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fsERIAL^ I STORY J STANTON I (l WINS n By Eltaaor M. la«raai Author of "The Corns and the Candle," "The FWk Mercury." etc. AUnSM 1* Fradsrfc Thorafcargb frill M nil Mtt T>wiaST>toimrO«i»l«7""^ 1 CHAPTER I. The Man Who Oared. The official starter let his raised arm fall and leaned forward, peering •cities the bleaded glare and darkness. "What?" he shouted, above the pul sating roar Of the eleven racing ma chines lined up befope the Judges' stand. "What?" Then was a flurry around the cen tral ear, whose driver leaned from his neat to* stare down at the man who had slipped from beside him to the ground. The grest crowd congesting the grand-stand pressed closer to the harrfer. staring also, commenting and conjecturing. "The mechanician of the Mercury Is •of his car!" "Fainted—" TeH-- "The automobiles hadn't started; he mast be sick."* The referee was already pushing his way back, bringing the report from the hastily summoned surgeon "Heart disease," he announced right «ad left. "Stanton's mechanician Just •dropped off his seat, dead. But Stanton himself had already swung out of his car, with the ener getic decision that marked his every movement. "My man la out," he tersely stated to the starter. "I've got to run over to my camp and get another. Will you hold the start for me?" The question was rather a demand than a request. There was scarcely one among the vast sudlenoe who wonld not have felt the sparkle gone from this strong black wine of sport they had com« to sip, if f|alpb Stanton had been withdrawn from the twenty four-hour contest. He had not only tame aa a skilful and scientific racer; he bad the reputation of being the *M>«t spectacularly reckless driver in America, whose death could be but a question of time and whose record of accidents and vlctorlea verged on the appalllng> He knew his value as an attraction, and the starter knew it, although preserving Impassivity. "Five minutes," the official con ceded, and drew out bla watch. Already a stream of men were run alng toward the Mercury camp with the news. Stanton sprang Into his ttachine, deftly sent It forward out of the line, and shot around into the en trance to the huge oval field edged by ■the Beach track; a mile of white rib few bordering a green medallion. The row of electric-lighted tents, ■each numbered and named for Its own Taclng car, was in a turmoil of exclte ■est. But moat agitated was the group before the tent marked "9, Mercury." "Durand'a down and out—give aw another man." called Stanton, baiting Ida noisy, floating car. "Quick, you—" But no one atepped forward from the cluster of factory men and me chanics. Only the aaaiatant manager of UM Mercury company responded to the demand: "Ton, go; one of you boya. 11l make ft right with you. Tou, Jones." I'm markted, alr,"« refused Jonea succinctly. ■ "Well, yot| then, Walters. Good freavena, mant what do you mean?" ror the burly Waltera backed away, *etaally Mia. "11l dig potatoea, first, sir." "Why, you asad to race?". "Not-with Stanton, sir." There was a low murmur of appro val among his mates, and a drawing together for support. Stanton atepped ■down from his car, snatching oft his amak to show a dark, strong face grin with anger and contempt. "Tan wretched, backboneless cow ards!" ha harted at them, hla blue- Mack ayes flashing over the group. "Do you know what I and the com pany stand to losa if I'm disqualified flor lack of ona of you jellyfish to alt % aside me sad pump oil? Isn't there a man in the camp? IH give fifty dol lars myself to the one who goes, a hundred if 1 win." TH promise twice, that," eagerly aapplemeated Green, the aaslstaat manager. Ha had private bets cm Mat one of the clustered workmen •Damn you!" pronounced the driver, bitterly and comprehanalvaly. 'Til re- Q feat that, offer to the man who will m (or the firat three hours only, sad • aaeanwhlle well send to New York aafi And a red-blooded male." Tfca man looked at one another, but shook their beads. "Ha? Tou woat? Too work your miserable bodtealhree moatha to earn what I offer for three boars. What's Jlpke matter with yon. don't I risk my aeckT" Ha tamed, sending his pow asfal voice riaglng down the Una., -Here, boat the paddock, all of you— I - - two hundred toHin tor a au to itt* the next throe boars with pie!" "You can't take a man from another camp. Stanton." protested the frantic Mr. Green "He mfght trick you, h urt the car." His appeal went down tha wind'un heeded, except for one glance from racer's gleaming ey«s. ; "Ho won't trick mo." said Stanton.' The crowded stands were %bulk of swaying, seething Impatietfgg The paddock was la an uproar, the Mer cury camp the center of interest. But no volunteers answered th* call. The panting machine, its hood wrapped In jets of violet flame, headlights and tall-lights shedding vivid illumination around the figure of its baffled master, quivered with impotent life and strength. Raging, Stanton stood, watoh in hand, his face a set stndy in scorn. Suddenly the harsh rasp of the offi cial klaxon soared above the hubbub, warning, summoning. "Four minutes," panted the despair ing assistant manager. "Stanton—" Some one was running toward them, some one for whom a lane waa opened by the spectators from other camps who hsd congregated. "Get aboard." called ahead a fresh young voioe. "Get aboard; 111 go." "Thank Heaven for a man!" snarled Stnaton, as the runner dashed up. "Why, It's a boy!" "Floyd." Mr. Green bailed hysterical ly. "You'll go?' "IH go," assured Floyd, and faced the driver; a slim, youthful figure in a mechanic's blue overalls, his sleeves rolled to the elbows and leaving bare his slender arms; his head, covered like a girl's with soft closely cropped curling brown hair, tilted back as his steady gray eyes looked up at Stan ton. "You? You couldn't crank a taxi cab," flung the racer, brutal with dis appolntment and wrath. "You'd go? A boy?" "Im aa old aa the driver of the Singer car, and acant five years young er than you—l'm twenty-one," flashed the'retort. "Add I know all there la about gasoline cara. I gueaa you're big enough to crank your own nfttor aren't you, If I can't? You've got thirty aeconda left; do you want me?" Met on his own tone, Stanton gasped, then caught his mask from the man who held it. "Why don't you get on your clothes ?" h« demanded savagely. "Are you going to race like that? Jump, you useless cowards there— can't you pass him his things? Tele phone the stand that I'm coming, tome one." There was a wild sMirry of prepara tion, the telephone bell jingled madly. "Jes Floyd Is one of our new factory JT' Stanton Stood, Watch In Hand, Hla Face a Sat Study In Scorn. men," hurried Mr. Green, ID breathleaa explanation, aa Stanton took his seat. "He'i a gas-engine wonder—be knowa them like a clock—he tuned up thla car you're got, thla morning—" The klaxon brayed again. A trim ap parition in racing coatume darted from the tent to awing Into the nar row aeat betide the driver, and Stan ton's car leaped for the paddock exit with a roar anawered by the deafen ing roar of welcome from the ipecta tora. "Beven minutes," snapped the start er,' aa the Mercury wheeled In line. Stanton ahrugged hla shoulders with supreme Indifference, perfectly aware of hla security, slnoe the atari had not been made. But bis .mechanician leaned forward with a little gurgle of Irrealatlble, aunahot laughter. "Don't worry," he besought. "Really, we'll get In seven minutes ahead." Hla mocking young voice carried above the terrific din of tfce eleven huge machines, and Stanton turned upon him, amazed and irritated at the audacity. The starter also stared, Juet aa a flashlight Sared up and abowed fully the young gray eyee EiflSLiLar • JSS-C; 'W®' •. t, - dancing behind the goggles, tb« ni young month unlllng below tk mask, the shining young curia which the cup tolled to cov«r. He stared, then slowly relaxed Into a smile, and went forward. talking done whll« I'm up[ la done by me," atated Stanton forcibly. "Remember." . "Don't you ever need a rest?" queried Floyd. Stanton opened his lips, and closed them again without speaking. Hla trained glance wont to sweep hla op ponenta, gaging their relative posi tions, their probable order on the first turn, and his owp beat move. The successive flashlights on either Side were blinding, the atmoaphere was suffocating with the exhaust gasolene and acetylene fumes. It was as fa miliar to him aa the odor of sawdust to the circua dweller, aa the atrong salt wind to a habitant of the coast; the unuaual element lay in the boy beside him. Man, he refused to acknowledge him. i ! , The aharp crack of a pistol, the fall of a flag, and the whole struggling, flaming flock sprang forward toward the first turn, wheel to wheel In death-edged contest. And Stanton for got hla mechanician. The Mercury led the flrat circuit, aa uauai. It waa very faat, and Ita pilot look the chancea more prudent driver* avoided. Still, the lead waa leaa than the car'a own length, two of ita cloaeat rivala hanging at Ita flanks, when they paaaed the tumultuoua grand-stand, Juat ahead lay again the "death curve." There waa a awlft movement beaide Stanton, the pendent linen •treamera floating from hia cap were deftly seised and the duat swept from hia gogglea with a practiced rapidity. "Car on each aide an' one trying to paaa," the clear voice pierced th« hearing. "No room next the fence." Stanton grunted. The boy knew how to riae In a apeeding machine, then, and how to take care oj hit driver, he noted. Nevertheleaa, h« meant to take that fence aide. And he did. Aa the other driven ahut off power to take the dangerou* bend more slowly, Stanton ahot for ward at unchanged speed, cut in ahead and awept flrat around the turn, tak ing the Inaide curve. The spectator* roae with a universal cry of consterna tion; the Mercury awerved, almoal facing the infleld fence, akldding ap pallingly and lurching drunkenljr on two wheela, then righted itself tindei the steering-wheel in the maater't handa, and ruahed on, leading by a hundred feet. The people cheered frantically, th« btfnd crashed into raucous mualo Stanton's mechanician got up to lean over the back of the flying car an feel the rear casing*. "You're tryln' to tires," he imparted his acoenta close to the driver's ear, That was the first time that Btantot noticed that Floyd lisped 4nd blurrec hia final "g" in momenta of lexcite ment. It might have Bounded effemi nate, if tbe voice had not been with out a tremor. Aa it was— At the end of tbe flrat h6ur, th bulletin boards showed the Mercur) five laps ahead of ita nearest, rival. And then Hoyd spoke again to tail driver. "What?" Stanton questioned, abov« the noise of tbe motor. "We've got to run in; I'm afraid a! the rear inside shoe. It won't stanl another skid like tbe last." Stanton's mouth sbat In a bart line. - _ w "I will not," be stated. "OA bacl in your place. You can't tell." "I can." Stanton deigned no reply, slidlni paat one of the slower cars on th back stretcb. To go in meant to lom tbe whole time gained. As tbey too) tbe back turn, Floyd again leant* ovsr. - (TO BB CONTINUED.) ifr ."I'V* i SUNDAY SCHOOLS ELECT OFFICEOS J. A. BROWN OF CHADBOURN ELECTED PRESIDENT OF •TATE ASSOCIATION. NEXT IN WINSTON-SALEM After Choosing the Place of Meeting the Thirtieth Annual Convention Adjourned at Greensboro.—Much Good Work Done During Session. Greensboro. Pledging himself to* carry with him to Winston-Salem next year 4.000 delegates to be en tertained at the thirty-first annual con vntton of the North Carolina Sun day School Aasociation, the newly elected president, Mr. J. A. Brown of Chadbourn, declared that the inter vening year shall be one of greater organisation and greater usefulnesa among tile Sunday school of North Carolina. Mr. Brown declared that t)ie Sunday schools are Just finding their strength in the tsate, and that they have Just fought one of their hardest battles and won, this being In fihe oausd of (prohibition.' The convention aljourned following his brief talk. . At the closing aeaaion of the great est convention the Sunday schools have ever held in this state two speeches were delivered, officers were eleoted, resolutions adopted and com mlttee reports heard. The following officers were presented by the nomi nating committee and unanimously elected: J. A. Brown, president, Chadbourn; Rev. J. K. Pfohl, vice president, Winston-Salem; E. H. Kochtitxky, vice president, Mount Airy; 0. C. Brlggs, vice president; Rev. J. W. Lonx, gen era! secretary, Greeneboro; Miss Mar tha Dozier, office secretary, Greens boro; Mr. W. M. Cohmbs, treasurer, Greensboro. Executive edmmittee: W. A. Harper chairman; N. B.- Broughton, vice chairman. Term expiring 1914—Rev. Shuford Peeler, Greensboro; Dr. J. L. Nicholl •on, L. W. Clarke, Spray; J. W. Good man, Klnston; W. A. Harper, Elon College; W. R. Odell. Concord; Hugh Parks, Jr., Franklinville; A. L. Smoot, Salisbury; G. P. Stradley, Asheville; A. E. Tate, High Point. Term expiring 1915 —N. B. Brough ton, Raleigh; W. B. Cooper, Wil- J. Y. Joyner, Raleigh: G. H. Miles, Greensboro; Dr. C. W. Byrd, Greensboro; R. G. Vaughn, Greens boro; W. D. Turner, Statesville; Leonard Vyne, North Wilkesfooro; Geo. W. Watts, Durham; F. M. Weav er, Asheville. Term expiring 1916—Thad Jones. Keansville; W. T. Crawford, .Waynes vllle; D. H. Dixon, Goldalboro; Dr. L. L. Hobbs, Guilford College; Rev. R. M. Andrews, Greensboro; ft M. Poole, Salisbury; C. S. Starbuck, .Winston Salem; G. T. Stevenson, Wlnston-Sa lem; Hon. Jeter C. Pritchard, Ashe ville. The central committee—W. A. Har per, Elon College; N. R. Broughton Raleigh; R. C. Hood, Greensboro; G, H. Miles, Greensboro; R. G. Vaughn, Greensboro; G. T, Stevenson, WJn s ton-Sal em; A. E. Tate, High Point; Geone W. Watts, Durham. Laat Link of Road Authorised. The laet remaining link of road needed to place Kings Mountain on the national highway was authorized by the voters of Grover precinct of No. 4 township, Cleveland county, when tbey voted 70 tQ 19 for a SIO,OOO Issue of bonds to complete the road from here to the South Carolina line J. O. Ellis, M. A. Palmer and A. H. Rollins were selected as a highway commission to put through the bonds and to build the road. No. 7 township reoently voted boads, and with the exception of the Ave miles from Grov er to the state limits this town If connected with tbe outside world hrough tbe medium of well-laid sand clay roads. Evangelical Lutheran Synod. The on© hundred and tenth annual convention of the Evangelical Luther an Synod and-Mlnisterium of North Carolina wjll be held in St. John's Lutheran church, near Mt. Pleasant Cabarrus county. This congregation was organized in 1747. Two other congregation* of synod are the same age, viz; St. John's, Salisbury, anr' Organ church, Rowan county. Thes three united In the effort to bring form Germany the first Lutheran rain later that ever preached in North Car ollna, tbe Rev. Adolph Nussman. J. Leon Qoddard Freed. J. Leon Goddard of Ooala, Fla., who has been held by the sheriff at Fay etteville, his former home, on requisi tion from Florida to answer to r charge of grand larceny, was released by Sheriff McGeachy on order of Gov eraor Craig, as the result of a tele gram from Oca la stating that the proceedings against Goddard had been dismissed. Telegrams which caused his dismissal came separately from the prisoner's brother and the sheriff who «aoeed his arrest. . His release was arranged by telephone. TAR HEEL CINCINNATI MEET Stats Branch Oldest Hereditary Order of America.—Reelects Officers.— Praa. Wilson Honorary Member. Greensboro. —Prominent North Car olinians ana natives of the state who are la distant states, were here for the annual meeting of the North Caro lina Society of Cincinnati. Following the business session the visitors were carried to the Guilford Battle Ground and then they gathered at the annual society dinner. The Society of the Cincinnati la the oldeat hereditary or der in America having been founded by Washington and hts officers at the close of the Revolution. The North Carolina branch was organ ised at Hillsboro in the fall of 1783 with many of the moat distinguished veterans of the Continental line as Its charter members. Succession in the order la governed by the laws of primogeniture, or descent in the eld est male line of a Continental officer, and each original officer has only one representative at a time. The officers of the state society, all of whom were here are: Wilson Gray Lamb, Wllllamston, president; John Collins Daves, Baltimore, vice presi dent; Marshall DeLancey Haywood Raleigh, secretary; John Bradley Lord, Brooklyn, assistant treasurer; Walter De Lyle Carstaphen, Ply mouth, treasurer; Benehan Cameron, Stagville, assistant treasurer; Blshor Joseph Blount Cheshire, chaplain. The society re-elected the aibove stail of officers and also elected Pres ident Wilson to an honorary member ship. The president had previously signified his willingness to such s course. New members elected to membership were D. C. Waddell, Jr.. of Ashevllle; Dr. A. A. Cotton. Tren ton, N. J.; W. H. CalVender, Franklin, Tenn.; Dr. R. L. Williams, Norfolk, Va. Division Plan New in State. The members of the Robert E. Lee chapter T>f the United Daughters of the Confederacy were hostesses to the fifth district convention of the U. D. C. at Lexington. The convention was held In the handsome rooms of the Elks Club and was presided over toy Mrs. W. H. presl dent of the local chapter. The divi sion plan is new in this tate, and there waa some apprehension as to whether such a movement could be launched. Heretofore, every local chapter has worked independently of all other chapters In the same sec tions, holding allegiance only to the state and national association. Under the leadership of Mrs. Mendenhall the chapters of thlß part of the Piedmont section have formed a district asso elation to be known as the fifth dis trict .composed of the chapters at Lexington, Thomasville, Salisbury, Concord anfl Statesville. "Piedmont Exposition" for Charlotte. A resolution was passed by .the Greater Charlotte Club to begin work at once upon a great "Piedmont Expo sition" for Charlotte upon the 20th of May, 1914, and one that would be the greatest held In the South lr years. President C. C. Hook an nounced that he would name a com mlttee in a few days who will begin work on this big campaign. North Carolina New Enterprises. A charter is Issued for tbe Kenl? Insurance & Realty Co., Kenly, capi tal $50,000 authorised, and $5,000 sub scribed by H. F. Edgerton, J. H. Kir by and others for rea lestate and in surance business. The Automatta Counting Machine Company, Ashe ville, files an amendment to Its char ter increasing the capital from slo r 000 to $50,000. Votes Bond Isaue For Roads. Rutherford county Joined the othei progressive counties of the state by voting a $250,000 bond Issue for good roads. Out of a total vote of 4,400 registered voters 2,650 votes were cast, giving a majority of 132 for th« bonds. Investigate Death of Gaaton Miner. Commissioner W. L. Shipman of the state department of lt»or and printing has gone to Gas ton la to make a personal investigation for the de partment Into the kiilllng of a miner In the mines of the Southern Sulphur Company. Large Amount pf Tobacco ftold. Secretary Minor of the Oxford To Board of Trade hai completed bis report o fthe tobacco sales on the Oxford market for the year. The num ber of pounds, 6,741,112, sold for sl,- 213,574, an average of 18 centa per pound. This is the largest amount by over $200,000 ever paid. The 1810 crop amounted to 6,528,798 pounds and sold tor $818,753, averaging 12 1-2 cents; the 1911 crop of 7,685,894 pounds brought $1,019,935. The total crop of the county brought over sl,. 500,000. Escape Death by Jumping. The members of the crew of the third sectk>n of Southern freight train No. 17 had a narrow escape when the engineer lost control of Ms engine and the train was thrown on the safe ty track No. 1. Saluda Mountain. The momentum of the train was so great that the engine went over tbe end of the safety track and was overturned. Seeing that the overturning of tbe en gine was Inevitable, the members of the crew jumped for their lives and escaped with only a vary tew slight bruises. ■I HI HEMD IN CONGRESS HILLS BISSION MAKEB IMPASSIONED SPEECH IN DEFENDING CALI FORNIA. FOR THE STATES' RIGHTS Must Preserve to the American Farm er the Right to Own Soil of Our Country Without Any Competition From Aliens. Washington.— A "war" speeeh la support of the proposed California allien land law, WAS delivered in the House by Representative Simon of Mississippi. ' "If we must have war or submit to this indignity, I am for war," cried Mr. SiMon. "I am with the people of California in the efforts to pre vent these aliens from acquiring land." "I believe," said Mr. Sisson, "that BO noil-res-Went aliens should be al lowed to hold a single foot of land In the territory of the United State* What would Washington say in an swer to the question, war or submis sion? What would Jackson say"? What would Cleveland say? What would McKinley say? "I resent the efforts of Japan to force us to submit to her demands." Mr. Sisson took the position that the Japanese Government In protest ing against alien land legislation, was endeavoring to exempt Its citizens from the operation of the laws of states. "The President and Secretary of® State," aaid Mr. Sisson, "should only assure an alien Government that the people of that alien Nation would be dealt with fairly in accordance with the laws of the states. Any other po sition would lead to the Federal Gov ernment faking out from under the laws of the states the citizens of an other Nation. But all cttixens or ali ens resident in a state must be held subject to Its laws, and to exempt the alien would give him privileges ovear and above those accorded to American citizens." " ' V Representative Mann, the can leader, suggested . the umted States had the constitutional right to treat with Foreign Governments to se cure for American citizens property rights abroad, and that Mr. Siseon was cohtending that the foreign Gov ernments did not have a similar right. Awaits Outcome of Bryan's Visit. Washington.—lt was stated at the Japanese embassy that there had been no change in the status mgard lng the California alien land bHI since Secretary Bryan's departure for Sacramento. The Japanese govern ment is awaiting the outcome of the secretary's mission. Meanwhile It Is felt that anything in the nature of interference through the presenta tion of diplomatic protests or any at tempt to inject itself into the con ference about to begin in California between Secretary Bryan and the state legislature would only tend to embarrass the situation. May Not Recognize New Republic. Washington. Political develop mnta in China have made it Impos sible that the United States will im mediately recognize the new repub lic as originally was Intended and officials here believe there is there fore no danger of further complicat ing the delioate situation at Pekin aa the result of the conclusion of the five-power loan and the friction be tween Yuan Shi Kel and his cabinet on the one side and the powerQil radical party on the other. French Aviator Ends Long Flight. Kollum, Holland. A continuous fUght of over one thousand miles by aeroplane was completed here by the FYench aviator, Ernest Francois Guil laux. He made only two stops dur ing his flight from Biarritz, in the extreme southwest of France, de scendlng to replenish his fuel at Bor deaux and Vlllacomlay. Friction Between Factions. Washington—A rapidly growing situation in Mexico City, fraught with friction between the tHuerta and the Diaz tactions of the provisional gov ernment is reported in confidential ad vices and these reports are augmented by agents of the Carranza constitu tionalists arriving here. Robert Pes qulena, a member of the Mexican house of deputies, arrived here to suc ceed Gonzales Gante as confidential agent of the Carranza forces. Gante has been assigned to a mission, the nature of which is not disclosed. Bomb Exploded With Fatal Re*ult. Hanoi, French Indoo China—Frag ments of » bomb buried by a native adhenrent of the pretender to the An namite throne buret among a large group of French officers, government officials and foreign seated on a cafe terrace, killing Captain Marie Jean Leon Mongrand of the Ninth Colonial Infantry and Captain Frederick Chapule of the Aunamite Rifles. The poMce discovered a nam ber of (bombs with which 11 Was b» Ueved the followers of Kwooj-To ta» tended to carry out a plot.
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