Luther Register. (Luther, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1906 Page: 2 of 8
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''SERIA
^STORY^
DUKE OF
DEVIL=
MAY CARE t
By HARRIS DICKSON
Author of
"Tha Black Wolf* Breed," Etc.
(( opjrrlirht, 1005, by 1). A|>pl«ton A Co.)
CHAPTER IX.—Continued.
Monsieur's face brightened. "Oui,
•ul, ma'm'selle -wish to nee /.Is apart-
ment, But zis Is my chamber, I sleep
In here."
"You sleep in here?" Alice repeated,
vaguely. Anita glanced at the man
and wondered what he meant.
Alice continued beating on the door.
Monsieur Victor shrugged his shoul-
ders at the persistence of these Amer-
ican girls.
"Arthemlse, ArthemlBC," he called,
and clapped his hands. The maid
came, and a few words passed be-
tween them In French. "Ze room Is
not yet prepare, ma'm'selle," Monsieur
Victor apologized, "but—"
"Open this door, open this door,"
Alice demanded so vigorously that
Victor took the key from Arthemise
and threw the room open. Alice
- stepped inside with Anita immediate-
ly behind her, both their faces turned
toward Mrs. Aahton's bed. They bare-
ly crosscd the threshold, then halted,
staring and bewildered. There was
no bod; it was a strange room: neith-
er of them had ever seen it before.
There was no bed with green curtains,
no crusader tapesty; no Charlotte
Gorday oil the wall, no Spanish cabi-
net nothing that they recognized.
"Why—this is not—mother's room."
I Anita's eyes took in every detail at
a glance—coats hanging on chairs,
towels thrown across a screen, a shav-
ing-stand, a line of shoes, a dressing-
gown, and slippers. It was a man s
bedchamber; she drew hack.
The low Napoleon bed In the far
corner had been sle.pt in, and was still
disordered; the heavy center table, the
pictures on the wall—everything was
unfamiliar,
"We have made a mistake," Anita
"(.ertalnement, as you please. I
ma'm'selle."
Monsieur Victor, courteous and in-
credulous, opened door after door.
There were six rooms In that part
of the hquse, three on either side of
the hall, and all rented to carnival
visitors. One of thfse rooms the girls
had occupied, and in one they felt
sure they had left Mrs. Ashton. But
which? As Monsieur Victor opened
the doors the anxious girls peered In.
They found nothing.
Alice caught him by the arm.
"Monsieur Victor, It was the room
with the great big bed in it—with
the green silk curtains—you remem-
ber the room that you put mother in
last night?"
The Frenchman smiled indulgently,
and looked blank.
"Anita, you remember it?"
The older girl nodded, shut her lips
tightly, and went on searching. In
the rear room opposite their own they
found a sweet-faced old lady, very
deaf, knitting beside a window.
Monsieur explained something to her
In French, through a trumpet. She
nodded that the young ladles were
free to search her room If they chose.
admitted, and backed out info the hall, i the cab?"
"What's the Matter?" He Asked.
Anita murmured an apology, and
drew Alice after her into the hall.
"Monsieur Victor, where is my
mother?" Alice caught the lapel of
his coat, and besought him; the
Frenchman shrugged his shoulders
with an expression of painful igno-
rance.
"My mother, Monsieur Victor, my
mother," the girl insisted, "don't you
remember—try to remember—her foot
slipped, she stepped in the gutter
last night when you helped her from
Alice came like a child to Anita,
hid her head on the other . s'fl'3
breast, and suffered herself to be led
from the room. Anita stood perfect-
ly still In the hall stroking Alice's
hair, and trying desperately hard to
think what could have happened.
For Mrs. Ashton's room had disap-
peared—the huge bed with green cur-
tains—the Crusader knight the cabi-
net—the memories of I,afllte—Mrs.
Ashton herself, the real and the un-
real--all, everything had vanished
from the daylight, like night-born
fantasies of a dream.
CHAPTER X.
INTO THE VOID.
Monsieur Victor Laboulise followed
the girls from the room and closed
the door—the door that had the
broken knob. Anita and Alice stood
bewildered in the hall, watching him
lock it, listening to the rasping bolt
as It slipped into place.
"Mother did come here with in,
didn't she, Anita?" Alice sobbed.
In hand; he had not understood.
Anita advanced to meet him at the
door. Again she stopped, a choking
fear clutching at her throat.
"The man across the street, she
thought, and shuddered; "what had
he done? Perhaps he knew—per-
haps."
She raised her hand. "Oh, no, no.
Monsieur Victor, do not call the po-
lice—yet—"
Victor shrugged his shoulders hope-
lessly; was ever man so beset?
Hippolyte had scarcely disappeared
before he came back again. Anita
turned to him as she might have
turned to any trifle which promised
explanation.
TEN YEARS OF PAIN.
Unable to Do Even Housework
cause of Kidney Troubles.
Be-
Mrs. Margaret Emmerich, of Clinton
street, Napoleom, O., saya; "For fif-
teen years I was a
groat sufferer from
kidney troubles. My
hack pained me ter-
ribly. Every turn
or move caused
sharp shooting
pains. My eyesight
was poor, <1 a r k
spots appeared be-
fore me. and I had dizzy spells. For
Two gentleman; zey wait," ho said, j ten years I could not do housework,
and handed Anita their cards—"Mr.
Felix Cbaudron, Mr. Woodford
Vance." Anita read the names aloud,
and dully wondered how Woodford
Vance happened to be here.
"0b,;; Alice exclaimed, "I k-now!
Mother wrote him a month ago; he
was to meet us here, and surprise
Anita tightened her clasp about the j you."
younger girl. It seemed a thousand ! She tore herself away from Anita,
years ago—last night—a thousand ; sped through the hall, down the steps.
"I thought," stammered Alice, "that
this was my mother's room. Where
is she?"
"Your mother?" the Frenchman re-
potted, In a tone so utterly blank that
It sent a shiver through the blue-eyed
girl
"Yes, my mother; we left her in
here last night; I thought it was this
room."
"I do not comprehend ma'm'selle."
"No, it was not this room," Alice
looked in again—"no, it was not this
■ room."
The hall was very quiet. Anita
could hear the parrot's chatter In the
couit below, the splashing fountain,
the "coo-coo-coo" of the pigeons—
even the scraping of Hippoiyte's: this door when we came out
broom came to her from the ban- j night.
quet'e All around her and about her Monsieur Victor seemed a trifle dis-
wa.s the settled serenity of the Creole j concerted at the positive statement,
life. Yet she began to fear—and Alice sprang tip and came running,
tried to keep Alice from seeing it. "Yes, it is, it is.
Anita glanced from the politely at- The maid followed, Alice dragged
tentive face of Monsieur Victor to
Piteously as s'.ie gazed up into his
face, the man's expression showed
that he did not remember, although
for her sake he tried very hard. He
was very sorry, very sympathetic, but
could recall no other lady being with
the two girls wh?n they came to his
house.
Alice dropped into a chair beside the
door, and began to cry. Anita was
not satisfied. She kept wandering
from room to room, utterly bewildered,
looking for something that would sot
her straight. Time and again she
stopped at the first door that they
I had entered.
j "This Is the room," she said, final-
j ly; "we noticed the broken knob on
last
miles away, a confused entangled
memory of some strange land, some
vanishing castle, where men whis-
pered, and where a pair of tense
black eyes stared at her from a win-
dow.
Instinctively her thoughts turned
to Noel Duke, If. Indeed, they had
ever strayed from their usual abiding-
place. She forgot his i,egleet, forgot
her resentment, she felt only her
weakness, and hoped he might he
near. She would appeal to him; even
If ho did hate Mrs. Ashton he would
come, for her sake. He would com-
pel this shriveled little mummy to
toll the truth. Yea, yes, she would
go to the street door and call him.,
"Come, Alice," she said; and half
supporting her cousin, Anita moved
decisively toward the door at the end
of the hall.
But, if that were Noel, why did he
sit in that window across the street
and stare? Why did he look so pale
and haggard? What was it that he
and Victor were talking about so
earnestly? What, agreement was
there between them? Why should
Noel be so anxious to hide some-
thing? Why did he agree not to
come back to this house if Victor
would not tell? What was it that
Victor could tell? Victor had said
"ladies must be protect;" what did he
mean by that? What woman did Noel
mean to harm?
A thousand jumbled Ideas flashed
through Anita's mind. "No, no," she
stopped herself at the threshold. But
she must do something; Monsieur
Victor—wretched little creature—
kept watching her with his toad's
eyes, and Alice was worse than help-
les<.
"I shall call 'he police," she said,
vaguely.
"What for does mademoiselle wish
ze police?" Victor inquired, blandly,
with palms outspread.
"I want the police!" she almost
screamed back to him.
stranger's
Woodford
and without noticing
presence, ran straight to
Vance.
"Oh, I'm so glad you came," she
burst out; "something terrible has
happened. Mother was here with us
last night. Now she's gone, and w«
can't find her anywhere. Come."
She caught his hand, led him stum-
bling up the stair, round the balcony
and into the back hall.
The young Creole followed—-a slen-
der fellow with tiny
indolent-looking eyes. Victor greet-
ed this man with elaborate politeness,
for he knew the Chaudrons.
They came upon Anita standing In
the hall where Alice had left her, her
deep eyes gazing through the doorway.
She held out her hand to Woodford
Vanco without a word.
"What's the matter?" he asked
after he had hurriedly presented
Chaudron.
"I don't know—exactly; we came
down from Vicksburg last night with
my aunt. She went to sleep in that
room—I think it was that room—"
"No, Anita, it was not that room,"
Alice corrected.
"I'm sure that was the room," Ani-
ta insisted, "and now she isn't here;
she isn't in the house. These people
say she did not come."
"Impossible! How foolish!" Vance
was a practical business man, and
would have laughed outright but for
Alice's hysterical distress. Felix
Chaudron looked from one mystified
girl to the other, then straight at
tho hotelkeeper.
"What about this, Monsieur Labou-
Isse?"
"Ma'm'selle ees mistake." Victor
spread out his palms with a depre-
catory gesture, heart-broken at hav-
ing to take issue with a lady. "Ze
two young lady zey come to my housj
las' night; I give zem a room; zis
morning zey speak of one more lady.
I know nutting of her. One young
and for two years did not get out of
the house. The kidney secretions
were irregular, and doctors were not
helping me. Doan's Kidney Pills
brought me guick relief, and finally
cured me. They saved my life."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Mllburn Co., BufTalo, N. Y.
Department's Good Record.
The colonial secretary of tho Baha-
mas states In his report of the islands
for 1905-1906 that no complaint of
error or delay has been received by
the telegraph department for 14 years.
Never Disappoints.
"Many extensively advertised reme-
dies are failures when put to the test.
Hunt's I.ightnlng Oil Is an exception.1
Confidence In it is never misplaced—
disappointment never follows Us use.
It is surely the grandest emergency
ustacbe "and remedy now obtainable. For cuts,
burns, sprains, aches and pains 1
know o equal."
Geo. E. Paddock,
Doniphan, Mo.
Origin of Term "Grocer."
According to etymology, a "retail
grocer" is as absolute an impossibility
as a "weekly journal." A grocer, or
"grosser" as it used to bo spelled, Is
really a trader "In gross"—that is to
say, in large quantities, wholesale.
Englishmen of other days spoke of
"grossers of fish" and "grossers of
wine," and an act of Edward III. ex-
pressly mentions that "grossers" dealt
In all manner of goods. In those days
"spicer" was the word for "grocer" in
the modern sense. But It happened
that the Grocers' company, founded in
the fourteenth century, specialized in
spicery and so "grocer" gradually took
the place of "spicer."
"Oui, oui. na'm'selle; I have zem | lady say her muzzer sleep in zat room
in one minute." Victor bowed with | —one say she do not. One say 'yes,'
| the air of doing a foolish thing in or- one say 'no'—as you hear, m'sieu;' I
der to pacify a child. "Hip'leet! am In one great perplex. Zat ees
Alice's round blue eyes, startled and
wide open. Then she looked again
Into that unfamiliar room. It was
very puzzling, but of course nothing
could have happened.
'"Mtybe, maybe," she suggested, as
if trying to reassure herself—"maybe
it's tli - next room; but I felt sure that
her across the threshold.
"Try to remember, Arthemlse;
mother sat right there, you took olT
her stocking and washed her foot—
surely you remember that? Oh, no,
it wasn't here at ail," and the girl
burst out crying again.
Arthemise spoke no English, but
she understood, and shruggc-d lie'
this waa the one. May we look?'' shouiders.
Hip'leet!" he called, "run! quick,
fetch ze police for ma'm'selle—"
Hippolyte came from the court be-
low and hobbled up the stair, his cap
my room; I sleep zerc las' night."
The bewildered Frenchman shrugged
his shoulders helplessly.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Every Man His Own Brewer
A Wisconsin chemist says he ha3
discovered a method whereby a man
can carry around in a small vial 480
schooners of good beer.
According to What to Eat he has
produced a liquid which is 11,000 times
stronger than the very best beer that
can be produced.
All he will say regarding his dis- j
covery Is that it is an alkaloid from
hops 9,500 times stronger than the j
malt now made from the best barley.
When- this fluid is combined with wa i
and one-half per cent, alcohol, which
Is the quantity found in the best qual-
ity of beer.
The advantage of this is that one
could place a small vial containing one
ounce of liquid in his vest pocket and
thus be constantly supplied not only
with indefinite quenchings of a per-
sonal thirst, but also with enough
treats to popularize the meanest man
in any community.
The Wisconsin chemist thinks he
will make a fortune out of the poll-
Japan's Empress Popular.
It Is doubtful if any royal consort Is
more loved by her people than is the
empress of Japan. Educated accord-
ing to feudal ideas and skilled in all
the accomplishments befitting one of
her social eminence, her majesty
strongly favors the broadness of tho
new education for women and from
her private purse give3 large sums
toward the maintenance of women's
schools and universities. During the
war with Russia the empress visited
the hospitals many times and every
day passed hours making bandages.
The effect of these bandages upon the
wounded soldiers has been of deep In-
terest to medical and scientific men,
for the soldiers honored by them
seemed to rally under a peculiar mon-
tal influence. All other bandages were
destroyed after their first use; those
made by the empress were sterilized
and used again for the simple reason
of their effect on the recovery of the
soldiers. , J
LIKE A FAIRY TALE.
Senators Involved in Scandal.
United State.i j confirmed. According to the report.
ter the contact produces an instan- | ticians alone; but the brewers haven't.
truieous fermentation, forming three [' ken to the woods yet.
Warren told him he. ought not to go Warren in Denver the senator pro-
after the Union Pacific and incur the duced confidential letters which Myen-
enmity of that company. He charged dorff had written to the land commis-
! that the land department at Washing- sioner in Washington and read ex-
! ton had suppressed evidence secured tracts from them. Myendorff alleged
by him. In two charges which he filed that it was represented to him that
to stir up the Wyoming coal lands
matter at that time would incur the
SALT L.AKJ3 CITY
Senators Francis E. Warren and the indictments will not be returned
Clarence D. Clark, of Wyoming; Com- until after the close of the investlga-
mtssloner William A. Richards, of the Hon being conducted by Commissioner j ngt Robert Forrester> geologist
general land office, and George F. Pol Clark, E. M. Allison, attorney fot fie ( f ^ companv a Ci0ul(1
lock, chief of department B, interior Rio Grande system n arguments be r rat, he alleged no action was enmity of the Union Pacific interests! from ttlis ltlp harr
charged fore Commissioner Clark, has charged ^ prpvent Uu, re.electlon of gen. of factory buildings
Myeudorff's affidavit alleges that on
department, Washington, are charged fi
|>y Michael A. Myendorff, a special that most of the testimony being
agent of the government, who began brought out was for the purpose of in
an investigation of coal land frauds fluencing public opinion against per
in Utah, with trying to get him to *qns who might be indicted by the
drop the work, and when that proved , rand jury.
unsuccessful, with mispressing evi- Myendorff's sensational testimony
dence collected by him. Myendorff j follows. Ho said he began an invest! v-seve mm were
was a witness in the hearing before ;atlon of the coal land frauds in I tab ' * ' '■ 1 • Union Pa
Interstate Commerce Commissioner and before he had completed it wasj n ' ^ ,
Edward E Clark here today. ! transferred to 'Los Angeles, and then 1 ■ " fcl'°
Along similar lines was the testi- to Portland, Ore. Mr. Myendorff pie
mony of another special agent of the rented an affidavit in which ho told
land department, Colonel F. S. Sow , of efforts made by influential men to
era, who said he was removed follow j induce^hin^ | coal lands in Wyoming. Some of these
pri
Mr. Myendorff's affidavit goes at ator Clark.
length into the methods of the coal Myendorff alleged that he was re-
companies in securing coal lands by moved from Den.-er in 1905 as a re-
locations through dummies, who trans- suit of his activities, and the matter
ferred their rights to tlie corporations, of the Wyoming lands turned over to
Inspector O'Brien, of Denver, whom
the affiant described as a confidential
friend of Macey, chief clerk of the de-
partment at Washington, and also a
personal friend of Senator Warren.
at Denver, before W. I.
Gifford, agent of the Union Pacific,
and signed their names to powers-of- Senator Clark, also, he alleged, wanted
attorney, relinquishments and affidav O'itrien detailed on this work,
its which were used to acquire title to Senator Warren was the author of
The Story of Postum Cereal In Words
and Pictures.
The growth of the Postum Cereal
Co. is like a fairy tale, but it is true,
every word of it.
"The Door Unbolted" Is the title of
a charming little booklet just issueiT
by the Company which tells, and il-
lustrates, the story of this remark-
able growth. It takes the reader from
the little white barn in which the
business was started Jan. 1, 1895,
through the palatial offices and great
factory buildings of the "White City"
that comprise Postumville, Rattle
Creek, Mich.
The little white barn, so carefully
preserved, is a most interesting build-
ing, for it represents the humble be-
ginning of one of the country's great-
est manufacturing enterprises of to-
day, an enterprise that has grown
from this little barn to a whole city
within but little
more than ten years.
No less interesting is the quaint of-
ficial home of the Postum Cereal Co.
The general office building of Mr. Post
and his associates is a reproduction oT
tho Shakespeare house at Stratford-
on-Avon, and upon the house and its
furnishings has been expended vast
sums of money, until the rooms are
more like the drawing rooms of the
mansions of our multi-millionaires
than like offices.
That Mr. Post has believed thor-
oughly in the idea of giving to his
employes attractive and healthful
work rooms is proven not only by the
, , , , „ f,.Q1„.a ti,i mm miiuB in >.—— the Warren amendment to the state-
ing his recommendation of proceed .'on of the coal land men, it is asserted, signed fictitious hood bill, which was denounced by
ings aga ns t ie < asan .i i • oa u.u.m ti na n ■ .|„R|I)n(,,.' Richards of names. The men who signed received the people of Oklahoma as an attempt ! general office building of the Company
company. Wyoming; Commissioner uicnarw^ oi ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ |Q dep]ete ,he schoo, fund by al]ow. 4n() lts furnlshingSi but 5v hlg fac
which has been sitting In this city Pollock, chief of department
and investigating coal land frauds ha.; icrlor department, Washington. . _ ... . . ,• ,
be1 Mb allied that in Denver Senator I one occasion when he met Senator lented after a desperate ftgh
Wyoming; Commissioner Richards, of ^ f ^ ^ troub|e
Reports that tin ftueral giau.i juij. i*"^nt jf |n. in his reference to Senators Warren ing oil and mineral claims to be locat- j tories as well, and of all of these
tklngs this beautiful little booklet tells
voted several Indictments, cannot b, ' „e al,eeed that in --1™ — -« - 1' |— — " — ' th° 11 wi « •
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