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CHAPTER xI-continued.

as she talking still? or again." he
asked, just before the door closed
There was a seconds indecision with
the knob, then, Judging discretion the
better part, Mrs. Klopton went away,
Now, them" Mcknight said, set
Ting himself in a chair beside the
bed, spit ii out. Not the wreck
know all ! want about that. But the
theft. / can tell you beforehand that
II was a woman"
had crawled painfully put of bed,
and was in the act of pouring the egg.
nog down the pipe of the washstand
! paused. with the glass in the air.
"A woman!" / repeated, startled
What makes you think that?"
you don't know the first principles
Of a good detective yarn" he said
scoTnfully. "Of course, IT was the
woman In the empty house next door.
J "a said it vas brass pipes, you will
r member. Well-on with the dance;
iet Joy be unconfined."
Sol told the story: l had told it so
many times that day that | did it au-
tomatically. And | told about the girl
with the bronze hair, and my suspic.
ions. But | did not mention Alison
West. Mcknight listened to the end
without interruption. When / had
finished he drew a long breath.
Welt" he said. That's something
Of a mess, isn't it? If you can only
prove your mild and childlike dispo-
sition, they couldn't hold you for the
murder-which Is a regular ten-twent-
thirt crime, anyhow. But the notes
that's different. They are not burned,
anyhow. Your man wasn't on the
train-therefore, he wasn't In the
wreck If he didn't know what he was
taking, as you seem to think, he prob
ably reads the papers, and unless he
fs a fathead, he's awake by this time
70 what he's got. He'll try to sell
them to Bronson, probably"
"or to us," / put in.
We said nothing for a few minutes.
Mcknight smoked a cigarette and
stared at a photograph OF Candida
ver the mantel. Candida is the best
pony for a heavy mount in seven
states.
Il didn't go to Richmond" he OBJ
served finally. The remark followed
my own thoughts SO closely that |
started. Miss West is not home yet
from Seal Harbor."
Receiving no response, he lapsed
again into thoughtful silence. Mrs.
klopton came in Just as the clock
struck one, and made preparation for
the night by putting a large gaudy
comfortable into an arm chair in the
dressing room, with q smaller, stiff
backed chair for her feet. she raj
wonderfully attired in a dressing gown
that was reminiscent, In parts, Of all
the ones she had given me for a half
dozen Chrlstmases, and she had a pur-
pie veil wrapped around her head. to
hide heaven knows what deficiency.
She examined the empty egg-nog
glass. inquired what the evening paper
had said about the weather, and then
staiked into the dressing room, and
preparmed, with much os~tentatious
creaking. to sit up all night.
We fell silent again, while Nc
knight traced a rough outline of the
berths on the white %tabIecoyer. and
puzzled II out slowly. 1t was some
thing like this:
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you think be changed the tags on
seven and pine. so thas when you
went back to bed ron thought you
we're crawling into nine. when 1t was
really seven. eh?"
~Pfobabiy-yes.s
Then toward morning, when every
body was asleep, your theory Is that
PC changed the numbers again and
left the train"
can't think OF any thing else" I
repllai YEARLY.
*Joye. what q came of bridge that
fellow would play! ii was like flness-
Ing Al eightspot and winning out.
They would scarcely have doubted
rou had 6ae tags been reversed In
lie asoxsins 8sesrtsinis left yra ir
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Struck by Flying Bat

SalemaWhile watching a spir-
tied ball game between CAMS
tota and Salem, n of the big
features of today's program at the
McCook county fair, Gus Sesbkie, a
seweler of Montrose, was struck In the
head by a baseball bat, thrown from
the home plate by one of the batters.
Stunned by the contact, it was
thought for a time that the man
would not recover, but at midnight
the attending physicians gave out the
word that his chances for recovery
we're good, and that he has sustained
only a severe fracture of the skull
bones.
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1 Knew That Bit Of Chain.

characterizes her at night, somebody
called up about noon. Mr.. Lawrence.
1t was long distance, and he said he
would call again. The name was
she yawned-"Sullivan."
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Just Ike a Girl.

Her cooking-school habits r O
good deal of bother to me-"
How now?"
"She always wants me to taste the
gasoline when the automobile isn't
working right"
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Pierre. Sept. 10.--The first person to
be depofted from Sou.h.nakota, 80 far
as can be remembered. is a young man
named Lawrence Maryland, who has
been started from Kingsbury county
ON his compulsory return to the ola
country. He appeared in that part Of
the state about eighteen months ago,
and he q alleged "a kaye been suda-
lent, and he declined to work for q
living. AS he 4 visible means
of support. Che ma. ,Aai authorities
we're notified, and they have compell-
ed the steamship company which
SxsSs2s Iaysz0a America g tzss
him back to Europe.
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Centerville, S. D., Sept. 10.-Doug
Archer will SOW 400 acres of reclaimed
bottom land near this place, on the
Vermillion river, to winter wheat,
using a traction engine for power in
blowing. HIS outfit. which plows eight
burrows at once. also does the disc
ing, seeding and narrowing all com
plete in going once over the land.
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Secke-Mrs. Swellington Is q stun
ming woman, isn't she?
Weeks should think so. She hit
me with her automobile the other day,
and it was two hours before / woke
I'm
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The gentleman exists to help; he
has no other vocation.-T. T. Munger.
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Watertown, Sept. 10.-The first
frost of the season in this section OF
the state came last night. and the
thermometer dropped to IL in Water
town. All fax, except that on break
ing, has matured, but the loss on the
corr crop in this locality is fully so
per cent, it is feared.
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Huron, Sept. 10.-Frost over the
Jim River valley last night will re-
suit in only small damage to corn.
Most OF the crops are too far adj
vanced to receive serious injury. Some
localities east and southeast report
no frost.
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Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-18
TlMID coNVENTIoNALlsM

Editor Herald: Many 'have a zeal
for God, but not according to knowl-
edge" Solomon says: ITO everything
there is a season. (F1cclesiastes HID,
therefore there is a season to dress
warmly, and a season to go naked.
]. K. should not ridicule idealists. They
have been the sole cause of the world S
progress toward the prophetic Mil
lennium, and have always been perse-
cuted for it by conventionalists. The
sooner ]. K. and millions like him re-
alize that conventionalism is only an
other name for stupidity, more or less
dense in the proportion that the con-
ventionalist is conventional, the more
rapidly he will become Christ-likei for
the Christ was the most radical teach
er the world has ever known. He new
er did or said things by halves. He
had the divine courage to be always at
the logical nclusion of every sound
doctrine, which is more than the civil
ization of the distant Millennium; 1t
is the civilization of Heaven. If j. *.
will read my first and second letters
to this box more carefully he VIII ind
them unanswerable, because they de-
fend the Holy Bible as it is, and not
as ox-cart conyentionalism would nave
it. o. M o.
-, Ap0a1ac cal
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-18
SAN FRANCISCO

TTS vicissitudes considered, the
growth of San Francisco, as an
Il nounced by the census bureau, has
been wonderful. 1t has a population of
416, ,912-some $4,000 more than in 1900,
and an increase of PIC per cent over
ten years ago. Measured by what has
come to be the California standard this
is not a large ratio on paper. yet Phil
adelphia increased only 1877, ST. Louis
1914, Boston 1876, Buffalo 2O.2, Pittsburg
1872 and Baltimore but 81.
None Of these cities-no modern
city, indeed-ever suffered the awful
blow tAat fell upon San Francisco in
the decade. Besides the cataclysm
that destroyed her buildings she lost
thousands who, frightened, left never
to return. She has replaced them and
added many thousands more, has spent
over $300,O00 900 in reconstruction, and
given a large share of her population
and means to the upbuilding of the
across-the-bay cities.
In fairness, the splendid showing of
2O6 and 1243 per cent increase in
berkeley ana Oakland must De CIeulleu
largely to the metropolis. Thousands
of their people earn their living in and
around San Francisco. All of them do
much of their buying and take much
of their pleasure in the Bay city; and
of Oakland particularly it may be said
that it is as truly a part of the bigger
place as Brooklyn is of New York city.
So that the showing of the San Fran
cisco increase is in fact probably sec
ond only to that of Los Angeles in
marvellous achievement in the entire
country, and is a source of pride to
every Californian. Los Angeles hopes
and expects to lead San Francisco in
1920, but it will want that city to be
second in the showing, as there is
reason to believe it will be.
All California is growing as no other
state or group of related cities are
growing. This generation will see all
the feats of eastern and probably Of
the worlds communities brushed back
into insignificance by the galloping rise
Of California.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-18
ASHAMED oE The G. o. p.

Editor Herald: While we voters for
Good Government candidates were con-
graduating ourselves on having OBJ
tanned fairly good officials for the city,
and expected the same results in the
county election, our sanguine expecta-
tions received a hard jolt in the return
ing to office of a man who was clearly
proved to be a falsifer for private gain;
and not only falsifier, but at the same
time a perjurer to his solemn oath to
uphold and enforce the law of the
state of California.
have seen many elections, but new
er have I seen such an exposed and
convicted prevaricator honored with a
majority of votes that returned him to
the office which he had disgraced. Is
that sensible voting? Or intelligent?
In what way?
Anyway, it shows very low state
Of morality If not dishonesty in the
majority of voters. Or is politics on
the same level with questionable bust
ness? am ashamed of our county
voters. If that is Republican politics
7 will have none of it. c. F.
Los Angeles, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-18

will restore to her much popular conf
dence among those whose good will is
worth having, and free her from the
domination Of the bad influences. that
have dragged her name in the dust
A majority rule, allowing any person
to become a candidate upon the presen-
tation Of from 10 to 20 legal sureties,
and providing for his election by a ma
jority vote, including the privilege of
filing a statement of 100, 200 or 300
words, according to the fee paid by
him, which shall be printed by the city
and sent out with the sample ballot TO
every voter, won out. The candidates
names only shall appear on the ballots,
the party circles or symbols being elm
mated, and the names printed in diff
ferent order in each assembly district,
thereby giving each candidate equal
opportunity of heading the ticket.
An effective system of initiative, ref
erendum and recall passed with a good
majority. An amendment permitting
the people to vote for the recall of any
street railway franchise received a big
majority.
One Of the bad" proposed amend
ments that failed by a large majority
was one to place the city library pat
ronage under control of the mayor
Several amendments for increasing sal
aries of city officials and decreasing
working hours also were defeated.
San Francisco has as many worthy
and public-spirited citizens as any city
of its size to put these new laws into
operation. Heretofore they have been
helpless in the hands of rich and or
ganized pelf. With the new working
tools in their hands it Is not to be
ArI Inf hn cs%r &c 7 oct
redemption will now be repeated in the
Bay City.
And none will be more glad to ap-
plaud than democratic Los Angeles.
Big things are happening, politically
and civically in California this year.
The League of California Municipali-
ties is planning to adapt commission
government to the smaller cities. In a
few years the Golden State will boast
the best government in America as not
the least attractive of her innumerable
lodestones
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-18
SCHOOL AGE FOR CHILDREN

Editor Herald; Being the father OF
three sons, now in business in this CITY,
I would say to puzzled Parent: DO
not send your children to school to
study before they are 7, if possible,
The mind Of child up to years OF
age should be as free as the air.
The writer remembers when his old
est son was 4 years old Che is now 32).
He took him to see Prof. Fowler, the
well-known phrenologist, and was ad-
vised not to send the child to school
before he was years old, the profess
sor saying-as above-that the mind
of a child should be free until years
had passed. 1t was cruel, he af-
frmed. to bind a childs mind petore
that age.
His advice was acted upon and ex-
perience proved its correctness, in the
case Of my boy at least, for he was al
ways at or near the head of his class
and passed through two grades at one
term ia one instance.
1t is probable that q hard and fast
rule in this matter is difficult to es-
tablish. But that children are sent to
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-18
WHY MExIcANs COME HERE

Editor Herald: AS trouble in Mexico
is now "hot l. mouth" 1 thought that
a few hard, cold facts as to the prime
cause of it all would find a place in
your valuable Letter Box. For the last
twenty years 1t has been mystery to
me why so many Mexicans flock to CAL
ifornia 1t is plain that it is not for
gain, for they never save UP anything
living always up to their means. Then
why is it?
During the last six years have had
extra facilities for finding out the truth
of the matter. [ have been, most of
the time, down in the Calexico country,
astraddle of the line. where 1 was
mixed UP with the cholos all the time;
working, eating and sleeping with
them. The most of them are from
away down in that country where the
trouble is-GuadalajaTa (Wah dah -lah-
ka-rah, I pronounce it for the tender
fooD.
There are many of them young and
intelligent fellows, but totally ignorant,
not knowing the alphabet in their own
language. Having a desire to write
back to their "queridas" (sweethearts),
they are keen to learn to write, so l
murdered many a monotonous evening
teaching them to write in their own
language
| took advantage of the opportunity
deserting their country and coming to
this. They say that Diaz has sold off
the land to foreign capitalists in large
Jumps, so that they cannot make a
home for themselves; and if they did,
there is no market for anything they
might produce, because the consumers
there have no money, and on" protect
i've tariff blocks any expectation; that
the foreign holders do not even allow
them to remain poems and work for a
living, as their former masters, the
hidalgos, did; so they have to come
here where they can at least make a
living, Then | would explain to them
how our late windbag president, 7, r.,
has withdrawn all the land. water and
timber out from under my feet, so that
[ cannot locate a soldiers homestead
reserving it so that none but capital
lists can get possession of it. And then
7 would point out to them the stealing
of the lands in the Imperial valley by
the capitalists sending straw locators
to SQUAT on a quarter section, unlaW-
fully, and then go through the farce OF
having it conveyed to them as third
party; and how our blessed govern
nent sustains them as owning it, not
withstanding it is stolen property. And
then they will ask me how it is that
stolen land cannot be repleVined the
same as any other stolen property
which stumps me; for cannot explain
the unexplainabfe.
Then they remark-ignorant as they
are-that they see no difference in the
design or methods of villainous govern
ments robbing the people of their legal
and natural rights. And I concur
But they hope and expect that Diaz
will "rnurio muy pronto." and then
there will be lots of fighting to drive
out the gringos, and then they will re-
turn TO 7their own, their native land"
and reclaim their lost rights. 1t is
not to be supposed that an editor of
a live newspaper has time, especially
in election time. to thresh and winnow
out reliable information concerning for
eign matters, so I send you little clip
ming as an auxiliary to my private
statements. VIM. H. HARRlSON'
Soldiers Home. Sawtelle.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-18
SENATOR FLINT's VIEWS

A DISPATCH from washington says
n that Senator Frank p. Flint, who
"a is Just back from Europe, is more
than ever convinced of the benefits of
a protective tariff. After seeing the
greater part of Europe" said Senator
Flint, 'I reached the conclusion that
the most prosperous people 1 saw were
those in the German empire, where the
highest protective tariff prevails.
"The condition of both the laborer
and the manufacturer is most unsatis-
factory in free-trade England. In fact,
a committee from the industrial classes
in England visited Germany and on
returning reported that wages were
higher and employment steadier and
conditions more satisfactory for the
workingman there than in England"
What Senator Flint says about con-
ditions in England as compared with
Germany do not at all harmonize with
recent advices of the New York jour
nal of Commerce, whose English cor
respondent reported the industries Of
that country as in the best condition
in years. Particularly is this true of
the wool industry, while in highly
protected America Just now the woolen
trade is in the dumps. More recent
dispatches from there say that trade In
all lines has SO much improved that
the tariff partys strength has largely
fallen away.
German advices, on the other hand,
report a very large number of hands
unemployed But Senator Flint pro-
ceeds to upset his own. argument most
ingenuously by adding that in Spain
and italy he found the fruit district
hands receiving such low wages that
California fruit growers must have
more tariff to compete with them. Now,
Spain and italy are both high tariff
countries. If protective tariffs are such
a good thing, why is not the labor
Of Spain and italy better paid? And
why does not Senator Flint hold them
up as the horrible example on the tar
iff subject instead of free trade Eng
land, which is incomparably more pros
porous than either of these tariffed
countries?
The truth is that the tariff has little
If anything to do with wages. If ev-
cry country were to remove the tar
iff barriers the superior skill and in
telligence of the American workman
would hold the lead he has now, and
the skill and intelligence of the Ger
man workman would hold second place
for him, while Spain and Italy, with
ignorant labor. would bring up the
rear as now. Education, inventive
ability, mechanical talent. fertility of
soil, climatic conditions all have their
influence in these matters, but along
comes your tariff champion and claims
their virtues and effects all for the
tariff
The United States Is not prosperous
under high tariff. The men who own
the mills are, but the masses are not
The men in the New England cotton
mills earn an average weekly wage of
SS.52; those in the southern mills $5.14.
Statistics compiled by the federal GEN.
sus bureau in 1908 showed the average
wage Of 3,297S wage earners in this
countrys manufacturing industries
was $1O.06 per week, or just 2.7 cents
more than the average in Berlin?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-18
MR.. SPELLACY'S LETTER

I N his letter to The Herald, paying
a deserved tribute to Theodore
Il Bell, and, incidentally, an equally
merited rebuke to those newspapers
and campaigners whose ardor and anx-
iety to win led them to make cruel
and wholly unjustified assertions about
the Democratic candidate, Mr.. Timothy
Spellacy drew attention to a serious
aspect of political warfare in these lat
ter days.
1t is that under existing conditions
and it is particularly true in Cali
fornia because of its great eXpanse of
territOry-'an honest political leader
breeds financial bankruptcy to him
self" Mr.. Bells long fight against the
corrupt Southern Pacific must have
been very expensive to him, with no
visible return except a term in con-
gress which, as is well known yields
no net profit. He must have spent lib
orally Of his own private means, and
aside from that had no help but
through the voluntary assistance of
friends; and everybody knows that
such help must have been meager
enough in view of the almost hopeless
prospects of the California Democracy
up to this year
There probably has not been a year
in the past ten that Mr.. Bell could
not have sold out to the Southern Pa
cfC with much profit to himself. In
view Of the fact that he resisted such
temptation to the last he deserved
something better than the shameful
treatment Mr.. Spellacy now rebukes,
and stin deserves apologies from a
good many sources.
But aside from the personal phase
of the matter it all suggests that the
day must come soon when the expenses
Of campaigning shall be borne by the
state and not the individual. If the
state should appropriate a sum for the
use of the Candidates named at pri-
maries, limiting expenditures strictly
to that sum, it would rob the rich
man of an advantage he now has
which is not good for politics, and let
worthy poor men aspire to honorable
office, which few of them now dare to
do.
Corrupt lOnists like the railroad would
then have no such crushing superior
ity over others Of moderate means,
and office holders could not use the
income Of their offices to finance them
selves for reelection.
Not the least gratifying thing about
Mr.. Spellacys letter is his declaration
that he has been cured of being
thick-and-thin partisan. The more ev-
cry decent man sees of practical poll
tics the more he is ant to- reach the
same decision
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-18
WHAT CAUSED 1T

Editor Herald: Now that the battle
is over and the field has been at least
partially cleared of it's debris, we can
view the scene clearly and calmly con-
slider the aftermath. Republican dere-
licts bestrew almost the entire surface
of the United States. A bloodless rev.
olution has covered the arena with po-
litical corpses-wrecks of former po-
tentiaI Republican leaders who tamp-
cred with the tariff against the inter
ests of the people. My view. of the
genesis of things as they are is some
thing like this:
Republicanism begat high tariff.
High tariff begat trusts.
Trusts begat monopolies.
Monopolies begat high prices, and
High prices begat revolution.
1t was the old fight renewed, of
Democracy against plutocracy, and, of
course, with a free hand and no favor,
democracy won. Let 1t now proceed
to keep on winning by carrying out the
purpose Of the election. SENEX.
Hollywood, Cal.