Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 49, Number 44, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 July 1907 — Page 7
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BY ARTHUR HEW VKSFY
HAPTER
XVII. Continued. I ftottl advent ureaa. H
u u. 1 1 ashing that service, of lladdnit it is possible that he Id It. llui If von are asking 1 1 addon to Htoop to dishonor , , 1 querade in a rhurarter to which
mi riant
will tlll do that
ie ha
' Erneut
Haddon
faced ach other Our syei -1 de-fiance Will heat against
hi agcrossive pWfKNM 11 resistance. Attain t "iiifui lips ram in 1 ha -ves hum with il
against I saw a cruel baneful
., she m confident of lier prey? P 1 e think that I should fall so a victim to her basilisk smile" i II h arret woefully. Hat beauty absolutely unmoved. Rather j . . ', .1 The savage nature of 1
showed too plainly In that a h ast you will listen to my
plan1" fei," F replied slowly, gazing f-il! v at the flickering logs. "I will !;sten to your plan. Like your : have 0M ton far to retreat, member, when you have told B the armed truce may he fnl : b) open warfare." Do you always give warning to , Hetiroa before ou trail them?" lemanded, t t Ii contempt nous and .urioua. hen I nt a guest at their houses, madam." T1 . door opened. I)r. Starva shnf-
" l itealthll) into the routn. She met big distrustful ttlatice with perfect Vnd our visitor, this brave Captain Y irbc - V lite demanded lightly. "Is he ii perststen as at Vitznau?" "Bab, he annoyi mo, this hrave captain sneered Starve. "He comes again 10 aah foolish questions. Hut 1 answer bim; yes. I answer him this time For to-night, at least, we shall ha i a pesee. N il itlioiit trepidation I thought of the ihnflUnc ft'1 nd the shout. Dr. Btl ft when crossed would not be in surmount lag an obstacle Either he thought me beneath eon- !: pt or a great fool. I could have Led that I were armed In this ('as t' -.f Happiness A few hours ago . tmosphere of the Middle Ages ltd i lung to it and bad enchanted me. I if its Inmates resorted to the noleat methods of that period I might fascinated. 1 1- Starva acain seated himself at Bit instrument. Madame de Varnler accompanied him as If nothing un . Al 1 ad happened. I looked thoughtfully at this danzerCOUplO. The morrow proaslsed . I The three of us were at cross Back was playin hia tm iti came. Which of ua wai to coaaaerl It anu rot lone before the Httle conert canie t.i an end. The enthusiasm of Ir Starva w.is not proof against the emotions of the past hour. Can Ilea were rang for. I bade them both a quiet good night, and followed the Um . J who preceded me to my chain 'A- ''"tiled the hours of sleep To n my nerves would need to be I -1 1 1 the surprises of the day 0 be followed by still another, "ii mj pillow was I folded piece of It was a message; 1 could not ' thai Hut when I had read it v ' completely mystified in two parh i 1 placed the message on my pillow? I'l l tin sender really believe that I Bit Mortimer? Sil Mortimer llr-tt will rail at G tnd hotel to-morrow at ten for R itnaoa Loche, sir m. rt i uu-i will n w s of Importance." I 1 it as the message
a to my
hotel to warn nie again.-t her. I had reeetvad his warnings lightly BDOOgb That very evening I dined with the woman, I took Hie boat for Vltznau, if noi in her Company, in the company of Dr. Stana, whom be must hare Often seen With her at lan erene. The knowledge of these facts would bring
; bim to t tu scene h Vit.nuu.
And then? The most startling dls com i i. s might he his. Say that he had actually traced BM as far as Vit.nau ll- would have made Inquiries yeetsrday lot Eraetl Haddon Prom whom else could Inmake these inquiries but the GOB ciarge? And he would learn what" The mvsf ei ions secret that it was not real I v Krnesi Haddon who had come to the hotel, but Sir Mortimer Brett, palling under the name of Krne-st Haddon. Yes; the coucieige would tell him the truth, according tO his ÜL'ht.s An old newspaper man like Locka would .bo satisfied with no vague evasions M Locke, then, had made Certain that i had entered the hotel the BVCB-
i ing before, that I had occupied 'he
i suite of Sir Mortimer Hrett. the niih
would rash on him. He would then be forced to one or two conclusions: either that I was a great fool to be so guileless a victim, or that 1 wan a
"Mndam .. secoud brt ukfa Hut Dr Itarvi Hi.lt he g ut poaal." He very
uiMnis-en ijiii Now that Madame de V'arnier wa BOl In be seen for the pre -ent, 1 aifhed I might have slept hhagaai was too late to keep the doubtful ap l.otntment with Loche even had I wi bed nut I did not wish to heap H First of all must come Madam? de Varnler's story At', wards events must shape their course aj they would Hut it was impossible to sie. -p again the glare of the light was unendurable. The noise .,f the rlvt r Aare seemed to rise in a steady ci . . ndo. I dressed lei-uteh f n I was deter mined not to leave the chateau until I had seen M elanie de Varnier And vet i had no deal re foi the company at Dr Starva I looked about tor a booh or magazine to beguile the hours be fore luncheon HaH a doen awaited my perusal. most of than yeiiow bached Preaoh novels. One book however, was in Bagltih. "The Foreign Office Uai and Diplomatic and t'onsular Handbook." I toad earlously. I turned to Sir Mortlmer Brett Sir Mortimer Hrett, KHMH; C.H.. MA. All Souls College Oxlord. V7;. Competitive examination and ierk of F. ), May HI, 1880. 3d Sec Mad . IMI Pracil Writer to the late Marquis of Salisbury. Sec. Stare for Foreign Affairs. 18S5. Transferred St Petorabarg. 2d Bee., i vkt,. Allowance for knowledge of Ruailan, May isv; ''harge d'affaires, Jan., 1SSS. Transferre! ronstantinojde Allowance for Turki.sh granted. ("finsul General. 1902." I read the list of Sir Mortimer's honors with a sttanre catching of the breath His progress in his profession had been extraordinary. That he was a zealous and ambitious diplomat was proven b the oaa fact that twice his
She Looked About Vaguely, Then Toward the Chateau Walla.
tat to BM
CHAPTER XVIII. The Myatenout Signal. Locke, as well as Forbes, had ': "1 us to Alterboffen' Was their Ik io. ho siMin aftr ourselves. 1 I coincidence" Or could they 1 i traveled together" Loche had rtainl) given me to understand that ! nevei ,een Sir Mortimer or his
and sister Nor bad I reason ppose that he knew the king's enger at least two ilavs ago.
If it were true that he had met none e people previous to my le-ivlng rna, if it were true that he did low them even now what could hronghrl I ke hither" 1 't IC of three things might have hap pened . may have been keeping a vlg lanl watch on the movements of MM ''"" - Sarnhoff. ' ptata Forbes might have traced 1 " vesterday ar.i have joined rorcei with lK-ke. " Lacke may have been watching ' Ither than Madame de Varnler. '' 1 1 ' POtted after nie. rather than her It and her companion. 1 Wired IttUa "nngjaatlrai to rea rti out thp affair. ' 1 ' da: s ago be had s en me eon v' ; "g on anparaatt) Intimate terms ih Un? Uouutess Harahoft. a nolo
mack more cunning rogue than he had thought. Hut the note 1 had found sc atrangehv on niv pillow had given no inkling
of his suspicions if he bad any That was to be expected If Sir Mortimer, or rather Rjmaif, failed to keep the appointme nt, he would draw his own conclusions. And having drawn them. nat would I his course of action? He would storm the chateau for the truth. If. as seemed moat llkly. he had joined totCM arlth I aptaia Porhaa, he would realize the BOed of imniedi ate action. What with latarviewi between my sdf and Madame d. Vartüer, UMBhO, and Forbes, the day promtted to be exciting. There might. I thought with Infinite' dread, be yet another interview. For if Forbes and 1 ke had succeeded in tracing us tO Alterboffen why should not Helena Hn tt and her mother'' I looked at my watch. I had slept aoaadly, lalhafl to sleep by the tamptaaw I i 1 1 1 stream helOW. K WM now ten 0c1 s:k. The sun was shining brightly late my room. 1 could see the mounMinr rosy lined in the morn ing light My door was rapped geptH . the 0 pushed open. The' seivnnt Who had ushered me to my chamber entered with coffee There was none SO likely to have brought Hie note as he I tempted to test the suspicion. It minbt he convenient to avail myeel! Ol Mi services. If ny suspicion were true. Bat I ch-e lded to BUB tin BlIaalOB to It. For the presemi 1 had no need of the man. and If be we re ignorant Of the- existence of, the noU1 I should rlak much by making him the wiser. I am anxious to see Madame de Varnier.'" I said, raising myself on my edhow to pOl W( km coffee "la be p yet?"
salary had been Increased because he had OB altered tWO of the most difficult laagBBgea IB the world. That fact also proved that he owed his promotion not so much to influence at Court as to his ow n dc te-Vmlnatlon. He was a student as well as a diplomatist. It gave- me a distinct sdiock that such a man should he so weak as to succumb to the beauty of a cleve r adventuress Again 1 read at random: "The flag to be used by His Mai Chly's Diploms tic Servants, whether on shore or embarked on boats or other vesse ls, is the I'nion. with the Koyal Arms in the center thereof, surrounded by a green garland " My eyes skipped down the page The uniform of the consul general was fully described. The cocked hat was to b- without binding the fan or hack part eleven Inches, the cockade plain bullion gold tassels, edging of bfctck ostrich feather 1 skipped that, too I was not Interested in millinery. Hut preeentl eye wandered to tbii paragraph I began to read It not without uneasiness: Official Act of Parliament to prevent a Disclosure- of Documents and Information: Any person found guilty of a breach of official trust; of purloining or obtaining ngalef false preteuses papers of State-, and found guilty of the same-, shall be comic t. -el of high tre-ason. Any pereoa iBterferina with His Majesty's Diplomatic lervaatl In their official business, cither by tin- giving of fa!se Informa Hon. the assuming of any cd their pN rogattvea or rigiiti " 1 have aefaf learned the awful fate of a person guilty of then aUadaflMaa j ors. The BOOh slipped from my hand. boe the clamor of tb stream below I had heard a flint hont Twice- It was repeated. Alarm-l I I went to the wmduw, bad looked dowa.
V first I r int.. the river Hut the shout had not e n fro-ii below J could In sure- of thla, be-c:i'i I on Üie oppoftlte side- of the Aar- a a narrow esplanade. Me-m hes w. re laced at Intervall, and iheee w- bdaa f flowe rs to hteah the- atonotoay cd the gra l walk. The I but fm oaa perlad she was neael. ler pa raiol hl Idlag bar fi m the iaa
and from my view kgahl i i eard the ahoat, and itiu again I liste ed, br-atblesi. Hut the mysterious cry wie no longer repeated Puatled I stneid at tl I Wntow. laoing fir ' i' hut I f .tild discovei s m of no leraOB at such of the windows as I could command My glance u Idly to the- woman sunning herself on th- Oppoelte bank. And as I looked, a tiny shaft of light arrested my atten ilea). It was scarcely larger than my hand. hut it teemed endowed arlth elfish in te-lligence. For it moved. It dance-d And always In th dir-ctlon of thej woman with the parasol. 5x'ow it crawled slowly along the groveled walk In a dir-ct line from the rive r hank te.ward her. Now It
burned a shinitm mark, motionless Then it darted about In circles, and always close- to the woman as If to en gas- her attention A minute, fiveminutes passed, while I watched the ceentric gyrations of this extraordtnarilv intelligent shaft of light. Ove r and over its antics Vara repeated The woman's parasol was tilted carelessly bach for a niom-nt The narrow beam of light lelaed its opportunity It played fantastically on the dress of thf woman. Now at last she had seen it It flashed upward toward
hT face She looked about vaguely, then toward the chateau walls Now I had se en he r face It was Helena Hrett. I struck my forehead, Impatient at
my stupidity, it was Captain Forbes who had shouted. He had seen HelOBB Hrett: he had vainly attempted to mak'- her hear. Rut the roaring river had d; owned his cry That I had heard It, proved that he- was nearer to me than to her. Yes; in this chateau, and a prisoner. He was signaling that fact to h-r. Kvery schoolboy knows the trick. The reflection of th' sun's rays on a rilrror will carry a tolerable distance. Hut BOW that he had attracted her BttetttloB, would she lyok a; and Baa him" I. I. v chance that wr-re possible, would she- understand? 'Fascinated, I saw the little beam of licht t. 11 its story elocjuently ami In genlou.dy.
Her Aim.
A man who runs a truck farm la Virginia tells of the- tad predicament In which a colored man named Sam Moore, who Is In hU employ, r-cently found himse lf Kam had had considerable difficulty In evading the onslaughts of a dog from a neighboring farm Finally the dog got him, ai Sam kicked at htm. Sam s wife, he-arlnf a tremendom ye il. rushed to the reicue of her husband When she came up the dog had fasten ! bis tee th Id the calf of Sam I b'g and was holding on for dear life Betzing a stone in the road, Same wife, was about to hurl It when Sam, with wonderful presence of mind, Ihouted: Mandy! Mandy! Don't frefw dat tone at de dawn Frow It at me, Mandy!" Vouth'a Companion. WESTERN MEN IN NEW YORK. Brains of Mountain and Prairie in Demand in the Financial Center. liver since the early days, when D. 0. Mills. J. Ii. HagKln and James R. Keen- emigrated' from California to .New York, the metropolis has been drawing large ly on the we'st and south tor its supply of "men who do things." Ibeodore P, ShontJ. both a souihe-rne r ami westermT, who has undertaken to solve New York's great transit prob
lem, is ihe latest Importation in re
sponse to the call of the east. The promptness with which Thog F. Ryan, of Virginia, turned the Equitable Life Assurance Society ver to its policyholders, who now elect a majority of iti l.oard of Directors, and divested himself of the control of the stock which he benight from Jas H. Hyde, and the auccess of the new management of the Society under the direction of President Paul Morton, have created a d'tiiand for the strong men of the south and west that is greater than ever before I nder the Morton managemt-nt th- Kquitable has
made a better showing than any other Insurance- company in the way of Im
proved methods, economies and increased r-turns to policyholders. E. H Hary, head of the greatest corporation In 'he world the V S. Steel Co. John V Gates. Henry C. Frick. Norman H. Ream, Wm H Moore and Daniel G. Re-id are other westerner! who ar among the biggest men in New York.
CHAPTER XIX. The Startling Message. She had looke d up. nly to be blindai by the dancing flame She held her Lands before her eyes. The flame perItatBBtly annoyed her. She moved from her seat. It pursued her. Acaln she looked up; and even from this height I could see that she was frowning in hT anger and annoyance. She seated herself at another bench. Hut she could not .shake off her tor-ine-ntor It BO longer bat on her face .Mid person: It moved steadly toward her, then traveled along the path of the prOBaeaade; trespassed Into the ir.irden of a cottaer; shot by the cottage Knotf; halted at a huge wooden signboard, on which was insc ribed a tOBg advertisement in French proclaiming the exalted merits of a Swiss cluH-olate. It zigzagged tremulously across the signboard. It paused at a capital letter I. ileb-na had watched it curiously until it disappear-' into the garden. Then she had lost interest in Its movementS, and had once more scanned anxiousiy the chateau opjxisite. Patiently and persistently the little beam of light repeated Its nntlcs. Auain it moved, swiftly this time, to 1.. -imiboaid And now sl:- turned In he r se-at nnd watched It until it again paaaed at the b-ttcr I. Twice the mirror was flashed on the billboard; twice it pased at the- letter I. It disappeared, to rwBppcar at . Frm A it darted swiftly to M Another pauie and again it vanished Once more it pointed to A; once more it vanished. NYh.n it climbed the s'.Tnhoard again, it wandered vaguely about as if seeking a lette-r. After some hesitation the mlrmr's reflection fell on P. Thence it shot to R. Again It hesitated, but It last settled on I. Onee more it se-lecte-d S Thence in quick succeavion came O. N, K. R. dj AM A PRISON KR." it had spelled. Bat while Heiena and I were still stating nt the bard. the shaft f light darted in feverish haste from letter to letter until it bad spelled nnothe word : "FORHKS" The king's ni'-sienge-r had been an Kncllsh officer, and one of the first military duties a boy learna at Sandhurst or Woolwich is heliographlng. When. th'r-for Captain Forbes bad a e-n lb le-na across the river and had re ali.-d the futility of his shouting being I man of wit and re source he had '"hi Of the Imprisonment In this happy method. He had flashed his message succesfull He lena amderntOOd. She looked upward toward the BhatCBB, nodded excitedly ni ngfati aagerly wratehod the signbOOrd. She was not to be dis appointed. The Baeeiage v. us net quit complete. Th8c two words were added: .;KT HKH-P." Ketang made a leetwri of gaatpra . - ion. and walkc! -aj .n'.y In the dli , . i ma of the vlflage. (TJ MJ . iNTI Nt'KD.) God coming to mau means man bo naaajag " Hdb
THE TEN TOWARD MEN Sundiy School Lesson lor July 21.1907
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SOMEWHAT OF A REFLECTION.
Naive Comment of Debutante Amused Höstes.
That
A charming hostess of one of 'the "big huies." is they are called by those who are welcomed into thefh, has the added beauty of prenia'ure white hair That which seems to her contemporaries an added charm may appear to the crudely young a mark of decline, it least so it appears in one instance of which the hostess herelf tells with enjoyment. The lady Is a connoisseur of antiques At one of her teas a debutante rich with the glow of youth, but sadly constrained with her sense of novelty, was handed a cup of tea; the cup was beautifully blue nnd wonderfully old. The hostess desiring to lighten the atrain on her you'hful gueat by a pleasant diverting remark, said: "That little cup ii a hundred and fifty years old!" "Oh." came the debutante'! hlch trained tones: "How careful you muat be to have kept It io long!" Money in Raising Celery. Celery will be MM jf th- principal, crops produced in the nedgbborhood of Canon City. Col., this season. Thla Is due to the faet that the late frosts seriously injured the fruit crop, and the (growers have now begun to phtB celery. Celery has been raised successfully by a few growers, and hai been found to be one of the best paying crops One grrower realized $1.575 from one and a half acres last year, anothT on b-ss than an acre The cost f an acre of planting and care Is about !2."'i The de-mand for the crop ha3 always been greater than the supply. A SMALL SECRET.
Couldn't
Understand the Taste His Customer!.
of
Two men were discussing the various food products now being sup plied In such varie ty and abundance. One, a grocer, said, "I frequently try a package or so of any certain article before offering It to my trade, and in that way sometimes form a different idea than my customers have. "F')r instance. I thought 1 would try 8om Post uni Foe nl CofTe-e. to see what reason there was for such a call for It At breakfast I didn't like it and supper proved the same, io I naturally concluded that my taste was different from that of the customer! who bought It rluht along. "A day or two after, I waited on a lady who was buying a 2rc package ml toM h r I couldn't understand how one could fancy the taste of Postum. " '1 know Jut what is the matter. ihe said, 'you put the coff-e boiler on the stove for just fifteen m!nuts. and ten minute s of that time it simmerei, and perhaps five nilnut-s it boiled; now if you will have it 1 ft to uoil full flften minutes after it commences to boll, you will find a delicious Java like beverage, rich In food value of gluten and pliosphate-. so choice that you will neve r abandon it. particularly when you se e the irroat gain in health.' Waat, I t'ok another trial and iure enough I Joined the Postum onny for good, and life seems worth living ilnce I hai no ?.-n ri'I of my i !d time stomach and kidney trouble!." Postum Is no sort c f i -dlclne. but pure liquid food, and this, together with a relief from coffee worked the change "There's I Reason. " 4 "Thi Hoad to Weil villi, ' In phf.
UfgnnoN text.--Bmdua M:B-IT. Men
exv -r-. 12-11.
CKMUDBN TKXT. 'Thou shalt love thy
neighbor a ''' . -lv B I
Comment and Suggestive Thought. The fifth cininiandmnt .belongs to both tablei of the law 8ine (iod ie
our Father we are- taught to honor
him aa a father If then, 1 bo a lather, where ia mine honor? . . . laith the Lord jf hosts unto you" (Mai. !;). To. the young child the parent are in plac e of the heavenly Father, to lead the- child up to him. The word) pietas. whence our ' piety'" mant originally the duty of men to God reflected la their duty towards their pan-nta. So in 1 Tim. 5:4. the Oreel word f r show pie-t a' h 'in--, eiisel.ein, and i'l Latin equivalent, colere, honor, reverBM B, worship, ia applied both to joI and to paraati, 2. "We are hidden to honor, because lava is instinctive-, and can only b spontaneous. The homr for our parents is love combined with reverence; the love must be honor touched with emotion. The word 'honor includes love,' for there can be no true) honor without love." Farar 3. It applies to Kth parents. "Mother stands out as clear as Sinai itself. There is no cloud on her majesty. Booh honor as goes to the father k ' to the mother." Caverno. 1 We honor by love, courteous at tent ions, by giving them the beat, by Jarayi liaallai 'h'-ni with honor in the- pn-sence of others, by deferring to ÜM I : wishes. ." The fifth coinniandnu nt "il thJ saiictitication jf social lif" and
tha surest basis of all righteous kob "rnment." In its widest sense it re P'-e-ts gray hairs everywhTe. and honors all in authority over you, s ;ch as your pastor, teacher, employer or magistrate Iack in this repect is a growing evil, full of mischief to ur nation 6 The fifth commandment Joel I t require a child to do wrong at a parent s bidding, but it does require a child to love even unlovely par r.'s. because they hold to him the sacred relation of father and mother. V. IT "Thou ahalt not kill " The It. V give the thought more accurately. "Thou shalt do no murder." Killing is sometimes justifiable: the bil!e itself enjoins the killing of men f-r piinhdlBlCBl of those who tinifl-r. lr order to prevent, by the punishment of the guilty, the murder ot the iun -cent. V. 14. This is the safeguard of tho liom- and the family. 1. Primarily, the seventh commandment forbids adultery, and the sins which, under slight differences, are) cognate with it. t. It forbids all impure thoughts, and the books and pictures and p'r- s and acta which tend to excite such thoughts and inspire impure sets Plato would exclude from hia idesl republic everything that would debase ÜBB tas.- even ail p i pictures and poor workmanship. 3. Blessed are the pure In heart, for they shall see God." while t'.i- IBB pure soon lose all sense of divine things No sin. not ever, iutemperar.ee. so rapidly ruins a man, body. mind, and soul, as this sin. 4. The way to overcome this evil is by the good true love and happy marriage. a mind full of good thoughts, a life full of good d 1.V. 13. Il the safeguard of personal and property rights, and the wa;: .f defense aeaiaet the temptations to selfishness and crime. The crime of theft is. of all others, the meanest and most despicable It is selfishness Incarnate. To gain by stealing is far worse for the thie'f than for the one wronged. A clear conscience Is worth more than all the World. Plato illustrattes the test f honesty by the story of Gysjea' ria-:. which made the wearer invisible. He that Is honest, even when he can bo ., -.-.honest without being found out. is a truly honest man. V. if. Forbids false statements in a case of law pvrjury. "It Is a prohibition of slander, or of careless siieech. affecting the god nam of ones fellow man. This is not. as many have) supposed, a mere injunction to trithful speech on all occasions." Trumbull. The last commandment Is a unique one Search all the laws of the world an el you will not find one which resemble! It. The sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth confmandments you will find In r.ll codes, though only as prohibitions of crimes amenable to Judicial punishment Th- t.-nth t-ominand-BMMri is Use romple-nient of all the rest. It shows that (Sod requires of us not only outward virtue, but inward holiness: that he demands in us the sacrifice of the will, from which wick-d actions i:ring: that sinful imaginations era a crime against him a well as wicked acts." Farrar. Practical Points. The religious side must come first. is tne inspiration to erlorm our duties toward men. Ijve to God our Fsther will necessarily lead to love tr our fellow men. his children When our hearts are filled with lore to fe d and man. then they are no longer restraints, hut faldM si to tho way our love should expresi Itself. They are like fences by the roadside, showing us the way to go. These commandments are to couftgnaj us of sin. As we stand bsi.l this ideal we r nttll bow far shri wa have cuuie