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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-09-12

serve mat sucn stockings as you have
on are worse than none. If you will
have the goodness to come with me
you shall be shod afresh and join me
n a glass of negus before you CO."
"But, sir
"Tut! I know what you would say
you have trespassed already and have
no wish to trespass further. Very
we'll, sir; so be 1t. You shall have your
way and pay the penalty. 1 condemn
you to a glass of negus and a new pair
Of shoes"
And with the utmost bonhommie the
tiny gentleman drove Tom before him
to the house and through open French
windows to q basement room where a
lamp and fire were burning and q ket-
tie singing on the hob.
Hungry" he chirped, giving Tom a
playful push in the ribs.
II had provisions in my pocket"
stammered the youth, in deep embar-
rassment. II shall do very we'll. In
deed. your kindness
"Tut, sir, tut! You will please me
best by saying no more about that.
You are hungry, and l shall order you
something upstairs. But here's the
| sherry and there's the boiling water.
You can brew your w negus while
I am gone, and this is today's Adver-
tlser. Make yourself at home, 1 beg!"
And, with twinkling eyes and brisk
gestures, the little old gentleman de-
parted, of all Toms good Samaritans
!! assuredly the prince and king.
No sooner was he alone than Tom
caught up the Advertiser and found
half g column about the murder, and,
yes, there was his name. The Adcocks
had volunteered it, together with a full
description. whose accuracy tempted
Tom not to wait for his supper, but to
rush through the open window and
swim the river in his clothes. Yet there
was more that must be read. The case
against him was stronger than ever.
The threatening letters had been found
among the dead mans effects. The
hackney coachman had told his story,
and here it was. But one name was
gratefully absent-that Of Harding did
not occur in the closely printed half
column, which so strangely fascinated
Tom that his quaint Samaritan was
back before he had put the paper down.
"What! Feeding the mind before the
body? Well, we'll, to be sure!"
II hadn't seen today's paper" said
Tom feebly. 4,syx~,
"Aha! / know what you were read
Ing too" The old gentleman chuckled
as he poured sherry into two tumblers.
II know-I know"
"What?" asked Tom hoarsely.
"My eyes are good. My eyes are ex-
eellent. You were reading the Hamp-
stead murder" Tom held his breath.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-09-12
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let me go! Let me gov. Tom heard
him cry.
"Never till 1 drop! Police! Police!
He sha'n't murder my Jim too"
$50 help me, but I'll strike We If ye
don't let go!"
"Strike away. Police! Police! Po-
lice! If you go, I go too"
Her cries were not loud; they were
smothered in the struggle, which was
still continued-now at the foot Of the
stairs, now on the stairs themselves
and at last on the landing outside the
barricaded door. Meanwhile the bird
had flown.
No sooner had Tom realized what was
taking place below than he threw up
the bedroom window. 1t overlooked q
small and filthy back yard, into which
Tom quietly dropped while the pair
were still struggling on the stairs. To
find his way through the house, through
the kitchen itself and out into the mar
row street was the work of very few
moments. The last Tom heard was
The belaboring Of the locked, blocked
door by honest Jim. Nor did bis pres
ence of mind desert him yet. He walk
ed out Of the narrow side street, only
running when he came to the main
thoroughfare and after a perilous hest
tation as to whether he should strike
into the city or over Blackfriars bridge.
He chose the city and, having chosen,
lost his head and ran for his life.
He darted across the street and
plunged into the busy alleys filling
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-09-12
CHAPTER vi.

"O run no risk Of observation
through the dirty, bare win
dows, as we'll as to secure
equidistance from all possible
points of approach or escape, the hunt
ed youth had lain him down in the hall,
with the bottom stair for his pillow.
He was rewarded with the full shock
of this ear splitting tattoo. Tom CROP
ed his way on tiptoe to the garden door
and stealthily withdrew the bolts. The
door was one-half colored glass, show
ing a pink moon in a purple sky and
a neglected garden which by daylight
would have been sky blue with a ruby
margin, but now it merely gave an
other coat to night, and Tom was out
side and halfway down the flight Of
stone steps before he saw that which
made the iron balustrade grow colder
in his hand. The chimney pot hat.
white trousers and drawn staff of one
of the new police awaited him at the
bottom.
"Come along" said this officer. Its
no use turning back. Hear that"
AS he spoke the noise of breaking
glass came through the open door, and
Toms mind was made up. Suddenly
crouching, with knees and elbows at
acute angles, he sprang clean on top Of
the police officer, who collapsed be-
meath him like a house Of cards. The
fall was bad enough for Tom. His nose
was bleeding when he picked himself
up, but the other lay motionless on his
back, and Tom bent over him in horror.
His eyes opened that instant, and he
made a grab at Tom, who turned and
darted down the garden just as there
vas a clatter Of fresh feet upon the
stone stairs behind.
The garden wall was mercifully low.
Tom vaulted it and all but landed in
a cucumber frame upon the other side.
He found himself in a nursery garden,
with avenues of crystal roofs shining
to the moon in long low parallels.
Down one such causeway sped Tom at
top speed, getting into another by turn
ing left and right at the first gap. Just
then he heard a welcome crash at the
cucumber frame fifty yards back. But
now the frontage wall loomed ahead.
cutting the stars at an uncomfortable
height. and on dashing .un TO IT. Tom
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-09-12

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the delta between the bridge and st.
Pauls. Here he slackened q little,
for the stony, many Widowed ravines
we're so narrow and SO crowded that
it was impossible to continue running.
But he threw up his heels the instant
he emerged on Ludgate hill, tearing
heller SHELTER in the middle Of the road.
He was nearly run over by a van
coming out Of Paternoster row and
cursed to the skies by the driver.
Faces stopped and turned upon the
pnvements. He knew the folly Of it,
and yet ran on with a fend in either
heel.
Bank, bank! Ere you are, sir,
ERE you are!
Tom was almost up to the omnibus
before he realized that this was meant
for him. Instinctively he waved and
nodded, and his mad pace was ex-
planned. The omnibus stopped; he
jumped in, gasping.
Thought you was after me-" said
the cad, with a grin.
Tom had no breath to reply. A ru-
bicund old gentleman made a we'll
meant remark upon the eagerness Of
youth and was favored with a CLASSY
stare. The newcomer sat painting In
a corner, the perspiration trickling
from his nose.
But his head was cooler. He saw
| the needlessness as we'll as the indis-
cretion of conspicuous flight. He had
! slipped through the only hands that
were as yet against him. He had
eluded the only eyes he need avoid that
night, for the hackney coachman might
take his new tale straight to Scotland
Yard, but it could hardly be given to
the world before morning.
Toms heart leaped as he discovered
the temporary strength of his position.
! Next moment it sank, for the cad was
collecting the fares, and his single as
set was the watch. His bankrupt state
had occurred to Tom as he ran for the
omnibus, but not again. 1t was so
small a thing compared with the charge
now lying at his door. Yet he had just
thought Of this little fraud was SO
far deliberate-but he had neither the
face Eor the foolhardiness to sit there
and confess his fault. And, situated
like the wanted felon he now felt him
self to be, it was wonderful and hor-
rible how a felon's resources came IN
hidden to his fingers ends. He began
feeling in pocket after pocket, with a
face that heightened under the frown
Of the cad, the raised eyebrows of the
rubicund gentleman and the fixed at.
tention Of all,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-09-12

II v read such things myself" pur-
sued the other, but 1 did when | was
young. Oh, Lord, yes. Blood was my
negus then" 49,
And, with his childlike laugh, he
handed Tom one steaming tumbler.
mixed another for himself and insisted
on clinking glasses before they drank.
Tom split some of his portion upon the
floor, but his kind host never noticed it.
He was next invited to take a pinch
from a silver mounted horn snuffbox.
This he refused as politely as his state
of mind would permit. He trembled to
know whether the old gentleman had
really eschewed all accounts Of the
murder. To make certain he hazarded
a leading question.
"It seems to be q queer affair, sir.
Do YOU think they'll ever catch him?'
MY good fellow, l haven't read the
case"
Tom drew a deep breath and tossed
off his negus at a gulp. At that mo-
ment there came a knock at the door
and a small maid entered.
Ready, Mary"
Eyes, sir"
"Then come this way, my dear
young gentleman" the old one said,
with his most benevolent smile; 'sup-
stairs. Follow the maid. 1 will follow
you"
{To BE ooNTINUED.I
"1'd like something to eat" said the
frazzled pilgrim at the kitchen door.
"I'm that tired and hungry I don't
know which way to turn" "Ill show
you how to do that" encouragingly re-
piled Farmer Haycraft, picking up a
dull ak and leading him in the direc-
ton of the grindstone.
Reading without purpose is saunter-
ing, not exercise. More is got from
one book on which the thought settles
for definite end In knowledge than
from libraries skinned over by a
wandering eye. A cottage flower gives
honey to the bee, a kings garden none
to the butterfy.-Lord LYtton.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-09-12

run no risk Of observation
through the dirty, bare win
dows, as we'll as to secure
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-11
NEW YORK.

Unreasonable cold or wet weather, with
frosts throughout the northern half Of
the country, has again been a barrier 10
retail trade, except in a few sections,
and the coolest May in twenty-five years
closes with large stocks of goods undis-
posed of by retailers The shoe and
leather markets are quiet as whole. as
is natural in between-seasons market.
Shoe manufacturers are receiving more
orders, but are reported not satisfied.
Pig iron markets are quiet, but very
strong in price. Supplies for early de-
livery are very scarce. hence foreign iron
continues to be purchased in moderate
volume Fair sales of southern iron
have been made for delivery in the first
part of 1908, the basis being SIS to
$3.50 Birmingham. Considerable new
business in steel rails has been booked,
most of which is for delivery in 1908.
May was good month for structural
steel interests, the tonnage booked being
very heavy and large orders are looked
for within the next few months.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ended May 80 number 40,
against 100 last week, 127 in the like
week of 1906. 154 in 1905. 1914 in 1904
and 157 IN 1903. Canadian failures for
the week Number "A, as against 10 last
week and 10 in this week a year ago.
Bradstreet's Commercial Report
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-11
Big stick After Lumber Trust.

The bureau of corporations, under
Commissioner Smith, now has started
in to probe the lumber trust, with view
to bringing criminal prosecution if evil
dence can be found. Special agents are
already in the field gathering the data
on which to proceed and a preliminary
inquiry into the prices of lumber shows
that the diminishing supply of timber
does not account for the jump in price.
During 1906 hemlock advanced 81; white
pine, So; yellow, 81 poplar, 50; while
in the last ten years the price of maple
has gone up II per cent; oak, 36 per
cent yellow pine, 60 per cent poplar,
20 per cent; spruce, IA per cent, and
hemlock, Sc per cent. Complaints re-
ceived by the bureau are more numer-
GUS and more bitter than those against
the oil or beef trusts. The lumber trust
is regarded as the most complete of the
great industrial combinations and is OPP
Grated without holding company or 9TH
er outward sign of its monopolistic char
acter. The operations have been under
what is known as the "gentemen's
agreement" by means of which any re-
taller who disregards the prepared price
list will be boycotted out of business.
The combined capital of the trust is
$611, 100000 The actual cost Of yellow
pine is so and the price quoted last
year was $40 to SIS.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-11
BRAIN Iniurv and speech.

Taking issue with the generally accept
ed theory that a definite region of the
brain presides over the function of speech
and that an injury to this part of the
brain means AIN interference with the
power of using language, Pierre Marie, a
French investigator, whose views are set
forth in an article translated for the Lit
erary Digest contends that the old notion
is largely erroneous. After referring
somewhat in detail to the results of ex-
periments on persons afflicted with apha-
STA, he states that failure to stand these
tests indicates, not word deafness, but
diminution Of intelligence, since the pa
tient understands the meaning of the
words separately, but is not able to make
a proper connection of ideas. He con-
cludes, therefore, that the theory Of word
deafness and its localization in the brain
cannot be sustained. While his views
are perhaps too radical for general accept
ance, they seem to necessitate some mod
iication of previously held theories on
this subject.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-11
CHICAGO.

The progressive state of commerce dis
closes no specific grounds for a declining
confidence in the outlook. Payments
through the banks furnish the best APP
proxlmat,e1 of general activity, and tho
remarkable aggregate of these for May
testlhes to a volume of business in this
district greater than at any time hereto
fore. This reflex of expansion is made
more satisfactory in the fact that there
is also better supply of money. with
a lower discount rate.
Interest in the markets for breadstuffs
is attended with less excitement. bnt
prices have changed little. and the specu-
lative element is small factor, advices
agreeing as to an improvement in crop
conditions.
Higher temperatures 5rough. the nee
essary stimulus to demand in distributive
lines. Local sales of seasonable neces-
saries made good advance. especially in
lightweight apparel, footwear and house
furnishings. while late reports show
country merchandise stocks undergoing
rapid reduction and buying throughout
the agricultural regions gainihg ss.xength-
Bank clearings, $196,517,104. exceed
those of corresponding week in 1906 by
l4.2 per cent. Failures in the Chicago
district numbered II. against II last
week and 20 a year ago.-Dun's Review
of Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-11
FEED BABIES TO SERPENT.

Priest Makes Startling Accusation
Against New Mexican Indians.
In spite of the fact that a similar
charge was Investigated and dismissed
by grand jury some time ago another
complaint has been filed with United
States District Attorney Llewellyn of
New Mexico that a tribe of Indians in
that territory are given to the worship
of an enormous serpent to which are
fed the newborn babes of a puebla in
which 1t is housed and carefully tended
and guarded. The complaint was filed
by a Catholic priest, who alleges that
dozen families were segregated from sew
eral pueblas around about two years ago
and formed into a puebla by themselves
and that, although it is known that many
children have been born to these fami-
lies, not a child is TO be found in the
puebla. This led the priest to press his
investigations, with the result that he
discovered that in an adobe house, iso-
lated and closely guarded, there is an
enormous seryent which is worshiped by
the Indians of all the pueblas around
and that every babe born in the small
puebla, and it is suspected many others,
is fed to the serpent. Major Llewellyn,
having no jurisdiction, has filed the aft
davit of the priest and other evidence
with the territorial authorities.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-11
CHINESE DIE ey EARTHQUAKE.
TrembIer in the FIowery Kingdom
Spreads Ruin

The steamer Shawmut, on arriving
at Victoria. d. c.. brought news of
disastrous ,eSs of life following an
earthquake at Hsin kiang. A telegram
received from Pekin by the Nishi Shin
bun at Tokyo shortly before the shaw
NUT sailed reported that 1000 persons
were crushed to death. vast number
of houses destroyed and many persons
left starving. The empress dowager
has telegraphed urgent Instructions TO
the local governors to take measures
to relieve the distress.
Hsin Kiang or sinkiang is province
in western China. including eastern or
Chinese Turkestan. 1t is bordered on
the north by Sungaria. on the east by
Mongolia. on the south by THE. and
on the west by Russian Turkestan. 1t
is an isolated and rather sparsely set
tied country. the most numerous Of the
inhabitants being Kirghizes. Sarts,
kalmucks TSbegs and Talks. The seat
OF administration is at Urumchi.
The country is mountainous to a
large extern ana, like western Turkes-
tan, is subject to earthquakes. Andi-
jan. which is in the Russian portion of
Turkestan. was ruined by an earth
quake in 1902. The climate is severe
and extremely dry. The people are en-
gagged principally in agriculture and
stoek-raising and in the manufacture
Of silk and cotton.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-11
TAKE BRITISH SHIP.
FOUND CATCHING SEALS ON FOR
BIDDEN GROUNDS.
Schooner Charlotte G.. Cox Captured
by Revenue Cutter on Alaska
Low street Car Fares sn Cleveland
Receive Knockout Blow.

The Secretary of the Treasury in
Washington has received a telegram from
Captain Ainsworth of the revenue cutter
Rush, stating that he had seized the Brit
ish sealing schooner Charlotte G. Cox,
which was found illegally catching seals
in Fairweather grounds, off Alaska. The
Cox, it is said, evidently was taking seals
during the closed season within the area
of the ward in violation of articles of the
tribunal of arbitration agreed to by the
governments of Great Britain and the
United States. 1t had seyenty-seven fur
sealskins on board. The department has
directed the commander Of the Rush to
deliver the Cox to the British authorities
at the nearest port in British Columbia
In accordance with the joint regulations of
the two governments in case or seizure.
The Rush also reported the presence of
Japanese sealers in the same vicinity
with a large number Of sealskins on
board. The japanese sealers, however,
are not subject to seizure outside of ter
ritorial waters.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-11
FIRE IN SHIPS HOLD.
STEERAGE FURNISHINGS and
CARGO ARE BURNED.
Scenery De-
stroyed or Damaged - Glucose
Feeds the FIanes - Nightmare

Fire on the White Star steamer Oceanic
at New York which was discovered in the
steerage soon after / o'clock Monday
morning, was not brought under control
for two hours. The flames started among
the steerage berths. The crew was called
TO quarters and didwhat it could but when
the fire spread to the cargo outside aid
had to be called. In the after hold were
1s7 barrels of glucose, which burned
like oil. The crew closed the after COM
partments and the firemen drowned out
the flames. All the bedding and other
perishable fittings of the steerage were
destroyed. in addition to a quantity of
freight. Among the cargo was some the
atrical scenery belonging to Forbes Rob
ertson, who recently left for England af
ter a successful season in America, and
this is said to have been burned or dam
aged The origin of the fire is not known,
but suspicion was expressed on the dock
that it was the result of incendiarism.
The loss will reach several thousand dol
lars. The Oceanic is one of the most
popular boats of the White Star Line
She is a seyen-day boat and is one of
the newer feet, having been built in 1899
She is a steel twin-screw vessel of 1924
tons displacement and net tonnage of
6.917
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-11
NO Hf.euE PLANS FIXED.
Peace Delegates VIII Arrange Their
own Programme.

The general plan of the proceedings
AT the second Hague peace conference
probably will follow closely the proce-
dure of the first Congress held in 1890.
The Dutch government, realizing that
the representatives of the forty-sx
powers must be complete masters of
the situation, has refrained from in
any way attempting to control or ar
range a program of procedure II sim
ply offers its hospitality. The same is
true of Russia.
The first thing in order will be the
appointment of committees to consider
the various subjects inscribed upon
the Russian program. These will hard
ly number more than five. Unless the
question of the reduction or limitation
of ornaments is injected into the pro-
ceedings at the outset. in which event
the main struggle may he at once pre-
cipitated, the plenary body probably
will not meet again Tor ten days or
fortnight in order that the committees
have an opportunity to prepare reports
In general it is not expected that the
full conference will meet more than
once week until the work of the COM
mittees justifes more frequent ses-
sions.
Sessions of the conference and Of the
committees Will be secret. but 1t is
probable that public statement of the
progress viii be issued daily if posi-
bic. The French language. as in 1899
will be the official language of the
conference, although the advent of the
South Americans and the growing in
fiuence of English may result in
compromise whereby the protocols or
minutes will be inscribed in both
French and English.
The governments official entertain
ment of the delegates will not be law
ish, but rather viii be in the same good
taste as is its attitude with reference
to the program. Nothing will be ar
ranged which will in any way inter-
fere with the work of the conference.
The parliament has appropriated S4O.-
600 but this covers the expenses in
connection with the sittings of the
hall of the knights" where the CON
ference meets. In addition the gov
ernmenh will give an entertainment.
which probably will take the form of
a day trip or excursion to some inter-
esting historical spot. The municipal
ity will give formal reception. Queen
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-11

VAST GROWTH SINCE 1900.
Expanding Conditions in United
States shown by Government.


States shown by Government
A series of panoramic views of condi-
tons in the United States from 1900 to
the present time in area, population, pro-
duction, commerce, money circulation,
wealth, accommodation, publication
and education is presented in a statistical
abstract of the United States Just issued
by the Department of Commerce and La
Dor. 1t is volume of 700 pages, with
scarcely a line of text discussion other
than the titles of the tables themselves.
Beginning with tables as to area, it is
shown that in the continental United
States the population to the square mile
has grown from six and one-half persons
in 1900 to nearly twenty-eight at the
present time. The per capita circula-
ton, which in 1900 was So, in 1906 was
1922. The per capita wealth. which in
1850 was 1907, in 1904 was $3.50.
Bank deposits, for which no record is
available earlier than 1879, were trihe
over $2,000,000,000 in that year, and in
1896 they were SO, 250,000,000. In 1920
deposits in savings banks amounted in
round numbers to $1,000,000, while in
1906 they were $3,250000,00O, with
S,O27, 1872 depostors. Imports of mer-
chandise, which in 1900 amounted to SOL,
100000, in 1906 were 81 ,226,0 100000;
while exports, which in 1900 were SILL
100000, in 1906 were 100000.
The publication also shows increases in
cotton production from 1886 bales in
1900 to II ,333, 600 bales in 1906; in sugar
production, which am -~7ted to less than
1900 tons in 1925, to 5S2,414 tons in
1906, and in corn, the production of
which in 1910 was 377,000000 bushels,
to 1927, 416091 bushels in 1905. The
value of manufacturing products has
grown from $1,000,0O0,0o0 in 1850 to
nearly $15,000,000000 in 1905.