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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-08-26

in those crowded rooms, he whiffs his
Laurens and quaffs the grateful book.
Would very large capital be re-
quired?' the hunchback inquired, in
a tone of affected carelessness.
Il don't think so. Fifty thousand
francs, the sum you mention, would
be quite sufficient" the old man re-
sponded. "But, of course, there's a
risk-a terrible risk. A single blum.
der would be disastrous"
The deformed man laughed.
ITO blunder would be quite out OF
the question:" he said. ITO effect
such a coup the arrangements must
be perfect. But isn't it unwise to dis
cuss the matter here?" he added, in
lower tone. "Some one might over
hear, you know"
Pasquale agreed, and both rose and
crossed to the Casino again.
Later that day, owing to instruc
lions I gave the doorkeeper, I dis
covered that the hunchback's name
was Paul Remenyi, of Vienna, and
that he was staying at the Grand no
tel. My suspicious being aroused,
accidentally lounged into the hair
dresser's in the. Rue de la Scala, next
morning, and while waiting discov
cred the hunchback there. He spoke
enthusiastically of the beauties of the
principality, the attractions of the
play, the excellence of the music, and
as far as 1 could judge, was a highly
educated and refined man. No, he had
not lost yesterday. He had won two
zeros at roulette, stalking louis each
time.
On the night of the Battle of Con
fetti at Nice, having another matte,
In hand, I found it necessary to go to
the redoute or balmasque, or the
Jetee promenade, that pier-like struc
ture which is the most prominent fea
ture of the esplanade. I chose a pier
rots dress of the carnival colors, mauve
and vert d'ea,u and entered the
theater about II o'clock, just as dane
ing was in full swing. Only those who
SpSAS q Se1A al a. ANlC0 ana al
tended the balls know the wildness
OF the dancing and the mad frolic
there.
Masked, like all the others. I made
my way with difficulty through the
throng in search of the man unon
| whom / had for several days been
keeping observation, a young Russian
who was wanted by the Moscow no
lice, but of whose identity 1 was no,
sufficiently certain. But, though
searched through room after room. ]
could not find him, and concluded that
he had been prevented from coming
For fully half an hour I wan
dered about, dancing now and theu
with unknown partners, until sudden.
~, In the fine Moorish room used or
dtnarily as a reading room. saw q
dwarfed figure in . dress represent.
Int the English Punch. He was seat,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-08-26
CHAPTER TX.
The Hard Riding of Lord Carrinqtor

TIE Hard RIdIng OF Lord Darlington.
Lord Carrington's best horse was
named Sailor. He was magnificent
black, built for speed, but not with.
cat great powers of endurance. Like
all Englishmen, my lord was a ia
nous norseman, although he followed
the sea for a livelihood. He was a
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-08-26

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spiracy had been very carefully
worked out, and that Nina de Courier
and her two confederates, having ere.
ated confusion, Remenyi had at that
instant slipped unnoticed into Cruzels
hand pack Of prepared cards. Then,
when all became again tranquil, the
players had placed down the max
imum, confident Of success.
The hunchback was arrested down in
the Condamine half an hour later, and
both we're, in due course, tried before
the Tribunal at Monaco, sentences Of
two years Imprisonment being passed
upon them. Against Pasquale nothing
conclusive could be proved; while
Nina de Courier, ingenious always,
succeeded in getting clear away with
her winnings, together with the two
loud-voiced men who had demanded
change for thousand francs at the
instant she had allowed her gold to
tumble from her hand.
Six months afterwards, however,
received a letter from Madame Sever.
inc, dated from st. Petersburg, stating
that the woman who had so cleverly
planned the fraud had been arrested in
suburb of Moscow, and had been
banished to Nerchinsk. In Siberia, as
q dangerous Nihilist.
Prior to this incident the cards used
at trente-et-quarante could be pur.
chased at the stationer's in the Gal
lerie Charles ILL.,, but ever since the
greatest care has been exercised in
order to render similar fraud impos-
sible.
Many have been the attempts made
from time to time upon the bank, but
certainly none was more daring than
that signalled by Nina de Couriens
cascade Of gold.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-08-26

1 IL
With infinite care led up the CONVEX
sation to the woman de Courier, but
in an instant her mouth closed, and
she glanced at me with a quick look
of suspicion. In the course of our
careless gossip she, however, let
drop the fact that she intended going
over to Monte Carlo that afternoon;
therefore, resolving to meet her again
there, as if by accident, wished her
au revoir, opposite the Hotel des An.
glais, and we parted.
! About three o'clock that same after
noon was in the bureau of the ad.
ministration when my fair acquain-
lance entered, and, to obtain her card
of admission, presented her passport.
bound up in one of those neat little
gilt-edged books which the better-class
Russians carry. Unobseryed, l glanced
at it as it lay in her hand, and saw
upon the gray paper, headed with the
Russian arms, wise, which caused
me start of surprise. Her name, it
stated, was Vera Severine, and when
a quarter of an hour later, I encoun.
tered her in the rooms and addressed
her by the name she looked at mo
quickly, with mingled annoyance and
surprise.
Madame has no necessity to dis.
guise her identity from me-" I e.
claimed meaningly, in low voice. II
am chief of the surveillance here. Nv
name is Martin-Antoine Martin"
She laughed rather nervously, and
admitted that she had heard Of me.
II noticed the wise on madame's
passport" exclaimed. ''ltsbear, the
special stamp Of the ministry, which
shows madame to be an agent Of "a.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11
MORE OBJECT LESSONS.

The holding up of stages by ban
dts in the Yellowstone park, the
burnings and other outrages by night
riders in South Dakota and the daily
catalogue of acts of violence in every
part of the country are so many more
object lessons to point the moral of
the outbreak at Springfield, Illinois.
They all point in the same direction.
This is coming to he, if it is not al
ready, the most lawless country on
earth. Boosting of one liberty, we
are at the mercy of a little band of
desperados that chooses to take mat.
ters into their own hands. And it is
no secret that the law is held in al
most universal contempt That an
act is illegal and that heavy penalties
are attached to it by statute simply
provokes a smile. 1t is in no way a
deterrent it, for other reasons, one
or more men think it would be to
their advantage to break the law.
This evil, which has already made
life and property less safe in the
| United States than in any other part
of the civilized world, and which
threatens at a not very distant date
the complete abolition of law and
order and a substitution of such vir.
tual reign of terror as already pre-
walls in Kentucky, in many other
rural communities and in every city
whenever there is a strike or riot
growing out of race antagonism, is the
natural and certain product Of two
things. 1t is to be credited to the
cowardice, the criminal refusal to do
their duty, of executive officers and
to the delinquency of the courts in
entertaining appeals, motions for new
trials and other dilatorial proceedings
on mere technical grounds. Unless
there is reform in these two particu-
lars, there will presently be need of
vigilance committee all over this
country.
The remedy is very simple. The
law says that murder shall be pun.
ished by death. Let it be so punished
without exception and without pardon
Let every man found using violence
and threatening another with death
be shot down like the malefactor that
he is. Let us have short trials, quick
sentences, no reversals except where
mistakes in facts have occurred, and
some reverence for law and these de
plorable events will soon cease.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11
AN ADMIRABLE WORK.

The local organizations of the
Young Mems Christian associations in
various parts of the east have been
doing a splendid work in sending
young men who applied to them for
employment out to the farms in the
west that are in need of help. In a
small degree the federal department
of labor is cooperating in this bet
ter distribution of labor; but it, for
the most part, has to deal with the
immigrant, whose fortunes are more
easily handled. The local associations
on the other hand are concerned
mostly with people already here, work
ers of our own body, who have become
unable to maintain themselves be
cause of some arrangement in the in
dustrial system.
There could be no better work for
citizenship and industry than this. II
it had no other than what we may
call its sentimental side, it would still
be worth doing. 1t would be a good
thing to have the attention of people
everywhere called, by these promi
nent activities, to the fact that wOrl
on the farm is the best and choicest
work of all; that when man gets ou
of employment II is not for him tC
hunt another job in factory or work
shop, but to get out into the countr!
where he belongs. To make promi
nent to emphasize in every way, the
fact that labors place is on the land
that all other labor is at a disadvan
tage and under greater or less misfor
tune, and that to return the man t.
the land is the best service that car
be rendered to him and to it-thesC
are lessons of the highest value, bu
all too unfamiliar in our times.
When agriculture is placed upon {
better footing in this section, the worl
will be more easily prosecuted anC
sure of permanent results. At pres
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11

ent the plan Of large farming is hos.
tile to the prosperity OF labor and the
attachment Of the man to the soil. It
calls for a large number of temporary
lalorors at harvest time; and as It
skins the land Of its fertility so does
1t rob the laborer OF steady employ.
ment for the sake of a short job at
high wages. But these conditions are
changing. The real tillage of the soil
work all the year round in diversified
industry. Labor is being taught that
here, as from the beginning. is its
great and golden opportunity.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11
MITCHELEs CORN PALACE.

Mitchell, S d., has made big sue.
cess for fifteen years Of an annual
corn palace along in the latter part of
September
Omaha has drawn hundreds of thou.
sands of people to that city with each
years Aksarhen for many years.
Every commercial center, large and
small, finds an annual festival of this
sort a profitable proposition
Under the new condition Of things
in a railroad way, more people travel,
but the crowds go shorter distances.
1t was pointed out in these columns
year ago that more Centers of trade
and entertainment would arise. North
Nebraska sent only a handful of peo-
pie to the state fair at Lincoln. North
Nebraska and southern South Dakota
would like to come to Norfolk every
fail if there were something here
worth while for a week. People Of
this big region could come to Norfolk,
shake hands and have a good time.
Old friendships could be renewed, old
times talked over.
Mitchell, S. d. is town not much
larger than Norfolk 1t has become a
center for tens Of thousands of Da-
kota people every year, through its
corn palace. In the corn palace
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11

THE STATES AND PURE FOOD.
The recent national pure food con-
ference brought out invaluable facts
bearing upon the purity of our food
supply and the operation of laws
passed to safeguard it. These are eX-
actly as have been insisted upon
again and again in these columns.
Now that they have official sanction
and approval, we hope that they may
be acted upon by the people, every
where.
1t is confessed that everybody inter
ested in a pure food supply and in the
prevention of adulteratiOn that fed
cral laws alone will not fill the bill.
1t is utterly impossible to administer
them without such a machinery as the
government does not possess and
could not maintain. A cursOry inspec-
ton is the most that the national law
can provide; and the smaller factories
for the manufacture of food products
all over the country are almost as
free from supervision as if federal
regulation did not exist. They print
in obscure fashion on the labels at
tached to their products such infor-
nation as is necessary to save them
from prosecution under the federal
law. And then they go ahead using the
preservatives, employing material
that is unfit for consumption and in
thousand other ways palming off
on the public things that are utterly
vile and unfit for human consump'
ton. The honest manufacturers are
up in arms against the system; but
they see little help in the federal law
There is none. This business is toe
big for federal inspection. They may
well apply to a few lines of business
such as the packing industry. which
| Is concentrated at small number OF
points, but it cannot guard the thous
ands of small canning concerns al
over the country. To look after these
is the proper business and duty of the
states. This is one of their neglected
Offices. Every state ought to have the
most rigid law governing the manu-
facture and sale of food products with
in its borders. and such complete
system of inspection as would ensure
its observance. Only thus can the
public be protected and rascality pre-
vented. Let every state take hand
1t will be the first move in desired
resumption by the states of duties
they have shirked and so compelled
the national government to under
| take
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11

The tariff revision cannot be called
an issue in this campaign, since both
parties agree with the people in de-
handing new schedules. Both can
didates promise revision Which
should the voters place the most faith
in? Judge Taft gives his word that,
If elected, he will call the new con,
gress in extra session as soon as pos.
sible after his Inauguration, to so re,
wise the tariff that the American la.
borer will not be thrown out of EN-
ployment, yet will leave the tariff nc
higher than is necessary to equalize
the labor cost here and abroad and
at the same time give the American
manufacturer a chance to make a liv
ing. Mr., Bryan also promises tar
if revision, but how can he make good
with a congress divided between two
parties. The surest and quickest way
to tariff revision is Taft's election
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11

Next to the Laird of Skibo" Henry
Phipps has safely sailed down more
of the United States Steel corpora,
ton five per cent first mortgage bonds
and sundry other equally delightful
steel securities than any other man
And he seems inclined to use their in
come for the good of the less fortu
nate. One of his recent gifts is $500,
600 to Johns Hopkins university tC
found a department of mental re
search for the good of the deranged
Will "brain storms" then be thing OF
the past? Let us hope so.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11
TILE dixie

The city council should take some
steps to keep the dixie along the
Northfork river in constant repair.
In time of dry weather prepare for
high water. 1t should be made the
duty of the chief of police or some
other city official to constantly and
regularly inspect the dixie and see to
it that it is in condition.
Now is a good time to start.
A leak in that dixie during flood wa
ter would mean loss of many thous
ands of dollars to business property
in Norfolk.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11

An Irish nobleman who is an eX-
pert mountain climber, is spending
his summers in planting the Edel-
weiss, which is fast disappearing, at
the highest attitudes he can reach.
This very dangerous and arduous self
imposed task evinces a love of the
sentimental, but does no one any
good, nor does it add to the sum of
human happiness or comfort. If these
wealthy and influential men Of leisure
would turn their attention to reforest'
ing barren places nearer home, or the
cultivation of some flower or fruit
which would be helpful to humanity,
their time and means would count for
more in the world.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11

While people still find amusement
in poking fun at the weather man when
his forecast is inaccurate, it is never
theless true that persistent study and
application are fast bringing the
weather mans work within the do
main of actual science. The blanket
forecast" for weather movements
across the continent a week in ad.
vance have been repeatedly verified
3 the powers of the air during the
past season and further progress will
follow
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11

Old age pensions will become oper-
alive in Great Britain January l, 1909,
by bill which was passed by the last
parliament. This bill provides that
certain annual income shall be
given to all needy persons who reach
the age of seventy 1t is estimated
by the chancellor of the exChequer
that the cost of maintaining this sys-
TEN for the first year will be from
thirty-five to forty millions with an
increase as the years pass. This
amount of money to be spent for the
wants of the aged poor of England
ought to greatly reduce the suffering
among them. Such a system ought to
be supported by every country 1t
would mean the difference to many
an aged husband and wife, between
spending their last years in peace
and quietness together, and being
crowded into the home Of either son
or daughter who already have more
to care for than they have means to
make comfortable, there to eat the
bitter bread of dependence.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11

how to persuade the Republicans Of
Madison, Pierce and Wayne counties
to do unto Stanton county as they
would that stanton county should do
unto them And the point was well
taken in Norfolk and Madison county,
as is shown by the majority for Apple.
by -. y city, and the close vote in
the county The fight was made in
good faith. There was no motive be.
hind the fight save the conscientious
belief Of this paper that fair play de.
creed the nomination should be con.
coded to Stanton county, inasmuch as
stanton county Republicans pre-.
sented the name of man who
pledged himself to do his share in
redeeming every promise of the party
platform and a man whose long life
in Stanton county served as a basis
for placing utmost confidence in him.
But where there is contest in the
primary only one man can win. Sen
ator Randall has won in this district
and as the nominee of the Republican
party he Is the candidate of The Nor.
folk News. He will have the unre.
stricted support OF this paper and
The News hopes and trusts that he
may be reelected by solid Repub.
lican vote and believes he will be.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11

In the onward march OF commerce
even the distant forests of Brazil are
falling rapidly to supply the Unsuitable
demand for lumber Much Brazilian
timber finds list was to Rio de Janeiro
where II is converted into packing
boxes, matches and the numerous
uses which wood alone seems fitted
for in spite of the increasing use of
metal and cement.
The number of apple trees in the
United States is placed at 200,0O0,O00
Missouri has the most trees, but New
York raises the most and finest ap
pies.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11

Just fifty years ago during the sum,
mer and autumn of 1858, the famous
Lincoln-Douglass debate, which added
such an important chapter to the his
tory of our republic, took place. Each
Of the seven different towns where
these great minds contended for the
mastery and swayed public opinion
are holding semi.centennial ce!ebra
tons in memory OF the stirring event
Even after a lapse OF half century
the speeches OF these two great men
afford an intellectual treat. 1t Is qGite
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11
THERE'S DANGER IN THE Dixie

THERE'S DANGER IN THE Dixie.
There's danger that the dixie along
the Northfork river may some day
break under heavy pressure of water
and seriously food the business sec
ton of this town. One could hardly
expect a dixie to maintain itself
The city council ought to take steps
to see that the dixie is constantly and
Systematically looked after by some
one city official An ounce of proven
ton is worth several thousand dollars
in this case.
The time to act is now-while the
water is at peace with us
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11

after a long struggle the chamber
Of deputies hoTe adopted the Congo
annexation treaty which will insure
tic solution of the Congo problem
The important question of Belgium's
financial responsibility still remains.
1t is a great step in advance to know
that the Congo will be under Leo
Odds tyranny no longer and it is to
be hoped that the beginning of a
brighter year for this folorn state is
at hand.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11
The summer OF eighteen ninety.six


Discovered our land In deuce OF a fix:
You Doctor Bryan set to work
And gave his opinion with knowing smirk,
That The only remedy under the sun
Was free coinage OF silver at ID to |.
The nation protested and held its
While Bryan poured down the dose =, =, =.
Forthwith 1t decided that Bryan was wrong,
That he mixed his doses of silver too strong
After telling Bryan to follow his face
Good Doctor Mckinley called to the case,
Mckinley prescribed with wisdom and sense
Some liberal doses of selfconfidence.
Under his counsel nation grew
Till fighting strength scarcely knew.
Proud Spain went crawling flat to the ground
with the very first bin of the second round
Again Doc Bryan bobbcd up and quoth
That weren't enjoying healthy growth,
That the Philippines would endangor our life
Unless cut of with our surgical knife,
He swore would have chronic mitiarism
Unless we took antimperialism,
Our nation arose and bumped its back
And called Doc Bryan Il blatant Quack
When Doctor Mckinley had finished his race
Great Doctor Roosevelt attended the
He taught that good health depended on strife,
freely prescribed the strenuous life.
Under his treatment made such gains
That afflicted with growing pains:
The Dmglcy tariff is far ougrown,
To sOulcss greed we're all prone.
Great Doctor Roosevelt Is treating both
But cure is slow with such growth.
And now comes Doctor Bryan once more
with rlcasanter smile than he had before,
And says if Wen hand him Great Thcodore's stick
Hen ills at a double quick.
He'll make the tariff quit pinchins our corns,
And he'll make John ID. draw in his horns
He'll send all the arrogant trusts to school
To learn the law that THE people mle'
Our nations preparing with motion quick
To give Doc Bryan a parting kick,
And send him after his sixteen to
To a political rest in oblivion.
And when he's Wen take a draught
the advice of the eminent Doctor Taft
For Doctor Taft is a of strength
He be entrusted to any length
He made the trusts take bitter pill
When he forced down the law in the Sherman Dill
He settled the Philippine complication
had baffled the skill of the Spanish nation
Young Cuba sick with the sOmachache,
From eating red frosting on Libertys cake
Doc Taft called to investigate
And very settled their troubled state.
He has shown his skill in a hundred places,
And effected cures in thousand cases;
So to keep land in the best condition
Well have President Taft for physician.
Richard F. Marwood.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11

Some clever fraud has succeeded In
unloading on New York dealers five
thousand dollars worth OF Bryan and
Scwell and Bryan and Stevenson but.
tons left over from the campaigns Of
1896 and 1900 Just thing Of invest.
ing five thousand dollars in Bryan
buttons anyway, even with an up-to.
date second. 1t seems sheer waste
Of good money.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-09-11

Mehmed Ali Bey, Turkish minister
to the United States has been dis.
missed from the Turkish diplomatic
service and Mundji Bey, the Turkish
consul general in New York, who is
member OF the Young Turk party,
appointed in his place. The young
Turks are cleaning out the old fraud
ulent regime pretty thoroughly in
their own territory.