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The Corrector of Destinies '
Being Tales of Randolph Mason as Related by a
s Private Secretary, Courtland Parkos Raedb [ t a
The Copper Bonds
By Melville Davisson Post P
Copyright by Edward J. Clod. B
I knew that Jean Balduc was from
the far north the moment Pietro
brought him In from the door. There
is a close-sitting air of the provinces
on all those who come from there in
to New York. The smartest tailors,
the most Parisian modistes cannot dis
lodge It. It s1 the atmosphere of his
own land minted into the man, lying
deeper than the cut of his coat. I
put Jean Balduc up in British Amer
iea-his big, lank, hard body belonged
in the open, a rugged, roomy, primeval I
open. His light blue eyes were from
remote spruce forests reflected on the 1
glimmering snow-crust. His hair was
that blue-black which the French car
ried for violent contrast into the white I
north. His manner and speech we6
abrupt and direct.
He demanded an audience with Ran I
dolph Mason. I tried first to get a
little history out of the big fellow i
from which to determine the advisabil
ity of such an audience. I got only a I
few craggy fragments. He had come I
to New York to even up a score with I
Barnafeld, the copper emperor on
Broadway.
He wished to get at the man within
the purlieus of the law, if such a thing I
was possible. If not, he knew another
way, very common in his country and I
direct-and, if not productive of mone
tary results, at least the balm of I
Gilead to one's injured sensibilities. r
He had some other business to settle I
with Barnsfield (not his own affair), U
which would require dancing-steps and I
truace flags; but, when that was I
cleaned up and 6nded, it would be the I
Indian cheek on the stock of the Win
chester and all white flags down. t
I took him to Randolph Mason, and I
be told his story, walking up and down
the length of the room and driving, i
now and then, his clenched right hand t
into the palm of his left for emphasis. I
He was from Huron county on the I
south shore of Lake Superior. F*rlier I
he had come from the Jacques Cartier I
river in the Dominion. He had been a q
factor in the affairs of Huron county; E
he knew every man, woman and child I
In It, every tract of land, every nook I
and corner of It. Three years before t
he had made a house-to-house, man-to- t
man canvass of the county for treas
urer, and got it, with a majority to 1
spare. He had gained, too, the good- a
will of the people, their confidence and a
their hospitable friendship. Then, like )
the locusts of Biblical record, came t
the emissaries of Barnsfeld to pur- r
chase the mineral rights under all the c
lands in the county.
It was not known that there was c
any copper in Huron county. Indeed,
eminent geologists and practical pros- E
pectors had long agreed that the coun- t
ty was barren. These emissaries of I
Barsfleld explained that he was not t
masled about the sterility of the land. I
He knew that he was paying out good c
money for worthless rock, clay and I
gravel; but his plan was to corrupt I
the prospecting engineer of the Great c
Lakes Railroad company-have him a
secretly report to the company the c
exstence of copper in this county. t
Thea he, Barnafleld, would come gen- t
erously forward and offer to transfer 1
to the railroad the entire mineral I
rights of the county, provided the con- t
pany would build a line through it to
his wharf at Plymouth on the south I
shore of Lake Superior. This would f
enable him to load ore from the known t
copper regions directly on cars from t
the lake boats at Plymouth, and v
shorten the haul to his market by two o
hundred miles. t
This story was gladly swallowed by a
the natives. They hoped for the com-.
1ag of a railroad into the county, as J
the advent of a sort of commercial 11
Messiah. Once or more they had
Toted large bond subscriptions to lure F
in such an enterprise, but it was of
so avail, Iake Superior remained the h
only path of commerce. a
In a few months these agents had l
obtaIned the mineral rights of almost r
the enthre county. A few land-owners b
aboig the lake held out aainst them, ii
ad fnaily, afte exhaustig their in- a
amuity, Barnefeld's man came to Jan I
Baiduc for asistance. They explained b
that thee landowners were blocking
the prosperity of the whole people.
The only chance of an tron highway a
to the south was beaing elbowed out.
Baldue said he would go to these e
moa ead induce them to jofa in the a
rsle, itf he were anred trom head- f
qarters that the rsflra plea would
be eamris thr h. The took him to a
PDuuth and to BrmasIeld. He had h
Sthe plan tra Barmdeles mouth. He t
wasru shown map and profles of the I
proposed route, eIaborate plans and b
speclcations of a great wharf and h
warehoues which Barnaseld expected
to buld at Plymouth whn the rail- o
read Ocam, drawings for an addition
to the towa--tindeed, all the paper de- tc
tab for a city. Baldue was intro- b
eetd to the egtnaer of the Great w
laes Ralroad company and read his ii
Barasfeid talked vry frankly. His tI
plan was nt pbilanthmple. He wounj d
gt bask hl moasey s a year from G
leamed shipping rates from the b
daes. At pNuet,.h ore was at the
mer one Ihae; a rival would mean h
amepeotto sad a tar trit; it wld
sae his town of Plymoath a oem. T
meralal center an the lae, ad this s
woul bring large preta to him. He pi
d ot want Jan Baldad's ssismee
r mean good-will. He was qito wil- a
at b pa a thmanad dollars fr eacb
Learer whom adue euld Maue "
to iNlL the mney to e pasd whea hIs t
deds wee mde to the railroad con- to
amy, The otrsmth o the pica lar
Ir dires im-sU to the 4Oet Lakes In
slhed. S large a bait old not to
L o mesese. mr wes there any
mea wa s l s-it hm worth. e
rems alesl rghs *'- . es y.
The rdim ; a It al w m la
se. l a l l
r am
mj Jean Balduc was convinced and
r I lated. He would gladly have lent his
re aid to the scheme without compensa
a tion, out of Interest in the people of
n the county; but here was Barnsfleld
s, about to reap enormous sums from
s- the venture, and he might as well
is have the money which was offered.
ig They agreed, then, that Barnsfleld
I should pay him one thousand dollars
r- for every land-owner who made a
,d deed for the mineral rights under his
aU land, the money to be paid when the
n transfer was made by Barnsfleld to
*e the Great Lakes Railroad company.
LI There were thirty-four of these men.
r- Balduc's popularity, the reputation
.e he had established with the people
( and his prestige as county treasurer
gave weight to his -words. He went
o back to his people, assured them that
a he had Investigated Barnsfield's plan
w and that it would certainly be carried
1- out. He had seen the very surveys for
a the road, the estimates, the profiles.
e Finally he secured the deeds of nine
h teen of these recalcitrant land-owners.
n The others could not be Induced to
sell. Barnsfleld marked their names
n off his list, expressed himself satis
g fed with the matter and put all his t
, deeds to record. The county, now at r
d the gateway of its fortunes, rejoiced. c
B. A great mass meeting was held in
If the court house; a vote of thanks was
6. awarded Jean Balduc; he was carried
e to his home on the shoulders of his
), admiring fellows; tar-barrels were
d burned on the hills; horses were pa
a raded; the local papers ran their ele
e tion roosters and eagles.
I- Then came the gray morning, and
the gradual rising of the sun. The
d minions of Barnsfleld vanished.
n Months passed, and no engineer of
s, the Great Lakes railroad sighted his
d transit into Huron county. No carts
w. were trundled across her rivers, no
e Italian came tomake a footpath for
r the iron beast; but, instead, a little
r man in spectacles arrived from Mar
a quette and staked out a shipping wharf
at Plymouth for thd" Lake Shore
d Steamship company. To inquiries he
k replied that Barnsfleld wished to take
e the copper out of Huron county, and
- the steamship company must have a
s- wharf from which to load it. Copper!
o The county sat literally with its jaws
I- agape. But was this merely another
d subterfuge of Barnsfleld? It was not.
e A little later' a well-known superin
e tendent from the regular mining
region came with workmen and un
e covered the copper-bearing strata. It
was copper territory! The whole
county richer than the Indies!
i, Jean Balduc stopped here in his
. narrative, drew down the muscles of
his face until his eyes narrowed to
f pale slits. He crushed and ground
t the flaps of his coat pockets'in his big
. hands. His mind was evidently
d crammed with incidents-vivid, crowd
d ing incidents: A flood of indignation
t poured over Jean Balduc. He was
t cursed, waking and sleeping, as with
a a Roman anathema. Even Barnsfield,
s chuckling in his den in New York,
goaded him. He would pay the nine
s- teen thousand dollars when the deeds
r were transferred to the Great Lakes
,1 Railroad company-if he were living
then.
D Exile was the only solution. Jean
d Balduc determined to close up his af
I fairs as treasurer of the county, come
a to New York, collect from Barnsfleld
the twenty-.ight thousand dollars
I which he owed Huron county for taxes
3 on his mineral rights, transfer it to
the county, and then settle his own
Sffair with Barnsfleld. After that, if
he got away, he would go back to the
Jacques Cartier river; but he would
I likely not get away.
I "Have you seen Barnsfleld?" said
e Randolph Mason.
I "Yes," replied the man; "I went to
him yesterday to collect these taxes,
and he tried to beat me even on that.
He was hard up, he said, he had no
t ready money; but he would give me
Sbonds of the Empire Copper company
if I would take these bonds at par
and, turn over the tax receipts to him.
SI refused, and he asked me to come
I back today at one o'clock."
SRandolph Mason turned to me.
"What are these bonds worth?" he
said.
"F'hey are not listed on the stock
exehange," I answered; "but there is
a curb market for them at seventy.
five onts."
i Randolph Maoa walked over to the
Swindow ad stood lookhiag out at the a
Sheavy mwo-lakes driving galanst the
g lans. The big northerner waited, but
SMason remained motionless, his hands a
behind him. Finally, the man took up a
Shis hat and put it on.
"Well," he said, "Is there any trail I
Mauon tuned abruptly. "Go back
to Barnsfeld," he said, "and take his tH
bonds at per for the taxes. Mr. Parks
will accompany you and write into c
the tax receipts that thee taxes are H
paid in full by the delivery to you of a
the bonds, setting out the number and tr
denomination, as you receivd them.
Give Barnsfeld the recetpts, and come b
back tome." t
The man was aghast "Why, sir," a
he said. "you eanat mean that! I !
would be a damned ool to do that b
The county would be losia tea thou- n
sand dollars to take the bonds at
I pa." c
"Obey me," sad Randolph Mason, as
and he termned back to the window.
"All right," said the big fellow: e
"yo're the dctor. What you say be
sees, bUt tt eOIrtanIly does sound damn th
I weat with bim to Bhsed. We p
cromed the mswlad street. walked aa
,a wader a inie ramite arch and ea
took a steel enge to the twenty-fourth I II
leer. A Mp ymath led a to the n
ep mgMates la a wing ot the build wl
lag shne Wesdwa. arasfele was on
-mall a Me to dlpay tls his aet- c.
tb The w, s a si oeMl r
a t, he m a w w-a. es raLe
prints, with here sad there a groess
imitation of a master. Barnsfeld evi
dently took his art as prescribed by
'the foreign agents. The only table in
the room was a huge piece of shining
mahogany heavy with carvings In
atroioous taste, the sort of thing which
the full pocket gets when it leaves its
selection to the dealer. Behind it was
Barnsfield. I got the impression of
something cold and pudgy, when I
looked at him. A like impression
awaits the spectator before the glass
box at the end of the line in the Na
tional Aquarium at Naples-a deep
sea thing in a nest of weeds.
mnd He was a tall man, fattened out of
hishape, fat crowding his eyes back, dis
isa tending his jowls, sagging his chin.
of His hair was light and thin, brushed
eld smooth to his poll. His eyes were
om dull, the eyes which Victor Hugo
rell warned against, the cloudy eyes cov
ering mines, rifle-pits, trenches manned
eld with cannon shotted to the muzzle
are and the fuse smoking. A fat hand.
a illuminated by a great Kafir diamond,
his flopped about on the mahogany table.
the He showed no apparent Interest at
the arrival of Balduc, but he was a
bit uneasy over me. His fingers wan
dered to an electric button, the nails
scratching the rim of it.
Ion "Mr. Barnsfield," began Balduc. "I
pie came back about those taxes."
rer Barnsfleld looked inquiringly at me.
tnt "Yes," he said. He wished to know
hat who I was before his answers became
lan more than monosyllabic.
led "That's my lawyer's secretary," said
for Baklduc. "I have concluded to take
es. your chips and whetatones. They are
°° better than nothing; but I want Mr.
'ra. Parks to look at them."
to The explanation cleared Barnsfleld's
les face. If Balduc was bringing Huron
tis- county up to be quietly sheared of
his ten thousand dollars, a lawyer's sec
at retary, merely to examine the wording
ed. of the bonds, was a detail to be
in pleased over. He dived down into the
ras
" pleased over. He dived down into the I bezzle the money and hide out for the Barnafield sprang up, got a deca
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' drawers of his desk, fished out a pack
Sage of bonds sand laid them on the I
Stable.
"Good five per cents." he said, "se
cured by a mortgage on all the copper I
properties in the county, including I
e plants, tram-roads and improvements
to be hereafter made. In six months
k they will be worth a hundred and
twenty."
F I looked carefully at the bonds. They (
were In the usual form of such securi
e ties, printed on bank-note paper, with I
*a picture on the back of a huge cop
Sper pot, tipped over, pouring out a
It stream of gold pieces. They were of I
a first issue of the Empire Copper a
P company, limited to a million dollars, I
and in denominations of one thousand a
l I smiled at the confidence of Barnse
field. There were exactly twenty-eight
k of these in the pack. He had pinned I
Is them up for Balduc.1
S Barnsfleld patted the bundle of se
Scuritles with his fat hand. "There are I
0 the bonds," be said; "now give me I
K the tax receipts signed by you as
d treasurer."
. Balduc took a big leather pocket. I
e book from his oat and handed me the I
tax receipts. I wrote into them. "Paid
this day by the delivery to the tres- I
I umrer of Huron county of twenty-eght I
L bonds of the Empire Copper company,
a numbered three hundred and fifty to
t three hundred sand seventy-seven n. t
clusive." Then Baldue signed them I
I. and handed them over to Barasield. 4
He placed the package In a ptgeon.
hole of his desk, and came up trom
7 behind it trenasftred. The chin in I
a the sir was gone; the hidden ie-floes
were melted; the low-lyiang ftogs were
e golden in the sun. He had not Im- q
If agined that the thing could be done so a
i easily. He had looked for long wrang- I
h ling, delays, a siege. It was like the
e answer to prayer put into pe's hands a
I- while they were still clasped. One a
s ought to go wreathed in smiles when a
t- events waited at one's beck so emr
r teoesty. t
6 Be chsrtIhs mtfly i his threat
wbe be was well back "o his e-ay,
and beamed on us; then he talked.
He was glad to see Jean Balduc again,
pleased to meet me. He was athirst
for news from the copper land, aching
with wonder about the inexplicable
delay of the Great Laken railroad in
building its line. It was his dearest,
most closely cherished hope to see the
citizens of Huron county wax rich
from the development which he intend
ed shoald be made on the south shore
of Lake Superior. He hinted vaguely
at large good fortune which the fu
ture held for Balduc, a future of which
he, Barnsfleld. was in some ehoterlc
way the directing overlord. He want
ed a long, intimate, personal talk with
Balduc. He must come that night
with him to dine, and I, too; he espe
cially wished me to come. I had
found favor in his sight. There would
be only the three of us-his family
was in Florida. It would be an in
formal, friendly dinner.
I looked to see the deep fires in
Jean Balduc break through; but he
accepted the invitation on the spoC for
the two of us at eight o'clock that
evening.
Barnefleld lighted us to the door
with smiles, and there we left him,
kneading his pudgy hands anh thank
ing Providence that the human game,
like no other, lacked instinct to pro
tect it.
We went back to the office without
a word. Randolph Mason looked at
the bonds, and then directed me to go
out and sell them for what I could get.
I sold the bends on the curb for sev
enty-five cents on the dollar and got
the cash in large bills. Randolph
Mason handed this modley to Jean
Balduc and told him to go back to the
Jacques Cartier river. The man was
puzzled and angry. Was this all that
Mason could do-cause him to collect
the taxes of Huron county at a loss
of some nine thousand dollars, em.
bezzle the money and hide out for the
:k- rest of his life? Hie eould do better
he than that. The open way of the great
north was a better one. He would
e- send the money to Huron county;
or then he would go to Barunsdld's little
mg Informal dinner and square the ac
ts count with him.
he I caie forward them, and begged
od Mason. to explain what he meant by
his plan. As the matter stood. Bal
sy due could not do even as he himself
ri- suggested. He esuld not send the
th mosey to Hurem eounty, and leave
- New oot cear. The sum he bad
a lacked nine thoumad dolls of pay
of ina the taxes. He had Baered
or and reeelpted for the taxes in unl
, twentyeight thousand dollars. If he
d. sent back nineteen thousand, he
- would be Instantly charged with theft
ht of the other nine. Isplmatins would
id hardly avail him. He weald certainly
be extradited and Imprisemed.
- Randolph Mason weat over to a
re bookcase, got down a volume of Re
se ports of the State of Michiga, and
as sat down with It between the two of
us as a tutor might do with pssled
t. little boys. He read the ease, mark
te Ilg with his sager in the boos, very
ti carefully to us. I w instantly the
at Intent of his plan, but he weat an, ex
bt plalning in lucid detail the elect of it
y on Balduc, on BarnsSeld, oa Huron
to county, the equities which t adjusted,
a- the necessity of goveraoent which it
m Imposed, the penalties which It evad.
ed,' and the anlent, eorrect, accurate
.. doctrine of law upon which this do
a cision of the Michigan courts is
In founded.
is The tension in Jean aldue's big
re body relaxed, the pressure In his fheo
n- ebbed. He understood the whole
10 scheme to the esd now. I do not
g- know of any emasculated language
oe which could give the force and direct.
Is sea of Balduc's own words. He got
be slowly to his feet, stretched out his
m arms, lled his big lugs. "By God."
e he aid, "you have got the fat thief
an the a-s.s"
it Then he turned to me. "r. Park,"
M went a, " aJaoe 7y dspltt
me down to the gro when I ated c
to eat with that pvhoteed vper; 1
but I calywasted to get a last chanee
at him, to tell him what I thought o Iu
him, and then to Jam is head on the I
table among is pots. We will ap u
there tonight, yea and I. We will
show him how he has caught his owe
legs In his man-trap. I will tell him 1
some things which he needs to bear; I
but we will not eat with him. It I
were starving in the snow-drifts of
Hudson bay, and he came to find me
with a load from the company store, I I
would not eat with him. I would eat:
but I would kill him first."
Barnsfleld, like every parvenu,
wihed to point out for our admirea
tion all the treasures in his hideous,
showy palace before we went In to r
dtnner. The place might have been
the storehouse of Kidd in the golden c
days of the Spanish Main. A carved
wood ceiling from some chateau in
Normandy, a marble vase from Sar- t
dinia, new Italian bronzes, old Dutch n
chairs mingled with Chippendale, Hep .
pelwhite, and atrocious things in gilt,
tables of the empire beside colonial
consoles, Moorish corners with old
arms. rugs, banners-all the Indiscrim
inate loot of a barbarian with money
sacks.
I admired with discrete and evasive
generalities. Balduc said nothing and d
finally we went in to dinner. I had
not seen its like, except at Thankaglv
ing in a New Englind farm-house. A
turkey on his golden back in s, huge
platter, a saddle of mutton, trussed
fowls, lood enough for a ship's crew.
piled hot and steaming on the biggest
table in New York.
We sat down, and Banssield put a
his hands on the tablecloth, closed his
puffy eyes, and made ready to Invoke 0
a blessing on his house.
Jean Baldue spoke then. "Mr. b
Barnefeld," he said, "I am sick." 0
Barnsfleld sprang up, got a decan- g
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r ter of brandy tm a s idboard and
t set It down by Balduc. There, he
SIsaid, "that'll i you."
i "No," said Bade, "nothig wll do
I meany good but to ut a e l the
air."
Bernselid started toward a door.
S"Co'me right here" he mid. "as this
I balcs."
I- Bamao got up th. "No," he Maid,
S"I will go out Into the street wi Mr.
* Parks; but beore I o. I ant to had
SIyou this tsix hundred dabars,at I
Sowe ou." ad he tok a roll at bM s
f erom his waistaeot bet and laid
I thm on the tablecloth.
IL - Brarse saw nstantly that same
Sclimax had rmeved, but what he di
s set know. He came bhk a at down
tIn his chair.
I "What do you mmet" he said.
r" meana" replied BaSn. "that I
Sot only anbetmu tracts Od last r
a you In Hrar counaty, ye owe me
u. Jst aleta theasad dollars. Tou
I paM me today, alsntes thousand, six
Shuandred, which was r di hadre toe
I much."
Barsrosit's oes buegan to pale.
r do't urdserstand," he nt. "I paid
t the taxes to yes. I gave you twestm.
eight besds fUr them sad lt se r
i cert. I ndid aet s ee: I pa e
a taxes."
"Yo ," said adue, ys "pa ght
tyou paid the taxes; but you did
To paid me. The bass brought sie.
a toes thoumsand, undred donBrs.
I give you bake the sidx hnred now,
Sand our sacount Is square."
Barnsasld got up. "I paid te tans,
r he sd. "I got the tax recelpts."
S "No" said Balduc, "taxes a eGse
be paed ls mosey. That the law.
r You can't py taxes with roerty.
SYear tax recepts are not wert he-.
room. They acknowledge, the pay
mt In beads."
a Baraseld trned to me. "What's
all this rot? he said.
II get up the, and walked& ane
the table. "What M. Riaie has
said," I anasweed, "Is guat tura Tua
Ct w' - ..J emty it ame . I ems
ad owing I taes devers property to the
it; tasdcer tor them he does tt at his
a owa risk. e does not thereby ay
f his taes. If the tax4eer keeps
he the property, the other murt repay the
up taxes to moaey. The state accepts
IIIoonly money for taxe."
a "It's embesslemeat of taxes," cried
m Barnafleld. "If I have to repay them,
r he'll have to go to the petattlaryl"
I "No," I said, "tt is not embessle
a meat of taxes. It is not any crime at
* all, for the reason that the tax-oleer
r is authorized to collect only money.
t: He has no authority to receive prop
erty. Property. if delivered to him, Is
, at ts owner's peril. He s not charge t
able with embezzlement If he appro
*. priates this property to his own use,
to nor are his bondsmen ltable for It be
an cause they guarantee only a proper a t
en counting of money which the ooIer
receives as taxes."
In Barnsfeld Jumped up and started 0
Lr- toward a little telephone at the car
ch nor of the sideboard. Balduc darted b
across the room, smashed the tale
It phone with his knuckles and confront- t
ed Barnsfleld.
Id "Sit down, you puffy varmint." h a
said. "Into your chair with youl"
i And, seizing the man by the should- t
ers, be whirled him around and a
forced him down Into his chair. Bal- c
due stood oar him a moment, his 1
- fingers workinl with restraitned sav- t
A agery. His Jaws clamped; hIp eyes
narrowed to a thin line of blue. Then
he turned to me. "Let as o," he
said, "before I tramp the creature's
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face out of shape on the floor." 1i
We left Barnaeid, wheesing with f4
at excitement, his breath gone and his t,
fat hands wabbling about on the arms a
of his chair. o
In the street, Baldue took a deep s1
Ur breath and shook blself like a dog 14
coming out of a s1me-vat. "I had to
a. get out of there." he said, "er kill him. t
Good-by. If you ever loed a slave with i
steel anger., send word of it to Jean
Balduc on the Jacques Cartier river," t
and he was gone.
I took a hansom to the Dreedda for p
a little dinner.
ci
For the legal prinoiple In. I
volved In this story see People t
vs. Seeley, 117 MUh, 2S; 75 a,
N. W. R. S tUe
A collestor of taxes ean re- a
ceave nething but money In pay.
meet of taxes. If he receive re
property In lieu thereof and ap
proprlate it to his own see, he
is not guilty of embesement, to
and his bondsmen are net 11a- ai
bler-People v. Seeley, supra. A t
collector, of taxes can receive
nothing but ,neaoy In payment
of taxes.-Miller v. Waeener, 46
W. Va, U.
Testing Intelligence of Fish.
There are not many precise data
in regard to the Intelligence of ishes.
Some observers may they can be
trained a little; others, like Edntger,
deny them even mmary. It seem
that the brain, of aboy Sabae inpea
ticular, remais at a low gade.
M. Onaer has recently made some
intereating observation at the Oom-e
nographical museum at Menase with
a fish called oris Julia. When h dit
guised the book perfectly he causht
the same fah as often as e pleased.
But that only proved that the diº
uise was perfect and that the af
was hunary. In another set at expea
ments he used an equly wl hidde
book, but placed a piece of red paper
on the gutliae a eouple at inches
above It.
Fbr the first week the fsh remained
Indiretent;. o the eighth, Sth, tenth
and eleventh days It took the bait; as
the tirwelfth day It retused the bait ti
the red paper ws removed; na the
thirteeath, fourteth end titeenth
days It reued the but w the red
paper, thoutagh it examie t ithoar t
ly; on the steenth day ad oe the
followins sixd days tt began by eas a
ping at the read pape, and the tura
in to tbe boek bt o te h l ia
sma ll scrape wi thoat ay hurry ad -
with a thousan r·entinS-al
ed~ g
Why There Was No Crowd,
A friend Will Cume a seead a
a story wh h delightd o relate
In the presee a Mr. Ca*mek.
He (th stor tler) eame f a n
date at one i the huanrches In the
little town of Leseberg, in £Eeemhbe
eouaty. TLat isk we to it it, et
wbod elm te to ee i e ept
as lose man, who eas to thae e
'et,uc sa baud a fire; his ebrge arh
this baig-a doller. 3aw ase who
had r•cei slved c pl aule 4d aet
e mr4Me wies the bue see.lM ke
He qeuaned the jeaner. Di
any moirnterest as in assess
ay more I ha cboew a
"And why doan t*eO aewt" a
"Wl Il tn - thfe iera
thawrrt ito e o8ee, "a yeaw r es
ago we had a mn veo lath-hi as
ame wes C mbik-e. Wayhe en've pa
Me Ilke e thee ther weot aebedy tarn l
cut to a lecture.'-- ap s ows
I f is euy within the kt e , yrems
Gu tg l basen d have bhee s ab
Ienty at Miaaehta. U sa 1a
Ume te ver wms aigo eh atU
detrl . n ear astek m etheu
te irm edla R e g tal ate aee I
L d ae s~ er. The snhes ptl
pa se ea tshrul ethe dsalsw we E
a vdil body, sedt in Gsmanr
"ae itel" er |la, th w d be a a
heap a theus in 9blems ad
wi the advantw. at being main ac
seeosed woo a d e o bel es
emathly th e. Lala, wit tI .
proved . tihe m' we ho
'able to put out finshed vieSlls, h'
costs as ittl Ie MmIn iti m W a
matea vidm tat the, eomM be eoM -
ia te Usheed Ultea ege Go 46
I per ees u nwW en the awdi
abe smaueb i i et Is. 7
ee m E i used f s
!ELLS OF
Pe
t Every Year Nore
d Throng Yelowstone
e 'Old Faithful" Resemglle
at rial Cone Containlag
r Gallons of Steamlng
150 Feet High.
i Yellowstone Park -Y
tional Park every year
O center of interest for
' berm of vacationists. The
has taken precautions to
the greatest of American
Syears to come. The
tendent of the park is the
d lag officer of Fort Yellows
company post. Hunting is
ted in the reserve, but
fish for trout. The Gov
tects the animals in the
to it that the natural t
S stone are not damaged by
The geysers are
tions in Yellowstone. There.
sands of these strange us
ena there; some are almos'
I ly active, while others
Stinct. Old Faithful geyser
thus described:
"In Imagination lift in
e rical cone 250,000 galont
steaming water 150 feet
It there three minutes, jewal
k fountain with a million
a ter through it the hues o
u able Sancing rainbows,
confusion every sound of esi
a splutter-and you will have r
Sidea of Old Faithful in acte.
a "It is the immutable water
a. the Yellowstone, the most
I lustration of geyseric phen
a most famous and beautiful
the whole world.
"The note of the beginning
r play of the geyser is ana
down deep in its throat,
most instantly the water, ai
current leaps, forms the
tain that plays for three mais
then slowly sinks into the
await its time to rise agalm.
times the winds unfold from
an iridescent banner oD
more often the fountain form 1
feet cone.
"Old Faithful plays every
minutes, and never disappolai
the daytime, under the sun, it
and gleams with prismatic he
the most enchanting hour to
a
5
t
r
I '
lItsperftmnce m teai t
fahn -r-wh o th e is
sad the last tMlat be
Iager to rtheky. The a-i
ia ehostly wthite eadn
I eabr bhacgresa qths
end to be feomteea." '
The vitoer r Y
mal haw beome s tb e.
hroe nto eu esnwe
eom awa sdlamea th
evadin sad d seet the
be onude Ia th V*
petemt glmess mte behI
LAWSUIT WUIiSH
p Mahe bah MIre ThgS
i las hugeles,-Wswt is
e largi te sand we o dst
say other esmmemrweath,
I It w ugatat the bat
reeadO sad the mee
I lead e rt hea.ulam et
esorts a seral stre mem
about. The weight win
r d ara dj d oestut esplaw
| raisee i whs th e 1o *.1o
had bom aselsg* bser nse
Sserso The e te.t amoeu it
is about SWA. .
EIGHT-ROOM HOUSE S
Thorm Maw se- w
MIanspolls, Mlama-An
bease was reported stoles by
I. UMoasds, a promlnent tesi
I ragd the beseo ots let
I ht two meuths. 'Recently he
I the lot sad the bhom was goemk
Silsh oft aoSept a httle rnbahs.
Shaew found ae tmee o
~delm weoMmes.
