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CHAPTER VIII.
THE MAN FROM BRopNEY,s.

THE MAN FROM BRODNEY,H.
- was quite forty-eight hours be-
fore the Deppinghams surren-
dered to the Brownies They
- were obliged to humbly admit
In the seclusion Of their ownscouncils
that 1t was to the obnoxious but en-
ergetic Britt that they owed their pres
ent and ever growing comfort.
Late In the afternoon Of the day fol
lowing the advent Of the Brownies,
Lord and Lady Deppingham were la
boriously tanning themselves in the
midst of their sitting Marie Antoinette
elegance.
by Jove. Aggy, it's too beastly hot
here for words" growled he for the
hundredth time. II think we'd better
move into your grandfather's rooms"
Now. Deppy, don't let the Brownies
talk you into everything they suggest"
she complained, determined to be stub.
born to the end. "They know entirely
too much"
THAT'S all very good, my dear. but
you know quite as well as that we
made frightful mistake in choosing
these rooms. 1t is cooler on that side
Of the house. Pm not too proud to be
comfortable, don't you know
The next day they moved into the
west wing. and that evening they had
the Brownies to dine with them In the
banquet hall. Deppingham awoke in
the middle Of the night with violent
cramps in his stomach.
Don't say word to Lady Depping-
ham, he grunted. sitting up in bed
and gazing wildly at his valet, but
I've been poisoned. The - serv-
ants-ouch!--don't you know! Might
have known. Silly ass! See what /
mean? Get something for me-quickv'
For two hours Antoine applied hot
water bags. and soothing sirups, and
his master, far from dying as he con-
tinually prophesied, dropped off into a
peaceful sleep.
The next morning Deppingham, fully
convinced that the native servants had
tried to poison him. Internationally dis.
charged the entire force
OF course there was great upheav-
al. Lady Agnes came tearing down to
the servants hall. followed directly by
the Brownies and Mr.. Britt.
"Stop!' she cried. "Deppy. what
are you doing? Discharging then
after we've had such time getting
them? Are you crazyT'
They're a pack of snakes-I near
sneaks. They're assassins. They tried
to poison every one of us LAST
Britt smoothed the troubled waters
with astonishing ease. The servants
returned to their duties. but not with
out grumbling and no end Of savage
glances. all of which We're leveled a
the luckless Deppingham.
"Why poison?'' demanded Britt
They've got knives and guns, hasen'
hey?.
My dear man. that would put the
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saue was :...s.z 70 rear his voice and


slue Was 10y 70 hear his voice and
be frightened away.
The enemy was sitting serenely on
one Of the broad iron benches just in
side the gates to the park. his arms
stretched out along the back. his legs
extended and crossed. 1t was quite
apparent that he was lazily surveying
the chateau. putting with consistent
case at the cigarette which dropped
from his lips.
Mr.. Britt was right" said Mrs.
Browne irrelevantly. She was peering
at the stranger through the binoculars
'He is very good looking"
And you from Boston, too,'' scoffed
Lady Deppingham. Mrs. Browne flush.
ed and smiled deprecatingly.
Wonder what he's doing here in the
grounds?" puzzled Browne.
Its plain to me that he is restin,
his audacious bones" said her lady.
ship, CHANGING brightly at her CO.
legatee
Three men were approaching by the
path which led down from the far.
away stables. Browne recognized the
dark skinned men as servants in the
chateau-the major domo, the chef and
the master Of the stables.
Lord Deppingham must have sent
them down to pitch him over the wall, "
he said. with an excited grin.
impossible! My husband is hunting
for sapphires in the ravsne back or
She did not complete the sentence.
The enemy was greeting the statu.
esque natives with a friendliness that
upset all calculations, 1t was evident
that the meeting was prearranged
There was no attempt at secrecy. The
conference, whatever its portent, had
the merit Of being quite aboveboard
In the end the tall solicitor. lifting his
helmet with gesture so significant
that 1t left no room for speculation
turned and sauntered through the
broad gateway and out into the forest
road. The three servants returned al
they had come. by way Of the bride
path along the wall.
"The nerve Of himw exclaimed
Browne. THAT graceful attention wa!
meant for us. I'll have Britt inter
view those fellows at once. Our hitch
en-, our stable and our domestic disci
| pline are threatened"
They fastened to the chateau and
RECALLED the resourceful Britt with tn
disquieting news.
That evening he dragged the rciuc
tant Saunders into the privacy Of tn
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Copyright. 1908. BY Dodd. Mead q Co.

'eThey understand that there win be
one here in a day or two IL we need
it, said Browne, with sly grin.
That's the bluff we've worked" He
looked around for his wife and, find
Ing that shc had gone inside, politely
waved hie hand to the EnglishnAn
and followed.
At 3 o'clock Britt returned with the
recalcitrnnt servants-or at least tho
'pick" Of them. as he termed the score
he had chosen from the hundred Or
more He seemed to have an Aladdin
like effect over the horde.
Calmly taking Lord Deppingham and
his following into his confidence, he
said, in reply to their indignant remoD
strances. later on IN the day:
II know that an American man-o'-
war hasn't any right to fire upon Brit
ish possessions. but you just keep quiet
and let we'll enough alone. They
just simply know that can send wire
less messages and that cruiser would
be out there tomorrow II necessary,
pegging away at these green hills with
cannon balls SO big that there wouldn't
be anything left but the horizon in an
hour or two. You let me do the talk
ing. I've got 'em bluffed, and I'll keep
'em that way"
Over in the gorgeous west wing
Lord Deppingham later on tried to con-
vince his sulky little wife that the
Americans were an amazing lot, after
all. Bromley tapped at the door.
Tea is served in the hanging gar
den, my lady she announced. Her
mistress looked up in surprise, red
eyed and bit disheveled.
ASK some one to bring the tea
things in here, Bromley" she said
sternly. Besides. want to give some
orders. We must have system here,
not Americanisms."
The tea things did not come in. In
their stead came pretty Mrs. Browne.
Won't you please join Mr.. Browne
and me in that dear little gnrden2 It's
so cool up there. and it must be dread
fully warm here. Really, you should
move Mt once into Mr.. Wyckholme's
old apartments, across the court from
ours. They are splendid. But now
do come and have tea with us"
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months use of them -" Mrs. s. a..
WILLIAMS, r. F. ID. No. IA, Box SO,
Gardiner, Me.
No woman should submit to a surgi.
cal operation, which may mean death,
until she has given Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made exclusive
" from roots and herbs, fair trial.
This famous medicine for women
has for thirty years proved to be the
most valuable tonic and renewer of
the female organism Women resid-
ing in almost every city and town in
the United States bear willing testi-
mony to the wonderful virtue of Lydia
3. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
It cures female ills, and creates radi-
ant, bu0yant female health. If you
are i'll, for your own sake as well as
those you love, give it a trial.
Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass,
invites all sick women to write
her for advice. Her advice Is free.
and always helpful.
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Many people with chronic throat and
lung trouble have found comfort and
relief in Foleys Honey and Tar as II
cures stubborn coughs after other
treatment has failed. L. M. Ruggies
Reasnor, Iowa, writes: The doc
tors said had consumption, and
got no better until took Foley's
Honey and Tar. 1t stopped the hem
orrhages and pain in my lungs ano
they are now as sound as bullet
Wilkinson Co.
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Excursions
3. Via
From KeOkuk. Iowa

From Keokuh, Iowa
g. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS
AND RETURN
1880 every day and CORRESPOND.
lngly low fare to hundreds of 9TH
er resorts in the beautiful Mime
sofa Lake region.
SALT LAKE WHY
AND RETURN
Ss.4o Aug. s, 6, and s account
Of the G. a. r. National Encamp-
ment.
pENyER AND COLORADO SPRINGS
AND RETURN
$3.50 every day Correspondingly
low rates to hundreds Of other
points in Colorado.
YELLOWSTONE PARK
S42.50 to Mammoth Hot Springs
ana return; extra for hotels and
IN staging In Park. Colorado in
Guided without extra charge.
TON 4
r $3.50 Round Trip to Seattle; di.
verse routes and stop-overs. A
great educational tour.
+ NEW YORK CITY
AND RETURN
9sz.l5 every day. Similar rates to
BOSTON, Atlantic City, Canada and
view England and hundreds of At
iantic Coast Cities and Resorts.
you ought to go somewhere this sum-
'"er, Tor never were the rates in ev.
~ direction SO low as this year
No m tier where yeu may decide
~ 60 can help you plan your trip
anu furnish y0u pertinent Illus
ualed printed matter, eithe ofour
o n, other ltnes. III haven't
~ get II for you
9 :. CoNRADT. city Ticket Agent,
burlington Route, 9Th and johnson
st. Keokuk, Iowa.
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The worlds most successful med

The worlds most successful med
icine for bowe. complaints is Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. 1t has relieved more pain
and suffering, and saved more lives
than any other medicine in use. In
valuable for children and adults. Sold
by Wilkinson & Co. Pharmacy. J. II
Kiedaisch & Son
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tTo be continued
Work Means Growth.

Work is the only means of growth.
Not to work is to keep always an UNI
developed hand, or heart, or brain.
The things which work may achieve
are not half so important as that
which work does in us.-Turner.
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Known All over the World.


He remained director until Octo-
Der ~, 1906 over year after he ceas-
ed to be its secretary, having served
on the board forty-eight years. In the
beginning he was also its treasurer.
He did not travel much and kept so
closely to his work in the home office
that he was not known abroad by
sight to any extraordinary degree; but
a few years ago a prominent insur-
ance journal with reference to How
ard Tucker said that che Is known
wherever fire insurance is known"
His steadfastness to duty made him
SO successful an insurance man and
his feeling of duty to his fellow men
made him active in many of the af-
fairs OF his home city He was char.
ter member Of the old City Rifles, and
member of the very old volunteer
fire department.
He devoted even more energy to
the affairs of his church than to bust
ness. st. Johns Episcopal church was
organized in the law office of his ia
ther-in-law, and Howard Tucker
had a great deal to do with st. Johns
from that day to his last one on earth.
His funeral will be held at st. Johns
Tuesday afternoon at o'clock.
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The Test Of a Great Soul.

He was simply and sternly true to
his duty, alike In the large case and
in the small. So all true souls ever
are. So every true soul ever was,
ever is and ever will be. There is
nothing little to the really great soul.
Dickens.
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anda severe female
weakness. T h e
doctor said I would
have to go to the
hospital for an
operation, but /
could not bear to
think Of it. 1 de.
cided to try Lydia
=. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound
andSanative w ash
and was entirely
cured after three
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DR.. !. EATON JOHNSTON

1SiClAN AND SURGEON
1ae only physician practicing Oste-
opi.ny IN the county. The Smith
aian trus- tittsd anc guaranteed.
only truss that holds. ohice
Noi'n side OF Main street. third door
aoove Fifth. Phone SO. Residence,
VIM an Webster. Phone 1884. r.
=. LOCK Box, Al, Warsaw. III
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The enemy ,eos sitting scrcncly on one Of
the iron benches.
hanging garden and deliberately inter
rupted the game of bridge which wal
Going on.
ladies and gentlemen" said Mr..
Britt. calmly dropping into chair
near by. this place is full of spies"
"Spies!" cried four voices in unison
slr. Saunders nodded plaintive apol-
s.-y
Ito be continued.)
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{ -. one 81 The Oldest and Most
important Citizens Of keokuk
whore He Had Lived Over
Halt I Century.
STRONG IN GOOD WORKS
Va ! Large Part IN Building Up !
Great Business and Great
Church In This City Who're
He Was Respected.

me death Of Howard Tucker, with
~. INA first hour Of Sunday morning
! ,smoyes one OF the foremost citizens
( !, Keokuk, man long and largely
identified with the business interests
Z 4 MS home city and state, who was .
( al pillar in his church for over half
] century, a prominent Mason who
nd been awarded the highest honors
I q that fraternity, who was almost the
oldest MS we'll as one Of the most i'm
Dortant residents OF this city and a
man who lived his life well through all
he many years. His funeral will be
tomorrow on his birthday when he
would have been eighty-one years old.
4 He was born In Cincinnati, August
i 1928, the Youngest Of eleven chill
dren Of Thomas and Anne s. Tucker.
he came Of good old Pennsylvania
Quaker stock, his ancestors migrating
IN an early day to the commonwealth
founded by William Penn. His father
vac a prominent pioneer citizen Of
Cincinnati whose portrait was recent
" an important part of an exposition
Of Cincinnati in the making.
\ AS his forebears enligrated from
Europe to PENIS new colony, and his
father followed the frontier to Cincin.
natl so Howard Tucker followed the
trail westward and came to Keokuk
IN 1852, when this city was the gate.
way to the northwest and an outpost
on the western boundary Of the settle.
ments.
An Insurance Man.
He had been in a hardware store In
Cincinnati, and here went into bust.
ness with his brother Samuel w
Tucker under the firm name Of 8
W H. Tucker, whose hardware
store was on the northwest corner OF
Second and Main streets.
Willie engaged In this business he
was elected a director Of the Iowa
I State Insurance company, January IL
1858 and this was where he found his
7 true vocation.
This oldest insurance company n
Iowa was then IN its third year and
an infant subject to all the yicissi
tudes Of infants, commercial and 9th
erwise. Howard Tucker not only found
IN It the work to which he was spec
ially adapted but 1t found in him the
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a Pillar OF the Church.

To call aim pillar of the church
is not to use trite metaphor but to
state a strong fact. He was one of the
main supports of that church for
many years.
For over fifty years he was a yes
tryman and this means that he held
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II. |. couRTRlGHT, M. q.
Office COL Main street,
tricai work.
luce hours. 10 to 1880 :. M; 2 to
4:So and to s ,. m.
nesidence, 1923 Franklin street.
w. N. HoGLE, M. D.
COL Main street.
once hours, 2 to and Z % 8 p. a.
residence. 6o4 High rest
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ANOTHER
WOMAN
CURED
ByL ydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Gardiner, Maine. Isl have been q
great sufferer from organic trouhles
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Pays. CLANS.
Or. CORAL r. ARMENTRouT

Omce-Y. NJ. c. A. Building. Resi-.
dence 9l2 Fulton street. ONCE hours:
~ % .. NJ: 2 to 4 .. m; evening
hours by appointment. iowa phone.
ozS'f, and Hub. phone 20s2, ONCE
phone Residence phone, iowa I'm;
HI S515.
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pr. w. P. SHERLOCK.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
omce and residence No. Is North
r1lea street In Howell building.
oMce hours: 10 to ~ q. m. g to q
p. N. Evening, 4 to 8. ~
Phones: Iowa. 7sl-R; Mississippi
Valley, 1919.
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man 1t specially needed to train 1t in
Its youth ana later in its sturdiness.
After he had been director for seven
years, ne was elected secretary of the
company and served continuously in
that position until he retired from ac-
tive life, June 1905. His forty years
and five months in that position made
him the oldest secretary Of any insur-
ance company in America in length of
continuous service in that office.
Building Big Business.
He quit the hardware business and
devoted all his time and energies to
the insurance, business. At that time
the company's office was one little
room containing desk, safe and a
high stool besides Howard Tucker.
He sat on the stool at the desk day
after day. planning, studying and exc
cutting. Practically, he was the com
pany. The board of directoZ met at
stated intervals and passed reso1u-
tlons as board Of directors do, but the
knowledge of It's affairs the plans for
its safe and constant growth, the cam
paign for more business, the selling
of opportunity instantly when an OPP
portunity Knocked at the door. all
these depended upon the secretary.
Practically, Howard Tucker was the
Iowa State Insurance company then,
sitting on the high stool by the single
desk in the little, almost unfinished
room.upstairs on Main street.
The office grew into big and ele-
giant home building on corner. with
many rooms filled with clerks and fine
| furniture in the private rooms Of Its
officers; the company grew until it is
one OF the largest in the middle west;
its comparatively few policies swelled
1 into policies numbered around 200,
900 the science of fire insurance grew
into one of the greatest OF sciences
involving almost all other sciences
and all the time during this fifty years
of growth, Howard Tucker was the &C
tual executive OF the Iowa State In
eurance company, watching it grow
and, what is more important making
1t grow. OF course there were others
especially In later years, but Howard
4 Tucker was the main dynamo of the
company as long as his health permit
ted him to be its secretary.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-10

WASHINGTON. Mar. 9.-WhH7 tbs Information is unofficial. if Is uadss. stcod to be almost definitely settlcl Lat former Secretary Strauss of G., department of commerce. and lassor will be appointed anbassado- a Japan
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COPPER GOING INTO SHIPS

Tie three big battIeships recently launched iu Greai Britiau. Beller0- phOn, Temeraire and Superb, will con. sume 3.650.000 lbs. of American lake and eleetrOlytic copper, and 100000 lbs. will be required for eacn of the big baJtlesbips whose Eeels are to be laid at once in England. For account of tho meR-of-waz on the stocks of Continental Europe, IS s,00O, 900 lbs. Of lake and electrolytic copper WiIl be needed within a year. The rnercan. tile marine contracts under way in European yards win consume 57.900.. OUo lbs. of copper within c year.
 Although work Is slack at domestic shipyards. the tonnage under contracs will call for the consumption of 6.O00
 900 lbs, of lake, elect-oIytic and cast. ing copper within year The navy yards. ordnance works. and the miri are consuming annually about 12,00o.. 900 lbs of copper. The ship repair, ing plants on both oceans and along the Great Lakes are working up about 10.000.0O0 lbs. of copper a year in various forms Of bronze and brass.
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RAILROAD HAS ID
 INCREASE FORCE
Southern Pacific Compelled 10 Put on Men by Business
 Volume

TUCSON. March 9.-Cspecial.)- )--
 A number or new nremen and brakemen have been put into service on the Tucson division of the South ern Pacific during the past week. says the Citizen.
 The vastly increased railroad busi- ness which has taxed the division to Its capacity for more than Q week shows no signs of a let up.
 All of the regular trainmcn are kept unusually busy and brakemen and firemen who have been for some time past on the extra list are made regulars as a result and new men are being broken in to keep up the usual number of extra men.
 Scarcely a train leaves the city that does not carry a "studsot.7 as the new firemen and brakemen are called, who are just learning theiT duties. They are required 10 make several trips before going into actual service. The neavy snow storms in the east and the floods in California were the cause of the sudden increase in bus mess.
 It appears, now that the rush vii continue for some time as there are no signs of abatement in traffic.
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RATE LAW NuLlrFIeD.

KANSAS City, Mar. 9.-Nnssodri's two-cent passenger and freight laws were 1ullified by a decision handed down here today in the federal dis t-lct cOGIt 0y Judge smith Mcrhei .scn.C
 As a result it is believed there VII, be . quiet return iD Missouri to 2-cen; fares
 Trank HageTman. cnnnsei for tho eighteen companies in, ..rcd declar- cd the courts rules sounds rho death knell Of the 2-cent rate in every stat Tn the Union.
 Judge McPherson held that both the commodity and passenger laws were confiscatory and unconstitution al- The state. on the other hand. de clared iemphatically fhlat A1ssouri's fight for lower rates would continue Attorney General Major said an ap peal would be taken. and the present leg stature would be asked to pass a nsw rate law that would stand ths tests of court
 Governor Hadley made similar statements at Jefferson City.
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ENCOUNTER RICH ORE.

Seven years ago this coming May the Tombstone ConsOl dated Mines, under the guidance of Mir. F. B. Gage, began the gigantic task of unwater- ing the Tombstone district. At times things looked mighty blue for Mr. Gage and his associates, but they stuck to it and after spending a for tune of no small dimensions it looks as if that grand old man is about to reap his reward. Mir. Gage has al- ways been firm in his belief that at or below the water level large bod 'es Of ore would be encountered ana his predictions ae being sustained by developments of the last few days.
 Under the able and energetic man agemsnt of Mr. J. H. Macia, who was recently appointed superintendent Of all the T. C. NJ properties, some good work has been done and this week 3 high grade body of ore running rich in horn silver was opened up on the Northwest shaft, a property that has been idle for years, but which will 1cW be worked to it's capacity as soon as the property can be placed. in run ming order.
 In the Silver Thread also this ween a good body of ore was uncovered In the shaft al the Silver Piane. new shaft being sunk, 50 that the ore body found in the Emerald sono months ago could be cut, they are passing through stringers of copper ore. The Emerald and Plume prom ise to make big copper producer. i h the main workings, known as ltbe Boom Shaft, they have run into Ia body of gold. silver and lead, and | in . couple of places in the same workings they have encountered sul- phide copper. They are handling with all ease now over six million salons of water and are daily lower ing the water level In a few weeks. after repairs now being made to the pumping plant they will increase the pumping to eight millions or more. The work being done by Mir. Cages company means the early prosecution of many other properties in tho old
 Tombstone district 1t looks as if cur sister city would soon be enjoying a steady progress of work that will bring her back to or near her former self when in the olden days she wss real city