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RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF - y RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR. To half pint of water add 1 or.. Bay Hum, a small box of Barho Compound, and A oz. of glycerine, Any druggist can put this up or you can mix it at homo at very llttlo cost. Full directions for mak ing and uso como in each box of Barbo Compound. It will gradually darken strcnkctl, faded gray hair, and mnko it soft ml glossy. It will not color tho scalp, la not sticky or greasy, and docs not rub oil. Adv. Poor John. John "There are always two sides to every argument, Martha." Mar tha "Yes; yours and the right side, John." ' Stop That Cold At Once CASCARA J QUININE The old faintly remedy In tablet form afe, sure, eaiy to take. t No oplatet no unpleaiant after effect. Curet cotda in 24 houn -Grip In 3 dayi. Money back If It falta. Get the ie.r 'own. ame Remarkable Organization Built Up by Uncle Sam Since World War Began genuine ooi wun Ited Top and Mr. Hill's picture on It 24Tablata'or25c. At Any Drug Stora Happy Is thn home whore Red Cross Ball ltluc is used. Sura to pleaie. All aroccrs. Adv. rik a!S3) ,f v .gitv rafw ALV sW aV H r!s C I r .. f.xm- w J-, ii i . r 7 H if . A.&?UC'GJLASK , I ill III II lilll llllllKIl I - 111 llllll 1 aVLsH tlDnn Aiiiit run nfllMnlu flint thn I Mil 11 1 IIMHN-1 ' H Bront Gcrmun consplrncy con- j i Ml J I S "" fUfy corning which the few revolutions .' , j ! 'l l 1 1 nT" I " "H.I h,) fir umde lmvo electrified tho ' I 11 Jy I 5 1 JBjl tuition wns tinder way. To meet j -.j g .l (k IA, yl ' 1,,oy ,,nd on,y tl10 nscnclcs ;$? JJ I A ptsnl which were barely ntlcquato for vy-.-, n KlascbS pence; there wns hardly a man . -- T v 3?&Z2?tt IIHKK years ago it begun to dawn upon American ofllclalH that tho great German conspiracy con cerning which tho few revelations ho far made have electrified tho nation wns tinder way. To meet it they hnd only tho agencies which were barely adequate for peace; there wns hardly a man who hnd ever matched wits with tho foreign government experts. The story of how this mennco was met can as yet be told only in part. Hut not tho least in teresting part concerns the men who lmvo done the work. Chief of the weapons which were at hand wns tho secret service of tho department of Justice. Its agents were nn unobtrusively efflclcnt lot, but woefully Kinnll In numbers nnd, for tho most pnrt, Inexperienced in International nffnirs. "White slaves" nnd predntory business hnd been their chief gnme. Tho even smaller forco of tho treasury secret service was almost fully oc cupied with Its routine duties of guarding tho currency and tho president's life. It, too, has rendered amazing service against the spies, but upon tho department of Justice ngents fell tho chief burden. They were called upon to match tho craft, tho experienco nnd tho ruthlessness of tho keen est of German spies, who were backed by n renowned secret service organization nnd unlim ited funds. Their chief, tho mnn who had developed tho government detective force, who hnd laid tho foundation for nn extensive, loosely genred, even running mechanism, and who promptly assem bled It when the need came, Is Alexander Bruce Blelankl ("Homo Run" Bielaskl they called him In his high school days). Ho entered tho depart ment n dozen years ago, when tho development of n bureau of investigation to bundle secret work for which no other provision hnd been mado was started. Tills burenu wns commissioned to wrestle with violations of neutrality, with those of tho nation al bunking Inws, with antitrust cases, bucket shop cases, "white slave" cases; it wns to prose cute those who Impersonate nn oflleer of the government, to pursue those who flee tho coun try nnd seek to evndc the long arm of tho federul law. Thero were nlrendy savornl detective agencies In tho government, each created for a specific pur pose nnd limited by law in its operations. For In stance, thero wns tho secret service in the treas ury department. There were customs agents to ,prevent , smuggling, land ngents to protect "tho public domnln, post office Inspectors to muko difficult the misuse of the mnlls. But tho special agents of the department of Justice had a field many times as broad ns that occupied by nny other detective agency. One phnso of Its work alone that of circumventing violations of neutrality iiecanio a herculean task when tho war broke. Tho department of Justlco refused to follow precedent In its creation of n detectlvo agency. It 4 fcuilt a stnff of operatives that was a new thing In jtho field of detective work. In doing so It mado brains Its first requisite of selection of men and held that education was a developer of brains. Tho youngsters of this servico have succeeded .where veteran police have failed. Every enso an operative undertakes Is an entirely new problem, Sn which his past experience Is by no means an infallible guide. It needs brains nnd initiative. A young agent of tho burenu of Investigation, formerly u snlesmnn for a wholesale grocer, went into tho Alleghenies on his first case and denned ,up a nest of moonshiners that hnd defied local authorities and United States marshals for years. Another of theso men worked as a laborer on tho docks of Now Oricnns nnd found out tho meth ods employed by tho sugnr snmplers In so grad ing imported cargoes that tho loss to the govern ment wns hundreds of thousnnds In duties every (yenr. Still another "roped In" with Mexican revolutionist In El Paso. Tho importance of tho work of these special ngents may bo measured by an account of the circumstances back of tho seizure of tho port of Vera Cruz In April, 1014, and tho part played In that event by one of thoso Ingenious men. It was eomo months before that event thnt a huge, bearded Russian nttractcd tho attention of a (house detective In a New York hotel by tho dis play of a draft for $8,000,000 signed by President Iluertn of Mexico. Tho houso detective tele phoned tho special agents, who watched tho opera- . tlons of tho Russian. That individual bought firearms nnd ammuni tion in sufficient quantities to load a ship. It was tho business of tho government to seo te "it thnt ho did not send this to Mexico, ns thero was an embnrgo on firearms to that country. Tho ship, howocr, cleared for Odessa, Russia, and tho Bpeclal agents traced it to thnt point and wit nessed tho refusal of tho Russian government to allow tho 'ammunition to bo landed, because of n fenr thnt it was to bo used by revolutionists. They Miw tho ship nguln trnvorso tho Mediterra nean and unload its cargo at Hamburg. Tho special agents noted, however, that tho Russlnn hnd disappeared, and suspected that ho was moro loyal to his own pocket thnn to tho Mexlcun government. Tho ammunition was reshlpped from Hamburg to Vcrn Cruz. As It approached tho latter pori tho United Stntes, under tho Influence of the In formation furnished by Its special ngents, entered and seized tho port that Iluertu might not get 1 this ammunition. The occupation of Vera Cruz followed. It Inter dev eloped that most of the ammunition bought by the Russian was Junk, nnd thnt Mexico had been cheated by him, and that ho had returned, probably enriched to the extent of $1,000,000, to tho land of his fathers. Such was the work of tho special agents beforo the wnr. Bielaskl, in Washington, sat nt tho center of tho web which covered the nation. In other important cities, such ns New York, Chi cago, New Orleans, thero wero lesser web cen ters. In tho federal building in each important city wns nn office of special ngents with n group pf operatives which revolved about it. In tho smnlier centers wero Blnglo representatives who could call for re-enforcements whenever nn emergency developed. Then there were the free Innccs of tho service, those who could bo shut tled to whatever point required tho attention of especially skilled men." Bielaskl is the silent man with every mesh of the web In his sensitive fingers. His career is ono that might well be nn inspiration to nny am bitious youngster. Ho entered the department of Justlco 12 yenrs ago ns n laborer and for n compensation of $600 n year. Soon he wns a clerk of bpeclal agents, then nn examiner, a spe cial examiner, nn assistant to the attorney gen eral, ncting chief and chief of special ngents. This latter post he has held since 1012. Theso have been the yenrs during which tho newest nnd greatest of tho government's detective ngcnclcs has been taking definite form. Bielaskl has been molding It. Then the great war came, and the United States found Itself n non-pnrtlclpunt fnced with the ne cessity of maintaining neutrality within its bor ders. Flnnlly this country wns Itself In wnr and must combat the much vaunted secret Bervlco of tho Germnns, nnd must watch those millions of peopio living within its borders that had been born In enemy countries and whose allcgianco wns sufficiently In doubt to make their surveil lance neceswry. During the period of neutrality scores of un pleasant situations arose because of tho insist ence of Germnny upon abusing tho hospitality of the' United States. Almost tho first of theso resulted from a plan laid by Capt. Franz von Pa pon, military attache to tho German embnssy, for obtaining false passports for tho use of German reservists. First through Lieut Hnns von Wedell nnd later through ono Rurocdc ho operated an ofllco In Now York which sought to get vngnbonds around tho wharfs and cheap boarding houses nnd to induce these men to apply to Washington for passports, which ho purchased and use In returning reservists to Europe. Tho plnn had not been working long when a special agent from tho Now York office wns on tho trnll. He succeeded In representing himself ns tho proper sort of mnn to secure fraudulent pnssports, nnd wns soon deep in the confidence of tho Germans. Ruroedo wns sent to prison; von Wedell fled, but wns In tercepted by tho British nnd imprisoned, nnd tho wholo scheme wns broken up. Vnn Pnpen wna recalled at tho request of tho stato department becnuso of "Improper activities," of which this wns but one. The watchfulness of tho special agents wns evi denced by tho fact thnt they know tho exnet hour when, on April 10, 1010, Wolf von Igcl hnd taken 70 pounds of secret papers out of various hiding plnccs nnd nsscmblcd them for transfer to Wash ington. Von Igcl opernted from an ofllco at 00 Wall street. Though ho wns nn cmployeo of tho German embnssy, thero wns a question as to whothT'r his pnpers wero Immu.no from seizure ns they would bo In tho embnssy. So ho wns making ready to transfer them to unquestioned finfety. He claimed thnt his pnpers wero exempt from tho right of seizure. Tho German ambas sador backed his clntm. The special ngents ad mitted thnt If they wero official papers of tho embassy they should bo returned. They took them to Washington, where, nt tho stnto depart ment, they met the Gorman ambassador. Through long hours of night that official dug through those papers. They placed him In n most em barrassing position. If ho claimed them ns stato 1'iers ho admitted nn olllclnl part in their reve lations. If ho failed to claim them ho left this lncrlmlnntlng evidenro In tho hands of tho Amer ican authorities. Ho decided thnt tho latter courso wns the less embarrassing. Practically nil the pnpers were left with tho special agents. Theso papers revealed a degree of scheming and intrlguo ngnlnst a neutral country that IsVilmoBt beyond conception. I MpfflliliMl - V ' 1 1 nil P rf v When Cupt. von Papon laid his plans In tho Gorman club, In New York, for tho Invasion of Cunada by Germans In tho United States, tho spe cial ngents knew of his plnns. Tho fiasco of tho Welland cnnnl, tho unavailing activities of Paul Kocnlg, chief detective of tho Hnmburg-Amerl-enn lino; tho machinations of Capt. Karl Boy Ed all came to nought and wero well known by tho American authorities. Finally enmo the master spy of them nil, Cnpt. Franz von Rlntclcn, intimate of the knlscr, n mnn of highest Hoclnl rank and vast wealth, with plans to overturn nil in America thnt worked ngnlnst tho Interests of Germany. Ho poured out money like wnter nnd met enthusiastic co-operation on all sides. It seemed almost us if every man In America was willing to help to tho ex tent of accepting large amounts of money from von Rlntclcn. In fact, Americans took his money right and left, and rendered no service in re turn. Gront quantities of German money wero spent, but llttlo progress wns mndo toward attain ing tho results for which Germany strove. When theso activities are Mirveyed as a whole, the effort of German intrigue In America Is seen to have been astonishingly fertile. In tho face of such n lack of results it Is difficult to bcllovo U tho excellence nnd cleverness of 'russlan es pionage. This newly organized agency of tho United States, intended for application to tho tasks of peace, crossed swords vlth what is termed tho greatest spy system in tho world, and thus far it has not bceri bested. Then, suddenly the United States itself was thrust Into tho war. With tens of thousnnds of Germnn reservists, hundreds of thousnnds of Ger mnn citizens, millions of people of Germnn blood, this country would appear to have been In a po sition of great danger from within. Certainly thero was need of sharp watchfulness. No other belligerent nation wns confronted by nn Internal alien-enemy problem of such magnitude. The government In this emergency offered Bl elaski the assistance of representatives of Its other departments elsewhere. Thero were, for Instance, certain representatives of tho depart ment of agriculture, scattered from coast to coast, who knew their communities well. Theso were Instructed to watch for Individuals who gave evi dence of disloyalty to tho United States and re port back to tho department of Justice, when there was time, or to the nearest United Stntes attorney when quick nctlon wns required. Tho post ofllco sent instructions to 45.000 postmnsters, 83,000 letter enrriors nnd 48,000 rural delivery man. Knch of theso was 'instructed to keep his ear to the ground for nny showing of disloyalty from within nnd report promptly. Tho lnnd of fice, the Indlnn office, tho public health service, tho reclamation service all thoso governmental agencies that sprend out among tho peopio wero officially Instructed to help protect tho nation from any possible foo from within. Thoso other detective ngcnclcs of tho govern ment such ns tho secret service, tho post ofllco In spectors, the customs ngents, wero cnlicd upon for skilled assistance. On tho instnnt, almost, and entirely nsldo from theso government ngenclcs, thero waB built up In Bilenco a secret servico of volunteers which Is today effectively nt work. Its tentacles stcnl out through newspaper offices, hanks, hotels, over railroad systems, Into munici pal governments, through tho radiations of trav eling salesmen. It Is a looso organization, but It works under instructions and knows what to do when It finds a plague spot. And this vast machine hns been placed In tho hands of a young mnn, who, 12 yenrs ngo, fresh from high school, entered tho government servico ns a laborer at $000 a year. "Homo Run" Biel askl, son of a minister, grandson of Capt. Alex ander Bielaskl, who died In battlo nt Bull Run, descendant of n Polish pntrlot who fought that Americn might become n nation, Is making opera tion difficult for tho spies of the enemy. USINQ CASY IRON SHELLS. They nro making shells of cast Iron In France, making thorn at tho rate of 1,000,000 a dny, Tho Scientific American quotes Edgar A. Custer as saying these aro moro effective than steel shells In attacking earthworks. Consistent Garb. "How was tho runaway convict dressed?" "In a cutaway coat and slouch hat." American Soldiers In France. Itosil Military Compass Go's "ad" today, otlv. Atlanta has Increased snlnrles of 1,411 city employees. Bagdad has a motion picture theater. Pboldiers boothe ysAtfT'Dinn lrouoies fewith Cuticura Soap 25c. Oinlincnt 25c & 5Dc PATENTS AViitonK.Oolnmn,Wiut. Itiglon.lM. J'l.okn free. High. o returuncun. Umlretulta, Puts a .. Stop to all Distemper CURES THE SICK And prevents others linvlnR the dlsenso no matter how nxpoBud. no cent uml pi n ttnltlr, n nnil PIO n dnxca bottle. All good druggists nnd turf gooda houses, Spohn Medical Co., Manufacturers, Goshen, Ind.,U.S.A. mii i. :;i-rfc ? 2- -1 ii.. 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