Show tocracy of the colony blood ran In his veins Good Scots by quickened treasure had disappeared 'I here was It a search all over the country brought no results With difficulty the banker met the great loss It was had robbers decided that generally stage and driven the treasure in the Sand all and no trace of away the outfit was ever found Its Years With Forty The sky had darkened while Abner $30000 Treasure A cyclonic gust nearly Bat dreaming swept him off his feet as he got up to make a start for home A blinding LILLIAN HIGGIN8 By SELINA Abner of sand cut his face “You must not be discouraged Ab- rain forward but several ner” spoke Mrs Waldron in her pa- walked inbriskly his up and down bill times tient sympathizing way as the progress he went headlong ‘Tm not mother” was the prompt sand slides took him off his footing but infinitely weary response “It “This is getting serlouBl” he exnot the loss of business home and the length be slid as claimed nearly friends What worries me is the fact of a hill to land in a gully between I shall that after all my sacrifices sand He not be able to pay my creditors in two towering mountains oflike breastreascend It was full It is a pretty heavy load for tried toavalanche The cut was filling ing an an old man like me to carry” sand was “Remember the promise: ‘On whom up fast At one time the God’s hand resteth hath God at his up to his knees It Is “Why! I shall be engulfed! right hand” he reflected in vivid Abner Waldron tried to smile brave- like quicksand!” alarm old kissed dear 'face the ly patient His situation was truly critical He of his helpmeet and left the house he got out of what for his accustomed stroll It had knew that unless funnel for the tornado ceased to seem like home for a week was a natural air currents he was lost He strugpast for It was scheduled to follow gled on came to a turn in the gully the rest of his possessions and go and dimly made out a slanting mass of wards paying hlB debts Abner ran to it gnarled tree roots He had done very well In a business slipped a cavity was revealed and he way until a smooth smart city prodropped into darkness fully 20 feet moter had come to Albion His was knocked out ther Jamea Waldron the banker had of The breathand nearly it was some time behis body come to the little Michigan town 60 could arise to his feet lie He had left the son fore he years since on a sandy foundation apparsome money and Abner had built up a stood ently of some large sheltered void business profitable manufacturing so dark he could not make out Then the promoter had filled hlB mind It was Its extent Groping along he landWith expansive ideas He had branched against a post Then It occurred ed out the sleek schemer had reaped to him that hq had come upon one of a rich harvest and then — failure the many sand submerged houses Abner had turned over every penny swallowed up In some tornado yearrf he had In the world It paid up everybefore Once he had Stepped Into a thing except a few thousand dolall that was left visible of Chimney lars Mrs Waldron had In her own one of these engulfed structures In an adjoining farm a small right Abner was a smoker He therefore county They bad decided to go there matches carried and feeling in hie and were now on the eve of departpocket for one drew It forth and ure flared it Then transfixed he strain“It’s the older children Richard and ed his gaze Wondering if some AladMaud that I care about” the thoughtdin touch had suddenly created a fairy ful bankrupt had told bis close friends scene for deluded senses “The boy can earn his own living the Before him was an open shed supand can girl has a fine education Back of it was a do the same But you see both are ported by posts veold fashioned lumbering great I to a engaged expected give them hicle Attached were the skeletons good start In life Now the weddings of horses Thrilled amazed a team of must be postponed It seems as though obshout the electrified almost a la a mil- server my foolish Ideas of becoming gasped out: "The lost stage coach!” Yes It could be no other— It was no other Like lightning through his bewildered brain ran a theory elucidating all the mystery of 40 years and more To thl3 shelter on the night the bank was moved the horses had swallowed strayed to be enveloped of wreaths up In the great winding sand past rescue and sight until now More matches a closer Inspection and there Intact Just as they had been originally stowed were the Iron boxes Abner found the hank treasure— his by right of discovery his by right of legal Inheritance So all the dark clauds passed away Drooping root ends enabled the ad- - ’ venturer to regain the open air when the sand storm was over and the roof was saved and soon there were two Joyful weddings SM the' lively strain of an old Welsh stock LIST His father came of a race of scholars and good chumdiman though he was knew his Livy and his Horace better Had Been Buried than his Bible Hia mother came of a vivacious line of wits talkers which had a touch more steadiness and energy might any made have famous day His father had served his county of Hanover very capably and acceptably as surveyor colonel magistrate and bis uncle had beeir beloved as the faithful pastor of quiet parishes But they had been no long time in the colony they lived back from the tidewater counties where the real aristocracy had Its strength and supremacy they were of that middle class of who love liberty but do not affect rank and of Cargoes without number were sent to the Dutch and Spanish West Indies every year and as many brought forthence which were undoubtedly feit under the navigation laws parliament had been at such pains to elaborate and enforce and privateering as well as smuggling had for long afforded the doughty seamen of Boston Salem Charleston and New York a genteel career of profit Indulge in Illegal Trade Things had come to such a pass that where business went briskly the people of the colonial ports demanded as of right "a full freedom of illegal trade” and broke sometimes into riot when it was denied them The Boston News Letter had been known very to mourn the death of a courteously worthy collector of his majesty's customs because “with much humanity” he had been used to take "pleasure in directing masters of vessels how they ought to avoid the breach of the acts of trade" Sea captains grew accustomed to relations with ownvery confidential ers and consignees and knew very well without official counsel how to take the advice “not to declare at the " and Customhouse things went very easily and cordially with all parties to COUCH that the colonists should be to use revenue stamps upon all commercial paper legal and newspapers pamphlets and that at oncq as a general meas ure of convenience and a salutary oition of authority his majesty’! “A vigorous aristocracy favors the troops stationed in the plantations growth of personal eminence even in should be billeted on the people those who are not of It but only near Parliament readily a quiesced It and these plain men of the midwas thui Grenville 'irposed “defray- dle counties were the more excellent ing the expenses of defending prote- and individual in the cultivation of but cting and securing” the colonies their powers by reason of the contact he can near losing them instead But there was a touch of rusticity a Tve act was passed in March It neglect of polish a rough candor of was not to go lit'- effect until Novemabout them which set them ber but the colonists did not keep Bpeech and distinguished them sharply him waiting until November for their apart when they came into the presenough protests It was the voice of a verita- ence of the courtly and formal gentleble tempest that presently came over who practiced men the manners of sea to the ear of the startled mi- London in the river counties nister And it was not the general A Rustic Figure In the Home but court of turbulent Massachusetts Patrick Henry at any rate must the house of burgesses of loyal Virginia that first spoke the general I- have seemed a very rustic figure to the Burgesses when he first came to ndignation A Polite Protest take his seat amongst them on a May day in 1765 Already in the autumn cf 1764 He was known Indeed to many on the mere threat of what was to come that house had spoken very This was the pan they must have gently against the measures proposed known who had won bo strange a ver- In a memorial to king and parliament sistance which amidst every proper phrasfl A Serious Blunder of loyalty and affection the understanding had plainly was a sad blunder Virginia it the opinion Iq 1761 that understanding was of declared of his mthreat and execution alike In a sudden rudely broken and the trou- ajesty’s subjects in Virginia that such s ch a matter as deeply as did litlgi which Grenville ble began had the acts would be in flat violation of their ous Massachusetts and The board of trade undoubted rights and liberties folly to add to A long generation ago In the quiet determined to collect the duties on tho committee by which that memyear 1732 when blufT Sir Robert was sugar molasses and rum so long and orial was drawn up had contained aprime minister there had been an In bc systematically evaded In the trade lmost every man of chief consequence rldent which Governor Keith maybe between New England and the West in the counsels of the colony the bad forgotten The ministry had deIndies at whatever cost pf suit and king’s attorney general himself not emanded of Massachusetts that she scrutiny and directed their agents in xcepted should establish a fixed Balary for her Boston to demand tm But it was one thing to protest “writs of assistgovernors by a standing grant but ance” from the courts giving them against measures to come and quits she had refused and the ministers lerve to enter what premises Hall Carpenter’s they another to oppose their execution shad receded would in search of smuggled goods when enacted into laws The one was ’The affair had not been lost upon constitutional agitation the other fiat diet from a Jury two years ago in the Colonists Resist Search Warrants the other colonies celebrated parsons’ case at Hanover That Bturdy one' rebellion — little less were Instant exasperation Th°re time royal governor Alexander It was very ominous to read the court house against the law and the and resistance General search warBut his careless dress and In Virginia had noted It very rants opening every man’s door to words of the extraordinary resolutions evidence particularly and spoken of It very the officers of the law with or without passed by the burgesses on the 30th manner his loose ungainly figure his bluntly diligent servant of the crown Just and explicit ground of suspicion of May 1765 after the stamp act had listless absent bearing must have set as he was to Col William Byrd when a courtly member staring him no English subject any become law and note the tone of re many he came his way on his “progress to against For such men as Washington Instrained passion that ran through the mines” there can have been nothing He declared "that if the deed them In New strange or unattractive in the would either stand England assembly Plain Speech From the Burgesses bluff he did not see how they could be They declared that from the first fough exterior and unstudied ways of 'forced to raise money against their the settlers of “his majesty’s colony the new member Punctilious though will for If they should direct it to be and domain” of Virginia had po- he was himself in every point of dress done b act of parliament which they bearing ssessed and enjoyed all the privileges and Washington’s life had 'have threatened to do (though it be franchises and Immunities at any most of it been spent with men who the of right against time enjoyed by the people of Great looked thus and yet were stuff of true Englishmen to be taxed but by their representatives) Britain itself and that this their free- courage and rich capacity within The yet they would find It no easy matter dom had been explicitly secured to manner of a man could count as no to put such an act in execution” them by their charters "to all intents test of quality with him No observing man could so much da and purposes as if they had been abid- - Hia experience had covered the ravel in Virginia without finding very ing and born within the realm of En- whole variety of Virginian life He promptly what It was that gave point gland” “that the taxation of the peo- was an aristocrat by taste not by prinand poignancy to such an opinion And Patrick Henry had in or by persons ciple ple by themselves chosen to represent fact come to the same growth as he A by themselves Parson them” was "a distinguishing cha- in essential quality and principle ‘That quiet gentleman Rev Andrew another racteristic of British freedom without though by way Henry’s life was in vicar of Greenwich Burnaby which the ancient constitution” of the had been wilful capricious a bit hapsaw in 1759 and Virginia plainly all the while realm itself could not subsist "and hazard Washington’s “The pubenough how matters stood but both men that his majesty’s liege people of this subject to discipline lic or political character of the Vir- most ancient colony” had “uninterrup- had touched and seen the whole enginlans” he said “corresponds with knew its commonwealth the the tedly enjoyed right of being ths ergy of their private one they are haughty It Was a Great Lumbering by their assemblies in the hope could divine Its destiny governed land jealous of the liberties impaVehicle article of their taxes and internal There was but one Virginia and tient of restraint and can scarcely police" had never forfeited qr reli- they were fier children It could not lionalre have driven happiness away bear the thought of being controlled to bring them to an undefrom had had anything to and who seen it it nquished everybody long ”onstantly take by any superior power Many of do with me” where would submit to and yet these recognized by the kings and people of rstanding and comradeship in affairs them consider the colonies as Abner evaded meeting his neighGreat Britain” states not connected with writs authorized nothing less A Winner In Debate bors and took a lonely route out of extenIssued under a questionable An Uncompromising Conclusion Great Britain otherwise than by havIt was characteristic of the new He was soon among the sand of an exceptional sion to America Spoken as it was in protest against member that he should step at once town ing the same common king and being hills He wanted to think plan out actual legislation alriady adopted by and unhesitatingly (bound to her with natural affection” power of the court of exchequer to a place of leadfor the present contentviolated of of all in direct resignation the parliament every precedent Hot only so but "they think It a hard- they despite when debate of the Stamp Act ment ership for the future It was a great and immunities this ship not to have an unlimited trade common law no less than every prin- such privileges stirred the house and that he should sand district about Albion Lying to every part of the world” ciple of prudent administration and declaration of rights seemed to lack into his the majority instantly sweep The along the lake shore air currents had constitutional the excitement whieh they provoked Its conclusion All this and more Grenville might following with a charm and dash of piled Up great yellow mountains of the had been have learned by the Blmple pains of was at once deep and ominous Sharp rights of Virginians that came like a revelation eloquence storm One was courts made the vaded in What then? shifting wind thereResolved One had but to open his resistance particles Inquiry assembly would build up a great hill in a night fore “that his majesty’s liege people upon the quiet eyes and look to see how Imperious a and no officer ever ventured to serve (TO BE CONTINUED) A second from a contrary writs Such the Inhabitants of this colony are not one of the obnoxious direction race had been brcd In the almost would obliterate this bound to yield obedience to any law feudal south and for all they had challenge of the rocess was uttered Problem Old Documents within an hour Abner got In among never heard revolutionary by colonial counsel upon trial of the or ordinance whatever designed to talk thence What to destroy and what to have the dunes and sat down amid as ministers ought to have dreaded the righ’ moreover that ministers would pose any taxation whatsoever upon of old documents newspaem in excuse should way tl other than the laws or ordlonely and desolate a scene as could they Ignore leisure men had there to think the be without has so exp”cit and so inances of the general assembly afor- pers and other publications given well be Imagined provocation to be proud the neces- the warning esaid” and “that any person who shall rise to the organization of committees The bleak environment chilled him eloquent of revolutionary purpose and Individual sity to be masterful these peculiar but at the same time quieted Alone It was James Otis who utterd it by speaking or writing assert or of congress bearing quite as much as they had ever “Disposition of Useless Papers and undisturbed he reviewed all the dreaded the stubborn temper and the He had but the other day carried the maintain” the contrary “shall be titles: and Executive deemed an In Departments” of adhis in his pocket as enemy the majesty’s coroyal commission past He bravely faced the future quick capacity for united action they of “Examination and Disposition Doc- After all it would be rest and peace lony” had once and again seen excited In vocate general in his majesty’s court Such had been the uncompromis- uments” The names of the committees New England of admiralty but he would not have 'after turmoil and strife The small devolving Would be happy am upon er children even as his majesty’s sering conclusion drawn by the mover indicate the duties Law a Dead Letter surupled of resolutions the the said exercise to he vant not oppose wa their memberB Moreover not only comfortable and the little farm to' try new It necessary of directors What conclusion officers the other but to had In which could any public might bring enough laws to see what the colonies would of a power already cost help him to one king his head anu another his man draw If he deemed the colonists libraries and museums to say nothing pay eventually the debts that harassed The difficulty already do if provoked his sensitive nature like a millstone of private collectors are often puzzled encountered In enforcing the laws of throne To oppose in such a case was mn and proud men at that? The unBurgesses feared to speak by the accumulation of matter Issu- about his neck trade was and to defend the very constitution enough A A cheerful reaction took place In the trouble in that matter had grown der which the king wore his crown treason they were content to pr- ing from modern Abner’s mind as be reflected that Fo- - long acute but yesterday and let the bill was not long ago Introduced That constitution secured to English- otest of their rights indeed the rights of free- issue bring conclusions to light after all his was not the worst condino one In the colonies questioned parliament to enable the trustees the men everywhere tion In the world It had been hot fighting to get even the British museum to distribute He had a loyal right of parliament to regulate their men the colonists had besides the helpful wife and loving obedient chiltrade but it was notorious that the plan guarantees of their own chart- that much said The men hitherto destroy “valueless printed matter dren From a more comfortable attl Immediately if constitution and charters accepted always as leaders in the their possession” laws actually enacted in that matter ers tude of mind his thoughts Idly driftor were gainsaid the prin- house had wished to hold it back from Shakespearean scholar of prominence had gone smoothly oft in America only failed He argued that no one ed and he fell to dreaming over events because they were not seriously en- ciples of natural reason sufficed for rash and heated action and there had objected forced defense against measures so arrogant been bitter debates before even those could discriminate between what may in his past life Then in a whimsical No lawyer could Justify “The trade hither Is engrossed by and so futile significant premises for a revolution- be valuable and wbat valueless for way a story of the long ago came to tho Saints of New England” laughed these extraordinary writs no king ary conclusion had been forced to the historical Investigator of the fu- his memory Old leaders and new young ture His father had been well nigh ruin“Who knows” he asked “but Colone Byrd "who carry if a great with an army at uis back could ever adoption men and old alike had willingly united that the trade circular ’ the country ed right among these treacherous sand force them to execution of tobacco wllluut troubling 'themselves paying that impertiProtest not only but defiance rang in the memorial of 1764 but now that newspaper or the street song may hills nearly 40 years since The event nent duty of a penny a pound” the Stamp Act was law conservative throw a most Important light several was the sensation of the hour through very clear in these fearless words The acts of trade practically for- and ministers must avow themselves James Waldron members shrank from doing wbat hundred upon some the whole district years hence bade direct commerce should with must look so like a flat defiance of mooted question of our present life?” had removed hia little country bank they pretend very Ignorant foreign — Harper’s Weekly to Albion from Sankatuck countries for their dependencies in the they did not know how Mr Otis had parliament bottoms next county Over $30000 In gold Only young men would have had the but kindled fire from one end of the specially In foreign had been carried In locked iron boxes and 8uch Is Fame Spain the colonies to the other But Grenville audacity to urge such action only ships from France in an old stage coach isles curae and went very was rpsolute to take all risks and very extraordinary to your mind Its driver had young men would Canary Wiseman— What lost his way among the sand hills a have had the capacity to induce the most clearly represents the ephemefreely notwithstanding in colonial pusl this policy house to take It But such young men ral it y of fame and the vanity of huliked to for royal officials The Obnoxious Stamp Act great storm had come up and he wai ports were at hand their leader as veritable man wishes? blown from his seat against a rook He did not flinch rom the enforcepeace and the enjoy a comfortable as had ever taken the and very ment of the measures of 1764 and in a Democrat of their neighbors esteem Cynicus— Blazing electric letters and rendered insensible winked t such transgres- - the ssssion of 1765 calmly fulfilled his floor in that assembly When he came back to conscious-lesname the the of proprietor genially spelling He pro Patrick Henry was not of the aris over the portal to a bar — Judge the stage coach the horses the promise of further tsxatlon Installment 8 would In any event be now the colonies were likely to In their grow lusty as kingdoms roomy c'ntinent to assert a mother’s power to use and restrain— a power by no means lost because too long and neglected It was with such wisdom the first step was taken In March 1764 parliament voted It "just and necessary that revenue be raised In America” passed an act meant to secure duties on wines and sugars and took measures to Increase the efficiency of the revenue service In America George Grenville was prime minister He lacked neither official capacity He nor acquaintance with affairs thought it just the colonists should pay their quota into the national treasury seeing they were so served and he deby the national power clared that In the next session of parliament he should propose certain direct taxes In addition to the Indirect already in force He saw no sufflcl u reason to doubt that the colonies would acat quiesce If not without protest least without tumult or dangerous re- It posed quired their It’ It i36 ' the (Copyright BUYING Two by W BOOKS BY G Chapman) THE TITLE Historic Examples to Show That This la by All Means a Dangerous Practice' In the titles of books lie at times pitfalls for the unwary An almost classic example was afforded by John Ruskln when in 1851 he wrote a short pamphlet on the text “There shall be one fold and one shepherd” This which treated of the reunion of the Protestant churches was published as "Notes on tho Construction of Sheepfolds”— a title which appealing rather to the agricultural than to the clerical mind Insured a brisk circulation among farmers — those of the border especially— many of whom ordered a copy in the hope that they might glean therefrom some original hints and ideas that would be of use to them In their calling The bucolic mind Indeed would seem singularly predisposed to Jump to hasty conclusions for English farmers followed but In the wake of their Irish brethren— or rather of their Irish brother who an enthusiast on the subject of cattle breeding greeted with delight the appearance of a litjEle volume by Marla Edgeworth bearing the title "Essay on Irish Bulls’’ Although the name of the authoress was to him unknown the contents would doubtless he considered be well worth the few shillings ho so diswillingly bursed but alas! although the spirited engraving of rampant Taurus that ' the essay gave delightful prefaces! promise he had but to read a few lines to find that he had become possessed of a treatise not on bovine ruminants hut on that particular "blunder which is commonly supposed to be characteristic of the Irish nation” Would Not Be an Actress Little Mary aged sweet fifteen and stage Btruck laid down her knitting with a sigh one night and said: “Ah mother how I’d like to be one of those great actresses or Blngers on the stage!” "Would you?” said the mother unIt’s an uneasily "I don’t know healthy business isn’t It?” “Why is it?” asked the daughter “It must be” said the mother “Don’t you always see their names in the paper telling how they've been takand ing tonics and patent medicines so on?” |