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ON GOVERNMENT ORDERS
Continued f-or1 PAGE z.

concrete and ran for some 200 yards in
trough of the same material until its
course crossed deep, narrow rulCh,
which made the pipe necessary. This
was TO be my point of entrance, as from
here on 10 the mill the pipe was con-
tinuous.
1t was something after 10 O'Clock when
] completed my investigation. and !
decided to explore the pipe without
further delay. / removed my shoes and
hid them beneath a boulder, looked 10
the cartridges in my revolver. a precau-
ton / have always taken since q ceT-
tain adventure on the Rio Grande.
Then I crept into the pipe. IL was
cool and clammy and as dark as a
dungeon. 1 had little pocket fash
light. but was afraid TO use il. as the
distance TO the reducing plant was less
than JOB yards from the ravine
My progress was slow ana tiresorne
Nevertheless, in good time, / came to-
II point where the pipe made an abrupt
turn straight down, which convinced
me that l was about at the end Of my
journey ] reached down the hole as
Ear as my arm would go. but couldn't
touch bottom so, after listening for a
time and hearing nothing more than a
distant drip, drip of water which was
most lonesome, mysterious an melan-
chcly. / tore my pocket Handkerchief
into strips and weighted it with q cart
ridge so that I might sound the inky
depths below. I was sensible enough not
10 drop down into the pipe without
making reckoning. as ] had learned
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his neck with sickening, cruncnine
imoact-- ,;,,a
He fell without groan and lay hke
- 5sa5 Nevertheless. took the PEE
cantion 70 slip a pair of handouts upon
his wrists, and then L sprang TOW ius
the door through which l couid see 'HI
light of Mason's lantern adVahciiis,
was not a second too SOON A. - :.
crossed the threshold. l struck hlih
heavy blow upon the head and he went
down like an OK in the shaInhles.
bandcuffed him and picked up his IAN
tern. -,
Next / hacked the unconscious men
into the room where they slept ana de-
posited them upon the bed. after WHICH
set about restoring them TO conscious "
ness This room opened into the Once
where was situated the vault AFTER
some little time Mason groaned and sat
upright.
.sVeu. pardner." was his crestfalIen
greeting. when he had looked me over
carefully. Il guess you hold the trump
cards. What do you mean TO do
next2"
He showed no resentment and
seemed at first to think that was
bandit I showed him my badge, whlch
had an electrical effect upon him.
In nv brief acquaintance with him
i nGTEeQ nun - d man WIZ
confess everything and endeaVOr 10
escape punishment by duplicating his
confcderates, SO / explained TO him
as much of my suspicious as seemed
expedient and made several guesses-
This quite overpowered him, and after
il hezwas as plant as wax IN my
hands. He confessed everything and
opened the big vault for me and
showed me the books of the company
1 had expected to have some difficulty
with him and 20 have TO do more
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this precautiOn by sad experience. To
my great relief the plummet struck bot
tom about four feet down and I eau
tiously lowered myself. feet first, into
the well
II was rather close quarters. but I
managed TO feel about me in every di-
rection. and to my dismay found that
at this point the pipe divided into half
a dozen smaller ones. none of them .ver
six inches in diameter. This was a sad
blow TO my hopes. and felt almost .ie-'
feated, so great was my chagrin. There
was nothing TO do but Chamber back
to the straight stretch of the pipe,
where paused a moment to think
1t was so dark couldn't see my hand
before me. SO / thought il safe to take
out my pocket lamp and examine my
surroundings Flashing it overhead,
was overjOyed TO see that the bend in
the pipe was arranged with a circular
door which was held down by a spring
catch which fastened beneath hange.
released this. and was rejOiced TO feel
the door move upward when | pushed
against it.
1t was an opening large enough TO
permit a mans body TO pass through H.
and suppose il must have been ar
ranged 50 that the pipe could be cleaned
out If il should become ciogged with
80 = VI eAaSH- AZ any rate, II o.
fered the much-sought entrance to the
building. for when l pushed the top up
wards a few inches and peered out be
meath IL | could see the faint rays of
the perfect moon reflected upon the bare
brick wallis of the building. With great
caution I raised the lid upright and
crawled out of the opening.
l was indeed within the mysterious
In my excitement at this dis
covery I released my hold of the up
right lid and It fell to with metallic
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bluffing than proved necessary. bu4
did everything in his power To ~
me-
He said that he. Belden and Hu5s,
had turned the trick without sCsi..N
ance. They had conceived the sigar.-
fraud when the mine began to far. an
had experienced little difficulty in nm,
ting il into effect On the fine Shout.
the mine had made at first. they So
ceeded in getting 100000 invested n,
il. after which they had incorporata5
and began to sell stock. They tool ~
money they received for stock and Gov
verted it into gold coin. which tbev
shipped 10 the mine. where il Wa
melted down, run into bars, shippa5
back TO the city, and sold as bullion
part of it going TO pay dividends.
l had suspected this when I had III.
cumulative analysis of one OF tbai-
bars of gold made, for it had showed
the percentage of amalgam that is UseS
in gold coins. The last shipment M
gold coin was in the time-lock safe
which wouldn't open until S o'cIorE
next morning. so I made a hasty ~.
animation of the books and ther
trussed my two prisoners I'D like TIM,
KEYS while I went to rouse the mar.
shall. He was an intelligent Irishmap
who had knocked about the world
good deal, and it didn't take long N
explain the situation TO him. He a.
companied me back To the mine, aftr
I had wired instructions for Hudson's
arrest, and relieved me of my charges
I spent the night going over lbs
books and examining the records IN
the vault. and by morning I had everr.
thing I wanted TO lay bare one OF ths
most colossal swindles ever attempts
copyright, 1908, by ". G. Chapman
Copyright in Great Britain.)
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YOUR FRIENDS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-01

Take it yourself, if goa like" said
TrendOu.
wall. the minor cadence wavered
through the stiffness and died away.
The High Barbareew cried Tren-
don.
You know it," asked the captain,
eXpectant of Il clew.
"One of those cursed tunes you can't
forget" said the surgeon. Heard a
scoundreI of a beachcOmber sing it
years ago. Down in New Zealand
that was. When the fever rose on him
he'd pipe up. Used to beat time with a
steel hook he wore in place of hand.
The thing haunted me till l was sorry
I hadn't let the rascal die. This crea-
ture might have learned it from him.
Howls it out exactly alike
II don't see that that helps us any"
said Forsythe, looking down on the
preparations that We're making to re-
ceive the unexpected guests.
With deftness which had made the
Wolverine famous in the navy for the
niceties of seamanship, the great cruis-
skillfmly alongside and made fast, pre-
paratory to lifting the dory gently to
her broad deck. But before the order
came to hoist away one of the jackies
who had gone down drew the covering
back from the still figure forward and
turned it over. With Il half stifled cry
he Shrank back. And at that the ten
ca Of M INAIt-nY.fY,n
snapped, breaking into outcries and
Sudden, sharp imprecatiOnS. The face
revealed was that of Timmins. the
bo's'n's mate, who had sailed with the
| first vanished crew. life preserver
| was fastened under his arms. He was
dead.
Pm out" said the surgeon briefly
and stood with mouth agape. Never
| had the disciplined Wolverines per
formed a sea duty with so ragged a
routine as the getting in Of the boat
| containing the live man and the dead
body. The dead seaman was reverent'
| ly disposed and covered. AS to the
survivor there was some hesitancy
on the part of the captain, who was
| lHCllIleu " SSuu MIN lOINdlu ullh Ii
Trendon, after a swift scrutiny, sug
gested that for the present at least he
be berthed aft. They took the stran
| ger to Edwards vacant room, where
Trendon was closeted with him fol-
half an hour. When he emerged he
was beset with questions.
Cant give any account of himself
yet" said the surgeon. "Weak and moi
rightly conscious"
What ails him?"
| Enough. Cash in his scalp. Fever
Thirst and exhaustion. Nervous shock
| too, l think"
How came he aboard the Laughing
Lass? Does he know anything OF
| Billy? Was he a sstowaway? Die
you ask him about Ives and Mcclure
How came he in the small boat
Where are the rest?''
Now. now" said the veteran child
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garb. At his breast an ugly protuber-
ance, outlined vaguely, limited de-
formlty.
The other sprawled aft, and at
nearer sight of him some of the men
broke out into nervous filters. There
was some excuse, for surely such
scarecrow had never before been the
sport of wind and wave. A thing of
| shreds he was. deliberately ragged. a
face overrun with Il scrub of beard
and preternaturally drawn, surmOunt-
ed with stiff dried, dirty cloth semi
turban, with wide, forbidding stain
| along the side, worked out the likeness
| to makeup.
''My God"' cackled Forsythe with a
| hysterical explosion, and again My
Godr'
\ long drawn, irrepressible aspira-
ton of expectancy rose from the war
ships decks as the stranger raised his
haggard face, turned eyes unseeingly
upon them and fell back. The forward
occupant stirred not, save as the boat
rolled.
From between decks some one called
out sharply an order In the grim ST
lence it seemed strangely homogeneous
that the measured business of a ships
life should be going forward as usual
Something within the newcomers con.
seriousness stirred to that voice Of au-
thority. Mechanically. like some huge
hideous toy, he raised first one arm
then the other and hitched himself
halfway up on the stern seat. His
mouth opened. His face wrinkled. He
seemed cropping for the meaning of 6
joke at which lie knew he ought tC
laugh. Suddenly from his lips in sur
prising volume, raucous, rasping, ye
with a certain rollicking deviltry fit tt
set the head a-tilt, burst chanty:
"Oh, their coffin was their ship, and theil
y, grave it was the sea
Blow high. blow low, what care We!
And the quarter that We gave them wal
to sink them in the sea
Down on the coast of the high Bar
baree-ee."
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is without parallel. 1t is my inten-
ton to bring the schooner which we
have in tow to port at Honolulu. In
the present unsettled weather we can
not continue to tow her. l wish two
officers to take charge. Under the cir
cumstances | shall issue no orders.
The duty must be voluntary"
Instantly every man, from the vet
eran Trendon to the paymaster, volun-
teered
"That is what l expected" said Cap
tain Parkinson quietly. But | have
still a word to say. / make no doubt
in my own mind that the schooner has
twice been beset by the gravest of
perils. Nothing less would have driv-
en- Mr.. Edwards from his post. All of
us who know him will appreciate that
Nor can free myself from the darkest
fOrebodings as to his fate and that of
his companions. But as to the nature
of the peril / am unable to make any
conjecture worthy of consideration.
Has any one a theory to offerY"
There was a dead silence.
'Mr. Barnett? Mr.. Trendon? Mr.
Ives?'
rs there not possibly some connec-
ton between the unexplained light
which we have twice seen and the
double desertion of the shipY' sug-
gested the first officer after pause.
Il have asked. myself that over and
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ship .anrer, he shouted hoarseIy.

ship .afire"' he shouted h0arsely.
"WheFe awayT
1.-TWO points to leeward, near where
the light was, sir"
They turned their eyes in the direc-
ton indicated and beheld a majestic
rolling volume of purple light. Sud
denly fiercer red shot it through.
That's no ship afire,' said Trendon.
volcano in eruption"
"And the other?" asked the captain.
mo volcano, sir"
Poor Billy Edwards wins his bet, "
said Forsythe in low voice.
God grant he's on earth to collect
it," replied Barnett sOlemnly.
No one turned in that night. When
the sun of June rose it showed an
ocean bare of prospect except that on
the far horizon where the chart show
ed no land there rose a smudge of
dirty rolling smoke. OF the schooner
there was neither sign nor trace.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-01
THE MYSTERY
Blu STEWART EDWARD WHITE
And SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS So
:. 1N1-T-
COPYRIGHT. 1907. MecL PHILLIPS


CHAPTER 1.-The officers of the
United States ship wolverine, cruising
in the Pacific. are mystihed by Il
denly on the face of the sea and van
ishes as Suddenly. The officers discuss
the strange disappearance two years
previously of the schooner Laughing
Lass, chartered by DIR. Schermcrhorn,
a scientist.
CHAPTER 1.-THE Wolverine picks
up the Laughing Lass. with everything
ShipShapc save that there is no living
being aboard.
CHAPTER III-Eusign Edwards is
sent aboard the Laughing Lass with a
prize crew
CHAPTER IV.-Thc Wolverine sees
the strange light again. In volcanic
mist the Laughing Lass drifts away
and is found again with no one on
board and her boats untouched.
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Neighborhood Favorite.

Mrs. e. d. Charles of Harbor, Maine.
speaking of Electric Bitters, says: ut
is a neighborhood favorite here with
us" 1t deserves 10 be favorite every
where. 1t gives quick relief in dyspep-
STA. liver complaint, kidney derange-
ment, malnutrition, nervousness. weak
ness and general debility. Its action
on the blood. as a thorough purifier.
makes it especially useful as a spring
medicine. This grand Alternative tonic
is sold under guarantee at all drug
gists. 30 cents.
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ElTkHEN Barnett came on deck very
RAJ early on the morning of June Z
N he found DR. Trendon already
~ up and staring moodily out al
the Laughing Lass. AS the night was
calm the tow had made fair time To.
ward their port in the Hawaiian group.
The surgeon was muttering something
which seemed to Barnett to be in a
foreign tongue.
Thought out any clew, dOctor:"
asked the first officer.
petit Chel pshaw! Jolie Cell
menel No." muttered Trendon. Ma
RE Marie-Ive got it! The Marie
Celeste"
"Got what? What about herr
parallel case" said Trendon. sail
ed from New York back in the seven.
ties Seven weeks out was found dere
lict. Everything i'll perfect order
Captains wife's hem on the machine
Boats all accounted for. No sign of
struggle. Log written TO within forty
eight hours
What became of the crew.
wish l could tell you. Might hell
to unravel our tangle." He shook his
head in sudden, unwonted passion.
Evidently there's something crimi
nal in her record" said Barnett, frown
ing at the fusty schooner astern. 10Th
erwise the name wouldn't he painted
out"
Painted out long ago See how rus
ty it is. Schermerhorn's work, may
he" replied Trendon. Secret eXpedi
ton, remember.
In the name of wonders why should
he do it,
Secret expedition, wasn't it,
"Um-ah; that's true" said the othel
thOughtfully. It's quite possible"
Captain wishes to see both of yO,
gentlemen in the waldroom, if yol
plea@c." came 4 message.
Below they found all the officer:
gathered Captain Parkinson was pac
ing up and down in i'll controlled agi
tatiOn.
Gentlemen" he said. I'VE are fac
ing Il problem which so far as l know
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-01
''The volcano?' he rasped out.
Dead ahead" was the reply.

"Ihe VOIcanO:" ne rasped out.
Dead ahead was the reply.
"Stand by" gasped Slade. He strove
to rise, to say something further, but
endurance had reached its limit. The
man was utterly done.
DIR. Trendon went on deck, his head
sunk between his shoulders. For 4
minute he was in earnest talk with the
captain. Presently the Wolverines en-
gines slowed down and she lay head
to the waves, with just enough turn of
the screw to hold her against the sea-
wav
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CHAPTER V.

EITkHEN Barnett came on deck very
A early on the morning of June I
lN he found Or. Trendon already
~ up and staring moodily out al
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they pIsfey nara rles
and 10 not have the good of the
country 1t heart Were It not that
he R1fItless would suher, Il Wpuld,
De 6od thing 70 give the De1lc5.
cratic rim iiers am pie oppOrtt nifty
to en5o 81 & hard Il mes they 50 much
desire the people shall be afflicted
IN ref1tatlon OF their claims that
itfmes win not he any better. this
newspaper especially furnishes the
FOLLOWING clipping from the Grafton
1Republican Tor their edthcation or
discontinue, just as they choices
The local payroll of the B. & o.
railroad company Tor the month Of
october, which is being distributed
among the employees In this vicinity.
today. is Bstween six and seven peg
cent. in excess of that for the month
OF September. Thesfncrease Is about
the same in both the shops and
train crew departments, in each of
which branches conditions continue
to steadily improve. From authori-
tative sources It Is learned that the
Increase for the current month Will
be at least five per cent, and it is
possible from It may equal the gain
made last month The total amount
OF today's wage roll is more than
IS per cent. over the amount paid for
the month OF July, at which time
conditions in this section reached
rock bottom. There is every indica-
ton that a steady and substantial im-
provement OF the situation viii con-
time throughout the winter, with
each succeeding months pay showing
a material advance over its prede-
cessor.
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Returns TO PEN
TIRED OF WORLD.
Mingo County Man Liked
Prison the Better-The
October Report.

Sick and tired of the world outside
the gray walls behind which he had
been confined, General Bess, a Mingo
county prisoner, after two weeks of
liberty on parole, returned to peni-
Tertiary at Moundsville and request
ed Warden Dawson that he be al
lowed to re-enter the institution
where he had been prisoner for six
years.
General Bess was convicted of sec
ond degree murder in Mingo county
on May %, 1902, and was given a
ten years sentence N the peniten-
tIary which would expire on Feb. 6,
1903. On Oct. 2 last he was given
parole, but on the 21st, just two
weeks later, he applied to Warden
Dawson at the door of the pentten-
tiary for admittance, stating that he
was sick and wanted back into the
Institution.
The report of the prison manage
ment for October shows that 81 prls-
oners from the state courts; IL
prisoners from the United States
courts; IS prisoners from the Dis
trfct of Columbia, and L prisoner
from parole were received at the In
stftution during the month, making
a total of IS received. There was
discharged from the penitentiary 20
state prisoners at the expiration Of
their sentence; Internationally
pardoned; 3 paroled; 20 United
States prisoners discharged at the
expiration of their sentence, and
federal prisoner from the state dis
trict courts WAS discharged at the ex-
piration of his sentence. making 4
total of As discharged during the
month.
There was net increase OF 1S in
the population of the penitentiary
during the month making total
population OF 1875 on the LIST of No
vember. The sanitary conditions
about the institution are splendid
and during the past month not one
death occurred.
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Rack to the Mines.

When the editors of the Telegram
read the following paragraph from
an exchange they at once arrived at
the conclusion that it would be a
good thing to offer those Democratic
calamity howlers, and in reproduc-
ing it this newspaper hopes that
some of them may. he heard singing
back to the mines for me-:
Two thousand miners are wanted
In the Little Mountain State. The
dark cloud of the panic which how
cred over the country for several
weeks before the election has passed
by and in Its place the white cloud
of prosperity has appeared The in
dustries throughout the entire coun-
try, are doubling their forces and
many are working day and might to
complete their orders. The election
of william Howard Taft has brought
about the exact results that the Re-
publican national committee claimed
it would before the election.
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Country watches Patterson.

Is Governor Patterson Of Tennes-
see guilty as charged? Friends OF
the late Senator Carmack, shot down
in the street and slain, charge the
governor of that state as member
of conspiracy to kill Senator Car
mack. and newspapers in Memphis
and Nashville are daily demanding
that he be impeached.
Governor Patterson remains pain
fully Silent. He has taken no action
to defend himself and his name or to
see that the penalty of the law OBJ
tains in the case True, 1t Is a little
early for the latter, though he might
nave proclaimed his horror and ut
tered words to allay the feeling of
the people.
las is pointed out by the Washing
ton Herald a great responsibility
rests on him in the case and the Her
aid is led to comment as follows:
Will the perpetrator of this awful
deed be punished as its magnitude
would seem to call for? We do not
know; we can merely hope. There
are elements that will enter into the
trial. We suspect, that will make 1t
hard for justice to be done. The ia
Their of the slayer of Mr.. Carmack
Is a powerful pOllL1Cdl IdStOE III Su-
nessee-a warm friend and staunch
partisan of the governor OF the state
and the all-powerful political machin-
cry behind him. Governor Patterson
has recently won golden opinions for
his vigorous pursuit of the Ree1foot
Lake murderers. If they are finally
landed in the penitentiary or hanged
much OF the credit will be his.
whether he will be as enthusiastic
in his determination to see that JUS
tice-unrelenting and impersonal-is
done in this Carmack case, however,
remains to be seen Carmack was
his political antagonist. The COVER
nor's direct authority is small OF
course Primarily, it is case for
the court alone; but he is the head of
a great political organization that
may be Interested in seeing Cooper
freed. And then-well, we shall
seei
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oaInmlty Howling Disproved.

Clarksburg has a number of par
.tisan ward heelers. who delight in
visions about wages being cut and
men being thrown out of work. On
ly yesterday 1t was gossiped by some
of them that the Adamston glass
plant had shut down Indefinitely,
when, In fact, 1t merely ceased oper-
atoms for a day or so for the pur-
pose of making needed repairs. Men
who engage in such talk show that
they really desire such conditions as
they try to make people believe ex-
lists. Their attitude simply empha-
sizes the fact that they were sincere,
when they voted for Bryan and wish
ed hard times. They show by this
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A Philadelphia society woman's ex-
tensfve stock market specu1ations
have caused her to become a defend
ant in a suit instituted In the New
York supreme court for the recovery
of r$35, 500 The woman denies re-
sponsibiIIty for the wiping out of her
fortune by her speculations and de-
clares that instead of being sued,
some action ought to be taken by
which she could recover what she
lost. She blames her brokers for the
loss of her money, saying they made
tll-advised deals. The case should
serve to remind some of those women
who are forever clamoring for admis-
sion into the masculine world OF &C
tivity, that such admission also car
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SWEET MRLoDY FLoDR.