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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1910-01-13
SYNOPSIS.

ysF' Dan Maitland. on reaching his
sv York bachelor club. met an attrac-
b young woman al the door. Ianitor
H1rln assured him no one had been
u.n that day. Dan discovered a wom-
D. finger prints In dust on his desk.
ffani dined with Zimmerman. hts at
mey Dan set out for Grccnhslda. 20
he family Jewels. Maitland. on
s-hirg home surprised lady In gray.
fasHrg the safe containing his gems.
b. s' 5,lSf t ,Ggk h9 Tor g gSn
rHssi. Maitland opened hia safe. took
srttrom The Jewels. and gave them TO
T. rrt forming a partnership In crime.
- rta! Dan Anisiy. sought BY police OF
p voIld. appeared Maitland overcame
We and the girl went TO New York
p 90 meet him that day. A Mr.,
N'h' introduced himself as dctec-
~ To shield tho glrl In gray. Maitland,
o.l' 'o show him the jewels. supposedly
~ Uas feled BY a blow from .'snaith's"
Pc TIE latter proved 20 be Anisty
in"t ard he secured the gems. Anisty,
Fao was MNltland'a double. mnaqueraded
II ne latter Tho criminal kept Matt
roe engagement with the girl In gray.
p save ner tho gems The girl Ia gray
Fslsd Naitland's apartments during his
seene. and returned gems Maitland,
ihout cash. called up his home and
Iard a wowan'a voice exnoatuiafine
An.,ty disguised as Maitland. tried 10
er,s ,50 as n'' shs 'oeaugn % me gems gems
Fihtand overwhelmed the crook. allow
,ss hm 70 escape 10 shield tina young
|taps Jumping into ' csh "1 xn h Infant M
r. hy working a ruse, AniSty was at
,, Al. ne took her 20 Attorney Ban
Ned IN vain 10 wiring from her the lnca-
I'd she 'ph6nod o'iiSgsn' oniy soai Ieh IN
sn. si SSwl i ,si Ns Maitland under , The
irs ROOM. wSs n'd'ng Place IN ne i ha,
erDos h,lIhns ,.l9 also was revealed as
m gems ana have town set T TR 70 Sr Twas %as
I'M Imprisoned Maitland finding the girl
he Jewels under the brass s bowl iIs
a'a ana sr In r1S~ c was sa'd 80, m Wv,
each other
CHAPTER Hvl.-contlnued.
! dunno" Hickey licked his lips,
watching with a somber eye the prep.
a,a,ions being made for the removal
o. Anisiy's body. I'd We give A farm
u ! could We caught that son OF a gun
she he added at apparent random
auu Nndieiively IAN right. Yeh be
responsible for tn lady. n she's want
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han reunido un material ins
menso, remontandose hasta
ell ano '1740, para tener des-
pues una serie de observacio.
nes de las manchas, hechas
por Krummuster desde 1902,
hasta 1903, y haberse encon-
trado otras observaciones
desparramadas aun anterior
mente; la misma serie Sc ex-
tiende hasta la epoca actual,
de la cual tenemos noticias
completes, mediante ell con-
curse de varios' Observable
rios desparramados en- todo
el.mundo.
Ahora es 1til saber, que
ell estudio de la periodicidad
de los fen6menos solares, no
tiene un inberes 1nicamen-
tie cientffico, para ell estudio
del sol en- 81 mismo, sino que
los sabios pretenden demos
trar la relaci6n de la activi-
dad solar con los fen6menos
meteorol6gicos 8 sismicos, y
magneticos terrestres.
Esto es precisamente 10
que interesa, y comprende-
mos nosotros los de la vista
corta, que no tenemos altos
conocimientos cientlficos as
trcn6micos.
En- fin, ell ilustre professor
lLockyer, no hace mucho, de-
mostr6 que Ia preston atmos-
ferica, media annual, en- Aus
tralia, tiene I'm periodic de A
amos, analego a 10 que el ha.
! bfa demostrado antes, y que
igual periodo existfa en- las
Indfas y en-. las Americas del
Centre y Sur, tambien CO.
rrespondiente a un ciclo de
a ahos, que ell habfa encon-
trado en- la frecuencia de las
perturbaciones solares, ba-
sandose en- las observaciones
italianas.
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C,r6nica.

Como Sc dan cr6nicas de to
ros para, llenar gustos extra
gados, asi nos vemos obliga-
dos a dar, de vez en- cuando, ,es
tas cr6nicas chismograflcas,
para satisfacer la voracidad
pdblica, que con sus cien mil
bocas pide noticias de la ST.
tuaci6n de Mexico, va obe-
.deciendo al tenor de un de-
saguizado en- .miembros de
la familis,y y con la esperan-
"a de haeer un buen ncgocio
81 la situaci6n Sc pone de tai
6 cual manera, va por esprit
tu de curiosidad y vocingle~
ria, o va por eSplrlCu leV2n-
tisco:
No diremos que las noti-
cias nos las han mandado
nuestros corresponsales, nj
las pondremos en- forma de
telegramaS para hacer Greer
que tenemos servicio tele-
grafico; pedestremente las
ponemos como sueltecillos de
gacetilla, por4ue las hemos
tornado de aquf Y de alli, en-
los peri6dicos, en- cartas p,i-
El Democrata fronterizo. [volume] (Laredo, Tex.) 1896-1920, 1910-12-17

Para muestra, basta un bo-
ton; ell famoso doctor Cook,
que despues de haber escala-
do montanas nuncs vistas,
llegado con ell pensamiento
al Polo Norte, y clavado en-
suenos en- ell nero agujero, la
bandera de su patria, que es
la de Uncle Sam, con mucha
desenvoltura regres6 para
desparramar en- ell mundo
cientffico y no cientffico, So
nando ell. gran bombo, la no.
ticia inesperada de SUI victo-
ria. Very Smart, Mr.. Cook!
Los obstinados, 81 no 10 quie-
rem Greer, que Vayan a rec
tificarlo Y para cuando regre
sen, 81 acaso regresan, el ha"
bra hecho mas pesetas que
con su botiquin de doctor en-
toda SUI vida.
Muy bien, Mr., Cook: bust
ness is businessi
Tambien estas son man
chas; mas no son tan gran
des como las manchas sola-
res: ademas, estas son mar
chas americans bien defini-
das, y las del sol adn no 10
estan, y tai vez malgrado los
progresses ASTRONOMERS, pa.
saran aun muchos siglos,: an
tes de conocerlas exactamen
te. Ell Sol esta: muy alto, y
Cook esta muy bajo! Ell
primero es un astro grande,
grande; ell segundo es un
hombre requeno: un atomo
embu5terol
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Pues bisn, en- Laredo, Te-
xas, que es etnologicamente
y geograficamente Mexica-
no, es decir, perteneciente a
la America Central, las man
chas solares deben producer,
segun Lockyer, los mismos
efectos que producen en- Aus
tralia, etc. De modo, que
tambien aqui la preston at
mosferica, media lanual, de-
be tenerv un periodo de 4
amos, 6 POGO menos.
l.. B.
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Pero, hacienda & un lado
al doctor Cook, su sueilo y el
Polo Norte, y hablando seria
y cientificamente, vemos que
Virgilio y Ovidio hablan de
las manchas del Sol, en- sus
obras inmortales. Parece
que 'Jordano Bruno y Porta
las habian tambien estudia-
do antes del descubrimiento
del anteojo y antes de Fra
ricio: toca, pues, a Calico
Galilei, ell grandisimo merito
y ell alto honor de haber re-
conocido que diehas manchas
solares, que hasta entonces
crelanse cuerpos obscuros,
entire oil sol y la terra, al
contrario, son adherentes a
la superficie solar, y ruedan
con ella.
Despues, varios astrono-
mos, entire ellos ell grande
Herschel, Sc ocuparon de ese
asunto; pero generalmente,
con POGO inter6s, porque las
manchas eran consideradas
como objetos accidentales,
como las nubes, y casi caren-
tes de significado.
Schuabe, empero, tuvo la
feliz idea de formar una es.
tadfstica diaria, principian-
do desde 1926, sin saber de
cierto 10 que buscaba: sin
embargo, en- 1851 lie fue po-
Isible comunicar la inespera-
da noticia della periodicidad
de las manehas solares, de
modo; que decia.haber hecho
como Saul, que fue a buscar
las cenizas de su padre y ha-
| ll6 un reino.!
Este descubrimiento des-
perto ell interes por los estu.
dios -solares, y entire otros,
orincipalmente, Wolf de Zu-
figo y 81 successor Wolfes,
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MAilCHQS
y S0LARES.

Cuando pienso que los
orte.Americanos son tan
atrevidos en- sus empresas,
me sorprende que los estu-
dlOSoS en- asuntos astronomi-
COS, no Sc hayan aun fijado
en- Ell sol explendido de La
redo, 10 dnico que tenemos
realmente claro, bello y abun
dante.
Desde tiempos inmemoria
les, ell Sol llam6 la atenci6n
delos doctos Europeos, en-
Italia, precisamente, porque
teSa aquella terra bendita
con una pureza virginia.: Tai
Vez, por ia misma clariiad
lel astro mayor de nuestro
s.Stema planetario, en- Italia,
Iallleo hlzo ell gran mi,agro
&c su descubrimiento en- ell
siglo XVI.
Aqui tenemos una Iona.
sue actllalmente de NADIA sir
'P, y que parece que Dios la
0locO cerca de esta embrio
nara 'aQnquevieja ciudad, pa
I'd algun in: tai vez para 50
entar en- 10 futuro, sobre su
usplde, un 0bservatorio AS
l0nomicO, algun temple 1
o'pltal. 'todo sirve en- este
! undo y Ia Iona pelona que
nemoS en Laredo no STEM.
. oebe servir para "Hotel''
&c las cabras!
!, L5speramos, : pues, la veni.
I'. ta 1e ! los temerarios cyan.
h. ~, capaces de hacer dinero,
-'' "a en- el mundo de la luna
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vadas y no pocas en- ell servi-
clio inalambrico de las conver
saciones callejeras,
Hecha esta aclaracion, que
reclamaba nuestra honradez
periodistica, ALA van las nc
ticias:
"El Times" de esta ciudad
publica un telegrama de
Washington, en- que-se ase-
gura que el Gral, Reyes fue
llamado por ell Gral. Diaz,
para que, como Cirineo, lie ayu
de a cargar la pcsada cruz
del Gobierno, pues ell Gral.
TDiaz esta va muy viejo, muy
cansado y muy enfernlo. Y a
grega ell telegrama, que ell
Gral. Reyes viene va en- cami
no., y al llegar a Mexico, ocu
para desde luego la Vice.
Presidencia, y POGO despues
la Presidencia.
5Comentamos esta noticia?
No. Que la TRACE ell que ten
ga gaznate.
Dice un peri6dico, amari-
Ilo, Sc entiende, que los pro-
nunciados de Chihuahua as
cienden a siete mil, y que va
tienen dos canones, que qui-
taron alas fuerzas del Co.
bierno.
Tn peri6dico gobiernista
asegura con APPLAUSE, que los
soldados que parsiguen a les
revoltosos de Chihuahua,
cuando Sc ven derrotados,
tienaii ell valor her6ico de.
guitar 4 los nlauser la piesa
principal, antes de abandc-
-narlos, para que los revoltc-
SOS no puedan atilizarlos.
&x;
Nuestro servicio ''inalam
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Nuestro servicio .'inalam
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-09

| sun had dipped. for the first time. below
| the horizon. BY now there were four or
| five hours out of every twenty-four that
| would pass for night.
The sun set while he hung there In the
| air. and as 1t did SO, with new slant
OF the breeze the fog rolled itself up into
a great violet-colored cloud. leaving the
earth. the ice, the sea unveiled below
him. And there. In the open water OF the
little bay. he saw a ship. and on the
shore a cluster OF rude huts
1t struck him. even from the height et
which he scared. that the ship tied to IN
ice-f1oe in the shelter of the great head
land. did not look like a whaler, nor like
the sort of craft which an arctic explorer
would have selected for his purposes. Ii
had more the trim smartness OF yach-.
They were probably all asleep down
there, he reflected. II was nearly MID
night and he saw no signs Of life any
where. He would drop down for nearer
look.
He descended. with a sudden hawklike
pounce, which was one OF his more re-
cent achievements in the navigation or
the air, checked himself again at about
the level of the masthead. with q fash
ing forward swoop. like a man diving In
shallow water: then, with sudden ef-
fort brought himself up standing his
planes nearly vertical, and. with a back
ward spring, alighted, clear of his wings.
on the ice-f1oe just opposite the ship
AS he did SO he heard a little sur
prised cry. half Of fear. half of astonisn-
ment 1t was girls voice.
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marries her. Now. according to tradi-
ton and custom, these two should have
been miserable. .stung by remorse. un-
mated. avoided by the world. Instead,
they are prosperous. happy. ideal in
domestic and social life. This is the
wife of the boys body and he is con-
tent. Some years later, when he is
complete in mind as well as in body,
again beside the flaming gorse. there
stands another woman, the wife of his
spirit. BY the single token of book,
a handclasp, joyful word or two in
acceptance of the bond, they meet their
hour of fate and separate, each to go
his way in happiness. the man back to
the welcoming hearthstone, the woman
to the life of exalted consciousness.
The personal touch on this poetic thing
is hard to draw. StaccatO. elliptical.
with pauses and silences. each musicful.
pictureful, heartful. If one were to
objectify this style he might liken it
to swallow in it's flight, so it sweeps
and darts and dips through the mind,
as does this flying thing over some
shining water surface. 1t is a beau
tiful story-and much more.
Ashton Killers, author of LAS 1t
Happened" etc. New York: G. r.
PutnamS Sons
A prologue with kiplingesque prelude
and an epilogue give the stage manage
ment of this matter. An ingenious story
here. that casts back for it's motive and
action to the common life of a cave man
and woman-the scientists Adam and
Eve, SO to speak. 1t is imaginable that
the astonishing versatility nd apti-
tude of the twentieth-century woman
gave just the flip to this authors mind
that set his story growing. through
simulated quest for the roots of these
high gifts and developments. Be that
as it may. the tale, an uncommonly
well written one. is clever invention
set about with the scientists grave de-
meanor and thoroughgoing method
Through the exigencies Of this domestic
cave life. if experiences so hard may take
on so soft a name. this superlative
moved the world on amazingly, setting
to feeble motion many of our latter-day
institutions. According to the story, 1t
was this very she who. after working out
the bow and arrow as weapon, In
vented tire Amazons. and queens, and
the suffice: yes, and polygamy. too. by
permission to her mate-unbelievable
Establishments and duplicity. both by way
of domestic tranquility. Incompatible
cave-woman, to whom much is due!
The cave-man was. happily for this de-
velopment. a good sort, suggesting
Dickensian prototype.
DEAD LETTERS. BY Maurice Barring.
Boston: Houghton Miffiin Company.
A fantastic whimsy. to hale lone-dead-
and-gone worthes-and unworthies-to
the surface. for no better reason than to
set them to the flippant and foolish task
of writing letters, SO stupidity like our
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looking for them. but saw no signs OF
them. Then. getting favorable slant OF
the wind, he mounted again into the ele-
ment he now called his own.
A heavy fog was filling up the cup
shaped valley. like lake, and when he
had lowered through 1t and into the
clear, sparkling. unvexed air above 1t,
he found. rolled out beneath him. as far
as he could see in every direction. what
looked. under the slanting rays of the
sun. like a warm, fleecy, rose-colored
blanket.
But. somehow. the return to the upper
air. even the drawing Of that great cloud
curtain across the earth, failed to give
back to Cayley that mood of serene hap
piness which he had enjoyed an hour be-
fore. He tried hard to recover it. and his
failure to do SO irritated him. In vain
he asked himself what those little figures
on the ice could mean to him. or he to
them. In vain he told himself that the
thing he had seen was nothing but pic
ture-a puppet show.
He began wheeling a great spiral in
the upper air. higher and higher, until
the intensity of the cold and. the drum
ming Of the blood in his TEMPLES warned
him to descend again.
But high or low, some invisible magnet
held him over the spot where he had wit
messed that unexplained tragedy; an in
tense curiosity that would not let him
go until he had. in some way, accounted
for the flying fate that. SO silently. had
,overtaken the leather-clad man down
there on the ice.
Five years before Philip Cayley would
have passed for a good example of that
type of clean-limbed clean minded, lik-
able young man, which the best of our
civilization seems to be Towering into
Physically, it would have been hard 10
suggest an improvement in him. he ap-
preached SO near the ideal standards
He was fine grained, supple, slender
small-jointed, thoroughbred from head
to heel.
Intellectually, he had been good enough
to 60 through the academy at West Point
with credit, and to graduate high enough
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others were purposely tagging a little be-
hind.
And then. before that sinister idea
could formulate itself into definite sus-
picion, his eyes widened with amaZement.
and the cry he would have uttered died
in his throat for this man, who had SO
innocently allowed the others to fall be-
hind him, suddenly staggered clutched
at something-it looked like thin ivory
dart-that had transfixed his throat, tug
Ued 1t out in a sudden flood of crimson.
reeled a little and then went backward
over the CLASSY edge of assure in the
ice, which lay just to the left OF the path
where he had been walking.
From. the instant when Cayley had no.
ticed the others dropping behind. to the
last glimpse he had of the body Of the
murdered man could hardly have been
five seconds
The instant the murdered man disap-
peared. another. who had not previously
been with the party. it seemed, appeared
from behind a hummOck of ice. There
could be no doubt either that he was the
assassin; or that he was the commander
of the little group Of skin-clad figures
that remained. The ambush appeared to
have been perfectly deliberate. There
had been no cutlery, not even gesture
of surprise or of remonstrance.
Cayley looked at the assassin curiously.
He was dressed exactly like the others,
but seemed very much bigger; seemed to
walk with less Of SLOUGH. and had.
even to Cayley's limited view of him.
an air of authority. Cayley was sur
prised at his not being armed with a
bow, for he knew of no other way in
which a dart could have been propelled
with power enough, even at close range,
to have transfixed mans throat The
assassins only weapon. except for a
Quiverful of extra darts. seemed to be a
short blunt stick, rudely whitfield, per-
haps ten inches long.
Obedient apparently, to the order of
the new arrival. the party changed it's
direction. leaving what was evidently a
we'll known path to them. for a seeming
ly more direct but rougher route. And
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Odic Fluid" Mans Place in the Uni
versal Scheme" 'Involution and Evoiu-
tion." ''Reincarnation and Immortality y
THE Law of Karma" and Methods OF
Instruction i'm the Order
The oriental philosophy is based upon
two main principles. that of rein
carnation and that of Karma, which
are closely allied. karma is the law of
individual evolution through repeated in
carnations. In obedience to this penalties
are paid from life to life and rewards
are repaid. Each individual becomes
thus I'm sense master of his own des-
tiny according as he grasps opportunities
for seif-imprOvement.
"Esoterism," says Miss Marsland, lis
not an easy faith, but it is the way that
is opening out before a great many souls
at the present time, and each one enters
upon this path when his hour has struck
1t Is a path full of paradoxes. for II
looks at life from the standpoint of the
soul. whereas the world in general al
ways considers the personality. The
discipline and therefore the difficulties
The laws Of the world refer to the outer
life of the citizen, and decree what he
shall or shall not do: esoterism teaches
what he must be and It's laws all have
to do with self-control and the use OF
the spiritual powers The headquarters
Of the Oriental Esoteric Society in Wash
ington Is at 1443 Q street northwest.
THE STORM BIRDS. BY schroeder
Davis. New York, Moffat, Yard &
Company.
Inquisitive readers OF 1.-THE Storm
Birds will look in vain in books Of 1T
erary biography for Schroeder Davis. "
AS was said CT Mrs. Camps friend, Mrs.
Harris, there is no such person. For
SCHROEDER Davis is multiple per-
sonality, comprising Mr.. Reginald
Schroeder, Washington correspondent of
the New York Staats-Zeitung, and Mr.
Oscar King Davis. Washington ccrre-
spondent OF the New York Times. From
these collaborators has come an interest
ing novel of Washington life. about which
they are thoroughly qualified to write.
They have chosen as the episode chiefly
serving as a theme for their tale the
destruction of the Maine in Havana har-
Dor and the diplomatic intrigue on the
part of Europeon powers preceding the
Spanish-American war. Mr.. Davis served
as correspondent at the front during the
war with Spain and Mr.. Schroeder has
always enjoyed an intimate acquaintance
with the diplomatic world. 4 happier
combination could not have been effected.
Their story is fascinating frcm the out
set, presenting the attractive figure of an
American naval officer engaged in a Sc
cret tour Of Europe to ascertain the state
of official opinion in relation to the pos
sibiIity Of American Intervention in Cuba.
A highly accomplished villain enters upon
the scene simultaneously with the hero
and the fortunes of these two are closely
identified to the end of the last chapter.
In the description of diplomatic inter-
course in Washington Messrs.sDavis and
Schroeder display effectively their famil-
iarity with official processes. CHAPTERS
10. 90 and 81, in which the collapse of the
inchoate combination against the United
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cast his shadow across them. and he
hung at last, unremarked, directly over
their heads. There was small likelihood
that they would look up. until some
sound from him should attract their at
tention. for, among the crevices. the
chutes and treacherous ice bridges of the
glacier top. they had small leisure to
give heed to anything but their footing.
All Of the party. but one man. were
dressed exactly alike. in hooded bear
skin shirts and breeches. and boots of
what he guessed was walrus hide. They
moved along with the peculiar. wary
shufYle Of men accustomed. by long habit.
to the footing and to the heavy combining
garb they wore. So far as he could see
they were unarmed.
The other man was strikingly different.
He appeared to be clad much as Sayley
was himself. in leather. rather than in
sprightlier. and in every way to convey
the impression Of having come more re-
Gently from the civilized. habitable por-
ton of the world than his companions.
He carried a rife slung by strap over
his shoulder, evidently foreseeing no i'm
mediate use for it. and a flask.
Cayley was too far alOft for their con-
versation to be audible to him. but he
could hear that they were talking. The
leather-clad man appeared to be doing
the most of it, and. from the infection
of his voice, he seemed to be speaking
in English.
From moment to moment Cayley kept
meaning to hail them, but, from moment
to moment. he kept deferring the action.
1t amused him a little to think how much,
in one way or another, that hail might
mean to those plodding figures down be-
low. Now. or five minutes from now: 1t
could not matter to them. And mean
while he could guard that hard-won
aloofness from human endeavor, human
fears and suffering and limitations a
little longer.
Presently he noticed that the leather
clad man had forged a little ahead Of
his companions. or, rather-like fash.
this idea occurred to Cayley-that the