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f,HAPTER uI-(Continuedl

CHAPTER (Continued)
"Well. III say goodpy mere. II you've
nothing on for tomorrow Well visit
the castle grounds and-ahem!-take u
look about the place. Come to the ho-
tel early. I'm going over to the gun
shop"
He was whistling gayly as he en-
tered the little shop, ready to give a
CHEEKY greeting to old Spantz and to
make him temporiZing offer for the
broadsword But it was not Spantz
who stood behind the little counter.
Truxton flushed holly and jerked off
his hat. The girl smiled.
81 beg pardon" he exclaimed. 81
I'm looking for Mr. SpantZ. r.
"He is out Will you wait" She
turned to the window. resuming the
wistful. preoccupied gaze down the
avenue.
BEG pardon" he said politely. II
wanted to have another look at the
broadsword there
Very quickly-he noticed that she
went about it clumsily despite her
supple gracefuness-sh withdrew the
heavy weapon from the window and
laid it upon the counter
II am not-not what you would cal
an expert" she said frankly
whats the price," he asked, his
courage tailoring under the cool, i'm
personal gaze.
II do not know. My uncle has tolc
you. am quite new at the trade
hope you will excuse my ignorance
My uncle will be here in a moment
She was turning away with an al
that convinced King of one thing-sh
was person who in no sense hat
ever been called upon to serve others.
80 I've heard he observed. Th
bait took effect. She looked up quick
| ly. He was confident that startled
expression fitted across her face.
You have heard? What have 70,
heard of me?" she demanded.
MI. King was inspired to fabricate Il
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DECREASE IN RAIL ACCIDENTS,

William e. Curtis, Writing III .iio
Chicago Record-H erald, calls Afternoon
to the remarkable decrease in the
number of fatalities upon the railways
of the United States during the lasI
few years. From figures secured from
the railroads and the interstate com
merce commission he has found that
during the year 1907 there were 5,ooo
persons killed and 1926 injured III
railway accidents, while during the
last wear the total number killed was
2.791, a reduction of nearly one-han'
and the number of people injured was
Ga go. a reduction of nearly ~ per
cent. :.
OF the 1000 railways required 10
make reports to the interstate com
MERGE commission of the accidents
and injuries suffered by employees OF
Messengers upon their lines, MI Cur
tbs shows that more than 500 claim
that there were no accidents OF any
kind to their passenger trains DURING
last year.
The railroads and the Interstate
commerce commission lave peen eA
erting every effort to make rail- traihe
safer for passengers and employees
The roads have rebuilt tracks, re
duced grades, taken out curves
strengthened the road beds, laid heav
Ter rails and installed double tracks
The commerce commission mas
through a board of experts given prac
tical trials to all kinds of safety ap
pliances, which are recommended "
the railway managers if found satls
fno+orv snd in MANY instances adopted
by the roads. If the casualty ilsl con
1inues to decrease in the next lev
years as it has in the past, the Worf
of railroad men will be much lesS
hazardous than in the past.
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warned that if she attempted to entice
him away from his wife she would be
punished. She did not attempt 1t, be-
cause she is virtuous girl. Her I'M
Gle, Spantz, offered her q home"
Baron, are you sure that she Is a
red?" asked King.
"Quite. She attended their councils"
'She doesn't look it, pom my word.
I thought they were the scum of the
earth"
1.-THE kind you have in America are.
But over here-oh, well, we never can
tell"
"Pm much obliged. And I'll keep
my eyes well opened. l suppose there's
no harm in my going to the shop to
look at a lot Of rings and knickknacks
he has for saleF'
mot in the least Confine yourself
to knickknacks, that's ALL"
isn't Spantz above Suspicion
mo one is In my little world. BY
the way, I am very fond of your IA
Their. He is q most excellent gentle
man and splendid shot"
IFu3IOn SlaEeu naTueF Iudu ever
"Whats that?'
81 know him quite well. Hunted
wild boars with him FIVE years ago II
Germany. And your sister! She was ,
beautiful young girl They We're a
I Carlsbad at the time. Was she quit
well when you last heard?'
"She was" was all that the wonder
ing brother could say.
The baron left the American stand
! ing at the head of the steps, gain
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the interest of psy-
chical researc h.
81 have b e a r d
that you are not
the niece Of old
man Spantz." He
watched intently
to catch the effect
of the declara-
ton.
"You have heard
nothing Of the
kind" she said
coldly.
"Well, I'll con-
fess / haven't"
he ad m j t t e d
cheerfully. ut
pleases me to de-
duce that Won are
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gone. King stood In the doorway,
looking after her. a puzzled CLEAN in
his eyes. Old Spantz was coming UP
from the rear. followed by his GUS
toner.
Hello, Mr. Spantz. Good morning.
I'm here for the sword
The old man glared at him in unmis-
taxable displeasure. Truxton began
counting out his money. The custom
er, swarthy fellow, passed out of the
door, turning to glance intently at the
young man. A meaning look and O
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not related to the armorer. You don't
look the part"
Now she smiled divinely. "And why
not, pray? His sister was my mother"
"In order to establish a line on which
to base my calculations, would you
mind telling me who your father is?'
He asked the question with his most
appealing smile. smile so frankly i'm
rudent that she could not resent 1t.
"My father is dead" she said seri-
ously. land my mother is dead. Now
can you understand why am living
here with my uncle? Even an amateur
may rise TO that. Now, sir do you
expect to purchase the sword? If not
l shall replace it in the window"
That's what l came here for" said
he, resenting her tone and the icy look
she gave him.
II gathered that you came in the ca
pacity of Sherlock Holmes or some
thing else" She added the last three
words with unmistalzable meaning.
She was leaning toward him, her
hands on the counter peculiar CLEAN
in her dark eyes, which now for the
first time struck him as rather more
keen and penetrating than he had sus-
pected before.
81 simply want to tell vow Mr.. King,
that unless you really expect to buy
this sword it is not wise in you to
make 1t an excuse for coming here"
My dear young lady. r.
my uncle has Il queer conception OF
the proprieties. He may think that
! you come to see me. Young men may
chat with shopgirls all the world over
| but in Edelweiss. no. unless they come
to pay most honorable court to them
/ My uncle would not understand"
/ Il take it, however. that you woult
understand be said boldly.
Il have lived in Vienna, in Pari:
| and in Londcn. but now l am livini
in EdeIweiss. | have not been shop
girl always"
Il can believe that My deductions
are justified"
my uncle is returning" she remark
ed suddenly. Il must not talk to 20,
any longer She glanced uneasil.
out upon the square and then hurried
~ added. certain usefulness in he
voice and eyes: Il couldn't help it tc
day. | forgot my place. But you ar
the first gentleman I've spoken t
since came here"
j When Spantz entered the door tn
girl was going listlessly from til
window and Truxton King was lear
ing against the counter with his bac
toward her. his arms folded and
most impatient frown on his face
Spantz's black eyes shot from one t
the other. what do you want?" b
: demanded sharply
THE broadswcrd. And. say, NJ
spantz. you might assume a differer
tone in addressing me. I'm Gu
| toner, not q bessar"
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BLAKEsRuRG.

IL ~ ,>-e-e-e ~ o . 80 e-~ee ~e~ee-e Z.
Lee Phelphs returned Saturday from
a three weeks visit with relatives in
Wyoming.
s. c. Snow and wife We're in Nun
terville Monday on business.
jay Cchagan is quite Ill with pneu-
monia,
Mrs. Eliza Snow returned Sunday
from a weeks visit in Abba with her
son Herman Snow and family
Mrs. J. f. De Haven is visiting in
Abba with her daughter Mrs. Tracy
Porter
Mrs. Kent Chisman returned Men
day from Dudley. She was accompan-
led by her daughter Mrs. Roy Miller.
Edna and Allie Shea and Minnie
Bromwell of Ottumwa attended the
masquerade ball here Saturday night.
Soda Williams and wife spent Sun
day with their daughter Mrs. Helen
snow.
Mrs. Lizzie Smith is in Kansas City
on business.
John Park of Ottumwa visited with
friends here Saturday
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Ward of Jerome
are visiting at the Dolph Ward home
here.
Mrs. Quincy is quite i'll at the home
of her daughter Mrs. Roscoe Bellies
south of town.
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DR.. A. B. Storms of Ames college,
speaking of Iowa's standing as cat
tie growing state, says that in Iowa
alone there are enough cattle, allow
ing ten feet for each head, to stretch
from Iowa to Chicago, from Chicago
to New York. thence to London and on
to Paris, through Germany and Asia
and Japan and thence back to Iowa,
leaving still 4,447 miles of cattle unac,
counted for" Some beefsteak there.
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after his retreating figure with look
of admiration in his eyes
Tru1ton Jared forth into the streets
that night with greater zest in life
than he had ever known before. A
man with a limp cigarette between his
lips was never far from the side of
the Americana man who had stopped
to pass the time of day with William
Spantz and who from that hour was
not to let the young man out Of his
sight until another relieved him Of the
task
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Iowa Wesleyan university has less
than two months in which to complete
it's endowment fund Andrew Carnegie
offered the school $4,000 on condition
that $4,000 more be subscribed, The
Carnegie offer will be withdrawn I'M
less the fund is raised by April Z.
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There Is yet $4,000 to be subscribed
to meet the conditions.

The failure Of that mob affair at
Cairo will serve to discourage at
tempted lynchings in that particular
locality.
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:. H>-e-e-o-e>->-<-N~&~< /.
: MT. ZION. y

Mrs. James Gilchrist visited We'd
nesday with Mary HOFFMAN.
Mrs. Chester was shopping in Birm-
ingham Tuesday.
Bert Ely was, Keosauqua caller
Tuesday,
10y Small has been quite i'll for
several days past.
Miss Rena Watts closed a winter
term Of school near Bentonsport on
Friday.
Hattie and Hazel Wiley walked
from Birmingham where they are at
tending school down to Mt. Zion Fri
day afternoon and stayed over Sunday
with home folks.
Mrs. Hugh Topping was shopper
in Keosauqua Tuesday.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. G. " Barker
Sunday, a son.
Wentie HOFFMAN and wife will live
in Mt. Zion for a few months.
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick We're in Keo-
sauqua one day last wee:i.
Mr.. and Ms. John Watts and daugh-
ers, Emma and Minnie, also Mrs.
Mary Evans of near Leando visited
Tuesday at the Sam Watts home west
of Bentonsport.
Some of the young people attended
the home talen play "A crazy Idea, :
in Keosauqua Saturday evening.
Molly Blair visited recently with
friends in Keosauqua.
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why not refer this Sunday ques-
ton to. BILLY" Sunday and let it go
at that?
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sly nod passed be-
tween him and
Spantz. The man
halted ut the cor
ner below and
later on followed
King to Cooks Of
fee, efterward to
the castle gates.
outside of which
he waited until
his quarry reap
pc AIRED. q n TIL
King went to bed
La tie that night
this swarthy fell
low was close at
I,sr h1nJg oJxr-,-e
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No doubt JEFF Davis feels better aft
er getting that out of his system.
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4~Aeseee>~A-tt~~
Al BiA.


District court was adjourned Satur-
day until Wednesday, Judge d. M.
Anderson will be on the bench during
the remainder of the term.
Mrs. William Streeter recently of
passed through Abba on her
way to Parsons, Kans., where she eX-
poets to make her future home
A marriage license was granted on
MONDAY to Thomas G.. Franklin, "a,
and Vivian Buckley, Is, Buxton.
Mrs. Eva Gordon of Oskaloosa spent
Sunday with her brother Rev. VIM.
Porter at this place. Mrs. Gordon left
for Iconium yesterday, where she will
be present at the wedding of rela-
tive.
Joe Chandler of Ottumwa was at
Abba Saturday on business.
Bonnie Newman went to Des
Moines Sunday for visit with her
mother.
j. w. Fritz of Hiteman was at Al
bia Saturday on business.
+. N Orr and family, Fred Orr and
family and Mrs. Ethel Hindman left
yesterday for Adrain, Texas, where
they will be at home in the future
Mrs. Hindman will join her husband
at that place. ;,
Miss Helen Miltenberger is again
able to be at hore work after an i'll
ness of several days.
Special services began last night al
the Christian church, under the lead
ership of the pastor and an evange-
list.
Mrs. Roop, mother of Mrs. c. n
Bloomfield left yesterday for Winter
Texas.
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mate; It Is too hot in summer and too cold
 in winter nevertheless 1t is wonderful because of the sunshine. In Ireland and England sunshine is as rare as clouds in New York; and for the winter cold, against this there Is ample provision in the summer heat of the houses, kept warm by artificial means. If outside 1t
 Is winter. inside it Is always pleasant summer while the sunshine out of sap phfre sky streams through the windows.
 In the old countries 1t is within the
 house and along the draughty passages that you get your shivering sensation of winter In the New York spring the cold disappears, and the long autumn, from late August to November, the tempera- ture Is dream of comfort The body is so comfortable that the spirit can for get it's existence and. as 1t were, become disemboded; while the city is draped in blue haze of sunshine, with it's harsh ane angular and too mathematical fea lures yelled in mystery.
 l think there Is nothing in New York which helps so much to make fl Q pleas an' place to live in. as this abounding vitality: for because of 1t the moral at mesphere is charged with impulse and courage and adventure so that the most lone-lived convention freshly imported bv some newly arrived European or En- glshman dies on the instant; and though. a fret the poor immigrant feels as lone- ly and ashamed as If he had been strip ped to the skin, this convention and few othe~s equally ancient being perhaps his sole equipment for life. yet. if he be O. the right stutf he soon recovers catches the American spirit. and finds the new better than the old, and hope sweeter than memory. and making history mo-e enlvening than boring over it's cruel records
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vent any likelihood of poisoning throu~h imperfect Knowledge of the variou. s,sse cles or edible fungi has directed tbas regular systematic instruction be i'm parted in the elementary schools to fla iiliiiarize ill eniiuren thoroughly with mush- rooms. As illustrat tions and ,nodeis = insufficient to acquaint pupils with the different species, it Is directed that inc kinds that are likely to be confused with poisonous varieties shall be displayed in some appropriate place in the school. Children are encouraged to gather speci- mems and bring them to the teacher. when the mushrooms will be studied and classified
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Outdoors in New York

From BarperS Weekly
 Nearly three years ago I left Ireland and turned my back on English folly (mostly folly, but always united with strong and tenacious selfishness, which is neither wisdom nor folly), and came to New York. It has been a long holi- day, and for holiday task I have studied the people and their ways, and, unlike the schoolboy, have found the task the better part of the holiday. Many years ago I learned my radicalism from John s. Mill. and what he taught in grave aboract speech l find here every where in rich fruitage-glowing to the eye, acid sweet to the taste, and by it's fragrance attracting round it many hum ming bees. This article is the result of my studies in seeking to find an answer to the question which I have often asked myself: Why Is 1t pleasant to live in New York? Why, also, is it instructive?
 First of all, there is the wonderful eli
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countries, whereas at home we are limit

countries, whereas at home we are limit ed to four.
 These inequalities, discriminating against our local business, should be re- moved at the earliest date, as so strong ly advised by former Postmaster General Meyer.
 There are about 10000 rural delivery routes in the United States. A mall carrier passes over each of these routes daily. This carrier is prohibited by law from delivering anything but mail mat ter. The weight of parcels is limited to four pounds, upon which the rate is cent per ounce or 64 cents for a four pound package. This high charge and low limit of weight prevent millions of people who live along these rural routes from enjoying the full benefits of pack age service.
 Carriers do frequently serve the people by bringing parcels in violation of the law; but this is to limited degree and at high charge. It will be very easy to utilize the existing machinery of the rural delivery routes for the greater benefit of the farming community and the country storekeeper as we'll
 To help counteract the present ten dency toward leaving the farm and flock Ing to the large cities this effort will be we'll worth while
 There Is a provision in the Bonnet bill which contemplates a reduction in rate and an increase in size of packages per- mitted on rural routes, these changes to affect only suchs parcels as originate and are delivered on the same rural route.
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in the large cities at the expense of the country stores
 It Is universally agreed that the devel- opment of the town as the center of a rural community should not be inter- rupted; that our country depends largely for It's prosperity upon the healthy growth of our towns. This feature of the possible operation of a general parcels post should therefore receive the serious consideration of our law-makers.
 On the other hand, the success of the general parcels post in some foreign countries, particularly in Germany, and the great advantages accruing thereby to the mass of the people, should not be overlooked by those who are study ing the broad question of its possibilities in this country.
 While suspending our judgment re- garing the wisdom of extending the general parcels post system, we must 'reccommend that certain fragrant incon- sistencies now existing be promptly re- moved.
 At the present time parcels may be mailed from the United States to all most all foreign countries at the rate countries
 of 12 cents a pound whereas the charge is 16 cents pound, 33 1-3 per cent more, for parcels sent by post form one part to another of this country. In other words, it now costs more to mail a parcel to your next door neighbor than It does to send 1t across the seas.
 Again, our present general parcels post system permits the sending of pack ages up to H pounds to most foreign
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general the government has arranged by treaty for an exchange parcels post ser vice with 4S foreign countries. AS re- suit a parcel may be mailed from Santa Fe to Smyrna, Dalny, Wei Hai Wei, or Montevideo which cannot be posted to Dallas, Denver. or New York Parcels can be sent from Berlin to Brooklyn that cannot be sent from New York to Brook 1vr,
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Bureau)
 Parcels post may be considered under two distinct heads: First. gen. eral parcel-post, applying to packages of merchandise sent by mail to any point here or abroad without special reference to rural delivery. Seconds, parcels post confined to rural delivery. routes.
 Some fear that an extension of the general parcels post, whereby large pack ages may be forwarded by mail at very low rates. from the great business oeri- ters to the consumers in the rural com nunities will affect the small towns dis astrously; that there will result mo- nopoly of business by catalog houses
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Mnshroom. in snxonx
he New York Post.

From the New York Post.
 In Saxony 1t is a common sight to see operatives on Sunday or holiday or after closing hours on week days wander into the woodlands and the meadows surrounding Saxon factory towns to gather mushrooms. They know the right spots to hunt for edible species anc In two or three hours come back with baskets, pails and handbags filled. The Saxon government in order to pre-
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In other words, the intention Is to ex- tend the advantages of the rural routes for the mutual benefit of those only who reside within their boundaries.
 The farmer and the town will thus be brought into closer touch; the former will find market for fruits and garden truck not otherwise available; the latter, will cultivate an additional output by being enabled to supply the farmer daily with many articles which. for lack of reason able transportation facilities he Is now compelled to do without. There are those who oppose any new development fin rural parcels-post deliv- cry because they fear that this will be an entering wedge to the extension of the general parcels post system. The consideration of the extended use of our rural routes should not be clouded by such contingencies. Progress would all ways be blocked were the ghosts of pos sible far-off consequences to be allowed to bar the way.
 We should consider the, welfare of the farmers and their communities; if they prosper, the cities will naturally share the good results.
 The express strike in New York city has attracted attention to the desrability of parcels post and led Mayor Gaynor
  to wonder why our country did not have such system as every other civilized country" does.
 An interesting fact in connection with this discussion of the parcels post is pointed out in a recent issue of The Sur vey which says: Wagons bearing the legend Parcel Agency for the Imperial German Mail may be seen every day on the streets of New York. That Is. the German government offers in New York for the benefit of it's citizens at home a service that our own government will not render us. It is good evidence that John Wanamaker hit the nall on the head when he said some yeafs ago that there are just four insurmountable obstacles to the introduction of a parcels-post sys- tenn in the United States. These four ob- stacles are the American. Adams. United States and Wells-F'argo Express com Mir WananHker's opinion is quite widely shared. Since his retirement as postmaster
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  fm
  COMpA
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THE PARCELS POST SYSTEM
Rate To Europe Less Than In This Country To
 Farmers On Rural Delivery Routes
By MARCUS M. MARKS

By hI New the