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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-11-22

gale at sea shreds a canvas. He felt
bit panicky. He had always planned
courtship of year or so, meetings,
separations, and remeetings, pleasur-
able expectations, little junkets to the
aters and country places; in brief, to
witness the rose grow and unfold.
Somewhere he had read or heard that
courtship was the plummet which
sounded the depths of compatibility.
He knew nothing Of Fortune Ched-
soye, save that she was beautiful to
his eyes, and that she was as different
from the ordinary run of girls as yon-
der moon was from the stars.
Again she stopped, leaning over the
parapet and staring down at the wa
ter swirling past the stone embank-
ment He did likewise, resting upon
his folded arms. Suddenly his tongue
became alive; and quietly, without
hesitancy or embarrassment, he began
to tell her OF his school life, his life
at home. And the manner in which
he spoke Of his mother warmed her;
and she was strangely and wonder
ingly attracted.
"Of course, the mother meant the
| best in the world when she gave me
| Percival Algernon; and because she
meant the best, have rarely tried to
hide them. What was good enough for
her to give was good enough for me
to keep. 1t is simply that have been
foolish about 1t, supersensitive. l
should have laughed and accepted the
| f,lr
fatal move of trying to run away and
hide. But, taking the name in full"
lightly, ut sounds as incongruous as
playing Traumerei on a steam-piano."
He expected her to laugh, but her
heart was too full of the old ache.
This young man, kindly, gentle, intel
ligent, IL shy, was a love-child. And
she? An offspring, the loneliest of
the lonely, the child that wasn't want
ed. Many time she had thought of
fiinging all to the winds, of running
away and hiding where they never
should find her, of working with her
own hands for her bread and butter
Little they'd have cared But always
the rebel spirit died within her as she
stepped outside the villa gates. To
leave behind for unknown privations
certain assured comforts, things OF
which she was fond, things to which
she was used, she couldn't do it, she
just couldn't. Morally and physically
she was little coward
Let us go in," she said sharply
Another moment. and she would have
been in tears.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-11-22

These four persons were about going
forward upon singularly desperate
and unusual enterprise. From now on
they were no longer to fence with one
another, to shift from this topic to
that, with the indirect maneuvers OF
house-cat intent upon the quest CT
the Friday mackerel The woman's
face was alive with eagerness; the
Oldest man looked from one to the
! other with earnest calculation; Wal
lace no longer hid his cupiditr:
Ryanne's immobility of countenanGe
was in itself tacit admission to the
burning Of all his bridges that he
might become part of this conclave
Smuggling" said the major, with
prudent lowering Of voice, evidenu,
continuing some previous debate
smuggling is fine art. keen sport
! ing proposition; and the consequences
of discovery are never serious. What's
a fine of a thousand dollars against
the profits of many successful excur
sions into the port of New York?
Nothing, comparatively. For several
years, now, We have carried on this
business with the utmost adroitness.
Never have we drawn serious atten
tion We have made two or three
blunders, but the suspicious Of the Sc
cret-service were put to sleep upor
each occasion. We have prospered
Here Is a gem, let us say, worth on
this side thousand; over there We
sell 1t for enough to give us q clean
profit of three or four hundred. Forty
per cent. upon our investment. That
ought to be enough for any reasonable
person. Am l right?"
Mrs. Chedsoye alone was unrespon-
sive to this appeal.
II continue, then. We are making
enough to lay by something for our
old age. And that's the only goal
which never loses its luster. But
this AFFAIR.""
Talk, talk" said Mrs. Ghedsoys Inn
patiently.
my dear Kate, allow me to relieve
my mind"
"You have done so till the topic Is
threadbare. 1t is rather late in the
day to go over the ground again.
Time is everything just now
Admitted. But this affair, Kate, is
big; big with dangers, big with pit
falls; there is hidden menace in ev-
cry step of it. Mayhap death; who
knows? The older l grow, the more |
cling to material comforts, to enter
prises of small dangers. However, as
you infer, there's no going back now.'
NO" assented Ryanne, his mouSh
hard. "nOt n have IN DrOceed alone
She smiled at him. You talk OF
danger" speaking to the major. What
danger can there be-"
THE unforeseen danger, the danger
Of which we know nothing and there
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-11-22
SYNOPSIS

George Percival Algernon Jones, Vice
president of the Metropolitan Oriental
Rug company of New York, thirsting for
romance, is in Cairo on business trip
Horace Ryanne arrives at the hotel In
Cairo with n carefully guarded bundle.
Ryanne sells Jones the famous holy Yhi-
ordes rug which he admits having stolen
from q pasha at Bagdad. Jones meets
Major Callahan and later is introduced to
Fortune Chedsoye by a woman to whom
he had loaned $50 pounds at Monte Carlo
some months previously. and who turns
out to be Fortunes mother. Jones takes
Mrs. Chedsoye and Fortune to a polo
game Fortune returns to Jones the
money borrowed by her mother. Mrs.
Chedsoye appears to be engaged In some
mysterious enterprise unknown to the
daughter.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-11-22
You don't believe

You don't believe ?"
MY friend, l believe In all things
that haven't been proved impossible.
You've been knocking about here long
enough to know something of the
tenacity of the Arab and the East In
dian. Given a Just cause, an IDOLS
eye or a holy carpet, and they'll fol-
low you round the world ten times, IL
need be. l never worry needlessly,
but lay out before me all the points
of the game. There is one man In Bag
dad who will never cease to think OF
me. This fellow is an Arab, Mahomed-
El-Gebel by name, the real article,
proud and savage, into whose keeping
the Holy Yhiordes was given; Ma
homed- FL Gebel, the Pashas right
hand, sheik in his own right"
But you haven't got the rug now"
mo, Mr. Jones, l haven't; but on
the other hand, you have. So, here
We are together. When he gets
through with me, your turn"
George laughed. Ryanne grew
thoughtful over this sign. Percival
Algernon did not seem exactly wor-
ried
Aren't you little afraid?"
T? Why should l be-" inquired
George innocently. Certainly, what
ever your Arab friends arguments
may be, moral or physical, I'm going
to keep that Yhiordes."
Was he blufflng? Ryanne wondered.
Did he really have nerve? Well,
within forty-eight hours there would
come test.
Say, do you know, rather wish
you'd been with me on that trip-that
is, II you like rough game" Ryanne
said this in all sincerity.
"I have never been In rough game,
as you call 1t; but I've often had a
strong desire to be, just to find out for
myself what sort Of duffer l am"
Ryanne had met this sort of man be-
fore; the fellow who wanted to know
what stuff he was made of, and was
ready to risk his hide to find out. His
nothing OF the man who knew just
what he was going to do in crisis.
Ibid you ever know, Mr.. Jones"
said Ryanne, his eyes humorous, that
there Is an organization in this world
of ours, company that offers try
out to men of your kidney?"
whats that? What do you mean?''
What 1 say. There is an established
concern which will, upon application
for a liberal purchase of stock, ar
range any kind of adventure you
wish"
"What?" George drew in his legs
and sat up. What sort of jolly is
this?"
You put your finger upon the one
great obstacle. No one will believe
that such concern exists. Yet 1t is
a fact. And why not?"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-11-22
CHAPTER vI.-lcontinued.l

Some one was sitting down beside
him. 1t was Ryanne, In evening
clothes, immaculate, blase, pink
checked. There are some men so hap
PLY framed that they can don ready
made suits without calling your atten-
ton to the fact. George saw at once
that the adventurer was one of these
fortunate individuals.
Makes a rather good picture to
look at; eh?" began Ryanne, rolling
q fiake-tobacco cigarette. Dancer"
mo. Wish l could. You've done
quick work." with admiring inspection.
mot flaw anywhere. How do you
do it?"
Thanks. Thanks to you, might
say. did some tall hustling, though.
Strange, how we love these funeral
toggeries. We follow the dance and
we follow the dead. with never a
variation in color. The man who in
vented the modern evening clothes
must have done good business during
the day as chief-mourner."
why don't you send for your lug
gage?"
Ryanne caressed his chin. MY
luggage is, believe, in the hands of
the enemy. 1t is of no great import
ance. never carry anything of value,
save my skin. I'm not like the villain
in the melodrama; no discriminating
documents, no lost Wills, no directions
for digging up pirates gold"
II suppose you'll soon be off for
American" George asked indiffereltly
II suppose so. By the way, l saw
you at the game today"
mo! Where were you?"
top row. / am going to ask q
favor of you. It may sound rather ode
to your ears, but l know those two
ladies rather well. I kept out of the
way till could find some clothes
The favor / ask is that you will not
tell them anything regarding the cir
cumstances of our meeting. l am
known to them as globe-trotter and
collector"
That's too bad" said George con
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-11-22

tritely. But / have already told
them"
"The devil you have!" Ryanne drop
per his cigarette into the ash-tray. "If
I remember rightly, you asked me to
say nothing"
Il know" said George, visibly en-
barrassed. II forgot"
We'll, the fat is in the fire. dare
say that can get round 1t. 1t was
risky. Women like to talk. I expect
every hour to hear of some one ar
living from Bagdad."
There's no boat from that direction
Til next week." informed George, who
was a stickler on timetables.
"There are other ways of getting
into Egypt. Know anything about
raeingscailelsf
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-11-22

Because 1t wouldn't be real; 1t
would be going to the moon a la
Coney Island"
Wrong, absolutely wrong. If
told you that | am stockholder In
this company. and that the adventure
of the Yhiordes rug was arranged for
my special benefit, what would you
say?"
"Say?" George turned serious
countenance toward the adventurer.
why, the whole thing is absurd on
the face of it. AS Joke, 1t might go;
but as genuine affair. utterly impos-
sible."
mo-" quietly. 81 admit that 1t
sounds absurd, yes; but ten years ago
they'd have locked up, as insane. a
man who said that he could fly. But
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-11-22

officers and directors In the United
Romance and Adventure Company,
Ltd. sat in the majors room, round
the boudoir-stand which had tempo
rarily been given the dignity of a
table. The scene would not have been
without i1Serest either to the specula-
tive physiognomist or to the dramat-
list. To each it would have represent
ed one Of those astonishing moments
when the soul OF a person comes out
into the open, as one might express 1t,
incautiously, to be revealed In the ex-
pressions of the eyes end the mouth.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-11-22

fore are unable to prepare for It. You
do not see 1t, my dear. but 1t is there,
nevertheless"
Wallace nodded approvingly. Ry-
anne shrugged.
Failure is practically impossible
And / want excitement; crave 1t rs
you men crave your tobacco"
And there we are, Kate. 1t really
isn't the gold; it's the excitement OF
getting it and coming away unscathed
II could only get you to look at all
sides of the affair! it's the Rubicoa.s
ITO BE CONTINUITY
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-11-22
CHAPTER VII.

Ryanne Tables His Cards.
During this time Mrs. Chedsoye, the
major, Messrs Ryanne and Wallace,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-03-29
CAMPAIGN FOR
WILSON IN N. j.
State Chairman Tells Of Pro.
gress of Boom Here.
(From the NEWS oorrespondent.)


Washington, March 29:-Edward
%. Grosscup, chairman of the New
Jersey Democratic State Committee,
was in Washington recently confer
ring with members of the New Jer-
sey delegation with relation to poll
tical affairs incidental to the ad-
vancement of the candidacy of Gov
ernor Wilson for the presidency.
While here MI. Grosscup made a trip
to Baltimore and engaged headquar-
ters for the New Jersey delegation
during the national convention. He
secured the reservation of one entire
floor In the Hotel Stafford, which
will be sufficient to accommodate the
overweight delegates. He also ar
ranged for a number of rooms In a
nearby apartment house to accom-
modate other friends of Governor
Wilson from New Jersey who will
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-03-29

the convention.
The state chairman said that moth
ing is being left undone by the
friends Of Governor Wilson to as
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-03-29
ALMANAC FOR THE WEEK.

II you have something to trade
put an advertisement IN our exs
change column.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-03-29

sure him of the support Of the en-
tire delegation from his own State.
A thorough campaign Is being in
augurated, he said, and wherever
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-03-29

come it. A speechmaking campaign
in connection with the presidential
preferential primary will be inaugur-
ated next month, Mr.. Grosscup stat
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-03-29

opposition to the governor Is devel-
.oping from the remnant of the
|Smith-Nugent machine the Wilson
men are prepared to meet and over
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-03-29

ing that a large number of promi-
nent and Influential Democrats hav-
ing volunteered their services in that
connection.
, 1912-06-26
lE1on uesterdaY's BuILeIinl.

We are not going to cry out "Wolf wolff
when no wolf Is here. In fact we have no
intention TO cry out ot"all. But there Is q
wolf, and a very formidable and cruel beast
he is too, who is c|arfying off some Of the
sheep from Il nci2hbouIing fold, and we
should like to say a few words about INN,
and especially about keeping a good lookout
for him, in case he should try to sneak III
here amongst us.
OF course our readers viii know that we
are thinking Of the outbreak Of bubonic
plague in Porto Rico. The first news of it
reached US last "Wednesday Qhe 19th), when
a telegram from San Juan spoke of several
suspicious cases which may prove to DO
bubonic plague, stated that great activity
was being shown IN disinfecting &c, and
added, "The suspected cases are between
the Maria and Puerto dc terra" Which
last sentence we interpret to mean that q
vessel named the Maria had brought the
disease to Porto Rico and that it had spread
from her to a place on the shore.
Whether this is the right Interpretation or
not, it is certain from a telegram that reach
ed us later the same day Tia t the disease had
been identified as bubonic plague, and that
a dozen cases had occurred, five OF which
had proved fatal. 1t was added, that 'the
medical authorities are taking extreme mea-
suIes to exterminute the disease" No news
came on Thursday, and on Friday 1t was re-
ported that there were no new cases and no
more deaths. This looked hopeful, but Sn-
turday's telegram, which we published in
Yesterdays Bulletin announced 2 new cases
and 2 deaths in the preceding "a hours, mad
also reported: Total II cases aid 7 deaths to
date. This morning we print as the latest
news: Total 10 cases with IL deaths.
In the meantime ouI Government has order
ed a quarantine OF 10 days against Porto Rico
and the adjacent islands. We believe that
our physicians guide IN such matters' and we
luke il for granted that they have 900. rea-
sons for making the time SO short. We say
, 1912-06-26

eshort" because we are told that some other
ISLANDS have fixed the time as Fl days against
places known TO have cases of bubonic plague.
The quarantine Of long ago extended over
forty days, as its name derived from the
French word for forLy) implies, but modern
knowledge has sho II Us thai he tlne may
be safely reduced, yet the old name sticks.
We have been asked: What IS this bu.
bonic plague of which the world seems so
much afraid? We are only sorry that we
can't give a reliable answer; but the truth is
that we know very httIe about il ourselves,
and we don't forget the saying about the
blind leading the blind. SO, as we don't
wish anyone to tumble into u ditch along
with us, even though it should be a shallow
one, we will ask our readers to accept what
we may state acib res ge, as the newspapers
say when they suspect their stories to rest
on a shaky foundation.
The bubonic plague then, as far as we have
read, is an extremely deadly fever. Bubo
means a boil, and one OF the symptoms OF the
disease Is the appearance OF bolIs on certain
palts Of the body, especially in the arm pits,
hence the namo bubonic. 1t is originally
an Asiatic disease, and frequently breaks
ont with violence IN parts Of India or Chl1a,
defying all control, aud sweeping off thou
sauds Of the natives. 1t has generally been
rare IN Europe, bQL mas CCCaSioAallN DlOheu
Out in epidemic foIm, as or example the famous
oplague Of London" in 1863. At the pres
ent time it exists in many parts OF the world,
Venezuela and the noighbouIing island of
Trinidad, Brazil the Poc fo coast Of n.
America and in many parts Of Asia and
Northern Africa.
The bubonic plague is one of the many dis
eases that are due to those very minute cIea-
lures which we call microbes, some kinds OF
which get into and poison the blood One of
its peculiarities s,that, as we'll as being a dis
ease Of human beings, it is II disease Of rats,
nice and such like small creatures, and a
further peculiarly is that the tieas which
infest these harry little animals can catch
the disease from them, and then may give it
to the unfortunate people whom they bite 1t
is this last popularity that has started tie
physicians and sanitary authorities in Porto
Rico on a vigorous campaign Of rat dcstruc-
ton, and may most likely iead to a similar
destruction in advance in the Danish islands.
General sanitation should also have prompt
attention; and we trust that all intelligent
citizens will be found ready to help in carry.
ing out whatever measures our sanitary
authorities may consider to be advisable.
We must try to keep the wolf out.
, 1912-06-26

ton, the consequence of which was the dis
appearance Of this small flock.
The observer thought the battle finished,
and made up his mind, later to eject the in
truder himself.
After working for some time he was star
tied by a peculiar noise looking ont, he saw
to his amazement hundreds Of swallows
coming and going in a regular and business
like manner, and; Lo and behold each cur
ried mud, and plastered it around the hole
i'll such rapid succession, that the sparrow,
in spite of his desperate attempts, could
neither get out, nor prevent the hole being
stopped up by a thick wall of mud.
Now, Dear Mr.. Editor, as in the case
referred to by you in Avis No. so, all began
to fly round and round, and twilter at he
same time, and all the time-delighted.
Moral-Monroe Doctrine.
, 1912-06-26

Fredcriksted, st. Croix, 9th June 1912.
The SIS. Guiaua, Capt. j. w, Carey, from
st. Kits and other islands, arrived at 7.4O
on Saturday morning, and took in the bal
auce Of shipment from Me5sis. Bartfaii Bios.
Of 566 bags Lower Love sugar, making a
total of 10000 bags, and left at eleven
O'clock for New York via st. Thomas.
Passengers for New York-Aiiss j. E.
Machay, Miss Beatrice Rosinius, Miss Elisa
J Jackson, Mrs, Leonile McIntosh and two
children, Miss Mne Luuney, Ivan Dyer
For St. Thomas-Mr. II. Alberto Light
bourn, Miss Edna Roberts, Miss Catherine
Roberts, Mrs. Lionel Roberts and infant,
Mrs. Greider and daughter,
, 1912-06-26
~. Editor,

LtVI TIT, LWVV|,
Your smile Of The swallows with
regard to the struggling showers recalls a
story written by a very eminent French ma
turalist and author (about the same time re-
ferred to by you) who, as a tutor lived in a
French castle SO high mp that he had swnl-
lows nests right outside ami around his
study windows. One day a most unusual
twittering 10y the birds attracted his attention.
Looking towards the centre Of the noise, he
observed a spanow's head peeping through
the hole III u nest, winch had belonged to
one of the returning swallows.
All the threats and flying at the sparrow
by The small colony, were met by a tormlda-
ble beak blocking the hole.
H-ai,st,g the u5vIes*nas5 OF this, they
gathered on a housetop and held a consulta-
, 1912-06-26

MARRIED at ST. Johns Church yester-
day evening Nhe 25th) by the Rector, the
Rev. Canon Watson, assisted by the Rev.
j.. i. Levo, FLORENCE JOSEPHINE, second
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. BoAogen, to Mr..
G. STANLEY STYLES.
, 1912-06-26

The Factory ugar Price

for canes delivered to the Company during
the week from the 18th to the 22nd June
1912 is fixed at $1.G2 per 100 Tbs. Of sugar
which gives 9.72 cents per 100 lbs. OF canes.
, 1912-06-26
Ans@ttelse.

wTNDER 25de Juni 1912 har Guverne-
mentet for de dansk vestindiske Der
beskikket Plantageejer BEATTY al Planta-
gen Constitution Hill til Vejlnspektor i
Kompagniets Kvarter, Stedet for Planter
VIM. ~LATIMER, der Ell afgaaet we'd OGDEN.
, 1912-06-26

An exhibition, which is certain to be lnte-
resting to people in general, and also valua-
bic to people having practical use for the
objects shown, is to be held in Copenhagen
from The 5th of July TO the Goth Of August.
1t is "rhe scandinavian Fisheries Exhibition
and the international Motor EXbjb ton"
We have received from the ''Press Com
mittee'' a circular giving many interesting
details about the history and purposes Of the
exhibition, which is countenanced and sub
stantially aided by the three Scandinavian
Governments, those namely Of Denmark,
Sweden and Norway. There will be an open
basin for salt water fishes and an aquarium
foI fresh-wator fishes. Nets with their con
fonts as brought from tue sea bottom
will be shown. There will be o special
building for exhibiting motors, and motor
boats will occupy q part ofthe Quay lent
by the Harbour authorities.
With the circular came a sketch plan
giving q view of the arrangement OF the
grounds and the various buildings This
we shall be happy to lend to any lady OF gen
tleman who may be particularly interested.
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