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lPly THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK Kjj Jg PAGE r" r ! "People in those days (for this hap pened a long time ago), were very ignor ant and the servants believed every word of his speech. The ordeal began. The first person to enter the dining-room was the valet, Bourgogne. Conscious of his innocence, the honest fellow blew with all his might, and put out the flame. Bourgogne was frightened. "Indeed, I am not guilty," he cried. "We know that, my fnend," said the Duke kindly. "Do not alarm yourself ! Only we do not want anything said about what goes on in here. Just go in to that room on the right and remain there uutil we have finished this busi ness.'" When Bourgogne .had gone, the Duke relighted the candle, and called in another man. This one also blew strongly upon the flame, and to his dismay, blew it out. lie was reassured and sent to keep Bourgogne company. The same thing happened again and again, until seven of the servants had blown out the candle. At last came one who had been in the service of the Comte de Louppy only eight days. This man puffed at the candle so gently and crookedly that the flame scarcely trembled. "Blow harder, man!" said the Due de Beaulieu. "If you are innocent, you have nothing to fear." But the servant, who had a guilty conscience, puffed as lightly as possible. "You are the thief." "We will not expose vou," said the Comte. "Yes, my Lord," stammered the cul prit. Putting his hand into his pocket, he brought out the missing purse. "We need go no further," said the Comte de Louppv. "Your confession shall be known only to the Duke and my self ; but tomorrow you will take your self out of my house, to come to a bad end, unless you mend your ways, else where !" ' The Shot Tower I)icovery The shot tower was very high. At the top, in the center, was a great perforated plate, a giant colander, and a hundred feet below a vast tank of cold water glimmered. "Here she goes," said the foreman. He dumped a huge ladleful of molten lead into the colander. It fell in a fine rain through the perforations. Down be low there was a splash, splash, splash, and in the tank lay many pounds of fresh shot, round and perfect. "The shot tower, a grand invention, was due to a dream," the foreman said. kOnce upon a time shot was made by hand. Lead was cut into tinyfeubes, and rolled around in a barrel till the corners wearing off, the cubes grew round. A tedious, costly progress. "Then came the dream of a man named Watts, a shot-maker. "Watts dreamed one night that he went to a party, and that on the way home from the party a strange rain be gan to fall. The rain hurt him. " 'It stings like shot,' he said. "And then he caught some of it in his hand, and found that it was shot. "When Watts awoke the next morning he couldn't get his odd dream out of his head. He thought of it all day long. And late that afternoon he went up into the steeple of a church and melted a small chunk of lead and dropped it down. "The lead fell in round pellets, in per fect globules. It was shot shot made with none of the difficulties of cutting and barrel-rolling. Watts, thanks to his dream, had happened on a wonderful in vention. "The shot towers that rise like steeples over the land only steeples are for the saving of life, while shot towers are for its destruction would none of them exist if Watts had not had that strange dream of his." Quaint Donegal Cantle As far back as history goes of this an cient Irish Castle of Donegal it was the stronghold of the O'Donnells. It was Hugh O'Donnell and his wife, Fingalla, of the house of O'Brien, who completed the Franciscan Monastery in the year 1474, and which was founded many years be fore by a very pious woman, Nuala O'Donnell. In 1593 an English force seized an is land in the harbor, and the soldiers quar tered in the abbey, pillaging the county. At this time Hugh O'Donnell, son of the O'Donnell who had had the old abbey completed, was too old and feeble to make a defense ; but his young son, Red Hugh, who had been a prisoner in Dub lin Castle, succeeded in obtaining his lib erty, and upon hearing of the insult to his county mustered his friends together and hurriedly came to the relief of Done gal, putting the enemy to rout. Red Hugh was a mere boy at the time, but through his valor and good sense he suc ceeded in saving what still remains of Donegal Castle. In his great joy at his son's victory the elder Hugh resigned his position as head of the Castle of Don egal in the youth's favor, and Red Hugh made the stronghold his home for some years. No figure in Irish history is more replete with interest than is that of Red Hugh O Donnell. His life was filled with fiercest conflict, and he was one of the most fearless of men. TP DONEGAL CASTLE HOTEL RALBIQH RALEIGH, N. C New and Modern. 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