MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1914.
PLATT3MOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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CHAPTER XX.
The Light of Civilization.
ONE of tbe first things -which
I'Arri"t accomplished after
their arrival was to arrange
to- visit a Ivzh official of the
r lice department, au old friend of
D'.rn-t's. lie v-At Tarzan with him.
Adroitly I'Arut led the conversa
ti 'ii from poiut to point until the po
ll. -email had explained to the interested
Tarzan many of the methods in vogue
for apprehending and identifying crim
inals. Not the least interesting to Tarzan
v.as the part played ly ringer prints In
this fasrinatii g science.
-Hut of what value are these im
prints," a lied Tarzan. "when after a
fe-.v years the lines upon the finders
ar entirely changed ly the wearing
oat of the old tissue and the growth of
liewV
"The lines never change," replied the
of!i.-ial. "ri:ni infancy to senility the
linger prints of an individual change
oi.iy in size, except as injuries alter
the l"i'ps and whirls. If imprints
Lave been taken of the thumb and four
''Do finger prints show racial char
acteristics?" fingers of both hands one must needs
lose all entirely to escape identifica
tion." "It is marvelous," exclaimed D'Ar
not. "I wonder what the lines upon
my fingers rcsemLle."
"We can soon see." replied the police
officer, and, ringing a bell, he sum
moned an assistant, to whom he issued
a few directions.
The man left the room to return
presently with a little hardwood box.
which he placed 0:1 his superior's desk.
"Now." said the officer, "you shall
have jour finger prints in a second."
lie drew from the little case a square
of plate glass, r. little tube of thick ink.
a rubber roller and a few snowy white
cards.
Squeezing a drop of ink on to the
plasfe. he spread it back and forth with
the rub!er roller until the tire sur
face o the glass was covered with a
very thin r.:.d uniform layer of ink.
"I'lace the four fingers of your right
hand upon the jr'.ass thus." he said to
D'Arn t; "now the thumb. That's
right. Now place them in just the
same josition upon this card here; no,
a little to the right. We must leave
room for the thumb and the fingers of
the left hand. There, that's it. Now
the same with the left."
"C'ome, Tarzan," cried D'Arnot, "let's
see what vo ir whorls look like."
Tarzan complied readily, asking
many questions of the officer daring
the operation.
"! tinker prints show racial char
acteristics V" he asked. "Could you de
termine, for example, solely from finger
prints whether the subject was negro
or Caucasian?"
"I think not," replied the officer,
"though some claim that those of the
neuro are less complex."
"Could the finger prints of an ape
be detected from those of a man':"
"Probably, because the ape's would
be far simpler than tk&se of the higher
organism."
Rut a cross between an ape and a
man might show the characteristics of
either progenitor?" continued Tarzan.
"I should think likely," responded
the official. "But the science has not
progressed sufficiently to render inex
act enough in such matters. I should
hate to trust its findings further than
V differentiate between Individuals.
"There it is absolutely definite. No
two people born into the world prob
ably haveeyerhiid identical lines Upon
r
iisii sa
alfthtir digits."" " -.
"Does the comparison require much
time or labor?" asked D'Arnot.
"Ordinarily but a few moments, if
the impressions are distinct."
D'Arnot drew a little black book
from his pocket and commenced turn
ing the pages.
Tarzan looked at the book in sur
prise. How did D'Arnot come to have
his book?
Presently D'Arnot stopped at a page
on which were live tiny little smudges.
He handed the open book to the po
liceman. "Are these imprints similar to mine
or M. Tarzan's? Can you say that they
are identical with either?"
The officed drew a powerful glass
from his desk and examined all three
specimens carefully, making notations
meanwhile upon a pad of paper.
Tarzan realized now what was the
meaning of their visit to the police of
ficer. The answer to his life's riddle lay in
these tiny marks.
With tense nerves he sat leaning for
ward in his chair.
Presently the police officer spoke.
"Gentlemen," he said.
P.oth turned toward Lim.
"There is evidently a great deal at
stake which must hinge to a greater
or lesser extent upon the absolute cor
rectness of this comparison. I there
fore ask that you leave the entire mat
ter in my hands until our expert re
turns." "I had hoped to know at once," said
D'Arnot. "M. Tarzan sails for Ameri
ca tomorrow."
"I will promise that you can cable
him a report within two weeks," re
plied the officer. "What it will be I
dare not say. There are resemblances,
yet well, we had better leave it for M.
Leblanc to solve."
A taxicab drew up before an old
fashioned residence upon the outskirts
of Iialtimore.
A man of about forty, well built and
with strong, regular features, stepped
out and paying the chauffeur dismissed
him.
A moment later the passenger was
entering the library of the old home.
"Ah, Mr. Canler!" exclaimed an old
man, rising to greet him.
"Good evening, my dear professor,"
cried the man, extending a cordial
hand.
' I have come this evening to speak
with you about Jane. You know my
aspirations, and you have been gen
erous enough to approve my suit."
Professor Archimedes Q. Tortcr
fidgeted in his armchair. The subject
always made him uncomfortable. He
could not understand why. Canler
was a splendid match.
"But Jane," continued Canler, "I
cannot understand her. She puts me
off first on one ground and then an
other. I always have the feeling that
she breathes a sigh of relief every
time I bid her gcodby."
"Tut tut," said Professor Torter.
"Tut tut, Mr. Canler. Jane is a most
obedient daughter. She will do pre
cisely as I tell her."
"Then I can still count on your sup
port?' asked Canler, a tone of relief
marking his voice.
"Certainly, sir, certainly," exclaimed
Professor Porter. "IIow could you
doubt it?"
"There is young Clayton, you know,"
suggested Canler. "lie has been
hanging about for months. I don't
know that Jane cares for him.. lint
besides his title they say he has in
herited a very considerable estate from
his father. It might not be strange if
he finally won her unless"
Canler paused.
"Tut, tut. Mr. Canler. Unless what?"
"Unles3 you see fit to request that
Jane and I be married at once," said
Canler slowly and distinctly.
"I have already suggested to Jane
that it would be desirable," said Pro
fessor Porter sadly, "for we can no
longer afford to keep up this house and
live as her associations demand."
"What was her reply?"
"She said she was not ready to
marry any one yet," replied Professor
Porter: "that we could go and live
upon the farm in northern Wisconsin
which her mother left her. It is a Jit
tie more than self supporting. The ten
ants have always made a living from
it and have been able to send Jane a
trifle each year.
"She is planning our going up there
the first of the week. Thilander and
Mr. Clayton have already gone to get
things in readiness for us."
"Clayton has gone there!' exclaimed
Canler, visibly chagrined. "Why was
not I told? I would gladly have gone
and seen' that every comfort was pro-
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"Jane feels that we are already too
much in your debt, Mr. Canler." said
Trofessor Porter.
Canler was about to reply when the
Bound of footsteps came from the hall
without, and Jane Porter entered the
room.
"Oh, I bog your pardon!" she ex
claimed, pausing on the threshold. "I
thought you were alone, papa."
"It is only I, Jane," said Canler, who
had risen. "Won't you come in and
join the group? We were just speak
ing of you."
"Thank you," said Jane, entering and
taking the chair Canler placed for her.
"I only wanted to tell papa that Tobey
has come down from the college to
pack his books."
"I must see him at once," cried the
professor. "Excuse me just a moment."
And the old man hastened from the
room.
As soon as he was out of earshot
Canler turned to Jane Porter.
"See here, Jane." he saTd bluntly,
"how long is this thing to go on liLe
this? You haven't refused to marry
me, but you haven't promised either.
"I want to get the license tomorrow
so that Me can be married quietly be
fore you leave for Wisconsin. I don't
care for any fuss or feathers, and I'm
sure you don't either."
The girl turned cold, but she held her
head bravely.
'''Tour lather wishes It, you know,"
added Canler.
"Yes; I know."
She spoke scarcely aliove a whisper.
"Do you realize that you are buying
me, Mr. Canler," she asked finally and
In a cold, level voice "buying me for
a few paltry dollars? Of course you
do. And the hope of just such a con
tingency was in your mind when you
loaned papa the money for that hare
brained escapade, which but for a
iaost mysterious circumstance would
have been successful.
"But you, Mr. Canler, would have
been the most surprised. You had no
Idea that the venture would succeed.
You knew that without security you
had a greater hold on the honor of the
Porters than with it. You knew the
one best way to force me to marry you
without seeming to force me.
"You have never mentioned the
loan. In any other man I should have
thought that the prompting of a mag
nanimous and noble character. But
you are deer.
"I know jou better than you think I
know you. I shall certainly marry you
if there is no other way, but let us un
derstand each other once and for all."
"You surprise me. Jane," said Cau
ler. "I thought you had more self con
trol, more pride. Of course you are
right. I am buying you. and I knew
that you knew it. But I thought you
would prefer to pretend that it was
otherwise. But have it your own
way," lie added lightly. "I am going
to have you, and that Is all that inter
ests me."
Without a word the girl turned and
left the room.
But Jane Porter was not married be
fore she left with her father and Es
meralda for her little Wisconsin farm.
As she coldly bade Robert Canler good
by while the train pulled out he called
to her that he would join them In a
week or two.
At their destination they were met
by Clayton and Mr. Philander in a
huge touring car belonging to the for
mer and quickly whirled away through
the dense northern woods toward the
little farm which the girl had not vis
ited before since childhood.
The farmhouse, which stood on a lit
tle elevation some hundred yards from
the tenants house, had undergone a
complete transformation during the
three weeks that Clayton and Mr. Phi
lander had been there.
The former had imported a small
army of carpenters and plasterers,
plumbers and painters from a distant
city, and what had been but a dilapi
dated shell was now a cozy little two
story house filled with every modern
convenience procurable in so short a
time.
"I couldn't think of your living in the
bole we found here," said Clayton to
Jane when they were nlone.
"Oh. Cecil, I wish I might repay you
as you deserve as you would wish,"
said Jane.
"Why can't you. Jane?"
"Because I love some one else."
"Canler?"
"No."
"But you are going to marry him.
lie told me as mpch before I left Balti
more." The girl winced.
"Is it because of the money, Jane?"'
. She nodded. .. .
"Then am I so much less desirable
than Canler? I have money enough.'
he said bitterly.
"I don't love you, Cecil," she said
"but I respect you. If I must disgrace
myself by such a bargain with any
man I prefer that it be one I already
despise. I should loathe the man to
whom I sold myself without love, who
socTer he might be.
"You will be happier," she conclud
ed, "alone, with my respect and friend
ship, than with me and my contempt."
He did not press the matter further,
but if ever a man had murder in his
heart it was William Cecil Clayton.
Lord Greystoke. when, a wc later.
Robert Canler drew up before the
farmhouse in his purring six cylinder.
A week passed a tense though uu
eventful week for all.
Canler was insistent that Jane
marry him at once.
At length she gave in from sheer
loathing of the continued and hateful
importuning.
It was agreed that on the morrow
Canler was to drive to town and bring
back the license and a clergyman.
'.' Clayton had wanted to leave as soon
as the plan was announced, but the
girl's tired, hopeless look kept him. He
could not desert her.
Something might happen yet, he
tried to console himself by thinking.
In his heart he knew that it would re
quire but a tiny spark to turn his
hatred for Canler into the blood lust
of the killer.
Earl- the next morning Canler set
out for town.
In the east smoke could be seen ly
ing low over the forest, for a fire had
been raging for a week not far from
them, but the wind still lay in the
west and no danger threatened them.
About noon Jane Porter started off
for a walk. She would not let Clayton
accompany her. She wanted to be alone,
she said, and he respected her wishes.
In the house Professor Porter and
Mr. Philander were immersed in an
absorbing discussion of some weighty
scientific problem. Esmeralda dozed
In the kitchen, and Clayton, heavy
eyed after a sleepless night, threw
himself down upon the couch in the
living room and soon dropped into a
fitful slumber.
To the cast the black smoke clouds
rose higher into the heaven. Suddenly
they eddied and then commenced to
drift rapidly toward the west.
On and on tliej- came. The inmates
of the teii'int house were gone, for it
was market day. and none there was
to see the rapid approach of the fire.
Soon the flames had spanned the
road to the south and cut off Canler's
return. A little fluctuation of the wind
now earried the path of the forest fire
Slightly to the iiorth. then blew back
ana the names nearly stood still as
though held in leash by some master
hand.
(To Be Continued.)
MILITANTS ENTER
CATHOLIC CHURCHES
Rush Into Pulpit to Shout Pro
test Against ForciMa Feeding.
London, June 8. Suffragettes for
the first time invaded Catholic church
es and created scenes by attempting
o harangue the congregations. Wor
ship was ''istii'bed ia both Westmin
ster cathedral and the Church of the
Oratory. Brompton.
Father E-inard Vaughan had just
taken his place in the pulpit in West
minister cathedral during the evening
service, ivhen a woman, well dressed
and apparently of refinement, rushed
up the steps into another pulpit and,
wavinsr her arms, shrieked: "In the
presence of the Blessed Sacrament
protest against the torcihle feeding of
women."
The congregation, shocked hy the
woman's action, rose from their seats
Murmurs of protest at the sacrilege
ran through the edifice. One of the
woman worshipers tried to persuade
the suffragette to descend from the
pulpit, hut she remained, waving her
arms and yelling incoherently, until
the vergers forcibly pulled her down
the steps and led her to the door,
where she was turned over to the po
lice. A hand of suffragettes interrupted
the mass of the Church of Oratory by
chanting: "God save Emmeline Pank
hurst and all our noble prisoners; open
the eyes of this church and of the
priests to put an end to the torture."
A scene of disorder ensued. A suf
fragette rose and started a prayer, hut
she had scarcely uttered a word when
a woman worshiper clapped her hands
over the mouth of the suffragette.
Struggling fiercely and screaming, the
suffragettes were forced hy ushers and
male parihhioners down the aisle to
the doors and into the street.
The growing hostility on the part of
the public toward the militant suf
fragettes was shown by assaults on
several open air meetings. Speakers
were mobbed, stands were torn down
and the women were saved hy the po
lice from duckings or beatings.
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' j Paris. June S. Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt continued his journey to
Madrid, where, next Thursday, he will
attend the wedding of his son, Kc-rmit,
to Miss Be'le Willard, daughter of the
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March 20, was formally called of:
More than two thousand workers were
involved. The bottom virtually dropped
out of the strike recently as a result
of sweeping court injunctions ar.d the
imposition of jail sentences on a large
Cumber of lahcr leaders.
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Chicago, June K. Adolph Sturm, a
member of the clothing firm of Stium,
Schiller fc Co., was found dead in a
water-filled bathtub in his residence.
The police, una bio to determine wheth
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disease, informed the coroner.
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an unpaid bid, Jesse Joplin shot Dr.
Win ton D. Dunn, former mayor of Du
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From Monday's Daily.
Mrs. Eugene Set departed this
morning for Eagle, where be will
visit for a short time with rela
tives and friends.
C.drler Albin of the vicinity of
Union, accompanied bv his little
son, was in Hie city today look
ing after business matters.
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Jos, .p! ivier was a
r this afternoon for
asseng
Omaha,
U ilef
he was called to look a ft or
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ie metropolis yesterday, where
they visited for the day at the
home of Mrs. Rates' parents.
County Judge A. J. Reeson de
parted this morning- on the early
Rurl ington train for Lincoln,
win-re he was called on business
mailers.
Mrs. Nellie Agnew of Lincoln,
who has been here visiting at the
home of bej- mother, Mrs. C. IL
Parmele, for a short time, depart
ed I his morning for her home.
Mrs. J. F. Eischeidt and two
children, of Wymore, wen- over
Sunday visitors in this cily with
relatives and friends.
II. T. Ration deparled this aft
1 moon f.r La Platte to enjoy a
isit at Ihe home of his son-in-law,
Ficd Kaireiibcrger and fam
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son came in last evening from
their home at O'Neill. Neb., and
will visit here with Mr. Iliber's
parents for a short time.
Mrs. James Archer of Utica. S.
D., who has been here visiting
with friends for a few days, de
parted ttiis morning for Nebraska
Cily to visit for a short time.
Drs. R. F. Rren.lel and J. F.
RrendeJ and wife motored tip this
morning from their home at
Murray to spend a few hours lu re
looking after business matters.
Mrs. Russell Harris and little
daughter came in yesterday aft
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ha for a short visit at the home
of Mrs. Harris' parents, Mr. and
Mrs. F. (i. Fricke. This morning
Mrs. Fricke accompanied her
daughter to Omaha, where she
will spend the day.
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came down yesterday for a short
visit with relatives in this city.
Dr. ;. H. Gilmore was here
Saturday in attendance at the
slag at the new Elks' club in this
cily.
V. G. Roedeker, cashier of the
Murray Stale bank, was in the city
Saturday evening allending the
slag at the Elks' club.
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