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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-09-15
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Yes. you will find valdermere
when you find the house-provided-"
Provided"
Provided he is there"
Then you are not sure?"
am sure you will find the house.
II you follow my directions"
But Valdermere?"
You will find him If he is in the
house"
Will you go with me,"
Not yet. later l will join you
until then, adieu.'
Stay" said
OF triumph in his eyes.
When shall | start, and what
means OF conveyance is there?'
The road is fine, though steep;
the air bracing-I would start at
dawn tomorrow. and walk
Have you any message to send"
said.
None" he answered.
Then We shall see you soon?"
Very soon" and in his voice there
was certain inflection-a certain sig
tolIu not
Though weary in body and mind. I
slept but little during the night fol-
lowing my interview with Duvalle.
The more l dwelt upon my strange
meeting with this man. the more re-
pel!ent he seemed to me. His for
bidding personality. his restless eyes,
always in search of omething, his
shadowy form, and his noiseless-
movements, bore strange contrast
to the handsome, intellectual, and
almost God-like beauty of feature and
form which distinguished Valdez
mere. and which Immediately engaged
the attention of all with whom he
came in contact.
l shuddered as | yainly tried to
fathom the mystery which could
bring such men together in ties of
inviolable secrecy. | felt a thrill OF
excitement as l anticipated my induc
ton into the council chambers Of this
mystic order, and longed to tell Val
dermere how completely. how liter
ally had his prophecy been fulfilled
how his words had led me to force
from the trembling lips of my now
saipted mother the sad story of her
tragic life, filled with horrors which
the poor soul had studiously hidden
away in her own heart from all save
my devoted father.
All, If Valdermere knew of this,
there surely must be some tie be-
tween his life and my own, though
my mother avowed that she knew him
not.
Slowly, softly, the night melted
away, and the rel gleam of dawn
penetrated my room and filed it with
soft pink light l threw open the
blinds and looked toward the noun
tain, whose fower-covered slopes
were sprinkled with dew. simmer
ing in the light OF the infant morn
and filling the air with a fragrance
sweet and pure. as the face of the
early sun. blushing and beaming
peeped above the horizon
| made a hasty toilet, and leaving
the inn started to the lone house
among the mountains-a house
whose secrets 1t has been the lot of
few men to penetrate.
1t Is of this strange old house. and
the horrors connected with its tragic
history, that the following story will
treat.
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VI tiio 0SdNy WV
rot, and the long black line of hair
hanging heavily upon his frowning
forehead.
While 1 did not attribute any of the
higher intellectual traits to him which
marked Valdermere, l c.uld not but
confess that there was a wealth of
power in his thin set lips, purpose
blazed from his small black eyes. and
in the silent motion of his attenuated
form, there was a caution that demon
strated an ever-workful brain. l won
dered what peculiar function he play
ed in the secret order, and l could not
repress q shudder as | mentally esti.
mated his resources.
"You have told me all?" he said.
For the third time l answered
"All!"
Stepping toward a window which
commanded view of Mt. LOc lout,
he beckoned me to his side.
Look" he said. do you see that
mountain"
II see nothing else" said; "how
far 10 it,"
-Four miles from this hotel-but
look further South, and you will see
that It extends almost In line"
bowed.
"At a distance of about siy miles
from that point" and he signihed the
point overlooking the city. "thare Is
m old stone house."
THE present quarters oe Valdez
Dssof'
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CHAPTER Il.-continued.

CHAPTER Il.-continued.
"Stay," cried.
He turned toward me with some I'M
patience.
What am I required to tell"
only few things by which I can
identify you-your meeting with Val
dermere. the date, the object, and
what this meeting led to-" He still
stood with hat in hand.
BE seated" l replied, and when he
had done so, l told him all, in as few
words AS l could, and when l had fin
ished he made no immediate reply,
but strange glitter filled his eyes.
You have told all?"
"All," said
But. think, have you not forgotten
certain items?"
l reviewed the matter carefully in
my mind, while Duvalle sat silently
watching me from the tail OF his
beady eye.
"All," l said, Il can recall nothing
else"
"No password, no sign, or memen-
TOT"
None. l never signified q wish to
become a member"
"Ah!" said Duvalle, with an air of
surprise, land this meeting?"
Have you no instructions from
your SUPERIOR" l said, growing weary.
my superior? All! | see you are
mAaled-I have none"
"Do you rank with Valdermere in
importance among the order?"
In the performance of my duties
have the honor to say l am answer
able to no superior"
As our interview progressed, stud
led the face of Duvalle. and while l
forces possessed by Valdermere. I
detected a certain cunning. and was
surprised at the slow bungling man
ner in which he studiously weighed
his questions and my answers.
II have told you ALL" l said, now
conduct me to Valdermere."
He fixed his gaze upon me. as
though he would photograph my feat
ures upon his memory. The gaze was
SO intense, SO insulting, that l arose
from my seat, as any English gentle
man would have done.
He turned toward ME in a deprecat-
Ing manner.
patience, my dear sir. You will
soon understand that my questions
are neither idle nor insulting. Think
OF the danger we are exposed to,
should the slightest error occur in
receiving persons who"
"Mr. Duvalle!"
"Your pardon" he cried, you did
not permit me to finish. l was saying
that one error might expose us to a
thousand difficulties, and there are
many men who would give fortune
to witness cur secret sessions
He stood before me, his hat in his
hand, his black eyes fixed upon me-
his hooked nose protruding from his
hideous face, like the beak Of a par.
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smuooIe Coolies From Mexico.

Smuggling Chinese coolies from
Mexico into the United States is
busy industry on the border, and 4
profitable one, but occasionally there
Is a setback. The other day one Of
the smugglers was caught as he was
entering San Diego harbor at night,
with eight coolies in q steam laanG1 I,
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Il Us have eemr 10 ,.E aEth regret
tn, shake + the head, We VIII
never ay'
Rtam here ao steps thc grrnr-t
wizard oi hls day, Thomas A. Edison.
IT, say that man ought 20 be ashamed
Of himself ipr not having solved the
problem, in al, It's phases, t2ng ago.
Il W, down in Florida. and one day
watched 4 BIZ b.rd-I think it was a
va,urr-that fgat-a abDg: In lr air a
whole hour without moving lis wings
prrcepebly When GaI made that bird
He gave il machine tJ fly with, bat
He IiLn't I give it mueh else lie gave the
bird very small brain with which to
direct the movements Of the machine,
but He gave to man a much larger
brain in proportion to that Of the bird"
All this is paraphrased III the one word
Shame" :"
Here" says Edison OF the vulture,
is a natural flying machine wa3rh is a
thousand times as heavy As the air II
ti.places There Is nothing but ma
chine and small brain, and it is not
a very remarkable machine, either And
then in self-eyiden. disgust: Why is it
that man cannot make flying machine
As efficient as bird2
"A lot OF people say that it was never
meant that man should fly, that il ma
.u1e had intended such thing man
would have been provided with the
necessary machinery in his body such as
IS now possessed by the bird. But you
might as well say that It was never
intended that man should ever have any
light asi'e from the sun and the moon
and stars which were originally pro
vided for him, or that he should not
move about faster with the aid OF
wheels because no wheels were supplied
TO him BY nature.
Through further study Of the bird and
it. method ot fight man will discover
how to ay, says Mr.. Edison, and all
| Others who have given the subject any
serious thought agree with him fully
But, Mr.. Edison adds, somewhat para-
doxicaIly, he who solves the problem OF
flight "wiu find out nothing new. Po"
erfur motors Of wonderful compactness
will be applied to a framework Of ex,
tremc rightul~s. and that will be all there
j. to il
"Doubt1czs this framework will ne
something similar to the physical strue
t,ire OF a bird I do not believe it vii
be difficult, because We have many me
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liiri on an i0rluci plane forward
through thc air recovered it and
s,.icl again. Though tine pabE. hl, not
yet seen it in action There are many
r-1-,sarAy men who hgc testified to
having JeheIt the Hylu- machine Of the
M@l't Jry,her-, Of Dhiy, gliding
Enough the air IKE bird. Any scien-
u-t who has pald aay attention what
ever t. acronau:irs w.n tell you that
Pitchers gliding machine acts in the air
just like a bird in fight. And there
are others
Like d bird N gliding flight have they
travelled overhead for varying distances,
No bag Of gas lifted them in the air
and kept them suspended therein, while
motor or an engine OF some sort fur
ni-hed driving power 10 a propeller, as
in the case ot the Santos Dumon. and
other 1.r-hips Like a bird they have
sailed, remained in the air BY reason OF
their own initiative, the power furnished
by motors or engines causing the me
rhari,nz to Offer the necessary bird-like
resistance u the air, with the result OF
actual fight
But alas. because We do not yet pos
sess the full knowledge of the principle
# flight, as does the meanest Of birds
ard aying insects those flying machine:
"hjch have justified their name, in par,
at least, have been wont to play queer
tricks at the most inopportane moment:
on their inventors and an anxiou,ly
watching and waiting world. And so
though the greatest ambition Of the
world today seems to be TO fly, snany
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chau,-a' 3r.ee, nov which are "nrrl"-
to the aayces used by r.t1re .a lanan
beings lnI animals. AMI ] y. MT -.r
R.g w- may uot pat together '.
ts@ney which vii, a. ..ss. " e'.. =.
the machine and hg.aa Il &C.. '-
S.. il man-thqht Is -rh -u .a=E ".--
ter As Mr.. Edison makes t. Nat .' ao
Why hayr We not been NAVIGATING tie
arr these many year I.r ne ta.ne
We Sc only recrnt,,, IN oar attempt,
to f3y. lett of trying t. be nrl~"a. a"-
endcavored to copy the bird, the aandi-
worl, oi nature 1t J., q En.--an. ia-t
that only since we have boxed t. the
bird for the secret Of flight has there
been built machine with an indisput
able record Of flying ever so srnal, a
distance. Only since We have begun t.
initiate the bird have the WISE men he-
come convinced that We will yet fly
And some day-some day-ah, VIII
would not Ike his name to 90 rolling
down the age as the invent Of the
first machine to demon tratr beyond thu
shadow Of a doubt the complete con-
quest II the air by man,
Though man. when he A.as, will t'g
Ike the birds, il does no. neses 'arl'y
follow that the flying machine. on ac-
count Of is structure, might be takcn
for some long surviving anudc'avan in
habitant Of the air. Indeed, not lev
scientists who have been busy with aero
nau.ic5 declare that. once man has dis
covered the principle of fight. his won
dc-ful ingenuity will enable him TO con
struct 4 machine that will incorporate
the principle and at the same time have
nothing about it resembling wings in THE
Iightest degree Prope,.Jrs there WI.
be, and a rudder, doing the work OF
wings and tail But it will be flight
! without wings-and We have been
taught from childhood that even the
angels need wings to fly. Other scien-
fists, however, believe that there will be
I great planes, two or more, mechanically
worked like wings, in conjunction with
prgpet1ors and rndder
Again, in their perfected state, pro
neI'ors and rudd"r will do more than
to give flight Once more man will i'm
prove on nature and the mechanism5 OF
his ingenuity viii drive the good air ma
chine through gales that the strongest
bird could not face, will keep it Sc
renely on its course, while birds
caught in the swirling, clashlne. battling
currents, will be hurt'ed miles out Of
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an a III. friendly foliage Of me
tr.a1e country
viii the shell of .- ..h.@e ~ OF
.rarr7 Certainly ot umt ar nq.other
atgr.r. equally stroos 4rf. - s'=cL
many timc- heavier taan tie AIR il de
places
The hepc i the machine, Probably
that # d bril- bo1g-a Aa-e, torpedo
ike rru-tare. with one nose pointed and
The other 5tuuted somewhat. The artists,
taking their cue from the scientists,
have been p,rturing it thus for several
years now.
What will drive it2 Motors OF we'll
nigh miraculous power, and many times
lighter IN weight than machinery cap
able Of such power could now be built,
lust as the automobile motor Of to-day
is infinitely lighter than the motor Of
only a few years ago even, and the
mighty engines Of the modern ocean
greyhound are lighter than the weak
'ir4S Of fifty odd years ago.
And the motors will revolve the pro
oc''rr5 so ast5nishingly fast that flight
sill be born II this very rapidity of
motion. offering resistance to the air;
and Sight will be sustained by 1t, as in
the ease 7f the bird, and as was the case
iyr a hort time with Prof. Langleys
! 4ergdromc.
How fast will We travel7 The wild
goose. with i brain much smaller in pro-
portion than mans, has speed. in full
light, Of from two hundred to three
hundred miles an hour Surely wc will
not journey through the air at les than
this speed, we who are the br.u #
the universe! a mile every sixteen mr.
twelve seconds, the Atlantic er5-,l in
single night, an aftcr-,aah al 1.-
iorc-d.nner trip bet%ern New York and
Chicago, 4 run OF minutes merely i-an
the uetropoli, to the Hub
What will give life to the driving na-
rhinerya There is a wide diversity NJ
opinion, but all are agreed that it. bulk
will be very small, it, weight ligh-, and
a little Will 90 very long va. Per
haps, say the mos. daring, man, as he
flies. will snatch the necessary electric
power from space, and in his ar con
yeyanccs there will be nothing tn re
sembfe the giant fuel bankers Of the
ocean ere7h910is
When man flies our wars vii, ae
/ i1uart ii the air: the victor ui.' -ay
Continued On Pase ?
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p.ae.s, the machine in which man will
prove to the world the complete pTac.
u.abi,i,y and utility OF air travel VIII
be-Ahg knows how many hundred times
heavier than the substance 6,,lHs the IN
Seen and bJuualcss sea through which ii
Wi, shoot with speed outrival.i"g The
homing pigeons, with the stead.ness and
t1c..ity OF an old family horse2
And our flight through space will be
in conscious imitation Of the flights Of
the birds
Every bird, every flying thing, flies be
sause it, 4irRt is based upon the resist
aace offered to the air by its wing
In other words. we shall never attain
Hieh. by merely disnlae;nE air, as we do
VIXEN floating in the straight OH: bal.
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ar 0r .n- -.--'-'.." a.r-IHu j tr-l.y
Further. ac sill fly As a.r- t.r pigeon
I iu ta' flight raises itself oy ea-h
its rapid wing beats. IN almost tn-
-.--,rr.br distance and shoots forward
between each flap along plane o; very
light inclination, duwn"arls by just the
amount tho Wig beat raises it, and for
wards q considerable d,stance-the re
suit being rapid flight
Our flight: then will be 4 gradual
gliding down an inclined plane and a
constant recovery by ap-l.f-. In some
forms Of flight THESE t"g actions occur
almost simultaneously. s. w,l. they in
the perfected lsing machine. :nsu-ing a
deElhtiul sgu.e Of safety to the pa en-
ger. nou-i.a'.nty dc5tut of the ,aw Of
gravi,atian, hc knowing full well the ma
chine ability cons'aae.y and arbitrarily
10 c,srec. t'rc position Of the center Of
gravity, bird fashion. thus iusaring
permanent stability in the air.
The wisc.t d men declare all this
till, you say drcam-a phant4sma-
s7ri2 OF the brain
Surely not when man ha, already
Gown in or do~n machine a. tac pigeon
-''cs
Time after time the ac-aao-e-air
r,nncr-iuvcnted by :he late Prof E. P
I-aag,cy. o.: tAr Smithsonian Institution
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VII We ye. A. through the air al
easily as We flash across the continent
By raj, today many lines more ca -ss
and far nore pr9e;ab.y and e-.u.ui
ca,y tgo2
The wise men Il the civilized portions
Of the wy-.4 are r.w pretty generally
agreed that He a- 4 fr> decades ago
they were NJ. Su.~ thsn. n the nat
u-al march ot ryrr.-. -..rr.- thing
have hapqeu.4 = saa.e them t0 a.e
about. aal g.. wal u.-s t.
w4se up !. m.7s.a ..e, week -nezt
rrar. t, the e.r.4a a.sa .'-r eaa. -.r
is flying d: H.;
'Img..-f.,r ,a e>.a,m Il. zones .
tina, SAVIOR + 1a.ss>, d. s--a q vision
th.. - .r- ,rrs ".-E -h- erra, bod.
Ut r= rr -#r se5 ah- .t ae time ar .
.uat--.. -r.'e s=... .r.-, ra-.- q sn4i.
l.g ot u.n were a~ m thr hs.art
o.. ... .....f -- .- F.. ,e-... .-..
4 ...- f. .t- .vr a.,. a-,-+
t.s .s.r a.r... l'. . .t=--.. s4-
rag... ..-t -n. -. s. ..-. ..-
.hus... ut u. "s..a. .=-
.,a. ..r .: .r... #.- ".:.- a-5
,ht- +. :ae ".-- t... - -.a.. w.r. 81
%. r.. rise to- var -.. .un .e hear
harmed man. ar:a..< ~ 81" t.r--
c.r. so.emu.y declare t.t 49, aa.
ys: ay
Fly. not Haat. mind g.r
We can float in the az r.w Ihe.
trick is nothing. We a4.. l.-. flat
ins in the ayr, 10, these raas decade
past. The balloon is a aoau-s ba
merely
This is true Of both the t.r-5~ a
non -dirigble types In e.-h case l..
thing that gets the balloon -a :o ii.
air and keeps i suspended there is Ea-
Gas. as every one know. i sGl-tar
lighter than air. and so j: is sa, .1.~,
when used in sufficient quantity. t1 float
the silken cloth the rope, the woven
basket, and whatever else g1-s iut1 the
makeup Of the contraptou wc call q
balloon.
But the invention that is to give ns
the mastery Of the now unchartei h.ga.
WAYS OF the air will travei a.ong ;he--
very highways on its own initiative It
will be an active, not passive, so
jouruer in the realm Of overhead
IN this feature it will be Ike unto the
~ and again, like the bird, :. ~i"
be heavier. many times heavier, than the
air itself A vu,ture's body IS a thou
sand times heavier than the air it dis
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-03-09
Never Touched One.

Walter $. Logan. who is never quite
happy unless writing about the increas-
ing supply Of gold or kindred sub
jects. is credited with the following
anecdote: \ certain insurance CRATER
was under discussion at the club, a
gentleman who was a dummy director,
with pay, in nearly hundred cor
porations. There was one said the
narrator that he couldn't get into. 1t
reminds me of the boy and the aples.
Tommy said his father, have you
becn at those six apples | left on the
siGeboard?' Father, said Tommy, 1
have not touched one Then how is it
your mother found five apple cores in
your bedroom, and there is only one
apple left on the plate?' That replied
Tommy, lis the one | didn't touch. -
New York Press.
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TERRIBLE SCALY ECZEMA.
Eruptions Appeared on Chest, and Face
and Neck Were All Broken Out
-Cured by Cuticura.

II had an eruption appear on my chest
and body and extend upwards and down
wards. so that my neck and face were all
broken out also my arms and the lower
limbs a. far as the knees. | at first
thought it was pric6ly heat. But soon
scales or crusts formed where the break
ing out was. Instead of going to ply
sician | purchased complete treatment
OF the Cuticura Remedies. in which | had
great faith. and all was satisfactory. A
year or two later the eruption appeared
again, only little lower, but before it
had time TO spread | procured another
supply of the Cuticura Remedies. and con
tinued their use until the cure was com
plete. 1t is now ~ years since the last
attack and have not seen any signs OF "a
return. / have more faith i'm Cuticura
Remedies for skin diseases than anything
J know Of" Emma +. Wilson, Liscomb,
Iowa Oct. /, 1905.
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Apcstrophc to the Hou.

You will never know the trouble and
pleasure of life until you raise hogs
They are a bother and a veXation to
the spirit of a man while they live but
bring JOY and contentment TO the soul
of man when they die at hog-killing
time The American hog. however, is
the d-blamedest, split-hoofed. long
shouted bUsybody animal we ever saw
He can make fellow madder than
other animals that infest the premises
He will always squeal and muddy your
pants when he knows you are trying
10 feed him and he will get in your
garden through a llnothole and destroy
enough produce in three minutes to
feed your wife and children for three
months. He will pay no attention TO a
wide-open gate where you want him to
80 through; but will shovel out several
cubic yards Of dirt TO make a hole into
a place you don't want him TO go. He
is the bddest nuisance and most profit
able on the farm.-Moro Ua) Observ-
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noticed a change for the better. The
kidney secretions had been disordered
and irregular. and contained a heavy
sediment. but in a weeks time the
urine was clear and natural again and
the passages regular. Gradually the
aching and soreness left my back and
then the lameness. | used six boxes
10 make sure of cure, and the trou-
bic has never returned
Sold by all dealers. 80 cents box.
Foster.Milburn Co, Buffalo, y. y.
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500 Reward, 0IOO.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis
ease that science has been able 10 cure I'm all
its stages. and that is Catarrh Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known 10
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being con-
sttutional disease. requires a constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken inter
nally. acting.directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces Of the system. thereby destroy
ing the foundation Of the disease. and giving
the patient strength 10y building up the con
sttution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much faith in
st. curative powers that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that il fails 20 cure.
Send for list Of testimonials Address
+. J. CHENEY 4 Co., Toledo o.
Sold by Druggists. 7jc.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
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NEW FOODLAW

own interests hut contrary to the In.
terests OF the people and the labor trust
is always active 10 push through bills
drafted In the interest OF that trust hut
directly contrary 10 the interests OF the
people as whole. Witness the nrti-
injunction bill h. which labor unions
seek 10 tie the hands OF our courts and
prevent the issue OF any order 10 re.
strain the members Of that trust from
attacking men or destroying property.
Such bill is perhaps the most infam-
ous insult TO our courts and the COM
mon people ever laid before Congress
and the Representatives in Congress
must he held 10 strict accountability
Tor their acts relating thereto. But
when bills come before Congress that
are drawn I'm the interest OF all the
people they should receive the active
personal support OF the people and the
representatives be instructed hy the
citizens. The Senators nlSo should he
written 10 ana instructed. If. there
fore. Won will remember your privilege
and duty 20" will Mt ouce--now write
10 your Congressman and Senator on
this pure food bill. Clip and enclose
the copy herewith presented and nsk
them To make business of following
IL through The committee considering
II. Urge its being brought 10 vote
and requesting that they vote for II.
Some opnrcsSively intelligent and
carping critics may say this is simply
an advertisement for Postum and