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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-02

a Ia YOUR
shoes were tight She hobbed That thinking A
with the veil and the nTroi sh f war; , l S
touch her during your short ride hotel point
my inquiries that soon found that your
sstance OF another in getting ready for her journey and
that this woman her maid who had been with her for
TO- t; 80 sI'el S'iteee VI an especial attachment
for the possibility OF substitution already my mind,
"a na she was OF slight figure and good carriage and that her
the substitution have mentioned feaI snd 80 M tiJ
that She taking her hat
and though not expected leave till the morning had slid
away from the house by
mistress appeared the front steps my suspicion became
I that asked how this girl looked in the hope that would
% % 10 recognize heT through the description the woman
a seen sitting IN recepuOn-room No g. But surprise Mrs
This has simpled matters very much By you
aenty the woman who attempted to msead the reception
a in her very lady you
q did not observe Her face all She looking
directly l stepped the ROOM
see She had taken off her veil and trusted your
I'm it She was the very woman Otherwise the
mystery mPenetrabe deep plot Mr. Ransom
prove@tO you that Mrs Ransoms motive leaving you
very serious character Do wish that motive pobed the
q must Mr Ransom had risen great excitement Moth
ing can hide the fact that my bride left wedding day
only remains show that influence
robbed her OF her own will influence from which she shnk
and am NOT AFRAID oS the result ba 49, $50 ~ &
in her love" S anu
The detective hid surprise He could not understand this
back OF it, Not him could this geyous disap
pointed reveal the of
heart ON this and aroused in him
this uncaedtOr outrage his pride and affection
able to shake Such reflection of his
trust strong his face as he repeated:
Perfect confidence, Mr. Gerridge
Mrs Ransom from side lack affection or anv
doubt OF my sincerity undivided attachment herself"
The detective have been
point but he discretion ITSELF responded quite ceeruy
with an emphatic:
Very we'll You still to find her. will do my best
SIT; but first cannot help with suggestion
There must be clue sudden the part OF
young and beautiful who have taken
not only clean record but reputation for good The
cannot supply it. She has lived seemingly open happy
their house and the mystery great
her lover and her husband
with condolences others
10 put the right track? fact prior
day mean fact connected with her life before
10 live with the Futons?
No Yet let me think let think Mr. dropped
lace into his hands and fora silent
again the detective perceived that hopeless
as he was concerned No he repeated this with remarkable
emphasis she has always appeared buoyant
then have only known her six MONTHS
u ell me her history far know What
OF her life previous your meeting herr"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-02

dressed himself
- asking if had seen any one
pass that way the before.
snd ad see a been no waiting in that same room for several minutes
had dissolved thin air True She might have nld him NV
slipping out into the hall by moment he
INTO the hall to look for her nowhere visible nor had
trance But another exit that Of lad She conc ont
$500 MI Ransom had taken pains inquire had
ing me last ten minutes This he had insisted
point he insisted again The mystery seemed copletet
asked the mann If but the detective was not quite satisfied He
tsann at any time that day before after Mrs Ransom's
were tights was decisive one who walked as If her
"1h little while after gentleman asked his questions
,r hat he didn't know He didn't dresses unless
But But she walked lame and she came from Room 3?'
Yes He remembered that
.r% ssdSf tf n5 4Ga 9oaY e Ct into the
from hours" ~ ~ pe'' 10 near
At twenty minutes Ransom was called up on the tele-
One question Mr. Ransom"
Hello who you?"
"Gerridge"
% Did you the face Of the woman YOU spoke to in Room No.
~of course She was booking directly at me
e [f hn, IT. Could identity you again."
That's t. all. soodby."
Another intoeTabe wait Then came knock on the door
and Ge[ris entered He held photograph in his hand ~heG e
Look at this" said he. DO you recognize the ace.p
the ~ my O9'"e III NO. )
Mr. Ransoms expression Of surprised inop,, was e;;.
ans ~'fi~N "'4""9 was Sunlcient
ell ITS pity didn't gloves instead of a. be
race You might have had idea Of bavng oa, 49,,
II was she who rode to the hotel not your wife
me ven was wound around her face purnoso
ward off rice" ~ N0NPe' purpose than ID
, Mr. Ransom staggered against the table before bi, So
HSu pgh standing The blow overwhelming ono
VINO IS TINS woman demanded Shc car,o fr,u,
tuo"hs mouse More than that wife, W.
ne" name ana what did she by an outrage,
net name Is Bella Burton, vifes
maid AS tor the meaning outrage if will al n .
I've mentioned" my s''0 20" lne Single TACT
"And Mrs
one ett the house at the YOU did Won and Miss
"She? She?" ~ u'0''
Dressed in her maids clothes Oh you'll have 70 hoo -
things than that before we're Of this middle II ~
81 "uViCe rom man OF experience would suggest that vo
take things easy It's the only way" ~ se' "' you
com INTO sencc by this codbooded philosophy Mr. Ran
control his surprise. $50 '""'"'"''"' Dut lie could
What does il mean" he n1urnuro1 f., t;.o,, .,,-
it all mean" N" - "ii'So' w nat does
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-02

No. I he found several ladies sit
ting and standing. all strangers.
lie encountered no one in No. 2,
and in No. 3 just one person, a
lady IN street costume evidently
waiting Tor some one. To this
lady he had addressed himself,
asking if She had seen any one
pass that way the moment before.
Her replv was q decided NO"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-21
MATCHES ON MAIL BOXES

Mr.. Smoker, see to it that your Uncle
Samuel doesn't catch you striking 6
match on one of his mail boxes. Hell
surely make trouble for you if he car
prove that a certain scratch on the
metal of one of those gray boxes or
the corners was made by your drawing
the tip of a lucifer across it.
That's about what the mail carrier
told the fellow who Is handing you this
advice. 1t was given just after the
advisor had stopped, feeling Smoky
after coming out of an office where
they wouldn't let him puff the stogie
he had in his pocket, to scratch match
on the mail box. He was rather sur
prised when the mail carrier, coming
up to unlock the box said:
Don't do that!"
why not?" he queried. I've been
doing 1t for years. 1t doesn't hurt the
box. Other fellows and myself have
scratched matches on the top of this
mail box for yeaN and there is only
little Worn patch on the metal to show
for it,"
'"Well, go ahead if you want to-
sighed the mail carrier. But remem-
ber that if the inspector sees you. up
you go on charge of defacing govern
ment property. And you know that If
the inspector ever gets you, it's you for
scra tching matches on the prison bars
for II day or so. Bye-bye. Detroit
News.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-21
BRYAN IN THE SOUTH

The cordial reception of William j.
Bryan in the south may be taken as
evidence that there is no serious oppo-
sition to him in that quarter, What
ever adverse criticism has been made
in the south relating to his New York
speech was based largely on a misap-
prehension. The apparent advocacy in
that speech of government ownership
of the trunk railways was the cause
of such criticism. Senator Bailey of
Texas, Senator Bacon of Georgia. Rep
resentative Williams of Mississippi and
some other southern leaders criticised
quite sharply that feature of the New
York speech.
AS The Herald recently showed in an
analysis of that speech, Mr. Bryan
did not advocate government owner
ship of railways except as a last resort
to prevent a monopoly of transporta-
tion inimical to public interests 1t is
rather as threat than as promised
actuality that Mr.. Bryan introduced in
his New York speech concerning the
railways.
But the southern leaders are quite
tight in objectng to any theory cal
culated to involve dangerous central
ization of power at Washington. Op-
position to such GENERALIZATION is a
fundamental feature Of Democracy,
Those leaders draw the line between
such obvious advantage as the public
derive from government operation OF
the mail service and the questionable
result of putting the operation Of the
vast trunk railway system of the
United States in the hands of the fed
eral government,
1t is only upon the point here indi-
Gated that there is any disagreement
whatever between the ideas embodied
in Mr.. Bryan's initial speech of the
campaign and the views held by repre-
sentative southern statesmen. And as
evidence that the disagreement is moi
serious, Congressman Williams. Demo
cratic leader in the house, says in eff
feet. Bryan suits us and we win have
a hand In making platform to sui
us"
The backbone Of Bryan's support IL
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-21
THE VICE OF GENERALIZING

Generalization from single instances
is as foolish as it is universal. The
last few months have been devoted to
attacks on the rich and the evil infiu-
ences of riches until there is danger of
our forgetting that poverty has also it's
| faults.
! The searchlight has recently been
| thrown on the inner workings of many
great corporations, and the whole world
is aghast One would think, from some
of the generalizations, that the monop-
! oltSt of money had also monopolized
wickedness. Yet read the criminal re-
ports, or look about you and you will
nnd that few stones will be cast at the
magnateS If only those who are without
sin cast them. The news of the day
VIII tell of preachers caught in plagiar-
ism or adultery, of grocers caught in
theft or adulteration, of honest black
smiths beating their children of chill
dren killing one another, of druggists
selling poisoned soda water of bakers
vending unclean bread, of theological
students cheating, Each trade has it's
graft; each mind it's twist each body
Its tendency to disease.
The fact is that drawing indictments
against classes is as insane and illog-
ical as drawing indictments against
nations. There are burglars who are
chaste, and parsons who are sots; there
are rich women who are nuns of ascot
iSlotA, poor women VINO are
Vllely extravagant as to bankrupt their
dltch-digging keepers; there are poets
who are domestic models, and plumbers
who are voluptuaries; there are rich
men who overwork. and poor men lazy
enough to beg; there are millionaires'
sons who are normal and athletic, and
sell made men who are degenerates;
there are robust athletes who are ab-
normal, and cigarette fends who are
leaders of progress; there are Sicilians
VINO never saw a dagger, and Puritans
who seek vendetta with a knife OF, with
poison; there are policemen who would
reject bribe, and senators who are
oeVoted TO their country; there are
chorus girls of unimpeachable repute,
and Sunday school teachers who com
nit infanticide
The passion for generalizing and for
overindulgence in Observation-Disclosures is
as cruel as it is morbid, and as criminal
as the evils 1t rebukes. The laws Of
perspective were discovered in the fif-
teenth century. Let us not lose them
III the twentteth.-Harper's Weekly.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-21

1895 and 1900 was in the south, and
there viii be no change in 1908. In his
speech at Raleigh. North Carolina, last
Monday, Mr.. Bryan alluded to the fact
that the old Tar state had a peculiar
claim upor his affections as It was
one of the first states Of the Union to
declare through its delegates that 1t
wanted him for the Democratic NOM
ination in 1905" The whole south,
practically. is on record now in favor
of Bryans nomination.
The south. like the west is peculiarly
interested in a change from Republican
to Democratic policy in the general
government. The south is an agricul-
tural country, although manufacturing
industries have made good progress
there in recent years But the south
has illmitabe agricultural resources
which only need, for their proper de-
velopment, release from trust monopo-
lies, which exist solely by virtue of
the odous high protective tariff. The
Democratic party is pledged to a
"kni1ng" of that tariff at the first OPP
portunity.
The south, like the great west, Is
carrying an immense ust-protecting
tariff burden. which both sections will
endeavor to dump in 1905
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-21
JUDGE PARKER RIGHT

Judge Parker is right in thinking
that many people will infer from sec
retary Taft's recent speech tnat tnere
has heen some change in the law since
1904. 1t is true that the secretary OIL
war did not say so, but in owening On
the achievements Of the Repupilcah
party he rather mixed up lts WORK III
iegisiation with the administrations
work in law enforcement. therefore
it is we'll that Judge Parker should re-
mind the country that every prosecu-
tion of trust every proceeding
against the givers and receivers OF re
bates. has been taken under laws Wnlch
were in full force in 1904 when the
Democratic candidate said that there
were laws enough if only they were
enforced. Not one of the successful
nroseoutions has been based on any
new statute. Every one of them rests
solely upon the law as 1T stood In 1904.
And Judge Parker thinks that ut
should not be lost sight of by dis
eliminating public that the law could
have been enforced in 1904, and in 1908,
and in 1902, just as we'll as today"
We think that Judge Parker is fairly
entitled to the privilege of saying Il
told YOU so." He was ridiculed two
years ago for saying that there was
plenty of law, and that all that was
needed was a disposition to enforce it..
Even in Mr. Taft's speech the people
were asked whether they could have
got more from Judge Parker than they
had received at the hands of President
Roosevelt, and reference was again
made to Judge Parker's utterances. In
his Jefferson day speech, delivered
year ago, which is quoted in today'S
statement, Judge Parker said:
I'VE should never forget that the
safety of our institutions is involved in
every such movement Coward central
ization) and instead of submitting to IL
should insist that when a trust or rail-
road has violated the criminal law the
place for the guilty official is in Jail
or the penitentiary, not in the cabinet
or in the board rooms of great rail-
roads,
Judge Parker says that it was not till
after his utterance that any move was
made by the administration against the
trusts and rebaters. So it seems that
there was something in the Parker the
ory. 1t may be that we needed new
laws, but 1t is at least clear that a
great work has been done under the old
ones-in short, all that has been done
has been done under laws which Presi-
dent Roosevelt insisted were inade-
quate. If the achievements OF the ad =
ministration are as great as Secretary
Taft insisted they were, surely SOM G
credit should be given to the old laws
and possibly to the man who declared
that much good could be accomplished
by acting under them,-Indlanapo
News
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-21
HOUSEKEEPING MADE EASIER

Mrs. j. B. Henderson, ex-senator
Henderson's wife, who has had the hon
or of converting WI Ting Fang to total
abstinence and to vegetarianism was
talking about gambling at a dinner
party in Washington.
There Is only one kind of gambling
that | can indorse," Mrs. Henderson
said, That is the kind that was prac-
ticed IN ST. Louis by two young men I
used to know.
|, Hearing that these two young men
were gambling heavily, / called on the
wife OF one of them one afternoon.
MARY 1 said, y am told that John
plays cards every night-plays for large
stakes, too
"rhe young woman nodded and
"'Yes, that is true she said. but it's
all right
Yes she went on. He always
plays with the same person-with Mr..
Blank. So. you see, 1t must be all
right.
"'No; / don't see' said 1.
"'But, listen the young woman ex-
planned. Mrs. Blank makes her hus-
band give her all his winnings and then
gives the money TO me. ! hand her in
turn all the money my husband has
won from hers. And so, you see, we
both get our own husbands money. and
have twice as much as we'd be able to
get out OF them In any other way"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-21
LOCAL POLITICAL PULL.

The movement aiming to elininat,
| politics from the public affairs of Lo
Angeles has a jealous supporter in tn,
new superintendent of city schools
In an address to the public schoo
teachers recently the superintendent
said Politics must be dispensed witt
In the selection of teachers and applj.
cants shall be considered solely OF
their merits" More specifically ht
told the teachers that when they
desired special favors they must go tc
the aboard of education and not tc
some professional politician of fancied
pull"
The political pull in municipal af.
fairs has long been scandal and a
disgrace to Los Angeles. The present
board of education has the distinction
of being the first nonIpartisan factor
in control of a city department.. A
gigantic step in the non-partisan di-
rection has been taken, however, since
the incoming of the present school
board namely, the board of public
works. These two departments. strict
ly non-partisan, have paved the way
for the eternal banishment OF the po-
litical pull in city affairs.
1t Is amazing, in view of the general
independence and high public spirit
characterizing Los Angeles, that the
disgraceful pull method should so long
have been tolerated 1t is a fact so
notorious as to be familiar to all citi-
zens that in all city departments COR
trolled by the Republican machine the
pull is all powerful, even down to mat
ters of the most trivial concern.
The school superintendent indicates
the depth to which this disgraceful
method has gone in his substantial
charge that even public school teach
er desiring a favor has been wont 10
employ the political pull-meaning ap-
plication to councilman or a machine
manager-instead of going directly to
the board of education. 1t is shameful
that such contemplate practices should
have been permitted to invade the pub
lie schools of Los Angeles.
The political pull descends even to
the level of the city pound and to the
office of dog catcher. In order to dis
pense with the well known brutality
with which the vagrant dog business
is conducted, the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals has sew
eral times endeavored to obtain con-
troll of that business, as the society has
done in Pasadena. But the jobs of
pound keeper and dog catcher are po-
litical assets, and even for such scraps
of patronage" the machine has thus
far fought successfully.
The people of Los Angeles soon will
have an opportunity to rid the city
of the political pull stigma as ef-
fectually as the pound keeper disposcs
of vagrant ours. Will they do, it?
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-21
LAST BLUSH OF SUMNER

Now eastern sojourners in Los An
geles are convinced that old residents
are right in declaring that our hottest
weather is due in September. The tor
rid wave that has been on a visit here
the last three or four days is a sufficient
exhibit in proof of that theory The
mercurys touch of the 100 degree mark
on Tuesday and Wednesday was the
highest point reached by it during the
warm season. The official report made
the maximum temperature on Tuesday
9S degrees, but that record was made
on the top of a high building, which is
always cooler than the street surface.
But it is a peculiarity of high temper
ature in Southern California that hu-
midity decreases in a ratio apparently
about equal to the rise in temperature.
AS a consequence, such extreme heat as
was in evidence Tuesday and Wednes-
day caused comparatively little dlscom-
fort. The air was as dry as if it had
just come from the laundry, and the
handling of newspaper was sugges-
tive of babys rattle box.
But the brief hot wave period lust
passed here was the last act, probably,
of the Thermometers high kicking per-
formance for 1906. Following the pass
ing of the present work will come, next
Sunday. the autumnal equinox. That is
the period when dwellers back east
look confidently for an equinoetal
storm, which is supposed to mark the
closing of the warm season and the be-
ginning of the cold one.
In looking backward at the summer
now in it's closing days, it will be diff
cult for the most confirmed Kicker
to find fault with the weather in this
region since the vernal equinox six
months ago. From the beginning to
the end of the warm season this year
the weather has been almost constantly
ideal in respect to temperature, There
have not been more than half dozen
days, during the whole period. wher
there was real justification for growl
about excessive heat.
Compare this record of the summer
here with the record where our friends
dwell in the land of back east" Then
ponder the question whether Southern
California is not the later promised
| land"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-21
TYPEWRITER SPONGE is WORST

'The worst sponge in this town." said
the stenographer lis the typewriter
sponge. He gets all his work done by
the employees of his friends. He drops
into the office, ostensibly for a chat
with the boss Presently he looks
toward his victim and says in a care
less, off-handed way: %, by the way.
IL your stenographer busy now? If not
I'd like her to do a little typewriting
for me. 1t will take only few min
utes.'
"The chances are that she is knock
ing the daylights out of the machine at
polite TO call his attention to the fact,
SO she does the work. Usually II takes
her from one TO two hours, and the pay
she gets Is mere Thank YOU | know
lots of girls who are bothered this way
by hangers-on, once / contemplated
tacking sign on the door announcine
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-21

that I was running an eleemosynary
typewriting institution and that under
no circumstances would 1 accept pay
for my services. thought that might
put the cheap skates to shame and
frighten them away However. there
doesn't seem much chance of shaming
these fellows. so shall probably con-
tinue to write complimentary letters to
the end of the chapter."-New York
Sun.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-21

The nomination of straight Demo-
crat for supervisor in the Third district
does not alter the fact that The Herald
viii support the non-partisan nomina-
ton OF Dr. Lamb. The Southern Pa
cific railroad has raised clear issue in
that district between Eldrldge and
Lamb and nothing should be allowed to
interfere with that struggle.