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eft is for johnson" he condescended

ut is for Johnson" he condescendedi
to explain.
: "very well; you shall have il" said
I. "By the way, is your telegraph line:
to his house still in working order?"
''Yes; but it is not telegraph, only
a simple signal" he answered. ENTER,
if you choose, and 1 will elucidate it,"
4 We stepped into the living-roonn, on.
one wall of which he showed me knob,
so tiny as hardly to be noticeable. BY,
pressing it, he explained, q metal disk
was made to fall at the other end of
the line, conveying the intelligence TO-
the fisherman that he was to hasten to-
his employer. If he was absent from
home, one of his brothers would re-
spond to the summons.
"But if all three are away?" asked.
''That will not occur" he replied, de-
cidedly. .a. !.
"But in case they are asleep?"
t'The disk, in falling, strikes gong.
There is provision for the chance"
Here was Il further illustration of the:
ingenuity the man displayed in pre-:
pairing for possible dangers. But, if:
he had taken the pains 10 insure sup;
port from johnson in case of need, why:
had he not arranged a method Of calling.
upon me also? Rather piqued, in spite!
of my dislike for him, I asked, bluntly,!
il some signal could not be devised.
1T is not necessity" said he, dryly.i
And even had been disposed to argue
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with stout club, Jones sprang over
the wall and struck viciously at the
brute. The blow fell fairly upon the
ani1ual's snout, and ended abruptly his
pursuit of the maiden, who, however,
sped on until she ran almost into my
arms. got her hands in mine and tooka
some time to assure her that she wal
safe, before coming down tp.the mere
detail that the farmland had been he1s
rescuer. She turned to thank the
man, but by this time he was some
distance up the lane, driving the cowed
and grunting boar back to his prison. i
81 envy that fellow y said 7. .srdS
give anything to have had that chane q
he improved" ID
"Would your" said she, with nesrrvs5
Gus little smile. ct Mas q dangerous
privilege. Ugh!v' ai,t1;ashe shuddered
at the recollection: hat a2terribls#
animal that was! Inever was 80 fright
ened in all my life '~zss,ss Il
"Let us go back to the house, !" I sugt
gested. ''"'You will hardly enjoy vis.I
it to the orchard aftei lsu1h an advens3
ture.' ~
"No, indeed" she said. :, 'After thA
shall be more CAREFUL # have learned
something from this esperiencc. Y ssSs
'.And 50 have IT, was3apny thought, IN I
in that moment of her peril the veil Nj
doubts and questions .ahd theor; essandss
speculations had been torn from nuysas
eyes, and had learned tie simple truth Il
which explained them all; yet whielslys
they had served to hide from me. sgJ u
Gro n Continually 49, sssssa
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gained for, and if his demand is notsydeld..
ed to he will boot and bray and hiss, when
an attempt lis made to perform the next
piece, as If he belonged to the long-eared
5c',adrupe DIS. or fea thered biped tribe. And'
then we have occasionally what the news
,.>..,e,:ss LefIns "a s;rne -dn exhibitions OF
90 RI nm that disgraces our boasted
civilization. II managers, artists and the
musical public world but think this mat
ter over and determine to stamp out the
nuisance one great blot on our English
musical performances might be enaced,
Unfortunately, it is not yet quite certain;
are more distasteful TO
the great majority Of performers than
- section OF the concert;
KpA publ r. .ss 5:s3s
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ABOUT ENCoREs:
Sims Reeves is hard On what he calls tn

& Sims Reeves is hard On what he calls the
VICIOUS encore system" He characterizes
It as a preposterous piece of dishonesty, Of
which all honest persons should be asham-
ed: The nuisance, he says rightly, seeks to
take a shabby advantage Of the suffering
professional; and it is to be regretted that
few OF our performers possess sufficient
courage to return to the plat form, bow POI
Iitely and indicate firmly, No! your encore
rnonger cares nothing about symmetry. or
balance or cohesive whether the; oc-
sformance the beneflt and ordinary concert
.or the ballad tsnflce Sasss
He wants IL hear tt1ansh has oar-
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tan 81 his face. kept an eye on him,
I an saw him, fter hangin' round aspel1,
steer fer the Rodney town road. ="
Thanks for the nforna fion, nssaid ].
sProbably he is some tramp who has
heard yarns about my patient, and, hav-
ing nothing better to do, asks ques tons
to keep talk going. Nevertheless,
I'm much obliged for the tip
''That's all right Carpenter re-
sponded, with the air of a manwho feels
that he has done his duty. "Say, how's
the boss suitin' yer?" - ''sss.
"Excellently. It's pity, though.
there's 50 little style about him. .
IF he had style, ye'd never got him
fer the price ye paid. He ain't the kind
of a boss a pretty girl Likes ter hev.
hitched in front Of her house on Sun
day afternoon-that's fact-but fer
plain weekday use he's O. f." .@
"He's hard-mouthed. That's draw
back. Quiet as he is, you wouldn't call
him lady's horse, would vou?"
''No, wouldn't" said Sam, oracular-
ly. "A lady's hoss-that's any good
is as sceerce as an angel boss; and
angel bosses as scarce as angel men,"
The ride back to Rodneytown was
hardly as pleasant as the first half of the
trip had been, for both of us were in
clined to taciturnity. Miss Gray doubt
less was busy with thoughts of heraunt,
while for me the afternoon was spoiled
by Carpenters tidings. 1t had been 3
luxury to forget the house on the knoll,
if only for an hour or two, and here was
this news, very probably of no moment,
yet enough to remind me of my thrall-
dom, to drag me back to realization of
the fact that Lamar had the first claim
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upon me. Of course, he would have to
be told of the incident of The suspicious
stranger, a2d told ut once, with the pos
sibility quite within reason that he
would decide to seek new asylum
without delay. In that case I might
find myself bidding Mrs. Loring and her
niece an unceremonious adieu, Or
might be left behind with my chief
source of revenue cut off. In either
event should be heavy loser. And,
worst of all, could devise no way in
which to shake off my helplessness. A
hint as to the identity n ,of thf stranger
had suggested itself 81 sp9lIa As fS{l Ga
ter attempted to portray the. man. So
far as it went, his description fitted the
new farmhand-just as it probably fit
ted half the tramps in that region.
While the story threw suspicion upon
the fellows motives, and might prove
most useful as a warning, it was not, of
course, in itself sufficient to warrant a
demand for his discharge. The out
come of all of these unsatisfactory re-
Elections was determinati ton to lay the
matter before the person most interest
ed, and to abide wholly by his judg-
ment.
Early in the evening, anxious to be
done with bad business as speedily as
possible, visited Lamar and told him
all had heard or surmised. He listened
to the story with the closest attention,
asked few questions as to the appear
ance of the man under suspicion, and
then, putting calmly on his eternal
cigar, sat in silence for several mo-
ments, seemingly lindisth!bed BY the
possibility of a new complication in his
affairs. .f:.s ,.,-...r<-,.,.... ~,
''Well,' said 1, at last, NO longer able
to restrain the question: what are we Is.
to do?'' 81: ,2=, ~ esf!vs<E "a ! !
''For the present-noth:rg:: ASH IL
said: .Forewarned is forearmed.', 2+~
''But this ncertainty must be cleared
up. You know better than can why
this man may have come here, provided,
: of course, thet he has any designs upon
you. It's all theory, you understand.
but it is strange chat he should be work.
ing for Mrs. Weston at very low wages,
unless be has some particular reason
for desiring to be in this neighborhood.
Were employment his only object, he
could do far better in the village. The
more think it over, the palmer it seems
he wants to be where he can keep an eye
on this house."
''It is probable"
. ''Then," said /, puzzled by his indif-
ference, "can't something be done to
checkmate him?"
EFT is not necessary. He is of this
country?"
cat least, I'll warrant English is his
native tongue" -
''The case, then, is simple. He labors
under mistake."
"But even that mistake may cause
trouble" protested. ~
''For the present, not ct all. In the
end, it is possible" he answered, as
coolly as if the matter was Of slight con-
Germ. ~
'rWhat are your directions?' / asked,
still by no means satisfied with his phil
osophical view of the case. 49,
observe him well, study him as you
choose, but do not attempt to disturb
him. These things will suffice: Even
II he intrudes here, there is no cause for
alarm; he shall be suitably received .
And with one of his grim smiles, La
mar babe me good night. 80
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IT WAS Az CAS- BUSINESS.

~ tis4es sl4 g; "a
The artist had asworried look on fs ,fasA
III, painted. out hIs work many times And
lahored on with q patient determtna
which surprised his friend: s ssI,sss
sS11'sYou seem to have reformed Your in!
3D. was the comment which bin
ordinarily care evoked. sje5 .s sy
You mean / am t kinlg more pa fns
uenal with this picture y ssss
Vell, II have q. This ISM atly.
spiecss that II cans liie, sas 5lls -
q '|a'l e 49,
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XII.

Hiram Jones, tramp, farm laborer,
busybody, detective, or whateverahe
might be, furnished for q month my
principal cause for anxiety. Lamar's
Indifference to the mans doings was
more than could explain to my own
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XII.

Hiram Jones, the new farmland, GER
tainly had one merit-he obeyed or
ders. Precisely at two o'clock my horse
and buggy stood before the Office door.
The fact that he was on time made me
study the fellows looks, as one gazes
with interest at some prodigy devel-
cped in an altogether unexpected
place. He was stout and well built,
with little of the slouc,ling clumsiness
of the typical plowboy. His face.
though far from stoljd, was not at
tractive, and several days growth of
beard helped to lessen such slight
claims to comeliness as it might have
possessed. His garments were coarse
and stained, and his boots were old and
worn.
you're prompt observed,a he re-
linquished the reins. I cts good
PLAN"
ssIt's easy 'nough," he answered,
grutfiy, and, turning ON his heel,
walked away.
At another time his manner might
have annoyed me, but just then I had
OlucI luCCICStS III llAC tAeA1A SPSSNAsS
tions as to the crudities of farm-labor-
ers' civilization. Miss Gray was ready
for the start, and in a moment or two
the bay was ]eisurely beginning his
afternoons work, to allappearances the
sleepiest old roadster i'll the state. l
had thought the vehicle well enough in
it's way, but now noticed the dust on
it's body and the cakes of dried mud
on the tires and spokes, and suspicion
crossed my mind that horse. carriage,
and very possibly driver contrasted
oddly, and not to their advantage, with
the trim, well-dressed young person be-
side me. -,
II believe, can guess your thoughts. =
I said, not too amiably- you're mar
Yelling at-my fiery steed. Am I right"
s'In part yes,' she answered; "but
only in part.
''And what do you think of him.
THAT he is very quiet and gentle,
end very well suited to a physician's
uses
$50 far so good: hut is that all 9''
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the point there would have been no
opportunity to do so, for johnson en-
tered the room, staggering under the
weight of one of the cases. He gave me
his customary curt nod, and carefully
deposited his burden upon a table, La
mar stepping to the door and reckoning
ME to follow him before I could more
than guess at what the contents of the
case might be. But walked home that
night possessed by notion that, when
the cover was removed, a small arsenal
might be found slowed away in the
box, designed to supplement the brace
of revolvers I had bought for Lamar
soon after our coming to the shore.
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ME to follow MIN before cOulu more
than guess at what the contents of the
case might be. But walked home that
night possessed by a notion that, when
the cover was removed, a small arsenal
might be found slowed away in the
box, designed to supplement the brace
of revolvers I had bought for Lamar
soon after our coming to the shore.
There was struggle the following,
morning, in which courtesy and OBJ
stinacy were finely blended, when Mrs.
: Loring and her medical adviser came;
together for discussion of her case.
The points at issue were the length,
particularly and minuteness with
which she should describe her symp-,
toms, real or imagined, the systems Of
treatment to which she had been SUBJ
iected, the effects, good, bad or in,
different, produced by them, and the:
opinions thereof, weighty or valueless,
Of many persons unknown to her
AUDITOR It was a contest, valiant but
unequal, and at last the woman had
the man at her mercy.
ooh, doctor, dear DOCTOR" she rat
tied on, you can't imagine how pleased
J yes, rejoiced-I am to be under your
care. wish could tell you, describe
to you, the miseries I've suffered, the
horrors. I've undergone at the hands Of
those wretches. Ugh! it makes me
SILVER to think of them. But can't tell
you; can't bear even to think of them.
Now there was that last one, so highly
recommended, too. went to him, doc!
FORFEITURE my going to him-abso-
lutely putting my life in his charge,
doctor-just after had escaped from
that quack who had made me take
electric shocks and ride a horse-such.
a dreadfully hard trotting horse, too
four hours every day., And what, doc,
2 tor, do you imagine that next wretch
did? Think of it! He thrust me into
what he called 'restrcure;' absolutely
nothing to do, nothing to see, nobodyt
to speak to. Why, doctor, it was mad.
dening, simply maddening!"
"My dear Mrs. Loring," I broke in,
spray do not agitate yourself with.
such memories. If you please"
But she had regained breath and
was again in full career. Rest-cures,I
water-cures, milk-cures, steam-cures:
drenchings internal and external, pills,
pads and plasters; sea air, mountain
air; massage, calisthenics, and OUT
door exercise; drugs by Wholesale,
diets without number, treatments rep
resenting range from the latest and
best in the medical science to close ap-i
proach to the superstitions of voudoo-
ism-all these she had survived. Forl
two long hours her tale flowed on in
q flood which overwhelmed all inter-
ruptions, and when she paused at last
1t was rather from WEAKNESS than from
an exhausted subject.
For a woman Of such experiences
she looked remarkably WELL Her CONF
plexion WINS pale and sallow. and her.
nerves were ION edge" as she herself
phrased it; but the stethoscope showed.
that her lungs were not affected, and
there was nothing to cause alarm in tho,
action of the heart. Her digestion was
I weak it could hardly have been othef-S5
wise after the trials to which it had
been put for SO many year land uu- III
questionably she had had some gen1l-s
inc twinges Of rheumat Ism. but these
4 were not very weiig aspns tori
! traipsing abodt 4 AMI
4 aauy al
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-13
Policemen "a Models.

Phil May seldom let's slip chance to
play practical joke. Not long ago he
needed policeman for model. He
went out into the street and accosted
the first one he met, saying who he was
and what he wanted. Come to my
house at noon tomorrow, said Phil
May, and he gave the man his address.
Then he walked on a couple of streets
farther until he met another bobby.
This one was also willing to pose, and
he was likewise told to appear at noon
of the following day. The artist wan
dered about London for several hours
making appointments with policemen.
The next day at noon there was an
entire platoon of police i'll front of Phil
Nays residence. A crowd collected,
and the reason for such an array was
freely discussed. Some asserted that a
den of anarchists had been discovered
and was about to be raided. Others
limited at murder or at some other
mystery.
A few minutes after l2 o'clock Phil
Nav came to the door and invited all
the policemen into his garden. There
he lined them up and inspected them.
He picked out the man most suitable
for his purpose, then handed to each of
the others an envelope containing the
regulation fee for sitting and dis
missed them. -Pearson Weekly.
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lhe supervisors held their annual meet.
ing yesterday aud disposed Of the bulk OF
the business. They adiourned,until octo-
Der ~, when they will finish up.
The election OF poor commissioner To
succeed August Krellwitz, whose term
expires, and OF the county school com
missioner was laid over until the next
meeting.
Inc annual reports OF the various
county officers were read and ordered
placed on file or referred to the proper
committees. That OF the county treas
urer, which includes the clerks. was gwen
IN yesterdays News. The report OF the
superintendent OF the poor will he found
In another place in today's issue.
The report OF the Judge OF probate
showed ten persons to have been ad,udg-
ed INDECENT insane and committed to the
Newberry Asylum. One adjudged insane
and sent to private asylum and FIVE
adludged INDECENT insane, but still in the
county jail because Of lack of room in the
State asylums.
The board decided to raise sos, 766.76
county tax, which will provide for the
retirement OF $4,000 of the Portage
Lake bridge bonds. The State tax to be
raised is S79.551.9S. The equalization
made at the June meeting remains the
same.
Yesterday afternoon the board inspect.
ed the various buildings, including visit
to the poor farm.
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An Object Lesson In silver.

There is an American silver dollar.
There are two Mexican dollars. There
is more silver in each of them than in
the American dollar. / bought both OF
them for that. What is the reason? The
sole reason is that our dollar is limit
ed coinage, backed by gold. There is
another coin. That is French franc
piece. paid 90 cents for that. 1t car
ries little less silver than the Ameri-
can silver dollar France and the Unit
ed States are both gold standard coun-
tries. They keep in circulation thou
sand millions of silver, and Mexico and
China and Japan have not got one dol
lar of gold in circulation. The gold
standard country can keep silver in cir
culation. The silver standard country
can keep no gold. That is the example
of every nation today. Gold all leaves
the free coinage country. Gold and sill.
yer both circulate in the gold standard
countries. From Speech by Senator
I0dQp
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ION being recovered from Genovese garnet.
Thank heaven, the age Of my shelving l. past.
This dust hidden page
OF my history drear
With melodist's tear
II written at last
That long. bitter solitude netherward casti
A century iowni hundred years long
On my dim attic throne,
Like Theban Of old
In my sepulcher cold
ruled. while the song
On my heart kept vigil unfading and strong
Gone. gone are the ladies in pearls and in
laces,
Those lordlings from Cadiz
And Venice and Rome.
All, all gathered home.
While thousand new faces
Applaud my love sighings and skyline gracesl
The love I once bore In my tremulous measure
Is dead, and the roar
or the battle Is gone.
The curtain is drawn
On the dolor and pleasure
All sealed in my bosom, mysterious treasured
So sigh. and purr, and moan as If now
The glories that were
Slept not ON my heart
But by a new art
They spring to the brow
OF the master who rules me, he half wonders
how.
Vogue.
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The county board OF election commits
sionhas not yet had it's meeting to decide
on the make up OF the ticket to be voted
November 3. The various tickets have
been filed. The board consists OF the
clerk, Judge Of probate end treasurer and
II will decide on the order in when the
tickets will be placed on the ballot Inc
republ,caps will of course come iirst
having pollej the greatest NUMBER o,
,otss MT the Inst election. Boards OF
s,oc,;on commissions in Lower Peninsula
count;es baye received letters oil when
the following In an extract, but the board
of this county has had no notice oil any
kind from political organizations
Among other things, the letter says
81, handing YOU this certificate we
also request of your board .nn. .uey
mace the prohibition ticket IN tne seeom ,ro
column OF the official ballot, Decause ". We
believe that the INV gives US tne r.saS W so
tbis position in the general e'ec,Ioh W "
held in November mkt. Tue ia~ p.o
v;des that the ii .ket Of the party naV.ps
,he In rgest number If votes WITHIN ,ne
countv at the last prececing general s'ec-
zion ANAL be placed fret ON the pano.'
.ha nositiop OF other tickets TO DE goV.
armed relatively by the same RUE: in ac
renublican and prohibition parties are
ssa only nart,es with continuity OF organ
s."t;nn the same that they had at tne
'n s...s, election of 1895, that will present
se III a. to the elections Of this state at
-. .'. General election Of 1906. Theregular
Sso. .e con vention oil the democratic party
smaiaamated with two or three ppn .,on
"a rt,es. and adopted a new ana e'o"
gated name"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-13
Thelnspector of Mines
Makes His Yearly
Report.
Accidents Number Twenty.six
Nineteen Of the Above Result Fatally
superintendent orthe Poor Pre-.
sents His Report.

The report of Mine Inspector Hall for
the last year, shows twenty six accidents.
Nineteen OF these resulted in fatalities.
VI the fatal accidents the Tamarack had
four, Hecla five, Tamarack JUNIOR three
Quincy two, Franklin two, Atlantic one.
and the Wolverine and Osceola one each.
10 speaking Of the fatal accidents, the
inspector says;
1T will be noted that the number of
iatal accidents for this period Is less than
that oil any previous year covered by
these reports. The fatalities have num-
Dered only nineteen. There has been con-
tinued Improvement in machinery and
appliances In our mines and every effort
male to lessen the danger OF what at
best is most hazardous occupation.
The broken character OF the hanging wall
rock in the conglomerate veins is a con-
slant source OF danger which can only be
obyiated in part by careful and skiIlful
system OF timbering.
The total number OF men employed in
the mines OF the county for the period is
$40.
in the performance OF my official duties
l have been materially aided by the cour-
tesy OF the officials OF our mines"
Following is statement of the num-
Der OF short tons OF refined copper pro.
duced bv the mines OF this county for the
vaar COX.