THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1919.
GALLS ATTACK ON
FEDERAL LOAN
BANKS UNFAIR
D. P. Hogan, President of the
Omaha Institution, Denies
Accusations Made by Rep
resentative McFadden.
. Characterizing: them as "unfair
attacks by interests that have been
profiting by the old method of han
dling farm loans,", D. P. Hogan,
president of the Federal Land bank
ot Omaha, denied the accusations
against the federal land banks made
by Representative McFadden of
Pennsylvania in extended remarks
printed in the Congressional
Record.
"Mr. McFadden has for the last
six months been the mouthpiece of
the American Farm Mortgage
Bankers' association and has at va
rious times placed in The Congres
sional Record articles attacking our
system," stated President' Hogan.
"We have endeavored to confine
our loans to actual farmers oper
ating and owning farms and do not
wish to violate the terms of the act
whereby speculators and those
owning rented land receive the
benefits of the act.
"Loans are made at actual cost
and the profits go back to the bor
rowers. Any attack upon the sys
tem is an attack upon the farmer
who produces the greater part of
the wealth of the land. Congress
should repel those attacks and
should amend the law. It also
should increase the maximum loan
from $10,000 to $25,000, as $10,000
does not supply the needs of the
average borrower at the present
price of land, and, in fact, every
thing which must be bought for
improvement of the farm."
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"Often my friends speak of how
well I am looking these days and !
when I tell them I have been tak
ing Tanlac they seem to under
stand all the Yest," said Mrs. Albert
Downs, who address is R. F.D.,
Route No. 2, Argentine, Kansas,
while in the Owl Drug Store in
Kansas City, Mo., recently.
"I suffered for twenty long
years with stomach trouble tind ner
vous indigestion," continued Mrs.
Downs. , "At times it just seemed
tike everything I would eat would
sour in my stomach and form gas
and I would be in such misery that
I could hardly stand it. I was
- bothered with constipation, too, and
was constantly taking something to
relieve that trouble and sometimes
I would have awful dizzy spells and
feel light headed and I was that
nervous I couldn't sleep well at all
and sometimes I would just roll and
toss nearly all night long and would
(ret up in the morning feeling per
fectly miserable from loss of sleep
and rest. I also suffered like I be
lieve thousands of other women do
when they go through that period
in life that taxes a woman's
strength almost beyond endurance.
I took treatments and different
kinds of medicine, but nothing I
trifd helped me and I continued to
suffer as only one who has gone
through it can realize.
"Then I happened to read where
a woman living right here in Argen
tine had gotten relief by taking
Tanlac, so, going on the idea that
what's good for one 1s good for
another, I concluded to give it a
, trial myself, and I had only taken
one bottle of it when I could notice
that it was helping me. My anpetite
got better and the gas didn't form in
my stomach like it used to, so I kept
right on taking Tanlac until I was
so much improved that I found I
could eat just anything I wanted
and not be troubled a particle with
; my ' stomach afterwards. I don't
have any trouble sleeping now,
either, and just go the whole night
through without waking up once
. have gained in weight, too, and do
t- all my housework with ease now and
am justieeiing in uen-er neaun
C than I have in years. I can cer
tainly speak a good word for Tan-
lao. because it surely has helped
me."
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CHAPTER XII.
The Mystery of the Clothes.
"As you left it. Now here is an
other point the last, I think. Were
the clothes in which the body was
found the clothes that Mr.' Mander
son would naturally have worn that
day?"
Martin rubbed his chin. "You
remind me how surprised I was
when I first set eyes on the body,
sir. At first I couldn't make out
what was unusual about the clothes,
and then I saw what it was. The
collar was a shape of collar Mr.
Manderson never wore except with
evening dress. Then I found that
he had put on all the same things
that he had worn the night before
large-fronted shirt and all except
just the coat and waistcoat and
trousers, and the brown shoes and
blue tie. As for the suit, it was one
of half a dozen he might have
worn. But for him to have simply
put on all the rest just because they
were there instead of getting out
the kind of shirt and things he al
ways wore by day well, sir, it was
unprecedented. It shows, like some
other things, what a hurry he must
have been in when getting up."
"Of course," said Trent. "Well,
I think that's all I wanted to know.
You have put everything with ad
mirable clearness, Martin. If we
want to ask any more questions
later on, I suppose you will be
somewhere about."
"I shall be at your disposal, sir."
Martin bowed and went out quietly.
Trent flung himself into .the arm
chair and exhaled a long breath.
"Martin is a great creature," he
said. "He is far, far better than a
play. There is none like him, none
nor will be when our 'summers
have deceased. Straight, too: not
an atom of harm in dear old Mar
tin. Do you know, Murch, you are
wrong in suspecting that man."
"I never said a word about sus
pecting him." The inspector was
taken aback. "You know, Mr. Trent,
he would never have told his story
like that if he thoght I suspected
him."
"I dare say he doesn't think so.
He is a wonderful creature, a great
artist; but in spite of that he is not
at all a sensitive type. It has never
occurred to his mind that you,
Murch, could suspect him, Martin,
the complete, the accomplished.
But I know it. You must under
stand, inspector, that I have made
a special study of the psychology of
officers of the law. It is grossly
neglected branch of knowledge.
They are far more interesting than
crimminals, and not nearly so easy.
All the time I was questioning him
I saw handcuffs in your eye. Your
lips were mutely framing the syl
lables of those tremendous words:
'It is my duty to tell you that any
thing you now say will be taken
down and used in evidence against
you.' Your manner would have de
ceived most men, but it could not
deceive me."
Mr. Murch laughed- heartily.
Trents nonsense never made any
sort of impression on his mind, but
he took it as a mark of esteem,
which indeed it was; so it never
failed to please him. "Well, Mr.
Trent," he said, "you're perfectly
Tight. There's no point in denying
it. I have got my eye on him. Not
that there's anything definite; but
you know, as well as I do, how
often servants are mixed up in
affairs of this kind, and this man is
such a very quiet customer. You
remember the case of Lord Wil
liam Russell's valet, who went in
as usuaj in the morning to draw up
the blinds in his master's bedroom,
as quiet and starchy as you please,
a few hours after he had murdered
him in his bed. I've talked to all
the women of the house, and I
don't believe there's a morsel of
harm in one of them. But Martin's
not so asy set aside. I don't like
his manner; I beleive he's hiding
something. If so, I shall find it
out."
"Cease 1" said Trent. "Drain not
to its dregs the urn of bitter
prophecy. Let us get back to facts.
Have you, as a matter of evidence,
Omaha's Greatest
Lace Curtain Sale
is Next Saturday at
Union Outfitting Co.
Such Extraordinary Values
May Not Be Had Again
For Many Months
to Come.
A Big Selection of High
Grade Lace Curtains in
Beautiful Patterns.
A big purchase of high grade
curtains bought direct from one
of the largest lace mills in Amer
ica previous to the heavy advance
in price of all Laces and Lace ma
terials makes possible this snlo at
the Union Outfitting Company
next Saturday.
In the big shipment were hun
dreds of beautiful Scrim, Not
tingham, Filet, Cluny and Irish
Point Lace Curtains.
The prices in this One Day
Sale are so unusual that even
though you do not need new
draperies at the windows until
fall, it will pay to secure them at
this time.
The savings are convincing
evidence of the ever-growing
Purchasing Power of the Union
Outfitting Company, located just
out of the High Rent District,
where, as always, you make your
own terms.
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I anything at all to
bring against
Martin's story as he has told it to
us:
"Nothing whatever at present.
As for his suggestion that Mander
son came iny way of the window
after leaving Marlowe and the car,
that's right enough, I should sa. I
questioned the servant who swept
the room next morning, and she
tells me there Were gravelly marks
near the window, on this plain drug
get that -goes round the carpet. And
there's a footprint in this soft new
gravel just outside." The inspector
took a folding rule from his pocket
and with it pointed out the races.
"One of the patent shoes Mander
son was wearing that night exactly
fits that print you'll find them,"
he added, "on the top shelf in the
bedroom, near the window-end, the
only patents in the row. The girl
who polished them in the morning
picked them out for me."
Trent bent down and studied the
faint marks keenly. "Good!" he
said. "You have covered a lot of
ground, Munch, I must say. That
was excellent about the whisky
you made your point finely. I felt
inclined to shout 'Encore 1' It's a
thing that I shall have to think
over."
"I thought you might have fitted
it in already," said Mr. Murch.
"Come, Mr. Trent, we're only at the
beginning of our inquiries, but what
do you say to this for a preliminary
theory? There's a plan of burglary
say a couple of men in it and
Martin squared. They know where
the plate is, and all about the handy
little bits of stuff in the drawing
room and elsewhere. They watch
the house; see Manderson pff to
bed; Martin comes to shut the win
dow, and leaves it ajar accidental
ly on purpose. They wait till Mar
tin goes to bed at 12:30; then they
just walk into the library, and be
gin to sample the whisky first thing.
Now suppose Manderson isn't
asleep, and suppose they make a
noise opening the window, or how
ever it might be. He hears it;
thinks of burglars; gets up "very
quietly to see if anything's wrong;
creeps down on them, perhaps, just
as they're getting ready for work.
They cut and run; he chases them
down to the shed, and'collars one;
there's a fight; one of them loses
his temper and his head, and makes
a swinging job of it. Now, Mr.
Trent, pick that to pieces."
"Very well," said Trent. "Just to
oblige you, Murch especially as I
know you don't believe a word of
it. First: no traces of any kind left
by your burglars, and the window
found fastened in the morning ac
cording to Martin. Not much force
in that, I allow. Next: nobobdy in
the house hears anything of this
stampede through the ' library, nor
hears any shout from Manderson
either inside , the house or outside.
Next: Manderson goes down with
out a word to anybody, though
Bunner and Martin are both at
hand. Next: did you ever hear in
your long experience of a house
holder getting up in the night to
pounce on burglars, who dressed
himself fully, with underclothing.
shirt, collar and tie, trousers, waist
coat and coat, socks and hard
leather shoes; and who gave the
finishing touches to a somewhat
dandified toilet by doing his hair
and putting on his watch and
chain? Personally, I call that over
dressing the part. The only decora
tive detail he seems to have forgot
ten is his teeth."
The inspector leaned forward
thinking, his large hands clasped
before him. "No." he said at last.
"Of course there's no help in that
theory. I rather expect we have
some way to go before we find out
why a man gets up before the ser
vants are awake, dresses himself
fully, and is murdered within sight
ot his house early enough to be
cold and stiff by ten in the morn
mg.
Trent shook his head. "We can't
build anything on that last consid
eration. I've gone into the subject
with people who know. I shouldn't
wonder " he added, "if the tradition
al notions about loss of temperature
and rigor after death had occasion
alyy brought an Innocent man to
the gallows, or near it. Dr. Stock-
has them all, I feel sure: most gen
eral practitioners of the older gen
eration have. That Dr. Stock will
make an ass of himself at the in
quest is almost as certain as that
tomorrows sun will rise. I've seen
him. He will say the body must
have been dead .about so long, be
cause of the degree of coldness and
rigor mortis. I can see him nosing
it all out in some text-book that
was out of date when he was
student. Listen, Murch. and I will
tell you some facts which will be a
great hindrance to you in your pro
lessionai career, mere are many
things that may hasten or retard
the cooling of the body. This one
was lying in the long dewy grass on
the shady side of the shed. As for
rigidity, if Manderson died in
struggle, or laboring under sudden
emotion, his corpse might stiffen
practicaly instantaneously: there are
dozens of cases noted, particularly
in cases of injury to the skull, like
this one. On the other hand, the
stiffening might not have begun'un
til eight or 10 hours after death.
You can't hang anybody on rigor
mortis nowadays, inspector, much
as you may resent the limitation
Not what we can say is this. If he
had been shot after the hour at
which the world begins to get up
and go about its business, it would
have been heard and very likely
seen, too. In fact, we must rea
son to begin with, at anV rate on
the assumption that he wasn't shot
at a time when people might be
awake it isn t done in these parts.
Put that time at 6:30 a. m. Man
derson went up to bed at 11 p. m.
and Martin sat up till 12:30. As
suming that he went to sleep at
once on turning in, that leaves us
something like six hours for the
crime to be committed in; and that
is a long time. But whenever it
took place, I wish you would sug
gest a reason why Manderson, who
was a fairly late riser, was up and
dressed at or before 6:30; and why
neither Martin, who sleeps lightly,
nor Bunner, nor bis wife heard him
moving about, or letting himself out
of the house. He must have been
cartful. He must have crept about
like a cat. . .. A Do you feel
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several years ago.
as I do, Murch, about all this: that
is very, eery strange and baffling?"
lhats phow it looks, agreed
the inspector.
And now, said Trent, rising to
his feet, "I'll leave you to your
meditations, and take a look at the
bedrooms. Perhaps the explanation
of, all this will suddenly burst upon
yqu while I am poking about up
there. But," concluded Trent in a
voice of sudden exasplration, turn-
ng round in the doorway, if you
can tell me at any time how under
the sun a man who put on all those
clothes could forget to put in his
teeth, you may kick me from here
to the nearest lunatic asylum, and
hand me over as an incipient
dement."
(Continued Tomorrow.)
Jj
torch in
My Heart and My Husband
ADELE GARRISON'S New Phase of
"Revelations of a Wife"
What Lillian Told Madge About
"the Lady."
Lillian's assurance that we were
going to her home before meet
ing the woman, the sight of whom
I had so dreaded, gave me back my
poise, sadly shaken by my fevered
imagination during my journey to
the city. I sank back in the cornor
of the taxicab with very much the
feeling of a condemned prisoner
granted a reprieve at the eleventh
hour. '
My friend made no further com
ment upon my attitude toward the
business in hand, but with her usual
acumen went on talking briskly
about everything and nothing dur
ing the ride home, indeed, until we
were safely within her wonderful
brown-toned library. There I,
shamed out my cowardice, inter
rupted her.
"I am perfectly all right now," I
said, "ready to face anything.
Please tell me all you've been
doing." i
"I havn't been doing very much,"
she replied, but what some faithful
old handymen of mine have been
accomplishing is a plenty and then
some. They've not only located the
dame some little job in itself, lady,
when you consider the data we, had
to go on "
"I know ,1 prinpaiobtat n thett
"I know," I acknowledged with
emphasis, as Lillian paused for an
instant.
"But they've secured her general
record for the last twenty years,"
Lillian went on, "and it's sure one
pippin. If anybody's hunting for a
competent lady crook, with the
cleverness of her Satanic master
oozing from every pore, I'd advise
that party to camp on her stair
case. She is a bird, Madge, and the
reason it's taken me so long to
land her is because I had to nave
everything framedi up to the last
detail farther. But I don't think
we have overlooked a single bet
Why, we've even got records and
photographs of the last checks
your father gave her.
"Oh, it's a beautiful case and the
peachiest part of it all is that she
1
HE NATION that
1776 rejoices today
spread the rays of Liberty 'round all the
globe. The Democracy born but 143 years
ago now penetrates the recesses of the world.
It was democracy's call for freedom that
gave this nation birth. Civil conflict brought
it maturity. The world war beholds it rip
ened into robust manhood.
We face with cheer the marvels to come.
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the pace that is to serve humanity. In the
name of Liberty, as we served in a crisis of
war, let us serve in the blessing of peace.
The Jay Burns Baking Co.
doesn't dream but what she's per
fectly safe. Your poor father isn't
the only game she is working, but
by the time I get through with her
tonight, she will be glad she's draw
ing her breath."
You'll Do." ,
Lillian set her teeth together with
a vindictive little click that told
me the baffling of the evil woman
who had ruined my mother's life
and was now causing my father and
me so much anxitey, was the source
of special gratification to her. I,
knowing that her interest was soely
on my account, felt a rush of loving
gratitude to this friend who never
failed me.
"I wish I could ever do anything
for you Lillian," I said wistfully.
"Do you want me throw some
thing at your head?" she retorted.
"I've a notion to try it anyway"
meditatively "it might knock a
little sense into ' you. Do some
thing for me, forsooth! If you don't
know you ought to, that you are the
only safety valve I have, either for
joy or for sorrow. Just let me tell
you something; you're the only per
son who has ever seen me cry.
That means something to me, I
can tell you. No, no, my dear, the
debt's on my side, not yours.
You're always doing something for
me. ,
"Well' I impulsively said the first
thing that came into my mind, "if I
can square my many debts to you
by being a animated sob pillow,
count on me dearest always."
Lilllian threw back her head and
laughed the first real merriment I
heard from her lips in many weary
wccWs
"You'll do." she said. I know
you'd conquer those nerves of
yours. And now come down to my
bedroom and prink up a bit. We're
going to have a guest for dinner
tonight we don't have to start for
my lady's abode before 9 o'clock,
so we will have time to enjoy one of
Betty's dinners I think she is fix
ing up something especial for your
health."
"But I'm not fit to see guests,
Lillian," I faltered. This is the
V
lighted freedom's
in having helped
same rig I have been teaching in al!
day."
"Your suit's all right." Lillian
me over critically. I'll lend you
some fresh underfrillies and when I
knew the guest was coming I took
the liberty of buying a new blouse
for you. If you don t like it, I will
take it back and give it to some
one else. But won't hurt you to
wear it one evening.'
An Unamed Guest.
We had reached her bedroom as
she finished, and she indicated an
exquisite embroidered crepe blouse
lying unon the bed. It was of the
shade of blue most becoming to me,
and harmonized with the color of
my suit. It was a royal gift, and
from any one else I could not have
accepted it. But I said to myself
whimsically, that no one else except
Lillian would have offered it, and I
knew her generous heart would be
wounded if I did not take it.
"You'll take it back only over my
dead body,'.' I said, hugging her
warmly. "It's simply perfect!
But who is' the guest in whose
honor it is to be worn. Surely Mr.
Savarin isn't well enough"
Her face shadowed quickly.
"Indeed not poor Robert,
although he is mending so raid'y
that we think his sister will be able
to take him to his beloved mountain
soon. But he could not stand the
strain of meeting strangers. Come
child, run along and take a cold
shower you look roasted.
"And when, you are fully clothed
and in your right mind I'll tell
you.
(Continued Tomorrow)
One of the strangest of Chinese
marriage customs Is the hanging or
bacon and sugar on the sedan chair
)f a bride, In order to keep the
lemons from molesting her oh her
aeddlng journey.
Caroline McDole, of Indianola
Iowa, writes: "I have used Chamber- !;
and it has done me a great deal of f
good. I don t believe there is a
better medicine on earth" Only 35
cents per bottle.
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WANTS GARBAGE
OF OMAHA FOR
$62,400 A YEAR
Two Bids on Contracts for
uny s waste at wo.uuu
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ctnu $UiVHAS rei Minium s. t 3
Respectively.
Henry Pollack yesterday submit- )
ted to the city council a proposal -to
remove and dispose of all garbage '
within the city limits, for a consid
eration of $45,000 per year, on a
five-year contract. i
John W. Welch offered to sign a
contract for $62,400 a year for ffve;
years.
These bids were the only re
sponses to the city's advertisement.,
The council will discuss the garbage '.
situation at a special meeting Sat- i
fr Pnllarlr VinlHc a irarKawn rnn lit
tract for this year, under the terms
of which the city has been hauling" ) T
garbage to his hog-feeding yard arrd '
for which he paid $3,570 for the first i .
six months of this year.
A recent enactment of the legis
lature, in effect July 18. will permit C
Omaha institutions having garbage (
as a oy-product to dispose ot it to .?
the best advantage. Under this new ,1
law, hotel and restaurant owners
will make their own contracts for
the sale of their own garbage.
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