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A WANDERING Monument.

1t is probable that no burial monu-
ment in existence has a more peculiar
history than one placed over the
grave of a young man who was buried
on the banks of the Assiniboine river
in Manitoba, Can. Everyone naturally
supposed it would remain there The
ground, however. is sloping, and ow-
ing to the nature of the soil the bank,
grave, monument and all, has been
gradually sliding down hill Recently
the new Grand Trunk Pacific railway
constructed their roadway some little
distance away, and the immense
weight of the embankment greatly
accelerated the pace of the landslide
The stone, still bravely endeavoring
to preserve the perpendicular. is now
at least hundred feet from it's origi
nal position. and the question arises
as to the whereabouts of the grave
which it formerly covered. but un
doubtedly. no longer does. --Wide
World Magazine.
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Juvenile Court in Paris.

The idea of the juvenile court has
been adopted in Paris, but in a modi-
fed and unsatisfactory form as COM
pared with similar institutions in this
country. The French system sets
apart one day each week when juve-
nile offenders shall be tried at the
palais de justice. The children are
arrested by the police, remain under
the control of the police, and, if SEN
fenced, are confined in the same pris-
on with adult offenders. Thus the es-
sential purpose of the system in this
country-the separation of the young
from the old and hardened in crime-is
accomplished only during the time of
actual trial, the least important period
of the entire proceeding. The proba-
ton officer is also lacking, but, when
they show willingness to reform, the
children are handed over to their
parents, or to reformatory societies.
The Bellman.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1909.

The National Corn association has
selected Dec. to 16 as the dates for
the national corn exposition at
Omaha. BY selecting these late dates,
all the state shows will have an op-
portunity to get their prize corn ready
and shipped to the national exhibit
When it is taken into consideration
that Illinois alone holds 10000 school
districts corn contest some idea may
be gathered of the immense amount
of preparations necessary for the
state and national shows. The Omaha
business men have agreed to subscribe
100000 to promote the 1909 show and
make it much larger than that of
1908.
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ALL GO ON STILLS.
QUEER METHOD OF LOCOMOTION
IN FRENCH DISTRICT.
Nature of the Soil In Many Parts Of
Gascony Is Such That Travel
on Foot Is Practically
Impossible. ...

There is a district in France where
the people are literally up in the air
most of the time, says writer in
Good Literature. The nature of the
soil is such that they have to walk on
stills. In the department of Gascony
there are great level plains covered
with stunted bushes of dry heath.
and these waste lands have a soil
that is so muddy that the slightest
rainfall makes them practically i'm
passible by ordinary methods Of pc
destrianism. As the poor people Of
Gascony have to go about their work
just the same, they have, accordingly.
become stiltwalking people, and
men, women and children are to be
seen at all seasons of the year high
up in the air on their stills, trudging
through waste lands, carrying their
baskets and bundles The stills
used are about six feet long.
The shepherds Of Landes all go on
stills, and they think little or nothing
of being perched up from daylight
until evening with their feet on q
level with mans head. The shep-
herd is provided with stout staff
with a flap, which makes a comfor
table seat when turned down. On
this he quietly sits and watches his
flock, and at the same time knits or
spins with distaff fastened to his
girdle. There is rest to support the
foot, with a stirrup and strong
strap, and, higher up, a band of
leather holds the top of the silt firm
ly to the leg, somewhat below the
knee.
Some of the stills are made espe-
cially for fancy walking and tricks,
and the man mounted on them is
gifted as with seven-league boots, for
he can cover the ground at great
rate, often traversing as much as
eight or ten miles an hour The
lower end of the stilt which touches
the ground, is usually capped with a
sheep bone to strengthen it.
The old shepherds, often accom-
panied by their wives, children and
even grandchildren, mounted on d.
minutive stills, wear shaggy, sleeve
less sheepskin coats and CATERS
They also wear the beret, a kind of
tam o shanter, and in the old days
carried gun to protect their flocks.
The old women wear the quaintest of
bonnets, like an inverted coal scuttle,
perched above their brown faces,
crossed by thousand lines and
wrinkles. Mounted on his stills, the
shepherd can watch his flock and see
that the sheep do not get into mis-
chief He carries long stick as
crook, and when tired he uses it as
tripod, whereon he calmly sits for
hours at time, smoking, knitting or
watching his flock. Many of the
women manage their stills as we'll as
the men, though they have an easier
task, since theirs are not such high
ones Some of these women show
such great skill in manipulating the
stills that they can maintain their
equilibrium while they pick up stones,
gather flowers or perform other as
tonishing feats
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She Preferred to Stand,

A delicate woman, with a baby on
her arm and little boy on to her
skirts, boarded subway train at the
Brooklyn bridge one evening recently
when the uptown rush was at it's
height, says the New York Tribune.
There were no seats vacant and the
woman balanced herself as best she
could until at a curve she fell forward,
and was saved from injury only by the
crowd that surrounded her. Instant.
ly number of people rose and of.
fered her a place to sit down, but
she refused and told the man next
to whom she stood: Some people
never help until the last minute, when
they are ashamed to do otherwise. I'd
rather stand than thank one of them. /"
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Johnny and His Boss.

The boss entered the Office, his face
clouded, his brow wrinkled in angry
thought. He called the Office boy. Re-
garding the youth sternly, he said:
Johnny, do you smoke cigarettes?
Il dd-do Little, sir" stammered
Johnny, paling beneath the tan Of the
baseball field.
The boss fixed him with his eagle
eye.
Then gimme one," he said. II left
mine on the bureau."-St. Paul Dis
patch.
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Before and After

"That couple used to be iajep-
arabic year ago." he observed. "and
now you hardly ever see them logeth.
er. Why Is It? Do you know?"
Yes" said she. They weren't m, (,
riod year ago.
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After the Races.

There is nothing certain in this
life"
II beg your pardon. There are sure
tips"
But they are
Yes, Air.. You are certain to
lose on them.
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He drove away then and / stood
looking after him. He was a doctor
of the old school, of the class of family
practitioner that is fast dying out; a..
loyal and honorable gentleman who
was at once physician and confidential
adviser of his patients. When | was
a girl we called in the doctor alike
when we had measles, or when moth
er's sister died in the far West. He
cut out redundant tonsils and brought
the babies with the same air of In
spring se%lf-confdence. Nowadays it
requires a different specialist for each
of these occurrences. When the babies
cried, old DIR. Wainwright gave them
peppermint and dropped warm sweet
oil in their ears with sublime faith
that if it was not collie it was ear
ache. When, at the end of a year,
father met him driving in his high
side-bar buggy with the white mare
ambling along, and asked for a bill,
the doctor used to go home, estimate
what his services were worth for thef
period, divide it in half-I don't think
he kept any ~books-and send father
a statement, in a cramped hand, on a
sheet of ruled white paper. He was an
honored guest at all the weddings,
c~hristenings and funerals-yes, fun.
erals-for every one knew he had done
his best, and there was no gainsaying
the ways of Providence.
All, well, Doctor Wainwright is gone,
and / am an elderly m with an
increasing tendency to live in the past.
The contrast between my old doctor at
home and the Casanova doctor, Frank
Walker, always arouse me to wrath
and depression.
Some time about noon of that day,
"Wednesday. Mrs. Ogden Fitzhugh
telephoned me. | have the barest &C
! quaintance with her-she managed to
be put on the governing board of the
Old Ladies' Home and ruins their di-
gestions by sending them ice cream
and cake on every holiday. Beyond
that and her reputation at bridge,
which is insufferably bad-she is the
worst player at the bridge club
know little of her. 1t was she who
had taken charge of Arnold Arm
strdAg's funeral, however, and | went
at once to the telephone.
Eyes l said, this is Miss lines"
Miss Innes,' she said volubly. Il
have just received a very strange tele-
gram from my cousin, Mrs. Armstrong.
Her husband died yesterday in Cali
fornia and-wait, I will read you the
message"
I knew what was coming. and l
made up my mind at once If Louise
Armstrong had a good and sufficient
reason for leaving her people and
coming home, a reason, moreover. that
kept her from going at once to Mrs.
Ogden Fitzhugh, and that brought her
to the lodge at ~Sunnyside instead, 1t
was not my intention to betray her.
Louise herself must notify her people.
l do not justify myself now, but re-
member, | vas in a peculiar position
toward the Armstrong family | was
connected most unpleasantly with a
cold FLOODED crime, and my niece and
nephew We're practically b~eggared,
either directly or indirectly, through
the head of the family.
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CHAPTER XIII.

~ HE doctor from E~nglewood came
II, very soon, and l went up to see
the sick girl with him. Halsey
mad gone to supervise the fitting of the
car with blankets and pillows, and
Gertrude was opening and airing
Louise's own rooms at the house. Her
private sitting-room, bedroom and
dressing-room were as they had been
when we came. They occupied the end
OF the east wing. beyond the circular
staircase, and we had not even opened
them.
The girl was too i'll to notice what
was being done. When, with the help
of the doctor, who was a fatherly man
with a family of girls at home, we got
her to the house and up the stairs into
bed, she dropped into a feverish sleep,
which lasted until morning. Doctor
Stewart-that was the Englewood doc
tor-stayed almost all night, giving the
medicine himself, and watching her
closely, Afterward he told me that she
had had a narrow escape from pneu-
monia, and that the cerebral symptoms
had been rather alarming. I said l
was glad it wasn't an tits" of some
kind, anyhow, and he smiled solemnly.
He left after breakfast, saying that
he thought the worst of the danger
was over, and that she must be kept
very quiet.
THE shock of two deaths. l suppose,
has lone this he remarked, picking
up his case. cit has been very de
plorable.'
| hastened to set him right.
"She does not know of either, Doc
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Copyright 1903,
The Bobbs- Merrill Company.

synopsis of Previous Chapters.
Rachel Ina@s, a ~spinster, who has raised
trude, from childhood. engages 'Sunnyside. :"
the country house Of a banker, about whose son
there are ugly stories. With Liddy Allen. 4
domestic, she goes to prepare the place for oc-
cupancy. On the second night, while locking
up. they are startled by seeing a face peering
IN through a window. At midnight a rafting,
metallic sound in the house awakens them.
Next morning they find the doors all locked.
Inc only Indications Of a visitor are a half OF
q link cuff button and some scratches on a cir
euIig staircase leading to the cardroom, Hal
Bailey. a friend Miss lines decides to say
nothing about her strange adventures. The
family r%etires at night, leaving Halsey and
n~akens all and they find the body of a man
IN the hall. 1t is Arnold Armstrong. son Of the
owner OF Sunnyside." He has been shot dead.
and Halsey and John Bailey. the latter being
an enemy or the slain man. are missing. The
ponce are called. Miss lines finds Halsey's
revolver and a golf stick in the garden and
hides them. She goes to her room and finds
That the gold cuff link has vanished. Gertrude
lnnes tells the detectives that her brother and
John Bailey we're called from the house by
telephone at 2;45 O'Clock that morning, and that
she Is engaged to marry Mr.. Bailey. She was
heard a latch key IN the door. Armstrong
entered she says, and then a pistol was fred
by some unseen hand. killing the intruder. The
police make her admit that Armstrong and her
brother had guarreled because the former at
temple to make love to her. Among the dead
man $ effects IS a scrap OF paper on which he
Rad p%ractised forging Halsey's name. A net
OF elfennStantlaI evidence begins to enmesh
Gertrude. Halsey and John Bailey. The two
latter are still mysteriously missing. The other
half Of the strange cuff link is found and
ilentihed as belonging to John Bailey. A
housenafd runs n breathlessly saying that she
has heen chased by a strange man in the
drive. Miss lines goes out to investirate and
that moment Halsey returns. He says that he
had only heard Of the murder a few hours be-
fore, but refuses to explain why he and Jack
lailey disappeared. He tells Miss Tnnes that
he is In love with Louise Armstrong. the slain
mans step-slster. Next day they read In the
Paper that Bailey has been arrested and that
the bank with which he is connected has
closed its doors. Bailey tells the, police to send
for Paul Armstrong. owner OF the defunct
hank. and father of the dead man. Armstrong
dies in California about the time the summons
arrives. Gertrude and Halsey attempt to put
blame on Armstrong for wrecking bank. In
which they lost S260.0 GOO. That night a de-
tective tells Miss Inness that a yelled woman
came to the Sur nyside the night before muir
der. Late In the evening Halsey hears step
on the circular staircase. but is knocked down
as he investigates. Runs out of house in pur-
suit of unknown while Miss Inness stands ter
rOr-strfcken.
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1 had got Thomas to stop trying to
explain what he did not understand
himself, 1 had a long talk with the old
man, and this is what l learned.
On Saturday evening before, about 20
o'clock, he had been reading in the So
ting-room down stairs, when some one
raped at the door. The old man was
alone, Warner not having arrived, and
at first he was uncertain about open
ing the door. He did 50 finally, and
was amazed at being confronted by
Louise Armstrong. Thomas was an old
family servant, having been with the
present Mrs. Armstrong. since she was
a child, and he was overwhelmed at
seeing Louise. He saw that she was
excited and tired, and he drew her into
the sitting-room and made her sit
down. After a while he went to the
house and brought Mrs. Watson, and
they talked until late. The Ole mar
said Louise was in trouble, and seemed
frightened. Mrs. Watson made some
tea and took 1t to the lodge, but Louise
made them both promise to keep her
presence a secret. she had not known
that Sunnyside was rented, and what
ever her trouble was, this complicated
things. she seemed puzzled. lJer step
father and her mother were still ir
California-that was all she would say
about them. Why she had run away
no one could imagine. Mr.. Arnold
Armstrong was at the Greenwood Club,
and at last Thomas. not knowing what
else to do, went over there along the
path. 1t was almost midnight. Part
way over he met Armstrong himself
and brought him to the lodge. Mrs.
Watson had gone to the house for
some bed linen, ii having been arranged
that under the circumstances Louise
would be better at the lodge until
morning. Arnold Armstrong and Louise
had a long conference, during which he
was heard to storm and become very
violent. When he left it was after 2.
He had gon up to the house-Thomas
did not know why-and at 3 O'Clock
he was shot at the foot of the circular
staircase.
The following morning Louise had
BEEN i'll. She had asked for Arnold,
and was told he had left town.
Thomas had not the moral courage to
tell her of the crime. She refused a
doctor, and shrank morbidly from hav-
ing her presence known. Mrs. Watson
and Thomas had their hands full, and
at last Rosie had been enlisted to help
them. She carried necessary provisions
little enough-to the lodge, and helped
to keep the secret.
Thomas told me quite frankly that
he had been anxious to keep Louise's
presence hidden for this reason: they
had all seen Arnold Armstrong that
night, and he, himself, for one. was
known to have had no very friendly
feeling for the dead man. As to the
reason for Louise's flight from Call
%fornia, or why she had not gone to the
F1tzhughs, or to some of her people
in town, he had no more Information
than l had. With the death of her
father and the prospect of the immedi-
ate return of the family, things had
become more and more impossible. ]
gathered that Thomas was as relieved
as / at the turn events had takeN.
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earnestly. Il wanted to. She ought to
a had a doctor the night she came, but
she wouldn' hear to it. Is she-is she
very bad, Mis- Innes?'
bad enough" l said coldly. Send
Mr.. lines up"
Halsey came up the stairs slowly,
looking rather interested and inclined
to be amused. For a moment he could
not see anything distinctly in the dark
ened room; he stopped, glanced at
Rosie and at me, and hen his eyes
fell en- the restless head on the pillow.
| think he felt who 1t was before he
really saw her; he crossed the room in
a couple of strides and bent over the
bed.
LOUISE" he said softly; but she did
not reply, and her eyes showed no
recognition. Halsey was young, and
illness was new to him. He straight
ened himself slowly, still watching her,
and caught my arm.
She's dying, Aunt Ray"e~he said
huskily. Dying! Why, she doesn't
know me-"
FUDGE" l snapped, being apt to
grow irritable when my synpathies
are aroused. She's doing nothing of
the sort-and don't pinch my arm. If
you want something to do, go and
choke Thomas"
But at that ONE Louise reused
from her stupor to cough, and at the
end Of the paroXysm, as Rosie laid her
back, exhausted, she knew us. That
was all Halsey wanted to him con-
sciousness was recovery. He dropped
on his knees beside the bed, and tried
to tell her h was all right, n we
would bring her around in a hurry,
and how beautiful she looked-only to
break down utterly and have to stop.
And at h a l came to my senses, and
put him out.
This Instant" l ordered, as he hest
lated. And send Rosie here
He did no go far. He sat on the top
step Of the stairs, only leaving to tele-
phone for a doctor, and getting in
] eyerybody's way In his eagerness to
fetch and carry. / got him away finally,
by sending him to fix up the car as a
sort of ambulance. In case the doctor
would allow the sick girl to be moved.
He sent Gertrude down to the lodge
loaded with ell manner of impossible
things, including an armful of Turkish
towels and a box of mustard piasters,
and as the two girls had known each
other somewhat before, Louise bright
ened p~erceptibly when she saw her,
When the doctor from Englewood-
the Casanova doctor, DIR. Walker. beinl
~away-had started for %sunnyside. ant
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CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.

A-
PUBLIC NOTICE Is hereby given that the fol-
lowing proposed ordinances passed a second
reading and were ordered to a third and final
reading at a meeting of the Board OF Street
and Water Commissioners held July s. 1909: \
An ordinance to provide for the tagging a
the sidewalks on
OSE STREET s.
from Bergen street to Bremen street. 81
An ordinance to open
HILLSIDE AVENUE, ~.
from Meeker avenue northerly for a distance Of
about one hundred feet.
An ordinance to open
BELMONT AVENUE,
from Meeker Avenue northeriy for a distance Of
about one hundred feet. III
An ordinance to open ".
BADGER AVENUE
from Meeker avenue northerly for a distance Of
about one hundred feet.
An ordinance to open
AVENUE, r
from Meeker avenue northerly for a distance ct
about one hundred feet.
A.. F. EGGERs.
President Of the Board of Street and Water
Comm lssioners. W
WIN. e. GREATHEAD,
jy10-5t Clerk Of the Board.
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Mrs. Fit&hugh. had found The, mes

Mrs. Fitzhugh.. had found The mes
sage. - - 1rerst+ s,HN ~ asse ~ -,
".Paul died yesterday : Heart dis
ease. she read..,k" Wire att once IL
Louise is with. yoI.i,i You see. '"Miss
Innes, Louise must have started East,
and Fanny Is alarmed about her.
Yes" Il saidat4 ,fi s4t-iy.f " -.
Louise is not here" Mr.. .'Fitzhugh'
went on, land none of her friends-the
few who are still in town-has seen
her. l called you because Sunnyside
was not rented when she went away,
and Louise might have gone there"
Il am sorry, Mrs. Fitzhugh, but I
cannot help you" I said, and was i'm
mediately filled with compunction. Sup
pose Louise grew worse? Who was l
to play Providence in this case? The
anxious mother certainly had a right
to know that her daughter was in good
hands. So 1 broke in on Mrs. Fitz-
hugh's voluble excuses for disturbing
me-.
MRS. Fitzhugh,'' I said, Twas going
to let YOU think l knew nothing about
Louise Armstrong, but l have changed
my mind. Louise is here, with me-.
There was a chatter of calculations at
the other n of the wire. "She is i'll,
and not able to be moved. Moreover.
she Is unable to see anyone. / wish
you would wire her mother that she is
with me, n tell her not to worry. No,
l do not know why she came East"
But my dear Miss Innes!" Mrs.
Fitzhugh began. 1 cut in ruthlessly.
II will send for you as soon as she
can see you" l said. mo, she is not
in a critical state now, but the doctor
says she must nave absolute quiet
When I had hung up the receiver I
sat down to think. So Louise had fed
from her people in California, and had
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No, she did not know of either of the
deaths in the family.
Taken all around, l had only substi-
tuted one mystery for another. If l
knew now why Rosie had taken the
basket of dishes, 1 did not know who
had spoken to her and followed her
along the drive. If ] knew that Louise
was in the lodge, l did not know why
she was there, If l knew that Arnold
Armstrong had spent some time in the
lodge the night before he was muir
dered, l was no nearer the solution OF
the crime. Who was the midnight in
truder who had so alarmed Liddy and
myself? Who had fallen down the
clothes chute? Was Gertrude's lover
a villain or a victim? Time was to
answer all these things.
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* - ? E~-. q &c.,
come East alone! 1t was not a new
idea:,b but why had she done it? 1t
oceurred.,to me that DIR. Walker might
be CONCERNED in it, might possibly have
bothered her with unwelcome atten-
tons; but it seemed to me that Louise
was hardly, the girl to take refuge in
flight under such circumstances. She
had, always been high spirited. with the
w~ell-poised lead and buoyant step of
the outdoors girl. 1t must have been
much more in keeping with Louise's
character, as l knew it, to resent
vigorously n unwelcome attentions
from DIR. Walker. 1t was the sutton
whom 1 should have expected to see IN
headleng flight, not the lady in the
case.
ITO Be Continued Tomorrow.)