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~ w Long. expense visiting schools" 50 4s
National Office Supply Co. supplies. 80
{ @ Norman, gophers 90
] " Long. office expense $50. Is 60
Geo Petries. Gophers -. ....... ............ 40
Parrott K Sons, supplies ....... 100 40
Al Russell. fixing door .......,...... .,..... 90
J w Robinson. medical aid Young -. 90
J " Robinson. medical aid Briner. . 20 90
w Robinson. medical aid Ladd ....... 200
e Ryan, trustee Burrell ................. 400
Shira. sundries county farm. sea
ii Scott. Office expense. ................. Dos
Mrs @ Early. merchandise Van
Setback. Is 81
Roy Trullinger. Gophers, 40
A s Tharp office expense claimed
S17.45. allowed .................... Is
] B Tye. merchandise Simpson .... q 40
Talbot Grain Co, coal court house. "a AZ
Talbot Grain Co, coal poor. p OF
Talbot Grain Co. coal court house
and Jail ............................ 1se 96
Talbot Grain Co, coal county farm 1854 SO
Talbot Grain Co. coal Chase ........ - Il
Talbot Grain Co. coal Miller .......... 2s
s Talbot Grain Co. coal Pettis ............ 80
Talbot Grain Co. coal venport..... a5
Talbot Grain Co. coal Bennett. As
Talbot Grain Co. coal Gains. ......... 3 IS
LIP Van Werden. merchandise court
house ..... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. . 90
Dewey West .Dphers INSTRUMENTATION. 10
Chas West. gsphsrs .................... 10
WM Welch Co. supplies .... 70 80
q Wallace office expense . So
Wallace. balance on salary, 1905. 32s 81
Wallace. boarding prisoners - a5 IS
& w Wales. medical aid and fumigat-
ing -....................... ... liz so
j W Wales, medical aid Bigley II 90
81 farmhouse, board tramps. referred
to mayor Of Leon
Martindale. cleaning wells rejected
Petition of r Miller for abatement of
head and poll tax referred to township trus-
tees.
At six o'clock board adjourned to meet
Wednesday. January G. 1909.
Attest
Jv LeAley. Sr Wiley.
County Auditor Chairman.
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BOARD MEETS.
The Board of Supervisors of Decatur County,
Iowa, Meet in Regular January Session.
Report of Business Transacted

Bond of w G Jefrries. coroner. approved {U
Bond Of the State Savings Bank of Grand
River. approved.
Annual report Of N skidmore. Justice OF
the peace, approved.
Annual report Of S Davidson. justice OF
the peace. approved
Annual report OF w Beck. justice OF the
peace, approved.
Annual report of a L Brammer. Justice of
the peace. approved.
Annual report of M L Logan, Justice OF the
peace, approved.
Annual report of W Bryson, Justice OF
the peace. approved.
Annual report Of John Hatcher. justice OF
the peace. approved.
Annual report of Robt Turner. justice OF
the peace approved.
Annual report of L Brown constable. ap-
proved.
Annual report of T Wallace, sheriff. ap-
proved.
Annual report of w A Poush. recorder. ap-
proved.
Annual report OF A Tharp. clerk ap-
proved.
Tax OF Thos Hsnes of Garden Grove re.
mitted unable to contribute to public rev
enue.
| Tax sale No 3O-OS refunded.
| Exemption allowed J Smith of Garden
| Grove.
Dog tax Of G S Williams. Decatur refunded
Tax of John Mcconnell. Grand River. re
mitted,
Poll tax OF Lockwood. Woodland. re
mitted.
f Shira was appointed as steward Of TIN
county farm FOR the year 1909.
| The following claims for domestic animal
killed by dogs and wolves were allowed
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Thursday, January T. 1909.
Board met pursuant to adjournment,
Members all present
Board began settlement with treasurer BY
checking tax receipts with tax receipt reg
lister and checked beginning with Bloom-
ington to Van Vert.
Bond OF Farmers & Traders Bank as county
depository approved
At SIX O'Clock the board adjourned to meet
Friday, January s. 1909.
Attest:
J V Lemley. SP Wiley,
County Auditor. Chairman
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Rye for sale. G. &. Gardner.
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Continued from last weekly
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What Can Canada Do "A Patent
Anomaly. "Protec ion and Politics.
Why the Conservatives Failed" The
Psychology of Canada and British
Diplomacy and Canada
STORIES OF GREECE AND ROME:
Retold from ST. Nicholas. New YORK. .
The Century Company.
These twelve stories of ancient Greece
and Rome have been taken from volumes
of st. Nicholas. running back twenty
four years. This volume is one Of
the series of historical stories retold
from the classic juvenile periodical. six
of the series being IS cries of the
Ancient World Stories OF Grecian
Myths" Stories of Greece and Rome"
Stories of the Middle Ages Stories of
Chvalry" and Stories of Royal Chill
dren." The tales included in this volume
are as follows: "A Boy of Galatia." An
Old-Time Philosopher The Olympian
Games, Those Clever Greeks Venus
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J..
The Call on the Phone.

DR. Grimbleshaw, at the age of thirty
and with an assured income of fifteen
hundred year, began to allow himself
some of the luxuries of life, or what he
was wont to look upon as luxuries at the
age of twenty-five. when his income was
but a precarious five hundred. In doing
this. however, he was obliged to shut his
eyes to the fact that he still owed money.
some of 1t dating from his college and
medical school days. Still. he held that
man who remains single at thirty is
preordained to perpetual bachelorhood
and is entitled to take some chances. By
that time 1.-The skull has hardened"-that
was his expressive phrase-"beyond the
point where any woman should be asked
to break through, on the chance of find
ing something, or nothing. inside" With
nothing to save for, except to keep him
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velopment of African resources by curin g
the evils to which the country is sub
ject The third report of this institution
has Just been issued the first having been
printed in 1901 and the second two years
later. The growth of the institution and
the extension of its work are shown in
the fact that the first report contained
eighty-seven pages. the second report
two hundred and fifty-five pages, while
the third one now at hand comprises
four hundred and Seventy-seven pages
and numerous colored plates and other
illustrations.
This volume is of the utmost interest to
all students of tropical medicine, a sub
ject of vital Importance in American
affairs today, in view Of the recent ex-
tension of American interests into
tropical lands. 1t is of great advantage
TO American scientists that arrangements
have been perfected for placing this re-
port in circulation i'm the United States
1t is Impossible within the limits of
available space to give a comprehensive
idea of the extent and character of the
work. Some of the more striking
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quality. that makes them excellent read
ing regardless of the subject. The
political trend of his thought gives them.
however a timely value that will be
appreciated by everybody who has an in
terest in he domestic and foreign policies
of the Engl' sh government. Mr.. Mac
phail is a Canadian, and he takes a some
what colonial view of matters. His
standpoint is that of the independent who
sees in Canada a sufficient rel ance on
native strength 70 warrant practical. If
not actual autonomy. As he looks across
the border to the United States he Is
enabled to perceive here conditions which
give him UNDERSTANDABLE qualification.
His criticism of American affairs under
the title of New Lamps for Old" is
typically oungent. He has selected the
least fortunate incidents of American life
during the past ten or dozen years.
and has undertaken to demonstrate from
them that the people of this country are
only beginning their national evolution.
The other titles of his ESSAYS are The
Patience Of England" 'Loyalty--To
WHAT" The Dominion and the Spirit.
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articles comprised in the report are as
follows: Sleeping sickness and the
Bahr-El-Ghazal Province" New Mos
Quitoes from the Soudan, Medical
Practices and Superstitions Among the
People of kordofan." The Poisonous
Snakes of the Anglo-Egyptian Soudan."
Some of the more significant items of the
work are in the form of supplementary
reports and notes. which cannot be easily
classified in brief. The work is thor
oughly indexed for convenient reference.
A fire which occurred a few months ago
seriously damaged the laboratory at
khartoum and destroyed numerous speci-
mems which cannot be readily replaced.
thus retarding the work, but the dam
age has been In large measure repaired.
and the researches of the institution have
progressed without interruption.
THE SHORT STOP. BY Zane Grey. au-
thor of Betty Zane" etc. Illus
trated by Fl. S. De Lay. Chicago: y.
c. McClurg & Co.
Every city in the United States that has
a base ball team-and it is pretty poor
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town that lacks one-will furnish readers
for this clever story of how a youngSter
developed from a machine shop appren-
tice into a star shortstop. If every team
manager could pick out material easily
this young fellow was evolved into
pennant winner the base ball races would
be much more exciting than they are
now. But young Chase Alloway had the
good fortune to find a mascot in little
croOked-back roOter of the game who,
at the supreme moment of the great
championship contest. took the bench and
directed the victorious team to it's ire
mendous triumph. Mr.. Grey knows the
game from beginning to end, knows the
inside and out and has command of the
vernacular Some of his descriptions of
the relations between the manager and
players are admirable in their vividness
and realism. The Short Stop will be-
come one of the base ball classics
ESSAYS IN POLITICS. BY Andrew
Macphail. New York: Longmans.
Green & Co.
Mr.. Macphairs essays have crisp
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K1YSTICS and Believers in
N1 the Occult Often Have
Occasion to Refer to the
Teachings of Father Kelpius
Prayed and Taught and
Underwent Visions Which
Have Puzzled the Students
of Latter Days-Inspiration
of Visions Was a Mysterious
Stone Brought From India
Mystic Kelpius Had Found It
on the Floor of a Cave In
habited by Vicious Serpents
Broke the Stone in Two
Pieces and Brought Only
Half to the New World-Be-
fore His Death He Ordered
His Half Thrown Into the
Wissahickon, and the Half
Left in the Old World Has
Now Come to Miss Yetta
Norworthe of Philadelphia.
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he averred "They must be a-tendin'
that Teller in the dark.
Grmbleshaw lighted second candle
and opened the door leading to the main
part of the house. The room he en-
tered was even more scantiy furnished
than the kitchen. 1t ran from side to
side of the house. The floor was bare,
save for a strip of rag carpet that
stretched diagonally to a door, beyond
the great chimney, which opened appar-
emily to the front entryway. There was
an old-fashioned secretary between the
two front windows and half dozen cheap
chairs. Besides these articles and the
shades to the windows, there was no pre-
tense of furniture. On the wall. at the
side of the secretary, and looking strange
ly out of place in such surroundings was
the telephone.
Grimbleshaws foot struck something
that rolled off the carpet and ratified
sharply over the bare floor. making
hideous noise amid the intense silence
that prevailed. He held his light low
and saw battered tin candlestick. in
which, by the grease that had guttered
down the side was held the end of
was still perceptible.
A drop of something fell from the stick
as he raised it and spattered on his boot.
A glance showed the stick covered with
blood from a pool on the floor, into which
it had rolled.
Startled as Grimbleshaw was. he re-
tanned presence of mind to realize that
sight of the blood would terrify the lad.
and ii came to him that there might be
that here to which he would want wit
ness So he set down the stick and went
on toward the hall door.
AS he opened this sharp blast of win
try air struck his face and on the thresh>
old of the opened outer door he saw the
figure of a man, but whether he was go
ing out or coming in he could not tell.
The man turned at the CLEAN of the
candle and called out in d strangely
melodious voice. which he apparently
tried to make gruff:
Hello. / thought you were all dead!
I've been pounding at this door for
week ! want to Judith Calden."
judith Caden.' He repeated the name
with start. Come in and shut that
door, or my candle.ll go out! judith
Caiden doesn't live here. This is John
Altenburgs.
That's right said the man, who paid
shadow of the door frame. ''Old John
Aitenburgs
Just then sharper blast eXtinguished
the light. which Grimbleshaw had been
trying to hold SO that he could see the
others face.
There you are. just ass I told your
he exclaimed sharply. Now, will you
shut that door? Here, Phil. go to the
kitchen and light it and get some
Matches.
While the lad was gone they stood in
the black darkness and neither spoke.
The man did not close the door, nor. so
far as GrimbleshaW perceived, did he
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

ZERLAH THE MARIAN. BY r. Nor
man Grtsewood. New York: r. +.
Fenno & Co. Washington: Wood
ward & Lothrop.
THE STATESMEN SHOWBOUND. BY
Robert Fitzgerald. Illustrated. Wash
ington: The Neale Publishing Com
pany.
THE POE CULT and OTHER POE pa
PERSs With a New Memoir. BY Eu-
gene l.. Didier. New York: Broad
way Publishing Company.
JUDGE FITZNOODLEs a Correct
Chronicle of the Doings in the Ger
manAmerican Settlement of Prai-
riestadt. Cabbage Township. Rich
soil County. Out West" During the
Free Soil Period. BY Martin ".
Strouse. Illustrated. Boston: Rox-
burgh Publishing Company.
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conjure up wonderful dreams, visions
much like those of Swedenborg.
The stone enabled him to WELD over
his mystic followers an influence such
AS can hardly be understood today, and
a cult grew up about him.
Along the stream in caves and in an
abbey which has now been turned to
the highly modern uses of a golf club
the followers of kelpius read and studied.
dreamed and prayed.
And ever their inspiration and guild
ing star was the sacred stone which
the great leader had brought with him
from India.
One-half of the stone had remained
in the old world. for kelpius had found
the original whole in a cave in India.
and when he came to the new world
he felt he should not take all with him.
Hence the stone with its curious cary
ings, bearing the message of the serpent,
symbol of all wisdom, was broken in
two.
A dozen of the followers of kelpius
yearned to become heirs to the sacred
stone of wisdom when he died. but
kelpius declined to turn it over to them.
His work was done, through the stone
he had taught the world the message
he had to carry. He could not content
himself to turn over the symbol of
power to those who might use 1t for
their ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
So he cast it into the waters of the
Wissahickon, and to this day the half he
threw away has never been found,
though 1t is well authenticated that he
cast it into the water and search has
often been made.
But it is possible to tell what it was
like, for the half that the hermit left in
Europe was brought to the new world
and is now in the possession of Phla-
delphia girl. who is a collateral descend
ant of the famous old hermit, Miss Yetta
Norworthe.
The symbol of mystic power came to
Miss Norworthe from the head of the
family. and in order that she could get
some conception of it's meaning she has
made deep study of the whole subject
of mysticism and symbolism.
In this manner she has developed into
deep student of the occult, and she
alone of all those who have possessed
the stone in the course Of its generations
of passage from hand to hand is able to
understand it's message.
Yet there is nothing of the charatan
about Miss NorWorthe. She believes pro-
foundry in the faiths and teaching of her
ancestor: she believes that mystic power
inheres in the stone and that with it she
can foretell the future; but she is not i'm
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which was the old hermit's key to all
knowledge.
In the days when he dwelt in cave
beside the picturesque Wissahickon.
Philadelphia, that beautiful stream.
tumbling and browling between the rocks,
and made famous by the muse of Tom
Moore, that wisdom stone was his con-
slant guide.
Through its powers. real or imagin-
ary, he could read the future, he could
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PHILADELPHIA Girl Owns Stone Of Wisdom

India he lifted the stone off the bottom of
the cave in which dwelt serpents more VI
cious than any of which we have knowl-
edge today.
Before he was twenty-one years old
he had begun to experience those dreams.
visions Authorizations. whatever you may
choose to call them, and SO profoundly
did his knowledge impress believers in
the occult that he became leader of a
band of mystics, and in imitation of the
earlier pious leaders he set out on a pill
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and not merely the imagination of SEN
sitive and impressionable woman.
II can shut my eyes and produce a
most wonderful picture of kelpius, in
his cowl. teaching the lessons of gentle
ness and humility to the hermit monks
that lived with him. There are religious
ceremonies the like of which I have never
known in this modern world of ours.
queer rituals. chanting hymns, odd
prayers
'When I make the pilgrimage without
it l am just the same as any other per-
son. My pilgrimage gets me nothing diff
ferent from the impressions that would
come to any one else while passing over
historic ground.
'kelpius was a mere youth, when in
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your voice. or don't you know how to use
a telephone. any way? John Older Do
you mean John Altenburg, out on the
Plains road? Well, why in time didn't
you say at the start? Come quick?
But who are you? 1t doesn't matter?
But it does matter."-Tingle. tingle--
Thunder If he hasn't rung off. Hello,
central, ceDtral: Burr-r-r-r-r-r. "Oh.
central. who was that who just rung me
up? Eight. four. two? Altenburg? Out
on the Plains road?. Thanks,''
What did it mean that he. of all men,
should be called from John Altenburgs S,
and on this particular night of all nights?
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HAT a W e S O m e
mystery, partly
legend, partly his
tory that clings
over the memory
of Father kelpius.
the hermit of the
Wissahickon, s
curiously linked
with the present
by the existence
of 0ne-half of the
cfann r,f u-icd0rr1
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patient with those who do not share her
complete faith
1t has only been after many pilgrim
ages. says Miss Norwcrthe. Ito the
upper Wissahickon, where my hermit an
cestor lived and studied. that / gained
the knowledge of him and his life that
has helped me to understand the message
of this relic
Il have now progressed to the point
where |, too. can conjure up visions. and
am convinced that these are genuine
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move Yet when Phil returned there was
no one there but themselves. The man
had slipped away noiselessly.
Grimbleshaw stepped hastily out on to
the doorstep, but the pelting of the sleet.
which threatened again to put out his
light. showed him the folly of attempting
pursuit. and he stepped back, shut the
door and turned the key.
The entryWay was not more than eight
feet square Three doors opened into it
and winding stairway ran upward. OPP
posite the door by which he had come
was the approach to a room on the
other side of the house. A turn of the
knob proved the door to be locked.
''Humph.'' he muttered: they lock the
inner doors. but leave the outside ones
unlocked. Well try upstairs"
He went up slowly. and as he did so
caught an occasional CLEAN of the light
in little drops and splashes that he knew
to be of blood. Naturally he connected
the blood with the call over the. tele-
phone. and it was clear that whoever
had been hurt had been carried up these
stairs. Still. the amount of blood in the
room below perplexed him. He directed
head. for he wished to prevent his dis
covery of the blood before the cause
could be made clear.
At the head of the stairs and directly
over the locked one below was a door.
On this he gave rap and then turned
the knob. It. too. was locked He lis
tened. and was convinced he heard
stealthy step within. as If some one were
stealing away from the door. Then he
raped again. louder than before, but
equally without effect.
At that he turned and went along the
hall, past window above the front door,
to the door of the room above that in
which he had seen the blood. This was
slightly open, and he pushed 1t back
with his foot holding his candle above
his head to throw the light as far as
possible within.
He saw great chamber. cavernOuS and
dark. save as his light penetrated it. At
the farther side was a huge high-posted
bedstead OH the white counterpart of
which he fanced he saw dark outline
that suggested the form of a man. He
leaned forward to ge. a better sight when
Phil gave a shrek. dropped his candle,
which was eXtinguished by the fall. and
turned and fed down the stairs Before
GrimbleShaw could rally from the start
the shrek gave him. something or some
one darted past him. knocking his cam
die, in turn to the floor, and followed the
boy with almost noiseless steps. 1t
seemed to Grimbleshaw, listening in the
dark, that he heard the swish of drapery
as the fleeing figure passed the turn in
the stairs. but even then he admitted the
trick hat imagination might, under the
circumstances. play him.
(To be continued tomorrow
PA, what is vested right?' ANY
guards around '-Chicago Record-Herald.
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of Milo" Anecdotes OF Grecian Life"
"A Roman Boys B rthday. The Nobiest
of Roman Emperors,'' a Great Show.
A. D. 105,' "A Youth OF Ancient Rome.
'.Battleships and Sea Fights of the
Ancients.'
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grimase to the new world to perfect him.
self and his brethren in true holiness
THE reputation of Philadelphia as a
place where religious liberation prevailed
untrammeled by restrictions of any kind
caused the band of pilgrims to go to the
city of brotherly love. They wanted to
live in the open next to nature and where
the students should be free to commune
with their own thoughts and work out
the many problems of humanity
They were welcomed by the Quakers
A representative of William Penn himself
a wealthy Holland friend, paid their pas
sage across the Atlantic. and the Wissa-
hickon became the home of the deyout
band
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Some of the party lived in the abbey.
but Kelpius himself declined to accept
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Pa what is vested right ANY
thing that the Senate wants to put safe
guards around Chicago Record-Herald.
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SUGGESTION: Its Law and Applica-
ton: or. The Principle and Practice
IF Psyche Therapeutics. BY Charles
+. Winbigler, Phi. NJ Washing ton:
spencer A. Lewis Company.