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CHAPTER VIII Continued
You cried Captain Fairweather
sharply
Yea If she sails for Juneau from
Seattle In the President I will sail
Irom San Francisco In the Occident
Would not your presence awaken
her suspicion
Why should It Everybody Is go
ing to the Klondyke now and why not
I as well
Thats so with a craning swallow
-which ended in a bow Seems all
right Plan is a good one but it will
be very uncomfortable to you
I am willing to undergo all the dis
comforts when It is a matter of such
importance said Lackland I want
two more faithful trusty men Men
-who will go wherever I send them
obey every order I give and keep
still tongues in their heads Money
Js no object
Well well said the captain wink
ing and rubbing his hands gleefully
thats talking to the mark that is
talking just as I like to hear a gentle
man
What is your price asked Lack
land his pale white face almost quiv
ering in his intensity
Well they come high
I expect to pay high for them
How much do you want for finding
two such men for me in the next
twelve hours
With a wink and another craning
neck and swallowing bow he gasped
One thousand dollars
I take you up go bring them at
once
Meet em at my boat at midnight
to night
I will do it and the money is yours
as soon as they are secured
CHAPTER IX
Pauls Departure From Metlakahtla
Paul Millers discovery that the
white man prospecting on the island
was one of the men who had captured
the hermit and beyond doubt one of
the four who had robbed him for a
moment deprived him of speech He
had his own reasons for not wishing
to be recognized by the man who had
robbed him and attempted his life He
also had strong reasons for wishing
to have him held a prisoner He be
lieved the man could unfold the whole
story of the robbery and mystery of
the hermit and determined to make
him do so before leaving the island
After a lew moments the babel of
voices without ceased and the crowd
gathered near the house began to dis
perse The thought then occurred to
his mind that the prisoner having
been arrested for trespassing might
he released on his solemn promise
never to return With this new dan
ger in his mind he started toward the
door when he was met by Father Dun
can
What have they done with the pris
oner he asked anxiously
He has been sent to the prison to
be detained for a while until certain
mysteries with which he is connected
are cleared up said the old man
Father Duncan do you think the
fellow is secure Do you think there
is no danger of his escape
None whatever My Indians are
very watchful and careful They will
obey me to the letter
Then let us sit here and compare
notes for a few moments
He seated himself by the old mis
sionary and told him of his rescue by
the mysterious old man of the moun
tains whom he had called the hermit
Thi he told of the capture of the her
mit and concluded with
This man was one of the three who
seized the good old man and took him
away from the cavern
The interest of good Father Duncan
increased and he shook his head say
ing
This is certainly very very
strange -
There is a mystery in it all which
I am unable to solve I cannot com
prehend who this strange hermit can
be unless he is the captain to whom
you refer
It looks very much as if the unfor
tunate man was the beloved captain
whose mysterious disappearance has
occasioned so much distress
Paul remembered the story which
the ex sailor Glum Ralston had told
him of his captain and also recalled
to his recollection the mysterious wal
rus hide
His anxiety to escape from the
island and return to the Klondyke
where his friends were was more
than over balanced by a desire to
learn something of the motives of
the trespasser
Mr Duncan will your friends see
that he does not escape
There is little danger of his doing
so Father Duncan answered My
friends are kind and Christian men
yet they have by no means lost their
native watchfulness
Paul had ample proof In time of
the danger of over confidence The
third night after his visit to the jail
he was awakened by a loud noise in
the direction of the little wharf
There came the report of a gun
something rarely heard at Metlakah
tla and he leaped from his bed hur
riedly dressed and ran ut upon the
street At last he m Father Dun
can whom he found as calm and firm
as usual
What has happened Father Dun
can he asked
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Alasi my son you were all too
good a prophet The prisoner has
escaped The wicked are oyer cun
ning and watchful and Satan sleeps
not
Pa Jr gave utterance to a groan
sank upon a largo stone at the side of
the road and bowed bis head in his
hands One more hope and In fact
aoout the last hope he had was gone
Paul remained two weeks longer
with the Motiakahtlas and then de
cided to leave his dusky friends and
start for the Klondyke
Father Duncan selected four stout
young Indians to accompany him
The Indians were well supplied with
provisions suitable for crossing the
mountains and ho and his escort
were provided with dried meat and
compressed bread and hardtack
The four Indians selected for Pauls
party were stout young fellows in
ured to hardship and danger They
were strong brave and faithful The
instructions given them by the old
missionary were carefully listened to
and they promised to carry them out
to the letter
There is always something en
chanting In a great deep forest with
its tall trees clothed in moss and
solemn depths which seem to speak
of divinity At night in the forest
adds to the gloom the solemnity and
awfulness of the scene A camp fire
in the great northern -woods with its
rocks and cliffs its moss covered
trees has something grand In it
Gathered about a camp fire built
at the base of the mountain range
were five persons Paul Miller and
his four Christian Indians
It had been a long hard days
travel and the poor fellows were
almost exhausted It was only Pauls
indomitable will driving him on to
more than super human energies that
kept him on his feet He had aban
doned all hope of finding the men
who had robbed him and now he
longed to get back to the Klondyke
take another fortune from the frozen
earth and return to Laura and his
mother
The faces which ever seemed to
smile at him from the smoke and
darkness gave him courage and hope
It has been a long time since I
wrote to them he thought They
have no doubt given me up for dead
How sad to cause them grief and all
through a mischievous yet truthful
message witten in a fit of delirium
He was suddenly roused from his
painful reverie by the falling and roll
ing of a great stone down upon
and across the camp fire scat
tering the burning brands in every
direction The great round bowlder
passed within a few inches of where
Paul sat and between two of the In
dians but fortunately did not touch
any one The stone was heavy
enough to crush out life or break
bones had it struck one
Paul leaped to his feet and the In
dians started up with exclamations
of fear
From whence came that stone
cried an Indian
Pauls first suspicion that some con
vulsion of the earth had shaken the
stone loose from the mountain side
and sent it thundering down the cliff
upon them but there had been no
perceptible quaking
While he was still trying to dis
cover the cause there came another
object rolling down the steep descent
mingled with dirt fine stones and
snow It semed a great dark ball
from which there issued a human cry
It rolled to Pauls feet and stopped
He seized one of the burning brands
and held it so the fame threw the
light upon the face of the stunned
and half insensible man who sat
stupidly gazing about him The sud
den and unexpected advent of this
stranger was enough tc startle the
campers and disturb their wits The
Indians starting to their feet stared
at him in amazement Paul was
first to recover his speech
He cried
Throw the wood on the fire
They obeyed and the light flashed
up throwing out a broad red glare on
the scene which illumined the
face of the man who
had tumbled down the cliff Paul
starting back said
It is the escaped prisoner the ab
ductor the robber and perhaps
murderer He seized one of the In
dians muskets and raised it to brain
the scoundrel but two stout Metla
kahtlas seized him and said
Nay brother Thou shalt not
kill
The man who had so suddenly fall
en into their midst was rapidly re
gaining his faculties and by this
time able to speak He growled an
oath and rubbed the side of his head
Where did you come from ask
ed Paul
From aloft on the cliff he an
swered
What were you doing up there
Tryin to cross Was any harm in
that
I recognize you as one of the men
who robbed me
Mate yer off yer course when ye
accuse me o doin that
You are one of the two men who
seized your captain a few years since
and have made away with him
Yer on the wrong tack again
mate I haint done nothin o the
kind I tell ye
Where is your captain
Dont know
Paul determined to keep a close
watch on the rascal and conduct him
across the mountains to the camp on
the Klondyke where punishment
would be meted out to him according
to frontier ideas of justice
Paul bound his arms behind his
back and told him to sit in front of
the fire
The night passed guarding the
prisoner by turns and when the day
dawned he was still among them
Breakfast over and they began to
prepare to ascend the mountain
It had snowed considerable during
the night but toward morning it
changed to a rain and later in the day
a sleet
The ascent became every moment
more and more difficult About every
one hundred paces they came to
mountain torrents fed by the gla
ciers and augmented by recent rain
falls which they had to wade the
cold water often coming above their
knees
After struggling up a steep ascent
of twenty fivo or thirty feet they were
often forced from sheer exhaustion
to rest for a moment but when they
stopped ever so short a time the
piercing wind cut them to the mar
row chilled them to the bono and
they were compelled to continue
their course to keep from chilling to
death
When evening came they were on
the other side of the mountain in a
valley wet shivering and benumbed
with cold They had no tent nor
shelter save the lowering heavens
from above Some dry pine and
scrub oak wood was collected and a
fire kindled They all gathered about
it to dry their bedraggled garments
and warm their shivering bodies
They had just made a supper on
dried salmon moose meat and hard
tack when they were startled to see
an old man with long white hair and
beard standing on a slight elevation
not far away gazing at them He
wore a seal skin cap which shaded
his face but not too much for him to
be recognized by all the camp
The captain cried the Metlak
ahtlas
The hermit exclaimed Paul
The prisoner gave utterance to a
curse and was bounding away when
a blow from the hermits staff sent
him staggering to the earth
Paul Miller started quickly toward
the hermit saying
Where are you from
The old man gave him a piercing
look and answered
I am from everywhere which
means nowhere This is precious fine
company you keep He clutched
his stout staff as Paul approached
and warned him not to come too
close I will strike you as I did your
companion if you come too near me
he added in a voice made ferocious
by long years of suffering and disap
pointment
Paul halted and gazed at him in
amazement
The old man at last said I have
been cheated deceived betrayed and
lied to until I have about lost faith
in all men Can I trust you now
Do you know those men asked
Paul pointing to the Melakahtlas It
you know them you must know they
can be trusted
Yes they are brothers but they
have been deceived as often as I
One of the Indians approached the
hermit and addressed him in his
native tongue The old man answer
ed in the same language and grasped
his hand Though Paul could not
understand a word of what was said
ke knew from their manner and ges
tures that it had some relation to
the man on the ground
After a long conversation with the
Metlakahtla the hermit approached
the fire His face was very grave
and his brow lowered when he gazed
upon the prisoner The mien of th6
prisoner had been defiant until he
met the glance of the hermit then
his countenance fell and his eyes
were upon the ground
Ned Padgett said the hermit
you will some day receive the re
ward you so much merit you will die
a dogs death yet
The ruffian gave a sneering
chuckle but made no answer
Have you lived long in Alaska
asked Paul trying to draw the old
man into conversation
Yes
How many years
A great many
To be continued
FREAK DINNERS A FAD
Entertainments Where Guests Cook
for Themselves
Freak dinners are a fad An or
dinary dinner has lost its charm for
some people who go out much during
the season and now that Paris has set
its seal of approval on the Corinthian
dinner at which everyone is obliged
to cook something New Yorkers and
Chicagoans will select this form of
entertainment as a aiversion
In a studio a few weeks ago the wife
of an artist gave one of these cook
ing parties to a dozen guests who
knew nothing of the fun in store for
them when they arrived at the house
The studio was arranged with a long
table holding a chafing dish for each
person with some particular viand be
fore it ready to be cooked Each
guest received a chefs cap and apron
and in a short time the dishes were
bubbling and simmering in a promis
ing fashion
When the meal was cooked it was
served by the men who acted as the
waiters Strangely enough the din
ner in every particular was a success
But cooking has become such a fad
of late that it is considered quite
smart to know how to cook some par
ticular dish in a chafer The bach
elor apartment feasts at which the
host acts as cook have increased the
desire for culinary knowledge as
these occasions prove very enjoyable
to those used to more formal enter
taining
Millets House to Come Down
The Paris mansion of Millet the
creator of The Angelus is being
torn down to make room for modern
flats It was one of the landmarks of
the French capital
THE PAKTYS POLICY
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE IOWA RE
PUBLICAN PLATFORM
Position Taken by President Roose
velt Upheld Chicago Inter Ocean
Points Out Meaning of Several
Planks adopted by Convention
The platform unanimously adopted
by the Iowa Republican state conven
tion contains several clauses of pro
found interest to those Republicans
whose attitude toward Theodore
Roosevelt is critical not to say hos
tile and who labor under the delu
sion that they are making him unpop
ular by trying to thwart his policies
and by decrying his efforts to enforce
the laws Here are some of these
clauses
Wo indorse his recommendation as
to the reciprocity with Cuba and be
lieve this policy necessary to preserve
and complete the beneficent work we
have done in that island and that it
will be mutually beneficial
Here is a hint upon which those
members of congress including some
from Iowa who listened to the voice
of Oxnard and the sugar trust instead
of to the voice of Roosevelt and the
people would do well to ponder
We Indorse the policy of reciproc
ity as the natural complement of pro
tection and urge its development as
necessary to the realization of our
highest commercial possibilities
Here is a deliverance upon which
those who suggest that Theodore
Roosevelt is unsafe because he up
holds the policy of Blaine and McKin
ley would do well to reflect
We rejoice that the firm and en
lightened policy pursued in the Phil
ippines has secured peace and that
the work of education civilization and
development has begun
Here is a statement which those
who think they can stay in the Re
publican party and still give aid and
comfort to its enemies and the na
tions would do well to consider
We assert the sovereignty of the
people over all corporations and ag
gregations of capital We cordially
indorse the position of President
Roosevelt in appealing to the courts
to secure regulations that will control
great combinations We approve the
determination of President Roosevelt
to enforce the laws wherever violated
without prejudice or favor
Here is an indorsement upon which
the Hanna Elkins group in the sen
ate which began to conspire against
the president as soon as he began to
inquire into the legality of the North
ern Securities company may chew se
riously and with profit
And all these groups of critical Re
publicans may well ponder and digest
the fact that all these things for
which they blame the president are
by the representatives of over 300000
voters of the great state of Iowa set
forth as his shining merits and lead
them to this conclusion
We declare our confidence in the
leadership of President Roosevelt and
our fealty to his administration We
look forward to his election in 1904
as a foreshadowed event demanded by
the popular will and one that will
maintain the national prosperity and
conserve every national interest
The voice of Iowa is the voice of
Illinois of Indiana of Michigan of
Wisconsin or Minnesota of Kansas
of Nebraska of New York of Ohio
of Pennsylvania and of all the great
states that make Republican presi
dents It is the voice of the Amer
ican people and the critical Repub
licans would do well to hear and heed
Chicago Inter Ocean
Searching for an Issue
Ex Secretary Vilas urges that the
tariff issue shall be revived and put
to the front This was Mr Cleve
lands counsel in his New York
speech It is the last resort of those
who can see nothing else to suggest
It is based partly upon the old denun
ciation of protection as the creator of
monopolies and combinations and
partly upon the claim that whatever
may have been true in the past the
existing tariff rates on various
articles are no longer necessary But
the trouble with this issue is that
under the existing tariff we have had
the highest domestic prosperity and
the largest foreign trade we have
ever had Industry has far-outstripped
all previous development
and commerce is stretching out its
arms in every direction With busi
ness thus active and labor well em
ployed it is impossible to make any
popular outcry on this subject The
people have too vivid a recollection
of the disastrous consequences of the
last Democratic tinkering -with the
tariff to invite its repetition Turn
which way they -will the Democratic
leaders find no issue on which they
can hopefully fight Philadelphia
Press
Matters of Pressing Moment
Mr Shaw says that the reciprocity
speech of Mr McKinley at Buffalo has
been misrepresented In what way
and by whom Is it the secretarys
opinion that Mr McKinley on that oc
casion laid down merely an academic
proposition The speech is very far
from encouraging that interpretation
Mr McKinley not only declared for
reciprocity but gave It as his opinion
that the time had arrived for the in
auguration of the policy by the United
States There seems to be the fullest
warrant for the belief indeed that
had he lieved he would have embodied
in his annual message to Congress a
recommendation that an immediate
start be made In that direction Does
Mr Shaw hold differently If so his
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views at some length on that point
would be read with very great Intorest
by the country Reciprocity and a
limited tariff revision aro matters of
pressing moment and tho Iowa Republicans-
enjoy tho credit of being
leaders in tho movomont Washing
ton Star
General Prosperity
The man was fortunate In his lan
guage who spoke of McKInley as the
advance agent of prosperity The
expression has been made the sport
of Democratic and Popullstic orators
who by long custom have come natur
ally to look upon the dismal side of
things Republicans have their view
of the business situation and believe
that principles preached and practic
ed by the party have helped and not
obstructed the nation in its forward
march to an increased business They
have been in power and their party is
cot one to evade responsibilities
either for success or defeats Tho
prosperity over all the country is so
splendid that Republicans are proud
of the share they have had in it
In the financial world during tho
past week there was a healthy
growth The increase in the bank
clearings was nearly three per cent
The grand total of the bank clearings
reached 2029796712 These figures
indicate no stringency in the financial
world The increase in the clearings
was large in the cities located in the
Middle West None of them report a
decrease
The railroads are doing a heavy
business Their carrying capacity is
taxed to the fullest extent In not
a few instances freights have to be
delayed for want of cars and this
too before the great grain crops of
the west have fairly begun to move
The farmers business is in good
shape throughout tho nation R G
Dun Co say Bright prospects in
agricultural sections far outweigh the
adverse influences which are still re
tarding trade and manufactures
All of the great factories are run
ning on full time to meet the de
mands and in many cases orders are
not filled at once but are filed to
await their turn There never has
been a time when the great factories
were so presed with work as they are
now
The slight cessation of business for
the summer has about passed and
people are getting ready for the fall
rush The volume of business In
this country for the next four months
promises to be unprecedented For
that time prosperity will be a record
breaker Terre Haute Tribune
The Farmer Finds This a Good Fence
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5 V PROTECTION
5 5 Mci Ss
Not a Trust Panacea
The instances in which tariff revi
sion aimed at trusts would find an
other target might be multipled It is
not as a trust panacea that tariff re
vision appeals to the more enlight
ened students of economic questions
The question for present statesmen is
to abandon tariff schedules that are
not necessary to preserve the life of
home industries and to utilize this
tariff reduction in the securement of
similar reductions on the part of other
countries which will benefit the Amer
ican export trade The word used to
define this measure of statesmanship
is reciprocity and the men who have
given it indorsement include Blaine
McKinley Roosevelt and many others
Baltimore Herald
Trusts Can Be Regulated
Trusts and combinations can be reg
ulated by a federal law and federal
supervision as suggested by President
Roosevelt They can be made to show
their accounts their real monetary
standing and responsibility but they
cannot be destroyed if we remember
that change of name or even in some
degree of method will not change the
thing itself If half the time given by
speakers and writers to advocacy of
destroying the trusts were devoted to
formulating a practicable scheme of
regulating them there would be an
appreciable gain for the country in in
creased public realization that the
trust question can be dealt with effec
tively only by dealing with it temper
ately Boston Transcript
Old and Worn
Our Democratic contemporaries
would have us repose in the sweet ber
lief that they are valiantly fighting
the trusts but when we read their
editorials we are forced to the con
clusion that they have simply dusted
off some of their old free trade argu
ments and are now attempting to
foist them upon the country in a
new guise Waverly Ohio News
Too Much Prosperity
You complain of being half
starved on account of the high
prices Why man you are making a
fortune off your truck farm
Thats jest it I cant afford to
eat any of my vegtables when theyre
wuth so much in the market b gosh
Chicago Tribune
CROP CONDITIONS
GOVERNMENT REPORT 8HOW3
GOOD STATE OF AFFAIRS
CORN SHOWING URGE GAINS
All he Products of the Soil Will
Make an Abundant Harvest Oati
Will Be a Big Crop Average
Generally All Right
Washington Sept 11 Tho monthly
report of tho statistltlan of tho Depart
ment of Agriculture shows tho aver
age condition of corn on September
1 to havo been 843 as compared with
865 on AugUBt 1 1902 517 on Sop
tember 7 1901 80G at the correspond
ing date In 1900 and a ten yoar aver
age of 788 Except in Kansas and
South Dakota which report a declina
of 12 points and 2 points during Aug
ust no material chango of condition
Is reported from any of the principal
corn states and except those of the
south and the state of Michigan they
again report condition averages toi ex
cess of their respective averages for
the last ten years
Notwithstanding its marked decline
during August Kansas reports a con
dition of 91 or 25 points above its
ten year average while Nebraska and
Missouri exceed thoir respective ten
year averages by 35 and 22 points re
spectively Indiana Ohio Illinois and
Iowa by 16 11 14 and 10 points re
spectively and Pennsylvania Wiscon
sin and Minnesota by 6 4 and 3 points
respectively
The crop however is so late that
throughout the entire northern por
tion of the belt prediction of moro
than an average crop are invariably
made contingent upon the Immediate
advent and continuance for some days
of the most favorable conditions of
weather
The average condition at harvest of
winter and spring wheat combined
was 80 against 828 last year G96 In
1900 and a ten year average of 789
Ohio Michigan Indiana and Illinois
report 13 18 15 and 21 points and
North Dakota South Dakota Ne
braska and Missouri 20 20 25 and 24
points respectively above their ten
year averages the condition in Min
nesota differs only one point from the
states ten year average while Penn
sylvania and California report 5
points below the ten year average
Icwa 12 points below and Kansas a
Condition of 4923 points below the
ten year average of the state
The average condition of oats when
harvested was 872 against 721 last
year 822 in 1900 and a ten year aver
age of 797 While correspondents re
port the harvesting of an exception
ally large crop of oats there are in
dications that the crop will be very
deficient in quality this will be re
ported on more fully in December
when the yields per acre are sent In
Of the ten states having 1000000
acres or upward in oats Iowa alone
reports a condition comparing unfav
orably with its ten year average
ENDORSE MEMORIAL SERVICES
All Favor Proposed Tribute to Mc
Kinley
CINCINNATI Sept 11 Additional
responses to the Times Stars inquiries
have been received from governore
members of congress church digni
taries and others endorsing the move
ment for McKinley memorial services
In the churches next Monday
Rev John K Schick President
Roosevelts pastor at Washington and
Rev Frank M Bristol pastor of the
church McKinley formerly attended
in Washington both telegraphed that
they would speak on the life and char
acter of McKinley next Sunday Arch
bishop Elder issued an order that the
litany of the saints be publicly recited
next Sunday after high mass
MAY RESTRICT EMIGRATION
Men Must Perform Militaray Service
Before Going Abroad
VIENNA Sept 11 The Hungari
an government is taking steps to
adopt stringent measures to regulate
and restrict emigration
The ministry of the interior has
prepared a bill which will shortly
be introduced in parliament where
by all emigration on the part of men
is forbidden until after the perform
ance of military service The bill
also provides for strict control of
emigration agencies and transporta
tion companies and prescribes se
vere penalties for persons attempt
ing to induce emigration by means
of misleading statements of over
flowery advertisements
Bob Evans is to Go to Asia
Washington Sept 11 It was an
nounced at the navy department yes
terday that Rear Admiral Frederick
Rodgers will turn over the command
of the Asiatic station to Rear Admiral
Robrey D Evans at Yokohama Japan
about October 29 and that Admiral
Rodgers then will sail for the United
States aboard his flagship the New
York coming across the Pacific to
San Francisco instead of through the
Suez
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