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Show to taTk with her at all until ths next morning when he said to her, quietly: want to talk with you, Mrs. Fry Why an I sick here instead of at home?" "Oh. 'twas more convenient." By MARY R. P. HATCH "I should hardly think so. Such a Author of " The Bank. Tragedy " Who was that man short distance. me yesterday?" see to called who I Lee S'e; and by Copyright, StieparU "Mr. Hammerly, our minister. He's a dreadful nice man." "I mistook the name at first, or yon CHAPTER XV. his own hand fired the shot, unless it did. Any way he looks enough like was done by some person who stood me to be my twin brother. Where is Who Fired the Shot? near him at the time. Constance and the children?" 1'he next morning at an early hour On the other hand, the river was "Constance!" said Mrs. Fry, stara pistol shot rang out sharp and near, and there were indications of at him with all her might. ing on the still air surrounding the a boat having been lately drawn up quick is there anything strange "Yes; upper portion of Grovedale. It was among the alders that fringed the about my questions?" heard by many and commented upon. bank, and later one was found a little oh, no, not a mite. Constance One or two heard the shot with some below the village, where it had come is "No; over home, an' the children, too, dismay, and made their way at once to a natural moorage under an overmost like." in the direction of the sound. hanging limb of an immense tree. The "You say Constance is over home. It appeared to be, as I have said, river was much shaded : it was not does she not come to see me?" Why at the upper end of the village, and impossible for a person to have es"She's dreadful busy." two or three men turned into the caped that way while attention was He started up in a moment and street approaching Mr. Hamilton's being paid to the wounded man; and in asked, keenly, "Are you deceiving house and walked toward it together. that case he had most likely taken to me? Is she dead or very sick? Has These were the men who had followed the woods after leaving the boat. to her, or the Chianything happened the sound. These surmises and the search kept ldren?" When they reached the grounds of the persons engaged in them from ob"No, they are all right, all of them. the house they saw a group of people serving the great agitation of Mrs. There ain't nothln' the matter with standing about a figure lying on the Hamilton and her husband. They none of them." grass. The group consisted of Mr. soon entered the house together, "Then she must come to see me, and Mrs. Hamilton and Mr. Carter, where Mrs. Hamilton suddenly faced for I am not able to go to her." who stood back at their approach and him and asked, excitedly: He spoke with a decision new and "Do you know how he was shot?" plainly revealed to their gaze the form Mrs. Fry began to grow strange. I I do not. Constance. of Primus Edes lying, face upward, "Assualarmed. on the ground. heard tin iot and jumped out of bed "But don't you see, Mr. Edes, It "Who did it?" asked one of the men. at once. Being quicker than Mr. Carwouldn't look well, she bein' a marMr. Green, .cited ly. ter I reached the spot a moment ried woman so, an' you a single man." "That's more than we can tell," said earlier, but I saw no one, and I was "Are you crazy, my good woman? Mr. Carter. "I' heard a shot and sure from the first that he shot himMy name is not Edes and I am not a jumped info my clothes and came self." single man, though I know very well down. Vane had got here, somehow, "But the pistol! It was not in his that she is a married woman." before I did, and my niece followed hand." "I'm sure you told me that your me. That's all we knew about the "Doubtless he threw it before he name was Edes, and that you were matter." fell to the ground." never married." "Shot himself, most likely," said "But you were angry to have him I "I never told you so. Edes! Mr. Dawes, a grocer on Main street. come here." never heard the name until now in all "I was angry, and I told the man "Eades has looked for my life." a long time. I wonder where the pisonly yesterday to keep away. But he "Well, then, what is your name?" tol is? It can't be a great ways off, if came this morning, it seems. Served she asked, endeavoring to quiet him he did it himself." him right." by a return to her acquiescent man"But he is different from other peo- ner. "That's so," said the other man, looking about. ple, and he meant no harm, I am con"Vane Hamilton, as you very well But the grass as short, there was vinced." know." no place where a pistol could be hidPrimus Edes did not die. Indeed, "All right, and now will you have den from direct gaze except behind a he began to mend rapidly, though his your drops? The clock is just strikrow of rosebushes a few feet away. wind wandered, the direct result of the time." ing Green moved toward them to look, the injury to his brain. Constance, "Yes, if you will go over and ask though she felt much anxiety, never my wife to come to see me." and, to his surprise, saw a small pistol plainly in sight in front of, not went near him. nor to the house, but "I'll ask her." Mr. Hamilton called each morning. behind, the rose bushes. "Thank you. It is only a little way, and she won't mind the walk. One ought to see the house from that window." "You can see it plain," and Mrs. Fry gave him the drops, and then went and stood irresolutely in the middle of her kitchen for several minutes. "I promised, an' It won't do no great hurt," she said to herself at last. "It dooz beat all what's got into the man, claimin' to be Vane Hamilton, an' he with a'most black hair. He's crazy as a loon." Taking the sunbonnet from its nail on the wall she closed the door carefully, and then called to her next-doo- r neighbor's to ask her to "keep house" a little while for her. "Don't disturb Mr. Edes unless he wants somethin'," she said, and then she hurried to the house of Mrs. Hamilton, and was admitted by that lady herself, who had seen her coming. (To be continued.) trr THE MISSING MAN i - down-hearte- Giant Mail Order Concerns Are Sapping Country of Its Wealth. SMALLER By Assisting of Wealth. TOWNS CRUSHED the Centralization in Patrons of These Institutions Contribute to Their Own Injury. (Copyright, 1906, by Alfred C. Clark.) Every year millions upon millions of dollars find their way from the towns, villages and rural districts of the country to the coffers of the mail order houses in the cities, and go to the upbuilding of enormous institutions in the centers of population. Naturally, the sources from which the contributions are made suffer accordingly. Figures ever tell a better story than words. Here are figures which tell a story so stupendous that its full significance cannot be grasped in a moment, but the mere sight of which are awe inspiring: In the year 1905 two mail order houses, located in Chicago, did a business amounting in round numbers to In irhe year 1904 these $80,000,000. same concerns did a business of about $62,000,000, a gain of $18,000,000 or nearly 30 per cent, in a single year being thus exhibited. These figures represent the sale last year of one dollar's worth of merchandise for every man, woman and child in the country by two catalogue houses alone, and those operating from the same central point. Dozens more of varying size and importance are operating all over the country from coast d IN SUMMER SLEDS "Are you my ghost?" CLIMES. Strange Kind of Vehicle Used in the Island of Madeira. "It is a wonder we didn't see it the and questioned Mrs. Fry regarding his At Funchal. in the island of Madeira progress in recovery. flrst thing," said he. traveler finds one of the strangest "He seems better said Mrs. the "It is a wonder." said Mr. Hamilof vehicles that the world afkinds ton, taking the pistol and looking it Fry. nearly three weeks after the fords. He sees waiting quietly near "He looks brighter and shooting. over. "There is no mark on it." a number of sleds, with takes notice of things. But, somehow, the wharf "No; but if I don't mistake that pisoxen yoked to each. sleek, tol belongs to Dan Fry." said Mr. lie acts a little mite queer." is always high summer time in MaIt "How? he Doesn't not know "I sold him one like it you?" Green. and to see a conveyance which "Yes, he called me Mrs. Fry, but he deira ever associated long ago." with snow and he has he me asked was him?" at shot Dan think house, why my "You don't and zero weather is at first disice I told him because he was fetched and said Mr. Carter, aghast. The stranger rubs his here, and then he wanted to know concerting. "No, I don't; I think he shot himand asks what those things are eyes he taken home instid." wasn't why self." are "It is but natural that his mind for, but he soon finds that they "Well. I am sorry to have had it and that unless he hacks the public v.cur here," said Mr. Hamilton, glanc- should wander," said Mr. Hamilton. "I wish you would just step in and cares to walk he must step inside, face. ing at his wife's terror-strickeensconce himself on the cushioned Hitherto she had not spoken, but look at him." seat and wait for the driver to prod moMr. a Hamilton for hesitated unloosened. was now her tongue his slow steeds with the goad that he followed to ment is Mrs. Fry and then "Why don't some of you see if he always carries. Very soon the vehicle really dead?" she cried. "Because a the comfortable apartment where lay begins to slip, very slowly to be sure, on his Primus Edes thinkand for reason no bed, pallid pian is shot it is little cobemaciated, his dark hair cropped but surely, over the smooth ing that he is dead." are which streets the with blestones Mr. Hamilton quietly knelt and laid short and his eyes shrunken. difficult At any particular paved. to in see "Mr. Hamilton called has his hand on his breast. turn of the road or when coming "It beats feebly. He may rally It you." said Mrs. Fry, approaching and to a rise of ground the driver places the bedclothes. risk not will We here. straightening Is not cold little a of grease under the front bag man. "Mr. who?" asked the sick disturbing him until the doctor comes. of the runners which makes it comparwith at his and at her, Green." visitor, the with harness. staring me Help atively easy for the sturdy steers to Working together, one of his horses a wild look in his eyes. pull the sled. "Mr. Hamilton," she repeated. was quickly harnessed, and the quarEven tip a long steep hill these oxen Edes. "Are asked Dr. Peck's to my you distance ghost?" mile a of ter will I slowly make their way. In coming "Am at bedclothes. the snatching quickly covered. no such tedious process is The doctor was at home and re- dead, then, and you my other self down again into a wide, finely but, used, to getting few come me?" a haunt in and turned in the buggy, with wicker sides, sled Mrs. reupholstered "No. said no." Fry. soothingly, minutes was kneeling beside the trusts himself to the I the if passenger not ha'nt sha'n't you, "nobuddy cumbent figure. mercies of two more or less "The wound is a bad one, but not know It. He just come to see how you tender villainous looking guides as steersnecessarily fatal," he said, after he was, that's all." men. Each one of th"m holds a rope "His name Is Hamilton, you say." had examined with great care the to the back of the sled, and when tied temI? did In It's the now, "Lor', Hammerly. hole made by the bullet I meant, our minister," said Mrs. Fr the toboggan, as it Is often called, sometaken to be have will "He ple. alarmed at the growing excitement of gets to jumping and bounding too where." Mr. her patient and lying with a glibness hilariously the guides jump off and said "He boards at Mrs. Fry's," pull with all their might at the ropes. surprising to herself. Carter. Mr. left had removed Hamilton, meanwhile, be must "Very well. He Then He Stopped. there at once," said the doctor, "and the room and stood waiting for Mrs. A certain outer door. the at bullet." preacher in a small town the Fry for I will then probe tor his long and "dry" a folks had ideas sick what its "Od reputation from takp'" hinges A door was taken "He ain't as well as I sermons, One Sunday he was living and four men carried the insensible she said. well up to his Htan'lard anil one by one where he thought he was." form tO his boarding-place- , I am "No. nfraid his brain been his has Mrs. congregation left the church. UnFry. was tenderly cared for by Mr. Hamilthe preacher continued, unsaid Dr. dismayed, Peck, Injured." permanently extracted by was The bullet a to be had left but the faithful all dis not til who seemed little attended finally ton, and the wound thoroughly "I will not go In again, my sexton. At last the old sexton came to. Then the physician left the house, turbed. seems to agitate him." forward and. putting the keys on the saying he would look in at his patient presence out of Mrs. boarder's her pulpit, said: kept Fry in an hour or so. "Say, doctor, when you're through Meanwhile an excited group of men room for an hour, and when she en was lie lock he saw she that tered and up. will ye?" asleep, the grounds were searching n long time, and appeared drow woods about the Hamilton place for slept Cause and Effect. murderer, sup- ay for awhile upon waking, but after traces of a would-broom the looked about Bess he Were wards yon angry because he an be to attempt posing the affair not ' eost clear-eyed- , kissed you? though silent, and Mrs at suicide. Many declared Nell No; but 1 was when he apol of Fry softly went out fearing that he certainly was that, the Incltnnti.r not did Hut he her would tt question gized In It later. the wound being upward proved d n MENACE TO ALL pie as a whole shall he prosperwis. Such general prosperity as may exist WITH LEGISLATORS UTAH'S cannot be retailed if 'he institutions of the already larger and wealthiei Representative Clegg has introduced' bill to provide for depositaries communities are to continue to be state money. built up by contributions that should The office of mailing clerk has been be spent at home from the thousands created in the house and J. W. Kelly of Pinto appointed to the position. of smaller communities. The need of the country, a desper Senate bill No. 6, Hoi worth. ate need upon which the welfare of ietines powers and byduties lings of state the individual depends, is for the board of equalization in relation to upbuilding and continued progress of taxation. the smaller communities, so that the Both the senate and the house ad wealth of the country may be distrib- journcd on Friday until Monday, thus not and uted over the entire country, observing Saturday and Sunday as congested and controlled in large days of rest. amounts in a comparative few centers House bill 27, by Robinson, would of population. ore purchases and guard regulate Therefore, the man who sends away ugaiust the a. mm onriat ion and talei from his own community money which of high grade ores. he might have spent at home and perII u nf HnnA llpurtrp mitted a fair profit to the home mer Utahitnsn will again introduce his county, for the there retained chant to be Mrhl hour labor aw ileteateil at thd benefit of the community, is injuring last session of the legislature his community, and thereby the prosSenate bill 19, by Rasband, provides pects for his own future prosperity. that all mines in the state of Utat In a large number of instances he Is shall itroviile for emerirenc eaees il doing more than this. Unwittingly, or case of accident and providing a pen unthinkingly, perhaps, he is violating any tneretor. his own principles of right and justice, Tho senate liail a short anil IUMTSU( for, at the expense of his own com- ful session Friday afternoon, but 11 munity, he is needlessly contributing minutes elansiim from the call to or profits to the capitalistic combinations der to the motion to adjourn unti: which he continuously cries out are Monday at l o clock. menacing the country. House bill No. 35. introduced by Re The mail order giants direct their resentative Nephi Jenson, is intended energies particularly toward the peo to correct the ev s comnlalnetl ot in ple of the smaller towns and the agri- connection with the operation of ths In hundreds of cultural districts. justice's court at Murray. thousands of the homes of these the House bill No 12. bv (iece makes catalogue of the mail order house is as it unlawful for any person to require as home the paper. the regularly received of surety bonds in corpor giving The man on the farm last year sent a minis not authorized to transact busi very large portion of eighty millions ness in the state of Utah of dollars to two of these institutions, steniiti.r Hulaniski of Weber county, in one community, alone. has Introduced a measure which pro In all sincerity we ask: Admitting, vides that the name of a candidal purely for the sake of the argument, hull onlv anneai' once on a ballot anfl that the fanner or the resident of the under only one party designation small community can save a few bill 2:1. bv Meeks. is a meas lars on some of his purchases, or even ureHouse to reimburse Mt. Carmel school district No. 2. Kane county, for in. debtedness incurred in maintaining t tu school in county. Appropriation . resolu-ionThe house on Friday passed a offered by Mr. Kuchler, inviting congress, which the meets in Denver next summer, to hold ts annual convention in 1908 in bait I v Trans-Mississip- ijike. Senate bill No. 4. nassed last week. Ufa provides that any person serving a consentence at the penitentiary upon viction of assault with intent to kill or do great bodily injury shall suffer death. House bill No. 14, by Jackson, would create a commission to ascertain the feasibility of procuring subterranean water in dry land farming and appropriating money for the expenses thereof. The district attorney's office Is probably doomed, at least so far as the house is concerned. A measure Is in preparation which proses the immediate abolition of the office of district attorney. Senate bill No. 12, by HulaniskL provides that salaries of county shall be lull compensation for all service rendered, and providing for the compensation of deputy coun- 1 offl-cer- s ty officers. The deficits incurred by the various state boards, amounting t.o aprVixiel v $87,000, will be investigated by 1,1:1 the senate and their authority to ex ue will ceed their appropriations Into question. brought An iint'avora hie renort from the com vast of a the contributed last portion Plow" large The "Man Behind the year mittee on agriculture and horticulture number ' millions which found their way Into the coffers of the mail House Hill No. 4, by Dean, autnoriz-;n- r in order houses. The smaller comm unities to which it belonged, and which the rounlv commissioners to em were thus deprived of it, suffered accordingly. ploy agents to exterminate pernicious weeds, was concurred in, killing the can of all on so could do he that them, border. to to coast and from border to to continue afford impoverish bill. A fact not generally known is that he Harnett of Juab which his own llis upon the Representative community, concerns of hurdreds throughout In a bill introduced last week, of his value the SOunty, own very business prosperity, rountry which now are doing proposes to put a stop to the alleged through the regular trade channels are lanr1 lepends? m ai ice of railroads of appropriating himself will ask this he If to law question a parcels post awaiting only .0 their own use coal and other fuel in and consider and it fairly soberly unloose literature, already prepared for public or private use, designed would pro- all of its phases, Including the many while in transit. in manj instances, which touched upon within ject them into the mail order field, and which cannot be Representative Giles has offered In this does not take into account the the limits of a single article, we think house n lull providing for the I,,, hundreds and perhaps thousands of his answer must be that, he cannot. of creating new counties. It nanner of this wonderful The concerns productivity entirely new mail order no reference lo the proposed new las I over-to is to bo which inevitably would spring into ex- country has been sufficient WUUty Ol Bingham, which istence under such friendly auspicc3. come the various adverse economic In- sliced from Salt lake county, in case refluences which have existed during the i.he plans of the promoters go through. The two Chicago institutions ferred to, already occupying immense period of years in which the mall orThe railroad commission bill Is now Its buildings, found themselves cramped der business has accomplished The bill Is a before the for room. One of them expended not greatest growth. Everyone has been and one, provides for the less than $1,000,000, and probably more. "getting along pretty well." While the voluminous of three ratiroad board of a creation of millions from (low golden for a new home. The otner lately has increasing Commissioners, to be appointed by the secured a new location ind ilso will their source in the land of the coun- governor, not more than two of whom centers of expend at least $1,000,000 for an Im- try to the already great shall be of tho same political party. money and population has held back The salary of the three commissioners mense new building. uniof the smaller comm the Is placed at $:i,000 a year each, and Anyone who will reflect even casual ties. growth It has not yet occasioned a great Imthey may appoint a secretary, whose ly on the subject muot become tost will come with the salary shall be $1,800 a year. The act The disaster. of ihc mail pressed that the 'ho central- first pinch of "hard times," a condi- Is made to apply to railroads engaged oider business Is tov.-arand no country ever has been In the transportation of freight ization of woaith, end Low mormons tion which within this state, ami to Intervals. at to able passengers recurring escape direction a part it Is playins in this lime arrives those com- express companies, but not to street In will be understood from a second When this best land the test which and electric railroads engaged vil! munities glance at the figures v.hi.'.i have been have best conserved and husbandod transporting passengers alone ' given above. their resources President Uve last week advised It la due to himself that every patron JOHN S. POTTS. senators to Inspect the various he of the mail order house cboiild inquire institutions at as early a date Hate The Puzzle Solved. honestly of himself w',i?t the final as the last few weeks of possible, is btisi la to be if tlx mail order would be so filled with Somo tlnio.ar.o r merchant In session the ncss shall continue to malic the great Mas.. was discovered In his work that it would be difficult to e. much in the "Junketing-linstrides which have marked !to prog tore at a very late hour, and In reply ho said: ret?2 duiiiig Jui last half decade. lo inquiries, mg It lo useless to repeat (he well worn "My confidential clery 13 missing." Tho present legislature will be called concerns of order it?" what mall "And of the argument upon to provide means for the payment animal enough that they arc selling good "Why, I'lil looking over the books, f $l9,r.09.B9 for outstanding to a report more choaply than the tnorchants In but they sefcin to be nil right." according claims, bounty MOl to both houses by the state board "Havo yeas COVtitod your cash?" the regular channels of Hide tc leave The report Is an echo than f examiners. Is correct to dollar." a "Yes; snd it their customer m'Jtm mory if the bounty fraud expose of two "JjOOkeil over your bank hook?" ever to devote ic Nom- - nteiprlaen It I have, and t satisfactory. years ago. and Instituted:;. Tfc fsHac r,f this He's statomisnt. I'll been proved over and That's the puzzle, you r.ee. The state mining committee has reccan't mnkf out what ommended the Rasband bill, provld over again b actual nod minute com skipped, and utit mg for the equipment of all mines parlsoM of g )oi s to ihsir quality for." medical suplles for use in an einer "Been home since noon?' and prices. To ifuU It foully and to ency. The bill makes any neglect "No." Indisputably by a n'.nipler snd BMW) a fine by pnishable Its i to provisions necessary only direct method It "Porhajs he's alopcd with your ibey if $.'!00 or Imprisonment not exc eeding ask the rellnble business men of any wife." months. ix to this and hurried fojnd of the smaller cornraunitic.t to show IIo home, ae House bill No. 19. by Robinson, lie tho case. the evidence from their books and counts of the harm the mall order imends the act toatlng a state board It Increases the sal Wise David. ,f equalization habit Is doing their communities. VVlfe "Why do you alv.nys sit nl irles of the four members from $800 It Is a truth as old as the hills and and requires them to as certain as the rising and setting of the piano, David? You know you 10 $2,000 a year whole time to their du their devote "NHtnei a Pavld note'" the sun that no country or section of can't play ties. The same measure has app-a- rd I coentry ca prosper unless Itie poo can anyone SiSt, while ara herel" in the senate - l J -- out-com- Mar-blehea- 1 c t |