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By Associated Press.
Waxahachie, Tex., Feb. 12.—Reports
filed by the county commissioners yes-
terday before adjourning the quarterly
term, give the first accurate estimate
of losses suffered by Ellis county, in the.
recent floods. Total damage to bridges,
and roads is shown to be $50,000. Most
of the repairs has been completed. . ■
Miss Mazuret Greeted Them With
Nervous and Eager Relief.
transmit over little wires to listeners
miles away every syllable of a whis-
pered conversation in the opposite cor-
ner.
All of these changes in the neighbor-
hood occurred within a few hours after
Miss Mazuret had entered the house in
Greenwich village; also one or two
men dropped in to call on her in the
course of the afternoon and evening.
The next day there were other call-
ers on Miss Mazuret, and finally, early
The revenue cutters Gresham and
Acushnet were ordered out an began
a search for the vessel.
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Full Discretion Is Wired Boatswain by
Secretary Daniels.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Feb. 12.—Secretary Dan-
iels today telegraphed Boatswain Wil-
kinson. commanding the naval tug Po-
tomac, icebound in the gulf of St. Law-
rence, full power to exercise his dis-
cretion in extracting the boat, and her
crew from their perilous situation.
Experts here believe it will be im-
possible to move the Potomac at pres-
ent. but Secretary Daniels wanted her
commander to have a free hand.
The revenue cutter Androscoggin,
which startd to rescue the Potomac, is
nearing either Halifax or Sydney, Nova
Scotia, to await further orders.
Immediately thereafter events moved
with great swiftness. An organ grind-
er began haunting the block at all
hours of the day and night. There
was a new man at the newsstand on
the corner across the street. The sa
loons at either end of the block began
to do a surprisingly good business and
the attic of the house next door to Mrs.
Martin’s was rented by a couple of in
ventors who wanted to work secretly
on a new electrical appliance that
would make a stir in the world. This
new appliance was the dictograph, the
greatest of eavesdroppers, which has
already made a considerable stir in va-
rious quarters of the United States.
This dictograph is a fearsome device.
It is so small and unpretentious that it
can be concealed in the barest of rooms.
comedies which have been so
. in vogue during the last de-
Musical America, one of dthe leading
musical publications in this country,
is fostering a movement which every
music loving American can heartily en-
dorse. It is making a strong plea for
musical independence in America, and
lends vigorous support to the Society
for the Promotion of Opera in English.
There are far too few great operas in
the English language. We need more
of them, and less of the frivolous mu-
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Peking, Feb. 12.—The Standard Qil
company after long negotiations toda
concluded an important agreement
with the Chinese government.
The oil fields of the province of
Shen Si and of the northern part of
the province of Chi Li will be explored
and if they prove sufficiently valuable
a Chino-American company will be
formed in which the Standard Oil com-
pany .will have a controlling interest,
and the Chinese government will re-
ceive a certain percentage of the
shares.
Representatives of the Standard Oil
company refused to divulge details of
the transaction tonight, saying that
the Chinese were unwilling to make a
public announcement.
Japanese officials have profited in
many ways through their observation
of the practices of officials in Western
nations. Recently it would seem they
have been following so closely in the
steps of their Western prototypes that
they have been enriching themselves
at the expenses of the naval contracts.
In America, England, France, or Ger-
many, charges of graft would arouse
only medocire interest on th part of
the masses. But the Japanese people
take these things a little more seri-
ously, as was evidenced by their at-
tack on the Japanese parliament. In
this instance, at least, the peoples of
the Occident might well profit by the
example, and become more deeply
aroused over the peculations of public
officials.
Americans will rejoice to know that
an emphatic protest has been made to
Huerta in regard to the contemptible
attacks being made against President
Wilson in the semi-official press of
Mexico City. There is no excuse'for
such debased attacks and the United
States has ample power to bring the
dictator to time in this respect.
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Now is the time to put out shade
trees. We note from our exchanges
that many of our n'eighboring towns
are planting trees and otherwise add-
ing to their civic beauty, and Orange
Grove should follow their example, as
there is nothing which adds more to a
city’s good looks than plenty of shade
trees. A number of our citizens have
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Prof. Seager of New York, declares
that the Wilson idea of an interstate
trade commission is worthy of un-
qualified support. This is true. In this
connection, attention might well be
called to a singularly unhappy choice
of names. We now have an “interstate
commerce commission,” and so far as
names go an “interstate trade commis-
sion,” will mean the same thing. It
would seem more appropriate to call
the former the “interstate traffic com-
mission,” and make the “commerce”
commission what its,name implies.
individual, but are brought about ' already set out trees, but there is still
through some questionable practices I room for more. Who will be the next
entered into more or less deliberately j to follow in the movement?
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Porcelain manufacturers of France,
with cusomary French vehemence, are
urging their government to take
prompt action to uphold the dignity and
commerce of France against the "in-
tolerable injustice of the United States
allegations that false values were
placed on exports of porcelain to Amer-
ica.” Of late years the American statae
department has been almost patheti-
cally responsive to protests by foreign
governments. If the French protest is
couched in courteous terms it should
be given courteous terms and if it is
well founded the matter should be suit-
ably adjusted. If it is not well founded,
however, the United States should,
speak very plainly in reply.
TIMEKEEPERS OF PROGRESS.
San Antonio Express.
“Expositions are the timekeepers of
progress. They record the world’s ad-
vancement. They stimulate the ener-
gy. enterprise and intellect of a people
and quick’en human genius. They go
into the homes. They broaden and
brighten the daily life of the people.
They open vast storehouses of infor-
mation to th'e student. Every expo-
sition, great or small, has helped to
some onward step.”
Thus spoke William McKinley in the
address in Buffalo that was the pre-
lude to his martyrdom. He considered
that the Pan-American exposition had
done its work thoroughly, containing
in its exhibits evidences of the highest
skill, and framing the new world to
the old. It remains for some Ameri-
can statesman today to voice a call
in kind to every state in the Union
for support of the Panama-Pacific Ex-
position a year hence that will leave
nothing to be desir’ed, nothing un-
done in the task of faming each state
to the world and to this nation.
GALVESTON TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1914.
The confession of the defaulting
president of the Memphis bank where-,
in he admits having misappropriated
over a million dollars of the money en-
trusted to the institution of which he
was the head, by no means replaces the
money or condones for the betrayal
of confidence, more harmful in its ulti-
mate results than the loss of the money
to those who must eventually make
good the defalcation. The expressed
willingness of the man to suffer what-
ever deprivation he may be called
upon to undergo may indicate a con-
Itrite spirit and while this is rather a
belated statae of mind, a resolution to
yield to the inevitable when it has
become the sole regufe of the man, it
'were better than that of attempting to
shift the blame to other should-
ers or attribute the misdeed to the in-
fluence of environment.
The uttered wish that his fate may
prove a lesson to others may be the
sincere expression of the individual
aid it is hoped that it will be heeded,
but the course he was pursuing evi-
dently had no influence with the man
himself for he must have been aware
that he was traveling precisely the
same route taken by many before him.
who had left such unmistakable warn-
ing in their wake that no possible ex-
cuse was left or is left for another
being to take the first step toward
iruin, disgrace and degradation. If les-
sons were worth anything there have
been supplied sufficient warnings to.
forever form an insurmountable barrier
to the penitentiary over this particular
highway. If the lessons of the past
have made no deeper impression upon
this latest example of trust betrayed,
it were words wasted to express the
hope that one more instance of wrong
doing would prove of much effect.
It is not for need of warnings that
the world is just now suffering. It is
the need of men who can withstand
the pressure of temptation and fight
a man’s battle in a manly way. A
danger sign marking the broken ice on
the skating pond is well enough, but
how infinitely better would it be to
require no warning signals. The wealk-
lings, and there are many of them, do
not need the warnings against wrong
doing so much as they require the en-
couragement of an example of the pos-
sibility of right living, of honest deal-
CHAPTER XII.
Hurley’s Visit.
A FTER he had gone Kreisler
/ laughed to himself and slowly
A rocked the little gutta percha
tray he held on the table be-
fore him. Mrs. Martin, who had lain
on the lounge, watched him for a time
is silence and at last arose with a deep
sigh. Kreisler heard. The “cradling”
stopped instantly, and he looked up.
with a complete softening of his entire
countenance.
“My dear heart, you are very tired,”
he said tenderly. The woman walked
slowly over and stood beside him, look-
ing down with love and dread in her
eyes. He slipped one arm around her
and rocked the tray with the other.
“Friedrich,” she said suddenly, “I
want to give it all up. Let’s go!”
He raised his head. “Where is your
courage, my dear?” he said in gentle
reproach. “Where is your courage?”
“I don’t know, Friedrich. I’m terri-
bly afraid. I’m panic stricken! There’s
been too much—too much—Argyle’s
death”—
"S-sh! he interrupted sternly.
But the woman’s terrors were upper-
most. “And that morning with the de-
tectives!” she went on, with a shudder.
“Ah, I shouldn’t have gone there!”
“That was Hurley!” growled Kreis-
ler, with a frown. “That was his rash
advice!”
“No,” said Mrs. Martin after a little
pause; “I risked it myself—for the
money. Honest money! I wanted to
be able to say to you: ‘Here, now we
have enough. Let us cut loose from
this life—all these people.’ Friedrich, i
want to be • '
(To be Continued.)
By Associated Press.
New York, Feb. 12.—Wireless press
messages between Germany and the
United States were exchanged for the
first time early today by means of the
Sayville, Long Island, station of the
Atlantic Communication Company.
On the invitation of the company,
practically all of the New York news-
papers and the Associated Press sent
messages of greeting to the Berlin
newspapers, the Wolf’s Bureau, Ger-
many’s leading news association; the
emperor; James W. Girard, the Amer-
ican ambassador, and to the mayor of
Berlin.
Several replies were received, among
them one from Mr. Gerard, which read:
“The more Germany and America
know each other the greater will be
their friendship. The great achieve-
ment in wireless communication will
immeasureably help to promote knowi-
edg’e and friendship.”
A reply from Mayor Wermuth of
Berlin contained greetings for Mayor
Mitchel of New York.
Answers also were received from
some of the Berlin newspapers. The
Sayville station, which sent the mes-
sages, is about 4,000 miles from the
Nouen station, 25 miles from Berlin,
which picked them u pand sent re-
plies.
Conditions for wireless transmission
were perfect today, according to the
experts who handled the messages, so
that little difficulty was experienced
in reading the replies sent from Nouen.
the ends and twisted them on to the
wires that protruded from the dicto-
graph. Then he fastened the little box
securely in the angle of the window
frame in the corner where it came out
several inches from the wall. Only a
search with the foreknowledge that
the little betrayer was somewhere in
the room could possibly have unearth-
ed it.
When he had finished Kayton walk-
ed out into the middle of the room,
and Manning again thrust his head
out of the window.
“If you get this,” said the chief in a
low voice, “wave out your window.”
A moment later Manning drew back.
“It’s all right, governor,” he said.
“They’re waving.”
At this moment a cat in the dark
regions somewhere outside the house
wailed plaintively.
“Here they come, governor,” said
Manning, and he started to close the
window, but Kayton stopped him.
“You hustle right back to the other
house by the roof,” he ordered, “and
get on the dictograph. Don’t leave it
for a second until you get my orders.”
“All right, governor,” nodded the
young man, and the next instant the
darkness of the fire escape had swal-
lowed him up.
“Aren’t you going with him?” asked
the girl quickly, speaking for the first
time since their entrance into the
room.
“I’m going to stay here with you,”
was the quiet reply. Miss Mazuret
gasped and Kayton felt his pulses
quicken.
“Oh. don’t—don’t!” she protested in
real terror.
He smiled. “I’ve heard that befo"—
Steady as were the great detective’s
nerves the word was wiped off his lips.
and he started like a race horse as an
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in the afternoon, the four—Mrs. Martin
and her three lodgers—left the house in
a body. Thereafter there was no caller
until nearly 7 o’clock in the evening,
when night had fallen. These were
unusual visitors. There were two of
them, and, though they had never en-
tered the house before, they produced
a bunch of keys and fitted one into the
front door, The younger of the two
men carried a woman’s hand bag par-
tially concealed under his coat. Miss
Mazuret met them in the hall and
greeted them with nervous and eager
relief. They were Mr. Kayton and his
irrepressible assistant.
The assistant had shortly before clev-
erly possessed himself of Mrs. Martin’s
bag and the keys while the party lei-
surely dined.
The girl piloted them upstairs through
the empty house to the attic, where
Kayton unlocked the door with a key
off the same bunch that had enabled
them to enter the house.
A rather large work table was be-
tween the door and the fireplace, and
between the fireplace and the table,
but backed against the wall opposite
the windows, was a low lounge. A
folding bed stood between the win-
dows. To the right of the door was
another door which evidently opened
into a closet, Kayton tried the handle.
It was locked.
“I’d like to search this rat hole,” he
muttered. Then. “Where’s that dicto-
graph, Joe?” he demanded suddenly,
looking up. Manning produced the lit-
tle square box that had caused one of
his pockets to bulge. “Connect it out
of that window,” ordered his chief,
indicating the one that opened on to
the fire escape.
Manning gently opened the window
as Kayton shut off his flashlight. He
groped around in the dark, and after
much grunting and swearing to him-
self. reappeared from the outer dark-
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while business ethics and both the
moral and civil law thundered “Thou
Shalt Not!”
Life is not made up of negatives and
voids; of these there may be many,
but they are a necessity only as a back-
ground. Fill the life with laughter and
there is no room left for tears; make
uprightness the atmosphere in which
to live and suggetion to do wrong is
shorn of its power; make honesty not
only a policy but a rule of business life
and the warning sign will never be
needed. This is true in every depart-
ment of life and the business man
who enters that honored vocation with
any less lofty ideas must sooner or
later become a lesson and a warning.
Hear the words of the wise man: “He
that walketh uprightly walketh surely;
but he that perverteth his way shall be
known.”
President of Defunct Bank
Changes His Plea at
Memphis.
By Associated Press.
Memphis, Feb. 12.—C. Hunter Raine,
president of the defunct Mercantile
Bank, which closed its doors Monday
as the result of the alleged defalca-
tions of the president estimated to
reach $788,000, entereda plea of not
guilty today when arraigned in crim-
inal court. Raine previously had
pleaded guilty when arrested on a
bench warrant charging embezzle-
ment.
Bbecause of letters threatening the life
of Raine, received by the sheriff and
the prisoner unusual precautions were
taken to protect the banker when he
was brought into court. Only persons
who could get seats were permitted in
the court room.
Following his plea of not guilty
Raine was returned to his cell in the
county jail. The bond of $250,000 fixed
by Criminal Judge Palmer at the time
of his arrest was permitted to stand,
but no move was made by the president
■to give security. Attorneys Marion G.
Evans and T. K. Riddick, two of the
leading lawyers of the city, have been
retained by Mr. Raine.
The audit of the bank’s books, which
is necessary to show the present con-
dition of its resources, it is said, will
not be completed for several days.
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Austrian-Slavonian Benevolent Associa-
tion Files Charter at Austin.
Special to The Tribune.
Austin, Feb. 12.—The charter of the
Austrian-Slavonian Benevolent associa-
tion of Galveston was filed today in
the state department. - No capital
stock; purpose, benevolent and frater-
nal. Incorporators: Thomas Perich,
John Kralj and John Lozica.
angry buzz burst just over his head.
“Oh! What’s that?” gasped the girl,
both hands at her throat. Kayton
threw his light above the door and dis-
covered the “buzzer.”
“That’s their warning,” he explained
softly, hastening her toward the stairs.
“They’ve got the front steps wired.
There’s some one at the street door
now.”
The girl hurried down distractedly.
“What shall we do?” she whispered.
“Right into your room!” he ordered.
They were barely concealed from view
before the other four members of the
household came in the front door.
As they passed the door Kayton
could hear them talking uneasily in
undertones and now and then catch a
word such as “don’t like it” and “all
the locks,” and he smiled to himself.
He knew they were discussing Man-
ning’s theft of the bag.
On the second floor the party broke
up and their voices died away. The
woman and the older of the three men
went on to the attic, followed a min-
ute later by the youngest member of
the confederacy.
They were a strangely assorted trio.
The leader and brains of the conspira-
cy against the currency of the land
was the strangest of the three. He
was a man of about fifty years, but
one terrible experience had taken the
stiffening out of his spine and the col-
or out of his face, though it had not
dimmed the hot fire of his dark eyes.
The other man was much younger,
flashily dressed in the extreme of
masculine fashion. His face was flat
and pasty. He was small boned and
undersized—anaemic, crafty, ratlike.
He chose to be known as Simeon
Gage. The older man was known to
the secret service and a number of
municipal police bureaus as Friedrich
Kreisler, and with a certain heroism
of crime he scorned an alias. He
calmly lit the gas while Mrs. Martin
drew the curtain. The younger man
stood in the middle of the room and
fidgeted.
“Doctor, we’ll have to have all those
locks changed, don’t you think?” he
inquired nervously in a high pitched
voice that was almost a whine. “We
might as well go to bed with the front
door open.”
“There was nothing in my bag to
show what house the keys were for,”
Mrs. Martin reminded him quietly.
“I know, Mrs. Martin, but I’ve been
uneasy lately—ever since that girl
came,” he confessed. “I thought I was
being followed yesterday.”
“You’re always being followed,”
commented Kreisler. “You must have
a bad conscience.”
"I think perhaps I am gettin’ too
many cigarettes,” admitted Mr. Gage.
“I don’t know, though, now. We must
be gettin’ pretty easy if people can
come and pick our pockets. I don’t
think we ought to have that girl here.
Some cheap divorce case detective will
be roundin’ us up next. Who is she,
anyway?” he demanded suddenly,
turning on Mrs. Martin. “I called up
Hurley and asked him about her.
Why doesn’t he know anything about
her?”
“I haven’t had a chance to tell him
yet,” replied Mrs. Martin, indifferent-
ly. “She came only yesterday.”
“You’ve had lots of chances to tell
me,” grumbled the young man.
“It’s none of your business, Gage,”
Mrs. Martin informed him.
“Well,” he whined, with a sort of
protesting helplessness, “I feel as ner-
vous as a rabbit with a strange woman
around.”
Kreisler meanwhile had lowered the
folding bed and produced from secret
crannies in the mattress and structure
divers bottles, marble slabs, shallow
pans and the usual paraphernalia of a
nhotoszanher Eram_a hidden nacess
it is a telephone produced to the ulti- l ness with two little wires. Deftly and
mate power of sensitiveness. Placed swiftly he scraped the insulation off
American Company Was Alone in its
Fight for Concessions. - —
By Associated Press. "
Washington, Feb. 12.—The state.de-
partment had been advised of the ef-
forts of American oil interests to ob-
tain control of Chinese oil concessions
by officials of the American legation
at Peking.
The department itself has taken n
part, and the American oil concern
made the fight alone against foreign ’
competitors. Japanese particularly
were deeply interested.
Japanese at present operate some
wells of primitive construction in the
territory obtained. A Belgian-owned
railway is now being run into that
country.
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By Associated Press.
Provincetown, Mass., Feb. 12.—The
Peaked Hill life saving station re-
ported this afternoon that a steamer
was ashore on the Peaked Hill bar,
half a mile off the beach. A tiolent
gale is blowing and the temperature
is zero.
The point where the steamer struck
is the most dangerous on the beach.
Distress signals from the vessel, while
she was hidden by the vapor that
covered the ocean, were heard off the
end of Cape Cod at frequent intervals
before the life savers located her.
The government wireless operator at
Highland light was unable to obtain
any response to numerous radio calls
and it was believed that if the vessel
had a wireless equipment it had be-
come disabled.
Peaked Hill is directly off the end
of Cape Cod, on the ocean side, and has
been the scene of over 100 wrecks.
The life saving crews of the Race
Point, Peaked Hill, High Head and
Highland stations were turned out and
by 2 o’clock forty life savers were
patrolling the beach from Highland
of the closet a camera made its. appear-
ance. Gage eagerly offered to assist
him, but the older man waved him
aside with a cunning smile.
“You never let us help at anything
but the bleaching,” be protested. “I
notice you’re keeping everything you
know under your hat. Some day you’ll
go off to Scotland with your money,
like Andy Carnegie, and leave us all
workin’ in the mills.”
“What I know I know.” returned the
German grimly.
“Yes, doctor,” said Gage, “but I get
tired sittin’ around here waitin’ for
you to pull off your masterpieces.”
Kreisler had seated himself at the
table and slipped a one dollar bill in
a bleaching solution. At Sage’s last
words he threw back his head and his
eyes blazed with a fine anger.
“That is the way with you Ameri-
cans!” he cried. “No patience, no ar-
tistry! Half baked, get rich quick!
The jails are filled with such men as
you.” Then, he added more quietly, in
the manner of an instructor, “Perfec-
tion is an affair of little things, but
perfection is not a little thing!”
“Oh, I know, doctor, I know!” ex-
claimed Gage hastily, as he drew near
the table. Then he added, moving to-
ward the door. “I guess I’ll be goin’
now. I’m only in the way."
And to the honor of the country and
the credit of the commercial world be
it said, there are plenty of examples of
this sort to place over against the dere-
licts that mark the danger spots in the
sea of trade. The commercial history
of the country is crowded with the
names of men who built character and
established faith, laying the foundation
so deep that even these occasional de-
linquencies, serious as some of them
prove to be, cannot affect the structure
reared to the science of business, the
cornerstone of which is honesty. Com-
merce would sicken and die did we
have nothing to mark its course other
than warnings, more especially is this
true when these warnings come not as
something beyond the control of the
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