THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CH AlfoOTTE, jjfc C.9 S ATURD A Y AFTERNOON,EBRUARY 12, 1921.
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THE HANSON OF RED CHIEF.
(Concluded from Friday)
r,- n id Kill sits up and feels bi-
i- H his car anu oajo. oam, uu jua
favorite Biblical charac.
v;nn- senses presently."
Kin- 1 If rod," says he. "You won't
iw'av a,1Ll lpave me here alone, will
' ......
5.u'..t nut and caught that boy and
.,. until his freckles rattled. -
shoo , ..... ,z i.t'-i
Tf YOU Hull L ucnav, fajro x, ill
"... cti-ci io-l-it hnme. Now. arn vmi
, y,)u .i
'Mvas fnly funning," says he sullen
'I didn't mean to hurt Old Hank.
L what did he hit me for? i I'll be-
i vp "rake-eve, u you won i sena me
vie "ami if you'll let me play tha
K Pent today."
-. .... i-vrit' trn m o nova 1
That's for you and Mr. Bill to decide.
. ' nln-matp for tViA rl.iv I'm
Vp'c VIIUI UiJIW.v J. ...
v-w y"! come in and make friends
;jjh' liim and say you are sorry for
v. rtinff him. or home you go at onoo."
f'"1" &. l "Rill c l-i o Ire Vgnlc .,-..1
I mauc run 4-" """ 4
l?ill acirlo finrl tnlr? him T
ll,pn 1 luun
as gOlllg lO 1 v.'JJia.i t, a, iiiuc il
ia three miles from the cave, and
ind out what I could about how the
vinaDPing had been regarded in Sura
Sit Also, I thought it best to send
a peremptory letter to old man Dor
J ' tiiat dav, demanding the ransom
ami dictating how it should be paid.
You know, Sam." says Bill, . "I've
,t0ort bv veu without batting an eye In
earthquakes, fire and flood in poker
tames, dvnamite outrages, police raids,
train robberies and cyclones. I newr
i0,t mv nerve yet till we kidnapped
tiat two-logged skyrocket of a kid.
Hc S't me going. You won't leave
me lon? with him. will you, Sam?"
"I'll be back some time this after
noon," says I. "You must keepv the
bov amused and quiet till I return.
And now we'll write the letter to old
Dorset." '
Eill and I got paper and pencil ana
ynrked en the letter while Red Chief,
vith a blanket wrapped around him.
strutted up and down, guarding the
mouth of the cave." Bill begged me
tearfully to make the ransom fifteen
hundred dollars instead of two thou
sand. "I ain't attempting," says he,
"to decry the celebrated moral aaoect
of parental affection, but we'ri deal
ing with humans, and it ain't i?um?.n
for anvbody to give up two thousand
dollars' for that 40-pound chunk, of
freckled wildcat I'm willing to take
a char.re ft iifteen hundred dollars.
Tou can charge the difference up to
me.
So. to relieve Bill, I acceded, and
Tre collaborated a letter that ran this
ay:
Ehenezer Dorset, Esq:
We have your boy concealed in a
place far from Summit. It is useless
for. you or the most skilful detectives
to attempt to find him. Absolutely,
the only terms on which you can have
him restored to you are these: We de
rrand fifteen hundred dollars in larye
bills for his return; the money to be
left at midnight tonight at the same
spot and in the same box as your re
ply as hereinafter described. If you
igree to these terms send your answer
in writing by a solitary messenger to
night at half-past eight o'clock. After
Crossing Owl Creek,' .on .the road to
Poplar Cove, there are three large
trees about a hundred ' yards apart,
close to the fence of the, -wheat field
on the right-hand side. At the bottom
of the fence-post, oppositei the . third
free, will be found a small pasteboard
tax. . . .
The messenger will place the answer
in this box and return, immediately -to
Summit. - ' . .,
If you attempt any treachery or fail
to comply with our demand" as stated,
jcu will never see vour hnv a.?airi.
If you pay the monev'as rlpmanrlrrl'1
he will be returned to you safe and
well within three hous. : These terms t
are nnai, and if you do not accede to
them no further communication -- will
be attempted.
TWO DESPERATE MEN.
I addressed this letter to Dotsct,
and put it in my pocket. As I Van
auout to start, the kid comes up io
nw and say3: - :
'Aw, Snake-eye. you said I .could
play the Black Scout while you was
gone." , .
T5MiPh !t; of course," says I. "Mr.
Bill, will play withy you. What kind of
a game is "it?".-..
ri3m"th xBick S-cout " says Rod
Chief, 'and I have to ride to the stock
ade to warn the settlers that the In
dians are coming. I'm tired of playing
Indian myself. -I . want to be the Black
Scout. .. - .
"All right," says I. "It sounds harm
less to me. I guess Mr. Bill will help
you foil the pesky savages."
"What am I to do?" asks Bill, look
ing at the kid suspiciously,
e "Y?u..rS the hss,"- says Black
bcout. Gef down on your hands and
knees. How can I ride to'' the stock
ade without a hoss?"
'Y(lu-d better .keep him interested,"
said I., "till we get the scheme going.
Loosen up." . f
Bill gets down on his all fours, and
a look comes in his eye like a rabbit's
when you catch it in a trap
"How far is it to the stockade, kid?"
lie asks, in a husky manner of voice
.. a imet-y miles,' says the Black Scout.
And you have to . hump yourself to
get there on time. Whoa, now."
The Black Scout jumps, on Bill's back
and digs his heels in his side.
i,'For .HeavGn's sake," says Bill,
hurry back, Sam, as soon as you can
I wish we hadn't made . the ransom
more than a thousand..' Say, you quit
kicking me or I'll get up and warm you
good." ,
A walked over to Poplar ; Cove and sat
around the post-office and ', store, talk
ing with the chawbacons that come in
to trade. One whiskerando says that
he hears Summit is all ; upset on ac
count of Eider Ebenezer Dorset's boys
having, been lost or stolen. That was
all I wanted to know. I bought some
smoking tobacco, referred casually to
the price of black-eyed peas, posted np
letter surreptitiously and came away.
The postmaster said the mail-carrier
would come by in an hour to take the
mail on to Summit.
When I got back to the cave Bill
and the boy were not to be found. 1
explored the vicinity of the cave, and
risked a yodel or two, but there was
no response.
So I lighted-my pipe and sat down
on a mossy bank to await develop
ments. . . '
In about half an hour I heard the
bushes rustle, and Bill wabbled out in
to the little glade in- front of the cave.
Behind him was the kid, stepping soft
ly like a scout, with a broad grin on
his face. Bill stoDoed. took nff Vle Viaf
and wiped his face with a red hand
kerchief. The kid stopped about eight
itfi oenina mm. v
"Sam." says Bill, "I suppose you'll
think I'm a renegade, but I couldn't
help it. I'm a grown person with mas
culine proclivities and habits of self
defense, but there is a time when all
systems of egotism and predominance
fail. The boy is gone." I have sent
him home. All is off. There ws
martyrs in old times," goes on Bill,
"that suffered death rather than give
up the particular graft thley enjoye;?.
None of 'em ever was subjugated' to
such supernatural tortures as I have
been. I tried to be faithful to mir
articles of depredation; but there caVfe
a limit." - - r -J"
"What's the trouble, Bill?" I akci
him... ' '..,. -. .
"I was rode," says Bill, "the ninety
miles to the stockade; not barring an
inch. -Then,' when the settlers was res
cued,, I t was given oats. Sand ain't a
palatable substitute. "And then, for an
hour I had . to try to explain to hirh
Why-there wasnothin in holes, hovy
a ; road can run - both . ways and what
makes the grass green. I tell you,
Sam, a human can only stand so much.
I takes him by the neck of his clothes
and drags him down the mountains.
On the way he ' kicks my legs blac?.'-and-blue
from the knees doWn 'and
I've got to vhave two or three7 bites, on
my thumb and hand cauterized.
"But he's - gone" continued BiH--"gone
hotne. . I showed him the -road
to Summit and kicked him about; eight
feet nearer there at one . kiik. I'm
sorry we lose the ransom;! but -it v.ras
either that or Bill Driscoll to . the madhouse."
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Bill is puffing and blowing, but there
is a look of ineffable peace-and grow
ing content on his rose-pink features.
'-'Bill," says I, "there isn't any heart
disease fn your family, is there?" r
"No," says Bill, "nothing chronic ex
cept -malaria and accidents. Whv?"
"Then you might turn around," says
I, "and have a look behind you.", ,
Bill turns and sees the. boy, .-and
loses his complexion and sits down
plump on the ground and- begins to
pluck aimlessly at grass and little
sticks. , For an hour I was . afraid " 1f
his mind. And then . I told him that
my scheme was to put the whole job
through immediately and that ,we
would get the ransom and be off with
it by- midnight if old Dorset fell in
with our proposition. So . Bill braced1
up. enough to give the kid a we ik sort
of a smile and a promise to plav the
Russian, in a Japanese war with him
as soon as he felt a little better.
I had a scheme for collecting that
ransom. without danger of being caught
by counterplots that ought to commend
itself to professional kidnappers. The
tree under which the answer wea to be
left and the money later on was
close to the road fence with big, bare
fields on all sides. If a gang of con
stables should be watching for any one
to come for the note they could see
him a long way off crossing the fields
or in the road. But no, siree! At half
past eight I was up in that tree ' as
well hidden. as a tree toad, waiting f.-r
the messenger to arrive.
Exactly on time, a half -grown boy
rides up the road 'jon u bicycle, locates
tne pasteboard box at the foot - of the
fence-post, slips a folded piece of pa
per into it and pedals away again back
toward summit. . , .
I waited an hour and then concluded
the thing was square. I slid down the
tree, got the note, slipped . along the
fence till I struck the woods, and was
back at the cave in another half an
hour. I opened the note, got near the
lantern and read it to Bill. It was" writ
ten with a pen m a crabbed hand, and
the sum and -substance of it' was this:
Two Desperate Men.
Gentlemen: I received your letter to
day by post, in regard to the ransom
you ask for the return cf my son. I
think you are a little high in your de
mands, and I hereby make you a couiv
ter-propesition, which I am inclined to
believe you will accept. You bring
Johnny home arid pay me. two hundred
and fifty dollars in cash, and I agreu
to take him off ycfur hands. You had
better come at night, for the neigh
bors believe he is lost, and couldn't be
responsible for what they would do to
anybody, they saw bringing him back.
Very respectfullv,
EBENEZER DORSET.
"Great pirates of Penzance!" says
I; "of all the impudent"
But I glanced at Bill, and hesitated.
He had the most appealing look in
his . eyes I ever saw on the face of a
dumb or a talking brute. -
"Sam," says he, "what's two "hun
dred and fifty dollars, after all? We've
got the money. One more night of
this kid will send me to a bed in Bed
lam. Besides being a', thoroygh gen
tleman, I think Mr: Dorset, is a spend
thrift for making us such a liberal of
fer. You ain't going to let the chance
go, are you?"
"Tell you the truth', .Bill," says I.
"this little he ewe lamb has somewhat
got on my nerves too. We'll take him
home, pay the ransom and make our
get-away."
We took' him" home that night. We
got him to go by telling him that his
father had bought a silver-mounted
rifle and a pair of moccasins for him,
and we were going to hunt bears the
next day. '
It was just 12 o'clock when we
knocked at Ebenezer's front door. Just
at the moment when I should hivo
been abstracting the fifteen hundred
dollars from the box under the tree,
according" to. the original proposition,
Bill was counting out two hundred and
fifty dollars, into Dorset's hand. '
When the kid found out we wec
going to leave him at home he started
up . a howl like a. calliope and fastened
himself as tight as a leech to Bill's
leg. His father peeled him away grad
ually, lika. a porous piaster.
. "How long can you hold vhim?" asks
Bill. -- -
"I'm not as strong as I used to be,"
says old Dorset,, '.'but I think. I can
promise you -ten minutes."
"Enough." says Bill. "In ten min
utes I shall cross the Central, South
ern and Middle Western States, and be
legging it trippingly for the Canadian
border."
And, as dark as it was, and as fat as
Bill was, and as good a runner as I
am, he was a good mile and a half
out of Summit before I could catch
up with him. '
A PUNCTURED DREAM
OF WEALTH RELATED
Washington. Feb. 12. A punctured
rf wrnlth in which raclne ereen
goods men at Miami," Fla., a mythical
hotel in Pittsburg ana a-vanisnea Dams
roll of $16,000 played a part, was re
ict tn tVio nnlift . here bv Frank
P. Reiss, a retired merchant, of . New
York.
Reiss, the police Laid, reported that,
while in Miami Tor nis neaitn, ne naa
met certain strangers of pleasing pres
ence ana convincing tongue wno xoia
Viim how iniich monev could be made in
th eracing game. He intrusted to them
$16,000 in real casn, ne reportea, agree
ing to: meet his allies in a. Pittsburg
hotel they named.
But there was no such hotel in all
Pittsburg, Reiss found, and he stopped
off to tell the police here about it be
fore again seeking the trail of the $16,
000 in Miami. '
Most
W
owerful Oane Shi In
brld For American Naw
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PRESIDENT WILSON
ARRANGING , BOOKS
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Washington, . Feb. 12. President
Wilson spent several hours yesterday
at the house where he wjll make his
home after his retirement from office
on March 4.
It was the president's second visit
to the house since he purchased it and
with Mrs. Wilson he spent consider
able time in going over his belong
ings which have, recently been brought
here from Princeton, : N. J., and indi
cating, the places in which he desired
them to be placed. The president paid
particular attention to the books of
his library and to their arrangement
in the racks.
All of the president's furniture, which
was in storage in Princeton , has been
received and - there" remains only the
moving of the few personal effects of
the president and Mrs. Wilson from
the white house.
IN FAVOR OF STATE'S RIGHTS.
Columbia, S. C, Feb. 12. Without
a dissenting vote being cast the house
of representatives of the South Car
olina general 'assembly Friday - after
noon' passed a resolution miemorializ
ing the congress of the United States
to "uphold the hands of the western
states in their purpose to maintain, .
pure, undented and supreme white civ
ilization," and reiterating the ancient
South Carolina : doctrine of state's
rights. ; , , . ... ...
- AVIATOR KILLED.
Pensacola, Fla., Feb. 12. Machin
ist's - Mate M. Phelps, of Pelham, Ga.,
who was injured when a seaplane in
which he was flying crashed into a
telegraph pole at the naval air sta
tion eight miles from here today, died
at the naval base hospital. Chief Ma
chinist W. P. Conway, who was In
the plane with Phelps, suffered cuts
and , bruises .but Ms . expected to.; re-
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Alteration of : the Kearsarge for her
new duty will include removal of all
guns; ordnance equipment, turrets and
most, of her armor. Quarters also must
be rearranged to accommodate the ves
sel's complement of officers and . crew
as a crane-ship. -
The crane itself is being built under
contract by the Wellman Seaver Mor
ga ncompany, . of Cleveland, Ohio, and
will be shipped to Philadelphia in
parts for assembling. ' It will be of
the revolving, hinged, jip type, ; electri
cally operated and capable of rotating
360 degrees, and it will be capable of
hoisting a load from 40 feet below the
base of the crane to 103 feet above. By
luffing the jipj without rotating the
crane, the load can be moved through
a horizontal athwartship range extend
ing from 72 to 101 feet from the center
of rotation. . .
Two Giant Hooks.
It will also be' provided .with, an aux
iliary trolleing hoist of 40 tons ca
pacity, having an outreach of 114 feet
and a vertical lift of 175 feet. With
these characteristics, the crane will be
capable of reaching any part of any
United. States naval vessel , nOw build
ing or -contemplated.-
The main hoist consists of two hooks
of 125 tons each, which are fitted to
take an equalizer when, lifting 250 feet.
The plant for supplying power for
the crane "will be located in the hold of
the "vessel. As refitted the Kearsarge
will be able to transport at one time
two . triple 16 inch gun turrets with
their guns, foundation for this purpose
being . provided forward and aft under
the main deck. .
. Naval engineers assert the remodelled
Kearsarge will be a perfectly seaworthy
craft, notwithstanding the huge steel
arm which will extend more than a hun
dred feet above her decks. ,
By HARRY L. ROGERS,
International News Service Staff Cor
' respondent. '
Washington, Feb. 12 Most most pow
erful crane-ship in tne world is to be
the next addition to the United States
navy's, growing list of super-craft, the
Navy Department announced today.
Already the navy has either in com
mission or under construction the
world's biggest" battleship, biggest battle-cruiser,
biggest . rigid-type airship
and biggest seaplane, and Secretary Da
niels has announced that the navy it
selr will be the biggest in the world
by 1923."
The monster crane, "which is to be
mounted on the old battleship ' Kear
sarge now being refitted at the Phila
delphia navy yard, will have a lifting
capacity of 312 tons, or 624,000 pounds.
In other words, it will be able to whisk
about with the ease of a fboliceman
twirling his club weights equal to that
of 4,160 moderately plump ,men, 624
medium-sized horses, or a slightly small
er number of "tin Lizzies."
The . duty of the crane-ship will be
to proceed under its own power from
port to port and handle guns, turrets,
armor-plates, boilers and other heavy
material in the various shipbuilding
yards. Its primary purpose is to lift
turrets from their building cribs into
battleships. ; ' . '
Handles Eig Turrets.
: Sections of a modern triple . 16-inch
gun turret -which must be assembled
aboard a warshtp, weigh 200 tons or
more. . As thisweight is beyond the
crane capacity of some, navy yards and
most of . the private, yards now building
battleships, it is essential for the Navy
Department to have . a large crane that
can be moved from yard. to yard to sup
ply this deficiency. '
-'After All Men Are Infants"
Asserts Feminist Jane Burr
YVritten by MARGERY REX for the
International News Service.
New York, Feb. 12,--Should a man
be master in ; his own home?
. Yea, verily, according to. the Rev.
A. C. Dixon, ' the Buffalo evangelist;
in reproving the sins of Syracuse.
Master yes, but not in his home
is the- opinion of Miss Jane Burr,
American author and feminist, who
reproves with her pen the sins of
modern society and its customs.
"The woman who is unwilling that
a man should be at," the t head of the
household should not get married,"'
says Dr. Dixon. "The Bible teaches
that the husband is the head of the
household." -
-Across . her sunlit desk Miss Burr
smiled at me, as. she read the clergy
man's dictum. Her appearance was
disconcerting. - You ; don't expect to
find . Irish lace blouses and real coif
fures in the village. Much less in
Chelsea. - But Miss Burr is a great
success and can afford to be as un
conventional : as she pleases - with long
hair .and other ornaments considered
very ' radical ' in ; that vicinity. " ' '
"Absurd" she said tersely. "The
well-organized home has no head. It
should be a departmental affair.
"I don't believe in the home but
that is beside the point.
Believes in Two Homes.
i'T do believe in two homes, one for
the husband and one for the wife.
That's what is the matter with mar
riage the mutual home. I know.
I've been married twice. ,
: '"One of the two .in a mutual home
will always try to get the upper hand.
The strong one will become stronger
arid the weak-"one will become weaker.
; "With two i, homes the "woman goes
on with, her - life as she frdid before
marriaga. Then there : is no such dis
cussion J about who is . head . of the
house. - - i - i ' ' ' . . '.
-"The .problem - of "the 'home' would
be solved if all : women could work, if
they could all be protected and cared
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