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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-02

sposs,uie, ali at once-roOK onsaa0lnerehr
shape. What before had been a bar
rem duty became suddenly a sacred
right. Holding out his arms, he drew
her to him as if she had been a child. !
AEve," he said gently, II have learned
tonight how fully a woman's life is at
the mercy of the world, and how
scanty that mercy is. If circumstances
had been different / believe-I am con-
vinced-I would have made you a good
husband-would have used my right to
protect you as well as a man could use
it. And now that things are different
I want-I should like He hesitated
a very little. Nov that I have no
right to protect you, except the right
my love gives, 1 want to guard you as
closely from all that is sordid as any
husband could guard his wife.
'In life there are really only two
broad issues-right and wrong. What
ever we may say, whatever we may
profess to believe, we know that OUT
right and wrong. A month ago-a
week ago-I would have despised a
man who could talk like this and have
thought myself strong for despising
him. Now 1 know that strength is
something more than the trampling of
others into the dust that we ourselves
may have a clear road; that it is
something much harder and much less
triumphant than that; that it is stand
ing aside to let somebody else pass on.
Eve" he exclaimed suddenly, "I'm
trying to do this for you. Don't you
see? Don't you understand? The easy
course, the happy course, would be to
let things drift. Every instinct is call
ing to me to take that codrse-to go
on as 1 have gone. trading on Chill
cote's weakness and your generosity.
But / won't do it. I can't do itr' With
a swift impulse he loosed his arms
and held her away from him. give,
jp1H the first time I have put another
hunan being before. TyaelfP
3 We kept her head bent. Painful, in
audible sobs were shaking her from
head to foot.
tits something in you, something
unconscious, something high and fine,
that holds me back, that literally bars
the way. Eve, can't you see that I'm
fghting-fghting hardT
After he had spoken there was ST.
lence, a long, painful silence, during
which Eve waged the battle that SO
many Of her sex have waged before,
the battle in which words are useless
and tears of no account. She looked
very slight, very young, very for1orn,
as she stood there. Then, in the OF
pressive sense Of waiting that filled
the whole room, she looked up at him.
Her face was stained with tears;
her thick, black lashes were still wet
with them, but her expression, as her
eyes met Loder's, was a strange ex-
ample of the courage, the frmness,
the power Of sacrifice that may be
hidden in a fragile vessel.
She said nothing, for in such a mo-
ment words do not come easily, but
with the simplest, most submissive,
most eloquent gesture in the world
she set his p%erplexity to rest.
Taking his hand between hers, she
lifted it and for a long, silent space
held it against her lips.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-02
Worse Still.

Griggs-The idea Of your letting
your wife go round saying she made a
man of you! You don't hear my wife
saying that. Briggs-No, but / heard
her telling my wife that she did her
best.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-02
.. -. =,

The Unexpected d.
He had a tip, a
dead sure one
And bet a five
or so,
And, strange to
say, this time
it O
They do some-
tim e S, you
know.
-. -. ..
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-02

The preparation Of canvas for paint
ers is q lucrative trade.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-02
ITO BE Continued

Other peoples children are perpetual
nuisances, u own only occasional.
Most wives enjoy helping their hus-
bands because they won't help If they
can't boss.
While it is hard to get something for
nothing. the of the PROPOSE
ton seems to be frequently Q. e. DID.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-02
CHAPTER XXXm.

S she finished speaking Eve did
n not lower her eyes. To her
" there was no suggestion Of
- shame in her thoughts or her
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-02
! c. Ghe 9
.MASQUERADfR
BY Katherine Cecil Thurston.
Author of THE Circle" Etc.
} Copyright. 1908, 1901. bu Hdrper4 Brothers
Copyright. 1908, 1901. by Harpcr4 Brothers
CHAPTER XXI.

FEW minutes before the cur
ln tain fell on the second act of
III "Other Mems Shoes Loder
S rose from his seat and made
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-01-17
NOT LOOKING FOR HoNoRs.
Bright Youth Had Reason for Being
at Foot of Class. .. ....

Every sporting man in Salem and
vicinity has heard of "Dinah" Brown,
says Massachusetts exchange. Some
three or four years ago he, the writer
and eight other young men were on
a polo tour of Knox county, Maine.
One morning we visited a country
schoolhouse
After a good half-hour show-off Of
the respective talents of the pupils,
during which time we noticed that
one bright-faced little chap, who was
at the foot of the class, seemed to be
the smartest scholar in the room, the
teacher wanted to know If we had
any questions to ask
''Dinah" wanted to know what such
a smart little chap was doing at the
foot of the class.
Without the least hesitation the lad
replied:
IF that fellow from Salem was
half as smart as he thinks he Is he
would notice that the foot Of the
class is nearest the stove"
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-01-17
.COkFESSES COX MURDER
PRISONER duplicates HARGlS
AND Ex-SHERIFF CALLAHAN.
John Smith Declares They Ordered
the Killing and That They
Paid Him 500.

Jackson, KY, Jan. 12.-John Smith,
one of the men under indictment for
the murder of DR.. B. D. Cox, has
made confession, which is now in
the hands of Commonwealth Attor-
ney Jouett. Smith names ex-Judge
Hargis and ex-Sheriff Edward Gala
han as moving spirits in the crime.
He says that Hasgis and Callahan in
duced him to enter the conspiracy
against Cox, making promises to see
that he was acquitted and to give him
a job He declares Callahan gave him
500 after the killing, saying "Jim"
Hargis sent it to him.
According to the confession, three
men shot Dr. Cox. Smiths words in
describing the murder are:
$50 judge and Ed put us three
Spicer, Abner and myself under the
barn shed and sent Ebert Hargis to
stand on the corner. When DR.. Cox
left his office and started home and
got opposite where we were in hid
ing, Ebert Hargis was to call him so
we would know it was DR.. Cox.
''We stayed under the shed about
one hour, and while we were there
Ed Callahan came to us and stayed
with us until just 20 minutes before
DR.. Cox was killed, and he told us to
be sure and not miss him.
"And when DR.. Cox did start from
his home and came down just across
the street from us, Ebert Hargis
called to him and said: is that you,
Doc?' and he said: Yes and stop
ped, and all three of us fired at the
same time, or so near the same that
it was all one report
Conditions are easier here since the
writ of prohibition was granted, pre-
venting Special Judge w. M. Carnes
from presiding in the trial of ex-
Judge Hargis, charged with the as
sassination of DR.. Cox. Judge Carnes
left for Frankfort Friday to explain
to the court of appeals his actions in
making rulings in favor of Hargis.
He said if he was prevented from
trying Hargis he would go into the
cases of William Bitton, John Smith,
John Abner and Ebert Hargis, all
charged with the same assassination.
It is almost certain that troops will
be sent here to prevent riOting.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-01-17

from one bough to the next higher,
and the walls summit was gained
and there was Ralph.
Then a sound! A hideous noise
which could only be the result of
black art. filed the air-piercing, rasp-
ing, nerve-agitating! The voice of
Lulu!
She chung to the branch above them,
her mouth stretched wide and the
night echoed to her witch-calls.
Lulu, my dove, where art thou?"
called fat and anxious voice. The
rays Of lantern help high in the air
suddenly irradiated the scene, which
was surveyed by Sister Victorine and
the mother superior.
At this unexpected sight, "Anger'
broke from Ralph's restraining arm,
and scrambled hastily down the tree.
One afternoon about week after
ANGELS" undignifed scramble from
Olympus to Avernus, she and the
countess walked together, Victorine
painting in the rear, and Lulu stepping
sedately before them.
"See you the devilish one," said the
countess, vindictively. "She is so
proud Of the mischief she has wrought
that she must constantly exhibit her
self. l fear her unspeakably; but I
dare not show it,
They had paused beneath the bel
fry tower at Sister Victorine's request.
in order that she might gain breath
and also scan the rest of her flock.
IAN ideal" murmured the countess.
IF the good God will but let us fulfill
it. Listen. If the bells, lie Grand and
la Petite, now peacefully reposing in
yonder tower, should suddenly peal
out, dost thou not know that the en-
tire village would be Immediately
upon the spot?"
What of it," asked "Angel."
why, stupid, thus thou couldst es-
cape. If now M. Ralph was in
formed as to the moment the bells
would ring"
Dear old Jacques would never ring
the bells except for service"
TRUE, true" replied the countess,
patiently; "but," with deep meaning,
IT some one else pulled the rope?"
"Who?" demanded Angel" blunt
ly.
Lulu rolled her black silken body
before them in the gravel.
IT., continued the countess, in a
rapid undertone, eff tomorrow after
noon when we walk in the garden,
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-01-17
MlLLlONAlRE'S SON KILLED,
Walter S. Boyle, Jr., Of Chicago, Ac-
cidentally Shoots Himself.

Chicago, Jan. 12.-Walter S. Boyle,
Jr., son of the millionaire president of
the Crescent Coal company, was
killed by pistol shot Friday morn
ing while alone in room at his
home, 852 North Park avenue Mem
bers Of the family declare the death
was accidental
The body OF Mr.. Boyle was found
on the floor of the sitting room on the
second floor by Mrs. w. S. Gilmore, a
sister, and Walter S. Boyle, Sr.
Mr.. Boyle, who was "a years old,
was shot in the right temple while
packing valise in which he intended
to carry his effects on a trip to St.
Louis. He had taken the weapon
from mantelpiece in the sitting
room and was about to place it in the
valise.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-01-17
Bad Men of the West,

Searchers for real western color
with which to illuminate their tales
Of the frontier have for some time
been complaining that all the snap
and ginger Of the old life in the West
had departed. To a certain extent
this is true. The genuine Indians have
nearly all followed the boffalo over
the divide into the happy hunting
ground of the Great Spirit. The mod
ern cowboy is less careless with his
shooting iron and his branding iron
than he was in the old days, but it is
an error to believe that all of the pic
turesque deviltry which gave color to
early days in the West has been elm
mated. The bad man with the gun
out on the fringe of civilization is full
~ as bad as his predecessor Of earlier
years.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-01-17
TERRIFIC GAS BLAST
IN A CROWDED HALL
ACETYLENE PLANT ExPLODES
AT CARD PARTY IN WILL
MINGTON, ILL.
Two Men Are Killed; Many Persons
Hurt-Victims Are Blown Through
Wall While Trying to Repair a
Leak. ~.

Wilmington, ILL.,, Jan. 1.-two men
were killed and more than q score Of
persons injured, including several
women, by an explosion of acetylene
gas at a card party in Woodman's
hall here.
Blast Shakes Town.
The explosion imperiled the lives
of so other persons, blew out the rear
of the building and shook the town,
shattering glass in the windows of
houses blocks away, and caused the
residents to rush from their homes
in panic. Following reports Of
predicted earthquakes the citizens of
the town believed the shock was the
preliminary Of a great seismic dis
turbance.
The dead: F. H. Pope, grocer,
aged IS; Edward Schneider, aged 65.
The seriously injured: Rev. FIR.
Dryer, Catholic priest; Miss Rose
Heck; aged %; Mrs. James Cav
anaugh, arm broken in two places.
The acetylene gas plant was leak
ing and the two men killed went into
rear room to make repairs.
The explosion followed, and the two
men were blown through parti-
ton.
The accident happened while a card
party was in progress in the hail.
More than rs persons were pres.
ent, a large proportion being women.
Many prominent families of the
town were represented in the little
social gathering where all was joy
and brightness. 1t was a merry
crowd, mostly young people, who
laughed, joked or made love in the
secret language of the eyes as they
played cards.
Try to Stop Gas Flow.
A strong smell of gas had sent two
men of the party into rear room
where the gas plant was located
Suddenly the the babble of mirth and
clatter was drowned by terrible
roar. The building shook, Quivered
and reeled under the shock, and every
person in the room was hurled to the
floor by the conclusion. At the same
iuSIduL Lu0 UOulCS VI CWO ulcu CTdSuou
through the wall between the main
hall and the gas plant room, and fell
in the midst of the PROSTATE card
players.
The rear wall of the building flew
outward, and plaster dropped in great
chunks from the ceiling and walls,
cutting and bruising those in the hall,
and sitting smoke filled the room.
The explosion was followed by
chorus Of screams, cries and groans,
and those least injured struggled to
their feet and started in a mad rush
for the stairs.
Many of the women were trampled
on and severely injured in this panic
Men who retained their presence of
mind aided the injured to escape from
the building.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-01-17
lid Her Happy Face in His Tweed
Coat.

Victorine's attention should be so dis.
tracted that some one might run light,
ly up the belfry steps and cast that
evil cat upon the ropes, think you
the bells would not ring as she climb,
ed down them? Write thy let
ter to M. Ralph, and l will give
Jacques sou to deliver it. The rest,
will manage"
BY the following day all prelim.
inaries were accomplished, and at last
the moment arrived when her plot
was to be tested. The blossoms of
lofty genealogical trees were all in
the secret. The countess, slightly
pale, but wearing the expression of in.
ionitable and unfinching courage
which had distinguished her ances.
tors at Crecy and Poitiers, stood be-
fore the belfry.
At that instant the pinkest and
whitest of the English honorables
turned her ankle and sank to the
ground with cry of pain. Victorine,
all sympathy, waddled hastily toward
her.
Selling the unsuspecting Lulu from
ANGER Smiths arms, the countess
fed up the steps of the tower and
EAST her through Gothic aperture
Then she sped down again, unheeded,
unnoticed.
Lulu, my lamb" presently called
the fatuous voice Of Sister Victorine,
the rose-and-lily honorable having re-
covered herself sufficiently to rest on
the stone bench beneath the pear
tree.
Lulu chases butterflies amid the
shrubbery, dear sister," said the
countess.
Scarcely were the words out of her
mouth when from the tower the bells
pealed forth a terrible summons.
In a moment the cries of the alarm
ID runs were lost in the hubbub Of
many voices, for the whole village
!.curel through the open gates.
"AnSel' Smith turned a pale face
on the countess. ely" cried that
Napoleon Of the heart, this is thy
opportunity"
Angel Smith fled into the wind
swept street of All Angels and al
most into the embrace of a pair of
gray arms.
For a moment she hid her happy
face in his tweed coat. 1T is Lulu!"
she cried, "the adorable, Incompatible
Lulu. Adieu, dear Sister Victorine.
Adieu, Lulu. I am going back to the
world
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-01-17
CURTIS TO SUCCEED BENSON.
Republican Legislators of Kansas
Pick Congressman for Senator.

Topeka, Kan, Jan. 12.-Congress-
man Charles Curtis was nominated for
United States senator to succeed Sen
ator Benson, by the caucus of Repub-
lican legislators here Friday night.
The action of the caucus is equivalent
to election.
The senate Friday passed the house
bill raising the salaries of the judges
of the supreme court from $4,000 to
$4,000 year and the salaries of the
district judges from $4,000 to $4,000.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-01-17
PONCE is SAFE IN HARBOR,
Towed to Bermudas, with Broken
Shaft, by Tramp Steamer.

"a New York. Jan. 12.-The steamship
Ponce, with a broken shaft but safe,
is riding at anchor in St. Georges bay,
the Bermudas, and her crew of So
persons and the seven passengers
aboard are reported "all well.'
This assurance was received direct
from Capt. w. A. Harvey by the own
ers, the New York and Porto Rico
Steamship company, Friday evening.
The long overdue steamer reached
harbor in tow of the German steamer
Elizabeth Rickmers.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-01-17
Carnegie Pensioner Dies.

Washington, Dec. 14.-John Howard
Larcombe, sc years old, a veteran
e1nploye of the pension Office and the
man who taught Andrew Carnegie
telegraphy, died at Beltsville, Md,
near this city, Wednesday. When he
retired from Office some months ago,
Mr.. Carnegie gave him pension Of
500 q month for life.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-01-17
St. Louisan Held for Murder.

st. Louis, Jan. 11.-John R. Dunno,
aged % years. was arrested Thursday
and is held pending investigation into
the death of John Cook, aged IS years,
whose dead body was found in an alley
Wednesday night. Cooks skull had
been crushed with club. He was
last seen alive talking with Dunno,
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-01-17
Mauna loa in Eruption.

Honolulu, Jan. 1.-THE crater on
the summit of the volcano of Mauna
Loa broke out at midnight Wednes-
day. The eruption forms a magnifi-
cent spectacle, which is visible for
hundreds of miles at sea.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-01-17
Bio TransvaaI Gold OUTPUT,

London, Jan 12.-The gold output in
the Transvaal for 1906 was 924,579,-
987 ($122,899, $3.50, an increase of near
ly 100000 ($20.0OO.O0o) over 1906
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31
NEW YORK.

Trade and industry have tended toward
quiet in sympathy with reports of fnan-
cial unsettlement at New York and a
few other cities, the continuance of mild
weather affecting as 1t does retail distri-
button, the natural seasonable slowing
down of jobbing trade and the influence
upon retail trade and collections of the
continuance OF the holding movement of
crops. On the other hand, the financial
situation at New York, generally speak
ing, seems to be well in hand; the New
York banks. under courageous and expert
enced leadership. axe meeting conditions
as they arise with discretion recent de-
clines in prices Of cereals and cotton
have encouraged foreign demand for the
couEtrys products. the holding of cotton,
a great exchange-making medium, is
showing some signs of relaxing, and low
cred prices of domestic commodities lead
TO the hope that the demand of a pros
porous country, affected by the unduly
high level of some commodities, will re-
vive.
Business failures for the week ending
Oct. "a runber 217, against 1914 last
week, 1St in the like week of 1906. 17S
in 1905, $50 in 1904, and 217 in 1903.
Canadian failures for the week number
80. as against SO last week and % in
this week a year ago.-Bradstreet's Re
port
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31

balloon ascensions has very little idea
OF the amount of moral and physical
courage it requires to remain up in
the clouds after the first twenty-four
hours. The strain on the nervous sys-
TEN is something hard to describe I'M
til ii has been experienced. One gets
in that state where he can not trust
his eyes and frequently imagines he
sees great bodies of water beneath him
when he is hundreds OF miles away
from any coast. In balloon 1t fire.
quently happens that you see the lights
Of city directly in front of You as
you look down from the basket, ana in
a few minutes the city may have fal-
len squarely behind you. But that Goes
not prove by any means that you have
sailed over it, Oftentimes the balloon
is whirling around, and you seem to
have swept over a town when in fact
you may not have moved fifty yards.
In addition to the international
event, in which only ordinary balloons
were allowed to compete, the St Louis
Aero Club offered 5000 in other
prizes to be competed for by any who
had an air craft to enter. In this
competition dirigible, or balloons pro
PEELED by motors, took part, as well
as aeroplanes or any other typo of
balloon or airship that has derion-
strated that it is anything more than
an experiment.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31
BALLOONS IN RACE.
FOUR GREAT NATIONS VIE IN
AERIAL CONTEST.
Nine Teams Of Leading Countries of
Shc World Race Amid the Clouds
test at st. Louis.

Nine mammoth balloons, represent
ing four of the great nations of the
world, started at st. Louis Monday
afternoon on i voyage which was eX-
pected to add an important chapter to
the history of aerial navigation.
The contest was known officially as
the second international aeronautic
cup race, and the prize, a massive sill
yer trophy and $500 in cash, was to
be awarded to the pilot whose skill
and daring should land his car farthest
from the starting point AS the bal
looms were of similar design and ma
terial the race would go to the French
English, German or American aero
naut who was capable of taking the
best advantage of favorable winds and
who lost the least ground under adj
versity.
The race marked the entrance of the
United States into competition with
the european nations in Il field which
had been left almost exclusively to
them in the past. 1t was through the
WHINING of the cup last year in race
from Paris by Lieutenant Frank r.
Lahm of the United States army that
the contest was brought to this coun-
try The three American teams are
all chat were allowed to enter uroer
the rules of the competition, but so
great has interest grown that the Aero
Club of America. which was in charge.
couiS have entered many times the
number of balloons permitted.
The average person who reads about
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-31
CHICAGO.

Trade maintains a steady course, and,
aside from the sentimental effect of finan-
cial troubles in the East. there is sustain
ed confidence felt here as to the outlook.
Transportation of finished materials, gen.
aral merchandise and other commodities
exc d that at this time last year, and.
while the aggregate of new demands for
manufactures has narrowed, there is sea
sonable activity in most lines of distri-
button. Payments through the banks
again make a largely increased showing,
legitimate discount requirements arc
promptly extended 10 responsible borrow
ers, and there is less general pressure for
money for commercial purposes, but an
increased number of trading defaults APP
pears this week, indicating further elimi-
nation of weak concerns.
Most banking accommodation for indus
trial purposes is amply provided for I'M
til the turn of the year, and, while the
drain Of currency 10 move crops has be-
come heavier. there is no apparent rea-
son to question the soundness of bust
ness. Wee there any existing difficulty
in disposing of the products of the soil
or any evidence of shrinkage in the pur-
chasing power some apprehension might
ensue, but crop marketings continue in
excess of the high aggregate a year ago.
Raw materials exhibit no decline in the
volume of absorption. Consumers hold
out for concessions and prices reflect an
easier tone, although these are quoted
unchanged in iron, steel, hides and
leather.
Bank clearings. S26I las, exceed
those of corresponding week in 1906 by
20.9 per cent. Failures reported in Chi
cago district number %. against Is last
week and ri a year ago.-Dun's Review.