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have been particularly benefited
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In shooting as in other sports thor
ough luxuriousness is now regarded
by modern shooters as a prime neces
sit of enjoyment They have their
loading done for them their birds are
driven to them and in greatly increas
ed numbers their luncheon hours are
devoted to the best in many courses
of food and wine and they get home
by motor as quickly as possible after
shootng is over London Country
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First Trade in the World
Two blacksmiths were once convers
ing as to which was the first trade in
the world One insisted that it must
have been gardening and quoted from
Genesis Adam was put into the
Garden of Eden to dress it and keep
it Ay John retorted the other
who had stood up for his own trade
but wha made the spades
Produces Most Mica
India is the leading producer of
mica and supplies about one half the
worlds requirements London Engin
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Some fellows seem to think they
are not being well treated unless tney
are being treated every ten minutes
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ing insinuated the detective and
you will end in a different manner
than you expect
Oh I dont care what becomes of
me said the young man moodily
toying with the empty beer glass on
the table before him
Life then has no attraction for
you
Not much answered Lang
What would make life of interest
to you asked the detective as if in
terested in the answer
To be able to lift up my head to
become respectable wealthy said
the young man fiercely
Pardon me Lang said the de
tective quite earnestly if I seem to
be reading you a lecture But do you
imagine that you are going ahead in
the right direction to attain all these
when you begin by throwing away
what little respect and manhood you
may have had left You and every
one else owe the world your best
efforts You are really a criminal
as much to be despised as a thief
when you sink to a low level
Fate sadly replied the youth
taking the rebuke in good part vainly
striving to frame an excuse The
best years of my life were taken away
from me I have no ambition to be
gin over again I have struggled to
combat fate but I am no better off
now than I have ever been
Fate indeed echoed Denver contemptuous-
One would think to
hear you talk that you were an old
man looking back upon a life of fleet
ing opportunities Instead of striving
and overcoming opposition you make
your condition worse Your dreams
of wealth and honor are they dead
now
No If I didnt dream all hope
would indeed be gone I would put
an end to my existence now if I did
not hope
How do you expect to realize this
hope to become rich if you dont
toil respectable if you do not re
spect yourself
I dont I have toiled striven hard
to please but to no avail Who wants
me in their employ What kind of so
ciety is open to me Answer me
that It is for this that I am dis
couraged
A hopeless case said the detect
ive shaking his head You brood
over a mere fancy yet you say you
still hope How many more days of
dissipation do you think you can put
in on the money you now have
This Is my last night sadly re
plied the young man as he gazed at a
few stray coins brought to light from
his trousers pocket
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CHAPTER I
Jim Denver the Detective and His
Great Scheme
I believe this is Louis Lang
It is
Well how are you to day
Oh fairly well replied the young
man addressed as Lang He was sit
ting before a small table in one of
the secluded corners of a high class
saloon on Clark street Chicago When
first accosted the youth looked up
quite surprised at being spoken to
and saw a very gentlemanly looking
personage standing before him You
certainly have the advantage of me
he replied cautiously eyeing his in
terrogator enquiringly Whom have
I the honor of addressing
The gentleman smiled and drew up
a chair beside the youth I am Jim
Denver lately from New York he
replied somewhat harshly then in an
undertone he added abruptly who
once arrested you on suspicion of hav
ing committed a murder
It was a cruel stab and Lang was
flustered for a moment an angry
flush spreading over his face A shud
der seemed to pass through his frame
that passing he composed himself
almost immediately Well whats
your lay now he inquired
Still have hard feelings against
me I see said the detective as if
surprised at the bitter tone of the
youth
I have no love for you certainly
and as far as that goes no grudge
against you either answered Lang
The arrest was made in the line of
your duty but I was innocent You
can bet that you will have no further
cause to take me The subject was
very painful to Lang He fidgeted
around in his chair as if sitting on a
red hot gridiron
Keep on in the way you are go-
Then what are you going to do
Havent the least idea in the
world
Are you open to a business propo
sition
I most certainly am
The detective arose Now that we
have a foundation to work on I think
that I can interest you Let us retire
to a private room where we will not
be disturbed
Very well
Jim Denver was a noted New York
detective Recently while engaged in
hunting down a noted forger he had
been brought to Chicago where the
case ended Becoming interested in
the windy city and realizing the pos
sibilities there for more rapid ad
vancement than he had enjoyed in his
home city under municipal employ
ment attached himself to the staff
of one of the leading private detect
ive agencies and settled down to pri
vate business Five years before when
in New York he had arrested Lang
on suspicion of having committed
murder He had been attracted to the
young man since meeting him in Chi
cago and imagined that he could use
him to good advantage the stain
upon the youths name being more of
a desirable quality than hindrance in
the case he had in view
Louis Lang is about twenty five
years of age A broad chested me
dium built German American fair
of face and features save where the
marks of dissipation had begun to
show upon him A few- years before
while in a saloon carousing with a
number of his associates he became
involved in a drunken brawl In the
melee one of the participants was
killed and Lang had been arrested for
the crime At the trial Lang admit
ted the possibility of his having killed
the man if he had it was in self
defense It was proven that the
dered man had first drawn a knife
upon Lang Lang in his defense
claimed to only have wrested the
knife away from his antagonist He
might have accidentally wounded the
man but was sure he had not struck
a blow which would have caused
death
Langs early association with the
rougher and tougher element of New
York society made it extremely hard
for him to prove the correctness of
his assertion but after a year of in
carceration in the Tombs with the lib
eral spending of his brothers and his
fathers fortunes he was liberated by
a jury who brought in the old Scotch
verdict of Discharged for lack of evi
dence to convict This was not a
vindication and the stain on his repu
tation remained Being unable to face
the ordeal of taunts and sneers which
met him on every hand the only thing
left him to do was to leave the scenes
of his early youth and amid strange
surroundings attempt to live down his
ignoble past By a strange course of
circumstances very recently he had
been enabled to prove his entire inno
cence by discovering the true mur
derer
Your vindication was a pretty
shrewd piece of detective work said
Denver as he took his seat before a
table in the little private room allot
ted to their use I think you are the
right kind of a man to make a good
detective of
If there is anything that I can do to
aid you you can depend on me earn
estly replied Louis
You would have no fear then
of losing your life
Not if the object to be gained was
worth the risk I think I would be
willing to attempt almost any desper
ate scheme to prove my worth to the
world But of course you do not
expect me to promise to do something
blindly to run into danger without
fully realizing of what the danger con
sists
By way of answer Denver replied
Suppose a million dollars was the re
ward what would you do for a mil
lion
Anything exclaimed the young
man Anything save to kill a man
in cold blood I draw the line there
No amount of money could tempt me
to have the blood of an innocent man
on my hands
You would have no conscientious
scruples against retaining any valu
able plunder recovered from a thief
providing you did not know the
owner
Not at all But why all these
queries the young man rather
patiently asked If you are sot suro
of me why do you approach me on a
subject of such vital importance
I am getting at it the detective
replied calmly He arose from his
seat making sure tUat no one was
listening at the door then he leaned
over the table and looked his com
panion in the eye
I have a scheme to rob a colony of
thieves of over a million dollars In
gold he finally said
CHAPTER
The Theory of the Convict Country
A colony of thieves questioned
Lang
Yes A colony of thieves said
the detective No doubt you have
often wondered where all of our rich
defaulters and criminals go to in order
to keep from falling into the hands of
the law
It is commonly supposed that they
take up their residence in Canada or
other foreign countries
I have every reason to believe that
there exists a colony composed of
escaped or wanted criminals not
in Canada but right here in this free
and enlightened republic More than
one have hinted at the possibility of
the existence of such a place and it
seems to me more than reasonable
How else can we account for the
many complete disappearances ol
such men as Snells murderer with
50000 on his head and the mutilatoi
of Amelia Olsen I would not be sur
prised if it could be proven that thev
there rest secure from the law they
have outraged Bombthrowers mur
derers thieves these are the col
onists
A select gathering said Lang
And you imagine because these
gentry cannot be traced to Canada or
Mexico that they have formed a col
ony in some secluded part of the
United States Bearding the lions of
the lav in their dens as it were
Thats my idea exactly And the
thing which is most to my liking ex
claimed Denver is the fact that
these colonists must have a world of
gold money in their possession
Where did you get your idea
From a dying criminal who con
fessed to having a knowledge of such
a place though he could not tell me
where it was located It was de
scribed as a barricaded town For a
certain sum of money prisoners or ac
cused persons are assisted to escape
from custody and taken to this place
to live The sum demanded as an
admission fee is so large that none
but criminals of renown and wealth
become colonists and as they can
hardly have use for money in a place
undoubtedly supported by co operative
effort I estimate that they must have
accumulated about this sum of money
Even if this is not so a vast fortune
could be made by capturing or killing
ten or twenty of those rascals for
whom extra large rewards are offered
Tascott for instance and the ab
ductor of young Cudahy theres a
hundred thousand dollars right there
for some brave man to pick up I
want jou to help me discover this
place
These colonists must have a pow
erful clique on the outside agents in
every city of importance in the Unit
ed States said Lang to recruit the
colony in the way described by you
To be continued
Sereno Paynes Snores
Representative Sereno E Payne the
Republican floor leader in the House
has claims to fame which are not
mentioned in any of his official biog
raphies According to those of his
colleagues who have accompanied him
on sundry junkets to funerals foreign
lands in search of Congressional in
formation and even on campaign trips
lie can snore longer and louder than
any man in the United States Nor is
Mr Payne at all bashful of his accom
plishment nor sensitive when his tal
ents in this direction are exploited
He takes the pokes in good part and
now he never interferes with the plans
of his colleagues when they seek
to find him isolated in the sleepers
or on shipboard Mr Payne gets
annually several hundred cures for
the malady of snoring He has nos
trums sent to him which are warrant
ed to cure after one trial Most of
the gifts come from members of Con
gress who have spent sleepless nights
as Mr Paynes traveling companions
An Ade to Digestion
Among the many attempts to play
upon George Ades surname the one
here given is perhaps one of the
best A man from northern Wiscon
sin who met the humorist some time
ago told him how his writings had
made existence more tolerable for
him in lonely country home
I was a terrible sufferer from dys
pepsia said he but I read that
laughing was helpful to the digestive
organs so when I went to the city
next time I stepped into a book store
and told them I wanted somethin
amcozin They give me some of your
books and after meals I had my ole
woman read to me from em And
say it dont make no difference how
much they criticise your books youre
an aid to digestion anyway Success
Magazine
Uncertainty of Life
Young man said the clerical look
ing passenger addressing the beard
less individual across the aisle do
you ever consider when you lie down
at night that you may never see the
sun rise again
No replied the party at whom the
query had been fired I cant ray that
I do but every morning when I wake
up I realize that I may not live to see
another sunset
You do queried the surprised c
1 p
I do answered the young man
You see Im a baseball umpire
Cincinnati Fnuirer
TRAIN STRIKES DYNAMITE
Western Express on Pennsylvania
Runs Into Two Cars of Explosive
HARRISBURG Pa An express
train on the Pennsylvania railroad ran
into a freight train in which there
were two cars loaded with dynamite
at 110 oclock Thursday morning in
South Harrisburg near tho plant of
the Paxtang Light Heat and Power
company
Three terrific explosions that broko
windows all over the city followed and
the two trains were completely wreck
ed and took fire It was estimated at
3 oclock that fifty persons were kill
ed and 100 injured though these
figures may bo too small
It is Impossible to ascertain tho ex
act number of fatalities because the
wreckage is still ablaze and unap
proachable In Avhich many of the pas
songers and some members of the
train crews are pinned and many
small explosions occurred continually
Immediately after tho wreck all the
passengers who could do so ran from
the scenes of horror to safety from
the incessant small explosions Tho
agonizing cries of the unfortunates
were heartrending
With practically no clothing many
women and children from tho train
were compelled to wander about the
fields as there are few houses in the
immediate vicinity of the wreck
The train was the second section of
No 19 There were 109 passengers in
the train and the latest estimate is
that fifty were killed The hospital is
crowded to the doors and the hotels
are being opened for the care of the
injured It may be necessary for tho
authorities to seize one of the hotels
and turn it into a temporary hospital
LATER Twenty persons are
known to be dead and more than 100
others were injured in the railroad
wreck and dynamite explosion which
occurred yesterday on the Pennsyl
vania railroad in the southern part
of this city That not more persons
were killed is considered remarkable
by the Pennsylvania officials as a
box car full of dynamite exploded di
rectly at the middle of the heavy ex
press train
The train carried a number of
prominent persons and most of them
escaped with only slight injuries The
wrecked train was the second section
of the Cleveland and Cincinnati ex
press leaving Philadelphia at 1105
Wednesday night It consisted of a
combination baggage and smoking
car one day coach and six sleepers
The scene of the wreck was visited
by probably more than 50000 persons
There were at least 5000 persons con
stantly at the place They came from
all towns within fifty miles
HARRISBURG Pa Two more vic
tims of the wreck of the Cleveland
and Cincinnati express on the Penn
sylvania railroad at South Harrisburg
Friday are dead bringing the total
number of victims to twenty two Two
others are in a critical condition
Sixteen of the dead have been identi
fied The bodies of the others are so
horribly charred and burned that it is
doubtful if they will ever be positive
ly identified
AMERICANS LOSE SEVENTEEN
Fierce Fighting Reported on the Is
land of Jolo
MANILA Fierce fighting has been
going on tho past two weeks on the
island of Jolo between the outlaw
Moro chief Pala with COO well armed
followers and troops under the per
sonal command of Major General
Leonard Wood Palas forces lost 400
killed while the losses of General
Wood are seven killed and nineteen
wounded Pala and his remaining
followers in accordance with Moro
tradition prefer death to capture
General Wood with detachments
from the Fourteenth cavalry the Sev
enteenth the Twenty second the
Twenty third infantries and the con
stabulary scouts have chased Pala
and his followers into a swamp which
is surrounded Pala was a noted
slave trader and warrior when the
Americans occupied the island Lat
er he escaped with his followers to
the island of Pula Sekar near Bor
neo One of Palas leaders deserted
and took refuge in the British settle
ment at Lahad Pala landed with a
following and demanded of the Brit
ish magistrate that he turn the de
serter over to him
NEW YORK WANTS FARMERS
State Agricultural Department Will
Endeavor to Get Them
ALBANY N Y With the view of
attracting to this state desirable- im
migrant farmers and farm laborers
the State Department of Agriculture
is preparing to collect and disseminate
information of the farm and dairy ad
vantages which New York state off
ers One of the several handicaps with
which the farmers of this state have
to contend is the scarcity of farm la
borers
For many years the State Agricul
tural department has observed that
foreign farm hands and small farmers
seldom settle in the east but travel
straight through to the west
Speck Cant Go to Boat Race
WASHINGTON Important engage
ments will prevent Baron Speck von
Sternberg the German ambassador
from going to New York next Tues
day to witness the start of the At
lantic race for the emperors cup He
will be represented by his counsellor
and first secretary Baron von Dem
Bische Haddenhusen who left Wash
ington Sunday night accompanied by
Second Secretary Robert Scheller
Steinwartz and Otto van Etzel the
military attache Commander Hans
Georg Hebbenhas is now in New York
ITCHING SCALP HUMOR
Lady Suffered Tortures Until Cured
by Cuticura Scratched Day
and Night
Somebody Snyo That
When a woman asks a number of
questions sho Is possessed of Idlo
curiosity When a man asks u num
ber ho Is animated by a keen deslro
to Improvo his mind and enlarge his
sphere of knowledge That is Just
another ono of tho little differences
between the sexes which ought to
show a woman tho utter impoBBihlity
of ever hoping to attain equality with
man
All the Letters In a Sentence
All the letters of the alphabet arc
contained in the sentence John P
Grady gave me a black walnut box of
quito a small size Temperance typo
writers will of course prefer it to
tho old standby Pack my box with
five dozen liquor jugs If neither
suits they can try The quick brown
dog jumps over the lazy fox
Elephant Turned the Tables
Sir Frederick Saunders and a friend
were out elephant shooting 1 Ceylon
when the friend being surprised by
his quarry dropped his rifle and made
for a tree The elephant being wound
ed seized the abandoned weapon in a
transport of rage The rifle went off
and shot its owner In the ankle
Were Good for Both
Paulding Miss May 15th Spe
cial In this neighborhood men and
women alike are telling of the great
benefit they have received from the
use of Dodds Kidney Pills and it fre
quently happens they are the means
of curing members of both sexes In
tho same family Take the case of
Mr and Mrs F Erby Tho latter
voices the sentiment of both when
sho says
My lips cannot express too much
praise for Dodds Kidney Pills I suf
fered with Backache and Female
weakness for four or five years and I
feel that I have been wonderfully
helped by Dodds Kidney Pills My
husband too was a sufferer for five
years from a weak bladder and they
also cured him
Dodds Kidney Pills make healthy
kidneys Healthy kidneys mean pure
blood and good health all over the
body No woman with healthy kid
neys ever had female weakness
Pica for Light in Houses
Another mistake is to have too lit
tle light Why darkness and gloom
should be sought in any portion of a
house where people must live has al
ways been to bo an unsolved prob
lem Mysterious corners are in order
in a cobwobbed attic or an under
ground cellar but they are seriously
out of place in a pleasant room into
which visitors are ushered and which
is supposed to be a rallying spot for
the family Exchange
My scalp was covered with little
pimples and I suffered tortures from
the itching I was scratching all day
and night and I could get no rest I
washed my head with hot water and
Cuticura Soap and then applied the
Cuticura Ointment as a dressing One
box of the Ointment and one cake of
Cuticura Soap cured me Now my
head is entirely clear and my hair is
growing splendidly I have used Cu
ticura Soap ever since and shall nev
er be without it Signed Ada C
Smith 309 Grand St Jersey City
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Many Towns Named Washington
Almost every state has a Washing
ton Washington Ky is one of the
oldest towns in the state and almost
contemporaneous with Washington D
C Its old court house was erected in
1794
Private Car Lines
The railroads seem very willing to
have the private car lines brought
under the jurisdiction of the Inter
state Commerce Commission A rail
road president is authority for the
statement that lines are paid mileage
without discrimination and the ques
tion of excessive charges is a matter
for the shipper to settle with the car
lines so long as there is no law to
govern their rates Car mileage pay
ing has been decided to be as legal as
the payment of rental for property
If a man has no dust his name is
usually mud
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by local applications as they cannot reach the di
eased portion of the ear There s only one way to
cure deafness and that Is by constitutional rcmedleg
Deafness Is caused by an Inflamed condition of ths
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube When this
tube Is Inflamed you haveanimbllDs sound or im
perfect hearing and when It Is entirely closed Deaf
ness Is the result and unless the Inflammation can bo
taken out and this tabe restored to Its normal condi
tion hearing will be destroyed forever nine caes
out of ton are caa cd by atarrh which Is nothing
hut an Inflamed condition of th muou surface-
We will plve One Hundred Dollar- for any cas e of
Deafness caused by catarrh that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure send f r circular free
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A womans cleverness seldom ex
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Many Children Are Sickly
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English Idea of Humor
When two well-to-do English men
or women laugh it is obvious that a
misfortune has happened to a third
