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NEMAHA, - - - -
NEBRASKA.
SAFETY IN WEAKNESS.
An Iron monarch rodo the sen,
A natlon'H hope and pride;
Through storm ur.d hlllowa dualling free,
It feared no wind or tide;
Its banner waved In every Und,
With honor hailed abroad;
AVhone'er It hurled Its ilery brand,
The very deep wan awed.
'The ocean's rage was felt at last;
Its billows set at nnURht,
It Bathers up a cyclone's blast,
And all Its terrors brought;
'Tossed, like a hnll from hand to hand,
A moment poised on high,
'Then dashed upon the rocky strand,
And thore the fragments lie;
.A trim Physnlln floating near,
AVIth Iridescent sail,"
'Through all the dark, devoid of fear,
Had sported with the Kftle.
Tho storm that wrecked the navy's pride,
It all outrode with bIco,
.And still Is dancing on tho tldo
To beautify tho sea.
Thus all who boast their native strength
"W 111 fall on weakest strain,
And sadly find when tried nt length,
That all their hopes are vain.
The soul that seeks Jehovah's care,
Secure from every wrong,
JV. mighty arm Is then made bare,
In weakness they nre strong!
Sidney Dyer, Ph. D In Chicago Standard.
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SYNOPSIS.
Mlnard Hendricks, great detective, Just
returned from Boston, finds awaiting him
.an unsigned typewritten letter directing
him to apartments In Palace hotel, where
lie will find remain of Mr. Weldon Caruth
crs currently reported for past two weeks
to be out of town. Detective seems to con
nect letter with attempt made on his own
life some time previous. Goes with friend,
Dr. Lumpkin, to Investigate.
CHAPTER II.
"You say you know Caruthcrs?" he
.asked.
"Very slightly."
"Sec If you recognize Mm in the ball
room." Lampkin studied the throng for sev
eral minutes, then lie went nearer, and
.standing behind u crowd of men and a
bunch of palms he studiously surveyed
the ballroom. lie went bock to the
detective.
"See nnything of Mm?" questioned
Jlendrioks, taking his fixed gaze from
ihcirug at his feet.
"No."
"Then wo must ask for him at the
tlcsk."
They nppronched one of the active
-clerks behind the counter. Hendricks
-drew out a visiting card and fingered
it, his name downward.
"I'd like to see Mr. Weldon Cnruth
ers," he said.
The clerk glanced at the key-rqek
behind him and shook his head.
"lie hasn't returned yet," he an
wered. "He is still out of town."
"Where is he?" asked Hendricks.
"I cannot tell you, sir," and the clerk
turned to answer a question put by a
mau in evening dress on his right.
"I am very anxious to sec Mr.
Caruthcrs to night," resumed Ilen
dricks, when he could get the clerk's
.attention ngtiin. "It is a very impor
tant matter."
The man in evening dress had over
beard; lie paused, interested.
"Are you looking for Caruthers?"
.be asked.
"I am," replied Hendricks.
"That's odd," smiled the man. "I've
..seen a dozen people to-night asking
about him. We were just discussing
'his queer conduct and -wondering what
wns the matter witli him. He lias
broken several important engage
ments without a word of explanation.
His vulct told my man this afternoon
Hint his master had been called by a
night telegram to Philadelphia and had
written him that lie would be detained
there for a couple of weeks. I presume
it was tome urgent business."
'Die speaker lighted a cigar and
moved away to a group of men in the
.smoking-room. Hendricks drew the
-clerk n.-ide.
"I inn a detective," lie said, in a low
voice, 'Hendricks is my name."
"Minnrd I lend ricks. 7" exclaimed the
clerk, in astonishment, his tone and
.manner suddenly apologetic. "I had no
idea-:"
' "It is most important that I should
'..have a look into Caruthers' apart meiit,"
broke in the detective "Don't say n
word ti) anyone, hut got a pass key, and
show my friend and mybelf up there
right nwny."
The clerk nodded, a (lurried expres
sion on ills' face. (letting a key, he
onine from behind the counter and
started towards the elevator.
"Not thnt way," objected Hendricks,
detaining "Mm. "Can't we go up the
rear stairs?" '
. "Siirt!," snld the clerk. "It's only one
might." Ami lie piloted tlioni to the
otttlrtf behind the cloakroom. "You'll
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11 nd the apartments just ns Mr, Caruth
crs left them. His valet' said that his
master had written him that the room
must not be disturbed by anyone."
Hendricks paused on tho stair.
"Did Mr. Caruthers not Inform his
man that he was going away?" lie
asked.
"Xo; you see Mr. Caruthers' man is
married and lives on the west side.
He happened to have a dny oft and did
not know what had beeomu of his mns
ter till he got the letter."
"I see," remarked Hendricks, nnd he
started on again.
Reaching the door opening Into
Caruthers' apartments, the clerk un
locked it and led them in. The first
chamber was a private sitting-room,
the dainty pieces of French furniture,
draperies and rugs being in perfect
order.
"The gas is burning," observed Hen
dricks, looking up at the cut-glass
globes.
"As 1 said, no one has been in the
rooms since Mr. Caruthers went nwny."
"Not even his valet?" asked the de
tective. "It looks so, or surely he would have
extinguished the gas. It. seems to be
burning in the next room too."
This chamber was a large luxurious
bedroom, and as they entered it Lamp
kin's imagination prepared itself for a
horrible spectacle. To his great re
lief, however, everything here was also
In perfect order. The white lace cov
erlet lay as smoothly as newly fnllcn
snow, nnd the sheets and pillows looked
as it they had never been used. The
clerk now with a look of growing curi
osity, if not of incipient horror,
stooped down and looked under the
bed.
"Nothing there," he said. Then his
attitude grew more serious, ns he went
to the large closets one by one 'nnd
opened the doors. "There is the bath
room yet," he remarked, with a shud
der, his mind perhaps busy with a bit
of French history or some recent Amer
ican horror. "It's getting mighty com
mon nowadays to commit bloody
crimes in bathrooms. Do you suspect
foul play, sir?"
"You are going entirely too fast,"
said Hendricks, in n curt tone. "ICvery
matter I choose to investigate need not
necessarily be a bloody one." He
smiled and added to Lampkin: ".My
reputation among the people is as red
as cranberry sauce."
The clerk bore the reproof with be
coming humility. He made no reply
and hung back till the detective had
opened the door leading to the bath
room. Here the gas was burning also,
and the small chamber, with its pol
ished tiled floor and glistening porce
lain walls, revealed no hint of blood
shed. The face of the clerk fell; his appetite
for bensation wae not to be fed on this
occasion.
"What time did Mr. Caruthers leave
the hotel the night he left?" Hendricks
asked him.
"I renlly don't know, sir," said the
clerk. "I am pretty sure lie did not
mention it at the ofllce, nnd that is cus
tomary among our guests. That is why
I thought there might have been some
underhand "
"Leave your pass key with me," in
terrupted the detective, coldly. "My
friend and I want to have a little pri
vate talk. When you go down, don't
mention our being here."
The clerk reluctantly laid the key on
a table. "
"I'll not. give it away, sir." He moved
slowly towards the door. "If you want
anything, ring. I'll be on the lookout,
and will run up myself."
"Good," said Hendricks, "you are very
kind."
The detective followed him to the
outer door and closed it after him.
Then lie came back into the bedroom.
"I hope this is only a hoax, after all."
observed the doctor. "What are you
going to do next?"
Hendricks shrugged his broad shoul
ders; it amounted to a shudder.
"We are going to look through those
trunks for a trunk nnd the rest."
"Is it really so bad ns that?"
"My blasted premonition which fac
ulty in my make-up has always been n
mystery to mehas hold of me with
its four claws," said Hendricks. "I
can't explain it, doctor, but the min
ute I entered that door and saw the
pis burning so brightly I felt-murder
in .the air. Sometimes on a day like
this at a crisis like t liis I imagine
that the spirit of the murdered man lin
gers round the spot where lie lost his
life to try (o give me a clew."
l.ampkiji shuddered as the detective
laid hold of the nearest steainer-trunk
and began to unstrap it. It was empty
save for some clothing in the bottom.
The next trunk was a large square one,
and it.s lock for several minutes resisted
the efforts of the detective to unfasten
it. Finally, however, aided by a key of
his own, and no little experience in
such matters, Hendricks released the
brass hiup and it fell down with a
sharp click.
Tliis trunk, aUo, contained nothing
of a suspicious nature, and the jsnnio re
sults were produced by a careful ex
amination of two other trunks btorei
In tlie bathroom and drcss-fcult ease
of heavy leather which w u found, In qiiu
of till' clouotk.
"Ah, I certainly fuel bettor," cried
I.ampkln, a triiimphnnl ring In. ' hU
voice.
, "I d,ou't," ejaculated HtndrloIU, with
one of his massive frown, which al-'
ways ninilc his grea.t brow resemble a
miniature jutting crag1.
"And why?"
"Reenuse niy anonymous cm-respond-ent
says I shall find the rcmnlns of
Weldon Caruther In these apartment,
nnd I believe on my soul he meant w'ltnt
he said."
"Rut that man downatnirs snld Cn
rulheiV valet, litis received n communi
cation from his master in lMtlliidfl
phin." "I'll bet my life it was forged."
Lampkin started, and then he gtiz.ed
into tlie detective's eyes steadily.
"I can't follow you, and I won't try.
Your mind darts out after things I
never would dream of. Do you think
you may find a trace of the missing man
here?"
"If my thinker would opcrntesinooth
ly." Tills with a forced grin. "My
trip to Rostou has fagged me out. 1
am,not normal. Rut it will not surprise
me to tlnd out that the same mau wrote
to the valet that wrote to me."
"If so you have a deep villain to deal
with."
"As deep as the crucible of hell can
turn out."
The detective sat down in a chair near
the bed and, taking from his pocket
the anonymous letter, he studied it in
silence. After a minute he said, re
flectively: "You will observe he docs not say
I shall find the body of Caruthers here,
but the remains, and he has under
scored the word heavily. Further
more, he boasts of the skill with which
tlie crime lias been accomplished; that,
old man, means something."
"Rut it seems to me that you have
looked into every possible nook and
cranny," said the doctor.
As if under a sudden inspiration
Hendricks sprang up, and going to the
bed he pushed aside the silken curtains
of tlie canopy, turned down the sheets
and doubled up the mattress. Then he
drew himself up and began to examine
the bric-a-brac about the room. He
riiumpcd with his knuckles a marble
statue of Venus de Milo in a corner, and
then stood still in tlie center of the
room nnd stared at the articles of orna
ment on the mantl-pieee. He walked
slowly backward to the doctor nnd laid
a hand on his shoulder, and pointed to
a large covered Japanese vase, shaped
like an ancient urn.
"Doctor," he said, "the man who se
lected all the bric-a-brac in this room
did not select that vase."
"It docs seem a little out of har
mony," admitted Lampkin. "Rather
cheaper than the rest, don't you think?"
"It is a disgrace to such a collection,"
returned the detective, "besides it has
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HE SAW KIM PICK UP SOMETHING.
been crowded in between those beauti
ful bronze pieces. Old man, I have an
idea."
Lampkin Said nothing as lie watched
his friend place a chair near the mantel-piece
and mount it. The chair raised
the detective so high that the cover of
tlie vase was on a level with his chin.
Hendricks removed tc cover and
looked into the vessel.
Lampkin saw him pick up something
inside the vase, examine it and lay it
buck. For a moment the detective
stood, his back to the doctor, a hand on
cither side of the vessel. Then he lift
ed it, cautiously stepped down to the
floor, and placed it on the table.
"Prepare to be horrified, old man,"
he said, grimly. "It In here."
Lampkin started. "You don't mean "
"You needn't look unless you want
to," frowned the detective. "Rut our
nreh (lend has actually cremated the.
body of Cm'tithei's, leaving duly the
jeweled hand of hi victim to prevent
there being any doubt ns to the identity
of the ashes. It wiik cremation; 1 know
bone ashes when I scethci'n."
Lampkin got up and .peered .Into the
ifll tlirnlmr flu. frliMKttv nlitnnf. ni'nl' nil
j"i e n--..-t. ...j v w . .. . .
the bed of ashes beneath,'
"There is. no odor," he said, trying to
speiik in a matter-of-fact tone.' "That
is strange."
"Kmlmlined," wild Hendricks. "I
miw indication of it In thu punctures
of the llckh."
"You are right," agreed the doctor.
"Let nit) dec n moment," with thes
words the detective sprang to thu-vniu,
and, picking up the grewnoin .objtmt,'
u,niuihcd lfniluti.toly.' .
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"1 have only one Isolated clew," he
.aid, putting the severed hand back on
the ashes.
' "Vhat Is that?"
"In his effort to cut nnd wrench this
hand from the Joint nt the wrist, the
murderer allowed his sharp nails to
sin4t into the flesh. The marks did not
show at the lime, but the process of
decomposition lias brought them out
distinctly. Doctor, the fellow who did
the Job mnnlctiros his liiiffer-nnils to
sharp points, as is the vogue among so
ciety men of n certain class."
Lampkin made an examination. -
"You are certainly right," lie snld,
leturnlng the hand to the vase.
"Shrewd and cautious as tlie perpetra
tor evidently was Unit did not occur to
him."
"Hod has never yet made It possible
for a human mind to be full of a hellish
deed and at the same time master de
tails that will completely overcome de
tection," was Hendricks' reply.
"You do not think that the body could
have been reduced to ashes in these
apartments," said Lampkin, tentatively.
Hendricks shook his head, nnd point
ed to the open fireplace where lay the
ashes of a wood lire.
"Xo, this is the only fireplace and It
has not been used for a fortnight."
"Are you sure?" incredulously.
"Quite sure. This chimney seems to
come straight down from the roof, and
raindrops have fallen and left their im
prints here. It rained two weeks ago
and has been clear ever since."
"I would never have thought of that."
"It is my business to think of every
thing." Lumpkin's face betrayed the birth of
an important idea.
"Surely," he said, "tlie body could
not easily have been removed for the
purpose of cremation elsewhere with
out being dismembered. I'erlinpH if
you made a careful examination you
might find traces of its having been
cut up."
"Thanks for the suggestion," suid
Hendricks. Lampkin watched him as
lie went info the bathroom and closely
examined the porcelain tub nnd white
tiled floor.
"No," he said, coming back. "1 think
he managed to remove the body In iU
entirety."
"You think that?" remarked the
doctor, not convinced.
"Yes; it would be an ensy thing to
do. As Caruthcrs was supposed to be
leaving, it would be natural for him tc
take ii trunk, and his luggage going
out would not attract, much attention."
"Good heavens!" exclaimed tlie doe
tor. "In his own trunk!"
At this juncture the door lending Into
the corridor swung open and the clerk
who hnd shown them upKtnirB entered,
suddenly, his eyes alighting on the
severed hand which lay across the
somewhat narrow mouth of the vase.
"My Lord!" he exclaimed, his eyes
bulging from their sockets, "litis lias
he been murdered, Mr. Hendricks?"
An expression of deep annoyance set
tled on the face of the detective.
"Yes," lie said. "Rut leave us alone
for a few minutef, and please don't say
anything about this down in the olllce
just yet. Wc would be interrupted by
siglit-secrs."
The clerk thrust his white, horrified
face forward und peered into the vnse.
"Surely not not cremated, Mr. Hen
dricks!" lie gasped.
"That's about the size of it," retorted
tlie detective. He went to the door and
held it open. The clerk took the hint
and backed out of the room.
"Don't lay it to me if this gets out
sooner than you wish," lie said. "A
member of the detective force was
down there in citizen's clothes und
recognized you when you first came
in. He had heard of the remarks going
round about Mr. Caruthers' absence,
and seeing you on hand made him
more curious. He has Mr. Caruthcrs'
man down there now, asking him ques
tions. It seems fiothing has been seen
of Mr. Caruthers sinuc he had the row
with Mr. Arthur Glelow at the club."
Hendricks leaned against tho door
facing. "They had a row, eh?"
"That's the general report, sir."
"Did you hear what it was about?"
"Some dispute over a woman, 1
think."
"Who was the woman?"
"Miss Dorothy Huntington was the
name, 1 heard mentioned."
"All," broke in Lampkin, coming for
ward. "I remember "
Rut Hendricks was bowing to the
clerk and smiling, as if to denote that
tlie conversation were nt an cud.
TO Hi: CONTINUim.
Another IMirlsl nl I.itriyi'.
"What is yoiir objection to women's
clubs, profcs&or? Haven't they as good
a right to organize themselves into
clubs-for good fellowship, mutual en
tertainment or instruction as men
have?"
"Oh, yes, madain. I don't question
their right to do anything they please.
My objection to woinen'k clubs, if I have
any. Is that'iienrly all the club women
1 happen to bo acquainted with pro
nounce If progr'in."--CliIcago Tribune.
(Ilir.
Tom 1 will venture to say Unit there
Isn't one groat city in this country or
Uurope on whose MrevU the bicycle li
not a familiar sight.
Dlok-r-Tliere Isonu.
."WhatV" "
"Venice." Up.to.pule. ' '
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Cli'lim'K KulTl.nol( AVItli I'uvor Upon .lunjr
Lu, W'liii linn 111m Jliurt C'outtirml
t'pnn ('tun-plug tlin Tlirimc.
Port Townsend, Wash., .lunc SO.
According to advices brought from thn
orluiit, by nltuimship Oltnoglo, China
still continues, in a state. of uncertainly
which borders on revolution. Tho Chi
na Discussion says tho empress dowager
litis pinned her faith In Jung hit, who
for many years has Itad his mind and
heart centered on usurping tho throne,
lie has iif riirntl at court in the perxlnago
of one of tho chief eunuchs, through
whom ho has succeeded iu flutter
ing the empress dowager tosue.li an ex
tent that troops have been increased
and he lias been placed In command,
lie now believes himself invulnerable.
The empress dowager has been his
tool and tho general feeling now pre
vails that his next move will be to cast
her aside and place himself on tho
throne.
THEY HAD THE PLAGUE.
Tim Htruiiiiir Nippon Mum llronglit tha
1Ih-iim! from tho l-'ur Hunt llodlo
of Two A'lctlm CrimmtiMl.
San Francisco, June HO. Dr. Rubatii,
bacteriologist of the board of health,
has just returned u report of his ex
umiuutiouH of tho glands of the two
Japanese who were drowned wbilo
trying to escape from tho steamer Nip
pon Maru, now held in quarantine on
account of three suspicious deaths
which occurred on thu vessel on
her trip from China and Japan
to this port via Honolulu. Dr.
Rabutu found thu bacilli to bo
those of tho bubonic plague, and, to
maku his determination doubly sure,
will propagate their , -ow'th. Tin
bodies of theJapancsr TMiiutedi
ami uv. Lawler, tho luu7m,, '"VrSJvcf
this city, ntates that VM f,R' f ',&fvA,
,r,.i. r,t 111.. ,1IL.. .,... 1.....1 Rl-Ollklvil vlhV 1
ic disease bre '""Myn, W
every precui?1''" ehair ncaVf-.tff
prevent tmytp' part of his fX.
f,. w. ..u ...rv...nu MIW ".7
city, as
taken to
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1-" HCM lie wiiu nulo.V ,
Victoria,
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11 llT '"v.i iii nil- 1MI1V
.' himself. The lmrbeV
.XTlJ '"" .MiIh beard, nnd In.. A
cm, ui uie rucum.,. . ,, . l "1
returned from t , """" I,m'im' K'i!
that in the wutt,."" 1"111"""1 l""i "el
FlHplnosnroyof"""''- ,
against emerged . fJU
garrisoned bb' AND PRESENT. J-W
tcers, whohiv-'wY " JL
very erutyj'"l,l,l 'Yit'-xlelim l,oliij!-Av
of them Wift,nf rfiflfa '"'Dvecii
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(Remington's). They iwro, llbwt' t
nf tin! I'tntluiti'imil Ht.:it tllllfc IheiTv
will
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not yield to thu Americans, though thdv
who'lu of the Islands are destroyed.
Will Otln Kiii'i-kimI Algur?
Washington, June 110. It in said at
tho wMto Aiomiu) that Ue.il, Harrison
Gray Otis, who recently retdrneu from
Manila, will be a guest of tlie president
the last of thu week. It is reported
that the post of secretary of war will
be offered him. With the report is
coupled the statement that tho presi
dent will ask Secretary Alger to retiro
on account of the criticisms of thu ad
ministration by Gov. 1'ingreu in con
nection with the governor's support of
Secretary Alger for tlie Michigan scnur-
torshlp.
Agiiliuililo AVuutH Information.
Manila, June ill). One of thu most
prominent Filipinos living in Manila
yesterday morning received verbal in
structions directly from Aguinaldo,
who Is at Turkic, instructing him to
make the most complete report possible
of the situation in Manila, both politi
cal and military. This is capable of n
double interpretation. 1'osslbly Aguin
aldo desires to know what the chances
are In tho event of his surrender, or, it
is possible, that he wants to obtain in
formation as to whut places aio bring
ing produce into the country.
Help for Turiiiulo KnlTororH.
Hudson, Wis., June ilO. Chairman
IL Ingrain, of the New Richmond relief
committee, has issued an oillcial circu
lar to tho public us tho first fruits ol
their investigations. Thu circular
states that a careful estimate shows
the money loss from the tornado to be
STnO.OOU. Subscriptions thus far amount
to only about 580,000, u largo portion
of which has been spent in clearing
uwuy tlie debris and in lending tempo
rary assistance to tlie people.
Torrlliln Storm lit iHnrgiiiitown, AV. A'u.
Cincinnati, June iiO. A Morgautown,
W. Va., special says: A terrific storm
visited this section last night and
dozens of houses were unroofed. The
wind blew like a hurricane. A rain
full of several inches accompanied tlie
storm. Rrunsoiu Troy was struelc by
liirhtuiinr and killed. Tremendous
damage was done to crops of every de
scription. Rrldgcs were washed away
and roads nre linpussuble.
Kloviiii l-'niiil Wntury (jriivns.
Toledo, June ilO. ICleven lives were
lost by tho foundering of the stoum
barge Margaret 01 will in Lake Kriu
yesterday morning. Duncan Coylu, a
deckhand, whose residence is Port Hu
ron, is tho only survivor so fur ns1
known. llu wus rescued from
i th'
ur ti
wreckage after being in tho water
over four hours.
hlnw lllin lliiciiiimi Hit .Snoriiil.
Now York, Juno i)0.- Thu coron
jury brought in a verdict that'll;-'
J. Ramsey wus murdered by hlsl
while, she Wns temporarily iusutie
cut his throat und guvu us ii I'M
that he snored. As Mrs. Rumiiml
on her way auross the Hrldgo.uiu).
to the Tombs she attempted
u hatpin into her liucki
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