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any rate that happiness has come to
them during their stay with us.
When we met together at Easter
time to celebrate the resurrection
festival many women who had left
asked leave to come back. In one
instance, woman was to come with
iier husband, another was to bring
two or three children, and the eager
ness with which they desired to be
with us showed that their residence
with us had been something more to
them than mere hospital treatment
it had brought to them an under
standing of the happiness of being
cared for, and the realization of
home. Individual dealing with the
women, the influence of individual
character, individual happiness, and
individual thought, must in the end
tell for nothing but good. l think
we even care in the colony what the
patients wear on Sundays; we notice
their new bonnets and their new
dresses, and all sorts of frivolous
things that go to make up our own
home life, and | do not think that
when we speak of these so-called lit
tie things it makes the prayers of
those who join together on Sunday
in our church any less devout.
Since DuNhurst was open, county
council reformatories have been start
ed i'll various places where women
are committed under the amended
act. These are doing excellent work,
and we f1atter ourselves that much of
the experience gained at DuXhurst
has been very useful in their con-
struction and organization, but the
class that come to us can find
home there. They arc the wives of
artisans who earn small wages; wo.
men who perhaps have not been
taken before Il magistrate, but whose
homes are desolate through drink;
servants who have lost their charac-
tiers and consequently their situa-
! tons; young women who, on account
OF hard work and late hours in shops
and other places of business have
begun to drink and are running their
lives at the very outset. All these
come to us voluntarily, stay a year,
and put themselves of their own free
will under restraint; and the letters
we get from husbands and brothers.
| fathers, mothers and sisters ara
heartrending. Their willingness TO,
pay all that they can towards the
maintenance of the innate and their
cagerness to cure those who arc
bringing wretchedness and degrade
ton into their lives, show us daily
the necessity for such home. In
one year we refused 5000 cases, and
since we opened we have been
obliged to deny over 10000 women
admittance for want of room. 1t is
however, cheering to know, that ou1
medical man gives it as his expert
ence that 65 per cent. of our case,
are standing we'll today.
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topic which seemed of special inter

topic which seemed of special inter-
est to them.
Sidney Hammond was a college
mate of Walter Hestor. He was the
stroke oar in the famous crew which
humbled the pride of the rival uni
verslty Unlike many of the athletic
| heroes of the institutions of learn
| ing, Hammond combined the frame of
muscular Apollo with the brain of
the scholar. He was even more hero
with the professors than on the cam
pus. The text and reference books
prescribed in the curriculum served
but to stimulate his thirst for re-
search. Though abundantly able,
through the generosity of his father,
to enter into all of the pleasures of
the gilded class, he performed the
rare feat of remaining studious re-
clnse and retaining his popularity.
During the years spent in college
he was an intellectual and physical
machine, seemingly incapable of men
tai or bodily fatigue. The few
friends who enjoyed the privilege of
his apartments found him the best
of hosts, with well-appointed side
board and the choicest of cigars. Ex-
cept on rare occasions Hammond did
not permit these social relaxatons to
intrude on his time, and his friends
grew to know just how long Sidney
would. tolerate their company in
| preference to his books.
Hestor slipped a glass of wine;
knocked the ashes from his cigar,
and extended an enameled cigar case
| to Hammond.
"How long does our famous cor
respondent intend to remain in New
York?" asked Sidney Hammond cit
must seem dull here after what you
have been through"
"It seems good to be here replied
Hestor. II am going to quit roaming
around and stay in this country for
awhile. l believe there is more big
news on the tapis here than anywhere
| in the world. l believe there is some
sensational news about the trusts if
| it could be obtained and properly
| handled"
"They are getting big enough and
| bold enough to attract attention.
said Hammond. There will be plen-
ty of news about them some day."
"How do you like the Records
| leading editorial to-day?" he asked.
''The one about the big steel COM
bine, do you mean?"
''Yes."
"Candidly, I cannot say l liked it,"
said Hammond, after moments
pause, Il suppose Williams wrote it.
1t sounded like his stuff. Williams is
a good writer, and there is no better
man on local issues, but l am afraid
the trust problem is beyond his
depth. He denounces trusts. He
might as we'll denounce the Galveston
disaster. He has treated The Record
readers to an entertaining hut not
novel bit of trust invective. L pre-
sumo it is what they want, but what
| good does it do? He proposes no
remedy"
ITO Be Continued
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CLAY PIPES AS CHARMS.
They Used to De OHered to the
Fairies by the Country
Folk of England.

In nearly all local museums in
England the visitor may see very
tiny clay pipes, generally broken off
at the stem, that he is told, after
inquiry, are fairy pipes" says Stray
Stories.
Often enough, gardeners and peo-
pie eNcavating for house founda lions
turn these pigmy pipes up and keep
them as curiosities without knowing
what they are. Most of these people
say: "Our ancestors must have
smoked very tiny pipes-pipes that
hold only mere Whit"
In reality these pipes were never
meant to be smoked All the early
tobacconists in this country sold
them to satisfy demand of the SUI
perstitious. In country places in par
ticular the friends of any dead man
who had been a smoker would fill the
small bowl of one of these pipes with
tobacco and put it on the coffin as
the latter was lowered into the grave,
or they would simply throw the pipe
on to the grave.
Again, wherever a so-called fairy
ring" appeared on the turf in the
country place, the simple folks, to
appease the fairies and pigmies who
had made the ring during their
reyels, and to soothe the impish lit
tie people, would place fairy pipes
full of tobacco on the spot.
The pipes were made small partly
because they We're intended for pig
mics, and partly because in those
days the merest pinch of tobacco was
luxury of price to the poor farm
laborer or small farmer.
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bitual inebriate act has been several
times amended, and this year we
have at last arrived at the point
where the drunkard is no longer free
to ruin his own life and the life of
those who belong to him, but his per-
sonal liberty is sacrificed for the
benefit of humanity at large. The
great question comes, however, what
are we to do with them? And this is
where the homes at DuXhurst have,
l believe, been a pioneer work.
Our Farm Home consists of a col
only village, built on the slopes of the
hills of Surrey, breezy, upland
farm. overlooking the beautiful
plains that stretch away for miles on
either side. The strong, bracing air
and lovely woods have all lent them
selves as the best possible surround
ings for our village settlement. Here
the little matched cottages, bright
and smiling, nestle as though they
had been built for many year,
forming triangle round the green;
while on one side stands the hospi-
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hestor had returned to New York
after cruise in Philippine waters.
He was interviewed by all the news
papers, and his portrait flashed
from hundreds of prints in all parts
of the country. He was proud and
happy of his success. His mind was
ever alert for some scheme which
would emphasize his fame. He re-
garded his foreign triumphs as but
stepping stones to some great coup
which would immcrtalze his name.
Hestor was disappointed when he
learned that Mr.. Van Horne had de-
parted recently on secret mission
to Europe. At first he thought of
joining him, but finally decided to re-
, main in New York for time and de-
vote his energies to matters of local
interest. Hestor was greeted warm
ly at the clubs, and found himself
popular hero. He was welcomed at
the theaters and some of his news
paper exploits were made the subject
of topical song and rendered with
great success at leading vaudeville
hall. For some time he had led a life
free from care in company with con-
genial spirits, who were glad to shine
in his reflected fame.
At the Office of The Record Mr..
Hestor had a luxurious private room,
as beftted his rank as the special
envoy of the paper. One afternoon
he received a message from his old
friend Sidney Hammond, stating that
he would be in the city for two days,
at the end of which time he would be
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excitement on w an street.
Palmer j. Morton. R. ]. Kent, Andrus
Carmody and Simon Pence have mys-
teriously disappeared. They did not APP
pear at their offices this morning. In
quiry by telephone at their houses dis
closes the astounding fact that though
expected they did not come home last
night. Various rumors are in circulation,
but at this writing nothing is known,
except that these four great capitalists
have completely disappeared. Their COM
bined wealth is estimated at s75O,O0O0oO.
The street crowds received the
news calmly They did not believe
it. But they bought the papers.
The news came by the way of Wall
street. Strange rum6rs had been in
circulation all the morning A
Jense of impending trouble perme-
ated the crowd of brokers which
clustered around the standards on
the floor of the Stock Exchange.
The curb brokers on Broad street
were uneasy, as they waited for the
hour of ten. The market opened
strong and then sagged. 1t was a
few minutes past eleven O'Clock
when the ticllers in Il thousand Of
fees stopped in their task of record
ing quotations.
There was Il splitter of dashes on
the tape. Customers gathered
around the pedestals. There was
news coming. They anticipated the
announcement of an important fail
ure. 1t had been rumored that a
Consolidated Exchange house was in
trouble. The following message
spread itself along the tape:
"11:O7 4. m.-Palmer j. Morton,
II. j. Kent, Andrus Carmody and
Simon Pence have not appeared at
their offices They did not return
to their residences last night. Rela-
tives are alarmed and have notified
the police. They were last seen at
a conference held at the office of
Palmer j. Morton at four o'clock
yesterday afternoon. No trace since.
Foul play is feared"
The murmur of the Stock Elk
change swelled into roar which re-
verherated above the rumble of
traffic and the unrest on the streets.
This was the morning of the third
OF May, memorable in the records
of Wall street.
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Rescuing the Black listed
! WomeD Of England X ~ /:
The Work That Is Being Done at The Farm
lnebriafes OF Lady Henry


NOTO GREATER problem faces
~ the people of my country
@f~ than how to arrest the
SSAsSN alarming increase of in
~W ebriety among women.
vs. The English people cannot
be blind to the fact that
England stands in the unenviab BILE
position of being almost the only ma
ton that has drunken womanhood
Woman has been specially associated
hitherto in England with the sale of
intoXicants, and the fact that her
presence is to be found in every
drink-shop has caused the safe
guards that surround her in other
countries to be set aside; but the
hour has come when more people
have begun to think, and it is to this
arrest of thought that l believe we
owe the legislation that has been
granted during the last few years.
Some time ago, short penal SEN
fences were the only means by which
habitual drunkenness was dealt with.
1t was looked upon wholly as a
moral crime, and men had ceased to
remember that from moral crime
it passed into physical failing, that
the habitual drunkard was utterly
unable to resist the craving he had
created when he came face to face
with temptation, and that conse-
quently when the term of imprison-
ment was over, the wretched inebri-
ate went back to his former life as
certainly as he was turned once more
upon the world.
1t was in order to meet this great
evil that the Farm Colony at Dux-
hurst was started, but since that day,
now nearly eight years ago, the eyes
of many have been opened. The ha-
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Dewet's AuIlacity.

A lady of Cape Town. on meeting
Dewet for the first time, cried
"Oh! general, am so pleased to meet
you-or should L. she added naively,
address you as cN-general, as the
English have it ?" ''EN-general will do,
madam. You see, l am Britisher
now, and as the English are so fond
of pretiNes and afliNes to their names.
| must be one of them. l am eN-
general to-day. Who knows, some
day j may be eNcellency!" and De
wet is said to have laughed at his
own audacity.-San Francisco Argo-
naut.
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tai. and opposite the church, and in
another meadow the long building
called the 'Childrens Nest" faces the
village. Far up the road in its own
grounds is the Manor house, which
has been opened as Il sanatorium for
ladies. The most important feature
of the scheme is the arrangement for
the recognition of the individual
among the patients. Each little cot
tage contains from seven to ten in
habitants, and nurse sister who
superintends the small family We
long ago realized that to deal with
large bodies OF people suffering from
one disease-a disease both mental
and moral-was to court failure. The
influence of thought would be far too
strong to be overcome, and it was
impossible to contemplate housing
so many people together who were
likely only to harm one another.
Part of the success of the scheme has
unquestionably been due to this svs-
tenn of dividing the colony into these
small sections, where normal home
life can be maintained, and where
each individual feels herself of i'm.
portauce in her own small circle. The
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CHAPTER il.

TWO NAPOI. CONS OF JOURNALISM
Robert Van Horne was the owner
and editor of the New York Record.
Vie was leading light in much
criticised school of journalism. He
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TO CORRESPONDENTS.

panied by the name of the author not necessarily for
publication, but evidence of good faith on the
part OF the writer Write only on one side of the pa.
per BE particularly careful in giving names and
Proper names often difficult to deciphcr because
of the careless manner in which they are written.
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Copyright, 1901, by Lothrop Publishing Company.
All rights reserved.
CHAPTER L.
KIDNAPPED.

"All about the Kidnapped Million
aires!. Record Extra! All about
the Great Mystery!! Record ENtra!"
Hundreds of newsboys poured from
an alley and dashed into the human
currents which surge at the conflu-
ence of Nassau street and Park Row.
In a moment the air was aflame with
the red headlines of the "Record Ex-
ira 1t was not necessary to buy
paper. The type was so large that
it told the news to the passerby.
For week the Wall street boom
had been the sensation of New York
and of the country. The perpetual
excitement which reigns within the
shadow of Trinity church had per-
meated office and counting room. 1t
was the whispered topic of converse
ton among clerks, and the noisy sub
ject of debate in hotel lobby and
corridor. The jargon of the Stock
Exchange was incorporated into met
ropolitan English. The tales of for
tunes made to the clicking music of
the ticker, aroused the cupidity of
thousands, who saw in the whirl of
speculative frenzy the prospect Of
wealth without work. Newspapers
fed the flame and We'd in displaying
and narrating the golden exploits Of
magnate and operator.
On this Tuesday morning headlines
and text covered the front page of
the New York Record and proclaimed
the following story:
KIDNAPPED!M
Four Multimillionaires Mysteriously
Missing!!!
Palmer j. Morton, Andrus Carmody,
Simon Pence and r. ]. Kent
cannot be found!
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did YOU run away for?"

"Ye-s.'
What did you run away for?"
II was only running so as to
get him away from his home, so as
his mother couldn't see him tightin',
but by the time he was out of sight
of his house we got in sight of our
house. and then, as my mother
would see me if stopped to hit him.
| went in so as to be out of temp,
tation. Stray Stories.
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Il say, didn't l see you running
down the street yesterday, with Bill
Bounce after your"
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Excitement on Wall Street.

Fears that They have been Kidnapped, or
have met with Foul Play.
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KIDNAPPED..!
Four Multimillionaires NIysteriously
Missing!!!

Palmer j. Morton, Andrus Carmody,
Simon Pence and r. ]. Kent
cannot be found!!
The Sauk Centre herald., 1903-10-22
DlEGSANT VALLEY.

~, porohurn and family were call
80 tho Cordulaine farm on Sunday
lew Gadbaw spent Sunday at Mr.
Larock's.
On Monday one OF sieben's tnresn-
ino crew had the misfortune TO sip W.
der a the separator which ran over MS
linons and crushed the bones OF botn
1aas like egg shells. He is not expect
1;1a His name is unknown to
us.
DR.. Rice and Miss Quade were ou'
bnuting on Sunday.
Toe Veeder is now an agen' ior
Fronch Polish and Cotton 60. he II
ready to take orders any time
Doc Weedlck is now general mahas
er at Spring Brook Farm
t. w. Gingery was hunting IN tnl
u;cinitv last week, out had the mlsfol
..na to collide with a wagon and ha
towalk home with one jack snipe'
Win Lamb was in this vicinity Q
Tuesday on business.
Mat weedick made a business tr
+o Sank Centre on Tuesday
RosELLA AND MCNELLY.
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continents have been repeated and
azain bu pubshef that
made famous the pace-hese are brought
together for the and with them large number OF the
tties savings wtes of the nineteenth century,
For an hour-for evening in the chair at home
the study and dction that have bril-
liant assemblies ambitious to become successful
public for the Who has to
toast or this werk is nevsT.fang SOURCE OF
charm inspiration. Nor this solely mans work. The
tenexet tribute haHe red said Senator Dove
when he manuscript of Joseph Chote speech
The Pilgrim Mothers
The Sauk Centre herald., 1903-10-22
SAUK CENTRE
VS.. ST. CLOUD
Our Boys Play a Losing Game
of Foot Ball with
the NormaISx

On Saturday last the Sauk Centre
foot ball team went to St. Cloud tt
play with the Normal school boys
a team heayier and evidently more
expert, as the game resulted q to 0 ir
favor of the normals. The HERALD is
indebted to the Journal-Press for the
decidedly but excusably prejudiced
account of the game.
The St. Cloud normal team tore ur
the Sauk Centre high school foot bal
teams line on Saturday afternoon al
Athletic park and made the visitors
into mincemeat. They smashed the
Sauk Centre line at will, circled the
ends repeatedly ard hurdled the 1sse
for big gains when it was thought that
their scheme of attack would be pro.
ducttse' of more ground gaining. The
final score was 27-O fm favor of the
Inormsls and at no time was Sauk Cen.
tire In danger of crossing the normal s
sacred Fine. The normaIs showed a
dispositions to famble in the latter part
of she game but barring this played a
consistent game throughout. Capt.
Zeigler,. Abr sshamson, Ford and Allen
distinguished themselves by ane work
and end runs by Campbell, GardiDg
and Carew electrified the red and
black. The right end for Saak Gen.
ire, who played with NO protection
from headito' foot, was the star player
for the visitors and several times he
tackled the normal man with the ball
for loss. Sank Centres worst o.
fence was it's style. Of tackling which
was altogether too high for effective
work. Even. little Shoemaker, who
" ent in as Substitute late in the game
was tackled So high that he rolled
fully three yards alter being thrown
to the ground,. and i'm several instan-
ees in tacklipg> a man Sank Centps's
players helpea' him along instead Of
throwing him backward. A fainly
good sized creNn, in which the fair
co-eds formea large proportion,
saw the contest and their roofing was
no small factor In the success of the
normal team.
The followin@W the lime-up:
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The Board of Control, which has
the general supervision and manage
ment of eelemosynary and penal in,
stitutions of the state, including the
purchase of supplies, is over-worked.
1t is expected that it will consider
the thousand and one demands made
upon it by the administrative officers
of all the varied institutions under
its control. 1t is physically impos-
sible tor three men, however efficient
to properly attend to the multifar-
lous duties devolving upon them.
The wisdom of creating the board
has been full yindicated-it has saved
thousands upon thousands of dollars
to the state, and given far bet
ter results. The fact remains, how
ever, that the board of control
should be enlarged to sufficient pro-
portions to admit of a division of
it's burdens.
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Minnesota's penal policy is second

Minnesota's penal policy is second
to none in the country. Substan'
tial justice rarely miscarries, and it
may not be said that wealth can pur-
chase immunity from trial and pun
ishment. The juvenile incorrigible
is put under restraint in a training
school, with every opportunity for
: fair education and the requirement
of trade. The influences are all
good, and the management is singu-
larly wise and discreet. The re-
formatory, with it's indeterminate
sentence and system of parole, for
first offeDders-those not hardened
in crime-gives healthful employ
ment to the inmates, and every in
centive is offered for honest endeav-
or to lead a better life after release.
The penitentlary, under the admir-
able management of Warden Wolfer
is a model institution. Convicts
are treated like men, each dealt with
upon his individual merits. The
promotion system has demonstrated
its value as power in maintaining
discipline. The board of pardons,
composed of men of judgement and
ability, conscientiously consider
every case submitted to it and con-
scientiously weigh every claim to
clemency. 1t is rarely that COM
plant worth considering is made
against the states policy or it's ad-
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Il have been troubled with my sto-
mach for the past four years, says D.
L. Beach, of Glover Nook Farm,
Greenfield, Mass. IA few days ago l
was induced to buy box OF Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets.
have taken part of them and feel
great deal better" If you have any
trouble with your stomach try box O
these Tablets. You are certain to. b'
pleased with the result. Price zoe
For sale by Hanson & Emerson,
For a bilious attack take Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets an
a quick cure is certain. For sale b
Hanson & Emerson.
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j. N. Thompkins, Of Round Prairie,

J. N. Thompkins, OF Round Prairie,
is planning to Leave for Washington
with his family in a. week or so. They
go to Vancouver where Mrs. Thomp-
kius has brother and two sisters
living, and expects to locate there
Mr.. Thompkins is an old resident oi
Round Prairie, having lived there the
past twenty years. He is planning tc
leave a week from next Monday
Democrat.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1903-10-22

The state game and fish commission
has voted to accept the "West site"
for the new fish hatchery, under the
conditions named by the committee
at Glenwood. !. The site embraces
thirty-six acres, and the commission
has decided to take it at cost not to
exceed 50, coo, provided itgives proper
| access and control over the creek and
springs which will feed the ponds.