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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-21
CRATER TEXAS OH nus1Npss.

as
~ OF 1elds. 1t is thought here, will
~e sure remedy for many OF the
~ i00nd in the petroleum commerce of
The number of oil fields in the
~ must be increased. Not for a mo-
n, ~ uOss any man If expert knowledge In
sssA'y think that the men OF Texas
aseeSered their last oil bearing terri
10 me opinion is often expressed that
AA4' IN very few years, become
Ntatest and most reliable oil producing
- America, If it does not actually,
s It's oil fields together, make a
$3.50 $50 SaoWlng in competition with that
tSss 'I ,.s old oil field which reaches
4 fssl,5 'un the shores of the land-locSna
nIng -. sed 70 Crosby and thence still
Coo IA ~ 70 the Anapa region, lying
n r,ny, le shore Of the Black sea. Waat
Blg smia,h IN ambitious spreId.eagle pol
\ ti1e 49, so,eum bearing territories. We
tiebttys aened time when people In this
suT4 sle eeaslng to talk OF spindle Ton
tnea,tN were the one oil region worthy of
q SnnS,. taey are recognizing that outside
ftlty Top, and beytnl the more lie
sosf Lsts oleLed oil producing regions
tasily nv ana Saratoga, there are super
I to1pSSu proven areas which will one day
ahsas II. 20 contain vast stores Of suhtel-
h3.ttr. Iulu treasure, For the sake Of the
Will ms Q whole, and particul rly tae
ils a5ss' branch Of It, in which people on
b h6psd IL So much interested, 1t is to
m oher. tnat these new fields, waen they
ga q ! GU, viii depend for their sue
ness,S system Of bus ness that will have
tsds M utltef 10 recommend IL than my
Fioiaotlnss e cams Of sensational comp n.y.
Z bewi farinsss rature containing. thousands
vile salintus statements which the ers--
ter tsspat1ie investor on this side has now
t.ei,d. sslght 20 take no notice ~ In con.
s'lds II 4, 'tn tnis widening out Of the OIL
tlts fo,.ss vitality import Mt that the bust
TINS sbervI.,1luons Of future company lota-
laqse mr. De very much g un ler ia %
ee1panies Snleh hundreds OF Spindle Top
vi Ssnent Of the bringing IN Of an oil
slds A vlaIaliVely near 10 Houston has
siadon ~ favorable impression ON those
IA fbs "a, men who are sincerely honing
lly ana ~ nelds OF Tex9s will, numerlc.
Ne Clss,s ~ llltorially, develop vita rapidity.
81 shovir leek OH strike makes an excel
rsi ara Is " the news columns OF The
s.aarr ~ y = hoped that later reports will
Z tie nras apparently reasonable character
"a th6Ssss Vpnecies made hy Mr.. r W. Camp
. hin vac are working with him aud
s,D, 'sn CAPITAL IN SOUR LAKE.
!, IL lake has growing attractions for
.5,... aan Of London, London capital is
l.,,,e,. IN the Sour Lake ana Saratoga
.vn oy the Beaumont (Texas) Petro-
r. tusl company, limited, erstwhlie
hsns nhaicate, Mr.. Byrd, who gives
! ,slsIs tes nrezeslag sysalssts, was
-" ae'asr o. the land. DR.. Beyer-
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-21
interesting Letters from Catholic
Institutions.

In every country OF the civilized world
the Sisters OF Charity are known. Not
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-21

pounds sterling, the Russian Petroleum
and Liquid Fuel company, the greatest OF
the British ventures in Russia. has de-
eided on a further issue OF capital In the
form Of 100000 pounds sterling blb per
cent bearer debentures and 10000 pounds
sterling ordinary shares. Owing TO the
changed conditions OF the Baku market
the company finds IL necessary 70 enlarge
the scope OF its operations, aud 70 concen.
trate In It's own hands the business OF re
lining, transporting and distributing
The new debentures are to be offered
at par 10 the preference and ordinary
shareholders. and the latter are exclusive.
ly offered the new one pound ordinary
shares at 2Ts Cd IN the proportion Of one
to i've now held--a useful little bonus, see.
Ing that oils are now quoted az S5s In the
market. II this scheme goes through the
company Will become distributing concern
and take part IN the competition against
the standard OIL Trust.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-21
THE
SISTERJ'
GOOD
WORK.

these wise and prudent sisters have foun,
Peruna a neyer-falling safeguard.
DR., Hartman receives many letters from
Catholic Sisters from all over the Uuitet
States A recommend recently received
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-09-25
A Knave of Conscience
BY FRANCIS LYNDE
Copyright, 1900, by Francis Lynde.)

hour in which the sun was sinking
behind the western hills and the
wind was rising. From this sleep
unaWares he was awakened by the
whipping of the branches overhead
and the crash of tiny breakers on
the beach; and when he came alive
to the realities he sprang up quick
ly and ran down to the little cove
where he had left the boat; ran and
looked and congratulated himself
ironically; for the boat was gone.
by Jove! ought to have leath-
er medal for this, and I'll get it if
they ever find out at headquarters"
he jeered. Hello, there! Boat
ahoy!"
A small cat-boat with two women
and man in it was scudding down
the lake, and the involuntary Cru
soc yelled himself hoarse. But the
wind was against him, and the cat
boat held it's course toward Wa
haska, heeling smartly to the flaws.
Griffin climbed the bluff and meas
ured his chance of escape in glance
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-09-25
CHAPTER XIII.

1t was late in the afternoon of one
of the matchless summer days when
Griffin became an involuntary Crusoe.
1t was in the second week of the
strike and the fourth of his soiourn
in Wahaska, and being no nearer the
solution of his problem than he was
on the day of theory-framing when
he had made sure that Charlotte
Farnham's robber-lover would in due
time make his appearance, he had
fall Il into the way of killing time
IL rowboat on the lake. It was
cary work, this waiting for man
who might never turn up, and there
was limit to the satisfaction to be
gotten out of prying into the affairs
OF small city whose history one
might read as he ran. So Griffin
took to the rowboat and the lake,
pulling slow-races against time,
wrestling with his problem mean
while, and calling himself hard
names; saying that it was only tho
inertia of the place, and not tho
hope of success, which was keeping
him.
In the afternoon of the Crusoe
hazard he had pulled out to the islet
in the middle of the lake, had drawn
the light boat up on the sand and
had climbed the low bluff to smoke
the pipe of reflection in the shade
OF the trees. It was here, with his
back to the bole of a great oak, that
sleep found him, shifting the pipe
from his teeth and blotting out the
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-09-25
This time Grifin's smile was child

| like. ,......
There is one sure way to tie his
hands, and I wonder that it hasn't
occurred to you,' he said.
"Griswold laughed. eve are not
big enough to buy him off,
1T doesn't ask for money; it asks
for little fnesse. The man we are
talking about is a law unto himself,
but there is a power behind the
throne"
"His daughter, you mean?'
| "Yes.'
Griswold puzzled over it for mo-
ment, and then said: 81 don't see
the application"
"Don't you? Well, I'll tell you. If
this young lady knew what is going
on she'd stop it,"
! "Why should she?"
I'm not going into particulars -
laughed Griffin. IF you can be Ned
Raymer's partner without knowing
| what the whole town is talking
| about stranger couldn't give you a
| pointer"
by Jove!" said Griswold, as one
incredulous; but little later, when
he got up to take his leave he
thanked the observant one.
Don't mention it," said Griffin
4 may have to do you an ill turn
some day, and this will serve to show
that I'm not malicious Are we
square on the score of the uncom-
Portable night I might have had?"
Rather more than square," Girls
void acknowledged, and he went his
way with many new STRINGS of the
conscience-pool.
The detective stood at the hotel
entrance and watched his late res
cuer out of sight. After which he
| went in and had speech with the
clerk.
"Griswold stopped awhile with you
| when he first came here, didn't he %
he asked.
Eyes; he was here sick for awhile
''When was that?"
1T was some time last spring.
could you give me the date?''
The clerk could and did, or
thought he did. But it was surely
the very irony of chance that some
one should distract his attention at
the critical moment of date-fxing,
making him miscall the month and
so give Griswold 80 days more of res
idence in Wahaska than he had real
1y had. Griffin's eyes narrowed and
grew hard; and then slow smile
took the hardness out of them. He
turned away to climb the stair to the
dining-room, and the smile outlasted
the ascent.
"I'm id if I'm not glad of it,"
he confded to the hatrack when he
was going in to his dinner. "But it
knocks me silly just when I was
sure I had my man. I wonder when
can get a train out of this dead
alive town."
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-09-25

that boxed the compass. Off to the
southwark steam-launch was max
ing for the hotel pier, but there was
no other craft in sight save the cat
boat. Whereupon he refilled his pipe
and prepared to take the conse-
quences of his carelessness philo-
sophically, as he did most things.
II guess I'm safe to make a night
of it, but it won't be the first night
I've slept out of doors. All the
same, hope this wind won't blow
up a rain. I wonder if I couldn't
rig up a shelter of some kind under
the lea of this kingdom of mine."
Coming down. to the bluff edge to
see, his attention was once more
drawn to the yawing cat-boat. The
wind was coming in sharper flaws,
and the seamanship of the man at
the tiller of the small craft was
thing to be admired. He was evil
IDENTIFY making for one of the private
landings below the hotel, and as the
boat came under a hill-broken lea
of the shore the alternating gusts
steady nerves. Griffin was a bit of a
sailor himself, and he gave the un-
known skipper of the cat-boat his
due need of praise.
by Jove! he's no fresh-water
sailor. Most of these countrymen
up here would have had that sail
double-reefed long ago. I wonder
who he is?"
The answer to the query was sug-
gested when the cat-boat came up
into the wind at the small pier on
the water front of the Farnham
grounds, and the suggestion was as
the spark of fire to train of pow
der. There was a swift succession
of minor explosions as the spark ran
along the train of conclusions in the
detectives mind, and then the crash
of great one. Griffin sat down on
the edge of the bluff and held his
head in his hands.
"Heavens and earth! What wood.
en-headed tobacco signs we all are
when it comes to showdown" he
calculated. Here I've been agoniz-
ing over this thing for month
when the answer to all the answer.
less questions has been parading in
plain sight every day. I said when
I should have found Miss Farnham's
lover I should have my man, but
had to be marooned out here in the
middle of the lake before I could
put two and two together. Mr..
Kenneth Griswold-alias anything
you please-it will be unlucky for
you if you can't prove up on your
record"
From apostrophising the man to
observing his movements at long
range was but step, and Griffin
whipped field-glass from his pocket
and focused it upon the boat and
the Farnham pier. He saw the big
sail SILVER down, and moment later
Griswold handed the two young
women up to the pier. There was
little pause, apparently of expostu-
lance, on the part of the women,
and then the big sail went up again,
Tapping and shivering in the wind
like huge white flag. The cat.boat
edged away from the pier, fell off,
came about, and pointed it's sharp
cutwater straight for the island.
Griffin shortened the glass and
dropped it into his pocket.
SWELL, now; that's more than good
natured," he muttered. "You may
be robber of banks. Mr.. Griswold,
but you've got kind heart in you"
When the rescuer's purpose to
bring up under the lea Of the island
became evident the castaway scram.
bled down the low blum and made
his way around the southern point,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-09-25
CHAPTER XIV.

The threatening storm had blown
over and the moon was shining fair
and full upon placid lake when the
family dinner party at DR.. Farm
hams adjourned to the veranda.
Griswold and the Raymers were the
| only guests, and in the marshalling
of chairs Griswold was skillful
enough to cut Charlotte out of the
group and so secure her for himself.
At the dinner table the talk had
turned upon the pivotal point of the
strike, but that subject was coming
to be pretty we'll threshed out, and
on the veranda Charlotte spoke of
the wind-blown incident of the after
noon and of the castaway on Oak
island.
1T was a terribly reckless thing
for you to do-to go out after him
in the Sprite," said Miss Farnham.
Now next to being exalted as a
demigod by the woman of his choice
man loves best to have her believe
him fearless. So Griswold dismissed
the matter lightly.
"What is a man for?' he asked.
"But as for that, the danger isn't
worth mentioning"
''9ou may think so, but Gertrude
and did not. We stood up here on
the veranda and watched you, going
and coming. Gertrude says I pinched
her black and blue grabbing her and
saying: oh, she's gone!' when the
scud or big wave would hide you"
Here was a small admission which
no mere human sympathy could ac.
count for, and Griswold pinched him.
self black and blue in the ecstasy of
it. 1t was coming, slowly, perhaps,
but surely, and the name of it was
love.
But think of it, he said, willing
to make that string vibrate some
more; 'think of how you and Miss
Gertrude would have shone in the
borrowed effulgence of me if I had
been capsized. The Morning Argus
would have had you out to identify
the remains, and"
"Oh, please hush!" she said, and
her hand was on his arm; where
upon he went obediently from the
grewsome to the matter-of-fact.
REALLY, there wasn't any danger
worth speaking of; and the fellow
was glad enough to be picked up,
assure you"
"Who was he?" she asked.
mo one whom you know; a man
named Griffin-a summerer, I fancy"
II do know him." she asserted.
And then: 81 don't like him"
Griswold was both puzzled and
curious.
May I ask how and why?-how
you came to meet him and why you
don't like him?''
She was silent while one might
count score, and when she spoke
her rejoinder was a half reluctant
question.
II wonder if might dare to tell
you about it?"
II have been hoping that the time
would come when you would dare to
tell me anything"
She passed over the implication
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-09-25

Il tell you, Griswold, there is no
doubt about it; we have JASPER
Emerson to thank for every move in
this block game of ours. Every dol
lars worth of work that we have
lost has been taken away from us
by his orders: and when we shall
come to the heart of this strike bust
ness we shall find out that he is at
the bottom of that"
The partners were closeted in the
private Office of the iron works, dis
cusslng the discouraging outlook in
general and the ultimatum of the
workmen in particular, and thus far
Griswold had been unable to offer
any helpful suggestion.
L don't like to believe that, Ned
he protested. 1T is terrible charge
to bring against any man. Besides,
what motive could he have?"
The one motive he has for every-
thing he does-greed. He meant to
swallow me whole when he lent me
the money for the enlargement of
the plant. You stepped in and
stopped that, and now he means to
swallow both of u.s.
Griswold shook his head. II can't
conceive the hardness of it, Ned.''
IF you should accuse him of hard
ness it would make him laugh in
your face. He would say it was
business. But that is nothing to
him. He is something more than a
driver on the Juggernaut-car of
business. He is a robber, out and
out and one who sticks at nothing.
Have you heard of that deal he is
engineering with the old banker from
New Orleans?"
what banker?"
"Old Andrew Galbraith, of the
Bayou State bank"
If Griswold did not turn pale at
the mention of Andrew Galbraith's
name it was because his face was al
ways colorless. Yet he forced him
self to ask the question:
II haven't heard of it; what is it"
Jefferson is about to stick the old
Scotchman for cool million in the
Red lake pine lands. You know
what they're worth-or, rather, how
utterly worthless they are"
"Oh, think you must be mistaken.
Ned. 1t would be sheer robbery"
Il am not mistaken; it came as
straight as string. It is family
matter and I ought not to mention
it even to you. Young Blanton drew
up the papers and, as you may have
guessed before this, he and Gertie
have no secrets from each other.
The deal is all but closed"
Griswold went silent at that, Sit
ting quiet for so long that Raymer
wondered little, and would have
wondered a great deal if he could
have known what lions net of re-
sponsibility his bit of information
had flung over the silent one.
Truly, of all men living, Kenneth
Grlswold should have been the last
to feel any conscientious promptings
toward the saving of the man whom
he himself had robbed; and yet the
Promptings were there, full-grown
and insistent. He was still wrestling
with them when the noon whistle of
the iron works Jared sonorously
upon the air, and Raymer got up and
walked to the window commanding
view of the gates. And it was
Raymer's voice that broke his rev.
erie.
ut has come" said the ironmaster:
and Griswold quickly joined him at
the window.
The men were filing soberly out
at the great gates with their dinner
pals and other belongings. The
strike was on.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-09-25

CHAPTER NXII-Continued
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-27
TIMELY TOPICS

A sum of money is waiting for an
owner at Grieve, Bisset & Hollands.
Read ad.
Tomorrow morning Miller & Peck
will put on sale fine line Of the latest
silks.
The Turnbull Co have put about g.
600 volumes Of standard works on sale
at lOc and 25c. Read the list.
Did you read about that sale Of silks
at Currans? Every yard is guaranteed
to be high standard.
Gately & Brennan sell I'D to date
clothing for men and women on weekly
or monthly payments.
j. B. Mullings & Sons rain coats are
noted for theirfitting points. Go there
and let them prove it.
Browns charcoal is reduced to lie a
bag until further notice.
Union suits for ladies, fieeced lined
and comfortable fitting, SOC a suit, at
A. Mailniot's.
Boys cheap, poorly made clothes are
not sold by Jones, Morgan & Co. See
what they carry at $3.50 to $3.50.
Visit Reid & Hughes's dress goods
department and see the new fall suit
ings in broadcloth, whipcord, etc.
New fall waistings and silks at Con-
lon Bros. Snowflake novelty goods
only SOC yard.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-27
READY FOR MEETING.

Coal Strike Arbitri tors I'm WaskinE-
tOn-New Member For Board.
WASHINGTON, Oct 27.-All is in
readiness for the meeting this after
noon of the anthracite coal strike COM
mission. All the members Of the COM
mission are in the city, and most Of the
operators or their representatives are
here. The meeting will be called to
order at 2 o'clock, and the wishes of
both parties to the controversy will be
considered as to the method Of proce-
dure in securing testimony Plans for
holding the public sessions, places Of
meeting and various other details nee
essary to be settled before the actual
work of taking testimony can be begun
will be decided. No testimony will be
taken today. 1t is expected that very
little evidence will be heard in Wash
ington, as it is not the desire Of the
commission to compel the attendance
of witnesses here when the evidenc
they have to give can be secured
greater convenience to them at or nea
their places of residence.
The president has, with the assent Of
George r.. Baer, representing the coal
and OF John Mitchell for the
miners, appointed Labor Commissioners
Wright seventh member of the com
mission to investigate the coal STRIKE
That designation, however. will no
interfere with his designation as re
corder Of the commission. He was add
ed In order to make the membership
consist Of an odd number to preclude
the possibility Of tie vote on any
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-27
EXPANSION AT CORNELL.
New Buildings Planned and Nor.
Land to BE Bought.

New Buildings Planned and More
Land to BE Bought.
ITHACA, N. Y, Oct. 27.-President
Schurman of Cornell university today
announced the results of the delibera-
tons of the annual fall meeting of the
board of trustees of the university,
which was in session all day Saturday
and until late in the evening. The fol-
lowing out of an increase in facilities
for instruction in which are included
gifts from the late Dean Sage of Al
bany, Hiram w. Sibley of Rochester,
the late James B. Guilford of Utica,
and Cornelius N. Bliss, Henry r. Ickel-
heimer, George G. Boldt, Jacob II.
Schiff, John D. Rockefeller and Oliver
II. Payne of New York were an
nounced. The location of the Rockefel-
Ter hall of physics, which will cost
$250,00O, was decided upon, and the
building will be placed on a line rum
ming east and west between the pres
ent Lincoln and McGraw halls. Presi-
dent Schurman's recommendation of
immediate erection of a hall for arts
and humanities to cost $250,000 was
adopted and the building located, the
plot. of ground now occupied by houses
of Professors Wait, Law and Hewett
being chosen for that purpose.
A plan for the future expansion of
Cornell university on most magnificent
lines was adopted, and for this purpose
the president was authorized to pur-
chase Immediately sixteen acres of land
to the west of the library building. 1t
Ser ~ esx
buildings on this plot Immediately and
eight more in the remote future.
A scheme for the approximation of
ell professors at the age of seventy was
adopted, the details to be arranged
later. 1t is probable that all professors
so retired will be pensioned.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-27
NUTMEG GRATINGS

The house owned by Harry Jennings
on Water street in Southport was dam
aged by fire Saturday morning to the
extent Of about $4,000.
"A ground on the third rail line
near Bristol late last night stopped the
service and passengers from Hartford,
after wait of half an hour in New
Britain, were brought back.
Henry Linnehan, Frank Rathbun and
Henry Redmond, aged about 16 years
each, are missing from their homes in
Bristol and the chief of police has no
titled the police in other cities to keep
a lookout for them. Last Tuesday
night they boarded the 8 o'clock freight
train going west and went as far as the
Hudson river.
Fifteen Poles We're arrested early
Saturday morning at New London
charged with theft from the Central
Vermont, and later in the city court
their cases were continued under $500
bonds each until November III. The
men are all freight handlers and it is
alleged that they have been guilty OF
extensive robberies. The police re-
covered lot of plumber.
Robert Holmstrom Of Thomaston,
employed by the Seth Thomas Cloak
Co, was killed Saturday night in the
freight elevator at Ell. & ID. Daniels's
store In Hartford. He was crushed to
death and his body terribly mangled
Holstrom left a family in Thomaston.
Medical Examiner Fuller viewed the
body Saturday night and pronounced
death due to accidental causes.