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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-08-29

enc Of those minutes which one g..
never forget. Then the door opened
and the man stepped in. In an instant
Holmes clapped pistol to his head,
and Martin slipped the handouts over
his wrists. 1t was all done so swiftly
and deftly that the fellow was help
less before he knew that he was at
| tackled. He glared from one to the
other of us with a pair of blazing black
eyes. Then he burst into a bitter laugh.
well, gentlemen, you have the drop
on me this time. seem to have knock
ed up against something hard. But I
came here in answer to letter from
Mrs. Hilton Cubitt. Don't tell me that
she is in this! Don't tell me that she
helped to set a trap for mew
Mrs. Hilton Cubitt was seriously in
jured and is at DEATHS door,"
The man gave hoarse cry of grief,
which rang through the house.
You're crazy" he cried fiercely. "It
was he that was hurt, not she. Who
would have hurt little Elsie? I may
have threatened her-God forgive me!
but would not have touched hair
Of her pretty head. Take it back-you!
Say that she is not hurt"
"She was found badly wounded by
the side of her dead husband"
He sank with deep groan on to the
settee and buried his face In his man
acled hands. For five minutes he was
silent. Then he raised his face once
more and spoke with the cold COM
posure of despair.
II have nothing to hide from you,
gentlemen" said he. "If 1 shot the
i man he had his shot at me, and there's
no murder in that. But If you think I
could have hurt that woman, then you
don't know either me or her. I tell
you, there was never man in this
world loved woman more than loved
her. I had a right to her. She was
pledged to me years ago. Who was
this Englishman that he should come
between us? I tell you that I had the
first right to her and that was only
claiming my own"
"She broke away from your influence
when she found the man that you are"
said Holmes sternly. "She fed from
America to avoid you, and she married
an honorable gentleman in England.
You logged her and followed her and
made her life misery to her in order
to induce her to abandon the husband
whom she loved and respected in order
| to fly with you, whom she feared and
hated. You have ended by bringing
about the death of noble man and
driving his wife to suicide. That is
| your record in this business, Mr.. Abe
Slaney, and you will answer for it to
the law"
eff Elsie dies I care nothing what
becomes Of me-" said the American.
He opened one of his hands and look.
ed at note crumpled up in his palm.
"See here, mister" he cried, with q
CLEAN of suspicion in his eyes, you're
not trying to scare me over this, are
you? II the lady is hurt as bad as
you say, who was it that wrote this
note?" He tossed it forward on to the
table
II wrote it to bring you here"
"You wrote it? There was no one
on earth outside the Joint who knew
the secret Of the dancing men. How
came you to write it?"
"What one man can invent another
can discover" said Holmes. There is
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-08-29

A young man was very jealous of a
girl he adored. She was a bit more
coquettish than other girls. Your eyes
can flirt in all directions" he said one
day, and cut them out. You might
wave your hands to somebody" and he
cut them off. with your feet you can
make signs to some one under the ia
ble," and he cut those Off 81 forgot that
you can also speak," he remarked three
days later, and tore her tongue out.
You shall not SMILE" he said, and
Knocked her teeth out. 80, I am a
bit quieter now" he remarked the day
after he had cut her hair off, and for
the first time he was going to trust
her to herself. "Now she Is ugly, but
still I feel she is quite my own" he
said on leaving her. But when he re-
turned the girl had disappeared. She
had run away with the proprietor Of a
show.--From ables Of Eugen Heltai."
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-08-29

seated here should certainly get into
serious trouble"
''You need not be uneasy. He will
not try to escape"
"How do you know?"
ITO fly would be a confession of
guilt"
"Then let us go to arrest him."
II expect him here every instant"
"But why should he comes"
Because I have written and asked
him." !.
"But this is incredible, Mr.. Holmesl
Why should he come because you have
asked him? Would not such request
rather rouse his suspicious and cause
him to fy?"
II think I have known how to frame
the letter." said Sherlock Holmes. "In
fact, If am not very much mistaken,
here. Is the gentleman himself coming
up the drive"
A man was striding up the path
which led to the door. He was tall,
handsome, swarthy fellow, clad in a
suit Of gray flannel, with panama
hat, bristling black beard and a
great, aggressive hooked nose, and
flourishing cane as he walked. He
staggered up the path as If the place
belonged to him, and we heard his loud,
confident peal at the bell
II think, gentlemen" said Holmes
quietly, ''that we had best take up our
position behind the door. Every pre-
caution is necessary when dealing with
such fellow. You will need your
handouts, inspector. You can leave the
talking to me-"
W~-WAtsd In SILENCE for a. minute
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-08-29

have married me, I believe, If I had
taken over another profession, but she
would have nothing to do with any
thing on the cross. 1t was only after
her marriage 10 this Englishman that l
was able to find out where she was.
wrote to her, but got no answer. After
that came over, and, as letters We're
no use, put my messages where she
could read them.
"Well, I have been here month
now. I lived on that farm, where had
room down below, and could get in
and out every night and no one the
wiser. tried all could to coax Elsie
away. I knew that she read the mes
sages. for once she wrote an answer
under one Of them. Then my temper
got the better Of me, and 1 began to
threaten her. She sent me letter then,
imploring me to go away, and saying
that 1t would break her heart if any
scandal should come upon her husband
She said that she would come down
when her husband was asleep at in
the morning and speak with me
through the end window, if 1 would go
away afterward and leave her in peace.
She came down and brought money
with her, trying to bride me to go.
This made me mad, and 1 caught her
arm and tried to pull her through the
window. At that moment in rushed
the husband with his revolver in his
hand. Elsie had sunk down upon the
floor, and we were face to face. 1 was
heeled also, and held up my gun to
scare him off and let me get away. He
fred and missed me. pulled off al
most at the same instant, and down he
dropped. 1 made away across the gar
den, and as went heard the window
shut behind me. That's Gods truth,
gentlemen, every word Of it; and I
heard no more about 1t until that lad
came riding up with a note which made
me walk in here like Jay and give
myself into your hands,"
A cab had driven up while the Amer
lean had been talking. Two uniformed
policemen sat inside. Inspector Mar
tin rose and touched his prisoner on the
! shoulder.
ut is time for us to co."
"Can see her f1rst?"
"No, she is not conscious. Sherlock
Holmes, only hope that If ever again
have an important case shall have
the good fortune to have you by my
side"
! We stood at the window and watched
the cab drive away. AS turned back
my eye caught the pellet Of paper
which the prisoner had tossed upon the
table. 1t was the note with which
Holmes had decoyed him.
"See if you can read it, Watson said
he, with smile.
It contained no word, but this little
line Of dancing men:
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-08-29
AIouchIng Story

is the saving from death, Of the baby
girl of Geo. A.. Eyler, Cumberland,
Md. He writes: Sat the age of IL
months, our little girl was in declin-
ing health, with serious Throat Troub-
le, and two physicians gave her up.
We were almost in despair when we
resolved to try DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds. The first bottle grve relief; af-
ter taking four bottles she was cured,
and is now in perfect health" Never
fails to relieve. and cure cough or
cold. AT p, A. Clemmer's drug store;
SOC, and 81, 90 guaranteed. Trial bottle
froo ~ m
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-08-29

He sanis eOtth a deep oroan on to tho
settee.
Watson, owe you every atonement
for having allowed your natural curl
osity to remain so long unsatished.
To you, inspector, the whole incident
may appeal as a remarkable profess
sional study. l must tell you, first Of
all, the interesting circumstances con-
nected with the previous consultations
which Mr.. Hilton Cubitt has had with
me in Baker street" He then shortly
recapitulated the facts which have al
ready been recorded. II have here in
front Of me these singular productions,
at which one might smile had they not
proved themselves to be the forerun-
ners Of SO terrible tragedy. I am
fairly familiar with all forms Of secret
writings and am myself the author Of a
trifing monograph upon the subject, in
which analyze 100 separate ciphers,
but confess that this is entirely new
to me. The object Of those who in
vented the system has apparently been
to conceal that these characters con-
vey message and to give the idea that
they are the mere random sketches of
children.
Having once recognized, however,
that the symbols stood for letters, and
having applied the rules which guide
US In all forms Of secret writings. the
solution was easy enough. The first
message submitted to me was SO short
that it was impossible for me to do
more than to say with some confidence
that the symbol X stood for e. As you
are aware, q is the most common let
ter In the English alphabet, and it pre-
dominates to SO marked an extent that
even in short sentence one would ex-
pect to find it most often. Out of If
teen symbols in the first message four
were the same, so it was reasonable to
set this down as e. It is true that in
some cases the figure was bearing a
flag and in some cases not, but 1t was
probable, from the way in which the
flags were distributed, that they were
used to break the sentence up into
words. accepted this as hypothesis
and noted that e was represented by Il.
But now came the real difficulty Of
the inquiry. The order Of the English
letters after q is by no means well
marked, and any preponderance which
may be shown In an average Of a
printed sheet may be reversed in a sin
gle short sentence. Speaking roughly,
T, A, o, I, N, s, 81, R, d and L are the
numerical order in which these letters
occur, but T, A, o and are very near
~ abreast Of each other, and it would
be an endless task to try each combi-
nation until meaning was arrived at.
I therefore waited for fresh material.
In my second interview with Mr.. Hill
ton Cubitt he was able to give me two
other short sentences and one message,
which appeared, since there was no
flag, to be single word. Here are the
symbols. Now, in the single word I
have already got the two Els coming
second and fourth in word Of Ave let.
ters. 1t might be sever or lever OF
never There can be no question
that the latter as reply to an appeal
is far the most probable, and the cir.
cumstances pointed to its being reply
written by the lady. Accepting 1t as
correct, we are now able to say that
the symbols
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-08-29
A Gold Mine at Protivin, Iowa!

Big chance for good business man.
We offer our entire stock of groceries,
dry goods and general merchandise
for sale, with buildings or without to
suit. Reason for selling, failing
health of manager. Write or en-
quire MIKEsH & CIsAR,
climb Protivin, Ia.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-08-29
The Adventure of
the Dancing Men
No. 3 Of the Series

81 think that l can help you to pass
an hour in an interesting and profit
able manner" said Holmes, drawing
his chair up to the table and spreading
out in front of him the various papers
upon which We're recorded the antics
Of the dancing men. "As to you, friend
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-01-27
But the Disbursement.

DR.. Wallace Wood, of the Univer-
sity of New York, was talking about
the love of beauty.
THE love of beauty" he said, lis
not so firmly planted in the peoples
minds as 1t should be. Things only
that are useful are considered valu-
able; beautiful things too often are
regarded as unimportant.
This popular idea of the usefups
unspeakable superiority over the
merely beautiful may be illustrated by
a happening in barber shop.
"a barber, in cutting young mans
hair, shipped off piece Of his ear.
1.-THE young man leaped from the
chair. He cried in anguish and
horror:
"'Oh, you have cut a piece of my
ear off,
"But the barber answered in a pat
ronizing, soothing way as one speaks
to a child:
"'Sho! Don't carry on so. boss.
'Tain't nun to effect you hearin'.'"
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-01-27

balance OF the conversation, his heart
beating madly in his breast.
stanton told me he was engaged
to Amy Bradford, while got the
business mixed, and reported him be.
trothed to Alice. her sister"
The words were almost inaudible,
but they fell upon Darlstons ear like
benediction from heaven. The eli
max on the stage was approaching,
but Darlston had no eyes for the play
ers. Then, as the curtain fell, Alice
looked across and recognized him
with her heart in her eyes.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-01-27

Dar1ston stood gazing wistfully at
the windows of the fine old house
across the avenue, wondering If Alice
were not stationed at one of them.
Alice and he had been everything to
each other before he had marched
away to the strains of THE Girl Left
Behind Me-" happy in the faith that
she would wait for him until, having
served his country well, he should re-
turn and win for himself name and
fortune which she would be proud to
share. But 1t was all over with now,
he reflected bitterly. The dream was
ended, and he felt that he had poured
out the treasures of his heart before
an empty shrine. He had been very
paragon of constancy, but somehow
she had lost faith in him. Influenced
probably by mercenary motives, she
had betrothed herself to a dissipated
political celebrity old enough to be her
father on the very eve of Darlston's re-
turn from two years of fighting in the
Philippines. The society columns OF
newspaper which he had read that
morning at breakfast had furnished
agination had rounded it into soul
torturing completeness.
How Darlston got through with the
realities of the black hours that fol-
lowed he never knew He felt like a
man about to be shot from the gibbet
into eternity. II seemed to him as
though the world held nothing now
but despair and misery. He seemed
to feel faith in everything human and
divine slipping away from him. But
calm reflection caused a revulsion of
feeling and in measure restored his
faith in Alice. He tried to feel that
the light in which he had been led to
regard her was a false one. Probably
the influences brought to bear upon
her had been more powerful than he
could conceive. Her father might
have coerced her into the betrothal.
II he had, Darlston told himself grim
ly, there would be a strenuous day OF
reckoning for the pater on the NOR
row. He had fought against the i'm
pulse to see her again, but some evil
fate had drawn him almost to the
threshold of her home. Now, as he
stood there, cab drew up before the
house and a man came out. He car.
ried himself pompously and looked
overfed and arrogant. The cabman's
obsequlous your Honor" was not re-
quired to reveal to Darlston his iden.
tity. AS the vehicle whirled down
the avenue he turned away in
an agony of jealous despair. His
peerless Alice bound for life to that
affected, dissipated-looking boor! The
thought sickened him. Such sacri.
fee should never be contaminated II
he could prevent 1t. Whatever 1t cost,
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-01-27
TO TELL BUTTER FROM oLEo.
Simple Test Which is Claimed to Be
InfallibIe.


The cooking teacher indicated with
her wand two dishes. each containing
pat of golden butter.
zone is butter" she said. "The
other is oleo. | want to show you a
simple and conclusive test for oleo--
an easy way of distinguishing oleo
and butter Enthusiastically Then you
need never again be cheated"
She put the oleo and the butter in
separate saucepans on the fire and
Jet them come to boil. They boiled
In very different manner-.one nois-
lily, with a great deal of spluttering,
tho other smoothly. giving forth an
abundance of white foam.
ut is the oleo," said the cooking
teacher. that boils noisily, for oleo Is
mixture Of grease and water, and
like mixture OF grease and water 1t
bells. II is the butter that boils with
a soft. silent foaming. A great differ
ence, isn't there? Remember the df'
ference, remember this test and you
need never be inveigled in the future
into buying oleo for butter."-Chicago
Chronicle.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-01-27

Looked across and recognized him.
no smile broke over her face. 1t was
a revelation to Darlston to see her
thus. He had imagined her trium'
plant over her conquest, decked with
jewels, smiling brightly, the willing
affianced Of wealthy, distinguished
man. But such sadness, such resigna.
toni A mist came into his eyes as
he watched her. Every bitter, ungen.
erous thought that had possessed his
mind gave way before the hopeless
sadness of her face and manner, and
more firmly grew the conviction in
his heart that, after all, she was not
entirely to blame. A great tide Of
compassion rushed over him. the fic.
titious strata Of bitterness began to
slough away, and love looked upon
him through less tragic mask. After
all, might not he have been mistaken?
Might not the parties mentioned in
the society note have been strangers
to him? But no, the words: I'VE are
happy to announce the approaching
nuptials OF Miss Alice Bradford, the
accomplished daughter of Stephen
Bradford, the well-known Spectator,
and Senator William Stanton" ETC.,
etc. The atmosphere of the place was
as soft as human breath, but it sud.
denly seemed uncomfortable to Darl.
ston. He leaned back weakly, but his
eyes never wayered from her face.
Senator Stanton, fastidiously at.
tired and wearing gloating, self-sat-
isfied smile, entered the ladies' box.
Darlston, his heart rising in anger and
hot resentment, saw the half-veiled
look of repulsion that fitted over
Alice's face as she beheld him. He
closed his eyes to the scene. He felt
that il he watched the little tragedy
being enacted in the opposite box for
a moment longer he should do some.
thing desperate.
He was aroused from his lethargy
by the sound of voices in the box be
hind him. A man was speaking:
"You are still on the Mercury
Charles?"
"Yes," replied doleful boyist
voice; "but guess I'm booked fol
an envelope tomorrow. do society
you know. Last night I was sent NJ
to interview Senator Stanton concern
ing his reported engagement with on,
of the Misses Bradford. He admitte,
that the report was true. and the Mer
curry got beat on the story. Th,
old Man got his this morning. sur
pose I'll get mine Tomorrow"
'How's that?" asked the man, Will
Darlston strained his ears to catch tn
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-01-27
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