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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-07-30
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LITERATURE.

Evil Publications the Greatest
ScOurEe of the WOrId-It Fills the
Prisons and INSANE AsyIums-Poyv-
: er of the Press For Good.
The Princeton union., 1900-11-15
CHAPTER ".
\ NIILIONA1RE's FRIENDS.

n A1ILlONEA1 > FRlENDS.
Directly was inside the house,
Sayory handed me Il letter from Law
ford:
Dear Captain Wood-When ! left you in Picca.
dilly, ran up against some friends who are much
set upon making your acquaintance. They the
Duke and Duchess of TERRA Sagrada. He is a
Spanish don, she an American beauty: Susette
Bywater they called her in New York, where she
and her family well acquainted with your
uncle, Mr.. McFaught.
Won't you come to the opera tonight to be in.
! troduced to the duchess? They beg to say
that their box is No. 27A, upon the pit tier,
| where they will be entirely delighted to receive
you. Send back line at your early convenience
and oblige. yours very faithfully,
Rurus W. LAwFoRD
l had no engagements that night but
a couple Of balls. for neither of which
after my disappointment in the park,
was now very keen. Besides. | had nc
wish to be very late that night. l saw
on my table an official box" straight
from the Office and knew that it con
tanned the great scheme for the attack
on New York. which was referred tc
me for examination and report.
meant to give it my best attention iI
the early morning hours next day an(
+ so promised myself to get to bed be
times. A little good music would
soothe Inc, thought, so | wrote few
lines accepting the invitation and pro
ceeded to dress.
1t was then, as l stood before thu
glass in the window that gave upol
the street, l caught glimpse of th<
same forlorn creature looking up a
my house. Was it mere accident? Aft
er / had heard that day the smalles
matter all still unexplained assumed
certain Importance.
When l left the club after dinner
my shadow" was still there. II,
sank slowly and, as I thought, reluc
tantly out Of sight when I entered til,
The Princeton union., 1900-11-15
THE PpIN uEToN UNION: TIT RsA1, NOVEMBER Is, 1900

began Miss F'rida. with sniff What
have yoll5to say fNs yourself? !? Are you
aware that l kept y,yl three dances. =. u
| took a seat by her side without
answering, and then, giving way to an
alation did not exactly feel in spite
of the great change i'll my fortunes, J
laughed in her face
"Really, Captain Wood, ! am at a
loss to understand this most idiotic
proceeding" she went on, with great
stateliness; something must have
happened"
:'It has-something most strange and
surprising. I have been looking for
you the whole day, in the park, at the
opera, at Mrs. Collingham Smiths, to
tell you that-that-that- DO you re-
member once saying that you felt per-
fectly safe with me?' l.~-
81 withdraw it altogether. l now be-
lievc firmly that you are a dangerous
lunatic, and will ask you, please, to
take me back to mother She half
rose from her seat.
''Stay-yOu used to say that there
could be no nonsense between us; that
was only a pauper, a. harmless, in
The Princeton union., 1900-11-15
CHAPTER Y.

FROM SAUL J. sNUYZER OF MEssRs. SARA
CHICAGO.
In my earnest desire to further the
wishes and interests of your firm l
visited the gentleman named in your
last pleasure and put before him,
briefly and with much circumspectio,.
the reasons why he should secure the
services of Messrs. Saraband & Sons.
Captain Wood did not respond very
cordially to my proposal. which he
guessed was not serious. 1t is my set
tied conviction now that he would give
the earth to reconsider that hasty and
mistaken reply.
I shadowed him the evening Of the
lowing him to the Hyde park, to his
club, to his house In Hyde park only
one person spoke to Mr.. Wood. I
knew him by sight and name, a half
American, Jimmy Lawford having
crossed with him once in the same
Cunarder and taken hand in the
same game of poker in the smoking
saloon. He passed then as All ocean
drummer, although some said he was
engaged in the secret service of the
federal government. Now, l take it,
he just loafs around-just the sort of
chap to be in this crowd against Wood.
did not hear what he said to Wood,
but when leaving by the park gates l
noticed Jimmy in close talk with a
hanson cab man who had got off his
perch aud was very particular to hear
what Lawford said.
/ only caught the last word or two:
"Any time tonight or tomorrow night.
You'll get the office: mind you're on
the quee wee"
l shadowed the captain all that
| blessed night, to the opera. out west,
| to several parties, and spoke to him,
or rather he spoke me. roughly, too,
| at the door of a house in Princes Gate,
when he was seeing two ladies to their
carriage. That was not quite the last
of him, for somewhere near Knights
bridge he was picked up by Il cab. and
next thing it comes back. ten miles an
hour, cabby standing up and fogging
| his horse like mad. 1t was SO near
daylight that | got Il view inside the
hanson as it passed me full tilt.
caught sight in that short moment OF
4 mass of people inside the cab. two
or more men struggling and lighting
with some one underneath them.
OF course Captain Wood was being
kidnapped and carried off. reckoned
that up on the spot and gathered my
self together then and there to give
chase to the cab. followed it steadily
The Princeton union., 1900-11-15
road, and I myself turned into Knights
bridge, and walking eastward, half dis


road, and my yself turned into Knights
bridge, and walking eastward, half dis
posed to do the whole distance on foot.
where, Il news, or u side street, or
overlook me on the road, and the
driver, after the custom ct his class,
began at once to pcstcr me with, Cab!
Cab, sir! Cab"' pulling UP to my pace,
and sticking to me most spertinaciOusly.
At last, out Of sheer disgust, and to
end his importantly, jumped into the
street. 1es
I had barely lighted a cigar and
leaned back. to ponder over the many
surprising and mainly pleasurable
events Of the day, when realized that
the cab was taking the wrong direc
| ton. For some strange and incompre-
hensible reason, the driver had turned
round and was heading westward.
"Here, hi, hi!' l shouted, lifting the
flap. "Where are you going?''.
"WOt's upW answered the cabby in
solently, as he pulled up short. 'HThink
I don't know my way about? Stow
it, Or
The alternative never heard, for at
that moment two men jumped up on
| the front tread of the cab and open
! ing the doors threw themselves upon
me. Their weight alone would have
suf6ced to oycrpower me, to silence
me, and crush out all resistance. I
could do no more than give voice to
one frantic yell for help, for now the
strong, pungent smell Of chloroform
under my nostrils and the vain strug-
gle made with fast increasing torpo1
told plainly that they had called in
another dread ally, and that was alb
solutely helpless in their hands.
The Princeton union., 1900-11-15

81 knew Sid McFaught-kncw him
well and did business With him, but
not so much as l could have liked
worse luck! Ii could have got upon
his Shoulders, i should have waltzed
into unboundetl wealth. Eut you had
to be With him, not against him. He
maIe scmr mon. but he ruined more
stock. lock and barrel. 1t don't matter
to you anyhow whether he piled up
the dollars on dead mems bones or rob.
bed the saints. Guess you can freeze
| on to what he gathered =
laughed Il little uneasily; but, after
all, who was this Lawford, and why
should care for what he said? 1t was
probably; untrue.
"Will you be going over to Gods
country any time soon. Captain Wood?
Wish you'd take me With YOU. Iou'N
want sheep dog. and guess I'm pret-
ty !ly."
"Iou'rr very good. l shall remem-
Der. but l doubt my going just at pres
ent. Now, think III turn in here"
We were passing, the portals Of my
club, the Nelson and Wellington, COM
monty called the n. and W.
''This your shanty? Pretty smart
place. take it. Can they fling Man
haitian cocktail any,"
But the hint was lost on me. l had
had enough Of MI LawforQ and wish
ed to be we'll rid Of him.
well. good day. he said. If you
change your mind about crossing the
pond, be sure you send for me. But
suppose Lonuon's good enough for you
It's a pleasant place. reckon, with
the spondUlicS sto spend, and ! guess
you can have the best it holds now
time"
Could I? There was one thing
hungercl for keenly, and was by NJ
means certain Of securing. Lawford's
chance words brought it home to mo
with much emphasis. My chief objec
at this time was to try how far one
fortune would favor me with another
How would Frida Fairholme be affect
ed by the news of my great good luck
I had been asking myself this momen
tous question ever since had seen Mr.
; Quinlan. At one time l hoped for til.
best, next moment was rs greatly cas-
down. Now I leaned against the rail
, ings in the row, in my best hat ant
. frock coat, with Il brand new tlowc
, in my buttonhole, hoping she nigh
see me and that might get the chance
Of word.
But she never came, and at last lef
. the park, disappointed and discon
solate, and returned to my rooms t.
, dress for dinner Here some on
, pushed past me just as I was lettin!
I myself in with my key; a man meanl,
, dressed, one Of the poor waits. as
, thought, who so often infest street COZ
p ners, ready for any job.
, The incident made no particular i'm
preston on me at the time, but it wa
p brought hor'e to me as one link in
: chain Of singular events that wer
a near at hand
The Princeton union., 1900-11-15

He apos seeing taco ladies to their carriage.
down the Kensington road, losing my
distance, Of course, very fast. BY the
time I reached High street had lost
the cab.
But Il man at an early coffee stall
had seen it pass, holding straight on
the main road toward Holland House.
I heard Of it again ut st. Mary Alb
botts terrace, and was told that it had
turned up Addison road. I traced it
by Holland road to Shepherds Bush
Green, and there herring was drawn
across the scent.
l was on the track now. of two cabs,
one going by the Shepherds Bush or
Uxbridge road, the other by the Starch
Green road. l followed the first, and
drew blank. It was nighthawk work
ing home to his stables, and where, by
and by, caught the chap settling into
his crib. He swore he hadn't had 4
fare for the last two hours, and +
could see she was speaking truth, for
his horse had not turned hair.
The Princeton union., 1900-11-15

Suuoyy 'H.nded me q letter from Laavfor1.
hanson and told the cabby to drive to
Covent Garden. Remembering Mr..
Snuyzers communication but Il few
hours before, this espionage caused me
come uncasiness. Yet it was done SO
clumsily that half believed tho fellow
wished rather to attract than escape
my notice. Or this had soon Il clear
proof. ~.
When | alighted from the cab just
short Of the colonnade approach Of the
opera house. saw him, heard him.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-26
LANSING TAKES HOLD.


theodore +. Lansing's appointment
ms treasurer on Saturday noted in yes
seruays Advertiser gives general salts
iaotlon. Mr.. Lansing's knowledge of
the island finances and his former con-
nection with the government as Minis
Ter OF Finance during Mr.. Damon's alb
Sence' VIII make him a most competent
man Tor the high Office rendered him
by Governor Dole.
Despite the rumors OF his refusal of
tne office Of Treasurer. IT was fully be-
heNed that he would eventually accent
MT Lansing takes hold Of the office al
pnce and the business OF the Treasurer
department will hereafter he transacted
through him.
Mr.. Lansing attended the meeting of
the heads Of departments with Gov
ernor Dole yesterday morning, was in
troduced by the Governor as the Treas
urer. and received the congratulations
OF his confreres upon his appointment
lie entered into the general discussion
OF governmental affairs
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-26
Poets Attention.!

fmon9 the many suggestions which
afe being made for the celebration OF
Ye Fourth Of July Is one from Wray
Taylor which Is worth considering. He
suggests that on this occasion Amer
lea should be sung as a feature OF the
literary and musical exercises, and that
a new verse appropriate to Hawaif's
first celebration OF the anniversary as a
part and parcel OF the United States
might be written On great occasions
In England the boets have We'd with
each other I'm writing new verses &c
God Save the Queen" and he sees nc
reason why local poets should not
tempt the muse and produce fitting
lines In commemoration OF the eventfu
day
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-26
Check for First Message.

a check for $50 payable to viii f.
Fisher was yesterday drawn by p. II.
Burnette lin full payment for the first
message to be sent over the Marconi
wireless telegraph system OF Hawaii"
The receipt from Mr. Fisher as auc-
tioneer OF the message, together with
the check. will be priced on account OF
their connection with the first and
thoroughly successfully scientific test
of the new method OF sending messages
The money will be devoted TO some
charitable enterprise.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-26
A GOOD COUGH MEDICINE.

10 speaks we'll for Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy when druggists use IL
I'm their own families In preference to
ny other. II have sold Chamberlain
Cough Remedy for the past FIVE years
with complete satisfaction to myself
and customers" says Druggist J. Gold
smith, Van Etten. NJ. Y. 81 have always
used II ~ my own family. both for ordi-
nary Ighs and colds and for the cough
follow" la grippe. and find II very ef-
ficacious." For sale by Benson, Smith
a Co, Ltd, wholesale agents.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-26
Commissions Not Here.

morning only 10 adjourn for another
week owing TO the non-arrival of the
commissions OF the justices. Judge
Galbraith has arrived from Hilo but
did not appear In court. as 1t was un-
de~uood that the commissions had not
come and that nothing would be done
snve ~ adjourn FOR a week.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-26

when citizens who attended the
Fourth OF July preliminary meeting
last night reached the driU shed 81
was found securely locked. The janit 1r
showed up about n quarter of eight
o'clock and stated that the effects
which were sold at auction during the
day were stu inside and he was re-
sponsihle for their safety and could not
oDen the doors. Lieut.. Wright. how
ever, ordered the doors opened and
Company BIS room was used for the
meeting
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-26

a hackman named Dickson, driving
on $40 stand. was found guilty yesterday
Mn Judge Wilcox's court OF leaving his
HORSE unattended while on the public
hetreet. The arrest was made by Of
hcer Hanrahan. who found the driver
sitting I'm the hack I'm front OF his own
rig and animal. Judge Wilcox repri-
manded the hickman and allowed him
90 go with n gentle reminder that the
second ofrense would not result in the
same manner.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-26
Oahu College Y. M. G. A.

THE oahu College branch OF the
Young Mems Christian Association will
hold its annual public meeting in Pau
ahi ham at s o'clock this evening. Rev.
~ G.. Hay will deliver the address of
the meeting.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-26
A-SEN
PORTLAND
CEMENT


With
therefore
work. ~ 49, anu epeei~'S
made in
A.
poun NN'eA o'S' ooo pouhoS'
" i NA1 'Ae nos ehouaoe
thern Pacific barrels -"O' oA'ieA' W.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-06

(From the Kansas City Star.)

lfrOm the KANSAS tlly Stlr.)
There are two political parties in Porto Rico.
the Federals and Republicans. The Federals are
strongly opposed to the Mckinley Administration;
the Republicans favor its reelection. The debate
on the Porto Rican tariff bill in Congress last
winter was the chief cause in determining the
allegiance Of the Federals TO the Democratic
party. They the Of the better class
in the island. The moneyed and the intelli-
gent citizens arc largely in the Federal party
and they look on the Democratic organization
in the United States committed 10 the sup
port o. the best interests Of Porto Rico. The
Republicans. many OF them believe. were willing
TO sacrifice the islands good 10 the demands OF
the protectionists. Their leader is Munoz Ri
vera orc of the able Of the country. The
Republican party of Porto Rico is composed
largely OF the colored element. and its leader
is an educated negro, DIR. Jose Blrbosa, gradu-
ate of the University OF Michigan.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-06

plotting such people it is necessary to re-
produce their peculiar idioms and forms
of speech, which are often SO racy and
expressive as to be worth preserving for
their own sake, aside from the light they
shed upon the character of those who Use
them. They are metaphors, SMILES.
archaisms evolved or preserved by peo-
to their needs of expression. and unsu2-
planted by more polished and classical
phrases. The speech of the cosmopolitan
world is constantly changing. and what
ever is old-fashioned is discarded; the
speech of the primitive mountaineer is
unchanged for many generations and that
of the dweller in the city slums, on the
contrary. is language in the making.
Dialect is often more picturesque and
forcible medium for story than classical
English would be. The Uncle Remus"
tales, if reduced to the careful diction in
which folklore tales are often writ
ten. would lose half their delightfulness.
How. for example, could any more digni-
fed expression convey just the same idea
of headlong haste as that suggested by
Uncle Remus' statement that his hero.
Brer Rabbit, fairly split de win'?'' And,
to 20 to the other extreme Of
dialect. and take an example out
OF the very modern Fables in
Siang,' how could classical English
replace the statement that the hero Of a
tale of misfortune Is up against it?" OF
course, slang and dialect are not suitable
means of expression for the President
when he issues a public proclamation. or
for poet when he writes sonnet, but
in fiction they are most useful.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-06
Isu the Peoples Days

Before the American people go to bed
tonight they will have decided whether
the country, for the next four years. is
to be governed by themselves through
their regularly elected representatives.
or by the trusts and monopolies. through
Hanna, Mckinley. and corrupt Congress
elected in trust interests.
If the masses of voters are sufficiently
determined to. preserve their liberties.
and have sense enough to see that the
election is not stolen from them. the re-
suit cannot be in doubt. But they must
bear in mind the fact that no small ma
jority, popular or in the electoral college.
would be safe in the present case. On
anything like close contest Mr.. Mckin-
ley would be apt to be seated although
not elected. The trust campaign man
ayers have made elaborate plans to have
Kentucky thrown out if that would change
the electoral vote; and they have like
conspiracies working in other States 1t
will take majority for Mr.. Bryan large
enough to paralyze Republican COLOMBIA
ton, repeating. intimidation. fraud. and
Justification of returns, resOrted to every
where possible, to achieve victory with
out fight.
Cardinal Gibbons, on Sunday, expressed
the prayerful hope that the verdict of the
people on Tuesday might be SO decisive
and unquestionable that corruption and
crime would be helpless to overcome it.
and that it might be acquiesced in by all
American citizens of whatever origin or
PARTY. This learned and patriotic pre-
late only voiced the sentiments of every
lover of human liberty and the Constitu-
ton in the Union in his aspiration. AS he
Justly holds, the people are all powerful
if they will WELD their power defiantly
of cajolery, coercion, and corruption. No
one knows better than the Cardinal Arch
bishop of Baltimore to what extent in
timidation and the criminal use of money
are being resorted to, in order to pro-
mote the rule of the trusts and economic
slavery in his own State and church juris-
diction. No one better appreciates than
he the dangers TO which religious as we'll
as civil liberty would be exposed in this
country by the triumph of monopoly at
the polls. and its imperial re-enthrone-
ment in Washington next March
1t is significant and encouraging that
all sorts and conditions of men-~hr--'
NAV be thri- Theological r-.-a-.... rr
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-06

Close observers of current fiction have
noted that the dialect story is not as prom
inent as 1t once was in magazine literature.
That is TO say, there are not SO many tales
Of this type to be seen as formerly. The
best writers of dialect, however, are still
contributing their work to the various pc
riodicals of the land, and it is doubtless
read with as much enjoyment as ever.
The trouble with the dialect story at one
time was that there was too much of it,
and too much sameness about it. The dia-
lect was all of one kind. Three or four
writer's OF Southern extraction told stories
successfully in the patois of the plantation
aud Immediately every fiction maker, great
or small, who had ever known a negro be-
gan TO follow their example. Some of these
attempts were fairly good and some were
execrably bad. out of sympathy with the
subject, careless in the rendering OF the
dialect and voicing whatever happened to
be the pet prejudices or views of the au-
thor rather than expressing real knowl
edge of human nature. The Southern
cracker" the Kentucky mountaineer, who
is different species of humanity from the
cracker" the New Englander, and the
farmer Of the Middle West, all had their
turn at being placed on pedestal for the
literary photographer to get his snap shot.
Some Of them were very indignant over
he liberties taken with their ways and
customs.
All this OVERRIDING OF the business has
aused many literary critics, professional
nd unprofessional, to declare that the
tory in dialect is a nuisance. and I'M
'orthy to be called literature This, how
yer. is not true. 1t is one of the legiti-
aate forms of fiction. The business OF
re novelist is to make true picture of
se, and some of the most interesting
bjects for his pen are to be found among
opie who are not learned in books, and
?. perhaps. only half-civilized. In de-
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-06

The Mckinley labor parade in Balti-
more turned out to be as dismal failure
as the sound money" procession in New
York. 1t was accompanied by a similar
drizzling rain, which is regrettable. be-
cause a majority of the paraders were
Democratic steel mill and other trust en-
ployss absolutely compelled to partici-
pate ON penalty of discharge from en-
ployment. Our friends, the enemy, are
doing excellent missionary work in the
way of assuring full! and vengeful vote
for Mr.. Bryan in Maryland today.