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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-03-12
CHAPTER Si.

I couldn't stand any more. II was
all over! rushed to my room and
threw myself on the bed. At two-thir-
" ! heard the bus come TO the porte
cochere under my window and then
drive away: that was the last straw.
put a pillow over my head SO nobody
could hear me, and then and there
had Mysteries.
And then somebody ierked the pill
low away and l looked up, with my
eyes swollen almost shut, and IL was
Doctor Barnes. He had a glass OF wa
ter in his hand and he held IL right
above me.
"One more yell." he said. and It
goes over you!"
sat up and stared at him. could
hardly see out OF my eyes. He had his
back to the light, but l could tell that
he had a cross OF adhesive plaster on
his cheek and that one eye was almost
shut. He smiled when he saw my ex-
preston
It's the temperament" he said. 1T
goes with the hair. I've got Il too,
only I'm apt to 80 out and pick a fight
at such times, and a woman hasn't got
that outlet AS you see. found Mike,
and my Disagreement is to Mikes az
starlight to the MONDAY glare. Come
and take walk"
l didn't want to go. but anything
was better than sitting in the room
moping. put on my jacket and Miss
Paty's ehinehillas. which cheersd me
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cheering for him. and even Mr.. Jen-
nings. who'd been sitting and not say
ing much. said he thought probably
there was something In IT,
They ended by agreeing to try 1t out
for u week. beginning with the morn
ing. when everybody was to be down
for breakfast by seven-thirty. Then
somebody suggested that II they were
10 get up they'd have TO go to bed.
and the party broke up
In a half-hour or so had cleared
away. and l went out to the lobby To
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opened the door from the back hall.
however. | heard two people talking.
1t was Miss Pat and Mr.. Pierce. She
was on the stairs and he in the hall
below, looking up.
Il don't want to stayl" che was say
ing.
But. don't you see." he argued. IF
you go. the others will. Can't you try
1t for a week! I'm told it's the bad
season and nobody else would come
until Lent. And, anyhow. it's not busi-
ness to let lot of people so away
mad. II gives the place black eye"
Dear me-" she said. how bust
nesslike you are growingl"
He went over close to the stairs and
dropped his voice
IF you want the bitter truth" he
went on, trying to smile. I've put my
self on trial and been convicted OF be-
ing fool and failure. I've been go
ing around so long trying to find q
place that at into. that I'm SCARED
as with many battles. And now I'm
on probation-for the last time. II this
doesn't 60. II"
| ''What?" she asked, leaning down to
him. you'll not"
"Oh, no" he said. nothing dramatic
of course. | could go around the coun-
try in a buggy selling lightning rods"
She drew herself back as IL she re-
sented his refusal OF her sympathy.
"Or open a SALOON in the Philip
pines!" he finished mockingly.
There's living in that"
You are impossible" she said, and
turned away.
He watched her up the stairs and
then turned and walked to the FIRE,
with his hands in his pockets and his
head down.
| closed the news stand and he came
over just as l was hanging up the
cigar case key for Amanda King in the
morning. He reached up and took the
key of its nail.
"I1l keep that" he said. Its no
tobacco after this, Minnie"
You can't keep them here. then" I
retorted. They've got to smoke; it's
the only work they do
Wen see," he said quietly. And
Ois gtNt .AAAhAct INV NLsAN We ShoAi Acs
be using the mineral spring"
Not use the mineral springl" re-
peated, stupefied
Certainly mott" he said. This is Q
drugless sanatorium. Minnie, from now
On. That's part Of the theory-no
drugs. Listen, Minnie II you hadn't
been wasting youT abilities In the min
eral spring, I'd be sorry to close Il
But there win be plenty for you to
do"
III we're not going to use the spring
house, we might have saved the ex-
pense OF the new roof in the fall" I
said bitterly.
Not at all. For two hours or SO
day the springhouse will be a rest
house-windows wide open and Gods
good air penetrating TO businesses IL
never knew before"
The spring will freeze!"
Exactly. My only regret is that II
is too small 10 skate on. But they'll
have the Ice pond"
when ! see Mr.. Moody skating on
the ice pond" | said sarcastically, III
, see Mrs. Moody dead with the shock
on the bank"
mot at all" re replied calmly.
You'll see her skating. too" And
with that ne went to bed.
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Miss Patty beside him, went over
and looked down into the spring. and
It seemed TO me II vas darker than
usual. Il may have smelled stronger.
but the edge had been taken OF my
nose, SO TO speak, By being there so
long.
The only thing could think OF was
70 empty the sprSug and let the water
come in plain. could put little sui
phur In 70 give It color and flavor
and II II turned out that Mr.. Piercs
was right and that Arabslla was only
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-02
SPORT.
'tnnding Of Western League Clubs.

In the horse racing at Long Champs.
France. n. B. Duryea's Durbar Won
the Prix biennial and August Bel
mont's Bavard S. ILL.,. the Prix Van
teau.
Charles c. Keystone an aviator, fell
from an altitude of 500 feet at Don,in-
guez Junction, south of Los Angeles,
and was so badly injured that he died
shortly afterward.
A flight of 40 miles in 11O min
utes was made by q carrier pigeon
that flew from Amherst to the loft OF
its owner, G. F. Richardson, Jr., OF
Newton Center, Mass.
Toots Gard of Denver, star catcher
for the Boise baseball team, broke his
leg sliding to second base in the third
inning of game at Weiser, Idaho. lie
will be out of the game for weeks.
The Chicago Federal leaguers have
outdrawn the Cubs OF the National
league decisively in the games played
in Chicago and followers of the new
organization are jubilant at the com
parative showing.
tld! McN lure, eisHtS years oih' MY
ed bachelor horseman, died at his
home near Fulton, Mo. He had lived
all his life on the farm on which he
died, with a maiden sister, Miss Sallie
Mcclure, eighty-four years old. They
had saved all newspapers read by
them and these fill room from floor
to ceiling. Some of the best horses
of the country were bred on his farm
and raised by him.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-02
CirdIes Of Roses,

Entire girdles of roses are the latest
add inches to the apparent width OF
the waist line. But to give a touch OF
color to a gown in black velvet. satin.
chiffon or brocade they are invaluable.
and decidedly more striking in effect
than the ordinary corsage bouquet.
The roses of the usual dimensions of
the almot full-blown flower are made
in satin or silk ribbon or in gau.e
thickly powdered with beads of a
matching shade OF yellow, pink. cream
or RED.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-02
MeatIess Soup.

Boil six small turnips until soft
enough to put through sieve. Fry one
small onion in one tablespoon of clear
dripping. Take great care not to brown
it. When cooked, put through sieve
Add turnip to onion and put in double
boiler. Add one quart OF milk and one
scant teaspoon of cornstarch wet with
little cold milk Salt and pepper to
taste. Cook slowly for forty minutes.
Put little grated cheese in bottom of
each dish. Turn hot soup over it and
serve at once.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-02
GEN ERAL.

A bulletin issued at Vienna on the
condition of Emperor Francis Joseph
reported that it was practically un-
changed
American civil government, under
martial law, was set up at Vera Cruz
with Robert J. Kerr, lawyer of Chi
cago and Mexico City, as civil COVER
nor.
Fifteen cars of cotton were de-
stroyed by fire supposed to have been
OF incendiary origin at Juarez. Mex.
The cotton was part of the amount
seized at Torreon by General Villa
and was valued at 100000.
Mrs. Clara Stone Hay, widow of
John Hay. the late secretary OF state,
died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Payne Whitney. in New York. She ar
rived from Washington a few days ago
on visit and became suddenly Iii,
Ernesto Nathan. former mayor OF
Rome, who has been appointed hon
orary minister plenipotentiary to
represent Italy at the PanamaPacific
exposition. will sail May IS for New
York. He will go to Washington to
visit President Wilson and then pro
ceed to San Francisco.
Paul Revolt, who In 1906 was the
chief plenipotentiary Of France to the
Algeciras conference in Morocco
died at Mouries, France.
Massachusetts militia commanders
have been instructed by Brig. Gen. LIE
roy SwetZer to give preference tt
bachelors in making up their com
panies.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, during his
journey through the unexplored re
gions of Brazil, discovered a tribe O
savages hitherto unknown. The
tribesmen, who were named Pauhates
were unclothed.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-02
WASHINGTON.

DR.. ]. W. Duvol, in charge of Agri
tions. told agriculture committee that
the grain trade and department ap-
proved Lever grading bill.
Continental United States now has
a population of more than 9S,00O,OO0
people, while the country, with it's
possessions, is peopled by more than
109, ,UO0, 900 persons, the census bureau
announced.
The government received kilograms
from principal manufacturers of arms
and ammunition in this country, vol
unfairly promising not to accept or
ders for shipments of munitions of
war outside the United States.
Finding no constitutional objection
to law making saloonkeepers liable
for damages resulting from their sale
of liquor, the Supreme Court, dis
missed the appeal Of Louis w. Preni
ca, a saloonist of Nebraska City. Neb.,
from judgment of the Nebraska
courts, holding him liable in the sum
of. $4,000 to Mrs. May Bulger for her
husband becoming an habitual drunk
ard.
The President would be authorized
to give preference in making appoint
ments to the volunteer army to the
army officers who have been awarded
medals of honor under a bill intro
duced by Representative Mcclellan Of
Tennessee.
Majority Leader Kern of the Senate
said he did not think the Mexican sit
uation should interfere with the legis-
lative program. He said he expected
a report soon from the Senate inter-
oceanic canals committee on the tolls
repeal bill, and believed it would be
passed with about two weeks debate.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-02
FOREIGN.

Marie Cans was jeered into silence
when she tried to speak against war
near the Franklin statute in Park
Row in New York
Philander j. Knox. Jr.. son OF for
mer Secretary OF State Knox of Phil
adelphia. and his wife, who formerly
was Miss May Boiler. shopgirl. have
become reconciled.
King Victor Emmanuel intends to
at an early date. Marconi has now
reached the age of forty, which makes
him eligible for that position.
The British government has had un-
der consideration the possible neces-
sity OF strengthening the British fleet
in Mexican waters in order to insure
the protection of British subject and
property.
President Sigmund Schwartz of the
Citizens Peddlers Association of the
East side in New York, said that the
peddlers, willing to join an invasion
of Mexico, want ey-President Roose-
welt to head their regiment.
Ttuti buuet at >'iiN"-"
permanently eOjoined the Elgin board
of trade, commonly known as the
butter board, from meeting to fix
prices and otherwise governing con-
ditions under which butter is sold.
At Opelousas, La, guilty. without
capital punishment" was the verdict
returned by the jury in the trial OF
w. c. Walters, charged with kidnapping
five-year-old Robert Dunbar. The ver-
dict is equivalent to life Imprisonment.
Chaplain James l.. Griffiths of the
Seventh infantry preached stirring
sermon aboard the transport on it's
way to Mexico. defending Intervention.
His final exhortation was: obey
your officers and shoot straight. for
the Lord shoots to kill"
Supreme Court Justice Mills OF
White Plains. N. Y, handed down a
decision declaring Mrs. Ida Won Claus,
sen not insane and directing that she
| be released from Matteawan asylum
and sent back to the Tombs in New
York to await trial on an indictment
charging her with sending threatening
letters to Charles II. Strauss, a law
| yer
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-02
ODD FACTS.

Out of a total coinage of $62, SOC. 900
produced by the Paris mint last year.
$47,200,0O0 was in gold.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-02
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND Aoou1
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EvENTo
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE,.
Western Newspaper Union News Service
WESTERN.

Two hundred men were entombed
by an explosion in the mine of the
New River Galleries Company at Ec-
cles, W. Va.
SMALLPOX was discovered on the col
lier Cyclops after about half of the
$50 American refugees brought to Gal
weston. Tex had been landed.
In a fire which swept thickly set
tied residence block on the west side
OF the river at Portland. Ore. it is re-
ported six sleepers lost their lives.
Elimination of the Monroe doctrine
from the United States foreign policy,
or its revision, was urged by William
j. Calhoun, former minister to China,
at peace meeting at Chicago.
Douglas, Ariz.. is overcrowded with
refugees from Mexico. and 100 Nor
mons who arrived from Colonia More
los, were permitted to camp in the
open near the city water plant.
First toll of life was taken by the
spring flood, general throughout Tex
as as the result OF three days heavy
ram, when Thomas Mcintyre, twelve
years old, of Dallas, was drowned.
Refugee Americans who arrived at
Nogales, Ariz., from the interior and
west coast of Mexico reported that
although no violence was shown them
they had been harassed all the way
to the border by petty rebel chiefs.
A reduction of > cents a barrel in
| the price of crude oil was announced
| by the officials of the pipe lines in
the OklahomaKansas oil fields at Ok
| lahoma City. This is the fifth reduc-
tion in April, bringing the price to
| so cents.
Mrs. Elizabeth Van Wrinkle Ander-
son. mother OF Capt. Thomas M. An
derson, Jr., now at Vera Cruz. and
| Anderson, U. S. A., retired, died at
| Portland, Ore. She was married in
1863 at Richmond, Va.
John Ade OF Kentland. Ind, father
OF George AIDE, the playwright, fell
dead at Valparaiso. Ind in the ball
where the Republican Tenth district
convention was held. Heart disease
/ is DelleNtu W nave CduStu llS
/ He was seventy-fiye years old.
President Wilson was praised for
his stand for honorable peace" in the
Mexican trouble at mass meeting of
! Chicagoans at the Central Y. NJ. c. A
Resolutions were adopted declaring
that the mass of the American people
are with Wilson in his position.
An anti-American demonstration in
which the Stars and Stripes we're
dragged through the streets and i'm.
precautions hurled at all 'gringos,' was
described at Brownsville. Tex, by ref
ugees arriving in the first train from
Monterey, captured several days age
by the Constitutionalists.
The mystery surrounding the disap
pearance of the Rev. Louis Patmount
formerly of Milwaukee. Wis, from
Westville, ILL.,, on March 81, was par
TALLY solved, after nationwide
search, by the identification of the
body of slain man at Cleveland
Ohio, as that of the missing prohibi
| tion worker. The identification was
made by a brother.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-02

A novel newspaper has appeared in
st. Petersburg, called the Vagabonds
Gazette. 1t is intended for circulation
among the criminal classes, and it's
chief contributors are we'll known to
the Russian police. Signed articles re-
lating the details of famous coups are
an important feature of the new jour
nal.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-02
Passenger Agents Meet in Denver.

Shreveport, La.-Chairman J. f.
Hanegan OF the Southwestern Passen-
ger Association meeting here an
nounced that the next meeting of tho
association would be held in Denver
following the meeting of the Western
association in Colorado Springs in
July.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-02
BROTHER TELLS
ABOUT FLETCHER
Career of the Rear Admiral Who
Took Vera Cruz.
YEARNED FOR SEA WHEN BOY
Forced to Remain at an Executive
Desk During the Spanish War, He
Became an Expert on
Ordnance.

Chicago-While Admiral Fletcher.
who captured the city of Vera Cruz
Tuesday. has never resided in Chi
cago. he has been a frequent visitor
here at the home OF his brother. Thom-
The latter is treasurer Of the Coop
erative League of Chicago. J. Fletch-
er, a son of the Chicago Fletcher. is a
lieutenant on Admiral F1etcher's flag
ship.
We F1etchers do not come of sea
faring breed" said the civilian F1etch-
er at his home. "On the contrary. we
are Iowa men and we should by all
rights have lived and died landlub-
bers My brother is an admiral now
because our representative in con-
gress In Marshalltown. Iowa. decided
he would fill a vacancy at Annapolis
by holding a competitive examination.
Tom said my brother when he
saw the notice of the examination.
Tn going to be a sailor. That's the
life for me. / never thought Of It be-
fore, but see now that l was meant
to be a hero of the deep"
leado IN examination.
He entered the examination. Just as
he said he would. and took first place
over Is other boys. That was in 1870
and he has been in the navy service
since.
According to- the Chicago Fletcher.
It was one of the bitterest disappoint-
ments of the admiral's career when
he was compelled to remain at an exec
utive desk in Washington during the
Spanish war. But the admiral, as the
result Of that experience. became an
expert on ordnance.
Secretary Long promised him that
II he would remain as assistant chief
of the ordnance department until he
could get things in order, he could
have anything he wished. But be-
fore his work was done there the war
was over You see. the country was
totally unprepared for war and the
ordnance department was placed un-
der . terrific strain"
Invents ReeoiI Apparatus.
Admiral Fletcher had been in the
service but a short time when he in
vented a recoil apparatus for quick
frers, which has been In use ever
since. He also improved the Farcot
breech mechanism. thereby insuring
the success OF the system. Whereas
to open the breech Of the big guns 1t
had been necessary before to depend
upon power from the engine-room.
the admirals improvement made 1t
possible to move the huge blocks
with one hand. As commander
Of the torpedo boat Cushing the ad-
miral then Lieutenant Commander
Fletcher, conducted an Investigation
of the behavior of torpedoes and dis
covered many errors in range and IN
almost every instance the correctness
of his deductions was proved. He Is
rexarded as one Of the first ordnance
sxpsrts of the navy.
Born In oskaioosa.
admiral Fletcher" said his kins-
man in Chicago, was born in Oska-
loosa Nov. 20, 1855. He was only
ftfteen years old when he took the
examination and entered Annapolis.
my brother was graduated In June,
1875. ono of the honor mel OF his
class. He served as midshipman FOR
one year and then was promoted TO
the rank Of an ensign. On April !.
1852, he became . Junior Lieutenant
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-02
WANoERLUST COSTS $4,000.
Farmer, Seventy, on First Trip From
Home, Is Victim of SwindIer.

Buffalo.-George Crestesinger. the
Wtlliamsvil!e farmer. who reported to
the police that he had been swindled
out of $4,000. admitted that in all the
swindler had relieved him of $27 900.
Crestesinger is seventy years old. The
trip to Florida, during which he met
the confidence man, was the first time
he had been away from home.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-02

The Car of Russia probably owns a
greater quality of china than any
other person in the world. He has the
china belonging to all the Russian rul-
ers as far back as Catherine the Great,
1t Is stored in the Winter palace at St.
Petersburg
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-02

A street in Lyons-the Rue de la
Republique-is paved with glass The
blocks are eight inches square. and SO
closely fitted that water cannot pass
between the interstices
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-11
ON WRONG PATHS
Trials of Children Before the
Probate Court.
Thirteen Cases, and ON Friday,
Before Mcfarland.

Thirteen was the total number OF
cases which brought the bad luck OF
the busiest day in weeks for the juve-
nile court yesterday when Judge Hugh
Mcfarland and Ed Rooney, probation
officer, perspired over the troubles of
a bakers dozen of their youthful
charges. The juvenile court makes a
practice of keeping its troubles to itself
on the theory that the less published
about the troubles Of the young, the
better their chance for getting back
into the straight and narrow way.
1t was an assortment of all sorts of
cases which engrossed the court.
One small boy was removed from q
home to which he had once been as
signed and placed in another home
where more desirable conditions pre-
vailed. Two boys who had broken
into store in North Topeka were
examined.
A girl recently discharged from Be-
lott Is again in trouble and would have
been returned there but for the state
of her health. She was paroled.
A runaway girl of Is from Emmett
Kan. was examined and will be sent
back home.
An infant child is the object of q
charge on the ground of her delin.
Quency.
A lad who pleaded guilty to stealing
q bicycle, in order to be as we'll fixeC
as the boys with whom he played, wa:
tried and paroled.
Two young colored girls who rar
away from home were given a hear
ing and are held while warrants ar.
being prepared for the arrest of two
boys who accompanied them.
Four boys who had failed to re
port to the probation officer wer,
hailed into court and given a talking
to-"
Two or three of the cases, includ
ing that of the baby whose custod!
is in litigation, have been continued
until next week.
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SToRSTAD BLAMED.
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altering his course in the fog as he
undoubtedly did and that he was
wrong in keeping the navigation of
the vessel in his own hands and failing
to call tho captain when he saw the
fog coming on.
at is not to be supposed that this
disaster was in any way attributable
st. Lawrence waterway. 1t was a dis
aster which might have occurred in
the Thames. in the Clyde, in the Mer-
sey or elsewhere in similar circum-
stances.
"Such is the conclusion we have ar
rived at on the question as to who Is
to blame for the disaster. But the
question OF much greater public in
terest and importance remains to be
considered, viz: Why the ship sank
SO quickly and what steps. If any, can
be taken TO prevent the terrible conse-
quences which so often follow such
Stories Differ.
The main difference between the
stories Of the officers Of the Empress
and the Storstad is to be found in the
description of the way the two were
approaching each other at the time the
Erapress of Ireland changed her course.
fer having obtained an offing from
Father Point. The witnesses from the
Storstad say they were approaching so
as to pass red to red. while those from
the Empress of Ireland say they were
approaching SO as as to pass green to
green. The stories are irreconcilabfe
and we have to determine which is the
1 more probable. Times, distance and
bearings vary SO much even in the EVIL
dence from witnesses from the same
ship that it is impossible to rely or to
base conclurions upon them. We have.
therefore. thought it advisable to found
our con illusions almost entirely upon
events spoken of by the witnesses and
upon their probable sequence in order
to arrive at a solution Of the difficulty.
| He Was Mistaken.
! After carefully weighing the evil
! dence we have come to the conclusion
that Mr.. Tuftenes was mistaken II he
! supposed there was any intention on
the part of the Empress of Ireland to
pass port to port, or that she, in fact
by her lights manifested the intention
of doing so; but it appears to US to be
a mistake which would have been OF
no consequence II both ships had sub
sequently kept their courses.
Shortly after the ships came into