Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 29 January 1895 — Page 4

THE SONG OF A TRAMP.

The midnight stars are blazing From out t}ie w«?lkin wide, And o'er-tho'restlcss river

They dance on its shimmering tide.

While homeless and friendless I wander wild and free. I care for no one, goftd or bad.

And no one earea for me.

The north wind, fierce and hard with frost, Cones whistling o'er the moor. Tis bitter u,s the faces

I meet at every door.

The bro'Vii leaves oil the oak trees ,* Are sinking in the blast. They seem to think of summer time

And dream of pleasures past.

But never a thought of pleasure Or liappy dream have I. The spring hath no more hopo for me

Than winter's midnight, sky.

For then in wood or field I slcog, -.••• Or damp and loathsome cave, And now to warmer barn I slink, ••••.•

A coward and a knave.

And homeless and friendless I wander wild and free. r" I earo for no one, good or Ixul,

And no one cares for me. —D. J. Donahue in New York Bun.

"NEVER AGAIN."

Why did I ever rush into print as the apparent champion of anarchism and bombs? Why did I subsequently attempt to repudiate the insinuation and try to throw ridicule on the Russian and Loudon police? Why, after my recent discomfiture over that dog license business, •do I appear again beforo tho public? "Conceit," I think I hear you say, "mere vanity and a morbid thirst after notoriety." It may be so, but just at present I am constrained to admit that theso are not the feelings which predominate in my bosom. On tho contrary, I feel sufficiently humblo to apologize for my very existence and am only driven to my present course by tho feeling that a recital of my latest experience may prove a warning to those of my fellow creatures who, by persisting in a reckless wasto of ink, hope to attain to fame.

How was I to know there was a real Inspector Belvillo at Scotland Yard? And—but, there, I had better begin at the beginning. It was about a week after the appearance in a prominent journal of my talc, describing our attempt (I refer to brother Georgo and myself) to personate a couple of designing anarchists, and the subsequent recoil of tho scheme on our own heads, that I sat meditating in my rooms. Georgo and tho terrier, the causo of all the trouble, wero out for a stroll. I was revolving in my mind the ghastly failuro of that silly enterprise, and wondering whether I should ever meet that inspector of dog licenses again, when I heard a knock at the door.

My worthy landlady soon appeared with a neatly engraved card, bearing the following legend: "John Belville, Inspector, H. M. Criminal Investigation Department, Scotland Yard, S. W. "Jehosophat!" I faintly murmured, "here's a nice affair. This is tho genuine article, and I am a lost man." You will observo my nerves had not yet recovered from the recent shock they had sustained, therefore, when tho owner of the card entered the room, I must, to put it mildly, have looked disconcerted. "Er—sit down, inspector. Glad to see you, I'm sure—unexpected honor. Anything I can do for you?" I concluded, •with a miserable attempt at light lieartedness.

Memories of the aspersions I had, in my story, cast upon tho officer of this name (then only existing in my imagination) crowded in upon me, and I felt exceedingly low as tho representative of the law took the chair I indicated. "You were perhaps not altogether unprepared for my visit, Mr. Timbs—Mr. Reginald Ti inbs?" queried tho inspector impressively, and I felt his eyes looking through me. "Well," I replied, somewhat nervously, "I can't say that I expected you, because—no offense intended, inspector —I had no ulea that Scotland Yard was happy in the possession of the professional services of a gentleman of your name." "Then how came you, sir, may I ask, to make mention in this widely read periodical"—and here ho held out tho familiar green cover—"of my name?" "That's easily explained, I said. "I invented it." "Do you seriously expect me to believe that?" rojoined tho august official. "Have I been connected with the 'yard' for five and twenty years, and well before the public nearly the whole of that time, and then to be told that John Belvillo is not known?" and the worthy inspector began to get warm. "Well, I can only assure you," I replied. "Assurance," interrupted the little man, for he was not of an imposing height, "I dare say yon havo plenty of that, but it won't do for mo. No, sir, it spoils damages in my case." "Yes, but look hero, you know, said I, returning to tho charge, "it's no affair of mine. I had no idea you existed in tho flesh but, in any case, it seems to me your remedy is against the pub- .. lisher of tho paper. I don't pretend to be well up in the law of libel," I con- ..... tinued, "but I have always understood the paper is responsible. Hadn't you better seo Tit—ahem I the proprietors of tho weekly which has taken your name in vain? I understand they kept a fighting editor on the premises for such cases."

Here I smiled a wintry smilo and folt rath or better. "I don't want to be instructed in the a law, thank you," was the lofty reply. y.i "I know what I am about. It is quite a ii different matter when your namo ap- ... ears as the author, and that you will fnd out presently. However, that matter may keep. I have another and much wore important reason for calling,'' and

Aere tho inspector coughed ominously. My spirits dropped again, and I experienced a slight return of the Siberian sh ain gang feeling. 'The department considers," resumed 4be inspector, "that a man who seems

to bo so well posted in the ways and doings of the anarchists ought not to be lost sight of.^and have been deputed to report on the matter. Now, I might easily have oome.while you were at business in the city, and, armed with a search, warrant, havo turned the house upside down, but the authorities, in such cases, prefer to work quietly. So in spite of tho liberties you havo taken with tho department in general, and myself in particular, I tell you our suspicions candidly and look to you to refute them to my satisfaction. "If you prefer the other course, I return for a warrant, but warn you that you will not be allowed to leave the house, and a public examination will be the result. At present all I wish you to do is to let mo have a good look round your rooms. If you object, you will find I havo the orthodox four wlioeler and assistance at my call," and tho inspector smiled grimly. "Rather a nasty hit at my remarks on tho tameness of my supposed arrest by his namesake, tho dog license man, I thought, but stepped to the window, and thero, sure enough, was a four wheeler at the door and a couple of constables strolling in its vicinity. "Well," I murmured, "the inspector seems a reasonable man, and goodness knows I have had enough publicity lately. I know very well he won't find anything compromising,

Still"ho has

his duty to do, and he might mako it very awkward for mo, especially if he dwells upon tho libel business." Sol put a cheerful face upon it and said: "Now, inspector, this is a ridiculous charge to make, and tho best way to convince you of it will bo to let you rummage to your heart's content among my belongings. You aro welcome to any anarchistic literaturo or correspondence you may discover,'' and I handed him over my keys with a confident smilo. "Very good, sir, and, if you don't mind, I will commenco with your bedroom.

Accordingly he followed me up stairs, and whilo he ferreted about I sat down.

After a time the inspector went down stairs again, and I made for the door, only to find it locked from the outside. "The suspicious old scoundrel 1" I wrathfully ejaculated. "Thought I might slip down stairs and away, I suppose, while he was overhauling the sitting room. I'll let him have a piece of my mind when ho returns," I muttered and finally concluded to wait his good pleasure in dignified silence.

I gave the inspector a quarter of an hour and began to wonder what he was up to. I tried the door once more and found it still locked. Horror! He had the keys of my writing desk. Then there were my old china and collection of ancient gold coins, and I hoped to goodness he would not topple over any of George's valuable cups, conspicuously displayed on the sideboard. I began to wish I had gone down stairs with him. I got so uneasy that I knocked at the door and called to the inspector to let me out. "Strange," I said, "how these old sleuthhounds never lose a chance. Fancy him locking me in, after all his fair words!'' Not a sound from the room beneath. "Surely George has not been such an idiot as to leave any imitation bombs about byway of a practical joke, and the old boy has gone quietly off for assistance to arrest this dangerous nihilist?" I poohpoohed the idea and resumed my knocking and yelling. This method of attracting attention, combined with few resounding kicks, presently broug... my landlady puffing up stairs. 'Ere's a fine to do, Mr. Timbs, a-knockin the paint—not to say the panels—off'n my best bedroom door."

She unlocked the door as she finished her remarks, and I flew down stairs liko a madman. "Where's the inspector?" I yelled up to Mrs. Plaggs on finding the .sitting room vacant. "I ain't seen no inspector," replied Mrs. P—, with severo dignity. "I did think, hows'ever, that for a ole clo's'man 'e seemed extry respectable." "Old clothesmanl Mrs. Plaggs, what do you mean?" I scouted. "Wot I says," retorted the worthy creature, evidently highly incensed. "We'n that party, wich it was 'is card I 'anded to you (I ain't no reader), left about 20 minutes agone, 'e remarks confidentiallike, as I opens tho door for 'im, 'Prices ain't wot they was, ma'am.' I sez, 'No .indeed, no more they ain't,' sez I, thinkin to myself as I looks at 'is get up, 'But they seerr^ to pay some folks all tho sime.' Then 'e jumps into a four wheeler 'an drives hoff.''

By this time I had sunk, a perfoit wreck, into a chair. One gl-nc onnd tho sitting room had told mo W htre were George's silver trupLie*, V, hero was my real old Dresden? What had become of my precious coins? WW vas all our portable proporty? Gune! And with it that deop designing vill?i*i a. ". altogether outrageous fraud, the inspector. Done again! All a pat up job!

My landlady began to sympathize, and just then George came in, with Gyp barking at his heels. "Hello, old chap, you look cheap! Another surprise from Sootland Yard?" (George never lost an opportunity of raking up old sores.) "You've hit it," I said grimly.

Then he missed his cups, and I broke it gently to him. "You awful idiot!" he began. "George," I said, "spare me! Take me homo to mother. I am not fit to live alono in London. But first hear me swear, 'Never again do I put pen to paper to play into the hands of the London professional annexer.'

Then George swore, too, but it didn't take that form.—London Tit-Bits.

Equine Sagacity.

First Lieutenant—How do you liko the horse you bought from me last week? Second Lieutenant—Very much. Ho might hold his head a little higher, though.

First Lieutenant—Oh, that will como fill right when he is paid for.—-Stuivers-blad. ,,

A WONDERFUL TOWN.

BEAUTIFUL SPOKANE, THE MIRACLE OF THE WEST.

Xinrgrnnd Intelligence Coupled With Natural Advantages Bid Defiance to Disaster by Fire and the lilight of Hard Times.

From Trading Post to City.

Spokane went from a trading post to a city of 25,000 and a bank deposit of $4,500,000 in ten years, writes a correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean. Then came tho fire in 1889 to wipe out tho whole business section and destroy many million^of property. The day after the fire the people began rebuilding with unlimited credit from the east, and in two years tho city was as beautiful and as full of promise of power as the wonderful Spokane falls, which had attracted all this energy and investment in the center of the jftnland empire of oastern Washington and northern Idaho. Its handsome business blocks were built on borrowed capital, and when the panic came many men in Spokane who had been reputed wealthy found themselves almost penniless. But happily Spokane is peopled by intelligent and energetic young men, full of grit and pluck. They

are

the youth who boro the banner

with the strange device, "Excelsior," and they do not allow the mountain of mortgages on the glaciers of hard times to discourage them.

An Ohio man, who has been a resident of Spokane for 12 years, says of its prospects: "In the firstplace," said he, "I don't think that thero is any city in the northwest that has shown the percentage of growth in population and commercial development that Spokane has shown. Whilo Tacoma has grown three times the population in ten years, Seattle three and one-half times and Portland two times, Spokane has grown twenty-seven times. Its commercial growth might be estimated in about the same way. "Spokane, as the center of great agricultural and mining districts, will have a phenomenal growth anyway. Admitting that we have unfavorable conditions, we havo hero enough advantages to send Spokane ahead and give her a population of 100,000 in five years. Wo have minerals of all kinds—gold, silver, copper, lead and iron. For stone we havo marble, granite and onyx, and in agriculture, where wo had one acre under cultivation ten years ago, wo now have 20 acres. We have coal tributary, to us, plenty of it, and of prime quality. "I base my faith on the future of Spokane because of the force of her position. She is tho capital of one of the richest sections of this country, and she has no competition. Helena is 400 milos to tho east, and the sound cities are 400 miles tho other way. Thero is no room for other largo cities to be built. It is in the midst of the richest section of tho continent. I don't think that you can find another section to equal that taking in western Montana, eastern Washington and northern Oregon. Tho railroads make this country all tributary to Spokane. Tho climate is such as to invite all classes of people, whether they come to do business in the city or tako up farming in the country. "Next we have a. class of people who in enterprise and energy aro second to none. You can't find a man who has lost faith in Spokane. Even those who havo lost their all in the hard times will tell you that Spokane is all right. They havo absolute faith in her future. Tako our mineral wealth, and it alone would insure tho futuro of the city. We have also valuable timber and rapidly developing agriculture and horticulture."

Tho Spokano falls have long been noted for their beauty. But tho beauty of the Spokane falls is secondary to their practical uso. Mr. G. W. G. Ferris, tho architect of tho great Ferris* wheel, says: "The condition which will detormino the relative expansion of cities and towns in the next decade is tho presence of water power. The whole problem of electricity is one of cheap generation. Now, any town in this country which has a water power within an available distance, and that water power is a largo one, has, so to speak, a gold mine. Water power means the minimum of cheapness in the generation of electric power. You can easily see, therefore, that any town which possesses this advantago must take lead over any that does not.

Spokane meets the conditions. Tho falls here havo a minimum of 30,000 horsepower, and they have already been harnessed to run mills and a big electric plant that runs many miles of electric railway, lights the streets, business houses and homes and distributes power to a number of small factories. Tho division of these falls into cascades increases the power of the water and enables a wider distribution of its use. Thero is a total fall of 124 feot in a distance of 500 yards, divided into four falls by islands, giving four separate powers at tho first falls, and then another power at the lower main fall. Nature not only provided for the greatest beauty in the Spokano falls, but also for the greatest possible uso in furnishing power to mills and factories. Tho minimum of combined net power has been computed by Engineer J. T. Fanning at 30,000 horsepower, but owing to its peculiar situation the water can bo used over and over so as to multiply it many times. This power remains about tho samo tho year round bocauso Lako Coeur d'Aleno is tho natural reservoir for tho Spokano river, and it gathers the water from tho mountain watershed as the snows melt in the summer to keep up the supply when tho river would be lowest without such a resorvoir. Neither does the Spokano river freeze over. Its rapid current keeps it opon tho whole year, making the power constant and in no danger from ice.

Spokane has alive and hustling board of trade whioh has contributed in no small degree to the development of its resources and industries.

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