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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-12-30

men. Some covered and shrank
back; others assumed an indifference
quite at variance with their previous
agitation. Sir Raoul Dwight glowered
back at him. He had dared take their
idol and treat it as clay, and in that
he had dared much.
Recovering from my surprise, MUIR
INJURED something trite enough about
being most happy to risk all and more
for the happiness of obtaining the
lady's hand. A mental brought him a
quill and an ink horn. He wrote an
acknowledgment deliberately, ana
sprinkled it with sand. He dallied
doing it, as though he gloated over
the deed, and dared anyone to take
umbrage either at it or him. When
he had the paper to his satisfaction
he placed it in the center of the table.
pushed the gold beside it.
The light from innumerable candles
shone down upon the long table black
with age; it passed through the bot
ties filled with liquor, and made
splashes of red upon the dark grain
of the wood; it played upon the gold
that sciAtillated and sparkled like the
light in a woman's eye.
The hunting feast was long over.
The board had been cleared, and the
men grouped about it were in charac-
teristic attitudes, gaming. 1t was the
usual ending to a days sport. Gil
and myself had ridden over from Long
Haut for the hunt at the bidding OF
Master Arnold, and as was expected,
we stayed for the gaming. Not that
expectations or contumelious lips
would have held us, had we not been
as fond of a game of chance as any
one Of the gay bloods from London
town who made up the party.
1t hau been a day of rare sport.
Time had not been wasted in our de-
sire to kill, and as a result many deer
and boars lay low that yesterday
bounded through the forest. All
showed upon their person how furi-
ously they had come jowl against
earth's bushes, brambles and dirt.
One fellow sat with broken arm in
sling dicing with his left hand, while
Harcourt Nym had his coat on with
the wrong side faced out. Whether to
keep it from soilure (there was no
need), or to propitiate that Janus
faced damsel Fortune there was
great need, no one knew, but him
self. Others had turned the lace back
from their hands, ard here and there
a wig lay tossed OF = the heat and
excitement of the game.
The room where we sat was long
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-12-30

he was considered the most danger
Gus. But this | learned afterwards.
He began by winning-that should
have taught him caution. How slight
a thing will sometimes change the
course of events! A mental in filling
the glass of my neighbor logged my
elbow. | looked up as he mumbled
his excuses, and caught the warning
sent to me by Gil. Then l let my
eyes roam casually from face to face.
| read upon them what made me
pull myself together with jerk and
throw off the spell had been under;
the spell of limpid tongue discours-
ing the gay doings of fashionable
world of which l then knew little.
These gay sparks from London, and
especially this old dissolute one would
bleed me; they thought me a novice.
1t was laughable! knew cards and
dice as l knew my sword. Many a
night Gil and / had made of gaming
a pastime. 1t had been his part in
my education, and he had not found
me a dullard.
/ saw with narrowed eyes the pile
of gold-mine-which my Lord Eel
ton had stacked at his right; saw
the men for the most part given up
their play to watch deeper game
cupidity in their eyes waiting anx-
iously their turn at the poor dupe-
and | realized that unknown to my
self l had occupied the center of the
stage. 1t was then when | saw the
supercilious looks and widening of
lips, which owners cared not to hide
that the blood of an ancestor who had
once staked his life on a throw of
a dice, thrust itself to the front driv-
ing back the more cautious blood of
the Hadleys. 1t was then that had
proposed the change of dice.
Now | must plead that the passion
of gaming was strong upon me also.
l cared no more for Lord Felton's
daughter Mary than for any village
maid. She was no more to me. True,
l had heard of her-who had not? OF
her beauty, her conquests, the duels
fought for love of her-and more.
Although she had been in London but
a few years she had set all hearts
agog; feminine ones with envy, mas
culine ones with desire. 1t was said
that she possessed all the fascination
Of her father without his dissolute-
Mesa rare thing in King Charles
court
When the men recovered from the
momentary CONSERVATION into which
Lord Felton's words had thrown them,
and my lord himself had drained his
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-12-30
CHAPTER !.
| Win What | Care Not For.

"An' it please you, Lord FELTON,"
said |, ito vary the sameness Of
things-all pleasurable excitement
being with you and your friends
suppose We change the dice?"
DO you mean to imply?" he began.
Il imply nothing but what you wish
implied" l interrupted. Il have still
small estate in Essex county-why
not add that, also, to your winnings?"
And pointed to the gold stacked at
his elbow.
LAS you WILL" he replied, with a
shrug of the shoulders which set his
long wig a-bobbing.
Gil" / called to my man, who
leaned across the board opposite us,
throw me the dice you have"
Lord FELTON, was as tenacious as a
miser, and fought for each piece Of
gold, for now the conditions were re-
versed, as supposed they would be
upon the change of dice, yet he would
not, could not, stop; the gambling
fever gripped him hard. | won and
won until there seemed nothing else
to win. Nothing else?" said I. My
Lord FELTON, had many resources.
Il will stake the hand of Lady Mary
FELTON, against ALL" he Kissed, as he
flung his hand out upon the table,
while his fingers twitched. The all
indicated was the wealth worth less
err kings realm piled before me.
His words produced momentary
hush of establishment even among his
followers. A hat belonging to some
one was pushed from the table The
brooch fastening its plume struck the
floor with slight noise, but it sound
ed as loud to our strained ears as an
explosion. We started, though they
who knew him ought to have been sur
prised at nothing he might either say
or do.
You will not say it is too little?"
he said. Then his eyes like a basi-
lsk's swept the lowering faces of the
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-12-30

| and narrow. The narrow part was
mond-shaped panes Of glass set OPP
posite each other. At the far end a
fire of logs burned. The smoke from
the pipes of the men floated there to
be sucked up by its red mouth.
Lord FELTON, had only Joined us upon
our reaching the Lodge. Hunting was
too strenuous an exercise for him,
while feasting and gaming were the
elixir of his life. He had chosen me,
stranger, for his partner in the
evenings sport. Why should have
been so signalized l knew not, unless
it was that the Londoners familiar
with his reputation, and more than
one having good cause, Stunned him,
or, perhaps he had heard that the cof-
fers of the house of Long Haut were
not depleted of their treasures.
At first l had looked at him with
curiosity. He was small as woman
and as slender Everything about
him was minute except his wig-an
enormous affair. 1t hung about his
shoulders in many ringlets, and made
his head seem out of all proportion
to his body. His features were clear
cut as a cameo. His eyes were of
that cold grey from which all the blue
was washed, but they held you. He
was the dandy and the exquisite. His
ways were caressing and his manner
quite irresistible. He had one pecu-
liarity. While his face never lacked
repose as though he habitually
masked his thoughts lest you read
them, in his fingers he gave them full
vent; his weaknesses were exposed.
Hands small and soft and white
hands with long flexile fingers-hands
perpetually in motion.
Twas said that he could cheat, ca
jole or win ones fortune from one
as easily as the turning of hand
over, and the matter of it was that
one never quite understood how he
had accomplished it, being at the time
so carried away by his destinations.
OF all the dissipated men of the day,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-12-30
TWO MOST CURIOUS LAKES.
One in Asia Has Water of Rose Color,
Another is of Pitch,

announcer Us OF fltCn.
In central Asia, near the Caspian
sea, is LAKE of beautiful rose color,
while the banks are covered with salt
crystals as white as snow. From the
waters of this lake there arises
flowerlike odor. The color and the
odor are supposed TO be caused by
vegetable matter in the depths.
One of the most singular lakes in
the world is the celebrated Pitch lake
of the island of Trinidad. This lake
spreads over an area of ninety-nine
acres and its surface is composed of
one great floating mass of asphaltum,
scanned with veins Of clear water.
There is similar lake in Venezuela
The Pitch lake is hideous place as
far as smells are concerned, for the
air all about it is heavy with noxious
vapors, and from the center of the
lake gushes a fountain of liquid as
phaltum, in which there float and
break bubbles containing most hor-
rible gases.
The workmen go out on the surface
of this lake and cut great slabs of as
phaltum, which are carried away. But
the next morning the hole they left is
filed up again with the pitch which
has risen during the night, SO that the
supply seems to be inexhaustible.
This curious lake was discovered by
Sir Walter Raleigh when he landed in
Trinidad in 1895 on his way to the
mouth of the Orinoco in search of Ell
Dorado.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-12-30
Bars Cruelty to Animals.

King Frederick Augustus of Saxony,
on his ascension to the throne, pro-
claimed an amnesty for all minor Of
lenses except tat o. cruelty to ami
mails.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-02
LAW HOLDING AGENT
LIABLE NOT ATTACKED
Suit Against Representative of In
surance Company Dismissed.

Elmer III. Dearth, state insurance
commissioner, has just received a let
ter explaining some of the features of
the suit Of Webster & Sons against
Peter Ferguson which have not hith-
erto been clearly understood.
This case was recently tried at CAL
edonia under state law which holds
person who has acted as agent for
to do business in this state, to be per-
sonally liable in case of loss.
Webster & Sons of Caledonia, owned
large wooden mill and placed the in
surapce on their building and plant
through Peter Ferguson, an insurance
agent. The insured property was de-
stroyed and it was then learned that
the companies in which the insurance
was written were none of them au-
thorized to do business in this state.
The matter was referred to Insurance
Commissioner Dearth, who advised
Webster & Sons to begin a civil suit
against the agent Ferguson under the
law referred to.
The case against Ferguson Was dis
missed in the district court, but from
the letter received yesterday it is
learned that the validity Of the law
was not called into question. The dis
missal of the case was upon the ground
that the owners were not operating
their plant at the time of-the fire and
had not been for more than thirty days
before, and the court held that this
fact voided the contracts of insurance.
The case will be appealed to the SUI
preme court
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-02
CITY NOTICE.
Office Of the City Treasurer,
ST Paul Minp Marn1, . 1QaA

81, duts VhtfiIi., MdTCn lJV4,
In the matter of the condemnation Of
certain lands for public use for the
opening, widening and extending of
Lafond street, and Of the assessment
therefor. The owners of, and all per-
sons interested in the property taken,
appropriated and condemned for the
use of the public, for the opening,
widening and extending of Lafond
street, in the City Of st. Paul, and in
the proceedings therefor,
Will Please Take Notice. That the
assessment levied to meet the expenses
thereof and to pay the award of DAM
ages therefor, has all been duly coll
1ected and the proceeds thereof are
now in the hands Of the City Treasurer
Of the City Of ST, Paul, and that suffi-
Gent money for the purpose OF paying
the damages awarded by the Board Of
Public Works for the property so taken,
appropriated and condemned, is now in
the City Treasury in the hands of the
City Treasurer, ready for the payment
over to the owners and other persons
interested in the said property. together
with interest thereon, all as provided
by law.
Claimants for this money, as owners
or persons interested other than as
owners, in the property above referred
to, will be required to furnish abstracts
of title for examination by the Corpo-
ration Attorney, and their title to the
property so taken, appropriated and
condemned, will be required to be ex-
amined and approved by the said Corr
poration Attorney of the City of st,
Paul. before any money is paid.
OTTO BREMEN,
City Treasurer.
Mich 2-1q04-1t
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-02
PUPILS CAN DANCE
No Danger of Local Crusade
Against Practice

The crusade being made by the Bap-
fist ministers of Minneapolis against
dancing by the high school students Of
that city is not likely to be taken up
in st. Paul, according to Supt. Smith.
In Minneapolis the high school stu
dents are said to indulge in a number
of dances each year, the functions be-
ing given by the different classes, to
which objection is being made by the
Baptist ministers of the Mill City who
have taken up the matter.
The high school principals in Mime
apolis, or a part of them at least, COM
mend the crusade of the ministers and
have agreed to assist in discouraging
the pupils in giving dances.
In st. Paul the high school students
look to other forms of amuseme11ts,
such as parties and class plays, the
only dance given during the year which
is recognized by the faculty being the
senior and Junior reception, which is
attended by the faculty and many of
the parents Of the pupils.
I'VE have no objection to find here
In st. Paul." said Supt. Smith, last
night. Our high school students con-
duct their social affairs in a manner
highly satisfactory to the faculty, and
no dances whatever are given in any OF
the school assembly halls"
Supt. Smith says he is very well
pleased with the social conditions
which prevail in the high schools and
he is not inclined to believe that there
Is anything INDUCED in by them, as
students, which could be considered
detrimental to any church.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-02
CHOOSE new BOOKS
Teachers Reading Circle Board
Holds Annual Session.

The Minnesota State Teachers Read
ing Circle board held it's annual meet
ing at the Windsor hotel yesterday
and had an all-day session while it
wrestled with the problem of the rec
ommendation of two books for sub
mission to the country teachers.
Fourteen representatives Of as many
school. book publishing houses were
present and submitted a total of 35
books to the board, and last night
it was announced that the board has
made selection of Common Sense
Didactics" by Henry Sabin as a text
book on methods, and of Social Spirit
in America" by DIR. Charles r. Hen
derson, as a general culture treatise.
These books will be sent to the various
county superintendent throughout the
state and their use will be encour-
aged in the county reading circles Of
which the rural school teachers are
members.
The board, which is elected from
the county superintendent assoeia-
ton, meets annually to make selection
Of two booke for use in the circles
and there is sharp rivalry among
.ScnOOl DOCK puDllSherS Tor the recon-
mendation. Several thousand copies of
each volume will be used throughout
the state.
The board before it's adjournment
elected J. E. Keefe, of Ortonville. presi-
dent; Joseph Davies, ST. James, vice.
president; G. M. ,Cesander, Winthrop,
secretary; S. V. Wi1ber, Wfnona, treas
urer; w. E. Freeman Mankato, and
T. C. Wollan, Glenwoed. are the other
two members of the board. All are
county superintendent.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-02
SAYS M'VEY'S ERRORS
WILL BE CORRECTED
Editor of Encyclopedia Britannica
Writes Letter to Commercial Club.

Secretary C. p. Slime, of the Com
merciaI club, yesterday made public a
reply from Hugh Christolm, Of Lon
don, editor of the Encyclopedia Brit
tannica, to a. communication from the
club, in which the misstatenents made
verSity,e iE an article on Minnesota In
the last edition of the encyclopedia, are
mentioned. 4e-- era
while I am unable to defend the
errors have mentioned, I may draw
the attention of your club, first, to the
fact that the article in the new VOL
urf1es are only elementary to those
in the ninth edition. says Mr.aChris-
tolm; second. to the fact that we went
for these particular articles to Prof. f.
L. Money!. author of both a handbook
and a history of Minnesota. That. I
should regard Prof. Mcvey as an an-
thority, and should have published
these articles on his authority, cannot
be regarded as ineXcusable. In fut-
ure edition I shall endeayor to repair
any such errors.
.The statement in volume 80 that
Minneapolis is the capital of Minnesota
is clearly, wrong and conflicts with the
description Of St. Paul in volume II, !"
says Mr.. Christolm, taking up the
charges made by the Commercial club
in detail. This bears out your COM
ment on that fact as regards railroads.
I may point out that your assertion
that the article wrongly describes Min
neapolis as the terminal of all railroads
which actually terminate in st. Paul,
goes beyond what can be found in the
articles, which, actually describes Min
neapolis as sharing in the termini
with ST. Paul.
In regard to the charges that st.
Paurs educational institutions have
been sighted, MT. Christolm says that
they received ample mention in volume
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-02

Bar Association VIII Dine-The second
of a series of informal dinners to be given
by the Ramsey County Bar association
will be held at the Commercial club Sat
urday evening. Morton Barrows will be
POSTMASTER and NJ L. Countryman will
lead in a discussion of 1.-THE Development
of the Police Power Of the State,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-02
MAKES WAGONS FOR
ORIENTAL TRADE
Ex.senator Keller Says Sank
Center Concern Fills an
Order for 1000.

Eyes, it is true that we are manu-
featuring wagons for the Oriental
trade replied Former State Senator
Henry Keller, of Sank Center, to a
question at the Merchants yesterday.
81 have shipped from my factory at
Sank Center $50 wagons, and there are
250 yet TO follow. The wagons were
manufactured to the order of the Deere
Plow. company, Of Omaha, and I I'M
derstand that they are shipped from
that point with Iowa horses and Mis-
souri, mules to San Francisco and Sc
attic, and thence go to the Russian
ports for use in the Russian arnys
movements in the Orient.
The factory sent an S0o-pound wag-
on by express to- Omaha for approval,
and the order for a thousand of the
wagons Immediately followed. The
wagons represent the Industries of a
large area of the greatest country on
earth. The hubs are of Indiana white
oak, the skeins come from Chicago
and. the Epokes are from Memphis,
Tenn The iron is bought of the Re
public Steel company and the parts
are put together at the Sank Center
factory. G
MOST or the wagons are OF the six
wheel variety, guaranteed to have a
capacity of five tons each, and are built
for the use of small horses, high wheels
being used on the same, wagon with
low Wheels and they are unusually
light running. They are equipped with
brake crank, where, in the filly coun
try, soldiers walking behind may in
stantly stop them on a down grade by
turning the crank.
'The wagon is something new in this
country, but it is attracting attention
from implement men,. and I expect to
place a big order with a Minneapolis
firm for then.i Everything helps the
inventive Yankee manufacturer" said
Senator Keller @and the Russo-Japa-
nese war Is not SO bad for the manu-
featuring interests of America"
None Of the st. Paul wagon manu-
faeturers has. * SO far received any
benefit in the way of contracts arising
out of the war in the Orient.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-02
NO USE KICKING AS
BOARD CAN REASSESS
Van Hoven Says Action of West Seventh
Street Property Owners Is Peculiar.

Peter Van Hoven, member of the board
of public works, says regarding the west
Seventh street paving assessment:
TT seems peculiar to me that the people
will continue to fight the assessment that
has been levied when it is possible for
the board of public works to continue. to
make new assessments as long as it sees
fit to do so. If the assessment that has
been levied is declared illegal, all that
is necessary is to make a new levy, and
under these conditions it will be impos-
sible for the owners Of property on Sew
enth street proper to avoid paying their
proportion of the cost.
"In the assessment for the west Sev-
enth street paving the board of public
works followed as nearly as possible the
rules laid down by the courts in all re-
cent decisions"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-02
SAYS WIFE DECEIVED
HIM AS TO HER AGE
And Also Married Him Under an AS
suned Name and Behaved Badly.

A note Of warning for women who
are inclined to deceive people regard
ing their ages is sounded in an action
for divorce brought in the district court
yesterday by Albert E. Brown, who
wants legal separation from Maude
E. Brown because she deceived him
as to her age when they were married.
The complaint also charges that the
defendant married him under an as
sumed name, hiding her identity, and
that she not only swore at him and
proved otherwise disagreeable after
marriage, but that she received alto
gether too many letters from other
men. The defendant is now living in
North Dakota, but the plaintiff has
been a resident of st. Paul for more
than six months. The Browns were
married at Hudson in 1894.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-02
WILL TELL HOW FOODS
ARE ADULTERATED
George L. Dinsman viii Discuss linz
pure Products Before Society.

George L. Dingman, Of the state
dairy and food department, will go to
Rochester, Mimi, Saturday Of this
week to deliver an address before the
American Society of Equity. which
will assemble there at that time for
it's annual convention. The subject Of
Mr.. Dingman's address will be pure
Foods" but perhaps it might with
more propriety be designated as ''im-
pure foods" for he will particularly
discuss the methods of food aduitera-
ton, most commonly practiced in the
western states. He will illustrate
what he has to say by means of an ex-
hibit of adulterated foods and food
adulterants.
The American Society Of Equity is
an organization of farmers, and Its
purposes, as announced in the pro-
spectus for this meeting, are manifold.
but are all directed toward the better
ment Of the farmer and his condition.
It's plan Of operation is educational
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-02
WAS FIRST PILOT
ON UPPER MISSISSIPPI
John r. Sloan, Pioneer of 49, Passes
Away at ST. Cloud.


Mrs. +. A. Munich. 81 Summit avenue,
has been called to st. Cloud by the
death Of her father, John R. Sloan.
Mr.. Sloan was 80 years old, and was
one of the. early pioneers of the terri
tory. He came from Pennsylvania
with Gov Ramsey in 1849, and was
engaged in building Fort Ripley and
the agency building at Winnebago
agency, where Long Prairie now
stands.
He wassthe earliest pilot on the up
per Mississippi, and ran the raft of
lumber from Little Falls which went
into the first frame house on the pres
ent site of ST. Cloud. His wife, to whom
he was married fifty years ago at Belle
Prairie. was a daughter of Allen Nor
rison, Mhos was the oldest trader in
Minnesota and member of the first
territorial legislature. The widow and
seven children survive the deceased.