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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-12
LNVEST7GA TING COMMITTEE

Acting Chief Sullivan, generally known among his Front
street friends Long john having transformed his ers
while flowing mOusachiOs into brstly shoe brush effect
and otherwise prepared for investigation, is to be sup
posed that the probing committee recently appointed
get down to business most any time
Tins thing OF announcing official probe into police
department. aforesaid department being warned Of the
coming inquiry weeks ahead is likely to prove about
as etcaclous average police attempt to raid gam
bling house by teephOnng the various inmates that they
their way and farther announcing the fact by max
ing dash of ten blocks in patrol wagon changing the
gong goriousy to the gamblers to be and stay
and get pinched
The members of the committee earnest, well mean
ing folks who up against police system, which is
what every other police system is when under nvesga
ten alert, on the job and taking no chances.
The witnesses to be examined will be Of the class that
chiefly depends the good nature of the police to
in town. keep out Of jail Just what is likely to happen
to this sort of witnesses and just about how they
will be to testify the committee will guess better when
it gets through. The committee take quiet amble
through the jail most any time but it will receive
somewhat different treatment than had it been thrown
into jail a vag charge month six weeks ago. The
committee will be cordially welcomed by everybody in the
department. and large smiles will be snugy hid in official
sleeves
Maybe the investigating committee will do something
It probably will not be its fault if doesn t. but there is
ninety chance it will not discover much at this late
date and if it fails to bring very adequate report few
will be surprised. Not that it will be whtewashing com
mee with deliberate torethOught, but merely that the
witnesses and the conditions and the general opportunity
to get at the real facts will not be available; that
rather nice modest, kindly way to put it. isn't it?
But there few other of relief aside from
this official committee with its banners of publicity
of them will be the of Acting Chief Sullivan against
The Press for $4,000 libel and it is entirely within the
range of possibility that there will be other channels OF in
quy far down deep that the probe will never discover
the fact until it is too late.
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AS to Colds Part
In It

trouble to the increase in the production of gold the
dard OF values and it is fact that in the past 10 years
there has been about IS per cent such increase.
In other words the gold have the less is its pur
chasing power There is chance for the popular
to get ahead for he is caught gon or comm.
Gold is the standard. All moneys. all properties of
every description estimated their value in gold.
finally.
But suppose that the production of gold increases So
per cent in the coming 10 years. What then? Will not
our standard be wholly artificial standard? To put
it strongly and obnoXiousy to present day
fnancers, Will it not be artificial fiat standards
If have standard of values that becomes unreliable
merely by Of the fact that the people can
get more of it. why stick to that sandard Why not take
radium platinum of the other minerals that
and hard to get the standard? BY the same
token the only absolutely comfortable, governabe
standard would be the old derided but ovae fiat green
back, wouldn't it,
The fetch worship Of gold began when first be
lieved there little of it, and that little almighty hard
to get Civilized doesn't worship his gods for long
after they have become cheap
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Horoscope
"Tte stars incline, but do not
compel"
Sunday, March 10, 1910.

Sunday, March 10, 1910.
Now Venus, smiling, from
above
Looks down and smoothes the
road of love.
On the 72d day of the young
Moon, rising in Scorpio, has
Saturn in ecliptic conjunction.
Venus looks with bright
power on lovers, favoring court
ships, engagements and we'd
dings, as we'll as family ceIebra-
tions.
The auspices are good also
for entertaining, inviting, visit
ing, seeking amusement and
doing anything connected with
singing. music or dancing, es-
peciaIIy after 3 p. m.
Shopping is under good signs.
Dry goods merchants, sales
people, demonstrators, jewellers,
n1iIliners, dressmakers and 9TH
ers who cater to women should
find the day beneficial.
Women must. however, be-
ware against extravaganza in
this period. The aspects also
warn women employees against
gossip or malice.
Uranus and Neptune favor
unusual and intricate undertake
i.lgs, but great care must be
exercised to found all things on
firm basis, and to prepare for
contingencies.
There is an effect of perma-
nence this day even in things
that may seem merely temper
airy. 1t will be we'll, therefore.
to make plans with unusual
forethought and caution.
This day is marked as excel
lent for hiring men or women
for any work, manual or men,
tai, in shop, office, field or
house.
There arises a sign of two
bright suns, one shining against
the other. 1t is read by astrol-
ogers to denote the coming of
two great ones, each bent on
rule and striving with great
fury to keep powers.
Women and men with this
birth-date will fare best during
the tWelvemonth if they seek
their recreation in literature,
art or the open air rather than
in social circles.
Children under today's as
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-12
BY NORMAN.

NEW YORK, March 11.-Rather
a weird story is being told concern
ing a prediction of the death of the
late Jackson Gouraud, man about
town and consistent member of the
late supper crowd
GOuraud and his wife were famed,
among other things. for the Sunday
evening parties they gave at their
home. The more unconventional
the stunts of the guests, the bet
ter the hosts liked it, and the Gou-
rauds were always willing to show
the way when nobody else hap
pened to think of some startling
thing.
At the very last of the Sunday
night parties, only a few days be-
fore GOuraud's death, one of the
guests, society woman long noted
for her disregard of conventionali-
ties, appeared during the evening
clad in suit of Gouraud's clothes
Another guest, well known act,
ress, la"ghingly quoted the Hndoo
proverb, Whose lendeth his gar
ment, that man putteth off the
flesh"
There were many who remem-
bered the words when they heard
the news of Gourauds UNEXPECTED
end
The frankfurter man turned a
kindly eye upon the small boy, who
had often been his customer.
please, Ike said the boy, me
sisters sick, and de stove won't
draw, and we amt go no hot water,
and won't We please bile desc eggs
in yer kettle fer me sister,"
Sure, | will" answered Ike, and
in four minutes the kid was beating
1t upstairs to a top floor tenement
room with two hot eggs wrapped in
a niece of paper.
MY kettle often comes in handy"
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of dinners has been to teach
Bouncer to sneeze, then wipe his
nose with a handkerchief.
Professor dinners desires 1t
stated that he and Bouncer are not
open to vaudeville engagements, his
present salary being ample for
their needs.
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10 BY ERANCES GILneEATH INGERsoLL. ga

of thing earth; the
life worth living
poverty
dark at times all of
blossom often dies be-
dearest.
check hand lovingly shoulder; smile
Swallowed with wordss speech that loves trues Ian
We often think that e morning and youths
slrngtime. isn't-i
while hearts
starving loving observation-disclosures
spoke that morning. the last goodby be the impatient
all life
forget the love that leaves for bitterness
than all will be the thought
that let late-how much
loved
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In Little Old New York
BY NORMAN

said the frankfurter man. "And all
them favors pays in gettin trade,
you bet"
Curator r. l.. .Dtmars of the
Bronx ZOO, has been employing his
spare moments in teaching tricks to
EOuncer, pet frog which abides
on his desk. Bouncer first learned
to jump over a stick. then into a
hat; but the browning achievement
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-12

In all the racket about
the high cost Of living, the
reader has doubtless noted
that the financial wise ones
attribute much of the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-12

poets are born with a stronq
possibility of being able to sway
others, either through oratory
or some expressive art.
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She began to realize how helpless she was. Under the inspiration of a hellef which was as honest as 1t was mistaken. she had put herself in the mower of this man Even if she were ashore. there would be no one to whom she could appeal. and here on the ship she was helpless. Lingering remains of better things had kept him from the last resort of the tyrant-- force!-but how long these would be operative in restraint she could not tell. She fancied not for long What should she do then?
 She saw the end coming when in his anger he resorted to drink. to drink which exploded the last vestige of his philosophy, however he had professed it. She was frightened beyond meas ure when she realized the depths to which he had sunk and to which, in spite of herself. he had dragged her. What further descent was before herr She did not even yet abandon that philosophy which had served her so ill She clung to that with the more tenacious pride because of its very weakness, but she loathed mankind. On that yacht he summed up for her the whole human race, and she hated him and 1t. To what sorry pass had a few weeks practical experience re- duced her!
 She had begged and pleaded with him to alter the yachts course. but he had sworn he would ga farther south into those unknown seas and keep her there until she erawled to his feet. So the long hours dragged on. The inevitable rupture drew nearer. At last 1t came. In it's details it was horrible. but there was in 1t & great relief after all.
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Continued in next Issue)
Lenathen inc Hours of sls.n.

Insufficient sleep" says physician. lis one of the crying evils of the day. Work and pleasure encroach upon the hours of rest. and body and mind de teriorate in consequence. Even the children have theiv hours of sleep shortened and suffer all their lives in consequence. A child of ten or eleven rarely gets more than eight or nine hours sleep, whereas it should have ten or eleven. Up to 20 at least nino hours of sleep are needed. and an av- craze adult needs eight There may be fD occasional Napoleon who can get along with four hours sleep a night, but if you happen to belong to that class nature win tell you by waking you up at the proper time and you don't need to interfere..
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ASSESSORS NOTICE.

1 will be at the places named below on the days and dates des. lgnated, for the purpose of as- sessing all personal property in Polk county for the year 1910. Every person, or someone in his stead, is by law required to be in his respective township to meet the assessor, and there on the dates named make a correct rem dition of his property to him. Hours, s q. m. to 4 p. m. Places and dates:
 Eagle Gap, Monday, June l3. Ou@hita, precinct, Tuesday, June IA.
 Ouachita, Rock Springs, Wednesday, June 15.
 Mountain, Norris Mill, Thurs day, June l6.
 Mountain. Bigger, Friday and Saturday. June 17 and Is.
 Big Fork, Lower. Monday. June 20.
 Big Fork, Upper, Tuesday, June 2l.
 Fulton, Board Camp, Wednes- day, June P.
 Gap Springs, Thursday, June 23. Faulkner, East. Friday, June |24th.
 Faulkner, West. Saturday. June p.
 Freedom, Rocky, Monday. June 27th.
 Freedom, Mountain Fork post office, Tuesday, June 2S.
 Cedar, Wednesday, June % Eagle, Rust, Thdrsday, June 30. Potter, Friday, July 1.
 Rich Mountain, Saturday, July 2d.
 Ozark, Grannis. Tuesday and Wednesday, July , and G.
 Ozark, Wickes, Thursday, July 7th.
 White, Hatton. Friday, July s. Janssen. Saturday, July 9, and Monday, July II.
 White. Cove, Tuesday. July l2. Cove, Hatfield, "Wednesday and Thursday, .Jsly l3 and 14.
 Center, Dallas, Friday. July l5. Mena, at court house. Saturday, July Is, to Thursday, July 2S, in elusive.
 Bring your deeds or your tax receipts if there Is an error or change in your land. All are urged to be on hand and avoid paylng penalty.
 Freeman l.. Johnson,
 Assessor.
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appear. She could mark her course easily by the light from that cabin window. Her ear was keen and she listened until she could no longer de. tect the beat and throb of the steam. er's engines Then she rose and started the motor.
 The boat was provided with a com. pass, and although she could see no star, she was able to set a course which was directly at right angles to the course of the yacht. She realized or at least she thought so, that she would be pursued. She believed that the yacht would retraee its course She decided that those aboard her would reason that she would endeavor to put as much distance as possible between herself and the yacht. and therefore she would sail straight away from it. Consequently, she went broad off to starboard at right angles to the other course. The gasoline tanks were both full lnasmuch as the boat had been designed for extended cruising in shallow waters, there was enough fuel to keep the motor going for over 30 hours at full speed. The motor was capable of developing at least ten knots per hour. By the same time tomorrow night she would be $40 miles away from the present spot. The yacht was going 12 knots an hour. Her escape would probably not be discov- cred for ten hours. By that time the yacht would be 120 miles away. Thay would be 150 miles apart by morh- ing, measured on the hypotheuse. and by night, who could tell? At any rate. she had now done all that she could.
 Her condition was desperate; her prospects gloomy beyond expression. She was alone in small power boat
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CHAPTER VII.
The Joy of Freedom.


 One night at dinner she had fled from him. He had been drinking more heavily than usual and was in an ugly mood His handsome face was flushed, q savage frown oyerspread his brow He had risen during the meal and with 2 coarse endearment had attempted 10 lay hands upon her--at lasti She had broken away and darted into the nearest cabin. which happened to be bis own. She had closed the door and turned the key against him before he realized what she was about She stood within the little room, panting, enraged, fearful, yet ready to defend her all and almost glad the crisis had arrived. She could hear his drunken laugh outside the door.
 Why. you little fool!" he cried, do you think can't break that lock down ln moment7 The ships mine, every man on it's mine. pay 'em. They ao my bidding. have you where I want you and can have you when I please, now-or later"
 Was 1t true? Could she appeal to the menI But what could she say7 Al. though the world knew there was no o'hding tie between them, to the offl- cers and men of the yacht she was his sie' They would not interfere. And she declared the truth, she would pus herself beyond the pale of their synpathies. Being merely stupid men. "i'n conventional ideas about pro ple'y. in that event they would be .ess apt to interfere than ever. It was true She could do nothing. She sank .own on a hassock. clenching her hands.
 AS she sat- her eyes fell on a chest " drawers screwed against the bulk aead. The top contained various toilet aac'es or silver. Among them was mo'ure, the picture of woman It .a' not her picture. Moved by what aapu'se aa she did not stop to analyze. sae rose and picked 1t up. The face s"o iooked at was ineffably vulgar and o"'lloh Across the bottom was writ ss1 'h serawly uniformed hand. Your a'soeed wife" There was a date sey. nai years before that hour. Your de- ,, 'e'eu Wife! She had been in that ,s0 ssa.efoom before; she had never seen aa' picture. He had only brought 1t 'u' slnce the rupture between them. ,..'a apu so while entering Into this re- ,onsnip s,., with her, in compliance .. a. principles and ideas which she ha east regarded as sacred and holy, w.a aau not been a free man! There haas ano'her woman to whom he had ,,a s'a pound Oh, not by the marriage bonea saat she disdained, but by the amon which was supposed to exist sa, aanong thieves and which certainly saos d'a exist among philosophers. And nina womanl A cold fury filled her Tha as she looked at the picture. ripo, as. completing touch had been rss sa To contempt and pity for him ,saa.sued auued hatred The combination shs o',ned sd her. Instead of avoiding, " would seek him.
 hon, ny was was still in the cabin. She could lmn,a,m n,m mutterng th.ckly to himself turnsa s'seiy she stepped to the door,
 ''e Key in the lock. threw fl
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day and through the longer night and well into the following morning. It must have been half past ten on the morning of the second day before the motor stopped. The silence. after the ceaseless drumming Of night long day, longer night and still longer morning. struck her with the same strange sense of shock. She calculated that the motor had been running for 3S hours and that she had gone 3s0 miles at least on her course. She had seen nothing whatever of the yacht. Tho chances that it would pick her up, even If it came about and crufsed for her, lonely speck in !. the ocean, were millions to nothing. At any rate, she had done all she could. Her phil osephy for once stood her in good stead. There was nothing more to be done. She was dead for want of sleep The sky had been slightly over cast since she had left the yacht. but there had been no storm and weather conditions looked just as they had and seemed to be permanent
 Taking the precaution to examine tho gasoline tanks and finding that in- deed they had been drained of the last drop. she carefully closed and locked them. thereby assuring her salvation. and spreading the boat cloak in the stern sheets with her bag for a pillow and her straw hat tied over her face to shield 1t from the sun. she instantly dropped to sleep.
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Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned petitioners of White township, Polk county, Arkansas, will present petition to the County Court of Polk county, at it's next July term 1910, praying an order granting & change in that part of the public road leading westward from Cove to Okla homa, described as follows: Begin ming on the west line of the SEt SE4 Sec. 6 T. S., R. g w., where said public road crosses said line and running thence southwest, the most practicable route to the section line between Sec. tions and !, T. 4. s., R. g w., to a point opposite the residence of Robert Fortner, a distance of about 250 yards; thence west on said Section line to the southeast corner of the SWt SW4 of said Section 6, intersect- ing said public road aforesaid, a total distance of about 730 yards. Dated this 20th day of May 1910.
 Robert Fortner, ct al
 l9 At Petitioners.
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70 " Sa VI F FtH-.7 oIadstone,s literary Ambitions.

Gladstones literary aims never failed to annoy Sir Robert Peel. That literature would seduce Gladstone from politics was his fear. Lord Houghton, for instance, related how hc was at Drayton when Church and State" reached Sir Robert. Peel hasti. ly turned over the pages and threw the book on tho floor with the exelama- tion: That young man will ruin his fine political career if he persists in writing trash like this" And on an. other occasion he msrveled that a man with a career before him should want to write books.
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SHERIFF,S SALE.

Notice is hereby given, that pursu- ant tQ an Order of Sale issued from the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Polk county, Arkansas, upon an attachment issued by s. H. Smith, Justice of the Peace of Center Town ship, and levied by B. A. Duncan, Constable of said Township, and con- frmed by said Justice of the Peace, in favor of N. NJ. Roach and against F. H. Brinkley for the sum of sl40, I, J. w. Cunningham, SherifT of said county, will, on the 30th day.of June, 1910. between the hours prescribed for judicial sales, at the Southeast en- trance to the courthouse of Polk coun- ty, Arkansas, sell to the highest bid der for cash, the following described real estate situated in said county, to-wit: N l-2 E l-2 Section I, Tp. l S., R. 3l w.
 Given under my hand this the 18th day of May 1910.
 J. w. Cunningham, 20-4t Sheriff.
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which would be helpless. the sport of wind and waves, after perhaps 80 hours. That boat was alone in the great eYpanse of the Pacific ocean. Somewhere about there were islands probably. Indeed, on the charts those but they were small, inconsiderable, uninhabited, unknown. In that little boat she might pass close by many of them without seeing them. She had provisions, such as they were, and water sufficient perhaps for a week or ten days. After that unless she landed somewhere she would drift on until she starved and died If storm came, the launch probably would not survive it. Her chances of escape, in any event, were worse than problem atical. The end was almost certain.
 But she was happy. The first real ray of happiness which had entered her soul since the beginning of the great awakening, which had cuimin- ated in the frightfui scene of tho night. lilumined her being As she sat in the stern sheets, her hand on the steering wheel. listening to the steady drumming of the motor. seeing the black water broken into foam by the boats bows flash by her, keeping the launch steady on her course by the aid of the compass needle. her eyes turned ever and anon to the fast di- ,n{ntcbgno nofnt of ffoht u-b{oh y,,arixaA the rapidly disappearing yacht. and she realized that she was free. She had hurled out of her path--and how ghe exulted in her own prowess; 1t was something of salve to her soul for the wretched humiliations which had been heaped upon it--she had hurled out of her path and stricken down as any other animal might have done him-who had brought her to this awful pass. She was away from him, free from him. She was once more, so far as wind and wave allowed, the master of her fate. the mistress of her destiny.
 She was glad in her heart, too, that there were to be no physical conse- quences from her brief alliance. She did not realize that there were to be other consequences which not even all the water of the seas over which she fioated could wash out. There was strange elation in her soul She felt as if in some way she had vindieated her right to be. There was something yet In her philosophy and did oppor- tunity serve, could she get free from the dangers that encompassed her, she vowed that she would prove it.
 All night long she stayed awake, keeping the launch in her course. When morning broke she was abso- lutely alone upon the ocean. Standing erect upon seat. from her low van tage point she could see nothing but smoothly undulating sea. She break lasted sparingly from her scanty store and resumed her post at the wheel She was tired and sleepy. but while the little engine was alive she could not leave it to its own devices. She must hold on her chosen course as long as the motive power remained. She could not lose a moment while that motor throbbed and beat. She must be alive with it. There would be time to sleep when it was ex- hausted. She must put as many leagues between her and pursuit by holding the direct course as long as was possible.
 And so she sat there grimly. hands clutchina the wheel through the long