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started last spring and 1t is their task
to make the preliminary surveys for
a complete geological survey of the
region.
The concession was granted on con-
ditions that make certain the immedi-
ate opening of the country. The
Americans must open 30 miles within
six years, and they are to have the ex-
elusive right to the product OF 20 Of
these for 80 years.
Copper and gold are the minerals
they expect to find in the greatest
quantities. Gold has been found In
rich deposits in the adjacent British
and French territory, and the same
veins run into the Congo. The ex-
istence of copper, all ready to be
mined, has long been known.
Plan TO Benefit Natives.
1t is the plan of these Americans
his African territory to treat the ma
tives on a plan that differs slightly
from that of the Belgian concession
aires. They will start plantations of
bananas, peanuts and all the other
fruits grains and vegetables. for
which the climate is adapted; they
will develop the fisheries of the great
rivers and employ the natives to can
the products of both. They will at
first supply the natives with every
thing they need, including food and
lodging, and pay them In beads and
trinkets, gradually teaching them the
use of money as a trading medium
They will have to start schools and
hospitals, and here Mr. Ryan will find
wide scope for his philanthropy, al
though the field is not virgin soil. for
the priests and nuns of several re-
ligious orders are already in there
and have done much splendid work
among the natives.
Thus 1t Is that New York million.
aires are at work exploiting alto.
gether about 10000 square miles Of
African jungle, surveying virgin for.
est, boring into unknown mountains.
building roads and railroads through
trackless wildernesses and exercising
absolute sovereignty over millions Of
naked man-eating savages, with a rea-
sonable prospect, whether they strike
mineral wealth or miss it. of raising
their millions to the billion mark.
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I shall never forget the breakfast
gave to pretty girl when | first knew
her, the short man began. 1T wou,s
make your mouth water to hear what
1t was. Grape fruit to begin with the
most delicate of breakfast food win
cream a choice broiled chicken q
small champagne cup with lift woa
d late breakfast--the finest of frnlt
Gonee ! can't remember the tbings
! ordered for her at that braaLfast
ana what do you think she said wbon
sne finished? She said: You needn't
nave nave gone to so much trouble. | don't
care care Tor anything but couple Of oges
.or my breakfast and a piece 09S 81
,,,,, II was the wrong thing to saw r
VIII admit" sighed his wife g. I'y y'..
mat girl and have been IIvIr, was mas
since on a couple Of eggs t po,. ever
breakfast and piece Of toast 50 my
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wilds of the interior, where are sitr.
ated the concessions of the American
millioniares.
TO induce these natives to work
the belgians devised n plan by which
each man is taxed an amount of ruh.
Der each other day that a careful cal.
culation estimates should be collected
in 40 hours. For this he is maid Of
the market rate. Some such svstem
as this which the missionaries in rho
employ of Congo Reform associatior
persistently call Slavery" will have
to be adopted by the Americans
Rockefeller, Jr., interested.
The American Congo comnanv u,oa
formed especially for dealing in rnh.
Der John d. Rockefeller. Jr 10 ~
terested in this company and pIans 70
apply newly discovered process ~
the manufacture of rubber. Tho g.
ciete lnternationale is TO exnIoit ~
mineral resources and it is tbis ~
which the Guggenheims are interost
ed. This latter company's enpinoou,
are now in the Congo making snr
vey. The party is in charge of
Chester Beatty, an associate of Jobn
Hays Hammond; with S. p. Vernar
Dorsey Mohun and l.. N Ron TN
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accepted the suggestion of the king
of the Belgians that he take n long
lease of this vast territory.
OF course it is something of gam.
BILE, for the American explorers are
going into what is virtually unknown
country, and the difficulties, sanitary.
engineering, economical, etc, may
prove so great that they will not i'm.
mediately make any profits. But the
odds are so heavily in their favor that
the chance was well worth taking.
The crown domain, which is a large
part of the Congo. returns at a con.
sentative estimate profit of at leas,
$1,000 900 year, and almost all of this
is from rubber, the minerals being
virtually untouched. So Mr.. Ryan and
his associates have every reason to
hope for large profits.
Exact investment Unknown.
The exact amount they are invest
ing in the Congo is difficult to ascer
tain. but 1t is known that they paid
King Leopold $1,50O,OOO for the con.
cession, and that he and the Belgian
stockholders retain substantial block
of stock in the Societe International
Forestiere ct Minere du Congo, one OF
the companies they have formed The
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REAL ESTATE, ETC, FOR SALE.

Oscar Andrews farm at Lake Shore
Is acres Of good farming land free
from salt, % shares of water. 81 10000
Also % acres of land on Lake Shore
and 25 acres of water good flowing
wen. 81 10000
30 acres Of good farming land in
South Field. 81 $4,000.
Onehalf LOT In Fourth ward belongs
to Chas. Peterson $4,000.
Five acres Of good farming land III
South Field $4,000
one horse eight years old 1,10C
pounds, gentle. good to work, $500
Twenty acres of splendid farmint
land at Benjamin near Sugar Fac
tory. old Matley farm. 100000
city lot, G rods by 2S rods, two
blocks west of Public Square 1915 90
One-half city lot, 6 rods by ~ rods
one block from Main street $4,000
Onc-half city lot. 3 blocks west OF
Main street $4,000.
One city lot. 81 rods by 16 rods
~ blocks west of Public Square
$4,000
Seven acres of good fruit land on
bench near Vincent farm, $4,000 pei
acre.
One full city lot in Fourth Ward
$4,000.
Nine and two-tenths acres of good
fruit land. 213 fruit trees, well fenced
nice brick house, barn, barn yard on
State road full water right belongs
to George Williams, $2450.
Underwood ranch, 321 acres. ID
acres under cultivation. $50 fruit trees
house barn, all farm implements.
$4,000.
10 acres of good farming land in
West Field, full water right. $4,000 per
acre.
City lot, Az by l2 rods, " blocks
from Main street, az blocks from
Commercial bank. $4,000
Fifty acres of good beet land. 6S
shares of water at Lake Shore, S54 per
acre.
City lot by IL rods. one-half block
from Main street, joins Oran Lewis
new home, $4,000.
Wanted-A 81 900 home in Third or
Fourth Ward
For Sale.-Five shares of West Field
water, s35 per share.
Wanted-Ten shares of Bench
water.
Eight-room house for rent, call and
see us.
Wanted--A good Jersey mich COW
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Instruction begins Monday, Septem-
Der 10th. Registration OF students,
September 18th and 14th. Entrance
examinations, September 18th, 18th,
and 18th.
College. engineering, medical law,
normal. and preparatory courses are
offered
Tho catalog which outlines all the
university work, the preparatory cata-
log which describes the preparatory
and two years of normal preparatory
work, or an illustrated booklet of the
school of mines. will be sent free on
application to
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH,
Salt Lake City, Utah. If.
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Bootblacks In Livery.

There is new Office building In
wall street that Is piling luxury on
luxury In the way of fittings and gen
eral accessories to the point where 1t
bids fair to be close rival to the mar.
Bile and plush palaces of hotels up
town. The latest outbreak In this
direction is the uniforming of the
official bootblack of the building in a
pages livery, blue trousers with a
gold piping on the seams, page s
short tunic with ever so many round
gilt buttons down the front and a
dark blue straight visored cap with
the name of the company that owns
the structure in gold letters on the
front, or course, this bootblack
page is an Italian. and he looks ex.
tremely hot and uncomfortable in his
padded coat
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THE BRIGHAM YOUNG uNivER
StTY AT PROVO

Will open Monday, September 10th
1907.
This institution comprises:
A College of Arts and Sciences, a
Normal School, Regular High School,
a Commercial Schools School of Mu-
sic, a School of Arts and Trades, a
School of Agriculture, and a Prepare
tory School.
The annual catalogue will be fur
nished on application. Write for in.
formation to
Il. II. HOLT, Secretary,
Provo, Utah.
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New York.-In the heart of Equa.
torial Africa group of New York
millionaries has acquired an empire.
Out of this empire, representing in
direct and indirect control a region of
$4,000 square miles, they expect to
Increase their millions, perhaps to
turn them into billions
The men who are exploiting this
untrodden wilderness of forest, noun
tain. jungle and morass are Thomas
II. Ryan, James ID. Stillman, John ID.
Rockefeller, Jr., II. p. Whitney, f. b.
Aldrich and the Guggenheim brothers.
Other names have been mentioned, in
GLIDING those of J. p. Morgan, Thomas
F. Walsh and Anthony n. Brady. who
may own stock in the two great com
panies which have been formed, but
they are not directors in either and
have taken no active part in their or
ganization.
These men have as partners Leo
pold, king of the Belgans. and a few
Belgian tinanciers
Their empire is in the heart of the
Congo Free State; in fact II stretches
almost across its greatest breadth
from east to west, and consists of be-
tween 100000 and 100000 acres,
or, roughly speaking, an area about
the size of New Hampshire and Yer
mont Over this they have powers
which are virtually absolute Nom
inally the Congo courts have jurisdic
ton over the territory and it Is gov
erned by the laws of the Congo, but
actually these Americans are its mas
tiers. They have the right to police
1t and the terms of their concession
impose this upon them as duty.
They may employ native labor or may
import coolies or Americans, Just as
they like, but there Is no doubt they
will employ natives.
Project Originally Hammond's.
King Leopold secretly sold these
Americans this concession some
months ago. Mr.. Ryan is not man
who is In the habit of going into gil
gantic transactions without knowledge
OF what he is doing or without some
definite assurance that he will reap a
substantial profit from his investment.
The man who advised him that there
was big money to be made in the
Congo was John Hayes Hammond,
the famous engineer, who had looked
Central America over in general way
and who knew the vast mineral wealth
that lay hidden in its immemorial
rocks. He had Travelled through it's
forests of rubber trees, ebony, ma
hogany and other valuable woods, and
he knew that, even IL the gold, the
copper. the silver should not pan out
as he expected, there was enough
money to be made out of the rubber
and the wood to reward handsomely
the men who should open up the coun-
try Upon his report, supported by
the reports of other experts, Mr.. Ryan
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ESTRAY NOTICE.

| have in my possession the follow
ing described animals impounded as
estrays, or for trespass:
One red three-year-old steer with
white face brand resembling X on
right hip with crop and under bit in
right and under bit and upper slope in
left ear.
If damage and costs on said animal
be not paid within ten days from date
of this notice ne will be sold to the
highest cash bidder at Spanish Fork
precinct pound at 2 o'clock noon, on
the 9th day of Sept, 1907.
Dated at Spanish Fork, Utah county
state of Utah, this 18th day of Sept,
1907.
REEFS ID. JAMES,
Poundkeeper of said Precinct
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You want the Inter-Mountain Re
publican, the best and cheapest paper
in the state? 1t comes every day and
contains all the news. for only SO
cents per month. am the sole agent
for Spanish Fork. One block west
and across the street from Central
Lumber Co.-Geo. A. Hicks. If.
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Trial Catarrh treatments are being
mailed out free, on request, by DR..
Shoop, Racine, Wis. These tests are
proving to the people-without a pen
ny's cost-the great value of this sci
entitic prescription known to druggists
everywhere as DR., Shops Catarrh
Remedy. Sold by World Drug Co.
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Eighty Years in One Family.

The long.service record of so years
has been achieved by Anna GABRIEL.
who has died at Botzen. in Austria,
aged SO, after serving since her thir.
teenth year three generations of the
same family.
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Sure Enouqh.

Slick Pete seems to have got next
to that young dude" said the first
bunko man, but | wonder what's the
use" "Oh, there must be somethin
in 1t" replied the other, for Pete
don't waste his time" We'll. any
how, 1t looks as If he was tryin' to
do somethin' foolish"
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1t comes put up in a collapsible tube
with a nozzle, easy to apply to the
soreness and inflammation, for any
form of Piles; it soothes and heals
relieves the pain, itching and burning
Man Fan Pile Remedy. Price so cts
Guarantee. Sold by World Drug Co.
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other company is the American Congo
company; just how the shares in TINS
are allotted is not yet known. Be
sides these companies there are the
two great Belgian corporations when
have had enormous concessions for
many years; these are the Anglo-Bel'
gian India Rubber company and the
Ka,anga company, In both OF these
the Americans have bought large
blocks of stocK- enough to secure a
dominating innuclce. The former has
concession for $4,000 square miles,
the latter for IN area averaging 42O
miles long by 200 miles wide
These latter companies are IN
mensely profitable. They collect the
taxes and police their own territory.
and the methods used by some of
their employees in collecting the taxes,
which are paid in rubber have sup
piled the enemies of King Leopold
with ammunition for their campaign.
Whatever truth there may be in the
stories of atrocities must be laid at
the door Of these concessionaries.
Their experience with the natives as
workers will be valuable to the Amer
leans, as the latter will have precisely
the same conditions to meet and have
almost as plenary powers as their
forerunners These powers have
been curtailed within year, as re-
suit of the abuses which a Belgian
commission discovered The conces-
sionares have been forbidden, for in
stance, to use armed native sentries
OF armed oyerseers.
Difficulties In the Way.
The great difficulty ahead of Mr..
Ryan's men is the improvidence and
savagery of the natives upon whom
they will have to rely to do the work
Money means nothing to them. They
must be paid at any rate at first, in
something they can use-such as cot.
ton, beads or knives, and it is the in
tention of the Americans to furnish
the natives with food and lodging as a
return for their labor But 1t is ex-
ceedingly difficult to persuade these
men to labor at all. They care moth
ing for the development of the coun.
try, preferring to live by hunting, fish
ing and gathering the fruits and nuts
with which nature mas supplied them
so bounteously. Many of them are
canibals still and would practice their
gruesome rites II It were not for their
dread of the stern punishment that is
melted out to any who may be caught
eating human flesh. This is made a
crime by the laws of the Congo and is
punishable by death Cannibalism
has been stamped out of the parts of
the Congo along the coast and the
banks OF the great rivers, but there is
no doubt that it still fiourishes in the
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First Steam Coaches in Scotland.

According to publication of GO
years ago: Steam coaches ran for
a short time on some of the roads in
Scotland in lS43, but a great explosion
put an end to the scheme" A more
sandy generation has since come upon
the stage,
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RICH MEN PLAN
AFRICAN EMPIRE
AMBITIOUS SCHEME IN WHICH
NEW YORK MlLLioNAlREs
WILL INVEST MONEY.
PARTNERS OF A MONARCH

Thomas Y. Ryan, James o. stilIman,
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and 9th.
ers Have Joined King Leopold In
Effort to Open Up Dark Continent
and incidentally to Turn Their
Millions into Billions.
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Real Test of knowledge.

1t is not question how much n
man knows. but what use he can
make of what he kncwe
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HOME MISSIONARY LIST.

Arranged by the Stake Presidency
for Sunday. October %, 1907.
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Time of meeting p. m. for all
places excepting Eureka and Nam
moth, where meetings are held at z
.. nj. THOMAS w. LERWILL,
Stake Clerk.
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UNIVERSITY OF UTAH.

INTIIIkJ u UEfIf H1KJf
Poundkeeper of said Precinct.
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where the last call had been from,
and, learning that it came from Holly
wood Inn, he took his chance The
room was soon filled with servants
and stable-hands, the pistol-shor hav-
ing lured them from their beds The
wounded man was very pale He
sat with his uninjuIed hand tightly
clasped above the ragged wound, and
little pool of blood slowly formed at
his side on the floor But his eyes
shone brightly
"A basin of water and some linan,"
cried the girl to Moriarty And send
all these people away"
ITO yer rooms, livery one of YET"
snapped Moriarty, sweeping his hands
'Tis no place for ye, be OFF, He
hurried the servants out Of the room
and presently returned with basin
Of water some linen and Balm
We watched the girl as she bathed
and bandaged the wounded arm: and
once or twice the patient smiled. Hag-
gerty looked on approyinsly. and in
Williams eyes there beamed the gen
tie light of reverence II was pic
ture to see this lovely creature play
ing the part of the good Samaritan
moving here and there is her exquisite
gown. All, the tender mercy. I knew
that, come what might, ! had strange
~ found the right woman. the one
woman
You're good little woman" said
the rogue, his face aotteHing and a
good woman is the finest thing God
ever placed upon earth Had I only
found one." He TUNED whimsicaIly
toward me. Are you engaged 10 mar
ry this little woman"
NO"
Surely you love her'"
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especially gallant tonight; no fight
ing, no rescuing, and all that They
just moved me around like a piece of
stage scenery"
\ smile flashed and was gone 1t
was a hopeful sign
But the results are the same You
have admitted to me that you are
neither engaged nor married Won't
You take me on-on approyal?"
Mr., Comstalk, it all seems so like
a horrid dream. You are a brave
man, and, what is better, a sensible
one, for you submitted to the ineyit-
able with the best possible grace. But
you talk of love as readily as hero
in popular novel;
Il never go back" said |. 1T seems
incredible doesn't it, that | Should
declare myself in this fashion? Listen
for my part, | believe that all this was
written,-my Tom-foolery in Mou
quin's, my impostme and yours, the
two identical cards,-the adventure
from beginning to end"
Silence
Suppose | should say" the girl be-
gan looking out OF the window, chat
in the restaurant you aroused my
curiosity, that in the cellars my ad-
miration was stirred. that the frank
manner in which you expressed your
regard for me to-lo the bugglar-
awakened"
"What?" | cried eagerly
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perhaps that was 1t. They are al.
ways behind good actions and bad
Heigh-ho!
Once VIC We're seated in the lonely
car, the girl broke down and cried as
If her heart would break 1t was only
the general reaction, but the sight OF
her tears unnerved me
Don't cry girl; don't" whispered
taking her hand in mine. She made
no effort to repulse me. Il am sorry
The rascal was a gallant beggar, and
| for one shouldn't have been sorry to
see him get away There, there!
You're the brayest, tenderest girl in
all this world; and when | told him
loved you, God knows | meant it. 1t
is one of those ineXplicable things
You say have known you only eight
hours? | have known you always
only ! had not met YOU What are
eight hours? What is convention,
Formally? We two have lived life
time in these eight hours. Can't you
see that we have?"
ITO shoot a human being" she
9ebDtu. IItI Htdu ltIl against lily
shoulder. | do not believe she was
conscious of the fact. And | did not
care a hang for the conductor
patted her hand encouragingly 1T
had to be done. He was in a des-
perate predicament, and he would
have shot Hasgerty had the detective
been careless in his turn; and he
wouldn't have amied to MAIN, either"
What a horrible night, II will
haunt me Us Ions as | live"
said nothing; and we did not
speak again till Tie first or the Blank
shire lights flashed by US By this
time her sobs had ceased.
81 know ! haven't done anything
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APTER TX

For suddenly I saw his eyes widen
and fash with anger ana apprehen-
sion. Quick as a passing sun-shadow
his hand swept the candelabrum
from the table He made a swift back.
ward spring toward the door. but he
was a little too late The darkness
ne had created was not intanse
enough, for there was still the ruddy
glow from the logs; and the bosom
Of his dress-shirt made a fine target
Besides, the eyes that had peered into
,the window were accustomed to the
night.
Blang, The glass of the window
shivered and jingled to the floor,
and sharp reaort followed. The
rogue cried out ~ fierce anguish
and reeled against the wall, William
whipped out his revolver. but, even
from his favorable angle. he was not
quick enough The hand that had di-
rected the first bullet was ready to
direct the second.
All this took place within the count
of ten. The girl and I sat stifly in
our chairs, as ii petrilicd, it was ali
So swiftly accomplished.
Drop it," said cold authors.
tative voice. and saw the vague out
lines of Hasgertys face beyond the
broken windoW-pane
William knew better than to hest
tate His revolver struck the floor
duly, and a curse rolled from his
lips Immediately a heavy body pre-
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CHAPTER vlll.-continued.
Copyright. 1906 by Bobbs-Merril col

CHAPTER Vlil.-Contnued
She slipped it mechanically over her
finger.
But you. my dear Mr.. Comstalk."
he cried turning his shining eyes
upon me, while his fingers deftly re
placed the gems in the bag.
4 have no jewelry." | replied toss
ing aside the cigarette
But you have something infinitely
better. I am rather observant. In
f1iard's curio-shop you careIessly eX-
hibited wallet that was simply chok-
ing to death with long yeIlow-boys.
YOU have it still VIII you do me
fhe honor or?'-steetching out his slim
white hand
looked at william; he nodded.
There wasn't the slightest chance for
me 10 argue So ! drew ont my wal
let. extracted the gold-biIls and
made a neat little packet of them. 1t
hurt. hurt like the deuce, to part with
them But.
Game. William. isn't he? Most
men would have flung the wallet at
my head
oh he is game. sir; never YOU
doubt it, sir" said the amiable vii,
liam.