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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-25
REPAIR RAILS.

Mexico City-Rails and ties are
enroute to Mexico City for the re-
construction of the railway between
the capital and Cuernavaca, which
has been virtually destroyed during
the last few years as the result of
bandit depredations.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-25
that our service
is different

Experts working with the best materials
and machinery money can buy and per-
sonal supervision is the secret of The
success of
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CHAPTER '.

An Extraordinary chambermaid, q
Midnight Tragedy, and a Man Who
Said n.Thank YOU"
Miss Thackeray was turning down.
his bed when he entered his room after
bidding his new actor friends good
night. He was staggered and some.
what abashed by the appearance OF
Miss Thackeray. She was by nc
means dressed as a c~hambermaid
should be, nor was she as dumb. On
the contrary, she confronted him in
the choicest raiment that her ward.
robe contained, and she was bright and
CHEEKY and exceedingly incompetent.
1t was her costume that shocked him.
Not only was she attired in a low
necked, ro~se-colored evening gown, lib
orally bespangled with tinsel, but she
wore a vast, top-heavy picture hat
whose crown of black was almost
wholly obscured by a gorgeous white
feather that once must have adorned
the king of all o%striches. She was not
at all his idea of a chambermaid. He
started to back out of the door with
an apology for having blundered into
the wrong room by mistake.
"Come right in," she said cheerily.
"I'H soon be through. / suppose ]
should have done all this an hour ago,
but / just had to write a few letters.
am Miss Thackeray. This is Mr..
Barnes, / believe"
He bowed, still quite overcome.
"You needn't be scared" she cried,
observing his confusion. ".This is my
regular uniform. I'm starting a new
style for chambermaids. Did it para
lyze you to find me here?"
81 couldn't believe my eyes,"
She abandoned her easy, careless
manner. A look Of modification came
into her eyes as she Strengthened up
and faced him. Her voice was a trile
husky when she spoke again, after q
moments pause.
"You see, MI. Barnes, these are the
only buds I have with me. 1t wasn't
necessary to put on this hat, Of course,
but / did it simply to make the char
acter complete. / might just as well
make beds and clean washstands In q
picture hat as in a low-necked gown, so
here l am"
She was a tall, pleasant-faced girl
of twenty-three or four, not unlike her
father in many respects.
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Il am very sorry" he said lamely.
81 have heard something of your mis-
fortunes from your father and-the
others. lists really hard luck"
I call it rather good luck to have
got away with the only dress in the lot
that cost more than t%uppence," she
said, smiling again. Lord knows what
would have happened to me if they
had dropped down on US at the end of
the first act. I was the beggar's daugh-
ter, you see-absolutely in rags. Glad
to have met you. I think you'll find
everything nearly all right. Good night.
sir"
She closed the door behind her,
leaving him standing in the middle of
the room, perplexed but amused.
"By George" he said to himself, still
staring at the closed door, they're
wonders, all of them. I wish / could
do something to help them out Of"
He sat down abruptly on the edge Of
the bed and pulled his wallet from his
pocket. He set about counting the
bills, a calculating frown in his eyes.
Then he stared at the ceiling, sum-
ming up. "TIl do it." he said, after a
moment of mental figuring. He told
off a half dozen bills and slipped them
into his pocket. The wallet sought it's
usual resting place for the night: IN
der a pillow.
He was healthy and he was tired
Two minutes after his head touched
the pillow he was sound asleep.
He was aroused shortly after mid
night by shouts, apparently just out
side his window. A man was calling
in a loud voice from the road below /;
an instant later he heard a tremendous
pounding on the tavern door.
S%pringing out Of bed, he rushed to
the window. There were horses in
front of the house-several of them
and men on foot moving like shadows
among them.
Turning from the window, he un-
locked and opened the door into the
hall. Some one was gathering down
the narrow staircase. The bolts on
the front door shot back with reSOund-
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CHAPTER discontinued.

He had been standing there moi
more than half a minute peering II
the direction from whence came the
rhythmic bang of the anvil-at no
great distance, he was convinced
when some n spoke suddenly at his
elbow. He whirled and found himself
facing the gaunt landlord.
"Good Lord! You startled me-" he
exclaimed. His gaze travelled past the
tall figure Of Putnam Jones and rested
on that Of a second man, who leaned
with legs crossed and arms folded
against the porch post directly in front
of the entrance to the house, his fea-
lures almost wholly concealed by the
broad-brimmed SLOUGH hat that came
far down over his eyes. He, too, II
seemed to Barnes, had sprung from
nowhere.
"Fierce night" said Putnam Jones
removing the corncob pipe from his
lips. Then, as an afterthought
"Where'd you walk from today?"
Il slept in a farmhouse last night,
about fifteen miles south of this place,
4 should say"
'That'd be a little ways out of
East Cobb" speculated Mr.. Jones.
Five or six miles,"
"Goin' over into Canada?"
mo. / shall turn west. / think, and
strike for the Lake Champlain coun-
try"
81 suppose you've travelled right
smart in Europe?"
"Quite a bit, MI. JONES'"
"Any particular parf?"
NO." said Barnes, suddenly divin-
ing that he was being pumped" "One
end to the other, you might say"
what about them countries down
around Bulgaria and Roumania? I've
been considerable interested in what's
going to become Of them if Germany
gets licked. What do they get out of
1t, either way?"
Barnes spent the next ten minutes
expatiating upon the future Of the Bal
kan states. Jones had little to say.
He was interested, and drank in all
the information that Barnes had to i'm
part. He puffe6 at his pipe, nodded
his head from time to time, and occa-
Otonally put a leading question. And
quite as abruptly as he introduced the
topic he changed it.
"Not many automobiles up here this
time o. the year" he said. IT was
a little surprised when you said a fell
Ger had given you a lift. Where from?'
"The crossroads a mile down. He
game from the direction of Frogg's
Corner and was on his way to meet
someone at Spanish Falls. 1t APP
years that there was a misunderstand-
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Imitation as a Defense.

The puffer fish affords a novel ex-
ample of the way nature sometimes
works to protect her creatures. The
many different species inhabit all trop-
ical and other warm seas and certain
large rivers. Few of them reach a
length of more than two feet. The p@cu-
liar characteristics common to all Of
them is their ability to initiate them
selves with air or water until they be-
come almost spherical in shape. The
air or water that fills the abdomen or
the esophagal sac is retained by a
valve in the throat, and can be dis
charged almost instantly.
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Stresemann asserted that he had
implicit faith that the former en-
peror's ambition had been to keep
peace in Europe.
'He did hope, in frequent hours Of
exaltation, some day to ride into
Paris. not as a war lord" said Strese-
mann, but rather pictured himself
addressing the French academy on
some spiritual theme into which he
would have plunged with the same I'M
bridled enthusiasm that he exhibited
when witnessing maneuvers in peace
time"
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"She wore a VEIL" said Barnes sue
cinctIy.
"Young?"
81 had that impression. By the way,
Mr.. Jones, what and where is Green
Fancy?"
"Well," began the landlord, lowering
his voice, tits about two mile and a
half from here, up the mountain. It's
a house and people live in it, same as
any other house. That's about all
there is to say about it."
"Why is it called Green Fancy?"
Because it's a green house." re-
piled Jones succinctly. Screen as a
gourd. A mar named Curtis built it
a couple O. years ago and he had a
fool idee about paintin' it green.
Might ha' been a little crazy, for all
I know. Anyhow, after he got it fin
ished he settled down to live in it,
and from that day to this he's never
been off'n the place."
isn't it possible that he isn't there
at all?"
Hes there, all right. Every now
and then he has visitors-jNSt like
this woman today-and sometimes
they come down here for supper. They
| don't hesitate to speak of him, so he
must be there. Miss lilly has got the
idee that he is a recluse, If you know
What that is"
Further conversation was inter
rupted by the irregular clatter of
horses hoofs on the macadam. Off
to the left a dull red glow of light
spread across the roadway and a
mans voice called out, "Whoa, dang
vel"
The door Of the smithy had been
thrown open and someone was lead
ing forth freshly shod horses.
A moment later the horses-pranc-
ing, hi~gh-spirited animals = their
bride bits held by a strapping black
smith, came into view. Barnes looked
in the direction of the steps. The two
men had disappeared. Instead of stop
ping directly In front of the steps the
smith led his charges quite a distance
USyOAO anu 1ACO LIE OdA hACCOs
Putnam Jones abruptly changed his
position. He i~nsinuated his long body
between Barnes and the doorway, at
the same time rather loudly proclaim
ing that the rain appeared to be over.
"Yes. sir" he repeated, "she seems
to have let up altogether. Ought to
have a nice day tomorrow, Mr.. Barnes
nice, cool day for walkin'."
Voices came up from the darkness.
Jones had not been able to cover them
with his own. Barnes caught two or
three sharp commands, rising above
the paving Of horses hoofs. and then
a great clatter as the mounted horse
men rode off in the direction Of the
crossroads.
Barnes waited until they were muf-
fled by distance and then turned to
Jones with the laconic remark:
"They seem to be foreigners, MI.
JONES'"
Jones' manner became natural once
more. He leaned against one of the
posts and, striking a match on his leg,
relighted his pipe.
'Kind O. curious about 'emr" he
drawled.
tIt never entered my mind until this
instant to be curious said Barnes.
"Well, it entered their minds about
ain hour ago tD be curious about you
said the other.
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WHY He QUIZ THE ROAD"
Ex-Drummer Voices Regret for the
Disappearance Of oldtime Boni-
face and Clerk.

ooh for the OI~d-fashiOned hotel
clerk, smiling, accommodating, always
friendly, who never forgot a face,
obliging and always making a fellow
feel like he was at home" said
Frank WhitselI of Portland, Ore, ac-
cording to the Ell Paso Herald. "What
a difference between the old profess
sional hotel clerks of % years ago,
even up to Is years ago, and the au-
tomato, mechanical clerks who eve
try to oblige-I might call them auto
matte grouches-of the present day
behind the hotel registers. If you
ask one Of them a question he or
she, nowadays, intimates that you get.
your room and meals, just exactly what
you pay for, and not a thing more,
please understand that. / was a com
mercial traveller for a quarter CEN
tury up to six years ago, and / know,
Why, we old drummers, as they used
to call us, felt at home in those old
hostelries Of the western states, just
on account of the clerks. Say, they
were Gods noblemen, those old-timers
They seemed to anticipate a fellows
wants and would go to all sorts Of
trouble to accommodate one. The
milk of human kindness flowed In theL1
hearts. And it made business, too. /
have stopped at an inferior house,
many a time, because / had been treat
ed so we'll by the clerk. And l can
say, too, the proprietors were much
the same way in those days. Hotels
were made homelike, not a big box
with compartments, where you are TO
be tucked away at so much per. That
was one of the reasons I quit the road,
the chilly, purely mechanical hotels
Of the present day."
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peace treaty at Versailles was a
stupid ~concoction" and 1--WE won't
sign it."
IF you want to overthrow the re-
public thea indict the kaiser" Mr..
Stresemann went on, "but remember
it will have the effect of a irebrand
and will leave behind it a sting which
will keep hatred alive indefinitely. Out
of 400 kilograms l have received pro-
testing against the peace terms, more
than $50 are concerned with the
kaiser issue. They came from all
classes, least Of all monarchical."
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ing force, and there came the hoarse
tumble of excited voices as men crowd
ed through the entrance. Putnam
Jones' voice rose above the Glamour.
Keep quieti Do you want to wake
everybody on the placer" he was say
ing angrily. whats up? This is a
fine time o. night to be- Good Lord !
What's the matter with him?''
Telephone for a doctor, Put-damn'
quickl This ones still alive. The
other one is dead as a door nail up at
Jim Conley's house. Git ole Doc
James down from Saint Liz. Bring
him in here, boys. Where's your light?
Easy now! Eas-eei"
Barnes waited to hear no more. His
blood seemed to be running ice cold
as he retreated into the room and be-
gan scrambling for bis clothes. The
thing he feared had come to pass. Dis
aster had overtaken her in that wild,
senseless dash up the mountain road.
He was cursing half aloud as he
dressed, cursing the fool who drove
that machine and who now was per-
haps dying down there in the taproom.
'The other one is dead as a door nail, !"
kept running through his head-"the
other one"
A dozen men were in the taproom,
gathered around two tables that had
been drawn together. The men .about
the table, on which was stretched the
figure of the wounded man, were un-
doubtedly natives: Farmers, woods
men or employees of the tavern. At a
word from Putnam Jones they opened
up and allowed Barnes to advance to
the side of the man.
"See If you en- understand him, Mr..
Barnes" said the landlord. Perspira-
ton was dripping from his long, raw
boned face. "And you, Bacon-you and
Dillingford hustle upstairs and get a
mattress off'n one of the beds. Stand
at the door there, Pike, and don't let
any woman in here. Go away, Miss
Thackeray! This is no place for you."
Miss Thackeray pushed her way
past the man who tried to stop her
and joined Barnes.
SIT is the place for me-" she said
sharply. Haven't you men got sense
enough to put something under his
head? Where is he hurt? Get that
cushion, you. Stick it under here when
/ lift his head. Oh, you poor thing !!
Well be as quick as possible. There!"
The mans eyes were closed, but at
the sound of a woman's voice he
opened them. The hand with which he
clutched at his breast slid off and
seemed to be cropping for hers. His
breathing was terrible. There was
blood at the corners of his mouth, and
more oozed forth when his lips parted
in an effort to speak.
With a courage that surprised even
herself, the girl took his hand in hers.
It was wet and warm. She did not
dare look at it.
'Merci, madame" struggled from the
mans lips, and he smiled.
Barnes leaned over and spoke to him
in French. The dark, p~ain-stricken
Y e closed, and an almost imper-
ceptible shake Of the head signifed
that he did not understand. Evidently
he had acquired only a few of the
simple French expressions. Barnes
had a slight knowledge of Spanish
and Italian. and tried again with no
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better results. German was his last
resort, and he knew he would fail once
more, for the man obviously was not
Teutonic.
The bloody lips parted, however, and
the eyes opened with a piteous, appeal
ing expression in their depths. It was
apparent that there was something he
wanted to say, something he had to
a before he died. He gasped a dozen
words or more in a tongue utterly un-
known to Barnes, who bent closer to
| catch the feeble effort. It was he who
now shook his head +; with a groan the
sufferer closed his eyRs in despair. He
choked and coughed violently an in
slant later.
"Get some water and a towel" cried
Miss Thackeray, TREMENDOUSLY. She
was very white, but still clung to the
mans hand. BE quick! Behind the
bar"
Barnes u~nbuttoned the coat and re-
vealed the ~blood-soaked white shirt.
"Better leave this to me- he said in
her ear. sThere's nothing you can do.
He's done for. Please go away"
"Oh, 1 sha'n't faint-at least, not
yet. Poor fellow! I've seen him up
stairs and wondered who he was. Is
he really going to die?"
sLooks bad" said Barnes, gently
opening the shirt front. Several of
the craning men turned away sud
denly.
"Who is he, Mr.. Jones?"
"He is registered as Andrew Paul,
from New York. That's all / know.
The other man put his name down as
Albert Room. He seemed to be the
boss and this man a sort Of servant,
far as I could make out. They never
talked much and seldom came down
stairs. They had their meals in their
ROOM"
sThere is nothing we can do" said
Barnes, except try to stanch the flow
of blood. He is bleeding inwardly, I'm
afraid. It's a clean wound, Mr.. zones.
Like a rifle shot, I should say"
THAT'S just what it is" said n of
the men, a tall woodsman. "The Teller
who did it was a dead shot, you en-
bet on that. He got t other mar
square through the heart"
"Lordy, but this will raise a rum
pus,' groaned the landlord. well
have detectives an
ST guess they got what was comm
to 'em," said another of the e
"What's that? Why. they was ridin'
peaceful as could be to Spanish Falls.
What do you mean by sayin' that, Jim
Conley? But wait a minute! How
does it happen that they were up near
your dads, house? That certainly
amt on the road to Span"
Spanish Falls nothin'! They wasn't
goin' to Spanish Falls any more'n I am
at this minute. They tied their horses
up the road just above our house."
said young Conley, lowering his voice
out of consideration for the feelings
of the helpless man. 1T was about
leven O'Clock, i reckon. / was comm
home from singin' school up at Number
Ten, an 1 passed the bosses hitched to
the fence. Naturally / stopped, Curl
Gus like. There wasn't no one around.
fer as / could see, so I thought I'd
take q lookAto see whose bosses they
were. l thought it was derned funny,
them bosses bein' there at that time q
night an no one around. Looked
mighty queer to me. Course. thinks
/, they might belong to somebody
visitin' in there at Green Fancy, so /
thought I'd"
.Green Fancy" said Barnes. start
ing.
"Was it up that farg" demanded
Jones.
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The Girl of Green Fancy.

Synopsis.-Thomas K. Barnes,
a wealthy young New Yorker,
on a walking trip in New Eng
land near the Canadian border,
is given a lift in an automobile
by a mysterious and attractive
girl, who says she is bound for
a house called Green Fancy. At
Harris tavern Barnes finds a
stranded troupe of "~barn-storm-
ing' actors, of which Lyndon
Rushcroft is the star and Miss
Thackeray" the leading lady.
They are doing hotel work for
their board. Barnes finds them
entertaining, but as the storm
RACES he worries over the mys-
ferrous and attractive girl Of the
automobile and wonders if she
got safely to Green Fancy.
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EMPEROR NOT 4WAR LORD"
Admirer Pictures Him as World Lead
err OF Thoughts Altogether
AItruistic.

Berlin.-"Don't demand the sur
sender Of the emperor" is the warning
given by Gustav Stresemann, leader
of the national liberal party, in a talk
with the Associated Press correspond
ent.
Mr.. Stresemann declared that the
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ing. The driver didn't meet the train,
so the person he was going after
walked all the way to the forks. We
happened upon each other there. Mr..
Jones, and we studied the signpost to-
IRether. She was bound for a place
called Green Fancy"
"Dfd you say she?"
"Yes. I was proposing to help her
out of her ~predicament when the be-
lated motor came racing down the
slope"
"What for sort Of looking lady was
sheT"
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The Austro-Hungarian situation
took on added complications last
week. Government circles in London
received the information that a COM
munist republic was to be proclaimed
in Austria at once, with good prospects
of being successful, since, according to
the we'll informed, the Austrian army
is fully 40 per cent bolshevik. 1t was
predicted the Austrian communists
would quickly align themselves with
those of Hungary, and this was the
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Turkeys peace delegation arrived
in Paris and. without being officially
received, was sent to Vaucresson, in
the suburbs. It's status is rather
misty, for no one seemed to know
whether or not the entente allies
would consider it necessary to make
a formal peace with the disrupted
Turkish empire. The Turks went to
Paris on their own suggestion, and at
least it was understood that they were
not plenipotentiaries but consultants.
It is felt in Paris that the partition of
Turkey is an accomplished fact, since
Constantinople is controlled by Great
Britain and France, while Asiatic
Turkey is completely in the hands OF
the Italians, Greeks and British.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-06-20

The general strike of the CONNER
cial Photographers union in the United
States at first looked like a fzzle, but
took on a more serious aspect when
the railway operators organization or
dered its members to accept no COM
mercial messages for the Western
Union or Postal Telegraph companies.
Konenkamp, head of the Commercial
operators, said their fight was direct
ed mainly against Postmaster General
BurIeson.
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The signing Of the treaty, or the re-
fusal to sign it, will not be long de
layed now. The reply of the allies to
the German contemporaries was
handed to the Hun delegates and they
were told their final decision must be
made within five days, or by June 10.
Several relatively small concessions
were made by the council of four. It
agreed to a plebiscite in Upper Silesia,
subject to certain clearly defined con-
diti0ns. While refusing to fix the def
mite sum. Germany must pay, it re-
quires the PREPARATIONS commission to
do this within four months of the sign
ing of the treaty. In most other re-
spects the pact was left unchanged,
but explanations were added to meet
the objection that the financial COM
mission was vexatious, inquisitorial
and infringed Germany's rights to con-
duct her own financial affairs. Ger
many's request for a mandate for her
former colonies was refused, and it
was understood that her demand for
immediate admission to the league of
nations met a like fate, owing mainly
to the strenuous objection of Clemen-
ceau.
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Into the midst Of all this ruction
Senator Knox projected his plan to
compel the separation of the league
Of nations covenant and the peace
treaty and thus to permit their sep
arate consideration by the senate. His
resolution, as reported to the senate
by the foreign relations committee,
would virtually serve notice on the
peace conference that unless it d.
vorces the two documents the senate
will do it. The plan of the opposition
leaders is to ratify the terms OF peace
with Germany without delay and to
subject the league covenant to extend
ed elaboration and possibly to a ma
tional referendum. This, of course,
opens up the real fight on the league
Of nations and a stormy and long de-
bate is expected. Senators who had
not intended to speak on the league
until the pact was formally presented
for ratification are now hastily pre-
pairing their addresses. The support
ers of the league said they would
make a hard fight to prevent a vote
on the Knox resolution until after the
peace treaty has been signed by the
Germans.