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Show Apple Slump. Pare, core and quarter a dozen tart, Juicy apples, pour over them a cupful of hot water an.? place In a saucepan on the back of tht range. Let them stand five or ten minutes, then add two cups molasses. Cook ten minute, over with a paste made from a heaping pint of sifted flour, a teaspoonful of sugar and two of baking powder, with enough sweet milk to make a soft dough. Spread this over the apples, cover the kettle closely and cok 25 minutes without uncovering. Servo with lemon or foamy sauce. Orders Thirty Two Oil Burners. The Mexican Central railroad hat 32 ordered consolidated engines, equipped with oil burners,- delivery to be made In November, December and January. The engines will be built by the American Locomotive company. And at Your Expense. "His idea of a 'lobster' Is any one who drinks. nothing stronger than wa ter." "How ridiculous! Why, if you press a lobster hard enough he's bound to take a nip." Unflattering. "Wonder why it's so easy for a fellow to get engaged at a summer resort?" ''Ever look into one of these summer hotel minors?" Yes." "Well, when a girl sees herself in one of those, she's ready to accept almost anybody." Cleveland Leader. His Bait Good Endugh. You can't flsb Keeper Hi, boy! here without a permit. Boy Well, I'm getting o well . enough with a worm! Tit-fiits- Constituent Wanted Much. Senator of Nelson, Minnesota, claims to number among his constituents the American citizen who has th most primitive ideas as to the po ver and duties of members of conThis voter, who lives in gress. Sleepy Eye, wrote Mr. Nelson, say"When you go to the capital ing: the next time please go to the pension office and get my pension increase pushed through, and then see If the fish commission will give ua some trout seed up here. Same time see the postmaster general and have Nils Swenson made postmaster at Ko day, and if you see him, tell Secretary Wilson we all up here want plenty new cabbage next spring Next time go in attorney general's and poke up Moody to get Halvoi H ora out of jail for selling whisky to Indians. That's all aow." Jut THE MISSING MAN By MARY R. P. HATCH Author of " Th Bank Tragedy" CopTiitfht. 189a, by toe CHAPTER IV. Disclosures. the detective, met with no difficulties in learning what he wished to know regarding Mrs. Anderson of New Jersey, who. it appeared, by some unaccountable freak of nature, had been given emerald hair as a head covering, and stranger yet, in spite of this, was a beautiful woman. Mr. Bruce, for reasons of his own, chose to go to Miss Talbert for information, and was amply rewarded. He was told in as few words as possible all that was known about the strange lady. Finally, Miss Talbert, asking to be excused for a moment, left the room and returned almost immediately with a fine, hemstitched handkerchief with an intricate embroidered design in the corner. "And what may that be?" asked the detective. "Her handkerpuzzled chief?" "Yes, she dropped it in the hall as she went out. One of the girls saw it drop and called to her, but she did not hear." "What is the name? It Is Hebrew to me." "Mary." an inward nature. Practically it had been suspended for nearly a week, and now affairs had taken a brisker "Then," thought the detective, "the woman is not likely 10 be Lenora, and Mrs. Hamilton may be righl. Poe's poems are haunting, certainly; but somehow I felt as if this woman was the Lenora of his dream." "Perhaps you had better say nothing about my inquiries," he said to Miss Talbert upon leaving. "Very well. I will remember your caution," she answered, and she watched with some curiosity, as he went down the street and turned the corner. "He is going to the bank," she thought ; and she was right. Arrived there, he found that the business being carried on was all of Mr. Bruce, ' ,siJ"J'.- examination as you desire. 700 fine not credited in th bani deposits books, you may rest assured if I failed to make the entry it was a mistake, and if others have done it 1 know nothing about it. As for Osborn, he is as honest as the day. I am unable to return at present, but shall do so as soon as I can. Show this letter to my wife." 'A curious letter." said the detec tive, staring blankly at the ceiling "Yes, he must have seen the news paper reports. What does the letter mean, do you think?" "There seem to be two meanings, and which flatly contradict each other. He throws suspicion on Osborn, and yet says he is as honest as the day. If there is any complicity on the clerk's part, it would be for Ham ilton's interest to have him thought On the other hand, they innocent. seem at odds. Hamilton hints at oth-- i ers, and Osborn states that he saw Hamilton enter the bank on the night of the twenty second." "True," said President Hastings looking puzzled. "It is a strange case, taken in all its aspects." "Mr. Hamilton was, I hear, a man much respected." "He was, and his wife still has implicit trust in him." Remembering Mrs. Hamilton's man ner, Mr. Bruce could not perfectly agree with him, but said nothing. "You are in her employ, are you not?" asked Mr. Hastings. "I am. I reported to her this morning." "Did she show you her advertise ment of the reward she offers for information of her husband?" "No, perhaps she thought I had seen it." The president handed him a journal and pointed to the notice. The detective read "$500 Reward. Vane C. Hamilton, of Grovedale, N. H., has been missing since May 10th, unless, as is stated by one person, he was at. the savings : of-C- We Make Travel Easy. Five trains daily via the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Colorado to Kansas City, St. Joe, Chicago, Galveston, Ask me El Paso, City of Mexico. C. F. Warren, about reduced rates. G. A., A. T. & S. F. Ry., 411 Dooly Block, Salt Lake City, Utah. "She said no, her name was Leonora." gait under the examinations of Bank Commissioner Winch, who arrived the day previous. He was very busy,- but Wind Cuts Out a Car. to talk with Mr. Bruce when stopped heavy freight car, the sixth from a .boose, on the Northwestern train he learned his errand. "Does it appear that Mr. Hamilton near Scarville station, a short disfled with the funds?" asked the has tance north of Mason City, la., was blown from the rails by a high wind, detective. "There has been strange work, the drawbars being pulled out. The train was moving at the time, and no strange work," said the commissionother cars were affected by the storm. er. "Up to a late date everything seems to have gone all right; but No serious damage was done in tnt since then affairs have taken on a difcountry. ferent aspect." Have Change of Menu. "What do you mean, Mr. Winch?" It Is not good economy to cook the It developed this "Simply this: same thing day aftor day. Study up morning that previous to the twenty-einew dishes and serve them daintily, ghth of May, Hamilton altered a use up all the and put bits note payable to this bank, making the of bread, cereals, mashed potatoes, or amount five thousand instead of five anything of the sort in your griddle hundred, and deposited the note with cakes, and they will be greatly the First National Bank of Boston, as collateral for money. Whether he has done so in more than this instance it is impossible to say." Hamilton's bondsmen "Of course will settle." Any money fcuylng Diamonds from us. We buy more, carry more and sell more than any Dia"Yes, they have signified their readmond bouse in the west. Fine goods only at iness to settle. Mr. Carter, and Hen reasonable prices. derson, too. say they believe that, dark as it looks, the matter will clear up " "There must be a foul conspiracy back of it, then," said the detective. "lxoked at now. it is as clear a case of dishonesty as I ever knew. Still," 170 recollecting himself, "a new phase of ST. the matter may arise any moment. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Anything look like complicity on the part of Osborn?" "No; the president found a letter under his door this morning, without LIST OF UPRIGHT USED It relates to Osborn, any postmark. 1 believe." asked the de"From Hamilton?" with alert gaze. tective, The commissioner nodded. "It pur ports to be. I can't tell you what was All standard makes, mailed in It, though. The contents have not with prices for the asking been made public except that it exonerates Osborn of any complicity In the matter of which he might be susNEW YORK & WESTERN pected." Street Bruce went directly to the presipiano co. ily .... dent's house, found him alone, and The president stated his errandshowed him thp letter at once. It ran: Yon are no dotthi "Mr. Hastings: afraid that the savings bank funds are stolen, but such is not the case M S. P o. " 0 144 V. S1DLIK L1 LAKS OITT. UTAH as fsr as I know If on making such - left-over- Can't Lose PIANOS sitar. - Union Assay Office . 1 alarm Hamilton, showing that suspicions had been awakened. To show that he is thought to have absconded with funds of the bank would alarm him directly and put him beyond our reach. But he might even return if he thought nothing was suspected, if it should be authentically stated by you, for instance, that upon examination everything had been f uind correct. Still, he must know the affai the altered note would leak out st me time." "Yes, and there may be others of larger auount, Mr. Bruce." "True. One thing more I wish to you. Who presented the note and received the money at the Boston Lank?" "Mr. Hamilton, himself." "Are you sure?" "I have the written word of Simon Low, the cashier of the bank, low has been here more than once. H6 i nows Hamilton nearly as well as I do." "A dark look: " "Couldn't look much blacker, hey?" am sorry for his wife," "No; but :aid the detective, "it will tie sharp work hunting him up." Mr. Bruce took his departure short ly afterward, Busing deeply over the developments of the mysterious affair, for exceedingly mysterious .t seemed to him. In the whole course of his calling he had known of nothing like it, so puzzling and complicated with what appeared to be such adverse matters. Here was a man universally esteemed, who for years had been guilty of nothing worse than mysterious yearly journeys (yet, which were supposed to be innocent enough until now); a devoted husband and father; a member of the Congregational churcb, of which he was deacon, though young for the position; cashier of the savings bank where the poor people who worked at his mill deposited their earnings this man, it seemed, was a defaulter, a forger, the deserter of his wife and family. Worse yet, it appeared also that he had left his wife and went away in company with another woman, though this did not seem quite so evident. it though slight Confirmation, might be, was waiting at the corner of the street in the person of Miss Talbert. "I saw you," she began directly, "when you left the bank, and as I had felt bound given you a wrong idea to set it right at once." "How do you mean?" "About the handkerchief. Mary, our chambermaid, came in soon after you left and asked if she might havs it, as it was marked with her name, and she was the only Mary in the house." " 'I suppose you might as well have it, then,' I said; 'but how did you hap'Oh,' said pen to know about it?' Mary, T handed it to Mrs. Anderson .when she first came. She was conand I things. dropping tinually She asked me noticed the name. what it was, and I told her Mary. She said she did not notice that it had a name on it when she bought it.' Before she thought, Mary asked her if it wasn't her name then, and she said no, her name was Lenora." The detective was startled out of his general immobility by the internal workings of the matter. A development like that was startling, when it would have seemed so much more likely to have never come to the surface. But he managed to thank Miss Talbert for her information and to say, 'No wonder she did not. recognize the name herself. It looked quite as much like a rosebush or a wheelbarrow. You gave the handkerchief to Mary. I conclude; Mary what?" "Mary O'Neil. Yes, I gave it to a.-.- 1 Paupers Were Well Fed. In the records of SA Thomas hos pita!, Ivondon, is an )( y of the year in considers1070, to the effect , if the yere," the UOU Oi LUtt IIULU evevT Gne a days poor be allowed two months" three pyntts of Te a quart at dinp " . J a pint at sup two months re per and at thepn-turn to "there ole ol tinary allowance The food at wyche is one qusrte." this ancient workhouse was to be dealt w! as liberally as the drink. The al ler and steward were to "bye no byho but of the best,, without bones and in speciall without the marybon, and none other to be bowght." You od Shrparo I am empowered to offer K1.OP0 more, making the sum $1,500, though for the present no change will be made in the wording, unless you advise it." do not advise it A change would bank the twenty-seconMr. Hamilton is thirty-flvyears of age; five feet ten inches in height; weighs about one hundred and fifty pounds; has a slight swinging gait, light brown hair, dark brown eyes; has no heard but a heavy mustache. When he left home was dressed in a gray tweed suit with sack coat, a light black overcoat, and black Derby hat. The above amount will be paid to anyone through whose efforts he is her." returned to Grovedale. N. H. (To be continued.) "MRS. V. C. HAMILTON. should be ad- BUILT WITH SECRET DRAWERS. "Correspondence dressed to W. A. Hastings, President, Grovedale Savings Bank." Hidden Compartments in AH "Has this advertisement resulted in Furniture any correspondence yet?" asked the The woman in a fashio. table furnidetective ture store looked the new sideboard "A letter from Conductor Libby all over, but seemed so indifferent reached me this morning." that the salesman despaired of a sale. It lay on the desk and he handed it He was preparing to accept the usual to the detective, who read it attent"will call again" when an idea oc-- I ively. curred to him. Opening a cabinet on "There seems to have been a the side Intended for cruet bottles, he woman with him, you see," said the touched a To the astonish-- ! spring president, ed customer was revealed a secret "What alwut this woman? If it was drawer, enough to hold a dozen an elopement, of course Hamilton letters orlarge so, a bank book, and a few would fight, shy of recognition." the Jewels. The salesman closed "But was it? I confess that puzzles drawer. me most of all, for Hamilton seemed "Now open it," he said to the custhoroughly devoted to his wife, and tomer. she is a splendid woman. But It ap8he tried In vain. She asked the pears this Mrs. Anderson, or whatever salesman to show her how He said her name may be, met him like an old he would with pleasure if she bought and after stating at the sideboard, acquaintance, it was otherwise the hotel that she was on her way to against the rules of the ho ise Coaticoke. P. Q., went the next morn "This Is an evolution of the secret ing south instead of north in the same drawers in writing desks." he said train with Hamilton. Read what to an onlooker. "It Is not Libby says about it." now to put secret compartments in "They sat together and the woman desks. That Is the first place anybody was talkative, but Hamilton did not looking for hidden documents Is sure say much, at, least when I saw them. to look. But they never 'hlnk of She bought a tlckPt on the train to In a folding bed or a dining searching Portland, hut I did not nottce her room sideboard. It is the womn who when I went my last rounds. The last run most strongly to this freax featI saw of Hamilton was at Portland ure in furniture. A man has his fireHe did not appear to notice depot proof deposit vault or a safe place in me. though I looked him full in the his office for any papers he wants to face." A woman seldom keep out of sight "Where was the woman. I wonder?" lias anything but a desk at home, that asked Mr, Hastings, after listening is as available to everybody else In to the extract. 'he family as it Is to her. She never "That may or may not be difficult knows what moment her cherished to learn." said the detective, rising Mttle secrets may ne uncovered snd to leave Mr. Hastings arose also Sighed at. With such a compartment "Mr. Rruce." said he, "the notice as its the one In that sideboard she It reads now offers but $500 reward, need ever worry." e e NORTHWEST NOTES The Silver Peak railroad was completed on the 16th, and the first train-loaof lumber was hauled into the new town of Blair, Nevada, at Silver Peak. Many men known in the mining A HANDY WAGON BOX. ndustry throughout the world gathered in Denver to attend the convention of Easily Constructed and Can Be Used the American Mining congress, held for Variety of Hauling. last week. This homemade wagon tiox may be It Is believed that the brutal murconstructed with little labor and ex- der of Secretary Reno Hutchinson, of pense and is very useful for h variety the Spokane V. M. ('. A., was the crime of hauling For the sills used Cvo of a footpad, not the work of a pertimbers inches by 12 feel long sonal enemy, as was suspected at of hard pine. For the Hour used st pieces of No. sheeting bard pine fur first. the top of the ruck, each 3 inches William M. Alderson, for many editor of the Bozeman Courier, years 71 is dead at Bozeman, Mont., of tumor of ""It: 5frt:i the stomach, after a long illness, aged 75. He was a native of Yorkshire, riiiglund, and came to Montana in lxS I 1 ' : zz zlj HZ' l 1 i 1886. Announcement comes ft 0111 Wyoming that the Burlington is preparing to begin construction work on the extension of the Frannie-Worlanline In Big Horn county on south through Thermoplois, Shoshone, and to Denver. Horace E. Voss, who was doorkeeper of the fifth Utah legislature and the most prominent colored man in the state, was shot and instantly killed by A. T. Day, another negro. Voss had reproved Day for assaulting a smaller man. The Oregon & Washington, Hani-man'subsidiary corporation building to Seattle, brought condemnation proceedings to acquire a righl of way through thirteen blocks of lund lying between Fourth and Sixth avenues, Seattle. Hantaan wants the property for a right of way to passenger terminals. The Aetna Banking & Ttust company (branch) of Washington, D. C has been closed by direction of the acting comptroller of the currency, nnd Robert Lyons has beeii appointed receiver. This company lis a branch of the Aetna Banking & Trust company of Butte, Mont., which closed the following day. Two trains collided near Monroe, Wash., killing Freight Engineer J. B. Hudson, Freight Fireman A. W. and Pat Sheridan, and injuring Passenger Engineer George Lawrence and Conductor Wetzell. It is alleged the wreck was caused by the freight not leaving Monroe on lime. Several freight cars were demolished. Five masked men drove a wagon up to No. 1 shaft of the Hayes & Monett lease on the Mohawk mine, at Goldfield, at 3 o'clock Saturday morning, covered the engineer and top men with guns and loaded up five sack of ore valued at $12,500. The robbery was a most daring one, and so unexpected that it was successful. The register aud receiver of the United States land office at Helena, a telegram Montana, has received of the from acting commissioner land office, United States general George Pollock, ordering withdrawal from entry of large areas of coal land in Montana, in pursuance of the recently announced policy of the president. A warrant for the arrest of F. E. Qarside, cashier of the Aetna bank, of Butte, which closed its doors Fri-launder orders of the acting comptroller of the currency, was issued on the instance of a lady depositor, who had deposited $10 in the defunct institution shortly before it closed. The warrant was not served, however, as the lady, with all others who had deposited money with the Aetna on rhurwlay, were refunded their money. The Union Pacific railway is plan tiing the construction of a cutoff Platteville Colo., and Laramie, Wyo., which will eliminate all heavy grades between Denver and Laramie and shorten the distance to Salt Lake City. Goldfleld, Nevada, is doing by all odds the biggest telegraphic business :f America, considering its size. The tverage dally number of messages sent out is crowding the 3,000 mark, and during he last few days has run close to 6,000. The closing hours of the Hayes & Monette lease on the Mohawk mine at Goldfleld, Nevada, will be signalized by the shipment of the richest carload It of ore ever shipped from a mine. of will contain in the neighborhood thirty tons, valued at $1,000,000. George Smith, of Elko, Nev., was run down and killed by a Southern Pacific train at Rosld, about 203 miles west of Ogden. The trainmen assert that the man walked directly In front of the train. Smith's body was taken to Elko on board the train which killed him In the finals of the most, important stakes of the national coursing meet at Hot Springs. S. D, the Waterloo cup was won by Mr. Blue, owned by Tonkin and Saunders of Butte, Mont , the Waterloo plate was won by Lord Blake, the property of L. F. Bartles of Denver. Two men were killed, while more than a score of passengers were Injured as the result of a head on collision between tWO Simla Fe express tains near Manzanilo. Colorado Both locomotives were totally demolished, as was the baggage car ou the train. d Sides and Ends of Wagon Box. wide. For the floor ordinary hard pine flooring was used. For stays at the side I used 2x;i inch strips. The front end gate was made solid, as shown in corner left of cut, but the back gate was made in two pieces, either one of which could be left out. This is a fine rack, says the Farm and Home, for hauling wood, hogs, hay, fodder or corn. For ordinary purposes the slatted sides can be turned down, but when loose stuff like ear corn or fodder is hauled the sides can be raised. The material for this box costs $10. USE ROAD DRAG OFTEN. Use Will Put Road in First Class The King road drag does first-claswork. Our road was in such a bad shape that it was almost, impossible to travel, savs a Minnesota farmer in Farm and Home. I worked on it one and days ami it put the road in pretty good shape, a distance of four miles, with that amount of labor. If I put in another day and a half the road will be in fine condition. I think that one man, four horses and the King drag will do just as much and as good work or more, than five men and some other graders. The King drag should be weighted down with the driver and 200 pounds be- sides, the horses hitched ahead. If all the farmers would own one of the King drags and use the machine right after a rainfall we could soon have good roads. s one-hal- Dead Leaves. Dead leaves are of great value for fertilizing purposes in the garden and they are also good to keep out frost In the winter. For banking around a building to keep out the cold nothing is better. They are useful for a covering for vegetables stored in the cellar or buried out of doors. Sweet potatoes can lie kept, in leaves. They can be used as a covering for the flower beds in the fall to protect them from freezing. They are useful for protection to the strawberry bed and any other plants that, are in one place for more than one season. They are good to use as mulching material instead of straw or refuse. They make fine stable bedding In the winter and are in good condition as manure for the garden by spring. Dry leaves make good litter for the poultry house. Grain can be scattered in the leaves and 1he chickens have to scratch for it. Intensive Agriculture. The possibilities of intensive agriculture are Illustrated In the pot cultures, where all the conditions of irrigation, drainage and fertilization are under control. It is declared by Prof. Cyril G. Hopkins that three times as large crops are grown in pots as In the open field, and that when pot culture of plants is to be used for com paring field work it Is fair to expect from the fields only one third as great yields as are obtained from the pots. This shows that the yield of the earth may be Increased at least three times beyond what It Is now. Under such a system of agriculture, the world would support three times Its present population, even if the present population were all It could support under existing conditions. Increasing Soil Capacity. The population of the United States wan about 5,.'!OS,000 In 1800, while In 1900 it was 76,303,000. At the beginning of last century there were 6.6 people In every square mile of the ter rltory that composed the then republic. At. the close of the century there were 25,6 In every square mile of the country. As all know, most of the good land has been brought under cultivation. It now remains to bring the arid lands under cultivation and to Improve the cultivation of the good lands The process of robbing the soil Is being gradually stopped, as Intelligence Increases, but the robbed lands must now be brought bark to their first productiveness. Rome few years ago a few entomologists were quite hopeful that Insects like grasshoppers and chinch hugs might be killed at wholesale by scattering the germs of a disease among them. The plan seems to have been a failure. s Res-tell- - y I t east-boun- |