Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 49, Number 37, Jasper, Dubois County, 31 May 1907 — Page 7

By ARTHUR VR&Y

CHAPTER VU. Continued.

a far as it lay In my ower, I would iH-rform my self Imposed task

i t direct ami businesslike nu t hod , t i this method, a dozen xtravu gant courses of OttOfe occurred to mf

, once of 'he dozen I selected two

, ;,oSsjMe Every English gentleman comes of a race of warriors." the mysterious woman of the reading room had said t ; dm last night Miss Brett, helng an I IflbWOnMi had the blood of sol i I in Ikt veins The physical oour 4 i in battlefield, then, must ap to her If, for Instant e. I should enlist In the Foreign Legion, there Vgl the LefftOSJ of Honor to be won The iinle ribbon would tell Its eloquent story. Wiüoughby'3 life had been lost ! the dread silence of the white gaowi I looked long anil earnestly where the inn touched the mountain tni with a rosy light out of the morn- ; mists, The mountains seemed to ! a (0 wait for me I In I iBUddered I still shuddered, s. I 1 fhl f their awful gloom and -s And yet they seemed to

. -i to wait for me. I had been htl - i nd weak. They had conq 1 Well, I must return to ( them Their very Immensity nee I sot appal me. Man's glory Is to s 1 ! te the vast forces of nature to then his own. ,-ht of the Hospice of St. ? I There for MUtVffM men 1 . laid down their lives to save thing. Well, why should 1 not the little band for the time Why should I not become a : :t; the order? A few months raining, and I should be ready for the battle. If I went to the monastery and told II itber superior of the sacred made, would he laugh at

Be ' r n D .adman, or would he understand and help me to fulfill It? the 'lay. therefore, vaguely I no longer permitted myself to be troubled at the whispers of :! sr'iits. I even courted 4 my fellowmen. I paid net admission to the kursaal, and listened with real enjoyment to Its excellent orchestra. My coal was lightly brushed. TVro was a faint but exquisite per- ' - meed, as did a dozen

the woman who was pass-

T -mall, but superbly poised fig9 Weed with a marvelous simi :sed by my side a fraction Of l ad It was my acquaintance Of 1 -ling room again, and she had 1 - nired a good morning A had noted the greeting and enreturn it. She continued hi ear daintily, punishing me for my ' by smiling across at me " - V as she seated herself at There was something Of a 'l Ml :i almost fairy malice in the Ml Kite smile. r intermission came. All the I pushed baek their chairs, and way through glazed doors the rear, whence an electric bell -- stently. The motley crowd tourists, and such of the Of Lucerne as was at the ' paased through the glazed

i to piay the petlts chevaux a r" inless form of dissipation, Hag toy that permits one to n it the most a five-franc piece. 'ntled with the crowd about the table on which the little es were whirling around an v race course. A croupier ! a fiu franc note for me I I I cofel on one of the numbers; I staked another coin, this tOU the field. Again I lost. ! all my five franc pieces but 1 weighed them thoughtfully n. my arm was touched It was my adventuress of ' mow once morp. Sho 1 her eyebrows, in whimsical conat nr HI luck. ' ''" Un'sc li'tle horses, you see.

n, know that I am to be Od " I said in a low voice. v'v friend." she smiled, vivacious'hey are simply frightened at black face. They are sensitive, the little horses. Hut If yon coax hall see llons. we will be pru1 a little shining franc on numbsr WOW, If my brave horses only v t it It is I who am asking them B 'or us. we shall win." e rlen va plus." croaked an off!m a !lTii:ylrss suit and crumpled bosom He spun the mechanism

y oetween two bony fingers and

mum. on the field. This UgM we shall certainly win." Three. Umm In succeslon we won now at even odds, now with the odds in our favor Cut again the electric bell rang She shrugged her shoul ders. und made a mono of regret "Alas! At the hour of our triumph the voice of art clamors." We returned to the concert rom. "Is It not strange," she murmured after a pause In the music, that one longs so much for what is just beyond one's reach, while other fruit, as sweet, may be plucked for the ask ing""

I ne boldness of the startled and repelled nie

'You speak in rlddlee, madam." I said, coldly. Frankly, I had not pbMod be exactly as that sort of a woman, "Rlddlee?" She lifted her eyebrows, hesitating. "I noan. Mr Haddoa, that I should be so glad if we

might becfrleada."

I was unconvinced. "Yon are too

generous. said. Ironically tw.ou

your Interest in mankind embrace all

the world !

"Hut you have been unfortunate"

she said, softlv. "Are you angry that 1 should be sorry for you?" "I am perplexed, at least " "If you are onty perplexed, I shall

tii"' iphor

i imw, ner aye iparkllag she l. aned deeiarelf toward roe; her I e ...s rnoi li.i tne. I ÜMM or the other maiden was Vice. ' he cried In a hollow, hagtbrl us voice. "My dear gentleman, you too delicious. M,,n I !,. I should be rm.ous with pool floe are telling 0 BOlte brutally that your eoM ling ' woman she is Virtue, and I, the etf wicked one I am naughty Vice ." Itsd again she laughed d liclously. "Pardon me. It is you who are p- . ing the moral," I protested awk wardly.

"Then !f It Is applied not correctly, let us have the true application." she eseechf 1 "That must follow the explanation of your extraordinary Interest In me." "Hum"- She hNuiod boeh critical ly. "Shall I say It is because you are l.and-ome?" ".Not If ou are honest." I chuckled "Or good?" "Wh not say brave?" I demanded. bitterly. "r that you remind me of a dear friend0" Say of yoirr late lanontcd grand mother." Oi, she gonad, "that it Is because you can be of use to me?"

Ah, that is better!" I assented, shortly. "I am to be of use to you. then -and how?"

tiently. monsieur! First of

are we to be friends?" "And again gently," I returned with caution. "Your name, if you are serious." A rosy faced page paehed his way toward us, salver in hand. It was at our table he paused. On the salver was a telegram. For mi'?" cried my companion eagerly. The boy nodded, but before he could hand the telegram to her. 1 had seized it myself. I made a gesture, itgnifylng that I asked her consent I road the name addressed on the en-

"Ferhis he said, heavily, scarce ly listening. Then suddenly an expression quite nerclleiM. distorted her features. Her pupils dilated In her fierce excitement, flie studied my face critically, aoldlj deliberate. There was HQHthlbJ par 'n'-Mn almost ominous. In this cor.l stare n MlHConcertcd me; It made me already regret my proffer of friend "hip she smiled, but the smile was Medusa like. Ye, I Udleve It. Tate has sent "u to me .,, ,i ar.- yni willing to follow where Fute leads' "Why not -" I demanded with more curiosity than sincerity. I confess. Ah. voii are courageous em ugh for Ihit? Monsieur, yo are a bald man " Sureh not so bold as you. madam, In asking courage of a man who has baoa tlagrao)ad for oowardloe." it was itaV iM to bOOf the sneer out of my voice. I know to whom I speak, mv dear monsieur The task I would set von ieexMdf not the brute courage of the fool, but the devotion of a crusader. It Is a sacred cause; its servants are not easily found." "I am flattered that I fulfill the re falrageeatl no admirably." I returned cynically "Et you will nnd it difficult to convince nie that my extraordinary coin age and devotion to a good cause

i make my services invaluable. Why all. I sliould you ehooa DM from a score of

nun to help voir" "You are right. Above all things we must bo frank with each other You are at the Sehwoitzerhof? Au revoir. you will bear fiotn me soon " I bowed over the hand she held languidly toward me. I was embarked on an adventur- Where would it leal me? CHAPTER VIII.

HOME TRADE FABLE

HOW THE TRANSFORMATION OF A TOWH WAS EFFECTED.

A STORY WITH A MORAL

Ons Public Spirited Citizen Who Realized the Big Possibilities and Cultivated ths Field to Ad vantagt. Onc upon a time there was a Man. who In his youth was reared upon a farm located near a Small Town of (Jreat Promise Two weeks in each year when ho was not sawing wood, feeding the stock or picking potatoes, he waa allowed to attend the little red schoolhouse in the town Hy hard labor during the day. and persistently reading a few old books which were heirlooms in his family, and each week absorbing the Intelligence contained

in the Weekly Mirror, he. by the time town had passed away. Streets

would keep hla mind occupied He t I .... .. i. . I 4 t M I a I,

"- nif i'mi low Ii. ne i nisi ii needed new life. He figured out that there were COS tarmera in the neighborhood Kach farmer surely sr;ent l"0 a month somewhere for supplies. This meant a total of ?0.0OO a month; $360.000 a year. Then the faw hundrad poOftt In the town would add other thousands to the volume of business. Why not build a great stop and supply the wants of the people? He would spend some money and build up the town He bought half a block on which three of the stores stood. He erected a large brick building, and soon he had Installed in It great stocks of goods Other merchants in the town shook their heads. The PublicSpirited Man was certainly crazy. Farmers when they came to town looked up the big building with wonder. The Weekly Mirror had to send away for type to set up the page advertisement for the new store, and to get a new press for the printing of circulars and posters. One month after the opening of the

store the graveyard quietness of the

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"Deadl"

n it despair." She smiled at me gayly across the table, her elbows supporting the clasped hads that framed her exquisite boaat. "Come, are we to be friends?" "I renicuiber." I aaid, bil.lly. "when I was at college, a story of Socrates that pointed an obvious moral. Would

you like to hear tt" She made a mock grimace. "Oh, Socrates. MOWSlear and a philosopher! And I philosopher henpecked by bis wife X ml ppo! Am I one to do with a henpecked philosopher? Regard me seriously, monsieur, and tell me. But If y at Insist your etory; i shall listen patiently." "The hpeckcd philosopher, then." I began somewhat trimly, "tells us that when Hercules bad a'tained manhood he set out on a Journey to see the world, and preeentl came to a parting of two w;; He hcslta'ed as to which way be should choose. While ho he.-i rated there appeared two maidens. each of whom pne)estcd that she would lead him the way that he should go. One Of these maidens was clad chastely In sOBlhef but not npIeaalBg raiment, if, Hercules, you will go my way. you will And It rough and tiresome. There are brambles to Impede your progress; there are sharp stones that will cut your sandals. It will always be hazardous, but it will lead to happiness.' "

"Ah. happiness!" sighed the woman oppOOltO me "She promise! much."

' Tho other maiden was xtremelf

O- " i asav v iiinon aa tan . . i v j "no. The tiny JH-keys In blue. bnff. beautiful and her raiment was or sll e, an,, SHid 8W,ft,Jr arouni very tissue. 'My way.' she said, soft- ' c Presently they straggled ly. taking Hercules gently by the srm. oehlnd the other, and came to. is strewn with flowers It leads.

- iusc The croupier stretched out broad and gently sloping, over soft ike. ,nd drew in our two shining turf, and there is music to gladden

"nier winnings of the

' "i ned to her sternly. "You see" 1 tned In tragic dismay. , 1""f A "tile patience, monsieur. 1 the iockeya who are sulky. I n1 forsntten K1,. .w ....

. HITJIII KISS

the hour. My way leads to pleasure.' The name of the first maiden was Virtue; the name of the ither, madam "

elope. She smiled, but reluctantly I thought.

Madame Sophie de Varnler." I

read aloud, before I passed the telv. gram to her. She tore the envelope open with a jeweled cross that hung from her chatelaine. As she read the message, sho bOCaiO frightfully pale; she waved In her scat. It was nt grief

so much as utter despair that prostrated her. "Dead!" She repeated the word In French more than once in a dazed oiie. "Dead, but It Is Incredible'" The seconds passed. I did not speak; I regarded her wlfh concern.

A bcautiiul Woman ll always danger is. but a beautiful woman In trouble i,t doujjtly so. The friendship she bad lightly begged of me a moment ago. I was tempted to offer seriously now Um had piqued and fascinated me Now her unhappiness touched my heart. Bai N ldenly I doubted. Was It a clever ruse, this advent of the telegram so aply timed'' Was she a con MHMMstO gCtreai, confident of her dupe? No; the agony tiio message had caused her was undoubtedly genu ine. When she looked at me. It was with eyes heavy with despair. When at last lb six ike, her eyes burne.l fiercely, her voice was harsh with anger. The words she uttered Wert certainly no: addressed to me. Tbe were spoken rather In spite of my presm'-e thi'.ti because of it. "Ixok! I stake all In one throw' I lose all -in a moment. I hold In my clenched hands the liberty and happiness of 10.OO0 women and clill dren. And then a cursed fate strikefrom my grasp this priceless happi ness. My poor eople, my poor pen pie! Again I fall you; I betray you'" She stared at me with eyes that did not see. Her small hands preened her

I paused; I was Indeed very bold I ;,'ipls convulslely.

looked at my visa-vis with sotno trepidation I need have felt none.

a live frauc Jcce, the mail She broke Into light laughtei, her

"Perhaps, madam, It Is fate also who bas scut me to you now, to help -Ott."

Prince Ferdinand and His Ambitions. I returned to my hotel soberly Waongh, I had told my little allegory lightly. Now I asked myself If I should not apply it seriously to myself. Only thin morning I had niapied out for myself a clear path to be followed. A.nd already was a siren beckoning? Already was I enchanted ? 1 was Intensely Irritated that I BhOtt Id have allowed myself to be Interest ed by this Sophie de Varnler. For the past hour I had beer, plaving i : rdttsty near the fire. It had not yet burned me; but could I honestly

say that It had not warmed, intoxicated, allured? Very well. I must be careful not to compromise myself In the future. Two women had met me at the parting of the ways. One of Usees had set me a task, holding hersolf proudly aloof, promts ing nothing if this task were actu

ally accomplished, the reward waa to

be the deed itself

And now another woman had come

radiant, glittering, a subtle perfume

lulling the senses. Her wild beauty

her charm, had been frankly displayed to enthrall me. She had promised a

definite adventure As to the reward

it seemed to me too brazenly obvious

I flicked the ash angrily from my

cigarette. And was I really tempted

Hardly. I resolved savagely. And yet I was not fool enough to be blind to

the fact that the situation was not

without its danger.

.My snouiaer was tapped. . I was

seated in the vestibule of my hotel

I looked up, startled. A well-groomed man In the early thirties towered over

me, an American I saw at once. Th

round, jocund face was vaguely fa

miliar.

Tee, exclaimed a burly voice. "It

Is really old HaJdon."

I grasjied the hand he held toward

me with emotion. Here was a friend.

an American, and I needed a friend

badly Just now

I had not seen Locke since we were

at college toKetlier. We had never

been intimate, but the big-hearted Robinson Locke had been a character

among his classmates

At first I In ::;) ed to his cordial greetings; I was afraid he had not

heard mv story Hut presently hn

plunged Into tho episode that had

made me n- orious for a day. Then

I knew he bad come to stand by me

"It Is a brutal lie. of course." h

stormed Indignantly, but even If it

wore true " He clapiod my shoulder. "It is true at least In a measure." ' Hit'" he exclaimed with cheerful

skepticism, lowering his person Into

the yielding expanse of an armchair by my side. "Tell me about it." "I nless yon insist. I prefer not to." I said quietly, beckoning a waiter. "It w as just a horrible nrclilent. Frankly, to have saved hi.i life was Impossible, but I might have died with him. 1 dJdat There you have my disgraco In a nutshell." He looked somewhat glum at this COld-bkMded explanation and stirred uneasily in his chair. I watched him, not wnootit prhn amusement He pulled at his cigar, searching my face keenly. ' Kot!" he cried again, and this time with conviction. If you feel any dis IMMNt it Is row ow n faul . Haddon If you were tho coward they say you are, you wouldn't sit there smiling at me. You would rave and swear hy all the gods that you were innocent. I

don't want to hear your story. Hut I want you to know that you have one friend from home to stick up for you, and to believe in you " I was too moved to speak. ' That's all right, then.' ho said with gruff gentlencBS. ' It must be hell tc bo over here alone and everybody kicking you." oh, that was to he exacted, of course! Hut last night I bad an ex jierience that I wouldn't go through aealn If I could heln P "

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uc c-uuiu raara nown his age at is years, had accumulated sufficient knowledge to run away from home. He wandered to a large city and there his great muscular power assisted to gain for himself a position as Chief Scrubber in a large store. He had not acquired the cigarette habit, and his faithfulness to his scrubbing brush, and his unwillingness to know all about his employer's business, soon attracted the attention of the Old Man. and at the end of a year he was pro

moted to Head Hustler in the shipping i tlte streets were naved. an electric

department at the larje salary of eight lighting plant was in operation, along

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lined with the teams and the wagons

of the farmers. A new elevator for grain had been started. The railroad placed a new switch in the yard to accommodate the Increased business. The son of the old town blacksmith reopened the old shop closed for years because of no trade. New life was rapidly being injected Into the place. There was an election. A lot of newcomers selected the Public Spirited Citizen for chairman of the town

board. He was . ;. ted In six monrhs

dollars a week

His disregard for scooting when the closing time came, and his total lack of swelled head so pleased the Old Man that from time to time the ambitious youth was advanced untU at the end of six years ho was drawing the biggest salary paid by the house, and

with a water works. The Great Storekeeper had a way of doing things, and he did them. News of the activity of the town reached near-by villages, and the people came to sec the Big Store and to buy gixuls. A cOi storage plant in connection with a new commission house operated by friends of

Jgf-

The advertising magnate will draw trade to the stores of our community Just as the advertising of the catalogue houses is now drawing it away from the home store. The people are interested in the store news of this town. Will you not give it to them?

soon he was taken In as a member of

the firm. Age and hard knocks and

the Storepeeker. caused Farmers to bring in tons of butter and hundreds

brushes with the business world de of thousands of eggs, and chickens

veloped In him marked business acu

men. He forged to the front as a financier and a public-spirited citizen. As years passed he prospered. Early

and late he was ever looking after his

vast business Interests. There were

times that he longed to be again In the small home town. Often in his

youth he dreamed of some day being

chairman of the village board. Only once since parting from the old home had he returned, and then to find the

town just the same only a little more

delapidated. and in the weed-over

grown kirkyard the neglected graves of his gOOd parents.

Strenuous business life and assld

lous aMentlon to tho accumulation of

capital without vacation, caused him to suffer from what the doctors pro

nounced neurasthenia, and advised total rest from mental effort. The man had labored too diligently In amass

ing m.uiey. Residence In a quiet place was recommended and retirement from all commercial worries The t;p at Merchant sold his vast interests to a

combine, and after careful thought,

concluded that he would seek rest and a renewal of health in the town where he at one time attended the little red schoolhouse. and where In childish im agination he would be powerful and

famous by becoming chairman of the

village board. Accordingly he retired

from the city, purchased the old homestead w here he was reared and picked potatoes, and also bul!t a residence and became a Great Factor in the

town. Time had made few changes in the landscape. Buildings and streets

were the same, only showing the rav

ages of decay. The old stores were in possession of the descendants of the

owners who conducted them when he

was a boy. They were not doing the

and other produce. The transformation was quick from a Dead Town to a Lively Small City. A high school was established, new churches built, and some of the pious people were shocked to see an opera house arected. The Pan Handle Skedunk rail

road, which for years had been running 20 miles from the town so changed its route as to have it on the main line, go the place had two railroads. Enterprising men who wan'ed to locate In a Live Town turned their eyes toward the place. Soon there was smoke from a hair dozen big factories, and In five years after the Public spirited Citizen had started his store his old home town has increased its population 1,000 per cent. It was no longer printed in little type on the maps, but in capital letters. MORAL Do not underestimate the possibilities of your community, or fail to develop them. No city waa e.r made great by Its people buying goods elsewhere. D. M. CAUL

Civilization in Abyssinia. A sawmill is already at work at Adls Ababa. Abyssinia, and Greek artisans are engaged tn quarrying and stone hewing Machinery in connection with house building generally Is likely to be in demand as soon as the means of transjiort are simplified. The government Is already building In European style and stone houses may be se'-n. some even of throe stories in height in the capital.

World's Submarine Cables. The total length of submarine cables In the world Is about 4.o00 kiloms I7MU miles, of which 60 ,-r cent, are British, ten per cent. Anieri-

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business that they should One Kreat ""' , ' V ' r "U , n . ... ' trench, and about seven iwr cent.

German. A great advance In this do-

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innovation was the town had a rail

road All about was suggestive of peace. It was an Ideal place for a

man who desired to pass his declining

days In contemplation of the hereafter. There, life was much like unto death. There was fresh air In abundance. All of nature lavishly spent Its beauty over the country and the town. nd even the weeds on the streets were allowed to spring up. bloom and reach maturity without interruption by the scythe or the siele. Within a year the Retired Business Man had regained much of his oldtime spirit aid health. Habits of activity and love of business Impelled him to once again seek work that

main has been made during the last few years by Germany, whose efforts tend to constitute an independent systemMemorial Diplomatique. Dreams Go by Contraries. "What do you suppose Is every Ioe doner's day dream?" "I don't know, unless It Is to be come a knight mayor." Baltlmoro American.

A Fcv.l Question. "Pop?" "Yet, my son." "Do Mother Carey's chickens com out of the ahio's batches?'