Mosier Bulletin
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EVENTÎ5 OF THE DAY
Newsy Items Gathered from All
Parts of the World.
Less Important but N ot Less Inter
esting Happenings f ro m Points
Outside the State.
A religious riot in M exico ended in
15 deaths.
Germany is
nautic school.
to
establish
J U R O R S S W O R N IN .
an aero
T a ft has rented a house at B everly,
Mass., fo r a summer home.
Lucky B aldw in’s doctor has put in a
claim fo r $100,000 as his fees.
A sealing steam er has been lost off
the Newfoundland coast w ith its crew
o f 30.
t Japan shows every intention to w ield
a complete control over Manchurian
railroads.
Several severe earthquakes are re
ported from Peru and much damage to
property is feared.
Students o f Columbia university,
N ew Y ork, are constructing an aero
plane along entirely new lineB.
Four Chinese ty in g to enter the
United States at San Francisco from a
B ritish steamer have been caught.
A San Francisco woman has been
awarded $20,000 fo r the death o f her
husband, who was killed by an automo
bile.
San Francisco, April 14.— Already as
aured o f a place unique in the annals of
California criminal jurisprudense, the
trial of Patrick Calhoun, who is charged
with having offered a $4,000 bribe to a
former supervisor, made a great stride
toward completion yesterday.
The
tw elfth juror was sworn to try the case,
ami when the hour o f adjournment was
reached the attorneys were engaged in
an honest effort to discover a thirteenth
talesman, free from disqualifying opin
ions and beliefs. There is a possibility
that the alternate juror, who will hol t
himself in readiness to serve if any
member of the original panel is dis
qualified, w ill be selected today, in
which event the taking o f testimony
w ill be begun Thursday.
Thirteen weeks have elapsed since the
president of the United Railways ap
peared in court to answer the first of
seventeen indictments charging him
with complicity in the tangled scandals
charged against the municipal adminis
tration
headed by M ayor
Eugene
Schmitz and Abraham Ruef.
During
that time sixty-two days have been de
voted to the trial, and 2,370 citizens
have been summoned to attend the ses
sions as prospective jurors.
Further earthquake shocks are being
fe lt at Messina.
A large gray w o lf has been captured
in a Chicago suburb.
An Erie, Pa., m illionaire has been
asked to g iv e up $5,000 or suffer death.
Reports that the r e lie f work at M es
sina is a farce continue to find th eiir
way out.
A ll W est Indian colonies have been
closed against Castro and France w ill
expel him from M artinique.
A 6-year old South Carolina boy shot
his 3-year old brother and is said to
have attem pted to hide the body.
A Columbus, 0 ., official has received
a “ Black Hand” w arning against issu
ing m arriage licenses to blacks and
whites.
Someone put a $10,000 b ill in the
collection plate o f a W ashington, D.
C., church and the deacons are looking
fo r the donor, fe e lin g sure that it was
a mistake.
Robbers held up an Ogden, Utah,
gam blin g and secured $1,500.
The N ew York legislature has turned
down a direct prim ary measure.
Im m igration authorities have found
that the husband o f Emma Goldman
obtained his naturalization by fraud.
T h is makes the noted anarchist an
alien and she may be deported.
An thracite miners and operators have
s p lit on recognition o f the union.
T w o Ohio autoists plunged into the
M iam i riv e r w ith their car rather than
run down a little g irl.
Passengers from the wrecked steam
er Indiana have arrived at San F ran
cisco on board a warship.
Government Believes Convictions
Carnot Be Had.
ENDS BIG PACKING HOUSE CASE
Attorn ey
General
O rders
Ab andon
ment o f E fforts to S e c u r e In-
dictmsnts for Rebating.
Chicago, A p r il 13.— Uncle Sam has
abandoned the prosecution in all inves
tigations o f the rebate cases, the affairs
o f the packers and the alleged A rg o
peonage system, which have been be
fore the present grand ju ry.
This fo l
lows the dispatching o f a le tte r from
A ttorn ey General George W . W icker-
sham, in W ashington, D. C., to M orris
& Co., officially announcing the aband
onment o f efforts to obtain indictments
o f rebating against that firm on e v i
dence that has beer heard thus far.
This does not apply to the inquiries
on the part o f the Departm ent o f Jus
tice, which have not been presented be
fore the grand jury. The probe o f the
N ational P acking
company,
which
g re w out o f the M orris & Co. in vesti
gation, has not y e t been heard by the
M A N Y F A M IL IE S H O M E L E S S .
Federal inquisitorial body.
Fees fo r services and funds fo r the
Rochester, N. Y ., at M e rcy o f Flames
transportation o f the grand jurors dur
for a T i m e .
in g th eir session have amounted to
Rochester, N. Y., April 14— Swept $10,000, while that o f witnesses have
along by a 25-mile gale, fire yesterday totaled $5,000.
destroyed several sections o f the city
H O W R A ILR O A D S S U F F E R .
and did damage estimated at $500,000.
For a time it was feared that a great
portion o f the city would be burned and C o m m e r c e C o m m is s io n ’ s Estimate of
Loss by Panic W r o n g .
aid was summoned from Buffalo and
The battleship Massachusetts
is Syracuse.
again in commission a fte r an idleness
One hundred families are homeless
o f tw o years, during which tim e she and militiamen guard what little they
was thoroughly overhauled.
have saved o f their household effects.
A . C. Swinburne, the poet, is dead. Some o f the homeless are quartered in
Many anthracite coal operators have precinct houses and a large number
passed the night in a public school
prepared fo r a strike.
A heavy rain set in and,
Holland is eagerly aw a itin g the birth building.
while it helped to extinguish the blaze,
o f an heir to the throne.
it was a hardship on the homeless.
N ew Y ork C ity alone
consumed
The Palmer building, a four-story
about 25,000,000 eggs Easter.
brick structure devoted to manufactur
The arm y transport D ix is en route ing interests at Main and Gibbs streets,
to Seattle w ith exh ibits from the P h il
was the starting point o f the blaze,
ippines fo r the fair.
which spread over a wide area and
Governor L ille y , o f Connecticut, is started u second series of fires.
dangerously sick and little hope is held
out fo r his recovery.
G o v e r n o r Gillette Vetoes Bill.
Indictments against H askell
and
Sacramento, Cal.)0April 14__ Governor
other prominent Oklahomans fo r land G illett announced officially yesterday
frauds have been dismissed.
that he would not sign the change o f
Castro's w ife w ill attem pt to have venue bill. Tho measure was introduced
Gomez resign as president o f Venezue in tho recent legislature by Assembly-
la and place the dictator again in pow man Grove L. Johnson.
I t gives to
er.
every defendant in a criminal action
Figures gathered by the bureau o f the right to a change of venue by sim
statistics show that m arriages are fa ll ply alleging in an a ffid a v it that he be
ing off and divorces increasing in In lieved the judge to be biased. The C iti
zens League o f Justice o f San Fran
diana.
cisco appealed to the governor to veto
F or the first tim e since the Spanish the bill, claiming that it would inter
w ar the United States army is up to its fere with the g ra ft prosecutions.
fu ll strength and recruitin g has stopped
except to re-enliBt men.
T a f t F av ors Statehood.
El
Paso,
Tex., April 14__ A special
A special train was used by a large
Eastern firm to carry bonds from San to the Times from Santa Fe, N. M.,
Francisco to N ew Y ork. Th is method says:
was cheaper than paying express.
Governor Curry announced yesterday
R oosevelt has arrived at P o rt Said. that he would remain as governor o f
N ow M exico until statehood is secured.
Emma Goldman w ill fight any e ffo rt
Ho received a letter from President
to deport her.
T a ft assuring him o f the president’s
Eleven jurors have been finally ac confidence and co operation. The T a ft
cepted in the Calhoun case.
letter wns not given out.
Mr. T a ft
E x p e rim e n t are being conducted at gives assurance o f the early passage of
N ew Y ork w ith w ireless telephones.
the statehood bill.
F ifteen automobiles w ere destroyed
Not S o r r y Roosevelt Hunts.
in a fire which burned a Chicago
Rome, April 14__ A friend o f J. Pier-
garage.
pout Morgan jok in gly told the financier,
Revenue officers engaged in a pitch
ed battle w ith moonshiners in W est who is in the city, that he had expected
to see him in mourning to show his
V irgin ia.
sorrow at Theodore R oosevelt's absence
Preparations are nearly com plete fo r
the Harrim an m erger suit at Salt from home. Morgan nppeared to enjoy
Lake, when the governm ent w ill try to the jest and replied that all America
ought to rejoice at Roosevelt’s absence
break the combine said to exist.
and that he sincerely hoped R oosevelt’s
T w o men w ere burned to death and return would bo indefinitely deferred.
three others seriously injured by an He added that the ex president's name
explosion o f oil tanks at P oin t R ich would pass into history as that o f tho
mond, Cal.
The damage w ill reach man who caused incalculable commer
cial and financial damage to America.
$50,000.
The defense has closed its argument
in the case to dissolve the Standard
O il company. A fte r the governm ent
finishes the court w ill take the case
under advisem ent and a decision is not
looked fo r before fall.
CHARGES DISMISSED
Chicago, A p ril 13.— An advance ab
stract o f statistics o f Am erican ra il
ways fo r the year ending June 30,
1908, as com piled by the bureau o f
railw ay news and statistics, was made
public here today. I t says:
“ Instead o f a decrease o f only $164,-
464,941 in gross earnings as the result
o f the tem porary financial depression
o f 1907-08, as set forth in the p relim i
nary income report o f the Interstate
Commerce commission fo r the year
ending June 30, 1908, the panic o f 1907
resulted in a loss o f more than $330,-
000,000.
The loss in net earnings is
$129,540,460, instead o f $111,051,006,
as g iven in the com mission’s report.
“ The two-cent passenger fare le g is
lation caused a loss o f $25,000,000 in
gross earnings, although more passen
gers w ere carried. The heavy loss in
net earnings is partly accounted fo r by
the expenditure o f approxim ately $32,-
000,000 necessitated by arb itrary inno
vations in accounting methods and re
quirements in regard to the hours and
conditions o f labor.”
F O R F E IT ID A H O TIM B E R .
G ov ern m en t T a k e s Evidence Against
B a rb e r L u m b e r C o m p a n y .
St. Paul, A p ril 13.— F orty thousand
acres o f tim b er land worth from $1,-
000,000 to $3,000,000 is at stake in
the case in which testim ony was taken
today by Peyton Gordon, o f W ashing
ton, special assistant to the attorney
general o f the United States.
The proceedings w ere begun several
years ago by the Federal governm ent
against the Barber Lum ber company,
o f Eau Claire, W is ., to cancel patents
that the governm ent had issued be
tween 1901 and 1903 fo r tim ber land
in the R oise basin, Idaho.
The g o v
ernm ent’ s com plaint declared that the
patents had been obtained through
fraud.
Mr. Gordon has been securing te s ti
mony on behalf o f the attorney gene
ra l’ s office in Idaho, Nevada, C a lifo r
nia, Washington and elsewhere. The
case w ill be tried this yea r in Boise.
Japa n Wants S ubm ari nes.
N ew Y ork, A p ril 13.— The Japanese
governm ent is negotia tin g w ith an
Am erican builder o f submarine boats
fo r the purchase o f plans and specifica
tions fo r a new type o f submarine o f
sm aller model than the type now in
common use, but o f double speed. I t
is stated that the proposed new c ra ft
would have about the same destructive
power as the present type. The pur
pose o f the Japanese governm ent is to
E xcursio ns in Airships.
Berlin, April 14.— Preparations for send draughtsmen to N ew York to
the international aeronautical exhibi make drawings, but to build the boats
lion to be held at Frankfort next July in Japan.
.ire approaching completion.
All sorts
o f air craft w ill*b e seen in fligh t and
Ho pe to Save Indiana.
facilities will be offered visitors to
San Francisco, A p ril 13.— A w ire
make trips in airships starting from the
exhibition grounds. For sixty days dur less message received by the Merchants
ing the exhibit'-on there w ill be races Exchange today states that the strand
and other conic ts. The Zeppelin and ed steam er Indiana, o f the Pacific Mail
the Parseval airships w ill travel to Steamship company, which was w reck
Frankfort by air and take passengers ed at the entrance to Magdalena bay,
on excursions along the Rhine.
lies a m ile northeast o f P oin t Tosco,
100 fe e t from shore. The engine room
C a s tr o Is Not Prisoner.
and fire room ate leaking, but the
A d iver be
Paris, April 14__ Tho French govern w ater is under control.
ment docs not regard Cipriano Castro in longing to the navy is at the scone, but
nnv sense as a prisoner. Should Castro has not y e t made an exam ination o f
come to St. Nnzairo the government has the vessel. I t is hoped to save about
700 tons o f the cargo.
no intention o f molesting him unless
he tries to foment public disorder. It
Ice S u rr o u n d s Ferries.
is believed, however, that Castro will
Menominee, Mich., A p ril 13.— Sur
leave tho Versailles at Santander, Spain rounded by immense ice windrows,
April 22.
which stretch in a circle o f 50 miles
on Green bay, or slow ly pounding their
7 6 0 Appeal to Roosevelt
w ay through the ice o f Chambers is
lies Moines, In., April 14.— More than land, Ann A rb or car fe rrie s 1 and 3,
750 lies Moines school children have which le ft F ran k fort yesterday, and
signed a petition to Theodore Roosevelt w ere due here this afternoon, have not
been located.
Lighthouse keepers on
asking him to change his mind and not
a small Green bay island near Death's
kill defenseles animals in Africa. Tho
Door have been communicated with,
letter is in the hands o f Mrs. Elizabeth but none have seen the boats.
Baird, secretary o f the Humane So
R u m o r Snake Is Dead.
ciety, who w ill send it to Mr. Roosevelt.
Muskogee, Okla , A p ril 13.— There
Jail for S m o k in g Pipe.
is a rumor here that Crazy Snake,
Galena. Kan., April 14.— Because Ace chief o f the Creek Indians, who has
Raines, IS years old, son o f the post been sought by the state m ilitia for
master here, smoked a pipe yesterday, the past tw o weeks, is dead, but it
lie was taken to jail. He will face trial cannot be verified. The governm ent
Thursday on the charge o f having vio has representatives in the field search
lated tl e newly enacted law prohibiting ing fo r the Indian leader.
minors from smoking.
Alb erta C r o p s to Double.
W innipeg. Man., A p ril 13.— The first
Sixty P e r C e n t T u b e r c u la r.
Dos Moines. Ia „ April 14.— An in Canadian W estern wl.eat crop report
vestigation
conduct M by
the
IXS was issued today, showing 100 per cent
increase in th# seeder! area in Southern
Moines Tubercular Association has ce
L it t le seeding outside o f
suited in the discovery that six out o f Alb erta.
e v e r y , ten children examined are In that d istrict w ill be done until the end
o f the month.
footed with tuberculosis.
MUCH
REVENUE LO S T.
Am end m en ts Put T h r o u g h T a k e A w a/
T w e n t y Million Dollars.
W ashington, A p ril 13.— The e s ti
mates o f the revneues which the Payne
ta riff b ill w ill produce have been re
duced nearly $20,000,000 through the
amendments made by the house. The
senate finance com m ittee must provide
means fo r m aking up thic difference, if
the origin al estim ates are to be met.
The s trik in g out o f several counter
v a ilin g duty clauses w ill lessen the
b ill’s productiveness another $20,000,-
000 .
The amendment takin g off the 8-cent
duty on tea subtracted $78,000,000
from the estim ated revenues.
The
s trik in g out o f the countervailing duty
on coffee disposes o f what probably
would have been $15,000,000 in duties.
T a k in g out the coun tervailin g pro
viso fo r lumber and fo r petroleum
means a lost opportunity to increase
the revenues by several m illion dollars,
it is estim ated.
The senate finance com m ittee m ater
ially redudeed many o f the D in gley
b ill’ s schedules as it passed the house,
but in order to increase the revenue-
producing power o f the Payne b ill the
com m ittee must take d ifferen t action
w ith regard to the latter measure.
In 1897 the senate com m ittee placed
a duty o f 1 1 a cents per pound on hides,
which was changed later to 15 per
cent, but the Payne bill, as it passed
the house, places hides on the fre e list.
Under the D in gley law, hides have
produced m ore than $3,000,000 rev e
nue annually.
There are many changes in the Payne
b ill from the provisions o f the D in gley
law. Its maximum and minimum re
talia tory feature, the additional m eth
od o f valuation fo r the purpose o f pre
ventin g under-valuations and its pro
visions fo r the $40,000,000 issuance o f
Panama bonds and a $250,000,000 issue
o f Treasury certificates are new. I t
extends the drawback p riv ile g es so
that dom estic raw m aterial may be
used in lieu o f im ported m aterial fo r
the purpose o f collectin g a drawback,
provided an equal amount o f identical
imported raw m aterial is manufactured
into the same product upon which the
drawback is collected. A n inheritance
tax, by which it is hoped that $20,000,-
000 w ill be collected, is provided for.
In placing a large number o f articles
on the fre e lis t and in reducing the du
ties on many others, it has been found
necessary to increase m aterially the
duties on many articles in order to pro
duce necessary revenue.
The Payne
bill increased m aterially the rates on
brandy, alcohol, gin, grain spirits, cor
dials and liquors, but made virtu a lly no
increase on champagne.
The senate
com m ittee has decided upon an in
crease amounting to about 25 per cent
above the existio n g rates on wines o f
all kinds.
A number o f other articles, regarded
as luxuries, have been increased.
aware of t4ie price I am paying for the
C H A P T E R IV .
The next day Pearman became excess follies of my younger days."
“ It is not likely I should recall such
ively enamored of his hopeful son's pro
ject, though he did not at all disguise disagreeable facts to your memory, Jf I
to himself the difficulties that stood in had not something to propose with re
the way of Its accomplishment.
If he gard to their being to a considerable ex
had not had She advantage of such an tent wiped out. You will do me the jus
education as Sam had had, yet he had tice, I think, Mr. Denison, to admit that
made a large fortune by trading on the since I have bad the honor of being your
weaknesses of his fellow-men.
Those pecuniary adviser. I have never held bit
who achieve this, though it may be little ters to your lips, when I deemed any
to their credit, become more thoroughly thing more palatable would meet the ex
acquainted with the springs of Che human igencies of the ease?”
Tlhe squire nodded assent. He certain
mind than all the metaphysicians and phi
losophers who have ever written or dream ly had a confused idea lhat Pearman
ed about it. The son might be an astut* had made a pretty good thing out of
man enough at his vocation of the turf, the adjustment of his affairs.
“ Now, ’ continued the attorney, " l see
but he was a child, compared to his fath
er, when computing to what extent he a way in which you may be relieved from
could persuade, bind, or break men to all immediate embarrassment connected
bia own will. The son thought the advan with money matters, and by which Miss
tages of such an alliance must be so Denison may be the eventual mistress of
transparent in a worldly point of view Glinn In its original integrity.”
to Harold Deuison that h» would be a
Denison started. To be released from
willing coadjutor in the scheme, from the the harassing strain that lies on him now
moment it was proposed to him ; the fath with regard to pounds, shillings and peuee
er at once foresaw the old family pride — tthat the old property should ouce more
that would he up in arms against him cumulate in his daughter— opened a gor
the instant he mooted the idea.
geous prospect to his eyes.
It was a
But he said to himself, " I have had piece of good fortune that he had never
much to do with Harold Denison, and dreamed of. But he knew his man by
should know him thoroughly. Jle is selfish this time well. What was the price he
at heart to the core. In all those trou was to pay for this? He said nothing,
blous (lays of his, when 1 was settling hut inwardly his brain was busy in vain
his affairs, I never knew him dwell upon conjecture as to what Peartutn would
w*hat the results might he to his wife demand as his guerdon for producing such
■nd daughter. It was ever what he had a transformation scene. The idea of that
to give up.
He'll scout this proposal worthy solicitor ever doing anything with
with indignation when 1 first mention it out an ulterior motive waa one he never
to him ; hut he'll come round to it in entertained for an instant. What would
time.
As for the girl’s that's Sam's he want? What did he mean?
affair; but when Denison has once made
up his mind to her marrying him, he’s as
C H A P T E R V.
likely a man as 1 know' to turn on the
A silence of some five minutes ensued
domestic screw heavily. I ’ ve seen Chat between the two men ; the old lawyer
oracle worked more than once, and it’s was anxious that the tempting bait he
generally pretty efficacious.
They run held out should he thoroughly gorged be
away with somebody else afterwards, oc fore he was called upon to state upon
casionally, but that’s the fault of the what terms all this might be brought
husbasuls’ not keeping
them
within about. His beat experience of men told
bounds. Yes; I ’ll ride over and see Den him that there was no such mistake in
ison to-morrow. It won’ t be a very pleas life as hurrying— an axiom most of us
ant job, 1 doubt; but I am used to that.” learn, though generally too late but to
The owner of Glinn felt that slight derive minor advantages therefrom.
nervous perturbation that invariably at
"This sounds too good to be true. Pear-
tends the call of a large creditor. The man,” at length remarked the squire. “ I f
noise of the carriage wheels had merely it can he done, you must have some In
produced a feeling of languid curiosity; fernal rider to the proposition, that it Is
but the announcement that Mr. Pearman hardly possible I should assent to.”
wanted to see him made the squire's
" It is not likely that this can be brought
pulse quicken, and it was with an anx about without some valuable assistance
iety he was unable to disguise that he from yourself,” rejoined the
solicitor.
welcomed him in his own peculiar slow "But will you bear steadfastly In your
tones.
mind the great advantages that will ac
“ Sit down, Pearman. Take that arm crue Immediately to yourself, and ulti
chair, and make yourself comfortable. I mately to Miss Denison? W ill you, more
hope to heaven you haven't come to make over, be good snougli to hear me patiently
N I A G A R A IS S T I L L E D .
to til« end?"
me the reverse?”
Ths squire nodded an Impatient as
"N ot at all, Mr. Denison. My visit Is
Great River it Fro z e n Solidly F r o m not a business one, though I have some sent.
"You must, of course, be quite aware
thing I should like just to talk to you
Bank to Bank .
a little about presently. Shocking weath that now Miss Denison has arrived at a
Buffalo, N . Y ., A p ril 13.— The voice er we're having. Bad for the farmer«— marriageable age, her great personal at
tractions have claimed the attention of
o f N ia g a ra was mute today, fo r the very, isn't it?”
seccond tim e in the memory o f man,
“ You may say that. Nothing wo have a good many young men In Hie county."
The attorney paused, but his auditor
and the riv e r is frozen solidly from to sell seems to he worth anything. All
farm produce is a drag in the market. looked grimly at the firs, and expressed
bank to bank.
On Wednesday the w orst gale o f the How's Coriander going on? It looks like bis feelings by neither word nor gesturs.
“ Well, a young gentleman of consider
season piled the solid icefields o f Lake your gathering a terrible harvest in April
The horse Is able property, and still better expecta
E rie in a huge mass at the low er end at Newmarket, anyhow.
tions, who has had the privilege of meet
o f the lake. A t N ia ga ra F alls there doing well, I suppose?"
“ Yes, I believe so.
Y’ ou know, Mr. ing Miss Denison, Is so struck with her
had been a heavy ice bridge in the pool
Denison, I'm getting too old myself to charms and accomplishments that he has
below the cataract since the maddle o f
aee after such things. I leave all that to commissioned me to ask your permission
winter.
Under the impact o f the ice
Sam ; but he tells me the horse will run to try whether he cannot succeed in in
o f the lake above and the added floes Well for the ‘Guineas,’ bar accidents.”
ducing her to xcoept him as a husband.
brought through by the wind, the
“ ‘Run w e ll!’ ‘Bar accidents !’ Why, On ths point o* family he Is quite aware
bridge g a v e w ay and began to Burge *bar accidents,’ he must win,” cried the that he has no pretensions to Miss Deni
down the rapids. But before it could ever sanguine Denison.
“ I never bet son's hand; but as regards Income, I
win freedom in L ake Ontario, the now. as you know; but In the old days think there would bs nothing to be de
sired.”
wind shifted to the north. Instantly I should hare had a thousand on him.”
“ Who do you mean?” broke in the
"Ah, well," said the old lawyer, “ there’s
the m oving floes packed a t the mouth
squire. “ Has Maude given him any en
o f the river. The pack fro ze steadily, where It is. You always would believe
couragement, that you come with this
and each hour brought added pressure In certainties In racing. I never myself
got further than believing a horse would story to me?”
from above.
"M y dear sir, his acquaintance with
Unable to traverse its natural chan run well.”
Miss Denison Is far too slight for any
“
Yes,"
laughed
the
squire;
“
and
In
nels, the level o f the r iv e r rose quickly.
thing of that kind ever to have been even
The highest flood level recorded from consequence you made a fortune while thought of on his part.
He is inerely
I
lost
one.
I'm
afraid,
too,
it
would
be
previous years is 28 fe e t above the nor
anxious to have your permission to try
the
same
thing
all
over
again
if
I
could
mal. L a s t night the r iv e r was 40 fe e t
his luck. Without that, belle«« me, he
would never dare to aspire to
your
above normal. W a te r poured over the begin once more.”
Pearman shot a keen look at him from daughter’s hand."
window sills o f the power house o f
under his grizzled broke, and thought
All this show of deference Induced the
the O ntario Pow er company and flood most assuredly that It would be so, and
ed the machines.
The tracks o f the how very much it would facilitate his squire to listen to the proposition, at all
G reat G orge route w ere covered from present design if the squire was a little events, quietly. Who on earth Pearman
could have in his eye he had no Idea.
the low er steel arch bridge to L e w is Involved in that way at present. He of
That he could mean his son all this time
ton.
course knew the main part of Harold never entered Harold Denison's head. He
C onservative
estim ates place the Denison’s entanglements, hut even he, certainly knew he had a son, but, mix
though his principal man of business, did ing so little as ha did in the county now,
damage a t $1,000,000.
not know how bad things really were. It he had barely seen him, nor had he, but at
would have given him more confidence odd times, even heard of him.
N e v e r H e a rd o f T e d d y .
to unfold the object of his embassy had
"But who Is It, man? Let’s know the
San Bernardino, Cal., A p r il 13.— A l he been possessed of such knowledge.
name of this bashful suitor?
I t ’s a
bert Courtney, 70 years old, and fo r 15
“ Well, Pearman,” continued the squire, quality one sees little enough of In these
years a recluse miner, arrived in this “ I am afraid I have no money left to put days.”
city today from the w ilds o f Southern upon Coriander.
Those old days are
“ My sod , Mr. Denison, Is the gentle
Nevada. H e said he had seen very gone. Yes,” said Denison, bitterly; "h alf man who solicits your permission to do
fe w persons during his long isolation. pence are of more account to me now his best to win your daughter."
Upon his arrival here he learned for than sovereigns were then. But what is
“ Your son ! W h y"— and here ths squire
the first tim e that Queen V ic to ria was it you want to talk to me about? Noth stopped, perfectly thunderstruck. It was
a levelling age, he knew; that the tide
dead, and expressed surprise and would ing to my advantage. I'll be bound.”
"I'm afraid n o t; not but that it might of democracy was at the flood, he was
not b elieve it until shown papers men
be. But I've never been able, Mr. Deni aware; that our cherished institutions
tioning K in g Edward o f G reat B ritain.
son, to Induce yon to listen to anything were looked on with disdain, that there
When newspapermen asked i f he knew to your own advantage."
were people who saw no virtu« in coro
“ T ed d y” he thought they w ere jok in g
“ ’Gad, sir, I can call to mind very nets, and thought an Established Church
w ith him.
few of your propositions that tended that a worn-out Institution that it would be
way. A few hundreds to be saved here as well to do away with, he had heard;
Lilley In S tu p o r .
and there, at the cost of total' abandon but that the son of a confounded money-
H artford, Conn., A p ril 13.— Hope ment of my social position— cases in lending attorney should presume to dream
fo r the recovery o f G overnor G eorge which the saving was Incommensurate of mating with a Denison of Glinn he
had never contemplated. For a few min
L. L ille y is practically abandoned. The with the sacrifice.”
"You judge me hardly, Mr. Denison. ute« he was literally speechless; then all
governor still remains stupefied and
wholly unconscious o f his surroundings. On the occasions to which you allude, the pride of race surged np. He came
Physicians are constantly at his bed pardon me if I say that it was on over of a line of whom It had been often said
side and his life is being prolonged by strained delicacy on your part which pre that their tongue* were as sharp and
vented matters being brought to a mofe ready as their swords.
articficial means. W h ile his medical
satisfactory conclusion. It is Wie way
“ Excuse me,” he remarked; " I was not
attendants do not adm it that hope is with yon all," muttered the old lawyer,
«ware lhat the times were so far advanc
vanished, members o f his fa m ily have musingly. "You forget these scruples
ed that our daughters were regarded as
given w ay to despair.
G overnor L i l when they might tie of use to you, and salable commodities out of their own
le y ’ s illness began w ith nervous exhaus hamper us, who have to put your affairs class of life. 1 was not aware that the
tion. Since takin g to his bed his heart straight, with them afterwards.”
social gap between myself and my solici
and kidneys have become affected.
"A Denison of Glinn, sir, is not to be tor was so effectually bridged ever. Your
Included in the same category ns a bank son, sir, will have to take his chance
rupt trader. 1 presume," remarked the with the young man from the butcher’s,
British Sailors La nded.
and Mr. Muffatee, who keeps the draper's
London. A p ril 13.— The Persian s it squire, haughtily.
"N o : but it would be better both for establishment in Xm'nster. I shall not
uation is gradually developin g in the
him and his creditors if it could be so. presume to Influence Miss Denison in her
direction o f Anglo-Russian interven
Yon repudiate the idea of all compro choice.”
tion. B ritish bluejackets were landed
mise, and say, ‘ In time, everybody shall
Old Pearman had many times in ths
from the cruiser Fox at Bushire yes be paid in full.’ The result is, you never
course of hit career moralized upon the
terday, a fte r a B ritish resident had is get clear, and the creditors art never weakness of losing one's temper about
sued a proclamation holding forth the 1 satisfied.”
anything, but the squire's eneer brought
necessity o f this action because the
"But they will be in time,” returned ibe blood to his pale templet.
local authorities w ere unable to protect Harold Denison; and the uncertain tone«
“ You take a high hand, air— a high
foreigners. I t is understood that the in which Le uttered the words wera a hand. I asked yon to listen to me pa
landing had been sanctioned by the stringent commentary <*u his previous tiently, and you Insult me. i spoke to
speech.
you humbly enough to start w ith ; but
Russian government.
"It's just about that," said Pearman. I tell yen now that wealth chooses Ita
“ that I'm wishing to talk to you now. mat* from blood In these days, and that
C a s tr o Ba rre d Again.
It'« a cruel pity that a fine old property many se well-born sa Mlsa Denison have
Copenhagen, A p ril 13.— The govern
like Glinn should be broken up. A good i married not a bit better lineage thaa
ment has instructed the governor o f
deal of It, you see, has fallen Into my mine."
the Danish W est Indies under no c ir hex I "
“ Perhaps so. People forget themselves
cumstances
to perm it ex-President
"You need not remind me of that,” In all claasea, and forfeit their social
Castro to land in that territory.
i Interrupted Harold Denison; " I am quite statna i bat It's gettlag time far s e a u
grubber* to learn one thing, and that ft
— that possession of all the gold is Cali
fornia does not constitute a gentleman,
or entitle a man to claim alliance w ill
gentle blood!”
T l * old solicitor's lips quivered, and
his lean fingers played nervously with hi«
watch chain, os he replied :
“ I did not come here to argue out
mutual social position. I came here to
afford an embarrassed man, for whom 1
have a sincere regard, in spite of all the
hard names he heaps upc i me, an oppor
tunity of freeing himself from those en
tanglements.
1 advanced a proposition
which gave him a chance of in some way
repairing the evil that the early follies
of hie youth had entailed on his child,
destined to pay her full share of such in
discretions. The days of such prejudice«
are past, 1 tell you, Mr. Denison; and
once more 1 ask you not to give me an
answer now, but to reflect upon the pro
posal I have made to you.”
“ Y’ ou do us too much honor, Mr. Pear
man. Permit me to observe that I must
decline all further consideration of the
subject. I am perfectly convinced the al
liance you projiose with such a delicious
oblivion of all status of society would be
extremely unsuitable. Allow me to makt
Miss Denison’s acknowledgments for the
distinction you would have conferred upon
her, and to ring for your carriage.”
"Very good, sir— very good," cried th«
old attorney, as he rose in bis w rath;
“ the time will come, maybe, when you'll
think that old Sam Pearman would hav«
been a good man to have had at your back.
I say nothing, Mr. Denison; but you’ll
find that you have not made many great
er mistakes In your career than this morn
ing's work.” And, muttering to himself,
the irate old gentleman left the room.
“ I wonder what the world is coming
t o !” muttered Harold Denison.
“ Th«
Idea of a child of mine marrying the sod
of a money-lending solicitor !”
Then his thoughts reverted to that ten
thousand )>ound mortgage, and the angry
words of the old man at parting, and h<
reflected, moodily, that there was littl«
likelihood of much time being granted
anent the payment of the interest in fu
ture; indeed, It was more than probabl«
that Pearman. in his anger, would call in
his money. All which considerations har
assed Harold Denison's mind not a little,
and be thought, if it had to be done again,
he would reject the old lawyer’s proposaj
with rather more courtesy.
(T o be continued.)
G O A T ’S M IL K
F O R SIC K.
T h e r e I * P r a c t i c a l l y .So T u b e r c u l o s i s
A m o n g the A n im a ls .
"W h y not solve the problem o f a pure
milk supply for Washington or any
other big city by establishing Angora
goat ranches?”
This question was asked a W ashing
ton Post representative by Dr. A. S.
von Mansfield, chairman o f the Nebras
ka delegation to the sixth International
tuberculosis congress. The doctor is a
native o f Prussia, Init Ims been prac
ticing medicine In this country ever
since he was a young man.
“ I know It is said,” he continued,
“ Angora goats are not good milkers.
Neither are short-horned cattle. But It
has been demonstrated tim e and again
that by proper selection a splendid herd
o f short-horns can be gotten together.
W hy cannot the snme rule upply to
Angoras? I believe It can, and, togeth
er w ith one or tw o friends, am looking
carefully Into the matter.
In every
herd o f Angoras a few good milkers
w ill be found. Then, why cannot some
one anxious to make money go to T e x
as, make a good selection and start a
goat dairy farm?
"Som e folks laugh at the Idea of
goat milk taking the place o f that of
cows. But here Is a fact that should
be borne In mind. Tuberculosis among
goats Is practically unheard of, while
It la common among cows. This Is the
first strong argument In favor o f the
goat, from a hygienic standjiolnt. A n
other point In favor o f the goat la that
persons who have used goat milk In
their coffee have testified that It lends
a flavor not supplied by cream from
cows' milk.
“ Goat meat Is splendid fo r human
food. It was used away back In Bible
times, and many references to It w ill
be found In the Old Testament. I t has
been used more or less ever since. A n
goras could tie developed to supply
milk, meat, hair nud skins for the local
market. I firm ly believe It could be
made a valuable Industry In American
agriculture. I have several farms, and
know something about agriculture.
Goats w ill th rive where cows would
not. Rough, hilly ground, that Is prac
tically useless for almost anything else,
Is a paradise for the festive goat.
“ In European countries goat dairy
farm s are common and profitable. Soma
o f the Imported goats have not dona
well In this country, but Angoras are
th riving In some sections. Three goats
are equal to one cow as milkers.
“ Any physician w ill tell you that
certified goat milk Is the finest thing
that can be bad fo r Infants or for gen
eral use. Doctors would tie the first to
Indorse such a proposition as I have
outlined above.”
A
V a lu a b le
C lew .
A woman entered a police station In
Holland and asked the officer In charge
to have the canals dragged.
“ My husband has been threatening
fo r some time to drown him self," she
explained, “ and he's been missing no«»
fo r two days."
"Anything peculiar about him by
which he can lie recognized?” asked the
officer, preparing to fill out a descrip
tion blank.
For several
moments the woman
seemed to be searching her memory.
Suddenly her face brightened.
"W hy, yes, sir. He's deaf.” — E very
body’s.
A l M D lia d v a n ls s e ,
“ Your fam ily seems to enjoy going to
Europe.”
“ Yes.”
answered
Mr.
Cumrox.
“ Mother and the girls have observed
that I am weak on getting the value of
foreign money.
Things are ordered
and paid for
before I have t i n » to
make any Intelligent Inquiries as to tho
expense.” — Washington Star.
w ilt
A th le tic s
A re
“ You needn’t tell me,
that tennis Isn't good
makes the young man so
arms
that— that
one
breathe."— FIck-M e-l'p.
F or,
Mr. Forson,
exercise.
It
strong In tha
can
hardly
L o c a ted .
Fearer— W hat's become o f th* fool
who rooks the boat?
W eaver— Oh, he's smoking cigarette*
around a gaaolln# angine. - Jndg»