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ROOSEVELT
MARKSMANSHIP

always instructive and stimulating. The feats of father and sr
in killing big game, as recorded in the newspapers, appeal to the
youthful Imagination, and have their effect. 1t is desirable that
American youth should be trained to the rifle. y nation of sharp
shooters needs no great military establishment. The Boer Wal
showed what a few skilled rihemen could do against large, disci
plined armies. Our government has, at a large expense, adopted
a system of rifle practise and competition, and rife practise in the
schools is encouraged. If a stimulus were needed, it is now being
furnished in Africa by the Roosevelts, father and son.
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OUR SUMMER SCHOOLS
AND THEIR INCREASE

has a system of summer schools, and, in fact, few cities through
out the country provide for a special course of common school
education in the summer. Our summer schools were begun as an
experiment, and some good citizens were exceedingly doubtful of
their utility and would have abandoned the experiment as a use
less expense if they could have had their way, but better sense
prevailed, and these schools have fully proven their usefulness
They have done a heap of good in an transformations way in this
community.
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FAMOUS BITS OF PROSE =
BY FAMOUS Pc pLE E
NO. XIV.
'f Clients Do Not Come, | Will Throw Myself
f1eart and Soul Into Some Good Cause
and Devote Ny Life To III"

= WENDELL PHILLIPS


XVTENDELL PHILLIPS, of Boston, was on Of the most pronounced
w oohuoms o. hsd day. Hist heart had responded to Websters fiery
denunciaton atP Plymouth in 1920 of that work of hell, full an dark
LIE sHVe uade. He la aiken a boys part in honorng Lafayette. and in the
must OF such ssociations he vas unconsciously fitted for his career.
Fmhps was born In Boston in 1911, and graduated from he Haryar Lar
scnooi IN 1884, He "a we'll equipped for hi. profession. u seems to have had
no love FOR 1t If lie said to a friend. "cuents do not cor I will throw
ear and soul INTO some good cause n devote m life t. it," The
good ause presented ITSELF and Phillips thoroughly rave himself over TIC It.
ne poet James Russell Lowell has embalmed the memory of his early self.
annegaton n a sonnet Of which these nnesfo form a part:
He stood upon the worlds broad threshold; wide
The din of battles and of slaughter rose;
He saw God stand pom the weake side
That III in seeming loss before its foes
Therefore he went
And Joined him to the weaker part.
Fanatic named, and fool yet well content
So he could be nearert to Gods heart,
n feel its solemn pulses sending blood
Through Ill the widespread veins of endless good"
1t was tn sight of seeing Garrison dragged through the streets of Boston
almost denuded of clothing thu so worked on the sympathes of young Phillips
that from tath our he became a avowed abortonist though he ws nt widely
known as such utlt thu martyrdom of Elijah F. Lovejoy, in 1887. A meeting
was being held in which the question of courage was discussed. ame I. Austin
the attorney-general Of Massachusetts eulogtzed the Alton murderers, com
pairing them with the patriots of the Revolution, whereupon Phillips stepped
upon the platform, his perects efp possession at once winning recognition.
His opening sentences uttered calmly, nut with deep feeling, revealed his
power I'M raised expectation to the highest pitch. "Whenp said he II heard
the gentleman lay down principles which placed he rioters, incendiaries and
murderers O. Alton side by side with Otis, Hancock, Quincy and Adams.
thought those pictured lips pointing TO the portraits in te han) would have
broken into voice to rebuke the recreaht American, the slanderer Of the dead
Sir for the sentiments he las uttered on the soil consecrated by the prayers Of
Plritans and the blood Of patriots the earth should have yarned and swallowed
him up" ars.4
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The experiences exhibited
by Roosevelt, as we'll as by
his son Kermit, with the
rife is not lost upon Ameri-
can youth. Examples are
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1t is practically settled, so
far as the conferees are con
cerned, that hides will go on
the free list, while material
reductions are to be made in
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Uncle Walt Mason
The Sunflover Poet of En1pora, Kansas. Says Today I

~ ~ IT y 11HTEo'H5 0oJo ~ ~
When all the nations have disarmed and thrown their swords away, and we
no Longer are alarmed by threats OF fiery fray We ought to be a happy lot, for
" g insist that Peace and Peace alone, will hit the spot and make
'RAIMV our troubles cease. So let Is sing of balny Peace, and raise a
joyous dn. n keep on singing till thu pNce com up n u us
PEACE in. But sometimes. when the stars swing low, and I sit down to
- dream upon the blessings that will flow from Peace, as in a stream
a Dire Forebodng comes along, and anchors in my breast and from
my heartt the glad sweet song Of Peace goes galley west For when W shed or
swords and guns we'll wrange just the same; I'M Of he powers the stronger
ones will climb the weakers frame; then there will be no cannon's shock, n o
hosts of armed galoots; ut re mus Just depend m talk to settle or disputes
Where now III armies guard the land, and marcht to beat Of run a host of
lawyer sharps will stand. and talk US blind and dumb. Ere this goes N for
many u n wen know that Peace is punk; well rustic u ID the swords M euna
and such discarded Junk
Copyright 1900 by George Matthew Adams
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Our summer schools show
a large registration this
year, and much in excess of
last year. Newark is the
only city in New jersey that
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FREE HIDES
SEEM ASSURED

the duties on leather and leather goods. The contention over the
raw hides schedule has ragged so fereely that other schedules quite
as important have almost been lost sight of. A great deal more
than free hides and reduced taxes on leather and its products is
necessary.
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Reflections of a -Four Corners Cop


IT, EOPLE who ride in automobiles make the biggest kick when a trolley car
causes a little dust.
The man who drlnks orange phosphate at a drug store I'd fountain Is
rot always a temperance advocate The saloons may be closed.
The millionaire is not always a fool with his money. The majority of that
class have twelve dollars a week and a family.
When a foolqu question is asked because a person is naturally foolish a cop
will answer politely but when a fool question Is asked out IF pure cussedness
VIZ reach for our clubs.
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BALMY
PEACE

Hell wish to gracious. dear, You
would take those hairpins out Of your
mouth while you are talking.
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h (whimperfng)-There you 70
again. Always trying to deprive mo OF
a little Observation-Disclosures statesman.
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Only in a presidential
campaign in past years when
the tariff issue was predomi-
nant was there displayed as
much popular interest in
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First, try these four addresses. If
he's not at n of these, then try his
home: You'll be sure to find him there.
But see him-don't take no for an
answer, and after you have told him
the whole story get his orders-see?'
1t took an hour and a half to locate
Chairman Peter Broderick; the SER
geant found him home-in his rooms on
the ground ioor of the %Iroquois Club.
He waited Cor some time before he
could gain access to that estimable
gentleman, for Peter Broderick's hour
for rising was high noon. h boy
who aroused him awakened q SUM
boring. lion; the Iroquois Club covered
when Broderick woke up; others ow-
cred, too. Broderick's word was law
everywhere, and yet he wore no badge
OF authority, held no office-he did not
even want one. He was higher than
authority, stronger than civic force
he was power personified. He had at
tanned that mystical position in the
universe known wherever men cast
ballots as Chairman of the County
Committee, which meant to owe no
man a duty, but to demand servitude
and fealty from every man, 1t meant
more-it meant to hold the bag! 1t
meant that whatever Peter Broderick
wanted he got.
"Well!' roared Broderick to the SER
geant; what in thunder do you want?'
The desk-sergeant briefly set forth
his credentials and authority, and then
plunged boldly into the purpose of his
presence.
THE captain wants to know what
he's to do about his Hargraves muir
der ?'
Broderick stared hard at him..
"Hargraves murder?" he repeated.
What H~argraves?"
The sergeant told him.
Great Scott! So he's dead. Con-
found him, He bled, me like thunder
at draw the last time 1 met hint
The sergeant went on to give him the
facts; Broderick the while WAS thinking
deeply. Finally he interrupted the
other with the question:.
Look here, sergeant, what was there
to prevent Hargraves being shot down
by a highwayman or a thug? Can you
tell me that?"
"Officer Keogh says"
"Hang Officer Keogh," yelled Brod-
erick. "Keogh is going to say moth
ing but what he's told to say. Look
here-do you know VINO killed Har-
| ~graves?"
mo"
Does anybody known"
"Not yet"
$50 far so good. Now, then. that's
a lark street, isn't it? And other
houses as well as ~Cradlebaugh's ave
an opening on that street. haven't
they? I say that this thing wasn't
pulled off inside of Cradlebaugh's; 1t
was the work of an unknown assassin
a thug. Do you understand" he de-
clared emphatically.
You want the captain to work it out
on that theory! Isn't that it?'
II don't want the captain to work
it out on any theoryl" yelled Broderick.
Let the captain sit still-do nothin'!-
say .nothin'! I'm doin' this thing
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L. the pause Hargraves thought hard
never i'm his life had he thought
harder. The more he studied Challoner
the better he liked the proposition. The
IN was fraught with something
new and significant. In more Ways than
one he feared Challoner, for he was by
no means certain of his own place in
the woman's affections. And then in
his mind there was one certa.nty-Har-
graves knew that the game was already
his: he knew that C~halloner. steady
though he seemed, was unquestionably
drunk. Never was victory more certain
than at the present time.
IF / VIM at last he said with great
earnestness, '"you will swear to leave
me-you will leave us %alone?"
Challoner nodded.
Hargraves seized his glass and ex-
tended it to bind the bargain. Chal-
loner seized his, but found 1t empty.
He left his seat and came back with 1t
filed.
ITS a go." he said and pressed a
button.
With the same sense of responsibility
upon him. Pemmican responded; n on
Challoner's order he went out and re-
turned with ten new packs of cards,
tossing them on the table with their
wrappers unbroken.
Gold hands," announced Challoner,
five hundred a throw"
Hargraves pulled forth his roll of
bills and placed it on the table; then,
placing a hand on the arm of Chal-
loner, he exclaimed vehemently, so
that the other should lot forget It:
IT'S understood, now, Challoner, that
IL I win you're to leave us alone
sure?"
Pemmican left the room and closed
the door behind him. Challoner smiled
across the table, and a new, strange
expression crossed his features that
Hargraves did not, could not, under
stand.
Sure repeated Challoner, placing
the decanter upon the table. hen
they started in to play.
Twenty minutes later Pemmican
rushed pell-mell into room A.
There's a big row on" he said to
himself; "a row over a lady and a
game of cards"
And so 1t proved.
There was a row on between the
men who occupied room A. n but
for the isolation of the room it was a
row that might well have reused the
house.
You've lost, l tell you'll" n OF the
men exclaimed; the other laughed
boisterously, ~defiantly, VIGOROUSLY.
IF. I've lost, so have you!" he
answered.
What followed happened in ar in
slant and before Pemmican had been
in room A thirty seconds. For sud
denly one of the men there had whipped
from his coat-pocket a weapon that
glinted in the white light; as suddenly
he had taken aim and then came a
flash, a report, a cloud of smoke.
Pemmican looked on. speeches..
Presently one of the men crossed the
room and sank into a chair in a dazed
sort of fashion, his head lolling across
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proper diagnosis resting cheerfuilS
upon him.
The dcsk-sergeant shot out his fore
finger and exclaimed
1.-THE least you have to say abou'
the matter the better. This is not q
case for you or for me, but for the
captain in the morning"
The captain appeared unusually early
in the morning with some half-dozer
papers in his hand. Slapping the morn
ing editions, scareheads, uppermost. il
front of the sergeant, he blurted OUT
Whats his here?"
The sergeant glanced at the topmost
sheet and SKINNED rapidly over the
details.
Don't know where they got the
facts. but it looks like they got 'em
right
The captain scratched his head, Their
for the next few minutes he looked
out of the window and watched the
passing throng; he was pondering deep
ly. Finally he inquired
What did you do?"
The desk-sergeant grinned.
mot a bloomin' thing" he answered
The captain shot a glance of sur
prised approval at his inferior.
For once, by gum he conceded
you hit the nail upon h head. This
isn't a case for the police-not yet"
"Then for who?' The desk-sergeant
looked dubious.
For Peter Broderick," said the cap
tain, nodding.
Whats Peter Broderick got to dc
with it?' inquired the desk-sergeant,
still doubtful.
The captain seized the telephone, but
paused to explain
Peter Broderick has got everything
to do with it, since the people put
this blatherskite Murgatroyd into the
prosecutors office. You know as well
as l do that there's been too many
rumpuses in Cradlebaugh's-and MUIR
gatroyd sent word from the courthouse
that the place. would be closed up
cleaned out, If there was n more
trouble there"
"And Broderick?" persisted the SER
geant.
"Broderick gave me orders to be
tipped off hard when anything happens
to Cradlebaugh's-no matter what. And
that" concluded the captain. lis enough
for you and me; we've got to obey
o~rderS-See?"
He removed the receiver from its
hook and vas about to talk to Central
but changed his mind. hung up the
receiver, wheeled round on the sergeant
and asked:
Were you going homer
The other stretched his arms and
yawned,
Yes. Why?'
The captain passed over two black
cigars.
Smoke 'em-they'n keep you awake.
And say" he went IN. placing his hand
s~oothingly upon the others ARM, you
wouldn't mind looking up Chairman
Peter Broderick, would you? 1t isn't
everybody ] can trust"
He seized a pad and wrote hastily
for a moment, and finally handing the
slip of paper to the sergeant, added:
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By William
Hamilton Osborne

III work all the necessary theories, Do
you hear?' :
THE captain told me to remind YOU
that Prosecutor Murgatroyd-"
Broderick sprang to his feet and
stood glowering over the sergeant.
"Murgatroyd! Nobody has to remind
me of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. him! I'm
always being reminded of him. He's
the only office-holder in this burgh
that hasn't got the decency to know
that what I say goes! Sergeant" he
went or co~nfidentially, this is a
blamed important thing, and before I
do anything I'm going downtown to
consult Mr.. Graham Thorne. I'll bring
him up to Cradlebaugh's; you tell your
captain to meet us there in an hour
and q half. That's all he's got to do
all you've got to DOLL do the rest.
Now go!"
Twenty minutes later Broderick wad-
died into the private office of Graham
Thorne, Esquire, counsellor at law.
"Thorne," he exclaimed. lounging
back comfortably in a chair, "have you
seen about this thing? Do you know
what happened there last night?"
Thorne smiled grimly and pointed to
the pile of morning papers on his
desk.
II knew about it at six o'clock this
morning. I've been waiting for you to
turn up for the last our hours" There
was a note. of superiority in his voice,
which, strange to say. Broderick in
nowise resented.
Frederick ever since he had met
Thorne, had felt an admiration for
this tall. handsome. digni1ed young
man, with the grey just mmen
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indeed! What with %

Indeed! What with?"
with your ten t~housand!" 1t was
gwell said. Challoner's cool, passion.
1less voice gave to the declaration tho
character of infallibility.
And you Hargraves muttered in
a puzzled way.
Not a dollar" admitted Challoner.
Colonel Hargraves, rose: he threw
into his glance all his knowledge of
C~halloner's past.
You must taxi me for a fool.'' no
burst out, and started for the door.
But he had gone only a few steps
when he felt Challoner's clutch; turn
ing, he felt the power of Challoner's
eyes; and presently under their COM
polling influence he found himself once
more taking his seat. He. made no at
tempt to analyze his sensations, but he
realized that Challoner had made a new
impression. In all the eventualities he
had foreseen, he calculated on Challon-
er's being a weakling. a wreck. But to
his establishment he saw within those
eyes nothing but success. Challoner
had become a man not to be disregard
ed-a man of strength.
my proposition is a perfectly fair
one" went on Challoner. you put up
ten thousand CASH"
And then--go on
Challoner lifted his arm and pointed
silently in the direction of the "Drelin-
COURT
Incredulity shone in the eyes of Har-
graves; his scorn found vent in an at
tempt at levity.
Rather like putting up something
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the upholstered arm; while the other
glanced about him FOL an instant,
looked at the figure lying on the chair,
and then started suddenly toward the
door.
Three minutes later Pemmican
switched off the lights and plunged the
room in darkness.
"A row over a lady" he murmured
b~reathlessly, "a row over a lady and
a game of cards."
At 2 o'clock that morning officer
Keogh, of the night squad, patrolling
a dimly lighted thoroughfare in the
rear of Cr%adlebaugh's, stumbled over
an object lying in deep shadow.
Good Lord! It's a mani" said
Keogh. STOPPING down suddenly and as
suddenly drawing back. He. drew him
self together, bent down again, felt
cautiously about, wiped his hands and
~shuddered, and drew back once again,
as he whispered to himself:
"A dead man-shot to death!"
He raped wildly with his night
stick-the wild, irregular tattoo
that makes the slumberer rise
suddenly in bed and tremble,
and then crouch between the bed
clothes shivering-and pending the ar
rival of assistance he stopped ono more
and fumbled in the pockets of the dead
a Presently from the bre%ast-pocket
of the coa he drew forth a yellow pig
skin wallet, and upon it's corner in glar-
ing gold, that even in h dim light
slittered g%arishly, appeared the Letters,
"R. H."
In this wise the body of Colonel Rich
ard Hargraves, man-about-town. was
found lying in the gloom at 2 o'clock
that morning.
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ing to creep in his hair. Thorne
possessed all the qualities that go to
make up a clever, astute COUNSELLOR
at-law. OF his a~ntecedents, it is true,
no one knew aught; he had merely
arrived a few short years befor
opened his big law office, stalked A.
the courts and out of them, intx 70
clubs n out of them. 1t cannbt v
denied that he lar his best Hmpfene
sion upon laymen and not uphon ", ~
lawyers, although even the nNeniposs-
of the bar conceded that Thorne hao
ability. That he earned a great deal
of money was quite manifest, for he
spent it with a free hand, if a trife
too ostentatiously. He was not a poll
tician in any sense of. the word, and
yet unquestionably he had the air and
the earmarks of the man who ONE
day. might become a statesman. He
h~obnobbed with the best people. knew
everybody worth while, and everybody
worth while knew him., Frederick felt
that If fate could regenerate him he
should like to be Thorne.
We'll" blurted out the politician.
what are you going to do about III
What are we going to do about TN !
asked the lawyer in turn. y
Il can handle the police" Broderick
affirmed.
THAT goes without saying; but
we're up against something more than
the police"
IF Tom Martin or Sam Apgar was
the prosecutor now" walled Broder-
dck, we'd have no trouble. They
used to come to me regularly for In
structions@
Go he Continued Tomorrovv.y
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CHAPTER w.

~ FFICER KEOGH. an hour later,
~ under the white light of the desk
lamps over at the - Pre-
oinct, was telling his story to the desk
sergeant behind the rail. The desk
sergeant listened disinterestedly until
he heard mentioned the name Cradle
baugh. At hat ju%ncture he held up
his hand, placed a warning finger on his
lips, nodded toward the drowsy door
man and toward two of the reserve
squad in the room, and looking Keogh
in the eyes, whispered:
"Ofiicer, speak low"
Keogh. taken aback for the moment,
dropped his voice as he went on with
his story. Once more the sergeant
stopped him.
1.-THE most important thing is just
where the body was found. Be exact
now. If possible; it's Important
Keogh went on to give a minute de-
scription. n wound up by saying:
THE man was dragged. all right,
after he was dead
The des~k-sergeant's eyes narrowed to
pin points as he demanded:
I'm which directions"
'To the west"
The esk-sergeant shook his head
portentiously. and observed:
Looks for sure like this vas pulled
off in Cradlebaugh's." I.
That's what I've been telling every
body" returned keosh. the pride OF
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Copyright, 1903
BY Dodd, Mead & Company.


Miriam Challoner. socially prominent, pretty
AID rich, IL the wife of Lawrence Challoner,
10" tod life has been marked by wild
oxcesBes. Gossip OF these has reached her earn.
"a ~ lsthflls after a tnfee-day lapse
aiiu asks her for 81. 900 to pay a debt she re-
lnses. He had previously attempted to sell her
big automobile, but the dealers knew II was
none of his property. One interruptions man
offers to buy 1t II Challoner will get his wife's
bill Of sale. In the end she half promises him
the cash. Challoner goes to Cradlebaugh's, a
gambling palace. He learns that Colonel Har-
greaves has Won $40. 900 on the races. He hopes
to borrow sl,0oo from him, but the colonel Is not
in He then goes to the apartment Of Lefty
Love, an actress. She, too. Is out. He bribes
the maid with a diamond pin and learns that
Hargreaves Is undermining him In the actress
affections Just then Miss Love enters. She
tells Challoner to go. The telephone bell rings.
He answers IT. Hargreaves Is speaking and he
tells Lefty to ask him up. Challoner draws a
gun, but Lefty persuades him to take a drink
and he falls asleep. He Is alone when he
awakens. Two days later he meets Hargreaves.
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rro BE Continued Tomorrow.s