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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-02-28
LYDIA Z. PIN HAMS
VEGETABLE COMPOUND

Mrs. VIII Young, of Columbia
Ave-, Rockland, Me-, says:
was troubled for a long time with
dreadful backaches and a pain in my
side, and was miserable in every way.
/ doctored until was discouraged and
thought would never get well. I read
what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound had done for others and
decided to try it; after taking three
bottles ! can truly say that never felt
SO well in my life"
Mrs. Augustus Lyon, of East Earl,
Pa, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
II had very severe backaches, and
pressing-down pains. Icould not sleep,
and had no appetite. Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound cured me.
and made me feel like new woman. =
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FACTS FOR SICK WONVEN.

For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made.
from roots and herbs, has been the.
standard remedy for female Ills.
and has positively cured thousands Of
women who have been troubled with
displacenents, Inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, baclache, that bear
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness, ornervous prostration.
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PUTNAM FADELESS DYES

Color goods brighter and faster coorr than any 9th
can dye any garment without ripping apart. Write fol-
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-10-08

that she was clad only In her night
peacefully, having tucked her solitary
garment round her feet. At the point
at which she must have crossed the
fence, in order to get to the embank.
ment, plate-layer had left his coat
hanging on one of the posts, with the
result that the girl, in some mysteri
GUS manner, had got hold of the gar
ment in her somnambulistic walk,
wrapped 1t up and made pillow of
1t upon which to lay her head.
Oae of the plate-layers remained
with the girl, while the other immedi-
ately went to call p G. Rowlands of
Llandulas, who hurried to the spot,
followed with equal haste by Mr..
Lane, the station-master at Llandulas.
She was then picked up and carried
in semi-comatose condition to tho
police station She had a Bible and
letter In her possession, which seemed
to indicate that she was Miss Amy
Parker and native OF Oakengateg In
Salop. The letter also furnished a clue
that place being communicated with II
was found that the young lady was
staying there. She Is handsome.
well-developed girl. and although 30
young Is nearly six feet in height. She
had suffered somewhat from exposure.
but had recovered much Of her vitality
when claimed by her friends.
II Is stated that the girl has been
rather inclined to somnambulism. In
the course OF conversation she stated
that she remembered nothing from the
time she got into bed at Old Colwyn
and woke UP at Llandulas police sta
ton, about two miles away. She must
have walked along the main road and
then branched off through some fields.
1t is quite possible that the mere act
of getting over the fence where tho
coat was hanging may have suggested
the idea of getting into bed.
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GERS, Alice, % years old, and Marie, Fl
years old, sat up and watched him,
fearing violence.
The other morning he asked Marie
to accompany him TO Chicago. He said
he wanted to pay his life insurance
dues.
During the morning the man and his
daughter walked along the lake front,
during which time he acted nationally.
Later he went to the insurance office
and transacted his business, after
which he asked Marie to go up on the
tower with him. The girl didn't wish
to go, but the father insisted, and to
avoid a scene she went.
When he reached the top of the
tower the insane man walked away
from his daughter and gazed out on
the lake. Suddenly he turned on the
girl Her back was turned to him,
With wild cry he grabbed her about
the waist and, lifting her above his
head, started to throw her over the
railing. She grasped the balustrade
and screamed for help.
John Richardson, an elevator start
er, employed in the observatory, was
standing a few feet away. He grabbed
the insane man by the neck and
pulled him from the railing. Snarling
with rage, Shilling tore at the throat
of Richardson. Several other persons
who saw the ARRAY joined the strug
| gle.
The crazed man was finally over
powered and was held until the police
arrived. The girl was taken to doc
] tors Office, where her injuries were at
/ tended to.
Shilling will be examined and appli
cation made in the county court fol
| his return to the Kankakee asylum.
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tetanus germs forced itself into his
mind But his two attempts had
failed-and still there was the clause
in his insurance policy forbidding sui
eide. He must die by the hand of
some one else. Into the half-crazed
mind of the physician there slipped as
shrewd and diabolical an idea as any
one had ever known.
DO you love me?" he asked Abbie
Rice.
you know l do" she responded.
Then if you love me, kill me"
calmly suggested the physician.
The woman shrank back in horror
Il will live for you, but l will not
kill YOU" she told him.
"If you love me as you say, kill
yourself afterward. | will arrange
that, but you must not kill yourself
so as to make any scandal. | want
to spare my wife as much of that as
possible"
The woman pleaded with him, but
he was obdurate. He was drinking
heavily and taking drugs, too, so he
was not responsible for what he did.
I'm going to kill myself" he de-
clared bluntly, but / have to have
some one to do it. Now 1t is you or
some one else"
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RArrLERs lnrEsr HOUSES.
Women in Mountain Homes Have
Many Thrilling Encounters.

Towanda, Pa.-The Barclay noun
tain district Is plagued by rattle
snakes. The absence OF fires II the
woods for several seasons have given
the reptiles an opportunity to multiply.
and there have been some thrilling en-
counters with them.
Mrs. Michael Mcmahon found rat
tlesnake curled up behind the kitchen
stove and killed the snake with
broom. II measured nearly Ave feet
and had IL ratties
The following day n3lBhbOr III the
McMahons went TO the henhouse 10
gather eggs The woman slipped he's
hand in through the opening to where
the nest was, and came in contact
with something cold and Shiny. She
withdrew her hand, and moment
later the head of rattlesnake WAS
thrust out at her almost into her face
Her screams brought help. The snake
measured four and one half feet
Mrs. Michael Jenkins, residing near
Barclay, saw what she thought was
one of her daughters hair ribbons ON
the bedroom floor She stopped &c
I
pick It up, when to her horror the
thing wriggled up in heap. 1t was
a rattlesnake measuring nearly three
| feet
A berry picker in the Lamoka dis
trict killed Ave rattlers in one day.
A man named Munson, residing ON
an isolated place in the same section.
lost II young ducks end more tram
| that number of chicks, One morning
he saw rattlesnake come out from
under the smokehouse and seize a
chick, then crawl back out OF sigHs-
He and his boys pried the smokehoEse
up and under II they found a colony
of six raltlers. Three of them wese
in lethargic state, owing TO their
J gorging upon The Young Doult'y
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CHAPTER v.

Then Abbie Rice consented. To
gether they went to a pawnshop and
purchased a pistol. They had planned
first to do the deed in the office of the
DOCTOR but he was afraid that she
would not be able to get away, so they
went to the apartment where he had
installed her. He loaded the pistol,
cooked it, but in his eagerness drew
the hammer so far back that he broke
the spring. There was no other way
of dying at hand. The killing had to
be postponed.
For week after that first attempt
at suicide DR.. Rustin and Abbie Rice
lived a life of widest dissipation.
They had gone to Council Bluffs and
there had the pistol fixed, but the
woman hoped that he had abandoned
his plan of death. But at the end OF
the week he was back at his old plan.
She had given her consent, so there
was no drawing back. Together, late
at night, they went to his office. He
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will kill me If will give him drugs
with which he can kill himself Come
down to the Office to meet him"
Abbie Rice accompanied the doctor
to his office. A shaky, nervous wreck
OF man was there waiting them. 1t
was evident that he was on the verge
of lunacy from shattered nerves. He
could scarcely speak coherently. And
there between these three the
strangest suicide pact in the history
of American crime was arranged
Davis was to do the killing, and for
this service the doctor was to give
him bottle of chloride of gold and
bottle of morphine tablets. After
shooting the doctor he was to take the
heard the others attempt had been
successful Abbie Rice was to kill her.
self.
Ten minutes after the time that DR..
Rustin had left Abbie Rice at the cor.
ner Mrs. Rustin in her own room was
awakened by shot. She hurried
| downstairs to find her husband lying
Ou lHe porch. ne Hdu DeeH SHUt
through the stomach
"a man shot me-" he said, and that
was all the information they got.
In half an hour he was dead.
The next morning when 1t was
learned that DIR. Rustin had been
killed there was tremendous excite
ment in Omaha.
And following the first excitement
came the news that one of DR.. Rus
tins patients, Charles Edward Davis,
brother of one of the leading bankers
in the city, had attempted suicide.
The police arrested the woman with
whom 1t was known Rustin had been
friendly, Abbie Rice. She had no
chance to carry out her part of the
agreement, for they caught her early
in the morning following the shooting
For three days the police were in
the air. Then somebody remarked SO
Abbie Rice could hear:
THE doctors wife gets her insur
ance, anyhow"
And then the full story came out.
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my wife and children You have
agreed to kill me. Now you must do
It,"
Il cannot" she sobbed Il would
only lose my nerve again"
The doctor thought. IAN right he
said. 81 will 20 out to the barn. You
come around the back way. l will
stand up and you will shoot me, and
they will think that was killed by q
burglar"
Still protesting and half crying, he
put her out of the house and started
back himself for the barn. The woman
started around toward the back, but
when she reached the alleyway man
ran out of 1t. and again she lost her
nerve. Jumping on car, she started
downtown.
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omaha. Neb.--Most coolly and calm
!. Mrs Abbie B. Rice, the woman
!. ,be case" in the Rustin murder mys-
..rv said that DR.. Rustin had trained
Nor m to the point of killing him, first
,smiliarizing her with hospital scenes
ana then by working on the hero wor-
.hin and sympathy in her nature had
sradually worked toward the point
vhere she could fire the shot which
would kill him. Books of fiction in
vblch one man died for another, and
hooks in which great sacrifices were
made for friendships sake were read
Nv DR.. Rustin to Mrs. Rice and com.
mented upon by him until the woman
saw the killing of Rustin by herself in
a kind Of halo.
"For weeks and weeks DR.. Rustin
trained me to murder him." said Mrs.
Rice First, he trained me to the sight
Of bloodshed. He used to take me
around with him when he performed
Ouerations. On these trips l dressed
as a nurse In clothing ne IurnlSned me.
Gradually got used to seeing the OPP
eratlons, and there was no more nau-
sea on my part In time an operation
did not affect me in the least.
"Nobleness and Self Sacrifice"
After ! became well advanced in
that portion of his plan, DR.. Rustin be-
gan talking to me about the nobleness
Of self sacrifice. Books in which one
friend sacrificed his life for another
we're read to me by the doctor, and
their beauties pointed out to me- "A
Tale of Two Cities" was one of his
iavorites, and he read that to me a
number of times. The character of
Sydney Carton was eulogized and
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The Volunteer.

praised and seemed to be his favorite
character in fiction.
In this way he trained my mind,
and when he suggested to me that !
XII him, the idea was not as horrible
II would have been had my mind
not been prepared by the training
nfough which / had passed. In fact
he suggestion seemed to come as
matter of course and was not near so
aorrible as it undoubtedly seems to an
outsider that is, to one who hears II
Tor the first time.
The doctor had determined to die.
ne had told me that so often that l
aad begun to look upon his death as
matter of course and the fact that he
could not commit suicide without his
amily losing his life insurance was
also Impressed upon me.
guess I'll have to get some one
Kill me, said Dr. Rustin one night
d'er we had been talking about his
y death.
That was all he said then. Some
uWe later he made the same state
uen'-1 guess I'll have to get some
one to kill me.
a II you die, I'll die, too said,
That seemed to please him, and
suil again he said to me, I guess I'll
nave to get some one to kill me-.
But at the last minute found that
could not do it. The training had
IVY been complete, and | failed him.
Insurance Men in Case.
Inc insurance companies have
sAen hand in the murder mystery,
my 'hree different companies filed pc
4ons In the district court asking
Ia' The testimony of both Charles
avs and Mrs. Rice be perpetuated.
"s' OF questions which was attached
ae petition is proposed to Davis
au MRS, Rice, the questions covering
Vucally the same ground as that
'ered at the inquest The purpose
Z. nave the testimony of these two
a.! r4esses in proper legal form to pre-
"' as evidence in case either should
'Curs. "
* M Nv Insurance companies signing
petition are the Aetna Life OF
W 'uorh which had a $4,000 policy
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case" had told her tragic story-the
story of the triple death pact. He
looked gaunt and pale, and there were
hollows under his eyes.
A policeman's hand fell upon his
shoulder.
You are arrested for murder in the
first degree" were the words that met
his ears.
DR.. ]. p. Lord had named him be-
fore all the world as the man who was
seen staggering away from the Ruskin
home, half an hour after the fatal shot
was fired
Make the bail as high as you wish,
We will meet it," said he.
He was admitted to bail and left the
court with staggering footsteps.
What will be the outcome of the
strange triple murder pact? No man
can tell.
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Once well, for while be tr,sa N
, no'h and get back his practice. but
cue enort seemed TO do little good He
n,aue money but the good.fellow in
,Sa. was too strongly developed. All
mat he had went, and more too in the
Partnerships. " "" N'"
ana Just at this stage there came
'".O ms lie the other woman.
The wife to whom he owed aueol.
sue was forgotten The new woman
neid MIN in a wise. And then the
money went faster than ever and the
debts piled higher.
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YOUNG GIRL TAKES LONG
WALK IN Her DREAM
FOUND NEAR A RAILWAY LINE rm
WALES, GLAD ONLY IN
NleHTpREss.

London.--The adventure OF youps
girl about t6 years OF age. who In nj
present staying at Old Colwyn. reads
I re in the nature OF romance thas
a statement OF sober fact.
About 5:45 in the morning, as some
railroad plate-layers were proceeding
TO their work, they saw girl lying Az
If asleep ON the side OF the railway
embankment, and only a few feet
from the metals themselves. The point
at which she was lying was within
half mile of the Llandudno station
in the direction of Colwyn bay.
When the plate-layers reached the
girl they found. to their establishment.
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CHAPTER II.

It was so subtle at first that his
friends did not know what to make OF
it, They first noticed the difference
after he had lost particularly trying
case. The doctor could not explain.
He became depressed.
''Fred's losing his nerve his friends
said and in few weeks the secret
was out Not only was the young doc
tor losing his nerve, but he had taken
to drink.
Rustin saw his practice go; he saw
financial ruin staring him in the race.
Long the doctor thought, and then
he took mysterious trip to Chicago
Professional business, he pleaded. But
ON his return he showed to several in
innate friends two little walls and ne
told them in deepest confidence that
one vial contained the germs OF ty-
pboid fever and the other germs OF
tetanus.
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on Rustin's life, and the Travelers,
insurance Company of Hartford, and
the Employers Liability of London.
Each of the latter companies have
$4,000 on Rustins life.
In each policy is a clause declaring
VOID the insurance in case the insured
died of intoxicants or while under the
influence OF intoxicants.
mere Is the story told in detail:
CHAPTER /.
mansion on the fashionable street
IN omaha was ablaze with lights. The
street in front was crowded with car
riages. Others were dashing up and
leaving. Handsomely dressed women
were being assisted up the steps. The
sound of the music and the CAV con.
versation floated out to the street
Big doings," said one cabby to an.
other.
Bet your life" agreed his friend.
but I'm glad to see it, Doc Rustin' s
fine fellow. He'll make a good hus-
band for any girl. That fellow is a
conner, all right. He is a good fellow,
you bet"
And so he was. Almost anybody in
Omaha asked casually that night
would have told the questioner that
DR.. Frederick +. Rustin. ex-Yale ath-
lete, good fellow and one of the rising
young surgeons in the west, was a
man of whom Omaha was proud. And
they We're glad to see him marry a
leading society girl. 1t insured him a
fine practice, and if he would only
stick to business in a few years he
would be rich.
A few years after that night DR.
Rustin, established with his wife in a
little home of their own, had started
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Whose Hand?

in to justify the expectations Of his
friends. Two children were born, and
by that time the young surgeon had
become known as one of the best men
in his profession throughout the entire
west. Only "a years old, happily mar
ried and rapidly becoming wealthy.
the young doctor apparently had every
thing to live for.
And then, suddenly, his friends be-
gan to notice a slight change.
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BATTLE FOR LIFE
ON HIGH TOWER
FATHER TRIES TO HuRL GIRL
OVER RAILING ON AUDITOR.
iUM AT CHICAGO.
CAUGHT IN THE NICK OF TIME
Elevator Operator Foils Attempt OF
Former Lunate to Dash Daugh.
ter to street-Fight RACES
Fifteen Minutes.

Chicago--A terrible battle with
maniac with the life of his daughter,
Marie Shilling, 21-year-old girl. at
stake, took place the other afternoon
when j. Il. Shilling of La Grange, ILL.,,
attempted to hurl her from the Audi
torium tower, and was forestalled by
John Richardson, an elevator opera
tor.
The screams of the girl as she strug-
gled in the powerful arms of her
crazed father attracted the attention
of sight-seers who were viewing The
city from the tower.
The man was caught as he held the
girl poised at the edge OF the railing
ready to dash her to the street, hun
dreds of feet below.
For Is minutes struggle on the
narrow corridor on top of the tower
ragged before the maniac was overpow-
cred. Once he broke loose from his
assailants and grasped his daughter
In his mad attempt to end her life. As
he loosened his hold on her the last
time she staggered through door
way and fell down flight Of stairs,
where she lay until her father had
been overpowered.
The attempt on the life OF the girl
was brought about by recurrence of
an attack of insanity from which
Shilling has been suffering for some
time. Only two months ago he was
released from the asylum at Kanka
kea whom no woa cnn6pad for thrae
months He was driven insane by the
loss of his fortune.
For several days he had been acting
queerly. A few nights ago the family
consisting of a wife and two daugh
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showed her where he wanted her 10
fire the bullet into him.
when ] have fallen, he said you
must slip away from the house, Get
ON a car, go to the end OF the line
take out the empty cartridge from the
nistol and throw II away. Then put In
q fresh cartridge and shoot yourself "
81 cannot" she sobbed. Il cannot
7 love YOU and | cannot kill you.
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CHAPTER ~.

People had begun to say What a
pity IL Is about young Rustin." His
ao'ions were common gossip and his
reputation as a surgeon was black.
ened. People did not want a man who
might come to them with shaking
hands and unsteady nerves. And
again the idea which had led him to
lnoculate himself with typhoid and
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Child in Trance for Thirty Days.

Bloomington, Ill.-Due to an attack
of meningitis. Elizabeth. the Gve-year-
old child of George de Groot of La
Sale county, is in a trance-lilse sleep
and cannot be awakened. The child
has lain 30 days in this condition. and
appears to be healthy. save for the abb
normal sleep. The case is unique for
children of that early age.
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CHAPTER vi.

A wave of rage swept over Rustin'
He stepped forward, caught the Wo'
man and shook her -,
You have got to do It, You said
vou would, and you have got to do IT,
he cried fiercely.
She tried to plead, to argue put II
was no use.
81 have got to die for the sake OF
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CHAPTER III.

Mrs. Rustln was heart-broken, but
sbe knew what to do The idea that
the cause of her husbands troubles
might be himself never entered her
head. Day and night she nursed MN
and even when his brother physicians
gave up hope the wife held on
'He shall not die, she told tne doe'
tors IF will save him.
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CHAPTER VII,

Three days later when Abbie Rice
saw DR.. Rustin he greeted her gaily.
Il have found the man to do it," he
said. His name is Charles Edward
Davis and he wants to die, too He
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A few days after that the doctor
complained to his wife that he hau
been bitten by dog while on a night
visit to a patient. He told her that
he had cauterized the wound, but bad
results might follow The next day, to
make matters worse he was taken
down with typhoid fever
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A company has been formed in Eu-
rope for the purpose Of erecting and
operating frst-class hote's in various
cities and towns OF Greece.
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TRAGIC STORY
OF DIR. RUSTIN
Happening in Modern Life That
Pales the Widest Fiction Euer
Euolued from Brain of
Novelist

weirnss OF fiction has been by wonderful
T. Rustn an Omaha physician
~. was his result Of trn.
ybch he loved the partnarts [ p
% story chapters that surpasses a. 81. 80
ss, ~ the most cunning mind. w VIC "'e"
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CHAPTER VII.

Charles E. Davis was leaving the pc.
lice station where 1.-The woman in the