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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-09
ENGLISHMEN READY FOR
EMERGENCY IN TRAVEL
Guide Books and Luggage IL
Great Abundance.

The equipment of the travelling
Englishmen is the eighth wonder of
the world He Is ready for any en-
Urgency from gold to sudden death.
I recollect once being in a compart-
ment on the Paris boat train with
an English family and their luggage,
and | do not remember ever being so
pleasantly entertained as / was on
that trip.
AS to the luggage, there were TWEEN
ty-nine pieces of the hand variety
which 1t took "Pater' a half-hour to
dovetail into the racks while the train
stood in the dingy station at Calais,
and another half-hour to pry out
when we reached the dreadful Care
du Nord.
This was only a detail, however,
and / have never in my life seen a
man work harder to get a family
of three women comfortably settled.
1t was in vain that they protested
against more wraps and rugs, against
| smelling salts and speckled fruit. Be-
| ing a man, he knew so much better
than they what, they needed, and he
gently but firmly had his way.
Finally he dozed off to sleep. rest
| ing audibly from his labors. He had
| taken off his great coat with its
amazing capes and pockets. and as
| bis coat tails became parted in his
| somnolent writings I plainly saw q
good-sized holster protruding through
| the aforesaid coat tails, evidently
strapped around his portly waist.
'sAha!" I said to myself, there We
| have a mysteryi My comrade is per-
| haps spy en- route to Germany
This holster-with its supposed brace
CT firearms-fascinated me unspeak.
ably, and about it I built lovely
| od-curdling romance as we spec
on through the monotonous French
| country.
| Finally my neighbor awoke, ros,
and refreshed. and upon one of his
daughters asking him some question.
about Paris, he unbuckled the holster
took 1t off. and, while / watched with
bulging eyes, opened it and calmi,
extracted--a guide booki What else
that deceiving, case may have con.
tanned l have no means of knowing
perhaps caviar sandwiches or a bot
tie of Observation-Disclosures.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-09
ISLES OF IRELAND THAT
ARE PLAGUE=STRICKEN

DUBLIN, July 1o.-A terrible but
hidden drama of life is being enacted
in the little islands of Gorumna, Let
termore and Lettermullen, off the
Connemara coast. Three dread
scourges-typhoid, typhus and tu-
berculosis-are destroying the inhapi-
tants, and though some effort at re-
lief has been made, it is hopelessly
inadequate.
There is Stun area unequaled in
misery by the blacklist spot in any OF
the great Industrial centres. The peo-
pie in this place lack not merely the
decencies of civilization. They are
without actual necessities.
with infinite labor they wiring the
barest living from the tiny pockets oil
soil caught between the boulders OF
their granite islands Over Letter
mullen and Gorumna you will not
and one continuous acre of tillable
land in ten square miles The peoples
diet consists of potatoes and a small
seaweed called ''crannagh," which
they eat raw as a "savory.' Tney
have fish when it can be got.
From years end to years end they
never see a morsel of meat, except,
perhaps. a cheap scrap of greasy
American bacon. Many of them never
see milk. During the past few years
three doctors have died there in cpl
denies of typhoid fever. A fourth
sickened and recovered. In the last
twenty years six doctors have laid
down their lives in the district. The
present medical officer, DR.. O'Kelly
is the only doctor in disease-smit-
ten area which includes population
of 10000 and extends thirty miles by
forty miles. The nearest hospital is
at Oughterard, forty miles away
There Is no railroad, and the sole
means of conveyance for the fever
smitten is by cart over bog and
mountain,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-09
THE Val JANTS OF VIRGINIA
BY HALLE ERMNIE RlVEs

| the young man easily, Struggling.
| We'll, our quarry is here somewhere.
From the way the dogs act l should
say he's bolted into the house. With
your permission I'll take one of them
! in and see." He stopped and
snapped leash on dog collar.
I'm really very sorry" said Va
liant, but I'm living in it at pres
ent.''
The edge of smile lifted the care
fully trained mustache over the others
white teeth 1t had the perfectly
| courteous air of saying, "Of course,
if you say so; but"
Valiant turned, with a gesture that
included all. IF you care to dis
mount and rest" he said, II shall be
honored, though I'm afraid l can't
offer you such hospitality as should
visa
The judge raised his broad sort nat.
| Thank you, sir" he said, with a soft
accent that delightfully."- disdained the
letter "r;" "but we mustn't intrude
any further AS you know of course,
the place has been uninhabited fol3
any number of years, and we had nov
idea it was to acquire tenant. You
will overlook our riding through, |
hope. I'm afraid the neighborhood
has got used to considering this a
ure to know that the court is to be
reclaimed, sir. Come along, Chilly"
he added "Our fox has a burrow
under the house, I reckon--hang the
cunning little devil!''
He whistled sharply to the dogs,
who came leaping about his horses
legs for their need of praise-and
clubbing. Down, Fan! Down, Tro-
jan! Come on, you young folks, to
-. .,rfr ,.a,s
of it, anyhow, and Well put him up
another day."
He waved his hat at the porch and
turned his horse down the path, side
by side with the golden chestnut.
After them trooped the others, horses
walking YEARLY, riders talking in
low voices, the girls turning often to
send swift bird-like glances behind
them to where the straight masculine
| figure still stood with the yellow
sunshine on his face. They did not
leap the wall this time, but filed
decorously through the swinging gate
to the Red road. Then, as they passed
from view behind the hedges John
Valiant heard the younger voiccn
break out together like the sound o.
bomb thrown into poultry yarl
After a time he saw the straggl.ns
bunch of riders emerge at a slo"
canter on the far-aWay field. dc
saw the roam spurred beside the gol-
den chestnut and both dashed away,
neck and neck in a race, the light
patrician form of the man leaning
far forward and the girl swaying to
the pace as If she and her hunter
We're one.
John Valiant stood watching until
the last rider was out of sight There
was a warm flush of color in his face.
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convright by Bobbs-Merril Co

hlazed with torture fire. They had
| held on through Revolution and ClVii
| War Good and bad, abiding fnu
| Ia wless. every generation had cleaxed
stubbornly to its acres. cllnge, lhls
father had chung through absence
| that seemed to have been almost
exile. and now he, the last Valiant
was come to make good the BOAST.
His gaze wavered. The tan OF ms .s,
eve had caught through the WINDOW
a squirt of something dashing anu
vivid thar grazed the corner of
far-off field. He craned MS neSh,
but II had passed the line OF ms
vision. The next moment, however,
there came trailing on the satlhy
stiffness the hgh-keyed ululation OF
a horn and an instant later long
drawn hallo-o-o, mixed with pat
tering chorus of yelps.
He went close and leaning from
the sill shaded his eyes with MS
hand. The noise swelled and round
ed in volume; 1t was nearing RAPID
ly, As he looked the hunt dasheo
into full view between the tree-ooles
"a galloping melee Of khaki and
scarlet. swarming across the fresn
green Of a wheatfield behind
spotted swirl of hounds. 1t mount
ed q rise, dipped momentarily INTO
a gully and then, in narrow, sweep
ing curve, came pounding on UP the
long slope directly toward the house.
"Confound it," said John Valiant
belligerently, they're on my landl,
They were near enough now Tor
him to hear the voices of the men,
calling encouragement to the dogs,
and to see the while ribbons OF foam
across the TANKS of the laboring
horses. One scarlet-coated feminine
rider. detached from the bunch, had
spurred in advance and was leading
by a clean hundred yards, barehead-
ed. her hat fallen back to the limit
of its ribbon knotted under her chin,
and her waving hair cleaning ike
furnished gold.
How she rides muttered the SOL
itary watcher. "Cross-saddle, of
course-the sensible little sport!
She'll never in the world do that wall!
Yes, by George!" For, with a be-
seeching cry and a restraining tug,
she had fairly lifted her big golden
chestnut hunter over the high bar
rier in a leap as clean as the flight
of a flying squirrel. He saw her lean
forward to pat the wet arching neck
as the horse settled again into its
pace.
John vaiiant's admiration turned
to delight.
why" he said, ITS the Lady-of-
the Roses.
He put his hands on the sill and
vaulted to the porch.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-09

he went to Harvard, graduating in
1882. He took highest honors in mu-
sic.
At Harvard he showed that he
could write when he produced a Ii
bretto, "Dido and Aeneas," for one
of the Hasty Pudding Club entertain
ments. When there he also edited
one of the college papers, and in
his junior year wrote poem on
Beethoven, which was published in
the Atlantic Monthly.
With the intention of becoming a
music critic Wister went abroad
once more. He began the study OF
composition under List in Paris.
In 1883 he changed his plans and re-
turned to America. His health was
bad; so he went hunting in Wyom'
ing and Arizona.
He found not only new strength
but new world. The stirring at
mosphere of the West woke in him
a desire to write about it; but he
did nothing at the time. He re-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-09
PROFIT IN MOSQUITO DIFFERENTIATION.

DR. ALVAH H. DOTY, former health officer of the port
of New York. the results of mosquito determination IN
The METROPOLITAN area We know Newark what it has been
here But Staten Island conspicuous example of the benefits
of intelligent methods determination few years the
island was filed pest and with malaria Hundreds of
residences stood tenantess real estate was unstable ana
enterprise dead Eighty cent of the breeding places
the pest have been gotten maara mosquito has been
eliminated Island paradise for residence
Property values gone up by millions and there
influx of population 1t requires the use of club to deal
with pcayune economic ideas of many members of the New
Jersey Legislature the example of Staten Island would make
a good, logical club for that duty
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-09

1T IS remarkable how many sue
cessful writers get into literature
by accident. Very few novelists be-
gin by taking up writing as a pro-
fession; most of them drift into 1t
from other fields. Owen Wister was
no exception 10 this. He settled
down in Philadelphia to practise law;
but the call of the pen was too strong
for him. He was thirty-one years old
before he began to write.
Owen Wister is grandson Of
Frances Anne Kemble. better known
as Fannie Kemble, the famous ac-
tress. He was born on July IA. 1850.
in Philadelphia. When ne was ten
years old he was taken to Europe.
where he remained three years. On
his return TO this country he entered
st. Paurs School, Concord. whence
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-09
HAS BUT 1000 TO GO
IN l00,000-MlLE WALK

Walking 100000 miles for $4,000.
which he says has been promised him,
Julius Rath, aged 30, who started on
his long walk when he was II. the
other day passed through Columbus
en- route to Sandusky. Rath says he
has walked more than $4,000 miles
and is year ahead OF the time sched-
uled for his finish at San Francisco.
When Rath finishes he must have
81 900 and a dog. He now has $500.
When he started he was a penniless
newsboy, having made the money he
possesses by selling cards descriptive
OF himself.
The newsboy reports he has tramped
all over the world. The $4,000 Will
be paid him at the end of his journey
by the st. Louis Club. he expects. He
started from that city.
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OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.

4
John Valiant, society favoritc, finds
| his father. and of which he is vice presi-
| dent, has collapsed through waste Of
funds and wildcat" Investments. The
| president shoots himself and the state
begins an investigation. Valiant re-
fuses to go abroad and includes his
private fortune of 100000 among
the banks assets. He finds that after
all debts are paid $500 will be left.
When he faces poverty he finds
letter containing a deed to the family
home In Virginia, and Immediately
starts for the old homestead, where
he arrives on a mid-May afternoon.
While driving to the house in his
automobile Valiant has breakdown
and while tinkering with the ma
chine young lady halts by the road
side in time to receive the butt of
abuse intended for the auto and bull
dog. He apologies to the girl, who
laughs at his predieament, and then
she starts, out to get help for him,
leaving him by the roadside watch
ing as she disappears down the road.
After a wait of three hours Uncle
Jefferson, the negro, sent by the gi-l.
comes to help Valiant.
Valiant learns the story of the girls
life and that her name is Shirley
cambridge from the old colored man.
After ride of several miles an old
and picturesque house Is reached and
the driver informs his fare that that
is Damory Court Valiant is entranced
by it's noble beauty. He engages the
negro driver and his wife as man
about house and cook.
A search of the old mansion fails to
reveal anything of Importance and the
new owner lays down FOR his first sleep
in his new home
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-09
CHAPTER XIV.
Mrs. Poly clifford Pays a Call.


IT HE brown ivied house in the viii
lage was big and square and
faced the sleepy street. Its front was
gay with pink oleanders in green
tubs and the yard spotted with an
nual encampments of geraniums and
marigolds. A one-storied wing con
tanned small door with doctors
brass plate on the clapboarding be-
side it. Doctor Southall was one of
Mrs. Merryweather Mason's paying
guests-for she would have deemed
the word boarder a gratuitous insult,
no less to them than to her. An
other was the major, who for a dec
AIDE had occupied the big, old-fash-
Toned corner room on the second floor,
companioned by monstrous gray
cat and waited on by an ancient me-
gro named Jereboam, wis had been
slave of his fathers.
The doctor was a sallow, taciturn
man with a saturnine face, eyebrows
like frosted thistles, mouth as if
made with one quick knife-slash and
head nearly bald set on a neck
that would not have qualified a year
ing OK His broad shoulders were
signify stopped, and his mouth
half resentful, half sardonic.
conveying a cynical opinion of the
motives of the race in general and of.
the special depravity of that particu-
lar countryside. Altogether he ex-
nailed an air in contrast to which the
majors old-school blend of charm
and courtesy seemed an almost ripald
frivolity.
On this particular morning neithef
the major nor the doctor was in evil
dence, the former having gone out
early, and the latter being at the mo-
ment In his office. as the brassy buzz
of telephone from time to time an
nounced. Two of the green wicker
rocking-chairs on the porch, how
ever, were in agitatant commotion.
Mrs. Mason was receiving caller in
the person of Mrs. Napoleon Clifford.
The latter had middle-aged affec-
tion for baby-blue and a devouring
penchant for the ages and antecedents
oil. others, at times irksome to those TOT
whom her Let me see. You went to J
school with my first husbands sister,
didn't your or Your daughter Jane
must have been married the year the
old Israel Stamper place was burned"
were unwelcome reminders of the pace
of time. Today, of course, the topic
was the new arrival at Damory Court
tTo Be Continued Monday,
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CHAPTER XIV.
Sanctuary.

SHnctuHFys
THE tawny scuddng streak that
led that long chase had shot into
the yard, turning for last desperate
| double 1t saw the man in the fore
ground and its bounding. agonized
little wild heart that so prayed for
life, gave way. With a final effort
it gained the porch and crouched
down in it's corner, an abject, sweated,
hunted morsel. at hopeless bay.
Like q flash Valiant stopped, caught
the shiverlng thing by the scuff. and
as it's swapping jaws grazed his
thumb, dropped it through the open
window behind him. Sanctuary!
quoth he, and banged the shutter to-
At the same instant, as the place
overlooked with a pandemonium of
nosing leaping hounds, he saw the
golden chestnut reined sharply down
among the ragged box-rows, with a
shamefaced though brazen knowledge
that the girl who rode had seen.
| She sat moveless, her head held
high. one hand on the hunters foam
| fiecked neck, and their glances met
i like crossed swords. The look stirred
something vague and deep within
| him. For an unforgettable instant
their eyes held each other, in gaze
! rigid. challenging, almost defiant:
then it broke and she turned to the
rest of the party squirting in gal
| Looping zigzag: genia1-faced man
| of middle age in khaki who sat his
horse like a cavalryman. a younger
one with reckless dark face and
straight black hair, and following
these half-dozen youthful riders of
| both sexes, one of the lads heavily
plastered with mud from a wet crop
per, and the girls chiefly gasps and
giggles.
| The elder of the Two men pulled
UP beside the leader. his astonished
eyes sweeping the house-front, with
it's open blinds. the wisp of smoke
curling from the kitchen chimney.
He said something to her, and she
nodded. The younger man, mean
while. had flung himself from his
horse. a wild-eyed roam and with
| his arm thrust through it's bride
strobe forward among the weller of
hounds. where they scurried at fault,
hither and thither, yelping and eager.
What rotten luck!" he exclaimed.
Gone to ground after twelve miles!
After him. Tawny! You mongrels,
! Do you imagine he's up a tree? After
him. Bulger! Bring him herel"
he glanced up, and for the first
time saw the figure in tweeds look
ing on. Valiant was attracted by his
/
everything it's inherent profiigacv
and weakness. Dark as the
girl was light, his features
had the same delicate chisel-
Ing. the inbreeding, nobility and in
diligence of generations. He stared a
moment, and the somewhat SUPER
cilious look travelled over the gazer,
from dusty boots to waving brown
hair
"Oh!" he said. His view SLOWLY
took in the evidences of occupation.
The house is open, ! see. Going to
get 1t Mt for occupancy, l presume %
Yes"
The other turned. well. Judge
Chalmers, what do you think of thai?
The unexpected has happened al
last" He looked again at the porch.
Who's to occupy it?'
1.-THE owner"
| Wonders will never cease.' said
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SILENT UNDER ACCUSATION.

GOVERNOR SUFFERS steady refusal to make any reply
the multiplying charges against him is interpreted to mean
that his purpose wait until the charges all in and
formulated then them before proper tribunal
upon this Interpretation that his friends rely And yet
if uttered vndicaory of the Governor could
demo the whole edce of accusation and the disgrace
impeachment governor of New York But considering
evidence obtained by the legislative
yesgang committees how it be possible for the Governor
vndcate himself? convince the people of the State
that he is innocent and much malgned man?
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turned East and entered Harvard
Law School He graduated In 1855
and a year later was admitted 10 the
bar in Philadelphia.
But the West had great attraction
for him. In the next ten years he
made fifteen trips there. He soon
saw that law was not his career.
In 1881 a series OF studies and sto-
ries of the West by Wister started in
Harper's Magazine. These were later
gathered together in a volume called
Red Men and White" All the char
acters in these sketches were true 10
life; the Indian was the Indian OF fact
and the cowboy was the cowboy OF
reality.
When Wister first began to write
a fellow townsman and critic of him
said. owen Wister has written some
creditable stories; but so. to be sure,
have many others. His real strength
lies in musical criticism" This opin-
ion hardly holds good today.
THE Virginian" is the best thing
that Wister has done. 1t is absolutely
realistic. This is quality of all this
authors work, as is shown by an
anecdote he himself tells:
"Once a cowpuncher listened patient
~ while I read him a manuscript. 1t
concerned an event on an luuidil res
eryation. Was that the Crow reser-
vation?' he inquired at the finish. l
told him that it was no real reserva-
ton and no real event, and his face
expressed displeasure. Why he de-
manded, do you waste your time
writing what never happened when
YOU know so many things that did
happen""
So we'll was the story told that the
cowboy had believed he was listen
ing to facts.
Lady Baltimore" was another sue
cessful novel of Wister's. and besides
he has written several interesting BIZ
ographies, the best of which is THE
Seven Ages of Washington"
Wister Is not only a writer. He has
actively fought for decent govern
ment in Philadelphia. At one election
he ran for city councilman of his
ward, knowing that his fight was
hopeless. He is an American through
and through, and in his books he por-
trays the best things in the life of
our country.
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TESTING THE COAST DEFENsEs.

THEORETICALLY THE batteship fleet that attempted to
the gauntlet of the forts defending the eastern entrance
Long Island Sound sunk and the metropolis saved from
bombardment and capture. The played this week
represented all the conditions of actual war, the killing and
sinking being estimated paper according certain formulas
it's lessons such cannot be learned swivel
in the department Washington What has been learned
the defenses of the approaches New York
important additions and that with these they may well
defy hostile fleet.
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JERSEY CITY CITIZENSHIP AT TRENTON.
REPRESI

REPRESENTATIVE OF the various civic organizations
in Jersey City will appear Trenton Tuesday the
enactment bills for remedyng the defect in the
Walsh commission act good sign when citizens take
this active their municipal affairs instead of leaving
exclusively their legislative representatives There
in the Legislature who only the
interests Wpenn office holders and who would throw
the affairs of Jersey City into utter confusion to aggrandze these
repudiated ohicehoders display of civic spirit Trenton
will influence votes of these misrepresena
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TELEPHONE COMPANIES UNDER PROBE.

TELEPHONE COMPANIES carriers, under
of the Interstate Commerce Commission and peril
the commission investigate them and inquire into
their Investigation has already been made and the
panies required make detailed statements of their
equipment and operation after which public hearings will be
given There present public information of the value
telephone property and the profits actual investment
any idea of the justice of the rates charged The commits
sion will provide this information and perhaps make the rates
equitable.
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CUP DEFENDERS TO BE BUILT.

AT LEAST two syndicates will be formed among New
yachsmen build boats to compete for the honor of
defending the America cup the international
Herresho will be the builder third boat will probably
built syndicate of the Eastern Yacht Club These prep
araons for the defense of the trophy show fine national spirit
The of building equpping and sailing fscass racing
yacht very great While the nation acclams the victory
few public-spirited men pay the bill.