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The dust is brought out of the carpet and deposited in the dust bag which holds it and prevents a single particle from flying in the room to settle again as it does with the old broom and sweeper methods. DISTRIBUTING AGENT, OTTO STEEGER BRAINERD, MINN. W. A. Flynn, Local Agent IS RIS TO POWER | By Henry Russell Miller, Author of “The Man Higher Up” - Copyright, 1911, by the Bobbs-Merrill Company In the financial district of the Steel City was no June day relaxation. In the exchange was a howling, frenzied mob struggling desperately to speed advancing fortune or to retain that which was vanishing in the Alabama Iron and Coal squeeze. A glutton by methods that would have done credit to the robber barons had raped the treasure developed by weaker brethren. And now greater barons, more gluttonous, springing upon him in an unguarded moment, by like methods were tearing the spoils from his grasp. But no one saw a joke. Before it could end two great banking houses would be bankrupt, at least one daring, arrogant speculator sensation- ally ruined and a thousand little greedy ones made penniless. The mad scramble rose to a climax. In his office the man who was the storm center stood over the ticker. He had struggled, with the unthinking valor born of desperation, against the unwavering, relentless attacks made upon him. They had forced him back, farther and still farther back to his inner lines of defense, into the last ditch. Driven out of that he had made a last vain stand. Now he awaited the slaughter. He glared fix- edly at the tape in his hand. Suddenly the fixity broke up in an insane helpless rage that demanded physical expression. From his twist- ed mouth came an inarticulate, wolfish ery. With a convulsive jerk he snap- ped off the tape—kicked the ticker un- til it fell with a crash. A clerk in the outer office heard the noise and rushed in. Immediately, frightened by what he saw, he withdrew, closing the door behind him. Stephen Hampden was not good to look upon as he rushed up and down the room, striking and kicking at the objects in his way. His face was pur- ple—convulsed. He poured out unin- telligible imprecations on the “curs,” the “crooks.” the “traitors” who had broken him. He had no thought for ‘those upon whom he in his turn had fallen. He was obsessed by the pas- “sion of his defeat. : a chair. The telephone rang. He paid no attention to it. The clerk, trembling, opened the door. “You're wanted on the long dis- tance, Mr. Hampden. It’s”— “I won't talk to them!” Hampden snarled back. The clerk withdrew, then reappear- ed. “Beg pardon, Mr. Hampden,” he insisted timidly, “but it’s Mr. Blake of New Chelsea. He says he must talk to you.” “All right”* Hampden caught up the telephone. He waited unti! the click told him that the clerk’s receiver had been hung up, then snapped: “This lis Hampden. What do you want?” The precaution was unnecessary. |The message was strangely worded. |It would have meant nothing to an | outsider. But Hampden had the key. | He hung up the receiver. And fora }moment he allowed himself to be |beaten down. Fear before a danger in- curred in the heat of battle and now become imminent, terrible, through the folly of another, ousted rage. Mere defeat, bankruptcy, paled before this new penalty which he must pay. And fear steadied him,, cleared his brain. He. wasted no time in futile regrets. His mind darted hither and thither. swift and calculating, pondering and rejecting a hundred avenues of escape from the peril which must be averted before he could set out to recoup his losses. There was no thought of sav- ing Warren Blake—only himself. Late in the day he went out—to beg the mercy he had never shown. Katherine Hampden was alone that evening. She was often alone nowa- days, but not entirely because, as she had told John Dunmeade, she had been assigned a berth on the shelf re- served for unmarriageable females. There were many men who would have gladly undertaken to relieve her soli- tude. But these found her extremely unapproachable. Those whom she would have welcomed most gladly had Jeast time for dalliance in drawing rooms. The truth was, she was disappointed. Mature perception. quickened by a glimpse of a different ideal of life, had seen beyond the false setting of ro- mance behind which men seek to hide the ugliness of the greedy, unscrupu- lous scramble for gold. She would have married Gregg had it not been for the fact that the acid of his calling was etching more and more clearly upon his frank, clean exterior a picture of what lay within. As it was, she had sent him away. She was waiting for her father’s homecoming. While she waited she glanced through the evening paper. In it the day’s doings on the stock ex- change were featured. The account had it that Hampden had been hard hit—even vaguely hinted that he might have to fail. She was amazed at the that their fortune, hitherto so potent sadly shaken if not totally destroyed. She tried to picture to herself what it privations even, the loss of caste among a set that measured worth by stocks and bonds. Somehow the picture could not profoundly alarm, partly perhaps because she knew too little of want to draw convincingly. She could not even feel deeply for her father, although she had for him a genuine daughter’s affection and knew what a blow failure would be to him. ingly. “I suppose nothing can persuade him that it isn’t a horrible calamity. I ought to feel so, too, but— Heigho! Is this Katherine Hampden?” She went on turning the pages of the paper until her casual glance was caught by a familiar name in a satiri- cal editorial under the caption “A Fool Errant.” The fool errant was Jobo Dunmeade, recently—and happily, in the editor’s opinion—disposed of at the primaries. H Her color deepened suddenly and for another reason. Memory had recalled to her something she had once said to this man. “When you were a broken down, middle aged failure * * * 1 should be looking up at the men who were conquering. * * * And1should Tegret.” Well, her prophecy had been fulfilled sooner than she had expected. He had been cast aside even by his own neigh- bors. But there was something large and fine about him which forbade pity and commanded respect, made even such men as Gregg, with their vitiated ideals. want to do him favors “on gen- eral principles.” “To think that I could have said that to him!” she cried to herself. “What a cad I was! If only I hadn’t said ‘Up at the men who were conquering!’ John Dunmeade, you tower above them all.” She was still dreaming of John when her father came in. His face was haggard, set in an ugly, bitter scowl. The sympathy that had a fortune leaped when she saw the man who had lost it. “Cleaned out,” he said curtly. She went to him quickly, laying an impulsive hand on his shoulder. “Ob, well, dear, never mind. It might be so much worse. You mig! have been taken sick or had an accident, or—or anything. I’ve just been thinking how nice it would be to go back home to New Chelsea and start all over again in—in something that wouldn’t take all your time. I—I'd be so glad to get ac- quainted with you again.” She gave a little laugh. “You talk like a fool!” he replied roughly. “What could I do in that rube town—run a grocery store? Here’s where I can make money. And I-can make all we need, once I get things lack of emotion with which she read | and all sufficing, had in a day been; must mean to them—the economies, the | “Poor father!” she smiled half pity- | lagged as she read of the wiping out of | ‘ GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW GG RAN sc A ok ine Ft ilo Fae Eat j | sia The immediate question fs to | keep out of jail.” She started back from him with a gasp. “Out—of—Jail! Father!” “Out of jail, I said. I’m ‘into’ the New Chelsea bank and I’ve nothing left to pay witb.” i “Is—is it much?” ag “It wasn’t, but it is now.* ~~ * “But we must pay it back. There are the bonds you gave me. And the New | | Chelsea houses that mother owns—she’ll | give those up. And”— “Not a third enough.” She dropped weakly into a chair, star- |ing at him foolishly. She was very | pale, dazed by the sudden new calam- lity that had fallen. “But surely,” she insisted anxiously, “the bank won’t press you. They know | you’ll pay it all back when you can.” “What do you know about it? It isn’t the bank; it’s the government that will make the trouble. That fool Blake is in worse thanIam. The bank’s gut- ted, cleaned out. And the bank exam- iner is overdue. If he comes around now”— With a gesture he sketched the impending catastrophe. “Stephen, what is the matter now?” came a languid voice from the door- way. “And please, for my sake, lower your voice. It’s so vulgar to talk loud- ly before servants.” Mrs. Hampden entered and, with an air of utter ex- haustion, deposited her substantial self in an easy chair. “Father,” Katherine explained, with crue] brevity, “has lost his money.” It was an unexpected tonic. The in- valid suddenly sat bolt upright and al- most shrieked. “Lost our money? Do you mean to say, Stephen Hampden. that you’ve been selfish enough to gam- ble our money away after all I’ve suf- fered and denied myself”— She threw her hands aloft and fell back moaning. “Oh, in my weak con- dition, when my heart”— “Maria, you’re a fraud. Even with your laziness and indulgences you're the picture of vulgar health.” Mrs. Hampden rose. She managed a stagger that would have done credit to Bernhardt, clutching at tables and chairs for the doubtfully necessary support out of the room. Hampden growled again, unintel- ligibly. “Father, isn’t there something to be done?” “Murchell. I’ve an appointment with him in New Chelsea tomorrow. Some of his rascally politicians are in as deep as Blake and I.” “Can he help?” “He can. And he’s got to.” “Do you mind if I go up with you tomorrow?” “All right. And I wish,” he exclaim- ed querulously, “you’d go away and | let me alone.” In her darkened room Katherine sat by the window for a long time, think- | She Started Back From Him With a Gasp. ing with a feeling of sickening disgust on the sordid scene between her par- ents just enacted. This was the other side, the unlovely other side, of that splendid life of conquest for which she had put the best of all aside. Thus it made victims of its votaries. She thought of John. CHAPTEF. = The Honey Pot. OHN DUNMEADBE had thought that anticipation would rob defeat of its ©6osting. Not until the event, until Benton county, his own neigh- bors, had repudiated bim could he measure the hurt. There was one thing which he would do—deep down within him was the unworded resolve that it should be his valedictory. “There’s something,” he told Haig, a week after the primaries, “that has been haunting me.” And he told the other what Sheehan had said concerning the bank. “Well, what business is it of yours? You aren’t the guardian of the public morals. Even if you want to be, the people have just clearly declared that they don’t. Keep out of what isn’t your affairs.” “But I’m still district attorney.” “All right. If anything happens or any one makes official information be- fore the end of your term, prosecute.” “But I understand my duty to include uncovering crime as well as prosecut- ing what others expose. I'll ask Blake to let me go over the books.” “He won't let you, of course. ‘There’d be a crash.” WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1913 fully, “if nothing is wrong. Especially when he understands that. if he doesn't, I’ll subpoena him with the books before the grand jury. If there’s nothing wrong, there will be no crash. But I have friends who have money and stock in the bank. And if our political bank history is repeating itself they and the public have the right to know it.” “John,” Haig argued earnestly, “don't you do it. Haven't you had enough? What's the nse of making more trou- ble and enemies for yourself?” “L know.” John said patiently. “T've gone over all that. This is my last crusade. But it goes throngh. Be- cause, if there’s anything amiss, now is the time for it to come out, while it can help Jerry Brent.” “Great Scott! Have you still faith in the people? Don’t you know what they'll do, if you uncover anything? Just sniff daintily around and then kins or whoever the gangs nomi- nate. I think it very possible that things aren’t straight at the bank. But I like you and I like Warren Blake—he’s a good friend of yours, too—and I don’t want to see him in trouble. Besides,” he grinned, “none of my money is deposited in the bank.” “Is that all you have to offer for the defense? If it is—are you coming along to help me or not?” “I suppose,” Haig grumbled, “I'll have to. You need a guardian angel.” So it happened that at a critical time in the fortunes of the bank and its offi- cers John and Haig set out on their mission. They chose an hour early in the evening, after supper. They tried the bank first. It would be closed, but within, as all New Chelsea knew, War- ren Blake was apt to be found faith- fully at the work that never seemed to end. The dark green window shades had been closely pulled down, but a glim- mering around the edges showed that a light was burning within. Blake might have been expecting them, so promptly was the door throwr open when they rapped. Surprise, however, was de- picted on his face when he beheld the visitors. “Good evening, gentlemen. Can I do something for you?” “We'd like to have a little talk with you, Warren,” said John. “It concerns the bank.” “The bank?” Suddenly Warren by some strange in. tuition knew, as he had known that the market would sag, what this untimely visit portended. He felt the blood leave his face and rush to his heart. His hands and feet became icy cold. He stared stupidly at the visitors, as though his faculties were benumbed. “I—I’m pretty busy tonight,” he said. “Can’t you put it off until Monday?” “I think we'd better talk it over now, Warren,” John answered. The sense of shock seemed to pass ; away. The cashier threw the door wider open to admit them. “Come in,” he said quietly. They entered, and he closed and locked the door behind them. Then he straightened up, all composure, to face them. “T'll have to ask you to be brief. I’m | preparing some papers for Senator Mur- chell and Mr. Hampden, and they’ll be here soon.” “Tl come right to the point,” John answered. “Warren, I want to see | the books of the bank. I’ve heard that | you are carrying a good deal of worth- | less political paper and that the bank jis in danger. I want to verify or dis- | Prove that.” “That's absurd. The bank is per- | fectly safe. And, of course, we can’t let you see the books. You aren’t even a stockholder and have no in- terest in them.” | “Warren,” said Haig hastily, putting his hand on the cashier’s shoulder, “I beg you to do as he asks. We're here in a wholly friendly way. And, of course, the bank is sound. Yon can rely on Dunmeade and me to do abso- lutely nothing, in that case, to harm it.” Warren shook his head. “You ought to know that it is out of the question.” “Then,” said John regretfully, “I’ll have to subpoena you to appear with the books before the grand jury on Monday.” He drew forth two docu- ments, one of which he gave to Blake. “I suggest that you wait and explain your errand to Murchell and Hamp- den. They will be here soon. Just take chairs in the cage. While we're waiting I'll finish my work,” said Blake. He ushered them into the cage, litely excusing himself, retired into the cashier's office and settled himself at the desk. For a few minutes he worked, with a speed that was not nervous haste, transcribing figures from the book before him and adding up columns. Then be wrote a few lines _and carefully blotted them, — (Continued next week.) OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE Township of Grand Rapids. —— Minutes of meeting of Town Bone oe a Ee oe gan Ra- wo t 1 of Chairman walk off to vote for Sherrod or Jen- | found chairs, offered cigars and, po-! | Present—Supervisors Brock, Hooli vhan and Zeininger. f | Chairman Hoolihan informed the board that by reason of the death of the town clerk, Jos H. McMahon, it devolved upon the Board to fill ithe vacaney, whereupon Supervis- jor Zeininger presented the name jot Hugh MeEwan and Supervisor Brock the name of Chas Kearney. Chairman Hoolihan gave his vote |to Hugh MeEwan, and Hugh Mc- |Ewan was declared to be appoint- ed to the office for the balance of the term. q |. ‘The bond of the clerk was fixed lin the sum of $ Ewan took the oath of office, at presented a bond with B,. P. Mun- json, B. L. Lieberman and Henry {Hughes as sureties in the sum of $3,000.00. The bond was approved |and ordered filed with the proper custodian thereof. | The bond of the deceased clerk, Jos H. McMahon, in the sum of 00.00 with Hugh McEwans and L. |W. Huntley as sureties, was pre- jsented, approved and ordered filed. carried, the. following bills were audited and ordered paid. McDougal, 28 days as pector a& bridge work.. 142 00 J. H. Reicherts, cleaning | and repairs at hall .... 3 50 |Otto Ranfranz, assistant to bridge inspector, 1 day 2 50 | Geo. S. Williams, judge of |. town election ............ 2 60 James Passard, moderator at town meeting .... ...... 2 60 L. W. Huntley, judge of town election .... .... .. 2 60 Chas Kearney, clerk of town election: .... .... ++ ie 2 60 James Duffy, judge of town Clection ..... s<esee covers 2 60 J. S. Gole, premium on Treas. band and insur- ance on. hall ............ 36 35 The Hennepin Bridge Co., pre- sented a claim for $2,500.00, being amount alleged to be due upon con tract work and estimated. Super- ; Visor Brock moved that an item of $230.00, being one half of ex- tras, be cut from the bill, and the claim be allowed in the sum of $2,- 270.00. This motion was seconded by Supervisor Zeininger, and car- ried by a unanimous vote. By a unanimous vote the matter of treasurer’s salary was referred to the Town attorney, with in- structions to secure ,an opinion thereon from the Attorney General. By a unanimous vote it was de- cided to call a special Town meet- ing for Monday night, April 14th, 1913. to meet at the Village hall in the Village of Grand Rapids, and the clerk was instructed to have notices therefor prepared, posted and published. The object of said meeting being to secure from the electors authority to dis- pose of certain machinery the town owns, and to have the electors give expression as to their wishes and desires in the building of the road to be used in connection with the bridge now being erected across the Mississippi river. The hour of 8 o’clock in the evening _ being set_as the time of said meeting. The bond of James Connell as Town ‘Treasurer in the sum of $8000.00, with the National Surety Co. as sureties, was presented, ap- proved and ordered filed with the proper custodian. jed as the néwspaper in which all legal notices required by law to be published shall be published, and |for the publication of such other jmatter as the board may direct to have published. The rates allowed jby law being tha compensation \fixed for such publications. At the request of the Clerk, the board authorized the opening of the town hall on Saturday, for the }convenience of the farmers and their wives and families who may ‘be in town, / _ Upon motion the meeting ad- |journed until Saturday night at 8 o'clock, to meet at the town hall, | HUGH McEWAN, i Clerk. SALE OF SCHOOL AND OTHER STATE LANDS State of Minnesota, State Auditor's Office. St. Paul, April ist. 1913. Notice is hereby given that on May 19, 1913, at 10 o’clock A. M., in the of- fice of the County Auditor at Grand Rapids, Itasca County, in the State of Minnesota, I wili offer for sale cer- tain unsold state lands, and also those state lands which have reverted to the state by reason of the non-paymnet of interest. Terms: Fifteen per cent of the pur- chase price and interest on the unpaid balance from date of sale to June Ist, 1914, must be paid at the time of sale. ‘The balance of purchase money is pay- able in whole or in part on or before forty years from date of sale; the rate of interest on the unpaid balance is four Per cent per annum, payable in advance on June Ist of each year; provided, the principal remains unpaid for ten years; but if the principal is paid within ten years from date of Sale, the rate of interest will be computed at five per cent per annum. Appraised value of timber, if any, must also be paid at time of sale. Lands on which the interest ts delin. quent may be redeemed at any time uD to the hour of sale, Or before resale to an actual purchaser. All mineral rights are reserved by the laws of the state. Not more than 320 acres can be sold or contracted to be sold to any one purchaser. Agents acting for purchasers must fur- nish affidavit of authority, Appraisers’ reports, showing quality and kind of soil, are on file in this office. Lists of lands to be offercd may be obtained of the state auditor or the state commissioner of immigration at St. Paul, and of the county auditor at above address Upon motion, duly seconded andj} The Herald- Review was designat | tion has been made in writing to the tion has been made in writing to the village Council of said Village of Grand Rapids, and fied in my office, praying for License to Sell Intoxicating Liquors for the term commencing on April 28th, 1913, and terminating on April 27th, 1914, ‘by the following person and at the fol- lowing place, as stated in said applica- tion,, respectively, to-wit: D. M. Gunn In the S. W. front room on the ground floor of that certain three story framé building (known as the Hotel Pokegama)> situated upon lots 13-14 and 15, block 19, | Plat of the Town of Grand Rapids, in the Village of Grand Rapids, Itasca county, Minnesota, Said application will be heard and de- |termined by said Village Council of the Village of Grand Rapids at the Record- {ers office in said Village Of Grand Ra- pids, in Itasca County, and State of Minnesota, on Friday the 25th day of April A, D., 1913, at 8 o'clock P. M., Of that day. Witness my hand and seal of Village of Grand Rapids this Ist day of April \AL D., 1913, P IPRANK SHERMAN, Village Recorder. Notice of Application for Liquor License STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OFT ITASCA, Village of Grand Rapids—ss. Notice is hereby given, that apPlica- tion has been made in writing to the Village Coumcil of said Village of Grand. Rapids, and filed in my office, praying for License to Sell Intoxicating Liquors for the term commencing on May ist 1913, and terminating on April 31st, 1914, by the following (person and at the fol- jowing place, as stated in said applica- tion, respectively, to-wit: M. McAlpine In the N. E. front room on the ground: floor of that certain two story brick building situated.upon lots 10-11 and 12, block 18, Plat of Town of Grand Rapids in the Village of Grand Rapids, Itagca County, Minnesota, Said application will be heard and de- termined by said Village Council of the Village of Grand Rapids at the Record- er’s office in said Village of Grand Ra- pids, in Itasca County, and State of Minnesota, on Friday the 25th day of April A, D., 1913, at 8 o'clock P. M., of that day. Witness my hand and seal of Village of Grand Rapids this 1st day of April, A. D., 1913. FRANK SHERMAN ie - Village Recorder. Notice for Publication. | U.S. Land Office at Cass Lake, Minnesota, March 31, 1913. Notice is hereby given that John O’Brien, of Grand Rapids, Minne- sota, who, on April 29th, 1910, made Homestead entry No— Serial No. 04352, for lot 14, N% SE% and SE% SE%, section 2, township 53, N. of Range 24, W. 4th Principal Meri- dian, has filed notice of intention tomake Final Commutation proof: under Sec. 6, Act., March 3, 1891 to establish claim to the land above described, before I, D. Rassmussen, Clerk of District Court, at his of- fice, at Grand Rapids, Minnesota, on_the 27th, day of March, 1913. Claimant names as witnesses: Tim Mahon, of Grand Rapids, Min- nesota; Henry Johnson, of Black- berry, Minnesota; Chris Johnson, of Blackberry, yMinnesota; Nels Weiborg, of Buhl, Minnesota. LESTER BARTLETT, Register. April 2-9-46-23-30 sp RaeC MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the con. ditions of a certain mortgage, made, executed and delivered by Earl H. Connor | mortgagor, to Daniel Haley, mortgagee, dated January 15, 1910, and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds in and for the County of Itasca and | State of Minnesota, on the 18th day of January, 1910, at five o’clock p. m. in book “U’? of Mortgages on Page 351. That after the execution, de- livery and recording of said mortgage as aforesaid, the said Daniel Haley died at Minneapolis, Hennepin County, State of Minnesota, while a resident of said Hennepin County, and having pro- perty in said County of Hennepin. That after the death of said Daniel Haley the undersigned Della Haley was duly appointed administratrix of the estate of said Daniel Haley, and that she |now is the duly appointed, qualified and acting administratrix of the estate of said Daniel Haley. There is claimed to be due on said mortgage at the date of this notice the sum of Eight Hun. dred Fifty-two and 44-100 Dollars ($852.44, according to the terms and conditions of one promissory note bearing even date therewith, together with the further sum of ($137.69) one hundred thirty-seven and 69.100 Dollars, taxes which the undersigned administratrix was obliged to pay and did pay on the —day of Jan., 1913, which were duly as- sessed and levied upon the lands herein- after describd. That no action or pro- ceeding has been instituted at law, or otherwise, to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof. Now, Therefore, Notice is Hereby Giv- en, that by virtue wf the power of sale comtained in said Mortgage, and pursuant to the Statute in such case made and provided, the said mortgage will "be foreclosed by the sale of the premises described in and conveyed by said Mortgage, viz: The East one half (E%) of the Northwest one-fourth (NW1-4)and West one-half of the North. east one-fourth (W1-2 N. EB. 1-4) Sec- tion Twenty-eight (28), Township one hundred fiffty (150), North Range twen- ty- eight (28), West F ifth P. M. in Itasca County and State of Min- nesofa, with the hereditaments and ap. purtenances, which sale will be made by the Sheriff of said Itasca County at the front door of the Court House, in the Village of Grand Rapids in said county and State On the 15th day of April, 1918, at ten o’clock A. M. of that day, at public vendue to the highest for cash, to pay said debt and ments allowed by law, Subject to re~ demption at any time within one yean from the day of sale, as provided by! law. a