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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
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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. —
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Knew His Cue.
"She told him that she must not see
bini any more."
"What did he do?"
"Turned out tho gas."—Exchange.
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The Cynic (with Incipient mustache)
Poof! Lady footballers, Indeed! Why,
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"touch down" means.
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
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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
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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.