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Part of4 the winter leisure" ought to
be used for the repairing and painting '
of the farm machinery.' ' " ' "
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If you cannot get a stand of alfalfa
grow red clover or bine grasses pas-
lODY Found in Trunk"
began Clarke. "But I'll
skip the headlines.
Upon opening a box
which they had purchased
at an uncalled-for-freight
sale two young men resid
ing in Austin were horri-t
n'l yesterday to discover the body
tf a man. It was hermetically sealed In ,
1 zmr rase winch was inclosed in an
r.lin:iry round-topped trunk, which in
.'irii was packed In sawdust within a
!tie dry Koods box. Considering the fact
.hut the box had remained for three
'ars :ind a half in the freight warehouse.
h body was in a remarkable state of
r-.-irvation, due probably to the man
vr of packing it. There Is no clue to the
1-iitlty of the bddy other than that It
iis billed to a fictitious address on South
lefferson street and was shipped from
Snlt Lake City, having been rebilled
there from Etteso. Wash.
"That's the gist of it, but, of course,
tfter the fashion of you reporters the
ctory is told from several angles in or
Jer to fill the' column. It looks like
1 promising mystery."
"Yea, but one that probably is im
possible of solution considering the
length of time," I answered.
Tin not so sure of that. Did it ever
occur to you that any crime can be
holved if someone is willing to ex
pend money, time, and travel? Given
unlimited resources, I believe I could
organize a detective force which would
make punishment a certainty for every
criminal. Crime goes unsolved be
cause the men capable of doing ef
fective work can make more money
in other lines. I'd rather like to look
into this case. Does your influence
extend to the county morgue?"
"Deputy Coroner McNally in charge
there is one of my particular friends.
1 am sure he will favor us."
"Suppose we call there this after
noon, if your engagements will per
mit." I acceded, but shortly after break
fast something arose that put the mat
ter entirely out of our minds for the
moment. I was busy at my own de
vices, and CYarke was deep in a very
erudite work on oriental mysticism
when there was a violent tug at our
door bell. I opened the door and ad
mitted a handsome, athletic young fel
low, square of jaw and keen pi eye,
hut apparently laboring under the
most intense excitement.
"Where is Mr. Clarke? I must see
him at once," he gasped.
Knowing Clarke's rule to see all call
ers when possible, I immediately
ushered him into the library.
"Oh. Mr. Clarke," he began without
awiuting an introduction. "I am sure
1 have a word from her. I must have
your help. The police will laugh at
me but 1 feel it is a clue. I shall go
mad if it fails. I know she is living.
I have never given her up."
"Hut calm yourself, my dear sir, and
let me have your story connectedly,"
said Clarke. "Remember, I am ig
norant even of your name."
"Pardon me, I forgot. I am so full
of this new clue. My name is Rich
ard Dudley."
He needed to say no more to Clarke
or myself. The name recalled in
stantly the disappearance, six months
before, of Evlyn Mason. The coun
try had rung with it. The papers had
been filled with it. The best detec
tives iu the country had struggled
with it. Clarke himself, though not
called in by the family had taken a
deep interest in the progress of the
case. A note of romance had been
added to -the affair by the recently an
nounced engagement of the iron mag
nate's daughter to Richard Dudley,
Harvard's old crack half-back who, at
the time she so mysteriously dropped
out of sight, was traveling in the ori
ent. He had hastened home as fast
as steamer and train could carry him
and had taken up the thread where
the police bad dropped it in despair.
"Then you have a cjue, Mr. IJpd
loy?; asked Clarke when he had' as
Mired our caller that his trouble was
well known to us.
"1 think so. Here is what I re
ceived this morning. I hurried to you
at once." ,
And Dudley handed Clarke a slip of
paper.
Clarke read the paper and handed it
over to me. It contained but. one
word. "Osette," written in a sprawling
hand.
"Where did you get this?" asked
Clarke. v
"It was slipped under my door last
r.ight. I have no idea by whom. I
found it there this morning. Oh, Mr.
Clarke, tell me that you hare-hope
and that we will find her."
"What particular importance do you
attach to this paper?"
"Oh, can't you see? But I forget
No one knows it but myself and her
immediate family. Why. man! that's
Evlyn's middle name! Evlyn Osette
Mason. She never used it. No one
knows it. Don't you see she must
have sent this?"
"In that case, Mr. Dudley, you have
indeed a most valuable clue; more val-
Demarcation.
Madge Why do you worry about be
ing :is brown as a berry?
Dolly I'm afraid my neck isn't
tanned quite Mow enough to meet my
gowns. Puck.
Not Gregarious. t
"Is Grouch a clubman?"
"No. The only thing he is' a mem
ber of isthe human race, and he's
not in very good standing with that."
Judge.
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Telepatho-Deductive Solver of Criminal
Mysteries Tackles a Problem Embodying
Smuggling, the Fearful White Plague, and
Two Lovers Are Brought Together in Grand
Finale Solution of the Complex Puzzle.
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uable, I .trust, 'than yon suspect. It
will however take time and labor to
develop it. I imagine it may take us
to the Pacific coast. Are you pre
pared to take such a trip?"
"At once, if necessary. Oh! we shall
find her, shan't we, Mr. Clarke?"
The body already had been prepared
for burial, and Clarke did not ask to
see it The pine box he glanced at
just long enough to read the fictitious
address. The trunk also he passed
with a look. When he came to the
zinc case, however, it riveted his at
tention. He examined closely every
seam and corner of it
Clarke decided upon a trip to the
Pacific coast
When we finally reached the end of
our long journey and succeeded in lo
cating the town of Etteso, we found
a little hamlet numbering about 500
souls. Across a snug harbor shone
the"1 broad expanse of the Pacific."1
After some search we located the
private sanitarium of Dr. Clinton
Withersbee, a man known to Clarke
to be a villain of the deepest dye. We
entered a room in Wlthersbee's asy
lum. What I have next to relate has been
pieced together out of a blur of hazy
IN A TIME OF DROUGHT
Veracious Chronicler's Description of
Soma Devices Employed.
Unusual expedients are being
adopted by the farmers near here to
get enough water to keep their cattle
alive. Wells are dry and even the dis
tillers have been forced to suspend,
a thing unheard of in the history of
the country.
Simply to illustrate the condlUoh
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memories. I am not aware just when
I lost consciousness. My first sensa
tion was that some one was looking"
intently at the back of my head.
Then a. soft, purring, voice said:
"Mr. Carlton Clarke, Mr. Richard
Dudley and Mr. Paul Sexton, I be
lieve; Dr. Withersbee is at your serv
ice." When I awoke to consciousness
some one was alternately snapping his
fingers in my face and roughly shak
ing me. I was in pitchy darkness, and
the air was chill and clammy.
"Sexton, I'm ashamed of you," said
Clarke's voice through the gloom.
"You are a particularly easy subject
I should have given you some lessons
in resistance."
"Where are .we? What has hap
pened? Where is Dudley V I asked, in
a breath.
"Dudley is here. He recovered be
fore'' you did," answered .Clarke, a fact
which Dudley's voice confirmed. "We
seem to be In some sort of an oubli
ette, of that dear Dr. Withersbee."
In single file we made the round of
our dungeon. We found it to be about
12 feet square, walled with masonry
which dripped dampness, and floored
with cement Oh one side we came upon
of affairs it is related how, in one
normally large stream, the water is
so low that the fish are compelled to
swim on their siSes in order to exist.
Camillus Phillips, a successful agri
culturist, owns a large number of
hogs, which were worrying themselves
thin because they had rib place to wal
low. A happy idea struck Mr. Phillips.
He filled several large vats with po
tatoes and then dumped in several
a door the height of my head, I
being the tallest of the party. From
therivet heads we judged it to be of
plate steel and It closed into a steel
frame set into the masonry In a man
ner which offered no entrance for the
point of a pick had we had one at
hand. The absence of any keyhole,
bolt or lever showed that it was never
intended to be 'opened from the in
side. At last, after a wait which seemed
an eternity, I heard a soft footfall
outside of the door. Then iron bars
clanked and grated. I heard the
hinges creak and the door swing slow
ly open. A dark form framed in the
doorway was outlined through the
gloom. 'Then it stepped Into our
midst My hands shot to his throat,
which was cold and clammy as that
of a corpse. There was no resistance.
I heard Dudley wrenching the lan
tern from his belt At Clarke's com
mand I released him. Dudley was
about to strike the light when Clarke
shouted: "Quick, Dudley: the door!"
We emerged on the rugged side of
a hill overlooking the broad expanse
of the bay.
Lying fiat on my back on the sand,
my heart tugging and thumping, my
bushels of strong onions. The onions
forced tears from the eyes of
the potatoes, and in a few hours
he had an ample supply of wa
ter. This plan is being adopted gen
erally. Using the idea, with a slight varia
tion, Josephus Warren, the emotional
novelist, is reading a few touching
poems to the rocks, and they are
gushing forth a bounteous supply of
tears, .also.
Other farmers are employing marine
artists to d.w water. Fishleigh (Pa.)
'breath coming in rasping gasps which
seemed to sear my throat, I waited, I
know not how long.
At last I was aroused by a soft "hel
lo," and the nose of a swift gasoline
launch shot into the creek.
We had not long to wait. Clarke
lifted his eyes from his Intent watch
on the shore line and said: . "He'a
coming."
I knew who "he" meant and I shiv
ered at meeting Withersbee on those
black waters. Then my ear caught
the "puff puff" of a launch.
"Down in the boat, fellows, he's go
ing to fire." shouted Clarke. Dudley
and I dropped. Six times in rapid
succession his revolver cracked. But
a swiftly flying launch is not easy to
hit and we heard the bullets whistle
overhead.
Wlthersbee's boat was almost upon
us when Clarke gave the wheel a quick
twist and our pursuer shot past with
in three feet of our gunwale. As he
threw the wheel Clarke's right arm
shot into the basket at his side. I saw
his hand come out holding a writhing
black object. He swung it about his
head once and let go. I saw it hurtle
through the air and strike the doctor
full between the shoulders. Withers
bee dropped the wheel and stood up
trying to fight the thing off while his
boat, free of her helm, swung 'round
in circles.
Suddenly he sprang to the gunwale
of the boat, threw up his arms and
with a piercing, terrified shriek disap
peared in the black waters of the bay.
Clarke shot our boat over to the
staggering derelict, reached over her
side and stopped her engine. I held
the gunwales together while Dudley
leaped into the doctor's boat at a
bound and returned bearing in his
powerful arms the unconscious form
of a young woman. The figure in the
stern sat fixed and motionless.
Dudley swiftly cut the ropes which
bound her. "It's she. It's she," he
muttered. Clarke felt her pulse. "She's
only fainted," he said. We fell to
chafing her wrists and Dudley scooped
up a handful of sea water and bathed
her brow.
At the tavern, after Miss Mason had
been safely stowed away in a clean
warm bed" by the motherly landlady
we patched together the ragged
threads of the story over the best in
the landlord's cellar.
"First," said Clarke, "if you are
Oliver Dike, whose was the body that
Dr. Withersbee shipped to Chicago in
an opium case?"
"He was another attendant, a young
fellow by the name of Frank Williams.
We were very similar in appearance
even to the fillings in our teeth.
"I didn't worry much about her for
he treated her well and she seemed
to be in no danger from him, and I had
seen so many terrible things in cases
where he didn't want to marry them
that I was sort of hardened to it any
way. I was the watchman of the
whole place after Williams disap
peared and the only white man about
the institution, all the rest being
Chinks. I talked with Miss Mason
on the sly sometimes but I paid nc
attention to her appeals until one day
she mentioned the name of Mr. Dud
ley here. He was one of my boyhood
football heroes and I determined Ic
do something.
"But, Clarke, how did you see
through all this when we were in Chi
cago?" I asked.
"1 didn't see through it by any
means. Only I saw some things
which you didn't. Part of it you
know. Then a connecting link wa9
the 'zinc can which I recognized at
once as one used in smuggling opium.
I picked up the threads of Miss Mar
son's case where I had dropped them
before, and the list of guests con
firmed my hazy recollection that there
was one from Etteso. The name of
the town did not strike me the first
time, of course, but the name of the
doctor did, for while turning the cass
over in my mind I thought of some
thing which I should have remembered
the first time. It was that once in s
Clark street opium den I had heard
the name 'Withersbee' in a cautlou
whisper. My visit to Chinatown con'
firmed this. I have a Chinaman ther
that I depend on a good deal, and it
reply to my question of who was th
greatest dealer in smuggled opium is
the country he whispered 'Wither
bee,' swearing that he would never liv
to see another day for having told."
Dudley and Miss Mason were mar
ried the next spring and Clarke and
I are often guests at their beautiful
Lake Forest home. Wlthersbee's so
called asylum, from which, aided, bj
the powerful Chinese tongs in whlct
he wielded great influence, he conduct
ed his extensive smuggling operations,
now atones for its past sins as one ol
the principal outposts in the wai
against 'The Great White Plague."
(Copyright. 190S. by W. G. Chapraaa.)
(Copyright in Great BrltainJ
Correspondence Philadelphia North
American.
The five-year-old son of the Rev.
Stephen S. Wise was driving up Fifth
avenue. New York, recently with his
mother. As .they approached the en
trance to Central park she called his
attention to Saint Gauden's famous
work, the1 equestrian statue of Gen.
Sherman led by Victory. "But, mam
ma;" he queried, "why does not the
gentleman get off bis horse and let the
lady "Ider
Open up the hen house on bright
days.
Intensive methods are needed in the
dairy as well as in other lines of farm
ing. Milk is easily contaminated, and
hence is a most prolific medium of con
veying disease.
Clean, dry bed for the horses should
be the rule. A horse that has been
compelled to lie on bare boards or
upon wet manure is in no condition
for work the next day.
Do your hauling from the fields or
to the fields in the morning before the
sun has had a chance to soften up the
ground and cause the wagon wheels to
pick up lots of sticky mud.
Don't put off until the last minute
the looking over the incubators and
brooders. Be sure they are in good
shape. If they need new parts or old
ones need repairing, attend to it now.
Keep picked up around the home
stead, and around the stock buildings,
too. Nothing is so sure an index of
the character of the farmer as the
condition of the grounds about his
place.
Are you carelessly letting the liquid
manure go to wastef It is the most
valuable part of the manure. Save it
either by tight gutters running to a.
cistern, or use plenty of absorbents to
soak it up.
Foot-rot in cattle should be treated
with water three parts and sulphuric
acid one part after the affected part
has been thoroughly 'cleansed, or it
should be smeared with pine tar and,
a bandage tied between the claws and
about the pastern to keep out the dust.
Have a manure shed where you can
keep the manure spreader standing.
Have it handy to the barn so that the
manure can be dumped into the spread
er when the barn is cleaned each
morning. Then when the wagon is
full haul to the field and put on the
land at once.
Money made by farming is the clean
est, best money in the world. It is
made in accordance with God's first
law, under honest influences, away
from the taint of trade, or the fierce
heat of speculation. It fills the pockets
;of the farmer at the expense of no
'other. His gain is no man's loss; but
the more he makes the better for the
world at large.
Plan for a little early lettuce next
season. Seed can be sown in hotbed
or greenhouse in February or March
and transplanted to open ground out
doors as soon as a piece of land can
be put in thorough working order.
Some time may be gained by growing
the plants in hotbed or cold frame
covered by glass sash and protected
by mats or shutters when necessary.
Make the farm and the home some
thing besides just a place for work if
you would tie the boys and the girls
to it. The farmer who thinks only
of the work he is going to get out of
bis children and who thinks more of
the farm and the stock than he does
of his boys and girls need not be sur
prised that they are anxious to break
away from the farm when they are
old enough to choose for themselves.
"The time is at hand when the farm
er will wake up from his Rip Van
Winkle sleep and look after his busi
ness interests the same as other busi
ness men do," writes one of our farm
ers. Tes, some of them are alrea'dy
awake and are pushing methods and
measures by which farmers are get
ting closer together and forming plans
whereby they may have something to
say as to the prices they will get for
their produce.
Not much fan pulling the frozen
cornstalks from the outdoor shock.
Remember last winter when you were
doing the same thing you promised
yourself that you would either build a
sfto and put It up or you would shred
it and store It in the barn loft, but you
didn't, and now you are having an un
comfortable and disagreeable task of
getting the fodder to the stock and
they are not finding it very good eat
ing. Let It be a lesson to you, and
be sure and plan to have things dif
ferent another 'winter.
Don't let the hogs suffer from lice.
You will be a loser if you do, for you
cannot fatten animals which are fat
tening an ever-increasing colony of
lice. If through neglect the herd is
found to have become badly Infested
with lice, all bedding- should be burned
and loose floors and partitions torn
out. Old boards and rubbish should
be burned. The quarters should then
be thoroughly disinfected by spraying
with good disinfecting solutions. After
disinfection, as in the case of a disease
outbreak, everything about the place,
inside and out, sliould be thoroughly
whitewashed. Vermin are most com
mon around the ears, inside the legs
and in the folds of the skin on the
jowl, sides and flanks. In light and
isolated cases they may be destroyed
by washing, the hogs with a good stock
dip properly diluted, applied by mean3
of a broom. In severe cases, how
ever, especially where the whole herd
is affected, thorough spraying or dip
ping should be resorted to. In this
case a dipping tank will be a great
convenience.
Remember, the best seed is none
too good. It is a 'losing game to labor
over seed of low germinating power.
Begin a course of reading for the
winter months which will better
equip yon for the farm work next
season.
You need grit and so do the hens.
The right kind of grit in yo will
make it certain that the right kind of
grit gets into the hens.
While sheep are growing wool and
making mutton for you they are clean
ing the fields of weeds and spreading
valuable manure over the land.
Study your flock so as to know
which are your best birds. Then use
the selected stock for breeding pur- t
poses next spring and thus build up
your flock in quality. f
The sheep that are left to fill up on
the frost-bitten, snow-covered pasture
will not thrive, you may be sure. Give
hay and grain ration if you want to
make your flock profit earners.
In feeding growing stock remember
that there, is need of a constantly in
creasing ration. They need food to
build the larger frame and they need
food to supply the daily bodily needs.
When the ground is well frozen
cover the strawberry beds with straw,
leaves or cornstalks.' The object of
covering after the ground Is frozen
is to prevent alternate thawing and
freezing.
The right treatment will remove
ring bone on young horses. If the ani
mal walks on the toe use a high-heeled
shoe. When inflammation is active
adopt soothing measures, and then se
vere blistering or even firing may be
resorted to.
The form of the skull of the hog de
pends on nutrition, health and the em
ployment of the muscles or the head
and neck in rooting. Where hogs are
well nourished, their skulls are round
er and firmer than in the case of hogs
poorly nourished. Rooting helps to de
velop a longer skull and snout. . .
It is claimed by a French naturalist
that if the world should become tiird
less. man could not Inhabit it after
nine years' time, in spite of all the
sprays and poisons that could be man
ufactured for the destruction of in
sects. The insects and slugs would
simply eat all the orchards and crops
in that time.
Dried refuse from tomato canneries
analyzed by the Ontario experiment
station shows a content of 2.54 per
cent nitrogen. 3.28 per cent, phos
phoric acid and 0.64 per cent potash.
Assuming 75 per cent, of moisture for
the material as it leaves the factory,
the amounts would be: Nitrogen.
0.64 per cent., phosphoric acid 0.82 per
cent, and potash 0.16 per cent., a com
position comparing favorably with that
of barnyard manure. '
Dairy farmers will watch with inter-
est the joint investigations of the Wis
consin and Illinois experiment sta-
tlons on tuberculosis cows. The work
of either station will serve as a check
on that of the other, inasmuch as the
experiments at Madison will be similar
to those at Urbaca. The bacteriolo
gists of the two stations will be In
charge of the work. Inasmuch as Illi
nois and Wisconsin are the two great
est dairy stations in the country, the
co-operation of these two stations will
be of great significance in the new '
movement to eradicate tuberculosis
from the herds of the country.
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Here is a move in the right direc
tion. It is nothing else than a pro
posal on the part of the Kansas ex
periment station to begin a study of
boys and girls. As Prof. McKeever
puts It: "If a farmer has a .horse that
balks in the harness or a cow that
acts queerly and runs off the reserva
tion he can write to the nearest gov
ernment experiment station and
secure a printed bulletin or
a letter on the subject from ' -a
high-salaried expert, but if the
refractory creature chances to be his
16-year-old son or his fledgling daugh
ter he has no recourse other than to '
fight the case out alone, assisted per'
haps only by a despairing wife. Ten
or more bulletins will be issued deal
ing with the best way to handle this
"best crop on the farm."
If you are troubled with straw worm
or joint-worm, the surest way of deal
ing irith the pest is to destroy both
stubble and straw. The stubble may
be burned, or plowed under so 'deeply,
and carefully that none will -be left
sticking out to form passageways for
the' adults when they come, forth the .
following spring. The straw may be
destroyed by fire, or by any other con
venient method. Inasmuch as the
joint-worm is known to inhabit grasses
such as frequently grow in the fence
rows about the edges of the wheat
fields, and as our studies would indi
cate that some individuals of the ,
wheat straw-worm may have a similar -habit,
it' would be well to burn off or
otherwise destroy the grasses along
the fences before next spring. If both
Hessian fly and straw-worm be pres
ent, the grower has but to destroy
stubble, straw and grass along fences,
and to practice late 'sowing, to avoid -serious
injury from cither peat.
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