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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-07-04

"DO yOu think 1t 1DOrth $1O,OOO1'
left at once to see her. I had allowed
my mind to become so twisted by my
fears for his safety that, as 1 tell you,
I suspected the letter to be counterfeit
at first.
II telegraphed to his estate and re-
ceived a prompt reply saying that hts
sister was much better and that he
was already on his way back and
would reach me at II tonight. So
that's what happens when a grown
man gets a fit of nerves. I drew the
most gloomy conclusions from the fact
that 1 had been refused admission to
the foreign Office and the admiralty.
Yesterday that was all explained away.
The business is at last concluded, and
I was shown copies Of the letters
which have been forwarded to my
own chiefs at home. Nothing could be
more satisfactory. Tomorrow Jack
and I will be of to England together.
my dearest Dorothy Second time Of
asking), I am not a rich man, but, then,
in spite of your little fortune Of Bar
Barbor you are not q rich woman, 80
we stand on an equality in that, eve
though you are SO much my superior in
everything else. 1 have $500 a year,
which is something less than $4,000,
left me by my father. This is indie
pendent of my profession. I am very
certain I will succeed in the navy now
that the Russian government has sent
| those letters, SO the moment I vas as
sured of that l determined to write
and ask you to be my wife. Will you
forgive my impatience and pander to
it by cabling to me at the Bluewater
club, Pail Mall, the word Yes or the
word Undecided? 1 shall not allow
you the privilege of cabling No And
please give me a chance OF pleading
my case in person If you use the Ion
ger word. All, I hear Jacks step on
the stair. Very stealthily he is COM
ing, to surprise me, but I'll surprise
Here the writing ended. She folded
the letter and placed it in her desk.
sitting down before it.
"Shall l make the check payable to
you or to the societyy'
ITO the society, If you please. ma
DAM"
II shall write 1t for double the
amount asked. I also am a believer
in liberty"
"Oh, madam. that is a generosity I
feel we do not deserve. l should like
to have given you the letter after all
you have done for US. with no condi-
lions attached"
81 am quite sure of that" said Doro-
thy, bending over her writing. She
handed him the check, and he rose to
go.
'Sit down again, If you please. I
wish to talk further with you. Your
people in st. Petersburg think my
friends have not been sent to Siberia.
Are they sure Of thatw
swell, madam, they have means Of
knowing those who are transported.
and they are certain the two young
men were not among the recent gangs
sent. They suppose them to be In the
fortress OF st. Peter and st. Paul; at
least, that's what they say"
"Yon speak as Il you doubted it.1s
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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-07-04

The sailor stared at her in VIDE eyed
surprise.
"You see, I have been making In
quiries," she explained. please 60
On"
II never heard that it was an Eng
llsh ship. The jailer sneered at me
and said he was going to send me after
the American vessel, as l suppose he
thought it was. l feared by his taking
away Of the bread that it was intend
ed to starve me to death and was sorry
I had not eaten more at my last meal.
I lay down on the shelf Of rock and
soon fell asleep. 1 was awakened by
the water tapping around me. The cell
was intensely still. Up to this I had
always enjoyed the company Of a little
brook that ran along the side Of the
cell farthest from the door. Its music
had now ceased, and when I sprang up
I found myself to the waist in very
cold water. 1 guessed at once the use
Of the levers outside the cell in the
passage which I had noticed in the
light Of the lantern on the day I en-
tered the place, and l knew now why it
was that the prison door was not pierre
ed by n of those gratings which en-
able the jailer in the passage to look
into the cell any time of night or day.
Prisoners have told me that the I'M
certainty Of an inmate who ley
knew when he might be spied upon
added to the horror Of the situation,
but the watertight doors of the Trogz-
mondof are free from this feature and
for a very sinister reason.
The channel in the floor through
which the water runs when the cell is
empty and the tunnel at the ceiling
through which the water flows when
the cell is full give plenty Of ventila-
ton, no matter how tightly the door
may be closed. The water rose very
gradually until it reached the top out
let, then its level remained stationary.
l hoated on the top quite easily, with
as little exertion as was necessary to
keep me in that position. If 1 raised
my head, my brow struck the ceiling.
The next cell to mine, lower down,
was possibly empty. I heard the wa
Ter pour into 1t like a little cataract.
The next cell above and indeed all the
cells In that direction were flooded like
my own.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-07-04
fro BE CONTINUED

Knockers are an industrious lot with
corns on their palms.
1t takes almost as much gall to be a
prosperous fellow townsman as it does
to be a prominent citizen.
There is only one kind of fiattery
that is worth while and that is the
kind that can't be detected.
Some men fall in love so much and
with such celebrity that they never
know where they are at.
Every sleep-go-easy expects to revo-
l~utionize the world when he wakes up.
What he doesn't know is that it will
take Gabriel's trumpet to wake him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-28

dred thousand people. This is over two thousand for every square mile, and more it is said, than any other part of the globe.
 The Cities of Malta.
 The two chief towns of the archipelago are Valletta and Cta Vecchia, which are both on this island. Valletta has S0,000 and it's harbor is where all the great ships stop. The town is built on a hill high above the water The streets ascend at all sorts of angles, and one has to climb up or down in going to any part of it. Lord Beaconstield once said that the architecture of Nalletta was equal to that of any city of Europe, but 1t seems to me he overdrew 1t. The buildings are much like those of Naples. The streets are narrow, and the tall stone houses ex- tend out over them. There are many bal conies and as there are few back yards the family washing is generally hung out from them over the streets. It flaps to and fro in the breeze as one walks through the city, and now and then the pearly drops from newly washed shirt
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him be an aged servitor who was pris- idint iv tn Saint Pethersburg lodge iv Pathriotic Assassins. Tn monarch's s mind turned to tn subjlcl1 iv war, an he says to himsilf: What dhreadful thing it is that such a beautiful wur- ruld shud be marred be thousands iv innocint men bein sint out to shoot each other fir no cause whin they might betther stay at home an wur- ruk fir their masthers, he says. I'll disguise mesilf as moojii an go over to tn tillygraft office an sum- mon meetin iv tn Powers,' he says
 That's how it come about. All tn powers sint dillygates an a gr-reat nanny iv tn weaknesses did so too. They met last week In Holland an they have been devotin' all their time since to maxim war impossible in tn future. Tn meetin' was opened with an acrimonyous debate over a resolu- tion offered be a dillygate firm Pary- quay callin' fir immeejit disarmamint, which is tn same, Hinnissy, as noti- fyin tn Powers to turn in their guns to tn man at tn dure. This was car ried be a very heavy majority. Among those that voted in favor iv it were: Paraguay, Uruguay, Switzerland, Chiny, Bilgium an San Marine. Op- posed were England, France, Rooshya. Germany, Italy, Austhree, Japan an tn United States.
 This was regarded be all prisint as a happy auggry. Tn convintion thin discussed risolution offered be tn Turkish diHygate abolishin war al together 'Ehic p1Gn noryfpI 'N- England France, Rooshya, Germany Italy, Austhree, Japan an tn United States votin' no.
 This made tn way clear fir tn dis cussion iv tn larger question iv how future wars shud be conducted in tn best inthrests iv peace. Tn confer
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says. Tn dillygate firm Sinagambya rose to question iv privilege. State ye'er question iv privilege says tn Chairman. q wud like to have tn windows open, says tn dillygate firm Sinagambya. I feel faint he says.
 'Th' Hon'rable Joe Choate, dilly- gate firm tn United States, moved that in future wars enlisted men shud not wear earrings. Carrid, ony Italy yotin' no.
 9Th conference thin discussed oiowin up tn inimy with dynnymite, poisfnin' him, shootin' tn wounded, settin fire to infants. bilin' prisoners iv war in hot lard an robbin' graves. Some eXcitemint was created durin' tn talk be tn dillygate firm tn canny- bal islands, who proposed that prison CTS iv war be eaten Tn German dilly- gate thought this was carryin a spe- cial gift iy wan power too far It wud give tn cannybal islands distinct i advantage in case iv war, as Euro pean so1ers were accustomed to 1 horses. Tn English dillygate said that while much cud be said against q practice which personally seemed to him rather unsportsmanlike, still he felt he must observe tn right iv amy oannybal allies iv Brittanya to go as , far as they liked
 "Th' Hon 'rable Joe Choate moved that in future wars no military band shud be considered complete without a base-dhrum. Carrid.
 "Th' entire South American dillyga- tion said that no nation ought to go war because another nation wanted to hang it up on tn slate. Tn English 1 dillygate was much incensed. Why. glntlemin.' says he, if ye deprived us iv tn right to collect debts be killin' th' debtor ye wud take away firm war its entire moral purpose. I must ask ye again to cease thinkin' on this sub Jlck in gross mateeryal way an con- sidher tn moral side alone he says. Tn conference was much moved be this pathetic speech, tn dillygate firm France wept softly into his handker- chef, an tn dillygate firm Germany wint over an forcibly took an open face goold watch firm th' dillygate fir m Vinzwala.
 ''Th' Hon'rable Joe Choate moved that in all future wars horses shud be fed with hay wheriver possible. Car rid.
 "A long informal talk on tn rein Introduction iv scalpin' followed. At last tn dillygate firm Cniny arose an says he: T'd like to know what war is. What is war, annyhow?' Tn Lord knows, we don't says tn chair man. We're all professors iv colledges or lawyers whin we're home, he says. Is it war to shoot me aunt?' says tn dillygate firm Chiny Cries iv No mo- Is it war to hook me fathers best hat that he left behind whin he bashfully hurried away to escape tn attintions iv European sojery?' he says. Is robbery war?' says he. Robbery is nicissry part iv war, says tn English dillygate. 'F'r tn pur- pose iv enfoorcin' moral example, he says. Well, says old Wow Chow, I'd like to be able to go back home an tell thim what war really is. A few years back ye sint a lot iv young men
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over to our part iv tn wurruld, an without sayin with ye'er leave or be ye'er leave they shot us an they hung us up be our psyche knots an they burned down our little bamboo houses. Thin they wint up to Pekin, set fire to tn town an stole ivrything in sight. I just got out iv tn back dure in time to escape a jab in tn spine firm a Ger man that I niyer see befure. If it hadn't been that whin I was boy won tn hundred yards al tn Univer- sity iv Slambang in two hours an forty minyits, an if it hadn't happened that I was highly dhressed in a summer overskirt an thin blouse an If tn German hadn't stopped to steal me garters, I wudden't be here at this moment says be- Was that war, or wasn't it?' he says. Tt was an expedi- tion' says tn dillygate firm England, to serve tn high moral jooties iv Christyan civvilization.' Thin says th' dillygate firm Chiny, putin on his hat, I'm fir war he says. It ain't so rough he says. An he wint home ]"
 But is tn navy goin' to tn Pas syfcc?" asked Mir. Hennessy.
 "If ye took vote in tn navy on it ye bet it wud," said Mir Dooley That's tn throuble about these here movemints fir peace. We use tn wrong kind iv people to stop war h. stead iv usin' pro-fissiors an lawyers we ought to use sojers A peace move mint that, cud get tn support iv tn United States navy wud be worth while Let ivry man do what he can in his own way. Let him attind to tn thing he knows most about. Let tn soiers stop war an tn pro-fissors stop talkin'"
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ence considhered tn possibility iv
 abolishin' tn mushroom bullet, which,
 cntherin' tn inteeryor iy tn inimy
 not much larger than a marble, soon
 opens it's dainty petals an goes whirl-
 in through tn allyminthry canal like
 pin-wheel. Tn Chinese dillygate
 said that he regarded this here in
 sthrumint iv peace as highly painful.
 He had an aunt in PelSin, an estim-
 able lady, unmarried two hundred an fifty years of age, who rayceived
 wan without warnin' durin' tn gallant
 riscue iv Pellin firm tn foreign lega- tions a few years ago. He cud speak
 with feeln' on tn subjeck, as tn l Chinese army did not use these pro- i jictyles, but were armed with beam
 shooters Tn English dillygate op-
 posed tn resolution. Tt is,' says he, i quite thrue that these here pellets 1 ar-re in nanny cases harmful to tn digistion, but I think 1t wud be goin' too far to suggist that they be abol- 1 ished ontil their mannyfacther Is bet ther understood be tn subjick races, he says. I suppose wan iv these bull lets might throw white man off iv his feed, but we have abundant proof
 that whin injicted into a black man they greatly improve his moral tone
 An, afther all. tn improyemint iv tn
 moral tone is. gintlemin, far graver
 matther thin amy mere physical ques- , tion. We know firm expeeryence in South Africa that tn charmin' bullet
 now undher discussion did much to change conditions in that enlightened
 an juicy part iv his Majesty's do-
 mains Tn darky that happened to
 stop wan was all tn betther fir it. He
 retired firm labor an give up his
 squalid an bigamious life. he says.
 I'm in favor. howiver. iv restrctin
 their use to encounters with races that we properly considher infeeryor.' he
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just where the steamers stop to take on coal. Malta is now handling about 500,000 tons of coal a year. The coal is brought here from Great Britain and retailed to the steamers. As came in we saw several of the ocean liners taking on coal preparatory to their start for the far east Most of the ships which go to Australia, India and China by the Suez canal call here for fuel, and the port has a fleet of 600 lighters which are used for that purpose. Training vessels and other naval ships are now coaling In the har- bor, and d great English transport which will leave for Suez tomorrow lies at the wharVes.
 Malta is a strong naval station It has now a half dozen English gunboats an- chored in front of it, and the government is building a breakwater at cost oi s5 100000 to enlarge the harbor to accom- modate the navy. The island is the chief base for the repairs and outtitting of the Mediterranean fleet, but the fleet has ai- ready ouigrown it's capacity, and for this reason the British are building their new docks here and at Gibraltar.
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But first let me tell you something about the Maltese Islands. There is quite a num- Der of them, but the only ones of note are Malta, Gozo and Comino, and they al- together have an area of but IF square miles. They are mere rocks cropping out of the sea, but they are covered with a thin, rich mold, which makes them the most thickly populated part of the globe. Malta is the biggest. and it's area is just about that of the District of Columbia. It rises right up out of the water and as one looks at 1t from the steamer it seems bleak and bare. The slopes are preciptous, but the land is so terraced and held back by the stone walls that all of it Is cultivated. To look at it you would not think 1t could raise anything. It seems more like stone quarry or q
 stone pile than d fertile region neverthe- less everything that Is planted grows, and Malta alone supports more than two hun
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By Frank G. Carpenter

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There have been attempts to make Ital, ian the national tongue, but the Maltese object, and they still speak the same language that they have in the past There are a number of newspapers pub lished in Maltese and the Maltese is used to some extent in the schools.
 The percentage of illlteracy is great. Not more than one-tenth of the people can read or write and many of the children do not go to school. Neverthe- less, the island has common schools and private schools everywhere. There is 9 university, lyceum and a large school for girls. There is a public library in
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lent condition. The church is gloriously decorated. It has an altar magniieently carved, and fairly loaded with gold and silver. The railing in front of it is made of virgin Silver, and beneath 1t are kept the keys of Jerusalem. Acre and Rhodes. Some of the paintings In the church were brought from Rhodes, and it has tapes tries made in Brussels at a cost of ESQ., GOO.
 You have heard of the Cappucini ceme- tery in Rome. the chapels of which are walled with the bones of dead monks l visited a similar one a few weeks ago during trip to Palermo, the capital of Sicily, and l find here at Malta another evidence of the greWsome taste of the pious fathers of the past. I refer to d church here known the Church of the Monks, In which the bodies of the de- ceased are put away unburied. Their skeletons are wrapped in the cloaks which they wore in life, and they will, l sup pose. be thus clad until the day of judg- ment. The place is a hideous one, and q visit to 1t sometimes affects people se- riously. Not long ago smart young fel-
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Y SEE" said Nr. Hennessey, | we're soin' to sind tn navy \ .J tn PaSSyfic."

\ U tn Passyfic."
 "I see we're not, too,' said Mr. Doo- Joy. There's two sides to iv'ry ques- tion, an in Washington there are twinty-two to iv'ry answer Wan day sees tn navy tearin' round tn Horn, not to intimydate tn Japs, mind ye, but to on'y show thim that if they're looking fir throuble they can have it without moyin' out iy their back yards. Another day tn navy is still at home explodin' itsilf. Tn navy, her name was Maude. l wuddent want 10 be in front iv wan iv thim gr-reat injines iy desthruction, but if l had to make me choice an all tn places undherneath were taken, I'd rather be in front thin behind. F'r purposes iv safety they ought to be pointed tn other way. If war comes, tn minyit we turn our guns on tn inimy twill be all over with him.
 No. sir. l cant tell whether our navy is goin' to spind tn rist iv it's days protictin what Hogan calls our insulted possessions in tn Oryent or whether it's to remain in tn neighbor hood iv Barnstable maxim tn glaziers iv New England rich beyond tn dhreams iv New England avarice, which ar-re hopeful dhreams Tn cabinet is divided, tn sicrety iv tn navy is divided, tn prisidint is divided an tn press is divided. Wan gr-reat iditor, firm his post iv danger in Paris, has ordhered tn navy to raypoort at San Francisco at four eight next Thursday. Another gr-reat iditor, liv- in in Germany, has warned it that it will do so at its peril. Nawthin' is so
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BY F. P. DUNNE
It Was Satisfactory to Him.

 From the New York Telegraph An automobile dashed along the country road. Turning a curve it came suddenly upon a man with gun on his shoulder and weak, sick-looking old dog beside him. The dog directly in the path of the motor car The chauffeur sounded his horn but the dog did not move-untiI he was struck. After that he did not move The automobile stopped, and one of the men got out and came forward He had once paid a farmer s10 for killing d calf that belonged to another farmer This time he was wary.
 Was that your dog?' Yes"
 You own himY
 Yes"
 Looks as if we'd killed him." Certainly looks so.'
 "Very valuable dog?"
 Well, not so very"
 ''Wil $5 satisfy you?'
 Yes"
 Well, then, here you are.' He handed a $5 bill to the man with the gun, and added pleasantly: I'm sorry to have broken up your hunt"
 'I wasn't going hunting,' replied the other as he pocketed the mill. Not going hunting? Then what were you doing with the dog and the gum Going to the woods to shoot the dog"
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there. and the keys of the city were given to him. At the same time he swore that he would respect the privileges and fran chises of the city. After this he went to the cathedral to mass, and then on back to Valletta.
 Cita Vecchia is in the center of the is- land and Is about on the top of it. It is so high up that on a clear day the coasts of both Sicily and Africa may be seen from its walls.
 According to tradition, St Paul the apostle, accompanied by St. Luke, spent three months on the Island of Malta. During this time they lived not far from
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MT. DoOIey on the Hague Conference


fine as to see a gr-reat modern jour. nalist unbend firm his mighty task iv selectin' firm bunch iv phottygrafts tn prettiest cook iv Flatbush or en gineerin' with his great furrowed brain tn topsy FizZle compytition to trifle with some light warm-weather subiict like internaytional law or wal But men such as these can do amy thing.
 But, annyhow, what diff'rence does ! it make whether tn navy goes to tn
 .. assyfic or not? If it goes at all, it won't be to make war. They've dumped all tn fourteen-inch shells into tn sea. Tn ammunition hoists ar-re filled with American beauty roses an orchids. Tn guns ar-re loaded with confetty Tn officers dhrink nawthin' stronger thin vanilla an strawberry mixed. Whin tn tars go ashore they hurry at wanst to tn home iv tn Christyan Indeavor Society or throng tn free libries, readin' religious pothry Me frind, Bob Evans, is goin' to contribute a series iv articles to th' Ladies' Home Journal on croshay- ing. F'r Tn Hague Peace Conference has abolished war, Hinnissy. We've seen tn last war yell iver see, me boy "Th' Hague conference, Hinnissy, was got up be tn Czar iv Rooshya just befure he moved his army again tn Japs. It was a quiet day at Saint Pethersburg. Tn prime minister had just been blown with dinnymite, tn Czar's uncle had been shot an wan iv his cousins was eXpirin' firm dose iv proosc acid. All was comparative peace. In tn warrum summers afther- noon tn Czar felt almost dhrousy as he set in his rile palace an listened to tn low monotonous drone iv bombs bein' hurled at tn Probojensky guards an picked tn broken glass out iv tn dhrink that had just been brought to
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or pair of unmentionables drop on ones hat or down the back of his neck as he goes through.
 From the harbor the view of the city Is beautiful. Great walls, which look like forts rise up from the water, and back of these the houses mount the hills in terraces. Many of the buildings are painted in bright colors, and under the glorious sun of the Mediterranean they shine out resplendent. The city has some fine structures. It has an opera house, in which Patti sang the first time she came to Malta; 1t was when she was still a girl, and the price she received was s25,
 Another building of note is the Church of St. John. containing the tombs of the grand masters of the Knights of Malta. This church is one of the most remark able in Europe. and il is revered by the knights throughout the world. It is now over 300 years old but it Is still in excel