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shook with intense indignation.
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lighted hall, but halted close beside
the door, unable to perceive us in the
darkness.
“Is Captain Wayne here?” he asked.
“Yes; what is it?”
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men hit, sir, and wishes you to spare
him three of yours, unless you are hot-
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In a recent adress before the high
school of a little town in New Jer-
sey, the director of the department
of journalism of New York University,
Mr. James M. Lee, made this state-
ment: ■
“Some study of the newspaper should
be made in the public schools. All are
going to read some sort of newspaper.
Is the public school going to leave the
selection to a childish whim or worse
yet to an appeal of the lower instincts?
Where if not in the school room is the
child going to learn how to read a
newspaper? Who if not school teachers
are going to teach our boys and girls
to distinguish between news that has a
permanent value and that kind which
kha only passing interest?
criticism. “You see it’s a double par-
lor, with a wall an' foldin’ doors
atween, an’ the women are all in the
most square apartment, contaking pretty close, but blamed if I know of
three large windows reaching marly 1 any better place for them. This
to the floor. The outside blind* had ‘ house hain't got no cellar.”
been closed, but the glass in the xnes A man groped his way in from the
He had completely recovered his
self-control by this time, and spoke
now with the terse sentences of a
tried soldier.
“I thank you, Captain Wayne, and
will ask you to choose four men and
assume command of the east side of
the house. Caton,, you take the same
number for defense of the rear. Cap-
tain, what ie your sergeant’s name?”
“Ebers, an experienced German sol-
dier.”
“I should have suspected his na-
tionality. Let him have command of
four more, and cover the west win-
dows. I shall defend the front myself,
as I have been doing.”
The position for defence assigned
to my*care took me into the dining-, tear room. Of course, it’s almighty
room of.the mansion—a spacious, al-; dark back there, an’ they has to lie
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is not here yet, und Sands vos vound-
ed bad.”
“Very well; then, Major Brennan, I
tender you sixteen men fit for duty,
besides myself. You are doubtless
CROWDED CITIES AND NEGLECTED
FARMS.
Houston Chronicle. . .
There have been many reasons ad-
vanced why the cost of living is so
high, but the theorists, who are as full
of thories as a blackberry is of seed,
have in the main overlooked the real
reason. People understand why, when
the range and the. ranches are being
encroached upon by the irresistible man
with the hoe, the price of beef should
rise, and the price of hogs is"-affected
by much the same reason; but why are
those things so high which are grown
in the ground for the purposes of food?
The answer is that too many people are
eating in the city and too few are dig-
ging in the ground and producing in
the country. Whenever the supply of
any commodity is less than the demand
prices rise. That is a maxim in econ-
omics as unvarying and as changeless
as any axiom in mathematics.
Fifteen days hearing on' the proposed
repeal of the clause in the Panama
Canal act exempting American ships
from the payment of tolls begins in
the senate today. The delay may or may
not aid the cause of those who believe
the United States to be sovereign of
the canal zone. The chief beneficiar-
ies of the exemption repeal will be the
transcontinental railroads, both Amer-
ican and Canadian, and our friends the
English. The clause in the Hay-Paun-
ceforte treaty governing the siuation
specifically states that its provisions
apply only to “nations observing these
rules.” Coastwise shipping, in inter-
national law, is understood to be ex-
empt from the provisions of interna-
tional treaties.
of yards, when I felt a hand lightly
touch me.
“I recognize your voice,” said a soft
whisper, “and am so glad you are
here.”
Who can guess the motives that in-
spire a woman? This was my wel-
come, where I had anticipated cold-
“Hardly a week passes but that some-
body is maimed or slaughtered in San
Francisco by the reckless operation of
automobiles. The judgment of this
court must carry the lesson that those
who operate automobiles must do so
with proper ■ regard for the rights of
the public.” The words were uttered
by a jurist in passing a senteneve of
two years in prison upon a chauffeur
who had been convicted of running
down and killing a pedestrian. Every
time an automobile is driven at a high
rate of speed upon public highway it
is menace to the public safety. Less
leniency, by the courts to malefactors
of this type, whether wealthy or poor,
would have a tendency to curb the
propensities of the speed maniac.
"Damn You, but I Believe You Are All
a Pack of Lying Thieves!”
“Very well,” I answered shortly, for
his eyes had remained fixed upon me
all the time he was talking. “Take
the positions assigned you, lads, and
do not permit a man from without to
put foot on the veranda. If they once
succeed in getting under cover of the
porch roof, they will give us plenty of
trouble.”
Dr. T. R. -ampson of Austin, recently
appointed general agent of the Texas
Conference for education, advocates,
among other things, a specific tax for
the support of the higher schools of
the state, including state normal
schools, College of Industrial Arts, the
Agricultural and Mechanical College,
and the University of Texas. He also
advocates the enactment of a law pro-
viding for a compulsory school-atten-
dance law suited to the educational
needs and conditions of the stae. All
power and success to Dr. Sampson in
these worthy ambitions. Texas is big
enough and rich enough to be fore-
most in educational facilities, instead
of lagging well to the rear as at pres-
ent.
United States in seeking commercial
intercourse with its weaker neighbors
was merely preparing the premises for
a later attack upon the territorial in-
tegrity of such countries as might not
be able to offer a protest backed by a
powerful army and navy. To use the
language by Bulwer Lytton attributed
to Cardinal Richelieu, we have gained
doubly by this transaction in that we
have lessened our enemies by one and
gained another friend.
But the belief must prevail that our
action was influenced neither by the
hope of reward nor the fear of punish-
ment, it was nothing more than an act
of justice, the deliberate acknowledge-
ment of willingness to make proper
amends for a wrong and a disposition
on the part of the injured to accept the
token of friendship, an earnest of con-
tinued amity. Our government has
done the right thing.
“All right; there’s nothing doing
here,” I answered, instantly determin-
ing upon my course. “Corporal, I
shall leave you in command of this
side for a few minutes. I believe I
can be of more immediate value else-
where. Bungay, you and Elliott come
with me.”
i The lower hall, having no windows
in it, was the only safe place in the
building, and here a light had been
kept burning. The door which, as I
judged, must lead into the back par-
lor, was closed, and fastened upon
the inside. At least it refused to yield
to my hand when tried. Another in
front stood very slightly ajar.
“Report to Brennan,” I whispered
into Jed’s ear, “and forget to mention
I am with you. I desire to investigate
matters for myself a few moments.”
He nodded to intimate that he un-
derstood, and then we crept, one at a
time, into the front apartment, hug-
ging the floor closely to keep beneath
the range of the bullets which swept
every now and then through the
broken windows, and chugged into the
wall behind us. I was the last to
wriggle in.through the narrow open-
ing, and rolling instantly out of the
tiny bar of light, I lay silent for a
moment, endeavoring to get my bear-
ings. I was determined upon just one
thing—to obtain speech with the wom-
en, learn, if possible, their exact sit-
uation, and, if I found it necessary,
insist upon their better protection. An
insane jealousy of me should not con-
tinue to expose them to unnecessary
peril.
Brennan was directly across the
room from where I lay. I could hear
his voice issuing low, stern orders.
“If you’ll only keep down you’re
safe enough,” he said gruffly. "There
hasn’t a shot come within a foot of
the sill. The ground slopes out yon-
der, and those fellows can’t fire low.
Put the new men at the central win-
dow, and let them shoot at every flash
they see. Bradley will pass back their
empty guns.”
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was mostly broken, and there rere
other evidences that the firing had
been both heavy and continuous. I
found two soldiers of Brennan’s party
within, both lying upon the floor, and
peering cautiously through the aper
tures of the blinds. They glances up
at us with undisguised amazement.
“Jt’fi all righf, lads," ? said heazuly.
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GALVESTON TRIBUNE
(Establiskea 1880.)
piracy, our people have not been pas-
sive while there existed a charge of
rank injustice .on our part toward a
nation too weak to offer armed pro-
test to what they believed to be a na-
tional indignity and when President
Taft had reached a dead wall in his
diplomatic negotiations with Colombia
it was not by any means to be consid-
ered as a closed incident. True dip-
lomacy accepts nothing as final until
harmony and amity dictates the terms
of agreement.
The ultimate effect of the settlement
of. a controversy too long drawn out
can at once be estimated, although this
may have had no appreciable weight
in the final decision; it furnishes an
object lesson that must go a long wav
toward convincing our neighbors of our
friendly intentions and at the same
time refutes the most powerful argu-
ment of our trade competitors who
have long used the Panama incident to
buttress their assertions that the
is an old army trick, and one I am sur-
prised to see so experienced an officer
as Major Brennan yield to. In my
judgment they will make an effort to
rush us as soon as there is sufficient
light.”
“But why not warn him?”
“Major Brennan would scarcely wel-
come any interference on my part.”
“But surely, as a soldier, he must
value the advice of another soldier?”
“Possibly you forget,” I explained,
striving to speak as lightly of it as
might be, “that there is a lack of
friendship between Major Brennan
and myself.”
“Still?” she asked. “Truly I thought
that might all be over. Even if it sur-
vived until now, this noble act of
yours in coming to our defense should
have earned you his gratitude. He-
he has never once mentioned your
name to me since that night.”
“Not even when I came here with
my troop, I believe?”
“No; yet I did not connect that
fact with the other. I supposed it a
mere oversigk, or that he believed
the mention of your name would not
greatly interest me. Surely, Captain
Wayne, you are not keeping open this
unhappy wound?”
“On my word, no; but I regret to
confess it is very far from being
closed.”
“He—Major Brennan does not know,
then, that you are here now with me?”
She evidently hesitated to ask this
question.
“Certainly not,” in surprise at her
apparent innocence. “You cannot have
supposed I had been sent here by
him to talk with you?”
(To Be Continued.)
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The1 government of the United States
has again demonstrated that it’s big-
ness does not consist entirely in the
expanse of its territory, nor the limit-
lessness of its resources. In its agree-
ment to recompense the republic of
Colombia for the loss of that territory
now mapped as the republic of Panama,
this country acknowledges its com-
plicity in the deal and expresses a
desire to make such amends as will
convince our neighbor that neither the
acquisition of additional territory nor
the desire to push back the borders of
Colombia actuated the administration
of the United States in the action that
created a new Latin republic at the
expense of another with whom we de-
sired nothing but the most friendly
relations.
Neither are we prepared to confess
that the wresting from Colombia of the
canal zone was an act of wanton in-
justice. In our dealings with our own
people it is an understood principle
that personal rights must frequently
make way for the public good; in order
to furnish railroad facilities to a sec-
tion of country it may become neces-
sary to dispossess some man of his
home; a county road may need a por-
tion of some farmer’s field that other
farmers may receive the larger benefit
and frequently it becomes necessary to
call into action the constituted force
of the law to gain the end desired.
The canal uniting the two oceans was
not merely a national necessity, but a
world need and had Colombia mani-
fested a disposition to look upon th©
proposition in its broader aspect it
might have saved itself a decade of
national anxiety and spared this na-
tion the harm it has sustained among
the Central American states who have
been taught to look upon us as a big
bully who was always ready to make
ait occasion for securing what he
wanted because he already possessed
the power.
. The necessity of such a waterway
as is the Panama Canal has long since
passed from the province of discussion
and the defensibility of our action has
been long since acceded and while this
must always have place in the history
of the canal it probably did not enter
very materially' into the question of
adjustment brought to so agreeable a
conolusion. While the United States
Was willing to assume the odium at-
taching to what our Southern neigh-
bors might look upon as an act of
The completion of a new transcon-
tinental railroad from Portland, Me.,
to Prince Rupert, B. C., gives the Eng-
lish another substantial reason for in-
sisting upon the repeal of the exemp-
tion for American coastwise shipping.
I wondered how long our supply of
ammunition would hold out with such
a fusillade kept- up, but ventured upon
no protest, for I was already groping
my way through the darkness along
the inner wall. Furniture lay over-
turned in every direction, and I ex-
perienced considerable difficulty in
making progress through the debris
without attracting attention. A great
square piano stood directly across the
entrance to the back parlor, left by
the drawing nearly together of the
sliding doors. I waited until Bradley
had crawled through with an arm-
ful of loaded guns, and then entered
also, creeping silently between the
piano legs. As I did so a bullet struck
the case above, and the whole instru-
ment trembled to the impact, giving
forth a strange moan, as if in pain.
Some one was groaning in the cor-
ner at my left, and supposing the
wounded to be lying there, I turned
more toward the right, keeping as
close as possible to the wall, hopeful
I might come in contact with one of
the women. I do not honestly know
why I did this—really I had no excuse,
except my natural distrust of Brennan,
coupled with an eager desire to be of
service to the woman of my heart.
There was little to guide me in the
search, as the flame of the discharging
rifles did not penetrate here. Once I
heard the rustle of a skirt, while a
faint sound of whispering reached me
from the rear of the room. Then my
hand, groping blindly along the wall,
touched the lower fold of a dress. It
felt like coarse calico to my fingers.
“Mrs. Bungay,” I whispered cau-
tiously, “is this you?”
The woman started at sound of my
voice, but replied in the same low
tone: "Thet’s my name; who mought
ye be?”
“A friend of yours, and of your hus-
band,” I answered, for I doubted if
she would recall my name. “Did you
know Jed was here?”
“My man? Hiven be praised! But
I’ll knock ther head off ther little devil
if ever I git my hand on him, I will
thet. Whar’s ther little imp bin all
ther time?”
“Hunting for you, and crying his
eyes out,” I answered, smiling to my-
self in the darkness. “Where is Mrs.
Brennan?”
“Jist beyond me, thar in ther cor-
ner.”
As she spoke a bullet whizzed past
us, having missed the obstruction of
the piano. I could feel the wind
stirred by its passage, while its pe-
culiar hum told me it was a Minie
ball.
“You are too far out from the wall,”
I protested. “You are in range.”
“Can’t help it if I be. I’m yere ter
take ther guns from ther sojer, an’
pass ’em back.”
I crept slowly along beyond her,
keeping close to the wall, but had
progressed hardly more than a couple
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liberate, “you are my superior officer,
but you go beyond all privileges of i
rank in those words. I say these men ■ —
are friends; they have sunk the issues ices will prove of greatest value,
of war in order that they may answer
the call of humanity. If you dare im-
peach my motives any further, I shall
burl back the cowardly insult in your
face. I will take no such words, sir,
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Judge Ashton C. Davis of the nor-
thern district of West Virginia in his
charge to the grand jury the other day
made a plea which had a singular sim-
ilarity to a plea not so very long ago
by one Emory Speer of Georgia. “Next
to the saloon,” said Judge Alston, “the
tyranny of the press is the greatest
evil threatening the people of the coun-
try and our civilization.” One thing
the press has most emphatically done,
it has turned the cold glare of impar-
tial publicity upon certain obsolete
practices of court procedure which tend
to obstruct, prevent and stultify the
administration of justice. Is it this
phase of the case -that, irks Judge Als-
ton?
’rom any living man.”
Brennan looked at him, his lips
struggling with the utterance that
would not come. Knowing well the
Sanger of such delay, I hastily pushed
aside the ring of men, and fronted
him, determined to end this foolish-
less then and there.
“Major Brennan,” I said firmly, ig-
nering his efforts to silence me, “you
must listen to reason whether you
wish to do so or not. My troopers
are all around you; I have two men to
your one in this house, and can en-
force my will if necessary. Now mark
what I say—we are not here in anger
or in war, but 60 help you in the pro-
tection of endangered women. We
captured your courier, have dispatched
one of our own number into the Fed-
eral camp for aid, and have fought
our way in here to stand beside you
and your men in defence of this
house against those ruffians without.
You can use us or not, just as you
please; it rests with you to say wheth-
ar we shall be comrades in arms on
this occasion, or whether I shall as-
sume command by the power of force
which I chance to control.”
He seemed utterly unable to grasp
my full meaning, to comprehend the
situation.
“You mean, you would fight with
us? undar my command?” he asked in-
credulonaly.
"I ofe my services under your or-
ders,” I replied clearly, “and these
men in gray will obey mine.”
I actually thought he would extend
his hand, but some remembrance sud-
denly restrained him.
“I—of course. Captain Wayne,” he
stammened, at length, “I—I must ac-
cept, your offer. I—I am grateful for
it, but I shall insist upon one thing;
there must be a final settlement of the
personal matter existing between us.
I am not willing to waive my rights
in this.”
“There is no occasion for your doing
go, sir,” I answered coldly, for I con-
sidered the reference at that moment
in extremely ill taste. "When our
work here has been accomplished, you
will find me very much at your serv-
ice.”
He bowed gravely.
“I am exceedingly glad we unde.-
stand each other,” he said. “May I
ask the size of your command?”
“Sergeant,” I questioned, “whom
have we lost?".
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A Conversation In the Dark.
In my extreme surprise at the in-
timate cordiality expressed by her
words and manner I failed in utter-
ance. Anticipating coldness, indiffer-
ence, possibly even resentment at my
presuming to approach her, I was in-
stead greeted by an unstudied warmth
of welcome that made my heart beat
fiercely. ‛
“Surely I am not mistaken,” she
questioned, rendered doubtful by my
silence. “Is not this Captain Wayne?”
“There is no mistake,” I hastened to
assure her, "but I had anticipated
from our last meeting a far less cor-
dial greeting.”
“Oh,” she exclaimed, with a light
laugh, “and is that all? Yet/surely, if
I was to believe my own eyes I was
perfectly justified in my actions then.
However, Captain, I have been forced
to realize the truth of that situation,
and am now disposed to make up to
you in kindness for all my unjust
suspicions.”
“I am more than delighted to learn
that cloud i» no longer to overshadow
us. Miss Minor has made a full ex-
planation, then?”
“You have been completely exon-
erated, and restored to my good
graces.”
As she spoke, I became aware that
she was busily engaged upon some
task, and when she ended I felt the
steel of a gun-barrel touch my hand.
“Please pass this to Maria,” she
said calmly, “and hand me back the
one she has.”
“You are loading, then?”, I asked, as
I complied with her request.
“We have all been busy. Isn’t it
terrible? I was so frightened at first,
but now they tell me that you and
your men have come, there is no lon-
ger danger of those horrible creatures
getting in here.”
“You knew, then, that I was in the
house?”
“I was told some noble Confederates
had accompanied Lieutenant Caton
back to aid us, but your name was
not mentioned.”
“Then my appearance must have
proven a complete surprise?”
“Yes, and no,” she answered frank-
ly. “I was hot sure it was you, of
course, and I did not venture to ask,
but I knew you were in the neighbor-
hood, and that such an act would be
in a way characteristic. I was cer-
tain you would come if you knew, and
I—I, well really, I hoped it was.”
In spite of a slight effort at restraint
I groped in the darkness until I
touched her hand. For the moment
she permitted me to retain it, as if
unconsciously, within my grasp.
"Why?” I questioned, scarcely rely-
ing upon my own voice.
“Oh, one always trusts friends more
readily than strangers, and I have
seen you in danger before, and pos-
sess such confidence in your courage
and resource.”
“But Miss Minor took particular
care to inform me you felt little or no
interest in me—that you never even
spoke of me except as she compelled
you to do so.”
For a moment she did not answer.
“How constant the firing continues,”
she said at last, as I sat struggling
dumbly with temptation.
“A mere waste of powder, I fear,"
was my reply, given thoughtlessly.
“When the rush finally comes we are
likely to be without sufficient ammu-
nition to repel it. I hardly expect
those fellows out there will ever
leave without a determined effort to
carry the house by storm. I have no
doubt they are simply drawing all this
fire in the hope that our ammunition
will thus be uselessly expended. It
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’ “Never mind our colors tonight; we
are all fighting the same way.”
I had taken with me Bungay, to-
gether with three of my troopers, and
after placing them as advantageously
as possible, I stretched myself out on
the floor, and applying an eye to a
convenient opening took careful sur-
vey of the situation without. Tills
present cessation of activity was, I
felt convinced, only temporary. I did
not expect, from all I could now see,
that the final assault would.take place
upon my side of the building. The
massing of the main body of the be-
siegers before the front entrance, to-
gether with the presence there of
their leaders, was sufficient to con-
j vince me that this was to prove the
principal point of attack, and from my
knowledge of such affairs I decided
that probably the first signs of return-
ing daylight would be the signal for a
determined assault. The dark interior
of such a house as this r^ered too
many defensive advantages which the
daylight would largely overcome.
“Have you had some hard fighting?”
I asked of the man lying next me, a
manly-looking fellow, wearing the yel-
low chevrons of a corporal of cavalry.
“They pitched in mighty strong at
first, sir,” he answered civilly. “An’
we had so few men they pretty nearly
rushed us, fer sure. It was our re-
peatin’ rifles thet drove ’em back.”
We relapsed into silence, each in-
tent upon the uncertainty without. As
I lay there, gazing anxiously into the
darkness, I could not forbear wonder-
ing where Brennan had concealed the
women to keep them from harm.
Would he inform them of our arrival?
He could scarcely hope to keep the
fact long hidden, for they would cer-
tainly see some of my gray-jackets,
and ask questions.
“They seem to be peckin’ away pret-
ty lively out in front,” said the cor-
poral, interrupting my reverie.
“Yes,” I admitted. “In my judg-
ment that will prove the main point of
attack. How many men did the Ma-
jor have there before we came?”
“Same as here, sir.”
“And four of mine; that makes sev-
en altogether, counting himself, and
two of these ought to be posted in the
upper story. He‛s bound to need more;
that firing is very steady.”
“He’s got the women loadin’ for
him, and that helps some.”
r “The women?” I asked, staring at
J him in amazement. ’ “Do you mean to
say Mrs. Brennan and Celia Minor are
there in that front roorhf"
“Don’t know who they are, sir—
tvo mightly fine lookin’ young ladies,
an old lady with white hair, an’ a big,
rough-lookin’ female, sir. The last one
wus handlin’ a gun to beat the band’
just afore you came.”
“And he keeps them there, exposed
to all this heavy fire? What can the
man mean? Why, Corporal, that con-
stant shooting must have completely
shattered the windows. There could
be no safety for any one except lying
flat upon the floor.”
“Well, ’tain’t quite so bad as that,
sir,” he protested, seemingly anxious
to shield his officer from adverse
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