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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

Seven inches of snow was on the
ground in Ahe vicinity of Bismarck,
N. D., the other day. Wires we're
broken in all directions by heavy
call OF slaAt
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

John AIDE. rs years old, of Kent
land, Ind, father of George AIDE, the
playwright, fell dead in the hall where
the Republican Tenth District con-
vention was in session at Valparaiso,
Ind. Heart disease is believed to
have caused his death.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

A bold attempt 10 burn the men,
bers of the family of John Diehl, rail-
road detective, was made at Fort
Smith, Ark Incendiarles coated the
exterior of the house with oil and
then applied match. When a news
boy discovered the flames they had
enveloped the roof The family es-
capped with difficulty.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

President Wilson has extended the
protecting arm of the federal govern
ment to the state of Colorado, torn
asunder by riots and pitched battles
between militia, mine guards and
strikers. Governor Ammons found
the state militia unable to cope with
the situation and asked for help The
Colorado delegation in congress, the
mine owners and the miners them
selves, joined in the request.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

The third battle squadron of the
British fleet has arrived off Bangor, a
seaport on Belfast Tough. A tiotilla
of eleven destroyers also reached Bel
fast Tough, which they will undertake
to patrol and prevent further gun
running into Ulster.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

The Irish Nationalist Volunteers, a
body similar to the Ulster Unionist
Volunteers, have evened matters with
their political opponents by landing a
large consignment of arms in Ulster.
T. j. +
Chinese pirates attacked the Brit
ish steamer Jason bound up the West
river north of Macao and set fire to
the vessel, which was burned to the
water Incoming steamers rescued
1853 of the passengers and crew, but
1t is reported that 1S1 passengers and
the British chief engineer are missing.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

Another cut OF five cents in the
price of crude oil in the Kansas-Okla-
homa fields has been announced. The
price now is eighty cents a barrel, or
twenty-five cents under the price of
a month ago.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15
Foreign Affairs.

Governor Goethals has decided to
begin a barge service through the
canal about May 10, thus bringing it
into commercial use much earlier than
had been anticipated. This decision
was brought about by the interruption
of the Tehuantepec railroad route
across Mexico.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

Fifteen miners are known to be
dead, fifty-nine were rescued, many Of
them severely burned, and 203 others
are entombed in two burning mines,
believed to have but small chance
for their lives, as the result of an 'eX-
plosion of gas in mines No. and No.
of the New River Galleries Com
pany here. The dead and rescued
men were taken from mine No. g..
One hundred and ninety of the en-
tombed men are in shaft No. s. not a
man having escaped from this work
ing since the explosion.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

The steamer Benjamin Nobel with
its crew of twenty men went down
during the recent storm on Lake SUI
perior Wreckage from the ill-fated
steamer has been washed ashore near
Duluth.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

The reserve bank organization
committee announced that subscrip'
tions to the stock of the federal re-
serve banks in the twelve federal re-
serve districts so far received amount
ed to 81 ,99S,6OO.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15
Personal.

Mrs. c. b. Vivian of Muskogee, Ok,
has received news that her son, Ho-
mer Vivian, who was located on a
ranch l,50O miles inland in South
America had been killed by boa
constructor.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has ar.
rived at Manaos from his expedition
through the hitherto unexplored part
of Brazil. He was greeted with an
enthusiastic reception.
r. + r.
Nine. Lillian Nordica, who arrived
at Batavia, Java, quite ill nearly a
month ago, has had a relapse and is
sinking. The doctors give up all hope
of her recovery
John b. Lennon labor representa-
tive of the National Industrial Rela
lions Commission, has left for Colo
RADIO to investigate the mine strike, in
company with other members of that
bo1y.
Miss Helen DIhsmore Huntington
became Mrs. Vincent Aston at Hope
land House, the country home of the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
+. Huntington, in Staatsburg, N. Y.
The Rev. Charles II. Duncan, rector
of st. Margaret's church at Stats
burg, performed the ceremony.
While Brig. Gen. Funston was near
ing Vera Cruz in command of the
United States troops bound for that
port, Mrs. Funston became mother
at Letterman General Hospital at the
Preside.
+ + r.
President Wilson has made per-
sonal appeal to John d. Rockefeller to
bring about a settlement of the Colo
radc coal strike and the violence
which has cost score of lives and
large property loss.
T. + +
Charles c. Keystone, an aviator, fell
from an altitude of 500 feet at Domin-
ghez Junction, south of Los Angeles,
and was so badly injured that he died
shortly afterward while being taken
to a hospital
+ + T.
Upton Sinclair, his wife and four
other women, were arrested after
demonstration at the Offices of John
d. Rockefeller, Jr., in the Standard
Oil Building, New York. They had
come to make protest in connection
with the Colorado strike.
+ + j.
John AIDE. rs years old, of Kent
land, Ind, father of George AIDE, the
playwright, fell dead in the hall where
the Republican Tenth District con-
vention was in session at Valparaiso,
Ind. Heart disease is believed to
have caused his death.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

1t was reported by Sheriff Jeff Farr
of Huerfano county that four men
had been killed in a battle between
seventy-hve mine guards and an un.
known number of strikers at the Wal
sen mine, two miles south of Walsen-
burg, Col.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

Upton Sinclair, his wife and four
other women, were arrested after
demonstration at the Offices of John
d. Rockefeller, Jr, in the Standard
Oil Building, New York, They had
come to make protest in connection
with the Colorado strike.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

Government ownership and opera
tion of the Colorado mining property
cwned by tie Rockefellers was pro-
posed in bill introduced by Bryan
OF Washington
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15
SEVEN DAYS
OF NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Washington.

Lumber manufacturers associa-
tions, through combination and agree
ment, have increased the price of
lumber and endeavored through lob
bying to influence legislation, accord
ing to partial report on the lumber
industry just made public by the COM
missioner of corporations.
r r +
President Wilson has asked the
president of the Kentucky Mine Oper-
ators' Association and the Alabama
Mine Operatives Organization to
come to Washington Immediately for
a conference, with the view to make
further attempt at mediation in the
Colorado mine strike.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

An investigation of the financial af-
fairs of the Rock Island and Pere
Marquette railroads has been ordered
by the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion on recommendation of the House
committee on interstate commerce.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

Charles c. Keystone, an aviator, fell
from an altitude of 500 feet at Domin-
ghez Junction, south of Los Angeles,
and was so badly injured that he died
shortly afterward while being taken
to a hospital.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

Hope that some of the IFS miners,
imprisoned in mine No. of the New
River Galleries Company, wrecked
with mine No. 6 by an explosion,
might still be alive has been entire
ly abandoned. The rescuers have
reached within sixty feet of the bot
tom of the shaft
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

After an examination by the COM
mission appointed to inquire into the
sanity of Michael p. Mahoney, the
aged man who wounded Corporation
Counsel Frank l.. Polk, in an attempt
to kill Mayor Mitchell of New York,
two physicians said that Mahoney was
suffering from senile dementia and
was irresponsible at the time of the
shooting.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

With federal troops on the ground
conditions we're quiet in the Colorado
strike zone, State troops are being
relieved as rapidly as the regulars are
sent to points where disturbances
have occurred and the militant
strikers are said to be dispensing.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

While Brig. Gen. Funston was near
ing Vera Cruz in command of the
United States troops bound for that
port, Mrs, Funston became a mother
at Letterman General Hospital at the
Preside.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

President Wilson has made per-
sonal appeal to John d. Rockefeller to
bring about a settlement of the Colo
ladc coal strike and the violence
which has cost score of lives and
large property loss.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

John b. Lennon, labor representa-
tive of the National Industrial Rela
tions Commission, has left for Colo
RADIO to investigate the mine strike, in
company with other members of that
body.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-15

Mrs. c. b. Vivian of Muskogee. Ok,
has received news that her son, Ho-
mer Vivian, who was located on
ranch 1900 miles inland in South
America, had been killed by boa
constructor
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-04-24

Bingham apron. "Yo' sho' is up early
but All got 20 brekfus' ready, sub"
"All right, Aunt Daphne. III BE-
back directly"
He sped down 10 the lake to plunge
his head into the cool water and there
by sharpen the edge Of an appetite
that needed no honing.
He came up the trail again to find
the reading-stand transferred to the
porch and laid with a white cloth on
which was set a steaming coffee-pot,
with fresh cream, s~altless butter and
crisp hot biscuit; and as he sat down,
with a sigh OF pure delight, In his
dressing gown - a creepy Japanesc
thing redeemed from wOmanishness
by the bold green bamboo Of its de
sign-Uncle Jefferson planted before
him a generous platter Of bacon. eggs
and potatoes. These he attacked with
a surprising %keenness. AS he buttered
his fifth biscuit he looked at the dog,
rolling OF his back in morning costa
sy, with a look OF humorous surprise.
"Chum,' he said, what do you
think Of that? All my life a single
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-04-24

With a final effort. it gained the porch
and crouched down in It's corner, an
abject, ~sweated, hunted morsel, at
hopeless bay.
Like a fash, Valiant stopped, caught
the ~shivering thing by the scruff, 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
sham faced though brazen knowledge
that the girl who rode it had seen.
She sat moveless, her head high,
one hand on the hunters foam-hecked
crossed swords. The look stirred
something vague and deep within him.
For an ~unforgettable instant their
eyes held each other, In a gaze rigid,
challenging, almost defiant; then IL
broke and she turned TO the rest of
NHC pHA'S oPuilihS III q SbiIOPlHo no
gag: a genial-faced man Of middle age
in khaki who sat his horse like a
cayalTyman, a younger one with a
reckless dark face and straight black
hair, and following these a haif-dOzen
youthful riders of both sexes, one OF
the lads heavily plastered with mud
from a wet cropper. 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 its
open blinds, the wisp of smoke curling
from the kitchen chimney. He said
something TO her. and she nodded.
The younger man, meanwhile, had
flung himself from his horse, a Wild
eyed roam, and with his arm thrust
through it's bride, strobe forward
among the welter 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 m~ongrels!
Do you imagine he's UP Il tree? After
him. Bulger, Bring him here!"
lie glanced up, and for the first time
saw the figure in tWeeds looking on.
Valiant was attracted by his face, its
dash and generosity everything its in
herent profigacy and weakness. Dark
as the girl was light. his features had
the same delicate chiseling, the in
breeding. nobility and Indulgence OF
generations. He stared a moment,
and the somewhat supercilious 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 it fit for occupancy, | presume?'
Yes
The other turned. We'll. Judge
Chalmers, what do you think Of that?
The unexpected has happened at last"
He looked at the porch. Who's to
occupy it,"
The owner"
ITO BE CONTINUED)
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-04-24
INSTINCT OF SWANS
Birds Had Learned the Trick OF Ring
ing a Bell to Get Their Supply
Of Food.

During a recent visit TO the cathed-
raj city of Wells, in Somersetshire, a
Scotsman correspondent was witness
of a curious incident. The Episcopal
palace is surrounded, just as in olden
times, by a wall and a moat, the haunt
OF swans, ducks. and other aquatic
birds. The moat is crossed at the en-
trance to the palace grounds by a
drawbridge with a battlemented gate
way with towers. in n of which Is
the gatekeeper's lodge. From a
bracket fixed in the wall of one or
these towers overlooking the moat a
bell Is suspended. with a cord at
tached.
One afternoon about five o'clock,
while watching the movements of the
various birds In the water, the CORE
spondent heard the ringing OF a bell
and, on looking to e whence the
sound came, he observed that n OF
the swans was vigorously pulling the
cord evidently to attract attention. AS
no immediate notice was taken of it,
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-04-24
Worth KnoWinu.
The owner
(TO BE CONTINUED.)

Suppose a man leaves New York at
noon on a given date and travels west
ward at such a rate Of speed that the
sun will always be directly overhead.
After making a circle Of the globe he
Will reach the starting point in New
York Just "a hours after he left II.
The question presenting itself is, at
which one Of his different stopping
places while making the circuit of
the globe in "a hours, carrying noon
with him to every station, was he
first informed that it was noon of the
following day. AS he crossed the me
ridian of 1870 degrees east, or west, OF
Greenwich the day would change. His
first stop after crossing the meridian
would be Yokohama, perhaps; there
he would learn that it was the next
day.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-04-24

efforts, the impatient bird continued
to ring the bell violently until there
appeared at the window of the tower
the wife of the gatekeeper, who threw
out a quantity of food to the ~expectant
waterfowl.
On making inquiries as to the origin
of this interesting episode, the CORE
spondent was told that a number of
years ago a daughter of the bishop of
Wells. being much interested in the
birds inhabiting the moat, taught the
swans to ring the bell at feeding-time,
at five o'clock in the afternoon. This
practice has been continued by success
siye families of swans down to the
present day, and it would seem, there
fore, as if the birds transmitted to
their offspring the knowledge that
when the cord was pulled the bell
would ring and that food would follow.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-04-24

touch OF firearms. There had been mo
ments in his youth when this unrea-
soning shrinking had filed him with a
blind fury, had driven him to strange
self-tests OF courage. He had never
been able to overcome II. Analyza-
ton had told him hat his peculiar
adherence was no mere %outgrowth of
this. 1t lay far deeper. He had rare
~. of recent years, met the test. Now,
as he stood in these u~naccustomed
surroundings, with the cold touch Of
the metal the old s%huddering held
him. and the sweat broke in beads
on his forehead. Setting his teeth
hard, he crossed the room, slipped the
box with its pistol between the vol,
umes Of the bookcase, and returned 10
his seat.
The bulldog. aroused from a nap,
thrust a warn muzzle between his
knees. It's uncanny, Chum!" he said,
as his hand caressed the velvety
head. Why should the touch of that
1901 thing chill my spine and make
my flesh tiptoe over my bones? Why
should | hate a pistol? Do you sup
pose ! was shot IN one of my previous
~existences?"
For a long while he sat there, his
pipe dead, his eyes on the moon
lighted ou%t-of-doors. The eery feel
ing that had gripped him had gone as
quickly as it had come. At last he
rose, stretching himself with a great
bOyish yawu. put out all save one Of
the candles and taking a bath-robe,
sandals and a huge fuzzy towel from
the steamertrunk, stripped leisurely.
He donned the bath-rObe and sandals
and went out through the window to
the garden and down to where lay the
little lake ruffling silverly under the
moon. On its brink he stopped, and
tossing back his head. tried to imi-
tate one OF the bird-calls but was I'M
successful. With a rueful laugh he
threw of the bath-robe and stood an
instant glistening, poised in the moon
light like a marble faun. before he
dove, straight down out Of sight.
Five minutes later he pulled him.
self up over the edge, his flesh tin
with the chill of the water, and
threw the robe about his cool white
shoulders. Then he thrust his feet
into his sandals and sped quickly
back. He rubbed himself to a glow,
and blowing out the remaining can
die, stretched himself luXuriously be-
,.nDy, ~. mann, L1opbn+r on tho
couch. The dog shifted inQuiringly at
his hand, then leaped up and snug
gled down close TO his feet.
John Valiant's thoughts had fed a
thousand miles away, to the tall girl
who all his life had seemed to stand
out from his world, aloof and unsur-
Dassed-Katharine Fargo. He tried to
her, a perfect c~hatelaine, grace
'ul and gracious as a tall, white, splen-
lid lily, in this dead house that
still to throb with living pas
,ions. But the picture subtly eluded
llm and he stirred uneasily under the
After a time his hands stretched out
o the reading-stand and drew the
lass with its vivid blossom nearer,
Ill, In his nostrils, its musky odor
with the dew-wet scent of
he ho~neysuckle from the garden. At
asst his eyes closed. Every man car
les his fate on a riband
bout his neck" he muttered drowsily,
md then, Roses red
And so he fell asleep.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-04-24
CHAPTER X.
The Hunt.

He aWoke to a musical tWittering
and chirping, to And the sun pouring
into the dusty room in a very glory.
He rolled from the blanket and stood
upright, filling his lungs with q long
deep breath of satisfaction. He felt
singularly light-hearted and alive. The
bulldog came bounding through the
window, dirty from the weeds. and
flung himself upon his master In a
canine rapture.
Get OUT" quoth the latter, laugh
ing. Stop licking my feet! How the
dickens do you suppose I'm to get into
my clothes with your ridiculous antics
going on? Down, say! Hark!" He
broke of and listened. who's that
singing?'
The sound drew nearer-a lugu-
brious chant, with the weirdest minor
reflections, family suggestive OF the
rag-time ditties of the music-halls, yet
with a plsintive cadence.
Good morning. Uncle Jefferson"
The singer broke off, set down the
twig-broom thai he had been welding
and came toward him. "Mawnin'. sub.
Mawnin',' he said. Hopes yo-ail
slep' good. All reck'n dem ar birds
woke yo' up: dey's maxim sch er
'miration."
Thank you. Never slept better In
my life. Am | laboring under a delu-
sion when imagine | smell coffee!
Just then there came a voice from
the open door of the ldtchen: Calls
yo'se'f er man. yo' triflin' recon
structed niggah! Wen marstah gwine'
ter git he brekfus' wild yo' ramshack-
lin eroun' wild dat dwag all dis
Gawd s-ble1sid mawnin'? Go fotch
some mo- lakewood dis minute. Yo
heah?" .
A turbaned head poked itself
through the door. with a ~good-natured
leaf-brown face beneath 1t, which
broadened into a wide smile as Its
ownsr bobbed energeticaily at Va
liant's greeting. "Fo' dc Lawd!' b
exclaimed. wiping 6oury hands on .
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CHAPTER Discontinued.

lie trudRcd away into the shadows,
but presently IA the new master of
Damorv Court stood in the gloomy
hall. he heard the shambling step
again behind him. An done neglect
uated ter AK yo' name, sub All did.
70 or lac''
Ny name Is Valiant. John Val.
iaut."
Uncle Jeftcraon's eyes turned up
ward and rolled out Of orbit. Nah
IaWd'' he circulated aoundlessly.
ANA with his wide lips still framed
about the last word. me- backed out
OF The doorway and disappeared
Alone i'm the ebbing twilight, John
Valiant found his hamper. spread d
napkin ON The broad stone steps and
took out a glass. a spoon and part Of
81 loaf Of bread The thermos flask
was iilIed with milk 1t was not a
splendid banquet, yet h. ate it with
Il great content as the bulldog at his
feet gnaWed hts share Of the crust.
lie broke his bread into the milk as
he had not done since he was a child.
and ate the luscious pulp with a keen
relish bred OF the long outdoor day.
II was almost dark when the meal
was done ana. depleted hamper In
hand. ho r|eentcred the empty echoing
house. He went into the library.
lighted the great brass lamp from the
motor and began TO rummage. The
drawers Of the %diniug-room sideboard
yielded nothing: on a shelf Of the but
ler's pantry. however. was a tin box
which proved 10 be half full OF wax
candles, perfectly preserved.
The very thing he said triumph
antly. Carrying them back. he fixed
several in the glass-candlesticks and
set hem. lighted. all about the somber
room till the soft glow flooded it's
every corner There he said.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-04-24

would recur tomorrow. The page bore
a quotation: Every man carries his
fate on a riband about his neck"
The line had been quoted In his
fathers letter. May 14th-how much
that date and that motto may have
meant for him!
He rose to push the shutter wider
and In the movement his elbow sent q
shallow case of morocco leather that
had ain on the desk crashing to the
floor. 1t opened and a heavy metallic
object rolled almost to his feet He
saw at a glance that it was an old.
fashioned rusted dueling pistol
The box had originally held two
pistols. He shuddered as he stooned
to pick up the weapon. and with the
crawling repugnance mingled a panp.
ing anger and humiliation. From bis
very babyhood 1t had always been go
unconQuerable aversion to the