r - "A THOUSAN' POUNDS" SYNOPSIS. ? Solomon Blnkus, veteran scout and interpreter, and his young- companion, Jack Irons, passing j through Horse Valley, New York, In September, 1768, to warn settlers of an In dian uprising, rescue from a band of redskins the wife and daughter of Cslonel Hare of England. Jack distinguishes himself In the fight and later rescues Margaret Hare from the river. Jack and Mar garet fall In love. On reaching Fort Stanwlx, Colonel Hare says both are too young to marry. The Hare family sail for England, and the Irons family move to Albany. Unrest gTOws in the colonies be cause of the oppressive measures of the English government. Solo mon and Jack visit Boston. In November, 1770, Jack goes to Philadelphia and works in Ben-. Jamin Franklin's printing plant. Nearly thre<^ years later Margaret writes him tfrom London, remind ing him that her youth is passing and saying she has appealed to Doctor Franklin. CHAPTER III? Continued. This letter went to the heart of the young man. She had deftly set before him the gross unfairness of delay. He felt It. Ever since the parting he had been eager to go, but his father was not a rich man and the family was large. His own salary had been little more than was needed for clothing and books. That autumn It had been doubled and the editor had assured him that higher pay would be forth coming. He hesitated to tell the girl how little he earned and how small, when measured in money, his progress had seemed to be. He was in despair ;when his friend Solomon Binkus ar rived from Virginia. For two years the latter had been looking after the Interests of Major Washington out in the Ohio river country. They dined together that evening at the Crooked Billet and Solomon told him of his ad ventures In the West and frontier sto ries of the notorious one-legged robber, MIcah Harpe, and his den on the shore of the Ohio and of the cunning of the outlaw In evading capture. Solomon read the girl's letter and said : "If I was you I'd swim the big pond tf nec'sary. This 'ere is a real simon pure, four-masted womern an' she wants you fer captain^ As the feller said when he seen a black fox, 'Come on, boys, it's time fer to wear out yer boots.' " "I'm tied to my Job." "Then break yer halter," said Solo mon. "I haven't money enough to get mar ried and keep a wife." "What an Ignorant cuss you be I" Sol omon exclaimed. "You don't 'pear to know when ye're well off." "What do you mean?" "I mean that ye're wuth at least a thousan' pounds cash money." "I would not ask my father for help and I have only forty pounds In the bank," Jack answered. | Solomon took out his wallet and re moved from It a worn and soiled piece of paper and studied the memoranda It contained. Then he did some cipher ing with a piece of lead. In a moment he said : "You have got a thousan' an' fifteen pounds an' six shillin' fer to do with as ye please an' no questions asked? nary one." "You mean you've got It." "Which means that Jack Irons owns It hide, horns an' taller." Tears came to the boy's eyes. He looked down for a moment without speaking. "Thank you, Solomon," he said presently. "I can't use your money. It wouldn't be right." Solomon shut one eye an' squinted with the other as If he were taking aim along the top of a gun barrel. Then he shook his head and drawled : "Cat's blood an' gunpowder! That *ere slaps me in the face an' kicks me on the shin," Solomon answered. "I've walked an' paddled eighty mile In a day an' been stabbed an' shot at an' had to run fer my life, which it ain't no fun ? you hear to me. N Who do ye s'pose I done it fer but you an' my kentry? There ain't nobody o' my name an' blood on this side o' the ocean ? not nobody at all. An' if I kin't work fer you, Jack, I'd just er bout as soon quit This 'ere money ain't no good to me 'cept fer body cover an' powder an' balls. I'd as leave drop it in the river. It bothers me. I don't need it When I git bum I go an' hide it in the bush sorae ? whars ? jest to git It out o' my way. I been UUnkin' all up the road from Vlr glnny o' this 'ere gol demnable money an' whaM,were a-goln' to do with It an' what it could do to me. An', sez I, I'm ergoin' to ask Jack to take it an' use it fer a wall 'twixt him an' trouble, an' the idee hurried me erlong ? hon est ! Kind o' made me happy. Course, If I had a wife an' chlldern, 'twould be different, but I ain't got no one. An' now ye tell me ye don't want it, which It makes me feel lonesomer 'n a tarred Tory an' kind o' sorrowful ? ayes, sir, If. does." , Solomon's voice sank to a whisper. "Forgive me," said Jack. "I didn't know you felt that way. But I'm glad you do. I'll take it on the understand ing that as long as I live what I have shall also be yours." "I've two hundred poun' an' six shil lin* in my pocket an' a lot more hid in the bush. It's all yourn to the last round penny. I reckon It'll purty nigh bridge the slough. I want ye to be married respectable like a gentleman ByflRVING BACHELLER } Copyright by Irving BacMtar ? slick duds, plenty o' cakes an' pies an' r\o sllghtln' the minister er the rum bar'l. / "Major Washington give me a letter to take to Ben Franklin on t'other side o' the ocean. Ye see ev'ry letter that's seat ercrost Is opened an' read afore It gits to him essen It's guarded keer ful. This 'ere one, I guess, has suthln' powerful secret In It. He pays all the bills. So I'll be goln' erlong with ye on the nex' ship un' when we git thar I want to shake hands with the gal and tell her how to make ye behave." That evening Jack went to the man ager of the Gaeette and asked for a six months' leave of absence. CHAPTER IV The Crossing. There were curious events In the voyage of Jack and Solomon. They sailed on or about the eleventh of Oc tober, 1773. Their ship was the Snow which had arrived the week before with some fifty Irish servants, inden tured for their passage. The food was of poor quality, the cooking a tax upon Jaw, palate and digestion, the service unclean. When good weather came, by and by, and those who had not: tasted food for days began to feel the pangs of hunger the ship was filled J with a most passionate lot of pilgrims. It was then that Solomon presented the petition of the passengers to the captain. "Cap'n, we're 'bout wore out with whale meat an' slobgollion. We're all down by the head." "So'm I," said the captain. "This 'ere man had a good recommend an' said he could cook perfect." "A man like that kin cook the pas sengers with their own heat," said Solomon. "I feel like my belly was full o' rocks. If you'll let me Into the galley, I'll right ye up an' shift the way o' the wind an' the course o' the ship. I'll swing the bow toward heaven 'stead o' hell an' keep her p'Inted straight an' It won't cost ye a 1 penny. They's too much swearin' on this 'ere ship. Can't nobody be a Christian with his guts a-b'illn'. His tongue'll breqjc loose an' make his soul look like a waggln with a smashed wheel an' a bu'sted ex. A cook could do more good here than a minister." "Can you coolf?" "You try me an' I'll agree to happy ye up so ye won't know yerself. Yer THEy OVfc*HAUCEr> THE ST A ft meat won't be raw ner petrified an' there won't be no insecks In the bis cuit." So Solomon was installed as cook and happiness returned to the ship. In the course of the voyage they overhauled the Star, a four-masted ship bound from New York to Dover. For hours the two vessels were so close that the passengers engaged in a kind of battle. Those on the Star be gan it by hurling turnips at the men on the other ship who responded with a volley of apples. Solomon discerned on the deck of the stranger Captain Preston and an English officer of the name of Hawk whom he had known at Oswego and hailed them. Then said Solomon : "It's a shipload o' Tories who've had enough of Ameriky. They's a cuss on that tub that I helped put a coat o' tar an' feathers on in the Ohio kentry. He's the- one with the black pipe In his mouth. I don't know his name but they use to call him Slops? the dirti est, low-downdest, d ? n' Tory traitor that ever lived. Helped the Injuns out thar in the West. See that 'ere black pipe? Alius carries It in his mouth 'cept when he's eatin\ I guess he goes to sleep with it. Ifs one o' the fea tures o' his face. We tarred him plenty now you hear to me." That evening a botit was lowered and the captain of the Snow crossed a hundred yards of quiet sea /to dine with the captain of the Star in the cabin of the latter. Next day a stiff wind came out of the west. ^Because he had to take off his coat while he was working in the galley, Solomon gave the precious letter Into Jack's keeping. V ... ? v... p About noon on the twenty-ninth of November they made Dover and ap chored In the Downs. Deal was about three miles away and its boats came off for them. They made a circuit and t . ? . sailed close 1b shore. Each boat that went for passengers had Its own land* lng. Its men thre^r a rope across tho breakers. This was qflickly put on it windlass. With the rope winding ?i Its windlass the boat was slowlj' hauled through the surge, Its occu pants being drenched and sprinkled with salt water. They made their waj to the inn of the Three Kings where two men stood watching as they ap proached. One of them Jack recog nized as the man Slops with the black I pipe in his mouth. "That's him," said the man with the black pipe, pointing at Solomon, whereupon the latter was promptly arrested. ~"\\fcat have I done?" he asked. *To\iH learn directly at 'eadquar ters," sall^'he ifilcer. Solomon shook hands with Jack and spid: "I'm glad I met ye," and turned and walked away with the two men. Jack was tempted to follow them, but feeling a bidden purpose in Solo mon's conduct went Into the inn. So the friends parted, Jack being puzzled and distressed by the swift change in the color of their affairs. The letter to Doctor Franklin was in his pocket? a lucky circumstance. He decided* to go to London and deliver the letter and seek advice regarding the relief of Solomon. At the desk in the lobby of the Three Kings he learned that he must take the post chaise for Canterbury, which would not be leaving until 6 p. m. This gave him time to take counsel in behalf of hirf friend. Turning toward the door, he met Captain Preston, who greeted him with great warmth and wished to know where was Major Blnkus. Jack told the captain of the arrest of his friend. "I expected It." said Preston. "So I have waited here for your ship. It's that mongrel chap on the Star who got a tarring from Binkus and his friends. He saw Blnkus on your deck, as I did, and proclaimed his purpose. So I am here to do what I can to help you. I cannot forget that yon two imen saved my life. Are there any papers on his person which are Ukefy to make him trouble?" "No," said Jack, thinking of the let ter lying safely In his own pocket. "That's the Important thing," Pres ton resumed. "Binkus Is a famoua scout who is known to he anti-British. Such a man coming here is supposed to be carrying papers. Between our selves, they would arrest him on any pretext. You leave this matter In my hands. If he had no papers he'll be coming on In a day or two." "I'd like to go with you to find him," said Jack. "Better not," Preston answered with a smile. "Why?" "Because I suspect you have the pa pers. They'll get you, too, if they learn you are his friend- Keep away from him. Sit quietly here In the Inn until the post chaise starts for Can terbury. Don't let anyone pick a quar rel with you, and remember this is all a sacred confidence between friends." "I thank you and v my heart Is In every word," said Jack as he pressed the hand of the captain. "After all, friendship is a thing above politics? even the politics of these bitter days." He sat down with a sense of relief and spent the rest of the afternoon reading the London papers, although he longed to go and look at the fort ress of Deal Castle. He had tea at five and set out on the mail carriage, with his box and bag, an hour later. The road was rough and muddy, with deep holes Jn it. At one point the thaise rattled and bumped over a plowed field. Before dark he saw a man hanging in a gibbet by the road side. At ten o'clock they passed the huge gate of Canterbury and drew up at an inn called the King's Head. The landlady and two waiters attended for orders. He had some supper and went to bed. Awakened at 5 a. m. by the sound of a bugle, he arose and dressed hurriedly and found the post chaise waiting. They went on the King's road fromM^anterbury and a mile out they came to a big, white gate In the dim light of the early morning. A young man clapped his mouth to the window and shouted: "Sixpence, yer honor." It was a real turnpike and Jack stuck his head out of the window for a look at it. They stopped for break fast at an Inn far down the pike and went on through Sittingbourn, Faver sham, Rochester and the lovely valley of the River Medway, of which Jack had read. At every stop It amused him to hear the words "chaise an' pair," flying from host to waiter and waiter to hostler and back In the wink of an eye Jack spent the night at the Rose In Dartford and went on next morning over Gadshill and Shootershill and Blackheath. Then the Thames and Greenwich and Deptford, from which he could see the crowds and domes and towers of the big city. A little past two o'clock he rode over London bridge and was set down at the Spread Eagle, where he paid a shilling a mile for his passage and ate his dinner. Such, in those days, was the cross ing and the trip up to London, as Jack describes it In his letters. "She is a lovely flirl, Jack. /l congratulate you." (TO BE CONTINUED.) y CONDENSED NEWS FROM THE OLD NORTH STATE ?HORT NO TIB OP INTBriBtT TO CAROLINIAN^. High Point? James Flint, automo, bile bus driver, of this city, attain ?d severe cuts across the body, sai by the police to* have been inflated by James Allen, another jitney driver, on South Main street. J Concord.? Due to the increase in the number of smallpox cases in this c y and county, Dr. S. E, Buchanan coun ty health officer, issued a warning to the people of the country, advising them to be vaccinated at once if t y are not already immune. Spencer. ? Mrs. A. H. Mather, rep resentative of the Boys' International Cigarette League of Chicago, spoke o the workmen of the railway shops here on the "Evils of Tobacco Use Among Boys.M Wake Forest.? That the total en rollment attendance for Wake Forest college in 1923-24 is 873 was shown in the eighty-ninth catalogue ;just re ceived from the press. The total in cludes the number enrolled in the regular academic session and the sum mer session. . Chapel Hill? The University of North Carolina now has a newspaper devoted entirely to sports. It is call ed the Intra-Mural Sport-Gram and for. the present/' at least, will confine it self to the field of intra-mural sports. Raleigh.? Secretary of -State W: N. Everett, in a statement issued, stress es the obligation of citizens of the state to support the student-alumnae building movement of the alumnae of the North Carolina College for Wom en. at Guagwboro. GoldstfHlP^MWBtematic campaign of night robberies is being staged here, five homes having been entered in the past four weeks, the same methods being used in each attempt. The home of R. A. Creech was the fifth to be entered and the thieves got away with a neat sum of money. Elizabeth City.? With the exception )f 10 or 12 farms Pasquotank county s now free from ticks, according to Dr. Hartsell Robbins, of the Bureau of Animal Industry, of Washington, N. O., tick eradication inspector, who ar rived in Elizabeth City on his way from Currituck County back to Little Washington. Winston-Salem.? Federal prohibition cfficers brought in a whiskey-laden Etudebaker special roadster, captured on the Boone Trail Highway in Yad kin county. The driver of the car fled as the officers approached, leav ing the loaded machine standing in the road. In it was found 85 gallons of booze, all of it being in large cans. Goldsboro. ? A charter Uas been re el lived here by Messrs. W. L. Rawlings A, G. Woodard and R. W. Powell, who will erect a thirty ton capacity ice plant in the near future, the company tc be known as the "Crystal Ice and Fuel Company." Contracts for the machinery have been let and a suitable location for the plant will be chosen in a few days. ? Winston-Salem? Capt. W. W. Du gak a typical . Irishman, who was trainmaster on this division of the Tuthern Railway for several years ver fails to remember St. Ptrick's dap. He donned a green necktie which he has worn thirty-three times on this natal day. The tie was a, gift from a friend in one of the North ern States and Captain Dugan prizes It very highly. Rhodhiss. ? The construction Camps of the Rinehart-Dennis Construction company, contractors building the 'big dan and power houses here for the Soi them Power company, make a ?Ocd-sized town within themselves. There are fifty to sevent-five of these houses at present to take care of wokmen employed. Jsnoir. ? With only two negative vott s the Dysart-Kendall post of the Amorican Legion at a meeting adopt ed resolutions commending the action of tie Caldwell county board of com mist loners in passing resolution to issua $200,000 bonds to aid the State in tuilding the Lenor-Wilkes county roadB. Greensboro. ? Decision to erect a bronze tablet at the birthplace of O Henry (Sidney Porter), noted short storj' writer, was reached by the directors of the chamber of com merce. It will bear the inscription: "At this site O. Henry (Will Porter) was born September 11, 1862.1' The memorial was bought with funds fur nished by the O. Henry jMemorial Society. oskie. ? A^ioskie has started in st to bring the next annual Hert County Fair Association here, enlarge its activities, and make of it one (f the largest county or district fairs in the State. Present plans are to make it a Tri-Countl Fair, embrac ing K ertford, Gates and Bertie coun ties. I Burlington. ? The Perent-Teacher Association has this year purchased for the school the Keystone 600-view sets for visual education, consisting of 600 stereopticoik pictures, 12 stereop ticons and 600 slides for the projec tion irachine. Trinity College. ? Prof. E. H. Young . of the I Department of French at Trin ity College, will this, summer conduct his fifteenth summer school in ^Europe under he business management of the Special ized Groups tour? of New York: of which Dr. W. C. O'Donnell, former Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is the manager. So ne the L Ah earne ford Points Out Efficiency of City Manager Plan ? When politics becomes oppressive, institute city manager government That is the suggestion put forth in Kansas City by W. Ferguson, direc tor of public service for Cleveland, now under the city manager form of government. Mr. Ferguson Is on a short vacation. Civic affairs have been freed of political chains and men who have been successful in business are at the helm, Mr. Ferguson declared. The nucleus of the government is W. R. Hopkins, city manager, and five department directors besides Mr. Fer guson. Mr. Ferguson, who is an architect and engineer, never has been In poli tics, and Mr. Hopkins forgot big com mercial ventures when the council se lected him for the city's head. < The council also elected ,a mayor. He receives $2,600 a year, the manager - $25,000 and the department heads $7,600. Cleveland is the largest city with city manager government, Mr. Ferguson said. "Mr. Hopkins and his directors have obtained the co-operation of the coun cil of twenty-six elected members and of the people because we are not in terested Mn politics," Mr. Ferguson said. "City officials are giving Cleveland more service because they choose workers according to ability rather than political qualifications. Of course, you can't cut out politics entirely in a dty where it has reigned for years." Mr. Ferguson told of Cleveland's gar bage reducing plant, where 860 tons were being haAdl^d a day at no loss. The process is one of reduction to' grease, fertilizer and gasoline, which are sold Plans have been completed for a new $1,000,000 plant, which will be erected within a year and is ex pected to produce revenue. "The best plan of garbage disposal," f Mr. Ferguson said, "is for the city to dispose of its own garbage in a plant properly equipped and managed. Proper management Is the first essen tial and that It what appeals to Cleve land." ? Kansas City Star. ? Failure to Vote Harmful One of the recognized difficulties in this country is to get all the "good" citizens to go to the polls. It has been established that very large numbers of potential voters fall in each election to go to the polls. 1 Doctor TIgert, In his address before the American National council in New York made the following significant statement in this connection : "I doubt if a weak or undesirable public official has ever been elected by a larger ma jority than the number of good citi zens who failed to vote in the election. I agree with the statement I heard a public speaker make the other day. when he said that he had ten times as much respect for the man who voted ten times as he did for the man who did not vote at all." Instances were cited by Doctor Mann where grafting politicians were able to continue in power because only 37 per cent of the voters turned out to take part In an election. These same grafting politicians were cast out, he said, when only 85 per cent of the voters went to the polls after con ditions had become such that they were goaded into fulfilling their duty as citizens. Fan fteipM Burn Coal ^ Fuel expert* for several year* past have been preaching the use of smaller sizes of anthracite coal such as pea and buckwheat, for household use. They state that these sizes of coal have nearly the same amount of heat producing units per ton as the larger sizes and point out that they are ma terially lower tn price. Some people find that the smaller coal burns ad miralty In their furnaces except on occasional heavy damp days. Then, a furnace stgkqfl with small-sized coal simply will not bum brightly enough to produce the desired heat. On such days an electric fan will come to the rescue. Open the ash-pit door, set the electric fan directly in front of it Then connect It to one of the con venience outlets in the cellar and turn on the fan. With the added draft pro vided by the fan the small-sized coal will burn just As if the weather con ditions were normal. Town Ha* Only One Pupil Sharon, N. H, supports a school for only one pupil. It has, In fact, only one child of school age. The place's state school tax consequently Is only 12 a year. Tbe community was a thriving settlement fifty years ago with 60 population, but today only twenty live within the limits of the town, which ia steadily vanishing. First Robber Pavement What is believed to be the first rub ber pavement in the United States has i>een* laid on a railroad crossing in Racine, Wis. The section of rubber paving will have a severe trial as this crossing is used by thousands of automobiles and heavy motor trucks each day. A similar pavement Is Princess street, Edinburgh, haa been used for more than twenty yean, yet it haa lost only a fraction of an inch tn thickness during this period. :?) . -J 1 J-J No need to EufW from colds, rheum-I^ Pep-Pad, a pad of chemuJ1' cotton applied on cheat or cart ^ oat the pain. Simply appl^EE**. tojtb. pdn ?tu ?, UJSjS cheat, lumbago, influenza, etc m,"?? wi? not charge you one Bend 60c or we will aend it C 0 poetage, Your money hack if it ilT""V Immediately. Write today and .Aria's for h*T?-* a*m thi" ertl^mCTt Ii*i Dept. 1>, P. O. Bex 1 101, niw i SORE EYES relieTet^nd cares sore and inflam*!?11 hoars. Helps the weak eyed Ask your drugglft or dealer for RAi rt from Reform Dispensary P 0. ' Bright Child A child stood before h clcj After a while a passer-by and opened it. Passer-by ? Why didn't yot, yourself? Child? Because the handle* just been painted. WOMEN! DON'T BE IMPOSED Warning! Not All Packagi Are "Diamond Dyei' Diamond Dyes Always ask for "Diamond Dtf If you don't see the name "Dl Dyes" on the package ? refuse it it back! _ Each 15-cent package of Di Dyes" contains directions so simpk woman can dye or tint skirts, i*M waists, sweaters, stockings, khJ coats, draperies, coverings? every!)! new, even If she has never dyedto| Choose any color at drug store, substitutes 1 1 The Reaton Why "Why," asked the school in? "should We celebrate Washii birthday more than we do mine!| "Because he never told a lie,! shouted one of the pupils Transcrlpt. Bert Way to Relieve Pain to l*y direct outside application i the best remedy Is an AllcockVPli ? the original and genuine. ? Adr. | Too Ambitious! "Why did you fire young Jonesfj "He spent too much time res success stories." The reason one Is not fooled ener Is because no one thinks !t worth while. "SURE AM GLAD I TRIED Louisiana Lady Says Thai Was in a Condition of SerionJ , Debility, But Now Feels Good as Ever. Shreveport, La. ? Mrs. William Ranft, of 303 Baker St., this city, Qj never known what ill health was&J last year. Then she began smothering spells. *1 would awake in tlie .mornlflPj relates Mrs. Ranft, "feeling weak ? Just no account. I couldn't and stir about like I had always d<# I wm nervous, too, for I didn't un stand the shortness of breath, would try to do my work but have to sit or lie down." Mr. Ranft then took matters his own hands and, on the of hl?x druggist, brought home Cardul for his wife. . ^ % "After taking one botfe." J Mrs. Ranft, "I felt stronger ^ morning my husband would Take your medicine.' I d:d. and * | my second bottle I felt good ?s S I know Cardul did me worlds or s and I sure am glad I tried it." . .Mrs. Ranft found, as have ? other women, that Cardul, gentle, building-up, tonic q?? was just what she needed to P \ on her feet again. Cardul is " vegetable, mild and harmless. . Cardul may be bought at any Btoffc Get a bottle today. THE WOMANS TOJJI,