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I. 4 , ^ THE MINERAL INDEPENDENT PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY Tuesday and Friday BY MINERAL PUBLISHING CO. at Superior, Mineral County, Mont. 441 1,,operatel, T ' AssoctaTio. • Entered as second-class matter May 6,1915. at the postoffice at Superior, Montana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription $2.00 per year in, advance. Advertising rates on application. BERTHA B. LUCKEY, Editor and Manager All general business letters and cor- respondence should be addressed to THE MINERAL INDEPENDENT, Superior, Mon- tana. Letters. for publication met bear the writer' a signature, although it need not be published. JUST WHAT YOU ARE By Harlan E. Babcock • Perhaps you are old and peculiar— Not like other people, we'll say; Perhaps you do things rather funny — In a sort of a different way. It may be you're moody and flighty, - Unlike any other at all, But why, let me ask, should you worry? You're just what you are --that's all. Sometimes you are foolishly happy, At other times bluishiy sad, Then again you're so good that it hurts you, Followed up by a spell when you're bad. Some folks say you're hasty; there may be Sotne days when the jinx has the call; But go right ahead doing business. You're just what you are—that's all. Methinks it's that way with most people; Human nature's the same everywhere. Each person is somewhat peculiar; Each person of faults has his share. So when you get roasted, don't whimper, And whatever you do, don't you crawl. Hand one back just as good with this message: \I'm just what I am—that's all.\ No two in the world are constructed On the same sort of duplicate plan. No woman is like to another, And the same may be said of mere man. So buck up, be as Nature intended, small,. Be content with this thought—it'll help some— \I'm just what I am—that's all.\ It looks from reports brought to us during the past few months as though the east Coeur A NEW d'Alene_ mining district FIELD is coming into its own. With the reopening ot many old mines and new pros- pects showing up better every day, and work being pushed with a vim by experiencvi mining men, this dormant section of un- developed wealth will soon be placed in the world of useful- ness. The mines around Saltese are making an unusual good showing, especially the Richmond prop- erty, where regular shipments are being made. Undoubtedly the Intermountain will branch out and embrace the prospects near it, for with milling acilities this company is planning to oper- ate systematically. In the Key- stone district exceptionally good showings are being made, espe- cially in the Glen Metals mine, where the work is being scien- tifically pushed with satisfactory results. Development! is the watch- word of the east Coeur d'Alenes today. The prospector has ful- filled his mission, and let us trust he will reap the reward for his years of optimistic labor ana hardships. Women voters in convention at San Francisco have been advised to support no man's political par- ty. , That is poor advice. They shuu1 support, just as male citi- zens iiport, the party which their reaIp and their conscience tc.!! tha.;:r. jar.Yrialaeo moat.W Liie progress and prosperity of the nation. Parties are essential to our form of government and women voters sbould have the freedom of individual conviction. — Billings Gazette. THE Ne'er-Do-Well REx BEACH Aries al \The. Spoilers,\ 'The Barrier,\ 'The Silver Horde,\ Etc, 111181111121111 Caterrtsak 1S11. by Harper a Brothers. 0.1115 von. Hteettenr she cned. \Have you been nrtnaingr \No. I didn't drink much. I brought you something.\ fie took the loving cup from its flannel bag and set it upon the table. \They gave me this. \And this too.\ He tossed the watch with Its enameled monogram into her lap. * \Ah! That's very handsome.\ \Yes. I thought you'd like it. It's from Anthony.\ He laughed, then shuddered. \Why you seem excited over these souvenirs. You surely expected\— He broke In—a thing be rarely did while she was speaking: \Anthoay made a speech when he gave it to me—a very nice speech. full of friendship and love and gratitude.\ He repeated Kirk's words as he re- membered them. \What do you think of that?\ Mrs. Cortlandt's eyes widened. This was not the man she knew. At this moment he was actually insistent, al- most overbearing, and be was regard- ing her with that same ironical sneer that had roused her anger earlier in the evening. He began to chuckle, apparently without reason, His shoulders shook feebly at first, then more violently. His flat chest heaved, and he hiccough- ed as if from physical weakness. It was alarming, and she rose, staring at him affrightedly. He continued to shudder and shake in uncontrollable hysteria, but his eyes were bright and watchful. \Oh I—I—took it all in—I let him p -put the noose around his own neck and tie the knot. Then I hung him.\ His convulsive giggling was terrible. forecasting, as It did, his immediate breakdown. ‘_'Steph_e_sr she exclaimed, in a shocked tam, convinced - That his Minn was going \You are ill. You need a doctor. I will call Joceel.\ file laid her hand on his arm. \Won't you go to your room and let me cant doctor?\ \Not yet. Wait! He told them what I had done for him. I acknowledged It all and made them hear it from my lips too. Then\— He paused. and she steeled herself to witness another spec- tacle of his pitiable loss of self control. But instead he grew icy and corpse - \He's yours now. You can have him.\ like, with lips drawn back in a grin. \I played with him the way you have played with we. Think!\ Her face went suddenly ashen. \Well I told him before them all that I intended to give him something in return, and I did. 1—gave—him`i- you.\ \God! You didn't tell him that? You didn't say that—before those men! Oh -h!\ She shrank back, drawing the gauzy silk robe closer about her breast. Then she roused to sudden action. Seiz- ing him by the shfitilders she shook him roughly with far more than her natural strength, voicing furious words which neither of them understood. \Oh. I did it,\ be declared. \He's yours now. You can have him. He's been your lover\— She flung him away from her so vio- lently that he nearly fell. \It's a lie! You know it's a lie!\ \It's true. I'm no fool.\ She beat her hands together distract- edly. \What have you done? What will those men think? Listen! You s , to , p them quickly. Tell them It's . He seemed not to hear tier. \I'm going away tomorrow.\ he said. \but I'll never divorce you, no matter what you do, and I won't let yew divorce me either. No, no! Take him now if you want him, but you'll newr be able to marry him until I'm gone. And I won't die soon -1 promise you that. I'm going to live.\ \You can't go\— \There's a beat tomorrow.\ \Don't you see you must stay and ex- plain to those men? My God! They'll think you spoke the truth. They'll be- lieve what you said.\ \Of course they will,\ he chattered shrilly. - That's why I did it in that way. No matter what you or he or I ean do or say now they'll believe It forever. It came to me like a flash of light, and I saw what it meant all In a minute. Do you understand what it means. eh? Listen! No inciter how you behave they'll know. They won't say anything, but they'll know. and you can't stand that, can you?\ \You have no evidence.\ \No? What about that night at Tti- boga? You were mad over the fellow then, but you didn't think I saw That day I caught you together in the jun- gle—have you forgotten that? Didn't you plink it strange that I should be . the one to discover you? Oh, I pretend- ed to he blind. but I followed you ev erywhere I could. and I kept my eyes open.\ \You saw nothing, for there was nothing.\ \I wailed because I wasn't strong enough to revolt—until tonight. Oh. but tonight I was strong! SOmething gave me courage.\ CHAPTER XXIV. A Question and the Answer. N all their married life Edith Cortlandt had never known her husband to show such stubborn foree. Falling to dominate him as usual, she was filled with a stranie feeling of helplessness and terror. \You had no right to accept such evidence.\ she stormed. \Bah! Why try to fool me? I have your own words for it. The other aft- ernoon I came home sick—with my bead. I was on the gallery outside when you were pleading with him. and I heard it all. But he was growing tired of you. That, you know, makes it all the more effective.\ He smiled In an agonized fury. \You—cur!\ she cried, with the fury of one beating barehanded at a barred door. \You had no right to do sucb a thing even if I were guilty.\ \Right Aren't you my wife?\ The look she gave him was heavy with loathing. \That means nothing with us. I never loved you, and you know it. You never could have suc- ceeded without me. All you have is due to me—even your reputation In the service. Your success, your influ- ence, it is all mine. The debt is all — on your - side, as you - and fff the world know.\ \Who made me a manikin?\ he de- manded, with womanish fury, a fury that had been striving for utterance these many years. I had ambitions and hopes and ability once—not much perhaps, but enough—before you mar- ried me. I was nothing great. but I was getting along. I had confidence. too, but you took it away from me. You—you absorbed me. You had your father's brain, and it was too big for me. It overshadowed mine. In a way you were a vampire, for what I had you drained me of. But tonight, when he got up before those other men and dangled my shame before my eyes, I ad enough manhood left in me to trike hack. Thank God for that at east! Maybe it's not too late yet for me to be a man. Maybe if I get away from you and try\— His voice died out weakly. In his face there was a mis- erable half gleam of hope. \I never knew you felt like that. I never knew you could feel that way.\ she said in a colorless voice. \But you made a terrible mistake.\ \Do you mean to say you don't love him?\ \No. I have loved him for a long time. I can't remember when it be- gan.\ She spoke very listlessly, look- ing past him as if at a long familiar picture which she was tired of con- templating. \I never knew what love was before; I never even dreamed. I'd give my life right now to undo what you have done, just for his sake, for he is innocent Oh, don't sneer; its true. He loves the Garavel girl and wants to marry her. I'm going to tell you the whole truth now without spar- ing myself. It began, I think, at Ta- hogs, that night when he kissed me. It was, the only time he ever did such a thing. It was dark, we were alone, I was frightened. and It was purely Impulse on his part. But it woke me up. and all at once I knew how much he meant to me. When I discovered that he cared for that girl—well, if you overheard you must know. I frighten- ed Garavel Into dismissing tilm. and I set out to break him, just to show him that be needed me. Tonight he scorn- ed me. That's the truth. Stephen. If we believed in oaths I would swear it.\ \You are shielding him. You want to make me out wrong.\ But she knew he knew. \Those are the facts. Heaven knows they are bad enough, but they are by no means so bad as you thought. And I'm your wife. Stephen. That thing you did was brutal. Those men will talk. I was guilty no doubt in my thnnehta. hut I'm young, and von have no right to blight my life and my rep- utation—yes, and yours—by a thing like that. We will have to meet those men. What are you going to der \I don't know.\ he said. - In all My' life I never felt but one moment of power, and that. lt seems, was false. For years I bare longed to show my- self a man, and now—what have I mane? mutt Save) dolie) , t3 I am no monster. Why couldn't you he ( . 011 sistent? Why did you go halfwav - : Why couldn't you be all good or ciii ia ni . in \ d save me this? \all women are half good and heft d \I can't blame you for not hiving me. I suppose,\ he mumbled. \No woman of your kind could love a men Ilke we.\ \Those men!\ she said In a %city that made him writhe. \Wait until I —think 1 ninsi think.\ \Perhaps in the morning we viol see a way out.\ \That's it.\ He nodded. \You go to bed and I'll think. I'm tryhig to think now, but this heat is suffoeating and my head is tired.\ Despite the breathless oppression of the night, she shivered. \I never van meet them now. and 1 don't see how you will dare to. knowing that you were wrong.\ \Don't!\ he pleaded. \The other was bad enough, but this— Tel) nie what to do!\ \1 can't. I don't know myself. All I eon see is that those men will never cease to believe, no matter what you tell them.\ As she prepared for bed an hour later she heard hini still stirring about in his quarters, but afterwnrd she did not detect his cautious footsteps when be stole out of his chamber, closing the door softly behind him. • • • • • • • Kirk was roused from a heavy, senseless slumber the next morning by a vigorous rapping at his door He opened the door and Runnels rushed In. \here didyou go after I left You last \I came here, of course.\ As the memory of the previous night swept over Kirk he scowled. \Did you stay here?\ \No. I went out again, and was out nearly all night trying to walk it off.\ Runnels' face blanched, and he drew back. \Then of course, you know?\ \Nl'hat?\ \About Cortlandt He's dead!\ \Dead? When'? Where? How did it happen?\ \Nobody knows just how. He was found on the sea wall near Alfarez's house. shot.\ \Shot! Good Lord!\ \Did you see Cortiandt again after I left you?\ Runnels swallowed hard. Kirk whirled about and faced him. \Great heavens! No! See here, that Idea is ridiculous!\ Runnels sank weakly into a chair and mopped his face. \When you said you'd gone out again it knocked me flat, understand?\ \I. can prove where I was. for Allan was with me. I couldn't sleep. so I tried to walk off my excitement. No. no: I couldn't do a thing like that! 1 thought last night that I could, but—I couldn't, really.\ \I'm afraid Wade wall teir$71 about the nartv if we don't ston him.\ (To be continued.) William A. Nicholls STOCK BROKER Member: Spokane Stock Exchange Washington State Bankers' Afitrociation 701-3 Old National Bank Bldg. SPOKANE, WASH. Oldest and Largest Brokerage House in Spokane. Specialist in Buying and Selling Orders for Glen Metals Intermountain (Amador) Monitor Richmond and other Coeur d' Alene Stocks Thos. Merkle Central Market Fresh and Salt Meat, Rai, Etc. Home Cured Ham and Bacon. SUPERIOR, MONTANA Tik SUPERIOR STATE BANK Solicits the banking business of all Mineral county people. Bank money orders sold. Money to Loan. Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent. 4% Paid on Saving and Time Deposit& \Bank\ With the \Home\ Bank Lots For Sale In Harmon Addition to Super- ior. One Block West of Court House Site. Good Title Guaranteed. Warranty • Deeds Given. C. L. HARMON P. 0. Box 34 Superior, Mont, Mineral County Abstract Co. Abstracts and Fire Insurance SUPERIOR, MONTANA Dr. L. P. Botsford Physician and Surgeon SUPERIOR, MONTA NA Jesse Daly General Merchandise Also Carry a Full Line of Fruit and Vegetables In Season. Superior, Montana Chas. H. Marsh Undertaker 211 W. Cedar Phone 321 Missoula, Montana All Kinds of Funeral Supplies We Have It Anything In School Supplies Office Supplies and Stationery - Price's Book Store MISSOULA ILLINERY Mrs. H. C,. Brown invites you to view all that is smart and new in dress and tailored hats. All Day Monday, Sept. 27th and Tuesday, Sept. 28th Until 2 p. m. HARETTE HOTEL esimmimmo Superior Electriclight and Water Works DEALER IN All Kinds of Electric Appar- atus and Supplies Plumbing and Heating Supplies Let me figure on your work H. SCHOENFELD Superior, Montana Popular Music 10c lc For Postage \The Only One -Price Music House In the West\ Orvis Music House MISSOULA Keesey Bros. DEALERS IN CI General Ell Merchandise Keystone -:- Montana Otto Reifllin Cigars Tobacco POOL \ Superior, Montana SalteseSupply Co. Can Supply You With Everythiug When In Saltese Always Stop at THE COZY SALTESE, MONT4NA Dr. C. H. McComb DENTIST All Work Guaranteed ,Rooms 213-215 Montana Building MISSOULA, MONT. \Good Things to Eat\ - A 'full and - complete line of first-class Groceries and General Mer- chandise at E. B. HORD'S Superior, Mont. W. L. HYDE Attorney -at -Law Notary Public SUPERIOR,, MONTANA , MINERAL LODGE. U. V., A. r &A. M., Meet - 'rigs in Bostwick's Hall, Albe ton. Mont, ,regular communications on the second and fourth Tuesi'ays. Special meet- fngs every other Tuesdsy evening. Vis- iting members are specially invited. E. P. AMEY, W. M., R. S. WILKINSON, Sec'y. • 6
