Already the dark fluid emitted by hU
assailant In lte dual discomfiture was
passing away owing to the slight move
ment of the tide.
"Now that you have brought me here
with so much difficulty, what are you
going to do?" she said. "It will be
madness for you to attempt to ford 1
that passage again. Where there is
one of those horrible things there are
others. I suppose."
"That Is one reason why I brought
the crowbars," be explained. "If you !
will sit down for a little while I will
have everything properly fixed."
He delved with one of the bars until
it lodged in a crevice of the coral.
Then a few powerful blows with the
back of the ax wedged it firmly enough
to beur any ordinary strain. The rope
ends reeved through the pulley on the
tree were lying where they fell from
the girl's hand at the close of the
struggle. He deftly knotted them to the
rigid bur. and a few rapid turns of a
piece of wreckage passed between the
two Hues strung theui Into u tautness
that could not be attained by any
umouut of pulling.
Iris watched the operation In silence.
The sailor always looked at his best
when hard at work. The half sullen,
wholly self contained expression left
his face, which lit up with enthusiasm
and concentrated intelligence. That
which he essayed he did with all his
might.
He, toiling with steady persistence,
felt not the inward spur which sought
relief in speech, but Iris was compelled
to say something.
"I suppose," she commented with an
air of much wisdom, "you are eontriv- j
ing an overhead railway for the safe
transit of yourself and the goods?"
"Y-.ves."
"Why are you so doubtful about it?"
"Because I personally intended to
walk across. The ropes will serve to
convey the packages."
She rose imperiously. "I absolutely j
forbid you to enter the water again.
Such a suggestion on your part is <juite
shameful. You are taking a grave
risk for no very great gain that I can
see, and if anything happens to you I
shall be left all alone In this awful
place."
She could think of no better argu
ment. Her only resource was a wo
man's expedient?a plea for protection
against threatening ills.
The sailor seemed to be puzzled how
best to act.
"Miss Deane," he said, "there is no
snch serious danger as you imagine.
Last time the cuttle caught me nap
ping. He will not do so again. Those
rifles I must have. If it will serve to
reassure you, I will go along the line
myself."
Without another word he commenc- I
ed operations. There was plenty of
rope, and the plan he adopted was
simplicity itself. When each package
was securely fastened he attached it to
a loop that passed over the line stretch
ed from the tree to the crowbar. To j
this loop he tied the lightest rope he j
could And and threw the other end to
Iris. By pulling slightly she was able 1
(to land at her feet even the cumbrous
rifle chest, for the traveling angle was ,
so acute that the heavier the article
the more readily it sought the lower
level.
They tolled in silence until Jenks
could lay hands on nothing more of
value. Then, observing due care, he
quickly passed the channel. For an
instant the girl gated affrightedly at
the sea until the sailor stood at ber
side again.
The tid* had turned. In a few min
utes the reef would be partly sub
merged. To carry the case of rifles to
the mainland waa a manifestly impos
sible feat. So Jenks now did that which
done earlier would have saved blm
some labor. lie broke open the chest
and foundf that the weapons were ap
parently in excellent order.
He snapped the locks and squinted
down the barrels of half a dozen to
test tliem. These lie laid on one side
Then be rapidly constructed a small :
raft from Ioosp timbers, binding them
roughly with rope, and to this argosy 1
he fastened the box of tea, the barrels !
of flour, the broken saloon chair and
other small articles which might he of
use. He avoided nny difficulty in |
launching the raft by building it close j
to the water's edge. When all was |
ready the rising tide floated It for Dim 1
He secured it to bis longest rope and
gave it a vigorous push off into the la
goon. Then he slung four rifles across
his shoulders, asked Iris to carry the
remaining two In like manner and be
gan to maneuver the raft landward.
"While you land the goods I will
prepare dinner." announced the girl.
"Please be careful not to slip on the ;
rocks," he said. "I am concerned about
the rifles. If you fell you might dam
age them, and the Incoming tide will
so hopelessly rust those I leave behind
that they will be useless."
"I will preserve them at any cost,
though with six In our possession there
is a margin for accidents. However, to
reassure you, I will go back quickly."
Before he cold protest she started off
at a run, jumping lightly from rock to
rock. Disregarding his shouts, she per
severed until she stood safely on the
sands. Then, saucily waving a fare
well, she set off toward the cave.
Had she seen the look of fierce de
spair that settled down upon Jenks' 1
face as he turned to his task of guid
ing the raft ashore she might have
wondered what it meant. In any case
she would certainly have behaved dif
ferently.
By the time the sailor had safely
landed his cargo Iris had cooked their
midday meal. She achieved a fresh
culinary triumph. The eggs were fried!
"I am seriously thinking of trying to
boll a ham," she stated gravely. "Have
you any Idea how long it takes to cook
one properly?"
"A quarter of an hour for each
pound."
"Admirable! But we can measure
neither hours nor pounds."
"I think we can do both. I will
construct a balance of some kind.
Then, with a haui slung to one end and
u rifle and some cartridges to the other,
1 will tell you the weight of the ham
to an ounce. To ascertain the time I
have already determined to fashion a
sundial. I remember the requisite
t'.lrislons with reasonable accuracy,
and a little observation will enable us
to correct any mistakes."
"You are really very clever, Mr.
Jenks," said Iris, with childlike candor.
"Have you spent several years of your
life in preparing for residence on a
desert island?"
"Something of the sort. I have led
a queer kind of existence, full of use
less purposes. Fate has driven me In
to a corner where my odds and ends
of knowledge are actually valuable.
Such accidents make men millionaires."
"t'seless purposes!" she repeated. "I
can hardly credit that. One uses such
a phrase to describe fussy people, alive
with foolish activity. Your worst ene
my would not place you in such a
category."
"My worst enemy made the phrase
effective at any rate, Miss Peane."
"Y'ou mean that he ruined your ca
reer?"
"Well?er?yes. I suppose that de
scribes the position with fair accura
cy."
"Was he a very great scoundrel?"
"lie was and is."
Jenks spoke with quiet bitterness.
The girl's words had evoked a sudden
flood of recollection. For the moment
he did not notice how he had been
trapped Into speaking of himself, nor
did he see the quiet content on Iris'
face when she elicited the information
that his chief foe was a man. A cer
tain tremulous hesitancy in her man
ner when she next spoke might have
warned him, but his hungry soul
caught only the warm sympathy of her
words, which fell like rain on parched
crtl 1
"You are tired," she sa.d. "Won't
you smoke for a little while iclk
to me?"
He produced his pipe and tobacco.
"That is a first rate pipe," she de
clared. "My father always said that a
straight stem, with the bowl at a right
angle, was the correct shape. You evi
dently agree with him."
"Absolutely."
"You will like my father when you
meet him. He is the very best man
alive, I am sure."
"You two are great friends, then?"
"Great friends! He is the only friend
I possess in the world."
"What! Is that quite accurate?"
"Oh, quite. Of course, Mr. Jenks, I
can never forget how much I owe to
you. I like you immensely, too, al
though you are so?so gruff to me at
times. But?but?you see, my father
and I have always been together. 1
have neither brother nor sister, not
even a cousin. My dear mother died
from some horrid fever when I was
quite a little girl. My father is every
thing to me."
"Dear child!" he murmured, appar
ently uttering his thoughts aloud rath
er than addressing her directly. "So
you find me gruff, eh?"
"A regular bear when you lecture me.
But thut is only occasionally. You ca?
be very nice when you like, when you
forget your past troubles. And pray,
why do you call me a child?"
"Have I done so?"
"Not a moment ago. How old are
you, Mr. Jeuks? I am twenty?twenty
last December."
"And V' he said, "will be twenty
eight in August."
"Good gracious!" she gasped. "I am
very sorry, but I really thought you
were forty at least"
"I look It, no doubt. Let me be equal
ly candid and admit that you, toe.
show your age markedly."
She smiled nervously. "What a lot
of trouble you must have had to?to?
to give you those little wrinkles in the
corners of your mouth and eyes," she
6aid.
"Wrinkles! How terrible!"
"I don't know. I think they rather
suit you. Besides, it wug stupid of me
to imagine you were so old. I suppose
exposure to the sun creates wrinkles,
and you must have lived much In the
open air."
"hurly rising and late going to bed
are bad for the complexion," he de
clared solemnly.
"I often wonder how army officers
manage to exist," she said. "They
never seem to get enough sleep, in the
east at any rate."
"So you assume I have been in the
army ?"
"I am quite sure of it."
"May I ask why?"
"Tour manner, your voice, your quiet
air of authority, the very way you
walk, all betray you."
"Then," he said sadly, "I will not at
tempt to deny the fact. I held a com
mission in the Indian staff corps for
nine years. It was a hobby of mine.
Miss Deane, to make myself acquaint
ed with the best means of victualing
my men and keeping them in good
health under all sorts of fanciful con
ditions and in every kind of climate,
especially under circumstances when
ordinary stores were not available.
With that object in view I read up
every possible country in which my
regiment might be engaged, learned
the local names of common articles of
food and ascertained particularly what
provision nature made to sustain life.
The study interested me. Once, dur
ing the Sudan campaign, it was really
useful and procured me promotion."
"Tell me about it."
"During some operations in the desert
it was necessary for my troop to fol
low up a small party of rebels mounted
on camels, which, as you probably
know, can go without water much long
er than horses. We were almost with
in striking distance when our horses
^completely gave out, but I luckily no
ticed indications which showed that
there wan water beneath a portion of
the plain much below the general level.
Half an hour's spade work proved that
1 was right. We took up the pursuit
again and ran the quarry to earth, and
I got my captaincy."
"Was there no fight?"
He paused an appreciable time be
fore replying. Then he evidently made
up his mind to perform some disagree
able task. The watching girl could
see the change in his face, the sharp
transition from eager interest to angry
resentment.
"Yes," he went on at last, "there was
a fight. It was a rather stiff affair, be
cause a troop of British cuvalry which
should have supported me had turned
back owing to the want of water al
ready mentioned. But that did not
save the officer in charge of the Twen
ty-fourth lancers from being severely
reprimanded."
"The Twenty-fourth lancers!" cried
Iris. "Lord Yentnor's regiment!"
"Lord Ventnor was the officer in
question."
Her face crimsoned. "Then you
know him?" she said.
"I do."
"Is he your enemy?"
"Yes."
"And that is why you wore so agi
tated that last day on the Sirdar, when
poor Lady Tozer asked me if I were
engaged to him?"
"l'es."
"How could it affect you? Y'ou did
not even know my name then?"
"It affected me because the sudden
mention of his name recalled my own
disgrace. 1 quitted the army six
months ago, Miss Deane, under very
painful circumstances. A general court
martial found me guilty of conduct
unbecoming an officer and a gentle
man. I was not even given a chance
| to resign. I was cashiered."
He pretended to spenk with cool
truculence. He thought to compel her !
Into shrinking contempt. Yet hie face
blanched somewhat, and, though he
steadily kept the pipe between his
teeth and smoked with studied uncon- |
corn, his lips twitched a little.
And he dared not look at her, for the
girl s wondering eyes were fixed upon
him, anu *be blush had disappeared us
quickly as it came.
"I remember something of this," she
said slowly, never one? averting her
gaae. "There was some ;-ossip con
cerning It when I first came 'to Hong
kong You are Captain Robert An
struther?"
"I am."
"And you publicly thrashed Lord
Ventnor as the result of a quarrel
abqut a woman?"
"Your recollection is quite accurate."
"Who was to blame?"
"The lady said that I was."
"Was it true?"
^bert Anstruther, late captain of
I i ;al cavalry, rose to his feet. He
| pi t .erred to take his punishment stand
' lng.
j "The court martial agreed with her,
I Mies Ileane. and I am a prejudiced
I witness." he replied.
"Who was the?lady ?'
"The wife of my colonel, Mrs. Costo
bell."
"Oh!"
Long afterward he remembered the
agony of tbat moment and winced
even at the remembrance. But be had !
I decided upon a fixed policy, and be
j was not a man to flinch from conse
quences. Miss lieane must be taught
to despise blm, else?Ood help them
both?she might learu to love blm as he
now loved her. So. blundering toward
bis goal, as men always blunder where
a woman's heart is concerned, be blind
ly persisted In allowing her to make
such false deductions as she chose
from his words.
Iris was the first to regain some
measure of self control.
"I am glad you hare be?u so candid,
Captain Anstruther," she commenced,
but be broke In abruptly:
"Jenks. if you please, Miss Deans;
Robert Jenks.
"Certainly, Mr. Jenks. Let me be
equally explicit before we quit the
subject. I have met Mrs. Costobell. I
do not like her. I consider her a de
ceitful woman. Your court martial
might have found a different verdict
had its members been of ber sex. As
for Lord Ventnor, be is nothing to me.
It is true he asked my father to be per
mitted to pay bis addresses to me. but
my dear old dad left tbe matter wholly
to my decision, and I certainly never
gave Lord Ventuor any encourage
ment. I believe now that Mrs. Coato
bell lied and that Lord Ventnor lied
when tbey attributed any dishonorable
action to you, and I am glad that yon
beat blm in tbe club. I am quite sure
he deserved it."
Not one word did this strange man
vouchsafe in reply. He started vio
lently. seized the ax lying at bis feet
and went straight among the trees,
keeping his face turned from Iris so
that she might not aee the tears in his
eyes.
As for the girl, she began to scour
i her cooking utensils with much en
ergy and soon commenced a song. Con
sidering that she was compelled to con
stantly endure the company of a de
graded officer, who bad been expelled
from the service with ignominy, she
was absurdly contented. Indeed, with
the happy inconsequence of youth, she
quickly threw all care to the winds and
devoted her thoughts to planning a
surprise for tbe next day by preparing
some tea, provided she could surrepti
tiously open the chest.
(TO HE CONTINUED.)
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THE MAN WITH
THE MUCK RAKE
President Roosevelt Denounces Crit>
icism of Public Officials.
ADVOCATES INHERITANCE TAX
Washington. April 16. ? President
Roosevelt, in his speech at the laying
of the corner stone of the office build
ins for the house of representatives,
added another number to his program
of reforms by advocating the imposi
tion of a federal inheritance tax on
'?swollen fortunes." He also denounced
the detractors of public men in the
course of his talk on the "man with
the muck-rake.'* The president's ad
dress in part was as follows:
Over a century ago Washington laid
the corner stone of the capitol in what
jvas then little more than a tract of
wooded wilderness here beside the Poto
m.'<\ We now And it necessary to pro
vide by great additional buildings for
the business of the government. The
material problems that face us today
are not such as they were in Washing
tons' time, but the underlying facts of !
human nature are the same now n9 they
were then. Under altered external form j
we war with the same tendencies toward j
evil that were evident in Washington's !
time, and are helped by the same ten
dencies for good. It is about some of
these that I wish- to say a word.
In Bunyan's Pilgrim Progress you may
recall the description of the man with
the muck-rake, the man who could look
no way but downward.with the muck-rake
in his hand: who was offered a celestial
crown for his muck-rake, but who would
neither look up nor regard the crown
he was offered, but continued to rake to
himself the tilth of the floor. There is
filth on the floor, and it must be scraped
up with the muck-rake; and there are
times and places where this service is
the most needed of all the services that
can be performed. But the man who
never does anything else, who never
thinks or speaks or writes, save of his
feats with the muck-rake, speedily be
comes, not u help to society, not an in
citement to good, but one of the most
potent forces for ?evil.
Liar No Better Than Thief.
They are in the body politic, economic I
and social, many and grave evils, and |
there is urgent necessity for the stern
est war upon them. There should be re- i
lentless exposure of and attack upon
every evil man, whether politician or
business man. every evil practice, wheth
er In politics, in business or in social
life. I hail as a benefactor every writer
or speaker, every man who, on the plat
form or in book, magazine or newspaper,
with merciless severity, makes such at
tack, provided always that he in his
turn remembers that the attack is of use
only if it is absolutely truthful. Th?
liar is no whit better than the thief, and j
if his mendacity takes the form of slan
der. he may be worse than most thieves.
It puts a premiuKn upon knavery un- >
truthfully to attack an honest man, or
even with hysterical erfc?7gerntlon to as |
sail a bad man with untruth. An epi
demic of indiscriminate assault upon
character does no good, but very great
harm. The soul of every scoundrel is
gladdened whenever an honest man is as
sailed, or even when a scoundrel is un
truthfully assailed.
Now. it is easy to twist out of shape
what I have Just said, easy to affect to
misunderstand it. and if it is slurred over
in repetition, not difficult really to misun
derstand it. Some persons are sincerely
incapable of understanding that to de
nounce mud slinging does not mean the
indorsement of whitewashing; and both
the Interested individuals who need white
washing. and those others who practice
mud slinging, like to encourage such con
fusion of ideas. One of the chief counts
against those who make indiscriminate
assault upon men In business or man in
public life is that they invite a reaction
which is snre to tell powerfully in favor
of the unscrupulous scoundrel who really
ought to b? attacked, who ought to be
ex->osed. who ought, if possible, to be
put in the penitentiary.
Any excess is almost sure to invite a
reaction; and. unfortunately, the reaction.
Instead of taking the form of punish
ment of those guilty of the excess, is vary
apt t? take the form either of punish
ment of the unoffending or of giving Im
munity. snd even strength, to offenders.
The effort to make financial or political
profit out of the destruction of character
can only result in public calamity. Gross
and reckless assaults on character cre
ate a morbid and vicious public senti
ment. and at the same time act as a
profound deterrent to able men of nor
mal sensitiveness and tend to prevent
them from entering the public service at
any price. As an instance in point. I
may mention that one serious difficulty
encountered in getting the right type
of men to dig the Panama canal Is the
certainty that they will be exposed, both
without and, I am sorry to say. some
times within, congress, to utterly reck
I lens assaults on their character and ca
! parity.
Hunt Down Criminals.
j At the risk of repetition, let me say
apain that my plea is. not for immunity
to. but for the moat unsparing exposure
I of the politician who betrays his trust,
I of the big business men who makes or
spends his fortune in illegitimate or cor
rupt ways. There should be a resolute
effort to hunt every such man out of the
position he has disgraced. Expose the
crime and hunt down the criminal; but
remember that even in the case of crime,
if it is attacked in sensational, lurid and
| untruthful fashion, the attack may do
more damage to the public mind than the
crime itself. It is becauss I feel that
| there should be no rest in the endless
j war against the forces of evil that I
I ask that the war be conducted with san
ity as well as with resolution. The men
with the muck-rakes are often indis
pensable to the well being of society;
| but only If they know when to stop
raking the muck, and to look upward
I to the celestial crown above them, to
I the crown of worthy endeavor.
I To assail the great and admitted evils
' of our political and industrial life with
such crude and sweeping generalisations
as to include decent men in the general
condemnation means the searing of the
public conscience. There results a gen
eral' attitude either of cynical belief in
and indifference to public corruption, or
else of a distrustful inability to* discrimi
nate between the good and the bad.
Either attitude is fraught with untold
damage to the country as a whole.
At this moment we are passing through
a period of great unrest?social, political
and industrial unrest. It is of the utmost
Importance for our future that this should
prove to he not the unrest of mere re
belliousness against life, of mere dissat
isfaction with the inevitable inequality
of conditions, but the unrest of a resolute
and eager ambition to secure the better
ment of the individual and the nation.
80 far as this movement of agitation
throughout the country takes the form
of a fierce discontent with evil, of a de
termination to punish the authors of
evil, whether In industry or politics, the
tiling is to bo heartily welcomed an a
tlirn of healthy lift*
It ta a prime necessity thut if the pres
? nt unrest la to result in permanent good
the emotion shall be translated into op
tion and that the action shall be marked
by honesty, sanity and t^f restraint.
There Is mighty little good in a mere
spasm of reform. The reform that counts
Is that which cornea through steady, con
tinuous growth, violent emotionalism
leads to exhaustion.
Advocates Inheritance Tax.
It is Important to this people to grap
ple with the problems connected with the
amassing of enormous fortunes, and the
use of those fortunes, both corporate and
individual, in business. We should dis
criminate in the sharpest way between
fortunes well won and fortunes 111 won;
between those gained in an Incident to
per*" Tinlng great services to the com
r u.ty fs a whole, and those gained In
evil fashion b> keeping just within the
1'mlts of mere law honesty. Of course,
r?? riM ur.t of charity In spending for
turrs 'n any way compensates for mls
< ??r.du< t in making them. As a matter
of personal conviction, and without pre
tending to discuss the details or formu
late the system, 1 f el that we shall ultl
m t. ly have to consider the adoption of
some such s( ! ?n,rt ; ? that of a progres
s've tax on all fortunes, beyond a cer
tain amount, either given In life or de
vi (1 ' r hf^ucrthvd upon death to any
individual?a tax so framed as to put
It out of the pi w? r of the owner of one
of these enormous fortunes to hand over
more than a certain amount to any one
Individual; the tax. of course, to be Im
posed by the n tional and not the state
government. ?\i< h taxation should, of
course, be a'med merely at the Inherit
ance or transm'es'on in their entirety of
these fortunes swollen beyond all healthy
limits.
Again, the national government must
In some form exercise supervision over
corporations engaged In interstate busi
ness? and 11 lata ? corporations are en
gaged in Interstate business?whether by
license or otherwise, so as to permit lis
to deal wilh the far-reaching evils of
over capitalisation. This year we are
making a beginning in the direction of
serious effort to settle some of these eco
nomic problems by the railway-rate leg
islation.
The first requisite in the public ser
vants who are to deal in this shape with
corporations, whether as legisltors or as
executives, is honesty. This honesty can
be no reapector of persons. There can be
no such thing as unilateral honesty. The
danger is not really from corrupt corpo
rations; it springs from the corruption
itself, whether exercised for or against
corporations.
The men of wealth who today are try- j
Ing to prevent the regulation and control ;
of their business in the interest of the j
public by the proper government author
ities will not succeed, in my Judgment. '
in checking the progress of the move- j
ment. But if they did succeed they i
would find that they had sown tha wind
and would surely reap the whirlwind, for
they would ultimately provoke th? violent
excesses which accompany a reform com
ing by convulsion Instead of by steady
and natural growth.
On the other hand, the wild preachers
of unrest and discontent, the wild agi
tator*-' against the entire existing order,
the men who act crookedly, whether b?
<,ti of sinister design or from mer?
puzxle-headedness, the men who preach
destruction without proposing any sub
stitute for what they intend to destroy,
or who propose a substitute which would
he far worse than the existing evils?all
these men are the most dangerous op
ponents of real reform. If they get their
way they will lead the people into a
deeper pit than any Into which they
could fall under the present system. If
they fall to get their way they will still
do incalculable hurm by provoking the
kind of reaction, which In Its revolt
against the senseless evil of their teach
ing, would enthrone more securely thun
ever the very evils which their misguid
ed followers believe they are attacking.
VESUVIUS SUBSIDES
Trocps Recoverng the Dead From Zone
of Devastation.
Naples, April 16.?The somewhat,
threatening condition of Mount Vesu
vius Saturday night having subaided
with the ejection of enormous clouds
of Rand and ashes, the elements have
begun to settle slowly, again envelop
ing the mountain in a thick haze and
cutting off the view from Naples, only
the outline of the base being visible.
The gravity of the situation has now
shifted to Ottajano and San Giuseppe,
where the recovery of the dead from
the debris goes on amid the misery of
thousands of homeless refugees. A
sensational development occurred dur
ing the work of salvage at Ottajano,
when the searchers unearthed two
aged women, still alive but speer bless,
after six days entombment. They were
among the hundreds who were crush
ed beneath the falling walls during the
rain of stones and ashes last Sunday
and Monday. Hope had been abandon
ed of finding any of these persons
alive. The women were protected by
the rafters of the house which they
were in and had managed to exist on
a few morsels of food which they had
in their pockets.
The loss t.n nronertv hv thp vnlmnip
outbreak is estimated at $2(1,000,000,
and it is estimated that 50,000 persons
have been rendered homeless.
Fight Typhoid In Sick Room.
Harrisburg, Pa., April 17. ? Dr.
Samuel G. Dixon, state health com
missioner, impressed with the gravity
of the typhoid fever situation in Pitts
burg. addressed a letter to the boards
of health in all towns along the Alle
gheny river above the in-take of the
Pittsburg water system which pour
their sewage into the water the Pitts
burg people drink. Dr. Dixon says in
bis letter that he fully realizes that for
these towns to discontinue discharging
their sewage Into the Allegheny river
is impracticable of immediate attain
ment. "The typhoid baccili contained
in the discharges of the patient can,
however," BayB Health Commissioner
Dixon, "be killed before these dis
charges are carried out of the sick
room. Hence the sick room is the first
place to combat the spread of this
dread disease, and all typhoid dis
charges should be thoroughly disin
fected."
Girl Drowned While Canoeing.
Washington, April 14.?Elsie Wood,
25 years of age, was drowned in the
Potomac river while canoeing with G.
R. Frey, an 18-year-old student at the
Georgetown University, their boat
having beet overturned by the swell
of a passing 'ugboat. The woman sank
before aid could reach her. Frey was
rescued. Miss Wood's body hot not
been recovered.
FOUR KILLED ?*
IN STRIKE RIOT
Deputies Fire on Mob St^-ming Jail
at Windber, Pa.
SEVERAL OTHERS WOUNDED
Johnstown, Pa., April 17.?A riot oc
curred at Windber between striking
miners and others, and in the resulting
shooting by deputies Pictu Martini,.
Paul ZilIs, Antonio Mazuca and Charles
Foster. 12 years old. were killed. Min
ing Engineer Eugene Delaney was dan
gerously injured and several others
were wounded. Foster was shot
through the bowels and died in the
hospital.
An eye-vitne-s of the riot, in de
scribing the affair, srii the troubls
started whpn Deputy SherifT W. W.
McMuilen wont to the mass meeting
held by the striking miners in a wood
at the ec'.ge < f til" town. Many of the
miners hail been drinking, and the
sight of the doptt*: made them furious.
The officer was quickly surrounded by
maddened mint r.i, who threatened to
kill him. McMuilen. realizing that his
situation was desperate, fled for his life,
finding refuge in the house of Council
man Charles Davis Practically every
man who had gone to the mass meeting
Joined in the chase after the fleeing
deputy, and soon after the latter had
entered the Davis house it was sur
rounded by a mob of 2000 shouting,
cursing miners, who challenged McMui
len to come out. When McMu leo
failed to appear, the mob attacked tha
house and literally wrecked it. Tha
deputy sherifT was roughly handled, but
again managed to escape. The mem
bers of the Davis family fled to tha
homes of neighbors for shelter. Uthei
deputies, who had been on duty guard
ing the property of the coal company,
had been not! flail of the trouble by this
time, and 20 of the rioters were landed
in the lock-up at Windber.
The mob, headed by Paul Zills, thee
planned an aseault on the jail with the
purpose of releasing the prisoners. A
great crowd of the strikers, with Zlllf
at their head, marched to the centre ol
the town and prepared to storm the
Jail. The deputy sheriffs fixed the bay
onets to their rifles and surrounded th?
Jail to keep it from the mob's posses
sion, If possible. The members of the
fire department were also called out to
help restore order. The foreigners were
urged to be orderly and to leave the
town, but Influenced by liquor, they re
fused to listen, greeting the efforts ta
pacify them with hoots and Jeers. At
a signal the mob began to close In on
the Jail, shouting to the deputies ta
throw away their guns and give up the
prisoners. The officers first tried ta
keep back the mob with bayonets, but
the effort was Ineffectual, and when it
became certain that the little band ot
deputies and firemen could not stand
before the howling, infuriated mob they
opened fire. Those of the foreigner*
who were closest to the jail had al
ready begu. >slng knivee in the at
tempt to disarm the deputies, while
others flourished revolvers. The depu
ties fired but one volley, and the for
eigners broke and fled in wlii disorder,
leaving three of their number u.'-ad in
front of the jail. The wounded who
were able to walk were hurried to thelf
homes and boarding houses, while an
ambulance took the more seriously hurl
to 'the Windber hospital.
Fears are entertained that the strik
ers will make another effort to frei
the rioters now In Jail.
At the mass meeting the men had do
cided to return to work on the opera
tors' terms, when Deputy McMuIlen
appeared. It Is Bald that an Intoxicated
striker made an Insulting remark tfl
the deputy, and that when the lattet
warned the miner to keep quiet the
trouble began.
Sheriff Begley has been summoned to
Windber. and Governor Pennypacker
has been telegraphed to. asking him to
send the state constabulary. Wlndbef
Is in a furore of excitement.
POLICE GO ON STRIKE
Connellsville Officers Quit When In
creased Pay Is Refused.
Connellsville, Pa., April 17.?All the
police of this place went on strike and
the town is now without police protec
tion. When the tramps working oil
public improvements heard that the
force had resigned they made their es
cape, and although the officers saw
them leave they did not attempt to
prevent them from going. The strike
was caused by the refusal of the town
council to grant an Increase of $10 a
month in salaries.
Found Cure For Locomotor Ataxia.
London. April 14.?The Express says
that Le Grand Norton Denslow, an
American doctor residing in I-ondon.
has discovered a cure for locomotor
ataxia. He already, says the Express,
has eeftcted a number of wonderful re
coveries. Dr. Denslow is not ready to
make public the details of his discov
ery, but when he Is ready he will take
tho medical profession into bis con
fidence.
Killed Watching Base Ball Game.
New York, April 16.?Robert Norton.
12 years of age, was struck on tho
forehead by a base ball batted into a
crowd by a player. The boy died within
a few minutes. He had been watching
two teams playing on a vacant lot near
his home In Jersey City.
Gnats KIM :-" Live Stock.
Birmingham. . April 17.?A spe
cial from Jacksoi. Miss., says gnats
are killing live stork In large numbers
In the delta count!"* of the state. Ia
stanses are repor ere horses hare
died wlth'r "n v tor having beea
stung by u. fi...