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said Il am ten minutes too late for
Bartoldi."
That's right I said. "Bartoldi
was. He must have known him"
oh no." said Walker. "Bartoldi
didn't know him"
! was astonished.
Surely Bartoldi knew him" I said.
Walkers voice became a sort OF
drawl
Surely he did not know him. Bar
to this mans criminal adventures"
! laughed What does Bartoldi care
about criminal adventures? He's a
dealer in Jewels.
He will care about this criminal
adventure" said Walker.
Then he looked suddenly at me.
where do you think they went?"
I told him what I thought. This type
of person would have a house on the
Avenue; it would be closed in August.
WALKER shook his head. II think
w / know where they have gone"
he said.
Again l looked at him in astonish-
ment.
Then you know who this man iS?"
Walker replied with an abrupt
query:
Did you see the inside of his hand
the right hand? That was the thing
to see"
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How about the girl?" 1 replied. for
Walkers indirections were putting
me on my mettle Her hand will be
the thing to see; it's got Bartoldfs
diamond on it
He looked up rather vaguely.
Il am puzzled about the girl: I do
not understand what the girl has to
do with it"
| laughed "Bartoldi understood"
said.
"Bartoldi."
Walker seemed to bounce out of his
reflection.
THE devil. We've got to get back
his diamond"
He darted suddenly out to the traf-
fic of the avenue. hailed taxicab and
beckoned me to get in with him.
| got in and we went up Fifth
avenue. We we're held in a jam OF
vehicles a block or two farther on.
And So l said, you think the
girl is a nice little country cousin. n
esteemed relative-esteemed to the
tune of a $1,000 diamond?"
W dihtG "dS lhS ms biS AoNN AA'
reflection.
..Nonsense!" he said. The girls
no relation to him.
Then why the $4,000 diamond"
That's what would like TO
know" said Walker.
1 laughed. The thing was too alb
surd
"If. the wage of sin is a $1,000 dia-
mond, there's got to be the sin to
earn it, That old sport was not TAX
ing any chance on getting the value
of his money
20. X" said Walker.
Then you think he has been paid
for it, l said.
Surely" said walker. that man
has been paid for it
The taxicab turned out of the ave-
nue. presently when the jam of ve-
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Light of a Firehy.

THE statement that the light OF
firefiies and other phosphorescert
animals is produced without any sen
sible degree of heat has often been
repeated, without any information as
to the quantity of heat that would be
required to produce a similar amount
of light by artificial methods. This
information is supplied by Prof. Mac
Intosh. He says that a temperature
approaching 1000 degrees Fahrenheit
would be necessary to make a light
equivalent TO that emitted by an ordi-
nary freely. The enormous waste OF
energy in all industrial methods OF
producing light is a matter of com
mon knowledge, and the example OF
the FREELY remains unimitated by man
The very simplicity of the mechanism
employed by nature in phosphorescent
animals is baffiing.
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Electric Dogs.

THE electric dog that will follow 4
lantern in the dark-the mechan-
icai curio constructed by John Hays
Hammond. jr.--has a rival in
French electric dog that will jump
out of it's kennel when a whistle
sounds.
The Hammond dog is controlled by
selenium cells. The amount Of elec-
tricity that will pass through seIen-
ium varies with the amount of Ilshr
shining on the metal. With a s-Ien-
ium cell for each eye of the dog and
small electric current operating a
steering gear inside the toy the dog
will steer its course so as TO have an
equal amount of light on, each eye.
which means that it will keep ,S
head toward any light. Storage bat
teries and motor, or clockwork, may
be used for moving the dog.
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Pictures on Ceiling.

KUWEIT is situated at the head of
the Persian gulf. and is famous
as yet only as proposed terminus OF
the Bagdad railway, of which we
have heard so much during recent
years. 1t is an ordinary Arab border
town. built OF mud and plaster, with
few houses more than one story high
and only the sheik's palace making
any pretensions to elegance. One
room in this palace is distinctly BIZ
zarre and in a way arabesque. 1t
has large and beautiful Persian rug
on the floor and a ceiling covered
with many ehromos of foreign nota
bilities, in gilt frames. picked up ia
the Bombay bazaars. Only an Arab
would have thought of that place for
the pictures.
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was August: the house would be
closed; I began to put things to-
gether.
/ was standing there when Walker
came up. hailed him.
walker" l said, you got here
moment TOO late. You see that taxi
cab?"
He made little whimsical gesture
Il see everything" he said, that
in the taxicab?"
There's a case in it," j said, for
the district court OF the United States,
on the criminal side, or I'm a poor
detective"
"All detectives are poor said
Walker. If they were rich, they
would have a town house. a country
place and a string of hunters"
Well" 1 said, that's what the old
boy in the taxicab has got; and he's
got something else that the United
States doesn't allow him to take
across a state line
Walker looked at me queerly. He
put the tip of his finger to his fore
head.
Touch of the heat?''
Look here" / said, isn't this sort
of thing just as much in your line of
duty as trying to prevent the crooked
cashier from boring from within :?
isn't this the United States. by a
fairly recent statute, helping virtue
to evade the dragon?"
walkers face wrinkled into twist
| ed smile.
TITS helping the clever file de joie
| to levy a little blackmail on the side"
Wrong dope, in this instance" 1
said.
I began to describe to him the in
Evening star., 1923-01-07
BY (
MELVILLE DAWSON
POST

"You will get your diamond when
| Bartoldi gets his"
when will that be- / insisted
Right now" replied walker.
Then he paused in his stride, took
| off his hat and extended it for a
moment above his head like a tired
person who would relax from the
| fatigue of trave..
x X < x
IMMEDIATELY three persons, two
men and a woman between them.
carrying bags. coats and the usual
articles of travel came out from the
crowd pouring into the station from
the street and crossed hurriediy into
the group waiting at the entrance
for the Bar Harbor train.
Then a dramatic thing happened.
/ could see the old man clearly: he
was watching Walker out of the tail
of his eye and he kept his hands III
his pockets, but he was not watching
the three persons who came into the
group as though seeking the train
for which he was bound, and as they
passed, quicker than the eye. the
of his pockets and snapped into hand
cuffs. The pistols gripped in his
hands were swept out; they fell 10
the floor.
The devil" / cried "The old boy
is the most dangerous Lothario / ever
saw
Walker replied in his leisured
drawl:
Hes the most dangerous bank
swindler you ever saw
The girl had been questioned and
| explained it all on the way to Bar
toldfs in a taxicab. / had my dia-
| mond in my pocket and Walker had
Bartoldfs TO exchange for the forged
draft. The old man was Vronsky,
| the most notorious forger in thaf
world. He had bribed this girl the
tanitress of the Empire Bank at Bar
Harbor. to steal a book of blank
drafts and some sheets of stationery.
1t was easy TO do; the book of blanks
was lying on the bookkeeper's desk
1 in the package as il had come from
| the printer, and the stationery had
never been locked up.
| With the blanks bearing the secret
| water-mark of the bank, Vronsky
was able to forge drafts on New York
| and place them, establishing his
| identity by a letter from the bank
| officials on this stationery, in which
| they said they were sending him the
| draft which he intended 10 pay out,
and giving its amount and number
TT was a clever scheme" Walker
! added. The secret water-mark on
the draft blanks would show that
they were genuine-thats what con-
| yinced Bartoldi, and the forged letter
would show the identity of the man
who undertook to place it. The
| forgery gave Vronsky no trouble:
the problem was how to get the
| blanks and letter paper"
And he got them with a diamond"
| said.
| Walkers drawl heightened.
Precisely as we got him."
| And SO this adventure opened with
a diamond and closed with the arrest
of one of the worst criminals in the
world What was il I wrote in the
opening paragraph of this case? Go
back and read it,
Copyright. All rights reservedl
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cident and the two persons. l de-
scribed them carefully, minutely, and
he listened without a word and with
out a motion. He stood perfectly still.
there in the hot street before Bar
toldi's mammoth shop, and the per-
spiration trickIed down in a thin
thread from the bars OF his spectacles
But his manner had changed. He
had now, noted from the very i'm
passive aspect of the man. a deep,
profound, a moving interest in this
affair He cursed softly, as though
ne chopped the words with his teeth.
Ten minutes too late" he said
Where did they go?"
Walker was motionless for a mo-
ment, his head down, his eyes mar
rowed in a profound reflection.
I interrupted him with repetition
of his words.
Ten minutes too Iate!" said. You
are two minutes too late"
I pointed up the Avenue. Walker
did not look up.
II was thinking of Bartoldi." he
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Listen, World! ~ EfyE Ey;E5: ESsz;er :;

| HERE are sinners-and sin
ners. There are the obvious
crooks that the law imprisons
and the obvious crooks it
doesn't imprison. But today I'm 60.
ing to speak of class of sinners who
have hitherto been exempt from even
the suspicion of crime. 1 refer to
parents.
Yes, I observe your start of horror.
Nevertheless I persist. No sinner in
all the world is more harmful than
the parent, when he is a sinner. And
most parents are sinners-although
they do not dream of the fact.
And now 1 can see you settling
contentedly in your armchair as you
read, wondering which one Of your
neighbors l am now about TO SHOW
up" Do not be so comfortable, my
friend. 1t may be that I am about
to show you up. The sins of parents
are not always blatant and vicious.
Not by beatings, nor ignorance, nor
fanaticism are the worst parental sins
wrought-but in the name of love.
The very foundation of your rights
and duty as a parent"-the belief
that the chield is yours and that
you must train him in the way he
should go-is evil.
The child is not yours. He belongs
to himself and God.
You have no right, or duty, to
mold his soul or shape his career.
His soul's integrity should be as
sacred, as inviolable. as the soul of
an utter stranger. He is q stranger
to you. For he must take UP life
where you have left it off. He must
succeed where you have failed. He
must be wiser and stronger and bet
ter than you. He will be all OF these
things if you let him grow AS nature
intended. Your only duty In to be a
comrade--to show h6m what of life you
may-to be loving and charitable and
good-natured when he takes joys
which are not joys to you and endures
pains you would have spared him. He
is his own. You can only give first
aid.
A ND now let's come down to cases
N Ito you in your comfortable
chair and your kiddie out in the back
yard eating the cake you told him not
to touch.
In the first place, what is child?
A child is the next step in the
human stairway.
That sounds simple, but what q
revolution would be caused if we
really acted as if we believed it,
George Bernard Shaw, in his remark
able essay on Parents and Children"
says that the child Is "a fresh at
tempt to produce the just man made
perfect--that Is, to make humanity
divine" Do we try to make that bit
Of humanity divine? We may say
we do, but the chances are we try to
make him like Uncle Amos or Grand
pa or our own selves. Do we treat
him as some one capable OF far more
interesting and> advanced life than
ourselves We do not. From the day
that he ia born. we consider it our
duty to try % mold him I'm the form Of
our individual conception Of what Is
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Appetite of Plants.

ME are assured by scientists of the
We Department of Agriculture that
the mineral food consumed by plants
is of two kinds. Some minerals, such
as phosphoric acid. potash, lime and
magnesia. are essential to the nour-
also a general appetite for mineral
substances, eating freely in addition
to the quantity necessary to their
proper nutrition. 1t is said that
plants seem to thrive best where
their appetite for non-essential mine
eral food Is gratified. Soda In in"
cIuded in this kind OF plant food.
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IohDER HoU TIE
JoRLD GOULD seem
IF parents, FAT OR
THlH.
lOOLD ACT LIKE
KINDLY HUMAN FOLKS
lhSTenD OF GODS
OF TIN /!
I OohDER If YOUNG
BILL JoOLD NEED
5OCA JooDSHED
DISCIPLINE,
IF ma AID DAD WERE
CAUNS INSTEAD
or AheRY GODS OF
FOR ] Am SURE rHE
BLACKLIST LINKS
III eARTA5 SAD CHAIN
OF SIN.
ARE FORGED BY
PARENTS UHO BELIEVE
THEY'RE SACRED
GODS OF TIN
9 M
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THEY came up to the glass counter
i and the man asked to see a dia-
mond ring. The girl did not look up.
She did not say anything. She seemed
TO wish to get as far as possible un-
der the soiled hat.
Bartoldi set out some trays beside
the one already on the table. The
old man moved a little to one side
and the girl came quite close to the
glass counter. She bent her head
down over the stones as though she
wished to see the rings and at the
same time keen under cover of the
soiled hat.
She did not say a word. But she
knew precisely what she wanted, for
she suddenly put out her hand and
picked UP the table diamond that had
lain beside my artificial stone on the
glass case. She slipped the stone on
her finger and stepped back as though
to be hidden q little by the old man.
got 8 surprise.
"Gad," said to myself. big wages!
Will he stand for it?''
Well, he did stand for it. He was
q royal old sport; will say that for
him.
BaTtoldi said the price was $4,000
and the old boy never turned an eye-
lash He made a careless gesture.
don't think he even O. K'd the
thing with q word.
He took a nat. leather case out Of
his pocket, got out a draft, asked
Bartoldi for pen, or rather indi-
Gated the wish for a pen with a I'D
, ding of his fingers, and, when he
got It, indorsed the draft. Then he
showed Bartoidi letter that was in
the envelope that had contained the
draft.
followed them to the door. There
was q taxicab waiting; they got in
and went up the Avenue.
That type OF man cught % Azve .
house somewhere on the Avenue; it
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-03-07
TELEPHONE DIRECTORS
ELECT OFFICERS

The new board of directors of the
Chailis-Pahsamaroi Telephone associ-
ation met last Friday after the share
hoiders' meeting and elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing year:
c. L. Kirtley, president; N. C. Hoy
ey, vice-president; A. l.. Meats, Sec
retary-treasurer.
On motion it was ordered that In
the future all bills must be paid by
the 10th of the succeeding month or
service will be discontinued. 1t was
also ordered that those delinquent in
their accounts be granted the priv
lege OF paying ten per cent of their
bill each month, in additios to the
current bill. 1t was also decided
That all persons not having phones
pay 10 cents for calls in city limits
and rs cents outside.-A. l.. Meats,
secretary.
1t is to be hoped that arrangements
can be made to take over the May
exchange and thus give us telephone
connection with Pahsamaroi valley a.
gain for many dollars fail to reach
this community for the reason that
we have no connection with Pahsam-
aroi valley, to say nothing OF the
inconvenience suffered by all having
business to transact either here or
In Pahsamaroi.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-03-07
THE HOME PAPER

Ex-Governor Francis once said the
following of newspapers; Each year
the local paper gives from $500 to
$1,000 in free lines to the community
in which it is located. No other agen-
cycan or will do this The editor in
proportion to his means does more for
his own town than any other ten
meh, and in all fairess he ought to
be supported-not because you like
him or admire his writings, but be-
cause the local paper is the best in
vestment community can make. 1t
may not be brilliantly edited or crowd
ed with thought, but financially it is
of more benefit to the community than
the preacher or teacher. Understand
me. do not mean mentally, and yet
on mora, questions you will find most
of the papers on the right side. Today
the editors of the local papers do the
most for the least money Of any peo-
pie on earth" -Exchange
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-03-07
MAckAY ITEMS
(From The Miner)

Charles Morrison, who went to po-
catello Friday, returned Sunday, and
informs us that the Morrison store
will be open again soon.
Erastus Curtis of Dickey was severe
ly injured when the bob sled from
which he was feeding cattle became
uncoupled, throwing him under it. and
dragging him about 100 feet. He was
brought to Mackay last Thursday by
the Mackay-Challis Transportation Co
who sent out their passenger sleigh
for him. DR.. Richards reports that it
was necessary to take quite a num-
Der of stitches in his head but that
now he is doing nicely.
Six cars of ore left Mackay Tues
day for Salt Lake. The present price
of copper and the demand for iron at
Salt Lake should have a very heal
thy influence in Mackay mining at
this time.
A. w. Lambson had two ribs bro
ken by being kicked by horse. The
accident happened on his ranch below
town. While the injury is quite pain
full, it is not dangerous.
The Hunter Champion lease in the
Cossak tunnel has opened up good
bunch of ore. The assay shows: i:1ld
anil ST., er, $40 per ton and IA good per
cent of copper.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-03-07
EIGHTH WEEKS CHRONOL-
OGY OF THE LEGISLATURE
Senate

Monday, Feb. 26-Measure passed
limiting levying power OF school dis
tricts. Also passed measure raising
investment company license fees for
blue sky law enforcement. Postponed
bill for the erection of one tuberculo-
sis hospital.
Tuesday, Feb. 27-Marriage license
health certificate bill killed. Bill
prohibiting employment of convict la
Dor at Soldiers Home killed. Anti
tobacco billboard advertising bill also
defeated.
Wednesday, February. 28.-Passes
federal reserve bank guaranty me-
mortal. Bill levying three-eighths mill
tax for improvements at state educa-
tional institutions killed.
Thursday, March Approval Civ
en- to maternity aid bill. Appropria-
ton bill introduced.
Friday, March 2.-House bill pro-
viding for regulation of auto stages
and trucks by utilities commission IS
postponed. Appropriation of $4,000
for Gem irrigation district state lands
approved. Anti-hooded order bill is
passed.
Saturday, March 3.--Bill to regulate
gale of narcotics killed. Reconsider
ed vote postponing house auto stage
regulation bill and sends 1t to com
mittee of the whole. Passed bill set
ting new weight scale for motor IL
cense fees.
House
Monday, Feb. 26-Passed initiative,
referendum and recall.
Tuesday, Feb. 27.-Killed senate
bill abolishing predatory animal boun-
ty system.
Wednesday, Feb. 2S.-Passed house
bill carrying new scale of weights for
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-03-07
A LEGISLATURE ALMOST
WHOLLY DISORGANIZED

L. E. Glennon, Esq, got back this
week from a trip to Boise, in connec-
ton with his professional business.
While there he looked in the legislar
ture, and witnessed not only some Of
its doings, but gathered from the mass
the popular opinion of that body. 1T
was noted with most general disap-
prevail that the present legislature
is Observation-Disclosures and porti-
cularly in the house are there repre-
scented some 81 varieties of theories
asd opinions in government, in which
the most pronounced agreement, if
there be any sign of agreement, Is
the disposition to harass the Moore
administration, and put the executive
in bad on his promises Of economy.
Signalling this coercive and de-
structive course, the legislature. at
cost Of about $1,000 a day. has almost
wholly wasted As days of the session
trying to put over an obnoxious pri-
marry bill-meanwhile hindering and
obstructing every form of approvable
lC6lS idllOn lIdL IulSll NC So@5CSc0@Hs
only to have the pr;n1'v bill vetoed.
By the present time, The ignoble
session fast drawing to a close, it's
members have discovered that they
can't coerce Gov. Moore, even if moth
ing is accomplished by the session,
and in this unanimously accepted tru-
ism, the governor is hailed with pop
ular esteem from one end of the state
to the other "Lemhi county, says
Mr. Glesnon, "has a live repres enta-
i've IN the lower house, Mr.. Swift
having proved Of superior worth both
in session and on committees. Though
elected as a democrat, Mr.. Swift has
not followed all the vagaries of his
party, but has stood out for sane gov
eminent, even better and more stead
fast than some of the republicans, no
tably those of Ada county. who seem
not free to say their souls are their
own"
Mr.. Glennon was also in Focatello,
Blackfoot, Idaho Falls, and other
towns. and In every place visited he
reports the most fulsome popular
praise for Governor Moore, and little
or nothing of merit spoken In refer
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-03-07

IDAHO cATTLEM'EN ASKED TO
UNITE FOR LOWER VALUATION
Decrease of $500 per Head Already
Obtained for Assessable Pur-
poses.

The Idaho State Cattle and Horse
Growers association passed resolu
tion at it's January meeting, calling
for a lower assessed valuation Oh com
mon cattle. The resolution was taken
up with the county commissioners at
Boise and already the valuation has
been dropped from $4,000 a head to
$500 head, which Secretary Les
Dillingham; calls attention to for
quick work A committee of the as
sociates will appear before the state
board of equalization. asking its con-
sideration Of the matter.
No convention was held in 1922 on
account of the depressed condition in
the cattle industry, however, the Sec
rotary carried on the work as usual.
When the financial matters OF the as
citation were up for consideration the
secretary informed the officers and
members that his claim for $1,000 for
the salary account of 1922 would be
waived, in other words, the entire
years work was donated to the asso-
citation.
The reports of the officers showed
where a direct saving had been made
by the association for every man in
the range cattle business, amounting
to over a hundred thousand dollars
since the association was organized
Range protective work, co-opera-
ton, with forest officials, the fight
to keep down grazing fees, the work
done to have the payment of fees post
poned, carrying cases 10 the U. S. SUI
preme court. and the prosecution of
cattle rustlers, have cen the notable
achievements of the association.
The legislative accomplishment
have made for better conditions and
brought more protection to the indus
try and this work is being continual
ly added TO,
An intensive drive for new members
IS being made by the association at
this time. The next convention will
be held % Pocatelio In October.-Los
Angles Farm and Ranch Market
Journal.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-03-07

ence to the legislature-Salmon Her
aid.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-03-07

auto licenses. Resolution introduced
asking governor to appoint commits.
sion to investigate prison conditions.
Thursday, March Passed bill
placing auto stages and truck lines
under state regulation; 100000 appro-
priation for bureau of mines and re-
bate of 1923 tobacco dealers license
fees
Friday, March Bill introduced to
abolish office of state land commits
sioner, combining his department with
public investments. Passed appropri-
alton bill covering governors office.
Saturday, March 3.-Passed senate
bill increasing fees of investment
companies under blue sky law. Pass
ed bill placing dairy regulation under
department of agriculture. Reintro-
duced and passed under suspension
three-eighths mill levy for improve
ments at educational institutions.