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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-14
CHAPTER XVI.
because You-Are You"

because You-Are YOU"
Poor, brave-hearted girl! How pitt
full and heartTending to a keen-eyed
man of the world, seemed her poor,
little sham about her fathers trust In
her! For l knew the facts. you know!
And suddenly it came to me that
Just couldn't and wouldn't let her go
on this way, without the sympathy OF
the man she loved; without the pre-
cious consolation OF knowing that he
knew! She was being badgered and
rOugh-shouldered and put upon and
distrusted and maligned by every one
she knew. and she had no one in all
the world to turn to but me-and-
Oh, I wanted her to know what
thought, don't you know
slipped to the seat beside her.
Err, Miss Billings" began, think
Ing absent-mfndedIy of what | should
say, and forgetting that We were quite
alone.
Miss Billings, Why do you call
me that? Her lovely brow puckered.
Il remember. now, that's twice you"
Frances, them" 1 corrected softly.
She Strengthened, her bosom lifting
with a quick intake. By Jove, that
was what she wanted!
on" Then she leaned slowly back,
looking at me thoughtfully through
half-closed eyes. her lips parted in
the oldest smile.
And l screwed my mOnocle tight and
let her have smile for smile. deter
mined to chirp her up and make her
feel our or eness-that sort of thing
YOU know And l succeeded, For OF
A sudden her head went back and the
Joyous peal of her canary laugh start
ed off tie jolly birds in the trees
above us.
"Oh. you" A stare, and then an
other burst as she bent forward. face
buried in her hands. Then it lifted
sharply. fiame-dyed-her lips tremu-
sous. her eyes shining like sapphire
stars. oh" she gasped. and how
envied the little hand she pressed
against her waist; but the windows
dash the windows. "That's-that's it
-Frances-just that much! But. do
YOU know, I dont-dont believe you
really know my full name. l remem-
Der now several tn" She bent to-
ward me witchingly, her wide blue
eyes challenging my candor Hon
estly, now-do-you?"
So it was that thought that was
tickling her! Well. by Jove. had her
there. for I had heard the judge men,
cton her name in full. l would sur
syrise her!
oh, don't II" l exclaimed, winking
as { polished my glass. Well, how
about Frances Leslie Billings" l let
her have it slowly, distinctly, and
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Il wonder how much you think
think"
Think lots" l said simply, watch
ing her little toe as it tapped.
Well, l should think as much!
And this time her laugh was short
oddly constrained. She looked away
off down the slope to the river. "Oh!"
This time it was a tiny gasp as of dis
may And the toe tapped like an
electric what's-its-name.
Yes l said, watching 1t musingly,
L suppose it's because you're the only
girl. don't you know, that l ever did
think of before-oh, ever at all, dash
it,
The toe stopped. | could feel her
looking at me sidewise, but / did not
glance up, that l remember; was
looking down, trying to get hold OF a
dashed idea l wanted to express.
Don't know" l continued, boring
away at her toe, yet hardly seeing it,
"but suppose that's the reason | knew
all the time she was lying; but still,
somehow that doesn't seem to be the
real reason l knew. l think the real
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reason I knew it couldn't be and
wasn't true was"-I sighed heavily
ooh, dash it, It's so hard to get hold
Of the jolly thing!"
And there was a pause
THE real reason?" her voice coaxed
gently.
WAS because" Then she moved
the toe and it put me QUIT think
just because-oh, yes, l know now!"
And l looked up eagerly. Just be-
cause 1 knew that you-are you!"
finished beamingly.
'Oh, I see!" She said it musingly,
her finger lightly pressing upon her
lips, her beautiful eyes studying me
with the oldest, keenest side-glance.
A pause; and then: And how long
have you known me, pray? Just "a
"A thousand years." l said prompt.
ly and earnestly. "A thousand years
and all my life, don't you know!
Never will know you any better"
Il wonder" she murmured, nOdding
slowly. And then for moment she
didn't say word, just sat there look
ing me over curiously, her expression
half shy, half Quizzical. don't you
know.
Then her smile flashed again-a ra'
diant, dazzling brightness that brought
her nearer, like the effect of the sun
lights sudden CLEAN there at times
upon the blue line of the West
Shore" away across the broad, three
mile span of the old Tappan Zee.
And now"-again her splendid
young arms were clasped, wing-like,
behind her head; and it's golden glory
hung like a picture against the dark
vine leaves, bossed with the clustered
purple f1owers-''now," she repeated,
settling comfortably, you must just
go on and tell me the rest-I can bear
it! What did my''-her big blue eyes
twinkled as she smiled-"my father
say about me?"
| shifted uncomfortably "Oh, |
can't, you know" 1 demurred. Il say.
what's the use, dash it?" Poor old
boy, somehow l just hated to round
on him-he was so jolly hard hit al.
ready; Jack, don't you know! Be.
sides
Pleased" Jove, how she said it!
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ed this year. The railroads are add
have got ready for handling the crop
thousands of box cars. The govern
ment agents and the railways are max
ing arrangements for from fifty to six
ty thousand extra farm hands in order
that the crop may be successfully and
quickly harvested, business men are
laying in larger stocks than usual, real
estate men are active, preparing for
the rush of business that is sure to
follow, and everywhere there is the
note of optimism, which seems to be
perfectly justifable.
There is, as has been said, vast
area Of the country still open for set
Element and homesteading lying in the
center north. Speaking of this part
writer, who made the trip when the
crop was in its green stage, said:
Just now, the whole country is a
beautiful sight, as it presents itself in
full dress of living green, varied in
shade, many places elegantly fringed
and interspersed with pleatings Of
shrubbery and patches of sweet scent
ed flowers in rose, yellow, white, pink,
scarlet, cardinal and purple. In trav-
cling over the virgin soil, I have seen
some OF the most charming rolling
prairies, sloping hills, deep ravines,
mirrored lakes, artistic flower fields,
and natural parks that one could wish
to behold, and all placed there without
the aid Of man. The land in general
is heavily matted with grass, mixed
with vetches and pea vines, nearly up
to the knee, and many millions OF
acres of which are going to waste
while beef, pork and mutton are soar
ing at prices heretofore unknown. The
comparatively small acreage under cul-
tivation reminds one Of few small
garden patches.
when we consider the estimated
crop of 30O,O00,OOO bushels of wheat
for 1912, to be produced on these west
ern pralries from these garden patches.
some faint idea can be formed by an
imaginative mind as to the immense
possibilities and rich heritage of a glo-
rious western Canada"
The estimate of the wheat crop, as
made by the writer quoted, is excess
sive, but with even $50 million bushels,
there will be a great deal of satisfac-
ton on the part of the settlers.
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A report dealing with the coal re-
sources of Canada has been issued by
the Dominion Department of Mines.
The estimates given are only based on
what Is known. In the western and
northern regions, which have been
little explored, there may be vast de-
posits of which nothing whatever is
known at present The officials of the
department estimate that of btu
minous coal there is in Canada 1874
billion tons; of anthracite 461 mil
lion tons; sub-bituminous and Ignite
over 100 billion tons. The quantity
of coal now annually mined in Canada
is about II million tons. With an es-
timated quantity of unmixed good coal,
of "A billion tons, it would require
6,166 years to exhaust the supply. If
the inferior grades were included, sup
ply would last for 14,575 years. Of
course the coal demands of Canada
will keep on increa sing, but ii will be
q good many years before the quantity
of Canadian coal mined will equal
present output of the United States
mines. Their annual output is about
100000, 900 tons. At that rate it
would take only las years to exhaust
the estimated Canadian supply Of
good coal, and about $50 years to get
to the end of the total supply. And
with the increasing population, made
up of about four hundred thousand per
sons year (and it looks now as if this
number would be reached this year,,
one hundred and seventy-6ve thousand
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Be GLOW IS S S.
zhe DUBIES
BIZ FRANCIS PERRY ELLIOTT
- ILLUSTRATIONS ~ N4/WAA=pS
oOnarUw mn 81 6o6R5 HzeaaXx 0tneAVY

course-to Frances, l mean. Why,
dash it, she seemed to find a funny
side to it that l didn't, don't you
know!
Tell me, now'-she clasped her
knee, lifting her lovely face coaxtng-
ly-"teIl me all that she said about
me-everything!"
And l did-every word, by Jove!
And no one could look into that
sweet, ingenious face as l proceeded,
and doubt that the ISLANDERS were new
to her. Never a jolly one touched
her-only you could see their absur-
dity amused her. Several times had
to pause as she bent under a gale OF
laughter.
Only once was she brought up,
shocked.
obi" she uttered family, as came
to the intimation about her being hail
fellow-well-met with the footmen and
her drinking and carousing with them
and other men-servants until three in
the morning / realized that 1t wasn't
the matter of the drinking that
feaZed her and drew from her little
gasps as / came to this-knew that
didn't bother her, don't you know, for
I knew she did drink-could drink,
mean to say; for l had not forgotten
the two full whisky glasses Of high
proof Scotch she had tossed off that
night in my rooms. Why, no, dash it,
she was able to drink-it went in the
family! l could never forget with
what pride she had told me of putting
her brother Jack under the table two
nights running. That was all right
it was the other part of the frump's
scandal that brought her up, stand
ing, so to speak.
For now she really looked embar-
raised, despite another lapse to laugh
ter Her face and neck were dyed
lovely crimson.
''Oh, dear!" she said finally; and
she wiped her eyes. what you must
think of me!"-and she looked away,
a pretty frown contracting her face;
then the jolly dimple deepened once
kerchief "Oh, dear!" she repeated,
biting her lip to hold her quivering
mouth corners. "Oh, it's shame" l
heard her mutter; Il mustn't let him
its too" She wheeled upon me,
her lips frightened. OH" she ejacu-
lated sharply, almost petulantly, and
her foot struck smartly on the boards.
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Canada Has Sufficient
Coal for 5000 Years
1t Has Enough Agricultural Land for the Set
thing of Millions.

the opening up of this rich field of ag-
riculture, and it is a high class of ag-
riculture. carried on by the use Of
brains, and, where energy has not
been endowed, 1t has become in that
splendid air case of inoculated en-
ergy
The rapid advancement Of railways
makes the situation easy. Today one
may be located thirty miles from one
of the many branches of the different
systems A year from now, the whls-
tie of the locomotive and the long
train of cars may pass the farm, the
elevator is but a short drive from the
home, a splendid market is established
and all the advantages OF an old set
tied community are at hand.
The prospects this year from an ag-
ricultural standpoint are exceedingly
bright. and, relieved of untoward con-
ditions, the farmer is already counting
his bank roll, planning for more ex-
tensive operations for next year, ana
figuring on paying out for his farm
He is calculating what the Increased
value or MS nOIulnSS, as d le0"AI VI %
successful crop, will add to his assets.
Already some fields of wheat have been
harvested, barley has been cut, and
the yield is above his expectation. In
fact. the feeling at the time Of writing
is that never in the history Of any
country on the continent has there
been such a prospect of large aver
age crop, all over the three central
provinces of Canada, as will be harvest
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WILING to Wait for Good Time.

A woman who for twelve years has
conducted a boarding house in Chi
cago, and who takes pride in telling
that "boarders usually stay until they
get married and then send some one
to fill the place made vacant by mat
rimony," anticipated possible com
plants because of smaller portions
of meat by placing a neatly written
notice in the dining room which stat
ed that the price of beef, mutton and
veal had advanced to figures which
had not prevailed since the Civil war,
and that everything is high in pro-
portion. There has never been any
complaint among my boarders, and ]
hope there will be none, l am doing
the best I can and complaint will do
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Fits the Text.

Johnnie" asks the teacher, what
do you think may be meant by the
text. Unto him that hath shall be
given, while from him that hath not
shall be taken away even that which
be hath?"
Uncle Bill says it means fat, teach
err" answers Johnnie He says fat
folks keeps a'gettin fatter an thin
ones keep a-gettin' thinner, in spite
Of all they do."-Judge's Library.
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Sold Wife TO Friend

AT the village of Utznach, Switzer
land, the other day, a curious sale
took place. With her own consent q
woman was sold by her husband tC
another man, an Italian, and a friend
OF the Swiss couple. The price asked
by the affectionate husband was four
dollars. To further "legalize" the
bargain, the Italian procured TWO wit
nesses to the transaction and had q
contract written on stamped govern
ment paper
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"Oh, dash it, I'm afraid it viii hur,
you," l protested uneasily; and J
don't think the Judge really"
Il just don't care that"-a SNAP
from her little fingers and her arm
went back-''for anything he ever
said about me that was mean! So
please go on must go dress fol-
luncheon"
And so l just took a deep breath. g
long running leap, and cleared the
bar-told her all, you know!
CTO BE CONTINUED
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no good. So please be patient There's
good time coming and l want you
here when it comes" The boarders
are taking the reduced rations and
are waiting" one of them says, with
shortened belts, for the good time"
Gilpin observer., 1912-08-22
WARREN RENAMED SENATOR.
Vote in Cheyenne Nearly Double Thai
Cast Two Years Ago.

Cheyenne, Wyo.-Because of the
use of the headless ballot requiring
the placing of cross opposite the
name of each person for whom a vote
is cast and of confusion resulting from
the prevalence of scratched ballots, it
was impossible, election night, to pre-
sent definite figures on the result of
the first direct primary election held
in Wyoming.
1t is certain that Senator Warren
and Congressman Mondell have been
nominated for reelection, and that
Senator John B. Kendrick will make
the senatorial race on the Democratic
ticket.
T. P. Fahey of Cheyenne will be
the Democratic nominee for Con
gress.
c. l.. Hinkle has probably defeated
Henry Sweet for the Republican nom-
ination for mayor of Cheyenne.
Gilpin observer., 1912-08-22
GEN ERAC.

Policeman James O'Brien of Chicago
may lose his left hand as the result
of mosquito bite.
George Eastman, kodak millionaire,
who is in Europe. has given s5O0.00O
to the University of Rochester, n. Y.
Strangled by means of towel
knotted about her neck, Mrs Allen
Saher. twenty-eight, bride, was
found dead at Astoria. l.. l.
In gratitude for having restored his
appetite. Diamond Jim Brady of New
York has given 100000 to the Johns
Hopkins hospital at Baltimore.
General William Booth, commander
in-chief of the Salvation Army, is at
deaths door, according to cablegrams
received at army headquarters in New
York from London.
The Rev. DR.. George Washington
Simpson, preacher-physician and for a
number of years a chaplain in the
United States army at Western posts.
is dead at his home at Baltimore, aged
seventy-one.
Henry De Waters. ten years old, of
Norfolk, Virginia, Is held for killing
two persons and wounding a third,
whom, 1t was charged, he shot down
when they attacked his father. Ru.
doluph De Waters.
Fleeing from Mexico, after being
forced to evacuate on few minutes
notice by the Mexicans, fifty Mormons
were in Pueblo en- route to Utah. The
refugees are being transported to
Utah by the government.
Bernard C. Murray. son OF a former
fire commissioner OF Hartford, Conn,
confessed at Greenfield, Mass, to hav-
ing set fire to thirty hotels and public
buildings In Connecticut and western
Massachusetts during the last four
months.
Robert Thayer, miner, cattleman
and Baptist preacher. whose home is
near Salt Lake City, for the first time
In his life saw his sister at Norton,
Kan. She is the wife of William Nor.
ris, who lives near Norton. Thayer is
fifty years Old and his sister is sixty.
Nineteen negro miners were killed
by an explosion in the Abernant Coal
Company's mine at Abernant, Ala.
Forty-six white men and eighteen ne.
groes escaped from the workings after
the blast. Seventeen bodies have been
recovered.
Violent lightning, which centered
about Mercer university at Macon,
Ca. caused the death of two persons,
the injury OF two others, damage to
many buildings and panic In Pres.
byterian church directly across the
street from whore bolt set fire to
the building.
Gilpin observer., 1912-08-22
SPORT.
srANDING or MEsrERN LEAGuE.

Battling Nelson and Steve Ketchell
are matched for fifteen-round bout
at st. Joseph the afternoon of Labor
Day.
Jim Flynn, matched to fight Charlie
Miller twenty rounds in DAILY City,
Calf, on Labor Day, has arrived in
San Francisco and will 60 into train
ing in few days.
Joe Jeanette. who expects to meet
Jack Johnson next month, met Jeff
Madden of Boston in a ten-round bout
in Madison Square Garden, New York,
and so outclassed his man that the
fight was stopped in the second round.
Miss Vera Neave established new
woman's record for a mile open swim
at st. Heliers, Jersey Island, when she
swan the distance in 31:41-4-5. The
previous record was held by Miss An
nette Kellermann, the Australian
swimmer, whose time was 32:44.
Gilpin observer., 1912-08-22
WASHINGTON.

Pestilence is the new danger threat.
ening Nicaragua.
President Taft signed the 100000
900 pension appropriation bill.
1t is expected that Congress will ad.
journ not later than Aug. "a.
The Senate has voted to sustain
vetoes of the President on wool and
and metal tariff revision bills.
Federal aid was extended Luther
Burbank, the California plant wizard
by bill passed by the Senate.
Secretary of Agriculture James Will
son was seventy-seven years old on
August 10th. He announces he will
retire on March 5th next.
The Senate bill increasing the ap.
pr6priation for the federal building at
Denver was defeated in the House in
the absence of Congressman Taylor
and Rucker Of Colorado.
Representative Martin OF Colorado
Democrat, failed to get through the
House a bill providing for the estab
lishment of mining experiment sta
ton in Silverton. Colo.
AS tipplers, blondes are outclassed
by brunettes. Army medical officers
have arrived at this conclusion as q
result of two years observation Of en-
list N men in the Philippine service.
Nine. Helena oOrnovonz, said to be
the wife of Russian count and well
known in diplomatic circles at Wash
lngton, where she resides, was severe
ly injured in an automobile accident
Mt Baltimore.
Reduction In class freight rates
from Galveston to Oklahoma City and
Wichita. ordered by the Interstate
Commerce Commission, has been ex.
tended from September 1st until No
vember 1st.
Give us an up-to-date flag" was
the appeal voiced to the House by
Minority Leader Mann. He criticised
the failure Of the House to provide
new flags on July 1, containing forty
eight stars. including the emblems fol-
the new states OF Arizona and New
Mexico.
Gilpin observer., 1912-08-22
FOREIGN.

Reports of the assassination of DR.
Sun Vat Sen have caused the widest
excitement throughout China.
Reports are circulating at Cattin1e,
Montenegro, of another massacre of
Christians by Mohammedans in AL.
bania.
For keeping out of Moroccan politics
IN the future. ex-Sultan Mulai Hafid
Is to receive $4,000 yearly from the
French government.
Constantinople report from the
Red Cross Society states that 5000
are dead and 5000 injured by the re-.
cnt earthquake in the region about the
Sea of Marmora.
w. Hunter Workman. the American
mountain climber and explorer, is re.
ported to have been killed by an ava.
lanche while climbing in the Himalaya
range in the north of India.
A genuine frontier days celebration
styled "The Stampede" will be held
at Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Septem-
ber to II, inclusive, in which $4,000
in cash prizes will be awarded in ad-
dition to the saddles, chaps, bits,
boots and spurs, etc.
Two hundred and ten residents of
the little town of Puruandi-o, Michoa-
can, Mexico, at least half of whom
were boys, were slaughtered at the
behest of the jefe politico in June, ac.
Cording to story brought to Mexico
City by commission which called I'M.
on the minister of the interior asking
for guarantees.
The German government has aligned
itself with Austria-Hungary in regard
to the project Of Count Leopold Won
Berchthold, the Austro Hungarian for
eign minister, to gain autonomy for
all the European provin ces of Turkey.
The foreign office at Berlin has in
formed Count Berchtheld of it's read-
ness to support his proposals diplo-
matically.