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Courier Democrat., 1915-07-15

lose.r
"An right" she said. "I'n be ready
in an hour"
John smiled. "All right; III take
you over in the motor truck or shall
we ride to Silent Valley?"
"I've never been to New York" she
said timidly, and with that inconse
quential logic which maidens have, she
added, Lets ride. I'll take Patsy and
you can ride Black joe"
Dorr did not understand at all that
in leaving her home for the great
strange city she wished her last hours
to be filed with sunshine and a famil.
lar zest of scurrying over dry Califor-
MIA on half broken horsefesh.
"An right, We'll ride" he said.
while you are getting ready I'll write
letter to George Everett"
Ruth laid one slender hand on Johns
shoulder.
You're always doing things for me,
John" she said simply. 'Some day I'll
do something for you" She slipped
away without backward glance.
Dorr watched her trip down the hill
toward her own little bungalow, and
it seemed to him as if he held one end
of a golden thread that she was spin
ming through sunshine. 1t was an
chored in his heart That thread would
be 5000 miles long before she saw
good old Everett. He picked up his
pen and wrote rapidly:
Master Key" Mine, June -
George Everett. Ill Broadway. New York
City:
Dear George-When a young, slender,
brown eyed, golden haired girl walks into
your office and says, I'm Ruth Gallon"
and hands you the papers that she will
have in her little hand bag. please see
that she gets $4,000. Ever yours,
JOHN DORR
He would have added more His
finer instinct told him that Ruth should
be the first to put the whole scheme
before the cool headed, rather cold
hearted George Everett. He addressed
the envelope and sealed it. Then he
went to the telephone and called up
the station at Silent Valley.
Bill" he said quietly after listening
a moment to see if any one was on the
line. 81 want to send a telegram. Take
it over the wire, please. I'll be down
in little while and pay you"
"Sure." fioated back cheerful voice
Il wish my credit was as good as
yours. ten miles away. but it seems as
if have to be always present when |
SlS for if IN 1hoo6 JOhDH'
This Is it, Bill" said John:
Courier Democrat., 1915-07-15

run saw. Tommy Snlrk was too lazy
to do any work himself, but he hired Il
man on tick to haul the wheel to his
well. Then he went home and TUX
down the pump and TUX it to the we'll
too. He rugged the pump to the water
wheel, which was turned by the stream.
Jist as the oil begun to flow along
comes Mrs. Shirk Tom was restin' on
his back, with his hat over his eyes,
smokin' his pipe. His wife, not motto
in the pumpin' and seem Tom takin'
it easy, begun TO fire words at him.
Tom raised his hand without even lift
in his hat often his face and pointed
at the pump throwin' out oil.
''That was the last time Mrs. ShirE
ever spoke disrespectful to her hus-
band. She admitted that if he was
lazy he had two redeemin' p'ints-lucll
and ingenuity Tom connected his we'll
with pipe line that run near by, and
the oil ran merrily, Shirk charging it
up at the market price per barrel. His
well produced about twenty barrels a
hlYS .Ii1 Cftli Will pll lJ ~ ScAllS Il
barrel he made about $40 a day. Bime-
by he sunk another we'll and got an
other supply Of Oil about rs large as
the first. The same stream and water
wheel and pump did the work, and
Tom had only to make out 4 bill for
500 where before be had made out one
for SO.
tom Shirlz still smokes his pipe in
the sun, with his hat over his eyes, but
he usually does it on the porch of a
fine house he has built on the spot
where his cabin used to be. Mrs. Shirk
has come to consider him a prodigy Of
genius, and they all git lot O. good
outen their oil wells. When they want
to go away they jist let the pump go
on pumpin'. It works as we'll at night
as in the daytime.
Courier Democrat., 1915-07-15

George Everett, Ill Broadway, New York
City:
Miss Ruth Gallon leaves tonight to see
you about Master Key" stock. Meet her
and wire me on her arrival Take good
care Of her or I'll take care of you.
JOHN DORR
The operator repeated the message
and involuntarily adopted little Of
Johns savage intonation on the last
four words. 1t woke him up to the
fact that he was allowing his feelings
to become public. He begun to see
why it was that men looked at him
strangely at times, when it was ques-
ton Of Ruth s interests. He must re-
strain himself
The operator did not hang up imme
diately, but said hesitatingly: Say
John. there's wire here; just came
in from The Master Key mine. 1t
does not seem to jibe with yours. Will
kerson sent it."
I'll play fair" said John to himself,
and he called back over the wire, "Bil.
ly. that's yours and Wilkerson's busi-
ness, not mine.' If he had listened to
the tenor of the message directed to
Jean Darnell, in New York, he would
have learned what Wilkerson was plot.
ting.
For years W1lkerson had built up for
himself a golden image in Jean Oar
nell. No one realized better than him.
self that she was creature of appe
tite, lover of silk and velvet. A wo-
man whose eyes widened at sight OF a
Persian cat Feminine in every de-
gree. womanly in none. But he him
self, dominated absolutely, utterly and
completely by his desires. had fallen
under her spell. and he was going to
win her, no matter how. 1t is a
strange thing that when a dishonest
man finally yields to an honest passion
nothing will satisfy him but the ut
most observance of the ritual of socie
ty. Harry Wilkerson's vision was OF
walking up the aisle of great church
to meet his bride at the altar.
Yet he had always thought OF her in
terms of gold; that was a contrast
the pallid. satiny. blue eyed woman,
Voluptuous. soft-and his image Of her
built OF yellow gold, dragged out of
the bowels of 1.-The Master Key" mine
This image was now before his eyes:
Instead of the warm, sun blessed Cali.
fornia hills. with their faint scent OF
sage and cactus, he saw richly fur.
nished room and breathed the odor OF
altar Of roses Let us not follow him
Courier Democrat., 1915-07-15
In MS dreams. But looking over MS
shoulder an hour later we read:

In his dreams. But looking over MS
shoulder an hour later we read:
Master Key" Mine, June
City:
Find George Everett at III Broadway
ana meet Ruth Gallon in Chicago on
Sante Fe express leaving here this even
ing. Introduce Drake as Everett after
you nave seen Everett and keep the girl
10 yourself until can arrange matters.
HARRY.
can't send this through any office
near here,' he thought, $50 | guess I'll
ride down to Vale Vista and hand it
to the conductor. He can send it from
Los Angeles"
Ihree days later Ruth Gallon settled
herself in the seat Of Pullman that
vas soon to leave Chicago for New
York. She was excited In crossing
town from one depot to another
through the streets roaring with traf-
tic she had heard sounds that had new
er met her ears before-the sounds of
the worlds business which, oddly
enough, seemed to be mostly hauled
over cobblestones. The faint echo Of
that noise still rang in her ears. 1t ap-
palled her to think that she must dwell
with men who lived in such an atmos-
phere; also she felt very lonely. She
thought of the mine, of Tom Kane in
the door Of his cook shanty, Of the
great ore bucket swinging across the
sulch toward the mill, Of John, bend
ing over his blue prints and papers: of
the grave on the hill where her father
lay, still within the precincts of '"rhe
Master Key"
1t had been so impressed upon her
that her mission was of vital impor-
tance to the mine, that these tender
emotions flowed into the same channel
with her really keen business instinct.
She pulled the key, warm from her
bosom. out OF its hiding place and look
ed at it
tContinued Next Week.
Courier Democrat., 1915-07-15
"Look here, WiIkerson, maybe both OF
US have made mistake"


US have made mistake"
the present mile. palnStaklnS toll in
figuring out the trend OF the various
veins. would lead 10 that particular
pot OF gold which had been at the end
Of Gallons youthful rainbow OF hopes.
Wilkerson was determined to be mas
ter Of The Master Key" He needed
the skilled aid of John Dorr with his
engineering knowledge.
John Dorr knew that there was a
tremendous secret III Gallons life rep
resented by the golden key which he
had torn from his neck and handed to
Ruth when he was dying. That key
had figures On it. He understood that
those scratches on that golden surface
represented something tremendously
important. and that the OLD man had
committed Ruth to his charge and had
spoken OF Wikerson as his former
partner and said. "Wilkerson Knows
1t was better, thought John. to accept
his amiable advances and thereby pos
sibly gain his confidence and find out
for Ruth's sake that secret which
Thomas Gallon had taken to his grave
So on the second day after the resto-
his own reappointment as engineer in
charge John went down to the office
and said buntly: Look here, Wilker-
son. maybe both OF us have made
mistake. l'm sure my only aim is to
help out in the promotion of The Mas
ter Key"
Wilkerson received him am1ably.
''I'm sure my only interest in this busi-
ness is to fetch into good ore. All that
we are digging out now is dirt without
any pay in it.
II think | know where we can strike
first class stuff" Dorr returned. There
is sure pay rock If we travel south
from that main tunnel. We may have
to go couple of hundred feet"
Wilkerson looked at him shrewdly
''That will cost money" he remarked.
'But I'll take this up with Ruth"
John looked at him with faint trace
Of the old enmity in his eyes. He did
not like to hear the first name Of the
mistress Of 1.-The Master Key" on those
lips.
IF the mine is not paying it's up to
us to make it pay" he remarked
Wheh Wilkerson entered the bunga.
low Ruth perceived great change in
his attitude. He was no longer sullen,
and he was evidently worried. 1t was
clean worry, and she smiled at him.
Had not her father come In with that
expression on his face many times?
She put her chin in the cup of her
hands and asked cheerfully. what 10
1t, Mr. Wilkerson?"
May | sit DOWN." he said awk
Courier Democrat., 1915-07-15
A Roland For an Oliver.

Manager-I say, can we get anything
like a real doctor in this jay town to
attend Il sick actor? Village Inhabit-
ant--Sure. Just so to that corner gro
Gerry. You'll find Il man there who's
all right ut curing hams.-Baltimor
American
Courier Democrat., 1915-07-15

COPYRIGHT. 1914. BY JOHN FLEMING WILSON
Courier Democrat., 1915-07-15
Jov of Authorization.

The youngest girl of i Baltimore
family was recently much distressed
at dessert to discover that there was
ice cream for dinner.
"Oh, papa" exclaimed the youngster
reproachfully, why didn't they tell me
this morning that we We're going to
have ice cream%'
What difference would that have
made?"
Lots" sighed the child. Il could
have expected it all day. y."-Exchange.
Courier Democrat., 1915-07-15
Ear Apart.

Mother-I hear that Harry Smith Is
the worst boy in school. and want
you to keep as far from him as possible.
Tommy do, ma. He is always at the
head of our claSS.-BOStOn Transcript.
Courier Democrat., 1915-07-15

Our consul at Sierra Leone tells of q
butter tree, but makes no mention OF
the strength of the wood
Courier Democrat., 1915-07-15
CHAPTER VII.
Wilkerscn the Plotter,

HKATV HEN he had thoroughly learn.
wv ed his lesson Wilkerson COOL
HSNE5S ly, in spite OF the letter he
G.s.z.J had received from Jean Dar-
nell in New York. telling him OF her
willingness to finance her scheme, de-
termined he must be friends with John
Dorr, at least outwardly.I So be
smoothed out the visible wrinkles in
his face. trying to veil the malicious
CLEAN in his eyes, and spent two days
quietly trying to show his amiability,
not only to the miners. but to Dorr
himself.
Wllkerson was absolutely certain
that his old partner, Thomas Gallon,
had really made rich find and that
he had lost the location and accepted
''The Master Key" as a substitute in
the hope that by working it thoroughly
he might find the mother lode. In
other words. careful manipulation OF
Courier Democrat., 1915-07-15

1t is possible to compute the cost of
war in money and in lives. But the
misery of it is without end.
Courier Democrat., 1915-07-15
Rare Distinction.

Tourists-Who's who in this tt wn?
Native-Anybody that's ever been
out of it!-Exchange.
Courier Democrat., 1915-07-15

what L means by this yarn IS: Gin
me the luck and give the other Teller
the energy"
Courier Democrat., 1915-07-15

The above of the Sweepstake Silver Trophy Cup
together with Five District Trophy Cups
district viii be awarded the winners the Farm Contest
e County Fair The Sweepstake Trophy Cup stands
high with trimmings stag handles and gold lined The
six have value Of $3.50 donated by angdon business
men and exhibition at A O. Void Co.. jewelry
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-30
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP LEAGUE TO
MAKE REAL FIGHT

MAINE KEEL FIOF1
The public ownership league now
being organized by the Chicago Fed
Grafton of Labor won't monkey with
dead issues or useless statistics or
theories. It started in yesterday by
spending most of its time on the
teachers fight for the right to or
ganize.
Labor men regard the public
school system as the first and great
est public utility of the CITY," said
Aid. John c. Kennedy. I'VE don't
want any kind of public ownership
that does not recognize the right of
workers to organize"
John Fitzpatrick and Edward
NockeIs were elected temporary
president and secretary of the league.
They with John H. Walker are to ap-
point a committee of 25 which will
draw up a constitution and bylaws
and take other steps toward organ
izatiOn. Their action is to be sub
mitted to the delegates elected by 154
locals of the federation.
There is in Chicago public utilities
the same control of jobs and the
same dictatiOn to employees which the
U. S. industrial relations commission
report points to nationally. This job
control, delegates said, is described in
the Manly report:
"FinaI control of American indus
try rests in the hanls of a small num-
her of wealthy and powerful finan-
ciers.
Almost without exception the en-
pIoyes of large corporations are I'M
organized, as a result of the active
and aggressive nOnuniOn' policy of
corporation arrangements.
"These industrial dictatOrs for the
most part are totally ignorant of
every aspect of the industries which
they control, except the finances, and
are totally uncOncerned with regard
to the working and living conditions
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-30

the large corporations, which refuse
to deal with labor unions, and en-
pIOyes suspected of union affiliation
are discharged.
Domination is not limited to en-
pIoyes but is being rapidly extended
to control education and social seTy-
ice"
The league will hereafter hold reg
Ular meetings at Musicians hall, IT'S
W. Washington St, the last Sunday
of every month.
IN ENGLAND
ooh; mother, how wish I was an
angel"
Darling, what makes you say
that?"
ooh, because then, mother, I could
drop bombs on the Germans"
Marble Hill press., 1915-08-12
TAKE NEGRO FROM OFFICERS
AND LYNCH HIM.
Oklahoma. Mississippi and FLORIDA
Each Furnish Victims Of
Peoples Wrath.

Shawnee. Oklahoma I'D, Berry
n negro. CHARGED with two cases at
attacks on women and suspected in
connection with 10 others that have
occurred here in the last three Years,
was taken from an officer and hanged
to teleph,ne pole At the scene OF
one Of his ALLEGED crimes.
Berry was brought here from N"
penitentiary at AbcAlester surrepu-
tinuslv for trial When the train ar
rived here and the deputy sheriff and
his prisoner anghJed they were GOV
cred nv shooters in the hands ot
a dozen masked men. The officer was
disarmed. Ten or IL automobiles
filled with masked men then appeared
and the negro was quickly conveyed
to the Beard street bridge. When the
rope was adjusted around Berry +
neck he was questioned about the
crimes and asked If he were guilty,
In each instance he nodded his head
afFirmatively, In every case the ne
gro's victim was a white woman.
Following the confession the negro
wa strung up in the presence of about
= men. all masked, after which the
GROVE d dispersed.
Marble Hill press., 1915-08-12
FIRST VIEW OF PORTUGAL
Writer Describes splendor Of Scene
as He Entered the Wondrons
Harbor OF Lisbon.

The sun was nearing the horizon 40
the sea narrowed to a strait. ana 10
the left the old Tower of Bclem again
awoke memories OF Nasco da Sama
and his glorious return. writes Erh'"
pcIxotto in Scribners Now as We
threaded the narrows the pal" houses
Of Lisbon, clustered thick as eggs IN
n basket. pink, blue. ochre and wh'ts'
pile up the hills To the Alnda palace
and We entered the broad hay formed
bv the Tagus iust as II empties into
the sea one of the largest haroorH
in Europe, that. however, with us
sparse shipping. now seems ike
frame too largo for its pte'nr"
Amid great hlstle and confusion We
were landed IN tender at the Al
faudcga. took cab With pair OF
rafting ponies sped through IN" ht'tS
streets o, the city and then IN" nroaa
Aven,da opened before ns. ana "e
drew up at our hotel
The nrst impression from our WIN
dow next morning was most F'oas'
ant ono And, indeed Lisbon leaves
the definite impression oi gay
bright capital. II not ot truly b"Ra'
rjful city beautiful =; certainly "a by
nature. seated on SIS lofty hills over
. looking the Tseus ard tntHF*@ersch
. cvory " here with semiropsc gardens
and tArsua hut ttR newer hnuse# ar"
80 paa,gpptsane tysfA ln.kFYs I'm tFTyMEs
Marble Hill press., 1915-08-12

Fvrrv dcstrr ~htgh hstgs ta relieve
women n fhr great ane euS{AG4e3 e@F
DEN a maintain tho bone ~ Eo-
tng concern s&au4a te h"a7ftf @rl
rse,s.A naa S3r tAsuHEa Ncaef SAYS.
nnr uf the best fh.afs that h&r" bees
Invented III st5s eo@gsetta9 ~ ID" nr~
stainless steel kris~s mAae Of II
ha.. mol to Re cleaned In fhe ola,
afrfv way. thrf meregf have to T."
wiped NAHy artas a." ao~ oaAEaE
the stainless Cwtl.tF and II ought so0H
,o hc TN universal use BWs sgpaf
.u,ly tho trade In nH d~sif@As o'
bringing about this w"lrnrs" Fonsatn
uafton ON tbs ground that az the u"~
cu,lery lasts longer less ce'icTT ~tl'
he required In the future
Marble Hill press., 1915-08-12

The Bath Times had not long ago
in it's window the largest lobster claw
probably ever seen In these parts The
claw alone measures i0ig inches IN
length and some six inches tn width
II was brought into the once by the
well known diver Scott Ttbbeus oi
Woolwieh, who found II recently while
doing some work at Hartcr1s island
Some OF his dredging apparatus prob
ably the bucket, separated this ella"
from the rest OF the lobster 1ndgiok
from the size ot the claw, III" lobster
itself must have been several tce'
long and monster The meat IN
the claw was OF good color and I'll
to eat and enough for q dinner 'oI
several people The claw alone
weighed three pounds, and h" es,'
mated the weigh; OF the lobster a
thirty pounds kruncbcc Journal
Marble Hill press., 1915-08-12
DYNAMITE FOUND ON LINER
YSi.~ Star Arabic Narrowly Escapes
Destruction Through OffciaIs'
Hatchfulness.

New York. y. Y.--OfIcia'~ Of the
White Star Line confirmed the story
that dynamite was found aboard the
liner Arabic before she sailed 'or Liv-
erpool. July IS Two packagr- Of ex'
ploslves wrapped in oiled pap"r were
found at II o'clock on the n@ht OF
Inlv o- A few hours before The vessel
sailed. BIZ private detectives, On pIoyed
hv the line to search every OUTGOING
steamer. The packages were turned
over to the police.
The Arabic carried iST passengers.
She docked at Liverpool yesterday al
ternoon.
Marble Hill press., 1915-08-12
American BIO Lore.

We are snFuIarly lacking IN s""'i'
singing night birds IN America, and
in fact. In all Europe the nightnealo ~
the single inimitahle nocturnal var
bier. and in these days ono NAV 'ra'et
hundreds of miles IN any ~ the hlEht
irgale countries Of Europ" and fat 10
hear a single note from that elaM'"
wonder We haze our great horrrd
owls. whcse hoot has In Il somribtaE
that may I've called majestic and which
may be heard at distance ot a mile,
the barn owl which makes moan oA"
ono in utter misery the ~hippoor
uill, ore ot the ntsht Jar family "h'eo
so mistakenly ttera,e& 1ss sad ant
mostly towards some mysterious VII
lie boy " and few other mystic eH1N
which twFtter so family at might that
! ons wonders II they ar" Eoi day bF3s
/ taking In their sleep
Marble Hill press., 1915-08-12
SULTAN COMPLETELY CURED
Or. Israel RETURNS to sert'n R7'er
Performing Series CT opera
tions

Berlin, Germany.-Prof. Jas Israel
who recently operated on the sultan
of Turkey. has returned here from
Constantinople. He says he left the
sultan completely cured.
DR. Israel says that he found the
aged sultan suffering from gall stones
and other troubles and his condition
SO serious that he was unable for a
week to decide whether an operation
should be risked Political as well as
medical factors had to be considered,
because in the event Of an unfavorable
nutcone of an operation change OF
sovereigns would have a momentous
effect on Turkey.
Marble Hill press., 1915-08-12
81 HURT IN RAILROAD WRECK
Accident or Iron Mountain, Il Is said,
Caused by Train Running PAST
Siding.

Ozark. Arkansas, -- Sixty one per
sens we're injured when east-bound
passenger train No. 103 and west
bout passenger train No. 1o4 OF the
St. Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern
Railway collided at POPPING, five miles
west of here P F, Dawson. an aged
resident Of Fayetteville received an
injury to his back which may prove
fatal. The other injured, it was said,
were merely bruised or cut by flying
glass. Nearly all were taken to Van
Buren. Ark.
Local officials Of the road say the
accident was caused by train No. lo5
running past a siding.
Marble Hill press., 1915-08-12

knocked down and killed Instantly by
a dray near Ballymena, Ireland, ana
when the police examined her w"etch'
cd hovel they were we'll rewarded for
their search.
Two large buckets and tin trunk.
as we'll as big wooden box ana
about dozen mugs, were found tlled
to oyernowing with all kinds OF cur
rent coin. when the money was cot
lected and put on the scales II totaled
considerably more than n hundred
weight.
Marble Hill press., 1915-08-12

Asa crown ts the badge ~ kings ara
three balls are the badge q paw
brokers, go the badge 81 a submarine
orfsrer IL handful ~ cotton ~@Ft"
When the halt doaen officers ~
modern submarine, clad IN 'hr'' h'aek
leather waterproof suits como al~afd.
q sajiay pFAHaa on the ttpy sang%sY io
receive tae.n and 10 each be hands bis
astn rolled IN neat ball tn" re#
sen "a that the s'cel doors @@a s'fsf'
uaI1s o' s8hma7the s~rat oti ssff
rasty The scsj sea's surat GIL lhe
sAhpgar9us oracrr. hctare opening
ssos,f az bntasp sitting dn@n, wipes Ire
of frnrn the knott or trwsg 1be S"Ai eta
An unconscious gesture @te that of r@aSt
tps up III. tyuassEt fg keep them nv III
eaEetHg
Marble Hill press., 1915-08-12
Teachers Must 'Fess Up.

sharon, pa-No longer can sharon
school teachers enjoy the company OF
q "eteadv" on Wednesday or Sunday
nights without the autocratic board
nf education being aware of the fact,
ivory one Of the $50 teachers en-
Moved in the city schools who has
steady fellow" must declare the fact
with full attendant details before she
will be eligible for reelection to her
old position.