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PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. MONDAY, JUKE 23, 1914. PAGE 5. tJieHLlvmo MiMm Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Cbiapciiis - PROLOGUE. from an old southern family iu Amor- . , u . ica. and southerners pride themselves Readers of Tarzan of the upon thoir IoraltT... Apes" there were millions of ; xarznn spent the two fallowing them have he en awaiting with t weeks renewing lis former brief ne eagerness "The Return of Tar- j quainbinee with Paris. In tho daytime ssn." rzev need no introduc- j hnunted the liberie and picture . . . . . - i galleries. lie io.irne.l what he eouu. tion to the ape-man, who was j ,ui1 thiw Limst,lf into a on English lord by ancestry and j st;m.u for relaxation and amusement on inhabitant of the treetops by at night. Nor tl i.l ho 11ml Paris a fate until the same fate brought j whit less fertile held for his nocturnal him out and made him a civilized avocation. man after twenty years of life among the great apes of Africa. His adventures, as wonderful and interesting as any set forth in words, have been the center of interest in a story that is unique rii if s originality. i'Tow we have "The Return of Tarzan," as thrilling as its fore runner. In it ere told the fur ther adventures of the splendid ape-man, who at last wins his way to the side of his true love after facing countless perils by lend and sea. Whoever reed "Tarzan of the Apes" needs no invitation to peruse this story. Others are warr.cd that after they read this sequel io "Tarzan of the Apes" they won't be satisfied until they have reed that story also. CHAPTER 111. What Happened In the Rue Maule. t KT.T.. Tarzan. 4 we .... sua. I not quarrel over tne money. I must live, and so I must have it. but I more contented with some- f hall be thin? to do. You cannot shovr me Tunr friendship i:i a more convincing manner than to rind e:i:p ovae-nt for me. I shall die uf innccivi'y in a short vvhiie. As for my birthright, it is in pood hands. Clayton i nt guilty of robbing me of it- lie truly believes that he is the real Lord Groystoke. and the chances are that he will make a Letter English lord than a man whe was born and raised in an African jungle. You know that I am but half civilized even now. Let me see red in auzer but for a moment, and all the in stincts uf the savage be.nt that I real ly am submerge what little I possess of the milder ways of culture and re finement. "And then again had I declared my self I should have robbed the woman 1 love of the wealth and position that Ler marriage to Clayton will now in sure her. I could not hav? djee that could I. Paul? "Xor is the matter of birth of great Importance to me." he went on with out v. aitinz for a reply. "Raised v. a I J hava been, I see no worth in man cr Least that is nut theirs by virtue of their own mental or physical prowess, and so I am as happy to think of Kala as my mother a I would be t try and picture the poor, unhappy little Eng lish girl who pisvtd away a year after she !ore me. K;U.- was always kind to me in her fierce and savag-? way. I must have nursed at her hairy breast from the time that my own mother died. She fought for me against the wild denizens of the forest and against the savage members of our tribe with the ferocity of real mother love. "And I on my part loved her. Paul. I did not realize how much until after the enrol spear and the poisoned arrow of Mbonga's black warrior had stolen her away from me. I was still a child when that occurred, and 1 threw my self upon her dead body and wept out my anguish as a child mizht for his own mother. To you. my friend, she v-oirld have appeared a hideous and n;r!y crefltnre, but to me she was bean tifiil. so gloriously does love transfig ure its object And so I am perfectly content to remain forever the son of Kala. the she ape, who reared me after my own mother died." "I do not admire you the less for your loyalty." said D'Arnot, "but the time will come when you will be glad to claim your own. You must bear in mind that Professor Porter and Mr. Philander are the only people in the world who can swear that the little skeleton found in the cabin with those j of your father and mother was tuat oi an infant anthropoid aie and not the offspring, of Lord and Lady Greystoke. That evidence is most important. They are both old men. They may not live many years longer. And then did it not occur to you that once Miss. Por ter knew the truth she would break her engagement with Clayton? - You niUbt easily hive your title, your es tates and the woman you love, Tar - i,.,l,t f flint? ' zan. iiaa you uui luvuj-i". T-i rf -i ii dinnk his head. "You do rot kiiow her." he sail. .tOlUiJip. ."- bind her closer to her bargain than w ome misfortune to Clayton. tne is lie was sitting in a music hall one evening sipping his absinth and ad- ! miring the art of a certain famous Uussian dancer when he caught a pass ing glimpse of a pair of evil black eyes upon him. He had had the un- j canny foelimr for some time that he j was being watched, and it was in re- j spouse to this animal instinct that was j strong within him that he had turned j suddenly and surprised the eyes in the very act of watching him. j Before he left the music hall the ! matter had been forgotten, nor did he j notice the swarthy individual who j stepped deeper into the shadows of an j opposite d orway as Tarzan emerged j from the brilliantly lighted amusement j hall. ; As he turned in the direction he was j accustomed to taking from this part of j Paris to his apartments the watcher across the street ran from his hiding j place and hurried on ahead at a rapid j pace. ! Tarzan hnd been wont to traverse the Rue Maule on Lis way home at i I night- r.ecause it was very quiet and very dark it reminded him more cf his j beloved African jungle than did the j noisy and garish streets surrounding it. i If you are familiar with your Paris you will recall the narrow, forbidding : precincts of the Hue Maule. If you ; are not you need but ask the police i about it to learn that in all Paris there j Is r.o street to which you should give i a wider berth after dark. j On this niaht Tarzan had gone two I squares through the dense shadows of the squalid old tenements which line j this dismal way when he was attract- ; ed ly scre:!;:!s :r. cries for help from the third floor of an opposite building. The voice was a woman's. P.efore the echoes of her first cries had died Tar ran was bounding up the stairs and through the dark corridors to her res cue. At the end of the corridor on the third landing a door stood slightly ajar, and from within Tarzan heard again the same appeal that had lured him from the street. Another instant found him in the center of a dimly lighted room. An oil lamp burned upon a high, old fashioned mantel, casting its dim rays over a dozen repulsive figures. All but one were men. The other was a woman of about thirty, ner face, mark :-d by low passions and dissipa tion, might once have been lovely. She stood with one hand at her throat, crouching against the farther wall. "Iltlp. monsieur." she cried in n low voice as Tarzan entered the room: "they were killing me." As Tarzan turned toward the men about hi:n he saw the crafty, evil faces of habitual criminals. He wondered that they had made no effort to escape. A movement behind caused him to turn. Two things his eyes saw, and one of them caused him considerable wonderment. A man was sneaking stealthily from the room, and iu the brief glance that Tarzan had of him he saw that It was Kokoff. But the other thing that he saw was of more immediate interest. It was n great brute of a fellow tiptoeing upon him from behind with a huge bludgeon in his hand, and then as the man and Ms confederates saw that he was dis covered there was n concerted rash upon Tarzan from all sides. Some of the men drew knives, others picked up chairs, while the fellow with the bludg eon raised it high above his head in a ruighty swing that would have crushed Tarzan's. head had it ever descended upon it. Dut the brain and the agility and the muscles that had coped with the mighty strength and cruel craftiness of Sabor and Noma in the fastness of their savage jungle were not to be so easily subdued as these apaches of Paris had believed. Selecting his most formidable antago nist, the fell w with the bludgeou. Tar zan charged full upon him. dodging the falling weapon and catching the man a ten ift" blow on t ho ioint of the c hin thrtt felled him in his tracks. Then he turned uion the others. This: wa sport. He was reveling in the joy of battle and the lust of Mood. At the end of the corridor without stood Ib kofT. waiting the outcome; of " t .1 - TI.. r-I I. ...I r civ.-. , ....,.. I.,! I.,, 1 was not a part of his plan to be ooe of j those within tlte room when the mur der occurred. The woman Mill stood where she had when Tarzau entered, but her face had undergone a number of changes with the few ininuies which had elapsed. From the "semblance of distress which it had worn when Tarzan first saw it it had changed to one of craftiness as he had wheeled to meet the attack from behind: but the change Tarzan had not seen. I-nter an expression of surprise and then one of horror superseded the oth ers. And who may wonder. For the immaculate gentleman her cries had hired to what was to have been his death had been suddenly metamor phosed into a demon of revenge. In stead of soft muscles and a weak re sistance she was looking Uon a veri table Hercules gone mad. "Mn Dieii!" she cried. "He is a beast!" for the stronsr. white teeth of the ape-man had found the throat of -rc: HI I vmmm &0 '0f 6 f v He Was In a Dozen Places at Once. one of his assailants, and Tarzan fought as he had learned to fight with the great bull aies of the tribe of Ker chak. He was in a dozen places at once, leaping hither and thither about the room iu sinuous bounds that reminded the woman of a panther she had seen at the zoo. Now a wrist bone snapped in his irin grip, now a shoulder was wrenched from Its socket as he forced a victim's arm backward and upward. With shrieks of pain the men escaied into the hallway as quickly as they could, but even before the first one staggered, bleeding and broken, from the room Itokoff had seen enough to convince him that Tarzan would not be the one to lie dead in that house this night, and so the Pussian had has tened to a nearby den and telephoned the jxj'.ice that a man was committing murder on tne third tloor of Hue Manic. 27. When the oilicers arrived they found three men groaning on the floor, a frightened woman lying upon a filthy bed, her face buried in her arms, and what appeared to be a well dressed young gentleman standing in the cen ter of the room awaiting the re-enforcements which he hail thought the footsteps of the officers hurrying up the stairway had announced, but they were mistaken iu the last. It was a wild beast that looked upon them through those narrowed lids and steel grry eyes. V.'ith the smell of blood the last vestige of civilization had desert ed Tarzan. and now he stood at bay. like a lion surrounded by hunters, awaiting the next overt act and crouch ing to charge its author. "What has happened here?" asked one of the policemen. Tarzan explained briefly, but when he turned to the woman for confirma tion of his statement he was appalled by her reply. "He lies! she screamed shrilly, ad dressing the policemen. "He came to my room while 1 was alone, and for no good purpose. When I repulsed him he would have killed me had not my screams attracted these gentlemen, who were passing the house at the time. He is a devil, monsieurs. Alone he ha all but killed ten men with his hare hands and his teeth." So shocked was Tarzan by her in gratitude that for a moment he was truck dumb. The police were. inclined to be a little skeptical, for they had had other dealings with this same lady and her lovely coterie of gentle men friends. However, they were po licemen, not judges, so they decided to place all the inmates of tin? room un der arrest and let another, whose busi ness it was, separate the innocent from the guilty. Hut they found that it was one thing to tell this well dressed young man that lie was under arrest, but quite another to enforce it. One of them advanced to lay his hand upon Tar zan's shoulder. An instant later he lay crumpled in a corner of the room, and then, as his comrades rushed in uion the ape-man, they experienced a taste of what the apaches had but re cently gone through. So qu'.-fcly and so roughly did he handle them that they had not even an opportunity to draw their revolvers. During the brief fight Tarzan had noted the open window and lKyond the tte:n of a tree or a telegraph pole, he could not tell which. As the last offi cer went down one of his fellows suc ceeded in drawing his revolver and from where he lay oa the floor fire4 at r. r Tarzan. The shot missed, and before the man could fire again Tarzan had swept the lamp from the mantel and plunged the room in darkness. The next they saw was a lithe form spring to the sill of the open window add leap panther-like on to the pole across the walk. When the police gathered themselves together and reached the street their prisoner was nowhere to be seen. They did not handle the woman and the men who had not escaped any too gently when they took them to the sta tion. Tbey were a very sore and hu miliated detail of police. The officer who had remained in the street swore that no one had leaped from the window or left the building from the time they entered until they had come out. His comrades thought that lie lied, but they could not prove it. When Tarzan found himself clinging to the pole outside the window he fol lowed his jungle instinct and looked below for enemies before he ventured down. It was well he did, for just beneath him stood a policeman. Above Tarzan saw no one, so he went up in stead of down. The top of the pole was opposite the roof of the building. So it was but the work of an instant for the muscles that had for years sent him hurtling through the treetops of his primeval forest to carry him across the little space between the pole and the roof. From one building he went to another, aud so on. with much climbing, until at a cross street he discovered another pole, down which he ran to the ground. For a square or two he ran swiftly. Then he turned into a little all night cafe and in" the lavatory removed the evidences of his overroof promenade from hands and clothes. When he emerged a few moments later it was to saunter slowly on toward his apart ments. Not far from them he came to a well lighted boulevard which it was neces sary to cross. As he stood directly be neath a brilliant arc light, waiting for a limousine that was approaching to pass him. he heard his name called in a sweet feminine voice. Looking up. he met the smiling eyes of Olga de Coude as she leaned forward upon the back seat of the machine. He bowed very low in response to her friendly greeting. When he straightened up the machine had borne her away. "RokooT and the Countess de Coude both in the same evening." he solilo quized; "Paris is not so large, after nil." CHAPTER IV. The Countess Explains. OUIl P; V than Jt Paul OUIl Paris is more dangerous my savage jungles, concluded Tarzan, after narrating his adven tures to his friend the morning fol lowing his encounter with the apaches and police in the Hue Maule. "Why did they lure me there? Were they hungry?" IVArnot feigned a horrified shudder, but he laughed at the quaint sugges tion. "Weli." said he, "among other things it has taught you what I have been unable to impress upon you,' that the Rue Maule is a good place to avoid after dark." "On the contrary, replied Tarzan with a smile, "it has convinced me that it is the one worth while street in all Paris. Never again shall I miss an opportunity to traverse it, for It has given me the first real entertainment I have had since I left Africa." "It may give you more than you will relish even without another visit, said D'Arnot. "You are not through with the police yet. remember. I know the Paris police well enough to assure you that they will not soon forget what yon did to them. Sooner or later they will get you. my dear Tarzan. and then they will lock the wild man of the woods up behind iron bars. How will you like that?" "They will never lock Tarzan of the Apes behind irou bars." replied he grimly. There was something in the man's voice as he said it that caused D'Arnot to look up sharply at his friend. What he saw in the set jaw and the cold, gray eyes made the young Frenchman very apprehensive for this great child, who could recognize no law mightier than his own mighty physical prowess. He saw that some thing must be done to set Tarzan right with the police before another encoun ter was possible. "Y'ou have much to learn, Tarzan," he said gravely. "The law of man must be respected whether you relish It or no. Nothing but trouble can come to you and your friends should you persist in defying the police. I can explain it to them once for you. and that I shall do this very day, but hereafter you must obey the law. If its representatives say, 'Corner you must come; if they say. 'Go! you must go. Now we shall go to my great friend in the department and fix up this matter of the Rue Manle. Come!" Together they entered the office of the police official a half hour later. He was very cordial. He remembered Tarzan' from the visit the two had made him several months prior In the matter of the finger prints. Having heard Tarzan's story, he assured him that no harm would come to him from the police as a result of his night's ad venture. On their return to' D'Arnot's apart ments the lieutenant found a letter awaiting: him frouran1 English friend. William Cecil Clayton. -Lord Grey stoke. The two had maintained a cor respondence since the birth of their friendship on that 111 fated expedition in search of Jane Porter t after her theft by Terkoz. the bull ape. from whom she had been rescued by Tar Kan. "They are to be married in London In about two months," said D'Arnot as he completed his perusal of the let ter. Tarzan did not need to be told who was meant by "they." He made no reply, but he was very quiet and thoughtful during the balance of the day. That evening they attended the jpera. Tarzan's mind was still occu pied by his gloomy thoughts. He paid little or no attention to what was transpiring upon the stage. Instead, he saw only the lovely vision of a beautiful American girl and heard naught but a sad, sweet voice ac knowledging that his love was return ed. And she was to marry another! lie shook himself to be rid of his un welcome thoughts, and at the same in stant he felt eyes upon him. With the instinct that was his by virtue of train ing he looked up squarely into the eyes that were looking at him to find that they were shining from the smil ing face of Olga, Countess de Coude. As Tarzan returned her bow he was positive that there was an invitation in her look, almost a plea. The next intermission found him be side her in her box. "I have so much wished to see you," she was saying. "It has troubled me not a little to think that after the serv ices you rendered to both my husband and myself no adequate explanation was ever made you of what must have seemed Ingratitude on our part in not taking the necessary steps to prevent a repetition of the attacks upon us by those two men." "You wrong me," replied Tarzan. "My thoughts of you have been ouly the most pleasant. You must not feel that any explanation is due me. Have they annoyed you further?" "Tbey never cease," she replied sad ly. "I feei that I must tell some one, and I do not know another who so de serves an explanation as you. Yon must permit me to do so. It may be of service to you. for I know Nikolas Rokoff quite well enough to be posi tive that you have not seen the last of him. lie will find some means to be revenged upon yon. I cannot tell you here, but tomorrow I shall be at home to M. Tarzan at 5." "It will be an eternity until tomor row at 5." he said as he bade her good night. From a corner of the theater Rokoff and Paulvitch saw M. Tarzau in the box of the Countess de Coude, and both men smiled. At 4:30 the following afternocn a swarthy, bearded man rang the bell at the servants entrance of the palace of the Count de Coude. The footman who opened the door raised his eyebrows in recognition as he saw who stood with out A low conversation passed be tween the two. At first the footman demurred from some proposition that the bearded one made, but an instant later something passed from the hand of the caller to the hand of the servant. Then the lat ter turned and led the visitor by a roundabout way to a little curtained alcove off the apartment in which the countess was wont to serve tea of an afternoon. A half hour later Tarzan was usher ed into the room, and presently his hostess entered, smiling, and with out stretched hands. For a few moments they spoke of the opera, of the topics that were-then occupying the attention of Taris. of the pleasure of renewing their brief ac quaintance which had had its inception under such odd circumstances, and this brought them to the subject that was uppermost in the minds of both. "Y'ou must have wondered," said the countess finally, "what the object of Rokoff's persecution could be. It is very simple. The count is Intrusted with many of the vital secrets of the ministry of war. He often has in his possession papers that foreign powers would give a fortune to possess se crets of state that their agents would commit murder and worse than mur der to leam. "There is such a matter now in his possession that would make the fame and fortune of any Russian who could divulge it to his government. Rokoff and Paulvitch are Russian spies. They will stop at nothing to procure this in formation. The affair cn the liner I mean the matter of the card game was for the purpose of blackmailing the knowledge they seek from my hus band. "Had he been convicted of cheating at cards his career would have been blighted. He would have had to leave the war department. He would have been socially ostracized. They intend ed to hold this club over him the price of an avowal on their part that the count was but the victim of the plot of enemies who wished to besmirch his name was to have beeu the papers they seek. "You thwarted them in this. Then they concocted the scheme whereby my reputation was to be the price in stead of the count's. Was it not too horrible? But I happened to know something of M. Faulvitch that would send him to the gallows in Russia if it were known by the police of St. Pe tersburg. I dared him to carry out his plan and then 1 leaned toward him and whispered a name in his ear. Like that" and she snapped her fingers "he flew at my throat as a madman, lie would have tilled me had you not interfered." "The brutes!" muttered Tarzan. "Why do you not turn the scoundrels over to the authorities? They should make quick work of them." v She? hesitated for a moment before replying. . "There are two reasons." she said finally. "One of them it is that keeps trtp-cornt from dojngjthat very thing. The other, my real reason for fearing to expose them, I have never told ! only Rokoff and I know it. I wonder why it Is that I want to teil you the thing that I have not dared tell even to my husband. I bebeve that you would understand and that you could tell me the right course to follow. I believe that you would not judge me too harshly." "I fear that I should prove a very poor judge, madame," Tarr-an replied, "for if you had been guilty of murder I should say that the victim should be grateful to have met so sweet a fate." "Oh, dear, no," she expostulated. "It is not so terrible as that. But first let me tell you the reason the count has for not prosecuting these men: then, if I can hold my courage. I shall tell you the real reason that I dare not. The first is that Nikolas Rokoff is my broth er. We are Russians. Nikolas has been a bad man since I can remember, lie was cashiered from the Russian army, in which he held a captaincy. There was a terrible scandal for a time, but after awhile it was partially forgotten and my father obtained a po sition for him in the secret service. "There have been many terrible crimes laid at Nikolas' door, but be has always managed to escape punish ment. Of late he has accomplished it by trumped up evidence convicting his victims of treason against the czar, and the Russian police, who are cl-. ways only too ready to fasten guilt of this nature cpon any and all. Lave accepted his version and exonerated him." "IIave not his attempted crimes against you and your husband forfeit ed whatever rights the bonds of kin ship might have accorded him?" asked Tarzan. "The fact that you are his sister has not deterred him from seek ing to besmirch your honor. You owa him no loyalty, madame." "Ah, but there is that other renson. If I owe him no loyalty, though he bo my brether, I cannot so easily diroivow the fear I hold him In because of a certain episode in my life of which ha is cognizant. "I might as well tell you all." sb? resumed after a pause, "for I see that it is in my heart to tell you sooner or later. I was educated in a convent. While there I met a man whom I sup posed to be a gentleman. I knew lit tle or nothing about men and less about love. I got It into ray foolish head that I loved this man. and at li!s urgent request I ran away with him. We were to have been married. "I was with him just three hours all In the daytime and in public p!ace3 railroad stations and upon a train. When we reached cur destination, where we were to have been married, two officers stepped up to my escort c.3 we descended from the train and placed him under arrest. They tock me also, but when I had told my Etory they did not detain me, other than to send me back to the convent under the care of a matron. It seemed that the man who had wooed me was no gen tleman atail, but a. deserter from the army as well as a fugitive from civil justice. Ho had a police record in nearly every country in Europe. "The matter was hushed up by the authorities of the convent. Not even my parents knew of it. But Nikolas met the man afterward and learned the whole story. Now he tnrearenj to tell the count if I do not do just as ho wishes me to." Tarzan laughed. "You are still Lut a little girl. The story that you have told me cannot reflect in any way upon your reputation, and were you not a little girl at heart you would know it. Go to your husband tonight and tell him the whole story just as you have told It to me. Unless I am much mi3- She Found Herself Face to Face With Nikolas Rokoff. taken he will laugh at you for your fears and take immediate steps to put that precious brother of yours ia pris on, where be belongs." "I only wish that I dared," she said, "but I am afraid." As Tarzan was leaving her a short time later he wondered a liltle at tha clinging pressure of her hand at part ing and the firm insistence with whi'-h she exacted a promise from h!m thit he would call again on the morrow. As the countess turned back into the room after larzans departure she found herself face to face with Niko las Kokoff. . "How long have you been here?" she cried, shrinking away from him. "Since before your lover came," he answered with a nasty leer. "Stop!" she commanded. "Uow dare you say such a thing to me vour sis ter!" "Well, my dear Olga. if ho is not roar lover nocept my apologies, but It Is no fault of yours that te is not" Tbe woman put her bands to her ears. "I will not listen. You are wicked to say such things as that. No matter what you may threaten me with, you know that I am a good woman. After tonight you will not dare to annoy me, for I shall tell Raoul nil. lie will un derstand, and then, M. Nikolas, be ware!" "You shall tell him nothing." said Rokoff. "I have this affair n w, and with the help of one of your servants whom I may trust it will lack nothing in the telling when the time comes that the details of the sworn evidence shall be poured into your husband's ears. The other affair served its pur pose well. We now have something tangible to work on. Olga. A real af fairand you a trusted wife. Shame, Olga!" And the brute laughed. So the countess told her count noth ing, and matters were worse than they had been. From a vague fear her mind was transferred to a very tangi ble one. It may be, too, that con science helped to enlarge it out of all proportions. (To Be Continued.) HARVEST HANDS ARE BADLY HEEDED BY THE . NEBRASKA FARMERS The great scarcity if men i ail in handling I lie :!"!-muis wheat li;ne-t of Xrbra-ka i- be ing fell in eefv eelin 'f Hie tnte nml in this cminfy the de mand f.r men to win!, in Ihe lieM i glowing as the farmer-; sla:l in n the wheat liarve-f. Tho IUirlington railroad lias attempted to aid the farmers of the oiitli western part of the -tate on the St. Francis and Ohotlin branches of that i"ad by endinir opt circu lars to the dittV't-enf ajr-'tiN of the company in localities wln-re jt is possible to secure men for the work. Two hundred men a'e !" sired in the Obulin 1 i 1 1 - i ( where good wages and board will furnished to the meu. 'I here are a larg number of men traoing oer the country who tiiht shy of an opportunity to labor that should b drafted into r ire in a-sj-if in the wheat harvc -I in the different seel ion of the country. Will Reside Here. Mis km a Marl in and Mr. Tred Hesse were married Wednesday at .'5:.'0 p. m. at the home of the bride's parents. Mr. and Mr. C II. Martin, 1800 M sheet, ao. lock. The Hoy. C. M. Shi pherd ..f Lincoln officiated. Only a small company of relative" wi'iv present at the wedding. The bride ha lived in lfaveloek most of her life. The groom formerly Ii.-d there, but now reside at Hal f -inoiil Ii. He and his bride left last eenip' for l'bittsmout Ii. where their home i all ready for occupancy. Lincoln Slate Journal. FIRST SOCIALIST TO FILE FOR OFFICE AT THE PRIMARY ELECTION The first tiling for lb" piini.ii election on the ocjalisl licket ha made its' appearance at the op.ife of the county clerk, wln"i the name of II. I. Stir f I'limn wa tiled for the othYe of roi:nf com missioner from the second com missioner district, which coin prises Liberty. Xehawka. Avium, Mt. Pleasant. Center and Louis ville precincts. Mr. Sline is a farmer, residing northeast of I nion, and is quite well known throughout the southern part of the county. So far there ha been only two other lilum-. for this oll'ico. County Commissioner Heebner. a republican. In-mir a candidate for re-eject i. n to tliat ollice, and F. W. Youn- of 1'iiioti is a democratic candidate for the p sil ion. Take Plenty of Time to Eat. 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