their paths
and on what they had to do to look
upward. They rounded the shoulder
of the mesa and disappeared in the
pines at it's feet.
The three on the top looked at each
other.
'The dam still holds" said Rodney,
quite unsuspecting what was In the
woman's heart.
Even as he spoke, Helen Illingworth
turned away. She ran heavily in her
sodden garments along the broken
mesa top past the house to the upper
edge. There below her were the three
men just emerging from the fringe of
trees. Rounding the end of the mesa,
they had at last struck frmer ground.
Helen Illingworth could see them
through the pines on the old trail. The
going was bad enough, but it was moth
ing compared to what they had passed
over and presently they burst out of
the woods and ran along the greasy.
well-rounded hogback that divided the
valley from the ruvine.
The woman had no idea what was
toward, what was their purpose. She
could only stare and stare at the rap
idly moving far-Off figure indomitably
in the lead, and the others following
after. There Winters Joined her.
Rodney sent me to look after you !;
he feels that he must stay back and
watch the dam for his paper"
Look" said Helen, pointing far
down. The men halted ut the very
narrowest part of the hogback. They
were clustered together. The bag lay
on the ground behind them. One man
bent over 1t, evidently opening it.
Another man swung the shovel vicious
ly, the third grabbed the pick. Win
ters had been too far removed from en-
gineering even yet to figure out what
was toward. They could only watch
and wonder.
Cheyenne record., 1917-07-26
CHAPTER Xxx.
The Victors.

uS VSSs0'o
Meade knew that they were fighting
n losing battle. Every one of the
higher grade men knew 1t also. The
spillway was entirely inadequate. but
1t suddenly flashed into his mind, with
that consciousness of the hopelessness
Of the struggle, that perhaps there was
another way to discharge the flood.
The same idea might have come to
any other of the more intelligent of the
men from Vandeventcr down II they
had taken a moment for reflection. II
they had not been so frantically. so
friEhtfully engrossed In their present
puny but gallant efforts to save the
dam. they certainly would have remem-
bcred. That the possibility came to
Meade rather than to any of the others
was perhaps due to the fact that he
had noted the situation later and had
studied the conditions more recently
Those solitary rambles of his, those
careful inspections Of the terrain of
the valley. had been made long after
the original surveys and the results of
his observations we're still fresh In his
mind.
since the cloudburst and he saw the
inevitableness of the failure so clearly
that he did not dare to waste time to
look up Vandcventer. tell him his plan,
and get his permission. Every second
was of the utmost value. When the
thought came. he acted instantly. He
was In the position of the commander
of small force to whom Is suddenly.
presented the bare possibility of wrest-
ing victory from defeat by some splen-
didly daring and unforeseen undertake
ing. And he was the man to seize such
n possibility and make the most Of it.
He had endeared himself to some of
the men and the respect in which he
was held by Vandeventer was shared
by the others. When he called two
of the most capable Of the workmen,
big burly Irishman and stout little
Italian. to follow him, they did 1t
without a moments hesitation.
18th. rest of you keep on here" he
shouted as lie left the gang. Murphy
and Funaro, come with me. Keep 1t
up: I think I know a wny to help" he
yelled back through the rain as he
scrambled of the dam up the rocks to
the spillway. It was nSs ITS fault that
they could not hear and could not un-
derstnnd. \
The water was rushing through the
spIllway about knee deep. and the
three ren plunging forward through
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ing on the broken, rocky DOttOm.
When they reached the other side,
Meade shouted above the storm:
Murphy, bring your pick and shov-
ell; take that iron range-pole, too.
Here, Funaro, you take your shovel
and these"
AS he spoke he ran Into the office
shack and wrecked transit tripod,
ruthlessly separating the legs from one
another by main force and pitching
two of them into the little Italians
outstretched arms.
| Without a question. both men COM
piled with his directions. In a huge
crevice, almost a small cave, in the
spur of the mesa which overhung the
east end of the dGm the explosives
wer., stored. The dynamite was kept
in o1lskin bags, the detonating caps in
waterproof boxes. There were six
teen sticks or cartridges in each bag.
Each stick was an inch and half in
diameter and eight inches long. One
bagful should be ample. Indeed, If
that did not do the work, the attempt
would fail.
The men waited while Meade select
ed bag Of dynamite, box Of detona-
tors and package Of fuses. 1t was a
cardinal rule that dynamite cartridges
and decorating caps should never be
carried by the same person, because
the combination SO greatly increased
the risk of premature explosion.
The illuminate Of mercury in the
detonators was very volatile, highly ex-
plosive and immensely destructive, con-
sidering its size. One such cap could
blow off a mans hand, or even his
head, and in it's explosion might detO-
nate the dynamite. Hence the sepa-
ration when being carried.
Meade decided to take that risk. He
knew how perilous was the undertake
ing. how liable he was in his hurry to
fall against the rocks. slippery and
half submerged In that pouring rain.
He knew what the consequences of
such q fall would be- He would center
all risks in himself. He thrust the box
Of detonators in his pocket, the pack
age of fuses inside his flannel shirt,
and carried the dynamite bag in his
hand. He would need his free hand to
carried by the other men.
The little Italian shook his head as
he noted these preparations. He hap.
pened to be one of the explosive force
those whose duty 1t was to do the
blasting. In his practical way he knew
II great deal about the properties and
possibilities of usefulness of the dyna.
mite. Meade's purpose was obvious
even to Murphy, who was only Ia.
borer, though where he proposed to
work neither man had any idea at all
"Dynamita no work In zis weather.
said FunarO impressively.
"Probably not" answered Meade
hurrying his preparations. but it's oul
only chance"
"Give me ze caps" urged the Ital
ian gallantly.
mo, I'll take both"
ut ees danger"
Eyes but come on"
Meade, wasting no more words
sprang at what was left Of the trail
and the two men CALAMITY followed
him. The hogback at which he was
aiming was perhaps little more than
two miles from the dam. On the ordi
nary trail and prepared for the run
he could have managed 1t in fifteen
Cheyenne record., 1917-07-26
He Was as One Dead.

carefully covered with the raincoat, he
held it while the others filled in the
holes and the excavations and care
fully tamped down the earth. All that
remained was the lighting of the fuse.
And then? Would the dynamite go
off? With fuses it was uncertain in its
action at best, and although these
fuses were supposed to be so prepared
as to be independent of weather con-
ditions, more ofteh than not rain
spoiled a blast. If this blast failed it
was good-by dam-good-by everything.
Meade drew out from the pocket of
his flannel shirt box of matches. He
had to light the farther cartridge fuse,
then run fifteen feet and light the
nearer one, and then make his escape.
He had made the nearer fuse little
shorter so as to secure q simultaneous
explosion If possible.
Tony Funaro now interposed gal
lantly.
"Giva me da light" he demanded, ex-
tending his hand.
"G'wan wild ye," shouted the big
Irishman eagerly; "lemme do it, sor."
"Stand back, both Of you," cried
Meade. succeeding after some trouble
in striking match.
He had cut off shorter length of
fuse for torch. the better to carry the
fire from one blast to another. AS it
sputtered into flame, he touched the
first fuse, then the second, and turned
and ran for his life after Murphy and
Funaro. They had just got safe dis
tance away when with a muffled roar
the two blasts went off nearly together.
When they ran back they saw that
two-thirds Of the hillock on that side
Of the ravine had gone. A wall of
earth through which water was already
trickling rose between the great gap
they had blown out and the lake, the
upper level of which was much higher
than the bottom Of the great crater
they had opened.
"Hurrah," yelled Meade, the others
joining in his triumphant shout. "Now,
another hole right there" he pointed to
the foot of the bank. "Drive 1t in
slantlng and it will do the job"
"Will the dam be after holdin' yit,
sor?" asked Mike Murphy, seizing his
pick.
II hope so. but, for Gods sake.
hurry"
With two men working, the last hole
was completed before Meade was
ready. Funaro, indeed, came to his
assistance in preparing the cartridge
Presently all was completed. Reject
ing the pleas Of both men, Meade
struck the match, and this time. since
there was but one blast to be fired. he
touched 1t directly to the fuse and
waited second to see that 1t had
caught and ran as before.
At a safe distance they drew back
and waited. Nothing happened. A few
seconds dragged on. They saw no sign
Of life in the fuse, no light. In spite
Of the care they had taken, it had got
wet. 1t would not work. The precious
moments were flying. They stared
ngonizingly at the fuse through the
rain.
I'll have to tnke a look at it." said
Meade desperately.
Funoro and Murphy caught him by
the arms. They all knew the tremen-
dous risk In q nearer approach. The
fuse might be alight still. At any Sec
ond the fame might flash to the deto-
nator and then Yet Meade had to
go. That charge had to be exploded II
he detonated 1t BY hand. he thought
desperately. and he had not come %
Tar and worked % hard to fall now.
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minutes; as 1t was, they made 1t in
thirty: The extreme possibility of the
life Of the dam seemed to Meade not
much greater. He went In the lead.
and by his direction the others kept
some distance behind him.
'If fall and explode this dynamite,
there's no need Of nll three of US be-
ing blown up," he had said. and it was
no reflection on their courage that they
complied with his direction.
Indeed q stern command was neces-
sary to keep the two men back. They
had caught something Of the gallant
spirit of the engineer. and the big
Trishman and the little Italian were as
eager as he. Helped By . Few hasty,
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-06-04
REVOLUTION IN CHINA

IL Provinces No Longer Recognize
Authority of Peking Government
Situation is Serious and President
is POwerless
Peking Dispatch, June 8.
Eleven provinces of China, includ-
ing the Province Chi Ii, in which
Peking it's situated, now no longer
recognize the authority of the Peking
government. The provinces of Kwang
Tung, Kwang ST and Yum Nan are
supporting Present Ii Yuan Hung.
The provisional assembly Of Kwang
Tung in assuring its loyal support
to the president and parliament, de-
mands that the military governors
be dismissed and punished. DIR. Sun
Yat Sen, former Premier Tang Shao
vi, and other revolutionary leaders
are proceeding huriedly to Canton.
1t seems probable that should the mil
itary governors persist in their revo-
lutionary course that the three loyal
South China povinces named-Kwang
Tung, Kwang 81 and Yum Nan-will
rise in support of the president. At
present the situation is serious and
the president virtually powerless.
According to official information
today President Ii Yuan Hung in
tends tomorrow to introduce a bill
taking in declaration of war against
Germany if there is a quorum pres
ent in parliament. The presence of
q quorum, however, seems doubtful.
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NEW TOBACCO WAREHOUSE

Mcintyre Building on First Street
Will be Converted Into Warehouse
1t Has Been Leased by Experience
ed Tobacco Men ofGreenville-Pros.
: poets Are That Lumberton Will
Have Live Market This Year
AS has been stated in The Robe
sonian, Lumberton will have two to-
bacco warehouses for the sale of leaf
tobacco the coming season. The Nc
lntyre building, First street, be-
tween Chestnut and Walnut streets.
will be converted into a warehouse.
The new house will be leased by the
y. l.. Joyner Co., of Greenville, this
State, and Mr.. C. D. Fakes of Green
vile will have charge of the house.
Mr.. Eakes has had several years ex-
perience in the warehouse business
at Greenville, which is considered one
OF the very best tobacco markets in
the State. He will arrive soon and
will visit the tobacco growers of this
section before the season opens.
The Farmers warehouse, which has
been open to the public the three last
seasons, will be under the same man
agement as last year. Messrs. E. O.
(Billy) Bransford and T. ]. Noblir
have leased the house and will con
duct it during the coming season.
j Indications now are that gooc
crop of tobacco will be grown in Rob
eson this year and there is no doub
but Lumberton will have a live mar
: ket,
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THE DEATH RECORD
Infar,t Son of Mr.. and Mrs. Tro,
King of st. Pauls

Infant Son of Mr.. and Mrs. Troy
King of st. Pauls
William, 5-months-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Troy King of st. Pauls,
died Saturday at the Charlotte sana-
torium, where he was taken Wednes-
day for treatment for stomach trou-
BILE. The remains were shipped to
ST. Pauls over the Seaboard and v.
& c. S. yesterday morning and in
terment was made yesterday after
noon at 2 o'clock at Regan church
Mr.. and Mrs. King and Mrs. Kings
mother, Mrs. J. M. Butler of St
Pauls, accompanied the child to Char
lotte and returned yesterday with the
corpse.
Small Daughter of MIR. and Mrs.
T. wilkins of Raft Swamp
Iona Wilkins, 13-months-old daugh
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Wilkins O.
the Raft Swamp section, died Friday
The child had been sick for som'
time with colitis.
Small Son of Mr.. and Mrs. JnO. Ses
i SONS of Dublin
:, Jno. E., 3-year-old son of Mr.. AM
Mrs. John Seasons of Dublin, die
at the Thompson hospital Saturda.
morning. The child recently under
! went an operation for appendicitis.
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ROWLAND WILL ORGANIZE
FOR RED CROSS WORE
Mrs. Webb Will Talk On Red Cross
Registration Night-AH in theCom-
munlty Urged to Attend Meeting

Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Rowland, June 2-For sometime the
people of Rowland have been talking
about organizing some patriotic work
and their opportunity is now at hand.
The ladies have secured Mrs. Webb
OF Rockingham to talk on the subject
of Red Cross work Tuesday night,
$3.50 o'clock, at the school auditorium.
Mrs. Webb will give instructions
as to what phase of work should be
taken up here and just how it should
be carried on to meet with success.
She has recently returned fromWash-
ington, where, she has been in touch
with the work at head quarters, and
We are fortunate to obtain the SER
vices of this attractive and able
speaker.
We urge all in the community to
come to this meeting. Let men, wo-
men and children show that they
have the same patriotic spirit that
our young men have shown in the
last few months. We cannot let the
soldier in tn field bear all Of the
! burden. So on Registration night
we want all the people to meet at The
| Rowland school with a view to organ
izing Red Cross work that we may
aid the cause which is foremost il
the minds of all Americans.
Registration hours are from 7 a
m. to 9 p. m. SO any from the coun
try who wish, can register and hea1
Mrs. Webb On the same trip.
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FACTS ABOUT ARMY REGISTRATION

WHo MUST REGISTER: All male (cizens
between sixth fifth dav Of June 1905
both dates inclusive
Members OF duly organized
ect to be called ordered, drafted military or naval
service OF The United Staes including all
ed men OF the regular regular
reserve enlisted mems corps
and National Guard recognized
navy the marine coast guard naval militia
serve force Marine National
teers, recognized by the Navy Department.
WHEN: Tuesday, 1911, between a. M and n NJ,
WHERE In your home precinct
HOWE Go the Registration home
cnc If to be absent from
clerk of the county where happen OF
10000 the city clerk and follow
send competent friend The clerk depuze
card
PENALTY REGIsTERING Liability to years impris
onment; then enfoced registration.
The published Provost of the
United States Army - -
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Press Censorship Provision Lost in
Congress-

The administrations fight fc: a
var censorship OF newspapers was
LOST in Congress Thur lay. a, least
for the present, wfeA the House re-
fuses, by vote of 1e4 to la t" &C.
ccpt even the modified CENSORSHIP 2
setijcn written in;o the Espiona. {
~ in conference, The Seca I'll
ready is on recori as opposed to Fl
censorship, and lea5ers in Congress
do rot expect any further a 11air'e-
tration effor, to enact one IN the I'M
mediate future.
In the House debate opponents of
censorship argued that a restriction
such as the conferes proposed
would violate the right of a free
press. The voluntary censorship un-
der which the coHntry's newspapers
now are working was pointed to as
demonstrating -the-4patriotism Of ed
itors and as proving that no legal re-
strictions are needed.
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Thought Union Jack Was German

Mr.. Hal v. Brown, SON of DR.. and
Mrs. J. P. Brown of Fairmont, re-
turned home Friday from St. Johns
college, Annapolis, Md, where he has
been taking preparatory course in
medicine, and was Lumberton visi-
tor Saturday. The college closed
nearly a month early On account of so
many of the students being in the
regular army service. Mr.. Brown will
continue his studies at the university
of Maryland at Baltimore next fall.
He stopped in Baltimore on his way
home and being impressed with the
way autos in that city are decorated
not only with United States flags
but also with the flags of France and
England, purchased flags Of those
countries and put them, with Old
Glory, on his fathers auto. One man
who saw the flags asked him if he
was a German sympathizer, mistak-
ing the English for the German flag.
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VOL. XLVIII
pOTATOES BRING FANCY PRICE
Car Loads Irish Tubers Shipped
From Lumbertn Last Week-Prices
$3.50 to $8.50-$300 From 3-4 of

( Car Loads Irish Tubers Shipped
From Lumbertn Last Week-Prices
S6.50 to $S.50-S3O0 From 3-4 of
Acre
Five car loads of Irish potatoes
were shipped from Lumberton last
week. Good prices were realized for
tnem. No. l potatoes sold for $3.50
FOR 11-peck barrels, while No. 2 po
tatoes brought $3.50 the barrel. The
notatoes were shipped over the V. &
< s. road and barrels of potatoes
we're also shipped over the same road
from st. Pauls. Others will be ship
ped this week.
Judging from the prices potatoes
ar. bringing now, it is safe to say
that a fall crop of Irish potatoes
would be a paying crop.
Those who raised potatoes are i'm
mensely pleased with the returns, and
naturally so, for the price is about
twice the price in ordinary times.
Mr.. Justin McNeill got $500 for
potatoes raised on three-quarters Of
an acre at his place on the eastern
edge Of town. He got check Sat
urdav for $235for potatoes off of that
small lot, delivered on car here, and
1 he sold enough locally off Of the the
a same lot to bring the amount to $500.
Mr.. McNeill figures that fertilizer,
labor and all on this lot did not cost
him more than $50. He is selling lots
of other vegetables at good prices
every day.
Mr.. VI. K. Bethune received last
week check for over $500 for the
potatoes he raised on three acres in
the northern part of town, and he
has enough more to sell off the same
land to bring the amount to close to
5000. He did not have good stand,
either, but he has a fine stand of cot
ton on the same land, planted between
the potato rows. His expense con-
nected with the potatoes did not ex-
ceed $3.50, and the guano will help to
make cotton.
others have reaped rich harvest
from potatoes. The Robesonian will
be Glad to publish the results obtain
ed by any of it's readers.
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GUARD NOT ASLEEP ON TRACK
Investigation of INCIDENT at McNeill's
Bridge Reveals That Soldier Was
Not Asleep or on the Track


Bridge Reveals That Soldier Was
Not Asleep or on the Track
In Thursdays Robesonian Conduc-
for a news item to the effect that at
ton, a soldier of Co. "A, N. C. engi-
rowly escaped being run over and
killed by the east-bound passenger
that morning, that emergency brakes
had to be applied and that the SOL
dier, supposed to have been asleep
on the track, did not have time to
get his gun from between the rails
and the train passed over it. Capt
Geo., w. Gillette writes The Robe
sonian as follows in regard to this
news item:
"I made a personal investigation
of this occurrence and am thorough
ly convinced that this is an errone-
Gus report The evidence reveals the
fact that while the guard was not
prompt in removing from the prox-
unity of the track, he was not asleep
nor at no time was he closer than
four feet of the track during the ap-
proach of the train.
"The guard was sitting at the END
of the abuttment of the bridge, at
the top of ladder used for descend
ing from the bridge, and when the
train approached the other end OF
the trestle he slipped to the ground
underneath, leavinr his rifle on the
abuttment as usual until the train
passed over"
The item in Thursdays Robson.
ian was given as the incident was re-
lated by the train conductor, who
seemed to have been given fright
bv what he considered the narrow
escape of the young soldier. 1t is
pleasure to publish the result Of
Can't. Gillette's investigation.