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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-09-23
Fairfax the Jews of Esther's return

Fairfax the news Of Esthcr's return
had gone abroad. The mystery of her
coming as DR.. Lees adopted daughter
and the mystery Of her sudden depar-
turc IT his death added fuel to the
gossip that went through the country
side when it was known that with Il
handsome dark woman, who gave the
name Of Hagar Harding and said that
she was Esther's mother, DR.. Lees
erstWhile ward had returned to Stan
ley hall.
But with the young men Of Fairfax
county Esther's gentle ways and pi-
quantry had gone far in the few short
months she had lived beneath the doc
tors roof as his adopted daughter.
And now, when it was Known Esther
had returned to Fairfax and dwelt at
Stanley hall, the young men Of the
community again came focking to
seek her favor.
First and most constant Of the call
crs upon the new occupants of Stanley
hall was Bert Randolph.
Few, except those who understand
the ramiications of kith and consan-
guinity in the old south, can comprc-
bend the strong ties that blood and
marriage make in Virginia.
The stanleys, the Randolphs, the
Lees, the Beverlys, the Hunters and
the other famous old families loved
md hated fiercely, but strictly among
themselves.
Both Blair Stanlcy's mother, who
was a second cousin, and Bert Ran
dolph's mother, who was a first cousin,
had invited the chagrined Mrs. Burton
Randolph to Fairfax and forgetfulness.
But Blair Stanley, being in Richmond
and infatuated with his kinswoman's
vivacious guest, Vivian Marston, had so
warmly seconded his mothers invita-
ton that Mrs. Burton Randolph and
her guest Were greatly pleased to ac-
cept 1t. I"t
My aunt is a stunnerw! Bert Ran
dolph blurted boyishly to Hagar and
Esther. ralph, here. knows what a
good sort she is, and she'll be wild
about you, Miss Esther, won't she,
Ralph"
And Ralph Hunter, also smitten Of
Esther, nodded eager assent, for the
two young men had ridden over to call
upon Esther every day since she and
her supposed mother, Mrs. Hagar
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| silk, and the other Il fair young girl,
modishly attircd.
And yet these two, the elder woman
and the younger, are gy,psics, for 1t IS
Hagar Harding and Esther. her daugh-
ter.
Since that exciting night at Mrs. Ran
dolph's ball In Richmond Hagar has
had one resolve. With her son a
fugitive and the diamond from the sky
vanished as mysteriously as it had
come, Hagar has centered all her hopes
and all her desires on Esther. Hasar
has wealth, what need to hoard 1t
further now? So she has come to
Fairfax, not as q gypsy woman, but as
a dowager Of means. and rented the
idle mansion from the trustee in bank
ruptcy. II the plan to rehabilitate
Esther as a Stanley has failed, ere yet
it was begun, through the death OF Dr..
Lee, supposedly at the hands Of the
fugitive young master of this very
mansion, Hagar will lease it and see
that Esther enters upon the position
in life to which she belongs by right
Of birth.
The formalities are soon over and
Hagar has installed herself and Esther
in Stanley hall.
So. eventful have been the last few
years Of her life that Esther has ceased
to wonder, In the death of Dr.. Lee,
Esther realized she lost a friend, and
one who had something to tell her. If
this secret is shared by Hagar. who
she supposes is her mother, Esther
realizes it will be told her in the full
ness Of time.
In Richmond Vivian Marston, from
whose fair bosom the diamond from
the sky had been snatched the night
Of the ball, had caught no glimpse Of
the face Of the man, of the thief and
stranger. Search had not revealed it.
and so Luke Lowell had been released.
At Farmer Smiths. a dozen miles
away from Stanley hall, where, un-
known to him, Hagar and Esther are
now 'domiciled, Arthur, the fugitive,
laborcd for his daily bread. The win
some little five-year-ol1 daughter OF
the farmer had twined herself around
A.rthur'S heart.
Happy and hardy and healthy We're
his days. He followed the pillow and
faced the sun and sang. He was gain
ing no fortune in the worlds goods.
but he was happy in the: clean, open
air life of n farmers helper. Only cid
a shadow come to his face when he
thought Of Esther and his bitter moth
err, Hagar. Was Esther his sister o.
vas she, too, a changcling? No matter
which, Arthur's love for her was deep
and pure as a brothers. He would
make a name for himself for her sake,
and so he faced the morning sun and
sang. and so he faced the shadows of
twilight and unused of her.
One day when little Nellie Smith
brought him his luncheon to the field. a
torn scrap Of newspaper that covered q
portion Of it caught his eye. 1t was Il
front page scare head" Of Il Richmond
paper that in big type Mysteries told Of
the robbery at Mrs. Randolph's ball
and the subsequent added excitement
Of his flight and fight when arrested
on a charge Of murder. Then Arthur
wondered again il he had done right in
protecting Blair. An impulse seized
him to go to Fairfax and give himself
up to the authorities and let the whole
truth be known.
But then he remembered the secret
was Lagar's and that she had suffered
much. So far neither Hagar nor Es-
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H pe mere TO ride THIS year,
ny exclaimed the good natured
young man when they had
Unfinished reading the announcement.
The idea Of them s~uspecting he kill
ed old DR.. Lee!!" climed in the equally
generous minded Ralph Hunter. why,
Arthur for all his wild ways had the
best and kfndest heart in the world.
And he loved DR.. Lee like a son, ever
if they did have some jolly old rows
about the way Arthur spent money like
water and got in debt"
1"But why did Arthur run away?
None of US believe him guilty, and we
may have our faults in Fairfax. but
we are all kin, and we all stand to.
gcther when outsiders make trouble"
asked Ralph Hunter.
"Shut up, you big silly cried Bert
Randolph impulsively. Cant you see
you arc making Miss Esther cry?
Didn't you promise me We wouldn't
say anything about Arthur's troubles?
You know Miss Esther liked him best
Of all Of u.s."
ooh, pray, do forgive me, Miss Es-
ther," cried the contrite young Hunter.
"But l just cant keep quiet about Ar
thur. Keeping quiet implies We do be-
lieve those awful suspicious"
II thank you for that" said Esther
TREMENDOUSLY. LET us talk about him.
We know he is guilty of nothing ex-
cept being a reckless boy, with no ia.
Their and no mother"
Hagar spoke up for the first time.
EYES," she said huskily, she had no
mother"
"Ill tell you something about Ar
thur spoke up Bert Randolph. 1T
was a secret, he. had only told me. He
was going to ride in the tournament
this year and wrest Blair's laurels as
the best rider in Fairfax from him.
You know why? Well, Arthur was de-
terlnined to win this year. 1t was
when Miss Esther was at DR.. Lees lie
told me. He was resolved to win so he
could crown Miss, Esther queen of love
and beauty
well, Wen do it for him." cried
young Hunter. "All the girls of Fair
fax are wild for the honor. But Wen
win it. for Miss Esther. One Of us will
block Blair Stanley, and the other will
Win the wreath ....
"IIo" chuckled young Randolph.
rs that the chivalry of a masked
knight in the tournament of Fairfax?
That's u trick like Blair Stanley played
almost. | am ]astonishcd ut you,
Ralph" he added, with mock serious.
ness.
All laughed, relieved of the tension
the mention of. Arthur's flight under its
terrible suspicion had brought upon the
little group, and soon after the young
men rode away. declaring that Esther
should be crowned at their hands and
the socially powerful female relative
from Richmond should take the young
mistress of Stanley hall under the ben.
efice Of her esteem.
1t was about at this same time, on
this same Afternoon, that a glum faced
hunchback organ grinder with Il mon
key limped into the dooryard of Farm
CT Smiths. Poor Quabba! Well could
he realize that riches seldom bring
happiness-especially when we lose
them almost as quickly as they have
been gained.
But the joy and glee Of the little
6ve-year-old daughter Of, the Smiths
cheered Quabba.
kids are always glad to see US,
anyway, Clarence" he said, and he
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-09-23

red with a sudden resolve. IIc would
20! lie would win the wreath and
croWns i.sthcr queen of love and beau
ty! 1t was 4 wild risk to take. Il dar.
ing thing to do. but he longcd to see
Esther, ana the love of romance and
the inclination to the dramatic were
the heritage Of his gypsy blood that
overcamc all caution and discretion.
He would 90. Ills heart beat like Il
drum with the resolution. Forcing him
self to speak with Il calmness he far
from felt, he spoke up and said:
IF l can be spared for the day, and
Il. ,you will lend me Starlight, Mr..
Smith, and if you will make me a
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-09-23
CHAPTER XII.

Shadows at Sunrise"
~ AVN breaks upon a waking
world in summer. The farmer
rouses for his early tasks, the
poor sluggard and the rich
idler sleep on in hard beds and soft.
At Stanley hall there is still a notice
in bankruptcy tackled upon the battered
ind padlocked door. The window shut
tiers are closed, the weeds rankle on the
lawn, and already the proud mansion
Of Stanley hall seems going to ruin and
decay. a.
A carriage drives up and stops at its
portals. From it alights a gentleman
Of half legal, half real estate agent ap-
pearance. He assists two ladies from
the carriage. One is a woman Of mid
die arc. in. rich and ImatrQnlx black
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-09-23

He Followed the PIow and Sang.
TIERS connection with him was known.
No one but he and Hagar knew he was
not the heir Of Stanley, for, though
Esther had called him brother, it was
plain to Arthur that the sweet girl had
said the word to comfort him.
Then also he realized that much in
expiration must be endured by him. He
felt that when the time came Hagar
would speak, and until then be was
bound to silence.
At Stanley hall and all throughout
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-09-23

played his blithest tunes and Clarence
was prompted to his best comedy by
the appreciation Of the small but select
audience.
When Arthur, working on the Smith
farm under the name Of John Powell.
came across the fields ut sunset with
his employer it was a merry group
they found in the dooryard, Quabba
and Clarence being RECALLED with the
best from the board, as all wandering
minstrcls should b.
I'm on MY way to the tournament
1t Fairfax" Quabba said.
The Fairfax tournament Arthur star"
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SWISS TOYS FOR AMERICA.

Washington, D. c., Sept. 22.-The
Swiss legation at Washington has ad-
vices from Berne that manufacturers
in Switzerland are anxious 20 SUPPLY
the Christine. toy trade Of the Unltsd
States, and the Bureau Of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce, OF the Depart
ment Of Commerce. has undertaken to
assist in having orders placed. Some
Swiss firms alone have produced hum
dreds of new models in wood n
pasteboard and more are being added
daily. A few of these samples which
have reached Washington are skill
fully executed lithograph soldiers Of
all the belligerent nations for the con-
struction of little armies by american
children.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-09-23
Drops Dead
In Field

Medora, N. D., Sept. 22.-Sam Nc
Veil, an old Carolinian farmer living
% miles southeast Of. here, was found
dead by a dog in a field at 2 a. m. He
was q ma of violent temper and
my thought somewhate deranged.
He VS. ..lways quarreling with his
rei2uLors and was many times ar
rested for assault. He often made
gun plays and threatened to harm the
nearby people. The body has not
been officially examined.
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The Penn's Grove record., 1915-07-09
OROzCO ESCAPES:
HUERTA RECALLED
Mexican RevoIutionist Reported
Across Border with Rebels
NEW CASE AGAINST HUERTA
Lodged in Fl Paso Jail-Says He
Would Have Killed U. s. Marshal
if Mo- observation-disclosures Bond
of $4,000 Required for Bail.

Ell Paso.-The escape of General
Pascual Orozco from six soldiers and
United States agents who were guard
ing his home, and the arrest and de-
tention in the county Jail of General
Victoriano Huerta and five others on
new charges of violating American
neutrality were striking incidents OF
the Mexican border situation.
Orozco, who, with General Huerta,
had been under surveillance of the
United States authorities, disappear
ed during the night.
General Orozco was reported to be
OF the Mexican side of the Rio Grande
fifty miles below JuareZ, with 300 men
who had joined him since he crossed
He is said to have been in hiding at
a road house on the American side
and to have crossed after dusk. The
JuareZ officials also have the report
and are sending out patrols in the di
fection of Guadalupe, thirty miles be
low Juarez.
General Huerta was rearrested on a
Federal warrant issued at San An.
tonic charging conspiracy to violate
che neutrality laws of the United
States by attempting to launch a revo
lutionary movement in Mexico. Five
others, charged with aiding in the
revolutionary plot, we're arrested al
the same time. All failed to obtain
bonds and they were taken to the
county Jail. A military guard was
stationed around the building.
In the Federal Court General Huer
ia declared he would have shot a depu
ty marshal guarding him if he had moi
been restrained. Huerta sent a long
message of protest to Chief Justice
White of the Supreme Court protest
ing against his treatment here. He
has ~telegraphed to his agents in New
York to wire SIS, 900 for his bond.
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MOVE ON MEXICO CITY.

Carranza Agency Announces General
Campaign by First Chiefs Forces.
Washington.-The Carranza agency
here announced that the general for.
ward movement of the Constitutional
lists" had begun, according to a tele.
gram received by the agency from
Vera Cruz. This is the official state.
ment:
THE dispatch recites that General
Pablo Gonzales, commander of the
military operations of the Army OF
the Centre, has begun his campaign
for the investment and capture OF
Mexico City. His movements have
been initiated in combination with
fresh forces from Puebla, Guerrero,
and Tiaxcala. The capture of Mexico
City is now assured, for, in addition
to a superior force attacking the
makeshift Notifications of the Zapa.
tistas, General Gonzales is assured
that the Zapatistas are now suffering
from a shortage of ammunition. The
opinion is expressed that the capture
10 INV Ouly d Qu0SllOu VI d lew UaySl
with the chances favoring an evacua
ton by the present tenants of the
city"
A telegram received by the Car.
agency from Ell Paso said il
was believed in Ell Paso that Huerta
and his associates would be taken to
San Antonio, "as the District Attorney
has lately stated he is certain that
the proofs now in the hands of the
Government are sufficiently conclu.
sive." The dispatch added that Huer.
ta's attorneys were threatening ha-
beas corpus proceedings if bail should
be denied.
Miguel Diaz Lombardo, Minister OF
Foreign Affairs in the northern
branch of the Convention Government
Of Mexico, arrived here to join En-
rique c. Lloreente, Washington repre-,
sentative of General Villa; General
Felipe Angeles, and Manuel Bonilla
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GERMANS GAIN IN WEST.

London.-The Germans continue to
push their offensive on the western
front and in the forest of LIE Pretre
they are reported to have compelled
the French, after stubborn resistance,
to evacuate trench after trench over
a 1,500-yard front until a thousand
prisoners, including a battalion staff,
and several guns fell into the hands
of the Kaiser's troops.
Paris admits the Germans gained
a foothold in the old lines, which had
been taken by the French, but says
the advance was less tina was an
nounced by Berlin.
Both sides report sa%nguinary but
fruitless attacks at other points along
the western line.
Tremendous losses on both sides in
the fighting in the Dardanelles are re-
ported. Constantinople says the AL
lies sacrificed many men in an at
tempt to land reinforcements on the
Gallipoli Peninsula, and had to aban-
don the effort.
An offensive movement under the
personal direction of Enver aPsha,
Turkish Minister of War, is said to
have been checked.
In a series of fierce engagements
the allied troops were supported by
the British destroyer Scorpion, which
cut down masses of the Turks with
it's accurate fire. At times the British
we're obliged to yield ground, but the
encounters with bayonet and bomb.
Dispatches from Constantinople say
the British have lost 10000 men in
the fighting around Seddul Bahr.
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RUSSIANS CHECK TEUTON FOE
LAST STAND TO SAVE WARSAW
BRITISH ADVANCE AT YPRES
Sir John French Reports Gain Of 200 Yards Of Trenches by
English Troops--French Artillery Aids.
DARDANELLES LANDING COST ALLIES GREAT LOSSES

Paris.-General Won Mackensen's
forces are still swinging northward
in Galicia and Poland at a rate esti-
mated at five miles a day in a colossal
and daring endeavor to drive a wedge
into the Russian centre, dislodge the
Russians from the Vistula River and
force them back over the Bug, thus
splitting the grand dukes forces into
two sections, with thousands of acres
of swamp and marsh land between
them.
In the meal time the Germans are
massing more troops in the Baltic
provinces, and the recent encounter
in the Baltic seems to suggest tina
they contemplate coordinate nava
action, but it is possible that the sea
operations were only a feint.
In Southeast Galicia the Russians
are fighting tenaciously and have the
advantage Of a remarkable series OF
parallel rivers beyond the Gnila Llpa,
and the Austro-German advance is
likely to be extremely costly.
Thus on their two extreme wings
the Russians appear to be firm, and
where they are ~retreating, it is still
claimed, their retirement is orderly
and accompanied by vigorous rear
guard operations. The Austro-Ger-
mans, who are advancing in the cen
ire, are, moreover, getting deeper into
a country covered with forests and
streams and barren of railways, be-
tween the Middle Vistula and the
Bug.
One of the main aims of the Ger
man operations in the east seems to
be directed to a vast turning move
ment behind Warsaw, embracing
Brest-Litovsk, one of the strong Rus
sian bases, and civilian residents of
Warsaw, according to Petrograd dis
patches, are already leaving the city
because of the possibility of German
occupation. Circulars dropped from
German aircraft in Warsaw declare
that the city will be in the posses
The Germans are declared to have
drawn up lists of prominent Poles
whom they plan to hang for their
Russian sympathies.
The Berlin official statement says
General Won ~Linsingen's army is in
full pursuit of the Russian forces, who
are retiring toward the Zlota Lipa,
in Galicia, and has forced them to
~evacuate their positions in the regions
of Miasto and Krylow.
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j. P. MORGAN
SHOT BY CRANK
Banker Hit by Two Bullets
From AssaiIant's Revolver
FORMER GERMAN TEACHER
Fanatic Was Instructor at Cornell Uni
versity-He Is Frank Holt-Claims
to Be American of German
and French Descent.

New York;. P. Morgan was shot
twice at his country estate on East
Island, near Glen Cove, L. l., by
Frank Holt, a former Instructor in
German at Cornell University, who,
fresh from setting off a bomb in the
Senate reception room of the Capitol
Building in Washington, said that he
went to the Morgan home to induce
the banker to use his influence to
stop the exporting of munitions OF
war. The firm of ]. P. Morgan & Co.
is the fiscal agent of the Allies in
the United States.
One of the bullets entered Mr.. Nor
CAMS groin, and lodged near the base
of the spinal column. 1t was extract
ed. The other bullet struck the groin
close to the right thigh.
Holt al arrested and taken to the
Glen Cove Jail, from which he was
removed to the Jail in Mineola, L. 1.
He is an American, 40 years old. He
said that both of his parents were Am.
orleans, and that his remote ances-
tors were French and German.
In his cell, Holt made several efforts
to kill himself. He tried to open an
artery in his wrist with a lead pencil,
and when this proved unsuccessful,
threw himself from his cell on the
second tier to the courtyard, thirty
feet below. He died in a few minutes.
DR.. Cleghorn, the county physician,
said that Holt killed himself by throw
ing himself from the top of a tier of
cells after getting out of his own cell,
the door of which had been left pen
and striking on the concrete floor of
the corridor.
Another report had it that he wal
killed by a shot which was fired at
him by some one outside the Jail.
Word to this effect, it was said, was
telegraphed by Police Commissioner
Woods. This was later declared to
be a false report.
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Limitation ! Source Of Power.

Everywhere we look we find our
life encompassed by limitations. God
has "beset us behind and before, and
laid his hand upon US" We see, al
so, that this limitation of life is not
the source of weakness, but of mans
highest power and fame. 1t is not
only the little men in little things.
but for human life at its best and
greatest. The strong man, the great
man, whether hero or artist, poet.
thinker, or saint, is not one who
bursts the bonds of law and casts
obedience away, but rather one who
walks a narrower. seyerer path than
weaker men are able to keep.-Theo~
dore C. Williams.
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-07-09
PITH OF II
WAR NEWS

The latest achievement of the ItaI.
ian air service is the dropping OF
bombs on a factory at Trieste.
The British Government has decided
to take owe the control of the sale
and supply of intoxicating liquors
in many districts where war ma.
teriaI is being made.
Berlin says that in the recent battle
between Arras and La Bassee the
French and British forces suffered
fearfuIIy, one command alone losing
3,4oo men out of 1920.
In the Dardanelles a German subma-
rine sank a large French transport
off SedduI Bahr.
The Advance of the italian forces on
the lsonzo front continues slowly
but with some gains every day.
The defense of the Austro-Hungari-
ans is Increasing in power and en-
durance.
British commanders in the field have
given up all hope of making their
great offensive next spring, accord
bhA - dRRGt CuAy d0AtiCfiLtS INV
nation brought by officers from the
front.
Premier Asquith. announced In the
House of Commons that British ar
my casualties up to June 80 amour
ted to 258,o69.
"Five Swedish vessels were seized by
the Germans in the Baltic Sea and
taken to Swienmunde," says the
Copenhagen correspondent Of the
Morning Post.
In view of the expected opposition
to the British National Register bill
Prime Minister Asquith has Issued
a statement that the Government
does not contemplate the introduc-
ton of forced labor or CONSUMPTION.
II also announced that a French
squadron sighted two submarines
in the Channel, and that one was
hit by several shells and disap-
peared.