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GbjP SOME ,fig22Si££2J222iLj22£2S^lS2l£2SsL— —— Cowboy* of the Flying Heart ranch are heartbroken over the loea of their much prised phonograph by the defeat of their charrulon in a foot-race with the cook of the Vuitlpede ranch. ▲ house party to on at' The Flying Heart. J. Wafilngfoixl Speed, cheer leader at Yale, and Culrer Covington, Inter collegiate champion run ner, are expected. Helen Blake, Bpeed'a sweetheart, becomes Interested in the loss •f the phonograph. CHAPTER ll.—Continued. "The Centipede crowd took thetr defeat badly on Frontier Day, and ■wore to |«t even." "And vu Humpy Joe defeated?" asked Helen. "Waa her* Btill Bill ahook tala head aadly, and sighed for a third time. "It looked like he was running backward, miaa." "But really he waa only beaten a foot. It waa a wonderful race. I saw it." aald Jean. "It made me think of the races at college." Miaa Blake puckered her browa try ing to think, "Joseph," she said. "No, I don't think I have aeen him." Stover'a lipa met grimly. "I don't reckon you have, miaa. Since that race he haa been hard to descry. He paaaed from view hurriedly, so to •peak, headed toward the foot-hilla, and leaping from crag to crag like the hardy shamrock of the Swiaa Alps." Miaa Blake giggled. "What made him hurry so?" "Usl" Stover gazed at her solemn ly. "We ain't none of ua been the aame since that foot-race. You aee, It ain't the financial value of that Echo Phonograph, nor the 'double croaa' that hurts: it'a the fact that the mangieat outfit in the Territory haa trimmed ua out of the one thing that atanda for honor and excellence and 'scientific attainment,' as the judge said when we won It. That talking machine meant more to ua than you Eaatern folks can underatand, I reckon." "If I were you I would cheer up," aald Mias Blake, kindly, and with some importance. "Miaa Chaptn baa a college friend coming this week, and he can win back your trophy." Stover glanced up at Jean quickly. "Is that right. Miss Chapln?" "He can if he will," Jean asserted. "Can he run?" "He is the intercollegiate champion," declared that young lady, with proud dignity. "And do you reckon he'd run for us and the Echo Phonograph of New York and Paris, if we framed a race? It's an honor!" But Mias Chapln recalled her brother's caution of the day before, and healtated. "I—l don't think he would. You see, he Is an amateur—ho might be out of training—" "The idea!" exclaimed Miaa Blake, Indignantly. "If Culver won't ran, I know who will!" She closed her lips firmly, and turned to the foreman. "You tell your frlenda that we'll see you get your trophy back." "Helen, I—'' "I mean It!" declared Miss Blake, with spirit Stover bowed loosely. "Thank you, mias. The very thought of it will cheer np the gang. Life 'round here is blacker 'n a spade flush. I think I'll tell Willie." He shambled rapidly off around the bouse. "Helen dear, I don't want Culver to gat mixed up in this affair," ex plained Miaa Chapln, as soop as they were alone. "It's all utterly foolish. Jack doesn't want him to, either." "Very well. If Culver doesn't feel that he can beat that cook running, I know who will try. Mr. Speed will do anything I ask. It's a shame the way thoee men have been treated." "But Mr. Speed isn't a sprinter." "Indeed!" Miss Blake bridlod. "Per haps Culver Covington isn't the only athlete In Yale College. I happen to know what I'm talking about." "1 don't think he will consent when be learns the truth." "I assure you," said Miss Blake, sweetly, "he will be delighted." CHAPTER 111. V T was stni early In the after-\ I neon when Jack Chapln and _ I the youthful chaperon found f I the other young people to -9) gether on the gallery. "Here's a telegram from jS.- Speed," began Jack. [r\ It's terribly funny," said SSS l|rs. Keap. "That Mexican brought It to us dewn at the spring house.", . . -sfo# Miss Blake lost her bored expres sion. and sat up In the hammock. - 'Mr. Jack Chapln.'" read the owner of the Flying Heart Ranch. "'Dear Jack: I couldn't wait for Covington, so meet with brass-band and fireworks this afternoon. Ham flowers In bloom In the little pack beside the depot, and see that the daisies nod to me.—J. Walllngford Speed.'" J| . . -Park, eh?* said Fresno, dryly. "Telegraph offlce. water*tank, and a cattle-chute. Where doe* this fellow think he Is?" "Here's a postcript," added Chapln. " 'I hare a valet who does not seem to enjoy the trip. Divide a kiss among the ttrls.'" "Well, well! He's stingy with hfs klwes," observed Berkeley. "Who Is this humorous party T' "He was a Freshman at Ysle the year I graduated," explained Jack. "Too bad he never got out of that class." It was evident that Mr. Speed's levity made no Impression upon the Qlee Club tenor. "He hates to talk about himself, doesn't heT" "I think he is very clever," said Miss Blake, warmly. "How well do you know him?" "Not as well as I'd like to." Presno puffed at his little pipe with out remarking at this. "Well, who wants to go and meet him?" queried Jack. "Won't you?" asked his sister. "I can't I've just got word from the Eleven X that I'm wanted. The foreman is hurt. I may not be back for some time." "Nigger Mike met me," observed Fresno, darkly. "Then ■ Nigger Mike for Speed," laughed the cattle-man. "I've told Carara to hitch up the pintoa for me. I must be going." "I'll see that you are safely started," said the young widow; and leaving the trio on the gallery, they entered the house. When they had gone Jean smiled wisely at Helen. "Roberta's such a thoughtful chaperon," she observed, whereupon Mias Blake giggled. As for Mrs. Keap, she was inquiring of Jack with genuine aollcltude: "Do you really mean that you may be gone for some time?" "I do. It may be a week; It may be longer; I can't tell until I get over there.** "I'm sorry." Mrs. Knap's face show ed some disappointment. "So am I." "I shall have to look out for these young* people all by myself." "What a queer little way you have of talking, as If you were years and years old." "I do feel as If I were. I—l—well, I have had an unhappy experience. You know unhapplness builds months Into years." "When Jean got Up this house party," young Chapln began, absently, "I thought I should be bored to death. But—l haven't been. You know, I don't want to go over there?" He nodded vaguely toward the south. "I thought perhaps it suited your convenience." His companion watched him gravely. "Are you quite sure that your sister's guests have not — had something to do with this sudden determination ?" "I am quite sure. I never liked the old Flying Heart so much as 1 do to day. I never regretted leaving It so "We've Oot Another Foot-Runner." much as I do at this moment." "We may be gone before you re turn." Young Chapln started. "You don't mean that, really?" Mrs. Keap nodded her dark head. "It wu all very well for me to chap eron Helen on the way out from the. east, but —It Isn't exactly regular for me to play that part here with other young people to look after." "But you understand, of course— Jean must have explained to you. Mother was called avay suddenly, and she can't get back now. You surely won't leave—you can't." Chaatn add ed, hopefully: "Why, you would break up Jean's party. You see, there's no body around here to take your place." "Bat—" "Nonsense! This Is an unconven tional country. What's wrong with you as a chaperon, anyway? Nobody out here even knows what a chaperon Is. And 111 be back as soon as I can " "Do you really think that would help?" Roberta's eyes 1-ughed humor ously. "I'm not thinking of the others, I'm thinking of myself." declared the young man, boldly. "I dont want you to go before I return. You muat not! If you go, I—l shall follow you." He grasped her hand impulsively. "Oh!" exclaimed the chaperon. "This makes It more Impossible. Go! Go!" She pushed him away, her color aurging. "Go to your old Eleven X Ranch right away." "But I mean It," be declared, earn estly. Then, aa she retreated farther: "It'a no use, I shan't go now until —" "You have known me less than a week!" "That Is long enough. Roberta —" Mrs. Keap spoke with honest em barrassment. "Listen! Don't you see what a situation this Is? If Jean and Helen should ever discover—" "Jean planned it all; even this." Mrs. Reap stared at him In horrified silence. "You do love ms, Roberta?" Chapin undertook to remove the girl's hands from her face, when a slight oough in the hall behind caused him to turn suddenly In time to see Berkeley Fres no passing the open door. 'There! You see!" Mrs. Keap's face was tragic. "You see!" She turned nnd fled, leaving the master of the ranch in the middle of the floor, be wildered. but a bit inclined to be happy. A moment later the plump face of Berkeley Fresno appeared cau tiously around the door-jamb. He coughed again gravely. "I happened to be passing," said he. "You'll pardon me?" "Thia is the most thickly settled spot in New Mexico!" Chapin declared with an artificial laugh, choking hia Indignation. Fresno slowly brought his round body out from concealment. "I came in to get a match." "Why don't you carry matches?" Fresno puffed complacently upon his pipe. "This," he mused, as his host departed, "eliminates the chaperon, and that helps some." • • • • • Still Bill Stover lost no time In breaking the news to the boys. "There's something comln' off," he advised Willie. "We've got another foot-runner!" , If he had hoped for an outburst of rapture on the part of the little gun man he was disappointed, for Willie shifted his holster, smiled evilly through his glasses, and Inquired, with ominous restraint: "Where is he?" Being the one man on the Flying Heart who had occasion to wear a gun, Willie seldom smiled from a aenae of humor. Here It may be said that, deceived at flrat by his scholarly appearance, his fellow-laborers had jibed at Willis's affectation of a swing ing holster, but the custom had lan guished abruptly. When It became known who he waß, the other ranch hands had volubly declared that this was a free country, where a man might exercise a wide discretion in the choice of personal adornment; and as for them, they avowed unani mously that the practice of packing a Colts was one which met with their most cordial approbation. In time Willie's Blx.Bhooter had become ac cepted as a part of the local scenery, and, like the scenery, no one thought of remarking upon it, least of all those who best knew his lack of humor. He had come to them out of the Nowhere, some four years previously, and while he never spoke of himself, and dis couraged reminiscence in others, it became known through those vague uncharted channels by which newn travels on the frontier, that back In the Texas Panhandle there was a limping marshal who felt regrets at mention of his name, and that farther north were other men who had a ju perstltlous dread of undersized cow men with spectacle*. "This here Is a real foot-runner," said Btover.' "Exactly," agreed the other. "Where la he?" "He'll be here this afternoon. Nig ger Mike's Lrlngin' him over from the railroad. He'a a guest." "Oh!" "Yep! He'a intercollegit cbampeen of Yale." "Yale?" repeated the near-sighted man. "Don't Icnow's I ever been there. Much of a town?" "I ain't never traveled east myself, but Miss Jean and the 'lttle yaller haired girl say he's the fastest man in the world 1 flggered we might rib up something with the Contipede," Still Bill winked sagely. "See here, do you reckon he'd run?" "Sure! He's a friend of the boss And he'll run on the level too. He can't be nothln' like Humpy." "If he is, I'll git him," said the cow boy. "Oh, I'll git him sure, guest or no guest. But how about the phono graph?" ... "The Centipede will put it up quick enough; there ain't no sentiment in that outfit." "Then It sounds good." "An' it 'll work. Oallagher's anxious to trim us again. Some folks can't •tand prosperity." Willie spat unerringly at a grass hopper. "Lord!" said he, "it's too good! It don't sound possible." "Well, It is, and our man will be here this evenln'. Watch out for Nig ger Mike, and when he drives up let's give this party a welcome that 'll warm his heart on the jump. There's nothin' like a good Impression." "I'll be on the job," assured Willie. "But 1 state right here and now, if we do get a race there ain't a-goln' to he no chance of our losin' for a second time." And Stover went on his way to spread the tidings. (TO BE CONTINUED.) The man who flatters himself that he leaves little to be desired should remembet that a burglar does the same thing. FROM THE TAR HEEL STATE Ihort Paragraphs of 3tate News That Has Been Condensed For Busy People of State. | Charlotte—The first Charlotte bank to receive "T" -deposit of Government ; funds with which to aid the 1 :rop was the Merchants and Farmers Mational, the allotment being >IOO,- 900. Belmont.—Active preparations are being made toward the laying of con crete sidewalks on the principal streets of the town. By an act of the last Legislature the Board of Alder men has been empowered to go ahead with this work, which will begin with in two or three weeks. Henderson.—The Planters Tobacco Warehouse, recently erected, seems to have given a decided Impetus to Henderson as a leaf market. There art four large sales houses In opera tion now, and from present indlca* ttons It would appear that more to bacco will be sold here this season than for many years. Lenoir.—The biggest award of dam ages ever made by a jury In this sec tion of the state was that In the case of K. C. Green against the Watauga ft Yadkin River Railroad. A verdlot of SIO,OOO was given Green. This is the first case for personal damages against this new road. Greenville. —Farmers have finished curing tobacco and are bringing some to market now. Threy have had little time for grading, consequently sales ae not so heavy as they may be later. August sales were light, being only 618,600 pounds for the nine days of that month. Waynesville.—A negro boy named Horace West, who Is wanted In Union, S. C„ on the charge of stealing a sum of money from a prominent citizen of that city, was arrested by Chief of Police John Mitchell. He is at pres ent "resting easy" in the county Jail, waiting: for the South Carolina oftl cers to call for him. Taylorsvllle.—Taylorsvllle has a new Jail, Just completed, and consid ered to be one of the best in the state, hence there was surprise when it was discovered that Robert Ander son, one of the- first prisoners con fined therein, had by the aid of two old case knives sawed his way out and made his escape. Newton. —On Catawba Route Two during an electric storm a few days ago, lightning struck the residence of Mr. G P. Setzer, tearing the ceiling off two Hides of a room and knocking the sill from under one side of the house. Mrs. Setzcr and two daugh ters were In another room, and, while severely sliocked for a little while, were unhurt. Durham.—Dr. Arch Cheatham, the health officer for the c!ty and county, left for Macon, Montgomery, Atlanta and other places In the south,,to make a personal Investigation of the Incln »rator or crematory plants that are ill use in these places. Dr. Cheatham was appointed to make tiiese Investi gations witli a view of having soma kind of garbage plant erected in Dur ham. North Wllkesboro.—Caught by a set-screw of a rapidly revolving shaft at the Meadows Mill Company's plant, Alex Prtndley was carried around the shaft three times and at 4*ie third revolution thrown Into the air, over n machine ten feet away, .landing up right on his feet, stripped of his clothing but unhurt, except for a broken aim and a few small bruises and scratches. New Bern. —While New Bern has fio curfew law, Mayor Albert H. Ban gert, who incidentally is serving his tirst term as the chief officer of the city, has given the poHce orders to place under arrest all boys under 12 years of age who are found on the streets after 10 o'clock at night, un less they can show good cause for being out so late. WasHington.—A partial report by the Board of Army Engineers on the project for inter-coastal inland water- ways from Boston, Mass., to the Rio Grande River, was filed with the House recently. The report present ed plans for a canal ten feet in depth from Beaufort, N. C., to Key West, Ha., at a cost of $30,054,000, and a canal seven feet in depth across the Florida peninsula at a cost of $14,444,- 869, Fayetteville.—T. Gilmer McAlister, president of the Southern Timber and Lumber Company, wan elected presl lent of the Fayetteville Chamber of .Commerce at the annual meeting re cently. Mr. McAHater is one of the most energetic of the younger bu«i tiess men of Fayetteville.^ Southern Pines. —Heairy A. Page's big farm is about to try the experi ment of cattle raising and feeding. An effort Is to be made to procure from 200 to 300 cattle to stock the big place, and to use the feed grown on the farm. Beef cattle will be the ultimate product. Durham. —Mr. A. M. Carpenter has been Appointed assistant postmaster to succeed Mr. John T. Pope, who re signed several weeks ago. Mr. Car penter wa* the recommendation of the postmaster for thia position. He is a Republican, and hie appointment has already been oonflrmed. Ashevllle. —Chaa. A. Webb, whose name haa been mentioned In connec tion with the office of marshal for the Western district of North Carolina, who haa announced that he is not a candidate for that office, states that he Is seeking the offlca of District Attorney for the Western district. Panama, R. P.—lt la not given to many men to destroy a city so utterly that It Is never rebuilt. That is what Capt. John Morgan, the maater buc caneer, did in 1671, when he led his band of cutthroats down from the hills upon Panama. After he had fin ished with that big, flourishing city there was so little left of It that the Spanish moved five miles west along the coast and there built a new Pan ama—the Panama we know today. The atory of Morgan's justly famous exploit, often told, never grows stale. It is a wonderful story of desperate bravery, endurance, suffering and ruth less cruelty, and as John Esqueipsllng was the first to relate it In detail, so he haa been the best. Howard Pyle has well said: "In the case of the Esquemellng history, it should be de cidedly hands off. One touch of the modern brush would destroy the whole tone of dim colors of the paat made misty by the lapse of time." So I wish I had space to quote the en tire story of Morgan and Panama as Esquemellng, who was one of the band, tells it. Some of It, at least, must be given in hie quaint language, beginning with the capture by a part of Morgan's fleet of Fort San Lorenzo at the mouth of the Chagres river. Says Esquemellng: "Captain Brodely being made com mander, In three days after his de parture (from St. Catherine's) ar rived in sight of the said castle of Chagre, by the Spaniards* called St. Lawrence. This castle Is built on a high mountain at the entry of the river, surrounded by strong palllsades, or wooden walls, filled with earth, which secures them as well as the best wall of stone or brick. The top of this mountain Is, In a manner, di vided into two parts, between which Is a ditch thirty feet deep. The castle hath but one entry, and that by a drawbridge over this ditch. To the land it has four bastions, and to the sea two more. The south part Is to tally inaccessible, through the craggl ness of the mountain. The north Is surrounded by the river, which here Is very broad. At the foot of the castle, or rather mountain, is a strong fort, with eight great gunß, commanding the entry of the river. Not much low er are two other batteries, each of six pieces, to defend likewise the mouth of the river. . . , "No sooner had the Spaniards per ceived the pirates, but they fired in cessantly at them with the biggest of their guns. They came to an anchor In a small port about a league from the castle. Next morning, very early, they went ashore and marched through the woods to attack the castle on that side. This march lasted till two of the clock in the afternoon, be fore they could reach the castle, by reason of the difficulties of the way, anl its mire and dirt; and though their guides served them very exact ly, yet they came so nigh the castle at first that they lost many of their men by its shot, they being in an open place without covert." The pirates bravely assaulted the castle, sword in one hand and fire ball in the other, but were repulsed with heavy loss. Renewing the at tack under cover of darkness, "there happened a very remarkable accident which occasioned their victory. One of the pirates being wounded with an arrow In his back, which pierced his body through, he pulled it out boldly at the side of his breast, and winding a little cotton about it, he put it into his musket, and shot it back to the castle, but the cotton being kindled by the powder, fired two or throe houses in the castle, being tbatched with palm leaves, which the Spaniards perceived not so soon as was necessary; for this fire meeting with a parcel of powder, blew it up, thereby causing great ruin, and no less consternation to the Spaniards, who were not able to put a t top to it." Full advantage was taken of this by the buccaneers, and they uet fire to the palings and gained a foothold within them, despite "many flaming pots full of combustible matter, and odious smells, which destroyed many of the English." All next morning the fight raged, but about noon the English gained a breach through which they fought their way to the heart of the castle. "The Spaniards who remained alive cast themselves down from the castle into the sea. choosing rather to die thus (few or none surviving the fall) than to ask quarter for their lives. The governor himself retreated to the corps du guard, before which were placed two pieces of cannon; here he still de fended himself, not demanding any quarter, till ha was killed with a mus ket shot in the head." In a few daya Captain Morgan ar rived with the rest of bis fleet and or ganised the expedition against Pana ma He took bis men by boat up the Chagres as far as Cruces, now a vil lage not two miles from the canal, and there landed them for the overland march. Leaving ICO men with the boats, he started through the Jungle with about a thousand. For days they struggled on, suffering intensely for lack of food, for the Spanlarda and Indians had destroyed the villages and crops along the way. At one point they found a number of leathern bags, and "made a huge banquet" upon them. At another a few sacks of meal, some plantains and several jars of wine were discovered in a cave. On the sixth day after leaving Cruces "ascending a high mountain, they dis covered the South sea. This happy sight, as If it were the end of their labors, caused infinite joy among them." Then - they came to a vale, where they found plenty of cattle, and their period of starvation came to an end with ar monstrous feast. "Cutting the flesh into convenient pieces or gobbets, they threw them Into the fire and, half carbonaded or roasted, they devoured them, with incredible haate and appetite; such was their hunger, as they more resembled cannibals than Europeans; the blood many times run ning down their beards to their waists." That evening the pirate band cam* tn sight of Panama, and pitched their camp, which was Ineffectually bom barded all night by the guns of the city. Next day Captain Morgan led his thousand bold men down the hillside and confronted the forces of the gov ernor of Panama, consisting of two squadrons of horse, four regiments of foot and a huge number of wild bulls driven by Indians. The Spaniards be gan the battle, -but their horse were useless, owing to the softness of the ground. The foot were held in check by the Are of the pirates, so the wild bulls were driven forward but, fright ened by the noise of the conflict, the animals ran away. After two hours of fighting the surviving Spaniards fled within the city walls. Six hun dred of their comrades lay dead upon the fleld. Morgan at oace attacked "Morgan'a Tower," Old Panama. the city, and though the defense was desperate, many of the pirates being killed, Panama fell within three hours. What Morgan did to the devoted In habitants in the effort to find all their hidden treasure is too horrible to re late. Soon after the capture of the city flre broke out In many quarters, and Esquemellng says the conflagra tion was started by Morgan, though he laid the blame on the Spaniards. Anyway, as "the houses were almost all built of cedar, the entire city was soon consumed by flames. Some three weeks later "Captain Morgan departed from Panama, or rather from the place where the city of Panama stood; of the spoils whereof he carried away with him 175 beasts of carriage laden with silver, gold and osher precious things, besides about six hundred pris oners, men, women, children and slaves." Of old Panama naught remains but the ruins of the cathedral, the tower of St. Stanislaus' church and the frag ments of a few other stono and brick Structures. For more than two cen turies they have been burled In the Jungle, but are now being brought to view by the efforts of the Panama government, which is having the ui* dergrowth cleared away from the ruina. ' > The visitor to the isthmus should not fail to make the trip down Chagres from Oatun to the sea, re versing Morgan's route. The scenery alone the river Is beautiful, and the great stretch of ocean beach— clean, hard, green and purple sand ovef which Immense breakers roll—to Ideal for bathing. The maaalve walls of Fort San Lor enzo still stand on the hill at the mouth of the Chagrse, and the heaps of cannon balls left by the Spaniards, are yet there. In the dungeons oC the castle are plies of rusted irons— the fetters which they hoped to fastest on the bodies and limbs of Morgan, and his buccaneers.
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