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The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-09-19

of the late King Edward of England.
aroused the criticism of the people ver
whom she was set to rule by going
outside her new country whenever OPP
portunity offered. Nearly everything
she bought was of foreign manufac-
ture.
1t was recently reported that the
queen feared for Crown Prince Olaf's
life at the hands Of the \~orwegians.
This is declared ridiculous, though, by
those who understand the situation
and the people.
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Copyright by Doubleday, Page & Co.
PROLOGUE.
Father .Abram Strong, a regular
autumn guest at the Eagle House,
Lakelands, now rich, had run an old
mill neal by, which he converted into a
church. His little daughter .Aglaia.
who called herself "DumS.' diSap-
peared. She was last seen picking
wild flowers not far from the mill. Not
wanderers was suspected.
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teur: One of the objects Of James f.
Sullivan, secretary-treasurer of the
Amateur Athletic union, in coming
abroad was to attend this meeting.
His visit to Berlin also had to do With
arrangements for the Olympiad in 1916
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-09-19

kind in the world with the exception
of the Eitfel tower in Paris. This
structure will he Il great deal more
than a memorial monument. since It
will contain four auditoriums. IL mu-
scum. art gallery. statuary hall and I'LL
individual exhibition room for each
county in the state.
The cost is estimated at $3:.WW.O wv
The base of the structure will be OF
solid granite and fifty feet high. Sur
mounting the ledge at the top OF this
base will he statues of heroic size of
Travis. Crockett. Bowie and Bonham,
the four leaders Of the Texans who
We're killed while defending the Alamo.
Settling a Mooted Point In Athletics.
Berlin. Sept. 1.-THE sporting world
is interested in the international meet.
ing Of athletic managers to settle the
question. What constitutes an anna
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Rose Chester.

~1HE miller remained at the mill
for nearly two years; and
iSSkS| then his hope Of finding her
ESGS1 died out. He and his wife
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-06-10

It was even understood that he was
himself destined for the council, when
1t should be possible to put him In it
without seeming to give too great
preponderance to the Fairfax interest,
already SO much regarded in its make
up.
The first furry Of differing views
and conflicting purposes among the
virginian leaders had passed of. The
Judgment of high-spirited men every
where sustained Henry-gave him un-
mistakable authorization as leader;
put all public men in the way of I'M
derstanding their constituents. Some
were bold and some were timid, but
all were animated-by the same hope
and purpose, and few were yet intern
pirate.
Henry an Accepted Leader.
Sensible of the Importance Of unan-
unity among our constituents" said
Jefferson afterwards, looking back to
that time when he was young and in
the first flush of his radical senti-
ments, although we often wished to
have gone faster, we slackened our
pace, that our less ardent colleagues
might keep up with US; and they, on
their part, differing nothing from us
in principle, quickened their gait
somewhat beyond that which their
prudence might Of itself have ad-
vised"
Patrick Henry was received to the
place he had earned; and although the
older leaders resumed that sway in
counsel to which their tried skill and
varied experience in affairs fairly en-
titled them, there was no longer any
jealous exclusion of new men. Hen
RVS fame crept through the colonies
as the man who had first spoken the
mind not Of Virginians only, but of
all just men, with regard to the liber-
ties of Englishmen in America.
Before a year was out Richard
Bland himself, parchment man and
conservative that he was, had written
and published a pamphlet entitled can
Inquiry into the Rights of the British
Colonies" which said nothing less
than that in all that concerned her
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take his seat amongst them on a May
day in 1855.
He was known, indeed, to many.
ms was the man, they must have
known, who had won SO strange a YER
dict from Jury two years ago in the
celebrated parsons ease at Hanover
court house, against the law and the
evidence. But his careless dress and
manner. his loose, ungainly figure, his
listless, absent bearing, must have set
many courtly member staring.
For such men as Washington, In
deed, there can have been nothing
either strange or unattractive in the
rough exterior and unstudied ways of
the new member. Punctilious though
he was himself in every point of dress
and bearing, Washington's life had
most of it been spent with men who
looked thus, and yet were stuff Of true
courage and rich capacity within. The
manner of man could count as no
test of quality with him.
His experience had covered the
whole variety of Virginian life. He
$500 S-A al AotOCAd( ny IdSI0s uOl ny pT1u-
ciple. And Patrick Henry had, in
fact, come to the same growth as he
In essential quality and principle,
though by another way. Henry's life
had been wilful. capricious, bit hap
hazard, Washington's all the while
subject to discipline; but both men
had touched and seen the whole en-
ergy of the commonwealth, knew its
hope. could divine its destiny.
There was but one Virginia, and
they we're her children 1t could not
take long to bring them to an under
standing and comradeship in affairs.
A Winner in Debate.
1t was characteristic of the new
member that he should step at once
and unhesitatingly to a place of lead
ership when debate Of the Stamp Act
stirred the house, and that he should
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instantly sweep the majority into MS
following with a charm and dash of
eloquence that came like revelation
upon the quiet assembly
He was but Twenty-Five years old,
but he had spent all his life in learn
ing how the world went, and by what
manner of speech it was moved and
governed. He had roamed the woods
with no thought but for sport, or a
quiet hour with a book or his fancy
in the shape of the trees. He had
kept country store. and let gossip
and talk of affairs of colony and coun-
try side take precedence of business.
Finally he had turned with a per-
manent relish to the law, and had set
himself to plead causes for his neigh
bors in a way that made judges stare
and juries surrender at discretion In
everything he had seemed to read the
passions of men. Books no less than
men, the chance company of an old
author no less than the constant talk
of the neighborly land he lived in,
seemed to fill him with the quick prin-
ciples of the people and polity to which
he belonged. and to lend him an in
evitably every living phrase in which
to utter them.
His Power Over Men.
The universal sympathy and insight
which made his pleasantly so engag-
ing to men of every stamp rendered
his power no less than terrible when
he turned to play upon their passions.
He was not conscious OF any audacity
when he sprang to his feet upon the
instant he saw the house resolved in
to committee to consider the Stamp
Act. It was of the ardor of his nature
to speak when conviction moved him
strongly, without thought of propriety
or precedence; and it was like him
to stand there absorbed, reading his
resolutions frop f1y-leaf torn from
an old law-book.
1t seemed no doubt precious piece
of audacity in the eyes of the pre-
scriptive leaders of the house to hear
this almost unknown man propose his
high recital OF Virginia's liberties and
his express defiance of parliament
In tones which rang no less clear and
confident upon the clause which de-
clared his majesty's liege people OF
the colony In no way bound to yield
obedience, than in the utterance OF
the accepted matter of his premises.
Astounds the Old Leaders.
Debate famed up at once, hot, even
passionate. The astounding. moving
elouquence o. the young advocate, his
instant hold upon the house, the di-
rectness with which he purposed and
executed action in so grave q matter.
stirred the pulses of his opponents
and his followers with an equal power,
and reused those who would have
checked him to vehemence as great
as his own.
The old leaders of the house, with
whom he now stood face to face IN
this critical business, were the more
formidable because Of the strong rea-
son OF their position. No one could
Justly doubt that they wished to see
the Old Dominion keep and vindicate
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internal affairs Virginia was ga dis
tinct, Independent state" though uni
ted with the parent state by the clos
est league and amity. and under the
same allegiance" A colony treated
with injury and violence" he exclaim-
ed, "is become an alien"
When antiquarians and lawyers,
fresh from porting upon old documents,
spoke thus, there were surely signs of
the times.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Back numbers of this Story can be obtain
ed at this office
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We make special selling ftoy nothing
but the best grades of Clover, Timothy,
Clean Blue Grass, Orchard Grass, Red
Feed and Seed Oats. Give us call.
Phone u and l44. Covington, Thorpe g.
Co. lift
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-06-10

This paper stops when your
time is out. Look at the address.
Will appreciate your renewal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-07-04

money, of course. The job Of keeping
books on it, so that it might be re-
turned when the case was over, had
fallen to me, and 1t was making me
stay up late nights. :.
"Then came the test. The telephone
rang one night, late. had been work
ing over my books, attempting to
straighten out the list Of persons who
had paid in money during the day
and to whom 1t must be returned. I
looked at the clock, 1t stood exactly
at midnight. A voice which seemed
to have familiar ring to it came over
the phone.
"'Alem Hail, please, it said
reused the detective. He answered the
telephone and saw that the face was
wrinkled as he said All right and
hung up the receiver.
"'What is it?' l asked.
GA woman he answered, who
merely said 81 am ready" Do you
suppose
"I am sure of It, l answered. 4
recognized her voice as being similar
to that of her daughters. We must
get things in readiness.
"Long had we studied that little
book of instructions. We knew every
line by heart Hastily we went to
the seance rooms, arranged the stat
ues of Buddha, fixed the lights, the
phosphorescent figures, the heavy
robes and curtains and then went
downstairs and sat down to wait
Nothing happened for about twenty
minutes-and then there came sound
which caused us both to start from
our chairs. 1t was knocking on the
floor from beneath, three heavy taps,
each with a space Of time between,
then five short, staccato ones. We
stared at each other. Then my detec-
tive, with lunge, pulled the rug from
the floor and threw it into one corner
A trap door lay before us. l hurried
to the seance room, to arrange the
powders and Examinations that would
end the spending of the Charles for
tune. AS l worked in the darkness,
shielded by heavy curtains, heard
the VOICES VI Tie NOlllou anu VI luC
supposed Alem Hail.
"I have brought you twice as much
money tonight the woman was say
ing. 4 want to see him longer.
want to talk to him about that thing
you have kept me from asking him
about-what became Of him. l want
you to let him come near me and let
me hold him in my arms. Won't you
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Very Dry,

The occupants of Pullman sleeper
were diligently trying to get some rest.
but could not. There was very
thirsty woman in one of the berths
who kept the whole car awake by her
perpetual song of, ooh, l am so dry.
l am so dry. My, but am awfuHy dry.
Dear me-, what shall l do? 1 am so
dry"
Hello, porter!" at last sang out a
man across the way For goodness
sake give that woman some ice water
and plenty of it. l want to get some
sleep"
The porter brought glass of water.
He brought second glass. She drank
them both-and took up her song
afresh-
My, but was dry. was so awfully
dry. l never was so dry in all my life.
Dear me, but l was dry
"Oh, Great Scott, woman" sang out
the man across the way, dry up and
let me sleep!"
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o our right, the great,
age-greened statue of
George Wa S h / n G t o n
held itself aloof from
the steps of the Treas
ury Building. The star
ing eyes were far down
the street, to where
marching figures in the
costumes Of Colonial
days were threading
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decision and the next day a squad OF
detectives, obtained by me from head
quarters was searching every avail
able part of Chicago's underworld.
That night Alem Hail, dealer In the
occult, was resting as comfortably
as possible in a steel room in the
Harrison street Jail, while his house
girl remained in the matron's room.
His place of business still was open,
however, with another man in Halls
place-a detective who possessed the
art of makeup and the brains to play
a hard game.
"And it was hard game that was
before him. What clients Hail had
we did not know, nor what they came
for. Questioning had proved fruit
less; the man only stared at us with
his beady, swapping, black eyes and
smiled grimly at the cross-fire Of inter
rogation which was shot at him. Nor
could anything more be gained from
the girl. We were playing a game in
the dark-but We had laid our trap to
save more than one victim and we
were going to use our resources.
Miss Clement ceased moment and
smilingly raised hand.
did you ever try to read fortunes,
distribute love potions, give seances
and play magic when you didn't know
a thing about the people you were
dealing WITH" she asked.
NO" answered. "Why?"
Simply because that was the game
we had to play. Alem Halls place was
one of Indian magic. Everywhere
about us was equipment, pots, funny
little blow pipes, queer smelling per-
fumes, jars of colored liquids, dunn
mics, velvet curtains and idols. To
us, it was all a puzzle; we knew moth
ing more than that here was collec-
ton of junk which must be worked
and worked correctly to allay suspi-
Hail, the mystic. There were those
who sought love and who paid for
their love potions at prices worth
while. There were others who sought
power-and paid for it. There were
still others who attempted to pene-
trate the veil which separates this
world from the next, and under this
heading we found the. name of Mrs.
Charles.
Some way, that day, my detective,
CARRIED in the robes Of Alem Hail, and
myself, dressed in the costume Of an
Indian woman. whose sole duty was to
answer the bell and to roll her eyes
and speak q jabbering, gibberish
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tongue, managed to work with those
gave those seances, we delivered the
love potions, and we threw in free Of
charge things of which Alem Hail
had never dreamed. If ever there was
a day of real mystic free-for-all TOM
foolery, it was that one. More than
once that. day 1 gritted my teeth to
keep from laughing. More than once
that laughter would be choked back
by queer look in the face of the eli
ent-as fear would enter our hearts
that it was suspected that something
was wrong, that the real Alem Hail
was not before them in the dimmed,
darkened room, after all. We were
playing dangerous game, we knew
that. We felt that even though we
had arrested Alem Hail, that we had
sufficient evidence to send him over
the road again for being a fakir and
thieving fortune teller, that We had
not yet saved the woman we had start
ed out to save. Did you ever knew
that such person will trust the man
who is robbing her implicitly, no mat
ter what happens? We knew that if
we proclaimed to the world that Alem
Hail had been arrested and that he
was charged with stealing money,
there would not be one of the victims
who would come forward to testify
against him. More than that, there
would be those who would look upon
him as a martyr and who would even
furnish money to aid him make his
fight for freedom. And most impor-
tant of these was Mrs. Charles. We
must wait for her. We must play the
game to the best of our ability and
bide our time until the opportunity
came to set her SO hard against Alem
Halt that she would be willing to do
anything, now that her eyes were
opened. A week passed. Still we
floundered on, giving palm readings,
gazing into the crystal globe and do
ing anything which the key book des-
ignated as being necessary for those
who came to be duped. We gave ad-
vice on business matters-attempting
to make 1t such advice that 1t would
do no harm. We gave advice In love
matters. We handed out tablets and
potions to make men and women hap
by and handsome, knowing that they
were nothing but colored water or
bread pills. And all the time we
hoped for that moment when Mrs.
Charles would come. We were also
getting anxious for another reason. In
that week or more Of work we collected
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Preparation for knowledge.

No man can learn what he has not
preparation for learning, however near
to his eyes is the subject. A chemist
may tell his most precious secrets to
a carpenter, and he shall be never the
wiser-the secrets he would not utter
to chemist for an estate. Our
eyes are holden that we can not see
things that stare US in the face until
the hour arrives when the mind is
ripened; then We behold them, and
the time when we saw them not fs
like dream.-Emersop.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-07-04
A Bit of Fortune Telling
Copyright. by W. q. Chapman)

DRY long time. Then suddenly the
flash came, and smiled as l looked
at Miss Charles, and asked:
"'How long have you been carrying
your mothers gloves?'
There was little start of surprise
at the question The young woman
held up the gloves and her eyes grew
wide.
'Why-so l ami she exclaimed.
How did you know that?' A nervous
little laugh followed the question.
Have you ever seen my mother
how did you know / was carrying her
gloves?'
well let that remain my little Sc
cret for the present. l answered.
Now, we'll revert to the original ques-
ton of how long have you been carry
ing them?'
"'Only since last night. went to
her fiat to see if 1 couldn't persuade
her to come home, and | guess as
left, / must have taken up her gloves
by mistake
Then became serious. MISS
Charles I said. You probably will
not hear from me for three or four
days. In the meantime 1 wish that
you would go back to your mothers
fiat and make just one more attempt
to stay there-only for the few days
so that we may keep her from getting
rid of any more of that money until
the time comes when / can stop it
forever. 1 have to take a little out Of
town trip
with that l dismissed her and be-
gan to make the plans which would
result in the saving of fortune. And
late that night l was still at my IL
brary table, figuring out means Of
finding the person whom 1 sought.
One thing l knew would be fruitless,
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the attempt to shadow Mrs. Charles
and learn with whom she associated
If the person whom l believed to be
the one who was getting the money
had anything to do with her actions,
then certainly efforts at shadowing
would be beyond the question He
would arrange for that. l consulted
my case book and found the name I
wanted, recorded there five years be-
fore. Then, late as it was, stepped
to the telephone and put in a long dis
lance call for the warden Of the state
penitentiary at Joliet.
when did Aiem Hail get released"
l asked when the connection was
made and l had explained my person
ality. There was wait of few min
utes while the warden looked up the
records.
You mean the Indian fakir?' he
asked at last
Eyes. Sent up by me in the Clark
street raids five years ago.
The same one,' said the warden.
He's been out about six months. We
gave him transportation to st. Louis
for his earned time in the peniten-
tiary.'
However, l had a different belief
about things as l hung up the tele-
phone. The memory Of those gloves
was what had made me come to the
cion until the proper time came We
had no information on which to work
there was only one thing which kept
me at the job, my intuitive knowledge
that l was working on the right track
and that sooner or later the person
desired would show up. But in the
meantime the detective and myself
must find the key to this collection Of
material. We must know what to use
for various persons and we must know
the prices that were paid. Hour after
hour We spent that night, searching
everywhere, looking even under the
carpets for what we knew must be
somewhere about the place. Alem
Hail did not keep all his information
in his head, we felt sure of that. He
did not depend on his memory for the
earning Of his money and we knew
that sooner or later we would find his
book Of symptoms And sure enough,
about daybreak, my detective came
forth from a closet, bearing with him
a small, closely written notebook. Anx-
.iously we turned the pages. There we
saw names. addresses, prices-in fact,
a complete history of every client who
followed the occult teachings of allen
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do that? The woman's voice was pit
eous. Won't you let me?'
Spirits are vague was the gut
tural answer of the pseudo Hail.
Spirits are vague
But you have promised-oh, so
many times. The spirits of life which
you said would bring him to me in
my dreams have not done it, Once
saw him-then he fitted away. You
let me talk to him and ask him if he
loves me. Why can't you let me ask
him what want to know-about that
other woman Halls voice seemed
queer. 1t was choking.
Tonight came his reply at last,
you can see him and talk to him and
hold him in your arms. The spirits
will It,
"A cry came from the woman. She
hurried into the seance room and
seated herself. / could hear her hard
breathing. ! could almost see her
eyes cleaning in the darkness.
Then began the seance. Strange
lights played for moment as I pulled
the switches to the accompaniment of
the chanting voice Of the detective
Hail. Then all was darkness. At last
a voice broke upon the stiffness.
az have come to you, Esther. What
is it? What is it?'
"The woman half sobbed.
Henry, where are your
:" I am close to you. Close to you
"A vague figure floated through the
air, near to the waiting woman, then
disappeared in darkness. Again 1t
came forth, and this time it carried
with 1t an uncanny glow, showing. the
dead face of man, his bloodless lips,
his staring eyes. The woman reeled
in her chair and thrust forth her arms.
The figure vanished behind the cur
tains again.
Once more the voice sounded. The
strange lights played again and again.
The woman was becoming hysterical.
She was screaming to Hail, begging
that he allow the spirit to come to her,
to be held in her arms. There was no
answering voice, for Hail, the sup
posed, was stretched forth upon the
divan, his whole body hidden except
his arms and head. His eyes were
closed. He was in trance.
Music began to play. For the last
time the figure came forth, drifted
into the air and then settled itself into
the woman's arms. She sobbed aloud.
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GIVE RAIL DISSOLUTION PLAN
Officials Present Union-Southern Pa.
cific Scheme Today.

Washington, June 30.-The plan for
dissolving the Union Pacific-Southern
Pacific railroad merger, which Attor.
ney General McReynolds, with the
approval of President Wilson, has
agreed upon with officials of the rail-
roads, will be presented to the fed.
eral court at ST. Paul, Mimi, today.
1t became known several days ago
that the new plan for dissolving the
merger contemplated the Union Pa.
cific giving up its entire holdings in
the Southern Pacific, $38,000,000
worth of the shares to be exchanged
for the Pennsylvania railroads hold.
ings in the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
The remainder is to be disposed OF
to the public through trust com.
pany.