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New-York tribune., 1909-02-28
A LOVERS ENVY.

envy every flower that blows
Beside the pathway where she goes.
And every bird that sings to her,
And every breeze that brings TO her
The fragrance of the rose.
1 envy every poets rhyme
That moves her heart at eventime,
And every tree that wears for her
It's brightest bloom, and bears for her
The fruitage Of its prime.
I envy every Southern night
That Iaves her path with moonbeams WHITE
And silvers all the leaves for her.
And in their shadow weaVes for her
A dream of dear delight
l envy none whose love requires
OF her a gift a task that tires;
l only long to live to her,
l only ask TO give TO her
All that her heart desires.
Henry van Dyke. in The Century.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-28
A HUMORISTS COMPARISON OF TAFT
AND ROOSEVELT.

A comparison Of the incoming with the out
going President is interesting. They are as
like each other a trade wind and a Kansas
tornado. Taft, unlike Roosevelt. is chronically
and not sporadically good natured. His smile
does not have the brilliance Of the present EX-
ecutive because his teeth do not reflect so much
sunlight.
not so active. Either and" or because" is the
proper word there, knows which. Taft
does not chop trees wade rivers. play tennis,
ride bareback, punch pugilists, launch battle
ships, choke mountain lions abuse traction
engines. He merely plays golf and hunts
little He has surrendered. He was made TO
be a large man and realizes It. Roosevelt still
has strong suspicious TO the contrary and dares
Providence to make him fat.
In temperament Taft is steam heater and
Roosevelt is a prairie fire. in conversation,
college professor beside d. A r. convention:
in energy, q locomotive beside a volcano; in
good nature May compared with April Both
walk while he is down. while Roose
welt refuses to get off him until he is sure ne
can't get up. Both fond of work as q
kitten is OF milk. Both go the theory that
a large family, well brought up is better to
leave a nation than great riches. Both are
crippled sheep.
AS for results. both to acquire Iiracti
callv the same brand. Both of them raise
Hades. but with entirely different seed. Roose
welt talks dynamite, sulphur perditions. brm
stone shotguns and bowie knives, while Taft
talks axle grease, ball bearings and lubricating
oil Taft calls spade an excavator, while
Roosevelt calls it absolute. uncon:rOvertible,
deliberate and atrocious spade. Summing all
up. they are both the same kind of motor, but
Roosevelt runs with his muffier cut out.-GeoTge
Fitch in The American Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-28
THE INDIANS OF THE COLORADO VALLEY

Compared to the Northern Plains Indians.
who reverence brave heart next to their wor-
ship of the Great Mystery, these tribes lack
bravery and the spirit. The Pima and
Papago did however, prove rather brave in de-
fensive warfare with marauding Apaches who
crept down them from their mountain homes.
The Yuma and MohaVe were too indolent to
have a brave heart, but rather preferred life
Of idleness. These dwellers in the valley of the
Colorado are physically a magnificent group OF
people. Previous to the Introduction of the
white mans diseases, there was probably moth
ing comparable TO them physical types in
the United States. Their lazy life low altitude.
with its excessively hot climate, seemed to de
velop their physique, but the same conditions
which made giants in stature seemed to require
no mental activity development Their
mythology is apparently incipient one and,
compared to that of the Pueblos. is so crude
that il would to be OF a people uncount-
able ages closer to the beginning OF man. This
probably is not the case, however, but merely
indicates a lack OF mental activity. The ease
with which they gained food undoubtedly tended
to retard their mental growth. The valley had
its great annual overflow. Following this, the
vegetation. wild and planted. spranS up and
grew as those unacQuainted with such localities
cannot realize. The river had countless guam
titles OF fish to be caught in rude traps with
little effort FSlts, rabbits and small game were
New-York tribune., 1909-02-28
HIS FUNCTION.

The ten-year-od of Washington man who
has taken the boy with him several transat-
lantic trips, being catechised on one occasion
by a Sunday school superintendent with reference
to the parable OF the unjust steward.
Now, WILLIE" said the superintendent. "tell us
what is a steward
He's the man that brings you a basin" said
Willie.-Harpers Weekly.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-28
ONE MORNING WHEN THE RAINBIRDs
CALL.

The SHOWS have joined the little streams and
slid into the sea;
The mountainsides damp and black and
steaming in the sun;
But Spring who should be with us now is walt
ing tiTnidly
For Winter to unbar the gates and let the
rivers run.
Ii matters not how green the grass Is lifting
through the mould,
How strong the gap is climbing out to every
naked bough,
That in the towns the market stalls are prlsht
with jonquil gold,
And over marsh and meadowlahd the IIoss
are 1uting now
For still the waters groan and grind beneath
the icy floor,
And still the winds are hungry cold that leave
the valleys mouth.
Expectantly each day we wait to hear the sulleh
roar,
And see the blind and broken herd retreatng
to the south.
One morning when the in-birds call across the
singing rills
And the maple buds like tiny flames shine RED
among the green.
The ice will burst asunder and go POUNDING
through the hills
An endless gray procession with the yellow
food between.
Then the Spring will more linger, but come
with joyous shout
With music in the city squares and laughter
down the lane;
The thrush will pipe at twilight to draw the
blossoms out
And the vanguard Of the summer host VIII
camp with us again.
Lloyd Roberts, in Appletons.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-28

of hot water pipes under the soil, making
Of the earth a veritable steam heated hotel. with
this essential difference, that the hotel keeper
here is desperately eager not TO keep his guests
but to persuade them TO leave on the earliest
possible day.-Ernest Poole in Success.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-28

abundant and close at hand. The swift footed
deer of the hills they did not molest, as that
would require effort.-Edward S. Curtis III
Scribner's
New-York tribune., 1909-02-28

home There you have the Congo as the white
man knows 1.-THE Congo jungle, or the jungle
Of Uganda: but all or this is only part OF what
we have chosen 10 call. and TO picture as the
Dark Continent.
For there, too is the desert, widely dlnereht
In all its aspects from Congo land on the
slope of the rising ground that lifts from sea
level at Mombasa end climbs to nearly 5000
feet before it drops again to the lesser level or
Victoria Nyanza Is another vast waste as typi-
cal OF Africa as this jungle country-the desert
as II is called the plains Of hush and grass SIX
months of the year-from October to Aprl-lt
lies half drowned under tropic rains; from April
to September only occasional showers fall. ana
the wide plateau grtlls under the staring sun
LIGHT ali velIOyyInq in the glare. Here upon
these uplands is found the great variety or big
game the vast herds OF wild things that have
made and still make Africa the greatest shoot
ing country in the world. This is British East
Africa as the hunter knows it.-C. B. Taylor
in Everybodys.
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And then, almost before he knew it,
he drafted cut the floor plan of 'Susie's
Stepuncle'' which, as a straight, real
life comedy. had all the good points of
shore Acres" 'The County Chair
man" and 'The Music Master rolled
into one. Course, he didn't want to
make any brags, or give out his own
judgment in a thing of that kind. He
was only repeatin' what had been told
him by competent critics, such as Miss
Flossy Delaney. president of the Tur-
nip City Macbeth society, and Mr.. ].
Colfax Pratt, dramatic critic of THE
Hoover Daily Herald" and correspon-
dent for THE New York Clipper" They
had assured him that "Susie's Step
uncle contained more heart throbs and
rib tieklers than any two plays ever
turned out, bar none
And you begun listenin for wireless
messages from Frohman. eh2'' says l.
Il sent 1t to him first, naturally"
says Hiram. Il was sure that if he
would only put it on it would make a
hit at once. I think ] may say as much
as that without seeming too"
"Hiram," says I, "as play carpen-
ter you're a shrinkin' violet with your
head under your wing. Modest Why,
compared to others I've met you've got
its tongue hangin' out. What was
Frohman's excuse2"
He didn't give any at all; Just sent
it back" says Hiram. L tried an &C
tor next. one of the best a. the BUSH
ness, that 1 knew could do the leading
part as It should be done He wrote
back very encOuragingly, even sug-
costing few changes
such as switchin' all the fat lines to
his part, and workin' up his entrances
moTe2" says !.
That was it, says Hiram. gain at
me as if I was a mind reader.
He goes on to tell how just about
| then he has a chance to sell out the
family weekly to an old college ehum
of his, a hundred down and the rest on
Il mortgage. He closes the deal be-
tween breakfast time and the ten-thir-
teen train, and gets out of Turnip City
on the gallop.
And when he strike where do
you guess he registt 10 the first
night? At the Waldorf, The clerk
asks him if he'll have ole with bath
and he says. NO. thanks; I took one
| last Saturday." Inside of forty-eight
| hours. though. he's shifted to the par
/ Tor floor front of Seventh avenue
/ boardin' house. and he tells the maid
very particular about the gent he's ex-
I pectin' to call. Then he goes out and
hires an office. too.
But" says he. 10 you know"
Sure" says I. After you'd sent
Mr. Actor word you was here you wait
I ed for him to come and weep tears OF
joy down the back of your neck; but
he never showed I'D. Then You took t.
/ hangin' around the hotel where YOU
heard he was stopping, and about the
third week the house detective gave you
the run
cit was at the end of the second
week" says Budd. He was real rough
about it. too
They're apt to be-" says / "Ant
them"
Well, he got the play back after Z
while. 1t came by express. collect. from
somewhere up in New Hampshire. look
in as though it had been left out il
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THE DEEDS OF a
MASTER SLEUTH

to be expressed in mere words. and he
bowed profoundly. Upon visiting Da-
wilson in the caIaboose the latter de-
MED his identity.
THAT won't work. said Murray,
crisply. az have man from the bank
who knows you, waiting across the
river"
Davidson sighed. "Oh. WE'LL he said
reluctantly, ''fn that case I'm willing to
admit that I'm Davidson" and he
signed a paper to that effect. on the
following morning Bartlett identified
the prisoner, and then returned to
Canada by rail.
Although Murray had his man. the
most serious part of the undertaking
Davidson's safe return to Canada-was
the problem which now confronted him.
The prisoner employed Mexican coun-
sci on being informed that the Bank
of Hamilton intended to have him pun
ished as a warning to others and to
put stop to fOrgeries such as had been
practiced in the past The Mexican at
torney asserted that he would have
his client discharged, and mentioned
the precedent case of Chanler. the De-
tToit agent for the Michigan Central
railroad who got away to Mexico,
where Detroit officers apprehended him.
Chanler fought eXtradition and after
five months was released Davidson
was also relying upon his captOr hav-
! ing to take him back to Canada
through the United States, knowing
that the moment a prisoner, extradited
I from Mexico. was taken into any other
than British territory. he could de-
mand his release, whereupon the chase
and extradition would have to begin
all over again.
Murray went TO Chihuahua and con-
( ferred with Miguel Ahumada, governor
I OF that region. Ahumada gave him a
/ letter to the Mexican judge in Ciudad
/ Juarez, ordered a double guard to be
/ placed on Davidson, and arranged that
/ there should be no mysterious escape
or release of the prisoner. The detec-
/ tive then visited the City of Mexico
and held an interview with Sir Spen-
/ Ger st. John. the British minister. Fol
/ four weeks the case was pending and
/ then Davidson was ordered to be given
/ into Murrsy's custody.
It was impossible to take Davidson
| back to Canada through the United
! States. as he would have claimed lib
erty the instant his feet crossed the
( Mexican Border Murray decided to 70
I TO Vera Cruz and embark on 2 steamer
going to Jamaica or some other English
port In the City Of Mexico hefearnec
! that there were no steamers running
! from Vera Cruz either to England OF
Jamaica. Arthur Chapman, British
consul at Vera Cruz, finally learned OF
a direct cargo boat named the Earn
cliff. plying between Vera Cruz to San
! tiago de Cuba. sailing the last week IT
December or early ia January. which
Murray concluded would serve his pur.
pose
When he sailed from Vera Cruz Will
his prisoner Murray. had in his pos
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help snickerin' at some of the lines. es-
pecially the part where Susie blows in
on the stepuncle at his coy little bach.
quarters in town and gives out that
she's come to stay. Course, I knew it
must be q pretty punk article; but l
tried to hide il from Hiram.
He had use for all the jOllyin' 7 could
hand out. and lot more; for this iiv-
in on diet of Swiss cheese. stale
bread. cigarettes. and bein' keyed up all
the time watchin' the mail box, was
wearin' him down fast His cheek
bones begun to stand out. and his
shoulders slumped in, and them lines
in his face got deeper and deeper.
tried to tell him he ought to quit the
game and hike for Turnip City: but he
wouldn't
Well, things went along that way
until here the other afternoon Hiram
drags himself iu, waikin' as though he
had lead i'm his shoes. He slumps down
in chair and begins rollin' d cigarette.
as lively as if he vss in a dream I
don't say anything until he hsaves up
a sigh that sounds like diseonhectin'
an air brake.
which means that the 'Stepuncle'
has been fired back once more, eh?'
says I.
He only mods. and sits there. his chin
on his breastbone, starin' at the cracks
/ in the floor.
"Oh, we'll" says I, you amt got a
corner on all the grief there is in the
world. Maybe next time it'll stick"
No" says he. There's no use try
ing any more. Probably it is a bad
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session letter from the British embss-
sadOr in Mexico to Senior GOleTando,
governor Of Cuba. then under Spanish
rule. requesting him to give the Canad-
ian officer assistance and protection
while in his domain. The governor was
a brother-in-law of the British consul,
Ransom. at Santiago, and both OF these
gentlemen granted Murray every COur-
tesy. 50 that his prisoner was unable
TO make any trouble for him.
Tt was rough trip to Santiago, the
voyage occupying seven days. and the
Earncliff arrived at her destination on
January 10. For several days Murray
waited in Santiago, endeavoring to find
a steamer bound for Jamaica. but there
seemed to be no communication of any
kind between these two countries. Al
though the nearest points between the
two countries are only $50 miles apart,
a letter posted at either point had to
go by way of New York to reach its
destination.
Finally Murray offered the owner of
a tug $500 to land him and his prisoner
on the island of Jamaica, but the Of
fer was refused. He accepted the sit
uation philOsOphically and resolved to
wait for a Spanish steamer which
called at Santiago once q month on its
aware that a steamer sailed monthly
from Port au Prince to Jamaica, and
cabled to Arthur Tweedie, British con-
sui general at Port au Prince, to learn
what chance he had of keeping posses
sion of his prisoner there. Tweedie re-
piled that ne could give him no assur-
ance, but would do everything in his
power to help the detective. Murray
made I'D his mind to take the risk and
obtained passports for Davidson and
himself.
Captor and captured sailed on the
Spanish steamer Manula, and arrived
in Port aU Prince on January IL. Muir
Pray went ashore, leaving his prisoner
under guard of the only English-speak-
| ing passenger aboard. a German pro-
! fessor of a college at Frankfort-on-the-
Main. who was travelling in the West
| Indies. Consul General Tweedle called
on President Hippolyte. who issued a
special order to the authorities to see
I that Davidson did not escape. and Muir
ray landed his prisoner with the under
standing that he should supply the
/ guards and pay literally for all ser
| vices rendered.
A stranger visiting Hsyti seldom has
any reason to complain of lack Of ex.
citement during his stay in that de-
l lectable country. Revolutions, accom-
panied by a lavish amount Of blood
shed occur therein with pleasing regu-
/ larity, and it was not surprising thai
one should be in full blast when Muir
I ray arrived.
1t CHANGED that one Sunday morning
while President Hippolyte was a.
( church. twenty young men went to hi.
/ house in the big square, large man
sion, with a high stone wall topped
with iron spikes. They passed the sen
try at the gate as members OF the ma
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erai persons in Mexico, among them
being Supt Comfort of the Mexican
Central railroad. Murray called upon
Comfort at Ciudsd Juarez. He had al
ready located Davidson. under the
name of Graham, checking cars for the
railroad company. The superintendent
telegraphed to Graham to come to Gu
dad Juarez He also sent for the mayor
of the city. a polite. suave Mexican
gentleman. to whom Murray explained
his mission and desire to have Davidson
taken into custody. The mayor bowed
significantly. smiled, bowed again, and
said he would be 'pleasurably agi-
tated'' to have officers ready to arrest
the malefactor outrageous when the
latter arrived. Mr.. Comfort stated that
Davidson would be there in about four
hours. whereupon the mayor bent dou-
bic in a third sweeping bow, INDUCED
in another expansive smile, and with
drew
Four hours later the street outside
the superintendent Office re-echoed to
the steady tread of marching feet and
! imposing rattle of arms as the march
ers came to a halt Looking out of the
window Murray perceived a body of
sixty men clad in full uniform and
armed with carbines. AT their head the
intendente and mayor stood proudly
Murray gazed upon the impressive
sight in awe-stricken surprise.
why. / only needed one man. he
said finally.
The intendente and mayor surveyed
/ the speaker with an air of naughty
I scorn.
Sir" said the mayor with a cour-
/ teous bow. i am permitted to inform
/ you that in this our country there is
[ dignity and ceremony TO be observed
even in the making of an arrest Be-
sides, who knows? this prisoner may
of a desperate and ferocious nature
/ be-
Clearly there was no room for argu-
ment The detective acknowledged sub
mission to the august officials decis.
/ ion by a bow modelled closely on tn,
/ lines of the latter's own theatrical salu-
1 tation, and the preliminary formalitie:
were at an end. Ten minutes later
] Davidson made his appearance on tbs
/ scene and Murray pointed him out Il
| the mayor. The latter whispered ex.
! eitedlY to the intendente, who drew
himself erect and barked out a stern
sharp command Immediately the six.
ty soldiers whiried around. bounced he
roically upon Davidson, formed a hol
/ low square about him, with earbine.
leveled directly at his head. ans
marched him of in triumph to the Gala
/ boose-
The mayor was in transports Of de
light.
Truly il is of a wonder" he ex
| claimed. as the valiant sixty. without :
| trenor of fear, marched away Will
their lone victim Behold you the de
tenders of our Mexico, Senior Murray
Such courage, Such precision, Beauti
ful. Bravo. bravo
The detectives emotion was too grea
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the rain and then used for chair
cushion. The succeedin' details was
sad. oh, the worst wayi He tells how
he's been luggin' that play around the
white light district for moren a year,
and the nearest he ever gets to a man
ager is short interviews with fresh Of
flee boys who tells him to dump his
bundle on the table and take his feet
with him when he goes out.
Mostly he puts in the time waitin 4,
two or three months on a stretch, and
runnin' down four flights of stairs ev-
cry time he hears the .postman's WhiS-
tie. Meantime he's quit the boardin'
house. moved cot bed into his top
floor pigeon hole and is doin' his own
caterin' over a gaSjet.
But I'll get there YETI says Hiram.
You'll get somewhere, sure" says /.
After that Hiram drops in here at odd
times, to give me bulletins of where the
play was, and what the office boy said
to him the last time he called. At
first he used to have days when he
was real clipper. but them spells didn't
last long or come often. He got biuer
and bluer, and seedier and seedier. But
he was never srouchy, and he never
gave in that "Susie's Stepuncle" wan
the funniest piece ever turned out.
Just to make him feel better I'd let
him spiel off an act now and then
when | was feelin' strong. He want
much of an elOcutioneT. Mr.. Budd
want He had a way of singsonsin'
through his nose that reminded you of
the sidewalk takers with their collar
buttons! Collar buttons. Three fer
five But, even at that, l couldn't
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3-A FLIGHT BY
LAND AND SEA,

Mr.. Charles Hilton Davidson of Bur
lington, Ontario. Canada, was a nice,
piOus gentleman, highly respected by
the members of the community of
which he was regarded as bright and
shining light. BY profession a nursery
man of the firm of John Davidson &
Sons he had also soul for music and
filed excelleutly the position Of organ
list with a church choir to which he be
longed. Charles was 40 years old and
immensely popular.
Ever to the front where religious ex-
ercises were concerned, i'm October,
1892. he had arranged for grand song
recital by the choir, when just as plans
for the entertainment were i'm full
swing he vanished mysteriously.
Then, much TO the horror of his &C
quaintances, It transpired that the en-
terprising Mr.. Davidson had passed a
series of forged notes on the Bank of
Hamilton, some of them the notes Of
nonresident persons, and others the al
legged notes of farmers who had never
signed them. The department of justice
promptly detailed Wilson Murray on
the case, and that sagacious hunter of
wrongdoers called on James Turnbull,
manager of the bank, to talk over the
matter with him.
sistent that Davidson be brought back
and punished, no matter at what cost.
It was not Plone the sum of money
taken from the bank in this particular
| instance that Influenced TUrnbul in
his determination. Following the prin-
eiple which leads a farmer to nail a
dead crow to post as a warning to
other despoileTs of his crops, the bank
manager argued that to convict David
/ son would deter other wouid-be forgers
/ from exercising their talents at the ex-
pense of his treasury vaults.
! IF you have to follow this fellow 10
! the ends of the earth. do 50. but get
| him." quoth Turnbuli, grimly. 1T
/ makes no difference what amount OF
I money you have to spend 50 long as
YOU succeed In making an example OF
/ Davidson.
! The managers words were prophetic
/ for the chase proved TO be one that cost
/ thousands of dollars and caused Muir
I raw to travel over 10000 miles to bring
4 his man to the bar of Canadian justice
The detective first turned his attention
/ to Davidson's wife. That lady was
busily engaged in making preparations
to leave Canada. when Murray inter
cepted letter to her showing that this
/ defaulter was in Mexico. ThereupoT
he prepared extradition papers anc
started. following Mrs. Davidson:
route. He left on November s, and Wa:
/ Joined in Chicago by Mr. Bartlett, al
| accountant of the Bank of Hamilton
/ who knew Davidson personally. an6
ACCOMPANIED Murray to Ell Paso, Texas
on the border of Mexico
1 They reached Ell Paso on Novembel
| 1s. and Murray paid a visit to nj
friend. Manager Davis, of the Wells
| Fargo Express company. This gentle
man furnished him with letters TO sew