MONDAY, SEPTEMBER I, 101G. PLATTSMOUTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. PACE I. Copyright, 1913. by CHAPTER XXI. Gordon Loses His Mind. ONE evening as Captain Johnny IJrennan stood on the doek su perintending the final loading of a cargo for the S. R. ami X. lie was accosted ly a trill nerv ous man with shifting eyes and twitching lips. It was hard to recog nize hi this pitiable shaken creature the once resplendoirf Cordon, who had bent the whole liorth'.and to his ends. Some tantalizing demons inside the man's frame were jerking at his sin ews. Tear was in his roving glance, lie stammered, rile plucked at the lit tle captain's sleeve like a frightened woman. The open hearted; Irishman was touched. 'Yes." said Johnny after listening for a time. "I'll take you with me. and they won't catch you cither." Gordon. Mattered : "I'll pay you well, handsomely. I'm a rich man. I hare interests that demand attention, so ac cept this money. Please! Keep it all, my good fellow." Rrennan stared at the bundle Gordon had thrust into his hand, then regard ed the speaker curiously. ' "Man, dear,"' he said, "this isn't money. These are stock certificates." "Eh,? Stock? Well, there's .money in stocks, big money, if you know how to handle them." The promoter's wandering eye shifted to the line of stevedores trundling their trucks into the hold, then up to the crane with its straining burden of bridge material. Every package was stenciled with his rival's name, but he exclaimed: "P.ravo, captain! "We'll be up to the summit by Christmas. 'Xo graft! No incompetence! The utmost publicity in corporate affairs that's our plat form. We're destined for a glorious success. Glorious success!" "Go aboard and lie down." Uremia n said gently. "You need a good sleep." Then, calling a steward, he ordered. "Show Mr. Gordon to my cabin and iive him what he wants." He watched the tall figure stumble up the gangplank and shook his head. " 'The utmost publicity, is it? Well, it's you that's getting it now. And to think that you're the man with the mines and the railroads and the wid ow! I'm afraid you'll be in irons when she sees you. Rut that's as good a finish as you deserve, after all." The building of the Salmon river bridge will not soon be forgotten by engineers and men of science. Nowhere else in the history of bridge building had such conditions been en countered; nowhere on earth had work of this character been attended with greater hazards; never had circum stances created a situation of more dramatic interest By many the whole venture was regarded as a reckless gamble: for more than a million dol lars had been risked on the chance not alone that O'Neil could build .supports which the ice could not demolish, but that he could build them under the most serious difficulties iu record break ing time. Far more than the mere cost of the structure hinued upon his success; failure would mean that his whole investment up to that point would be wiped out. to say nothing of the $20,i00.WO. project of a trunk line up the valley of the Salmon. Had the government ierinitted the Kyak coal fields to be opened up the lower reaches of the S. R. and N. would have had a value, but all activity in that region had been throttled, and the policy of delay and indecision at head- quarters promised no relief. The actual erection of steel work was iniossibIe during the coldest months; Parker had planned only to rush the piers, abutments and false work to coin iJetion so that he could take advantage of the mild spring weather preceding the breakup. The execution of this plan was in itself an unparalleled un dertaking, making it necessary to hire d'-nb'e crews of picked men. Yet. as the weeks wore into months the intri cate details were wrought out diir by one and preparations were completed for the great race. Late in March lv.iu Appleton went to the front, taking with him his wife and his sister, for whom O'Neil had thoughtfully prepared suitable living quarters. The girls were as. hungry as Pan to have a part in the deciding struggle, or at least to pee it close at hand, for the spirit of those engaged in the work had entered them also. Life at Omar of late had been rather uneventful, and they looked forward with pleasure to a renewal of those companionable relations which had made the summer mouths so full of interest and delight. Rut they were disappointed. Life at the cud of the line they found to be a very grim, a very earnest, and in som: resects an extremely disagreeable affair; the fev erish, unceasing activity of their friends lr?ft 3ip time for companionship or rec REX BEACH Harpr & Brothers. reation of any srt. More and mre they. too. came to feel the sense of haste and strain pervading the whole army of workers, the weight of respon sibility that bore upon the commander. , Dan became almost a stranger to tlieni, and when they saw him he was obsessed by vital issues. Mellon was gruff and irritable; Parker in his pre occupation' ignored everything but his duties. Of all their former comrades O'Neil alone seemed aware of their presence. Rut behind his smile they saw the lurking worries; in his eyes was an abstraction they could not pen etrate, in his bearing the fatigue of a man tried to the breaking point. To Eliza there was a certain joy merely in being near the man she loved, even though she could not help being hurt by his apparent indiffer ence. The long weeks without sight of him had. deepened her foiling and she had turned for relief to the writing 'of her book the natural outlet for her repressed emotions. Into its pages she had poured all her paskn. all her yearning, ami site had written with an intimate understanding of O'Neil's am bitions and aims which later gave the story its unique success as an epic of financial romance. Hers was a nature winch could not l e content with idleness. She took up the work that she and Natalie had be gun, devoting herself unobtrusively yet effectively to making O'Neil comforta ble. It was a labor of love, done with no expectation of reward; it thrilled her. Idling her with mingled .sadness tmd satisfaction. Rut if Murray no ticed the improvement in his surround ings, which she sometimes doubted, he evidently attributed it to a sudden ac cess of zeal on the part of Ren, for he made no comment. Whether or not she wished him to see and understand she could hardly tell. Somehow his unobservant, masculine acceptance of things better and worse appealed to the woman in her. She slipped into O'Neil's quarters during his absence and slipped out again quietly. She learned to know his ways, his peculiar ities. She found herself caressing and talking to his personal belongings- as if they could hear and understand, he c onducted long conversations with the objects on his bureau. One morn ing Ren entered unexpectedly to sur prise her in the act of kissing Murray's shaving mirror as if it slill preserved the image of its owner's face, after which she banished the cook boy ut terly and performed his duties with her own hands. Of course discovery was inevitable. At last O'Neil stumbled in upon her in the midst of her task and. question ing her, read the truth from her blushes and her incoherent attempts at expla nation. "So you're the one who has been doing this!" U-i exclaimed in frank as tonishment. "And I've boon tipping Renny for his thoughtf illness all this time! The rascal has made enough to retire rich." "He seemed not to understand his duties very well, so I took charge. Rut you had no business to catch me!" The flush died from Eliza's cheeks, and she faced him with thoroughly femi nine indignation. "I can't let you go on with this," said Murray. "I ought to be doing something for you." Rut the girl Ha red up defiantly. "I love it. I'll do it no matter if you lock me out. I'm not on the payroll, you know, so you have no authority over me none at all!" His eyes roved around the room, and for the first time ho fully took in the changes her hands had wrought. "My dear child, it's very nice. to be spoiled this way and have everything neat and clean, but it embarrasses me dreadfully to have you saddled with the sordid work" "It isn't sordid, and what brought you home at this hour, anyhow V she demanded. O'Neil's smile gave place to an, anx ious frown. "The ice is rising, ami" Rising?" "Yes. Our old enemy Jackson glacier is causing us trouble again. That jam of broken ice in front of it is backing up the water there's more running now, and the ice is lifting. It's lifting the false work with it, pulling the piles out of the river bottom like splin ters out of a sore hand." "That's pretty bad. isn't it?" "It certainly is. It threatens to throw everything out of alignment and prevent us from laying the steel if we don't check it." "Check it!" cried Eliza. "How can you check a thing like that?" "Easily enough, if we can spare the hands, by cutting away the ice whore it is frozen to the piles, so that it won't lift them with it The trouble is to get men enough. You see. the ice is nine feet thick now. I've set every man to work with axes and chisels and steam points, and I came up to telephone Slater for more help. We'll have to work fast night and day." "There's nobody left in Omar," Eliza said quickly. "I know. Tom's going to gather all he can at Cortez and Hope and rush them out here. Our task is to keep the ice cut away until help arrives." "I suppose it's too late in the season to repair any serious damage." "Exacllv. If you care to go back I A '2 a,rK O'Neil Stumbled In Upon Her In the Midst of Her Task. with me you can see what we're do ing." As they set off for the bridge site Murray looked down at Eliza, striding manlike beside him, with some thing of affectionate appreciation in his eyes, and said humbly: "It was careless of me not to see what you have been doing for me all this time. My only excuse is that I've been driv en half mad with other things. I haven't time to think of myself." "All housekeepers have a thankless task," laughed Eliza. All that day Eliza watched the un equal struggle, and in the evening Dan brought her reports that were far from reassuring. The relentless movement showed no sign of ceasing. When she retired' that night she sought ease from her anxiety in a prayer that was half a petition for O'Neil's success and half an exceedingly full and frank confession of her love for him. Out side, beneath the glare of torches and hastily strung im-andescents. a weary army toiled stubbornly, digging, gaug ing, chopping at the foot of the tower ing wall of timbers which stretched across the Salmon. In the north the aurora boreal is played brilliantly as if to light a council of the gods. (To V,t- Continued.) UNION. Ledger. W-H-!-WH-I-W- Mrs George Reaudett of Rosalie, dav after a eb. returned home Tuc: visit here with relatives. 31 i s. Nancy Garrison went to Platts mouth today for a few days' visit with her daughter, Mrs. Harry Thomas. Supt. Chas. E. St very n returned to Union Tuesday to be in readiness for t lie opening of our school next Monday. . Mont. Robb went to Omaha Monday to visit with his sister. Mrs. A. B. Fenn, who is confined ther?. in a nospitai Mr. ard Mrs Mr. and Mrs. Matt McQuinn and Billy Pickering left Friday via the Ford route for a visit in the northern part of the stat Miss Mary Novetny is taking a short vacation from her duties a clerk in the Chas. M n ton store. She is visttiiig at !; homo in Plattsmouth. Mrs. McMrsters and son of Omaha, who have been here the past two weeks visiting with Mrs. Nancy Garrison, Mrs. McMaster's mother, returned to their home Sunday. Max Balfour of near Nehawka, while out in the Held Saturday, was severely bitten by a strange dog. Mr. Balfour hilled the dog, cut off the head and sent it to Lincoln to see if th -ro verp any Hdicrd ions of rabies. I is hoped nothing serious will result. John Klarence was taken to a hos pital in Omaha Sunday suffering from kidney trouble. He was so serious Monday that he was not expected to live through the day, but Tuesday morning he was reported somewhat better. Mr. Klarcnce is quite old, and one of Union's most respected citi zens and his loss among us would be keenly felt. The Ledger joins his many f i ionds in wishing him a speedy recovery. WILL GIVE PROGRAM. The Ladies' Aid .society of t'e,wcre sick and off feed. Nearby United Brethern church will give a j program and supper Friday evening,' September 8th. at the home. R. L. Propst ELM WOOD Leader-Echo ' Mr. and Mrs. John Def reese are the proud parents of the arrival on Aug. 23 of a nine-pound baby girl. Mr.' and Mrs. Franz and little daughter of Union were quests Sun day at the Lloyd Eidenmiller home. Mrs. Franz was formerly Miss cora Mueller. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Rosencrans, Mrs. W. E. Rosencrans and daughter, Mary, were in the city Tuesday vis iting old friends and attending chau tauqua. Leonard and Matilda Meisinger of Plattsmouth, visited with Mr. and Mrs. George Stoehr last Thursday and Friday and took in the chautauqua. On Saturday, August 26 a baby daughter was born to Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Neely. The proud parents are receiving the congratulations of their many friends. Rose Schneider returned last week from a week's visit with the Jannen family at Hastings. She reports that this splendid family are doing nicely at Hastings. Mr. and .Mrs. Sherman Cole, Mrs. S. O. Cole, and Miss Delia Vennor and Miss Opal Cole of Mynard took Sunday dinner with A. H. Welch el's ind attended chautauqua. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kunz and Mrs Julia (Justin returned on Friday from a ten days' visit vith relatives at Springfield, 111. Th report having had a very enjoyable Irip and visit. Guy Owens, wife nnd two sons of Green, Kas., motored to Elmwood. ar riving aunday evening to visit for a few days at the hom f Mr. and Mrs L. A. Tyson. They report that corn in t heir part of Kansaslto be all dried up. E. Preston, who is working on the Ed. Gustin house stepped on a nail the latter part of last week and had to lay off for several days. He had a very sore foot but it i$ some better and he went to work again on Wed nesday. Last Friday a deal was made where by George Frisbee purchased the John Hall property in the cast part of town just across the street south of the school house. The consideration was ? 1,100 and Mr. Frisbee will make this place his home. LOUISVILLE Courier I WWW .Miss Myrtle Clifford left Wednes day morning for Garfield. Neb., where she will teach the fall and winter term of school. Miss Eda Sehoeman returned last weeks from an extended visit with her uncle, George Frampton and family in Oklahoma. Mrs. II . R. Evans and two children arrived Wednesday morning from Fairbury to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Burns and ether relatives. Mrsv E. H. Worthman and two daughters, "Minerva arid Eleanor, left Thursday for North Platte where they will visit at the George Frater home. Rorn, Monday, August 28, 1910, to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fiddock, of Elsie, Neb., a nine pound boy. Mrs. Fiddock is in town at the home of her .sister, Mrs. P. C. Stander. Mrs. Andrew Stohlman and son Le rov returned last Saturdav from a three weeks' visit with Mrs. Stohlman's I father and three brothers at Janes- l ville and Fairmont, Minn. Mrs. M. N. Drake returned home Thursday after a delightful four weeks' trip to Montana, where she enjoyed a visit with her brother and also took in the Glacier National Park besides visiting other points of inter est. Mrs. J. D. Ferguson and daughter .Miss Fern of Lincoln, start this week for Long Beach, Calif. They will ac company the former's daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Todd, who will make the trip in their new Pathfinder. Mrs. Ferguson has rented her home furnished, for a year to a retired farmer who is educating his children in Lincoln. Lafe Pettitt returned last Friday from Camp Hughes, Canada, where he has been since June in training for service in Europe. He says that there are between thirty and thirty-five thousand civilians continually in train ing in this camp. Lafe came home on a thirty day furlough which will ex pire September 16. He says there is not much excitement over the war in Canada as one would imagine. MARKETING HOGS. Beats burying them. Steve Hoover, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, writes, "Com menced feeding my herd of about 100 hogs B. A. Thomas' I log Pow der over two months ago. Fifty herds had cholera. I did not lose one they are well and growing fast." H. M. Soennichsen. Puis & Gansemer. WEEPING WATER Republican Francis Baldwin who has been home on a vacation has been called to Oma ha as he might be needed as a fire man in case of a strike. Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Cromwell left last Wednesday for Kansas to look after land interests and to visit some of Mrs. Cromwell's relatives. Jack and Charles Hitchman arrived Tuesday from San Domingo for a week or ten days' visit with home folks while looking after some business mat ters. Miss Henrietta Butler returned Sat urday from Colorado where she had been spending several weeks visiting and enjoying the delightful mountain climate. The work on the Jameson lake is progressing nicely considering the force at work. As the weather gets cooler the force will be increased and the work pushed to completion. Mrs. Jane Colbert returned Satur day from Elmwood where she had been staying a couple of weeks with her old neighbor Mrs. Henry Hollenbeck who is almost helpless with rhcuma tism. Roy Cole and family are moving to Plattsmouth this week, P. L. Rector and family are moving up from Swede town and will occupy the Mrs. F. J. Barnes house vacated by the Cole family. Jim Philpot while on the road be tween here and Louisville last Fri day had some experience when the automobile he was driving which be longed to A. E. Ticrney took tiro and Li'rned up. It is reported that Theo. Harms' general store at Manley was broken into Tuesday night and some artie'es of merchandise taken. Officer NoeM was out in the country scouting around Wednesday so see ii he could lind trace of the thieves. Henry Christensen got the small bone of one of his legs broken Sun day by being struck by a motorcycle. He was standing behind the Banner; Hadley machine when it was struck by Lawrence Wise on his motorsycle. Lawrence was trying to iniss a bicy cle and as he turneel out his machine struck the other one knocking it over with considerable force onto Henry's leg. -w-:-h NEHAWKA News ? . w-rv wvw Vii v w-rw Another installment of Montgom- try Ward & Co. catalogues arrived here for distribution Tuesday of this week. Miss Bessie Watterman returned to her home in Omaha Friday after noon after a few days' visit with her sister, Mrs. Ernest M. Pollard. Walter Wunderlich who had been away from his duties at the Sheldon store returned to work Saturday morn ing after a two weeks' vacation. Mr. and Mrs. D. Steffens autocd to Omaha Monday with Miss Anna Teuben, who returned to her home in N. Y. after an extended visit with her sister, Mrs. D. Steffens. Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Adams and Mr and Mrs. J. G. Wunderlich and Mrs Clayton Rosencrans of- Platt?nouth autoetl to Johnson last Thursday and took in the picnic at that place. A larger force of men are contin ually going to work at the Pollard orchard but it will be about three weeks before things start in full blast. Mr. Pollard informs us there will be a bumper crop this year and expects the yield to surpass that of last year. The friends of Miss Emma Chap pclle and James were greatly sur prised when the word leaked out that they had been married in Nebraska City Monday. They will make their home on the Carl Balfour farm, known as the Griffith place. Mrs. S. Humphrey went to Lincoln Saturday morning where she met her damrhter. Mrs. J. E. Banning of ('latskanie, Ore., who came to visit with relatives and friends at this place. Mr. Banning was former rail road agent at this place and Mrs. Banning was raised here. Mi. and Mrs. Fred L. Nutzmar. lef Tuesday afternoon for a vacation in the north and east where they will be gone about three weeks. They con template visiting numerous places near Buffalo, N. Y.. inclading Niagara Falls and other places. From there they will go by steamer to DuJuth and then home via St. Paul. M. G. Kime and two sons were pass engers to Lincoln Saturday morning where they went to bring home their car which was in a garage there re ceiving repairs. We understand Mr. Kime ran into a tree with it one day last week and it was necessary to tnke it to Lincoln for rennirs. Fancy stationery in different vari eties at the Journal office. Come and see us when you want stationery. YOU The human stomach should only be thought of when it suggests the need of food. The health of so important an organization should be so perfect that it may be entirely forgotten be tween meals. But to millions of people, the stom ach is a continuous source of mental as well as physical distress. Chronic stomach trouble preys upon the mind as well as the body. The mind grows dull and tired. Especially is this true in cases of stomach trouble that affects the nerves. The woman who is always examining her tongue in the mirror is a very pronounced type of nervous dyspeptic. Looking at the tongue for defects of the stomach is the result of pro longed gastric disturbances; indiges tion, sour stomach, bloating, heavi ness, dullness, biliousness and indiges tion, headaches all make sharp in roads on the nervous system. Good strong nerves are easily for gotten. If they are weak and sensi tive, they are fixed in the human mind day and night. PROPERTY FOR SALE. Seven-room house, two Kig lots, well located. About fivc; and one-half blocks from main part of city. Ce ment cellar, electric lights, city water. For sale cheap. McKnight & Ilaney, Glenwood, la. FOUND. Kit of auto tools, the owner may have same by calling on me and pay ing for this advertisement and prov ing property. Roy Howard. PIANO TEACHING. Beatrice A. Walton, pianist and ac companisi of Omaha will be in Mur ray Friday and Saturday September Sth and th to organize a music class. Studio will be at the T. S. Barrows' home for the present. Make your reservations now for "Home Coming'' week at the Hotel Riley. BEGINNING Thursday, August 31st, and continuing until everything in the Old Gering stock is replaced by new stock. We have been housecleaning every since we have been here, and now have nothing to offer you but good clean stock. Our policy is, and always will be, quick sales and small profits. New and up-to-the-minute merchandise. Space will not permit us to list the big line of bargains we are offering during this sale, but here are a few that should inserest you: HAIR BRUSHES. Regular $1.75 value, cut to $1.10 Regular $1.00 value, cut to....G8c Regular 75c value, cut to 4'Jc Regular 50c value, cut to 31c COMBS. Regular 5e value, cut to.. Regular 25c value, cut to.. Regular 15c value, cut to. ,34c .11c . .9c CLOTHES' BRUSHES, Regular $1.00 value, cut to Regular 75c value, cut to TOOTH BRUSHES, .68c ,40c Regular 35c value, cut to 21c Regular 25c value, cut to 11c POCKET BOOKS. One lot regular 25c to 50c, choice. . 10c One lot regular 10 to 25c, choice.. 5c Ladies Purses and Hand Bags at one half regular price. We are Exclusive agents for the famous Harding's Ice Cream. Remember the Place the Old Gering Drug Store HI air w Proprietor of New FAIL DPT ITCL, M nl The nervous dyspeptic shrinks from the easiest tasks of life, and is en tirely unfit to grapple with the harder ones. He goes through life shackeled to his imaginary fear, and failure is his doom. "Why have I not succeeded as I would have liked to?" thousands of men and women ask themselves every day. The reason is their health and energy has been far below par. Has your stomach been a failure or a success? The stomach is one of the deep secrets of human success. Tanlac is the stomach tonic su preme. Tanlac is vegetable. It is a stomach food, delicately adapted to the needs of a stomach that is ailing. It perfects digestion, purifies and en lichcs the blood and tones up the ner vous system, builds up the health and strength of thin, weak, nervous, run down men and women. Tanlac is being specially introduced in Plattsmouth at .the Mauzey Drug Company. Tanlac may also be obtained in Springfield, at H. Fiegcnbaum's store, and in Wccpiig Water at the Meier Drug Co. A VIVID CONTRAST- Exists between the old, clumsy drench ing methyl and the new easy Farris way of putting the medicine on the back of the horse's tongue by means of a medicine dropper which comes packed with the remedy. Farris' Colic Remedy is not an experiment. It cures colic. We are behind it and will refund your money if you do not get results. II. M. Soennichsen. Puis & Gansemer. Remember ths Journal carries the finest line rf stationery in town, and can: please all in this line of goods. $5.00 Phonographs at Dawson's. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature of KONKLIN'S CELEBRATED FOUNTAIN PENS. Regular $5.00 value, cut to.... $3. 75 Regular $4.00 value, cut to $3.00 Regular $3.50 value, cut to $2.''5 Regular $3.00 value, cut to $2.25 Regular $2.50 value, cut, to $1.KS Regular $1.50 value, cut to $1.18 TOILET POWDERS, ETC. Eastmans crushed roses talcum pow der, regular 25c value, cut to. ... 1 lc Wrights' Borated talcum powder, reg ular 25c value, cut to 11c Gcrings Rorated Talc, regular 15c value, cut to Cc Swans down face powder, regular 25c value cut to irn Genuine German cologne, regular 25c value, cut to . 11c Genuine German Cologne, regular 15c value, cut to 0c Standard Perfumes, 50 different odors at one half price Picos Antiseptic tooth powder, regu lar 25c values, cut to 17c: We are not selling out, we are only building new, and making room for one of the best drug stocks that ever came to your county. Come in and help us. U M vvj u U W n Crescent Pharmacy KNOW v? sag