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The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-19
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR sUsY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Laden with a S3,0O0,OOO cargo of
food for the relief of Belgium the
steamer Maskinonge sailed from New
York.
Henry Griesidieck, Jr.H sixty, retired
from active work, one of the foremost
brewers of the country, died in st.
Louis of apoplexy.
Charles B. Reynolds, a lawyer, was
shot and almost instantly killed in a
revolver battle with a burglar in his
home at Atlanta, Ca
Roumania has entered the field for
the purchase of American war sup
plies, according to information reach
ing Chicago merchants.
William David Cantillon, until last
May general manager of the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad, died at Chi
cago of heart trouble.
One out of every ten persons in
Chicago receives aid from public char
ity, according to a report of the re-
firing president of the board of coun-
ty commissioners.
A telegram from Chicago says that
the AtchisoE, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail
road Company has just placed a con-
tract for s2.000,0OO worth of steel rails
for spring delivery.
Five municipal dances as a sane
celebration of New Year eve and as a
counter attraction to the usual revel
in Chicagos cafes will be held this
year, it was announced.
Model roads showing the adyan-
tanges of the various systems OF CON
struction were built in sections for
delegates attending two national good
road conventions in Chicago
James McLay, a sheepman and a
livestock authority of international
reputation, died at Laramie, Wyo., of
apopleXy. McLay came to America
from Scotland about twenty years
ago.
Ocean freight rates on cotton to
Europe advanced sharply to the high
est on record at Galveston, Tex On
+ a hundred pounds they are: Bremen,
SO; Havre, Genoa and Barcelona,
S1.15; Liverpool, 81.
Frederick NJ. Smith, first counselor,
was sustained as temporary president
of the Reorganized Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints and will
| assume the work of his father, Joseph
Smith, president, who died at Inde-
| penGence, Mo.
New materials for women's early
spring clothes are decidedly like those
of grandmother's day, according to
the bulletin of the Fashion Art
League of America, issued at Chicago
Frills and furbelows of 1880 are to be
worn more and more.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-19
WASHINGTON.

President Wilson nominated Henry
A. Meier of Lincoln to be register of
the land office at Lincoln. Neb.
This years principal farm crops are
worth $4,945, ,S52, 900. the Department
of Agriculture announced
David A. Gates of Arkansas City.
Ark, was appointed deputy commits
sioner of internal revenue by Secre-
tary McAdoo, succeeding Robert Will
liams, Jr., who died several days ago.
The American merchant marine has
been increased by 101 vessels, with
total displacement of 361 ,O7S gross
tons, since Sept. 3, according to an an
nouncenent by the Department of
Commerce.
Nearly a quarter billion pounds of
domestic refined sugar have been ex-
ported from continental United States
during the three months ended Oct 31
1914, or more than 0,00O 900 in ex-
cess of the entire exports of 1910, the
high record year of the last quarter
century.
Secretary Daniels told the House
naval affairs committee that while all
the battleships in reserve We're not
supplied with shells, every dread.
nought and every other battleship in
the active line was equipped, but did
not. however, have an adequate re-
serve supply.
To push an electric button giving a
signal for opening the San Diego, Cal.
exposition on the beginning of the
New Year, President Wilson will be
awakened before 8 o'clock New Year
morning. He will push the button at
midnight, Pacific coast time. which is
3 q. m. in Washington
Further investigation of Postmaster
General Burleson's recommendations
for government acquisition of the tele.
graph and telephone systems is pro
posed in the postoffice approximation
bill 1t is said to carry approximately
325,000,000.
State highway commissioners and
engineers from twenty-seven states
were represented when the organiza>
tion of the American Association of
State Highway Officials was perfect
ed. 1t is expected that all states will
be represented in the Organization
ultimately.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-19
SPORT.

frankie Callahan of Brooklyn and
Joe Mandot of New Orleans fought an
eight-round draw at Memphis.
Mike Gibbons, the "St. Paul Phan-
TOM outfought and outpointed Willie
Brennan of Buffalo in a ten-round
bout at Buffalo, N. Y.
Jack Thompson of st. Joe made big
Jack Wethers of Chicago quit in the
first round of fifteen-round bout at
East Turner hall in Denver
Jim Flynn, the Pueblo heavyweight,
and Battling Levinsky, are to furnish
the excitement in ten-round bout
Christmas day at the Broadway Sport
ing Club of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Profits of the University of Pennsyl-
vania Athletic Association from foot
ball were $4,000 and from basketball
$500 for the season ending Sept. /,
1914, according to the report of the
treasurer.
A secret is out-Jack Coffey, new
manager of the Grizzlies, is married.
Coffey arrived in Denver, but left Mrs.
Coffey at home. He did not proclaim
his matrimonial state, being a modest
man, but some friends told on him.
Jack was married a week ago to Miss
Jepsen of Scots Bluff, Neb.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-19
FORE EIGN.

In addition to Russia and Turkey,
France has refused to accept Pope
Benedict's proposal for a truce be-
tween the belligerent powers during
the Christmas season.
Paul Deschanel, speaker Of the
French chamber of deputies, was in
jured about the head in an automobile
accident at NogentleRotrou, in the
French department of Eure-et-Lolr.
Private messages from Vienna an
nounce the death there of William NJ.
MacGarvey, founder and president Of
the Austrian Petroleum Company. He
died on his seventy-first birthday.
The determination of the House Of
Commons not to sit again until Feb.
2, has excited considerable criticism
and the decision of the House of Lords
to reconvene on Jan. is praised by
the critics.
An explosion occurred in coal mine
at Fukuoka, as a result of which 500
laborers are imprisoned in the work
ings of the mine. Fukuoka Is on the
seacoast sixty-five miles to the north
of Nagasaki.
Berlin dispatch says that Brus-
sells and suburbs have decided to pay
the war lien of 45,0O0,O 900 marks (s11,-
250,O00) imposed by Germany, by
means of special taxes payable up to
June Is, 1915.
Street car service in Vera Cruz has
been suspended by military order, the
authorities taking the stand that the
lives of the public were endangered
by incompetent men employed by the
railway company.
A Lloyd's dispatch from Oporto says
that the Dutch steamer Bogor, from
Amsterdam for Buenos Aires, is
ashore north of Leixoes, on the Portu-
guese coast, and is a total wreck. 1t
is believed that twenty-five lives we're
lost.
The London official press bureau an
bounced that the sinking of the bat
tleship Bulwark apparently was not
due to hostile act. Investigation has
disclosed no evidence of treachery on
the part of any persons aboard the
vessel or of any act by an enemy The
British battleship Bulwark was de-
stroyed by an explosion on Nov. 26
while lying off Sheerness. About SOC
lives We're lost.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-19
GENERAL.

Fire at Birmingham, Ala, destroyed
five-story building, causing loss
estimated at 100000.
Milan w. Mills, formerly a resident
of New York city, and then reputed to
be a millionaire, died in the county
poor farm at San Angelo, Tex, aged
so years. At one time he owned much
Texas land.
Presentation of gold medal to DIR.
Remulu S. Naon, ambassador of the
Argentine Republic to the United
States, was the feature of the six.
teenth annual dinner of the Pennsyl.
vania Society in New York
Miss Hedda Burgemeister, a trained
nurse, was indicted, charged with the
murder of Otto Koehler, millionaire
president of the San Antonio Brewing
Association, at San Antonio, Tex, on
Nov. 81 last. She claims self-defense.
Teaching of total abstinence as the
most direct way to suppress the liquor
traffic was urged at Richmond, Va, by
Secretary of State Bryan before the
annual meeting of the federal council
d.
A Czech resident of Prague, who
was raised in Chicago, has been shot
for corresponding with a Czech union
in Chicago, which, it is alleged, is
carrying on campaign for the estab.
lishment of an Independent kingdom
in Bohemia.
Copious draughts of beer and five
cigars day produce long life, accord
ing to Moses w. Oil, who celebrated
his one hundredth birthday anniver-
sary in New York. Mr.. Oil believes
in dancing as a means of keeping the
old ones in trim.
An order for 100000 worth Of steel
shells, shrapnel cases and other muni-
tions of war has been placed with a
Philadelphia manufacturing concern.
Positive information that Watkins
Lewis. an aged negro, was burned at
the stake by 200 white men at Sylves.
ter Station, was received at Shreye-
port, La.
James G. Walker, former business
associate of Senator w. A. Clark of
Montana and well known collector
of archaeological relics, died at his
home in San Francisco, aged seventy
seven.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1914-12-11

both Chacha and Twas this--the
old man was sitting by table with a
little chest lying before him. From
this chest he was taking handfuls of
golden coins and pouring them through
his fingers, gloating over them the
while like miser.
Seeing this, the negro, Chacha,
turned and tiptoed out of the hut. But
there was an evil grin on his face.
| wondered what 1t meant. | won.
dered, too, why Chacha tiptoed out
of the hut, pretending, for my benefit,
that he had not seen the gold
1.-The old man now heard my heels
click on the board floor in the sitting
room. With wild cry he sprang up
and slammed the bedroom door in
my face.
presently he came from the bed
room rubbing his hands as If with
great satisfaction. And the look OF
the miser gloating over his secret
hoard was still upon his face.
"'Ah, daughter he said Did you
say you were my daughter?
"This speech alone should have
made me know that the old man was
fast losing his reason. But | tell you
that at that time did not suspect that
he was going mad-did not dream of
such thing.
Once again said to him. Senior,
won't you please help me to get to
my own country?
And to my establishment he re-
Piled; Help you? You mean pay
your passage to the United States?
Why, how can /? | am poor. I have
no money-no, not one centavo other
than we need for our bread and butter.
Now, knew this was lie. knew
that he had plenty Of golden coins In
his bedroom enough gold, surely. to
pay my passage on the finest steamer
atloat Intutively | felt that | must
not let him know that had seen that
gold. ! feared that, if l told him
knew of that secret hoard, he might
drive me out of his house altogether
and place me at the mercy and on the
bounty of the Spanish.American ma.
tives. So | did not contradict him,
spoke no word OF my knowledge Of HIS
gold, And now he came close to me
and pointed long, bony finger at me,
saying.
81 believe you are my daughter.
after all. Yes, you are my daughter.
When you were child you fell and
struck the fender in our living.room.
The scar resulting from the wound you
then received is on your shoulder now.
Let me show 1t to you--to prove that
you are my daughter
No. cried. | I'm not your
daughter have no such scar
He seized me roughly and tore open
my waist and searched my shoulder
searched In vain for the scar he had
declared was there.
God In heaven.' he now cried, very
wildly. You are not my daughter
after all No, not my daughter. But
all the same you are specimen--a
specimen. do you hear?--a specimen OF
the same species as she. You have
been sent to me to keep as specimen
of the same genus as my daughter.
Yes, shall keep you-keep you al
ways--as a specimen. Oh, do not fear.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1914-12-11

take good care OF my specimens.
Look at all these specimens on my
walls. Do not take excellent care of
each and every one Of them? And
they are all dead specimens. too-dead
specimens. II take such splendid
care of dead specimens, will not take
all the better care Of living specimens?
Surely! Surely Why should | sur
round myself only with dead speci-
mems? Why not have living speci'
mens-yes. living specimens?
Thus he chartered and planned for
an hour or more And now, now at
last, knew that this old man with
whom | was making my home and
upon whose bounty | was dependent
for protection and even for my sus
tenance~-l realized that this old man
was mnniac-a man driven insane by
grief over the loss of his daughter
madness superinduced now by his In.
sane belief that resembled that lost
daughter and was specimen just like
her
THAT night decided to take heroic
measures to free myself from the old
man. In the dead Of night arose.
dressed and began stealing softly out
OF the house. But suddenly, In the
darkness, strong arms seized me and
q horrible hand was clapped over my
mouth to keep me from screaming
And out of the hut and into the night
was carried-and away from the viii
lage. Into the forest | was dragged
and by now knew that was In The
clutches of the black man. Chacha,
while the old madlnan followed us.
They tied me to a tree In the Tor
est and the mailman said to his serV'
ant:
"Chacha. she was going to run away
tonight with man. Do you hearT
She was going TO elope with rascal
who would never let me see her again
But no! |, you see, Chacha, am man
of action and resource and divination'
| OWNED that this specimen was go
ing to run away with man. So
caused you to seize her and bring her
4 here
81, Senior Ell Toro,' the servant re-
piled, craftly-for ! did not believe
that he, too, was insane-never have
believed. You have but to command,
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1914-12-11
Chacha added. 4 obev.'

Chacha added, I obey
"'You are a good servant, Chaeha
the old man said. You shall go with
me into the forest-far ever so far
so far away from man that this speci.
men can never run away with any
male of the species. Yes, | am de-
termined that she shall never run off
with man, shall keep her beauti.
fully secure---in place where man
cannot release her to carry her away
from me, She is very dear to me,
Chacha, don't forget that-she is very
dear TO me We must take excellent
care of her forever and forever
Il slept-tied to the tree When !
aw0ke ! was alone. But not for long.
Ell Toro and Chacha returnedNith sew.
eral burros and pack mules on which
were loaded all the household goods
which you yourself saw at the old
mans hut.
And now they released me and
dragged me through the forest For
days we marched on and on, ever
farther into the interior. till at last
they reached the clearing where the
hut and cages now stand
THAT we had every convenience In
the way of utensils for cooking and
worrying, and so on, you already know.
All tboca ucoppI tbipuc mora hro,i 1, :
on the backs Of the burros and mules,
which Chacha later took back to the
village, They built the hut first Then
they built the cage in which you found
me. You did not see-but at the back
Of the cage the old man constructed
wooden pit. This pit served as a
sunken bath They would fill it daily
with water for me TO battle and refresh
myself, And the old man supplied me
with combs and brushes and all toilet
conveniences-an d--oh, yes, he took
excellent care OF his specimen just
as he had promised
In time they built more cages.
wondered what for. And soon | learned
that these new cages were for wild
beasts. They dug a pit In the forest,
put rope net in 1t and then covered
up the pit with leaves and limbs of
saplings and twigs and grass. And the
leopard and lion and all the other ami.
mails which you saw In the cages fell
into the pit and thus were taken alive
and put into the cages.
And $3.50 passed the days until
you found me. That Is all"
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1914-12-11


season with consciences crowded with
uncomfortable memories; Marley's
ghost is after them, but, unlike
Scrooge, their new heart is only for
Christmas week. Another group sim.
ply fall in with an ancient custom
and are surprised, and indeed pleased,
when the dry bones of their unbeliev.
ing minds come together, take on
flesh, and begin to live. A vast null.
titude meet the great day with buoy.
ant expectation. take with thanks its
new happiness. return to their work
In this exalted mood, and ask no ques.
tons about cause and effect. A few
philosophize on the phenomenon, and
they are willing to stake their lives
on the substantial truth of their in
sight.-George A. Gordon, In Atlantic
Monthly.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1914-12-11
EMOTIONAL VALUE CT D.i
Christmas Spirit Almost Universally
Felt, But What It Is Remains a
Mystery to Many.

The emotional value of Christmas
may be said to be universally felt.
Something happens at Christmas that,
II Only Tor day or two. does the
whole world good What that some
thing Is remains for many mystery.
A number of persons who feel the
renewing impulse are like Faust when
the notes of the Easter song arrest
his suicidal intent they take and en-
joy the moments deliverance and con-
tinue to regard the source of the boon
as nothing more than mythology made
potent through human associations.
Others are moved through supersti.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1914-12-11

To ask girl If you may kiss her
before doing it is an insulting way
of laying all the responsibility on
her.
In mans opinion a kiss is an end
that justifies any means.
You needn't be afraid Of a mere
kiss. Thousands are exchanged daily
by people of the highest reputation.
The kissed girl fears no mistletoe.
A kiss is as good as a smile-and
o good deal better, too!
The ideal kiss Ia the kiss that II
never given.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1914-12-11
CHAPTER VII.
The Madman's FLIGHT.

Another day." the girl said. con.
tinuing her story, Il happened to en-.
ter the hut Unexpectedly. The old
man thought was strolling on the
beach, and he believed that Chacha,
sat that hour, was In the village secur-
ing food supplies But Chacha eli.
4ered right behind me. We BOTH
glanced into the bedroom where the
BID man slept. And what we both saw
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1914-12-11
Presents For The Baby

Presents for grandma
and grandpa, Presents
for the children, Pres
ents for parents, Pres
ents to make the home
more beautiful, Practical
presents, Presents to play
with, Presents to wear,
Presents to Eat
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1914-12-11

The Christmas tree is supposed by
great numbers of people to have orig.
mated in Germany, but from a re.
liable source we learn that the Christ.
mas tree came in the first instance
from Egypt, and its origin dates from
a period much earlier than the Chris
tian era. The palm tree is known
to put forth branch every month.
and spray of this tree with IL
shoots on 1t was used in Egypt at the
time of the winter solstice as sym
Dol Of the completed year.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1914-12-11
CHAPTER VIII.
"My Name 10 Joan Darcy"


And all this was two years ago."
now said.
Two years-yes!"
Two years." gasped. You mean
to SAY that you have been In the
clutches of that insane devil for all OF
two whole years."
Yes! Two long years. But | must
say he was good to me In every re.
spect except that OF allowing me my
freedom. For two years | lived In
that dreadful cage in which you found
me- But always he told me. what a
fine specimen was and how neces.
sary II was that | be well fed and
watered And so never wanted for
food nor for utensils with which to
brush my hair and make myself as
presentable as possible. He would
bring me the most beautiful skins and
Insist that make myself new dresses
out of them, That's how you came to
behold me--dressed In this barbarous
fashion"
1T may be barbarous.' said, with
enthusiasm and admiration, but it is
picturesque-it is beautiful You are
yourself the most-well, excuse me for
coming close to personalities-but your
name? What's your name?"
Joan Joan Darcy And must be
twenty-one years old. too-because !
sailed on that last fateful voyage just
after my nineteenth birthday
Joan" said, you are the faIrest-
pardon mel mean that we must
hasten on now, toward the coast, how.
ever far off the coast may be- We
must look for food. too There is
wild honey and berries in this jungle
We must find them-or starve"
She laughed was the first time
| had heard her laugh-and the last
for long time to come.
Speaking Of food" said, do you
know-yes, I'm sure-this is the
stream into which they threw my gun
Look! ] still have cartridges. If can
find that rife of mine we shall not
want for food. l saw some wild ducks
during our fight. and other jungle
birds that are perfectly good food"
With the determination to find my
rifle, il only | could locate the place
at which lost 1t, | started down
stream.
Wait here minute, JOAN" told
her. "lll be right back"
had not gone twenty PAGES when |
heard scream that made my blood
run cold and caused my hair to stand
on end
ran back to where had left Joan
and confronted again that murderous
spear Of Chacha Joan was again
prisoner in the hands of the old man,
Ell Toro-and was again at the mercy
Of the negro's spear.
My specimens cried the lunatic
MY specimens shall never again es
cape You two are the finest speci
mems in all this country and | mean
now to keep you.~-that is, provided
both of you live"
There it was provided bot
of you live" What did this old scoun
drei mean by his dark allnsions 10 tbs
possible death OF one of W.?
All, but so long as II was not ny
Joan that he meant TO subject to som,
mortal ordeal-what cared |?
And Joan--my Joan-what a look o.
anguish she gave me now as her cap
tor dragged her of!
II
Here again John Gaunt ceased his
narrative and fell into silence, suffer
ing from his thoughts of that terrible
hour In which he and his Joan were
/ ,recaptured by the strangest captors
4 ever man had to be taken back to the
strangest prison ever man heard Of
as Specimens" treasured by madmen
Pulling himself together. however
the Fifth Man now resumed his tale
as follows
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1914-12-11
sEASOhAELE PRICES.

How Goth She Christmas shopper
With happiness elate,
Buy something that was forty nine,
Marked up to ninety eight.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1914-12-11
CHAPTE TX.
A Duel In a Cage.

All the way back to the hut and the
cages they drove US, the negro's spear
always within an inch or two of my
back and the SCIENTISTS own spear
/rou4.w,ol -, Doo.a Etcrl.fl
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-04-30
NEWS OF THE ORANGES.

Waldo Pomona Grange will meet with Sun
light Grange at Knox Station, May 5th. A
good speaker from the Department of Agri-
culture will be present, and there will be a
large class to take the 5th degree.
Morning Light Grange. Monroe. adopted the
following resolutions of respect April Is, 1914:
Whereas the Divine Master has removed
from our grange our esteemed sister, Martha
H. Parker, sincere patron, who although i'll
health had prevented her from attending the
meetings during recent years never lost her
interest in the order, and
Whereas, the community has lost true ana
noble woman. whose every act and relation IN
life were characterized by fidelity, as devot-
ed wife and mother, loyal friend and neigh
bor and q faithful Patron of HusbaDdry; there
fore, be it
Resolved, That we extend to the husband
and son our heartfelt coincidence and direct
them to that Infinite source of consolation that
brings balm and comfort to every wounded and
sorrowing heart, and
Resolved, That q copy of these resolutions
be sent to Brother Parker, q copy inscribed on
our records, and copies sent to the local papers
for publication; also that our charter be drap-
ed for thirty days.
ANNIE B. CLEMENTS, [ Committee
LYDIA W. WooDNAN, ON
* ISAAC F. Cook. Resolutions.