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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH. UTAH AAA:AAv:roDDXOXCO;iClO:i:.g HINTS sitery of Hartley House LARGER IMPORTS 'TW Uluitrated by IRWIN MYERS Continued. 16 But this scheme of life had this In It that brought disaster to his sons a laxness of any discipline related to and mental development. When we were corrected or punished It was for conduct which affected his comfort or dignity, never for a thing which affected the development of our character. We had abundant money to spend. It was a part of our fathers egotism that we should be young swells, and we were early In disorderly ways. Richard had a genius for cruelty. A normal boy Is likely to be thoughtless, but Richard was Inventive ip his cruelties. It was brutal. He liked to tear things to pieces slowly, a fly if It was all he could catch a grasshopper, a field mouse. I had a faithful little dog which Richard staked out In the I ground and killed by vivisection. saw the little animal when it was breathing Its last with its bowels exposed and its lungs laid bare. Richard destroyed birds nests for pleasure. He liked to cut a leg off a hen and see it stagger about vainly trying to walk. He maimed dogs. He tortured cattle and horses. He killed a fine carriage horse by driving it to death purposely to see how long It would live under the treatment he gave It , I doubt that I was a more lovable child, but at least I did not have the attribute of cruelty.' I was not only younger but I was weaker physically. I was sensitive to a degree which made me an extraordinary victim to Richard when he cared to express his flendish-nes- s to or upon me. We were getting Into late childhood I should say that I was about fourteen when Richard bfgan to use his inventiveness in cruelty upon me directly. As soon as he had a taste of the delight which came from tormenting me I had no further peace. I remember with a sfill. agonized vividness my experience in finding a snake in my bed. He had put it there. He used his superior strength to torture me physically. He dominated me spiritually. He made life a hell, such a hell as life can be made only for a child by mistreatment, when reality has not starkly asserted itself, when proportions are not established and when illusions can be kindly or hide- their spiritual Three times he knocked me unconscious. Once I was ill in bed a week as the result of a beating he gave me. Frequently he threatened that he would kill me; He said this often and openly, with every evidence of earnestness and determination. Later that counted against him. I was not cowed, and with the great hatred firmly rooted I was willing to accept the unequal struggle with him. It was a Joy to bate him, fight him, even to be beaten by him. I had regained enough courage to seek sociability. It was difficult, because his refined sense of cruelty led him to search me out, wherever I might be with my friends, and to humiliate me, if possible, before them. One night I had been at a tavern in the village with some .boys of my acquaintance when Richard, being drunk and very violent, found me, and there was a scene in which he ftnade loud threats that he intended to kill to do, but body. me. me. . e. . .I mefe.-assertiv- - b1-- disposed sf my In arranging the spot to Indicate a murder I had thrown my hat, which was broken and bloody, down the bank. It had caught oa a projecting rock. I had taken a ring off my finger and bad thrown that into the podL I also had thrown in my coat It had blood on the collar and shoulders. All this seemed to me to afford inconclusive evidence, but there were obvious difficulties in finding a body which might Increase Richards troubles. I waited in New York, carefully concealed, many months, reading of the progress of my murder trial in the newspapers. It gained some celebrity. The prosecuting zeal was tremendous, and public interest I gathered, acute. My ring was dredged up and was reThe garded as Important evidence. dredge also brought up some bones which, as I read in the papers, were remains of regarded as fish-nibbl- law. The story of our lives together, as I read It in the testimony of witnesses who knew more of its terrors than I thought anyone knew, was terrific. It would have damned any aggressor in the opinion of any body of men. Everyone who knew anything of the case, Richard himself included, was convinced that I had been murdered. The doubt which remained merely served to get Richard a life sentence Instead of lie gallows. Popular psychology condemned him. The lack of essential evidence was Ignored.. I waited until J. knew what his late was, and then, rejoicing, I left the country. I had no prospects and few plans, but my inclination was to go to South America, and I followed Richard and I grew up In this fashion, I in terror of him find his malevolence. When I was fifteen mother died. She had been an unassertive mother. Circumstances and conditions were beyond her strength of mind or body, but she had been a' friend, and I missed her cruelly. It was really a terrible loss at a time when I much needed a friend. As we grew older Richards dla-- . bolical habits became only shrewder, not less assertive. He contrived the most ingenious schemes for my torment He humiliated me whenever possible before other boys and, better for his purpose, before girls. , My father put us out to school together, and this suited Richards purpose admirably. How I hated this thing that bore my name and my blobd ! It became an indomitable hate. It exists to this day. No human being ever was so hated by another as my brother Richard was by me and Is Is to this moment and will be hated while a breath remains in my body. When I was eighteen my father died, and Rlchaffd and I inherited the estate under a trusteeship to continue RIchird was until I was twenty-onthen twenty. In another year he attained his majority. He was profligate and wild, a heavy drinker, a coarse, cruel boor, a licentious young ruffian who had suffered twice in actions brought by weak and unfortunate girls. It Irritated him beyond expression that he had to wait the slow process of my coming of age before he could come into his share of the property. His constant demeanor toward me was violent. ; Several times I tried to establish the reasonable relations which ought, in convention, to exist between brothers. It was quite hopeless, and my hate for this boor came to be an Insane passion. It remains as a passion now. I may not be able to satisfy anyone ,that this was the Inevitable consequence of the treatment given me, but I could if I were to elaborate the de- . tails-r- or merely state them. However, - my purpose Is not so much to indict . my brother as to record my own trl- umph to assist the commission of a crime which has been of intense satisfaction to me, a crime In which I have maintained my, culpability with Joy end from which' Richard has suffered and Is suffering. He is a broken old man. He is in ' m penitentiary. Here followed a section of the manuscript from which, as I recognized, the page Dravada had taken was' missing. Then It continued: v ' of became a little y rights and dignity, with the result that our. quarrels were more violent. I tried to fit m.vseif physically to meet Richard, but lie was very, sturdy, and his profTi"tp habits- had not yet un- health. When I resisted dermined had the better of me. him pbcai'-.- that he had One of my friends persuaded me Much legalistic argument ensued. to go ome. At Hartley house we I became a case of Importance, involvwalked the distance from the house ing principles of evidence. The superto the village in those days. I set ficial facts were all against Richard. out alone, but Richard, breaking away His confession faced him. The evifrom the young men who would have dence I had arranged damned him. detained him, pursued me. He caught Our relationship In hate and his up with me, and we abused each other threats against me arose against him. as we walked, being overheard by sev- He thought he had killed me. He knew eral persons along the way. he had. There were many witnesses When we came to a pool by the against him. river near the house, he became inThe only thing helping him was the sanely violent, cried that he was sick lack of a clearly identified body. But there were vestiges of something which, in the circumstances, were accepted as parts of the corpus delicti. I think the prosecution and the Jury, convinced that I was dead and my remains swept away, were anxious to meet technically the requirements of ous. , CrniUibO-HIhuC- it He Became Insanely Violent of seeing me on earth and would rid himself of the sight of me. He attacked me with a heavy stick he carried,- succeeded in breaking down my guard and knocked me unconscious. Our cries, while he was attacking, were heard by a farmer living across Richard was insanely the road. drunk. He Intended to kill me and thought he had done so. He left the spot disturbed, probably, by the thought of physical consequences but, I am sure, not by any spiritual misgivings. I do not know how long I remained unconscious or when I awoke. It may have been ten, forty or sixty minutes. It may have been an hour or two. When it was, consciousness brought an aching head and a dawning determination, Life with Richard at Hartley house had become impossible. I could no longer control him, I could no longer endure him. A chance of escape and of revenge was possible. I was, In Richards understanding, dead. He had tried to kill me. He might be made to think I had considerable money he had. with me. Richard, of course, had not touched it Each of us had been given, that morning, five hundred dollars by trustees. That had been the occasion of Richards murderous debauch. It is strange or is It? that I never think of him as, or ever called him, ! Dick. I arranged the spot as well as I could in the details to suggest that my drunken and brutal, brother had not only killed me but had disposed of my body In the river. When I had done this, relying for success on his uncertain memory of the act which already had terrified him, I left Hartley house all its painful memories and brutal experiences, the unhappiness I had experienced there, the miserable childhood, the wretched boyhood and the young manhood, come to this furtive, malevolent end. And I there resolved that if I got safely away and if my design worked out successfully, I should return to the selfsame spot some time to live a Jovial life where life had been so drear. My plans were not perfect; my resources and my intelligence for this sudden meeting of the world were slender ; but my success was beyond 'v , expectation. First I had the satisfaction of knowing that my brother was taken for my murder. Circumstances were ail against him, and he was convinced in his own heart that he had not only killed me as he so often had wished It grew My hatred never ceased-as a passion, at first a disturbing one, later a satisfactory one. I wanted this man to suffer. Nothing that he can suffer will properly pay him at least It will not pay my score. Some day, I know, for I have the determination, I shall return to Hartley house as its owner, although esteemed an alien, with a false name, a false life and a great Joy. What is a family that I should not enjoy my perfect revenge upon this brute who made fifteen years and more of my life, in its most impressionable form, an undesirable thing when it was most desired? I shall go back to Hartley house, and if life and health be spared me, I shall make it and life in it Jovial, and if strength be spared my will, the knowledge that my brother Richard is suffering for the murder of a dead live man shall be the cosy north wind in the caves below which burn my cheerful fires. This is my crime, and if It causes no one dear, to me later to suffer, I want it known. Some day I shall go back as a man wholly unknown to people who- knew the Dobsons. I shall be what I have been, Homer Sidney. I shall buy the old place. I shall know that Richard Dobson Is suffering a most equitable but illegal punishment In a penitentiary close to the place where I shall live in the circumstances which a great deal of money will enable me to set up. , That is my natural revenge upon a fiend who happened to come of the same parents as L Hate is a wonderful friend. CHAPTER XVII. Jed came into the room again as I finished reading, and put another log on the fire. Then he sat down in a rocking chair by the fire. They met that night, you know, he said after he bad rocked a while. ' They? I said. Arthur and Itichard Dobson, said Jed., Mr. Sidney and his brother, who is over there in the penitentiary. They met what night?" I asked. Jed was patient. They met the night last fall, he explained, when you found Mr. Sidney leaving the house, the night I found you outside, the night we pretended I was sick, the night he came in here and had us call the penitentiary to say a convict had escaped. That night, he met his, brother. His brother was the convict. Jed was rocking and talking to the fire. s Mr. Sidney Arthur Dobson he said, went out to see the pool on JV a. OF BUTTER For First Seven Months of This Year 22155,090 Pounda Shipped to United 8tates. s By CLIFFORD S. RAYMOND CHAPTER XVI LETTER DAIRY The record for butter Imports established In ' 1919, when 9519.368 pounds of butter and butter substitutes were brought Into the United He murder. his of anniversary every was short lived. Following the resersome States, out of the found strength recent announcement of. these imporvoir of will. The reaction was almost disastrous. I Imagine he might have tant figures by the United States Department of Agriculture the departlived another year or two If he had net had the experience he had this ment has compiled reports for the first seven months of this year which fall. show that the United States during I knew It was a great hate that was keeping Mr. Sidney alive," he that period imported 22,855,090 pounds Such a hate as he had I of foreign butter, which is more continued. , dont know that I understand it than ever before. Or was This remarkable Increase is atnow. It was so unprofitable. It? I do not know. It had' a great tributed by foreign marketing experts value in his life. I think the hate he of the departments bureau of markets cherished warmed and colored his life. largely to the foreign exchange situHe went to the pool every year ation. With American dollars comthe night of his murder. He did not manding a premium throughout the know that I went with him. It was world it Is obviously good business for such an abnormal abuse of his foreign butter manufacturers to sell their product In the United States. For-elg- n strength. I was afraid for him. Your prospects depended upon manufacturers also have the adhim, I suggested. vantage of low cargo rates! Another He allowed a moment to pass In reason for the Increased imports is silence. It was as if he permitted venthat whereas England was formerly tilation before we again entered the Denmarks principal butter outlet, room of common thought and comEngland can now purchase butter more munion. He did not look pained or, cheaply from Australia and Argenhurt in any fashion. There was no tina. Ireland also is producing butter on a larger scale. display about it He Just refrained for a moment from talking. It was as The effect of the exchange situaif he were opening the windows for tion is also reflected In a decrease of When the air was American butter exports. Thus. 15,- that moment cleared of the odors of my testy remark. he went on as if I had said nothing. The old rascal was very difficult to deal with. The night I am reminding you of he met Richard Dobson at the pool and recognized him. The poor old fool, Dick, had walked out of the penitentiary. He had every opportunity to do so. The warden would have let him out if he had asked to go. He was helpless outside. He did not have a place to get a rag or a crust But he wanted to escape. There must have been something in his mind about this night and this place. Arthur Dobson found his brother standing by the pool. I was 50 feet away, hidden by the bushes. .1 could see the two old men in the moonlight, and when Arthur Dobson began to speak, I could hear distinctly. said Mr. Sidney, Well, Richard, we are here again "Richard Dobson quavered in q weak, senile tone, almost a falsetto: Federal Inspector Sampling Imported ,1 Butter. ,Who are you ? Im your brother Arthur, said Mr. 527,271 pounds of American butter Sidney. What are you doing here? Richard Dobson must have felt were exported during the first seven that he was confronted by a ghost. months of 1920, whereas 22,986,294 He made a shrill little sound, as an pounds were sent out of the country old woman might I was palsied. The during the corresponding period of 1919. situation- was tremendous. I didnt Imports of butter from Denmark know what would happen, and I didnt know what to do. Mr. Sidney was are being curtailed at present because the prices asked by the holders of Dancalm as an oyster. I am your brother Arthur, Rich- ish butter in storage here are higher ard, he said, and I am not dead. I than the wholesale prices for the havent been dead. You didnt kill American product, and some difficulty me. I have been living in the old is being experienced in moving the Danish stock. ' place comfortably while you have been in prison. No one would believe you If you told that. You are CORRECTNESS OF SEPARATOR old and half, crazy. If you were out of prison, you would die of starvaMinnesota Fanner Discovered He Was tion and exposure In 24 hours. I am Losing 364 Pounds of Butterfat not a ghost, Richard; I am your livEvery 30 Days. ing brother. BE (TO CONTINUED.) Defects in the separator will, in the course of time, make heavy inroads on LUCKY AND UNLUCKY DAYS the dairyman's receipts from butterfat. For instance, the testing of skim rni. Study of Statistics Will Enable Al- - to ascertain how the separator is - most Any One to Justify Hla working is not regarded important by Pet Belief. , some dairymen. But in the case of one herd of 35 cows in Minnesota, Cold, hard statistics prove that the which produced 1,200 pounds of butgreatest number of premier awards terfat last June, the skim milk was for gallantry were won on Monday. tested and found to be carrying off No other day showing anything like 364 pounds of real butterfat every 30 tinsame record, though the 'days. This is vouched for by L. V. Friday stands out noticeWilson, agent In dairying for the Uniably. ted States Department of Agriculture Which fact gives some color to the with headquarters at University Farm. superstitions many people have about This farmer, says Mr. Wilson, purcertain days of the week being lucky, chased a new separator the next day while others are unlucky. after the skim milk was tested. This Tuesday seems to be the bad day Incident ought to be a sufficient lesson of the week; calamities are far more for prompting many others to detercommon on that day than on any other mine the accuracy of their separators. day. Railway disasters, fires, street accidents the record in each case Is IS ESSENTIAL held easily by Tuesday. And It is PUNCTUALITY the day most favored,- too, by 'those Dairyman Should Be Regular About who desire to put an end to their existHla Work With Hla Herd Feed. ence. Grain While Milking. Saturday also has a bad reputation ; Its specialty is murders; and fully The dairyman should be' punctual half the petty crime that is dealt with and regular about his work, for not, In the police courts occurs on that But probably that is because only does the work itself depend on day. Saturday also holds the record for it, but the amount of milk the cow will give as well. In feeding, the dfinkenndss. grain should be fed first and while it . 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