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The Okeene Eagle.
Adams A Kelly Pubs.
OKEENE,
OKLAHOMA.
Difficulties
to duos.
are the stepping stoucs
Decent diet cures inure ills than de-
voted doctors.
The silent man behind
speaks loudest.
cannon
The oldest and dullest
wear the brightest Jewel.
brow may
Zoological note: Down on Cape Cod
they are making the sand fly.
There Is no alloy In the pleasure of
those who give Joy to little children.
It Is 24 karats fine.
A Massachusetts doctor says he
bleeds his patients Just as he did 60
>cars ago. Maybe; but not the sArae
ones.
Somebody has discovered that there
are 41 roads which lead to hell. It Is
probable that they are all finely paved
at the start.
If Count Iloiil should really reform
and go Into politics it would be an up-
lift that might well cause the Oould
family to take a second look at him.
Sir Thomas LIpton is evidently nib-
bling at the America's cup bait, but
wfll he bite? Defeats do have a ten-
dency to grow monotonous.
"What the Human Race Owes to
the Moon" is the title of a current
magazine article. We fear Luna la
going to have trouble collecting.
"Necessity cannot be placarded or
dismissed," says the Italtlmore Amer-
ican. Oo on—didn't you ever need a
new suit of clothes and have to for-
get It?
BT *4JZTHU& HEMZT MQSSy'
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CHAPTER XXVI. "Sofia, Headquarters of the Society of
Freedom.
"To His Excellency, Sir Mortimer
Brett, Minister plenipotentiary and
Consul General to His Britannic Ma-
jesty at the Court of Sofia:
“Sir: We of the Society of Freedom
wait patiently and anxiously for your
Excellency's answer to our bumble
petition. We trust your Excellency
does not Ignore this petition because
the signatures of the petitioners are
not added thereto. Surely your Ex-
cellency understands that the dictates
of prudence make it Inevitable that it
is sent to you anonymously.
"Your Excellency must be familiar
with our greivances. Our present
i uler cannot and will not be longer
tolerated by his subjects. We fear
the British Foreign Office, however,
does not realize the extent of Prince
Ferdinand’s unpopularity. Even if
your ministers care nothing for that,
do they feel no concern that he Is the'
tool of Russia?
He has asked Russia repeatedly
that he be recognized a King, and that
he receive that title. His vanity is
such that he would sacrifice the free-
dom of his people to be on equal terms
with the sovereigns of Servia and
Roumania.
Once more, perhaps for the last
time, we petition your Excellency to
exert the extraordinary Influence your
Excellency possesses, that the English
Minister be advised In time. The gov-
Incriminating Dispatches.
She had been arranging the papers
deftly in some sort of order.
"You read French. I think? The let-
ter of Ferdinand Is In that language;
Sir Mortimer's notes and answers are
of course, in English."
I drew toward me the first of the
papers she Indicated.
"You are nothing If not modern In
your methods,” I scoffed, glancing
down the page. "Your safes and
typewriters bring hack to me the asso-
ciations of my hanking business. And
a hanker, let me warn you, scans the
signature of a draft carefully before
he cashes It."
"The typewriter is an amusing little
Instrument,” she yawned, "and I am
proud of my success In mastering It.
As for the safe. If you have been a
hanker, you know that the combina-
tion Is carefully guarded, M. Coward."
It gave her the cruelest delight to
taunt me with the shameful word. Dur-
ing the next half hour she Insulted me
so at least half a dozen limes. I bent
my attention on the pai>er before me.
I translate roughly Ferdinand's let-
ter:
"(Strictly confidential.)
"Hotel du Rhln, *
"Place Vendome, Paris,
"Nffty 23
"My Dear Sir Mortimer:
The "Esperanto waltz" has arrived.
It Is probably Intended to enable the
waltzers to say something more than
Isn't the music lovely?" or "What a
splendid floor this Is."
New York barbers are threatening
to refuse to cut the hair of men who
Bhave themselves. Olrlz who are anx-
ious to get married should make haste
to learn the hair-cutting business.
According to the Washington Post,
"an English scientist claims to have
discovered that Darwin was wrong
whes he said men were descended
from monkeys." Now let that "aclen-
llot read Darwin, and he can make
the farther discovery that Darwin
didn't say It.
A Washington paper prints a atory
of a man who went Ashing, and in
swinging his line through the air pre-
paratory to casting caught an English
sparrow, and tops this with a lale of
another disciple of Isaak Walton,
whose catch wns so large that it
pulled him overboard.
'Billy" Edwarda, the famous old-
time pugilist who In 1868 won the last
lightweight hare knuckles fight for the
championship, has Just died, "leaving
a fortune and an unblemished reputa
tion for honesty and decent behavior."
The question arises, how In the world
did Mr. Edwards get Into such a call-
ing?
"I expect to start for Sofia via Vien-
na and Budapest in about a week; I
trust I shall see you at the Palace
shortly after my arrival. Meanwhile
let me urge on you once more that
you exert without further delay your
groat Influence with your Foreign Of-
fice, that your ministers may be con-
vinced that the crisis has come—the
opportunity we have so long awaited.
Now or never I must lead my army to
the succor of the distressed people of
Macedonia. I think that the profound
knowledge you have always shown of
affairs In the Balkan Peninsula must
make you realize the truth of this
statement It Is useless for me to re-
peat my arguments. For what you
have done I thank you. But it Is not
to the diplomatist I am now speaking,
but to the man. 1 have written this
letter with my own hand, for reasons
that you will understand.
"Believe me, iny dear Sir Mortimer,
"Faithfully yours,
"Ferdinand.”
It has been discovered by an Eng-
lish statistician that It requires |37,-
#00 te raise a society girl. This
amount must be put down as having
been expended on "art for art's sake."
as the most a society girl usually ac-
complishes Is to win an Impoverished
nobleman, who simply adds to the ex-
pense
Aa Egyptian sun temple and a city
that has been lost for 3.300 yeara have
been located by Prof. James H
Breasted, of the University of Chica-
go. it Is the temple of Sesebl, found-
ed by Amenhotep IV. The city Is situ
ated In the heart of the almost lnnc
icnaible district of Nubia, near the
foot ef the third cataract on the Nile
Mar-
Hands have been playing the
selllafse" In Strashurg this summer
for the first time since Germany took
possession of Alsace and l^,rralnp
after the Franco Prussian war A
German from Berlin, visiting Stras
burg, wrote the other day to a home
paper about the "seditious airs" but
no on* else seems to Ik, seriously di,.
turbod over the matter.
The barrel top is .till a gtron
vantage ground In the down east
country store. No greater victory
ever gained upon that eminence
that reported in a Maine patter
where the storekeeper had a pitch
barrel placed for a regular visitor
The latter took the place, but was
able to disengage himself and resume
hi* seat upon un open barrel of small
nails, whence he soon departed car-
rying a goodly quantity of useful hard
was
than
Wiry
l.aat month the fonndntlon-ston
the "Peace Palace" was laid at
Hague. Mr. Carnegie, who gives
building, thinks It would he
prnprlately called "Ths Temple of
Peace. Ideas are enshrined In tern
pitta, seldom In pa lares.
p of
The
the
more ap
It sound* well for an Inventor to
»ay that he has harnessed the sun but
has he asked the sun's permission?
In thsNc days, when we split hairs
over the consent of the governed, u
Otlng like that should not he over
looked
"I see nothing incriminating In this
letter." I said, “nor anything out of
the usual run of letters
")ott will notice on the back of the
letter this brief statement: ‘Answered,
June 3d, M. B.’ As to the answer of
the letter It is equally innocent. It is
simply the guarded reply of a diplo-
matist dealing with a delicate topic.
In these typewritten copies this letter
and Its answer are meaningless. The
originals are simply useful to prove
the authenticity of Sir Mortimer's
handwriting."
I scanned the answer. It was not an
exact copy, but the substance of Sir
Mortimer's letter Jotted down to re-
fresh hla memory:
"I replied in substance follows: It
was useless to bring up the matter
again: iny personal wishes would not
be ffiifliclent to change the programme
of the Foreign Office; at present I did
not see my way clear to advocate as
a diplomatist England's espousal of
this cause; 1 would continue to lay the
matter before the Foreign Office; more
than that, when events justified the
act. 1 would see that such influence as
I possessed was exerted in the man-
ner Prince Ferdlnanl wished; but at
present I could offer no encourage-
ment."
(Note concerning the alM>ve, also In
Sir Mortimer's handwriting )
"This reply win put an end. 1 think,
to further rorrc*|iondence in that quar-
ter. Certainly, the hopes of the nation
seem so radically devlrgent from those
of the ruler that 1 can favor one only
at the expense of the other Natur-
ally, I prefer to favor the party that
promises the most for my own Inter-
est*"
"1 *°ld you that the originals are
particularly useful to Ideutlfy the
handwriting and signature of Sir Mor-
timer. But observe, monsieur, the ex-
pression: Naturally. 1 prefer to favor
tho parly that promises the most for
my own Interests.* That sentence la
to be remembered when you read the
other letters. It has Its significance."
Again she stretched out her hand to
receive the paper* i had rend I did
not relinquish them, however I laid
them carelessly on my knee as If to
refer to them later.
"That remains to he proved." I said
Ertnily. "The expression seems simple
enough io me; <m the fare of It It
would mean simply that sir Morti-
mer* Interests worn Identical with
the Interests of England."
e shall sec," she returned with
confidence. "The papers of the second
envelope, Which I hove called Dikii
menta H. are all In English The
writer was evidently an educated Bill
gar of the official claa*. many of tltln
olaaa are trained at Roberta College,
ard speak and write English fluently."
“II Dr. SLarva has proved to be a
kcattor to the cause he will receive his
punishment. The memorandum of
Sir Mortimer's reply to the letter you
have just read la pinned on the back of
the sheet. Read it,” she commanded
harshly.
"It is a perplexing dilemma that has
confronted me. To keep my honor as
a minister intact, and yet not to sac-
rifice my own personal hopes. I think
this Is the first temptation of my dip-
lomatic career. I have fulfilled my
diplomatic duties hitherto as a ma-
chine, that neither thinks nor feels.
Now I find that I am human; that I
am a man, with a man’s weaknesses.
I say I am tempted. I believe that
lofty principles actuate Bulgaria. That,
I say to myself, is my excuse. But
lofty principles are not sufficient I
disguised my true feeling in answer-
ing this letter by vague objections. I
confessed my self in sympathy with
Bulgaria’s cause; but I protested that
more potent arguments must be used
to convince me. The interests of
England are my own; but if it could
be done without too great a risk, I be-
lieve, God help me, I would further my
own ambitions at her expense. I say
I am tempted."
“I say I am tempted;” "If it could
be done without too great risk, I be-
lieve, God help me, I would further
my own ambitions at her expense”—
Buch expressions were hideously sig-
nificant. But I met calmly the male-
volent triumph of Madame de Varnler.
"When you read the next letter,"
she said, watching me closely, “you
will understand the meaning of the
expression, 'There are other means of
rewarding friendship besides empty
words of gratitude.’ Even so stanch an
advocate of Sir Mortimer's honor as
yourself must realize that in the
words you have Ju3t read, he was en-
deavoring to discover just what that
vague promise meant."
I received the next letter in silence.
To His Excellency, etc.;
“Our answer to your Excellency's
kind letter wishes to make this fact
clear: The people of Bulgaria pledge
their word, through this committee.
Atoms Bsfors Her Eyas.
erunient of Prince Ferdinand must
fall. We do not desire bloodshed.
There shall be none, we swear it, if
England will support the insurgent
party. But in any case Bulgaria must
be free.
We do not ask for the active aid
England We beg that England
shall not Interfere with the ambitions
the people.
"Your Excellency shall have no rea
son to regret being our friend. And
there are other ttieaus of rewarding
friendship besides empty words of
gratitude. I<et your Excellency once
uasure us of you Intention to support
our cause, and we shall make this
more clear.
"Your Excellency knows the man-
ner In which your answer may be con-
veyed to this society.
"With profound expressions of re
R|>cct, we submit ourselves,
"The Committee of the Society of
Freedom."
I placed this letter on my knee with
the other* I had read.
"This Society of Freedom, Is It con-
cerned with the trick of the death-
mask stump?”
"I fear so," she answered in a low
voice
"Then has the fact no significance
for you that Dr. Starva r«*oelved a let-
ter with one of those stnihpa on the
envelope latt night? These stamps
are proscribed. They could be sent
through the mall only hoenuse certain
of the postal authorities were In sym-
pathy with the revolutionaries. Let-
ters with these stamps. It Is safe to
Infer, would he sent only to those who
aro equally In sympathy. Dr. Starva
must lie favorable to thla party. If he
Is not actually one of the committee.
I warned you lust night that there wa*
treachery lu the camp."
that If England gives to the insurgent
party Is support in overthrowing the
rule of Ferdinand, the relation of Eng-
land to Bulgaria shall be similar to
that which exists between Egypt and
England.
"Tho Society of Freedom Is fully
aware that your Excellency's Incon-
venience and labor must be recom-
pensed. The sum of £20,000 la al-
ready placed in the Ottoman bank,
payable to your Excellency on de-
mand.”
(Note by Sir Mortimer pinned to the
above letter.)
To this I replied that the sum men-
tioned was too ludicrously small to be
considered. Only the moat substan-
tial guarantee could justify me In tak-
ing the risks Involved."
(Third letter to Sir Mortimer from
the society.)
‘To His Excellency, Etc.:
"The sunt of £50.000 has been
placed In the Ottoman bark to your
Excellency's account. The society
trusts that this sum will be sufficient
to Justify the risks. Will your Excel-
lency give his answer without delay?”
(Note liy Sir Mortimer pinned to
the above letter.)
"I have taken the step. It is too late
to ask myself uuw whether I have
been Indiscreet. If I have consulted
my own wishes, if I have furthered
iny own plans, I feel that I am Justified
morally. I ant helping an oppressed
bad hugged to his breast. I had hoped
against hope. But if they were true
copies, I could no longer doubt that
Sir Mortimer had Btooped to the tak-
ing of bribes.
"And these documents are word for
word Copies of those in the safe?” I
demanded gloomily.
“I swear it by every oath I hold sa-
cred!” she replied without hesitation,
and kissed the jeweled cross that hung
about her neck.
She stretched out her hand for the
papers. I tore them to atoms before
her eyes.
For a moment she s^tqggled to res-
cue them from my gtv When she
saw that It was too lafe, she laughed
boisterously—a laughter that showed
at onoe contempt, defiance and tri-
umph.
"Bravo!” She clapped her hands
derslvely. "You take your precau-
tions. You are desperate. Protest as
you will, you are convinced of Sir Mor-
timer's guilt”
"You are mistaken," I replied cool-
ly. "But even If these papers are true
copies of genuine documents, it is as
well that even the copies be destroyed.
If they are forgeries, and you have yet
to prove to me they are not, they are
dangerous toys, and so better de-
stroyed.”
"Another copy is easily made, so
long as I have the combination of my,
safe. M. Coward.”
“You are never weary of insulting
me,” I said indifferently. “But be sure
of this, you will find I am not coward
enough to yield weakly to your scheme
of blackmail."
“No; you are so brave that you
leave a helpless girl to bear the dis-
grace of her dead brother, when by a
word you might save her the suffer-
ing. Your pretended honor Is so pre-
cious to you that you scorn to aid the
woman whom you love.”
"Silence, woman!" I cried passion-
ately. "Do you think I am convinced
of Sir Mortimer’s guilt because of
these flimsy type-bitten copies? You
must let me see the papers in the
safe.”
“If you are desperate enough to de-
stroy a copy, I should scarcely trust
you with the original. For the last
time, must the woman you love know
of her brother’s disgrace? I am In
your power; perhaps you hope that I
shall be coaxed into opening the safe.
Or are you about to compel me?”
“I should have resorted to that
measure long ago had I thought It
would prove effectual. It seem3 that
there is again a deadlock between us.
I refuse absolutely, not only to help
you, but to believe that Sir Mortimer
is guilty.”
“If I show the papers in the safe to
Helena Brett, even she must believe
the evidence of her eyes. Shall I call
her and ask her if she recognizes her
brother’s handwriting? If you believe
so strongly as you profess that Sir
Mortimer was innocent of wrong-do-
ing, you will not refuse that.”
“I would spare her even the thought
of its possibility," I said sternly.
“That Is Impossible. She shall see
those papers—If not to-day, to-morrow,
the next day; It makes little difference
to me.”
” ’Sufficient unto the day Is the evil
thereof.’” I quoted flippantly: but I
began to think it Inevitable that
Helena Brett be summoned.
"Again we must compromise It ap-
pears. I will call Sir Mortimer’s sister
here. She Bhall see the papers—de-
cide for herself and for you whether
they are genuine. You see, I am
strong enough to prevent a woman
from destroying the originals as you
have destroyed the copies."
And when she has seen those pa-
pers?” I asked thoughtfully. "Say
even that she herself believes them
genuine? What then?”
“It will he for her to decide. Per-
haps she will refuse to ask you to do
what I wish. Perhaps she will offer
to you happiness If yon consent. She
shall be the one to decide. You pro-
fess to believe that Sir Mortimer Is
Innocent. More than that, you think
her soul so white that she will refuse,
even If she believes her brother guilty!
to rescue his memory from dishonor
with dishonor.”
She had put into words
thought.
“We will let her decide,
quietly.
Not
New In Natural History,
all English children are well
posted on live stock. The following
are from essays exhibited
at a recent show: “The young horses
have long legB, so that It might keep
up to its mother when wild lions like
the lion and tiger are after them* to
devour them.” “The fowl,” declares
I still another, "when alive is used for
cock-fighting and when dead tor1 its
beautiful feathers.” "The pig gets
Its wool coat off In summer. Then
we get the wool of it. The pig is re-
garded as a bad creature.”
MEDICAL FAILURES.
An Authority Says Three-Fourths of
Graduates Are Unfitted to Practice.
my own
I said
CHAPTER XXVII.
The Two Woman.
'And am l again to shout my com-
mands to my servant through the
closed door?” asked Madame de Var-
nler ironically.
I unlocked the door of the staircase
In silence, taking the precaution, how
ever, of not admitting Alphonse.
“Has Miss Brett come to the cha-
teau as I wished?” Madame de Var-
nler spoke naturally through the half-
opened door, not betraying my pres-
ence behind It.
"She is waiting ta the music room,
madam.’’
“Bring her here "
“I shall do as madam wishes. But
this American, this man we called hla
Excellency—he surprised me Just now
—has he Intruded on madam or—”
"He came here to keep un appoint-
ment with me.” Madame de Varnler
replied composedly, cutting short hts
agitated whisper.
“Ah, that Is well."
Alphonse sighed his relief, and de-
parted on his errand.
What Inducement can you have of-
people gam their liberty. My own ( that she should come boldly to I or
recompense is meager enough. If (he
Foreign Office should probe the mat-
ter, nod discover the extont of my in-
discretion, my diplomatic career will
he * nded. But I am contort to do a
little evil that good may come.”
I crushed the pap«>r In my hand,
sick at heart. I shuddered at the
hypocritical comfort this guilty
•his Castle of Despair?”
"Is not the inducement great
she l» to see a loved brother?"
*TO 1)K CONTINUKD.)
(hat
Proof of Queen’s Vanity.
Queen Elizabeth is said to have pos-
sessed no fewer than 80 outfits of
fsl*« hair.
That 3,000 out of the 4,000 gradu-
ates turned out by the Medical Col-
leges each year are whollly unfitted to
practice medicine and are menaces to
the communities in which they set-
tie was stated by Dr. Chaster Mayer,
of the State Board of Medical Exam-
iners of Kentucky at a meeting of the
American Medical Association’s Com-
mittee on Medical Education, held i»
Chicago not long ago. Dt. Mayer said
that only 25 to 28 per cent of the
graduates ere qualified. Fifty-eight,
per cent of the graduates examined in
28 states were refused licenses. With
few exceptions these failures took a
second examination in a few weeks
and only 50 per cent of them passed.
"This does not mean that deficien-
cies in their training were corrected
in those few weeks,” Dr. Mayer said.
"It probably shows that experience
showed them what the test would
probably be and they ‘crammed' for
the examination. Dr: W. T. Gott.
Secretary of the Indiana Board said:
“The majority of our schools now
teach their students how to pass ex-
aminations, not how to be good phy-
sicians.”
At the session of the American
Medical Association held in Atlantic
City in June, Dr. M. Clayton Thrush,
a professor In the Medico Chirurgical
College in Philadelphia said: “Many
doctors turned out of the Medical
Schools are so ignorant in matters
pertaining to pharmacy that they
know nothing about the properties
of the drugs they prescribe for their
patients!” Dr. Henry Beats, Jr.. Pres-
ident of the Pennsylvania State Hoard
of Medical Examiners, after scrutiniz-
ing the papers of a class of candi-
dates for licensure said: “About one
quarter of the papers show a degree,
of Illiteracy that renders the candi-
dates for licensure incapable of un-
derstanding medicine.”
A great many more physicians and
chemists might be quoted in support
of the astounding charge that 3,000 in-
competents are being dumped onto
an unsuspecting public each year.
What the damage done amounts to
can never be estimated for these In-
competents enjoy the privilege of di-
agnosing, prescribing or dispensing
drugs regarding the properties of
which they know nothing and then
of signing death certificates that ar©
not passed upon by anyone unless the
coroner is called in. Probably there -
Is not a grave yard from one end of
the country to the other that does not
contain the buried evidences of the
mistakes or criminal carelessness of
Incompetent physicians.
During the last year there have
been perhaps, half a dozen known
cases where surgeons, after perform-
ing operations have sewed up the in-
cisions without first removing the
gauze sponges used to absorb the «
blood, and in some cases forceps and
even surgeon’s scissors have been
left In the wound. How many of
these cases there have been, where
the patient died, there Is so means
of knowing and comparatively few
of the cases where the discovery is
made in time to save life become gen-
erally public. ' Reports from Sanita-
riums for the treatment of the Drug
Habit Show that members of the medi-
cal profession are more often treated
In these institutions than members
of any other profession, and thnt a
majority of tho patients, excluding the
physicians themselves, can trace
their downfall directly to a careless
physician. ,
How many criminal operations are
performed by physicians is also a
matter of conjecture. Operations of
this class are, unfortunately, very
frequent In large cities. Soma gradu-
ated and licensed physicians, many
of them of supposed respectability,
make an exclusive practioe of crim-
inal medical and surgical treatment.
Hoot O. W. Rhelnhart, Coroner’s
phyalrian of Chicago, estimates the
number of criminal operations, annu-
*llly, in Chicago ulone at 38 000 How
many resulted fatally are unknown,
as when death results. Uae real muse
Ib disguised in the death certificate, *
which the physician signs, and which
no one but himself and a clerk sees.
Probably not one case of malprac-
tice In 1,000 ever becomes the subject
of a law suit but In the last y..:ir up-
proxlonately i&o cases wherein the
plaintiff has alleged malpractice have
been reported In the newspapers, and
owing to the social prominence and
the favored positions of many phvui-
clana not more than half the new
5U,t* Mated, proiMibly, result In uny
newspaper publicity, but It would
probably not be an exaggeration to
slate thnt the total cas- a of malprac-
tice, not involving criminal operatic j*
criminal medical practice, would
amount to 150.000 or more than one
case to each physician In the country '
Thla estimate la, of course, more or
loaa conjecture. Entlmely deaths and
permanent disabilities ore freqdfnt
and occur within the knowledge of n|-
moat every one, when life could have
been saved, or health restored hud
the physician boon skillful,
and competent.
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