6 ( ' ■ ;-3t\ mJ&yjWL j'l vl SVNO D SIS. Howard Jeffries, banker's Bon, under th- ••ill Influence of Robert Underwood, a follow-student at Yale, lends a llf' - of dissipation, marries the daughter of a gambler who died in prison, and is dis owned by his father. He tries to get work and fails. A former college chum makes a business proposition to Howard which requires $2,000 cash, and Howard Is broke. Robert Underwood. who had been re pulsed by Howard's wife, Annie, in bis college days, and had once been engaged to Alicia, Howard's stepmother, lias apartments at the Astrurla, and is ap parently in prosperous circumstances. Howard recalls a $251) loan to Underwood, that remains unpaid, and decides to ask him for the's2,ooo he needs. Underwood, taking advantage of his intimacy with Mrs. Jeffries, Sr.. becomes a sort of social highwayman. Discovering his true char acter she denies him the house. CHAPTER IV. The richly decorated reception rooms, brilliantly illuminated with soft incandescent lights artistically arranged behind banks of flowers, were filled with people. In the air was the familiar buzz always present in a room where each person is trying to speak at the same time. On all sides one heard fragments of inept conversation. "So good of you to come! How well you're looking, my dear." "My husband? Oh, he's at the club, playing poker, as usual. He hates musitf." "I've such a terrible cold!" "Trouble with servants? I should say so. I bounced my cook this morn ing." "Aren't these affairs awfully tire some?" "I was so glad to come. I always enjoy your musicales." "Dr. Bernstein coming? How per fectly delightful. I'll ask him for his autograph." "What's psychology?" "Something to do with religion, I think." "Haven't we been having dreadful weather?" "I saw you at the opera." "Doesn't she look sweet?" "Oh, I think it's just lovely." People now arrived in quick succes sion and, forming little groups, the room soon presented an animated scene. The women in their smart gowns and the men in their black <coats made a pleasing picture. "My dear Mrs. Jeffries, how do you do this evening?" exclaimed a rich, deep voice. The hostess turned to greet an el derly and distinguished-looking man who had just entered. Directly he came in voices were hushed, and on every side one heard the whisper: "There's Judge Brewster, the fa mous lawyer." There was a general craning of necks to catch a glimpse of the eml-" nent jurist whose brilliant address to the jury in a recent cause celebre had saved an innocent man from the electric chair. Itichard Brewster was a fine ex ample of the old school statesman lawyer of the Henry Clay type. He belonged to that small class of public men who are independent of all coteries, whose only ambition is to serve their country well, who know no other duty than that dictated by their oath and conscience. A bril liant and forceful orator, there was no office in the gift of the nation that might not have been his for the ask ing, but he had no taste for politics. After serving with honor for some years on the bench he retired into private practice, and thereafter his name became one to conjure with in the law courts. By sheer power of his matchless oratory and unanswer- : able logic he won case after case for \ his clients and it is a tribute to his name to record the plain fact that in all his career he never championed a cause of which lie need be ashamed. Powerful financial interests had at tempted to secure his services by of fers of princely retainers, but with out success. He fought the trusts bit terly every time he found them op pressing his profession. Alicia advanced with extended hand. "This is indeed kind, judge," she ex claimed with a gracious smile. "I hardly dared hope that my poor musi c-ale would be so honored." The old lawyer smiled good-humor edly as he replied gallantly: "I don't know much about music, m'm; I came to see you." Looking around he added: "You've got a nice place here." He spoke in his characteristic man ner—short, nervous, explosive sen tences, which had often terrified his opponents in court. "Lawyers are such flatterers," laughed Alicia as she nervously fanned herself, and looked around to see if her guests were watching. "Lawyers only flatter when they want to," interrupted Mr. Jeffries, who had just joined the group. Alicia turned to greet a new arrival and the lawyer continued chatting with his host. "I suppose you'll take a rest now, after yt-w splendid victory," said the baalcei Ia m I Al/Q/ |RfI[nTI3S(DIKDQ.DTOR} QJITHI TMI W DEGREE CHARLES KLEIN Y v C/ T w ARTHUR HORNBLOW V ILLUSTRATIONS BY PAT W\LTEHS CWYWCMT, 1909, BV &.VV DILLINGHAM COftPAHy "I Don't Know Much About Music, M'm." t Judge Brewster shook his bead dubiously. "No, sir, we lawyers never rest. We can't. No sooner Is one case dis posed of than another crops up to claim our attention. The trouble with this country is that we have too much law. If I were to be guilty of an epigram I would say that the coun try has so much law that it is prac tically lawless." "So you're preparing another case, eh?" said Mr. Jeffries, interested. "What is it—a secret?" "Oh, no!" answered the lawyer, "the newspapers will be full of it in a day or two. We are going to bring suit against the city. It's really a test case that should interest every citizen; a protest against the high handed actions of the police." The banker elevated his eyebrows. "Indeed," he exclaimed. "What have the police been doing now?" The lawyer looked at his client in surprise. "Why, my dear sir, you must have seen by the papers what's been going on in our city of late. The papers have been full of it. Police brutality, illegal arrests, assaults in station houses, star-chamber methods that would disgrace the middle ages. A state of affairs exists to-day in the city of New York which is inconceiv able. Here we are living in a civil ized country, every man's liberty is guaranteed by the constitution, yet citizens, as they walk our streets, are in greater peril than the inhabitants of terror-stricken Russia. Take a po lice official of Capt. Clinton's type. His only notion of the law is brute force and the night stick. A bully by nature, a mat. of the coarsest instincts and enormous physical strength, he loves to play the tyrant. In his pre cinct he poses as a kind of czar and fondly imagines he has the power to administer the law itself. By his [ brow-beating tactics, intolerable un ; der Anglo-Saxon government, he is I turning our police force into a gang j of ruffians who have the city terror ' stricken. In order to further his polit j ical ambitions he stops at nothing. I He lets the guilty escape when influ ' once he can't resist is brought to bear, but in order to keep up his rec | ord with the department he makes ar j rests without the slightest justiflca j tion. To secure convictions he manu j factures, with the aid of his detec- I lives, all kinds of perjured evidence. To paraphrase a well-known saying, | his motto is: 'Convict —honestly, if ! you can—but convict.' " "It is outrageous," said Mr. Jef | fries. "No one can approve such j methods. Of course, in dealing with the criminal population of a great i city, they cannot wear kid gloves, but Capt. Clinton certainly goes too far. What is the specific complaint on which the suit is based?" "Capt. Clinton," replied the judge, "made the mistake of persecuting a young woman who happened to be the daughter of a wealthy client of mine. One of his detectives arrested her on a charge of shoplifting. The girl, mind you, is of excellent family and irreproachable character. My client anil his lawyer tried to show Capt. Clinton that he had made a serious blunder, but he brazened it out, claim ing on the stand that the girl was an I old offender. Of course, he was forced at last to admit his mistake CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. THURSDAY. MARCH 2. 1911 and the girl went free, but think of the humiliation and mental anguish she underwent! It was simply a repetition of his old tactics. A convic tion, no matter at what cost. "What do you hope to bring about by this suit?" "Arouse public indignation, and if possible get Capt. Clinton dismissed from the force. His record is none too savory. Charges of graft have been made against him time and time again, but so far nothing has been proved. Today he is a man of wealth on a comparatively small salary. Do you suppose his money could have come to him honestly?" In another corner of the salon stood Dr. Bernstein, the celebrated psychologist, the center of an excited crowd of enthusiastic admirers. Alicia approached a group of chat tering women. Each was more elab orately dressed than her neighbor, and loaded down with rare gems. They at tjnce stopped talking as their hostess came up. "It was so good of you to come!" said Alicia effusively to a fat woman with impossible blonde hair and a rouged face. "I want to introduce Dr. Bernstein to you." "Oh, I shall be delighted," smiledj the blonde. Gushingly she added: "How perfectly exquisite you look to night, my dear." "Do you think BO?" said Alicia, pleased at the clumsy flattery. "Your dress is stunning and your tiara simply gorgeous," raved another. "Your musicales are always so de lightful," exclaimed a third. At that moment Mr. Jeffries caught his wife by the arm and drew her at tention to some newcomers. With a laugh she left the group and hurried toward the door. Directly she was out of earshot, the three women be gan whispering: "Isn't she terribly overdressed?" ex claimed the blonde. "The cheek of such a parvenue to wear that tiara." "Her face is all made up, too," said another. "These affairs of hers are awfully stupid, don't you think so?" piped the third. "Yes, they bore everybody to death," said the blonde. "She's ambitious and likes to think she is a social lead er. 1 only come here because it amuses me to see what a fool she makes of herself. Fancy a woman of her age marrying a man old enough to be her father. By the by, I don't see her beau here to-night." "You mean that scamp, Robert Un derwood?" "Isn't it perfectly scandalous, the way he dances after her? I'm sur prised Mr. Jeffries allows him to come to the house." "Maybe there's been a row. Per haps that explains why he's not here to-night. It's the first time I've known him absent from one of her musi cales." "He's conspicuous by his absence. Do you know what I heard the other day? I was told that Underwood had again been caught cheating at cards and summarily expelled from the club —kicked out, so to speak." "I'm not at all surprised. I always had my doubts about him. He in duced a friend of mine to buy a pic ture, and got a tremendous price for it on the false representation that it was a genuine Corot. My friend found out afterward that he had been duped. Proceedings were threatened, but Un derwood managed to hush the affair by returning part of the money." In another part of the room a couple were discussing Mr. Jeffries as he stood talking with Judge Brewster. "Did you notice how Mr. Jeffries lias aged recently? He no longer seems the same man." "No wonder, after ell the trouble he's had. Of course you know what a disappointment his son turned out?" "A scamp, I understand. Married a chorus girl and all that sort of thing." "Not exactly, but almost as bad. The girl was a waitress or something like that in a restaurant. She's very common; her father died in prison. You can imagine the blow to old Jef fries. He turned the boy adrift and left him to shift for himself." Alicia approached her husband, who was still talking with Judge Brewster. She was leaning on the arm of a tall, handsome man with a dark Van Dyke beard. "Who are you discussing with such interest?" she demanded, as she came up with her escort. "We were talking of Capt. Clinton and his detestable police methods," said the banker. "Judge," said Alicia, turning to the lawyer, "allow me to introduce Dr. Bernstein. Doctor, this is Judge Brewster." The stranger bowed low, as he re plied courteously: "The fame of Judge Brewster has spread to every state in the union." A faint smile spread over the face of the famous lawyer as he extended his hand: "I've often heard of you, too, doc tor. I've been reading with great in terest your book, 'Experimental Psy chology.' Do you know,"he went on earnestly, "there's a lot in that. We have still much to learn in that direction." "I think," said Dr. Bernstein, quiet ly, "that we're only on the threshold of wonderful discoveries." Pleased to find that her two distin guished guests were congenial, Alicia left them to themselves and joined her other guests. "Yes," said the lawyer musingly, "man has studied for centuries the mechanism of the body, but he has neglected entirely the mechanism of the mind." Dr. Bernstein smiled approvingly. "We are just waking up," he replied quickly. "People are beginning to look upon psychology seriously. Up to comparatively recently the layman has regarded psychology as the do main of the philosopher and the dreamer. It did not seem possible that it could ever be applied to our practical everyday life, but of late we have made remarkable strides. Al though it is a comparatively new science, you will probably be aston ished to learn that there are to-day in the United States 50 psychological laboratories. That is to say, work shops fully equipped with every de vice known for the probing of the hu man brain. In my laboratory in Cali fornia alone I have as many as twen ty rooms hung with electric wires and equipped with all the necessary in struments —chronoscopes, kymograph, tachistoscopes and ergographs in struments which enable us to meas ure and record the human brain as accurately as the Eertillon system." "Really, you astonish me!" ex claimed the judge. "This is most in teresting. Think of laboratories sole ly devoted to delving Into mysteries of the human brain! It is wonderful!" He was silent for a moment, then he said: "It is quite plain, I think, that psychology can prove most useful in medicine. It is, I take it, the very foundation of mental healing, but what else would it do for humanity? For instance, can it help me, the lawyer?" Dr. Bernstein smiled. "You gentlemen of the law have al ways scoffed at the very suggestion of bringing psychology to your aid, but just think, sir, how enormously It might aid you in cross-examining a witness. You can tell with almost scientific accuracy if the witness is telling lies or the truth, and the same would be clear to the judge and the jury. Just think how your powers would be increased if by your skill in psychological observation you could convince the jury that your client, who was about to be convicted on cir cumstantial evidence alone, was really Innocent of the crime of which he was charged. Why, sir, the road which psychology opens up to the lawyer is well-nigh boundless. Don't you use the Bertillon system to measure the body? Don't you rely on thumb prints to identify the hand? How do you know that we psychologists are not able to-day to test the individual dif ferences of men?" (TO BK CONTINUED.) To the Man of Honor. Base gains are the same aa losses —Hesiod. CANADA GETS $1,500 TROPHY. NATIONAL CORN EXPOSITION, AT COLUMBUS, OHIO, AWARDS TROPHY FOR PECK OF OATS GROWN IN SAS KATCHEWAN. Again Canada ig to the fore, and has secured at the National Corn Imposi tion just closed at Columbus, Ohio, the magnificent Colorado silver trophy val ued at $1,500, for the best peck of oats. These oats were grown by Messrs. Hill & Son, of Lloyduilnster, Saskatchewan, and, aa may readily be understood, were of splendid quality to have been so successful in a contest open to the world, and in which competition was keen. At the same Exposition there were exhibits of wheat and barley, and in all these competitions, the grain shown by Canada secured a wonderful amount of attention, and also a num ber of awards. During recent exhibi tions at which grain from Western Canada was given permission for en try, it always took first place. At the Spokane Interstate Fair, last fall, where the entries were very large, and the competition keen, the Province of Alberta carried off the silver cup, giv en by Governor Hay, for the best state or province display, and a score of prizes was awarded Canadian exhibi tors for different exhibits of wheat, oats and barley threshed and in the sheaf. Vegetables also received high awards. A pleasing feature of these exhibits was they were mostly made by farmers who had at one time been American Citizens and were now farm ing in Canada. The Department of the Interior is just in receipt of a mag nificent diploma given by the Tri-State Board of Examiners at the Fair held in Cincinnati last fall for agricultural dis play by Canada. The Surveyor-General of Canada has just completed a map showing that a large area of land was surveyed last year in the northern portion of Sas katchewan and Alberta in order to be ready for the rush of homesteaders to that district during the coming spring and summer. It is understood sur veys covering several hundreds of thousands of acres will be made in addition to these during the coming summer. A return Just issued by the Domin ion Lands Branch shows that 48,257 homestead entries were made last year as compared with 37.0G1 in 1909; of this 48,257, 14,704 were made by Americans. North Dakota coming first on the list with 4,810, Minnesota gives 2,528, South Dakota 1,133, Wisconsin 745, Washington 730, Michigan 706, lowa 645, while other states show less, but with the exception of Delaware, District of Columbia and the Indian Territory, every state and territory contributed. The prospects for an abundant crop in all parts of Western Canada for 1911 are said to be excellent. In the districts that required it there was an ample rainfall last autumn, and the snowfall during the present winter is greater than in many previous years. Both are essential factors to the farm ers, who look upon the moisture that these will produce as being highly beneficial. A large Immigration from the United States is expected, and the demand for literature and information from the va rious Government Agencies located at different points in the States is the greatest it has ever been. Since the above was written word las been received that in addition to honors won at Columbus, Ohio, Cana da won first and second on wheat and first and second on oats, as well as diplomas. Norman Cherry of Davis, Saskatch ewan, who was in the reserve for first on wheat, secured the award, with G. H. Hutton of Lacombe, Alberta, sec ond. J. C. Hill & Sons got first ou oats besides the silver trophy. G. H. Hutton took second in oats. USE FOR THE NEWSPAPER Story That Contains a Moral It Might Be Well to Keep In Memory. A little King Charles dog, a pet in a family where he had been the play mate of a little boy, slipped through an open door some time ago and dis appeared. Servants and the children of the house searched everywhere, asked questions at all places where is was thought possible the dog might be In biding, but to no avail, and the animal was finally given up for lost and there was deep mourning in the nursery. One day recently the wom an who owned the dog met a neigh bor at a florist's shop, who had on a leash a dog strangely like the lost pet, and asked where he came from. "Why, he ran into our house a few days ago and we don't know where he belongs." The dog knew his old mis tress and was quickly surrendered. "You might have had him sooner, had you advertised," said one woman. "And you could have found the owner soon er had you advertised," said the other —and the newspaper man who heard the story added the moral. As a Reminder. His Wife—John, do you remember what took place just three years ago today? Iler Husband —What! Is this our wedding anniversary? His Wife —N-no. Three years ago today you bought me a new hat. — Harper's Bazar. Knew His Cue. "She told him that she must not see bini any more." "What did he do?" "Turned out tho gas."—Exchange. COLDS Mnnyon's Cold Remedy Relieves t':» bead, throat nnd lungs ulmost inmiedlate ly. 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Young Lady—Your best girl does 11 you ever kissed her. Always Worrying. The late John H. Darker, of Mich igan City, who left a fortune of over $30,000,000 to his 14-year-old daughter, was strongly opposed to speculation. "Do not speculate," Mr. Baker once said In an address to young men. "Speculators stand on shaky ground. They know no peace." Mr. Baker smiled. "In fact," he said, "a speculator Is always worrying about the money market, while his wife Is always wor rying about the market money." HEREDITY Can Be Overcome In Cases. The Influence of heredity cannot, of course, be successfully disputed, but It can be minimized or entirely over come in some cases by correct food and drink. A Conn, lady says: "For years while I was a coffee drinker I suffered from bilious at tacks of great severity, from which 1 used to emerge as white as a ghost and very weak. Our family physi clan gave me various prescriptions for Improving the digestion and stimulat ing the liver, which I tried faithfully but without perceptible result. "He was acquainted with my fam ily history for several generations back, and once when I visited him he said: 'lf you have Inherited one of those torpid livers you may always suffer more or less from its inaction. We can't dodge our inheritance, you know.' "I was not so strong a believer in heredity as he was, however, and, be ginning to think for myself, I conclud ed to stop drinking coffee, and see what effect that would have. I feared it would be a severe trial to givo it up, but when I took Postum and had !t well made, It completely filled my need for a hot beverage and I grew very fond of It. "I have used Postum for three years, using no medicine. During all that time I have had absolutely none of the bilious attacks that I used to suf fer from, and I have been entirely free from the pain and debilitating ef lects that used to result from them. "The change is surely very great, and I am compelled to give Postum the exclusive credit for it." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," In pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter? A nen one appear* from time to time. They «re gfoulne, true* and full of human Interest.
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