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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-18
SYNOPSIS Or PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.

Hiram w. Holiday, Wall street millionaire,
round dead by his clerk, Rogers. His daugh-
stoyce, the dead mans attorneys, goes to the
1equest with his clerk, Lester determined to
lear the daughter Of suspicion. 1t is Lester who
'siis me story. Before proceedings begin. Royce
seat. Puzzled. he goes into court. Rogers
stills his story. He had found his employer with
arting out frances Hoiaday ha d just BEEN S
nth the dead man, as he had seen her enter and
apart. The knife Holiday used to
larppe 1. pencils An unmarked woman's hand
''ogers secuted the idea Of suicide. The woman
ore dark red dress and seemed pale and
,orried. Miss Holidays maid said her mistress
"a gone out that afternoon in a very nervous
ate and returned about 8; When the news Of
orn dark red dress. Holidays coachman
'st1hes that he drove her to Washing ton square,
reuce sne proceeded on foot into the French
farter 1t was two hours before she reappeared
IL n was b driven en,d home He noted her dark red
'e handkerchief A note is handed to Royce.
reads: Rogers is lying. The woman who
Ss+s WIN a. Hoiiaday wore gown Of dark green
Pth discovers that Rogers is color blind He
fstooE green for red. Miss Holidays maid de.
ares ner mistress does not own green dress
t oe, oHi Ice boy swears the visitors dress was
ID Miss Holiday is discharged. The mysteri.
note. as q clue to the murderer is turned
,er 10 tse district attorney. Lester On leaving
f. onics that night is accosted by a pleasant
me with him. They discuss the murder and
airey ofers the theory that it was done in
uteh passion ~ woman who strikingly re-
- l1oies MISS Holiday, thus deceiving Rogers.
"a VINO Is perhaps an illegitimate daughter
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-18
A POWER IN PETTICOATS
Some Of the Requisite Qualifications OF
a Social Secretary in Washington.
Marie Columbia in the Deineator


She must be sort Of social Napoleon
in petticoats. She must be Of the elect
that is, Of the cave-dweller class. She
must have q rich and sure knowledge Of
Washington g customs, Of it's pitfalls and
snares She must be well groomed, well
gowned. She must be possessed Of some
Of the qualities Of Sherlock Holmes,
for she must be mistress Of all sorts OF
future, and, if need be, the hereafter OF
every person who comes within range
Of her patroness g eye. She must keep
three sets of books systematically
dinner book, luncheon book and the Wis.
iting book She must write invitations
or notes all the morning and pour tea
in the afternoon for fashionable drop.
pers-in.
It is her duty to divide her patronesss
list of friends and acquaintance into
lots-iob-lots, as it were-in which ths
goats, and, oddly enough, there are some
people in Washington who resent being
classed with the latter.
Her position cannot be regarded as &
sinecure. AS one secretary told of her
1sJust fancy! I was pouring tea on
one of our reception days. There were
some ten or twelve women present,
when Nine. WI, the wife of the Chinese
minister, was announced. Ny patroness
greeted her, then suddenly knelt down
do show us your dear little feet!' and
with that she drew forth from the
abashed oriental's reluctant robe one
of her poor little deformed pegs Of feet.
Everyone in the room was paralyzed. Ar
for me, I simply had a fit.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-18
CHAPTER VII,
Miss Holiday Becomes Capricious.

The body Of Hiram Holiday was
placed beside that of his wife in his
granite mausoleum at Woodlawn on
the Sunday following his death; two
days later, his will, which had been
drawn up by Mr.. Graham, was de-
posted in the office safe, was read and
duly admitted to. probate. AS was ex-
pected, he had left all his property,
without condition. or reserve, to his
daughter Frances. There were few
requests to old servants. Rogers receiv-
ing handsome legacy; about half a mil
lion was given to various charities in
which he had been interested during
his life, and the remainder was placed
at the absolute disposal Of his daughter.
We found that his fortune had been
overestimated, as is usually the case
with men whose wealth depends upon
the fluctuations Of the Street, but there
lions for the girl-a pretty dowry. She
her affairs in our hands, and in financial
matters would be guided entirely by our
advice. Most Of the business was con-
Quoted by our junior. and while, of
course, he told me nothing, it was evil.
dent that Miss Holladay's kindly feel
ings toward him had suffered no diminu-
ton. The whole office was more or less
cOnVoTSauL Win Ine AFFAIR, ana WlSneQ
him success and happiness.
So a week or ten days passed. The
utmost endeavor of newspapers and DO.
lice had shed no new light on the trag.
edy, and for the great public it had
passed into the background Of the for
gotten. But for me, at least, it re-
manned of undiminished interest, and
more than once I carefully reviewed it's
features to convince myself anew that
our theory was the right one. Only one
point occurred to me which would tend
to prove it untrue: If there was an
illegitimate daughter, the blow she had
dealt her father had also deprived her
of whatever income he had allowed Sher,
or Of any hope Of income from him.
So she had acted in her own despite
still, Godfrey's theory Of sudden passion
might explain this away. And then,
again, Miss Holiday could probably be
counted upon, her first grief past, to
provide suitably for her sister. Grant
ing this, the theory seemed to me quite
impregnable.
One other thing puzzled me. How had
this woman eluded the police9 I knew
that the French quarter had been ran
sacked for traces Of her, wholly with
out success, and yet I felt that The
search must have been emisconducted
else some trace of her would surely
have been discovered. Miss Holiday
Of course, rigidly refused herself to all
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-18

ttWell, she started out by reminding
me that her property had been left to
her absolutely, to do as she pleased
with; point which ], Of course, con
She knew Of a number of requests her
father had intended to make before
his death, and which he would have
made if he had not been cut off SO sud-
denly; that the requests were Of such
nature that he did not wish his name
going to undertake to carry them out
anonymously =
1tWell9' asked our Junior again.
rWen," said Mr.. Graham, slowly,
ushe asked me to dispose at once Of
such of her securities as I thought best,
in order that might place in her hands
by tomorrow night, one hundred thou
sand dollars in cash-a cool hundred
thousands! =
ToBe Continued Next Saturday.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-18

much," and he fiicked the ashes from
his cigar. "Now, I fear that 1 must
leave you. I've good deal of work to
do, and you we opened up very in
teresting line of speculation. 1 assure
you that I've passed a very pleasant
evening | hope you've not found it
"Quite the contrary I said,
heartily. "I've enjoyed myself i'm
mensely.'
"Then I'll ask one last favor. My
cab is at the door. I've no further use
for it,, and I beg you'll drive home
in it,
saw that he really wished it.
"Why,, yes, certainly,' assented.
"Thank you,' he said.
He took me down to- the door, called
the cab, and shook hands with me
warmly.
Goodbye, Mr.. Lester,' he said:
81 IN glad of the chance to have met
you. I'm mot really such mysterious
individual-it' g merely trick Of the
trade. I hope Wen meet again some
time
$50 do IT,. I said, and meant it..
curb, looking after us as we drove away,
then he turned and ran rapidly up the
steps Of the Elevated.
The driver seemed in no hurry to get
me home, and 1 had plenty Of time to
think over the events Of the evening,
but -! could make nothing Of them. What
result he had achieved I could not
imagine. And yet he had seemed sat-
isied. AS to his Theory, I could not
but admit that it was an adroit one;
even a mastery one-a better one, GER
tainly, than I should have evolved un-
aided.
The cab drew up at my lodging and I
sprang out, tipped the driver, and ran
up the steps to the door. Ny landlady
met me on the threshold.
"Oh, Mr.. Lester!" she cried. "Such
time as I've had this night! Every
looking for you, and there's crowd of
them up in your room now. I tried to
put them out, but they wouldn It go!"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-18
THE HOLIDAY CASE,
By BURTON E. STEVENSON

AUTHOR RECENT" "a SOLDIER OF v
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-11
hIabama's Cotton Crop.

The census bureau shows that np to Novemenr 1 there had been ginned in Alabama by 3642 ginners S15, 5,457 bales. This report cannot be com pared with a similar report covering the like period of previous years. The National Ginners' association esti- mated that 45 per cent of the crop hal been ginned up to October IS, and t would be liberal to add 12 per cent to cover the eleven working days in De- tober after that date. or 57 per cent In all up to November 1. On this basis the Alabama crop would be l. 430,000 bales, as against 1,443,233 bales last year. No one, however, believes the new crop of Alabama will prove equal to that of last year. Theodore H, Price estimates the quantity ginned in this state up to November 1 of last year at S65,000 bales, as against S15,- 4o7 bales in the like period of this year.
 Ii is difficult to get at the truth of the situation, but it Is plain that the crops of Georgia, Alabama and the Carolinas have been underestimated, while the deficiencies in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas will perhaps be greater than the estimates.
 The crop estimates continue to pivot around 11,000,000 bales, and there they will stay until the census bureau de- termines, by actual count at the gins, what the crop really Is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-11

the plan to be adopted this winter by Congress, and an actual beginning of the canal work will therefore proba- bly, be delayed until 1907.
 The preparations for the digging of a sea level canal will differ materially from those for a lock canal, and vice versa, and as 1t seems to have been de- termined that the work in the future shall be done by contract, it will be necessary to determine as speedily as possible what kind of a canal is to be dug. This perhaps should have been determined at the outset. The blum ders of the past need not, however, disturb us.
 The future is what concerns us in canal matters, and that will be largely determined this winter by Congress. The coming session will be a canal session, and no estimates, either re lating to time or money, can be ap- proximately made until we know what kind of canal we are to dig. The consulting engineers and Congress and the President will settle that question this winter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-11

The production this year will be 22,500,0O0 tons, and the next 10-year period will show another remarkable step forward. America has become the chief iron-malIing country in the world.
 Tn steel making our output has been trebled in ten years, standing at about 16,000,000 tons. The rail output an nually is now fully 3,000,000 tons. The steel making naturally follows and keeps step with the iron making.
 The iron industry is the glory of the country. Jay Gould called it the ba- rometer of prosperity. When 1t Is prosperous all lines of trade and all ether industries are prosperous also. The progress of the country is on a stupendous scale, and iron has kept we'll towards the head of the column.
 Alabama shares in the giant indus try, and there are no indications that it will suffer from competition here after, for nowhere else in the country do the raw materials for iron-making lie side by side. Nowhere else do they lie so near the sea, and when the War rior is opened this districts position will be assured. It cannot then be shaken, and every possible effort should be made to induce Congress to hasten the completion of the work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-11
Quarantine and immigration.

Out of medley of mildewed opin- ions expressed at the Chattanooga con vention-the so-called southern con ference-shines the clear-cut, sensible views of John Sharp Williams of Mis- sissippi. MT. Williams is practical leader in a practical age, and he dis cards at the very outset the outlawed maxims that are not only dead, but that would not, even if living, fit the case in hand.
 As to quarantine, he thinks the gov ernment that can protect cattle in the various states from the Texas tick fever, has power to protect human beings from disease germs. The true right of state in these days consists in a demand on the general govern ment for the care of public health. The south has a right to demand this. and it should do it. The south gets comparatively little from the general government anyway, although Disg- leyism takes from it vast sums annu- ally. This is simply the plain, com mon sense of the quarantine situation. and it was thrown into the ranks of ancients at Chattanooga at the right moment, and in the right way.
 MT. Williams is sound also on the subject of immigration. Given a white mans capability, love of home and family" he said, "he cared little what his race might be-" He wants more white men in the south, and he Is willing to accept those who can be Induced to come to this section. The convention had been packed in con trary direction, but Mir Williams views will doubtless cause it to be at least cautious in it's formal expressions today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-11
WHERE HAVE THEY GONE?

From the Atchison Globe.
 What has become of the old-fashioned man who carried a shot-bag in his pocket to keep change in?
 Who wore barn door trousers?
 Who kept a bootjack to pull off his boots?
 Who had his trousers lined with un- bleached muslin?
 Who wore a long linen duster when travelling?
 Who carried an old fiat carpetbag? Who greased his boots on Sunday? Who wore shawl?
 Who wore watch cord with watch key fastened to it?
 What has become of the old-fashioned woman who kept bodkin in her work basket?
 Who baked custard for tea when she had company?
 Who made impressions around the edge of pies with a key to make them look fancy?
 Who wore calico sunbonnets with paste board slats?
 Who wore Shaker bonnets?
 Who seasoned apple pie with allspice? Who used indigo to blue the water when washing clothes?
 What has become of the old-fashioned people who poured tea in the saucer and blew on 1t to make 1t cool?
 Who drank sassafras tea in the spring to purify their blood? Who had to learn to like tomatoes? Who saved old rags to trade off to the tlnware peddler?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-11
SOME APPRECIATION.

From the Gadsden Times-News.
 In last Sundays Age-Herald an enure mage was devoted to a write-up of Cad den by Sam Claybaugh, young boy who is rapidly developing into one of the best newspaper men in Alabama. He came here a few days ago and in few hours had gathered more real and valuable information about Gadsden and the Gads- den district than many older heads would have found in weeks time. and he assembled his facts in very attractive manner. Gadsden people like to have their town spoken well of. and they fully appreciate The Age-Herald's effort of last Sunday. What MT. Claybaugh wrote ia true. This is one of the coming cities of Alabama and Is destined to be sec ond only to the great city of Birmingham in industrial growth And with our prog ress we are growing in civic righteous ness. In fact, we are growing in every way that tends to make here modern and magnificent city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-11
Auburn Training.

Auburn is training hard now 10 se' in condition for the Alabama game ana I believe that the team Will De Ill oettei condition than for any other game or this fall" said one of the students rom Auburn last night
 several of our players were not Tn the best physical condition when Auburn played Davidson in Birmingham anu that probably caused us to loose the game They had not been in training long enough to be able to stand the punishment of football game. and therefore weak ened a little towards the end. But when we play Alabama every man on the team will have been in training several weeks. I believe that all of them will be In inc trim.
 we are expecting victory, but we un- derstand that the crimson and white team will give us a hard battle The score will not be very large, but think that Au- burn will win by about 12 to 6, or score in about that proportion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
Postofflce Business,

The clerical force of the Birmingham postoffice," said an employe of the post office yesterday, Is never as large as 1t should be. It is difficult to convince the department what the needs of this office are from time to time. If clerk be granted for one branch of the bus mess, another is wanted soon and so It happens that the clerks are always over- worked, and the business cannot be handled with desirable speed and accu- racy.
 For example, take the liquor business, which is done in this city with the dry counties of this state and Mississippi the package business. One firm in this city send out 5000 circulars daily, and few know how heavy the entire liquor business of Birmingham is In the dry counties. It is increasing rapidly Some of the Mississippi counties complain that heavy c. o. D. liquor traffic is carried on from here that Is not based on or ders, but the dealers say they have bona ffde written orders for every package sent out.
 That is a matter that does not con cern me, except so far as 1t increases the business of the office. l mention the package liquor business simply to snow in how many ways the postoffice work is increasing. Every month shows an ln- crease oyer the corresponding month OF the last year, and more clerks are con stantly needed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-11
clerayman's Views.

The Rev. Dr. A. J. Dickinson pastor of the First Baptist church, while stand ing in cigar store yesterday afternoon and reading a New York newspaper, was asked what he thought of the race Tor governor.
 q hardly think" said he. that interest in this railway freight rate business VIII last until next year. Both candidates are on the same platform. l don't Know that either of them is sincere, though each oi them may be, and I think both oi them want to be governor.
 Railway rate reform was all very well till the New York election came along Now, however, it will have to take back seat. It won't cause ripple year from now The issue Is no longer rai- way regulation It Is nothing less 'ha,i governmental ownership of railroads All this is all caused by corporate lrauo'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-11
Sea Level or Hiqh Level.

The consulting engineers of the Pan anna canal are sitting daily, and they will soon be able to render a report They will say what kind of canal, in their opinion, should be dug, and If their decision be unanimous, or near ly unanimous, 1t will be influential and perhaps controlling in Congress. At present no one is authorized to say how the consulting engineers stand.
 The canal construction is, it is plain, to be long and difficult. The first com mission was inefficient, and when it had been reorganized it was ascer- tained that the canal zone must first be made sound in a sanitary sense, After that is accomplished 1t will be aecessary to get ready for work under
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-11
LOST ARTS.
One Authority Says the Tern, Is Mis- homer.

From the Scientific American.
 Not as much as we used to- but occa- sionally even yet, one hears of some won i cannot be done now.
 Not so many years ago 1t was quite commonly asserted that modern work men could not quarry, or. having quar- ried, could not handle stones as large as the monoliths of Egypt; and the writer has heard a public speaker of note as- sert that 1t would be impossible to handle, with modern implements, such large stones as were used in the pyramids, or to join them as perfectly as they are Joined there; yet when occasion arose.
 larger stones than any of these were ouarried in Maine and some the larger monoliths themselves were transported not only to tho sea, but across 1t. and erected in England, France and America; and there are individuals today who might, if they chose. cause the trans portation to and erection in this country of the largest pyramids. or build new ones ten times larger and more durable. Pyramids are not being generally built nowadays. because they are not in line with the trend of modern ambition that's all.
 It Is very doubtful if a Damascus blade would stand half as severe usage as modern band-saw blade, or even as much as the spring of 40 cent clock; while the ornamentation of those won drous blades, so far as the mechanical execution is concerned. can be excelled by apprentices and amateurs of today.
 Of the Host art of hardening copper little is heard of late years, though one occasionally hears wiseling from the wlds wish that he knew how to do 1t as well as the ancients and, while it Is per haps regrettable that he doesn't, his ig norance is his own fault.
 Many arts and devices have been aban- doned because new Knowledge has made them useless, and time spent in rediscov- ering them would be worse than wasted The modern youth had much better spend his time studying the art of his contem- porares than that which is lost"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-11
ARRANMoRE.
By Thomas Moore.

By Thomas Moore. Oh. Arranmore, loved Arranmore,
 How oft I dream of thee, And of those days when by thy shore
 I wandered young and free. Fully many a path I've trod since then
 Through pleasures flowery maze, But ne'er could find the bliss again
 felt in those sweet days. How blithe upon thy breezy cliffs,
 At sunny morn I've stood, With heart as bounding AS the skins
 That danced along the flood; Or, when the western wave grew bright
 With daylight's parting wing. Have sought that Eden in It's light Which dreaming poets sing That Eden where tn immortal brave Dwell in n land serene, Whose bowers beyond the shining wavs. |. At sunset oft are seen. Ab. dream too full of saddening truth!
 Those mansions OCT the main Are like the hopes I built in youeo- As sunny and as vainj
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-11
ALABAMA PRESS

Montgomery Advertiser: Wonder if any President while Roosevelt was beyond the three-mile limit.
 Andalusia News: We suggest that they make Vice President Fairbanks the new President of Russia. He would be in harmony with the climate.
 Anniston Star: President Roosevelt be- crowded. Especially is this true just now of Mrs Warrens Profession"
 Marion County News: Next year will be a good time for the democratic party of Alabama to keep in the middle of the road. One-ldea issues will not do to tie to at any time.
 Brewton Standard Gauge: The continued silence of the Mir. Hobson causes us to ask what has become of the naval hero. Has he retired from the field or is he off hoading his guns for the fight In the Sixth?
 Florence Times: Dr. Cunningham and MT. Conner both refer to each other in their public utterances in a most re- spectful manner. Each says he is friend of the other This is a happy situation, indeed.
 Abbeville Times: As time goes on the gubernatorial campaign will grow warm CT. We have two good men, both well known to the public, and running on prac- tically the same platform and the dear yoters' will watch their flight" with in- terpst