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The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-04-15
PREACHER PRAISES
PUBLIC PRESS
ACHIEVEMENTS OF NEWSPA.
PERS AMONG MODERN WON.
DERS OF THE WORLD" SAYS
CHICAGO METHODIST MINIS
TERE.

Chicago, April Is. Achieve
ments of the press are among the
modern wonders of the world"
So declared the Rev. B. w. Nor.
ton, pastor of the Mandell Methodist
church, in an address before the
weekly meeting of the Methodist
ministers.
Newspaper arrangements" he
continued, have been among the
largest direct givers to all public ap-
peals for charity, the fresh air fund,
the sufferers of San Francisco and of
Messina. Newspapers also have been
vehicles for charity of others, ex-
planning needs making appeals, re-
|ceiving funds and organizing bureaus
of relief.
"They have exploited many local
Christian and charitable enterprises,
the fifteenth anniversary of the Y. NJ
C. A, the Torrey and Gypsy Smith
revival meetings, the Wesley Hos
pital bazaar, the Lincoln centennial
and other enterprises of like charac-
ter.
''They have been diffusers of gen.
eral intelligence bringing to our
doors all countries and all phases of
human thought and endeavor so that
it may be said of a diligent reader of
the newspaper, though he may not
be Informed accurately On certain
particular events he does have such
a survey as will make him a citizen
of the world and will give superior
knowledge to the one whose outlook
is confined to his own though or to
the horizon of his own town.
Contrary to the opinions of many,
the newspaper has saved it's readers
from that modern perversion of our
forcible English slang. 1t
has pruned its language of affecta
ton, fine writing and indiscriminate
and excessive use of adjectives We
should well take a lesson here for
use in church notices, advertising
and in communications to church
periodicals. The very word imprint
able is an index of the purity of the
newspaper. Not only is the obscene
expurgated, but offensive terms in
tended to impart legitimate infOrma-
ton are excluded.
What may seem the strangest as
sertion of all, the newspaper has
saved society from irreligion.
eff the newspaper does not profess
eddy favor religion, it never is against
religion. While it is often too flip
pant, or at least too jocular in treat
ing of religious events, it never is
irreverent. 1t never advO-
Gates biblical nor marriage infidelity.
Its utterances are ever demanding
honesty in politics, purity in home
life, smokeless chimneys, a well gov
erned and a beautiful nation and |
city.
"The church expects right empha-
sis on sensational news. 1t is not |
that the sensational should
occupy large space in the newspaper
If today. Like fiction and the drama,
he most popular forms of literature
t deals with those phases of life
which create the most intense interest
md which spring from the most ele-
mental passions of human nature.
THE Bible is a book of sensa-
Christ, I believe, chose the
method of expression in
rider to startle dull people into
bought and to fix general principles
n memory until they had chance
o grow"
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-04-15
Bought Malaga Land.

The Ben Shaw place of 40 acres,
adjoining the townsite of Malaga,
was sold yesterday to John w. Dutch
er, the consideration being $4,000.
Mr.. Shaw took, in part payment, lots
s and 8, block 8, Mob Hill addition
to Wenatchee. The sale was made
by Smart Bros. of Malaga.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-04-15
Women of Woodcraft Ball.

Invitations are being issued for the
first annual ball to be given by the
drill team of the Women OF Wood
craft. at the Eagle hall, Wednesday
evening, April 81. Orchards Or
ceestra will furnish the music. Ad-
mission 81. Present the invitation
at the door.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-04-15

To be sold at a low price, Thurs
Friday and Saturday, April Is, 16
and II, household goods, at 116 c
street north. 4-1o
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-04-15

B4 you buy. see my second hand
bicycles; SIS and up. New ones,
guaranteed, $25 and up. Agent for
the Indian Motorcycle.
80 EYER
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-04-15

Mrs. C. p. Bann went to Trinidad
Yesterday to visit.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-31

lotte Koch. age u, Midland avenue,
Arlington, N. j.; Marie Marcanton, age
IL, Taylor street, Millburn; George
Douglas, age 10, 20 Hamlet street, New
ark; Lerein Kelly, age II, ISL Wash
ington avenue, Belleville; Alice Engels,
age II, 621 Clifton avenue, Newark;
Catherine Heelan, age 10, 75 Harrison
avenue, Harrison; Frank Naylor, age
II, 121 Lafayette street, Newark; Edith
Brown, age II. Norris venue Union.
N. j.; Fred Woltersdorf. G 3, 173
Belmont avenue, Newark; Mabel Hol-
combe, age 10, 629 John street, Kearny;
Thomas Heys, age 10, 437 John street,
East Newark, n. j.; William Allen,
age IL. Al Chadwick avenue, Newark;
Myrtle Livingston, g 9, box 236 Mill
burn. N. j.; Morris Gordon, g s, 1856
Ferry street. Newark; Minnie Wolff,
age 10, 696 Washington street, Har-
rison, n, j.; Nanette Herold, age 10,
100 Emmett street, Newark; Dorothy
Silehurst, age II, Taylor street, Orange.
N. j.; Catherine McKallin, age 8. ST.
Main avenue. Passaic; Julia Maths, age
9, 80 Crane street, Newark; Fred
Kniesle, age II. r. r. D. No. 2, Cream
Ridge, ". j.: Catherine Struening. age
3. II Headley terrace. Irvington; Joseph
Kur, age II, 2S5 Dodd street. East Or
anse; Sadie Gtcsnsa. aga b. 81
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-31

nue., Newark: Theresa Weimar, age 10,
33S Littleton avenue, Newark; William
Element, age IA, SO McWhorter street,
Newark; Norman Conoyer, age 7, 3I3
Main street, East Orange: Sadie Ger
Der, age 8, 120 Barclay street, New
ark; Norman Collier, age IL, % Fabyan
place. Newark; Henry Drezner, age
IL. 1915 Howard street, Newark;
Wilson Hopson. age 7.~2 Bruen ave-
nue., IrvingtoR; Roy Dellmire, age s,
1913 Polk street, Newark; Lewis Man
gin, age IL. 203 New street, Newark;
Elizabeth Bolton, age II, 800 Central
avenue, Newark; Katherine Mullen, age
8, 891 Broad street, Newark; Gladys
Fishman, age II, "a Hillside place, New
ark; Gertrude Lynch, 10. 80 Har-
rison avenue, Harrison; Violette Rey,
age u, Is Emerson street, East Orange;
Gertrude Mont, age 10, "a Lincoln
place. Orange; John Mantom, age II,
1874 High street, Newark; Anna Parker,
age -, 224 Elm street, Newark; Minnie
Lipson, age II, 126 Market street, New
ark; Edna Schuck. age IA. 57h Morton
street. Newark: Helen Mackin, age IL,
81 Dickerson street. Newark; Emma
OFT, age IL, Fifteenth venue Newark;
Amanda Rodewald, age 10, II Westcott
street, Newark; Willie Muhlbach, age
II, IS New street drsnse N. L. Char
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-31
THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE
BY NARY ROBERTS RINEHART

felt rather than heard, much like the
pulsing beat of fire engines in the city.
For one awful moment l though
the house was on fire. and every
crop of blood in my body gathered
around my heart; then / knew. 1t was
the engine of the automobile, and Hal
sey had come back. Hope sprang up
afresh. Halsey's clear lead n Ger
trude's intuition might do what Li1dy's
hysteria ahd three detectives had
failed in.
After a time 1 thought I had beer
right. There was certainly something
going on down below; doors were slam :
mipe, people were hurryi1g throug 1.-THE
halle, and certain high notes of excited
voices penetrated to me shrilly. l hoped
they were coming closer, but after a
time the sounds died away below. and |
was left 10 the silence and heat, to
the weight of the darkness, to the OPP
preston OF walls that seemed TO close
in on me and sti1e me.
The first warning l had was a
stealthy fun1bling at the lock of the
mantal-door. With my mouth open to
scream. l stopped. Perhaps the situa-
ton Rad rendered me acute, perhaps 1t
was instructive. Whatever il was, |
sat without moving. and some one out
side, IN absolute stiffness. ran his fin
! gers over the carving of the mantel and
found the panel.
Now the sounds below r~edoubled:
from the clatter and Earring l knew
that several people were running up
the stairs, and as the sounds APP
preached I could ever heer what they
said.
watch the end staircasesi" Jameson
was shouting. "Damnation-there's no
light here!' And then a second later.
"All together now. One-two-three-'
The door into the trunk-room had
been locked from the inside. At the sec
end that 1t gave, opening against the
wall with a crash and evidently tum-
bling somebody into the room, the
stealthy fingers beyond the mantel-door
gave the knob the proper impetus, and
the door swung open and closed again.
Only--and Liddy always screams and
puts her fingers in her ears at this
point-only now I was not alone in the
chimney room. There was some one
else in the darkness. some one who
breathed hard. and who was so close I
could have touched him with my hand.
vas III u PaiGiSSlo VI teIIOr' Jul
side there were excited voices and in
credulous oaths. The trunks were be-
ing jerked around in a frantic search,
the windows were thrown open, only
to show a sheer drop of forty feet. And
the man in the room with me leaned
against the mantel-door and listened:
His pursuers we're plainly bafied; I
heard him draw. a long breath, and
turn TO grope his way through the
blackness Then-he touched my hand,
cold. clammy, deathlike.
\ hand in an empty room! He drew
in his breath. the sharp intaking of
horror that fills lungs suddenly COL
lapsed. Beyond jerking his hand away
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explosions to the ground. When l had
gathered up my nerves again l found
1t nae been the bulb of a swinging cleo
trio light. and that had it not been for
the accident 1 might have starved to
death in an illuminated sepulchre.
l must have dozed off. | am sure !
did not faint. l was never more com
posed in my life. l remember planning,
if l were not discovered. who would
have my things. l knew Liddy would
want my heliotrope .poplin, and she's a
fright in lavender. Once or twice l heard
mice in the partitions and SO l sat on the
table. with my feet on the Chair.
ina cined | could hear the search going
or through the house, and once SONS
one came into the truak-room: l could
distinctly hear footsteps.
In ne chimney! In the chimney
called with all my might. and was re-
wardsd by a piercing Shrek from Liddy
and the slam of the trunk-room door.
felt easier after that. although the
room was oppressively hot and enervat-
ing. l had no doubt the search for me
would now come in the right direction,
and after a little l dropped into a dose.
How long slept 1 do not now
It mus. have been several hours, 70.
l had been tired from a busy day. and
l Weakened stiff from my awkward
position. ! could not remember where
was for a few minutes, and my head
felt heavy and congested. Gradually
| reused TO my surroundings. and 10
the fact that in spite of the Ventilators
the air was had M growing worse, |
was breathing long, gasping respira-
lions. and my face was damp and
elammy. must have been there a lon :
time. and the searchers were pr2bably
hunting outside the house, dredging
the creek. or beating the woodland. I
knew that another hour or two wouli
find me unconscious, and with my in
ability to cry out would go my only
chance of rescue. It was the comhi1a-
ton of bad air and heat. probably, for
some inadequate ventilation was on
ing through The pipes. l tried to retain
my consciousness by walking the
length of the DON and back. over and
over, but l had not the strength 70
keep it up, so l sat down on tho table
again. my back against the wall.
The house was very still. Once my
straining ears seemed to catch a got
fall beneath me, possibly in my Gown
room. I CROPPED for the chair from the
table, and pounded with it frantically
on the floor. But nothing happened; I
realized bitterly that if the sound was
heard at all. no doubt it was classe |
with the other ~rappings that had so
alarmed us recently.
Il was impossible to judge the flight
CT time. measured five minutes by
counting my pulse, allowing seventy
two beats to the minute. But it took
%eternities, and toward the last I found
II hard to count; my head was on
fused.
And then-I heard sounds from below
me. in the house. There was a pecu-
liar throbbing, vibrating noise that I
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-31

ROLL OF HONOR.


: ioiio"lhs prlent cnlloren sent IN
me Vi more OF Chcle JACKS oupon
'ile week ana thelr names are paced
On me ron oil nonor'
"lilaru eeolut, age .. l6o PEABODY
piaCe' NeMarh, oiiloTa Nelly Z H.
800 SCUM 1Well'h street, Newark; Hoo-
eLt Crochett' age L. % FRANKLIN street,
Ne"ark' Jacob Harltsky' age a. l44
LiFihssloh street, newark Aioyslus
hltt"eger, age 6 S4Z FIFTEENTH avenue,
NeMarh' LOUIS S~tackhonse' age ~ 10
"ililaih street. East orange Grace
conner, age II, 10 Mulberry street
Ne"arki charlotte Mohn' age a. PARK
aIlVe, west orange; a ANDERSON age
10 ioA harrison avenue Harrison; Rose
LitVlhoW, age H. go Fltteenth avenue,
Ne"ark' baha III, age IA, Westreid
venue oprlnsheldi Louise Crusllla,
age ~, oo MOTIFS street, range cara
fllueger' age H. Main street, Miilourn;
H.. patterson, age IL, 23i cleveland ave-
nue., Harrison; victor Derbyshire, age
II, 80 waterman avenue, Newark; Ina
Little' age 10 lag New street, Newark
refer ferris' age H. b Brill street New
ark Myrtle Stoneman, age ~, 70 N
Ihlrteenth street, Newark; Anna kee-
- 90 - ~ - -
william ~Strasburger, age II. AZ Hillyer
street orange; Pauline kugel' aged IL,
1so Prince street! Newark; Dorothy
EISeiiidn' age To- . orange pidce' view
ARK Otto 1hofnas. age Ia % RIVER
street Faterson' Ella schoenWiesner
o. OIL bergen street, newark drant
heeler' age IL D University place
: East range BESSIE Hoswortn, age l5'
ocean avenue Mlllnurh' florehce Cos
son, age H. Jos Cherry street, west
range Samuel kaufman, age IL 81
frlnce street Newark Emily Burk-
hardt, age II, AZ falrVlew avenue, New
ARK Louis Schreioer' age H. 80 Hamp-
ton place, tl1zabeth; Abe Denrurg. age
10, 1oS Prince street Newark Alice
Ch'ltoh' age II, AZ" south Tweltth street,
Newark; william Cuypers, age II. 3I2
Firth street, Jersey City; Alice Esen-
lohr' age IA, 1874 Astor street, Newark;
Edwards Powers age l. All Greenwood
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and scold Liddy. n do any of the
thousand natural things that I had
never expected 10 do again. And the
airl The touch of the cool night air
on my face!
AS Alex and I reached the second
floor, Mr.. Jameson met us. He. was
grave and quiet, and he nodded COM
prehendingly when he saw the safe.
Will you come with meteor a mo-
ment, Miss Innes2, he asked soberly;
and on my asserting, he led the way
to the east wing. There were lights
| moving around below, and some of the
maids were standing gaping down.
They screamed when they saw me, and
drew back to let me pass. There was a
sort of hush over the scene; Alex, be-
hind me, muttered something l could
not hear, and brushed past me without
ceremony. hen | realized that a man
was lying doubled up at the foot of
the staircase, and that Alex was stoop-
ing over him.
As came slowly down, Winters
stepped back. and Alex Strengthened
himself, looking at me across the body
with impenetrable eyes. In his hand
he held a shaggy gray wig, and before
ne on tHS iooi lay lhO man WiOSO
headstone stood in Casanova church.
yard-Paul Armstrong.
Winters told the story in a dozen
words. in his ~headlong flight down
the circular staircase, with Winters
Just behind him. Paul Armstrong had
pitched forward violently, struck his
head against the door to the east ver-
anda. and probably broken his neck.
He had died as Winters reached him.
AS the detective finished, | saw Hal
sey, pale and shaken, IN the card-room
doorway, and for the first time that
night | lost my s~elf-control. l put my
arms around my boy, and for a moment
he had to support me. A second later,
over Halsey's shoulder, 1 saw some
thing that turned my emotion into
other channels, for. behind him, in the
shadowy card-room, were Gertrude and
Alex, the gardener, and-there Is no
use mincing matters-he was kissing
her. 4
l was unable to speak. Twice 1
opened my mouth; then 1 turned Hal
sey around and pointed. They were
quite unconscious of us; her head was
on his shoulder, his face against her
hair. AS it happened, it was Mr.. jamie
son who broke up the tableau.
He stepped over to Alex and touched
him on the arm.
And now" he said quietly, "how
comedy, Mr.. B%ailey?"
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-31

Springfield avenue, Newark; Pearl De-
witt, Sussex, Sussex county, N. j.;
Ralph Johnson, age 7, So Common
street, ~Irvington; Lottie Schwartz, age
10, ia Academy street, Newark; Ger
trude Diekow, age IA, Bay avenue,
Highland, n. j.; Minnie Gebfand, age
8, So Barclay street, Newark; Ella G.
Reiss, age IA. A Winans avenue, New
ark; John Marnell, age IA, AZ Meade
street, Orange; Arthur Young, 6 IL,
1856 South Tenth street, Newark; George
Rawl, age 8, 20s Second street, Ho-
boken; CASTOR Tallet, age IL, 8 Wash
ington street, East Orange; Gertrude
Bard, age IL, Littleton avenue, New
ark; Fanny Schtensky, age II, "a Hill
side place, Newark; Marie Lloyd, age
10, 70 Van Buren, street, Newark; Hen
rietta Basters, age y, 566 Hunterdon
street, Newark; Mary e. Baker. age 8,
81 Beech street. Arlington; Margaret
Friel, age 10, lis John street, B%elleville.
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truth from the start, where would the
detective have been2
When Halsey learned the truth, he
insisted On going the next morning.
weak as he was, to Louise, and by
night she was at Sunnyside, under Ger
trude's particular care, while her
mother had gone to Barbara Fitz-
hugh's.
What Halsey said to Mrs. Armstrong
I never knew, but that he was consid-
crate and chivalrous 1 feel confident.
1t was Halsey's a always with
women.
He and Louise had no conversation
together until that night. Gertrude and
Alex-l mean Jack-had gone for a
walk, although 1t was 8 o'clock, and
anybody but a pair of young geese
would have known that dew was fall
ing, and that 1t is next to impossible to
get rid OF a summer cold.
At half after nine, growing weary of
my W company, / vent downstairs to
find the young people. At the door Of
the living-room / paused. Gertrude
and Jack had returned and were there,
sitting together on a divan, with only
one lamp lighted. They did not see or
hear me, and / beat a hasty retreat to
the library. But here again I was
driven back. Louise was sitting in a
deep chair, looking the happiest / had
ever seen her, with Halsey on the arm
of the chair, holding her close.
1t was no place for an elderly spin
ster. I retired to my upstairs sitting
room and got out Eliza Klinefelter's
lavender slippers. All, well, the fos-
ter motherhood would soon have to be
put ava in camphor again.
The next day, by degrees, I got the
whole story.
Paul Armstrong had a besetting evil
the love of money. Common enough,
but he loved money, not for what 1t
would buy, but for it's own AXE. An
examination of the books showed no
irregularities in the past year since
John had been cashier, but before that,
In the time of Anderson, the old cashier,
who had died, much strange juggling
had been done with the records. The
railroad in New Mexico had apparently
drained the bankers private fortune,
and he determined to retrieve 1t by
one stroke. This was nothing less than
The footing of the banks securities,
turning them into money, and making
his escape.
But the law has long arms. Paul
Armstrong evidently studied the situa-
ton carefully. Just as the only good
Indian is a dead Indian, so the only
safe defaulter is a dead defaulter. He
decided to die, to all appearances, and
when the hue and cry subsidized, he
would be able to enjoy his money al
most anywhere he wished.
The first necessity was an accomplice.
The c~onnivance of Doctor Walker was
suggested by his love for Louise.
The man was INSCRIPTIONS, and with
the girl as a bait, Paul Arm
strong soon had him fast. The
plan was apparently the acme of sim
plicity; a small town in the west, an
attack of heart disease, a body from. a
medical college dissecting room shipped
in a trunk to Doctor Walker by a col
league in San Francisco, and palmed
off for the supposed dead banker What
was simpler?
ITO BE Continued on Monday
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-31
MODERN ARTILLERY.

= ERHAPs you children might be
interested in hearing about the
big guns of the military and
naval service, those used On naval YES
sells and in forts for coast defense, for
the improvements in them have been
as great as those in the small arms,
Indeed, 1t may be said that the i'm
provements in artillery have been made
necessary in a large measure by the
increased range and power of the rifle.
So far as naval vessels are concerned,
however. the important factor has been
the increased thickness and resisting
power of the armor with which the
vessels are provided. Thus the build
ers Of naval vessels and the makers of
cannon have each been striving to
Guido the other. When 1t was found
that ships could not resist balls of a
certain size and weight-the largest
and heaviest hat the guns of the time
could throw-the builders used thicker
arrlor; and then the ~gunmakers. in
their turn, improved their guns; and
so it has gone on After a while we
may, perhaps, reach the condition ex-
pressed in that question famous among
young students of physics-what would
happen if an irresistible force should
meet an immovable body?
AS the shipbuilders increased the
thickness of the armor, 1t became
necessary. of course, for the gunmakers
to Increase the weight and penetrating
power of the projectiles; but as round
projectiles were then used. they could
not be made heavy enough without
making them too large; so the form OF
the projectile was changed 10 an OBJ
long, by which greater weight was OBJ
tanned without materially changing the
bore Of the gun.
Then another condition had to be
met; an oblong projectile. if fired from
an ordinary smooth-bore gun will turn
over and over in its fight, and thus not
only lose much of its force and accu-
racy but fail TO strike the target FONT
first. 1t was known that a rotary
motion around its longer axis would
correct this, and to give the projectile
that motion the gunmakers "ti1ed'
their guns-that is, they cut a sir Al
groove in them, which had the desired
effect-and now a projectile three and
a half feet in length n Weighing a
thousand pounds may be fired from a
gun with a bore of only twelve inches.
and it will go straight to its mark and
strike point first.
There are mortars o in use that
will throw an oblong projectile a dis
lance of eight miles; others will throw
a shell weighing more than a ton and
carrying five hundred pounds of pow
der a distance Of two miles, the shsll
exploding when 1t strikes. Sone of the
great coast guns will carry to a greater
distance than eight miles.
All this Is due to the improvements
that have been made in artillery within
q comparatively short period. and wien
you add the rapid-fring guns, which
throw from five to ten shots a minute,
the shots weighing from fl to ten
pounds each, and the machine guns
which fire from five hundred to fifteen
hundred small shots a minute, you SEE
how terrible modern artillery is.
Let US hope that wal may become sc
frfshtfully destructive, after a while
that the nations will wholly abandon il
and settle. all disputes by arbitration
daily News.