OCR Text |
Show BEAVER PRESS ' r--illl r tyeumatic f jdckWa 'JEW- HDea - Br red). fWNU Service.) UteJ oil PJfor Backache . mod noth- there's relief. Kr,r Rain Oversupply of to a -- namer during itaJ tenU wmu record-break- nn n rain. on ins n.iicro feSK Almoin ks - .incT iter. pew In Clayton's Trembly. Stanton found a note pocket signed "Malsie," making- an appointment with the dead man at the Dutch Mill. SUnton is inclined to suspect Trembly of the murder. At a Wisconsin winter camp a boisterous crowd includes Preston Brown. An apparent arrives. Later, two men, stranger driving, come on the scene. The stranger leaves in his car, and the two men follow, passing him. A viaduct is out, and one of the two men removes the danger The stranger, in his car,signals. goes over the embankment. He is dead when found. Brown is dead. In his papers Clayton's name is found and Stanton connects the deaths. He goes to Wisconsin, and finds the dead man Is Trembly. Trembly had caused Brown's death, apparently an accident. A Vermont lawyer, John Whittle-sereading of the case, recalls the names In connection with an Lumbago,- LfNeuritis, the fol words: nr. ...j WW", Ul 'flOOd sho' am She pum-nc- watnh supply cooked en tie aoDe IV people am rcrflow! Sen' a ram : ..ji Sen' L nnh tun Ijjy n x, odd will made by a man named Turner. Turner had bequeathed the Interest on J6, 000, 000 to six men, Blair, Ashley, Roberts, Brown, Trembly, and Clayton. The income, at the death of each beneficiary, is to be divided among the rest. Turner's son, on the deaths of the six beneficiaries, is to inherit all. Turner Sen' a ! a trash- - ; a suf-- . rain, good eet nowhah !eh." iisnn !" shouted an back of the church, lL .Tcitrflv from her knees. L'onrhah yo' is at! Don't yo' - Jnh m nil Ij udy in the it: dies shortly after making the will. Whittlesex suspects foul play In the three deaths, and writes to the Chicago police. Stanton interviews Asa Darling, one of the executors of the will. rami jist trasn-iuui- i prajin' fon no son-in-laman buried done oeKiy. Collier's riddy!" Prevent Erosion a tn some parts of this country ttol of land Is lost by erosion. finable top soil is washed away by sou dorms, leaving worthless be utilized for any pur- h whatever. This loss is frequent- for in the course of Tery serious, be an entire field may be affected. Iremment scientists have been giv- the matter some attention and be developed a machine which Is id to overcome the action of the leuesfs. It Is a plow with several blades with an alternat- .ertical motion, ;md as it passes ler the ground it leaves a series of hills and hollows. The water .s W and allowed to sink Into the and instead of passing over it and Machine int. to CHAPTER V Xo man favors tie bald spot. bridal of that expansion for assent to make connle. Power Mother Tells Story N'ature p controls all (unctions of P our We have over that. Mi the function aaseg the most ft pl fm 'latrour P form rhil. regular bowel habits, and of bad breath, coated iHgn TO biliousness or constipation California Fig regulate the bowels and m and give., these organs tone nojth so they continue to act m intends them to. It helps "?iad strengthen pale. Ustless, t children. Children love 7 taste and u'8 PureIy you can P've if hUd's appetite lags or he m- - cross r JretfuL hZ YTt pnyslelan., have endorsed Dn(1 lts overwhelming ,s" record of- M -m... i... fc. . MI1I11UU 'w IU1 P year ahn a i, ... UOt ae- inuiners Udonit ( ff b, A W('stprn mother, Mrs. a little nl C P" ihS ,Vn8: fm B Raymond y constl" "ru,' ireirui ana " hs.UA f4 tiV800n Playing aga,n In just a few fe wns back to nor- better than he W7.,00kln R In month." Ky.onr cn"'1 'rom Imitations syrup. The mark LSfi'ie is the word "Call- - 1 ;"'" ua I me onrton. 1 fl' "1 HAIR .JCJt'a tAlci leather-boun- d la ft ork. IE CAN rtcbou N. V. book. "Clayton was In Chicago, Preston Brown you no doubt know. was at Little Butte des Mortes, Lac Vleur Desert, Wis. Arthur Trembly his was in Nova Scotia. He would get 10. Blair and August Halifax mnll at and would Ashley were In England mall by receive to be In London Uonnld Roberts neems to letter wo, have been traveling. His ht call and gnve Cenoa middle the about also as Paris, for mail of August" this side or "The three who were on Stanton said the water are dead," --" are am, three The other speculation. for that may be worth An-eu- SELL n fttrrii,jrulcs anv reryK mA .. post-marke- . k book. "Here we are," he said, opening the as ... wwv mniih Pl aairi vaiiinni nd F.dJ Hair tjr . Continued "Well, Lieutenant," as Pompey came with the tray, "here's our treat. At least it's mine. You're young. I'm old. I try to like being old, but it Isn't natural to do so. It requires a philosophy, If you have it. Your A lieutenant of health, Lieutenant. the Chicago police! Do you know, that would give any man a thrill." "You run us ragged on that here In the East, Mr. Darling. I'm completely out of comebacks. A Tatagonian can do no more." "I'm sincere, Lieutenant. To a man who mostly sits here and finds his world in books, and in Pompey, a Chicago lieutenant is a man from the Danube, the German forests or Hadrian's wall, a Roman centurion." "I assure you, Mr. Darling, that it's a great joke. Aside from knowing some hoodlums and knowing of some more I get my wild life by reading about It." "I refuse to believe you," said Mr. Darling smiling. "I have more intuitive confidence in you. You are from our glowing, animated, medieval, Gothic Chicago. I approve of it all. Pompey, put that Napoleon bottle down, after you've taken it out and poured another for yourself. Well, Lieutenant, you had some other mission than that of treating an old New York gentleman to the sight of an actual Chicago lieutenant of police, of a centurion In Lonrinlum, of an Angle long swordsman In Byzantium, of a Viking chief in Sardinia. I presume It's the Turner will." "You're right, of course, Mr. Darling." "I've been, In a way, expecting the New police, but thought I'd have a York call. In fact. Lieutenant, I've even considered that I might be arrested as an accessory, an experience which would brighten up any reasonable old age. What do you want to know. Lieutenant Stanton?" "You know that three beneficiaries of Mr. Turner's will are dead. Our chief point of concern seems to point to the surviving three. You may be able to tell me where they are." "In a fashion. I'd have to say yes and no. Twice a year I must know where they are, to send them their checks. I couldn't enable you to lay You once. your hands on them at have a copy of the will?" "I hnve Just come from the probate office In White Tlalns." "I hear from them prior to August 1 and December 1. Those were the dates of payment. I could tell you where they were last August. Pom Please get me the address book. pey But that was some eleven or twelve not weeks ago, and three of them will I unless more any me addresses send and Lodge Oliver am to believe Sir Onnnn Dovlc. which I don't." a The old colored man brought him with it. requires two It City, No. dtrtoUd. Fin dtUa1m of ftod kin pel off until U defMta uoh pimpUa. linr tod fracklva diaappasr. Skin ta than aoft pota, anil valvaly. Your f aoa looka yaara rounaar. Maroolie4 Wax brine out tha niddaa baauty ol your akin. T ramava wrinkiaa ua om ounoa Fonxiarad fchuoUlaj qhanivari in mi half rinl witea kual. At drug afcofasj tu (DUtegft Information nPAa I E.NaiTC . THE rta. KAM8AI 19 Beiaonabl I'm-- World Patent Attorneys, I ; 0, Oka. Almost Instantly Relieves Good old Nature has put into red marveloua therapeutic heat pepper that gets right down to the source of trouble and almost inatantly relieves the paina and achea of rheumatism, stiff joints, lumbago and neuritis. Thousand have found it the on safeguard against chest colds, too. Now this genuine red peppers' heat is contained in an ointment that you just rub on. In leas than 3 minutes you feel relief come. It is called Rowle Rod Pepper Rub. Safe. Will not bum or ating.Geta small jar from yourdruggiat. "' Absolution Protection Visitor But surely you spank your boy when he Is naughty Mother We'd like to, but he's the only one In the house that knows anything about the wireless. 1 STOP 6 IN TOUR COU '3 WITH' A HOURS uimo)ru .25 K2n a cold in 6 hours, it away in 12 hours. Drive Reiever o, Headache ; Pain,; Neuralgia That's No " Joke "A person muy lose 40 per cent of his blood and live to tell about It," says a passing item. Yes, and we have discovered, alas I that some of those who lost 00.1) per cent of their money in the stock crash can live to tell about It and spend about 1)0.0 per cent of their time doing It, too. Cincinnati Enquirer. A Nagging BacKacRe Warn of Kidney or Bladder Irregularities A persistent backache, with bladder irregularities and a tired, nervous, depressed feeling may warn of some disordered kidney or bladder condition. Users everywhere rely May I I on Doan' Villi. Praised for more than 50 years by grateful users the country over. Sold by all druggists. Doan's ills A DIURETIC FOR inc juvftLis m Clothes Wedding Custom Vetoed have Wedding eve celebrations en prohibited at Camburg, In Thur-ngla- , Germany, In their customary form. Usually friends of the couple gather outside the bride's house, and celebrate the occasion by the smashing of crockery, but this has caused such havoc to motor-cu- r tires that the authorities have been compelled to intervene, since the town Is liable for the damage. Arranging an Appointment "If you will call upon me sometime when I am entirely disengaged, ( think I can relieve you." "All right, Hoc, What are your golfing hours?" If we haven't much government, It won't cost much. 53 M soothing draw nut vmir cold like a magnet when rubbed on cheat and throat. Eaes breathing when Inserted bl stuffy noMrils, Jart and M ' nlntmnt sac-caro- share, iuok 8u. Uuaia, PAINS WITH HEAT OF RED PEPPERS 1 Normal Human Instinct for Beauty 173 Learned Men Poor Spellers A professor who misspelled ten of the 40 words submitted won a spelling bee held by Harvard faculty members. Every word was misspelled at least once by the professors. Such words as "all right," "desiccate" and "niece" were among the outstanding stickers. e Lom-bard- e Lfjing the soil Young Keeps uSkin M4 u Oet fca ouno ti During-"holdup" at the Dutch Mill, Chicago night club, a paDunn tron, Clayton, la killed Lieutenant of Police Stanton club questions, visitor, "Buck" 11 lb MsrcolizcdVax By CLIFFORD RAYMOND FROM THE BEGINNING . It wouldn't Insidering his worfs. terest anyone very much. As to the actualities of It he never talked much, although he was seldom reticent At first I was unable to believe that he was serious In this arrangement When I was forced to know that he was I represented the case of his son as strongly as I could. He was persuaded that his son was amply provided for. I was inclned to be angry and might have broken our friendship, but I have been generally delinquent In the moral grace which should have compelled Copyright. Th Bobbm.rrlll Co. me to Interfere In other people's lives and purposes. In the end I did not Those are unbalanced dates for take a firm stand. Tom Turner had Increased. men did not have conIf payments. Mr. Darling." been almost mortally Injured. This fidence In one another these conditions "Aren't they, Lieutenant ! You will would be unpleasant. You will have Idea of justice pleased him. Whatever notice they are so fixed In the will. read in the win that Turner said I should have done, I didn't, and whatI forebore to question my friend, Turever conscience I should have, I ner, on this point. He seemed to money was what the man who had itt haven't." was. f uM? conscienoe suggested The lieutenant waited for what more "Our gentlemen evidently have tried that it might be easier if it had nothMr. Darling might say of Turner's could believing trust one another. they ing more definite than my own will. When It was apparent that he ImagThey also strengthened their confiination." would not of his own desire go furdence by keeping as far apart from "I think I follow you, Professor," one another as they could. My records ther the lieutenant forebore to press said Stanton. show them widely scattered about the the question. "I was sure you would," said Mr "Mr. Turner's son," he said after a world. All except Blair and Ashley, Darling. pause, "lives here In Newburgh, I bewho seem to have chummed It." "You mustn't kid a lieve." policeman. I'm "All that satisfied me as to motive," probably wrong, but I'd guess the gen"Yes, the boy is recently married. said the lieutenant. "It's fantastic as tlemen were easy He will get his education without colspenders. From DeMr. you observed, but there's Darling, cember l to August 1 would seem a cause and there's continuity in the lege. I have encouraged him In that long time unless the spender was careHe Is a young fellow of the most encase of Clayton, Brown and Trembly. ful with his budget." By the way, do you know of a woman gaging seriousness. I hope to live to "It might make him restless," Mr. named Malsie? I mean In see what comes In the way of learning connection to a young fellow who cuts loose from Darling suggested. "As I said, my with any of these men." our delightful American college life." friend, Turner, seemed to relish this Mr. Darling shook his head. I refrained from questioning point. "Then I probably could see him to"She was used as a decoy for Clayhim. Between us, Lieutenant, I think ton," the lieutenant continued. "She morrow?" It occurred to him that "Oh, surely. Just go north, say, a hasn't been found. That's a side Issue. thirty thouhalf-milsand a year might tend toward confrom the Palatine and InOur continuity breaks at the red lantentment. His real conviction, I am terns at the Wisconsin quire." bridge if the sure, was otherwise, but he took this three other men of these six are In "May I call on you again, Mr. DarThere'll be more questions, If precaution." ling? Europe." mind." The lieutenant looked at Mr. Dar"They can be almost anywhere," suld you don't "I shouldn't like It If I weren't to ling. "There isn't any doubt in your Mr. Darling. "They can be In the see you again, Lieutenant." mind, then," he said. United States. They can have been Pompey came Into the room. "If I'm certain of what you mean, here all of September." "He's always just around the corthere Isn't. I'd prefer to concede that "Until it's proved that they haven't said Mr. Darling. ner," to you in an informal, say said the been," of lieutenant, "one them confidential, looked critically at the Pompey as manner, it were. My friend, Turner! picked up the lanterns In my story, is dead. Mr. Clayton, Mr. Brown and and I stick to it. My guess Is that at brandy bottle. "I'm glad you remind me of hosMr. Trembly have passed on to their said Mr. Darling. "Lieutenpitality," reward. There seems to be no eviant Stanton and I will have a stirrup dence seriously and directly involving cup. Pompey, you are In the presence anyone living in what might be called of a lieutenant of Chicago police. This a series of crimes. My associates in gentleman has been a centurion where this trust truthfully may say that their Dion O'Bannlon, Tim Murphy, duties and connections with it have Bugs Moran, Al Capone and been perfunctory, but what would you others lived or still live." twenty say of me as an accessory to murder, "Don't kid us so much, Mr. Darling. Lieutenant?" We do the best we can. And good "I hadn't thought of It, Mr. Darnight to you." You might make a case out ling. against yourself. I don't think It .In walking to the Turner boy's house would stand in court." the following morning Stanton made "I might, Indeed, and I can see a some mind pictures of Thomas Turprosecuting attorney looking askance ner's son, and the boy he thus preat me. I usually keep a certain repared himself to find proved to be that serve in my meditations on this will, boy. It was fairly conclusive that If but I'll speculate with you If you wish. a hard fighter of represslble' conThe answer unquestionably is that science, of an elastic moral code and Tom Turner wanted these men to have of a world easily adjustable to his dea reason for killing one another. As sires had alienated so much of his a trustee of his will I must think that fortune from his son It was because the suggestion is grotesque and slanhis son was unlike him. The differderous. As a friend of Turner I might ence might be at one side or the other w protest that it Is fantastic, but I must of the elder's character. Such a boy say that I think it is true." might be much of the worst of his "You Are From Our Glowing, Ani- "I should tell you," said the lleuten-ane- , father or largely the best of him. mated Medieval, Gothic Chicago." "that we had a letter from an The house was a New England remove Into the Hudson vnlley, the type attorney in Dorset, Vt., which gave us least one of them will be found here, the Turner will as a key." raised and painted or If he skips to Europe, has been which was framed, Tur"I know of Mr. Whittlesex. which generally contained and white, Mr. I here. I'm know Now, Darling, ner spoke of him. He liked him. He whether the coffin of an the imposing on your evening time and adultquestion conscienwas he could come out the front door delightfully thought out am of order." quite probably tious." or must it be let out of a window? In "By no means. Far from It I am the old "Turner nsked if Whittlesex ever days of Infant mortnllty (see I man will a of late habits. hope you of Samuel Sewall, for Inhad been an accessory to murder bethe diary live long enough to know that some man of serious and fore the fact and told him he was godly stance, people in old age love the night. Old a Salem witchcraft life, prayerful going to be." age Is congenial to the dusk and the Judge In the court of Oyer and Ter"No doubt. On occasion Tom would end of day. Externals are fading out He begat In December and miner. bellow out that he intended to kill six We are subjective people." buried In September), the little coffins rascals in a most enjoyable way. He "May my old age be as yours, Mr. came easily and often out of the front must have had some idea that he but It won't be. I'll probsomeDarling, door which had to the right an enwould be ballooning around a watchman In a waretrance to the living room, to the left where above to see It. Tom was an ably be night I would like to retire an entrance to a down-stair- s spare Incorrigible sentimentalist, romanticist house, althoughof bees to a clover counwith a couple He should have corbedroom and directly ahead, up stairs and Idealist. more questions. Can steep In pitch and narrow In step, try. Just a few rected himself." you suggest a way of picking up the two access to the dormitory. The hall for nearly "Nothing happened whereabouts of Blair, Ashley or Robspace for this movement In these three years," Stanton suggested. 'What, do erts?" dlrecllons might be three feet by four the broke peace?" you Imagine, where they were or lets. (Meditation upon the mor by beginning "Only where "Tom Turner was shrewd when I heard from them last or waittality of life would Include wishful men were concerned," said Mr. Darme their post offices until give ing they looks at the door and pensive conHe shrewd. ling. "He was more than next month." templation of the windows, speculawas Intelligent. That's a tall thing "What Influenced Mr. Turner to tion governed as the case might be by to say of anyone, but he was. He make this will?" Calvinism or by Armlnlan conceptions knew these men, and they knew one Mr. Darling was silent a moment. of efficacious of the universality from the see would another. They "These men had Injured him unfor grace.) first why the bequest had been made. (TO BE CONTINUED.) glvably," he said as If he were con Tom laid it on thick with terms they to loyalty couldn't misunderstand as and fidelity. Their first instinct, you smile see, Lieutenant, would be to in had him. defeat They to resolve and thousand each an income of, say thirty much and gladly to wear patent leath reaOne reason why clothes, or at least a year, and what could be more iner shoes at garden parties In the little so one with excite hands shake men, to of the clothes sonable thpn terest Is that they have become drab, height of summer, and have choked another on it and laugh at Tom Turand this drabness Is excused on the themselves rapturously with tall, stiff ner? meant to be collars; and comfort means little to knew Turner this. do would ground thnt clothes are "They them so long as they remain convinced and usefulthem knew also he comfortable; but and useful they would, of the Tightness and fitness of both. be to ceased knew have they He ness and comfort deeper than that. Osbert Burdett In the London Satur In modern life. were They another. with one beauty trust associated couldn't Review. true. is day course, one another. of Neither reason, Justified in not trusting of courworn to enhance human are of were degrees Clothes varying They such Lucky Marriage Months of direct acdignity, and. at bottom, only age, but none was afraid The belief that June marriages are to have comfort Is wanted as shall not Interbad a Is thing Distrust tion befere with the prevailing mode. The luckier than those of other months in your mind. It puts an enemy Is a relic of Roman superstition and bound women who starved and sliced themhind you In the dark. It was An old Roman proverb will who men mythology. these to slim, for In order keep Intolerable selves to become to the man and haphobbled skirts would one says, with "Prosperity cripple their limbs to be wondering which maid when married In to the was and crucify wear, piness the are The temptation these when break the truce. It was popularly supposed June." had feared Tur-np- r their feet when pointed toes and high always there. They time. He knew a normal the month of June was named In that display fashion, a the are heels for long himself of Juno, whose festival was held him so much human Instinct. Men have suffered honor they did, and that gave on the first of that month. Juno, the was content to he that satisfaction wife of Jupiter, was the guardian of wnit for this. Biblical Manna the female sex from birth to death. convinced themselves they "Gradually and also the patroness of happy mar The nebrew university at Jerusalem out of danger from that ihey were made a careful study of manna, the riages. Anolber month which comes he when has were knew they They with which the In for Its share of luck to married will mysterious food product until they learned of the were sustained while wanbad Israelites he couples Is February. You will see how completely dering In the desert Scientists at the them any good of none did conitem It "Inspired" by Hatbeeth? university concluded that mnnna to try to withdraw from participation. Is and frutose It jfPnerally supposed that the glucose, sugar, tained so. He might might have done came from the sap of a "Arabian Nights," and others of these and have and ?a, renounced his rights of tamarisk tree. The manna strange weird Eastern tales were writ jounced his patron, but neerthj species ten under the Influence of hasheesh when a tiny Insect pierces I formed If be died of pneumonia and causes the sap to exude which lends such a marveloua brll bark run tlie car a L or from having In white grains. liancy to the Imagination. and crystal! of bl. associate. 21 Sown the i Wm? ' r TFIhe EflSll on the fey tfeJ ,llis " 1 |