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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-06-25
CHAPTER XXX.

Frank Armathwa,te did not see
Alma again for several days. he even
took some pains to avoid her, for he
was in no anxiety concerning her flu
ture now, and he felt delicacy about
meeting her.
Ned Crosmont had been of late in
such q critical state of health, and his
looks had betrayed the fact so I'M
mistakably, that the doctor. while he
guessed at once thst death had been
accelerated by the mans own act, had
reason to hope that the suddenness of
it would cause little surprise or scan
DIAL. A search and an examination
proved that death was the result of a
small dose of laudanum upon weak
heart But as the quantity taken was
proved to be insufficient to kill man
in ordinary health. and as the history
of the events which preceded Cros.
mont's death did not become generally
known, it never grew to be more than
a doubt whether he took the laudanum
as sedative or as poison.
Frank had little difficulty in surmis
ing how he came by the drug, since II
was the same that Lady Kildonan uset
to stupefy her husband on the oc
casion of her nocturnal visits to Liver
pool in order that he might be the les.
likely TO detect the substitution of an
other woman for herself
n Frank found, and carefully collecte,
out of the fireplace before he let any
one into the study, quantity of tori
fragments of note-paper, which prove,
to contain the beginning of an un
finished letter addressed TO Lord Xii
DOMAIN. written in deep. fierce, defian
distress of mind. the few lines of whiel
were inexpressibly painful to read
Frank kept these fragments. afte
some consideration securely locked III
in his own possession: but. afte
watching the course of events for tn,
next few weeks. he burned them with
out ever communicating their contents
to anyone. On the person Of the deaC
man he found portrait of Lady Xii
DOMAIN. and a packet of short. feverisl
notes from her. All these had beer
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-06-25
Ct Uoman S Face
FLORENCE WARDEN

HE is dead" she said, solemnly,
raising her eyes to the doctors face.
Then the tears began to gather in
her eyes, and, bending over the dead
man, she put her lips to his forehead,
not in sorrowing love, but in pity and
forgiveness.
Come, come away" whispered
Frank, who saw that the struggling
emotions of horror and womanly re-
gret and irrepressible relief were try
ing the sensitive lady beyond her
strength.
She let him lead her out at the door,
which Frank closed softly behind
steps along the passage she suddenly
drew away her hand from his arm, put
it up to her head, and, with a low cry
as of prisoner who sees the dungeon
doors flung suddenly open, she reeled
and fell to the ground. Frank gathered
her up in his arms and carried her to
the drawing-room. There he did not
put her down, but seating himself in
an armchair by the window in the
full blaze of the morning sunlight, he
rocked her for a few moments tender
| ly in his arms, as II she had been a
child, while his blue eyes shone with
hope and pity and yearning love.
Poor little one" he whispered into
her deaf ears. you are no widow;
| you have never been a wife. am
wronging no mans memory in telling
you love you. The gods will make
you happy, Psyce. for you have found
your love at last"
AS she was still absolutely motion
less and silent, he snatched a pas
sionate kiss; but the instant his lips
touched hers, the colour flowed back
into her face, and her brown eyes met
his with long look that told of the
Weakening of a sleeping soul. From
that moment each had a secret,
known only to themselves and to each
other. Withdrawing his eyes from
her face, Frank raised her to her feet,
and gently Withdrawing the support
of his arm, said gravely and formally:
Il think you are better now, madam,
II you will allow me to advise you,
would suggest your remaining here,
while will tell the servants what is
necessary for them to know, and pre-
vent their disturbing you"
Thank you. You are very kind"
said she, frigidly, with her eyes on
the ground.
With cold bow, and without an
other look at her. Frank left the room
But as he paused for a moment out
side, with glowing eyes and yearn-
ing heart, he heard the swift rustic of
woman's dress across the room, ar
her painting breath close to the door.
So they stood for a moment, each
conscious that the other was there,
each almost able to hear the beating of
the heart of the other. But there was
only thin plank of wood between
them now. where there had been bar
rier as wide as the whole world. And
so he went softly away to his work and
his duty. and she to the woman's part
of patiently waiting and perhaps weep
ing, For peace had come to her, not
with glad song of praise, but with a
solemn requiem.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-06-25

ant among the many prospective heirs
to the Turkish legacy keenly appre-
ciates the immense value of a pre-
dominating influence in Servia prior to
and at the time of the general smash
up, bound to come in the European
Levante sooner or later. Russia has
spent millions and millions of rubles
and employed its shrewdest diplomats
for over fifty years in agitation in Bull
garia, Bosnia, Macedonia and Servia
10 undermine all authority but its own
IN these unfortunate countries 1t
has kept, and still keeps, hundreds OF
political agents and a horde of the
most Inscriptions agent provocateurs
in the Balkan provinces. For half
a century these unlucky countries
have been kept in constant agitation
and turmoil to weaken not Only Tur-
key, but also 20 bring all the Christian
Danube under Russian influence and
incidentally destroy any good feeling
these people may have had for Austria,
the party really most interested in any
deal in the Balkans. Rivers might
have been filled with the blood spilled
and another Inferno could be writ
ten on the suffering of the people
caused by these agitations that would
eclipse Dante's vivid description OF
hell. The Muscovite agitation, at
work for half a century to arouse the
most cordial hatred and mistrust be-
tween the twenty odd races, naticnali-
ties and religious denominations which
the great migrations of nations has
! left behind in the lands of classic
Hellas, Macedonia, Pannonia and
Illyria, would have accomplished it's
work even without the aid of the Turk,
so thoroughly was it organized. There
fore the most significant, and in many
respects the most interesting feature
of the Belgrade episode is the fact
that for once the same pretender's
claim for the Seryian throne is coun-
tenanced by Russia and Austria, as it
speaks volumes for the peculiar en-
jtente cordiale, temporarily existing
between these competing powers which
lis at the same time a reliable sign
that they have agreed on most of the
details of their game in the settling of
the European question, the liquidation
of which is apparently deferred for the
present and may trouble the Turk lit
tie until the Russian programme in
Manchuria is more fully developed.
AS the husband of Draga Alexander
forfeited the last vestige of respect
his people may have had for him and
consequently lost all value and use
fulness for the two powers mentioned,
and they evidently left him to his fate
So the Obrenovitch chapter of Servian
history will in all probability close
without further excitement. Peter
Karageorgevitch is elected by the
skupshtina to fill-on good behavior
the unstable throne of the srbski kralJ
and everything in Servia will go on
as heretofore until the day when Rus
sia's Gabriel will sound the trumpet
to call the sons of Osman to the last
battle and to the fulfillment of the I'M
alterable kismet of Mohammedanism
In Europe.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-06-25

The Belgrade tragedy has placed one
of the main factors in the dreaded orr
entail problem, the Servian people, into
the center of universal interest. Com
paratively little is known in America
of the Servians and the social and
political conditions prevailing in that
far away country and in the excite
ment caused by the periodical dis
turbances in the Balkan provinces it
! is only natural that among some plaus-
ible reports regarding the cause and
probable effect of King Alexander's
assassination many wild rumors and
improbable conjectures are ventured
by the easily excitable gentlemen that
furnish the American press with Euro
pean cable news.
The last two scions of the Obreno-
witch dynasty were VIGOROUSLY unfit to
rule even the most docile people on
earth. To all who know the Servian
character, the long suffering patience
with which a people of most pro-
pie of most pronounced democratic
instincts has supported two royal
reprobates who have brought proud
nation into universal discredit, it
must be puzzling indeed if the power
full interests be not taken in consider
alton that used the former King Milan
and his son, Alexander, as we'll as the
ever alert pretenders of the Kara
georgevitch family TO keep the coun-
try divided against ITSELF
Ever since the times of George
Czerny 1.-THE Black George)-Karageo
rgevitch in Turkish translation
founder of the dynasty whose grand
victories over the Turks in 1906 re-
suited in his being elected by the
Servians as their first knjez or ruler,
the Servians have been the one nation
on the European continent whose in
situations, in spite of certain monarch
ical forms, have been of distinctly
democratic character throughout.
The Servians have no aristocracy or
nobility, nor will they tolerate class
distinction in any form, as the speedy
suppression of all attempts to create
one or the other most conclusively
demonstrates.
The first knjezes lived substantially
in the same simplicity until Milan's
era as did the people, and none of them
were in reality regarded to be more
than primus inter pares, amenable at
all times to the will of the people as
expressed in the skupschtina, the Ser
, Wan parliament.
F., Even after the elevation of Servia
from a vassal state of Turkey to the
. rank of an independent kingdom some
fifteen years after Milan's election the
Servian people never felt that their
kralj, or King Milan, was more than he
was as the simple Knjez Milan; or
that by the change Of his title they
were transformed into subjects of a
ruler whose will was paramount to
that of the Servian people; or who
would be tolerated any length of time
IL ever he attempted to misuse the
limited prerogatives granted him by
the people through the skupschtina
Therefore the moment Alexander OBJ
renovitch decreed the abolition of the
constitution and the skupschtina he also
, decreed the termination of his rule
and it was only question of time
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-06-25

when he would be done away with in
one or the other manner.
Had Alexander had a direct heir the
Servians, after his provoking coup
d'etat, would in all probability have
been satisfied with his abdication in
favor of another Obrenovitch, as they
were in the case of Milosch and Milan
and all their knjezes who attempted to
offend the democratic spirit of the Ser
Wan institutions or to shock their
moral sensibilities, which are as keen
in the Servian race as in any other na-
ton of the globe, notwithstanding con-
trary opinions of careless writer's who
have never studied and do not under
stand the Servian people.
Europe and its courts are said to be
horribly incensed and if the cable re-
ports are not greatly exaggerated (as
they often are) the powers demand all
manner of punishment for the regf-
cides, but after the smoke has cleared
away it will be found that anything
more than pro forma reproof will be
as little insisted upon as it was in the
case Of the many other assassinations
and executions of potentates who were
the victims of either a designing sue
cessor or OF the fury of an exasperated
people.
The parties really responsible for
the Belgrade massacre will be as little
punished as were the authors of the
Staying of Charles of England, Louis
XVI of France, Gear Paul of Russia,
sultan Abdul Axis of Turkey or of
Mihaly Obrenovitch, who was shot
down in the gardens of Topschider to
make room for Alexander Karageorge-
vich, the father of Peter, whom the
cable dispatches announce as the new
king elected. Mihaly Obrenovitch,
the best and noblest ruler the Servian
people have had in thousand years,
was also murdered June IL, 1859.
When his four assassins were helped
out of the Belgrade state prison for
the purpose of killing Mihaly Obreno-
witch with money furnished by Alex
ander Karageorgevich, as everybody
believed in Servia) it required much
persuasion of the Russian agents in
Servia and elsewhere to make the
people believe that the murder of Mi.
haly was a mere act of revenge by
criminals and not the result OF a plot
to supplant the anti-Russian Obreno-
witch by a more tractable successor
The trial of Alexander Karageorge-
vich in Servia ending with his being
sentenced Tin contumaciam) to twenty
years in states prison as the abettor
of the Topschider murder, cast some
interesting light on the method en-
ployed by the power which was as
much Interested in the disintegration
of the Balkan states as in the avowed
expulsion Of the Turk from Europe.
To fully understand the political
side it must be remembered that the
100000 Servians of Servia proper
are in close touch with another 2.000,-
600 of Servians, Bulgaro and Croato
Servians in the neighboring states
and represent the most important fac
tor among the Balkan races whenever
the so-called oriental question ii. e.,
the partition of the European dominion
of the Turk comes up for final settle
ment.
Russia, as the most persistent claim
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-06-25
LOVE AND REASON.
At her door. in summer air,

At her door. in summer air,
Deity knitteth Reason
Storm robes for the heart to wea
In sterner season.
Cometh Love with footsteps rash
Where she counts her riches,
Pulls a thread. and in fash
Ravels out the stitches.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-06-25
Not INTERCHANGEABLE.

The right to strike and the right to-
kill cannot be made to do double team
work in this country.-Washingt
Post.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-06-25
What's the Difference?

Tom Johnson will visit Bill Bryan,
they say,
AM now all the quidnuncs are dyin'
To know whether Bryan will Bryanize
Johnson,
Or Johnson will Johnsonize oryan.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-11-30
COME IN
A BUNCH
THREE CITIZENS SUE FOR DAM
AGES ON ACCOUNT OF TORN
UP STREETS =

Three more claims for damages
against the city on account of the dan
Errons condition Of streets now being
Improved" were filed with the city
clerk today.
Mrs, Maud r. Schmltt wife Of Nlcho-
las schmltt asks sf2.oeQ for permanent
injuries snstaied at 10 o'clock on tho
evening Of November I. 81 the corner
OF Virginia street and First avenue.
She claims 10 have stumbled into one
Of the dark holes on First avenue at
that point and fallen against project
ms car rails aud piauking. fracturtng
and hruising her left arm and sus-
taiulng Internal injuries.
G II. Walden stepped into a bog at
the corner 81 Eighth avenue south
and Lane street. November -. sus-
taining injuries which he alleges en-
title him 10 SOS.
On the Eame day and place. a horse
and wagon driven by ]. 5. Lorraine.
became imbedded I'm the mire. Lor-
raine wants the city TO pay him si6s
for the expenses Of hiring men to ex-
eavate the rig. paying veterinary sur
Reoms fees etc.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-11-30
A Dozen People More or Less In
jured in a Serious Accident
on the University Line

Car M, Sli. outbound. ana ear No.
sai. Inbound. of the University line,
c0ltlded head on In the fog AZ the
vorner Of F'Aatlakc avenue and I'm
street. at the south end of Lake
Union. shortly after \ O'clock this
morning. At least ~ passengers
were ptore OF less injured or bruised
BY nyiuE glass while $. q. liam.
mand. the iuotufnan an the out
bound ear recclved injuries which
may possibly prove fatal Ills right
Voliar t0ne was. fractured 60 spintcfs
ard his rtght htp was injured aeri-
DUSTY, but 10 just what extent VII
have 70 o. asccrtaincd at the hos
pital
Motormau q. y. Morden 81 car stG
was knocked senselesa, but sus-
tainet no injuries other than a bad
cut over his left eye.
The only passenger very badly
hurt vas Hauy kinney an lnde-
pendent Telephone Company line
man. one 81 whose legs wac broken
and the other bruised tie was
standing GA the front platform Of
the outbound ear.
sam Void, driver employed by
the Electric laundry. received an
ngly hrutse over the left eve and his
left knee WAS badly sprained. lie
and Harry Mathews. young mar.
We're riding GA the rear platform %
the Inbound ear and We're thrown
over an emhankmcut at the west
side Of the track BY the shock
Wotd's head received a blow which
knocked him unconscious for several
minutes. Mathews was more for
tunatc. escaping injury
Miss k,,ina ptukham Was carried
20 nearby house. having sustained
slight luternsi injuries She was =
passenger on the inbound ear An
other Woman. whose Name was not
learned. was painfully hurt and was
taken heme In a hack
G. NJ Ieavitt circulation manager
Of the Times, and companion. ~ no
We're passengers or the inbound ear.
were considerably bruised BY flying
glass.
According % persons who saw th.
accident the ears were running A.
an ordinary rate Of speed when they
struck and neither motaruan could
b. blamed for not stopping his car
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-11-30

On time Go avert a collision
THE cars came together &c speed
Of about 10 miles an hour said y
y. Emerson. a painter who was At
work on 4 house Within Ne feet Of
the spot " here the collision occurred.
and the fog was - thick that Il was
impossible 60 sec a cat length ahead
They met with tergifie crash aud
bounded back several feet
THE motorman ~ the inbound ear
WAS Knocked of che platform and I
picked him up. lie gasped TO mc 60
run southwark along the track -
warm other cars not TO COME ahead
and l Immediately did -. Others
warned the ears coming from thr
other direction"
Atphulances and a half dozen sur.
reons. including pr Zoe. nr Edsen,
Dr. "a Reed and nr Powers Wefr
dispatched o. the scene OF the acct
dent kinney and Hammond we're
removed Is the Seattle General hos.
pital and the ether injured persons
az soon as their cuts we're handaged
were removed on street cars or IN
hacks Motorman Hammond has
wife and child residing at Giio East
Union street
The passengers had no time "a set
exCited or Jump before the collision.
They were given a terrific 3oit and
some Of them thrown the whole
length ~ e car Then all VAS OVER.
Several Of the pa <senrera on the out
bound car we're University students
The bodies % the coaches we're
ioltea nff che trucks ana the ves,i-
hulcs % both smashed - aplinterH
back az Oar as the forward trucks.
WreckinE ears were ~ the srehe 81
the accident BY $40 o'clock and
hauled the two cars back 90 the
barn. unti they we're removed the
passengers on the lire were trans
fsrrsA ~ the point where tho COLT
sion occurred
Car rs If the University line ran
OF the track twice earlier 30 the
morning AZ the corner ~ Third avs
enue and University street on ae-
count Of spreading rails. and this
also delayed traffic,
Meforman Mordsu said that Ne did
not know how the collision occurred.
lie dld not see the other ear until 4
vas too late even 90 Amply the
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-11-30

Armed with a big new revolver, y.
n. D'Brien, a farmer of Waiia Wailn.
aceoHted Patr0imaH hnsaHlef Oh
Washington street. this morning.
and asked lie YOU the chief ~
police. I want you 10 find my wife
Tor me. She ran away and / want
90 find out whore she is.
The officer m0deHtly answered
that he had not set attained the
rank Of chief but accompanied
Onrisn to headquarters where the
gun VIA taken from him and be
was booked on the charge OF carry
Ing concealed weapons.
Then chief Sullivan listened % his
story The tilief Of soil stated that
he wanted the gun Only Ia case be-
should meet the man who entieed
his wife away from him. A. this
point he drew lot 81 antique pic
lures from his pocket aud told the
chief that his wife was "a good
looking woman and had beautiful
red hair
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-11-30
FARMER 0'BRIEN is AFTER
HIS SUMMER BOARDER WITH
A BIG new SIX-SHOOTER
wALLA wkLLA MAN POLICE, SAYS W. J. EsTE7
PORTLAND STOLE HIS WIFE, WHO WAS GOOD LOOK
ING WOMAN WIT eEAUrIF HAIR" !

O'Brinn states that young man
from Portland by the name u ". j..
Estsb came 20 his farm 20 board for
his health last summer This.
O'Rrleu states. WIS the beginning Or
his trouble. His wife at once seemed
10 take 20 the fellow and waa
aWfuily sorry 10 see him leave. The
couple kept up correspondence. and
xix weeks ago the wife said she Vas
going TO SPOKANE and mas not been
heard from since by O.Brien. He is
sure that his wife and Esteb are TO-
sether. but he VIII be Satisfied n she
viii give him n divorce
O'Bhen left the station mourning
the fact that he could not have his
gun in Gaze he met his wife and
Esteb on the street. for he does not
know what might happen II such
meeting were 10 take place. lie vas
released from iaii Ou d deposit Of 80
cash bail 20 insure his appearances
for trial Monday afternoon Ia tho
police court.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-11-30

RESTED

The defense In the Bartlett murder
trial rested this morning and the
state began the taking 81 its tesfi-
Dony in rebuttal IL 10 thought that
the case VIII be given 20 the jury
either late Monday afternoon OF
Tuesday morning.
The examination by the defense OF
pr. IyauRhary. Al expert insanity
witness. occupied the greater part Of
the morning DIR, LouEhary stated
that In his opinian n man who acted
As Bartlett IL said 20 have done both
before and after the shooting Of his
Rife was afflicted with chronic al
cohallc insanity.
The state has several witnesses
who win be used In rebuttai. An
effort will be made TO prove that
Bartlett was simply common
aruukard and that Mrs. Bartlett left
him on that account and did not
elope with shorty" Lynch. but sim
ply came down from Alaska on the
same boat with him.
The defense. however. claims 20
have evidence in sur-rebpital. which
will be most valuable 20 the de-
PENDANT
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-11-30

the best ones down TO about a dozen
and they are pefpieKinE him great
deal. bat before be leaves the city
be- and the contest editor VIII make
the final selection 81 the five last
Ones which are entitled 10 the cash
prizes.
In view Of the fact that 40 many
people have called az the office for
copies - the various editions 81 the
Star containing kiss definitions, the
Star has decided 10 publish a 'spe-
cial Ktss Definition" Nfitiun. which
viii not aniK contain the names Of
the prize winners together with the
winning definitions. bat will also
contain many hundreds Of drfiHi-
tioua submitted la the contest. which
are original and too good 20 ioae
This edition viii be n splendid sou
v~nir Of the contest ana VIII appear
nofne time about the middle Of next
week. Haxsa