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Dark Stranger Charlie Allendales
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Ccpjrlgbt 1897 by Bobbbt Bokkeh Sosb
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CHAPTER X Continued
Course ye might hang him up by
Ihe neck until he was dead an he
wouldnt tell What would a man
care for beln killed himself Its
when you begin an attack on his flesh
an blood he trembles
Well dye reckon thats certain
aBked Padgett rubbing his bullet head
to get the idea through
Know it
Why didnt we light on that afore
Because the youngster goes under
- a nickname Hes Crack lash here an
Paul Miller in Fresno Thats the
whole long and short o it
Well sail in on the capen an see
what ye kin do with him growled
2Jed seating himself on a stone and
twirling his stick in his hand I
leave it all t you take It an see how
yell come out
Then followed another long con
sultation among the other three
It was not until late that night they
proceeded to carry out their plan The
old hermit whom they called the cap
tain was taken apart from his fel
low prisoner and seated on a stone
Ben Allen then proceeded to Interro
gate him
You are Captain Joseph Miller of
the schooner Eleanor aint ye ho
asked
Those two rogues told you that
They know it and its no use to deny
it
You left a wife at home a wife
and child
Yes
Your wife was named Mollle and
your boy babys name Paul
I dont admit or deny
After you sailed away so many
years your wife gave you up for dead
and with her child removed to Fresno
Where she lives now She never told
her son the sad uncertain fate of his
father fearing when he grew up he
would start in search of him and
she always had a superstitious dread
o the forests o Alaska
The sea captain sat unmoved
throughout the narrative Ben went
on
But when Paul Miller grew to be
a man he heard of the fabulous riches
in Alaska and came to find it He had
amassed quite a fortune when he
was robbed followed the robbers to
the woods and was captured by them
Now the young man yonder is Paul
Miller your son
The stern old captain was unmoved
save a slight twitching at the cor
ners of his mouth but he made no
answer Ben continued
Though ycu may have lost the
walrus hide on which the map to the
buried treasure is yet you know the
spot and can take us there You
shall do it or I swear that your son
shall die before your face
Again Ben Allen was disappointed
The old man was wholly unmoved as
if he had been talking to stone The
captors waited about him with half
suppressed breathing hoping that
something would occur to break his
imperturbability but they were dis
appointed
The threat of Morris had only been
to intimidate the prisoner He was
willing to make any sort of threats
but not being the hardened criminal
Ned Padgett was he called a halt at
the line of murder
Boys continued Morris I havent
given up all hope yet We may be
able to do somethin with him Lets
keep up the scare
Agreed
We can even get a rope and go
through pretense o hangin the
youngster
Thats it go through anything to
make the old rascal tell us where it
is
With this resolution more firmly
fixed in their minds they once more
returned to where the old captain sat
as unmoved as when they left him
Well Captain Miller have you de
cided to tell us where you cached the
treasure asked Ben Allen
No was the immediate answer
Do you want to see your son hang
before your eyes
I have no son
Dont you know that young man
Is your son
The prisoner fixed his great blue
orbs on the speaker and in a firm un
moved tone answered
He is not my son I may have a
son living I once did but he is not
my son I like the young man for he
Is noble brave and honest but he is
no relation to me
They were wholly unprepared for
this answer The sincerity with which
It was given took everyone aback and
for several moments they stood
aghast and silent The ex sea captain
after a brief silence continued
Even if I had the walrus hide I
would not give it to you Even if I
could now go and unearth that buried
treasure I would not do it
Why
1 For two reasons F 5t I will not
compromise with crime Second even
If I did decide to do so and turn over
the treasure to you it would be the
signal for our own destruction You
would never dare let us go after what
you have done
Bob Allen and Morris and the sail
ors were abashed They fell back
before the piercing glance of the offi
cer against whom they had mutined
The baffled rascals swore like troop
ers and Ned Padgett made an appeal
lor his knotted stick but was over
ruled and after some more delibera
tion it was decided to try the effect
of the rope on the young prisoner
I tell you ho Is the son of the old
man watch him closely when we go
to hang him up and see if his eye
does not grow moist
They had a rope made of seal hide
and cutting a pole with their hand
nxbs stretched it across the narrow
end of the cavern and placed a rope
about Pauls neck
Now old man confess that you
have lied and swear that you will
take us to the gold or this young
follow will die Paul who had not
heard the conversation between the
hermit and his captors was unable
to explain their conduct to his own
satisfaction He believed his last
hour had come and determined to
meet his fate like a hero When told
to prepare for death he rose made
no resistance and his arms were
tied behind his back The noos was
adjusted about his neck and he took
his position under the cross bar and
closing his eyes murmured a short
prayer
All eyes were on the other captive
but he sat with face averted and said
not a word There was no change in
his expression no more Indication of
grief than might have been expected
at the death of a stranger When the
miserable farce was over Paul had
been released and the four rascals
retired again to confer with each
each other Tom Ambrose said
Well its my opinion that weve
lost our last chance of ever getting
his burled millions
At this Padgett again proposed his
knotted stick and swore he would
brain both with it but he was pre
vented by Morris and Allen who de
clared there should be no real vio
lence The two prisoners were given
a meagre supper of dried beef and a
little meal gruel and driven to the
far end of the cavern for the night
When they were apart from the
guard Paul asked
What was meant by their extraor
dinary course to day
They labor under the mistaken
idea that we are related and both
have some knowledge of the buried
treasure As they are mistaken they
will succeed in getting nothing from
us
I have been mystified at their
strange conduct all along said Paul
and I would not be surprised at any
time at their taking our lives
His companion shook his grizzled
head and answered
No no they wont harm us so
long as we have the secret in our own
breasts if we should tell them and
they should find the treasure then we
would be killed in short order
Paul shuddered was silent for a
while and asked
Then you dont believe we have
any hope of mercy at their hands
The sea captain answered
No
Captain lets make our escape
Sh Speak lower you may be
heard
I will but I am in earnest
So am I but we must be cunning
as the fox to escape from those ras
cals
I am willing to trust you implic
itly
Then say nothing
Though night and day were the
same in that dungeon the captors had
their sleeping and waking hours Paul
and his companion threw themselves
on their miserable pallet of straw but
not to sleep They lay so they could
watch their captors
At last one after another they be
gan to grow drowsy One rose and
went toward the pile of straw and
stretching himself upon it was soon
snoring A short quarrel followed on
the subject of guarding the prisoners
Padgett was the man selected and
he swore he had done more than his
share at that business and he wouldnt
do any more of it but Morris who
seemed the person in command de
clared he must take his turn of two
hours and left him on duty while
the others went to bed
The whole matter could not have
been better planned for Paul for Pad
gett was careless and yawned sleep
ily before his companions had closed
their eyes For a long time he made
a fight against the wiles of Morpheus
but at last his head dropped forward
on his chest
Paul raised his own head and
shoulders from his pallet of straw
and surveyed the entire cavern at a
sweeping glance There was a fire
burning in the center which threw out
a dull ruddy glow dimly lighting the
scene Where the fire had been built
the cavern was wide and from the
lofty ceiling ages ago great fragments
of stone had been torn loose and lay
in a heap on the floor a little to one
side of the fire leaving a dark path
in the shadow Paul could also see
that their captors had placed their
rifles in a corner farthest from them
The three men sleeping on the straw
were between the prisoners and the
rifles which were on the right of the
sleeping sentry All the advantages
and disadvantages of the position
were taken into consideration at a
glance Pauls companion arose and
gave their surroundings a quick sur
vey and then they exchanged glances
The look was sufficient They under
stood each other as well as if they
had spoken volumes Paul was to look
after the guard and the captain to
seize the rifles The young man
nodded assent to the request ex
pressed by the captains eyes and be
gan to act They rolled yp the blank
ets and left them on the straw with
their caps stuck over them giving
them in the uncertain light the ap
pearance of two sleeping men Paul
went first on hfnds and knees creep
ing around the little mound of stone
and earth and over the loose stones
with all the caution possible He
rrr
was closely followed by the hermit
who seemed to possess the wonderful
faculty of moving without noise
The sentry stirred in his Bleep
when Paul was within ten or fifteen
pace3 of him The determined youth
seized a stone and leaped toward him
Ned Padgett suddenly started up with
a yell and had half raised his rifle
when the stone hurled with great pre
cision and force struck him on the
shoulder Down he went under the
blow dropping the rifle at Pauls feet
To seize the gun and turn at bay
on the others was the work of an in
stant They were starting up from
their sleep and Ben Allen shouted
The prisoners They are making
their escape
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The Dog Courier
Paul Miller drew his rifle to his
shoulder and let drive two or three
shots in quick succession sending
their late captors flying helter skelter
to the rear of the cavern Whether
any of them were wounded by his
bullets or not he did not stop to
learn He then seized the rifles
blankets and caps and the two men
hastened away from the cavern tak
ing the precaution to secure not only
the rifles but three pistols and all the
belts of cartridges they could find
Both of them had filled their capa
cious pockets with dried moose meat
until they stuck out like stuffed tur
keys
They broke two of the rifles because
they could not carry them and
strapped the others on their backs
Long they traveled in a western di
rection guided by the stars They
had given up all hope of finding their
Metlakahlan friends who no doubt
supposing them lost had returned to
their home on the island After wan
dering three or four hours into the
forest and being completely ex
hausted the two fugitives rolled
themselves in their blankets and
slept They dared not build a fire
for it might attract the attention of
their pursuers
When day dawned they made a
breakfast on some of the dried moose
they had brought with them and pre
pared to resume their journey They
discovered that they were gradually
ascending a mountain side On all
sides of them were forests of scraggy
spruce the trees seldom being over
five or six inches in diameter and
ferns and other forms of plant life
were occasionally noted
At last they came to a great cleft
between gigantic snow robed moun
tains
The first night after they began
their ascent they camped on the
mountain side near a spring and
spread their blankets under the lee of
a large bowlder
Hope had been revived in the breast
of Paul Miller but his companion who
had been deceived and cheated so
often by outrageous fortune evinced
little or none of his spirits
We are a long way from civiliza
tion yet he said to one of Pauls
remarks about their being safe So
often my friend have I had my hopes
raised only to be blighted that I al
low myself to believe nothing good
can come to me A terrible fate
seems to have taken possession of my
being I seem doomed The old gray
head was bent on his hands and he
was silent while darkness came over
the scene
The next days travel over this un
known region was but a repetition of
the experiences of the day before
Higher they climbed up up and up
approaching on the mountain side the
line of eternal snow A few hundred
yards more of climbing brought them
to the summit of the divide where
there was a pile of stones which
seemed to have been placed there by
human hands No life of any kind
was visible unless that white speck
on the distant ledge be a dog or a
goat v
To be continued
BIBLICAL TALE OF POWER
Jezebel by Miss Lafayette
Mc-
Laws Has Won Favor
Miss Lafayette McLaws When
the Land Was Young instantly
sprang into popular favor and for
a first book was a pronounced suc
cess The promise in her first book
has been more than realized in Jez
ebel a work of singular power and
insight It is a Biblical tale of the
days when Omri and Ahab were
kings of Israel and Elijah was a
prophet of Jehovah Ahab the Is
raelite takes to wife Jezebel the
worshiper of Baal When Ahab
comes to the throne and Jezebel sets
up the worship of Baal the prophets
and believers of Israel are incensed
against the queen and Jezebel be
gins a fierce persecution of her ene
mies This contest Is the chief mo
tive of the story
Miss McLaws has endeavored to
throw new light upon the character
of Jezebel and while she does nolJ
depart from the Biblical account she
surely presents this strong willed
beautiful queen in a somewhat novel
and striking manner We get
glimpses of Jezebel the woman as
well as Jezebel the queen and it is1
as a woman with warm passions and
jealous instincts that Jezebel is
most and best portrayed
The book is replete with dramatic
situations the action is rapid and
stirring and the denoument is orig
inal and startllng Altogether it Is
one of the books of the day and a
distinct contribution to the novel
literature of Biblical days
Keenness of Elephants Scent
An elephants sense of smell is so
delicate that the animal can scent
a human being at a distance of 1000
yards
rAMFE IS THE ISSUE
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT BE
LIEVED TO FAVOR REVISION
The Iowa Idea Has Many Supporters
in the Industrial Centers of the East
Subject Is One That Cannot Be
Ignored
According to interesting and inher
ently probable reports President
Roosevelt will sound the keynote of
tariff revision in his western speeches
His sympathies there can be no doubt
are with the reformers with the au
thors of the Iowa idea and the
courageous and progressive minority
Tariff revision is spoken of as a
western issue but there is consider
able evidence that the Iowa idea is
quite popular in the industrial centers
of the East Even Rhode Island and
Connecticut have been infected or af
fected by it and the proposition to
lower the tariff on goods controlled by
powerful combinations is meeting
with favor among the wageworkers of
the very citadel of high protection
The timid and time serving politicians
have been advising the president to
taboo the tariff issue but the com
ments of the press upon his trust pro
gram must have convinced him that
the subject could not be Ignored How
refreshing and inspiring a presidential
utterance in favor of the Iowa Idea as
honestly and intelligently interpreted
by Gov Cummins would be and what
a marvelous impetus it would impart
to the movement for freer trade and
a modern commercial policy
Mr Roosevelt has been criticised in
Democratic and independent papers
for his silence on the tariff question
especially in its relation to the trust
evils he had been so vigorously con
demning Of course in so far as these
strictures implied doubt as to Mr
Roosevelts courage and sincerity ref
utation of them would be a work of
supererogation The whole course of
the administration belies and disposes
of such insinuations The president
believes in determining what is right
in a given case and then going ahead
and defending the right against all
opponents The tariff question is a
complex one but the conclusions Mr
Roosevelt will finally reach may con
fidently be indicated in advance He
will eventually be found on the Buf
falo platform and in full accord with
the best and soundest thought of the
Republican party To a program of
tariff revision there will be no such
opposition as his trust proposals have
provoked Chicago Tribune
Plea for Tariff Reductions
There are mossback Republicans as
well as mossback Democrats and Con
gressmen Hopkins and Mann showed
that they belonged to that category in
their recent speeches In contrast to
those purely conventional partisan
harangues is the address which was
made at Jamaica Plain by Eugene N
Foss Republican candidate for Con
gress from the Eleventh Massachu
setts district and it is vastly more
interesting and significant
While Mr Foss is a Republican not
only by profession but by tho faith
that is revealed in much of his reason
ing he realizes that the idea of the
inviolability of the Dingley bill or any
other tariff law is absurd and he is
practical enough not only to recog
nize current facts but to understand
their true bearing upon government
policies
His general plea is that New Eng
land needs free raw material That
may be a sectional plea but there is
no doubt that he makes it strong of
its kind and just now there will be
a pretty widespread sympathy for the
New England demand for untaxed coal
from Nova Scotia Though there is
no tariff on anthracite and this fuel is
bituminous it is of a quality to relieve
the market when the importation of
anthracite is out of the question A
tariff on it is unquestionably a tax on
New Englands industries and a direct
encouragement to American coal
trusts which do not need protection
And Mr Foss urges with good rea
son that the question of necessity is
the prime question to be considered
when section is pitted against section
in the game of protection Does any
one mean to say he asks that the
steel trust needs the same degree of
protection as when the iron and steel
business of the country was an infant
industry Manifestly the purpose
now when this concern is underbid
ding foreign competitors everywhere
is not to protect but to mulct the
people
Such glaring facts cannot be ignored
and the wise Republicans are those
who like Mr Foss and Gov Cummins
keep their heads above the sand and
the rest of their anatomy in a proper
relation thereto
For Curbing the Trusts
The bill for the control of trusts
which will be introduced in congress
by Representative Littlefield and
which it is said will be put forward
as an administrative measure em
bodies provisions which will strength
en the popular belief in the sincere
purpose of the president and his ad
visers to secure legislation that will
be effective in checking monopoly and
in curbing the operations of the
Uusts
It is now generally acknowledged
that the cheapening of the cost of
production and distribution through
the formation of industrial combines
may if properly managed redound to
the benefit of the public Whether
the consumer gets a share of the
benefits accruing from the combinft or
not depends upon the managers of
the combine If they appropriate all
the benefits for themselves and ukp
their power to raise prices destroy bodies
competition and create monopoly the
combino becomes an evil that should
bo corrected or wiped out by the
power of the federal government
It Is to prevent Industrial com
bines from becoming monopolies that
the LIttlefleld measure is proposed
Under this bill the man who sues a
trust and has the facts to prove that
ho has suffered damage from the
operations of the combine is entitled
First To receive three times tho
actual amount of damago suffered
Second To have all his lawyers
fees paid by the trust
Third To have tho trust pay all
other expenses of the suit including
the court costs
If a middleman retail dealer manu
facturer or other person can show
that he has suffered damage from tho
restraint of interstate trade brought
about by a monopoly he may collect
three times tho actual damage suffer
ed and the trust will be required to
pay all the expenses of tho suit
Moreover under this bill if enacted
into law the presidents managers
and directors of the alleged monopo
lies may be compelled to appear In
court and tell every detail of their
business and to produce all books
papers and accounts that may be nec
essary to throw light on the opera
tions of these combines
The question of constitutionality of
such a law will of course provoke
wide discussion among the lawyers
If it can be made to stick it gives
promise of a measure that will check
monopolistic tendencies of the trusts
The Life Saver
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The Next Congress
When congress adjourned the sen
ate stood Republicans 55 Demo
crats and other opposition 33 Mary
land and Kentucky have already in
creased the opposition to 35 Mr
Newlands Democrat seems likely
to succeed Mr Jones Republican
from Nevada The Democrats also
hope to gain the North Carolina seal
now held by Mr Pritchard though
their success is by no means con
ceded
On the other hand the Republicans
consider well nigh certain their
chances of gaining the seats of Har
ris Democrat Populist of Kansas
and of Turner Fusionist of Wash
ington In the remaining states no
change sufficient to alter their repre
sentation in the senate is really ex
pected by either party
Balancing these hopes of gains on
either side and passing over the Dela
ware vacancies as an insoluble puz
zle it may safely be predicted that
the senate in the fifty eighth congress
will stand about 34 opposition to
about 54 Republican
The probable division of the next
house is much more difficult to esti
mate The reapportionments made
necessary by its increase of member
ship from 357 to 386 have disturbed
old political affiliations in many states
and compelled reconstruction of local
machinery These changes are likely
to alter the representation of a num
ber of districts but as they affect
both parties do not seem likely to
have much effect on the general re
sult
When congress adjourned the
house stood Republicans 199 Demo
crats and other opposition 152 ya
cancies 6 Experience has shown
that in off years the opposition has
a slightly better chance to gain con
trol of the house The Democrats
will doubtless gain districts there So
will the Republicans The question
is which will make the larger gains
and whether the Democratic gains
will be enough to give a majority in
the house
There is really no reason why the
Democrats should control the next
house That party has been able to
find no issue and no leader that
seems likely to change the opinions
of any great numbers of voters Or to
remove public distrust of the Democ
racy
The Real Reason
I have taken occasion to look this
matter up since reading of these reso
lutions and I think I can find reason
for the recent price of meat other
than the protective tariff I find that
there were received at the stock
yards in Chicago in the one month of
July 1902 65000 less beeves and 170
000 less hogs than in the same month
one year ago That means 7000 less
animals per day The Q road alone
during the entire month brought from
the southwest where the corn crop
was a failure last year 1000 less fat
steers per day this year than last
Secretary Shaw at Morrisville Vt
Aug 19 1902
Oldest Legislative Bodies
With the exception of the British
Parliament the Swedish Riksdag Is
the oldest of existing Ieerislflrfvp
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FINEST WARSHIPS EVER BUILT
Louisiana and Connecticut to
Be
Real Terrors of the 8ea
It la tho opinion of compotont
judges that In tho nowly designed
ships tho Louisiana and tho Connec
ticut tho United States will have two
of the greatest warships over built
Togothor with tho British ships tho
Edward VII tho Commonwealth and
tho Dominion they will comprlso tho
five largest warships in tho world
Tho Oregon and Its Bister shipB had
batteries of four thirteen Inch and
eight eight Inch guns but tho Connec
ticut and Louisiana will mount a bat
tery which is so heavy as to placo
these vessels practically In a cla3d
by themselves Each carries four
twelve Inch eight eight Inch twelve
seven inch and twenty three inch
guns The next most powerfully arm
ed vessel Is probably the Edward VII
She also carries four twelve inch but
instead of tho eight eight inch sho Is
armed with four 92 inch guns This
of course is a much more poworful
weapon than the eight eight Inch
that is to say will be so much greater
that there will be far more likelihood
of getting in an effective blow
It is the broadside battery of
twelve seven Inch guns however that
is believed to render tho Connecticut
so much more powerful than tho Ed
ward VII which carries only ten
six Inch against tho greater number
of seven inch An Increase of an inch
in caliber when you get to tho sizq
of a six inch means a great increase
in power Furthermore tho Connect
cut will carry twenty of tho three
inch guns as against ten or twelve of
the same caliber carried by the latest
Briti3h battleship
ORIGIN OF A FAMOUS SONG
How World Famous Tune Came to Be
Written
Bizet the composer of the world
famous opera Carmen and Halevy
his librettist once occupied apart
ments whose outer doors opened on
the same landing As soon as he had
finished an air Bizet would hasten
to submit it to his neighbor who sub
jected it to the most severe criticism
From morning to night the piano re
sounded in the composers apart
ments One night Bizet finished a
dramatic bit in which ho flattered
himself he had successfully sketched
the pride of a triumphant toreador
after a successful bull fight But Hal
evy listened In silence and showed
but a moderate enthusiasm Bizet
somewhat piqued asked the cause of
this coldness
Its good I admit said Halevy
In fact its too good It lacks move
ment it lacks snap in short its not
popular enough
Not popular shouted the piqued
composer Do you want me to
write for the slums He went out in
a huff but soon relented and in an
hour returned with another air Lis
ten to this said he here Is my
toreador idea written down to your
popular level It was Indeed the
song of the toreador and the only
one which on the first night received
an encore and seemed to move tho
first night audience from its torpor
In the Dining Car
With a complacent smile she drag
ged her small son into a seat in tho
dining car and made a ferocious grab
for the engraved bill of fare Her
clothes and her manner suggested
rural districts but the arrogant gazo
that she leveled at the inoffensive bill
of fare was intended to denote high
breeding Then the black waiter
bent obsequiously over her shoulder
Bring us two helpings of chicken
she ordered
The black man took up the bill of
fare and with furrowed brow read
over each word
Sorry maam he replied at last
but we aint got chicken that way
We has em fried and roasted and I
guess the cook might broil em
and
No no No cried the woman I
mean plates of chicken prepared any
way you have it
Oh bowed the waiter you mean
pohtions New York Press
A David Harum Trade
There is a citizen in New York who
decided to treat himself to a horse
and runabout In every case he in
sisted upon knowing the attitude ofl
the prospective purchase in relation
to automobiles I dont want mjj
neck broken daily he would say
There was a horse that suited himl
I can warrant him on the automobile
question said the Jersey farmer who
owned him I will guarantee that
he will pass a dozen an hour all day
long and never look at one of them
Will you give me a written state
ment to that effect
I will
The sale was made For once a
Jersey man had told the truth in
horse trade The horse was blind
Ought to Take Warning
Fond mother Now look here
George I want you to break off with
that girl She is very pretty and all
that but I know her too well to want
you to risk your life and happiness by
marrying her Why she knows no
more about housekeeping than I do
about Greek not a bit
George Perhaps not but she can
learn
Mother After marriage is rather
late for that George
George But you said yourself that
you did not know a thing about house
keeping until after you were married
Mother Very true George and
your poor father died of dyspepsia
twenty years ago Stray Stories
Tae s catchers labors should bo
curtailed
