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MR. BRYAN'S OPINIONS. es [)OX CO. *ancy Goods Waists, etc. tiing Goods, etc. masks. Cur- :d 3. at first costt and Fascinatorst etc«t ids of Men^s and though we wei'^ show the goods ring and sumni^^ The plan of guaranteed bank de posits has probably found favor, among all classes of people and irre spective of political affiliation, more rapidly than any other public question. The new state of Oklahoma has already enacted a law taxing state ])anks, the fund thus accumulated to be used in paying the depositors cif any state bank that from any ('ause becomes unable to meet its obligations. A special session of the Kansas legislature has been railed for the purpose of enacting legislation similar to the Oklahoma plan. The governor of Nebraska is considering the advisabili^ of calling a special session of the leg islature on account of the growing lielief among the people that pro tection to bank depositors in the form of state or federal guarantees <)f their deposits will stop the lioarding of money, bring into cir- f.ulation sufficient currency to con duct the business of the country, jind prevent a recurrence of such disastrous panics as the one through which we are now passing. Mr. Bryan has been an advocate of a law guaranteeing deposits in state and national banks since 1893 The legislature of Ohio has adopted a joint resolution inviting Mr. Bryan to address its members in joint session February 18, 1908, on the subject of Guaranteed Bank D ^posits. Mr. Bryan, in discussing the tariff question, insists that resi dents of the United States should be permitted to buy home-made goods at home at as low a price as the foreigner can buy American- made goods abroad. He also insists that our government should be by and for the people as a whole, rather than by and for the trusts, and ad ministered in the int<jrest of a few beneficiaries of the trust system. He believes that national legisla tion for the purpose of better regu lation and control of interstate commerce and common carriers should supplement stat^ legislation, and not be a substitute for state legislation. Mr. Bryan’s paper, The Common er, reflects his opinions each week on questions of public importance and in 'its columns may also be found his magazine articles, public speeches, addresses and lectuies, which are referred to in the daily press from day to day. If you are interested in political questions, if you desire to keep in touch with the progress of the cam paign and to read Mr. Bryan’s cam paign speeches send sixty cents to The Commoner, and the paper will be sent to you each week until the close of the next presidential cam paign. 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ANCE The Best Fire Insurance that any country building can have is a Cortright Metal Shingle Roof It cannot burn. It cannot leak. It never needs repairs, and makes fhe handsomest long lived roof on the market. Insurance Companies recognize its advantages and are glad to quote lower prices where it is [used. Drop in and see them.' MILLER-DeVANE SUPPLY CO., Brevard, N. C. THE Mystery By STEWART EDWARD WHITE And SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS COPYRIGHT. 1907. BY McCLURE, PHILLIPS CO. To the worth of this story there are two substantial tributes — first, that it was run as a serial by the London Sphere, a pzibli- cation noted for its discrimina tion in the selection of serials and which rarely uses an Amer ican story; second, that **The Mystery” was one of the ‘'good sellers” of 1907. This is a story of mystery and adventure on new lines. The style is as graphic and forceful as the “copy” of a skillful reporter of an important news event. The part of the hero unfolds gradu ally until he stands revealed as the rarest combination of whim sical humor and cool courage ever presented, perhaps, in fic tion. The narrative, which con veys the impression of reality, not fiction, is swift and alluring, holding the interest oj the reader as with hooks of steel. CHAPTER L T' '"'iHB late afternoon sky flaunted its splendor of blue and gold like a banner over the Pacific, across wliose depths the trade wind droned in measured cadence. On tlie ocean’s wide expanse a hulk wal lowed sluggishly, the forgotten relict of a once brave and sightly ship, pos sibly the sphinx of some untold ocean tragedy, she lay l)lack and forbidding in the ordered procession of waves. Half a mile to the east of the derelict hovered a ship’s cutter, the turn of her crew’s heads speaking expectancy. As far again beyond, the United States cruiser Wolverine outlined her severe and trim silhouette against the hori zon. In all the spread of wave and sky no other thing was visible. For this was one of the desert parts of the PnciSc, 300 miles north of the steam ship route from Yokoiiama to Honolu lu. 500 miles from tne nearest hind. Gardner island, and more than 700 northwest of the Hawaiian gi’oup. On the cruiser’s quarter deck the of ficers lined the starboard rail. Their Interest was focused on the derelict. “Looks like a heavy job,” said Ives, one of the junior lieutenants. “These floaters that lie with deck almost awash will stand more hammering than a mud fort.” “W’ish they’d let us put some six inch shells into her.” said Billy Ed wards, the ensign, a wistful expres sion on his big. round, cheerful face. “I’d like to see what they would do.” “Nothing but waste a few hundred dollars of your Uncle Sam’s money,” observed Carter, the officer of the deck. “It taices placed charges inside and out for that kind of work.” “Barnett is the man for her then.” said Ives. “He’s no economist when it comes to getting results. There she goes!” Without any particular haste, as it seemed to the watchers, the hulk was shouldered out of the water as by some hidden leviathan. Its outlines melted into a black, outshowering mist, and from that mist leaped a giant. Up, up, he towered, tossed whirling arms a hundred feet abranch, shivered and dissolved Into a wide spread cataract. The water below’ was lashed into fury, in the midst of which a mighty death agony beat back the troubled waves of the trade \viiid. Only then did the mufiQed houble boom of the explosion reach the ears of the spectators, presently to be followed by a whispering, sw’ift skimming wavelet that swept irresistibly across the big ger surges and lappad the ship’s side, as for a message that the work was done. Here and there in the sea a glint of silver, a patch of purple or dull red or a glistening apparition of black show ed where the unintended victims of the explosion, the gay hued open sea fish of the warm waters, had suc cumbed to the force of the shock. Of the Intended victim there w’as no sign save a few fragments of wood bobbing in a swirl of water. When Barnett, the ordnance officer in charge of the destruction, returned to the ship Carter complimented him. “Good clean job, Barnett. She was a tough customer too.” ‘‘What was she?” asked Ives. “The Caroline Lemp, three masted schooner. Any one know about her?’" Ives turned to the ship’s surgeon, Trendon, a grizzled and brief si>oken veteran, who had at his fingers’ tips all the lore of all the waters under the reign of the moon. “What does the information bureau of the seven seas know about it?” “Lost three years ago—spring of 1901 —got Into ice field off the tip of the Aleutians. Some of the crew froze. Others got ashore. Part of survivors accounted for. Others not. Say they’ve turned native. Don’t know myself.” “The Aleutians!” exclaimed Billy Ed wards. “Great cats! What a drift! How many thousand miles would that be?” “Not as far as many another derelict has wandered in her time, son.’ i-.- lu Barnett. 1 he talk washed back and fojcli across the hulks of classic se.» m ^ teries, nev^ and old; of the City o: Boston, which went doAvn wiih -ill hands, leaving for record ouly a mel ancholy scrawl on a bit of boiird to meet the wondering eyes of a fish!}r- man on the far Cornish coast; of the* Great Queensland, which set out Vv ith 5G9 souls aboard, bound by a route* unknown to a tragic end; of the Na ronlc, with her silent and empty life boats alone left, drifting about the open sea, to hint at the story of her fate; of the Huronian, which ten years later, on the same day and date and hailing from the same port as the Na- ronic, went out into the void, leaving no trace; of Newfoundland captains W’ho sailed, roaring with drink, under the arches of cathedral bergs, only to be prisoned, buried and embalmed in the one icy embrace; of craft assailed by the terrible one stroke lightning clouds of the Indian ocean, found days after, stone blind, with their crews madly hauling at useless sheets, while the officers clawed the compass and shrieked; of burnings and piracies, of pest ships and slave ships and ships mad for want of water, of whelming earthquake waves and mysterious suc tions, drawing irresistibly against wind and steam power upon unknown currents; of stout hulks deserted in panic, although sound and seaworthy, and of others so swiftly dragged dovvn that there was no time for any to save himself, and of a hundred other strange, stirring and pitiful ventures such as make up the inevitable peri! and incorrigible romance of the ocean. In a pause Billy Edwards said musing ly: “Well, there was the Laughing Lass.” “How did you happen to hit on her?” asked Barnett quickly. “Why not, sir? It naturally c*ame into my head. She was last seen somewhere about this part of the world, wasn’t she?” After a moment’s hesitation he added, “From something I heard ashore I judge we’ve a com mission to keep a W’atch out for her as well as to destroy derelicts.” “What about the Laughing Lass?” asked McGuire, the paymaster, a New Englander, who had been in the serv ice but a short time. “Good Lord, don’t you remember the Laughing Lass mystery and the dis appearance of Dr. Schermerhorn ?” “Karl Augustus Schermerhorn, the man whose experiments to identify telepathy with the Marconi wireless waves made such a furore in the pa pers?” “Oh, that was only a byproduct of his mind! He was an original inves tigator in every line of physics and chemistry, besides most of the natural sciences,” said Barnett. “The govern ment is particularly Interested in him because of his contributions to aerial photography.” “And he was lost with the Laughing Lass?” “Nobody^ knows,” said Edwards. “He left San Francisco two years ago on a hundred foot schooner with an assist ant, a big brass bound chest and a ragamuffin crew\ A newspaper man named Slade, who dropped out of the world about the same time, is sup posed to have gone along too. Their schooner w’as last sighted about 450 miles northeast of Oahu in good shape and bound westward. That’s all the record of her that there is.” “Was that Ralph Slade?” asked Bar nett. “Yes. He was a free lance writer and artist.” “I knew him well,” said Barnett. “He was in our mess in the Philippine campaign on the North Dakota. W^ar correspondent then. It’s strange that I never identified him before with the Slade of the Laughing Lass.” “What M’as the object of the voy age?” asked Ives. “They M’ere supposed to be after buried treasure,” said Barnett. “I’ve always thought it more likely that Dr. Schermerhorn was on a sci entific expedition,” said Edwards. “1 knew the old boy, and he wasn’t the oi*t to care for treasure, buried or un- uried.*^ “Every time a ship sets out from San Francisco without publishing to iill the world just what her business js all the world thinks it’s one of those wild goose hunts,” observed Ives. “Yes,” agreed Barnett. “Flora and fauna of some unknown island would bo much more in the Schermerhorn line of traflic. Not unlikely that some of the festive natives collected the un fortunate professor.” ! Various theories were advanced, with drawn, refuted, defended, and the di-s- cussion carried them through the swift twilight into the darkness which had been hastened by a high spreadiag banopy of storm clouds. Abruptly from the crow’s nest came startling news for those desolate seas: “Light, lio! Two points on the port bow!” The lookout had given extra voice to lit. It was plainly heard throughout ithe ship. j The group of officers stared in the direction Indicated, but could see noth ing. Presently Ives and Edwards, Who were the keenest sighted, made out a faint, suffused radiance. At the same time came a second hail from the crowd’s nest. “On deck, sir.” “Hello.” responded Carter, the orl cer of the deck. "There’s a light here 1 can’t uiar. anything out of. sir.” “"What’s it like?” “Sort of a queer general glow." “General glow, indeed!” mu! i'->- Forsythe, among the group aft felIov,’’s got an imagination.” “Can’t you describe it better tba; that?” called Carter. “Don’t make it out at all, sir. any regular and proper light. L()()k^ like a lamp in a fog.” Among themselves the officers dis cussed it interestedly as it be:.rai. r grow plainer. “Not unlilie the electric glow abov< a city seen from a distance.” said Bar nett as it grew plainer. es, but the nearest electric ligh^etJ city is some 800 miles away.” objected Ives. “Mirage, maybe,” suggested Ed. wards. “Pretty hard working mirage to cov er that distance.” said Ives. “Thougi; I’ve seen ’em”— “Great heavens! Look at that’’ shouted Edwards. A great shaft of pale brilliance sho- up toward the zenith. Under it wliir! A great skaft oj pale brilliance shot up. ed a maelstrom of varied radiance, pale with distance, but marvelously beautiful. Forsythe passed them vrith a troubled face on his way below to report, as his relief went up. “The quartermaster reports the com pass behaving queerly,” he said. Three minutes later the captain was on the bridge. The great ship had swung, and they were speeding direct for tlie phenomenon. But within a fev/ minutes the light had died out. “Another sea mystery to add to our list,” said Billy Edwards. “Did any one ever see a show like that before? ^yhat do you think. Doc?” “Humph!” grunted the veteran “New to jue. Volcanic, maybe.” Coniiinued on Fag’S 0 Many Sleepless .Nig-lits owing: to a persistent cough. Relief found at last. “For several winters past my wife has been troubled vvith a most pei’sistent nnd disaereeable cough, which invariably extended over a period of several weeks and caused her many sleepless nights,” writes Will J. Hayner, editor of the Burley, Colo., Bulletin. “Various remedies were tried each year, with no beneficial results. In November last the cough again put in an ap pearance and my wife, acting on the suggestion of a friend, purchased a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. The result was indeed marvelous. After three doses the cough entirely disappeared and has not manifested itself since.” This remedy is for sale by O. L. Erwin, Rosman, N. 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