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Willmar Tribune.
By The Tribune Printing Co.
WILLMAR. MINN.
BRIEFNEWSNOTES
FORTHEBUSY MAN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDEN8EO FORM.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Complete Review cf Happenings off
Greatest Interest from All Parts of
the Globe—Latest Home and For*
eign items.
PERSONAL.
President Taft nominated Judge
Horace Harmon Lurton of Tennessee
to be an associate judge of the
su-for
preme court of the United States, and
George A. Carpenter of Chicago for
United States district judge in the
northern district ot Illiuois to succeed
Judge Rethea, deceased.
Gen. Hcwiand J. Hamlin, former at
torney general of Illinois, died from
Bright's disease followed by pneu
monia at Shelbyville, 111. He hadbrought
been ill a week. He was 59 years old
Dr N. D. HiHis of Brooklyn would
rathe'' be a preacher than a million
nhe. Recently he discovered a rich
coa! vein in a ranch he owned in
British Columbia. He &oiu the prop
erty to western men at a profit of $75.
'00 Now the coal is said to be worth
$5,000,000.
Wiham Robertson, American con
sul at Tangier, Morocco, who is in
New YorK on a vacation, advocates
fh abolition of his office as unneces-
The two children of the late Mary
Crocker Burton Harrison, first wife
ot Congressman Burton Harrison,
will inherit nearly $2,000,000 each
liom the estate left by their mother,
who was a daughter of the late
Charles F. Crocker of San Francisco.
A. J. Hoskins, a farmer of Upper
Alton, 111., has sold to the United
States for $300,000 his patent rights
to a range finder.
CENERAL NEWS.
Speaking in support of his resolu
tion authorizing the president of the
United States to apprehend President
Zelaya of Nicaragua, and bring him to
trial on a charge of the murder of
Groce and Cannon, the two American
citizens recently executed in Nicara
gua, Senator Rayner of Maryland ad
dressed the senate at length. His
speech, stirring and denunciatory in
lone and characterized by dramatic
ter\or, was an unsparing arraignment
of President Zelaya, whom he desig
nated as one of the criminals of the
age.
iy. report on steerage conditions,
based on information obtained by spe
cial agents of the immigration com
mission, traveling as steerage passen
gers on different trans-Atlantic steam
ers, was made public at Washington
through presentation to the senate
with recommendations for legislation
to better conditions. Conditions found
in many of these vessels are de
6cribed as appalling.
Barnett Greenberg, 40 years old, a
pawnbroker, was shot and instantly
killed in his place of business, 843
South Halsted street, by a highway
man who entered the store on the pre
tense of wanting to purchase some
Jewelry.
A telephone message from Dills
boro, N. C, received at Asheville
states that a woman named Belle
Frizzle was killed and her companion,
Cole Bard, seriously wounded by
Elijah Children with a shotgun.
With three rousing meetings, one in
the afternoon to inaugurate total ab
stinence in the army and navy and
two at night, at which prominent men
spoke in favor of temperance, the re
lormers' conclave got under way at
Washington.
William Lake of Richwood, O., a
student in the Ohio state university,
and George H. Reed of Bowling Green
were indicted at Toledo for counter
feiting. They were arrested last
summer while working as bell boys at
a hotel in Put-in-Bay, charged with
manufacturing imitation quarters,
with which they played the slot ma
chines.
The National Geographic society
will have to receive more proofs of
Dr. Cook's claims to the discovery of
the north pole before it can attempt
any decision as to Dr. Cook's right to
make such claims. This according to
a statement made in Washington by
Prof. James H. Gore, the commission
er appointed to go to New York to
gather more evidence as to the truth
or falsity of Dr. Cook's story of dis
covery.
David George MacKenzie, son of
Mundo MacKenzie, millionaire cattle
king and one of the largest land own
ers in the west, was shot and killed
at La Beau, S. D. "Bud" Stephenson,
the slayer, was arrested and is held
in Selby on a charge of murder. The
cause of the killing is unknown.
A cry of "Are" started when a wom
an fell downstairs from the balcony
of the Majestic theater at Cleveland
caused a panic in the crowded house.
President Taft spoke on foreign mis
sions before the closing meeting of the
Methodist African jubilee in Carnegie
hall, New York.
The Farmers' Hall of Fame at the
University of Illinois was dedicated
and a portrait of Cyrus McCormick,
inventor of the reaper, was unveiled
by his granddaughter.
The thirty-eighth session of the
State Grange of Illinois was held In
Rockford.
Two women and three children lost
their lives and seven other persons
were seriously injured in a tenement
Are at Cincinnati. The fire occurred
In a building which was occupied by
about dozen families. It was caused
by the upsetting of a Kerosene lamp
In a hallway on the second floor.
Five deaths resulted from the ta
auguratlon of the ice-skating season
in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
It la learned at Blueflelds, Nicara
gua, from an authoritative source that
a reign of terror is being maintained
In Managua and that not less than
500 persons, identified with political
affairs, are In chains In the prisons.
A Catholic society has been ordered
to cease sending food to the prisoners,
and these are in a fair way to starve
to death, as they are allowed only two
cents a day for food.
Gxtension of American citizenship
to Porto Ricans for those who desire,
and without forcing it upon those who
do not is recommended for Porto
Ricans by Gen. Clarence R. Edwards,
chief of the bureau of insular affairs,
in his annual report to the secretary
of war.
The big plant of the Racine (Wis.)
Manufacturing Company, manufactur
ers of automobile tops and piano
stools, the Dania Brotherhood hall,
the Mitchell wagon works and sev
eral residences, were destroyed by
fire, entailing a loss estimated at
$650,000. All but $50,000 of this Is
borne by the Racine Manufacturing
Company's plant.
One of the important recommenda
tions made in the annual report of the
secretary of commerce and labor is
newer and tighter laws, with an
appropriation of $50,000 to enable the
stamping out the white slave trade
which Secretary Nagel says Is an or
ganized and extensive business.
With her flag at half-mast, the state
fisheries boat Commodore Perry,
Capt. Gerry Driscoll commanding,
to Erie, Pa., the dead and
frozen bodies of nine of the crew of
the Bessemer and Marquette ferry,
No. 2, which left Conneaut, O., Tues
day morning, carrying 32 men,
andgreat
which probably foundered in the mid
dle of Lake Erie.
Disobedience of orders on the part
of an engineer cost the lives of two
immigrants, resulted in the serious
injury of a score of persons, and
caused damages amounting to over
$200,000 when the north-bound Mil
waukee limited on the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad, running over
forty-five miles an hour, plunged over
an embankment at Chicago. The
train struck a defective switch and
was thrown off the rails.
Julius Gillemo, a Swiss, while riding
on a west-bound train near Reno, Nev.,
became suddenly insane and made a
headlong plunge through a window
while the train was gonig 40 miles an
hour.
Three men died of suffocation and
21 others were overcome and rescued
with difficulty as a result of an accl
dent at a mine of the Shoemaker Min
ing Company, near Johnstown, Pa.
John Duley, 53 years old, formerly
president of the National State bank
of Maysville, Ky., committed suicide
in a boarding house at Lexington, by
shooting himself through the head
and heart.
Estill county remains "dry" as a re
suit of a local option election held In
Kentucky. Every precinct in the
co.inty voted against a return to sa
loons, which were abolished by an
election held three years ago.
Steve Moskier, giving his residence
as Chicago, was arraigned at Pontiac,
charged with burglarizing the post of
fice at Ancona, 111., on the night of
December 9. Thirty dollars' worth of
stamps were found on his person.
More than 25.000 banks with an ex*
cess of 25,000,000 deposit accounts,
capital aggregating $1,855,987,388 and
individual deposits of more than $14,
000,000,000 are the stupendous figures
revealing the vast extent of the bank
ing business of the United States as
shown in the annual report for theby
year ending October 31, of Lawrence
O. Murray, comptroller of the cur
rency, laid before congress. The ag
gregate deposits on April 28 last were
about $14,425,523,165.
Inquiry by the coroner's jury into
the causes of the St. Paul mine dis
aster at Cherry, 111., came to an ab
rupt close without a verdict being
reached or any steps being made to
fix the responsibility for the attending
loss of life. The jurors refused to con
sider the finding of a verdict until two
missing witnesses were produced.
Consternation reigned in D. A. R.
circles at Washington when the
Daughters learned that Miss Sarah B.
MacLay, one of the most prominent
and respected members of the organi
zation, for 14 years curator of the so
ciety, had confessed that for years
past she has been systematically rob
bing the mail of the organization. The
amount of Miss MacLaay's peculations
is not known and Is estimated at from
$1,000 to $10,000.
To avoid arrest after holding his
family in terror, O. E. Boley shot and
killed Sheriff Jacob Bell at Shreve, O.
Secretary Wilson intends by means
of the federal inspection of dairy
herds to make Washington serve as
an example to other cities in the pre
vention of the sale of infected milk.
Thirty-five passengers on a street
car were injured, none fatally, and
few seriously, when the car was
struck by an in-bound Pennsylvania
passenger train at an Indianapolis
street crossing and hurled 30 feet.
George Preston Sheldon, deposed
president of the Phenix Fire Insurance
Company of Brooklyn, lying at death's
door at his Greenwich (Conn.) home,
was indicted for larceny in the first
degree by the grand jury in New York
for alleged misappropriation of funds
of the company, of which he was the
head for 22 years.
The National Rivers and Harbors
convention at Washington adopted
resolutions appealing to congress for
an appropriation of $50,000,000 for
waterways work, and asking for the
creation of a bureau of public works
with a cabinet officer at Its head.
Ex-President Cardenas of Nicara
gua, who was overthrown by Zelaya
in 1891, has taken the field against
his old enemy and is heading an ex
pedition from Costa Rica Into Nica
ragua, according to advices received
at New Orleans by the sympathizers
of the revolutionary movement in the
latter country.
Commissioner Cabell of the Internal
revenue bureau in Washington has is
sued an economy order of wide scope.
One feature Is that taxicabs are to. be
used only in cases of absolute nctes*
sity and then their use must be
nlsiMd.
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L'ROI EST MORT
VIVE LE ROI
LEOPOLD'S COLLAPSE COMES
WHEN HOPE IS THE
GREATEST.
YOUNG PRINCE ALBERTSUCCEEDS
Heir to Throne and Princess Clemen
Tine Visit Chamber.—Monarch
Much Misunderstood Man, De
clares Old Friend.
Brussels.—King Leopold died at
2:35 o'clock Friday morning, his aged
and wasted body being unable to stand
the strain put upon it. The collapse
occurred suddenly and at a moment
when the doctors seemingly had had
the greatest hopes for his recovery.
Throughout the day before bulletins
issued from tne sick room indicated
progressive improvement. The bulle
tin posted at 6:30 p. m. gave the king's
temperature, pulse and respiration as
practically normal. Apparently the
drainage of the wound was perfect, as
no fever was present and during the
day the king had been able to take
nourishment.
The public at large was satisfied
that the king was on the road to re
covery, but within the pavilion where
the king lay there was a feeling of
anxiety, chiefly because of Leopold's
age. After a restful day the
pa-tense
tient was able to sleep for a breif pe
riod early in the evening, and the
night passed quietly. But toward 2
o'clock alarming symptoms appeared.
Suddenly the king turned and called
to Dr. Thiriar: "J'etouffe, docleur,
J'etouffe." (I am suffocating).
Prince Albert Arrives.
A page was summoned and the iwo
physicians did e\eiything possible to
prolong life, but without avail. The
end came quickly and after a period
King Leopold.
of weakness, peacefully. Prince Al
bert arrived at tho death bed about 25
minutes later. He was accompanied
Pnncess Clementine. Albert kissed
the dead king and left the chamber
weeping.
Baron Goffinet, the king's secretary,
started immediately for Brussels to
notify the members of the royal fam
ily. As he was entering his motor car,
he exclaimed:
"To think that only yesterday we
were still full of confidence and now
the king is dead
The doctors were totally unprepared
for a fatal termination. It was a nun
acting as a nuise who first noticed
the heavy breathing of the king. She
called Dr. Thiriar to the bedside. Both
Doctors Thiriar and De Page resort
ed to injections of morphine, but these
had no effect.
Shortly after the end had come the
ministers were notified. The first offi
cial to arrive at the death chamber
was the royal chaplain The ministers
remained in the chamber for a consid
erable time, discussing in subdued
tones the sudden death and matters
of state.
Leopold II., king of the Belgians,
son of the late King Leopold I, upon
whose death, which occurred Dec. 10,
1865, has succeeded to the throne, was
born at Brussels April 9, 1837. His
father was tne former Prince of Saxe
Coburg Gotha and his mother Princess
Louise, daughter of King Louis Philip
pe of France.
On Aug. 22, 1853, he married the
Archduchess Marie Henriette, daugh
ter of Archduke Joseph of Austria.
She died Sept. 19, 1902. There were
three daughters born of this union,
Louise, Stephanie and Clementine.
GAYNOR SPEAKS PLAINLY.
Tells Tammany a Few Things About
Its Methods.
New York, N. Y.—William J. Gay-$4@6.30
nor, mayor-elect,'speaking at a dinner
of 300 Tammany hall spellbinders, in
the recent municipal campaign, said
that the condition of thefinancialaf
fairs of the city was barbaric and a
reproach to everyone who has been re
sponsible for it. Millions, he said,
bad been extracted yearly from the
city treasury to enrich individuals.
New A. O. U. W. Supreme Lodge.
Kansas City, Missouri.—Representa
tives ot the Missouri, Kansas, Arizona,
New Mexico, Nebraska, Colorado and
Massachusetts grand lodges of the An
cient Order of United Workmen have
decided to form a new supreme lodge
under the name of the National An
cient Order of United Workmen. A
committee, of which L. M. Penwell, of
Topeka, is chairman, and W. J. How
ell, of St. Louis, secretary-treasurer,
was delegated to make plan.i for the
new organization whereby the majori
ty would have the right to rule.
The two elder pricesses have been
estranged from their father, but Clem
entine remained In his affections.
There being no direct hereditary
heir, the crown passes to Prince Al
bert, the only son of Leopold's broth
er, the late Phillippe, count of Fland
ers. The new monarch was born
April 8, 1875, and on Oct. 2, 1900, mar
ried Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria.
They have three children, Prince Leo
pold, eight years old Prince Charles,
six years old, and Princess Marie-Jose,
who was born Aug. 4, 1906.
New King Popular.
Prince Albert is one of the most
popular members of the reigning house
of Belgium. His wife is equally popu
lar, their home life being such as to
attract the admiration and love of the
people. Prince Albert has traveled
extensively and is a man of affairs.
In appearance he is strikingly like the
late king, but their dsipositions and
temperaments have always been in
marked contrast.
Prince Albert has been a great stu
dent of politics and economies, and
has frequently lectured on these sub
jects in public. To broaden his grasp
of the affairs of the world, he visited
the United States and other countries,
always studying and always adding to
his store of knowledge and philoso
phy.
One of the most powerful men in
Belgium, who knows King Leopold
better than any other man, is Senator
Winer, the king's trusted friend and
confidential legal adviser. He assisted
Leopold in drawing up the Congo
project and probably will handle the
disposition of the king's fortune.
Senator Winer welcomed the Asso
ciated Press correspondent most cor
dially last night. He insisted that
Leopold was greatly misunderstood by
the Morld. He pictured the king's in
admiration for the United States
which bis majesty was anxious' to vis
it, but was prevented by the Congo
criticism. However, the king had pre
vailed on Prince Albert to go, as he
considered this a most useful prepara
tion for the future ruler of Belgium.
Admired Roosevelt.
The king had a marked respect for
Theodore Roosevelt. He never liked
photographs around, but placed Roose
velt's autograph picture in his favorite
office in the Brussels palace, beside
those of Princess Clementine and
Prince Albert. Continuing the senator
said:
"The whole truth in the Congo,"
Senator Winer went on, "was that the
system was bad—worse than the king
thought. The eternal cry was "Rub
ber, and yet more rubber,' and it must
be remembered that the military com
mandeis in the Congo had the double
capacity of soldier and merchant they
had to get rubber. Nevertheless many
Soiru. The paper charged that Baron
ess Vaughan was constantly at the
bedside of the king, even being pres
ent when extreme function was ad-the
ministeu-d. whereas the king's daugh
ters and hib nephew were not admit
ted.
The question was put by tHh Soiru
to ilgr. Cooieman, the venerable royal
chaplain, if the king had married Bar
oness Vaughan according to the provi
sions of the religious ceremony, ad
ding that all Belgium was astonished
and scandalised that the church would
sanction the presence of the woman
near the king's touch while the priest
came on his sacred mission
His Conscience Clear.
The chaplain intimated that the
marriage existed and said that his
conscience was clear about his visit
to the^king The church's codea or
morals, he added, was the same for the
king as for the people and in conclu
sion he said'
From the standpoint of the church,
the king's situation was regular."
Baroness Vaughan is the daughter
of parents of the name of Delacroix,
who were concierges, or janitors first
at Liege and afterwards in PaMs. Her
mother is dead and her father is an
inmate of an asylum for the insane.
She is the mother of two thildren.
King Leopold spent a great deil of his
time with the baroness and gave his
ministers much concern on this ac
count. At one time there was talk of
his abdicating, but. as months Tvent by
his subjects apparently becam* accus
tomed to his ways and abdication be
came a thing of the past.
King Leopold was looked tpon as
one of the shrewdest and abltst men
of the time. He was essenially a
man of business, cold, retictnt and
calculating. He was of partcularly
independent spirit and more thin once
is said to have told other sovereigns
who attempted to advise him in con
nection with his private afftirs to
mind their- own business. Fcr this
reason King Leopold had become es-1
tranged from many of the courts of
Europe.
Mrs. H. B. Taft rssses Away.
Baltimore.—Mrs. Horace B. Taft,
wife of a brother of President Taft,
died at John Hopkins hospital, where
she had been a patient of Dr. Harvey
Cushing.
Mrs. Taft was operated on at the
hospital about a month ago and a
couple of weeks later left for the
South to recuperate. She retimed to
the hospital about ten days ago.
MARKET REPORT.
Chicago, Dec. 17. Cattle—weak
beeves, $3.80@ 8.25 western steers,
stockers and feeders, $3®
5.10 cows and heifers, $2@5.40 calv
es, $7g9.75.
Hogs —steady light, $7.90@8.25
mixed, $8.15@8.30 good to choice
heavy, $8.30@8.55 pigs, $7@r.90.
Sheep—strong native, |3.30@5.60
western, $3.75@5.50 yearlings $6.30@
7.40 lambs, native, $5.75@8.5) west
ern, $5.75@8.50.
Twin City Markets.'
Minneeapolis, Dec. 17.—Whejt, Dec,
$1.11%, May, $1.11% No. 1 northern,
$1.14 No. 2 northern, $1.12 dur
um, No. 1, 94%c. Corn—No. i, 63%c.
Oats—No. 3 white, 41%c. Rye—No.
2, 70%c. Barley—61%c. Flax—No. 1,
92%.
Duluth, Dec. 17.—No. 1 northern,
$1.12 Dec, $1.11 May, $1.12j
South St. Paul, Dec. 17.—battle—
Steers, $5.00@6.75 cows, fat, $3.25
@4.25 calves, $3.50@5.50.
$8.05®8.20 sheep, yearlings,
5.76 lambs, $5.00@6.«0.
8YNOP8IS.
Miss Patricia Holbrook and Miss Helen
Holbrook, her niece, were entrusted to
the care of Laurence Donovan, a writer,
summering near Port Annandale. Miss
Patricia confided to Donovan ihat she
feared her brother Henry, who, ruined by
a bank failure, had constantly threatened
her for money from his father's will, of
which Miss Patricia was guardian. They
came to Port Annandale to escape Henry.
Donovan sympathized with the two
women. He learned of Miss Helen's an
noying suitor.
CHAPTER III.—Continued.
"Drop one of the canoes into the
water," I said and I watched the
prowling boatman while Ijima crept
back to the boat house. The canoe
was launched silently and the boy
drove it out to me with a few light
strokes. I took the paddle, and we
crept close along the shore toward
the St. Agatha light, my eyes intent
on the boat, which was now drawing
in to the school pier. The prowler
was feeling his way carefully, as
though the region was unfamiliar but
he now landed at the pier and tied his
boat. I hung back in the shadows
until he had disappeared up the bank,
then paddled to the pier, told Ijima to
wait, and set off through the wood
path toward St. Agatha's.
Where the wood gave way to the
broad lawn that stretched up to the
school buildings I caught sight of my
quarry. He was a young fellow, not
above average height, but compactly
built, and stood with his hands thrust
boyishly in his pockets, gazing about
with frank Interest in his surround
ings. He was bareheaded and coat
less, and his shirt-sleeves were rolled
to the elbow. He walked slowly
along the edge of the wood, looking
off toward the school buildings, and
while his manner was furtive there
was, too, an air of unconcern about
him and I heard him whistling softly
to himself.
He now withdrew into the wood
and started off with the apparent in
tention of gaining a view of St. Aga
tha's from the front, and I followed.
He seemed harmless enough
might bc a curious pilgrim from the
u.m
8Ub
reached the driveway leading in
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wuwuu t,.i6i.u uu die chuckled softly, but sat per
summer resort but I was Just now
the guardian St.„&„„„„
Agatha'D and I in-
Wf
had begun to bore me, when the
school gardener came running out of
the shrubbery, and instantly the
young man took to his heels.
"Stop! Stop!" yelled the gardener.
The mysterious young man plunged
into the wood and was off like the
wind.
"After him, Andy! After him!" I
yelled to the Scotchman.
I shouted my own name to reassure
him and we both went thumping
through the beeches. Whoever the
young gentleman was, be had no in
tention of being caught he darted in
and out among the trees with astound
ing lightness, and I saw in a moment
that he was slowly turning away to
the right.
"Run for the gate!" I called to the
gardener, who was about 20 feet away
from me, blowing hard. I prepared to
gain on the turn If the young fellow
dashed for the lake and he now led
me a pretty chase through the flower
garden. He ran with head up and el
bows close at his sides, and his light
boat shoes made scarcely any sound.
He turned once and looked back and,
finding that I was alone, began
amusing himself with feints and
dodges, for no other purpose, I
fancied, than to perplex or wind me.
By this time I had grown pretty
angry, for a foot race in a school gar
den struck me with disgust as a child
ish enterprise, and I bent with new
spirit and drove him away from his
giddy circling about the summer
house and beyond the only gate by
which he could regain the wood and
meadow that lay between the garden
and his boat. He turned his head
from side to side uneasily, slackening
his pace to study the bounds of the
garden, and I felt myself gaining.
Ahead of us lay a white picket fence
that set off the vegetable garden and
marked the lawful bounds of the
6chool. There was no gate and I felt
that here the chase must end, and I
rejoiced to find myself so near the
runner that I heard the quick, soft
patter of his shoes on the walk. In
a moment I was quite sure that I
should have him by the collar, and I
bad every intention of dealing severe
ly with him for the hard chase he had
given me.
But he kept on, the white line of
fence clearly outlined beyond him
and then when my hand was almost
upon him he rose at the fence, as
though sprung from the earth itself,
and hung a moment sheer above the
sharp line of the fence pickets, his
whole figure held almost horizontal, in
the fashion of trained high-jumpers,
for what seemed an infinite time, as
though by some witchery of the moon
light.
fect
tended to learn the stranger's busi- sardener came running and swore in
ness before I had done with him. He
I plunged into the fence with a
force that knocked the wind out of
me, and as I clung panting to
theown
pickets the runner dropped with
crash toto th mid.t Ot a vege- ta.w rt™
turned his head, grinned at me sheep- stable.
ishly through the pickets, and gave
thn!
blown, and we regained our
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Hogs,
lav
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will be here in a minute andfishyouAgatha's
out"
"Lawsy, what is it? An aquarium,
he that you fish for me?"
*y quiet, finding, it seemed, a eer
fc
„_ ,„ tai humor in his situation Th
l""~"'
a 6 4U
He touched his hat respectfully.
"I have business with this person.
Say nothing to the ladies at St. Aga
tha's about him."
He saluted and departed and with
Gillespie walking beside me I started
for the boat-landing.
2?«rjswhile**-*ou,w-He ^^s*£i\sjz^iz
was the first to speak.
'Kicked, bit or stung!" he mut
a
m?°?'
He had wrapped a handkerchief
about one arm and I gave him mybluntly,
own for the other. His right arm was
bleeding freely below the elbow and
I tied it up for him.
"That jump deserved better luck,"
I volunteered, as he accepted my aid
in silence.
"I'm proud to have you like it. Will
you kindly tell me who the devil you
are?"
"My name is Donovan."
"I don't wholly care for it," he ob
served, mournfully. "Think it over
and see If you can't do better. I'm
not sure that I'm going to grow fond
of you. What's your business with
me, anyhow?"
"My business, Mr. Gillespie, is to
see that you leave this lake by the
first and fastest train."
"Is it possible?" he drawled, mock
ingly.
"More than that," I replied in his
key "It Is decidedly probable."
"Meanwhile, it would be diverting
He made no reply, but got into the
mind the few items of Information
that I had gained from Miss Pat and
J?°
W 8 0
7 8 8 0 ttat W
_, He was the unwelcome and annoying
May I trouble you not to kick out suitor of Miss Helen Holbrook and -_mn
Held Up His Hands In Sign of Surrender.
in a manner that was inde
fensible.
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A
jdestruction
broad Scots at"--
the of the
,from frame. We got over the fence and re-
Annandale road without having leased our captive, who talked to him
disclosed any purpose other than that
of viewing the vine-clad walls with a
tourist's idle interest The situation
self in doleful undertones as we
hauled him to his feet amid a renewed
clink of glass.
"Gently, gentlemen behold the
night-blooming cereus! Not all theand
court-plaster in the universe can glue
me together again." He gazed rue
fully at his slashed arms, and "rubbed
his legs. "The next time I seek the
garden at dewy eve I'll wear my tin
suit."
"There won't be any next time for
you. What did you run for?"
"Trying to lower my record—it's a
mania with me. And as one good
question deserves another, may 1
askinto
why you didn't tell me there was a
glass-works beyond that fence? It
wasn't sportsmanlike to hide a mur
derous hazard like that. But I cleared
those pickets with a yaid to spare,
and broke my record."
"You broke about seven yards of
glass," I replied. "It may sober you
to know that you are under arrest.
The watchman here has a constable's
license."
"He also has hair that suggests the
common garden or boiled carrot. The
tint is not to my liking yet it is
not for me to be captious where the
Lord has hardened his heart."
"What is your name?" I demanded.
"Gillespie. R. Gillespie. The 'R* will
indicate to you the depth of my hu
mility: I make It a life work to hide
the fact that I was baptized Regi
nald."
"I've been expecting you, Mr. Gilles
pie, and now I want you to come over
to my house and give an account ef
yourself. I will take charge of this
man, Andy. I promise that he shan't
set foot here again. And, Andy, you
need mention this affair to no one."
"Very good, sir."
He sat huddled In the stern, nursing
his swathed arms on his knees and
whistling dolefully. The lake was a
broad pool of silver. Save for theand
soft splash of Ijima's paddle behind
me and the slight wash of water on
the near shore, silence possessed the
world. Gillespie looked about with
some curiosity, but said nothing, and
when I drove the boat to the Glenarm
landing he crawled out and followed
me through the wood without a word.
I flashed on the lights in the library
after a short inspection of his
wounds we went to my room and
found sponges, plasters and ointments
in the family medicine chest and
cared for his injuries.
"There's no honor in tumbling into
a greenhouse, but such is R. Gilles
pie's luck. My shins look like scarlet
fever, and without sound legs a man's
better dead."
"Your legs seem to have got youme
trouble don't mourn the loss of
them!" And I twisted a bandage un
der his left knee-cap where the glass
had cut savagely.
"It's my poor wits, if we must fix
the blame. It's an awful thing, sir, to
be born with weak intellectuals. As
man's legs carry him on orders from
his head, there lies the seat of the
difficulty. A weak mind, obedient
legs, and there you go, plump into the
bosom of a blooming asparagus bed,
and the enemy lays violent hands on
you. If you put any more of that
sting-y pudding on that cut I shall
undoubtedly hit you, Mr. Donovan.
Ah, thank you, thank you so much!"
As I finished with the vaseline he
lay back on the couch and sighed
deeply and I rose and sent Ijima away
with the basin and towels.
"Will you drink? There are 12 kinds
of whisky—"
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poor wits as mine are not helped by
alcoholic rtmnlaitte. I was drunk
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"I'm taking you to the house of a
1 A S tng. I
Then he held up his hands In sign of to row you in your boat! It's only a
surrender and I saw that they were short distance and whenweget S
cut an bleeding W ewer both badly I shall have someiingtoI S fo**
found
«»ough about him
above it. Now, wouldn't that doddl*
you?"
"It would, Mr. Gillespie but may
ask you to cut out this rot—"
"My dear Mr. Donovan, it's indeli
cate of you to speak of cutting any
thing—and me with my legs. But I'm
at your service. You have tended my
grievous wounds like a gentleman and
now do you wish me to unfold my
past, present and future?"
"I want you to get out of this and
be quick about it. Your biography
doesn't amuse me I caught you
prowling disgracefully about St. Aga
tha's. Two ladies are domiciled there
who came here to escape your annoy
ing attentions. Those ladies were put
in my charge by an old friend, and I
don't propose to stand any nonsense
from you, Mr. Gillespie. You seem
to be at least half sane—"
Reginald Gillespie raised himself on
the couch and grinned joyously.
"Thank ou—thank you for that
word! That's just twice as high as
anybody ever rated me before."
"I was trying to be generous/'
said. "There's a point at which I be
gin to be bored, and when that's
reached I'm likely to grow quarrel
some. Are there any moments of the
day or night when you are less a fool
than others?"
"Well, Donovan, I've often specu
lated about that, and my conclusion
is that my mind is at its best when
I'm asleep and enjoying a nightmare.
Then, I ha\e sometimes thought, my
intellectual parts are most intelligent*
ly employed."
"I may well believe you," I declared
with asperity. "Now I hope I can
pound it into you in some way that
your presence in this neighborhood is
offensive—to me—personally."
He stared at the ceiling, silent, im
perturbable.
"And I'm going to give you safe con
duct through the lines—or if neces
sary I'll buy your ticket and start you
for New York. And if there's an atom
of honor in you, you'll go peaceably
not publish the fact that you
know the whereabouts of these la
dies."
He reflected gravely for a moment.
"I think," he said, "that on the
whole that's a fair proposition. But
you seem to have the impression that
I wish to annoy these ladies."
"You don't for a moment imagine
that you are likely to entertain them,
do you? You haven't got the idea
that you are necessary to their happi
ness, have you?"
He raised himself on his elbow with
some difficulty flinched as he tried to
make himself comfortable and began:
"The trouble with Miss Pat is—"
"There is no trouble with Miss Pat,"
I snapped.
"The trouble between Miss Pat and
is the same old trouble of the
buttons," he remarked, dolorously.
"Buttons, you idiot?"
"Quite so. Buttons, just plain,
every-day buttons buttonstorbutton
ing purposes."
The fellow was undoubtedly mad. I
looked about for a weapon but he
went on gravely:
"What does the name Gillespie
mean? Of what is it the sign and
symbol wherever man hides his
nakedness? Button, button, who'll
buy my buttons? It can't be possible
that you never heard of the Gillespie
buttons? Where have you lived, my
dear sir?"
"Will you please stop talking rot
and explain what you want here?" 1
demanded, with growing heat.
"That, my dear sir, is exactly what
I'm doing. I'm a suitor for the hand
of Miss Patricia's niece. Miss Patricia
scorns me she says I'm a mere child
ofl tho Philistin rich and decline an
a a a 5 a
once—beautifully, marvelously, nobly
drank, so that antiquity came up to
date with the thud of a motor car hit
ting an orphan asylum and I
sawthing
Julius Caesar driving a chariot up
Fifth avenue and Cromwell poised on
one foot on the shorter spire of St.
Patrick's cathedral. Are you aware
»«•.. *i~„_ it
wondering what species of
madman I had on my hands.
"It's a fact, confided to me by
has studied those spireswdaily since
prominent engineer of Ne York who
bans the north spire was higher but
admltT'hat
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S
is shorter than the other?
certainly am not," I
replied,
a
that the sixth tumblerful always an without oppressing the people
raised the south spire about 11 feetj (TO E CONTINUED.)
What Impressed the Russian
American Gastronomical Delicacy Had
Appealed to Him.
Recently a member of the Russian
revolutionary party, who had been
through all sorts of exciting vicissi
tudes in his native country, was on a
visit to the United States.
Wishing to be polite to him and
talk on those subjects nearest the
Russian's heart a gentleman who met
him asked all sorts of questions about
the Douma, the Czar, dynamite, and
everything else which he adjudged in
teresting to the foreigner.
Then, when he could think of noth
ing more about Russia, he turned the
conversation In this direction:
"I suppose that yon find America a
striking contrast to your own country
—ful o. libert- and respect for every-
Fon must
know the truth. And it's all on ac
count of the fact, shameful enough, I
my father died and left nie
a large and prosperous button fac-
"Why don't you give th« infernal
away—sell it out to a trust—"
"Ah! ah!"—and he raised himself
again and pointed a bandaged hand at
me. "I see that you are a m&u ot
penetration Yo have a keen notion
of business! You antiefcate mo!
did sell the infernal thing to a trust,
but there was no shaking it! They
president of the combina
tion, and I control more buttons than
any otheir living man! My dear sir, I
i,Aug mam A»X ucit Sir,
a
the button prices of the world
I can tell you to a nicety how many
they were put up. He told me that buttons are swallowed annually by
when he had surrounded five high-
0
a a iv J,
sir, that I use my power wisely,
i-nnfiinV¥»iiTr»inr mmr.-,r»n
to you to note how little the govern
ment interferes with citizens as they
go about their daily work. And the
absence of soldiers—that must strike
you as strange after Russia. I feel
sure that it must. Tell me, sir, what
is it that you like best about Amer
ica?"
The Russian's eyes lighted up.
"Waffles," he replied.
Figures That Stagger.
The amount of work done by the
wink of an eye equals 100,000,000,00$
of the winks marked on the scale of
a delicate instrument, but even this
performance is surpassed by the "co
herers" of Branley of Paris, by which
the Hertz waves of wireless telegraphy
are caught in their pulsings
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