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    • * The Mystery of a Silent love • •
dKhevafer WILLIAM IE QUEUX
‘ U AUTHOR “THE CLOBED BOCK," ETC
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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 "