The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, December 21, 1906 Page: 2 of 10
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DUKE OF
DEVIL=
MAYCARE
By HARRIS DICKSON
Author of
**The Black Wolf's Breed," Etc.
(Copyright, IK*, br D. Apploton * Co.)
CHAPTER XI.—Continued.
It seemed to those outside that Fitz-
gerald questioned Victor Laboulsse a
much shorter time than he had either
of tire others. Then Fitz opened the
door himself, and marched out, abrupt
and decided.
"Mr. Chaudron, I'm going to search
this house, just to satisfy myself and
tlx) young ladles. The sooner it's
done, the better. I'll have a house
full of men here In ten minutes."
"And you have learned nothing?"
Fitz shook his head.
Felix Chaudron called Woodford
Vance aside. "These girls ought not
to stay here," he said. "This thing
Is getting serious, and there's no tell-
ing what we may find. I'm going to
telephone my mother to come and
take them to our house."
For hours and hours, as it seemed
to Alice mid Anita, men went tramp-
ing through the hotel, slamming doors,
nnd making a great noise. Alice
threw herself across the bed, and
listened. Every few moments, at
some unusual sound, she sprang up
expectantly, but dreading to ask what
had happened.
For half an hour Anita stood lean-
ing against the window, looking out
tipon the prim old Creole garden with
the high wall around it. It was a
barbarous-looking wall, with broken
bottles sunk in the cement on its top
capping the bricks with jagged spikes
of glass. Of course, nobody could
climb such a wall as that.
She saw several men out there.
Casey, Chaudron and Vance, thrashing
about among the shrubbery, poking
into the tangled honeysuckles, search-
ing everywhere. Anita, terror-strick-
en, watched the men pulling aside
the vines and peering into those damp
dark corners. What could they ex-
pect to find ? She kept her fascinated
eyes upon them and could not turn
away. Then they all came in; they
bad discovered nothing.
Presently someone knocked. She
and Alice rushed to the door together.
It was Vance and Chaudron. Both
men were dusty and covered with
spider webs from their search in gar-
den and garret Both looked very
grave.
"Miss Cameron," said Vance, "you
can't stay here to-night. Mr. Chau-
dron has telephoned his mother; she
Is on her way to take you and Miss
Ashton to her house—"
"No, no," Alice protested; "I don't
want to go; I want to stay here. It
would be deserting mother—"
"But you can't help her—"
"I don't care; I won't go—I won't.
"Heave her to me," Anita whis-
pered. "We will go; of course we
cannot stay here."
It must have been about two o'clock
In the afternoon when Mrs. Chau-
dron's carriage stopped in front of the
Hotel Louis le Grande, and Mrs. Chau-
dron stepped out—a dark little lady
who had once been very beautiful.
Her son hurriedly explained to her
what had happened.
"Where are the poor little dears?"
^he asked: and ho led her to them.
Chaudron left his mother alone with
Jthe girls. In a few moments Anita
•opened the door and handed out her
baggage to Woodford Vance.
"Put that in the carriage," she whis-
pered; "Alice will be ready. We are
trying to persuade her to go quietly."
Alice developed more of her moth-
er's determination than one might
have suspected; Mrs. Chaudron and
Anita were quite a little while in over
■coming it. Presently they emerged
Ifrom the room and came slowly
through the hall. Alice made no re^
Bistance until she came to the door
with the broken knob.
"Oh, 1 don't want to go—I don't
want to go," she cried, and held back.
They forced her on as gently as
they could, past the room, and out to
the carriage. She dropped on the seat
and hid her face in Mrs. Chaudron's
lap.
Anita sat bolt upright on the front
peat, staring about her—staring at
those garrish banners of purple and
gold whlcn flaunted from every bal-
cony in honor of King Hex. It was
early afternoon, and all the world
seemed dressed for a holiday. Chau-
dron leaned on the carriage door,
talking to his mother.
Anita tried to think. It all Beemed
so unreal and so terrible that she
could not comprehend. There must
be some explanation of it, if she
could only think—could only think.
But she could not think. In spite
of herself she kept her eyes fixed on
the window of that dingy little cafe
*rroa street. There! There he
was, I/lac same man, peering at her
•gain; a face of wrath and wildness.
She shivered; It seemed uncanny to
be afraid of a man because he hap-
pened to look like Noel Duke.
Chaudron stepped back from the
carriage and stood beside young
Vance on the banquette. "All right,"
be nodded to the driver. "Home."
"Walt a minute, please," Anita
begged; "Mr. Chaudron, I wish you
would telegraph Mr. J. E. Balfour, at
Vlcksburg—you know Joe. Ask him
to come down here at once. He is
Mrs. Ashton's lawyer, and I'm sure
she would want him."
Chaudron gazed after the disap-
pearing carriage. Then he and Vance
walked off a little way to consult, and
another man watched them from his
post at the window across the street.
"Vance"—Chaudron spoke with de-
liberate conviction—"something crook-
ed is going on in yonder."
"Yes; they ought to arrest that
Frenchman, maybe the girl. My God!
we ought to do something."
"No; Fitzgerald says we have no
proof against them yet; we had bet-
ter let them alone, not appear to sus-
pect them. He'll watch them close,
and they can't get away. The minute
Victor bats his eye, Fitz says he'll clap
him in jail."
"We ought to arrest somebody,"
Vance kept insisting.
"Well, I can't explain It exactly,"
Chaudron continued, "but I'm not sat-
isfied. I'm going to get a detective
of my own, an Englishman I know,
named Brker; he's shftrp an tacks,
business if anybody caoi. You stay
around here and watch things until
I send this telegram. Then I'll get
hold of Baker and start him to work."
I,ate that afternoon a dapper-look-
ing Englishman, with a tweed suit,
fore-and-aft cap, and a valise plas-
and he'll get at the bottom of this
tered over with foreign hotel labels,
took a room at the Hotel Louis le
Grande.
Neither Chaudron nor Vance gave
any Blgn of recognition us they passed
Mr. "Henny" Baker in the entry.
CHAPTER XII.
IN SUSPENSE.
During the afternoon Felix Chau-
dron received this prompt and char-
acteristic message:
Mr. Felix Chaudron, New Orleans, La.
Arrive 12:16. Meet ine.
.1. E. BAT.FOUR.
Even In a telegram one-half the
Just as Joe Balfour went bulging by,
head down, with a little sptchel in
his hand.
Chaudron sprang up and stopped
him. •
"What's the matter, Felix? I
thought you hadn't come to meet me.
Is anything wrong?"
"Yes, come along; there's a little
restaurant right around the corner
where we can sit and talk. I simply
must have a cup of cotfee, I'm dead
on my feet."
The two men settled themselves at
a table and ordered coffee. Joe did
not ask a question, but he had it firm-
ly fixed in his mind that Noel Duke
had come to New Orleans and got
Into some kind of trouble. He sat
there studying an ugly looking stain
on the tablecloth, and waiting for
Chaudron to begin. And when Chau-
dron did begin, the first sentence
startled Joe beyond his power of
thinking.
"Mrs. Ashton has disappeared. She
came down here with Miss Cameron
and Miss Ashton last night—that is,
Thursday night. They went to a little
hotel, or pension, down in French-
town. Mrs. Ashton was assigned to
one room and the young ladies to an-
other. The young ladies saw her go
to bed, and left her for the night.
"This morning—Friday morning—
when they knocked on her door she
did not answer. They kept knocking
and knocking until they got fright-
ened, and had the door opened from
the outside. Mrs. Ashton was not
there; and there was no sign of her
ever having been there. It was not
the same room.
"Both the young ladies remember
perfectly the furnishings of the room
in which they left Mrs. Ashton, down
to the minutest details.
"And, Joe, there is not a room In
that house which answers to their
description. 1 just cannot understand
it. Miss Cameron is the clearest-
headed girl I ever saw, yet she seems
confused and uncertain in her recol-
DROPPED INTO A SEAT
economical allowance of words was
quite suflicient for Joe.
At 12:10 Chaudron hurried into the
waiting-room at the station. "Thirty
minutes late, sir," the station master
answered his inquiry as to the train.
He dropped into a seat, too tired and
disappointed to swear. He sat in full
view of the clock—most unwise. A
clock, like a negro, never seems so
flow as when one is impatient and
tries to urge it along.
"Let me see," hq mused to himself;
"It has just been 14 hours since Vance
and 1 went down to that infernal
hotel. And now I can't remember the
time when I wasn't talking with de
tectlves, and searching around town
for a lost woman."
Try as lie might, he could not think
of a thit'g that had happened yester-
day, or the day before, or last week
—or upon any previous occasion. To
him there were simply no previous
occasions—only this. lle knew there
had been a yesterday, and possibly a
day before that, but they must have
been blanks.
lle fixed Ills eyes on the clock, just
to keep them occupied so they would
stay open until that train chose to
come sauntering in. He fell asleep
se\eral times, and each time, it
seeemed, a meddlesome fellow In a
blue uniform rushed to the blackboard
again, and posted the train 20 minutes
later.
The hands seemed glued to the face
of the clock and scarcely moved at
all. Once be dozed off at seven min-
utes past two; his head fell forward,
he woke with a jerk, and looked at
the clock—it was still seven minutes
past two.
When the train did roll in, with a
clamor and a jangle to make up for
past delinquencies, the only man that
It caught aBleep was Felix Chaudron.
Men, women and children rushed
around like ants in a threatened nest,
but this man slept Passengers crowd-
ed out from the train, and ha waked
lection as to which room Mrs. Ashton
occupied. She locates Mrs. Ashton
in a certain room, but Is not positive.
On the other hand Miss Ashton is
equally positive that that is not the
room In which she last saw her
mother."
"But the hotel clerk—the hotel reg-
ister—" Joe suggested.
"They keep no register; the pro-
prietor and servants say that the two
young ladies came there about 11
o'clock last night. None of them saw
Mrs. Ashton, nobody saw her except
these girls."
Joe, sturdy, plain, unimaginative—
man of authorities and precedents—
leaned across the table and looked
wearily into Felix Chaudron's face.
"Don't joke with me, Felix; I'm too
tired and worried for any such fool-
ishness."
Hut Kelix Chaudron was even more
serious and weary than he.
"God knows I wish It were a joke;
we've had the entire police force of
the city looking for her all day. They
can't even find the cabman that took
her to the house—If she ever went to
that house. And, do you know, I
would begin to doubt it myself if it
were not for Miss Cameron. Some-
times 1 think it must be a joke until
I go home and see my mother trying
her best to keep that poor girl from
going crazy."
Joe Balfour listened in stolid amaze-
ment — dry-as-dust, matter-of-fact
amazement. He was clever enough
at catching a legal proposition, but
somehow he did not grapple this.
(TO I3E CONTINUED.)
Means It.
Greene—I don't believe In forcing
children to study music.
White—But you gave your daughter
a thorough musical education.
Greene—That's Just It. She has the
education all right, but she can neither
play nqr sing,—Detroit Free Press.
Oooooo-oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-ooooooo-oooooo-o o
| Farmers' Co-operative
Union of America, j
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DUE RECOGNITION.
Some time since the Farmers'
Journal, at Abilene, Texas, made a
canvass of the field in Its county
and, we believe, in some adjoining
counties, and the result was that It
was conclusively shown that the
work of the women and children
made more than half of the cotton
crop in that section. The more east-
ern sections of the cotton belt, no
doubt, would show that a larger pro-
portion of the arduous labor of cot-
ton raising has been done with the
hands of women ana choldren. It is
all right for the women and the chil-
dren to work. It Is the ordinance of
God that all shall labor, or else pay a
heavy penalty for idleness. But
there Is work and work, and the work
of the man and the woman Is natur-
ally different. The woman was made
to be a complement to the man, and
not to take his place in any manner.
It is not true that the females among
A Safe and
Sure Liquor Cure
THREE DAYS.
Some say that the whiskey habit
oannot be cured in three days. If a
person takes a dose of a poisonous
drug and a doctor is called he gives
an antidote and expects a result in a
few minutes, because the antidote
neutralizes the poison and destroys it.
So It is with our cure. This is the
exact reason why we get the quick
greater in demand. The world must results In the cure of the whiskey
have it, and twenty years from today aablt.
The outlook for the Southern cot
ton farmer was never brighter. Hia
product will become greater and
you will see the consumption just
about double what it is today.
The cotton farmers have never ask-
ed too much for their product. Not-
We have permanently cured ovei
20,000 cases of alcoholic intemperance;
men and women, in all walks of life;
many of them persons of eminence
withstanding the cry that they have jnd probity, whose commendation can-
formed a trust, simply because the not be bought.
farmers have organized a union, they
are not asking more than their prod'
uct is worth.
It was stated that the cotton farm'
We have thousands of testimonials
at our offices from those who have
been treated and cured, and no un-
prejudiced persons reading these
,a >. • ; erateful letters could for a moment
era could never reach a point whore 5^' the faUh q{ the wrlterg or qlieit.
they could afford to hold their cotton,
It was stated that they would be
tion the fact that through the means
of our treatment they have been thor-
forced to dispose of their bales as 0ughly and effectually cured of all ths
soon as gathered in order to get disease of alcoholism. If you need the
bread and meat to live upon. That j treatment or have a friend that doe
don't delay. Our cure Is perfectly
harmless. We do not use hypodermic
was one of the great arguments put
forth by the spinners and the manip-
ulators when the farmers began or-
any animals or in any race of men j ganizing. The average cotton farm-
under natural conditions take the j er- " was stated, produces about sev-
place of the males. The cotton fieldj en bales annually. He had this
is not a fit place for the women of mortgaged before it is produced and j
the family, and any man who is wor-
thy of the name of man, ought to
have sufficient pride to want to keep
his women folks out of the field la-
bor Just as much as his conditions
will possibly permit. There are con-
ditions and there are times when
the best thing that can be done is
for the women to take hold of the
farm work and go ahead, but these
conditions are the rare exceptions
and not the rule. When it has come
about that the women and children
are doing more than half the work in
the cotton crop, there is something
injections.
Write for particulars.
DR. J. J- M'KANNA
Corner Ninth and Western, Oklaho-
ma City, Okla.
Corner Eleventh and McGee, Kansas
he must sell at once and pay up or; Qjjy j^0
his merchant will refuse to carry him.' '
Even though he gets 11 cents, that: ^ man whe was born in America
means only about $380 for his entira ! hag won the professional golf cham-
crop, and he always starts in planting rlonahlp. There Is no likelihood, how-
his crop without a cent and is forced
to mortgage his prospects. He nev-
er will get beyond this point. These
were the arguments.
But the Southern cotton farmer j
has reached the point where he can
hold back his crop and market asj
conditions warrant and insure a fair
price. The Southern cotton farmer
has taugjit himself diversification. Ha
radically wrong, and the outcry for a grows other things aside from cotton being erected on Morningsida
Heights. This will be the greatest sa-
cred edifice in America, and the
fourth In importance In the world.
ever, that we shall be called upon to
send our boys to Scotland for the pur-
pose of teaching the fine points of tho
game over there.
The largest and costliest buildlns
thus far undertaken in New York, thai
city of immense structures, Is tha
magnificent $10,000,000 Episcopal Ca-
thedral of St. John the Divine, now
change is piteous. Now that the Un- j and lives upon these other things,
ion has brought the price of cotton I The Southern merchants and bankers
up to a paying point, i3 it not time | have come to his rescue. With all of
for the actual planter of cotton to these forces combined the cotton
commence figuring up so that he can
allow his women folks to stay out of
the sotton field the coming season?
It can be done, and it ought to be
done, and you could do it if you felt
like you had to.
Now that the Union has done Its
part, as far as possible, in ^readying
the market so that a reasonable price
could be obtained for cotton, it is a
good time to get busy right now ar-
ranging some plan for the better
packing of cotton next year. It has
ha3 been reckoned up by careful sta-
| grower is in a position to command a
fair wage for his year's work. And
now those who did not believe he
could ever reach such a point are be-
ginnnig to raise the cry of trust. Let
it be what it may, but the spinner3
will never again see the day when
they will be able to wax wealthy at
the expense of the man who grows
cotton. They will never again see
cotton being marketed for 5 and 6
cents.—Houston Post.
Are the women and children get-
ting their share of the prosperity that
tlsticans that at elast 25 per cent of ls. coming ln from the Increased price
tistlcians that at least 25 per cent of! °.f th.e ihat ia bem!? fiold from
and the mill, and the larger part of
this loss is from poor packing. Be-
cause all of this cotton it not lost be-
fore the farmer parts with the bale
it no sign that he does not lose it, !sale. t're<l woman all the steps
the farm? The women are entitled
to the first consideration, and they
ought to have it. Very few farm
houses have thingfc arranged so as to
At the government printing office
the new efficiency system arranged
by Public Printer Stillings has gone
Into effect. This system is intended
to provide for a precise estimate as
to what a certain piece of work will
cost Heretofore the basis of esti-
mates has been largely theoretical.
The employes were alarmed when
they learned that the dreaded effi-
ciency system had gone into effect
fearing that It meant more work.
Mr. Stillings allayed their fears. The
new system simply preserves a rec-
ord of what work each employe is
able to do.
for he Is the gentleman who does
lose it. Due allowance is made for
all the losses that may occur before es' steps to empty it, as ;t
the cotton is on the loom, and a suf- j
ficlent amount is deducted from the J
price to make good all this loss. To
put it plainly, is it not an inestima-
bly Important matter for the cotton!possible. Then therj is hardly
planter to go to work and save
possible. The kitchen bucket ought
to be placed where it will take the
:oes
down dipper by dipped. Then the
wood box ought to oo in the handiest
corner that it can be put Into, bo as
to save all the time and the labor
Then therj is
The figures of the domestic trade
of the United States, like those relat-
ing to foreign commerce, show big
gains for 1906 over the preceding
year. The increase is particularly
noteworthy in cattle, meat and grain
shipments, in production and con-
sumption of coal, in dealings in pro-
visions, cotton and other staples and
In the general business done by the
great rail and water transportation
routes. We are buying and selling
more abroad than ever before, but our
$12.50 on every bale of American | enough shelves
cotton sold? This vast sum of money,
about $150,000,000, ls money that
the South needs in her business, and
she can have it if she will pack cot-
ton as carefully as does the Oriental
planter. This sum of money is more
than the actual profit on the whole
Uuited States crop. Inside of the
Union is the place to get to work on
the problem.
about j]dtchen ln all this country that has j Incomparable home market is develop-
to aoid in a handy
place all the things that are needed
in a kitchen. You old selfish fellow!
Go into the kitchen and look around
and see what you can do to make
things handler fc- your overworked
partner. That's the co-ope-atlon th;it
helps.
ing at an unparalleled rate.
"We done got eleven cents, and
some of the boys from the forks of
the creek are putting it, and it looks
like all one has to do is to hold till*
some time in January.
When you go out to the Union
meeting, try to have something of
benefit to tell those present. This is
your duty, but if you have nothing
~ j new, you can at least restate an old
proposition so that it will be more
earnestly remembered.
A knot will not come untied if it
would rather knot than not
Again lot us Implore you to not get
rattled over any of tho little isms
A Cleveland girl has written to tha
navy department saying she wants to
enlist. The navy Jacks have lots of
use for Jills, even aboard ship, only
they don't spell them that way. The
girl didn't say what she wanted to do
aboard ship, but after she found the
key of the foretop, and had stuck a
Knife in the mainmast to raise a
Dreeze, she would probably discover
some function of life at sea at present
unused, simply because it never oc-
curred to the department to ship
Siris.
It is yet time to do some lessons in
real Co-operation. Let the next sev-
*oUdtImehlirtheaUnione The'sTthiSs eral ,week* flnd y3U busy wlth ,hB 1 whlch 13 "ow being held In London
io urae in me union, inese in Pb i ranging Qf a co-operation throughout
Color or Lignt.
That veteran of the brush, Holman
Hunt has been painting nearly CO
years and the exhibition of his art
are to be expected, and so long as ail
pull together for the things that
make for the good of the farmer all [ another
ls well. It ls impossible for all to
look at everything from the same
standpoint, and if this were possible
it ls impossible to draw the same con-
clusions from the same observation.
The way to have the greatest peace
and harmony compatible with life
and action 13 Io keep doing all you
can for the betterment of the man
with the hoe.
There ls nothing else on earth that
will pay better than tree planting,
and a tree is the most accommoda-
ting thing about growing on earth.
Just any old place is good enough for
a tree, and it is not particular about
its company, as a general thing. Plant
trees in all the little out of the way
places that are not big enough or
good enough for anything else. Any-
way, plant treees.
your farm so that you will not havd
one part of the place dependent upon
for support. Go carefully
over all the land and make notes of
the peculiarities of the the different
parts, remembering what can be best
sown in this field and In that; what
crops do best here and there, and
where there are thin spots that need
a little helping out. Oh, there are a
world of things that ought to be done
right now.
Have you been out to see the new
teacher? It is high time that you
had been out and looked over the
person who is to make or ruin your
boys and girls. You wouldn't begin
to put your fine young colt Into the
hands of a man you do not know for
training, yet many of you do this with
your children. Most any sort of a
boy or girl ls worth as much as any
man's colt Isn't he?
A swelled head Indicates a contract-
ad heart
A certain individual in West Tex«
as bounght a section of1 land two or
three years ago at $9 per acre. Ha
says he can cash it now at $20 per
acre. That's a clear gain of over
seven thousand dollars. He hasn't
touched that land—hasn't lived on it
at all. Did he "make" that seven
thousand dollars? He did not. It has
come to him through the pitiful
scramble of the homeless for homes.
—Farmers' Journal.
F. U. MAGAZINE NUGGETS.
"Life In any metropolis makes
young children sharp," observes a re-
cent writer, "but not clever. It often
destroys their chance of being clever,
for It hastens the development of tha
brain unnaturally. It make* many
children superficial; alert It ls true,
but not observant; excitable, but
without enthusiasm.
Says Elbert Hubbard: Some poo
pie suffer from overwork; out It does
not take much work to make some of
ui suffer.
shows how versatile are his talents.
But Mr. Hunt is a slow worker; time
is no object when he has a picture
in band, many of his more famous
works having taken him several
years to complete. Ills greatest pic-
ture is "The Light of the World," now
at Keble college, Oxford, and before
painting it he was so cautious to be
accurate in detail that he went so
far as to experiment with moonlight
by procuring an enormous lens and
focusing the moonlight through a
stained-glass window onto a glass
sheet. The result was a golden yel-
low light which several of the great-
est painters of the period declared
to be impossible, among them Sir
John Millais, until Mr. Hunt under-
took to repeat the experiment in his
presence.
If the emperor of Germany ls such
a confirmed optimist, why does he not
take a cheerful view of the criticism*
of himself?
Prof. Breasted^ of Chicago univer-
sity, has discovered that Rameses II,
who died 4,000 years ago, was a mar-
ried man. He must have found an
unmalled letter In hit majesty'*
At least three Hmes out of five tha
average man ls entitled to another
guess on almost any question ba
tackles.
Only a wise dentist ls able to draw
his pay regularly
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