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must understand tnat /, on behalf OF
the company and acting as the com
pany's agent, grubstaked Whitley Lewis
and four others to go in and stake
those claims. was empowered to
arrange with these five men that If the
claims made decent showing each
should receive five thousand dollars in
stock for assigning their claims to the
company. and should have employment
at top wages while the claims were
operated.
"They surely earned Ii. You know
what the North is in the dead of win
ter. They bucked their way through
a hell Of frost and snow and staked
the claims If ever men were entitled
TO what was due them, they were.
And not one of them suffered over
his bargain. even though they were
taking out weekly as much gold as
they were to get fn- their full share.
They'd given their word. and they
were white men. They took me for II
white man also. They took my word
that they would get what was coming
to them. and gave me In the company's
name clear title to every claim. 1 put
those titles on record in Hazelton, and
came home.
'Lorimer and Brooks deliberately
proposed TO withhold that stock, to de
fraud these men. to stenl-oh, can't
find words strong enough. Brooks
said to me, with n grin: The prop
erty's in the company's nam,-let the
roughnecks sweat while. They've
got no comeback, anyway
THAT was when smashed him. Do
you blame me? I'd taken over those
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fellows claims in good faith. Could
| 20 back there and face those men and
say: Boys, the companys got your
claims, and they won't pay for theIl.'
Do you think for minute I'd let
bunch of Iily-fingered crooks put any
thing like that over on simple. square
dealing fellows who were too honest
TO protect their own interests from
sharp practice? A quartette of soft
bodied mongrels who sat in uphOl-
stored Office chairs while these others
wallowed through six feet of snow for
three weeks. living on bacon and
beans. to grab a pot of gold for them
1t makes my fist double up when 1
think about 1t.
"And l wouldn't be put off or placat-
ed by chance to fatten my own bank
roll. | didn't care If | broke the Free
Gold Mining company and myself like
wise. \ dollar doesn't terrify nor yet
fascinate mel hope 1t never will. And
while, perhaps, it was not what they
would call good form for me to lose
my temper and go at them with my
fists. | WAS fighting mad when | thor
oughly sensed their dirty project. Any
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the world better place ror us All. put
somehow this doesn't apply to the
mass, and particularly not to the cir
cles we invaded in Granville. With
here and there n solitary exception
that class Is hopeless In Its Snug self
satisfaction-lts narrowness OF out
look, and unblushing exploitation of
the less fortunate, repels me.
"And to dabble my hands In their
muck, to settle down and live my life
according to their bourgeois standards,
to have grossness of soft flesh replace
able sinews, to submerge mentality in
favor of specious craftlness of mind
which pnsses in the city for brains
well, I'm on the road. And. oh, girl,
girl. wish you were with me.
Il must explain this mining deal
that phase of it which sent me on the
rampage in Granville. should have
done so before, should have Insisted
on making II clear to you. The other
side had been presented to you rather
cleverly at the right time. And your
ready acceptance Of 1t nngered me be-
yond bounds. You were prejudiced.
u stirred mc TO perfect fury To think
YOU couldn't be absolutely loyal to
your pal. When you took that position
| simply couldn't attempt cxplana-
lions. Do you think I'd ever have TAX
cn the other fellows side against you,
right or wrong7
Anyway, here it Is: You got the
essentials. up 10 a certain point. from
Brooks. But hc didn't tell ii all-his
kind never does. not by long shot.
They. the four of them, it seems. held
meeting as soon as | shipped out
that gold and put through that stock
selling scheme. That was legitimate.
/ couldn't restrain them from that. be-
ing hopeless minority Of one. Their
chief object. however. was to let two
or three friends In ON the ground floor
Of good thing; also. they wanted
each good bundle Of that stock while
1t was chcap-figuring that with the
prospects | had opened up 1t would
sell high. So they had 1t on the mar
Ret, and In addition had everything
framed up TO reorCanize with n capi-
talization Of two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. This all cut AMI
'-ftNh hfARlf 4 rbA AllfAf. -NbNs aS u
originally stood. the five Of us would
each have mude small fortune on
these klappan claims. They're good.
But with quarter of a million in out
standing stuck-well. il would he all
right for the fellow with a big block.
Eut you can see where | would get
on with II five-thousand-dollnr inter
est. To he sure, u certain proportion
of the money derived from the sale Of
this stock should he mine. But it goes
into the treasury, and they had it ar
ranged TO keep 1t in the treasury, rs Il
fund for operations, with them doing
the operating. They had already indi-
Gated their bent by voting an annual
stipend of ten thousand and six thou
sand dollars to Lorimer and Brooks
MS president and secretary respective
ly. Me. they proposed to quiet with
managers wage Of mere five thou
sand Il year-after | got on the ground
and began to get my back up.
But they capped the climax with
what l must cold-bluodedly character
ize us the baldest attempt at dirty
fraud 1 ever encountered. And they
had the gall to try and make me Il
party to it. To make this clear you
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HUMORIST HAD LAST LAUGH
emma Authorities Will Be New
Story to Many.

The letters Of Mark Twain record
but little concerning the years he
spent in the Austrian capital, the
Christian Science Monitor observes.
The humorist did some special writing
for American papers during those
"Wanderjahre." Indeed. the Vienna
journalists took him to their hearts as
colleague Of u particularly genial
type and often invited him to
friendly spread" at which the guests
were members of the Austrian fourth
estate. The story of how he got into
trouble with the authorities. through
the indiscretions OF Vienna Journal
list, has probably never been published.
As the tale goes. a certain reporter,
either in Il facetious or a vindictive
moment. gave out that Mark Twain had
been seen suspiciOusly lettering about
the bridge which spans the Danube
canal near the Ring strasse, and not
far from the Hotel Metropole, at which
the Clemenscs lived. Mark could not
let this reflection upon his character
go unchallenged. He hastened to ex-
plain-to apologize. in fact, for having
given the authorities the slightest
anxiety about him.
The explanation was thoroughly
Twainlike. He had found by the
bridge the longest German word he
had ever seen and. in order to compre-
hend it in all its longitude and lat-
tude, he had pinned one end of 1t to
the bridge with the idea of unfolding
itl Bearing his precious burden with
him. he came to the opposite end of the
bridge, only. alas. to find that he still
had yards to sparei The apology was
Iccepted with many broad grin.
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I'M "a nnR "a "a - nmN
- ADOPTING FRIEDA /. !.
BY JANE OSBORNE.
" HM n Ann - AAA - ~


"Oh, Miranda, win you hold the door
open there? I've got little girl in my
arms. You haven't heard of any
one that has lost little girl, have
your"
With these words Peter Hobson
broke the news of his discovery late
that memorable night in midsummer.
He had been on his weekly trip to the
nearest settlement, 20 miles down the
valley. Usually on such nights in sum
mer Miranda dozed in her chair with
the screen on the front door unlocked !;
for Miranda had lived alone with her
stalwart brother too many years to
fear trnmps or thieves on their desc
late side of the mountain.
where in the land of the living did
you find her?' was Miranda's not too
hOspitable comment. But, as Peter car
ried the sleeping child to the light of
the solitary lamp that smoked and
flickered in the draft on the living
room table, the sisters weather-beaten.
hard-set features softened and a smile
broke over her face. Hadn't you bet
ter set her DOWN." she asked. She
was pulling at the ruffied white petit
coats which had become crushed in
the strong mans arms. ave must wake
mother must be worried almost sick.
Peter, isn't she prettyr
Peter made no comment, but rom
the tenderness with which he brushed
with his big clumsy hands a golden
curl that had fallen across Frieda' s
face Miranda needed not to be told
that the big brother of hers had lost
his heart to the child he had found.
He had heard a cry In the thicket Of
the woods as he was coming home
about Il miles down the road. 1t
was just turning dark at the time. He
stopped his horses and followed
through the pathless woods for few
rods and then came upon the little
girl. She was crouching under the
side of large bowlder. and at first
seemed too startled TO speak.
'She started to tell me about her
self" Peter explained to his sister.
Did tell me her name was Frieda.
and then she tainted away in my
arms. How old should you judge her
to be?'
"From the way she is dressed she is
n sizable child of nine or ten-can't be
uny more"
Just then the little girl walked up,
and Peter and Miranda hurried to at
tention. With little milk and some
of Miranda's good bread Frieda re-
.g..
dtes had passed she was laughing mer-
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rily and perfectly at ease with her
generous hostess.
"You are so good to me-" she said
sleepily mo one was ever so good
to me In the world before"
'Now, do you want TO try ana tell
us whose little girl you aref" Peter
asked patiently, kneeling down be-
fore her.
mo, no, no." she shook her head.
Maybe tomorrow. But this is so
nice"
A few minutes later Miranda had
shown the little girl to the spare
ROOM"
The morning brought no news of the
lost child's identity. Miranda and her
brother had thought she would be able
to explain or give some clew as to
who she was. But to all their queries
she had but one reply-"I don't know
I am so happy. Let me stay" By
the end of ten days 1t seemed so ap-
parent that her identity would never
be discovered that brother and sister
were making plans for legally adopting
her.
It was two weeks after Frieda had
first crept into Peters arms and his
heart down there on the mountainslde
when he opened a New York paper to
read this heading: "MovIe actress still
missing. Film company now planning
to make search of mountainside." And
then Peter read the article that told
that two weeks before n cinema COM
pany had been taking pictures of n
big feature play along the mountain
side. A company of 25 Juvenile act
resses was included in the scenes.
Somewhere one of these girls, who on
the day of her disappearance was
dressed to impersonate girl of ten or
twelve, had been lost. A glance at the
newspaper account was enough to as
sure Frieda that her secret was
known. She looked at Peter very
wistfully.
81 didn't tell you before, because II
was like heaven here with you and
Miranda. got lost that day with the
company, before you found me. There
was thunder storm and everyone ran
" II was oN'l L was
alone. l walked through the woods
for an age and then you found me. I
was going to tell you, but must have
tainted. and after that / liked you so
much / didn't want to leave you. I
tried to make myself believe that 1
was just the little girl you thought I
was. I'm seventeen, really. But l
never had n chance to be a little girl.
so | wanted to stay here. Don't make
me go away. please. There is no one
in the world / care for the way / do
you and Miranda. Please let me
stay
81 have been thinking" he began
very awkwardly. that maybe I'd have
a chance toto marry you when you
grew up. But now you are almost
grown up already. won't have to walt
long"
Frieda's tears had stopped. She
looked up at him with the happiness
that had shown In her face the first
night when he had found her. "Oh.
Peter. am so happy" she whispered.
Copyright. 1911. by the Mcclure Newspa-
per SyndicateJ
uhn ACT tIIHu
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NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF
STDC<pIDIDERS

TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE
DENVER AND GULF TOWN AND
REALTY COMPANY.
You and each of you are hereby noti-
fled that the Board Of Directors OF sa ID
Company have called special meeting
Of the stockholders of said The Denver
and Gulf Town and Realty Company
to meet on Monday. the 27th day Of
May. \. ID. 1918. at ten o'clock A. NJ
at the office of c. c. GoCdale. at Lamar
Colorado. for the purpose Of consider
held by the said Company. paying the
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Indebtedness of the Company, and fur
ther considering the propriety of dis
solving said corporation. You are each
Of you earnestly requested to be pres
.nt.
By Oreder of the Board of Directors.
Dated at Lamar. Colorado. April gotta.
\. d. 1918.
ID. B. NOVELS,
President
Attest:
c. NJ. LEE.
Secretary.
First Pub. April "a. 1918.
Las Pub May 20. 1918.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-16

Itelligence of people which Germany has amply
as an asset The public schools is the crux OF
the difference. Once recoal from the nrst
lwildness Of resentment and despair sets against
the current of anarchy, it will require
machinery through which to work. Germany
4 has had practice in system; its people are
wonted to organized effort. It's society is high
ily organized Freed from obsession OF suprem-
acy to other peoples; convinced OF the necessity
of PREPARATION and future good conduct; seeing
a future only in united effort to pay for the
past, German intelligence should quickly assert
Itself in favor of law and order. One great
danger must be admitted. If Germany is la
boring under the delusion that reorganization
Iof her government; declaration of democracy
and of submission to International law for the
future are means to mitigate her past, that by
them she is to escape from paying her debt to
the nations she has wronged, then she is adding
a new delusion to those which have wrought
her ruin. Germany has prime need to face
facts The longer period of anarchy the Ger
mans permit, the greater their difficulty In do
ing what the United States and the entente al
lies must force them to do The more reluct
ance they show to constituting themselves
the greater necessity for direct military super
vision of their reconstruction will be seen by
the allies. No trickery can help the Germans
now; no Bismarckian tactics will avail. Honest
reparation is her portion and it must be made
either by a reorganzed Germany of her own
volition or by a Germany held to business by
the mighty war power she has invoked against
herself
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-16
Wear none Of thine own chains; but keep
free whilst thou are free.-Willlam Penn
NO MORE DELUsIONs.

To stem the tide of forces sweeping her to
DISRUPTION akin to anarchy Germany will need
to cling tight to buoys that may carry her to a
now national life At first it is probable that
resentment will be a supreme motive. "A peo-
ple led into ruin will not Immediately see the
uselessness Of creating further ruin. The If
rational impulse to seek vengeance Will perhaps,
rs it often has, bring the Germans to punish
Themselves indiscrminately instead of steady
mo their minds and hearts to deal out justice
10 those who are responsible for the awful fate
descended upon the nation. 1t comes easy to
mind in reading the news that tells of the chaos
IN Germany to pronounce this ''another Rus
sia'' But here it is just to note differences
md to give them due Importance in attempting
n balanced Judgment. The same forces deriving
from the socialistc scheme may be operative In
Germany that we're operative In Russia. But the
circumstances under which they operate and
the people upon whom they operate differ-
pnt The Russian revolution did not truly rep
resent the Russian peoples solution Of their
internal problem. 1t Intercepted almost
at its start by Germany; it managed by
Germany and turned over to the anarchy of
bolshevism by Germany. 1t is unfair to de
clare that Russia repudiated its first provision
81 government in favor of rapid descent into
anarchy, since the force which Germany exert
ed was foreign to the Russians themselves.
Furthermore, the Russians were without the
-1nachinery ,of government and without the in
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-16
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
THE OLD ACCORDION.

We hadn't great pipe organ any piano grand;
We heard no fancy music that culdnt understand
wasn't Wagner business Mister Meddlesome:
We hadn't no grand piano up there at old Camp Ten
lacked fer muscas music, too by gum!
We hadn't Paderewsk long-haired son-ofa-gun,
Jest Swede from Oshkosh an his old accordion.
The nights things chilly twenty so be-
low,
We wud geer him he set in the freight glow
He didn't play nothin fancy, high an mighty air.
But he laugh with Bill Bailey an cry with The
Maidens Prayer
And then we wud shut eyeds an miles an miles we'd
that instrument sobbed the music lhe song Oh
"Home, Sweet Home
1t made us all solemn than sermon wud have
done,
Gordon
Sometimes we the benches an clear the shany
floor,
And then ud come stag dancn fer good long hour er
We wore no dancn slippers, broadcoth suits
me shirts that we flennel, an we danced In
cowhide boots.
There wasn't playn but we had jest twice
Fer we had that swede Oshkosh an his old accord
Douglas Maloch
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-16
"CAN l BE
CURED?"

How often have you heard that sad
cry from the victims of disease. Peri
haps the disorder has gone too lal|
for help, but oftener it is just in ils
first stages and the pains and acneS
are only natures first cries for heip|
Do not despair. Find out the cause
and give nature all the help you car
and she will repay you with health
Look after the kidneys. The kidneys
are the most overworked organs OIL
the human body, and when they lai
in their work of filtering and throw
ing off the poison that constantly ac
cumulates in the system, everythinsl
goes wrong. GOLD MEDAL Haariem|
Oil Capsules will give almost lmme
date relief from kidney and bladaeiI
troubles and their kindred ailments
They will free your body from pam
In short order But be sure to gesI
GOLD MEDAL. Look for the na,ls
on every box. In three sizes, seaisl
packages. Money refunded If they wv
not help you.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-16
THE FINANCIAL FUTURE

| Wall Street Journal: With the end
ing of the great war begins one of the
most interesting developments in fl
nancial history. What has gone by has
been a crisis marked by financial
waste and emergency measures more
or less ephmeral. What is to come is
a reconstruction that will last through
out the ages. True, the developments
Will not come so quiet nor, perhaps,
will they be so drastic as those that
have occurred during the past four
years. But they will be none the less
: important, since whatever changes oc-
cur are to be based upon secure
! foundation.
! But what has happened during the
! past four years has not been altogeth-
er financial waste. A great upheaval
! has taken place in the world of finance
and credit resources have been
brougt to the fore and nations estab-
| lished on a financial basis of far
reaching Importance, that occupied
only secondary place before.
+, The greatest financial revolution
| that the great war has brought about
! is the turning of the United States
| from q debtor to creditor nation.
| Before the war, we owed abroad some
thing like $4,O00,OOO 900. About three
quarters of that debt we have bought
! back. In place of our former debt
Europe now owes us about SO, 900 ,000,-
600. On private account, we hold
about $4,000, 100000 of foreign securi-
ties, while the United States govern
ment holds obligations of over $1,000,
I 100000 of our allies.
The world therefore is under obli-
cations to the United States, in the
interest alone, OF between $400, OOO,-
900 and s5,000,0o0,0O0 a year. Add to
this not only our usual credit bal
ance in word trade, but the fact that
for several years to come our manu-
facturers and exports will be stimu-
lated by the demand for goods in the
rehabilitation Of Europe. For years
the United States may be able to
count on an annual credit balance OF
from s1,500000,000 to $4,000, OOO, 900
a year.
Europe cannot possibly settle this
annual Indebtedness. We shall have to
leave our money abroad, invested in
foreign securities or otherwise parti-
cipatnig in foreign industries. This
will continue to build up our credit
position in world finance.
In other words, the four years or
war have placed US in the same posi-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-16
Hopes Women Will
Adopt This Habit
As Well As Men
Glass Of hot water each. morn.
ing helps US look and feel
clean, sweet, fresh.

Happy, bright, alert-vigorous and
vivacious-a good clear skin; a nat
ural, rosy complexion and freedom
from illness are assured only by
clean, healthy blood. If only every
woman and likewise every man could
realize the wonders Of the morning
inside bath, what a gratifying change
would take place.
Instead of the thousands Of sickly
anaemic-looking men, women and
girls with pasty or muddy complex
ions; instead of the multitudes oil
nerve wrecks" "rundowns." brain
flags" and pessimists we should see
yirile, optimistic throng of rosy
checked people everywhere.
An inside bath is had by drinking
each morning before breakfast,
glass of real hot water with tea
spoonful of limestone phosphate In i
to wash from the stomach, liver, kid
neys and ten yards of bowels the pre-
vious days indigestible waste, soul
lamentations and poisons before put
ting more food into the stomach. :,
Those subject to sick headache, Dill
iousness, nasty breath, rheumatism
colds; and particularly those wnt
have pallid, sallow complexion ana
who are constipated very often, are
urged to obtain a quarter pound Of
limestone phosphate at the drug
store which will cost but trifle ou'
Is sufficient to demonstrate the qulcs
and remarkable change in both health
and appearance awaiting those VINO
practice internal sanitation. We mus
rem ember that inside cleanliness Il
more important than outside, De
cause the skin does not absorb I'M
purities to contaminate the olood
while the pores in the thirty feet o.
bowels do.