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Show THE S A LIN A SUN. f; CROOK MEDIUMS BILK GOTHAMITES OUT OF MILLIONS WHEN Sterling one win- Michael Mr. Truth Seekers Are Imposed Upon by Fake Spiritualists, Survey Shows. his apartment ter night he found his Japanese dent servant sitting up In stu- the living lady telephoned," he said. She didn't leave her name Just said lo call Cedar Valley 772," Michael Sterling's family had once been closely associated with the picturesque suburban town of Cedar Valley, and it was when Michael himself was keeping a sort of lordly bachelor hall in the old Sterling homestead live or six years ago that he had met ami become engaged to the charming Stella Mupcs. Then there had been a sort of quarrel Michael didnt even want to remember wind it was nil about and he hud gone away, telling Stella that he would inner come begging for her forgiveness, Now Michael called the number ns he had been requested to do. A voice. veryr suave and u little too sweet, came hack to him. Im Mrs. Thornton Manchester of You nmy Cedar Valley," she said. not remember me, Mr. Sterling." She paused while Michael stammered something to Indicate that he was quite sine he recalled the name. We're all so very much Interested in the Childrens home out here and now Inj so busy with this loan exhibit the' are giving. And I recalled that there !,.,! nii, tares ill your family, and well, would yVu let us borrow those family miniatures of yours for our exhibit? They would be so Interesting and It is really a A room, a dry powder in white and lints. Packed in packages, ready for use by mixing with cold or warm water. Full directions on every package. Apply will an ordinary wall brush. Suitable for all interior surfaces plaster, wall board, brick, cement, or canvas. instead ofKalsomine otW&UPaper Ask your dealer for AUbastine colorcard or writo Mias Ruby Brandon, the Alahaatine Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan. j worthy u,um. Michael Sterling assured the lady the other end of the wire that lie would he quite ghnl to do so and that he hoped that she would accept a small cla. k for tic- - home. The next day. to save himself further concern In the he sent a cloa k for fifty dollars and his Japanese t-servant toopen a certain cabinet iiml take out a (ime of miniatures "lice' 'or of mine, lie added, giving the man the cabinet key. Old time ladles and gentlemen in queer old costumes that were once the style. There's a divon or so. Take them to my Jewelers ami got them to send them out. Insured, by special messenger. And Michael gave the matter no further thought at least for the remainder of the week. The following Monday the loan exhibit began and that night when Michael came In about ten ids Japanese servant was wnir'ng A lady for him. Valley asked to have you call at once. The number Is Cedar Valley 7NC. It Is another lady and another number." Michael felt no agitation now at the prospects of speaking to n lady la Cedar Valley, I lit when the voice came to him over the wire he almost staggered. Surely It was Stella's. This is Siella Mopes," came the voice that Michael recognized for all it was so unfeeling and formal. I want to tell you that what you have done has caused me very great distress, IVrhup" I shou'dnt have culled you up except that everyone here. Is ta'ldnc about those miniatures, I never even knew that they existed. I can no ex' donation So ploas-wont you .semi for them at once? Mrs Manchester imked you for the Sierling which would have family mhiiainpheel) really in'''ng to people out here hi Ceil ir Valley n', ihint she get them?" railed Ion k Michael, "l'nnt cut off. Stella. Croat Scott you dont mean that 'my man am the the other miniatures! Oh, Siella. wont you let me on Why don't you like motoring with Bill Sparks, Maggie? I aint no Ma.vmel lap-roh- studen- Thais wliat Millions of women liave done -- with VIE Being anade?eniatl3 It never emails la toy cS thexisecl gredhots e U'AKINQ POWP d j MP s Gales Zil Times Those oS Any Other Drand W'il IMSCOV KKY t1ra for Al U. S. itneatiadon say new gran thnvo on the worn! ; either hay or pa-.lthn Zawadke, Mfirlon, Montana. I Dont Suffer With Itching Rashes UscCuticura Ointment, Taltnim ld everywhere Stmnlw Soap, . Dent M MJdn, Maw ,,f c ulmra Laboratorl tV. fJ. U.. Si It Lake City, No. 1 j km-w-- V.OM)i:KITL ka!l 14-19- 26. Still Living Languages The Breton and 'Welsh languages are by no moans dead tongues, each being spoken today by more than n million people. The Celtic family of languages has also several other living members Irish, Scotch Gaelic and Manx. The mystery of how salmon Lays a There never Is any worry shortage. If that should come to pass, theres always a scientist at hand to warn us that the suns light is dying out. Dumb-Bel- l An egg shaped like a Is on exhibition here. It was laid by a hen belonging to J. V. dumb-bel- l lind year after year to their spawning ground Is believed to have been solved recently, says Popular Science Monthly. Prof. Henry B. Ward of the I'ni- versit.v of Illinois finds thnt tempera-ture phts a large part In tlte fishs1 life. When it comes to a stream Junction tlte red or sockeje salmon, he says, moving against the current, al- ways select tlte colder war- r McKniglit. who does not attribute the shape of the egg to any particular feed, hut rather to an effort on the part of the hen to be original. way Burglars Leave Chair 1 Always Something Doing police court. Macfarlane obtained from the Supremo court a writ of habeas corpus directing Ids wife and Kitty Bowman of 57A Riverside drive, to produce his months daughter. Rut it, twenty-twohl. who, he alleges, was taken from the home of his sister, Mrs. Marie J. Watson of Woodbury Heights, N. J., and placed in. the care of the Bowman woman. Macfarlane alleged that his wife Imd been declared delinquent in Pennsylvania. where the child was born, and the baby put in the care of Ills mother. After his mohers death last May, he said, Ruth was cared for by r. his lie declared that Ruth was stolen from his sister's home and that Kitty Bowman, who now has her, refused to let him have her. Hugo, Okia. Cold Water Guides Salmon their , ' Brooklyn, N. Y. Burglars stoll everything but one chair from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Julia Aicaldey, here, while they were visiting friends. CTTOiEi By George Barr ftfcCufcheoB For Gods sake, be decent enough after her, he panted. They dragged him down the stairs. Out of tlte house and down into the is ahead of me. I may be in jail be- yard they hurried him. There they, fore Im a day older. lie gave her a paused long enough to tie.hls hands wry, bitter smile as he put his arm securely behind his back. An awed over her shoulder and walked beside silence bad fallen upon the crowd her into the house. Pleasant thought, the shouts ceased, curses died oni Isnt it, old dear? as the celebrated mens lips. They had him Tragedy was at hand. Josephine would say. In Heavens name, men what are' Clay street was almost deserted as and Sammy Parr drove you going to do witb.m.e? Oliver cried Lansing through It after leaving the Baxter out In a strange, piercing voice. place. The Sages were in the formers Shut up I" car. In front of the hotel Sammy, fell upon his head, Something who was some distance ahead and who seruped down over his face. He stifled had dropped the two old men at Silas a scream, lie felt the slack noose Links home, slowed down and waited tighten about his bare throat. for Lansing-tdraw alongside. He was shoved forward, protesting I dont mind saying to you that shrilly. Impatiently. there was a lot of ugly talk earlier in They had picked the spot the place the evening, said Sammy uneasily. A where father and son parted on that lot of nasty talk. I didnt tell Oliver, but I heard more than one man say he ought to be strung up." Oh, Sammy, do you think began Jane, In a sudden agony of alarm. "Nonsense!" cried the minister, instantly sensing Iter fear. Such things don't happen in these days and in this part of the country. Tlte people will let the law take Its course. Have no fear on that score. Well, anyway, it looks mighty queer to me, said Sammy tactlessly shaking his head. "I dont like this awful stillness. It Isn't like this even on ordinary nights. Jane clutched Lansings arm and shook It violently. Doctor Lansing, she cried, we must return to Olivers house immediately. He will have to come over to our house Better still, Sammy, you must drive him up to the city. Tonight At once. I am frightened. Something terrible is afoot. I know It. I feel it. It Is so still. Look I Why arent the street lamps In Maple avenue lighted? It is ns dark as exclaimed "By Jingo, Lansing, Sammy, starting up from his seat to See thnt? peer over the windshield. Men running across Maple avenue. Way up yonder where that arc light is at Fiddler street. Three or four men. Didnt you see them? "We must beat It back to Oliver's, d Lansing, excitedly. Take the women home first," ordered Sammy, and then come back. Ill go ahead." Come on! He Yelled. Como on, Wait!" commanded Mr. Sage. You Dirty Cowardsl Drive on up Maple, Sammy. Follow those men. See what they are up to. And the tree the distant night-- . They are headed for the swamp road. old oak whose limbs overhung sturdy Lansing and I will follow you in a the road. had picked the limb. They Drive the like shoutdevil!" jiffy. he There was no delay. . . . The ed In ringing tones. stout rope was thrown over the limb, No, no, no! screamed Jane. The the noose was drawn close about his other way! To Olivers I I will riot neck by cold, nervous fingers. . . . ! Turn go home. Im going to him was strangled on his writharound turn around! Do you hear Strong hands hauled at the ing lips. me? He swung In the air. . . . rope. Where In Gods name are the poA great white flare of light burst lice? cried Josephine. the grewsome spectacle the roai upon We cant take you back there, of a charging monster the din o 1 cried Lansing. II may be to pay. shrieking klaxons and then the piercIts no place for women, Jane. Sit ing scream of a woman. still ! Ill have you home In two minThe dense mob in the road broke, utes. fighting frantically to get out of the I will jump out I I swear to heaven path of Lansings car. Some were I will, she cried shrilly. struck and burled screaming aside "Turn back commanded Janes and on came tlte car, forging its way mother. I am not afraid of them. but relentlessly through the slowly Jane is not afraid. We cannot desert mass. Oliver if he is in danger. Blease God, struggling to the Up swaying, wriggling form he may not be. Turn back, I say!" a force irresistible, guidshot the car, Yes!" cried the minister. We ed by a man who thought not of the must get to Oliver all of us! human be crush to death The two cars made reckless turns in his beings to might desire reach the one he in the narrow street and were off like sought to save. the wind. Let go of that rope!" yelled this man. CHAPTER XII Behind him came another car. Panic seized tlte mob. Tlte compact mass broke and scattered. The Hanging A writhing, tortured figure lay in tlte Since ten oclock men by twos and threes and fours had been making middle of the road, a loose rope swingtheir way through back streets and ing free from the lintb. The bewillanes to an appointed spot an eighth, dered, startled men who had held t of a mile east of tlte Baxter home, the in their hands fell back uncertain, swale that marked the bewildered. extreme northern end of the slough. Lansing, unafraid, sprang from th Whispers swelled into hoarse, guttural ear and rushed to the prostrate form. mutterings as the mob, headed by its In a second he was tugging at tlte scowling leaders, left the noose, cursing frightfully. swale and started Its deadly march. Now a woman flung herself down Quickly the house was surrounded. beside the man with the rope around No avenue of escape was left unguardhis neck, sobbing, moaning, iter arras A small, detached ed. group ad- straining to lift his shoulders from vanced toward tlte porch, above the the ground. roof of which were lights In the winA baffled roar went up from the dows of what everyone knew to be mob. Men surged forward and hands young Oliver Baxters bedroom. were laid upon the rope too late. A loud voice called out:- - ' The noose was off and Sammy Parr, Come out! We want to see you, standing over the doctor and the disOliver Baxter." tracted girl, had a revolver in his Oliver raised the window and leaned hand. out. Who is it? What have you got Come on!" hV yelled. "Come on, down there? A mob? I'll see you you dirty cowardsl You swine! You In h before I'll come out ! d d Huns! Come on and get a man-sizeA deep growl rose from a hundred pull ! throats, stilled almost instantly as the (TO BE CONTINUED.) clear voice f the leader rang out WNU Service . Copyright. Bell Syndicate to look 1 half-shoute- 1 New York. Warner J. Macfarlane. who was discharged from Sing Sing prison, where lie served BS months for forgery, iiml Ills wife, Naomi, arrested on a charge of grand larceny, saying site had stolen $2,700 from him while he was In prison. Bite was held In 1.000 hail for examination in Marletn ? -- Say, gee whiz, everybody In town is out on Clay street. Lots of them down this way, strolling past What are the people saying, Sammy?" Judge 'Sliortridge broke In, grasping his arm. Weil, I hate to tell you, but as far as I can make out, judge, there seems to be a general feeling that that Oliver did it, said Sammy, wiping his moist forehead with the back of 'a hand that shook slightly. Snap Judgment, said the lawyer, after silence had reigned for a few seconds. That Is always the way with th ignorant and uninformed. Robbed by Wife While in Prison, Mate Charges ovi'-P'd.- 2 JESS diunts, object readers, sealed message readers, flower mediums and the physical manifestation group. "The trumpet mediums gather their clients in a circle and extinguish the light. In the center of t lie circle two huge aluminum trumpets are placed upright in pans of water. The medium says the trumpets float around the room, tapping the heads of those to receive messages from the beyond. I hiring the investigation a spotlight, turned upon the unsuspecting medium, revealed t lie trumpets joined together. affording tier a light pole about eight feet long, capable of tapping any of the faithful. Tlte physical manifestation group causes real arms and legs to float around in the air, supposedly unattached. Hand. tiffs, deftly slipped over a floating wrist in the dark, to prove it attached to a body irt tin usual way. Forty Thousand on Sucker List. . A sucker list" of 40, OX) was teil There is a central information bureau. When one medium learns anything about a client, she communicates it to the bureau, and it is noted on the clients curd in the tiles. I rices charged h.v Hie spiritualists range from $:! up. Some get $100 and 200 for Hits of information. Iarr. "Excuse haste, he said, tossing his hat and gloves on a chair. Im back. ol-t- , BEST BY Upon the Unsus- suf-liee- d I cwnvTsiL a Spotlight pecting Medium. and R? It looks pretty bad for you, Baxter, he had said at the end of a long Interview, but there's only one thing for you to do. People dont want to believe you killed your father, and New York. New Yorkers are being bilked out of millions of dollars anSo it is up nually by fake mediums and spirit- thats a big advantage. ualists who cloak their operations un- to you to stand your ground and face der a ritual of semireligious charac- whatever comes. Dont talk. Keep ter. your trap closed. I called your uncle So says a survey by a committee up on the telephone Just before I came Sol Bloom, here this evening. He is coming over given to Representative who Is considering seeking legislation tomorrow morning to see if he can from congress oil the mutter, since Identify the body. Of course he cant. r the mediums do a busiYou seem to be dead sure that it isnt ness. your father. So is Mr. Sikes and Un Milton Wright, associate editor of Jertaker Link. You all claim that the Scientific American and one of your father was shorter by several (lie committee, declared that he was Incites and had lost several of his unable to find one medium devoid of teeth. But your lawyer will look after tricks, among several hundred ex- all these points. Just sit tight, Baxamined. He said that they were all ter, and keep cool. Dont leave town. asked to read a sealed message, and Understand? they made 2M5 different answers. The company in Olivers sitting-rooBrand All as Fakes. Included the redoubtable and The Investigators branded ail me- venerable Messrs. Sikes and Link, diums as fakes, and indicated the sucJudge Sliortridge, Mr. and Mrs. Sage cess of their operations here, calling and Jane, Doctor Lansing and Mrs, attention to their $100,000 homes. Grimes. Sammy Parr was expected. The Investigators noted especially He was to bring in the news of the the activity of the spirit message streets. group, automatic writers, trumpet me- Oliver, a trifle pale, but with a stubborn. frown on his brow, listened calmly to the animated conversation that went on about him. lie sat beside Jane on the sofa in the corner of the room. I dont see how you can be so unmoved, so calm, Oliver, dear, whisJust pered Jane In her lovers ear. think what they are talking about and os if you were not here at all. He stroked her hand. Ive been thinking of something else, Jane. Of me, I suppose, and the silly notion you have of releasing me from my promise. I do release you, dear. I refuse to release you so thats that, as mother says. I am ready and willing to liave father marry us tonight, Oliver. "We will have to wait, dear, he said, rather wistfully. lurned a hi? met a luncheon the next day Stella, it seemed to Michael, loot oil lovelier at live than she hail at twenty. Il was not en'il they were sealed oppo-Jtot the table that he made the expl-ihm. "Yi U see. Mrs M nehester for the family miniatures ml I left my mail to attend to t. Told him to take them out of the cabinet. Well, those other miniature-- were in the cabinet. But I thought he'd know the difference." Bui vvaero did they come I never knew that they They were all unde after our quarI hail se"p Hole plaitog'-apltrel. some of them "imp hois and had to have soeiethlai' to remember you bv. something lasting and precious. and so f took those pictures and got the best m;niature painter I could I Iiml to make them. have never them to anyone--- " Then oven after yon went away vou eared?" asked Stella, I cared and f still care very much. said Michael. Then. Michael. suggested Stella, "lets pretend that nothing ever came between us. bu' that weve just had a lovely long engagement. But it cant be much longer, he said. ".VII those in favor of getting married right away" And when the waiter returned with the order he was a trille surprised to hear the lady and the gentleman he was scrying unite in a vigorous Ave. 0ot rlsht.) 10 In walked Sammy They day on i Continued Oliver in Danger I uni$en CHAPTER X The front door opened suddenly and - DS MNG POWDEU OLIVEi CHAPTER XI im-k- vomns IN A. UTAH mail-orde- . Enough Sold AT tree-border- -- set-face- Stroked Her Hand. Ive Been Thinking of Something Else, Jane. He Nothing to worry about, Oliver. They will be en your side tomorrow when they understand a little better. Its always the way with a crowd." Josephine Sage spread her hands in a gesture of contempt. What fools those mortals be, she declaimed 1 d Services Rendered again; "We will give you one minute to eonte out." Oliver glanced over his shoulder. theatrically. It was after eleven-oclocwhen Oli- Mrs. Grimes bad come to his bedroom ver's friends departed. He stood on door. the porch and watched them drive off Telephone for the police, Serepta, in the two automobiles. A few per- he cried out sharply. No! Wait! sons bad stopped at the bottom of the You mustnt be here if that mob breaks drive to see who were in the cars. The In and He did not finish the sentence. flaring headlights fell upon white, in distinct faces and then almost instant- There was a rash of footsteps in the ly left them In pitch darkness. tall, then Mrs. Grimes was flung I wish you had let Mr. Sage marry aside and Into the room leaped three, Bald four, half a dozen men. you and Jane tonight, Oliver, Mrs. Grimes, at his side on the top Oliver knocked the first man sprawlstep. You have the license and every- ing, but the others were upon him As they led thing, and U could all have been over Kke an avalanche. a a few minutes. And Jana begged him, now unresisting, from the room his wild, beaten gaze fell upon the you so hard. I couldnt do It, Aunt Serepta, ne huddled form of Serepta Grimes lying I dont know what inert in the ball. aid dejectedly, ... Stories .of were o! being related in the. smoking-rooa transalantic liner. "I am very absent-minde- d myself," I often said a hitherto silent man. and telephone find names number! written In mv notebook, but can't remember wliat persons they represent. Lately 1 had a general checking up. Tlte name and address of one man baffled me, so I wrote to him asking if he had ever heard of nte. and If r was supposed to do something for him. He wrote back a cordial, almost an affectionate letter, saying I bad already done It. He was my vlres first husband." absent-tnimledne- Thirteen new national forests with a total area of 354,509 acres have been created during the last six months. t |