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wsh and He action of the people. rho are stU residing in and around ,ag once psosperous and popu.ous u.vu ol Bennett are Co be eommen- agd for their thoyshIu.ass. and tae.r example mlsat well be euulased .u other places.
The daily Alaskan., 1911-05-31
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We win pay five l5N cents per r,urd for clan vipiug rags. suitable r.- wipiug machinery This is a ,rsrce for smaU boys to earn a lit @. Fourth 9 July money. Address Daily Alaskan.
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l0py for shsGEe ol adTeg-Smel, muss be- ia ey o'clock D. l- Co la- suEs Insertion same day.
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Nearly sII Of the bodies lying in ur Bennett cemetery were those of early stampe5e-s to the KloadiSe wh fen by the waysl5e during that mad
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Advertising rates on application
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vet what can we do? Could we be happy,
you and l. in exile IL the things which
We dread We're coming to pass: Could !
go away and hide while my countrymcn
were being butchered out of existence?
And you-you are not the sort of man to
be content with an ignoble peace. No.
II isn't possible. Our work may not be
over yet
There was knock at the door and An
nette entered with many apologies.
''Nademoiselle, she explained, "a thou
sand pardons. and to monsieur also, but
there Is gentleman here who says that
his business is of the most urgent i'm
portance and that he must see you at
once. l have done all that can. but he
will not go away. He knows that Mons.
to him. land he says his business has to
do with monsieur as well as mademoi-
selle.''
Bellamy almost snatched the card from
the girls fingers. He read out the name
in blank amaZement.
Baron de StreuSs.
There was a moments silence. Louise
and he exchanged wondering glances.
what can this mean she asked.
hoarsely.
see him together. After all-after all
You can show the gentleman in, An
nette,' her mistress ordered
III he has the papers, Bellamy con-
tinued. slowly, why does he come to us?
1t is not like these men to be vindictive.
Diplomacy to them is nothing-a game of
chess. do not understand
The door opened. Annette announced
their visitor. Streuss bowed low to
Louise-he bowed. also, to Belamy.
81 need not introduce myself he said.
with Mr. Bellamy / have the honor to
be well acquainted. Madame is known
to all the world
Louise nodded, somewhat coldly.
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remember. Some part of the excitement
of a few hours ago returned.
MY bath. Annette, and a dressing
gown" she ordered. Tell Mons. Bel
lamy that hurry. ! will be with him in
twenty minutes"
To Bellamy the twenty minutes were
minutes of purgatory. She came at last
however. fresh and eager; her hair tied
up with ribbon. she herself clad in a
pink dressing gown and pink slippers
DAVID she cried, my dear Davidr'
Then she broke off.
What is it?'' she asked. I'm a different
tone.
He showed her the headlines of the
newspaper he was carrying.
Tragedy. he answered. hoarsely.
Won Behrlins was true, after all-at
least, il seems So
What has happened" she demanded
Bellamy pointed once more to the news
paper.
HE was murdered last night within
fifty yards Of the place of our rendeZ-
vous.''
A little exclamation broke from
Louises lips. She sat down suddenly
The color called into her cheeks by the
exercise OF her bath was rapidly fading
away.
David, she murmured. SIS this truce
1T is, indeed" Bellany assured her
Not oply that. but there is no mention
of his pockctbook i'm the account of his
murder. Ii must have been engineered
by Streuss and the others. and they have
got away with the pocketbook and the
money"
What can we dor she asked
There is nothing to be DONE, Bcllamy
declared calmly. I'VE are defeated. The
never succeeded. after all. in shaking of
the espionage of the men who were
watching him. They tracked him to our
rendezvous, they waited about while
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I'VE can dispense with an introduction
l think. Mons. lie Baron" she said. AT
the same time. you will perhaps explain
to what l owe this somewhat unexpected
pleasure
"MademoiselIe. an explanation there
must certainly be- l know that ii is an
impossible hour. ] know, too, that TO
have forced my presence upon you In THIS
manner may seem discourteous. Yet the
urgency of the matter, | am convinced,
justiiies me.
Louise motioned him TO a chair. but he
declined with a little bow of thanks.
"Mademoiselle. he said. and you. Mr..
Bellamy. need not waste words w
have played a game OF chess together
You mademoiselie. and Mr.. Beilamy on
the one side-I and my friends upon the
other. The honor OF Rudolph Won Behr-
ling was the pawn for which We fought
The victory remains with YOU
Bellamy never moved a muscle Louise,
on the contrary, could not help a slight
start.
..Cnder the circumstances the baron
continued, smoothly. 1.-THE struggle was
uneven. | do myself the justice to re-
member that from the first realized that
we played losing game. Mademoiseile,
he added. from the days or Cleopatra
ay, and throughout those shadowy days
which lie beyond-the diplomats OF the
world have been poweriess when matched
against your sex. Rudolph Won Behrling
was an honest fellow enough until he
looked into your eyes Mademoiselle, You
have gifts which might. perhaps. have
driven from his senses a stronger man.
Louise smiled. but there was no sugges-
ton OF mirth i'm the curl of her lips. Her
eyes all the time sought his duestioningiy.
She did not understand.
You flatter me, baron. she murmured.
No, I do not flatter you, ] speak the
truth. This plain talking is pleasant
enough when the time comes that one
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

TREASON OF THE BLOOD. BY rs
telle Hampstead Manning Brewer.
Cedar Rapids. Iowa: The Torch
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THE WJND-BAND AND ITS INsTHt =
MENTS; their History. Construc-
ton. Acoustics. Technique and Conn
binatiOn for Dandmasters. Hands,
men. Students and the 'enern,
READER. BY Arthur 4. Clappe. Royal
Military School of Music: sometime
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States Military Academy. West
Point. With numerous illustrations.
New York: Henry Holt & CO.
TOM STRONG, WASHINGTON SCOUT;
story Of Patriotism. BY Alfred
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FAIRY TALES. BY Charles Perrault.
Newly translated by :. r. Little
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THE FALL OF THE YEAR. By Dali
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of the Land" etc. illustrated by
Robert Bruce Horsfall. Boston:
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met him. Afterward. he had to pass
| along narrow passage. 1t was there
that he was found murdered
| But, David, l don't understand. Why
did they wait until after he had seen you
How did they know that he had not part
| ed with the paper in the restaurant? To
all intents and purposes he ought to have
done So"
| Il cannot understand that myself Bel
| lamy admitted. I'm fact. it is inexpitca-
| BILE
| She took up the newspaper and glanced
| at the report. Then. You are sure. 1
| suppose that this does refer to Won Behr-
| ling? He Is quite unidentified. YOU see
There is no doubt about It." Bel.amy
| declared II have been to the mortuary.
1t is certainly he. All our work has been
| in vain-just as l thought too. that we
| had made splendid success of it,
| She looked at him compassionately.
1T is hard lines. dear she admitted.
| You are tired. too: You look as though
you had been up all night.
Yes. l am tired" he answered. sinking
| into a chair. Il am worse than tired.
| This has been the grossest failure of my
| career and am afraid that 1t Is the end
| of everything. l have lost twenty thou
| sand pounds Of secret service money: /
| have lost the one chance which might
have saved England. They will never
trust me again.
You did your best she said coming
over and sitting on the arm Of his chair.
| You did your best. David
! She laid her hands upon his forehead
| her cheek against his-smooth and cold
| exquisitely refreshing it seemed 10 his
] jaded nerves.
| "Ah. Louise,'' he murmured, life is
getting little too strenuous. Perhaps
we have given too much of it up to others.
| What do you think?'
| She shook her head.
Dear, / have felt like that sometimes,
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! by the Corcoran Gallery of this city. 1t
was assembled by st. Memin himself, and
| specially designed albums. The collection
| was or ginaliy offered to Congress. but
| being declined on account of the price.
was purchased by Mr.. Corcoran. 1t
! might almost be regarded as a pictorial
| social register of America between the
years 179G and 1910, SO largely does It
| represent the flower of American society
| at that period.
Favret de ST. Memin was born in
| France in 1910 of a family Of rank and
distinction. In his early manhood he
, served in the Royal Guards. but when the
revolution of 1880 came he was obliged to
| flee first to Switzerland and then to Can
/ ada and the United States. As he lost
! his property not only In France. but IN
Santo Domingo, he had to earn livel hood,
and. availing himself of his artistic talent,
| set to work to make portraits. He was,
| however, inventive as we'll as artistic,
and instead Of following old methods. in
| troduced a novelty-a crayOn portrait done
| on pink paper and in profile somewhat after
! the manner of a silhouette. though slightly
modelled and shaded. With the crayon
| portrait went a small engraved repro
duction. the size OF miniature. we'll
these portraits as well as reduce them.
| st. Memin used a machine called a
| physiogniotrace." which some credit him
with inventing. Be that as 1t may. his lit
served the popularity they enjoyed. For
an engraved pate with twelve impress
!, sions and a life-size crayon portrait he
| charged just $35. which is not much more
| than photographs would be today. In
| 1896 and 1897 he was in New York: in
| 1898 he went to Philadelphia: in 1904 to
| Baltimore and from there to Washington,
| where. it is reported. he found In George
town and Alexandria fruitful field for
his pencil and BURN among the digni-
! taries and citizens of the federal capital"
! From Washington he went to Rich
mond, Norfolk and Charleston, whence
he returned to New York. In 1872
| he went back to France. and, though
| he made a visit to America some years
later, he spent the remainder OF his lie
| in his own country, having been made
director of the museum at Dijon by Louis
XVIII. Among the portraits Of greatest
| interest in his collection are those of DIR.
| Thornton, the architect of the Capitol;
| Aaron Burr Robert Fulton. Paul Revere
Benjamin West. Charles Wilson Peale
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ing things attractiveiN Ihere
something always behind the WoIu
itself tuat gives his matter lndiNiau
ality and appeal This is perhaps
what rhetoricians know as style. =,
all events in this volume ~ Is Host
pleasing reading. and II carries oie
over a wide range of ground into many
interesting corners of life.
THE TRUTH TBOIT An AlTHoH'
New edition with preface. by Ar
mold Bennett. author OF how 10
Live on Twenty four Hours A l'aN.
etc New York: George IA. porah
Company,
Nine years ago AIR. Bennett put foith
this bit of autobiography anonymously
as contribution To the pages or the
Academy, a London artistic and liter
airy periodical 1t created distinct
stir in very small circle. As the
author himself SAYS now. i'll his pref :
ace TO this second ed ton. The sue
cess was terri fic-among about "A hun
dred people 1t is now reproduced
frankly with a preface in which in an
engagingly naive manner Mr.. BENNETT
tells how he came to write this con-
fession. and frankly sets IL before the
world as he said. lin all its ingenious
self-complacency" There is nothing
much that is startling about II. II
throws Light upon one phase OF the
literary life in London and shows how
mechanical after all is the work Of
men of letters who depend upon their
mems for sustenance Whether IT can
be taken as a type of English literary
experiences remains undisclOsed 1t
is. at all events. most engagingly pre-
Sented
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NAV indulge in it. That time. think, Is
now. Rudolph Won Behrling. against my
advice hut because he was the chancei-
lor's nephew was associated with me III
q certain enterprise the nature of winch
Is no secret to you, mademoiselle. or TO
Mr. Rellamy here. We followed a man
who. by some strange chance. was In pos
session Of a few sheets OF foolscap. the
contents Of which We're alike priceless
to nv country and priceless to yours. The
subsequent history OF those papers should
have been automatic. The first step was
fulfilled readily enough. The man disap-
peared-the papers were ours. Won Behr-
ling was the man who secured them and
Won Behrling ii was who retained them.
If my advice had been followed. / admit
frankly that we should have ignored all
possible comment ard returned with them
at once to Vienna. The others thought
differently They ruled that we should
come OH 10 London and deposit the packet
with our ambassador here. In weak
moment / consented. 1t was your OPP
of which you have splendidly avaiied
yourself.
This time Louise held herself with COM
posure Bellamy's brain was in whirl,
but he remained silent.
Il come TO you both, the baron con-
tinued. with my hands open. ] come
| make no secret of it, come to make
terms But first OF all must know
whether l am in time. There is one ques-
to YOU" he added. turning to Belamy.
Have You yet placed in the hands OF
your government the papers which YOU
Obt tanned from Won BehriinS?
Beliamy shook his head.
Go be continued tomorrow
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x NEWS AND NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS,

and obstructing the view. There are sew
eral showing the rocks on the Gloucester
moOrs, there is a vista OF the harbor be-
tween two rows of gray wharf buiid-
ings, there are transcriptions or the VIII
lows which border a fresh water pond NOT
stones throw from the sea, and there
are glimpses of inland bits no less pic
torial In all of these pictures, or almost
all, there is sparkling sunlight. rich color.
freshness and vigor. which are very char
acteristic of the north Shore, and vel
not frequently so well interpreted In
some respects they are quite In dnerent
painted commonly. but they represent an
entirely different phase OF nature from
that he has most often interpreted. Ihey
are very interesting and true.
THE water color class at the Corcoran
j School will reassenble on the first
of November as usual. it being under
stood that Mr. Moser purposes returning
to Washington prior to that date
i; x
THE AIETROPOLlTAN MUSEUM,
! New York, and the Museum OF Fine
Arts. Boston, have recently purchased
some famous paintings for which un-
doubleday they paid fabulous sums-that
is. fabulous in comparison to WHAT
American museums could afford to pay
some years ago. Chief among the Met
ropoIitan Museums purchases are paint
ing by Botticelli. picturing the Three
Miracles of ST. Zenobius, and paint
ing by Carpaccio entitled Meditation on
the Passion" Both are remarkable ex-
amples, and, though from the layman
standpoint may not be altogether engag-
,.,,tf 90
Nv round out and lend value to the mu-
seum's collection. The Boston museum
has acquired portrait by Andrea ga
Solario. who lived about the time oil
Christopher Columbus: Venetian pic
ture by Guardi, landscape by Cams
borough and portrait by Paul Daia-
roche. all extremely interesting. me W.
building of American art museums means
the upbuildins OF appreciation ana taste.
therefore the announcement OF purchases
like these may well be regarded as a sign
of the times.
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that is. back of the mask of features
Is character. spirit: whereas the others
convincing-without expression. Who
the painters were of the three old por
traits the visitor is not informed, and
whether or not any one knows is a
question. But at least they do honor
both to the painters and to the men
who are portrayed
X
THE official portrait would seem TO be
! pretty difficult problem, for the
solution is almost without exception un-
satisfactory. The lobby Of the House of
Representatives is not the only "morgue"
OF this kind. The public reception rooms
of the Secretaries of State and War are
little better or more cheerful. Herein
hang portraits OF the ex-Secretartes, it
being customary for the government to
have each painted at the expiration of
his term of office. not, it would seem, as
a reward, but penalty for public service.
Some good painters are represented in
these collections, but for some reason
they do not appear at their best
Sorollas portrait OF Mr. Bacon is ex-
tremely disappointing, lacking in sponta-
neity, force and viril4ty. as well as being
poor in color. MadraZo's portrait of Mr..
Root is far from good, and, though Ellen
Emmet's is much better, it is not as good
as one would wish. To be sure good
portraits are rare, but one can recall with
compla isance. Sargent's portraits of Mr..
Hay and Col. Higgnson. Cecil Beaux' S
OF John Frederick Lewis, John w. Alex
ander's Of Walt Whitman, and others. by
living painters, which bear comparison
with the best that have been produced.
There is no reason why an official por-
trait should be lacking in merit-the
greatest portraits painted by Velasquez.
Van Dyck and Titan were of this stamp
portraits of government officials. The
trouble Is that too little interest has been
taken in the matter heretofore by the
artists, the public and those who gave
the commiss Ons. Under these d.tions,
dreadful will be the day when national
portrait gallery is established.
IT is not generally known that the larg-
est and most complete collect on OF
| ST. Memin portraits in existence is owned
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ated certain sum to defray
the cost of having portraits
IL painted of ex-Speakers of the
House of Representatives, to
replace crayon portraits hanging in the
House lobby. which seemed scarcely in
keeping with the dignity of the place.
These were painted by various artists
selected by special committee, and
are now to be seen in the places which
they are presumably to permanently
occupy at the Capitol. OF course, these
portraits had to be painted from pho-
tographs or other portraits. rather than
from life. and therefore did not conSki-
tute interesting or specially inspiring
commissions: but, on the other hand.
the artists had rather more liberty than
usual. which they might have employed
to advantage from the standpoint of
art. Some have done so.
Richard n. Brooke's portrait of Rob-
ert NJ T. Hunter of Virginia is frank
straightforward and convincing; Gerard
Barrys portrait of John White of Ken
lucky is marked with refinement, and
Spencer Baird Nichols portrait OF An
drew w. Stevenson of Virginia has like
wise artistic feeling. But for the most
small occasion for congratulation or
praise There are few sadder sights
than this legislative hall of fame for
nothing can be more melancholy than
poor portrait. and here there are
many That the best are the earliest.
, furthermore does not hold out hope of
Improvement. The portrait OF r. a.
Muhlenberg. Speaker of the House dur
ing the First and Third Congresses. has
both interest and charm. 1t Is very
simple in treatment. but virile and in
dividual. That of Joseph Il. Farnum.
Speaker of the House during the Tenth
and Eleventh Congresses. which is like
" Sc a three-quarter-length. is admira-
bic. the head in particular being beau
tifully painted in a manner not unlike
Reaburn's: the portrait of Jonathan
Trumbull. while less significant. is also
| good.
The great difference between these
portraits and those with which they
are brought into direct comparison Is
| that they possess real personality
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CHAPTER XII.
Won Behring's Fate.

II seemed to Louise that she had scarce
Il been in bed an hour when the more
confidential of her maids-Annette the
Frenchwoman-woke her with ligh,
touch of the arm. She sat up in bed
sleepily.
What IS il, Annette?" she asked
surely it is not midday yet? Why do
YOU disturb me?''
1T is barely . O'Clock. mademoiselle.
bat Mons. Bellamy-ma told me
;aat she wished to receive him whenever
he came. lie Is In the boudoi. row and
very impatient.
Did he send any message?
only that his business was of the most
urgent" the maid replied.
Louise sighed-shc WAS really very
sleepy. Then. as the thoughts began ia
crowd into her brain, she began also to
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and others. OF the $40 portraits, about
100 are of women and a very few Of
children. Whether or not he flattered his
sitters it is hard to say, but both the men
and women he portrayed are of eXcep-
uOnally fine appearance. Tiny as these
portraits are, they are extremely charac-
teristic and engaging.
THE exhibition season opened in New
York yesterday when the private
view Of the annual exhibition Of the New
York Water Color Club was held in the
Fine Arts building. but it will be a fort
night more before it opens here. The
regular exhibition OF summer work OF
the students of the Corcoran School has
been set for November 10, and about the
same time an exhibition of Mr.. Silva's
recent sketches in color will be held in
the Veerhoff gallery. At the V. G.. Flsch-
er galleries later an exhibition of paint
ings and sculptures by Mr.. and Mrs. Won
noh will be shown.
TN an address on THE Hope of Art in
! America published in the current
number OF one Of the leading art maya
zines, Ambassador Bryce says that 1.-The
chief thing is that the people should learn
foundation of all art; and one of the
ways he points out-one of 1.-THE simplest
and directest ways"-is by making the
cities beautiful. not only by erecting fine
buildings. but by giving them fire set
ting in natural surroundings. After re-
marking the spirit of civic Improvement
which is invading American cities ami
mated not only by civic pride but by
the love of beauty, he tells of noteworthy
improvements in Kansas City, Chicago
and New York. Finally" he continues,
there is our Washington. where the
work done has been expensive and i'm
portant, though. unhappiy. some oppor-
tunities for enlarging the public grounds
and erecting beautiful buildings on them
have been lost. No city that l know in
Europe or elsewhere has employed tree
planting SO skillfully and generally. and
in none have the results been SO good
From the middle Of April till the middle
Of June most of the streets Of Wash