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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-18
CHAPTER XVIII.

at first, but it wore off when l came to
consider it calmly. 1 could not believe
in the mans statement respecting a GRIM
inal charge in reserve. 1t was not likely
he would keep back the stronger induce
ment in leading to compromise. As for
his witness to prove that Audrey had
been instrumental to my delay, that was
nothing; he could get as many witnesses
of that kind as he chose at a pound a
head. No: it seemed to me nothing but
a mere attempt at extortion, got up,
probably, by Yeames, his mother and
Bax, who thought, very likely, that /
should be rascal enough to stand in with
them.
l fattered myself that I had shown
Bax the folly of his proceedings" and
that l should neither see nor hear any
more of him or his criminal charges. And
this belief was strengthened when two
days later Lynn Yeames appeared in
Coneyford, and his mother returned to her
cottage.
He went the very morning of his ar
rival to DR.. Awdrey. and in the after
noon l saw them going along the High
Street together, Lynn with his arm linked
in Awdrey's. They were going towards
the farm to see about some alterations
and improvements that had occurred to
the doctor in the others absence. felt
sure then that the intimidation scheme
was abandoned.
Nothing occurred for several days: but
on Friday, the Goth of March, Miss Dali
rymple called upon me. She was as male
as a ghost. Her hand trembled in mine.
"Oh, Mr.. Keene!" she exclaimed, what
is the meaning of these rumors?"
"Sit down, my DEAR" said l, guessing
what she meant. 'Sit down; now tell me
what it is you have heard"
'"They say that DR.. Audrey prevented
you from arriving at the house in time for
Mr.. Flexmore to sign his will. A man
has confessed to being employed by him. "
II have heard nothing about that, Have
you heard anything else?"
'Oh, yes, yes! They say that the med
icine he gave me to administer to Mr..
Flexmore was'-she hesitated a moment.
and dropping her voice so that it was
scarcely audible, said-'poisoned! I"
l started. This, then, was the criminal
charge Bax had limited at.
who told you this?" l asked when 7
had overcome the first dash of aston;sb.
ment.
Mrs. Caseby came to tell me. She
thought that ought to know"
know what is in your mind" Ga ii
l. lou do not wish Audrey to know
"hat you have told me. Be under no
apprehension; lawyer knows how to
keep secret when it suits him. Leave
the matter in my hands, and by to-morroy,
n; Ofnihs You shall have news of some
AindIgood news, feel pretty sure.n
lost no time in seeing DR.. Awdrev
act ieo w" &c
a.. Wen, Awdrey," said 1 when we met
NOW ..m IS the world using you?"
rretty much the same as usual-onlx
a'ore So he said with a laugh and cher
~ tone OF perplexity he continued. 81
.sn 81 quite make it out. 1 have received
'ee letters to-day asking for nv &C
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Killing Harmful Bacil1i.

Sewage must either putrefy or nitri-
fy. That is, it must either decompOse
with results unfavorable in the ex-
treme), or such chemical action must
take place as will change the harmful
organic ingredients to harmless inor-
ganic matters, a result really effected
through bringing them somehow into
contact with the air, the oxygen of
which will consume them, says the At
lantic Monthly.
The problem before us, then, really
resolves itself into this: How may
we so oxidize or nitrify sewage as to
change the nOxious organic matter into
harmless mineral substances? To do
this the sanitary engineer, instead of
removing the germs, as in water filtra-
ton, cultivates myriads of helpful bac-
terra. Whether we consider such sew
age-disposal as carried on by natural
or by artificial means, on the irrigated
farm or the trickling filter, we find this
startling and remarkable fact-the ok
dizing Of the sewage is done by mil
lions of living organisms. The sewage
filter is, in its essentials, nothing more
than pile of rock upon which the good
bacteria may grow. These bacilli take
In the organic wastes aud turn them
into safe and harmless inorganic mat
tiers. To cultivate such bacteria and
to use their destructive powers on dan
gerous elements has been the effort Of
all recent sewage researches.
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The Attitude Of Obedience,

When, after much battling with
doubt and struggling with recurrent
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-18
According to orders

"How do you dol" exclaimed the let
ter carrier, as he greeted the auction.
eer"
Il do as am bid" answered the
auctioneer, with a fiendish grin.
much the same here" rejoined the
l. c. II do as am directed"
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nothing of the sort, a revised
reckoning of his assets show
ing them to be at least two
millions in excess of his la
bilities, That, however,
was not the point. Lucky
supposed himself to be
worth nothing more than
the clothes on his back
and it is to be kept in mind
that he had been a million
aire for more than forty
years and was we'll past
seventy years of age.
He was whistling cheer
fully, was this unconquer-
able Mark Tapley of the
Slope, when | came upon
him, and the gay old boy
was full of enthusiasm over
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Got Only Board and Lodging

0NE snowy blustery Christmas Eve few years
- later, was assigned to interview John Mackay,
-Mackay, of the Comstock Lode's Big Four, =
then multimilOnalre engaged in hundred wealth
heapng Wall Street activities and the big figure in
the ocean cable business. Something had broken
loose in the world of finance that day before
Christmas and John Mackay of the to
be interviewed about it
found the rugged man at eleven O'Clock that
Christmas Eve sitting absolutely aone-and bit
moody over it too-before CRATE fire in his mag
nfcent Fifth-ave. apartments. Absolutely alone,
and on Christmas Eve! His wife and all of his un-
married children were in France, and had been for
long time His daughter, the Princess Coonna,
In Rome. So there sat the tired old man, surrounded
by splendor, brooding alone before his CRATE fire.
He glad to anybody, interviewer
He summoned a valet to shake the snow out of my
overcoat and, as he always had liking for young
men, he had me sit down alongside the cigars and
things, and gave me fine sort OF interview on the
serious subject had been sent to see him about-a
thing by the way, which he rarely did
The interview at an end, we came to the general
ties of the season. Even then was making notes of
the wit and wisdom of mlionares whom met in
my work And So thus getting off into the bypaths
said to Mr. Mackay that it must be gorgeous thing
to swim in the sublmated ether of wealth and not
have to wake up and discover it to have been
dream; or trifling words to that general effect
That said Mr.. Mackay blunty . is what every
body thinks | don't know much about it myself
l was pretty happy man-perhaps happier than l
now-when, in red shirt, | was working in the
mines of Nevada with pick and shovel What, for
instance, do get of life that the who works
for day wages doesn't get. | get my board and
lodging That's all: shelter and something eat
Pretty good shelter, you will be saying, and rather
good food. But these things ali one to me, SO
long they're toerable My board and lodging
that's all get really of life, and every who
works gets that much. Why, blame it all even my
own family won't live with MEL and there
twinkle-and yet the twinkle partly obscured
by sort of mst-n his eyes Here ] the
night before Christmas, alone and twiddling my
thumbs, and my wife and young thousands of
miles away from me- They like Europe and | don't
and my business wouldn't permit of my living there
if did like it.
Well, there you are. This is how fare with my
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Only Human. After All

THUS the instances and views, leaning all ways
could be heaped up indefinitely. The trouble
that such citations never could, by any possible
chance, prove anything.
This millionaire says, with perfect candor that
he enjoys his wealth and would not know how to
content himself without it; that one hanks back
sites of his climbing days. the other mourns his
vanished youth, and would give all or nearly all for
it's renewal What is to be deduced from such
diverging expressions, except that the possession
of wealth does not alter fundamentally but
leaves them, on their human side, with very much
the same moods, aspirations, and even doldrums as
men that have no riches at all and expectations!
Again and always, however, those more or less
soothing axoms Wealth Is Curse " and Riches
Do Not Bring Happiness will remain improved in
so far as the world of men and women is concerned
W. ,riIfo dor nd
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from every notable that swings along here, and to
present the notable views intelligently?"
| nodded a bit swollen, which not unnatu-
Tal in boy
Well" said this frankest of the Vanderbilts "
wouldn't do it."
'Woudnt?' said l.
Il should have said Couldn't, said the princey
personals he then seemed to me, and no doubt was
Il should hate to be put to the test of earning
dollar doing anything l suppose l could do it if
had to- being not such entire fool but it would
worry me devilishly if | compelled to work for
living 1t really would. Devilishly! I'd resent it.
! believe l think perhaps that l should jump off
the dock.
Yes he said that! Not much in that about the
benign dignity of labor the compensations of
poverty, was there? But this Vanderbilt was and
IS too candid a man to talk twaddlefuy
| told him that only week before George Pull
man, the sleeping millionaire, had said in my
hearing that he often wished he mechanic in
his shops, working for day wages.
George Pullman" replied the Vanderbilt, is
welcome to his dungaree- ideas l have heard
much the same strain. They the dreamy rheto-
ricans else they indulge in persfage. If they
suddenly reduced to actual contact with these
toploftical ideals of thers,--if they had TO put on
the overalls, that is,-you'd hear their walls
Then said l, knowing we'll what his answer
would be, wealth really is not CURSE
Never, before since, have heard more merry
laugh. That was his answer.
But there were and other millOnaires with
ideas riches and the reader entitled to his pick
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we Will lOlSsSl dSllldlld
to be shown. We will
ever be willing and eager
to sit atop of the citadel
of wealth and stand what
ever besiegement may
come in the shape of
worry or misery or disap-
pointment,- those pet be-
siegers of the rich,-not
to forget that ever and
always we shall remain
secretly convinced that,
if we were millionaires,
we should surely be better
and saner and nobler
spenders than any other
already established mill
ionaires that we ever
heard or read about.
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envied millions: Boxing up Christmas gifts to be
sent overseas in the hold of steamer, when I'd like
to see a stocking two hanging up this night
l would indeed; I've been thinking of that all the
evening Don't tell me about wealth! 1t has its
uses,-chie1y in the way of power; any man who
has worked hard must like that feature of it, but
as for all of its other imaginary Neutrality-suspicious.
and tomfooeryi'
sincerity. 1t must be remembered, though, that he
was of the rough diamond class, with positive dis
like for society He cared only for his family With
his family so far away from him. and on such night,
it is not unlikely that his views to wealth were
tinctured with bitterness natural enough in such
particular circumstances but not usual with him
whitneys Idea of 1t
ONE brilliant afternoon few years ago l hap
~ pened to be the club house lawn of the
Morris Park race track with the late William Collins
Whitney, lawyer, scholar, statesman, bon vivant,
and mutimionaire. One of his great race horses,
the noble Hamburg, had just swept superbly down
the stretch to a splendid triumph over the finest
thoroughbreds in training.
1t must be fine thing, l commented, to own
such an inncomparable animal, and to see him vic
toriously flashing ones silks in the sunlight.
Mr.. Whitney smiled a bit grimy Did you bet
Hamburg?' he asked me.
l had. of course, not being sufficiently insane to
bet against him
How much did you bet? Mr. Whitney asked me.
/ told him. Twenty dollars.
Twenty dollars at even money" said he; so
that you win twenty. How old you now"
him,-something past thirty. Then out it came:
We'll" said he, poking at the grass with the fer
ule of his cane, let tell you something:
would give everything own-and l middling
well to do-if | could be thirty years old again
and could experience the delight of wagering twenty
dollars of hard money horse race-or jumping
match, or good game of quoits, for that matter
And be poor again? L suggested.
POOR he exclaimed. How a of
thirty, with his health and with twenty dollars in
his pocket to risk, be poor?"
Then" l began, the pumping instinct rising
wealth, after all, is merely"
He interrupted me with laugh. Don't say it,
whatever it's going to bel" he said Wealth is
wealth. And youth is youth. l mean only that.
Which is the greater prize, wealth youth, depends
wholly upon the way the matter is viewed by the
young and the old. My choice, now, would be
youth, which always carries with it the chance to
gain wealth.
l wanted to ask Mr.. Whitney how he would feel
about it, in addition to being elderly. he poor
But the shining too brightly for grisly ques
tons such that would have been. | am bound to
say that came away from that talk with rather a
cheerful impression of the JOY of being only thirty
odd years of age.
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a mere boy; and / suppose IT
struck him with sort of Won
der that such a boy should be
assigned to the task of inter
viewing personages on finance,
politics, sociology, economies,
and similar items. 1t was this
wonder, perhaps, that melted
him to feed me most sunptu-
ously and at the same time to
pick talk out of me. Among
many other. things, over that
lavish dinner, he asked me-not
pryingly, but with a delicacy-
what earned from my work. l
told him. 1t was no figure to
boast of.
And for that money!, said
ne, they expect you to draw
+o11, 30, oil corcoiuo b1a G., h1actS
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Couldn't Faze Lucky Baldwin

I AM reminded by these considerations of youth and
age, in connection with riches, that once, in San
Francisco, | came upon Lucky Baldwin at time
when he supposed himself to be broke and quite
down and out financially. 1t happened that he was
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-06-27

Present Modes Easily Made ntafs-
lous-Rose-Color . Po9MlAr nsa-
mer Tint--IAAen and Ye s1ales'
+. ers smart and .Sssv1aes
lars Either VERY miah % ,>Vey
Low. u -, &. ~. !
by MONS. diENn On poa'sl'Ao,.s

In her extreme form, The afanh ifar
able woman has bNeeme Aaacst .
Stra3hteF and tsaieAtr
er. gYow the figure lines. tighter esl@s
lighter the drap9sies. smaller ana
smaller sappsats the siaee. locxiuG s6ue
from me voluninDnE, Fuehs the
7droonkng hat rin1. and : tAe@ husit@'
out masses: of hair tAat GsnszAcuae
this strange, attenuated Aguss. seieth
hens ON the frall clinging Shtees
drag them down and prevent the
slightest suggestion Of DONfaaey:
double-faced cloths do away With the
necessity Of any lining: and under
wear has been reduced to q mini
mum. ..
While it. is. doubtful IL tho 80
called sheath" skirt Will. ever-bo
actually seen here save on the staNs
or on the sensation-at-auy-price
woman, still Its influence 10 net b
be denied. The new shirt unavo9-
sally seen is circular or goRed, us
ually with box pleats in the back.
and even walking skirts At over the
hips with absolute plsiuness anu
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-06-27
Distribution Sal .

Georgia, Ben Hin County.
The undersigned will sell ut pubic cutlery to
the highest bidder for cash. before the court
house door Of said county, within the legal
hours OF sale, on July Z, 1903, city lot No.
10, In square No. \. in block No II, in the city
Of Fitzgerald. Ca, as shown by the original
townsite plat of said city. said property
will be sold by virtue of ain order vi the court
of Ordinary of said county, dated June l.
1908, as the property of the estate Of Orphia
Abrams, deceased. for the purpose of paying
debts and making distribution of said estate.
This j une 2. 1908. ID. b. WARE,
Administrator OF the ssDstate OF Orph;a
. Abrams, deceased. ~ IA H74.lt
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Fence or. No Fence Election.
Georgia, Ben Hill County.


Whereas, petition of fifty freeholders OF
said county was filed in my Office, praying
that an electi III for FENCE or NO FENCE be
held In and for said county, on. the first We'd
nesday in July, 1908;
Whereas, notice of said petition being filed,
was duly published in The Fitzgerald Enter
prise, the official organ of SAID county. and
by posting notices OF said petition at all cleo
tion precincts in said county, and the fling
of said petition for twenty days as the law re.
quires; and
whereas, counter petition of fifty freehold
ers or more was duly filed against the afore-
said petition praying for an election, and said
tounter. petition was met by a petition of
twenty-five additional freeholders in support
of the petition filed praying for an election,
which was du'y filed In my office; and now,
Whereas, the terms of the law having been
fally complied with In petitioning for said
election and publication of the same, and
there beingn further object ons fled against
ordering said election;
Therefore. by the authority vested Ia me as
Ordinary of said county, / do hereby order an
election for FENCE OK NO FENUE to be held in
ana for said county Of Ben Hill on the first
Wednesday in Ju y. 1905 the same being the
first day of July, hat said election be held at
the court grounds in each militia d S.
trict In said county and under the same rules
as provides for an election OF Il member Of the
general assembly OF Georgia. that bh lots
voted at said election shall be FOR F..NCF or
AGAINST FENCE.
Given under my hand and official sigma
lure this the 29th day 'f May. 1:O
~ NJ Nr}oo n J;novv
Nav D June t-t;-AL,7
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Distribution Sale.

Georgia, Ben Hill County. Ia
Notice is hereby given that the undersigns
cd has applied to the Ordinary of said counA
ty flor leave to sell land belonging to the
estate OF W. 6. Lee for the purpose of distrt-
button. Said application will be heard at the
regular term of said court Of Ordinary of Ben
Hi county. to oe held on the first Monday IN
July, 1873. This June |, l%'s.
q. P. WEBSTER,
T3.4t Admr. Estate OF w. S. Lee.
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Hanson Succeeded By
= ~ !. W. ,''.s PARROT. .,,
a. ayAg
II A. kN

vs. r. Fsrrott, one of the best
RAOAN6a0f southern investors, has
sucSe6ded G. G.. Hanson as presi.
dEnt OF the Atlantic Compress
caiAp6asI which has headquarters
here's the Gambler building. Be.
oaNpei0f tisAcceptance of the presi.
dAlc4 aftfcsoOmpfess company it
issSE asseood that Mir. PARROT
A1lf Tehisn his position as vice
reNiaSAs;bf the Georgia Southern
k&a Rl6flda road.
s 1ER9 H8hson was some time ago
OiNted receiver of the Gulf
Ub&BstAS company. which operates
ineaxhR west. It was because of
disappointment that he. resigned
tkes pf@idency of. the Atlantic
OGnRksR company In order to
ttApate6nd to his. duties as re.
oelssH' o&the Gulf Compress com
pasrhe. viii probably move his
hCaa1gHkftess to Memphis.
TAAA tlantic compsn y is one of
thea kknovn organizations of its
kiad rim the south. ItaOpcrates
thtN Georgia and Alabama. Mr..
Han1bnshad been president of it
siMessts formation, which occurred
in eesAss
TnA change by which Mfr. Par.
rottnmtoeaeded Mr.. Hanson be-
@Ab e HectiEe Jupee 2Srd. The
fbnherApnov in full charge of the
oOsA - c;s.t.arssi
V6iFtantic Compress company
is thegiessee. of the Fitzgerald Com
press.
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Trained Army Of
100000 Men,.
War Department PerfectS
Plan to Make U. S. u.
Military Power.

New York June 23-The war
department has perfected a plan
for the virtual amalgamation into
a trained army of 250, 900 men
ready to answer the call of tho
president, of the regular and
national guard troops in the United
States. Assistant Secretary of
War Oliver in outlining the plan
for the reorganization of national
and state troops declared that the
word militiamen is now a miSnomer
and that the state troops since the
passage OF the Dick billare United
States volunteers. r
The war department. plan means
nothing more nor less than that
the moment this country gets into
trouble the so;called nationalguald
organizations will cease to exist as
such, and Immediately become unit
Of the regular army, absolutely
under the control of the president
aud the secretary of war. 8
"This scheme,' said Geneal
Oliver, ";s the first move in the
plan to make this country a mill.
tary power. Before this we have
had no authority over the state
troops, better known perhaps as
MALTA and national guard Or
CARNATIONS. What we propose
to do is to organize these state
troops and all the regular forces
into eight army corps. and tie
New England states, New York
and other states in the military
division known as the department
Of the east, WALL constitute the first
army Corps ~
."As at present planed, the war
department. will-he able to put into
the field almost Immediately an
an army Of 25O,O men. Part
WILDE perfectly trained and the
efficiency Of the rest will be so III.
creased that they will form smooth
working force.
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Delegates to
] Denver Con-
vention. =
!. +.

tlanta, Co., June 23-All the
aaes elected to, the Denver
7 sNsntion were chosen by accls.
ten today, ,nA contest develop.
81 III d The seleetion Of the entire
hsdAf6e. Those chosen are:
6bm the state at. large--Albert
u L Fulton; Thomas ". Loyless,
shmond; Col. W.. 8. West, Of
a ymadosas; Gen. Peter W. Meldrim,
gsf Chatham, the alternates being
{Fsgqrg 81 Bell, Gorden Lee, Harry @.
syEiheAef and MA. Briggs. :.
8 sRlrak District-T M. Cunningham,
FNeGAhthan, ami H. Fl. Eloirs, Of
S9Aat6all, and w. &C. Perkins and
a7g.H.GApplewhite, alternstes.
.,se9sNe66nd District--T. F. Gurr, of
sAlNeeAsa9, and z. 4. Cole, of Quit
senASS 6nd J. L. Bryan, of Colhoun
fAMDA!eP. Bush, of Mitchell, alter
.nARAs. >sis -.
ND@hffd District-CrawfOrd Wheat
rl&,6FG umpter and J: T. Hill, O
Crisp, TAHd W. W. Poole and Percy
ii. Gambrell, slternates.
+FU6Yth Dlstrict-A. Fl. ThOmp
sbop, ;Gf 4roup; and j. L.. Willis
!sof lGRsG8gee; anGJ. T. Swint ant
gpgA Dhappelley alternates.
Ts4sSltk District-A.M. Robinson, %
gAtaAEt&6nd A. O. McCaller, OF
sAEU6Edfae;. and Gus Morrow, and
AHC. Stone, alternates.
ane6f1th District-William Gum
go Rtbb, and z. M. Smith, OF
AsnEy; add:J. w. Gresham and
n. w. Kidd, alternates.
Seventh District L. Heartsell,
% " hitfeld, and J. L. johnson O
Mt6; and "A. R.'3Foftune at'd
J. P. Be~doin, alternates.
Sth District-R. L. Galloway,
Of Clarke, and Al. v. Deadwyler,
e9E2arke;'and 8. Bakersfield and
EW:Mtadow, 'alternates
aafhth DistrictAH:: H. Dean, Of
Han, sad R; @ t2JSaes, of Cherokee
8afT. c. LittsAnd-J. M. Berrong,
SksSashasts.S , ''a'..' =
Tehth District-H.M Franklin
OfwSsEington, and w. w. Pitcher,
Watren, aud Chas, Holden and
D.TA Eowdcn, alternates
Eisventh Distrfct-W. A.
9AoRpsSfbs;; Of Laurcns and c. r.
HshsSy, of Lowndes; and J. W.
Oeissby and 6. R. MOrrell, alter.
nnfxI -. = $ ,.'s "a" &