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• * The Mystery of a Silent love • • dKhevafer WILLIAM IE QUEUX ‘ U AUTHOR “THE CLOBED BOCK," ETC ILLUSTRATIONS fy C D RHODE5 CT3**r**c#r or r*c smart s/t n/ausR/x> co SYNOPSIS. i Gordon Oregg Ik called upon In Leg horn by Hornby. Hie yacht l-ola’a owner, sad doling aboard with him and his frrrr.d, Hylton Fhater. accidentally sees a torn photograph of a young girl. That nigh' lh< . onsuj’K aafe Is robbed. The |»dt e hnd that Hornby Is a fraud and the leda’s name a fals. one Gregg vis its C’apt Jack Purnford of the marines aboard hi* vessel. Purnford knows, but will not reveal, the mystery of the I*nla. "It concerns a woman.” In London Orrgg is trapped nearly to Ms death by a former servant. Olinto. Visiting in PamfHes Gregg meets Muriel Lelthcourt. Hornby appears and Muriel introduces him as Martin Woodroffe. her father’s friend Gregg finds that she is engaged to Woodroffe Gregg sees a copy of the tort, photograph on the Lola and finds thai the young girl Is Muriel’s friend. Woodruffe disappears. Gregg discovers the body of a murdered woman in Kan noeh wood The body disappears and in Its place is found the body of Olinto. Gregg talks to the police but conceals his own knowledge of the woman. Muriel rails secretly on Gregg and tells him that alie Is certain that a woman as well as a man lias been murdered. They search Ran no. h wood together, and find the b*«5> of the woman Gregg recognizes her as Artnida. Olli to's wife Gregg tells the police, but when they go to the wood the body has ills appeared. In London Gregg meet* Olinto. alive and well. Fall ing lo get any clue from Olinto, Gregg traces the young girl of the torn photo graph CHAPTER VIII—Continued. “Well, the last I received only a fortnight ago If you will wait a mo ment I will go and get it. It was so a* ran go that I haven’t destroyed it.” Asd she went out. and I heard by the the frou-frou of her skirts that she • as ascending the stairs After live* minutes of breathless anxi ety she rejoined me. and handing me the letter to read, said: “It is not in her handw riting—I von der why?" The paper was of foreign make, with blue lines ruled in squares. Written la a hand that was evidently foreign, for the mistakes in the orthography were many, was the following curious communication M. I war Lydia: Perhaps you mar never c*-t this letter— the last I shall ever be able to send you. Indeed I run great risks in sending it. Ah’ you do r> t lit...v Che awful disaster that has happ-ned to tne. ail the terrors at.J t’ *• torture* 1 endure But no one can a**.»t me. an.i I am now looking forward lo the time when It will ail be over. Po you re. ol’.e : our old p.-a. ful days in the garden at Chichester? 1 think of them always always, and compare that sweet pva e of the past with my own terrible •offering* of today. Ah. how I wish I •“****• ere- you once again: how that 1 imght fee* your hand upon my brow, and bear y..ur words of hop*, and encourage ment' Bat happiness is now debarred from me. and I am only sinking to the grave under this slow tort are of body and >f soul. ’This Will pass through many hands be fore it reaches the post If. however, it Hter does get dispatched and you receive It. will you do m- one last favor—a favor to an unfortunate girl who is friendless and !»■dpi* ss. and who will no longer trou ble the World’ I; Is this Take this let ter to te ndon, and call pon Mr. Martin Woodroffe at ** Cork street. Piccadilly, ■bow him my letter, and tell him from we that through it all 1 have kept my promt**”. and that the secret Is still safe He will understand md also know why I run not write ttd* with m> ,,vn j,an<j ’ he t* abroad, keep It until he returns. It Is all I ask of you. Lvdia. and I Vnow that If this reaches you. you will •™* refuse nie. You have been my only friend ami confidante, but l now bid you fsrew. ll. for the utikr. au be kons me. and from ft • grave I cannot write. Again farewell, and for ever. Your loving and affectionate friend. ELMA. 'A very strange letter, is it not?" re marked the girl at my side. “I can’t make it out. You see there Is no ad dress. but the postmark is Russian. She is evidently in Russia." ‘ In Finland." I said, examining the •'amp and making out the post town to be Abo "But have you been to Lon don and executed this strange commis sion?" \'o We are going up next week. I Intend to call upon this person named Woodroffe." I made no remark He was. I knew, thmad. but 1 was glad at having ob tained two irrv important clues: first, U;e address of the mysterious yachts man. Woodroffe. alias Hornby, and. •rs oiidly ascertaining that the young girl 1 sought was somewhere' in the vicinity of the town of Abo. the Fin nish port on the Baltic Boor Lima, you see. speaks in her letter of some secret. Mr. Gregg. ' ray companion »aid. "She says she wishes this Mr Woodroffe. whoever he is. to know that she has kept her promise and has not divulged it. This only bears out wliat 1 have all along sus pected ” ‘ What are your suspicions?" Well, from her deep, thoughtful manner, and from certain remarks she at times made to me. I believe Elma t» m possession of some great and ter rible secret—a secret which her uncle, Baron Oberg. is desirous of learning. I know she holds him in deadly fear— she is in terror that she may inadver tently betray to him the truth!” CHAPTER IX. Strange Disclosures Are Made. The strange letter of Elma Heath, combined with what Lydia Moreton had told me. aroused within ms a de termination to investigate the mystery. From the moment I had landed from the Lola on that hot. breathless night at Leghorn, mystery had crowded upon mystery unti' L was all bewildering. Had it notjaeen for the mystery of it all—and mystery ever arouses the hu man curiosity—I should have given up trying to get at the truth. Yet as a man with some leisure, and knowing by that letter of Elma Heath's that she was in sore distress. I redoubled my efforts to ascertain the reason of it all. On leaving Leghorn 1 had given up all hope of tracing the mysterious yachtsman and had left the matter in the hands of the Italian police. But. without any effort on my own part, I seemed to have been drawn into a ver itable network of strange incidents, all ---- "It Is Not in Her Handwriting—I Won der Why?" of which combined to form the most complete and remarkable enigma ever presented in life. Those September days were full of anxiety for me. Alone and unaided I was trying to solve one of the greatest of problems, plunged as I was in a veritable sea of mystery. I wanted to see Muriel Leitheourt, and to question her further regarding Elma Heath. Therefore again I left Euston and. traveling through the night, took my seat at the breakfast table at Green law next morning Sir George, who was sitting alone— it not being my aunt's habit to appear early—welcomed me, and then in his bluff manner sniffed and exclaimed: “Nice goings on up at Rannoeh! Have you heard of them?” "No What?” I cried breathlessly, staring at him "Well, it's a very funny story, and there are a dozen different distorted versions of it," he said. “But, from what I can gather the true facts are these: About seven o'clock the night before last, as Leitheourt and his house party were dressing for dinner, a tele gram arrived. Mrs. Leitheourt opened it and at once went off into hysterics, while her' husband, in a breathless hurry, slipped off his evening clothes again and got into an old blue serge suit, tossed a few things into a bag, and then went along to Muriel's room to urge her to prepare for secret flight." “Flight!" I gasped. "What, have ' they gone?” “Listen, and I’ll tell you. The serv ants have described the whole affair down in the village, so there’s no doubt about it. Leitheourt showed Muriel | the telegram and urged her to fly. At first she refused, but for her father’s sake was induced to prepare to accom pany him. Of course, the guests were in ignorance of all this. The brougham was ordered to be ready in the stable yard and not to go round, while Mrs. Lelthcourt's maid tried to bring the lady back to her senses. Leithcourt himself, it seemed, rushed hither and thither, seizing the jewel cases of his wife and daughter and whatever valu ables he could place his hand upon, while the mother and daughter were putting on their things. As he rushed down, the main staircase to the library, where his check book and some ready cash were locked in the safe, he met a stranger who had Just been admitted and shown into the room. Leithcourt closed the door and faced him. What afterward transpired, however, is a mystery, for two hours later, after he and the two women had escaped, leav ing the house party to their own divert sions. the stranger was found locked in a large cupboard and insensible. The sensation was a tremendous one. Cowan, the doctor, w-as called, and de clared that the stranger had been drugged and was suffering from some narcotic. The servant who admitted him declared that the man had said he had an appointment with his master and that no card was necessary. He. however, gave the name of Chater." “Chater!” I cried, starting up. "Are you certain of that name?” "I only know what Cowan told me,” was my uncle's reply. "But do you know- him?” ''Not at all. Only I've heard that name before.” I said. “I knew a man out in Italy of the same name. But where is the visitor now?" "In the hospital at Dumfries. They took him there in preference to leav ing him alone at Rannoch.” “Alone?" “Of course. Everyone has left, now the host and hostess have slipped off without saying good-by. Scandalous affair, isn’t it? But, my boy, you'll re member that I always said I didn't like those people. There's something mysterious about them, I feel certain. That telegram gave them warning of the visit of the man Chater. depend upon it, and for some reason they're afraid of him. It would be interesting to know- what transpired between the two men in the library. And these are people who’ve been taken up by every body—mere adventurers, 1 should call them!” And old Sir George sniffed again at thought of such scandal hap pening in the neighborhood. "If Gilrae must let Rannoch, then why in the name of Fortune doesn't he let it to respectable folk and not to the first fellow who answers his advertisement in the Field? It’s simply disgraceful!” “Certainly it is a most extraordinary story," I declared. “Leithcourt evi dently wished to escape from his vis itor. and that's why he drugged him.” “Why he poisoned him, you mean. Cowan says the fellow is poisoned, but that he'll probably recover He is al ready conscious, I hear.” 1 resolved to call on the doctor, who happened to be well known to me. and obtain further particulars. Therefore at eleven o'clock I drove into Dum fries and entered his consulting room. He was a spare, short, fair man. a trifle bald, and when I was shown in he welcomed me warmly, speaking with his pronounced Galloway accent. “Well, it is a very mysterious case, Mr. Gregg." he said, after I had told him the object of my visit. "The gentle man is still at the hospital, and I have to keep him very quiet, fie was poi soned without a doubt and has had a very narrow escape of his life. The police got wind of the affair and Mac kenzie called to question him. But he refused to make any statement what ever. apparently treating the affair very lightly. The police, however, are mystified as to the reason of Mr. Leith court's sudden flight, and are very anx ious to get at the bottom of the curious affair.” “Naturally. And more especially after the tragedy up in Rannoch wood a short tim? ago,” I said. “That's just it,” said the doctor, re moving his pince-nez and rubbing them. “Mackenzie seems to suspect some connection between I.eithcourt's sudden disappearance and that mys terious affair. It seems very evident that the telegram was a warning to Leithcourt of the man ChateV’s inten tion of calling, and that the last-named was shown in just at the moment when the fugitive was on the point of leaving.” Knowing all that I did, I was not sur prised. Leithcourt had undoubtedly taken him unawares, but knights of in dustry never betray each other. My next visit was to Mackenzie, for whom I had to wait nearly an hour, as he was absent in another quarter of the town. “Ah, Mr. Gregg:" he cried gladly, as he came in to find me seated in a chair patiently reading the newspaper. “You are the very person I wish to see. Have you heard of this strange affair at Rannoch?” "I have,” was my answer. “Has the man in the hospital made any state ment yet?” “None. He refuses point blank." an swered the detective. “But my own idea is that the affair has a very close connection with the two mysteries of the wood.” “The first mystery—that of the man —proves to be a double mystery," I said. “How? Explain it." “Well, the waiter Olinto Santini is alive and well in London." “What!” he gasped, starting up. “Then he is not the person you identi fied him to be?” “No. But he was masquerading as Santini—made up to resemble him, I mean, even to the mole upon his face." “But you identified him positively?" “When a person Is dead it is very easy to mistake countenances. Death alters the countenance so very much.” “That's true,” he said reflectively. “But if the man we’ve buried is not the Italian, then the mystery is con siderably increased. Why was the real man’s wife here?” “And where has her body been con cealed? That’s the question.” “Again a mystery. We have made a thorough search for four days, without discovering any trace of it. Quite con fidentially, I’m wondering if this man Chater knows anything. It is curious, to say the least, that the Lelthcourts should have fled so hurriedly on this man’s appearance. But have you ac tually seen Olinto Santini?” “Yes. and have spoken with him.” “I sent up to London asking that in quiries should be made at the res taurant in Bayswater, but up to the present 1 have received no report.” “I have chatted with Olinto. His wife has mysteriously disappeared, but he is in ignorance that she is dead." “There is widespread conspiracy here, depend upon it, Mr. Gregg. It will be an interesting case when we Leithcourt Closed the Door, and Faced Him. get to the bottom of it all. I only wish this fellow (.'hater would tell us the reason he called upon Leithcourt.” "What does he say?” "Merely that he has no wish to prosecute, and that he has no state ment to make.” "Can't you compel him to say some thing?" I asked. "No. I can’t. That's the infernal difficulty of it. If he don't choose to speak, then we must still remain in ignorance, although I feel confident that he knows something of the strange affair up in the wood.” And although 1 was silent. 1 shared the Scotch detective's belief. The afternoon was chill and wet as I climbed the hill to Greenlaw. The sudden disappearance of the tenants of Rannoch was. 1 found, on everyone's tongue in Dumfries. In the smoke room of the railway hotel three men were discussing it with many grimaces and sinister hints, and the talkative young woman behind the bar asked me my opinion of the strange goings-on up at the castle. I decided that the man who had smoked and chatted with me so affably on that hot. breathless night in the Mediterranean must remain in ignorance of my pres ence, or of my knowledge. Therefore 1 stayed for a week at Greenlaw with eyes and ears open, yet exercising care that the patient in the hospital should be unaware of my presence. The inquiry into the death of the unidentified man in Rannoch wood had been resumed and a verdict returned of willful murder against some person unknown, while of the second crime the public had no knowledge, for the body was not discovered. Chater, as soon as he recovered, left the hospital and went south—to London, I ascer tained—leaving the police utterly in the dark and tilled with suspicion of the fugitives from Rannoch. One day I called at the castle, the fropt entrance of which I found closed. Gilrae, the owner, had come up from London and discharged all the late tenant'* servants, keeping on only his own. Ann Cameron, a housemaid, was one of these, and it w'as she whom 1 met when entering by the servants’ hall. On questioning her. I found her most willing to describe how she was in the corridor outside the young mis tress' room when Mr. Leithcourt dashed along in breathless haste with the telegram in his hand. She heard him cry. “Look at this! Read it, Muriel. We must go. Put on your things at once, my dear. Never mind about lug gage. Every miajite lost is of conse quence Whet!" bn cried s, moment later. "Yea won't go? Yon'” stay here—sfny here and face them? Good heavens! girl, are you mad? Don’t you know what this means? It means that the secret is out—the secret is out, you hear! We must fly!” The woman told me that she dis tinctly heard Miss Muriel sobbing, while her father walked up and down the room speaking rapidly in a low tone. Then he came out again and returned to his dressing room, while Miss Muriel presumably changed from her evening gown into a dark travel ing dress. “Did she say anything to you?” I inquired. “Only that they were called away suddenly, sir. But.” the domestic add ed, “the young lady was very pale and agitated, and we all knew that some thing terrible had happened. Mrs. Leithcourt gave orders that nothing was to be told to the guests, who dined alone, believing that their host and hostess had gone down to the village to see an old man who was dying. That was the story we told them, sir.” “And in the meantime the Leith courts were in the express going to Carlisle?" “Yes, sir. They say in Dumfries that the police telegraphed after them but they had reached Carlisle and evi dently changed there, and so got aw ay ” By the administration of a judicious tip I was allowed to go up to Miss Muriel's room, an elegantly furnished little chamber in the front of the fine old place, with a deep old-fashioned window commanding a magnificent view across the broad Nithsdale The room had been tidied by the maids, but allowed to remain just as she had left it. I advanced to the window, in which was set the large dressing table with its big swing mir ror and silver-topped bottles, and on gazing out saw, to my surprise, it was the only window which gave a view ot that corner of Rannoch wood where the double tragedy had taken place Indeed, any person standing at the spot would have a clear view of that one distant window w’hile out of sight of all the rest. A light might be placed there at night as a signal, for instance: or by day a towel might be hung from the window as though to dry and yet cuuiu uk piauuy seen ai mai uisiauie Another object in the room also at traded my attention—a pair of long field glasses. Had she used these to keep watch upon that spot? I took them up and focused them upon the boundary of the wood, find ing that I could distinguish everything quite plainly. “That's where they found the man who was murdered.’’ explained the servant, who still stood in the door way. "I know," 1 replied. “I was just try ing the glasses.” Then I put them down, and on turning saw- upon the mantel shelf a small, bright red can dle shade, which I took in my hand. It was made. I found, to fit upon the electric table lamp. “Miss Muriel was very fond of a red light.” explained the young woman; and as I held it I wondered if that light had ever been placed upon the toilet table and the blind drawn up— whether it had ever been used as a warning of danger? As I expressed a desire to see the young lady’s boudoir, the maid Cam eron took me down to the luxurious little room where, the first moment I entered, one fact struck me as pecu liar. The picture of Elma Heath was no longer there. The photograph had been taken from its frame and in its place was the portrait of a broad browed, full-bearded man in a foreign military uniform—a picture that, be ing soiled and faded, had evidently been placed there to fill the empty frame. “Has the gentleman who called on the evening of Mr. Leithcourt's disap pearance been back here again since he left the hospital?" 1 inquired as a sudden idea occurred to me. iTO BE CONTINUED.) Toltol. Toluol is a hydrocarbon used in the manufacture of dyes and also in pro duction of high explosives. Benzol is also a hydrocarbon, the chief raw- ma terial of the artificial dyestuffs indus try and a fuel that can be used in in ternal-combustion engines as a sub stitute for gasoline. Half of the ben zol output of German coke ovens was used for motors In 1913, and at pres ent it has almost completely replaced gasoline for automobiles in that coun try. KNOW CAUSE OF PELLAGRA1 Italian Scientists Also Said to Have Found a Form of Treatment That la Successful. "From Italy, where the first cases of pellagra were scientifically noted, and •here the principal cause was de clared to be the result of eating corn products, now com^s the startling an nouncement, that corn has nothing to 4o with the malady, but that drinking water has." said a well informed nan "In a translation made for the Lit erary Digest from an Italian publica tion we learn that clay is the primary cause ‘because rainwater, both at the surface and in the deep strata, reacts upon it to form silicic acid and alumi sea hydroxid. both of w hich. owir g to the conditions in which hydrolysis oc curs. may pass into the water in the roliodial state. As is well known, how erer. there is incompatibility between mbra and colloidal alumina, so that ihev precipitate each other, and there remains U> water on!y the e>:cP8S )t Miica This is partly in very fine x - si eu; pension, causing the par sistent opalescence which is frequent ly observed in the water used by those afflicted with pellagra.' The remedy seems to be Injection of some alkaline substance; preventive meas ures seem to point to treatment or drinking waters with limestone. Tri sodium citrate, a harmless alkaline substance, gives excellent results in curing.” Prehistoric Animal. The American Museum of Natural History, in New York city, has recent ly acquired the skeleton of a new dinosaur, which has been named Sau rolophu3. "the crested saurian.” Mil lions of years ago this creature, which was about thirty-two feet long and fif teen feet high, roamed the sands and swam the marshes of the part of Al berta that is now traversed by the Red Deer river. It lived on grass and could escape from the flesh-eating Alberto saurus only by its rapid swimming. Great numbers of these dinosaurs lived in the prehistoric coastal marshes; paleontologists have found the remains of several hundred speci mens washed out of the bank of a single quarry on the Red Deer river. Another set of bones found In the same region is believed to belong to the skeleton of a still older species of di nosaur, possibly an ancestor of Sauro lophus. Lord Fisher Believes in Speed. Although Lord Fisher is four years older than the regulation age at which a naval officer may normally hope to be employed, his methods at the admiralty give little indication of the advance of years. A short time ago he pounced upon a department at Whitehall with the intimation that a certain number of new vessels were required. The number, it may be mentioned, was about six or seven times as many as it is customary to order in any one year. The whole of the contracts for these vessels were placed in three days, and when the first sea lord went to inquire what had happened, and was told, he spared nothing in his execration of what he called the waste of time. In the ordinary way, three months is quite an average time for considering such j a tender.—London Globe LAID DOWN POINT OF LAWj Mississippi Judgment Is That Plaintiff Must Come Into Court With Clean Hands. In a suit for damages against a tele graph company heard by the supreme court of Mississippi in Western Union j Telegraph vs. McLudin it appeared that plaintiff had received two tele grams from a woman known to be an improper person. The company's mes senger informed various persons that the plaint1.ff had received these mes sages from the woman in question, thus betraying his intimacy with the ; sender, and, as he charged in his com- j plaint, caused him to lose caste with ! respectable women and forced him to resign his position where he then lived and take another less lucrative else where. In holding that there could be no recovery against the company the court said: “If a plaintiff cannot open his case without showing that he has broken 1 the law a court will not aid" him. It , has been said that the objection may j often sound very ill in the mouth of | the defendant, but it is not for his sake the objection is allowed; it is founded Ou g?r-er$l nriociples of pot icy which he shall have the ad van tage of, contrary to the real justice between the parties. The principle’ of public policy is that no court will lend its aid to a party who grounds his action upon an immoral or illegal act.” Always Co.vsiit-vis. When former President W. H Taft was in Kansas on a campaigning tour a few years ago, one of the members of his party threw away a cigar just as the president’s special passed some section hands. “Begorra.” said one of the section men. “didn’t Oi tell ye Taft is considerate of the common laborer? He jist now threw me a cigar and it was already lit. ’ National Monthly. Shunting a Sponger. Sponger—You don't happen to have i five-dollar bill about you, do you. lid man? Smart—Yes, 1 have. Here's a bill if exactly that amount from my hat ;er. Want to pay it? The Burlington will build a new de pot at David City. Bayard will soon have a new pic ture theater. Plattsmouth is to have a new city hall, to cost $12,500. The Stanton county fair will be held September 1 to 15. A water works system will soon be established in Milligan. The Farmers’ State bank of Valley has been granted a charter. Plans are nearly ready for Weep ing Water's new bank building. The contract for putting in Bridge port’s sewer system has been let. Fire caused $18,000 loss to the Eagle’s hall in Florence, a suburb of Omaha. A Chicago man is planning to build a $65.00i> moving picture theater in Fairbury. Otto Glick. shoe merchant, of Omaha, was killed in an automobile accident in that city. The annual pow-wow of the Omaha Indians will be held at Wait hill August 11 to 22. J. S. Swan reports a loss of more than 10,000 bushels of apples from scab in his orchard near Auburn. The body of A. Bauman, jr„ former sheriff of Dodge county, who drowned himself in the Piatte river, was found. The three-year-old son of Thomas Gliva was drowned in a milk can on the Gliva farm west of Platte Center. A picture film company has been organized in Cliaaron with A. L. An drews as president, capitalized at $9,000. Farmers with pitchforks harvested a big crop of fish siranded in reced ing tide water from the Blue river at Hastings. Ex-Governor Aldrich has purchased the Be!! line of six elevators along the Northwestern in Butler and adjoin ing counties. Tentative plans for laying the cor nerstone of the new Masonic orphans’ home on the Masonic grounds north of Fremont on August 15, have been laid. Thirty-five new bridges will be built in Cedar county to replace old ones washed out by floods this sum mer. Genevieve Hughes, a 6-year-old girl while picking flowers, stepped in front of a hay mower near Albion, and had her right foot completely severad. Mrs. Daniel Sullivan of Lincoln vas killed and >1. H. Quinn of Denton was seriously injured when an automo bile in which they were riding, turn ’d turtle near Denton. H. C. Probasco. assistant cashier of the Nebraska State bank at Lin coln, is dead. He formerly lived in Red Cloud and was one of the best known church workers in the state. There are in Nebraska 65.221 farm ers who till their own land against 38,747 who are tenants. Almost a quarter million people over twenty one are employed on farms. Charles Benson, instructor in the department of education at Kearney normal has resigned to accept a po sition in the Missouri State Teachers’ college at Cape Girardeau. The little 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lou Warner of near North Bend, lies in a critical condition, suffering from concussion of the brain, as a result of being kicked by a mule. A session of the Holdrege Chautau qua was broken up Saturday evening by rain and heavy wind, which finally blew' down the tent. Two thousand people were drenched before reach ing shelter. Henry Turner of Hugo, Colo., was thrown into a wire fence near Paw- ; nee City and instantly killed, his head j being nearly severed from his body, ! when a horse he was driving became frightened by a train. O. F. Dornblaser of Texas, national organizer of the Fermers’ Educational and Co-operative union of America, will lecture on the Chautauqua grounds at St. Edward, Monday af ternoon, August 16. Nineteen pieces of skin, each an inch and a half square, were grafted onto the burned body of little Emma Kerbel of Havelock at a Lincoln hos pital. The skin was contributed by two brothers, a sister and seven cousins. Perfect trust can be reposed in President Wilson by the people of the country, and he will save them from war. if that is humanely pos sible. So said Vice President Thom as Marshall of Indiana in a Chautau qua address at IJncoln. J. P. Kramer, one of the oldest cit izens of Syracuse, met with a ser ious accident. He had just returned from town and was driving his team and standing up in the rear of the wagon when the team suddenly jerk ed. while crossing a rough place, throwing him backward out of the waeron. breaking his back. The twenty-seventh annual old set tlers’ reunion of Cass and Otoe coun ties will be held at Union, Cass coun ty. August 13 and 14. John Bly, block signal maintainor for the Union Pacific, stationed at Elkhorn, was struck by a passenger train and instantly killed. The most effective test of endur ance ever tried by any manufacturer of farm tractor engines was complet ed when the Wallis "Cub" tractor, handled by the J. I. Case Plow works, finished its 1,000-mile durability run, from Cleveland, O., to Fremont. A deficit of $41,218.09 in the Omaha school funds was shown by the board’s financial report for the six months ending June ”0 this year. Dawes county, notwithstanding the recent heavy rains and hall, has yet the largest stand of grain known In the history of the county. One of the largest. If not the larg ost wool sales made In Wyoming this year, was concluded when W. R. Adams of Fremont purchased the Swan t.and and Cattle company’s clip of 600,000 pounds for 22 cents a pound The purchase price Is H32.000 WITH BARNS FULL OF STOCK Didn’t Look Much Like Hard Times in Western Canada. A. Meyer, who left one of the best Counties in Minnesota, probably be cause he got a good price for his ex cellent farm, and left, for the Canadl-n West, writes to his local paper, th~ Bagley Independent. His story Is »<■: worth repeating. He says: “To say I was greatly surpns-1 when I reached Saskatchewan and A berta would be expressing it mild; In a country where so much suffering was reported, I found everyone ;a good circumstances, and especially ail our friends who have left Clearwa ter and Polk counties. They all hav good homes and those who were r> ported to have sold their stock througa lack of feed, I found with their bar:. full of stock, and it did not look very much like hart times. They have from 160 acres to two sections of the finest land that can be found. Those that left here two or three years ago have from 100 to 400 acres in crops this year. Prospects for a bumper crop are splendid. It Is a little cold now, bv nothing is frosted, either in gard or fields. Land can be bought qv. reasonably here from those who •. unteered their services in the E pean war. Here are certainly - - best opportunities for securing a e home with a farm and indep* for life in a short time. Up started I heard that prices v high. Flour was reported at J..- ; hundred it is $4.25 here. In the - - all the groceries can be purcha. for nearly the same as in Mir,.. 7 . ■ on.y article that I found b;_- - was kerosene at 35 cts per e. When I saw the land I wonder' people do not live where the> duce enough from the soil to ma i comfortable living. We visited T Sater. John Dahls, WT. J. and R Holt's, Martin Halmen, Ole Ha Wm. Walker and Geo. Colby, a. from Bagley. We found well an : perous farmers who wished to fc r membered to all their Bagley frier. . (Sgd.) A. MEYER.—Advertised' ■ The Proper Term. “I'm going to celebrate my wo . i t wedding tomorrow," said the ta . drummer. "You mean your wooden wedd • - don’t you?” queried the grocer “No, I mean just what I said, a: swered the s. d. "It will be five year ago tomorrow since I asked a girl ?_ marry me, and fortunately she se , she wouldn't.” Beauty and the Beast. “A deucedly pretty girl!” “Stunning." "And a hideous bulldog "True. She ought to have a ma: along to lessen the contrast beta. *-; herself and the dog. Changed His Mind. Wife (during the spat)— During >j courtship you said you would glai! die for me. Husband—Well? Wife—Well, why don't you? Domestic Warfare. Little Lemuel—Why are there s many divorces, paw? Paw—Possibly, my son. because r sea of matrimony is infested «:: floating mines. Not Definite. "My husband,” remarked Mrs !la ker, "is a peculiar man. I have i handle him with gloves." “Boxing or rubber?” queried n friend Mrs. Barker. Only Vegetables for Him . "So you’re an applicant for th- p sition of gardener?" "Yes. sir." "Had experience with vegeta!> - “Oh, yes, sir; ten years " “I have a horse and cow yvi have to take care of." “Oh. I couldn’t do that, sir \ see, I’m a strict vegetarian." Hubby Will Economize “But your liance has such a sir salary; how are you going to Ih "Oh. we’re going to economize We; going to do without such a lot things that Jack needs." The Purpose of Thrift "Save up your pennies, my boy " "What for, dad?” “And when you get 25 of them e l your mother or I will borrow them . carfare." Applied Calisthenics. “I’m a retired acrobat." explaiiS the tramp at the door. “Then.” replied the stern faced inist. “you can go to the woodpile afl do the split for your dinner." Pleasing Father. “Jinks’ father wanted him to I into uplift work when he left "Well, did he”’ "Sure, he did. He took the chfl the old man gave him to begin ■ and bought an aeroplane." Economizing. "George, dear. I’ve succeeded in I dueing expenses. By having pvfl thing charged I find I have spent vl little money this week, and still say l have no business sense* ; ^B At a Muslcale. Host—Must you leave so soor. 'H Tootles” 1 thought you fond of good music. Mrs. Tootles—I am. (Mrs. Tootles exits during biaal^B lence.)—Harvard Lampoon. Suspicion "Is that your son studying the I ltn?” "Yes." answered Mr. Growchtr^B “What’s the tune he is play.fl "1 don’t know whether he’s * tune or a practical joke "