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The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-09

he explained in hts most plausible man
ner. until I can come into my own
again we should starve. Soon It will
all be arranged" And once more he
turned away from her--this time with
an air Of flnality-as If there were
really no argument against his vague
protestations.
"Soon? You have said that for
MONTH" Ethel reminded him. you've
said it ever since we were married."
"Next week, thenw he agreed in des-
peration. II promise! And you will
learn tonight about the fleet?" he
added In the same breath.
"But, Henry, If do ask Sir George
and he tells me, isn't it rather shab-
by thing to do then to come to you
and"
mo, no, no-as Two often told you!"
he interrupted. It seemed to him that
her objections were interminable.
And under the stress of the urging
from his superiors his forbearance was
fast reaching its end. To hide his
anxiety and his irritation, he stepped
to the window and looked out.
"But Sir George trusts me-" Ethel
resumed. Streetman stifled a mouth
filing German oath while he listened
to her. "When he answers my Ques-
tions," she continued, ''he does so be-
cause he thinks I'm just idly curious.
He never dreams I'd repeat what he
says to anyone. 1t all puts me in a
beastly position. Sir George is a loyal
Englishman, and If he thought
Streetman would hot let her finish.
He wheeled about and said sharply. to
forestall even the merest mention of
such q thing as an informer-let alone
spy
"And you are loyal Englishwoman
and I am loyal torrance"
"Then why do you pass yourself off
as an Englishman?''
because it is the wish of my en-
| ployers, the French secret service. It
is the wish Of France" he declared in
grand manner, which he intended to
carry conviction with it.
Its all quite beyond me-" she said
with a hopeless air. They had had
many such discussions. And never
yet had she been able to understand
the reasons that Streetman put forth
with unvarying glibness. "Why should
france wish to know about our fleet?''
"Ah! that I do not know" he re-
Piled. "The secret service gives me
their instructions. It is for me to fol-
low, not to question them. It is my
| work-my future" He drew nearer
to her, and his masterful eyes gazed
full into hers. 1T is our future,
Ethel!' he cried with apparent emo
| ton:
But isn't France England's ally ~
| she asked. II can't understand why
| she should need this information"
I'm times like these it is best for
each country to know all possible
about every country" he explained.
You will be doing no wrong to Eng
land when you get me the facts l
DESIRE" He sat down beside her, and,
placing his arm about her, he drew her
close to him. "You will find out to-
| night about the fleet?' he pleaded.
But there was something about his
persistent wheedling that made Ethel
Willoughby-or Mrs. Streetman-sus-
picious.
II can't help feeling that there is
something behind all this-something
you are not telling me-" she said
slowly.
Despite his confident air, Streetman
could not easily look into her search
Ing eyes. He was uncomfortable.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-09

Between Russia and Germany"
upon a discussion of any topic-ex-
cept such as touched upon his high
Office. And there he was exceedingly
touchy.
"You think, then, there will be war
between Russia and Germany"
Streetman asked him eagerly. He
could not do otherwise than ignore
Sir Georges slightly frigid reply to
his previous question. If he felt any
resentment, he trusted to be able to
pay off the score in his own way, later.
Sir George lifted his eyebrows ever
so slightly as he glanced at Eu,2l's
caller.
'That. sir. ia matter should pre-.
fer not to discuss" he replied.
"Pardon me, sir, but as a loyal Eng
lishman I am naturally Interested"
And then Ethel stationed herself be-
hind the tea table.
Come! Let's talk of peace and
tea," she said. It made her feel guilty
to sit there and hear Streetman try to
pry information out Of Sir George be-
meath his own roof. And it seemed
| that the least she could do to repay
MIN for his many kindnesses was to
protect him as best she might from
Streetman's tndefatigable curiosity.
They had no sooner taken their cups
from her when Georgy Wagstaf burst
into the room.
"Hello, everybodyw she greeted
them. Here's Guy and his mother"
Close behind her followed Mrs. Ste
phen Falconerand her good-looking son,
who was, as everybody knew, more
than devoted to Sir George Wagstafs
vivacious daughter. "We'd have been
here earlier,". Georgy explained, "but
Mrs. Falconer and Guy had gone to
Matinee
"Silly shown the blase Guy added
In bored drawl. 1.-THE eternal tri-
angle or some such nonsensew
Every tiresomew his mother agreed.
And so noisy! Full of shots and
pistols-and mostly about some poor
creature who'd sinned and repented."
Thats the sort Of play 1 disap-
prove of, particularly for my daugh-
ter" Sir George commented from his
place on the settee. II am glad,
Georgy, that you were not there"
"Oh, I saw it last week." said
Georgy with mischievous satisfaction,
"And you ought to go, father. You'd
weep over the heroine. Frightfullv
damaged lady-wasn't she, Guy?"
"Oh, frightfully" said Guy. "Com
pletely beyond repair!''
II knew the minute she walked on
she wasn't good woman. She was
so pale and circle-y, and so beautifully
dressed" Georgy explained, as she
watched her father squirm. Shocking
her respectable parent was one of
Georges favorite diversions.
'You mustn't talk this silly cyni.
cism," Ethel reproved the two young
people.
"Don't worryv' Georgy retorted.
Father knows I don't get that sort
of chat from my very proper cover.
ness. It's just hereditary from him.
I express what he feels but doesn't
dare say
But Sir George refused to Ia an.
noyed by his daughters hectoring.
AT least deserve credit for my
modesty," he observed dryly.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-09
Tapioca PUDDING.

One-half cupful Of tapioca, one cup.
full Of sugar, one-half teaspoonful OF
salt: mix and stir into one quart Of
warm milk, then add two beaten eggs
Tablespoonful of melted butter and fla.
vor as desired; mix we'll and bake 10
oven slowly until brown. Serve hot
with cream.
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CHAPTER II-Continued.


Eyes. yes! OF coursev Streetman
agreed hastily, as if he would forestall
any patriotic exhibition. "Still, one
would like to live with the luxuries
Of life. One day I shall make the
grand coup; and then to cease all
this" He broke off suddenly, for he
heard Miss Wllloughby stirring on the
other side Of that closed door. "Sssh!
TO the door!''
"Very good, Brewster!" Mr.. Street
man said in clear, firm voice, which
he intended to carry we'll beyond that
closed door. "I'll wait here for Miss
Willoughby."
And then Sir Georges butler bowed
and left the room.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-09

A fine young Engiishwoman
Is caught in the net Of interna-
tional plotting and is made the
victim of circumstances-tragic
circumstances. She becomes in.
nocentiy involved with an enc
my Of her country and he pro-
ceeds to use her as a tool. How
she is cornered and prodded, as
boys might tease 4 wounded
wild animal, is told wildly In
this installment.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-09

streetman, the German spy, and
Roeder (aIias Brewster, the butIer),
arc discussing the possibility Of war.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-09
Copyrig ht, LOIS. BY Tho AAC8ul
SYNOPSIS.

Georgy wagstaff, daughter Of Sir
George, of the British admiralty, hints at
q liaison between her governess, Ethel
willoughby, and Henry Streetman. Ethel
denies it. Henry Streetman calls on Ethel
and while waiting for her talks to Brews-
ter, Sir Georges butler, who is a German
spy, about his failure to get at admiralty
papers in Sir Georges possession. He
phones to German secret service head
quarters
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-09
Shocking.

HE kissed me and promised not II
tell"
And then?'
1T wasn't two minutes before hi
repeated it."
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-09

One way for lawyer to rise at the
bar is to stand on q chair.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-09

Many a man sacrifices his principles
to success, and considers that he IL
getting it cheap at that.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-16

List your used cars with the Auto
Exchange, 1110 Main street telephone
a46. 11-251m
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-16
DEPORTATION OF
bfLGIANS COMES
IN FOR CfNSURE
Germany Severely Con
demned by Root, Roose-
welt, and Parker.

New York, Dec. 15.--Vigorous ex-
pressions Of indignation were voiced
at mass meeting here tonight to pro
test against the measurement OF Bel
CLANS" by the German government.
The deportation of the Belgian popu--
lace was condemned in letters read
from former President Roosevelt,
Archbishop Ireland, Joseph H. Coates,
Bishop Thomas O'Gorman of Sioux
Falls, S. D., and others. Equally force
full were addresses by Elihu Root,
James M. Beck, former assistant at
torney- general Of the United States;
Alton b. Parker and the Rev. VIM.
T. Manning, rector Of Trinity church,
who presided.
Resolutions were adopted urging
"the government Of the United States
to protest with all it's force the de-
testation with which the American
people regard these abuses, and to re-
quest the German government In the
name Of all neutrals to cease it's pol
icy Of repatriation and slavery" and
pledging "our utmost support to the
administration in whatever way it may
conclude to act"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-16
drug CLERK CONFESSES
TAMPERING With MAIL
Chicago Nan ADDED Offensive Post
scripts to Letters Left at store by
POstman.

Chicago, Dec. 15.---A mystery of OBJ
noxious postso lips and suggestive
sentences that women of a west sid 2
residence section have found in their
most intimate correspondence was
solved yesterday with the arrest and
confession Of Irving Zeitlin. a drug
clerk, that he added offensive post
scripts to letters left by the carrier
for 2 few minutes each day in the
drug store in which he was employed.
Complaints to James e. Stuart
chief postal inspector here, said that
letters to mothers from dutiful sons
would contain ineXcusable phrases
when delivered, and wives Of most
sedate husbands were mystified by
the postscripts which came in letters
from husbands.
The carrier, it was learned, left
his heavy sack in the drug store daily
while he carried a smaller package
of letters on one street. During his
absence the drug clerk extracted let-
ters addressed to women in the
neighborhood. wrote in the postcripts
and sealed them up. He was charged
with causing obscene matter to be
sent through the mails and with OBJ
structing the mails.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-16
Another "MOONSHINER"
IS ADJUDGED GUILTY
Thomas Mccoy, Asheville, N. c., Dis.
tiller, Is Convicted at Jackson
Vile. Fla.

> Jacksonville, Fla, Dec. 15.--Thomas
Mccoy of Asheville, N. c., was con-
victed by jury in the federal dis
trict court here today, of conspiracy
to defraud the government out of rev.
enue taxes on whiskey distilled at the
Long Branch distillery here.
The case was submitted to the jury
late today. McCoys attorneys yes
terday informally gave notice of their
intention to petition for new trial.
It was announced that sentence will
not be imposed on Mccoy until after
the motion for the prospective new
trial had been heard. The maximum
penalty is four years in the peniten-
1iary or fine of $4,000.
Five Jacksonville men, indicted with
Mccoy, are to be tried at a special
term of the United States district
court here in March.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-16
APC PINE FF Arkansas SATURDAY MORNING.

statesmen who elaborated these canal
projects fell from power before they
We're realized but economic authori-
ton after the war will see France
turning first of all, in the matter of
public Improvement, to the question of
transportation.
Two Of the most important project
ed waterways remain to be built; one
of them lateral to the Rhone will con-
tinue the system from Havre and Par
Is 70 Marseillcs by way of Lyons and
will enable the Rhone to compete
with the Rhine for Swiss trade to the
Mediterranean; another connecting
the Rhone with the Dordogne-tha is
to say connecting Lyons and Mar
settles with Bordeaux-will give
Switzerland Il shorter route to Ameri-
can ports than that by the Rhine
lll-conceived rivalry of the strong
81 railroad interests is accused of re-
t&rdlng these projects as we'll as a
shorter line, but of comparatively
greater Importance, in the North and
East connecting the canals of the Es-
caut. the Meuse, and the Chiers, and
serving as connecting link between the
iron and coal districts.
Had the canals built and projected
been in efficient operation at the be-
ginning of the war, it is probable that
they would have eased transportation
difficulties SO as to have kept the cost
OF living much nearer normal; they
would at least have kept coal from go
ing from 40 francs to 1870 francs a
ton.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-16
AGED WOMAN WHO
BROKE: SABBATH
LAW PAROONEL)
MRS. 8. VaIldanalle Of Saline
County Was Convicted
Selling Grape Juice.

Little Rock, Dec. 15.-The governor
is not holding all of the cases for exc
cutive clemency for the Christmas list,
but is issuing them in blocks every
day. Pardons granted yesterday were
as follows:
Sidney H. Mayer, of Pulaski coun-
ty,, relieved of fines amounting to
$235. Last Tuesday, he pleaded guilty
to ten cases of petit larceny, commit
ted while in the employ Of the Stiff
jewelry store. He is required to pay
the costs. The petitioners say that
he is not a criminal at heart, but he
had fallen into the habit Of drink,
(which, as is often the rule, resulted
in his dishonesty to his employer" He
has a wife and child to support and
is unable to pay the penalty, and if
sent to the county farm, they would
be deprived of his support
Mrs. S. Vandamme, an old lady,
was convicted by Saline county JUS
tice of the peace, On a charge of Sab
bath breaking, and fined a total of
$26. The petition says that she had
made some sweet juice from wild
grapes and blackbelries, which she
intended to use in making jelly. She
sold bottle Of it to some boys, they
claim on Sunday, she says it was on
Saturday.
Mack Shuttleworth, convicted in a
Lee county justice court of violating
the fish and game laws. fined 500,
reduced to S..
Fred Emerson, convicted, July 10.
1916, of the illegal sale of liquor, and
fined total of SS3. He had already
served there months for the same Of
tense under conviction in federal
court.
Thomas Thornton of Garland coun-
ty, convicted last fall of grand larceny
and sentenced to two years impris-
onment.
Fred Woodward, Crawford county,
convicted in November of grand lar
ceny, and sentenced to one year i'm
prisonment.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-16
Prices Of Necessaries in
France Continue to Ad-
vance Steadily,
r ALLiR0ADS BLOCK
CANAL PROJECT
Ftench People Now Realize That De-
YeIopment Of Canals Would Have
Eased Transportation Difficulties
and kept Cost of Living Down.
CORRESPONDENCE Associated Press)

Correspondence Associated Press)
Paris, Dee. 8.-Nothing has awaited
to check the increase Of the cost Of liv-
ing in France. Bread only has cscap-
ed the tendency. Everything else con-
sidered, it costs at least rs per cent
more to live in France today than il
did three years ago. War, of course,
is the firsJ explanation, but economic
experts declare that difficulties of
transportation and high freight form
the chief factors and that these diff
culties are due largely to the fail
ure Of the government to have ever
carried out the projects for interior
navigation which we're urged by de
F'reycinet, Baudin and Audffred, years
ago. In the opinion Of these same eco
monte authorities the failure of
France to realize these canal projects
has been responsible for her anomal-
Gus position III the world-carrying
trade.
Although some 200 to 800 miles
nearer America and from two hun
dred to two thousands miles nearer
the extreme Oriental markets than
Antwerp or Hamburg, the French port
of Marseilles before the war was sur
passed by those Belgian and German
ports in Central European trade to the
Orient, while Bordeaux, Havre and
other French Atlantic Ports were far
behind them in trade with the two
Americas. The marvellous internal
organization of navigation and trans
portation in Belgium and Germany en-
abled them to drain toward their ports
nearly all the foreign bound traffic
Of Central Europe though lengthening
the route and increasing the time Of
delivery.
Geneva, for instance, is further
from Antwerp than it is from Bor-
daaux, yet in 1912 Bordeaux received
almost nothing from Switzerland while
Antwerp received $1,000 tons to be
shipped by its longer route to Eu-
ropean ports. In the same year Bor-
deaux received and forwarded to &C.
neva only $500 tons while Antwerp
was way station for $4,000 tons 60
ing into Switzerland.
The new necessities created by the
war, however, made Bordeaux the
port for IS 900 tons of cotton and
grain and other commodities en- route
for Switzerland in 1915. Economic
authorities argue that with proper Ia
cilities four years ago Bordeaux would
have received lions share of the
$4,000 tons of ingoing and outgoing
Swiss traffic in 1912. s-...,,
The question is one Of the Rhine
against the Rhone, SO far as concerns
Central European traffic for which
Switzerland acts as a sort of "tuln-
table" and with it are connected init
n1ately the long discussed projects of
the Rhone canal, the canal from Mar
settles to the Rhone, and the canal
from the Rhone to the Gironde with
Marseillcs and Bordeaux as the ter
mini.
De Freycinet and other far-seeing
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-16
FRANCE PREPARES
FOR TRADE WAR

Paris, Dec. Is. - The government
has proposed a law establishing a
Commercial register" to provide
standing records of the origin. char
acter and nationality of every foreign
merchant or corporation, or every
French house located abroad and do
ing business in France. 1t is proposed
that a register be kept by the clerk
of every commercial court.
Firms and joint stock companies
must declare the nationality of each
member with details of naturalization,
if any. Corporations having branch
es or agencies in France must register
the nationality of their French man.
ayers. In addition to this general in
formation, particular details will be
required as to marriage contracts in
cases where such documents enter into
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-16
PAY SOLDIERS FAMILIES.
Uncle Sam Paying $4,000 a Day to
DEPENDENTS of Men Oh Border.

s Washington, Dec. 15.-The war de-
partment is paying out $4,000 a day
to the dependent families of enlisted
men of the army and natioual guard
Maj. Gen. L. Sharpe, quartermaster-
general, told the house military COM
mite. The $2,00o,000 fund for this
purpose already provided is virtually
exhausted, he added, and emergency
legislation will be necessary to con-
tinue the payments thru the presen-
month
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-16
Existed for % Years.

Fort Smith, Dec. 15.-The "moon-
shine" whiskey conspiracy, unearthed
here in the summer of 1914, resulting
in wholesale indictments of distillers
and internal revenue men, had been
in existence since 1888, according to
startling disclosures made in con-
fessions of the two leading conspira-
tors. These confessions show that
the "moonshiners" operated all over
the South. A federal investigation is
now on at Jacksonville, Fla, where
frauds bigger than those unerathed
in Fort Smith were perpetarted.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-16

the basis of a merchants credit, and
as to previous liquidations, bankrupt
ticies, etc.
One of the effects of this law,
though such is not declared by the
government to be it's object, will be
to prevent subjects of countries now
at war with France doing business
here after hostilities cease under a
firm name that would conceal their
real origin.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-16
THREE DROP TO DEATH.

Marquette, Mich, Dec. 15.--An ele-
vator bucket plunged 10 feet to the
bottom Of the shaft in the Holmes
mine at lshpeming yesterday, klllins
three of it's occupants and fatally in
Turing six others. A frozen cross
rope was the cause OF the accident.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-16
AUTHOR POPULAR SONG pEAD.

Santa Rosa, Calf, Dec 15.-Joseph
IT. Miles, author of the song "There']l
Be Hot Time in the Old Town To-
night is dead here today. Miles, a
veteran actor, was known throughout
the country as "Joe Hayden" He
was nearly 70 years old.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-21
WILSON VISITS SENATE TO APPEAL
FOR PASSAGE OF CHILD LABOR LAW

Warrington, D. C.-Pressident Will
son made personal visit to the Capt.
tol Tuesday to emphasize his desire
that child labor law be put on the
statute books at the present session o1
congress. To senate leaders whom he
summoned to series of conferences
in the Presidents room adjoining the
senate chamber, he insisted that the
child labor bill passed by the house
should be made part of the legisla-
tive program to be put through the
senate before adjournment.
Determined opposition by South
ern senators forced the house bill,
which would prevent shipment in in
terstate commerce of goods manufac-
tured wholly or in part by children,
out of the imperative program drawn
up by the Democratic caucus last Sat
urday. 1t was left in a secondary po-
sition, to be considered only if time
remained after other measures regard
ed as more urgent had been disposed
of. Mr.. Wilson had been told that an
effort to force its passage would mean
serious party revolt.
Whether the Presidents visit ac-
complished anything more than to
bring his own position emphatically to
the front, was not apparent Tuesday
night. So far as could be learned the
Democratic steering committee con-
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1916-07-21
|. ". ". Are Driven Out Of
Lincoln, Nebraska, by Sheriff

Lincoln, Neb.-Following clash at
the county Jail late Tuesday night be-
tween County Sheriff Hires and mem
bers of the Industrial Workers of the
World who came to Lincoln to effect
the release Of members of the order
who had been detained, peace was
effected through the release of two of
the men held by the authorities and
there was an exodus of a hundred or
more workers" who have been here
several days.
The collision between Sheriff Hires
and the Industrial Workers came when
delegation of two or three score ap-
preached the Jail and insisted on the
release of the prisoners. One of the
men, whose attitude was regarded
threatening, was knocked down by the
sheriff, who then drew his revolver
and warned the delegation to keep it's
distance.
The peaceably inclined Industrial
Workers told the officer no violence
was intended, and after a long parley
it was agreed that two Of the men
against whom charges were pending
should be released, provided. the others
left with them. The exodus began
Immediately. Seven members against
whom charges are pending are held.