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The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-09-26

doubt II We flnd MIN oursewes.~
Her clutch frightened till he would
have WINGED, II he had not been =
soldier
What do you mean, Harry?"
SWELL, in the first place. honey, look
what time 1t is. Hardly more than
time to get the train, to say nothing
of hunting for that preacher and
standing up through a long rigma.
role"
why. Harry Mallory. are you get
ting ready to tilt me7"
Indeed I'm not-not for worlds,
honey, but I've got to get that train,
haven't II"
Couldn't you wait over one train
just one tiny little train?"
my own, own honey love. you
know it's impossible! You must re.
member that I've already waited over
three trains while you tried to make
up your mind"
And you must remember, darling
that It's no easy matter for girl to
decide to sneak away from home and
be married secretly, and go all the
way out to that hideous Manila with
no trousseau and 10 wedding pres.
ents and no anything"
Il know 1t isn't, and l waited pa
tiently while you got up the courage.
But now there are no more trains.
shudder to think of this train being
late. We're not due in San Fran.
cisco till Thursday evening, and my
transport sails at sunrise Friday morn
Ing. Oh, Lord, what If l should miss
that transport! What If should!"
What If we should miss the min.
ister?"
ut begins to look great deal like
It,"
But, Harry, you wouldn't deser.
me now-abandon me to my fate?"
well, 1t isn't exactly like abandon.
ment, seeing that you could so home
to your father and mother In q taxi
cab
She stared at him in horror.
80 you don't want me for your
wife! You've changed your mind!
You're tired OF me already! Only an
hour together, and you're sick Of your
bargain! You're anxious to get rid OF
me! YOU"
"Oh, honey, want you more than
anything else on earth, but I'm a
soldier, dearie, a mere lieutenant in
the regular army, and I'm the slave
of the government I've gone through
West Point, and they won't let me re-
sign respectfully and if did, we'd
starve. They wouldn't accept my
resignation. but they'd be willing to
courtmartial me and dismiss me from
the service in disgrace. Then you
wouldn't want to marry me-and |
shouldn't have any way of supporting
you If you did. l only know ore
srade, and that's soldering"
Don't call 1t trade, beloved, s's
:he nohlest profession in ell the
world, aud you're the noblest soldier
that ever was, and III year or two
you'N be nae biggest general Ia the
army"
He could aot afford to shatter such
devout il3gsion or Quench tho tight
of faith In chose beloved and loving
eyes. He tsgAsly admitted his ability
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-09-26
Bryan Attacks Roosevelt.

Helena, Mont.-William Jennings
Bryan challenged the Progressive
ness of Colonel Roosevelt in speech
here and declared at best Mr.. Roose
welt was but an eleventh hour con.
vert to the cause of progress, joining
only when it was apparent that the
Progressive cause was sweeping the
country.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-09-26

tiently demanded
We'll, you have a name and q
tongue?'
IF they have come to arrest me-
he replied looking up.
Mister man. get to your feet!
That's better. Now get a grip on your
self. Why are you covering here?"
II have been made a victim OF q
base plot he answered. II have BEEN
hiding here for two days"
II have read of base plots In NOVELS
but never encountered one. They
didn't seem to pick out a hero to base
plot against in this easel"
The young man was impressed by
her sarcasm. He blushed and straight
ened up, and after swallowing hard he
replied: II do not claim to be hero,
but am not liar. For three years
have been employed in the First
National bank at Averne."
yes. And money has been taken"
"a package of $4,000 was missing.
had no more to do with the taking of
it than you did"
But you skipped out and left the
world to believe you a thief"
Yes, fool that l am, it came unan
me so suddenly that was all confu-
sion. The cashier came to me and
charged me with the theft and put
$500 in my hands and advised me to
flee at once to escape arrest. He said
prison awaited me if l stayed. l only
waited to put on my hat and coat
"Chump" scorned Polly.
"But if l had stayed?"
THAT package would have been
found somewhere as having been
'mislaid.' Was there any particular
reason for the cashier wanting to
drive you out?'
Il can't think of any"
Were you both counting the same
young LADY,"
| "Why-why."
"Oh, you innocent lamb" laughed
the girl. Its no wonder the gold
| brick men can afford their steam
yachts. How that cashier must
chuckle."
DO you think-think-..
mo, don't think. know. Your
name is what?'
Porter Phelps"
And ] am Polly Andrews, daugh-
ter of the sheriff of this county. Come
out under the plum trees
When they were out doors and seat
ed she continued: "Mr. Porter Phelps
you appear to lack sand and to be
easily ratified and to need a GUARDIAN
You have told me straight story,
have you?"
II have
mo evasions?"
None whatever.'
"Then you are coming with me
and tell dad all about it. Dads fine
as silk on trail, and they say /
know thing or two. I guess we can
straighten this matter out all right"
But your father" protested the
fugitive.
He'll have a few words to say
along the line 1 have, and then turn to
and help you out"
Polly was prophet. To a layman,
the young ma1Sf story would have
been pronounced too fishy for belief,
but Sheriff Andrews had seen just as
queer cases in his time. He listened
quietly, thought for awhile, and then
said:
IF you and the cashier were both
after the same girl, he would have a
motive in wanting to drive you away
in disgrace. I'll go over to Averne
and see what I can pick up"
Two days later he returned to say:
mo one but the cashier had heard
that any money was missing, and it
did not take me long to convince him
that even he had not heard of it.
You can go back and take your place
again"
A year later, just after Mr.. Phelps
had left the sherifr's house one eve
ming, the father remarked to the
daughter:
II thought he was in love with a
girl in Averne."
so did he for awhile"
Did she jilt him."
mo. arrested him!"
copyright, 1912. by Associated Literary
Press)
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-09-26
New Fair Commission

Libby. - The county agricultural
fair commission has been appointed
and is composed OF c. A. Hamann and
Charles Conner of Eureka; l.. H.
Faust and A. G. Herbert of Libby, and
w, D. Savage of Troy.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-09-26
Copyright. 1sal, by II. Z. Fly Go.
SYNOPSIS.

Lieut.. Harry Mallory is ordered to the
philippines. He and Marjorie Newton
vents their seeing minister on the way to
the train. Transcontinental train is TAX
Ing on passengers. Porter has a lively
time with an Englishman and Ira Lath-
rop. a Yankee business man.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-09-26
First Frost Reported,

Billings.-The first killing frost of
the season visited this section this
week and the mercury registered 20.
1t is reported, however, that no dam.
age resulted to crops. In the Big
Horn valley snow fell to depth Of
three inches but melted in y few
hours
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-09-26
Boys Admit ATTACKING Farmer

Butte, Montana - Fifteen bows
ranging from IL to Is years of age,
confessed in the Juvenile Court that
they attempted to lynch Joseph Mey-
ers, a chicken farmer, after having set
fire to the Meyers home.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-09-26
Spitefut.

kate-Mrs. Wops boasts that she
made her husband
Meg-Any could tell that, to
look at the way the poor man Is fray.
ed at the edges.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-09-26

Which She Frequently Uses.
She-Say what you like about mar.
riage; Ii gives a woman a chance.
He-Yes. fighting chance.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-06-06
WHEN THE
SUN MOVED
By M. QUAD
Copyright. 1912. by Associated Lit
prnrv Press
BY M. QUAD

Moses uoke, farmer, has six chill.
dren. aud so when the question Of
building n schOolhousc in his ncighbor.
hood came up he agreed that II was up
TO him to do the fair thing. lie did II
by donating the site. and the county
went ahead and erected u neat frame
srhoulhOusp. There hud never been
regular school in that district before.
and parents and pupils were proud OF
It. A teacher was hired. and for six
weeks after school opened all went
well. Then n shadow came.
One day as Farmer Johnson. who
hnd three children attending The school.
was driving by Farmer Hokc went
out to the gate to stop him and say:
"Look here, Jim; about our school,"
ats fine" was the reply.
81 dunno about that; dunno"
"Why. Moses. what can be- wrong?
That, gal teacher ILLS the bin mighty
WELL and my children are learning
something every day"
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Nothing has happened to make you
dissatisfied. hope"
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n step nearer and lowered his voice n
bit. what about the north pole and
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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-06-06
4. o. HALL & son, LTD.
Cor. Hing and Fort SITS, HONOLULU

Hardware, Paints and Oils, Ship
chandIcry, Stoves, Crockcry, Glass.
ware and Kitchen Utensils; Sporting
Goods, Guns, Rc,Olrcrs and Ammunl-
ti0n.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-06-06

Bulletin ads best Business Get
tiers.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-06-06

LEADING HAT CLEANERS
No. 20 seretania St. mr.. Nuuanu Ave.
All kinds Of hats Cleaned and Blocked.
We sell the latest styles Of Porto Rico,
Panama ard Felt Hats, All work guar
anteed, Called for and delivered on
short notice. Prices moderate. FELIX
TURRO. Specialist
Evening star., 1912-10-06

passing No man outside the United
States knows the American brand or
criminal better or has been up against
him oftener.
Froest has fought the Yankee thug
hand to hand and brain against brain,
and generally he has beaten him. For
this reason, if no other, you are sure to
have heard of him, but however you have
pictured him. YOU are pretty sure to have
been wrong.
You may have seen with your minds
eye the Sherlock Holmes type of
sleuth or the typical Scotland Yard
man satirized by Holmes creator; the like
of NJ Lecoq or Hawkshaw. or even poor
Jacques Futrelle's Thinking Machine
but you are not likely to have pictured
FRANKIE Froest as the last word in
dandyism He is very Beau Brummel
of sleuths. whose silk hat ffor he sported
a topper and the accompanying Prince
Albert since he became head of the &C.
l. Do is ironed to absolute perfection.
whose white west slip glossy patent
feathers and suede "spats" make the
kings look sloppy when, as frequently
happens, his majesty and the superln-
tendent are on view simultaneously, and
who is said to be able to roll an UNI
brella with an art unappr9acheu 10y any
known person now engaged In rolling
umbrellas in these islands.
The last time. by the way, that sartorial
experts had chance to draw COM
PARSONS between the royal "togs' and
those of the dandiest of sleuth-hounds
was at Ascot. when the king sent for
Froest. shook hands with him and voiced
his regret at his coming retirement. The
royal favor already has been manifested
in more substantial way, for on New
DIV los cir 0otIIt .lY1n c1 q
conferment of certain peerages, knight
hoods and other honors, the much coveted
distinguished service order was conferred
on Froest whose decorations for one
Evening star., 1912-10-06

and some of the more familiar anecdotes
about him may have been recalled.
X \
1t has been the writer's luck. however
to hear Froests story from his own re-
luctant lips-which would infinitely rather
have been relating some of the choice
stories which he tells with a verve
worthy of Depew-together with llluml-
mating comments and what the high
brows call an appreciation from F'roests
famous cotemporary and close friend,
Big Bill Pinkerton. who has been over
here for month or more. and with whom
! found Froest closeted on my second
visit to the superintendents famous den
at the Yard.
If you ask me, it was just a bit thrill
ing to sit there in the heart of the great
police system, whose tentacles stretch out
to the ends of the EARTH and listen to
those two master sleuths. who have
worked together on both sides of the her
ring pond recalling the details of crimes
and the personalities of their perpetrators
these last almost affectionately. Our
surroundings. too. were study In tnem-
selves. Everywhere there were tele-
phones, speaking tubes and electric bells,
while on the walls Vanity Fair cartoons
of celebrities beamed down to offset the
effect of two guns. and of a big bowie
knife with six notches in the handle each
of which means murder-which things
Froest took from three of the baddest
men that ever quilted the United States
in a hurry for these shores. and which
now repose on his mantelpiece.
The superintendent is most famous as
the man who tracked Jabez Balfour or
"Liberator'' fame to the Argentine, and
after nearly a years hard work finally
succeeded in Turing him on board Brit
ish vessel and there arresting him, but
perhaps his biggest ''coups apart from
this have been made against American
crooks and bad men, who, as William
Pinkertnn observed. will not heMail his
Evening star., 1912-10-06

Stunt Frank Froe>t of Scotland 1afu'
,he man" in question. smiled benignly.
His name (Which is pronounced to rhyme
with .'ghost'D is almost as we'll KNOWN
of course, in the United States as II Is
in this country where he is regarded DIS
the greatest living detective.
We sat-F'roest. W. A. Pinkerton ana
Tho. writer of these lines-in the big OF
flee at Scotland Yard which F'roest mas
occupied for the past seven years as SUI
perIntendent of the criminal investlSatioh
DEPARTMENT of his majestys police, but
which soon will know him no more. AS
head of the &C /. D.. as it IS called. he
has been commander-in- chief of the most
famous army of rogue catcherS in the
world which he joined thirty-four years
ago in the capacity of an ordinary cop.
AS a boy i'll the west country he read
G;aboriau and about Allan Pinkerton, and
made up his, mind TO be detective, and
now .Froest of the Yard is renowned
all over Europe as we'll as in South Amer
lea and Australia. where he has bagged
hig game of the criminal variety, and at
the Cape whence he went to bring DIR.
Jameson to England after the raid.
Possibly you already have seen a bare
announcement that the Captor of JabeZ
Balfour. of Tom o 'Brien, the king of
American bunco' men of his day; of Will
liam Lo.l Moore. the Tennessee neXt-of-
kin swindler and more other interna- :
tional rogues than can be kept in any
memory but his own, is about to retire,
Evening star., 1912-10-06

mind to shoot first YOU and then myself.
So / turned into, doorway and pulled
out my revolver, intending to get you
as you passed. But fortunately for you,
police station. That saved your life"
Yes" laughed Froest. Il had another
plain clothes man to pick YOU up at Pic
cadilly Circus. We weren't losing sight
Of you
Froest has made three visits to the
United States-and means to pay another
after his retirement, which takes place
in October. He first went across in 1891,
having been borrowed by the United
States government in connection with the
prosecution of William Lord Moore.
BY this time his name was well known.
chiefly as a result of his smart solution
of big mystery which he unraveled
with the aid of a photograph he had
stolen-yes, stolen deliberately from
matrimonial agent whom he visited and
sent out of the room on some pretext, the
while he purloined the picture from his
desk. He got lot of praise for his work
in this case, and followed it up by eX-
posing a lawyer from the Midlands
named Marshall, who declared that St0,-
CaO had been stolen from his room in
London hotel Froest demonstrated that
the money had not been stolen at all.
but had been appropriated by the law
YER and the latter went to do time
William Lord Moore. you may remem-
Der. was the author of the biggest series
of next-of-kin frauds ever pulled Off IN
the United States His invariable bait
was an allurinS sum OF mllhohs aWalllnS
American heirs" in England the MIL
lions in chancery myth is one that dies
hard at home and Moore found dupes oy
the thousand. These he bled white ana
then vanished. He was the leading law
yer in the state of Tennessee when this
hight idea struck him, and. OF course, a
pillar of the church.
But he was an Englishman by birth.
said Froest adding, Have you read
Gu, ,ia's novels?"
Only Under Two Flags" was the
reply.
see Moore said the detective. for he
was for all the world like the hero OF
that nove-the beautiful life guardsman,
Evening star., 1912-10-06

you know. He stood over six feet ana
must have weighed seventeen stone.
though he hadn't bit of stomach. He
had a magnificent tawny beard. thing
YOU rarely see in the states. and his man
ners were those of a nobleman.
.He came over here and I went to see
him. more on principle than with any
definite object, and then | looked him up
a bit. Finally, when your government de-
cided to stop his game for good and all,
they sent for me- 1t took three trials to
convict him, the last being held at Jack
son. Tenn. And do you know, said
Froest. "even after I got home l got let
ters from hundreds of people in America
asking me to find out If there really
weren't few millions belonging to them
over here
1t was in the United States, too. and in
the service of the American government
that Froest first went up against Tom
O'Brien, who eventually came over from
Paris to London with the express OBJ
ject of numbering the Scotland Yarder
William Pinkerton described this big
American crooks career from his begin
ming as a newsboy on the trains between
Albany and New York to his end in the
French convict settlement at New Gale
dOnla, as we SAT IN ffOeSt ) ueH dt tHe
Yard. He told how he began to go wrong
by selling ten-cent shinplasterS to rubes
for ten-dollar bills, and how he climbed
up to be big bunco steerer-"the king
of them ALL said the head of the Pin
kerton agency.
Tom O'Brien never asked for anything
easy, said Pinkerton. He was a game
man and he wanted the hardest there was
and got away with it until Frankie here
landed him, and how you kept him from
putting a bullet in that fat stummick OF
yours I don't know finished the Ameri-
can detective admiringly, beaming on his
famous friend.
To 1et daylight through Froest was pre-
.cisely what O'Brien had it ''doped out
to do when. after escaping from custody
in the United States. he took refuge in
Paris.
"He had never forgiven me- said
Evening star., 1912-10-06
n Tracewel Uncle s@m Money


ness only, and not for pleasure jaunts.
The government. he declared. was hence
not responsible for the bill. Here. how
ever, came a hitch. The bill had already
been paid. This puzzled the controller
for a while. but not for long.
Since the bill has been paid by the
government" he ruled, land since 1t
should have been paid by the officers
who were Using the boat, and hence re-
sponsible for the accident, the latter are
indebted to the government for the
amount of the bill. That sum will be di-
vided pro rata among them ana deducted
from their salaries.
The officers complained loud and long.
Also their official superiors took the mat
ter up and battled strenuously In their
behalf. But it was no use. They had to
pay.
And there are many other cases in the
musty records of the controllers office
dry enough on the surface. but contain
ing between the lines record OF m!sfor-
tunes attempts to get easy money ana
almost every other sort of financial ef-
fort known to man. There is. for in
stance, the story Of the woman who re-
Gently created a sensation when she
tainted i'm the gallery of the House CT
Representatives, after Congress had re-
fused to pass a bill recompensing her
husband for reclamation work done in
the west. Her case went to the con-
troler and was rejected. Ihere are many
others. Some OF them seem SO trivial as
to be waste of time, but they are not.
4 4
ANY one Of them may set a prece-
dent" said Controller Tracewell. "A
deputy marshal who carries a federal
prisoner one mile to court or to the peni-
tentiary may claim cents mileage and
receive only ;. He appeals to me. There's
a difference of only cents, but my deci-
sion will affect the mileage of every 9TH
er marshal in that district. Hence IL
decide in his favor il may cost the gov
ernment hundreds of thousands of dol
lars a year or. il l decide against him
the government Will save In proportion.
You never can tell.
So Controller Tracewell and his forty
two attorneys labor day in and day out,
now going over war records. now examin-
ing ancient marriage license registers
and again turning to official files. AL
ways there are law books. scores and
scores of them, at their elbows, that
every case may be backed up with deci-
sions galore cited from authorities from
which there can be no appeal.
No detail is too small to be overlooked
in the controllers office: no case too tri-
fling to be given the undivided services
of one, or mayhap several skilled attor-
news When the documents and refer
ences have all been arranged and tabu-
lated they are sent to the controller.
who goes over them all personally and
times the mere cost Of material used in
drawing up the decision is far in excess
of the amount involved. not counting the
salaries of the men employed in arrang.
ing 1t.
But, as the controller says, ''you never
can tell-and the government doesn't take
any chances"
Evening star., 1912-10-06
Against Speculation.

THE head of a big trust said at q
dinner in Boston:
Il have always been against specula-
ton. To try to get rich by stock fiuctu-
ations instead Of by honest work for the
common good is TO be an undesirable
citizen.
Besides, these fluctuating investments
are very risky and uncertain. It's a
wise stock, you see, that knows its own
par"