The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, March 23, 1922, Image 2
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McADOO GOES WEST
Horace Greeley, the famous editor
of the New York Tribuife, advised
young men to '^o weal and (trow up
with the country." HiB advice was
followed by thousands who did go
West and helped to build up that
great Western Empire.
It oan hardly he aald that Hon.
Wililam G. McAdoo has gone to Califs
rnia to grow up with the country as
he is pretty well grown. However,
Mr. McAdoo and his wife have arrived
in Los Angelus and they will make
their home in the beautiful land of
Sunshine and of Flowers.
Mr. McAdoo when on the eve of
leaving New York for California was
interviewed by the Associated Press
when he made a very frank statement
of his plans. He said:
"I am simply going to Los Angeles
to make my home beeause Mrs. McAdoo
and I like the climate and the
country. I expect to hang out my
shingle and practice law just as I have
been doing since I left my office at
Washington."
It is in answer to a "call of the
fild" that he will go west. Mr. McAdoo
confessed?"the great open
spaces where one can ride and climb
and swim whenever the heart desires?
and still keep on with the
business of life.
"My work in connection with iho
Hudson tunnel, followe-l by six strenuous
years in the United States treasury,
with the additional burden of
being director general of railroads,
sapped my vitality. When I left the
treasury. Mrs. McAdoo and I took a
three weeks vacation in the West and
my vitality returned. Ever since then
I have wanted to make my home
there.
"I want to feel a broncho between
knees, again and 'go exproring' in
the mountains. I believe with Admiral
Grayson, Mr. Wilson's physician, ;
that 'the outside of a horse is good
for the inside of a man."
It is not a violent presumption that
when the Democrats seek a candidate
as a successor to President Harding
they too will "go west" and find a
winning nominee in the person of the j
War Secretary of the Treasury. j
BABE RUTH'S BIG SALARY
The New York American League
club has made a contract with Babe
Ruth to play ball for that club for
three years at a salary of $75,000
per year. He is some Babe to get a
salary equal to that of ten United
States Senators.
If the contract is renewed for five
years as per the option Babe Ruth will
receive the enormous sum of $375,000.
INSURANCETOR FARM CROPS
The great risk of the farmers take
in raising their crops has finally come
to the attention of our lav/ makers
and a bill has been introduced in Congressman
by Hon. Edward King, of
Illinois, authorizing the establishment
of a buroau of farm risk insurance
in the Treasury Department.
Th<> hill r?rr?viH???i tr\r tho oafuKKoVi,
ment of the bureau, allows a director
at $5,000 per year, and states that
the bureau shall, as soon as practicable,
make provision for the insurance
by the United States of growing
crops of nonperishable products
against loss or damage by the action
of the elements.
Losses would be paid promptly, and
in case of disagreement as to claims
the claimant would have the right to
take the case itno any United States
district court. A revolving fund of
$10,000,000 to inaugurate the system
is provided, as well as $100,000 to
cover the expenses of the bureau during
its initial year of operation.
In advocating the passage of the
bill Mr, King said:
"Mr. Speaker, agriculture is the
only industry that can not obtain insurance,
and in view of the great
hazard surrounding farming, the pri-1
mary interest of the Nation is making
certain that its people have suffciont
to eat, and the discouraging, if noti
production today, I most earnestly!
urge favorable consideration of this!
bill."
According to nn evening paper the 1
lady who has just become duchess of
Westminister has "one son, a boy."
On the other hand, the duke himself
has two daughters, both girls.?Lon- j
don. i
}MICKIE, THE PRINTE1
51/ Yd VIE CCM8I M
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baptists raise
$30,000,000 gash;
ALL QtNBNAL WORK OTNBNOTM.
NIO BY 7B MILLION CAM.
PAIQN, IT IB BHOWN.
WHERE THE MONEY OOES1
Or. B. QUI, Baptist Representative Hi
Europe, on Left, and P. V. Pavloff of *
All Russian Baptist Union.
From the beginning of the Baptist .
TV Million Campaign to January, 1922,
a total of $30,356,319.41 had been paid
in to objects fostered by the Campaign.
it is announced by the general
headquarters office at Nashville. Of
this amount $28,799,971.16 came in
through the payment of regular Campaign
subscriptions and the remaining
$1,556,348.26 in special contributions.
Regular receipts from the various
states follow: Ala., $1,301,134.76; Ark..
$714,683.09; D. of C., $128,280.01; Fla..
$469,753.53; Ga? $3,000,174.10; 111.,
$298,576.13; Ky? $3,187,656.15; La.,
$807,991.13.; Md., $393,517.46; Mlse.,
$1,243,846.50; Mo.. $1,190,754.70; N. M..
$145,229.97; N. C., $2,211,741.50; Okla..
$840,502.65; 3. C., $2,633,840.63; Teun.,
$1,797,483.10; Tex., $5,102,058.35; Va.,
$3,279,085. More than 250,000 baptism*
were reported by Southern Baptist
churches last year.
How Money Was Distributed
Seven general objects of the denomination
were embraced In the Campaign
program, and from the regular
Campaign contributions those objects
have received the following amounts,
according to a compilation by the headquarters
office: Foreign missions, $6,434,012.53;
home missions, $3,562,600.67;
state missions In the seventeen
states and local work In the District
of Columbia, $4,954,813.26? Christian
aducntlon, $7,192,442.79; Baptist hospitals.
$2,004,099.16; orphanages, $2,108.787.33;
and Relief and Annuity
Board, which ministers to aged dependent
ministers and their families,
$799,126.99.
What Money Has Dons
These funds represent an advance,
ranging from $00 to 100 per cent, im '
the contributions of Southern Baptists !
to their general missionary, educational
and benevolent work, prior to
the Inauguration of the Campaign, and \
have enabled the boards and other
agencies to greatly extend their serv
Ices In all departments. In additioa
to sending out more than 180 new misairvnurloa
ctnoA $-?<-? fy?? W-??^ ?
aiviiai tvo Q1UV.V luo vailiyaigU U???U,
and providing many church buildings,
mission residence.,, schools, thaological
seminaries, publishing houses,
hospitals and the like on the older
fields the Foreign Mission Board has
been enabled to open work in the new
fields of Spain, Jugoslavia, Hungary,
Houinanla and Southern Russia is
Europe, and Palestine. Syria and Siberia
in Asia, and Dr. Everett QUI, for
many years & missionary in Italy, but
more recently a pastor in Kansas City,
has been named special European representative
to supervise the greatly
expanded work on that continent. Dr.
Gill is giving much of his time to dl?
trlbuting Baptist relief funds in Russia
and otherwise looking after the 1?
terests of the denomination there. ,
Home Work Enlarged
Among the outstanding accomplishments
of the Home Mission Board are
the aiding of more than 1,000 churches
with loans and gifts for church build
i"H?, cumpieiion or me oig tuberculosa
sanatorium at El Paso, enlargement
of the work in Cuba and the
Canal Zone, strengthening of the 17
mountain mission schools and the development
of all alexin depart meats ,
of the work of the Board. In all seventeen
states of the Southern Baptist *
Convention the state mission work haa ]
been greatly extended, the number of i
Baptists hospitals in the South has |
been increased from eleven to twenty- i
three, all of the older eighteen Baptist <
orphanages have been aided in mate- <
rial ways and two new ones have been I
established, while die number of aged ' I
dependent ministers and their families |
has been doubled and the amount of | |
aid given them increased 100 per cent, i
Collections Are Pushed <
While the collections so far repre- i
sent a big gain over the contributions i
of Southern Baptists to their work be- ?
fore the Campaign, the sum collected |
Is not all that is due and In all the <
Booth an effort is being made to col- )
lect r. i -.?ueh more as possible by the <
close of the Convention year, May 1? I
thai none of the work may suffer. I
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IT ATE FARMS TO SELL COTTON 11
IN COOPERATIVE PLAN i
Columbia, Mar. 10.?The State of' 1
South Carolina will sell all cotton 1
frown on the state farms during the 2
[text five years through the South
Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative
iseociation. Governor Cooper yesterday
signed the bill passed at the last
tession of the general assembly em- 1
powering the superintendent of the <
tgreement on the part of the state and 1
Etgreemn on the part of the state, and 1
Col. A. K. Sanders, the superinten- j
dent, signed the contract immediately j
thereafter. ]
The governor signed the act in the <
presence of Senator Bethea of Dillon i
and Representative Jackson of Sum- {
ter, two of the authors of the bill; 1
Harry G. Kaminer, president of the i
South Carolina Cotton Growers' Co- 1
operative association; R. C. Hamer,'
chairman of the campaign committee; i
Harold C. Brookers, secretary; D. W. i
Watkins of the extension forces of i
Clemson College; Col. A. K. Sanders, ]
superintendent of the penitentiary, <
and W. R. Watkins, the governor's 1
secretary. Santor G. K. Laney of <
Chesterfield, who with Senator Bethea i
sponsored the bill in the senate, wlr- 1
cd that ho wi< nnohlo tn K*? .
. ? w ..v ..?.w ? ? viv ?v w pa vovil% <
it the signing because of previous <
jngagements. l
Col. Sanders signed the contract i
for 576 bales, this being based on the 1
1920 crop. The agreement requires i
that all coton grown on the state
farms in the year 1922, 1922, 1924,
1925 and 1926 be sold through tho 1
association. It leaves optional with <
the superintendent the sale of the
cotton now on hand. He may also i
turn it over to the association for
ale if he deems wise.
The joint resolution signed by the I
governor is as follows: "The superin- i
.endent of the penitentiary be, and, I
le is hereby, authorizd and empower- ]
jd to sign the agreement of the South
Carolina Cotton Growrs' Cooperative
association and thereby bind the state
of South Carolina by all terms aad
obligations therein contained and set
forth." i
Colonel Sanders said that it gave
him great pleasure to affix his signature
to the association agreement. He
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MADE HISTORY
By JAMES C. YOUNG.
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(0 by MeClir* N*?iptp?r SrndluU.)
A VAMPIRE OF OUR OWN TIME.
'~|"*HAT the vampire flourishes today
J. no less than In the famous timet
of the past, is proved by the career
of Mslvlna Vivian. She was born a
Spanish fisher girl, who Seen developed
Into the beauty of her village.
A rich German, WonJer, taw her, and
according to the story, paid the glrl'a
father 1,(XX),000 pesos for possession
of Malvlna. The German took her
to Paris and had her educated there,
particularly In dancing and slnglpg.
And a short time afterward he installed
her'In a Berlin palaco.
Malvlna became the moat celebrated
artist of the German stage, iler dancing
was something never to bo forgot
ten. 8be also was famous for bar
costume*, tha richest which Parts
coald produce. Her patron spent millions
of marks upon her and ah# mads
large sums upon tha stage.
Than cams the war. MalWna'a
wealthy friend lost much af hla fartune.
the theaters closed, or cat expenses.
Malvlna found herself on tb#
edge af what would have been misery
ta her. But she did out descend Into
the pit. for It was observed that she
seemed to bare as much money as aver,
and wore Paris gowns of the latest
cut when German women were turning
Inst year's clothes. Wonler became
suspicious. It was whispered that l(aLvlha
bud turned spy for the allies, and
her position became dangerous. Al>
though she was wgtclierl by the sharpest
eyes In the German secret terries
no proof could be found.
80 Malvlna went her luxurfoys way
through a suffering world until the
end of the war, when she again reappeared
In the theaters. But It
seemed that money ran low with her
once more, and the gossips said thai
the price of spies had fallen. Then
Malvlna hit apon desperate measures.
Bite planned with a notorious thief to
rob men and homes where she could 1
locate treasures. The thief was
caught, confessed, and Involved Mai- i
vlna. She found herself In the hands of
the law for the first time, but the i
Angers of the hand opened In a mysterious
way and Mulvlnu went free. i
Her next appearance was In the Italian
Tyrol at the casino of Meran. Bhe
teemed to have abundant funds. lu I
one night she lost 400,000 marks. It
a as her last threw. She called for a
;lass of champagne, climbed upon a <
chair, and cried a toast to every one i
u the casino. Then, as the surprised <
"rowd watched, and the distant vlollnr <
cept company to her humor, she i
trained the glass and fell dead. Bh? i
oad put pruaslc acid Into the win*. 1
So died Matvlna Vivian, vampire, 1W0 J <
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relieves firmly in coperative marketing
of cotton and expressed the beief
that the interests of the state
rould be conserved by its signing the
igreement.
Vim if ill
our Washington letter
WaHoe* Eaesfotd
Washington, D. C.( Mar. 10.?The
atest gossip about the President re:ords
him as being the possessor of
ifty pairs'of trousers, including golf
(nickers. Enough to equipt a centipede.
Is ill any wonder the National
\s8ociatiofr of a'plors was so loud in
lis praised! A few more such customers
and t&y codld cut a melon. Un*
Fortunatew, condtiions in the country
generally gre so bad that many a fellow
woulf be i)j a sad predicament
If the prjagpig-ifon should happen to
be too hX
Every Vgne the Republicans carry
m election in Maine they loudly announce
ttydt If fine is the finest political
barometer in the land?that "as
Maine gofs, so goes the country."
Df course Maine is as reliably Republican
as-Georgia is Democra^c. Ev
.i/ cajiv^m m?ine 10 go Mepuoacan
and when the Democrats carry elections
up~ikere is has a deep signs finance.
tfjtar cities in the State have
elected mayors this month and all
four ofjhem were Democrats. The
smallest majority (150) was in Saco,
but the Democrats got six of the seven
wards. In Bath the majority was
four to one. Republican leaders don't
talk about it, but if four cities in
Georgia', were to go Republican the
country would be informed that it
indicated a huge Republican landslide.
And it would.
The Newberry case will not down.
Townsehd of Michigan and Frelinghuysen
of New Jersey are both opposed
for renomination on the ground
that they voted to establish the principle
that a man could bribe the electorate
and unblushingly admit and
then sit in the Senate, posing as the
equal of men honestly chosen in the
manner provided by the law. If these
Senators who voted for Newberry?
accessories after the fact?should escape
defdhtv in the primaries their
chance to get by the general election
will be exceedingly slender, for all
f
Stories of
Great Scouts
#. Western Newspaper UN en.
CUSTER'S C*OW SCOUTS?
There were six of them, these war
rlors of the Crow sr Abearoke natloc,
whs rods with Ouster oo his last
march down the Little Big Hero river
la Montana that day la June, 1878.
When the leader of the Seventh cavalry
asked Uenerai Tarry ?oi his bss;
Crow scouts In the aainp oo the Little
Rosebud creak, Terry told bis be
could have Curley. "White Man Runs
Him.** Hairy Moccasin. "Ones I bead."
Yellow Face and Whits Swan. The
Crows ware glad ts servo with the
famous Indian fighter and they guided
him until they located the hostile camp
oo the little Big Horn.
When Custer divided his command
vm atwn u* TliUigf, XMIOW flCt tDO
Whits Swap ware ssat with v?)or
Reno and Ouster kept "White Man
Him* Him," Cart?, "Goes Ahead" and
Hairy Moccasin with hla. Tallow
Taea was fcllUd wMla fighting with
Reno, and Whlta Swan waa badly
woondsd, but finally recovered and
lived until 1900.
Today Oar ley ts tha aaly aurrTrar
of tha Cuatar Grow scouts and, according
t* hla atary, ha la tha last
man whs aaw hla csaaaandar aliva.
After crossing tha rtdga, Cuatar
tamed t* "White Man Run* Him."
Hairy Moccaaln and "Ooee Ahead."
and aald to them: "You have dona
your duty. You have lad ma to tha
enemy. My soldier* will do the fighttag.
You are to go gaw aad as re
your Urea" Tha acauta left hlaa aad
made their way ta tha pack train under
Oapt Tom MeDougnU.
Whan Our ley returned from Reoo'a
position, ha waa given tha same order.
He atarted and soon found himself
la the mtdat of a hot fight. Finding
a dead Sioux warrior, bo took bis
horse, gun and blanket. Wrapping
uw piauavc snout ms nee a to constat
hi* Crow ocolplock from tile Sioux.
Curley suoeeded In retching * high
botte. Looking back ho saw that
Castor had charged down upon tb*
Ondlans and was surrounded. Curley
ays that be watched the battle until
be eaw Custer, who was the last man
standing, fall and then bs rods away.
The next morning the Crow scout
appeared lu General Terry's camp.
He could not speak English and there
was no Interpreter. Curley took
blade# of grass, plied them all In i
heap, and then, exclaiming "Poufl
Poufi" tn Imitation of the sound of
t gun, scattered them aids apart. By
means of this he made the odBcer understand
that Ouster and all of bis
men bed been killed. Like the famous
Greek. Curley the Osw was h
messenger of disaster and be btought
the first news of this Thermopylae
inserts#' Oast si's last fight.
*" 1 11 1 ?
good people of alt 1>arties will unite a
to rebuke them for their contempt for t
the proprietaries and their abasement ii
of the Senate of United Statos. t<
The seat of Ncwbeivj leaf the most c
damagftag Mow that Has fceefe struck
at the root* of system of garmh* *
, ment within a generation; to And I
worse examples ene must go back to *
the purchase of -the Presidency by a
Mark Hanna in 1896 and the theft of
it from Tildan in 1876. t
Hylan, New Vork's Democratic a
mayor, must be.1* pretty good sort e
of a mayor, after all. The Republican
State Setoa?b has voted to increase
his oate^ from 815,000 to
826,000. J
?i?5? *
INSTRUCTIONS FALLOWED
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A young aertese ^rented a new \
: THE RE/
Net whet yen get by chance er iuh
in life, but whet yen ftfai by hone
successful. Whet ere yon doing to
funds for future as-da by starting
THE FARMERS B
M. L. RALEY. J. 8. McGREG
President ' Vice-Pr
DIREC
F. D. Seller, J. S. St
T. H. Burch,
She 9eopl>
|OF CHEST
Will Appreciate Your Bnslne
$200,0
Oar cn.tonen end friends l?el|
seed of accommodation or yon
to m* m- Guaranteed bargl
Let m skew yon this wo&der. /
IK. B. LANE Y, President
CHA8. P. MANGUM,
Cashier
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D. B. DOUGLASS. IWd.nt
W. J. DOUGLASS* Vic- Praa.
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partment. Immediately all tha
nulMmra in tha vicinity began eaHrtg.
When aha *as tired of theae at.
enthma, eWeaHed in Nancy, her colred
s mid, 4
"Nancyj" she a*fal, "I don't want to j
w bothered ifiln by persons trying
a aaU us eeiething. Tall all of theBi
rsrhava all of everything that we
leed. Now, remember I"
A few minutes later a strange genleman
ape pared a\?he hall door and
skad permission te demonstrate an
xtermiuator of own designiing.
'An exter-whicht'V inquired Nancy.
"An extSrtofodUgr," H
"Wbdt's it fur$
"Its for cockroaches," said the
tan. X
"Nothin* doirs,^ stated Nancy;
'we get all the ' cockroaches we
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eritance, not wh?i yeu start with
sty la what will jnaka yo? traly
battfcr conditiohsT Accumulate
a savings account HERS NOW.
ANK,RUBY,S.C.
OR, MISS ALICE BURCH
esidant Asristant Cashier
rORS
nith, J. 8. McGregor
M. L. Ralcy, i
m' Qank
BRFIBLD
as. Total Resources Over
00.00
p?J as to do this. When in
have money to deposit, come
ar proof and fire proof safe.
i cordial welcome awaits yon
G. K. LANEY, V.-President
J. A. CAMPBELL,
Assist. Cashier
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GEO. W. EDDINS, Treasurer.
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tattef toe mjftdr te Mf ttef 4fiuCM?
to mere Important Lh*a W
cTOttrtitun -iM far smarting
scheme which H Im im
worked on, fd too |?t?r&?r, of. to
dtana too ih?M> Ik* fvdtoeJ '
mmeut tor trfSMTtaj kaadi* toVkQ^rising
which three tswito eeMbp-sder'
timt port of tbo dtotoprr^ tof tko> da- >tiro
stot* to Vaklaf sides l? (to Matter.
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"Naturally we do fot wish to oand
troop* to Vertalllee unless It id absolutely
neces*aty? j It trould only
lead to addttUmd! Mtodahed add dt?-'
order. What we ^*ffd to SOOIOOOO
who ho* tho terra to go out there,
taveetigat* the caoo frota every {too
stole angle and attop a rwpoit ? to
tho persona rsepopetoU for too lyecto
high. That** why I tost far yon."
The man on the other eld* ef too
de*k smiled ahd tapped thmfgbttuHy
with the forefinger -of o hand which
Indicated strength and determination
of character.
"Of course," continued the secretary,
"I must warn you that the case
Is one that to apt to'pftrve dangerous. 9
More so. In fact, thafc anything you
have ever attempted. Compared to
It. the roundup of a gang of moonshiners
Is child's play?for bore yon
will have to work entirely In the dark,
one man against practically an eatlre
state. A single slip would mean your
' death, and would force the government
to take steps which might lead
to protracted bloodshed."
"In which case," replied the other.
"It would be well for me to get oat
to Versailles as soon as I can. The
longer we wait the l*as chance there A
1s of success. Dont make any attempt
to hear from me or to locate me
for at least a month. If. at the end
of that time, yen h*vent received
some kind of a report, you will know
that they've got me. But, somehow,
I've got a hunch that they weal."
It was two days later that the treia
which stopped at Versailles, (ad., ?v
halted just lung, enough to permit a
single passenger to alight?a m*n
who was short *nd rather plump and
with a ruddy complexion, a man who
registered at the local hotel a* "lamas
M. Beck" and who allowed tt te become
known tliat he was an lasers
nnce agent, representing ana ef the
best-known com pantos la toe etostry.
* But Versailles, as Beck aasn f)xre
ered, was a poor field far Ufa insurance
nt that time. There wa* oalp
one topic of conversetloa In am#
the natives were interested; the lybck- ?
lng of tl>e five prisoners whe had
been taken from jail and mardetad by
an Infuriated mob. This, coupled wtto
open threats of defiance egataat the
governor's edict that the gulltp mas
j mast be punished, kept the tm te e
! continual state of simmering, i setting
(unrest?punctuated hy frequent ittte
ments that any state or lOTsrsiat
nffldfli who tried te find oet the as rasa
of the men Implicated In the lynchtnp
would be shot on sight.
Beck, apparently, wasn't In the leant
iitereBtsd In the local tam all/ We
had been sent to ersatflet te sett If surnnce,
and he was determined ha -.
sell It, ne matter hew maay people
he had to Interview. The fact that
he was a stranger led. ef course, te
Immediate suspicion of hie- motived,
and some te^o weeka peatfcd befortrht
was able to allay tbia.
About the end, of the thUd wahh
matters were brought to a bead by
reason of a'wire which Beck asnt he
New York, a dispatch which wpe %
code and which canned the spsrahqg
to spread the report that the Hh
Insurance agent" wan a deWHiew hs
disguise, Oetttar wind cf this and
realizing that he must take sobm rah
leal step to offset suspicion, Beek approached
the man who appeared to be the
leader of the trouble-faction. Tbu
agent explained to him that he wee
itettlhf tired of fht? quarters at the
hotel, and wondered It tt would be
poaaible to secure lodgings In some
private house where he would be a
little more comfortable.
"Certainly," said the native. "I
reckon we can put you up all right"
And he smiled at the thought of this
man whom he suspected placing Mm
self entirely In his power. That, hewever,
was precisely what Beck wished,
and It only took a couple at dsys of
clever acting to convince the local
leader that he was* only what he ap*
peered te be?a alow, plodding and
conscientious Insurance agent. It was
W the house of the most dangerous
dtlsen of Versailles, under the very
eyes of his associates, that the stranger
secured the Information he wanted
and pat It tegether, piece by piece,
! until he had the entire story. >
It was precisely a month to the day
after the conversation In tha offlce of
the secretary of the treaenry, when
that eAelal received a wire from ChW
cage stating that "all facts a boot Versailles
lynching now lg hand. Oemplete
Hgt ef men implicated follows
T "?V
Thir Bam# vlfred to tho WtTe WAV
"Wlltloflt 1. Bart)9, chief of the tteltod
States secret sefctoe."
SUITED THE OLD MAN
The Saitor?I wish to mcrrf yotf "
eldest daughter, sir.
Her father?OV you 4a fht Aor r '
you in a position to support vfamttyt '
The Suitor?I. think ao/jiir. . ''
Her Father?Well, you had bettff J,
be sure of it. There are 10 of US ?B *
told. '
'*U this a fart train?" the sal**