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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-10
TEACHING BOY,ACE
IS, TO Be 4 THIEF
Mother Of Thomas Larkin of
Davenport Objects TO As
sociations Here.

That 1G-yearo'd Thomas Larkin Of
Davenport was undergoing a tutelage
in thieying at the hands of a band of
"Fagins" ana was rapidly acquiring
knowledge and experience in crime
was the startling accusation of the boys
mother in the local police court today.
when her son was aTraigned on a
charge OF disOrderly conduct. With
absolutely no control over him and
striving hOpelessly to snatch him from
the clutches Of his evil associates, old
men in the ways of the world, who.
she claimed, were fast sending him
along the downward path, the frantic
mother yesterday appealed TO the po-
lice to intervene, and the lad was ar
rested in the DuPrez place on Third
avenue.
On his promise to remain at home
and forsake his evil associates, the
boy was given his liberty with q 5000
fine suspended over his head and the
promise that he would be sent to St
Charles if he did not mend his ways.
The Larkin boy, according to his
statement, has been hanging around
the DuPrez place for several weeks
past. He has been away from home
since Sunday noon, and this morning
ing potatoes adm slept in the restaur-
first time in four days Tom claimed
he had been working for DuPrez sell
ing potatoes and slept in the restau-
ant. He has been making barely
enough money to keep himself. and
when arrested had only 80 cents on
his person.
TELLS PITIFUL STORY,
The mother told a pitiful story. Il
have tried to raise Thomas right and
give him an education" she said. but
he persists in running away from home
remaining with a class Of people who
are rapidly sending him wrong. They
are educating him to be a thief. They
+ have women supporting them. and nv
boy prefers these vicious characters
70 his own home He is at an age
when he thinks il is smart to 90 those
things and will not listen 10 reason.
They have taught him TO drink, and
he will no longer listen to me. He has
a sweet little sister and a good home.
but is rapidly slipping away"
The LaTkin boy was warned that if
+ he came 70 Rock Island again he would
be sent TO St Charles OF Jail. A num-
Der CT his companions were today or
dered out Of town by the police.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-05-24

slDznl"
thoaeht 4 best 70 IT tn peiooner hays
HI fuIi ~. WITH ! tplenn lowering
- biz bead. Arthur anowA~d:
When ! nv NJ home deeolAto9 =
one dreadful night. With one sister
dead u the houee. the victim q No.
Ience. and another delifious he0
night o. some other analogous cars.
I had ample dina to thlnk-and used
thai tina That's oil.
Simple words. reao - repeate4 but
= that crowded courtroom. With esesy
eaf sfsalned p catch IL " wh1eh
scanned the only refuge tor the nnan
- hemmed u b. clreumstance. th4o
Words uttered without The leaee ~
tempt at eject. ten with . force,
which savs new LIE - sseh - wlahod
b 80 this man acquitted
When old yos - yoer sister Ade-
10 1oe N iast tilae auye
nat alent q NJ 0suuef tabse.
When leat the room turned to iook
@ nee. UAe was lot looking q -
= 4 Slammed tne oooe ana went mp
etAiEA ~ an n0of g = ! bad le6
N house % CT z drink. got u
drink, bat I nevoe nv Akeli31o asnln
I'll saw her 3 ~ co0n.s
This blunt deAial Of tho crime 1oe
which be stood there arraiened fan
q my heart with weight which
allowed mo how inextineujshahl =
the hope Ne cherish deep down nm
Der Ill surfaces convictions. I ~
been unconscious Of this hope, but Il
was there. It seemed to de 4 double
d. tn at these words. For I b.
6eved him! Courage y needed TOR Q
he. There were 10 signs visible -
him - Jet Of bis having drawn upoa
this last resources Of the despahinG.
I should know II when Ne did He
could mot hide the eubde chAnge rom
me.
To others this declaration came WITH
greater or less force. according - Il
was viewed tn the light OF ORA
matc trick Of Nj. Mo6ats or a. the
natural outburst OF q man nghting
Tor MS NE IN his own way and with
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-05-24

Ito Be Con tinued.]
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-05-24

Mr. Monat glanced 1T the jury. the
smile still on his lips. Did he wish
to impress that body with the embar-
rassment Of his client7
RELATE what followed. am sure
the Jury will be glad to hear your story
from your own lips"
"It's a beastly one, but II I've got
to tell 1t, here 1t Is: l went straight
down to Cuthbert road and across the
fields to the clubhouse. ! had not
taken the key to the front door be-
cause l knew of a window I could
shake loose I did this and went i'm
mediately down to the wine vault.
used an electric torch Of my own for
light. pulled out several bottles
and carried them up into the kitchen.
meaning to light the gas. kindle nre
and have a good time generally. But
I soon found that l must do without
light If I stayed there. The meter
had been taken out, and to drink by
the fash of an electric torch was any
thing but a pleasing prospect Be-
sides"-here he flashed at his coun-
sci q glance which for . moment took
that gentleman aback-"I had heard
certain vague sounds In the house
which alarmed me % well as reused
my curiosity. Choosing the bottle
liked best. I went to investigate these
sounds
Mr.. Moffat started. His witness
was having his revenge. Kept In ig-
norance of his counsel's plan Of De.
Tense. he was evidently advancing
testimony new to that counsel. I had
not thought the lad 20 subtle and
Quaked In secret contemplation Of tho
consequences. So did others. but the
interest was intense. He had heard
ssunds-ha acknowledged 4 But what
0ounds2
"But I did not complete ~ ~
vsstigationA Arrived at the top oe
TIE stairs. I heard what drove mo from
The house at once. It was my sis
ters voice-Adelaide'A She was In
TIE building. and l stood almost On Z
level with her. with Z bottle in my
pocket. It did not take me Z minute
to Chamber through the window. 1
did not stop to wonder Or ak why
she was there Of to whom she was
speaking. ] just ned and made my
way a. well - I could across the
rolf links to q little hotel on Cuth.
bert road. where I had been once be-
lore. There ! emptied my bottle and
A.. IA as
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-05-24
The House
of the
Whispering
Pines
CHAPTER XVIII.
By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN
Copyright. 1910. by Anna Katharine
RohlfS
A BROTHERS vow.


A CHANGE was observable In
~ this degenerate son Of the
~ Cumberlands since many there
had confronted him face to
face. Physically he was improved. but
otherwise the difference was such as
to arouse doubt as to the real man
lurking behind his logged. uncommuni-
cative manner. felt that beyond the
one fact that he could be relied upon
to protect Carmels name and Carmers
character. even to the jeopardizing OF
his case. he was not to be counted on
and might yet startle many Of us. and
most notably Of all the little woman
waiting to hear what he had to say In
his own defense before she threw her.
self into the breach and made that de-
voted attempt to save him. in his own
despite, which had been my terror
from the first and was my terror now.
Perjury, but not In his own defense
rather in opposition to it-that u
what his counsel had to fear. and I
wondered II they knew It. He was
asked:
"Mr. Cumberland, did you have any
quarrel with your sister during the
afternoon or evening Of Dec. Pr
II did" Then, a. II not satisfied
with this simple statement, he blurted
forth: "And Il wasn't the first. She
disapproved Of my fondness for drink.
She didn't like my late hours. or the
condition in which ! frequently came
home. did not like her expressions
of displeasure or the way she Ire
Quently cut me short when I wanted
to have a good time with my friends
We never agreed. I made her suffer
often and unnecessarily. I regret Il
now; she was q better sister to me
than could then understand"
Mr.. Moffat, with an eye on District
Attorney Fox. who had shown his sur.
prise at the trend the examination was
taking by a slight indication Of I'M
easiness. went on with his examina-
ton:
mfr. Cumberland, will you tell %
when you flrst felt this change Of opin-
lon In regard to your sisterT
Mr.. Fox leaped to his feet. Then he
slowly reSeated himself. Evidently be
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-05-24

was Immediately taken advantage Of
BY his counsel.
You say more Why should It b.
more Of surprise to Jon than to any
one else to learn where this miasini
engagement ring Of your sisters had
been found?
Il was her brother. had broth
srs antipathies and rightful suspi-
eions. ! could not see how that ring
came to be where It was when the
only one interested in its restoration
was IN prison"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-05-24
CHAPTER XIX.
II An INNOCENT"

\HIS was q direct blow at my
self and Of course called Nj.
Fox to his feet with Z mo-
ton to strike out this an
swer. An alteration followed b.
tween him and Mr.. Nonat, which,
deeply a. It involved my life and repu-
taton. failed to impress me, a. e
might otherwise have done II my
whole mind had not been engaged 4
recouctllng the 1imculty about this
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-05-24

ed, and the look ne OarteO at MS COuu-
sci had the sting Of reproach in it.
Yet he answered: ut was the token Of
an engagement l didn't believe in or
like. l should have hailed any proof
that this engagement was off,"
Mr. Moffat smiled systematically.
"Mr. Cumberland. II you are not sure
of having seen this ring then. when
did you see it aud where?"
A rustic from end to end of that
crowded courtroom. This was an
audacious move. What was coming?
What would be the answer OF the man
who was believed not only to have
made himself the possessor Of this
ring, but to have taken most strange
and uncanny method Of disposing of
It afterward?
Il saw it when the police showed 1t
to me and asked me II could identify
it."
"Was that the only time you have
seen it up to the present moment"
ut is"
The universal silence gave way to q
universal sigh of excitement and re-
lief. Without waiting for the present
sentiment to cool. Mr.. Moffat proceed
ed Immediately with his examination:
"You swear that you have seen this
ring but once since the night Of your
sisters death, and that was when 1t
was shown you in the coroner's Officer"
II do"
"Does this mean that it was not In
your possession at any time during
that interimT
ut certainly does"
"Mr. Cumberland. more than one
witness has testified to the fact Of
your having been seen to place your
hand In the casket Of your sister, be-
fore the eyes Of the minister and Of
others attending her funeral. Il this
truer
sTt Is"
"was not this q most unusual thing
to DOR
perhaps. was not thinking about
that. had duty to perform, and
performed It"
"A duty7 VIII you explain to the
jury what dutyr
The witness head rose, then sank.
he. as well rs every one else, seemed
to be impressed by the solemnity Of
the moment I even thought could
detect tremor In his muscles as well
~ in his voice:
II had rebelled against my sisters
wishes: had grieved and deceived her
up to the very night Of her foul and
unnatural death and all through
drink" Here his eye flashed. and for
that fleeting moment he looked man.
II wished to take an oath-an oath !
would remember. II was for this
purpose l ordered the casket opened
and thrust my fingers through the
flowers found there. When my fn-
gers touched my sisters brow ! In
wardly sw0re never to taste liquor
again. | have kept that oath."
1t was M. unexpected explanation
and calculated to cause decided and
favorable reaction In the minds u
those who had booked upon this esps-
cial act Of his - an irrefutabIe proof
Of guilt Mr.. Mo6at's voice was heard
rising again In his strange but telling
examination:
when you thrust your hand in y
take this oath. did you drop anything
into your sisters caaletr'
r did not. Ny hand was empty. I
held no ring and dropped none In. I
simply touched her forehead"
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1912-07-11
PACKING HOUSE FOR SALE
OR RENT

The Payettc Bench Neon Growers
Association offer for rent or for sale
their large Fruit Packing House with
basement and grounds, situated at
Eiffe, one mile North of Fruitland,
Sealed bids will be received up until
noon Saturday August Bird 1912. All
bids and requests FOR further infor-
nation should be addressed to the
Secretary. All bids placed in separ-
ate envelopes and marked as such
will not be opened until August Bird.
The Board of Directors reserves tn
right to reject any or all bids.
PAYETTE BENCH MELON GROW
ERS ASSOCIATION, Ltd
26t5 H. e. Smith, Secretary.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1912-07-11

situations In the public business af-
fairs, just as the truly successful
his private and business life. Mr..
Haines has for his aim the conduct
ing of the safes affairs on the
broad business plans which govern
the affairs osSindividual business.
He believes that If the affairs of a
man, a corporation or other forms OF
civilized governing of expenditures
can be successfully conducted, SO, also
can the interests of the people be
guarded and protected. Mr.. Haines
i is not man who deals in theories
/, of what we ought to do, but he is
a man who has demonstrated by
his own efforts what can be done
and has been done by him in his own
business career. Mr.. Haines has
none of the spirit of tho plutocrat or
OF the demagogue who would use the
power given him by the people to
rule them with their own authority.
Rather he is of the class of men
who, realizing the trust imposed in
him, would make the effort of
conscientious and appreciative man
to serve them in the most efficient
manner it were possible for him to
ner which would mean for the good
of the greatest number whose inter-
ests were involved, and within the
rights of the position, regardless of
whom or what may be the sacrifice
to duty and the people so long as
il was a reasonably evident Fact that
1t was a good business course to
pursue for their benefit.
1--WE trust our physician, our law
yer, our banker, and our merchant.
Is it less to our credit TO have the
business of our country conducted
in the same careful manner, or that
we choose for Governor man W. o
is capable of conducting it and who
is making that the issue upon |
I'm concluding this letter, l wish
to say that it is not written by |
suggestion of either Mr.. Ha:nes ncr
any agency of political nature. 1t
from me as an individual tr.-
butte to the man as | know him.
Having both social and business re-
lations with him and his associates
in the business which thy condcct,
and having known him through the
years in which | have judged of his
and strength of mind
and character, l feel it is not mis-
leading any who may know me, and
| am not guilty of cndaavo:ing to
influence the acts of any person by
misrepresentation of facts, nor am |
seeking office at the hands of the
people. 1t is with a very warm
hearted feeling of friendship and re-
spect for Mr.. Haines that | am en-
iorsing him, and | would like no bet
.er use of this letter to be male
han that it could be read by every
person | know in Idaho, regardless
If party What is more interesting
o all of us than just this message
o the people as it comes from the
PLATFORM of the Hon. John NJ Haines
"A Business Administration by
BUSINESS Man" Isn't that enough?"
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1912-07-11
A PLAIN STATEMENT
AND A PROMISE

An honest man doesn't
need laws to make him honest
or to keep him so.
An honest corporation
doesnot require laws to make
or keep it SO.
ust what constitutes an
honest man or an honest cor
poration is more or less a
matter Of varying opinion.
but it is generally conceded
that a man who treats his
neighbor fairly, taking no I'M
due advantage, asking no ex-
cess of profit nor misrepre-
senting the goods he has to
sell--selling the best goods
he can produce with a fair
margain Of profit to himself
is honest.
Now a corporation is no
more and no less than a man
doing business on large
scale; and if a corporation
can answer that definition,
then we ought TO concede
that it is an honest corpora
ton. Such a corporation
doesn need laws or coercion
to make it honest or to keep
it so. And with all due
regard to skeptics, that's the
kind of a corporation The
Mountain States Telephone
and Telegraph Company
tries to be-claims to be.
1t is now giving the best
service it can produce at a
fair margin of profit, asking
no excess Of interest on the
money actually invested. Git
has no bonds and no watered
stock
Now, without coercion
and without demand of law
it makes this promise-that
its rates shall always be as
low as possible consistent
with good service. If the
rates shall at any time pro-
duce an excess of pro6tthey
will be reduced to such a
figure as to return only a fair
rate of interest on the money
actuelly invested. Keep this
in mind; it is true, and a
promise from an honest cor
poration.
Did you know that the
Mountain States Telephone
and Telegraph Company has
actually invested in property
Sl.l5 for every $l.00 capital
on which it pays interest?
7 our rates pay interest on
The $l.00, not the $l.l5.
THF MAINTAIN STATFe TIT FpH0NF avn
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1912-07-11

You had better have that photo
graph taken now. 1t will only take
a few minutes of your time. Try our
kodak finishing department, Films
developed for fifteen cents.
26tf Van Craven Studio.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1912-07-11

University of Utah Summer School.
Salt Lake, Utah, June 10, July 49,,
1912.
For the above mentioned occasion
reduced rates have been authorized
On the certificate plan See agents
for further particulars.
G. F. JOHNSON, Agent.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1912-07-11
Report of City Clerk and Treasurer
of the City of Payette for year
IS ending May Ist, 1912

!. I. :. Payete, Idaho May 1917
To the Mayor of City Payette; 1ass
Ifcrew hand our
and O
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-09-12
HIGH COST OF POLITICS.


According to their sworn state
ments, candidates for public offices
have spent enough money during the
recent campaign to burn up a wet
mule and the time wasted in making
footprints in the political sands could
have built a macadam highway from
the Red River to the gulf. Many Of
the defeated candidates who are too
proud to weep and too polite to swear
have concluded that the grapes are
sour and are smiling on their success
full opponents who for the next two
years will have to work hard and be
paid harder.
Some of the candidates tried to
brighten away the political collectors
by putting on robes of poverty, but
like the ship wrecked woman who put
on black stockings in order to scare
away sharks, they, were erunched in
the jaws Of destruction.
The high cost of politics is keeping
pace with the high cost of living and
Perry few items can be charged to the
tariff. -Nacogdoches Sentinel.
There is suspicion that many Of
these big campaign funds are provid-
ed for by others besides the candi-
dates themselves. If this is so, and
there is every reason to believe that
it, is, then it stands to reason there
are axes to grind. These big cam
paign funds are disgrace and the
people of Texas will welcome the day
when they are unheard of Let every
candidate from governor to constable
pay every penny of his campaign ex-
penses. In other words, let every tub
stand on its own bottom as recorded
in the second chapter of Jude.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-09-12
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
September IL.

September IL.
1714-Barcelona surrendered to the
Duke of Berwick.
174-spanish fleet boi}ibarded Algiers.
1929 Surrender of the Spanish army
at Tampico under Barradas, to
the Mexicans under Santa
Anna.
1S47--First days battle at Chepul-
tepec.
Perry sailed from
Hong Kong for the United
States.
lS57--Steamship Central America,
from Panama to New York, hav-
ing 626 persons on board and
nearly $2,O00.00O in treasure, to-
tally lost in gale.
1S6S-The president promised the del
egates from the Tennessee leg
islature to direct General Thorn.
as to furnish whatever military
force might be necessary to aid
the civil officers in carrying out
the laws.
1SS4-Tammany Hall, New York, in
dorsed Grover Cleveland for
president, after stormy meet
ing
1904-Japan made formal protest
against presence of Russian
auxiliary cruiser Lena in har-
Dor OF San Francisco ships
boilers in bad shape.
1909 Halley's comet was seen by
Prof. Wolff at Heidelberg.
l910-Ten chief officials of the Ar
mour, Swift and Morris packing
companies indicted by federal
grand jury at Chicago.
191l-An eruption of Mount Etna
Sicily, caused thousands in the
neighboring villages to aban-
don their homes and fee In
panic.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-09-12
SABBATH DESIGNATION.

OF late years there has been a
growing tendency toward Sunday
descration. The Sabbath has been
turned over to a day of worldly pleas
ure rather than as day of spiritual
meditation. God has sounded the
warning all down the ages that
he would not hold guiltless the
Individual or the nation which desc
Grated his holy day. All along the
pathway leading even into the far
away past is the wreckage of those
nations that have diverted Gods Sab
bath from holy to a play day. First
He placed His hand upon the indi
vidual-later upon the nation that
failed to follow His command
Is America on its way to the junk
pile of nations through this same sin?
Is not Gods hand even now upon the
individual who disobeys and later will
not the nation follow? On the first
page of yesterdays Dallas News the
following headlines appear, all having
reference to Sabbath tragedies. Not
one of these would have been had the
Sabbath not been desecrated. See the
list: Texan and Five Killed, Nine
teen Hurt in Motorcycle Racing Acct
dent; -Four Killed, Ten Hurt by
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-09-12
A MISTAKE.

We feel that State Superintendent
Bradley is making mistake in invit-
ing the superintendent and teachers
of the public schools to make con-
tributions to the Wilson and Marshall
campaign fund.
The public schools do not belong to
the democrats; they are supported
by all the people,
Besides, teachers should act with
other citizens; this isn't India.
We vote it a mistake, Brother
Bralley.-Waco Times-Herald.
The Times Herald is eminently cor
rect. Our schools should be removed
as far as possible from politics, from
the little red schoolhouse on the hill
to our greatest universities.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-09-12
Governor Wilson at Syracuse.

Syracuse, n. Y, Sept. To-day is
Governors Day at the state fair which
is in progress here, and Governor
Wilson, democratic nominee for pres
ident, is the guest of the day, sharing
honors with Governor Dix of New
York. A distinguished committee
came here to greet Governor Wilson,
and the democratic state committee
is holding a meeting at the same time
for the purpose of naming democratic
presidential electors and temporary
and permanent chairman for the
democratic state convention, which
will open in this city on October l,
Governor Wilson will make an ai-
dress at the fair, and is also expected
to address the state committee meet
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-09-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

An honest man doesn't have to wear
tag.
The smaller the man the bigger the
boast
A kicker seldom makes good in a
business of his own.
Only the office without a salary has
to seek the man.
In the language of lovers, kisses
speak louder than words.
Some women are so changeable that
they never wear the same complexion
twice.
1t takes a brave man TO face little
woman at the head of the stairs at
2 a. m.
Most people are anxious to get AVA
from the noise when man begins to
blow his own horn.
Sometimes man who clamors for
people to patronize home industr!
marries a girl from another town.
Perhaps a man can't be married
against his WILL but many poor man
discovers later that he was married
against his better Judgment.
A man never realizes the value of a