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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-11-23
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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18

why should I consider your hus
bands feelings?" he cried. He didn't
consider mine when he married you"
Suddenly bending forward, every
nerve tense, he continued hoarsely:
alicia, tell you I'm desperate. I'm
hemmed in on all sides by creditors.
You know what your friendship-your
patronage means? If you drop me
now. your friends will follow-they're
lot of sheep led by you-and when
my creditors hear of me they'll be
down on me like flock of wolves.
I'm not able to make a settlement.
Prison stares me in the face"
CHANGING around at the handsome
furnishings, Alicia replied carelessly:
I'm not responsible for your wrong
doing. 1 want to protect my friends.
that is precisely why / should warn
them. They have implicit confidence
in me. You have borrowed their mon
ey, cheated them at cards, stolen from
them. Your acquaintance with me has
given them the opportunity. But now
I've found you out. | refuse any long
er to sacrifice my friends, my self-re-
spect my sense of decency." Angrily
she continued: You thought you could
bluff ME. You've adopted this cow
ards way of forcing me to receive
you against my will. Well, you've
failed. / will not sanction your rob-
bling my friends. will not allow you
to sell them any more of your high
priced rubbish, or permit you to cheat
them at cards"
Underwood listened in silence. He
stood motionless, watching her flushed
face as she heaped reproaches on him.
She was practically pronouncing his
death sentence, yet he could not help
thinking how pretty she looked. When
she had finished he said nothing, but
going to his desk, he opened a small
drawer and took out a revolver.
Alicia recoiled, frightened
What are you going to do?" she
cried.
Underwood smiled bitterly.
"Oh, don't be afraid. | wouldn't dc
it while you are here. In spite Of ali
you've said to me, still think toe
much of you for that" Replacing the
pistol in the drawer, he added: Alicia
if you desert me now, you'll be sorry
to the day of your death"
His visitor looked at him in silence
Then. contemptuously, she said:
(TO BE CONTINUED
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18
Pacific Northwest

John S. Rogers, convicted of the
murder of Benjamin Goodman, jew
elry salesman, in San Francisco, No
vember IS, 1911, was sentenced to be
hanged May "a.
John J. Marble, formerly of San
Francisco, chief of the division of prose
tions of the interstate commerce COM
mission, has been appointed secretary
of the commission to succeed Edward
A. Mosely, who died last April.
A pardon has been granted to A. B.
A. Walton, one of three business men
convicted of robbing the Commercial
Bank of Toele, Utah, of $4,000 last sum
mer by a pretended holdup. The money
was returned and Walton, with S. E.
Schaefer, the cashier, and G. H. Hig-
gins, another banker, were sentenced
to year each in Jail. Schaefer and
Higgins were pardoned previously.
"The furry about the celebrated
house resolution regarding military
posts has about subsidized here,' says a
letter received by former United States
Senator T. c. Powers at Helena from
Senator Joseph NJ Dixon, written in
response to a request for information
as to the possibility that the recon-
mendation of the secretary of war may
affect forts of the northwest.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18
CAME AS PLEASANT CHANGE
Hand-Written Business Letter APP
peaIed to the Man of Old
Fashioned Ideas.

Yesterday" said an old-fashioned
man, Il received handwritten letter.
the first l had received in long time.
and do you know l was much i'm
pressed by it? Much.
You know that for long time now
almost all business letters have been
typewriter, dictated. With the vast
multiplicity of letters to be written.
we could no longer find time to write
our letters by hand. That hand-writ-
ten letter that l got yesterday did
please me.
There was a man who In answer to
mine had sat down and actually writ
ten me letter. and there was a sense
of personal attention in that that
pleased me very much, and l think
there might still be found profit in the
handwritten letter. Many such letters
that we used to get we couldn't read.
or we deciphered only with much Ia
Dor; certainly the typewriter letter
is a great convenience and comfort.
and still l do think that 1t would pay
a business man occasionally to write
letter with his own hand. 1t would
please his customer, l do believe, to
receive such letter that was obvi-
ously a personal communication.
know that such letter pleased me-"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18

Underwood sat glaring at him, won
dering how he could put him out.
AS he reached the last verse his
head began to nod. The words came
thickly from his lips and he sank
sleepily back among the soft divan
pillows.
Just at that moment the telephone
bell rang. Underwood quickly picked
up the receiver.
who's that?" he asked. AZ he
heard the answer his face lit up and
he replied eagerly: Mrs. Jeffries-
yes. I'll come down. No. tell her to
come up"
Hanging up the receiver, he hastily
went over to the divan and shook
Howard.
Howard, wake up! confound you!
You've got to get out-there's some
body coming"
He shook him roughly. but his old
classmate made no attempt to move.
Quick, do you hear!" exclaimed
Underwood impatiently Wake up
some ones coming"
Howard sleepily half opened his
eyes. He had forgotten entirely
where he was and believed he was
on the train, for he answered:
Sure, I'm sleepy. Say-porter,
make up my bed"
His patience exhausted, Underwood
was about to pull him from the sofa
by force, when there was a ring at
the front door,
Bending quickly over his compan-
ion, Underwood saw that he was fast
asleep. There was no time to awaken
him and get him out of the way, so,
quickly, he took big screen and ar
ranged it around the divan so that
Howard could not be seen. Then he
hurried to the front door and
opened it.
Alicia entered.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18
copyright. 1909, by G. W. Dillingham; Company3
SYNOPSIS.

Howard Jeffries, bankers son, under
the evil influence of Robert Underwood.
Q fellow-student at YALE leads a life of
dissipation, marries the daughter. of a
gambler who died in prison. and Is dis
owned by his father. He tries to get work
and fails. A former college chum makes
business proposition to Howard which
requires $1,000 cash. and Howard Is broke.
Robert Underwood, who had been re
pulsed by Towards wife, Annie, in his
college days, and had once been engaged
to Alicia, Towards stepmother, has
apartments at the Astruria, and is ap-
parently in prosperous circumstances.
Howard recalls a $3.50 loan to Underwood,
that remains unpaid, and decides to ask
him for the $1,000 he needs Underwood,
taking advantage of his intimacy with
Mrs. Jeffries, Sr, becomes a sort of social
highwayman Discovering his true shar-
acter she denies. him the house. Alicia
receives note from Underwood, threat
ening suicide. She decides to go and see
him. He is in desperate financial straits.
Art dealers for whom he has been acting
as commissioner demand an accounting.
He cannot make good Howard Jeffries
calls in an intoxicated condition. He asks
Underwood for 50 600.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18
CHAPTER VII.

For a few moments Underwood was
too much overcome by emotion to
speak. Alicia brushed by in naughty
silence. not deigning to look at him.
All he heard was the soft rustic of
her clinging silk gown as it swept
along the floor. She was incensed
with him. of course, but she had
come. That was all he asked She
had come in time to save him. He
would talk to her and explain every
thing and she would understand.
She would help him in this crisis as
she had in the past. Their long
friendship, all these years of intimacy,
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18

could not end like this. There was
still hope for him. The situation was
not as desperate as he feared. He
might yet avert the shameful end of
the suicide. Advancing toward her,
he said in hoarse whisper:
"Oh, this Is good Of you, you've
come-this is the answer to my let
ter"
Alicia ignored his extended hand
and took seat. Then, turning on
him, she exclaimed Indignantly:
1.-THE answer should be a horse
whip. How dare you send me such
messenger" Drawing from her bag
the letter received from him that
evening, she demanded:
What do you expect to gain by
this threat?"
Don't be angry, Alicia"
Underwood spoke soothingly, trying
to conciliate her. Well he knew the
seductive power of his voice. Often
he had used it and not in vain, but
tonight it fell on cold, Indifferent
ears.
Don't call me by that name" she
snapped.
Underwood made no answer. He
turned slightly paler and, folding his
arms, just looked at her, in silence.
There was an awkward pause.
At last she said:
Il hope you understand that every
things over between us. Our &C.
quaintance is at an end"
MY feelings toward you can never
change" replied Underwood earnest
ly. 81 love you'll shall always love
YOU"
Alicia gave little shrug of her
shoulders, expressive of utter indiffer
ence.
"Love!" she exclaimed mockingly
you love no one but yourself"
Underwood advanced nearer to her
and there was a tremor in his voice
as he said: =
You have no right to say that. You
remember what we once were. Whose
fault is it that ] am where l am to
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18
NEW OFFICERS OF
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
Inland Empire Chose Spokane as Next
Meeting Place.


The following new officers were
elected at the morning session of the
Inland Empire Teachers association:
President, Bruce M. Watson of Spo-
kane, city superintendent of schools.
First vice president, w. t. Harmon,
Missoula, superintendent of public in
struction of Montana.
Second vice president, L. R. Alder
man, superintendent of public instruc-
ton of Oregon.
Third vice president, Earl S. Woo
ster, Lewiston, of the State Normal
school.
Treasurer, J. V. Buchanan, Cheney
Normal school.
Executive committee, Richard T.
Hargreaves, principal of the North Cen
trail high school, of Spokane; A. L.
Brown, superintendent of the Wen
atchee schools; j. H. Alderman, prin-
cipal of the State Normal school at
Monmouth, Ore.
Chairman Richard T. Hargreaves of
the executive committee announces the
selection of Spokane as the meeting
place of the 1913 convention.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18

Twas eventide. The boy stood on
the bridge, clapping his hands vigor-
ously. Beyond the brow of the hill
dull red glow suffused the sky.
"Ah, little boy,'' remarked the
stranger, who was rather near-sighted,
it does my heart good to see you APP
preciate yon beautiful cloud effects.'
Yes, SIR" replied the lad; "I've
been watching it for ten minutes. -
Upon the lad IS face there appeared
smile of radiant bliss.
" A real poet, without doubt. And
do you watch sunsets often, little
boyf'
Sunsets9 Why, that ain It sunset,
guvnor- That's the village school
burning DOWN."
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18
CHAPTER Vl.-Continued.


He helped himself to another drink,
his hand shaking so that he could
hardly hold the decanter. He was
fast approaching the state of complete
intoxication. Underwood made no at
tempt to interfere. Why should be
care If the young fool made a sot of
himself? The sooner he drank him
self insensible the quicker he would
get rid of him.
No, Howard" he said; you'd never
make a decent member of society"
"P'raps not" hiccoughed Howard
How does Annie take her social
ostracism?" inquired Underwood
Like a brick. She's thorough
bred, all right She's all to the good"
"All the same. I'm sorry ever in
troduced you to her." replied Under
wood. Il never thought you'd make
such fool of yourself as to marry"
Howard shook his head in a maud
lin manner. as he replied:
Il don't know whether | made a
fool of myself or not, but she's all
right. She's got in her the makings
Of great woman-very crude, but
still the markings. The only thing
object to is, she insists on going back
to work, just as If I'd permit such a
thing. Do you know what / said on
our wedding day? Mrs. Howard Jeff
ries, you are entering one of the old
lest families in America Nature has
Atted you for social leadership. You'll
be petted, pampered member of that
select few called the "400,"' and now,
damn it all. how can l ask her to go
back to work? But If you'll let me
have that $1,000"
BY this time Howard was beginning
to get drowsy. Lying back on the
sofa, he proceeded to make himself
comfortable.
1.-TWO thousand dollarsl" laughed
Underwood. why. man. I'm in debt
up to my eyes,"
As far as his condition enabled him,
Howard gave start of surprise.
Hard up!" he exclaimed. Pointing
all this-a bluff?"
Underwood nodded.
"A bluff. that's 1t. Not a picture,
not vase, not a stick belongs to
me. Youth have to go to your IA
Their"
Never" said Howard despondently.
The suggestion was evidently too
much for him, because he stretched
out his hand for his whisky glass. "Fa-
theirs done with me-" he said dole
fully.
He'll relent." suggested Under
wood.
Howard shook his head drowsily.
Touching his brow. he said:
TOO much brains. too much up
here" Placing his hand on his heart,
he went on: TOO little down here.
Once he gets an idea. he never let's it
60, he holds on Obstinate. One
idea-stick to 1t. Gee, but I've made
q mess of things, haven't II"
Underwood looked at him with con-
tempt
you've made mess of your life, ="
he said bitterly. yet you've had some
measure of happiness. You, at least.
married the woman you love. Drunk
en- beast as you are, envy you. The
woman | wanted married some one
else, damn her!"
Howard was so drowsy from the
effects of the whisky that he was al
most asleep. AS he lay back on the
sofa, he gurgled:
Say. old man; l didn't come here
to listen to hard-luck stories. l came
to tell one"
In maudlin fashion he began to sing
rOh- listen to my tale of VICE." while
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18
Childish ingenuity,

If grown-ups were as ingenious In
manufacturing happiness az children
are, this old world would be grinning
all the time. Two little boys in Jones
street yesterday had roller skate to
play with. The bigger boy put it on.
and the smaller boy rode astride the
bigger boys foot. The two OF them
had as much fun out of that skate as
If it had been an tomobile.-Newark
IN. j. News.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18
Samcncss.

There is certain sameness about
natural scenery" said the man who
looks bored.
DO you mean to compare a mag
nificent mountain with the broad ex-
panse of the sea?"
Eyes. Wherever yor find a spot Of
exceptional beauty somebody is sure
to decorate it with sardine tins and
biscuit boxes. Washington Star.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18
Got $4,000 Damages.

Sacramento.-John Bruce Fairbairn
has been awarded a $4,000 judgment
against the American River Electric
company for the loss of both legs and
arm as the result of an electric shock
from one of the high voltage wires of
the company.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18

A Columbia professor rebuked the
hidebound grammarian at studio tea
in New York with a story.
:" A lady," he said, chad a rather
dissipated husband, and one evening
she said to friend:
4 wish knew where George was.
1.-The friend, professor 8 wife, said
primly:
" Il presume, dear, you mean you
wish you knew where he is7'
No, 1 DON It, said the lady. I
know where he is. He is upstairs in
bed with bloodshot eyes and a terrific
headache. 1, want to know where he
was'.'
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18
Haste Not TO Be Repeated.

you say you have quit smoking?"
yep, never going to smoke again"
Then why don't you throw away
those cigars?" Never; threw away
box of good cigars the last time l
quit smoking and it taught me a les.
son."
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18
CO Id S
CURED In ONE DAY

AS rule. few doses of Munyon's Cold Rem
cay VIII break up. any cold and prevent pneu-
nost n ~ re,eves the head, throat and lungs al
or sent postpaid. ' ~
nj II you need Medical ADVICE write to Munyon's
DOCTORS. They will carefully diagnose your case
and give you advice by mail absolutely free
Address Professor Munyon, 53rd and Jefferson
streets. Philadelphia. Pa. '0-N A''1
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18

A recent discovery in Ireland indi-
Gates the presence of large area rich
IN copper, sulphur and arsenic.
Nearly 100000 young trout are
raised at Pennsylvania hatchery every
year.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18
Taft Has utah,s Endorsement.

Salt Lake City, Utah.-President
Taft was Endorsed for denomination for
president at meeting of the repuh-
lican state central committee here.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18
Roosevelt Wins in Missouri.

Jefferson City, Mo.-Roosevelt car
ried 13 Missouri counties Saturday and
Taft 2.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18
Addition to ShackIes.

One of the first reforms wanted in
this country is for husbands to tell
their wives what incomes they have
Judge Willis
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-18
Uncle Ezra Saws:

Don't forgit thet Judgment day Ii
ev'ry day on the part NV your sharp
eyed neighbor. Boston Herald.
Evening journal., 1912-01-12
: With the ParagrapherS q:


The quality Of the paper used in Washington city
records Will crnmble TO pieces within fifty That's
even too long for many Washington records to pre-
served-Seattle Post-iuteligencer.
of course it wouldn't do for commercial reasons"
20 any Russian insults. Standard Oil and the
Harvester Trust do big business with Russia-Kan-
City Star.
man and woman, both deaf-mutes. were united
in marriage last week at Bristol Tenn. by a deafmute
minister This must be one of the quiet weddings of
which we often read'-rhe Daily Okahoman.
is not monopoized from the cradle to the con? asks
the Lowell Courier-Citizen. Observation-Disclosures
ter Union.
No matter how poor We may be, il is a sweetly sol
thought that the worlds supply of gold is still
increasing. Il is something to dream about-Toedo
Blade.
The prison orchestra has been ordered to play each
day at dinner at the Federal penitentary Atlanta
Crime must be punished,-Birmingham Age-Herald.
Texas has S2OOOO00 fines chalked up against
railroads for late and insufficient train service Texas
believes in doing everything large scale-Sche-
nectady Union-Star.
Those who won't let Colonel Roosevelt alone are en-
titled 10 no sympathy If they don't like what's coming
TO them iaicr-SI Louis Globe Democrat
Manager Griffith says he won't tolerate ball players
VINO drink but We hope he will let the boys take
few high halls-Washington Post
Evening journal., 1912-01-12
NEGRO CLuB pEMOCRATs.

Chester Republican.
It may jar the average reader who.
at first glance, sees the captain Of
this article-"Negro Club Democrats" I"
because such political diversion or
transgression Of colored voters would
naturally be regarded as almost i'm
possible Yet, strange enough, for
peculiar reasons which the promoters
best understand. there exists few
negro Democratic clubs in New York
and Washington, and lately a charter
was obtained from the State Depart
ment of Delaware for q colored Demo-
cratic club in Wilmington. Some Of
the Democratic leaders i'm that city
look upon the move with suspicion, in
ferring that a certain faction has in
duced a number of unthinking darkies
to lend their names to the new club,
and that is all there is to it.
Bishop walters, of the A M Z. Zion
Church, Washington, in fact the head
of that organization. has for several
years been engaged I'm the work of CO.
ercing his negro brethren into Demo-
cratic clubs, and for the leader Of a
religious body to be particularly inter-
ested in such political travesty of his
race is a seeming fall from grace. But
doubtless the Bishop understands his
business-the political side of his vo-
cation-and the outside world must
not be too curious.
No one would seriously question the
right of colored voters to exercise
their own judgment in politics and to
determine whether they should invar-
iably cast their ballots like automa-
tons. no matter for who, or under
what circumstances But negroes are
inherently Republicans, because their
freedom as a people and their rights
as citizens were both obtained through
the Republican party. Therefore, to
see colored men lending their names
to Democratic clubs, could create nc
other impression than that there must
be some other underlying influence
than common sense that leads them
astray
Apropos, it is timely to recall that
the Emancipation proclamation Of a
Evening journal., 1912-01-12
JUSTTRY A Ten CENT
BOX OF CASCARETS
InSures YOu for Months
Against a Sick Headache,
BiIiOuSncSS, Constipation
or a Bad Stomach

Put aside-just once-the Salts,
Cathcartic Pills, Castor Oils or purga-
tive waters which merely force
passageway through the bowels. but
do not thoroughly cleanse, freshen and
purify these drainage or alimentary
organs. and have no effect whatever
upon the liver and stomach.
Keep your inside organs pure ana
fresh with Cascarets. which thorough
IL cleanse the stomach, remove the
undigested sour and fermenting food
and foul gases, take the excess bile
from the liver and carry out of the
system all the decomposed waste mat
ter and poisOns in the intestines and
bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will make you
feel great by morning They work
while you sleep-never gripe, sicken
and cost only 10 cents a box from
your druggist Millions of men and
women take a Cascaret now and then
and never have Headache, Biliousness,
coated tongue. Indigestion, Sour Stom-
ach or Constipated bowels Cascarets
belong in every household. Children
just love 10 take thom
Evening journal., 1912-01-12
AUTOMOBILE TRUCKS.

ONE of the notable signs of progress is the
~ use of the automobile truck by business
houses and manufacturers for practical purposes.
Gradually the automobile service is taking the
place of the horse drawn vehicles and the present
cold weather, which makes travelling precarious for
horses over the icy streets, has demonstrated the
superiority OF the motor trucks.
The automobile pleasure cars are more than
holding their own but the bulwark of the au.omo-
billing manufacturing business Of the future will
be the development of the motor car for practical
every day business uses
Nearly all the manufacturers are now turning
their attention TO the commercial side of the
business, and the cold weather has impressed upon
them more than ever before the possibilities of
such development
Evening journal., 1912-01-12
:: Personal and Pertinent ::


Above the writing table in her nephews library Aunt
Maria of Duchess county found a framed New Years
resolution:
"on the first Of the new year resolve to stop smo-
ing cigarettes"
How horriblei" said Aunt Maria. Harry, is IL pos
sble that the habit of smoking these odious things
fastened itself strongly upon you that it takes
New Years resolution to break it?'
"Oh It isn't that have sworn on said Harry, 1T is
my wife New York Sun.
.-.-.-.
On Broadway there is sign outside barber shop
which reads.
Come in and have your eye painted Black eyes
done over for 10 cents"
And they do good busness.-New York Sun
.-.-.-:
There is perennial nobleness and even sacredness
in work. We're he benighted and forgetful Of
his high calling, there is always hope in a man who
actually and earnestly works.-Carlyle
.-.-.-.
Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the
poor; but if there luxury, there would be no
poor.-Home
.-.-.-:
II is the duty of all persons, when affairs are the most
prosperous then in especial to reflect within themselves
in what way they are to endure adversity-Terence.