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Wouldn't It Please "fT to have your laundry L- come home to you inf perfect condition? If so send it to The Meeker. Pleasure in store for you then. Call up 108 or drop us a postal card. s*? T?.- hi i, tj, r% X* Meeker Laundry Co. The Up-io-Date f. Laundry. WENDELL P. MAULSBY, Auctioneer, MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA. 'I have no other business. Leave dates and get information at Times Republican offica. 'Phone 130. Resi dence 632. Marchfr—This ends one of the most successful sale seasons I have ever had. By the help of my friends I have been fairly successful with real estate sales, having sold over 85 per cent of what we .offered. The farm and stock sales have sold the highest of any season since I have been in the auction business. 1 want to thank my friends and, many patrons\of 'central Iowa and those in other parts of the state for their pa tronage and for the many expressions of appreciation of my efforts to make their sales a success, and to these and the many others who contemplate hav ing sales in the future I want to say, if I can be of any service to you will be glad to serve you, promising that if employed I will give my best effort to make your sales successful for you. My references are my patrons. lPilgrim Hotel? MARSHALLTOWN, IA, C.M. COLEMAN I SON Proprietors -~J Rates $2.25. $2.50, $3.00 Per Day M£als 50 Cents )®Q9®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®^®® EvervWomai2| fcl«lnld tad «fcoaM know about i-""*'Marvel SK?"* k: tapplftkaM gjSU5»te»lSio«i DoucM Sl« girMlKlHnHlHWK CO.. 8. For Sale by B. A. Morgan, Main Orders Solicited. TT rirt, LiJhtiBg and Tornado Insurance Written at lowest rates. '^AUTOMOBILE INSURANCES •URETY BONDS hrmcrt see me a6outI. V-*' HAIL INSURANCE V* ... OB Growing Crops. W. H. CLARK ]6MiMtW R««mia IfflpliAL MMK ftLO* hv EVIDENCE THAT ALASKAN IN- sTEREST^:WORKED TO SECURE HIS APPOINTMENT. f' v"i DID NOT FEAR TO LAY CASE BEFORE NEW SECRETARY ,( ,7/'. v, j*m Arguments for Change in Legislation iPresented by Falcon Joslin, Who Operates Coal Railroad in Alaska— Glavis Charges Immediately Follow —Other News. Washington, March 8.—"Only one man in the United (States is, in a po sition to frame .an entirely accurate verdict on the Ballinger-Pinchot in vestigation," said one of the attorneys whp has followed closely that investi gation, "and, that man is President Taft. He is the only man who knows all the influences brought to bear upon himself for the appointment of R. iA. Ballinger as secretary of .the interior." But that investigation has brought out that, whatever may have been the moving cause for Ballanger's ap pointment, the coal interests -of Alaska very evidently, had such confidence in Ballinger that they did not fear to lay their case frankly before him the mo ment he was in office. (During Febru ary, 1909, possibly before the country at large was informed that Ballinger was to be the new secretary of the in terior, a meeting was held in Seattle attended by about twenty persons in terested in lAlaska coal.) It is not stated who those twenty were, but from the documents filed at the Bal linger-Pinchot investigation, it would appear likely that .most of them were of the 'Cunningham group. Seemed Sure of Their Man. At this meeting a committee was ap pointed to lay the Alaska coal situation before the interior department. The Taft administration iwent into office March 4, .1909, and five days later, or on March 9, 1909, a hearing was grant ed this Seattle committee by Assistant Secretary Pierce of the interior depart ment, "at the request of the secre tary," as stated in writing by Pierce. The principal member of the committee to appear was Falcon Joslin of Fair banks, who operates a railroad in Alas ka. His argument was in the form of a request that the interior department ask congress for legislation which .would permit one body of capitalists to secure and operate not less than 5,000 acres of Alaskan coal. But what effect this hearing had up on Secretary Ballinger will never be known. The hearing was full and com plete. A transcript of the tes timony was duly laid before the secre tary by Pierce, accompanied by a let ter in which the P9ints of the legisla tion requested by Joslin were set forth. Glavis Charges Follow. If it was all a "frame-up" to pave the Way for Ballinger to ask congress to.i^app.oythe* gateff. to. the^ Aiaslfa^coal, as the'Pmcnot "sfcfe of tlie'controversy evidently saspected, can not now be stated! For following fast upon the heels of the hearing, came the first rumblings of the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy, then the Glavis explosion, and the publication of .the Glavis charges. When congress convened and Ballinger"s annual report came out it had very little to say about Alaska coal. In fact, about all it did say was that no coal patents had been issued and that congress ought to appropri ate money for an adequate survey of the territory in order that citizens could enter lands there. And even this re quest, while it referred to the coal situation in general terms, was coupled with the suggestion that the survey was also needed to give farmers an oppportunity to get at the agricultural resources of the territory. And so it is that if the suspicions of certain people are correct, that Bal linger left his place as commissioner of the general land office in the spring of 1908, when the Alaska coal land law of that year was assured—in support of which he appeared before a com mittee of congress—that he became at torney for the Cunningham claimants only to fijid that this law was useless, and that he was then placed in the Taft cabinet for the purpose of secur ing legislation which would do the bus iness and let the big companies get the coal—if these suspicions are correct the fact will now probably never be con firmed. But if they are correct they only show how desperate a game men will play when they have in sight a prize of millions. UNIONS LOSE ON APPEAL. Supreme Court Refuses to Dissolve In junction in St. Louis Case. Washington, March 7.—The supreme court of the United 'States today dis missed the appeal of *James A. Shine, et al., from the decree of the lower fed eral court, enjoining the union car penters of St. Louis from operations against the Fox Brothers Manufactur ing Company, of that city. In an ilUUIIVlUg Fuller said that under the circum stances a direct appeal to the supreme court of the United States did not lie. NORTHERN PACIFIC WINS OUT. Supreme Court Decides Portland Gate way Case in Favor of Road. Washington, March 7.—The North ern Pacific today won its fight in the so-called Portland gateway case before the supreme court of the United States. The commission attempted to compel the Northern Pacific to Join other roads to establish the Rough Route and joint rates to |Juget Sound. —i ti Lynching in Florida. Tampa, Fla., March 7.—Search for the negroes who killed Superintendent Stribbling and Deputy Sheriff Mathews rt Palmetto yesterday resulted this -ernoon in the capture and lynching of a negro named Ellis, who was shot to pieces by a mob. CASTOR IA For Inlanta and Children. TBA Kisd YN Haie Always BRAGM MART CHAPTER XXVII. The Sea, the Sand, the Stars. I telephoned as soon as I reached my hotel, and I had not known ho%y much I had hoped from seeing her until I learned that she was out of town. I hung up the receiver, almost dizzy with disappointment, and it was fully five minutes before I thought of calling up again and asking if she was within telephone reach. It seemed she was clown on the bay stay ing with the Samuel Forbeses. Sammy Forbes! It was a name to conjure with just then. In the old days at college I had rather flouted him, but now I was ready to take him to my. heart. I remembered that he had always meant well, anyhow, and that he was explosively generous. I called him up. "By the fumes of gasoline!" he said, when I told him who I was. "Blake ley, the Fount of Wisdom against Woman! Blakeley, the Great Un kissed! Welcome to our city!" Whereupon he proceeded to urge me to come down to the Shack, and to say that I was an agreeable sur prise, because four times in two hours youths had called up to ask if Alison West was stopping with him, and to suggest that they had a vacant day or two. "Oh—Miss West!" I shouted polite ly. There was a buzzing on the line. 'Is she there?" Sam had no suspicions. Was not I in his mind always the Great Un kissed?—which sounds like the Great Unwashed and is even more of a re proach. He asked me down promptly, as I had hoped, and thrust aside my objections. "Nonsense," he said. "Bring your self. The lady that keeps my board ing-house is calling to me to insist. You remember Dordthy, don't you, Dorothy Browne? She says unless you have lost your figure you can wear my clothes all right. All you need here is a bathing suit for day time and a dinner coat for evening." "It sounds cool," I temporized. "If you are sure I won't put you out very well, Sam, since you and your wife are good enough. I have a couple of days free. Give my love to Dorothy until I can do It myself." Sam met me himself and drove me out to the Shack, which proved to be a substantial house overlooking the water. On the way he confided to me that lots of married men thought they were contented when they were mere ly resigned, but that it was the only life, and that Sam, junior, could swim like a duck. Incidentally, he said that Alison was his wife's cousin their re spective grandmothers having, at proper intervals, married the same man, and that Alison would lose her good looks if she was not careful. "I say she's «worried, and I stick to it," he said, as he threw the lines to a groom and prepared to get out. "You know her, and she's the kind of girl you thinfc you can read like a book. But you can't don't fool your self. Take a good look at her at din ner, Blake you won't#lose your head like the other fellows—and then tell me what's wrong with her. We're mighty fond of Allie." He went ponderously up the steps, for Sam had put on weight since I knew him. At the door he turned around. "Do you happen to know the MacLure's at Seal Harbor?" he asked irrelevantly, but Mrs. Sam came into the hall just then, both hands out to greet me, and, whatever Forbes had meant to say, he did not pick up the subject again. "We are having tea in here," Doro thy said gaily, indicating the door behind her. "Tea by courtesy, be cause I think tea is the only bever age that isn't represented. And then we must dress, for this is hop night at the club." "Which is as great a misnomer as the tea," Sam put in, ponderously struggling out of his linen driving coat. "It's bridge night, and the only hops 'are in the beer." He was still gurgling over this as he took me upstairs. He showed me my room himself, and then began the fruitless search for evening raiment that kept me home, that night from the club. For I couldn't wear Sam's clothes. That was clear, after a per spiring seance of a half hour. "I won't do it, 3am," I said, when had draped hfs dress-coat on me toga fashion. "Who am I tc have clothing to spare, like this, when many a poor chap hasn't even a cellar door to cover him. I won't do it I'm selfish, hut not that selfish." "Lord," he said, wiping his face, "how you've kept your figure! I can't wear a belt any more got to have suspenders." He reflected over his grievance for some time, sitting on the side of the bed. "You could go as you are," he said finally. "We do it all the time, only to-night happens to be the an nual something or other, and—" he trailed off into silence, trying to buckle my belt around him. "A-good six inches," he sighed. "I never get into a hansom cab any more that I don't expect to see the horse fly up in the air. Well, Allie isn't going either. She turned down Granger this afternoon, the Annapolis fellow you met on the stairs, pigeon-breasted chap—and she always gets a head ache on those occasions." He got up heavier and went to the door. "Granger is leaving," he said, 1 may be aula get his diuiuer coat for you. How well do you know her?** he asked, with his hand on the knob. "If you mean Solly—r fAlison." "Fairly weq,^ I Mid Matioptfe •TEMES-BEPUELICAJSr, MABSHJLXI/roWN, IOWA, MARCH 8. 1910 "Not as well as I would like to. dined with her last week In Washing ton. And—I knew her before that." Forbes touched a bell Instead of go ing out, and told the servant who an swered to see if Mr. Granger's suit case had gone. If not, to bring it service, across the hall. Then he came back to his former position on the bed. "You see, we feel responsible for Allie—near relation and all that," he began pompously. "And we can't talk to the people here at the house—all She Was Sitting on an Overturned Boat. noon Dolly had a letter from Janet something about*, a second man—and saying she ^as'disappointed not to have had Alison there, that Bhe had promised them a two-weeks' visit! What do you make of that? And that Being tlie men are in love with her, and all cause her mistress had no dinner, and the women are jealous. Then—there's a lot of money, too, or will be." "Confound the money!" I mut tered. "That is—nothing. Razor slipped." "I can tell you," he went on, "be cause you don't lose your head over every pretty face-r—although Allie is more than that, of course. But about a month ago she went away—to Seal, draperies of her white gown melted Harbor, to visit Janet MacLure. Know her?" "NO." "She came home to Richmond yes terday, and tfien came down here-— Allie, I mean. And yesterday after- in the room, but there were other women, and because Dolly had put belladonna in her,.*yes the night before to see howi she would look, and as a result Couldn't 6ee anything near er than across the room, some one read the letter aloud to her, and the whole story is out. One of the cats! told Granger and the boy proposed to isn't the worst. Allie herself wasn't' Pe°Ple, and I suppose you always eight think of me as wearing the other fel low's clothes," I returned meekly. "I'm doing it again I don't seem to be able to help it. These are Grang er's that I have on now." Allie to-day, to Show her he didn't was not eating! Its too prosaic. care a tinker's dam where she had "Which reminds me that the chick been." I said, with enthusi- "Good boy! ., asm. I liked the Granger fellow— since he was out of the running. But Sam was looking at me with sus-: picion. I "Blake," he said, "if I didn't know you for what you are, I'd say you were interested there yourself." BO near her, under the same roof, with even the tie of a dubious secret between us, was making me heady. I pushed Forbes toward the I shut the door on him then. He seemed suddenly sordid. Dinner, I thought! Although, as a matter of fact, I made a very fair meal when. Granger's suit-case not having gone, in his coat and some other man's trou sers, I was finally lit for the amen ities. Alison did not com^ down to dinner, so it was clear she would not go over to tlie clubhouse dance. I pled my injured arm, and a fictitious, *-19 door. pretty soon I put the tray down in "I interested!" retorted, holding the sand. I said little there was no him by the shoulders. "There isn't a hurry. We were together, and time word in your vocabulary to fit my meant nothing against that age-long condition. I am an island in a sunlit wash of the sea. The air blew her sea of emotion, Sam, a—an empty place surrounded by longing—a—" "An empty place surrounded by longing!" he retorted. "You want your dinner, that's what's the matter with you—" NOT "Just As vaguely located sprain from the wreck, as an excuse lor remaining ftt home. Sam regaled the tfcble with accounts ot my distrust of women, my one love affair—with Dorothy to which I responded, as was expected, that only my failure there had kept me single all these years, and that II Sam should be mysteriously missing during the bathing hour to-morrow, and so on. And when the endless meal was over, and yards of white veils had been tied over pounds of hair—or is It, too, bought by the yard?—and some eight ensembles with their ab ject complements had been packed tuto three automobiles and a trap,"I drew a long breath and faced about. I had just then only one object in life —to find Alison, to assure her of my absolute faith and confidence in her, and to offer my help find my poor self, if she would let me, in her She was not easy to find. I searched the lower floor, the veranda and the grounds, circumspectly. Then I ran into a little English girl who turned out to be her maid, and who also was searching. She was concerned be- becausc the tray of food she carried would soon be cold. I took the tray from her, on the glimpse of something white on the shore, and that was how I met the girl again. She was sitting on an over-turned boat, her cbin in her hands, staring out to sea. The soft tide of Ae bay lapped almost at her feet, and the hazily into the sands. She looked like a wraith, a despondent phantom of the se^, although the adjective is re dundant Nobody ever thinks of a cheerful phantom. Strangely enough, considering hei evident sadness, she was whistling softly to herself, over and over, some dreary little minor air that sounded like a Bohemian dirge. She glanced up quickly when I made a misstep and my dishes jingled. All considered, the tray was out of the picture the sea, the misty starlight, the girl, with her beauty—even the sad little whistle that stopped now and then to go bravely on again, as though it fought against the odds of a trembling Hp. And then I came, accompanied by a tray of little silver dishes that jingled and an unmistak able odor of broiled chicken! "Oh!" she said quickly and then, "Oh! I thought you were Jenkins." "*Timeo Donaos—what's the rest of it?" I asked, tendering my offering. "You didn't have any dinner, you know." I sat down beside her. "See, I'll be the table. What was the old n^klace' fa4ry tale? "Little goat bleat little table appear!' I'm perfectly willing to be the goat, too." She was laughing (rather tremu lously. "We never do meet like other peo ple, do we?" she asked. "We really ought to shake hands and say how are you." "I don't want to meet you like other She threw back her head and laughed again, joyodsly, this time. "Oh, it's so ridiculous," she said, and you have never seen me when I np a ,„,., en is getting cold, and the ice warm," I suggested. "At the time, I thought there could be no place better than the farm-house kitchen—but this is. I ordered all this for something I want to say to you—the Bea, the sand, the stars." "How alliterative you ate!" she said, trying to be flippant. "You are not to say anything until I have had my supper. Look how the things are spilled around!" But she ate nothing, after all, and hair in small damp curls against her face, and little by little the tide re treated, leaving our boat an oasis in a waste of gray sand. "If seven maids with seven mops swept it for half a year Do you suppose, the walrus said, ttibt they could get it clear?" she threw at me once when she must have known 1 was going to speak. I held her hand, and as long as I merely held it she let it lie warm in mine. But when I raised ft to my lips, and kissed the soft, open palm, Bhe drew it away without displeasure. "Not that, please," sho protested, and fell to whistling softly again, her Bob White Soap is not "just as good" as other white laundry soaps. It is better—better in every way. Better because it lasts longer. Better because it does more work. Better because it does better work. The sooner you buy a cake of' .Weight, 10 ounces. Color, white. Pricey 5 cents. Hardy firm, sweet smelling—just what you've wanted for years„ but never' before were able Jto get. & Bob White Soap the sooner -will you find out that these statements are true. Bob White Soap is a white soap, an amazingly good soap, the very best white laundry soap that money will buy. chin In her hands, "I can't sins," she said, to break an awkward pause, "and so, when I'm fidgety, or have something on my mind, I whistle. I hope you don't dislike It?" "I love it," I asserted warmly. I did when she pursed her lips like that I was mad to kiss them. "I saw you—at the station," she said suddenly. "You—-you were in a hurry to go." I did not Bay anything, and after a pause she drew a long breath. "Men are queer, aren't they?" she said, and fell to whistling again. After awhile she sat up as if she had made a resolution. "1 am going to confess something," she announced suddenly. "You said, you know, that you had ordered all this for something you—you wanted to say to me. But the fact is, I fixed it all—came here, I mean, because—I knew you would come, and I had something to tell you. It was such a miserable thing I —needed the accessories to help me out." "I don't want to hear anything that distresses you to tell," I assured her. "I didn't come here to force your con fidence, Alison. I camo because I couldn't help it." She did not object to my use of her name. "Have you found the—your pa pers?" she asked, looking directly at me for almost the first time. "Not yet. We hope to." "The—police have not Interfered with you?" "They haven't had any opportunity," equivocated. "You needn't distress rourself about that, anyhow." "But I do. I wonder why you still believe in me? Nobody else does." "I wonder," I repeated, "why I do!" "If you produce Harry Sullivan," she was saying, partly to herself, "and if you could connect him with—Mr. Bronson, and get a full account of why he was on the train, and all that, it—it would help, wouldn't it?" I acknowledged that it would. Now that the whole truth was almost in my possession, I was stricken with the old cowardice. I did not want to know what she might tell me. The yellow line on the horizon, where the moon was coming up, was a broken bit of golden chain my heel In the sand was again pressed on a wom an's yielding fingers I pulled myBeK together with a jerk. "In order that what you tell me may help me, if it will," I said con strainedly, "it wonld be necessary, perhaps, that you tell it to the police. Since they have fouud the end of the necklace—" "The end of the necklace!" she re peated slowly. "What about the end or I stared at her. "Don't you remem ber"—I leaned forward—"the end of the cameo necklace, the part that was broken off, and was found in the black sealskin bag, stained with— with blood?" "Hlood," she said dully. "You mean that you found the broken end? And then—you had my good pocket-book, and you saw the necklace in It, and you—must have thought—" "I didn't think anything," I hastened to assure her. "I tell you, Alison, I never thought of anything but that you were unhappy, and that I had no right to help you. God knows, I thought you didn't want me to help you." She held out her hand to me and I took it between both of mine. No word of love had passed between us, but I felt that she know and under stood. It was one of the moments that come seldom in a lifetime, and then only in great crises, a moment of perfect understanding and trust. Then she drew her hand away and sat, erect and determined, her lingers laced in her lap. As she talked the moon came up slowly and threw Its bright pathway across the water. Back of us, in the trees beyond the sea wall, a sleepy bird chirruped drowsily, and a wave, larger and bold er than its brothers, sped up the sand, bringing the moon's silver to our very feet. I bent toward the girl. "I am going to ask/just one ques tion." "Anything you like." Her voice was almost dreary. "Was it—because of anything you are going to tell me that you refused Richey?" She drew her breath In sharply. "No," she said, without looking at me. "No. That was not the reason." (To Be Continued.) TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BllOMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money If It falls to cure. E. XV. (SHOVE'S signa ture Is on each box. 25c. Disarming Enemies. Learn to laugh when people make tun of you. 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