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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25


Doremus. More than six feet in
height, as straight as a gun barrel,
with gray eyes that peer out keenly
from beneath heavy brows, he is
typical chemical detective. His pow
erful, vigorous frame bespeaks the
physical endurance necessary to pur-
sue to the very end a trying and diff
cult test.
In his connection With famous pois-
oning cases in New York Prof. Dore-
mus has demonstrated great keenness
an liability. He detected anthony
and arsenic in the body of Gustav H.
Baum. DR.. Henry Meyer was convict
ed of having administered the poison.
Without the assistance of the chemical
detective it is possible that this mys-
terry would never have been solvent.
A man and woman applied one
morning at the Office of large insur-
ance company to collect the insurance
OF man, said to be the husband of
the woman. In answering the ques-
tons of the insurance officials the
couple became somewhat evasive and
embarrassed. Their confusion led to
more thorough investigation. The
body of the dead man was exhumed.
In the presence of Prof. Doremus
and score of prominent physicians no
trace of anything unusual was found
on the body. A most careful examina-
ticn failed to reveal anything that
would even prompt a suspicion of
poison. The circumstances of the
mans death and the character of his
companions, however, made the insur-
ance company persist in its investiga-
tons.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25
Real Value of Chemist.

The chemists value is undoubtedly
greatest in homicide cases. Where a
life has been taken no effort must be
spared to bring the culprit to justice.
1t is often. however. song and tedious
work. The poisonez is cunning. He
rarely uses pOisOns without informing
himself of their action, and the subse-
quent traces of them that may be
found in the body. He often learns Of
other poisons that will counteract the
effect of the first poison.
One of the first signs of morphine
poisoning is contraction of the pupils
of the eye. Yet one murderer was
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25

I IEUT. THOMAS HOLCOMB, JR.,
l. of the marine corps, has been ap-
pointed to the position of aid to the
president. This marine officer is the
champion rifle shot of the world, a
fact which almost unquestionably won
him the White House place.
It is not at all without the range Of
possibilities that President Roosevelt
will take his new aid down into Vir-
ginia with him some day and there
attempt to beat him at target practice.
It may interest sportsmen and some
people who are not sportsmen to know
that the president keeps record of
his hits and misses when he is in
the field after big game. 1t is an &C.
curate record and no miss is omitted,
no matter how hard the shot was or
how hard were the conditions of
shooting.
Mr.. Roosevelt says that he has met
gunners who would say: well, got
three out of five today" when in
reality they had done nothing of the
kind. The president doesn't charge
men of this kind with telling false
hoods, for he states simply that they
eliminate from the reckoning certain
misses which because Of the extreme
difficulties of the case were not to be
accounted as misses.
The tendency of some sportsmen, &C.
cording to the presidents view, is to
count as chances only those in which
there was a perfectly fair prospect Of
hitting the game. A quick shot at a
deer disappearing at . bound into the
forest at distance Of $50 or 200
yards is not counted as a miss at Ill
times by all sportsmen. IS.
The presidents record, however,
takes account Of ell missing misadveu-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25
Boxwood Birds .Roost in Halls.


When the first box tree bird was
put in the hall of a house by an in
ventive hostess visitors disputed po-
litely as to the nature Of the bird.
'It's an eagle" asseverated many.
cts an English sparrow" was the ex-
pressed conviction of many more.
Really, it didn't matter much what
bird was in the florists eye when he
clipped the green lockwood; he con-
sidered he had achieved an artistic
triumph when he scissored out some
thing resembling a bird. The idea
caught on" and now the box tree
bird is seen in the halls of many
houses. Few pots of ferns and palms
are seen these days, for housekeep-
ers say the modern house is too warm
and the outer air is too dust laden to
grant long life or freshness to grow
ing things.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25
CHAMPION RIFLE SHOT IS
MADE AID TO PRESIDENT

lures, and as result his list of hits
is not so formidable as are the lists
of hits of some others-that is, for
midable in comparison to the number
of misses Mr. Roosevelt is account.
ed a good rife shot He doubtless
knows he can't beat Lieut.. Holcomb,
but that they will shoot against each
other there is no doubt at all.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25
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NETTLE A TROUBLESOME WEED
Why You Should Be Careful Not te
Let Horse Nettle Get a Foothold.

Let me call attention to one of the
worst weeds in the world that is now
invading all parts of Ohio, and I pre-
sumo other states as we'll. It looks
somewhat like potato vine, is
smaller, less leafy, but the leaf and
bloom are like the potato, and bugs
eat it Gts one redeeming featured
writes a correspondent of Breeders
Gazette. It is a perennial and spreads
rather fast by underground root
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25
Keep Account.

A lot Of farmers are feeding their
products to live stock and not making
any money. They are simply selling
their crops through the live stock at
market price with the labor thrown In.
Accurate cost accounts are the only
thing that viii show just what u b,
Ing accomplished In this line.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25
Makes Nest Lightning Proof.

Makes Nest Lightning Proof.
The humming bird in Australia, NO
less than man, protects its habitation
with q lightning rod. Tho ,humming
bird before q devastating thunder
storm bursts prudently covers the out
side Of It's little est with cobNob. Silk
is q non-conduct0r of electricity, and
since cobwebi Ii silk the hunaming
birds nest u thereby rendered Light,
ming PROD. J. IS .s.5.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25
VARYING Detective Work.

It Is with a convenient Disguise
perhaps false mustache or beard
and a revolver in his hip pocket that
the detective starts out on his search
for a criminal. It is with a test tube
and a Bunsen lamp that the chemical
detectives begins his search, perhaps
for the same identical lawbreaker. Each
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25

jars and taken to- the laboratory of
Prof. Doremus. Then began q per-
sistent search for poison. =
There was no clew. There was moth
ing to aid the chemical detective in
his search. The entire case was q
negative one. The only course open
to him was by a process of elimina-
ton to seek the poison, if a poison it
was, that caused the death of the man.
First he searched for the volatile
poisons, such as chloroform, ether and
prussic acid. Patiently he sat for
hours at time watching one test
after another, waiting for a precipitate
that would show him a trace of the
poison he was seeking. None came.
Then he tested for vegetable pois-
ons, such as morphine, strychnine,
atropine and the alkaloid poisons. The
same tedious process through which
he had gone once had to be gone
through again. And still there was no
trace of poison.
There still remained the mineral
poisons, such as lead, copper, arsenic
and antimony. And in the tests for
these was there at last a reward for
the persistency of the detective He
found arsenic in large quantities, and
what was far more rare, distinct
traces Of antimony. F.
Proved Three Murders.
It was the persistency of Prof.
Doremus, the chemical detective in
that case, which sent DR.. Meyer to
prison for life. 1t was through the
persistency and skill of the same de-
tective that the conviction of DR..
Buchanan, accused Of numbering his
wife with morphine, was secured. 1t
was through the skill of chemical de-
tectives that the conviction of Carlyle
Harris, accused of poisoning his wife
with morphine, was secured. It was
the chemical detectives that furnished
the strongest evidence for the prosecu-
ton of Albert T. Patrick and many
others.
The chemical detectives work in
blood-reading tests requires most ex.
tensive knowledge of the actions of
various kinds of poisons on the human
body. By carefully testing the blood
he is often able to tell the exact cause
of death, the kind of poison used and
how it was administered. The i'm.
portance of this in cases where the
most careful autopsy reveals practical
ly nothing will be readily understood.
In handwriting tests the chemical
detective, who in this way has come
to be identified as a handwriting ex'
pert, will often spend long hours study.
ing one Insignificant little letter "a
under his miscroscope and comparing
It with other samples Of handwriting.
1t is in this way that tiny clews have
been found leading on to other and
stronger clews and from there to com.
plete solutions of some of the most
complicated crimes on record.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25
Not Stintino.

Social Preceptor-In order to sue
coed in society, my dear Mr.. Comeup,
and to get the fashionable world to
come to your dinners, you must have
plenty of savoir faire-
Social Parvenue- guess gos
money enough to pay for all I want.
Just order. it for me in bulk.-Baltt
more American.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25

est .mishap while he 10 making his
tests. Yet it, is risk which must
oft n be taken il order to throw. ever
possible light On the case and to de-
velop every clew, no matter how,
slight, that may lead to the detection
of q criminal.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25
Verbal PLAY,

VerpdI fIdys
Gosh, but I'm jist teetotally played
OUT" exclaimed the hired man, as he
threw himself down in the shade OF
the old apple tree.
Il reckon, mebby, yew air, by
grass!" rejOined the old farmer. En-,
nyway, I never knowed yew to hurt
yoreself workin'." Chicago Daily
News.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25

the chemist employed to fathom an
explosion mystery. The loss of a
limb, an eye, Disagreement for life,
or even death, may follow the slight
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25
Good Catch.

0OO0 OdICns -,
.Eva--n q young man should come
down the. road? u.. = j..
Katharine with camera)-I should
snap him.
Eva-Suppose a real handsome
young man should come down. tho
r0QQ!- - =, - a.s 49, "a
Katharine-Oh. then should snap
him up.-Chicago Daily News. s>,-.s
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25

Found do living at the Bar. 5 s77sss
It is estim ated that in New York city
there are 1890 men who were educat:
ed for the bar who are in various en-
nloyments outside Of law omces.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25
No Lea Weakness on Farm.

Poultry papers are filled with talks
on "leg weakness" about this season
of the year: There is no leg weak
ness among farm raised poultry. Leg
Wakness comes first Of all from lack
OF exercise, and lack Of exercise Is
unknown on the farm, where chickens
often wander too far from the prem.
isex. ! .- 80
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25

Whooping Cough at Ninety.
Whooping cough is generally regard.
ed as an infantile disease, but in the
Devonshire (Eng.) village of Upottery,
although no children are affected.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25
Iona and Careful Search,

The heart, lungs, liver, kidneys,
brain and, in fact, nearly every inter-
nal organ of the dead man were taken
from the body, Theoretically sealed in
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25

quite a number of elderly villagers
have been attacked by the ailment.
The latest victim is over 80 years Of
age.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10

Russell Maynard sat in his office
chair, his elbows on his desk, his
curly head supported by both hands
and his eyes fixed on a dainty per
fumed note spread out before him.
He was reading it over and over,
scarcely taking in the meaning of the
words, which he already knew by
heart. 1t had been brought to him
with the early morning mail, and was
in answer to n which he had slipped
into Miriam Grants hand the night
before, when he helped her into her
carriage after Mrs. Lees party, and
it was now nearly noon; yet that let
ter was the only one he had opened.
You can never know, dear friend, what
pain 1t gives me to write this" the words
seemed to be traced in delicate lines of
fire which were burning themselves into
his brain, for until / read your note ask
ing me to be your wife. l did not real
ize how selfish 1 have been in striving to
hold the friendship which has become
so dear to me. 1 know that 1 have a
deeper regard for you than for any other
man of my acquaintance, but / do not
love you. For hours I have tried to per-
suade myself that 1 90. but l cannot. /
should be false to my womanhood were !
to say anything else. and 1 should do you
a cruel wrong were / to marry you, for /
am not one who could max a man happy
unless / could look up to him as being
greater than myself.
Russell. 1 wish we might still be
friends; life will be very dull without
you friendship Il know just how selfish
1 must appear, but If you cannot come
as you have always come. without foster
ing the hope that we may be more nearly
related. it will be better for us to see very
little of each other. / am quite sure, dear
friend. that 1 have read my heart cor
rectly. Your sincere friend.
MIRIAM GRANT"
"She means just what she says
thought poor Russell. Miriam is not
the sort of girl to play with a fellows
heart. She has thought this all out
and she cried-there are traces o.
tears on the paper. oh, Miriam, Mir
iaml why couldn't you have loved
me?" The strong man laid his fore
head on the letter and his frame shoot
convulsiEely. A little hand vas laiC
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10
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out haste, l got into my machine. 7
calmly met the gaze of those thou.
sands, quiet as so many barrels of
gunpowder before the explosion. The
chauffeur turned the machine.
Go SLOW" | called to him. "You
might hurt somebody
But he had his orders from the in
spector. He suddenly darted ahead
at full speed. The mob scattered in
every direction, and we were in Broad
way, bound up town fulfill. before
or the mob realized what he was
about.
| called to him to slow down. He
paid not the slightest attention. I
leaned from the window and looked
up at him. 1t was not my chauffeur:
1t was a man who had the unmistak-
able but indescribable marks of the
plain-clothes policeman.
Where are you going?" l shouted.
You'll find out when we arrive
he shouted back, grinning.
| settled myself and waited-what
else was there to do? Soon | guessed
we We're headed for the pier off which
my yacht was anchored. AS we
dashed on to it, l saw that it was
filled with police, both in uniform and
in plain clothes. l descended. A de
tective sergeant stepped up to me
we are here to help you to your
yacht" he explained. You wouldn'
be safe anywhere in New York-nC
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10

timidly ON his arm. and he started
nervously, for he had thought he was
alone.
i've coined" said a soft voice in
his ears.
Russell raised his head; his face
was so white and drawn that the rag
ged little mite of humanity standing
before him stared at him for a mo-
ment, half afraid.
We'll" said Russell, YEARLY, what
do you want?"
At the sound of his voice the boy
lost his momentary fear, and his dirty
face became beautiful with the great
happiness which shone from the big
brown eyes.
Eve coined ter live with yer. Don't
yer member bout my bein' yer boy?"
ITO live with me! My boy! What in
thunder do won mean?"
Russell spoke petulantly. He loved
children, and usually had a kind word
for the most u%npromising specimen of
childhood; but to-day he was not in a
mood to make himself agreeable. or to
exercise patience.
Yer said" the little waif cleared
his throat and tried to force back the
tears which were fast filling his eyes;
yer said as how l could live with yer
an be yer boy when gran'ther didn't
want me no more" BY this time the
little body trembled so violently that
the child dropped down on RusselI's
footstool.
"Ter-day they put gran'ther in a
hole in the ground. They telled me as
how he can't never git out, an I must
go to the poorhouse; but yer said
yer telled me l could be yer boy, so l
coined right here"
Russell did not answer. He was
staring in perplexity at his strange
guest, and trying to recall the CONVEX
sation to which he alluded.
Il guess yer don't member said
the little fellow, sadly. But yer said
it. an then yer buyed apples o. gran
Their"
oh! Was it you grandfather who
sold apples to me?"
"Uh-huh!"
And he is dead?"
} THE doctor said as how he was
dead as a doornail, an'-an' he never
said nothin' ter me when l telled him
as how l vas hungry"
The boy was crying now in a silent
way that went straight to Russelrs
heart.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10
CHAPTER XXXIV.
"BLACK MATHS" TRIUMPH.

VT " w y
My enemies caused it to be widely
believed that Wild Week" was my
deliberate continuance for the sole
purpose Of e~nriching myself. Thus
they got me a reputation for almost
superhuman daring, for satanic astute-
ness at cold-blooded calculation. l do
not deserve the admiration and respect
that my success-worshiping fellow
countrymen lay at my feet. True, I
did greatly enrich myself; but not
until the Monday after Wild Week.
Not until / had pondered on men
and events with the assistance of the
newspapers my detective protectors
and jailers permitted to be brought
aboard-not until the last hope of
turning Wild Week to the immediate
public advantage had sputtered out
like a lost mans last match, did l
think of beneiting myself, of Selling
the opportunity to strengthen myself
for the future. On Monday morning
l said to Sergt. Mulholland: II want
to go ashore at once and send some
kilograms"
The sergeant is one of the detective
bureaus "dress-suit men" He is by
nature phlegmatic and cynical. His
experience has put over that a veneer
of weary %politeness. We had become
great friends during our enforced in
separable companionshin. For Joe
who looked on me some what as q
mother looks on a brilliant but erratiC
son, had, as / soon discovered, elab
GRATED a wonderful programme fol
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10

more would the place that harOored
you"
He had both common sense ana
force on his side. ! got into the
launch Four detective sergeants ac-
companied me and went aboard with
me. go ahead" said one OF them 10
my captain. He looked at me for or
ders. ~
eve are in the hands of our guests
said I Let them have their way
We steamed down the bay n out
to sea. so
From Maine to Texas the cry rose
and swelled: nm.
~"Blacklock is responsible! what
does il matter whether he lied or toiu
the truth? See the results OF MS
crusade, He ought to be pilloried!
He ought to be killed! He Is u
enemy of the human race. he mas
almost plunged the whole clVlhzeu
world into bankruptcy and civil war.
And they turned eagerly to the very
antocrats who had been Expressing
tbem you have the genius tor
nance and industry. Save us!'
If you did not know, o could
,ness how those patriots with the
genius for finance and industry re-
snonded. When they had done, when
their programme was in effect Lang
don Melville and Updegratf the
three richest men in the country, and
as powerful as octavius' Antony ana
Tenidus after Philippi. They had
saddled upon the r~eorganized finance
and industry of the nation heavier
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10

x than ever, and a vaster and
more expensive and more luxurious
army of their parasites.
The people had risen for financial
n industrial freedom; they had paid
Its fearful price; then, in s~enseless
panic and terror, they flung it away.
l have read that one of the inscrip-
lions on Apollo's temple at Delphi
was: Man, the fool of the farce"
Truly, the gods must have created
us for their amusement; and when
Olympus pals, they ring up the cur
tain on some such screaming comedy
as was that. 1t makes the fancy
chuckle, whilst the heart doth ache"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10

me. 1t included a watch on me day
and night, lest, through rage or de-
spondency, l should try to do VIC
lence to myself. A fine character,
that Joe! But, to return, Mulholland
answered my request for shore-leaVe
with a soothing smile. Cant do it,
Mr.. Blackjack" he said. Our orders
are positive. But when we put in at
New London and send ashore for fur
Their instructions, and for the papers,
you can send in your messages"
GAS you please" said 1. And l gave
him a cipher telegram to Joe-an or
der to invest my store of cash, which
meant practically my whole fortune,
in the gilt-edged securities that were
TO be had for cash at a small fraction
of their value.
This on the Monday after Wild
Week, please note. l would have
helped the people to deliver them
selves from the bondage of the ban
dts. They would not have it. l
would even have sacrificed my all in
irving to save them in spite of them
selves. But what is n sane man
against a stampeded multitude Of mani
acs? For confirmation of my disin-
t-erestedness, l point to all those weeks
and months during which waged
costly warfare on The Seven" who
would gladly have given me more
than | now have, could have been
bribed to desist. But, when | was
compelled to admit that l had over
estimated my fellow men, that the
people wear the yoke because they
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10
Not EasY 10 Do.

Pop" began little Patsy, at the
table, kin / have some"
Here, now!" interrupted his ia
Their. we've a plate full O. food before
ye.'
Eyes, but
Well, thin, kape yer mout' shut
an ate it."-Philadelphia Press.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10
HER MISTAKEN OPINION
By EFFIE w. MERRIMAN

Copyright, BY Joseph B. Bowles.J
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-11-21
Afro-American News.

Clarence Riggs, of Cincinnati, spent
Sunday and Monday with his par ents,
George Rigg- and wife.
a. Hargrave came up from Cincin
natl to spend day or 80 hunting. He
is being entertained by Miss Charlotte
Fitzhugh, on South East street.
Henry Ford, of Dayton, is visiting
In our city.
Albert Miner came over from Lees
burg, to spend Sunday with friends.
Pearl Greene is home from Colum-
bus.
Iverson Johnson is hunting in Brown
county this week.
Hill City X. of p. lodge No. 48 will
held its regular monthly meeting
Thursday, Nov 21.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-11-21
SAMANTHA
Nov. 1S, 1907,

NOV. 10, lOOi.
Miss Bailey, of near Bridges, is the
guest of Miss Ivalee Wilson.
Mrs. d. M. Fulton Is at home after
spending couple of weeks with her
aunt, near Leesburg.
e. Vaughn is i'll with lagrippe.
Chas. Cox entertained his sister,
Mrs. J e. Wright and daughter, Anna,
of Careytown, Sunday.
Chas. Kerns, of Hillsboro, visited
his parents here Sunday.
The lecture given by DR.. Bible
Thursday night at school hall was
highly pleasing.
Clarence Grim, who has been EN-.
ployed In Dayton tae past summer, is
at home.
G. G. Williams is nursing a broken
arm, resulting from fall.
Protracted meetings are in progress
at the M. e. church, conducted by the
pastor, Rev. Washburn.
Jas. T. Patton has been confined to
his home several days with sickness.