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THE NORTHWESTERN
Entered at the Loop City Postoffiee for trana
mission through the malls as second
_class matter._
Office Phone, - Red 21
Residence, - Black 21
J. W. BURLEIGH, Editor and Pn
J. R. GARDINER Manager.
Among the many Booster Edi
tions coming to this office, one of
the nicest, in every way was the
Ravenna News, which was printed
on the very best of book paper,
evidently with most excellent job
ink, and every printed word, and
every cut used, gave evidence of
skill in that the typographical
work was faultless. What a con
trast to one of the Booster Edi
tions gotten out, which has come
to our attention, in which the cuts
were muddy, the reading matter
blurred and a large per cent either
daubbed with lamp black or the
cuts too high to allow the proper
impression, hence the entire edi
tion a burlesque on the art perser
vation of arts. It is not necessary
for the Northwestern to. specialize
which Booster Edition we refer
to as our brothers of the craft
will readily understand.
Mrs. Weekes, editor of the Nor
folk Press, has been advised by
the democratic department that
the postoffice job to which she
aspires is a man’s job and she
ought to be at home darning her
husband’s socks, etc. She says
democracy accepts her newspaper
advocacy of the party’s divinity
and has accepted her good words
in support of its candidates and
cannot consistently raise the ques
tion of her sex to keep her out of
the job. That’s where she gets
fooled. Democracy can do any
thing it likes. It can make a rul
ing that when a man accepts a
postoffice job he has to give up all
other business, and then it can
throw that decision over the tran
som and allow the selected post
master to continue his business
just the same as before, as was the
case of the Loup City postoffice,
where the postmaster still con
tinues to own, write for, control
and pay the bills of his paper,
which he acknowledges he has not
leased to his figurehead editor and
to whom he claims he pays a
weekly stipend.
One of the best articles telling
the unbiased truth of Secretary of
State Bryan’s desertions of his
public office to eke out an exist
ence on the chautauqua plat
form is to be found iirthe follow
ing taken from the last issue of
Collier’s:
“President Wilson isn’t worry
ing about what is said by people
who don’t mind their own busi
ness” is the way newspapers re
port the White House on criticism
of Mr. Bryan. Yet Mr. Bryan
was hired to help Mr. Wilson at
tend to the business of the United
States—and the way he carries
out his duties is everybody’s busi
ness. Each of us has a right to
like or dislik^the way state affairs
are transacted—or aren’t; and
each of us has an equal right to
express their opinion. Now, Mr.
I Bryan seems to place his profes
sional lecturing first and his state
department responsibilities sec
ond. Reports of the disorganiza
tion of the state department are
persistent, and no one is proud
of all the administration’s diplo
matic appointments, or pretends
that the Mexican and Japanese
' problems have been settled. Mr.
Wilson is handicapped by the fact
that he has no efficient secretary
of state—no right-hand man of
anything like John Hay’s value or
1 Elihu Root’s shrewdness. This
may be the president’s own fault,
but the graceful act upon Mr.
Bryan’s part, months ago, would
| Jeave been the cancellation of his
remaining lecture dates—if only
out of deference to general opin
ion. We regarded his cnautauqua
| addresses then as a mere violation
of good taste, but time passes and
conditions shift. Can’t Mr Bryan
see that appearances often count
j more than facts do? The facts
’ are that Mr. Bryan works harder
than some of his predecessors, and
that in lecturing at chautauquas
he disseminates moral and civic
truths while eking out an insuffi
cient salary. But the appearance
is that he capitalizes his office at
$250 a performance—bowing from
the same platform as the ”‘Nea
politan Troubadours,” Lorenzo
; Zwickey, Ed. Amhurst Ott, and
; Sears, and Taffy man. Such ap
pearances cheapen a foreign min
ister’s prestige in countries over
sea which now hear of the Chau
tauqua for the first time and know
nothing of its educational service
in the past. We may pretend
that we don’t care anything about
foreign opinion; but what use is a
i secretary of state without prestige
i abroad as well as at home!
Mystery
of Mary
had started Sad failed anT'leff'Wm
with debts. If he had only a few hun
dred dollars, he could go on with it
and pay off everything. He said I had
inherited all that would have been his
if he had done right, and he recog
nized the justice of it, but begged that
1 would lend him a small sum until he
could get on his feet, when he would
repay me.
*1 had little faith in his reformation,
but felt as if I could not refuse him
when I was enjoying what might have
been his, so r sent him all the money
I had at hand. As I was not yet of
age, I could not control all the prop
erty, but my allowance was liberal.
Richard continued to send me volum
inous letters, telling of his changed
life, and finally asked me to marry
him. I declined emphatically, but he
continued to write for money, always
ending with a statement of his undy
ing affection. In disgust, I at last
ouereu to sena mm a certain Bum or
money regularly if he would stop
writing to me on this subject, and fin
ally succeeded in reducing our corre
spondence to a check account. This
has been going on for three years, ex
cept that he has been constantly ask
ing for larger sums, and whenever I
would say that I could not spare
more just then he would begin telling
me how much he cared for me, and
how hard it was for him to be separat
ed from me. I began to feel desperate
about him, and made up my mind that
when I received the inheritance I
should ask the lawyers to make some
arrangement with him by which I
should no longer be annoyed.
“It was necessary for me to return
to America when I came of age, in
order to gign certain papers and take
full charge of the property. Richard
knew this. He seems to have had some
way of finding out everything my
Uncle did.
"He wrote telling me of a dear
friend of his mother, who was soon to
pass through Vienna, and who by
some misfortune had been deprived of
a position as companion and chaperon
to a young girl who was traveling. He
said it had occurred to him that per
haps he could serve us both by sug
gesting to me that she be my traveling
companion on the voyage. He knew
I would not want to travel alone, and
he sent her address and all sorts of
credentials, with a message from his
mother that she would feel perfectly
safe about me if I went in this wom
an’s guardianship.
“I really did need a traveling com
panion, of course, having failed to get
my dear old lady to undertake the
voyage, bo I thought it eould do no
I Found Out That He Was a Physician.
barm. I went to see her, and found
her pretty and frail and sad. She made
i piteous appeal tp me, and though I
as not greatly taken with her, I de
cided she would do as well as any one
for a companion.
"She did not bother me during the
voyage, but fluttered about and was
■luitc popular on board, especially with
a tall, disagreeable man with a cruel
jaw and small eyes, who always made
uia feel as if he would gloat over any
one in his power. I found out that he
was a physician, a specialist in mental
diseases, so Mrs. Chambray told me,
and she talked a great deal about his
skill and insight into such maladies.
“At New York my cousin Richard
met us end literally took possession
of us. Without my knowledge, the
cruel-looking doctor was included In
'-he party. I did not discover it until
<ve were on the train, bound, as I sup
posed, for my old home just beyond
Buffalo. It was some time since 1
had been la New York, and I naturally
Rd not notice much which way we
were going. The fact was, every plan
was anticipated, and I was told that
all arrangements had been made. Mrs.
Chambray began to treat me like a
little child and say: ‘You see, wo are
going to take good care of you, dear,
so don’t worry about a thing.”
“I had taken the drawing-room com
partment, not so much because I had
a headache, as I told them, as because
I wanted to get away from their so
ciety. My cousin’s marked devotion
became painful to me. Then. tqo. the
attentions and constant watchfulness
of the disagreeable doctor became
most distasteful.
“We had been, sitting on the ob
servation platform, and it was late in
the afternoon, when l said I was going,
to lie down, and the two men got up to
go into the smoker, fn spite of my
protests. Mrs. Chambray' insisted upon
following me In* to *£* tfcat I
fectir comfortable. Lie fussed srouct
me, covering me up and offering smell
ing salts and eau de cologne for mj
head. I let her fuss, thinking that was
the quickest way to get rid of her. 1
closed my eyes, and she said she
would go out to the observation plat
form. I lay still for awhile, thinking
about her and how much 1 wanted to
get rid of her. She acted as if she
had been engaged to stay with me for
ever, and it suddenly became very
plain to me that I ought to have a
talk w ith her and tell her that I should
need her services no longer after this
journey was over. It might make a
difference to her if she knew it at
once, and perhaps now would be as
good a time to talk as any, for she was
probably alone out on the platform. I
got up and made a few little changes
a my dresfc, for it would soon be time
to go into the dining car. Then I went
cut to the observation platform, but
the was not there. The chairs were
. 11 empty, so 1 chose the one next tc
the railing, away from the car door,
and sat down to wait for her, think
ing we would soon be back.
‘ We were going so fast, througn
a pretty bit of country. It was dusky
and restful out there, so I leaned back
and closed my eyes. Presently I
heard voices approaching, above the
rumble of the train, and, peeping
around the doorway, I saw Mrs. Cham
bray, Richard, and the doctor coming
from the other car. I kept quiet, hop
ing they would not come out, and they
did not. They settled down near the
door, and ordered the porter to put
up a table for them to play cards.
"The train began to slow down, and
finally came to halt for a longer time
on a sidetrack, waiting for anotke
train to pass. I heard Richard ask
where I was. Mrs. Chambray said
laughingly that I was safely asleep.
Then, before I realized it, they begar
to talk about me. It happened then
were no other passengers in the car
Richard asked Mrs. Chambray if shi
thought I had any suspicion that I wa
not on the right train, and she sai.
‘Not the slightest,’ and then by di
grees there floated to me through th
open door the most diabolical plot !
had ever heard of. I gathered from it
that we were on the way to Philadel
phia, would reach there in a little
while, and would then proceed to a
place near Washington, where the doc
tor had a private insane asylum, and
where I was to be shut up. They were
going to administer some drug tnat
would make me unconscious when I
was taken off the train. If they could
not get me to take it for the headache
I had talked about, Mrs. Chambray
was to manage to get it into my food
or give it to me'when asleep. Mrs.
Chambray, it seems, had not known
the entire plot before leaving Europe,
and this was their first chance of tell
ing her. They thought I was safely in
my compartment, asleep, and she had
gone into the other car to give the sig
nal as socn as she thought she had me
where I would not get up again for a
while.
They had arranged every detail.
Richard had been using as models the
letters I had written him for the last
three years, and had constructed a set
of love letters from me to him, in per
feet imitation of my handwriting.
They compared the letters and read
snatches of the sentences aloud. The
letters referred constantly to our be
ing married as soon as I should return
from abroad, and some of them spoke
of the money as belonging to us both,
and that now it would come to its own
without any further trouble.
“They even exhibited a marriage
certificate, which, from what they said,
must have been made out with out
names, and Mrs. Chambray and the
doctor signed their names as witness
es. As nearly as I could make out,
they were going to use this as evi
dence Ahat Richard was my husband
that he had the right to administer
my estate during the time that I was
Incapable. They had even arranged
that a young woman who was hope
lessly insane should take my place
when the executors of the estate came
to see me, if they took the trouble to
do that. As it was some years since
either of them had seen me, they could
easily have been deceived. And for
their help Mrs. Chambray and the doc
tor were to receive a handsome sum
"I could scarcely believe^ my ears at
first. It seemed to me that I must be
mistaken, that they could not be talk
ing about me. But my name was men
tioned again and again, and as each
link in the horrible plot was made
plain to me, my terror grew so great
that I was on the verge of rushing
into the car and calling for the con
ductor and porter to help me. But
something held me still, and I beard
ti:hard say that he had just inform
ed the trainmeu that I was insane, and
tnai they need not be surprised if i
had to be restrained. He had told
them that i was comparatively harm
less, but he had no doubt that the
conductor had whispered it to our fel
iow-passengerfc in the ear, which ex
plained their prclonged absence in the
smoker. Then they all laughed, and
it seemed to me that the cover of the
bottomless pit was open and that I
was falling in.
“I sat still, hardly daring to
breathe. Then I began to go over the
story bit by bit, and to put together
little things that had happened since
we landed, and even before I had left
Vienna; and I saw that I was caught
in a trap. It would be no use to ap
peal to any one, for no one Would be
lieve me. I looked wildly out at the
ground and had desperate thoughts of
climbing over the rail and jumping
from the train. Death would be better
than what I Should soon have to face.
My prosecutors had even told how
they had deceived my friends at home
by Bending telegrams of my mental
condition, and of the necessity for put
ting me into an asylum. There would
be no hope of appealing to them for
help. The only witnesses to my sani
ty were far away in Vienna, aad how
could I reach them If I were In Rich
ard's powerT
"I watched the names of the stations
as they flew by, but it gradually grew
dark, and I could hardly make them
out I thought one looked like the
name of a Philadelphia suburb, but I
could not be sure.
“I was freezing with horror and with
cold, hut did not dare to move, left
I attract their attention.
"We began to rush past rows of
houses,.and IJcnew we were approach
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