Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1928, Page 84

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. A LUSTY WINTER By Ben Ames Williams Responsibility Meant Only One Thing to Dave. T is the story of two men, and it|cell door had been left ajar: the ro‘r-; we'll talk to him.” he replied. “But— | wood picked up in the shed. When he W have been hard to find two ridor guard ~was mnc‘rl:mlc.\‘ alike. Dave Hepperton Penny's attack before he could bring was a farmer, a substantial, solid his weapon into action. Ten minutes man. whose word had weight with | later, armed with a shotgun and sup- his neighbors. No man can_cultivate | plied with buckshot shells, Penny had the rocky hillsides around Fraternity | bluffed and fought his way past the unless there is some ron in him. Hep- ) walls and was free. perton was not lacking in this quality There is & field on his farm—and hiS| quff supplied him in prison; he had howed it to me—that the mMan | poen suffering from an exasperating olf had cleared. Around this fleld | cough. The violence of his own exer- me wall, three or four feet | yjons in the past few minutes had left in some piaces. &S MANY A3 him weak and exhausted. One of hi foet across. This wall is built of g, lacking the thong that had that Hepperton removed from served as string. flapped open about 1d: it 38 a monument 19 NiS| his apkle and admitted the sifting T has a symbolic quality, &S snow. There was a foot or more of though it cxpressed the spirit of the quow’ upon the ground and more was nan himself. My back ached in S¥M- | falling: the temperature was about 20 v when I looked at it. above zero, with a high wind. Ye I saw his photograph: saw a Iar:o‘. Penny did not feel sorry for himself. square head with side whiskers that pyyltation burned in him. for he was sccentuated this offect of squUAreness. ' free, and wide cves beneath heavy Brows ge vanished from the ken of human- The clean-shaven mouth and chin were ying, AVE HEPPERTON took full re- set and sirong: the nose astonishingly D sponsibility for the escape upon straight and lean, for so broad a his own broad shoulders. He had made it his practice to come half a| ® ok %k countenance. I said he had the look of a determined man, and his son nodded e'd usually do what He was clad in a suit of thin, shoppy | overwhelmed by | I started from Thomaston carly, and 1| had driven some warmth into his body been at it all day. I'm kind of tired. ‘ he sought food and drink. Snow, melted | Show me a place to sleep, Joe, | me alone till sunup, anywa; ok % SO old Dave slept at Joe's house that night, and, half a mile away, in the decrepit Shay place, long aban- | doned. Jake Penny huddled, shivering | and groaning, before a tiny fire. | | The murderer. once outside the prison | | walls, did not yield to the tomptation | | to run blindly, headlong, straight away | i from the accursed place. He had done | [ his thinking at leisure, knew now what | | he intended to do. To a city-bred fu-| | gitive, escape across the snow-bound countryside must have scemed a hope- less task, but Penny, knowing the cus- tom of the country, expected little dif- ficulty. He had decided, long before, that the | | officers would expect him to go south, toward his home; therefore he would go north, his ultimate goal the lumber camps in the far woods. | ‘The authorities would expect him mi {spend the first night in putting as | and lot | | | | strength flow back into him. in an old saucepan found behind_ the | stove, furnished the latter, but there was nothing to cat. He was hungry: the fever had, for a little while, re- leased its hold upon him. That_night he went along the ridge to Joe Belter's house and brought home the slaughtered pig, then returned for another load of the vegetables. By dawn he was provisioned for days. It was snowing hard; it scemed to him that luck was on his side; he hugged the warmth of the stove and ate heavily of the hot, tender pork, and felt He tried to plan. The snow was new so deep that it was almost impossible to travel afoot. He decided to lie hidden here till the times were more propitious. At dawn he let the fire go out. Smoke would betray him. But he carried hay into the kitchen till he had made a great pile of it, and huddled into il and slept fitfully through the d Fever returned upon him; he was not always sure of his surroundings, lost count of the hours. At night he man- aged to relight the fire and warm him- much distance as possible between him | sclf and cook again. (ofs TEBRUARY 26, 1928—PART T. | dozen times a day and make sure that | Penny was secure: his instructions to| the guards were that. when food was taken into the cell, the door should be locked and that one of the guards ¢ the mere fact of his own community. found suf- and ent him to th> for a term or and the prison. ‘Therefore, once free, he turned the | first corner, the next. doubled on hi | tracks, and 15 minutes after his escay C o ! { he was snug and reasonably warm in should remain outside with his &UN{tha mow of a barn directly across the |ready The fact that they grew carc- | v = 4 less Wwas not his fault, yet he assumed ; e L e T the Dlame and took personal charg? | pa)l. stified his coughing as well as Le of the pursuit. 3 could, and went to slecp. But this pursuit was at best a hap-| “He stayed 24 hours. There was food hazard matter. Penny, it was assumed. | for the ‘taking. The great barns of would try to work toward the country | + o with which he was familiar; the oads | to° ascomodatn o Winter Supely ot that way were guarded. the authorities | hay, and also to house the cattle, the That was in_Scptember. alert. | pigs and the chickens. To victual Decembor Jake Penny was brought to| Hepperton took these precautions | them, stores of food are accumulated. the prison to await execution, and de- | but he was not content with them. He | Besides the hay, there is grain—oats livered into Hepperton's charge. Penny | thought Penny, so light clad, must s0on | and corn and sometimes wheat—and was, bovond all peradventure, an evil|seek shelter, and he believed the man thers are bacts and pumpkins and m: was born on a farm nearman would be likely to choose a barn squash and carrots for the cattle; and Bath, and, from the period of earlyjas his hiding place. So Hepperton | there may be a barrel of apples tucked manhood. his ways had been dark. made a wide circle about the country- | away. It is still related of him that when. side, questioning farmers, searching Penny had plenty to ecat; he was on one occasion, he was on trial, he barns at random, but not that day, 'nmm to hide sll traces of his pres- sought to bring character witnesses in | nor the next, nor the next did he find | ence, and, on the night after his escape. his own behalf and found but one lany trace of the vanished man. { toward midnight, he made his way to and that one of notorious ill-repute.| Rhodes, the warden. believed that| the street, utterly deserted at this hour. ng 10Wns Augusia hile he was there. a man named appointed warden of the n at Thomaston: and| owing Hepperton and re-| m, asked him to serve as ~ 0ld Dave accepted. He left Iy in Liberty and took up his hin the prison walls. Late in He scrved a prison term on that oc-| Penny must have died of exhaustion|and. with his gun on his arm, walked ca 10 years later he went behind and been hidden by the falling snow ‘:&»m, out of S:\-n. the bars again because of the cir-|“We'l find him in the Spring.” he sug- nces surrounding the burning of igested. “You'll see!” shook his head doggedly his search. On the fourth day after the escape more snow fell and the wind blew his house and bam oL Mipporion s D and con In his forty-first year, for rcasons of e his own. h2 broke into a house where a woman and her four-year-old chxld“ lived alone, and. when their poor bodies discovered, the officers were 2ble to fasten his guilt upon him. He was tried and convicted and sen- tenced to be hanged. Manacled be-! tween two strong men. he made the | countryside. e Th"m‘s:f‘r“ihe‘?i( therc| The man was immensely strong: hi: xnl;::u:‘-v' B opotngec | Phvsical endurance must have been J H He was not of powerful build, ans| the prison guards perhaps took their tasks too lightly. Because he was s still, so mild, so_submissive, they grew careless and relaxed their watchful- n>ss. Routine becomes a drug, lulling the senses. The man whose duty it was | 10 carry his food to Penny bacame o accustomed to seeing the murdered that he forgot to be afraid of him. The corridor guard sometimes neglected to take his stand cutside the barred door when his comrade went in to Penny. So, one Gay toward the middle ol January. Penny found his opportunity While the guard was depositing hi- tray of food on the low stool that served the prisoner as a table, the mur- cerer leaped on him from behind anZ g;nmtd him with a leather thong that servi ed him as shoe-string. The Arlington Estate. formed or a fence or tree or cut bank | gave shelter from its blasts. But Hep- perton bundled in his sleigh, head (Continued from Second Page.) beauty of their conception and their impessioned eloquence. Those familiar with the columns of this journal wiil not forget how largely we and the coun- try are indebted 10 the warm and ever- cheerful spirit of the deceased for many invaluable reminiscences of Revolution- ary history, of the distinguished men of those times, and especially of the pri- vate life of their glorious chief in the retirement of the shades of his home at Mount Vernon. “Thousands from this country and| from foreign lands who have visiled | Arhington 10 commune with our depart- | ed Iriends and look upon the touching | memorials there treasured up withcar: | of him who was first in the hesris of | bowed into’ the wind, still ranged the | | Some time afterward—he did not | know whether 1t was a day or an hour | —some one knocked on the kitchen | door. His gun. to which he had clung | throughout his long ordeal, leancd | against the wall fn a corner beside the | pile of hay that had served him as a bed. He crept toward it. |~ The knock sounded once more, and | he fired both barrels, loaded with buck- shot, at the door. The door opened and | a man's huge figure momentarily blotted |out the light. Then Penny was swept | off his feet by a rushing blow and he | surrendered. i [ the situation thus developed there were certain significant elements. | Penny’s shot had been wild; the heavy ! balls had for the most part spattered in the plaster. But one, penctrating a | panel of the door, lodged in Dave Hep- | perton’s right shoulder, in the feavy | deltold muscle. He and Joe Belter | washed the wound with hot water and | put_a rude bandage on it, and Dave made light of it. Nevertheless, fact remained that he was wounded. Penny, the recaptured fugitive, was Before Hepperton's rush * ok % In worse case. The roads were heavy with snow: he | he had collapsed: the big man stumbled covered only about 6 miles before | weariness drove him to find shelter | again. Another barn. The next night he added 8 miles to the distance | between him and the prison. But the ' cough. so that his sides were stabbed by 1 sharp and staggering pains, and he had to find shelter early. Thereafter his progress was slow. H~ | avoided the main roads, even though | they were almost impassoble .and his route 1nto Fraternity brought him| o ! 0 {3‘ { i !'and fell upon him. The gun flew wide, | and Penny's head struck upon the floor. | | When Hepperton got to his knees. he | | saw that the murderer was insensible; saw also that he was physically in bad | building great drifts wherever an eddy | night after that he was racked by his | shape. “He's got fever,” Hepperton told Joc | Belter. “I wouldn't be surprised of it/ was pneumonia. And no wonder, too, him being out in all this cold. Can't| you manage to go down and get a/ ' doctor for him, Joe?" The two men had come up the hill | | | the | | | THEN PENNY WAS SWEPT OFF HIS FEET BY “I should look for the crisis some | hill and the road had been broken by them. time within a few hours. Probably |a passing team or two. He made it tonight, along toward morning. He'll | without mishap, but a little further on. either die then, or take a turn for the to prevent the sleigh from sliding into better. Can't tell.” {a ditch, he braced both arms against Dave sucked at his lips in distress; it and in so doing reopened his wound. they were all grave and perturbed, heavy | He stopped for five minutes at Noel with concern for the life of this Clute's farm to readjust his bandages miserable man—for whose neck a noose | and thereafter went more carefully. Naltest 20 mile away. IDE ) Eride sal Once, toward noon, he met another A RUSHING BLOW AND HE SURRENDERED. horse plunged at the drifts with new | you're right. energy. Dave, afoot, had, at times. some difficulty in keeping pace with it, They used to point out the absurdity (but he had already outlasted one'of thus sacrificing himself to save & horse, and there was still endurance in | doomed man for his appointed end, but | the man. it is 50 apt to be the absurd deeds men After a_while, the cold became en- remember. Perhaps this is because to durable. His feet were numb, but there | do bravely and without too much con- was some feeling in them. Fatigue sidering is so often a form of valer, burned in the muscles of his legs and But, rou see, I was afrald this Penny would die.” “Somebady'll have to take care of him They considered this; then Dave asked slowly, “Got to be kept quiet, | has he? Got to be kept warm." | The doctor shook his head. “Keep | him cool, so much the better,” he re-| marked. “Relieve that fever that's burning him up. Long as he doesn't freeze, you can't get him too cold.” Dave nodded. “That was a notion I had,” he commented. Then he asked the doctor to look at his arm. “Reckon that's going to bleed much?” he asked “Keep it quiet and it won't bother vou,” the physician told him. “Better | put it in a sling.” “You fix it so it won't bleed.,” Dave urged. “I'm going to have to use ii.” “Use it? Why?" “Why, I got to take this here Penny back to Thomaston,” szid Hepperton, with slow finality. £ EEN AND so the thing came to pass, the exploit is still retold in Fraternity. | “Oh, they opposed him: they argued with the man; they did everything but restrain him by force. But Dave Hep. perton was always a stubborn sort; al ways one to have his own way. He| had made up his mind before he spoke, | and, having made up his mind, there | was no moving him. Rather, he moved them. bent them to his will. The Shay Wwas on an old road, seldom used, well above Belter's farm: it was impossible to bring the sleigh up through the great drifts | that had accumulated along that way. ! So he must be carried down the hill, | and Belter and Dr. Pride did so carry | him. Dave plodding through the snow. ! behind them. with his useless arm dangling. He was in haste “It's snowing harder,” he reminded them. | “and blowing. It'1l take me till la tonight to get him back there as it is I got to get started ki He and Joe Belter had gone up th hill at daybreak, but there was so mar things to be made ready that it was | mid-forenoon before he could start | upon his journey. His arm was in a sling. | “If you use it, you'll start the bleed- | ing” Dr. Pride warned him. ! Penny was dressed in many 1hlck-i | | nesses of warm clothes and wrapped in heavy furs. A jug of hot water was set between his feet. Because he tossed and twisted in his delimium, they bound him into his wrappings like a cocoon, and then secured the whole upon the | | behind. i halt, | citadel of the man. sleigh upon the road. and they passed cach other, after some mancuvering and an interchange of greetings. But, by that time, the storm had increased in intensity: none was abroad, except upon necessity. Dave and his charge moved along through a world of swirl- ing snow and burning cold. Yet they made, upon the whole, good time. The horse “was strong: Dave let the reins hang. knotting them about the nicke! rail at the front of the sleigh. Whenever the snow was deep he walked beside the vehicle or pushed Now and then, where the wind had scoured an easier passage, he stepped upon the runners and thus, without getting into the sleigh, rode for a little way. Penny, muffled and bound upon the seat, was, for the most part, silent and motionless, but some- times his voice emerged from the folds that hid his face, in cries and profane ejaculations. At such times Dave was apt to part the robe and look at his man with a solicitude almost maternal Toward dusk he bsgan to give Penny. every little while, a sip from the bottle of rum. . ’I‘HXS long journey was marked by | no particular incident; Dave en- countered no sensational obstacles. It was simply an ordeal. The road led him forever onward. now smooth, now buried under a drift 5 or 6 feet deep. through which or over which he must Sometimes the horse could get no footing. and Dave had to go ahead and force the loose stuff down, or to one side. before the beast could be persuaded to advance. Sometimes, after a particularly violent struggle, when Dave permitted the creature to the horse stood trembling and shuddering with its own fatigue., and steam rose from its flanks and from its frost-incrusted nostrils. Snow matted on its heavy Winter coat at last; the animal no longer steamed. Late in the afternoon Dave's feet began to get cold. Strong as he was, weariness had driven past his outer defenses and was fighting into the very His fcet became colder and colder: on an occasional patch of wind-swept bare ground he tried to stamp warmth into them. His left arm he flapped across his breast almost constantly. The other, useless rb\:-r‘fm{cr, was cold; the fingers ached tterly. his countrymen will not forget th:| charm thrown over all by th: .ase,| grace, interest and vivacity of the mln-i ners and conversation of nim whce ice, alas, is eilent now. The molii- | tudes of our feliow citizens, accusiomed in the heat of Summcr Tesort 1o th | £nades of Arlingion, will hereafter paiss| that old man eloquent, Who ever cx- ed 1o them a warm-hear'ed wel-|almost beyond measul and became pariaker of their ;0. were at work, as well, “Long a believer in the g eat truths! A day or two after the escape ho( PENNY'S ATTACK. But his wits'along the ridges above the George's valley. He had perceived, by the end of the 0! of Divine Reveiation, Mr, Custis turned | caused to be printed and circulatra 5 5 . ¥ tnese for consolation ‘n his last| for 50 miles in each direction a hand- 0I5t ‘)“k- l‘;"‘b}:” Rask a-"grf”;f A d died in communion with th:| biil describing Penny. “He will have | ish: the ol ay place, a deserl farm on the ridge, offered him a haven | He made his way into the house, and found it empty of furniture, lll;ix bnr:l- il * | rooms peopied only by the still an ‘;::znfw.l’zn'er::"gfi,fi:"dp"f"',’,’,, | deadly cold. But he must rest. He y e . | dared not build & fire by day, but there may shoot a deer, or rabbits, or some- | dared not bulld & fire by day. but thore s, | T o e, break into houses. | L, "and he huddied under it and lay .. o ! This man is dangerous.” wiert E. Lee, the ceremony | 5 B 'd by the Rev. Reuel| This handbiil began at once to get| Al that day, talking to himself in lo 5 | results. Letters came, in labored script, | and mumbling tones. g T ia31" | from farmers who had heard a shot in | With the coming of night, he roused N mimant event seems| the woods: from others who had seen | himself and built a fire in the old stove Foe Mations Intel. | strange tracks in the snow, or whose | in the kitchen, feed h bits of ca T nt Episcopal Church” to eat,” he wrote, beneath the descrii tion. “"Any one hearing shooting in | woods, or anybody that has any V! esting thing w0 the most 4 p: AX’/)L' take ce at Ariington House dur- of the original proprietor THE CELL DOOR HAD BEEN LEFT AJAR: THE CORRIDOR GUARD WAS OVERWHELMED BY | on snowshoes, Will Belter dotiging bes | hind. “Joe sent this half-grown son of this to do the errand Hepperton sug- | gested, and, in the hour that inter- | vened before Dr. Pride came plodding | up the hill over the drifts, the two men | did_what they could to make Penny comfortable, and they bandaged Dave's wound | 'But their first care was for_the out- | taw, rather than for Dave. Dr. Pride | knocked upon the door at last, and, | when they admitted him, they saw that snow had begun to fall once more—a | thin, biting snow, driven by a cold wind. | And’ the temperature was dropping. | Dr. Pride examined Penny, who was, by this time, obviously in delirfum. 1e's far gone in pneumonta,” he told scat of the sleigh. | A little after dark he stopped. be- cups of hot coffee himself, then strode out into the barnyard. where Joe Belter had the sleigh waiting. A gust of snow struck him in the face, blindingly, and he tugged his hat down over his cves sheer compulsion of will, he drove it |on to a farm huddled by the river; and | he unhitched the creature there and barrowed the farmer's harse. The man with his left arm. It sid drunkenly | more. Miles of road, decp fn snow {from side to side among the drifts. A |'still lay ahead of him. The wind had {few rods away he dipped over the brow | risen, and it was colder, but snow no |of_the hill and disappeared. {longer getl, + There was always afterward a part | Some warmth got into his feet and of that day that left no mark upon | his hands while he stopped at this Hepperton’s memory, but this came | house: when he went out fnto the cold |later. once more. he was sorry for this. Be. | At first he was strong and confident; | fore they had been numbed with coid. |the “exercise warmed him: his heavy |now they throbbed with poignant pain. | coat kept out the bite of the wind and | almost unendurable. \ the felt and rubbers on his feet fought | bottle again to Penny's lips. then off the cold. The first mile was down- ' stumbled on into the night. The fresh 831 gives simply | Stock had been disturbed by some | — 8 1831 gives Bmply | nuder in the night. But, on the ninth day. word reached Hepperton A Reton Bouse iy Ahe from one of his own neighbors in Lib- x B e e P nieg | erty. I heard at the post office to- iaves Corps of Evgineers, 1 Miss Mary | DIght” this man wrote, “that Joe | iy danghter of G, W B, | Belter, over at Praternity, had a pig| e stole night before last. Whoever u! was ok an ax and knocked the pig on the head snd then bled it and lugged | it off. It was snowing that night, so they couldn’t find no tracks " It 2 BY E. J. BUCK. N the Guif of Cutch, between Karachi on_the north rnd | Bombay on the south, lie the When Hepperton got this letter, he | Kathiawar States, or the Btates went 1o Rhodes and said stolidly: | of Western India, and not the He's up there, hiding away somewhere. | least of these 15 Nawanagar or Nay- I'm going after him " s Ml Ten minutes later, in the sleigh that | The able ruler of this state 15 pop- had already covered s5 many miles, he | ylarly known as Ra,m]l. at one time « “Up. rather unfor.| was on his way, He arrived in Fra- | fumous cricketer whose prowess e e g e e | Termity late that night. 10 hud taken | admiration of the world, who now. s (b road, and wio reached | 09T 14 hours for him to cover the | Lieat. Col. s Highness Maharaia s thoroughly drenched. 1t vas | intervening 20 miles, for the roads were | shri Sir Raniit Singht Vibhaji, G G e for bin v connucl & cere- | ONid: the snow had been so frequentig [, . B. F., the Jam Sahih of Na- wul some change of raiment,| that it had been impossible Lo break | wanagar, possesses w reputation iis .; were opiiged W supply him | them out He stopped at Joe Belter's | yise administrator and sportsman of of clothes belonging b Mr | farm and waked Joe—though It was (he first order futher of the bride. Unluckily nesr midnight—and found shelter for | nuyanaear, a s o1 - aame At D Bt of these garments, My. Custis himself snd his horse square milea. with & population of shout ort nd svut, Use clergyman tall | Joe had news for him. ©1 figure YOUr | o0,000 inhabitants, possesses k sen bor- and he presented @ Judicrous | man’s up here” he sald “There | ger with no less than 32 ports, an ad- e U thowe who sew him o | Weren't ouly the plg stole There vas | yupiage which no other state in Indin lorrowed plumsge. However, Ui | some beets and some spples W0k oub | cun houst of, and chief wmong these Pice covered uli| of the barn. My boy, Will, he's quite a | por P mear ahout five miles from the @elects end the guests were un- | hand w nose around, and he figured "'l«llll'hl. Jsmnagar, & port which, once the swkward predicament of | could maybe pick up some tracks WHere lpore or less of & mud bank, has de- the snow hadn't drifted. Well, he did" | yeloped greatly in the past few years may be thet Mr. Meade wssisted | Hepperton, eitting in the Kchen | UNou far from Bedi port s Koz ge olerwise the name | chair before the stove, where Beller | punder where stands a hghthouse, and story is an error, since | hud bullt s roaring fire, biew on his | here there is patch of ground running Lipating Cergyman's Lame ves | hands and stapped them on his knees. |05 Tine e YORicn” at high tide, i “doe.” e sald slowly, “I'm 8 man thaL| practically wn dsland. 1t 1 covered sar with the | likes 0 do & Job and get 3t done, but | ity fairly thick grass wnd thoiny Jee. How|Ym kind of ‘trea wnight 10 BE'S | hahool trees, and also possesses severnl commission In thelaround here, hell stay. 1 can bell e ravines. Some thiee miles In ates Army. Jeft Lis home st ] you this 15 no night to travel. Joe, ' length and over a mile wide, 1t 1 strict- 818 became the South's most | gong W bed and catch mysell some 1y preseved and forms & wonderful | sleep, and you can tell me wll that n ve are tiid there were in t tne wedding six brid of whom wes Britan 4 later married Capt ). 8. N B » swory 1s wid, as evering preceding the i ceremony, & heavy | i emple 1olds of the s the Lhe dignified divine” I Tumous penersl, how his estale wa: home for gray pariridges and hares #oid for lexes and taken by the Fed-| e morning” Hundreds of hawks are shot by watch- erel Goverpment for cemeterial pur-| Wil thinks he's in the old Bhay (ers each season in the preserve, while poses. Jater W be regularly purchased | place” Joe urg “Just slong the | thousands of ground rats, Jargely at- owner, | rond haif & mile” Hepperton grinned mirthlessly. “Well I Lie's there tn the morning, 1 expect for 8150000 from the legal George Washinglon Custis Lee, e genersl tracted by the grain foodr which wre regularly supplied to the birds, are nlso o of I i annuslly destroyed, A Partridge Food s distributed to the birds by a motor car, So the partridges have little |fear of a car, and on a drive through the preserve, especially in the early morning or evening, hundreds of birds can be encountered which hardly trouble to move off the highway arranged a morning's shoot for Lord Irwin, who was then on a brief visit to ! Nawanagar when he toured in Kathin | war Tt was a wonderfully organized [ affalr. Hundreds of beaters made a | solid line across half the ground. which was beaten up to sen. ‘The 18 guns in- cluded Lord Irwin and the Maharnfas of Dholpur and Porebunder and, as the walking was not difficult, Lady Irwin and several other ladies accompanied the guns, ‘The Jamsahib told us he, estimated there were some 5,000 partridges on the pentnsula, and we soon found little rea- £on to doubt his caleulation, Ver quickly there was a general fusillade 4% wlong the line. Partridges began to fly I every possible direction, some of the shng high and traveling at speed alght away or down the .] king back over the guns, while hares were darting in every direction ‘These Intter at tmes were by no means ensy to shoot, as they scooted through the grass and the low bishes On the whole, the birds rose well and @ave sporting shots, llumrh oocanional- Iy the gray partridge, as i ita wont, sat very tight before it was beaten out of some of the thicker thorn bushes, Quite Shoot in Kathiaw e, | ar | ealm, cold sars, A number of birds seemed at times to] It was now about 11 o'clock, the sun take refuge in the branches of e e the | was high in the heavens, and many of After advancing to some 300 or 400 (U8 Were hot and thirsty. So an in- yards from the sen beach the guns|!erval of & quarter of an hour with Dalted, and a number of beaters went | Sandwiches and cold drinks -was wel- | forward to beat the birds back again. [comed by ns all. Then came the drive | guns were handi- capped by thelr weapons becoming too hot to hold, while the best shots found It dificult to mamtain thetr shooting nvernges, It was really a remarkable shoot, and [ der gave its owner reason to believe in | | Its soveness. At last, however, the shoot was over and the party motored back to entoy an excellent lunch with cool- ! g drinks i large Shamiana facing the sea | He held the rum | 1 of this salicitude. sides and back; there was a hot fire of | fatigue under his shoulder blades. His head ached with it. | His face was cold. now. too; the wind | | was at his back—he had not that to, endure—but the very air had a white- | | hot bite, so that his cheeks were scalded with the frost. Now and then. aimost automatically, he rubbed them and rubbed his nose with his mittened hand. He was afraid he would freeze his nese, and he gave some thought to this fear, weighing the probabilities, surveying the idea from every angle. remembering other men who had frozen their faces. He decided that a slight frostburn would not be bad. but he had known of cases where cold left a scar. and he hoped this would not happen to him. So he rubbed at his checks and his nose with his mitten. The r SNOW Wi There were no shadows on it he could not easily detect equalities on its surface. S« . striding on what seemed a lovel, he plunged into the flank of a drift and fell forward, catching himself with his sound arm; sometimes he stepped into a pit where eddying winds had scooped {out the snow. | _After a while. he learned to avoid i these dangers by watching the hors» |and the sleigh. When the animals's feet and legs disappeared, he knew the beast had plunged into a drift. and he moved accordingly. The worst handi- csp of this treacherous light was the fact that he could not foresse the antics of the sleigh. Scmetimes it slid toward him. or away from hi before he had any waming. Once i did actually topple on its side: and his back cracked with the strain of right- ing it again and adiusting the help- less bundle tied in place upon the s:at He began to take a drink of rum himself. as ofien as he applied . bottle to Perry's babbling lips. The sick man was talking more constantly now: Dave thought. with grim sat! faction, that he was better would live. At lea: while. Ca;hedral Plans. (Continued from Third Page.) ! the choir of five. There will be accom- modations for persons and a seated congregation of 7,500. The preliminary pians were prepared by the late Henry Vaughan of Boston and Dr. George F. Bodley of London, & recognizea authority on Gothic archi- tecture. Frohman. Robb and Litte of Boston are the present architects, with Cram and Ferguson. also of Boston, as consulting arcnitecis. Their appoint- ment iollowed the death of Mr. Vaughan, who lived to prepare the final plans for and supervise the comstruc- tion of the Bethichem Chapg), in which he now 1ests, and the apse. Althcugh the initial arawings visioned 3 structure of exceptional beauty, they have been subjected to a few revisions in quest of a design which would most apprepriately symbolize the religious as- purations of the Nation. Many of the architectural details have been elaborat- ed and two crypt chapels have been added. The plan of applying medieval refin>ments to the consiruction is attribe uted to Mr. Frohman Like all great cathedrals. Washington Cathedral 1s bling built of solid ma- SonTy SO as to endure for the ages. The stone cannot be cut in dard sizes and patterns as in commercial buildings. Each stone it scparately designed an ::‘u;,?:d for the particuiar place it is ght was dark and stariit: the a white field under his feet. . so that the in- in a stone- e present actors at Bet! . contr: o facui- ! construction activi- ie is capable roduc 45 tons of finished s daily rx huge. rough blocks of In :\x!er being cut. planed and shaped at nt by power-driven machinery, fones are iransported to the cathe. g;’l’ S“fi where masons fit them to- er like pieces in a S Jig- s P Simnie jg-saw The stoues for Solomon likew ’s Temple were from the temple wisdom did not ~ hinery and efficient 3 are expediting the work hedral in the National Cap- *x o w OME 3 miles short of his destina- tion he encountered the worst ob- stacle in all his course. A hill haif a mile in length confronted him. The road ran along under the edge of & on the cat ital. Y R drafiing and five mechanical Hepperton asked Belter for a bottle of | cause he must. His hors cut bank, and snow had packed hard operations are required £ rum. “Penny’ll need something, toward | when he got it to l‘ls h;::;e -{;.‘{}\ n;‘h‘] in it to a great depth. There were duction of a single ni»;m uenehe \?{"e‘; night.” ‘he ‘explained. e drank %0 | beast refused the task ahead of it. By OPen fields on elther Side. however | the anchiteet determines. the Spocan and. after a fruitles empt to buck the snow in the road. Hepperton de- cided to try these fields It was difficult to turn around: he had to tug the sleigh back shape and dimensions cach sto: dimensions one is bered. number appear on all ividual time cards, through the cutting pians. el Stone S, on the horse which record t would have protested. but o R, Ing plant and took the reins ' and’ guided ‘the | rde his obiections wiih & word. “Stste 3. FOd OF more. and this eflort sapped | pleted stane, sne gt pirn R plunging horse out into the road. | officer, on business.- he satd curtly . Al but the faltering remnants of his by the mason R b Chet McAusland was there to see the | The farmer then was anxious to SUENgth In the open flelds again.| “An actusl start. and three or four others. Dave | help: invited him to come in and warm | Vhere only parrow drifts covered the is prepared by ¢ {wallowed through the snow on the|himself. “Ill take a cup of coffee.” hatd-pacied ground stow, he stumbled ' #inc pattern preparsd {Heht side of the slelgh. steadyving it | Dave replied. and stayed for nothing M hind the slefgh up the hill and. at l every molded s tanes, he was forced to hold on of be — left behind Tiven saws Toward the end. his feet on the run- Washington Cath ners, he rode. and before the top of the AW cuts by exe i reached he had fallen forward t t on his face in the bottom of the vehicle. sobbing for breath. But when. at the top. the horse stopped uncertainiy, Dave recovered himself and resumed his task ance more It was a little later on that he no- ticed that there was no longer any feel- | Ing in his feet. He objected to this con- asad ely carborundum ¢ carborund o ™ Also are cut by a rev The nlaning i d us dition principally because 1t made it s are a saigndlnney much harder for him to choose his lustable planer g Fomeih footing. A frost-bitten toe or two was 4-foot rad ™~ matie chis devices are operations by men wiy this modern branch a3 tng Present con cathedral are concen walls and ¢ four central p support the tons, three crvpe no great matter. so long as he could protect his nose. Alone there in the night, under the he grinned to himsel! with a famt appreciation of the humor ose has always took care of me” he told himself. ‘Why shouldn't T figure to look out for 7 NO way to treat a nose, anyway. Keeping 1t out on & night like this* His nose did him good service now, chapel Every year birds which are netted n |1t was then that the cream of the | IMOUSD (he other half of the ground, in that he was able to forget his feet. | & POTHOD 0f the cho® walls are already other parts of the state re relensed at | shooting occurred. Numerous coveys of | With w second final stand where tha | His thoughts clung to this nose of his: | SUCHUTALY complete. The next step {Rozl, while & certain number are as partridges, thoroughly alarmed, rose ' Dreserve joined the big open mud fiat ' he had a desperate and unadmitted the vaultmg of the ¢ regularly shot off. So there s lttle [high in the alr and simply streamed ) Which etched away to Jamnagar , feeling that {f he allowed himself to, e and the o Nation of { wonder that the birds thrive and that over the guns, affording wonderful | City. This was not so successtul as the | think of anvthing else he would sure orety U itranspts ang |1t 15 now recognized ws the most famous | “hooting and taxing the skill of the best | earlier drive, for at least half a doren | render to the Sreat weariness that pos e a | partridge preserve in India | shots. of thie guns 1o had had enoush sioot- | sessed him. - He Was ATaid s PUTRSE | enttonment v CLITHCHR and foe | Atthe end of last year the Maharala | Men with single fmg fell out, and more than one shoul- | would disintegrate. The universe i3 so a el e make thy new crually ready to overwhelm a man: his | only salvation is to engross himself in Bis own afairs. Even in his nose Toward the end he became simply & machine. plodding an, foundering through snow that reached to his Knees. promiy TOM VAT headed by Qe former Sena nent S parts of the oo D John I Persdin W Qearge Wharton Pep- from w sportsman’s view extvemely in- | ter. Secretary of ¢ & “Ivnnllng T aa structive ns 1t wis! 1L speaks volumes for the shooting, | 1 1S thighs, to Bis waist. He felt lt- /W Mein and Cthagy THASIY Audrew | Aimeult: as well as for the way the line was | Ik'g;rllxrll\\l:ch:‘i uu:mn: .\\\k\’pl'li\\“ nes Thy obhetive of the nresent cam ¢ ! | & oted, SRV | e ¥ of feeding spark of life Wminign 8 $8800.000. . e Lord Readifig, who visited Nawanngay | £00ducted, at times no easy matter i | {oSlty o6 feeding ¢ A Ultimately 1 & : o - | astonal sty of rum panned to " \Iu November, participated n & par- the bushes and lttle depressions, that 1 ot the Test. 18 l\\m;L\t emn:&\l‘ ‘x“ AT G ralse 330000 M for the only one beater in the course of the day was slightly peppered, and that | was his own fault, as he fell back and | unexpectedly sat down behind a bush The total bag, after the pick-up, i tannounced i the evening to be 1278 | ! head, of which 976 wers partridges and | 1902 haves About a hundred of the | | partridges, 1 beliove, were of the patnt- | | od species. Lord frwin, fn propesing the Jaw hib's health, at the state banquet Al Jamunagar that eventng, sald “We | shall not soon forget our wondertul shoot at Roa (L Wil vemain among our happleat Indian memories ™ Certainly 1t will rematn i the writ- tridge shoot during his stay, and al- | luded to the difficulty of hl‘lllrlllfl down i!lu\ bird at this poiut, in his after- | dinner apeech, by alluding to the Jam 18ahib's prowess st cricket, and saying | "Old coverpoints have complained to jme of an uncanny skill in placing the Iball and cutting with a force and ant | whieh eluded their beat efforta to stop It T am afrald trom what 1 hear that Your Highness has contrived to com- munfeate some of these disagrecable properties with which you used to en- dow the cricket ball to the denteens of the alr at Nawanagar. At any vate, they have cortainly ncquived the pace and curl, and many of them, as far as eton and adequate endow g owment at Ihe cathedral and s Asaciated b futhons for Christian service. A little after 1 o'clock in the warn- g he came 1o the prison gates and they let him in LR l‘NNl\l‘(\H the later years of his lite, men sometimas said o ald Dave that he had been a fool to do what he @il that his manumental achievement Was & useless thing SC0SE VU bW flagers of your tight hand.* they would remind ths ald man CARD i AIVE got A whale oot W . Vigornians and Others. THE reople of cortan Clties W g Bnd have curlas names to dee seride themsalvas. Sometimes the name Would not i the hast sy W e SITANZEr the City fo WARRW efers :\‘{. ;\m\uu« ‘\l NAtive Of Worgester s NN and A natives of i YOUF Bame. Just your durned stubborn- | 8 & Barumite. The l\'\‘l\h.\\( fl:‘:‘ neas . that's all it was * | ehester, Liverpoal and (HAsow are de- Tave Was never Iupatient with them; | seribed toapectively as | anounians, I have heard, get safely to the | er's mind aa one of the most teresting | he Was not & man to insist upan his | Liverpudlians and (aswegians. The ‘Imumll ¥ without being atopped by the [shoots 1t has been his good fortune 0 | own optilans. He used Answer, 1| Batives of Plymouth hewitate detweon wuns, be asked to in India, his mild, fom way, “Well, mnwlnmmm ad Pymouthonans. \