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The Jasper weekly courier., 1907-08-09
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you have put two aod two together
ani made the sum OF are. Well. per
haps say your arithmetic is at fault,
ana perhaps | don't choose 10 enter
into an argument to enlighten you"
I'VE shall see." said Locke quietly.
Now. Haddon, don't think that | am
simply amusing myself. am only
too willing to give you every benent OF
the doubt You are an American; you
have been at the same university as
myself: you have suffered from an
unpleasant notoriety the past week or
two | went to your hotel al Lucerne
and offered you my friendship
And YOU come as a friend now!
Scarcely. you will admit that"
Il offered you my friendship ]
showed my sincerity by taking you
more or less into my confidence.
gave you chance to conhde in me II
return. | had seen you fascinated by
a woman whom | knew 70 be a dan
qerous companion When / warned
you. YOU were clever enough TO anec
a disingenious innocence
What shrewd observers you news
:. paper men are"
!, THAT very evening, continue
Locke. frowning. you dine with nc
and her plice-not openly in IN
G restaurant. but In her own slttin
J. room. Late that evening. In coApan
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COSTLY LESSONS IN ECONOMY.
IL 10 Not Always a Matter Of Saving TO
Buy Cheap Goods.

Almost every rural community has
within its confines people who have
paid we'll for experience and have
learned costly lessons as 10 buying
OF goods.
Not long ago in a western town
citizen desired TO buy kitchen range.
A visit to the local hardware store
was made and the prices asked BY
the dealer were not satisfactory 10
the prospective purchaser. VINO oy
the way had his attention attracted
NV the advertising In his farm paper
~ "A bargain" in a kitchen range
Tbs range was advertised as equal 70
those costing twice the money az tne
local store" The citizen sent
money order to the concern advertis-
ing the range, and in the course OF .
few weeks he was notified by the raif
road agent that the range had ar
rived In removing IL from the sta
ton to the farm house, in some mex
nlainable way part OF II was broken
The broken pieces were taken TO tne
local hardware store but could not Do
| duDlicate0. itlttA o'
the range company and in the course
~ n few weeks a duplicate OF the
broken part was received, but It was
discovered that It would not nj tne
stove IL had 10 be returned ana
few weeks later another piece "a'
J sent; then the stove was placed i'
r nse. Within six months the top na'
, become so warped that II interiere'
e seriously with the drafts Al the en-
e of the year the stove was burned ou
r and ready for the junk heap il
e nnrohaser Of the stove then de,el
d mined that he would secure anotne
3 range from the home dealer he pal
W the home dealer the price he wa
Ie asked which was about one-third MOI
than the poor range cost. and after
few years the range was found 10
AS good almost as when hrst oousl
10 This is one illustration OF how eco
60 omy wrongfully practiced is
=. pensIye. II is not always Else
no s~ek the bargain counters wheL 60
10 articles are wanted. Neither Is u
nc yy,se idea TO buy goods before ,
m. have an opportunity to carefully
no mine them and determine -
ed. value
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own neck | guessed that he was us
,ar,ng to the futile attempts OF the
adventurers TO deny Captain FORBES
admission to the bedchamber Oh 'ne
psuedo Sir Mortimer
You have an answer Tot every
question" .ro,har
81 can put two and two together
d make four" returned Locke com
placently. ,A ,s
tho unknown quantity? Inc auui'io"
,s then not quite so simple
"And the American tourist MT iiau
sor is the great unknown quantity
suppose. ,oo,
% looked at me with cool. lever
aves A hig man, In body oraih "".,
baart Locke had both the virtues -
,,,rross and its faults. To crush Cd
s.ao,os-that was his method flnesse
no despised. He went TO the enu y
view in a direct line. ruthlessiy 'nro~
to aside any obstruction, phy sicai o
, moral. that hindered. ,Y
cnoh a man arrives invariably H'
-, % no denied. But he blundef
!. often lie arouses in some natures a
instructive antagonism-a iaten. =.
stinacv--that arrays itself against nii
: onin,ly but determinedly. lie MAKE
: an enemy when he might have mao
Is q friend
. vor example, Locke has MADE up -
4 mind that an American, a man ol =
A. own university. could not in the na'ul /,
y ! 80 things be a coward. Very wei.
!, "A orors him his friendship In oli
q sai,b But presently this man in,e M
ia fares with his pians-9es MS W.
n. N r,tbou, consulting the newly acqulr'
sr,ond when, therefore, circums'ane
90 Mace this acquaintance in an us W
~. i,ght he is quite as ready 10 pen,
TN re had as he had been ready 70
ng lieve the good. . tho,
I IrI In a word, Locke imagined Una.
rs had done more than his duty ~ % on,
!, Ing his friendship and connue., . :,
.,n when he made up his nina .nas "
,,sy friendship and confidence was "O' ~
w, ,nrred his friendship turned 70
,anse dislike. There was NO m'a
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self safely landed In Sir Mortimer's
rooms" continued Locke. Il am fros
10 Join my acquainta3Se. Capiais
Foi pes, In the gardes. meanwhfie
keeping an inquisitye eye cooked 20
ward the shutters Of Sir Mortimer's
salon And Captain Forbes, as we'll
as myself. has his own interests In
the missing Sir Mortimer Presently
he sees the light shining through
those shutters. lie is oyerjoyed To
observe that Sir Mortimer is returned.
aud more than overjoyed that he can
az lsnt rid himself OF the burden OF
his dispatches You know how he did
that, even better than myself.
"And you are waiting for me to en-
tighten your
"Allin good time, my dear Mr Had
don. But have not yet shown you
all my hand. Were ! TO call your
game now, you might think | had a
couple OF aces at the most. | am go
ing TO show you that | have a roya
flush"
1T is hard 10 beat q royal hush,
admit" | said lightly.
Il await developments. then, In th
garden. My vigilance is soon reward
ed. shutters are thrown stealthil.
hack: my classmate Haddon uptoe
onto the balcony; he listens outsld
? the shutters Of the salon
"And does II not seem TO you strans
I that the partner Of Madame de va
u nier's intrigues should distrust her
I the extent OF spying on her NOV
n ments?"
v Locke pulled at his cigar Though
\. fully. I awaited his answer not VII
d out interest
Fl IT did indeed raise the faint hol
IN my breast" he returned cynicall
3. that my friend Haddon perhaps W
not so guilty as the circumstances nj
ID proved him to be. But when | rene
or her that Captain Forbes was inslsu
he on his right to see Sir Mortimer
ng could understand that my quonds
nv friend Haddon was anxious Tor
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=, nv starva YOU take the boat lot
vttznau You install yourself win
him in the suite Of Sir Mortimer Dr.
Won assume his character; more '.i"u
10, Won don his very cloak ana nat
As Sir Mortimer, then, you nave a0SeSS
to his rooms ,ho al.
oIet me compliment you on 'he au.
,-.hio manner in which you nave
p,ayed the spy You traced me aa 49,
from the hotel 10 the boat, anu lne"0'
TO the hotel?"
Not at all. preferred to keep an II,
o,o ON the big fish in the puddle y
ras Madame de WARMER. alias 'ne
Countess sarahof, whom ! was wa..s
ing | knew that the moth wouiu Ia
- tho fame. When ! had assureu
n,vsolf that our beautiful adventures ~
"a retired TO her room across 'n,
Sr,aor w from Sir Mortimer suite
"a nothing TO do but await lle a.
I rival OF the poor niue - ,,,t,
!. sconced in a comfortable cha' w ~
: nv cigarette. Allow me 10 return -
|, Commitment go and congratulate you :
:, ,onr nerfect success in masduerauin
: as The sick Sir Mortimer. y was " "
. wshtful little bit of comedy. !,
I. Had Locke taken the boat IN u
:, mnorv Of Or. starva and myseii
..ouid doubtless have observed y y
!, onisode OF the brandy. and draw. : :
conclusions. His attitude towaru .,., :
: would then have been very uln"i - :,
=, II 10 would have seen for himse'. - :
;, ,be comedy l enacted was iul
a. 90, - of DR.. starva. II igho'
=. I'ocke's suspicious of me even now, :,
,'s 20 IN him my confidence a. =
~ ,o,e date. would he believe that'
m. possiblel o,worr ot char
81. U ,,a, enmeshed me, but ! dio no' +,
A' tempt % to extricate myself. ! aau ,au.,
[ na,ve too long. was uur1
' blindly TO fortune. More .nan an i
u as aetermIned to wait my own U
'1' before SsS | made my position .'esa. clear.
: carried my plans to success
'n. ona,ns,on. the result would JUS
m, actions; If failed snou'0
,a.., M have held to my purpose
.QAI lthob ~ .
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CHAPTER XXI.



oIow uaddon. what is the game?
Locke had seated himself. lie nau
selected with care a cigar from ms
case (which he did not offer to me),
a,d was regarding me with the brutai
amusement of one who has come
across a snake summing In the "h''e
road and who heads on its desperate
at,emnt TO escape with waking
stick.
was silent. refused 10 be cate
ebised like a schoolboy. Had ] met
locke. his mind still unprejudiceu
against me. should gladly have 'oiu
him everything. even at the FISK OF
making myself ridiculous In ms eyes
pp, his mind was so evidently maue
40 raqaraing me. his interference hau
beer so fatally ill-tmed. that couiu
M, hiring myself TO the Illuminating
rosition of one who beseeches-oi one
who evnlains. only to be doubted at'er
all ,.sra
The episode in the porters iouse
was even now far from clear nav
already said that knew that Helena
oscane was not due to any heroism oi
mine
Dr starva had concealed himself De-
hind the glass partition oil the pol's
lodge in the landing. unooserNeu'
had stood fat against the wall, wa'ch'
Ing him 49,
had seen Helena coming up tne
stairs: ! had seen DIR. Starva le'ei ne
revolver al her: had heard the cras"
OF glass and the report OF a revolver
had srn,osed that Starva had fired
and missed.
Now Il appeared that Lockes sho'
baa sbattored the glass of the lodge
while Starva had not fired al All ,u %
WHY Locke should have been IN u'
stairway-why he should nave peer
concealed there-was not so ciea,
Certainly | had no intention OF humil
,at,ny myself further by asking for al
explanation. -.
Come; I'm waiting" he erie
sharply =,
oYou are waiting-for what?' ! a.
mandad with an assurance / did nc
feel was playing for time snou'
|. or should | not. try to MAKE
clear TO Locke? That was the que
ton was asking myself over al
over
"You remember warned you.
told you you were pawn III
clever hands of Countess Sarahon.
prefer TO think that you are her .0
rather than her accomplice bu.
YOU have been fool enough 70 ail'
yourself TO be caught In the net OF =
intrigue. II you have made your in'
ests at one with hers, you must exp
TO pay the piper as well as she.
Il see. You are Nemesis dogs
me to iustice?"
had decided. No matter what
nened | would keep my own coun
for the present. | was not TO be
lied into a confession.
so you admit that the law has
teTrors for you" cried Locke quo
And are you Justice or the Law
disguise? BY heaven. you are ass
Ing rather high-handed man
What the devil is your right TO
the part OF inquisitory'
Gently gently said nothing al
my right"
Then | might ask what Is
game?"
Il make no pretense to any
! happen TO hold the cards. II
all"
by that you mean. suppose,
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~,. ~ Shade Trees.

While shade trees are vefs desirable
.,org sidewalks and roads, unless
they are kept well trimmed they De
come much OF a nuisance, preventing
evanoration OF rains and helping make
muddy streets. II is well for citizens
of every town TO look after the trim
ming OF shade trees. and the planting
~ shade trees where they are nee eded'
The Princeton union., 1907-03-07

1tlclan In the first place and because
he is a patriot in the second place.
There is more than one man in the
United States senate who hates Hitch
cock and frOths at the mouth when he
thinks about the secretary. In the
lower house of congress are several!
men who would get up out of bed at
midnight on the coldest day of the
year to embrace an opportunity to ''do''
Hitchcock. Why? Oh, the story is too
long to tell here; but, briefly, it is be-
cause these members have among their
constituents highly influential men
who are under Indictment or who are
likely to be under Indictment through
the secretary's efforts to run down the,
land thieves.
First Ambassador to St. Petersburg.
Most of the American people are hon.
est Most Of us would not steal a stove
; or pocketbook or a parcel of land if
we had the chance. No matter what
party we may belong to, we who our
selves would not steal cannot help but
admire this man who has spent several
years in hard daily work running down
those who do steal and have stolen
when he might have confined his off,
c1al activities to signing a few docu-
ments and spent the rest of his time
shining In society or playing politics.
Honest citizens who are aware Of
what Ethan Allen Hitchcock has done
for the present and future of this gov
eminent and country are inclined to
congratulate Uncle Sam upon the fact
that away back yonder in the last
month of, 1898 President MCKINLEY
wired the American ambassador to
Russia an offer of the interior deDart-
ment portfolio. The ambassador was
Mr.. Hitchcock, who had been appoint-
ed American minister to the cars
court little more than a year before
The ministry was raised to an en-
bassy during Mr.. Hitchcock's occupan-
cy, so that he became our first ambas-
sador to St. Petersburg.
Mr.. Hitchcock was glad to accent
the offer. He did not fancy the social
affairs incident to an ambassadorship.
He had been plain business man all
his life, and he wanted plain busi-
ness job, where he could sit at desk
and do things. The senate confirmed
his nomination on the same day it was
made, and Mr.. Hitchcock was sworn in
to succeed Secretary Cornelius N. Bliss,
The Princeton union., 1907-03-07
Fire-Killed Timber,

Fire-killed timber, the forest service
has discovered, is some use after all.
This is a thing that has been known
in the west for a long time. The dis
astrous "forest fires" do completely
burn up timber in many cases, but
there are thousands of acres where the
timber is simply "fre-killed;' that is
to say, it is killed standing by the fire
that sweeps through it and finally rots
at the ground and falls in the first
wlndstOrm. Immense areas of this
timber have been utilized in mining
and railroad work and there have
been mills established simply to work
up the ire-killed logs into boards and
boxes.
The seasoning of fre-killed trees
seems to be more perfect than that of
ordinary seasoned lumber, and in the
case of much of the pine that would
otherwise have an Objectionable odor
the 6re-seasoned logs can be worked
up into cracker boxes and the like.
where the odor in ordinary pine
lumber would make it's use impossible.
Some of the fre-killed timber has
been used after it has been dead fifty
five years, though the more common
time is from three to seven years.
The forest service says that the use of
this dead and down timber makes
available many thousand acres of
burned forest that were formerly ac-
counted worthless. Chicago Chroni-
Gle.
The Princeton union., 1907-03-07
BY ROBERTUS LOVE.


"H1S is the story Of plate glass in
America and the light that it
has shed incidentally upon cer-
tain dark places. 1t is CON-
paratively easy to steal a redhot stove.
Though some ingenuity on the part of
the thief is required, the stove can be
carried away and concealed. But it
would seem physically impossible to
steal an acre Of land or a thousand
acres or hundred thousand acres.
Yet this feat has been accomplished
hundreds of times in the United States
without being discovered by the own
ers Of the land until many years have
elapsed. In some cases the theft is
yet to be discovered. The land has
been stolen not from private individ-
uals, but from you and me and all Of
us-from the American republic 1t is
our land, which we hold with view to
it's being settled by those Of us who
need the land and who are permitted
under our laws to buy it at a certain
figure and use it to the best advantage.
1t is a crime to steal stove or pig
or pocketbook. 1t is far greater
crime to steal a quarter section Of
land, for in so doing the thief steals
away the possible home of a poor man
and his family. Such a thief is one of
the meanest criminals in the category.
In the western part Of the United
States, in about a dozen states alto
gether, hundreds Of thousands Of acres
of homestead, timber, coal and desert
lands have been stolen during the past
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Nemesis OF Land Thieves.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Who Retires as Secre=
tary of the Interior.
Plain business Man Who Has Gone Ahead and Done His Days
Go After the Public Land Looters Early His Administration
Never Let Up on Them-Our First Ambassador St.
Petersburg How He Entered the
Plate Industry.

Aection with the land frauds, 80 have
been convicted and 4O1 indictments
were pending when the report was
written few months ago.
1t is not to be denied that many more
convictions would have been secured
had certain judges and legislators and
other officials held their oaths Of office
as sacredly inviolate as Mr.. Hitchcock
held his oath. Just read this from the
secretary's annual report:
ut is to be regretted that the efforts
to release the land from the grip of it's
despoilers have been met by every
embarrassment that human ingenuity
could devise. Powerful influences have
been concerned and have not hesitated
to aggressively assert every agency
that could be commanded to weaken
the hand Of the law. Even local land
Office officials have been subservient to
such influences, and the punishment
imposed by the courts has in many
cases been so conspicuously inadequate
as to encourage rather than deter vio-
lations Of the law"
MI. H1CcncOck goes out of Office cor
daily hated by many men. Let us love
him for the enemies he has made. In
Missouri, his own state, the machine
politicians Of his party have despised
him from the first. One of these ma
ch1nists actually expected to be ap-
pointed secretary of the interior when
President Mckinley ignored "party
services" and named Hitchcock, a
business man, for business job. They
hate Hitchcock because he is not a pol
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thirty years, sometimes by individuals.
sometimes by organized gangs of land
pirates called business firms Of
course no Individual or firm operating
alone can steal land. Accomplices are
necessary, and these accomplices must
be officials Of the United States or of
the particular state in which the theft
is to be committed. They may be
agents Of the general land Office or
they may be merely notaries public, Ell
ther state OF national.
Hewed to the Line.
About six years ago an elderly Off
clal at Washington made the discovery
that these miserable pirates were loot
ing the government-and that means
the people, you and me and the rest
OF vast tracts Of land. The official was
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, secretary OF
the interior. Mr.. Hitchcock has served
a little more than eight years in that
cabinet position. He is a quiet, digni-
fed old gentleman, now in his seventy
second year. He has not been a fussy
official. He has not made loud noise
AAOAAA SAAO AOuoSCOpo, pAoNAsAAAAAAo
self political Messiah, preaching Re-
form with big r. Politicians do that,
with view to the presidency some
times. This old gentleman has just
gone ahead and done his days work
according to his oath Of Office.
The country at large has not heard
so very much about Ethan Allen Hitch
cock. A dozen cabinet officers have
served during his eight years and made
vastly wider and louder regulations.
Nevertheless this quiet old gentleman
IS perhaps the only cabinet officer of
the past two presidential terms to
whom the grateful people of the future
will erect statues.
Secretary Hitchcock goes down to
history as the Nemesis Of the land
thief. He got after the land looter
early in his administration and is still
after him. Young Mr.. Garfield, who
succeeds this septuagenarian in Office.
Is expected to carry out to finish the
work begun by Mr.. Hitchcock-the
prosecution and conviction and pun-
1shment of the stealers of public lands
and the restoration of such stolen
lands to the people.
Mr.. Hitchcock's last annual report
to the president shows that through
the efforts Of the interior department
49O persons have been indicted in COZ
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Mary Dark circles under the eyes
Indicate a sluggish circulation, tor
pid liver and kidneys. Exercise and
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea will
make you we'll and beautiful. IS cents,
tea or tablets. G. "A. Jack.
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to 1t. Some time before a plate glass
factory had been started in southern
Indiana. Mr.. Hitchcock's was there.
fore the second in America. In time
other deposits Of plate glass sand were
developed. Twelve factories were con-
solidated, Mr.. Hitchcock becoming the
head Of the combination. But. unlike
the result of most Industrial combines.
prices went down instead Of up. for
this combination was not monopolv.
Several companies were left outside.
Plate glass today is sold for 35 cents a
square foot at the factories.
In 1890, when Mr.. Mckinley was
writing his tariff bill, he sent for Mr..
Hitchcock to get information as to
plate glass and some other commolli-
ties. Thus began the acquaintance
which put Ethan Allen Hitchcock into
the cabinet Of Mckinley and then into
that of Roosevelt, son Of the gentleman
who thought there was no plate glass
sand in this country.
SO it Is really plate glass which in
the end has shed light upon the dark
places of our public land administra-
ton. Future American citizens when
ever they see plate glass window or
an acre Of homestead land with hap
py home upon it should think thank
tully OF Ethan Allen Hitchcock.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-01-31
TO SAVE 500 LIVES A YEAR.
Railroads Elevate 1900 Miles of Track
in CHICAGO.

w S'hSdSOs
The railroads of the country are
spending s1ooooo.ooo to make the streets
of Chicago safe. says Rutldege Ruther-
ford in the Technical World. On an
average 500 people a year are run over
by passing trains Or are injured In
collisions with steam locomotives while
using Chicagos streets.
Ten years ago Chicago decided that
the elevation OF all steam railway
tracks was the only means of protect
ing her citizens from the deadly grade
crossings. Now the railroads are foot
ing the bill
Last year more than $4,000 men were
employed in the work OF elevating the
tracks. and it cost the railroads about
$5.S00,0O0. Chicago is not the only city
which is having her steam railway
tracks elevated, but Chicago is the only
city which is making the railroads pay
for the job.
Chicago has already accomplished the
elevation of 500 miles of steam railway
tracks within her borders and has
made the railroads pay every cent of
the 50,O00000 which it has cost
Sixteen hundred miles of railroad
tracks in one city is something rather
difficult to comprehend without com
parsons. Sixteen hundred miles of
right of way is nearly enough to build
two elevated railroads from Chicago to
Philadelphia.
1t is more than enough to build a
single line from Chicago To Boston. or
to Galveston. or to Santa Fee. N NJ, or
To Jacksonville, Fla. or to Denver, or
even to Salt Lake City. This is en-
tirely independent of any lines operated
by electricity or by any power other
than steam.
Excepting TIE lowered and walled in
tracks of the Illinois Central along the
lake front. where there are no street
crossings. every mile OF this trackags
will have been elevated when the work
now il progress is completed