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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-09-30
CHAPTER Viii.
The Second Section.

Have you ever been picked up out
OF your three-meals a-day life, whirled
around in tornado of events, and
landed in situation so grotesque and
yet so horrible that you laugh even
at its hopelessness? Mcknight says
that is hysteria, and that no man
worthy of the name ever admits to it.
Also, as Mcknight says, it sounds
like tank drama. Just as the revolv-
ing saw is about to cut the hero into
stove lengths, the second villain blows
up the sawmill. The hero goes up
through the roof and alights on the
bank of stream at the feet OF his
lady love, who is making daisy chains.
Nevertheless, when | was safely
home again, with Mrs. Klopton brew
ing strange drinks that came in paper
packets from the pharmacy, and that
smelled to heaven, l remember stag
gering to the door and closing it, and
then going back to bed and bowling
out the absurdity and the madness OF
the whole thing And while l laughed
my very soul was sick, for the girl
was gone by that time, and knew by
all the loyalty that answers between
men for honor that l would have to
put her out of my mind.
And yet, all the night that followed,
filled as it was with the shrieking de-
mons of pain, l saw her as I had seen
her last, in the queer hat with green
ribbons. told the doctor this, guard
was the morphia, and that l was lucky
not to have seen a row of devils with
green tails.
l don't know anything about the
wreck of September 9 last. You who
swallowed the details with your coffee
and Gigested the horrors with your
chop, probably know a great deal more
than do. I remember very distinctly
that the jumping and throbbing in my
arm brought me back to a world that
at first was nothing but sky, heap of
clouds that | thought hazily were the
meringue on blue charlotte russo.
AS the sense of hearing was slowly
added to vision, l heard a woman near
me sobbing that she had lost her hat
pin, and she couldn't keep her hat on.
think I dropped back into uncon-
sciOusness again, for the next thing
l remember was of my blue patch OF
sky clouded with smoke, of strange,
roaring and cracking, of rain of
! fiery sparks in my face and of some
body beating at me with feeble hands.
l opened ny eyes and closed them
again. The girl in blue was bending
! over me. With that imperviousness
/ to big things and keenness to small
! that is the first effect of shock, tried
to be facetious, when spark stung
| my cheek
You will have to rouse yourself!"
the girl was repeating desperately
| you've been in fire twice already"
A piece of striped ticking fioated slow
ly over my head. AS the wind caught
| it it's charring edges leaped into flame.
Looks like a kite, doesn't it?"
| remarked cheerfully. And then. as
my arm gave an excruciating throb-
| "Jove, how my arm hurts!"
The girl bent over and spoke slow
ly, distinctly, as one might speak to
deaf person or a child.
Listen, Mr.. Blakeley," she said
earnestly. "You must rouse yourself.
There has been terrible accident.
The second section ran into us. The
wreck is burning now, and II we don't
move, We will catch fire. Do you
hear?"
Cro BE coNT1NUED.)
0eal,,dA "a Immortal 4 TIA
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He admits that he had the bag"
somebody said behind me. "How did
you guess that he wore glasses, any
how?" to the amateur sleuth
That gentleman cleared his throat.
There were two reasons" he said,
"for suspecting it. When you see a
man with the lines of his face droop-
ing, q healthy individual with a pen
sive eye-suspect astigmatism. Be.
sides, this gentleman has a pro-
ncunced line across the bridge of his
chain"
After this remarkable exhibition of
the theoretical as combined with the
practical, he sank into a seat near by,
and still holding the chain, sat with
closed eyes and pursed lips. It was
evident to all the car that the solution
of the mystery was a question of mo-
ments. Once he bent forward eagerly
and putting the chain on the window
sill, proceeded to go over it with a
pocket magnifying glass, only to
shake his head in disappointment. All
the people around shook their heads,
too, although they had not the slight
est idea what it was about
The pounding in my ears began
again. The group around me seemed
to be suddenly motionless in the very
act Of moving, as if a hypnotist had
called Rigid" The girl in blue was
looking at me, and above the din l
thought she said she must speak to
me-something vital The pounding
grew louder and merged into a scream.
With grinding and splintering the
car rose under my feet. Then it fell
away into darkness
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webs to entangle him, Is caught In
sheet Of fly paper, finds himself hnore
and more mired, and is finally quiet
with the sticky stiffness of despair?
Well, was the fly. l had seen too
much of circumstantial evidence to
have any belief that the establishing
of my identity would weigh much
against the other incriminating de-
tails. It meant Imprisonment and
trial, probably, with all the notoriety
and loss of practice they would en-
tail. A man thinks quickly at time
like that. All the probable conse-
quences of the finding of that pocket
book flashed through my mind as l ex-
tended my hand to take it. Then l
drew my arm back.
II don't want it." l said. Look in
side. Maybe the other man took the
money and left the wallet"
The conductor opened it, and again
there was a curious surging forward
of the crowd. To my intense disap-
polntment the money was still there.
l stood blankly miserable while it
was counted out-five 500 bills, six
twenties and some fives and ones that
brought the total to $3.50.
The little man with the notebook
insisted on taking the numbers of the
notes, to the conductors annoyance.
1t was immaterial to me: Small things
had lost their power to irritate. l was
seeing myself in the prisoners box,
going through all the nerve-racking
routine of a trial for murder-the chal-
longing of the jury, the endless cross
examinations, the alternate hope and
had no nerves, but for few minutes
that morning l was as near as a man
ever comes to hysteria.
folded my arms and gave myself
a mental shake. / seemed to be the
center of a hundred eyes, expressing
tried not to finch. Then some one
created diversion.
The amateur detective was busy
again with the sealskin bag, investi-
eating the make of the safety razor
and the manufacturers name on the
bronze-green tie. Now, however, he
paused and frowned, as though some
pet theory had been upset
Then from a corner of the bag he
drew out and held up for our inspec-
tion some three inches of fine gold
chain, one end of which was black
ened and stained with blood!
The conductor held out his hand for
it, but the little man was not ready
to give it up. He turned to me.
"You say no watch was left you?
Was there a piece of chain like that?"
"No chain at ALL" said sulkily. mo
jewelry of any kind, except plain gold
buttons in the shirt am wearing"
Where are your glasses?" he
threw at me suddenly; instinctively
my hand went to my eyes. My glasses
had been gone all morning, and had
not even noticed their absence. The
little man smiled cynically and held
out the chain.
II must ask you to examine this"
he insisted. isn't it part of the fine
gold chain you wear over your ear?"
/ didn't want to touch the thing:
The stain at the end made me shud-
der. But with bakers dozen of sus-
picious eyes-well, we'll say 14-there
were no one-eyed men-I took the
fragment in the tips of my fingers and
looked at it helplessly.
VERY fine chains are much alike"
l managed to say. For all I know,
this may be mine, but I don't know
how it got into that sealskin bag.
never saw the bag until this morning
after daylight"
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CHAPTER VII.
A Fine Gold Chain.

A Fine Gold Chain.
The conductor held It out to me, his
face sternly accusing.
''Is this another coincidence?" he
asked. did the man who left you
his clothes and the barred silk hand
kerchief and the tight shoes leave you
the spoil of the murder"
The men standing around had
drawn of little, and l saw the alb
solute futility of any remonstrance.
Have you ever seen a fly, who, in
these hygienic days, finding no cob
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-09-30
These File Articles

Pierre-Articles of incorporation
have been filed with the secretary
of state for the Advertising ale
company, capitalized at $4,000, with
offices at Huron, s. D. Articles
have also been filed for the wet
Manufacturing and Building COM
pany, of Aberdeen, capital stock
100000 and the Alaska Prospecting
company, of Lead, W tn a capt,l OF
S2,5OO,OOO The appointment OF VIM.
L. Mclaughlin. of Deadwood, as resi-
dat agent for the Union Trust COM
pany. OF Philade'-hia. has been plac.
ed on record with the secretary Of
state.
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SYNOPSIS.

hwrence Blakeley; lawyer, goes to
Bronson case to take the deposition Of the
chief witness for the prosecution, John
Gilmore. q millionaire In the latter s
house the lawyer is attracted by the pic
ture OF a girl whom Gilmore explains is
his granddaughter. Alison West. He says
her father is a rascal and friend OF
eho forger. Standing In line to buy a
Pullman ticket Blake1ey is requested by
. lady to buy her one. He gives her low
or eleven and retains lower ten. He finds
and retires in lower nine He awakens in
lower seven and finds his bag and cloth
tng missing. Tho man in lower ten is
found murdered 1t is learned that the
dead man Is Simon Harrington Of Pitts
Edrg. The man who disappeared with
Dlakeley's clothes is suspected OF the
murder
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-09-30

BILE which came on NE in an instant. My
back ached intensely and l lost all
power Of control over the kidney SO.
cretions. My health became greatly
run down and nothing helped. Doan's
Kidney Pills cured me and have been
we'll ever since"
Remember the name-Doan's.
For sale by all dealers. SO cents q
box Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. N. !.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-09-30
THE BEADLE FUND
FOLLOWING TABLE SHOWS THE
APPORTlONMENT AND THE
RECEIPTS TO DATE
SEND in AMOUNTS IN HAND
County Superintendents are Urged to
Transmit Money Now in Hand
that Payments may b.
Made on Time

Pierre-The following table shows
the sums received by Governor Vessey
for the Beadle statue fund and the
amount asked for from each county. 1t
is understood that some county su-
perintendents have not yet RENTED
the sums collected in their counties
and they are requested to do so at
once as the first payment upon the
statue is due
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Tho GUILTY Partv.

Cook Ito her young man)-Here.
take the rest OF the roast duck. (Sigh-
ing) Poor pussy!
Young Man-Wbat has the cat got
to do with it?
Cook-Well, she'll be blamed for Il
tomorrow. Blatter.
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Totals . e..
S4.O72.4l

The governor has also received per-
sonal gifts from f. A. Clark. $1.O0: H.
w. Whitten, $3S5; Isabel Larson, 81;
B. w. Bower, $325 Frank Crane, $40;
B. B. Bowell $5; Lulu A. King, SIS;
B. F. Gault, So; B. F. Ives, IS, making
the total receipts $4123.49.
The total expense to date for print
ing and postage is s2356S, leaving in
the treasury net $3,SS7.S1.
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Made Sure of Death.

A student OF a school in Shinshu.
Japan. recently committed suicide by
jumping into the crater of Asama-
yama. The tragedy was not discovered
until three days afterward, when some
documents left by the suicide near
the crater were picked up.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-09-30

Pierre-The South Dakota board Of
pardons, composed of Attorney Gen.
eral Clark, Secretary of State Policy
and Presiding Judge Whiting, will
meet on September 20 to transact
regular business.
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Pills at the first sign
Of trouble. They cure
all kidney ills.
Mrs. L. E. Wilco&.
27 w. Cherokee st.,
McAlester, Okl a.
says: Il was seized
with an awful at
tack OF kidney trOu-
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-09-30
SPOHN'S DISTEMPER CURE =

sPOHN'S DISTEMPER CURE win
cure any possible case of DISTEMPER.
PINK EYE, and the like among horses
of all ages, and prevents all Others in the
same stable from having the disease. Also
cures chicken cholera. and dog distemper.
Any good druggist can supply you. or send
to mfrs. 30 cents and $1.OO a bottle. Agents
wanted. Free book. Spohn Medical Co..
Spec. Contagious Diseases, Goshen, Ind.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-09-30

The wise know better than TO try tn
nvo on the spice Of life alonA
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-09-30

Prelude to Immortal Life.
A graceful and honorable old age 10
the childhood 6 immortality.-Pinday.
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Aberdeen-The body of man was

Aberdeen-The body of man was
found on the tracks Of the Mil
waukee road, a mile east Of Marvin,
S. D., by section hands. He had
been cut to pieces by a train. Cards
on his person indicated that he was
John Bueskowski of 1OS Colena ave-
nue., Freeport, ILL.,, and that he had
engaged to work as a laborer on tho
Milwaukee railroad through an en-
ployment agency. Bills OF Aberdeen
groceries indicated he had resided here
for a time.
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Important to Mothers

Examine carefully every bottle Of
CASTORIA, safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the ~
Signature Of of&HAz<x
In Use For Over 80 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-09-30
PLENTY of Pine Cones

Deadwood-No more pine cones
will be purchased this year in eth
er the northern or southern divi-
sions of the Black Hills national for
est For several weeks past the for
estry force has been inspecting the
piles of cones brought in by men and
boys who gathered them in the Hills
and sold them to the government at
Is cents a bushel. In all about @ 900
bushels of cones were purchased in
the Hills, four -fifths of these being
secured by Supervisor lines at Custer
aud the rest by Supervisor Kelle er
here. All the cones from here were
shipped to Custer. where they were
stored in a warehouse. where a Tigh
temperature was maintained. This
causes the cones to spread and drop
their seed, after which a tanning mill
is used to separate the seed from the
chaff. The seeds thus secured W IL be
distributed by the government in the
national forests through the West,
where the yellow pine thrives and will
be planted next spring in reforesta-
tion of burned areas. OF the total
amount of cones gathered in the hills,
the weight was close to 100000 pounds.
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DON'T NEGLECT YOUR kIpNEYa

Little kidney troubles gradually
grow more serious and pave the way
to dropsy, diabetes and fatal Br1ght's
disease. Begin using Doan's Kidney
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-19
Talladega and Jacksonville to
 Have Institutes
ODD FELLOWS MEETING
Encampment Branch to Hold Sessions in Anniston In September-New Fertilizer Company Pur-
 chases Plant

Anniston, August S.-(Special.) )-Some valuable lessons in modern pedagogy and elemental hygiene are offered the teach CTS of the Fourth congressional district at the institutes to be held at Talladega and at Jacksonville from September to 19 the sessions lasting one week at each of the places selected.
 The institutes will be conducted by C.. w. Daugette, president of the Jackson vile State Normal college, and D. R. Murphey, superintendent of the Anniston public schools. pr. Northern and pr. Slaughter of Talladega and Dr. Arnold and pr. Lawrence of Jacksonville will discuss oral hygiene, and Dr. T. F. Huey of Anniston will discuss Defects in Hear ing and Vision Among Public School Chil- dren' at each of the meetings
 Miss Eula Atkinson will speak on "Prl- mary Methods and Miss Mary Forney of the Normal college faculty will discuss the problems of child study. Part of one day at each place will be allotted to the district trustees, while D. A. McNeil, su- perintendent of the Talladega schools, and County Superintendent M. T. Linder will also render assistance to the conductors, who will give daily lectures and demon strations. Large crowds are expected at both places.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-19
EXAMINATION TO
 BE HELD MONDAY

| Montgomery, August 18.-(Special)- Ut was announced today by President c. L.. Harold of the Auburn Alumni associa- tion that everything was in readiness for the competitive examinations to be held in the cities of Montgomery, Bir- mingham and Mobile next Monday to de- termine the winner of the Jewish Loan scholarship in the Alabama Polytechnic institute MT. Harold says that he is anxious, as well as the donor of the scholarship fund, to have a goodly num- Der of contestants in the examinations.
 Those who wish to contest for this scholarship" said MT. Harold, should D. Webb of the Alumni association. whose address is Auburn, Ala. to the president of the Jewish congregation In any of the cities where the examinations are to be held or send them to me- The papers for the test will be prepared by mem bers of the faculty at Auburn and the questions will be the equivalent of those in entrance examinations for the sopho- more class at Auburn. The fund pro- vides for $2OO year until the beneficiary shall complete whatever course he or she selects"
 The examinations will be conducted on Monday, August g. by committee in each city composed of an alumnus of Auburn. the rabbi and the president or some member of the Jewish congrega- ton there. The scholarship was donated by an alumnus of Auburn and announce ment made at the last annual meeting of the Alumni association.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-19
FARMERS ELECT
 NEW OFFICERS

Montgomery. August s.-(Special)-W A. Morris of Sulligent and T. J. Kennedy of Scottsboro were reelected president and secretary of the Alabama Farmers union today with the following others O. P. Ford. McFall, vice president; M. J. Wallace, Town Creek. state chaplain; John Hill, Wilsonville, sergeant-at-arms; H. o. Dean. Alexander City, conductor; M. J. Taylor. Veto, doorkeeper.
 The morning session was devoted to discussion of the produce exchange and warehouse questions, the delegates giv- ing close attention to every detail of the reports of these movements Edu- cation in the country was also given much attention. President Morris expressed himself as highly pleased with the en- thusiasm that Is shown in all the lines of work the union is carrying out. The afternoon was taken mp with a barbecue at Pickett Springs. and the evening in a speech by United States Senator John IT. Bankhead on good roads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-19
CT. LOUIS
$10 ROUND TRIP 6{lg5N6| ~1Z AUGUST 20 X|

never revived enough to move any part of his body and died at 12 o'clock.
 It is supposed the boy broke his neck in striking the bottom of the pond, thus paralyzing his entire body.
 The victim of this untoward accident was about IS years old and the young est child of Capt. and Mrs. W. T. North ington of this place. He was the brother of Merrill P. Northington of Birmingham, pr. E. G. Northington, with the military post of the United States at Fort McPherson, near At lanta; Allen Northington and Edward Northington of this place. who are the D principal owners of the First National bank of Prattville; Mrs Walker of Bir- mingham, and Mrs. J. W. Mcqueen of Eutaw. Young Northington was de- servedly one of the most popular young men of this city and his death will cast a pail over the number of visiting young people of the place as well as the home folks.
 News of Samuel Northington's death was received in Birmingham yesterday. His parents, MT. and Mrs. w. T. North
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-19
BOY KILLED IN
 UNIQUE MANNER
DIVES INTO POND AND HEAD STRIKES BOTTOM, STICKING :W MUD-PARALYSIS RESULTS AND DEATH FOLLOWS

Prattville, August 1S.-tSpecial.)-. Prattville had one of the saddest oc- currences in many years this morning. While in bathing with quite company of young people in the pond in this city, young Samuel Northington, young est child of Capt. w. T. Northington, made dive into the water about five feet deep and failed to come up. Miss Adelaide Bell, his cousin, dived for him, finding him apparently fastened in the mud of the bottom of the pond. She brought him up and he was car ried to the home of Daniel Pratt, a short distance away, and medical atten- ton was summoned.
 All the physicians of this place were summoned and one came from Mont gomery. It was soon learned that the young man suffered complete paralysis throughout his body, and while at times he appeared to be conscious he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-19
RATS START BAD
 FIRE AT CONSUL
TWO STORES AND POsTOFFICE ARE BURNED IN TOWN NEAR SELMA. THE CROP CONDITIONS ARE VERY GOOD

Selma August 18.-(Special.)- .)-A fire at Consul, Perry county, last night de- stroyed the stores of E. D. Goats and w. R. Woods and the loss is estimated at about $23O0, which is partially covered by insurance. The fire originated in the store of w. R. Woods and is supposed to have been started by rats. The building and contents were completely destroyed Sparks from this fire caused the store oc- cupied by E. D. Coats, In which was To- cated the postoffice, to also catch. MT. Woods had in his store a stock of goods estimated at about $500. The stock in MT. Coats store Is estimated to have been worth about $15O0. What the loss in the postoffice department will be was not es- timated, but considerable mail there was burned.
 For the fourth time this season the SeI- ma and Anniston clubs will meet again next week. Manager Howard of the Sei- ma club has completed arrangements with the management of the Anniston club for a series of six games on the local dia- mond beginning Monday afternoon. There is considerable rivalry between the two clubs and a great deal of interest is being taken in the approaching series of games between the two clubs. The following week the Selma club will go to Anniston for return series of three games.
 The continuous hot weather of the past three weeks in this section has proven most favorable to the cotton crop. But while the cotton plant has improved a great deal with the hot weather rain is needed now in every section of Central Alabama. With continued favorable weather it Is now estimated that about 65 per cent of the average cotton crop will be gathered in central Alabama. The large corn crop which will be gathered by the farmers will more than offset the loss in the cotton crop.
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News of HartseIIe

Hartselle, August (Special.)--The erection of two more handsome brick storehouses on Main street are the latest in the building line here. The buildings are to be erected the north side of Main street, are to be one story, about 100 feet long by 40 feet wide. and are to be erected by ]. B. Orr. The buildings have been leased by Williams & Gillfland for a period of five years. Occupancy Is to be given on January 1.
 Judge Purifoy of Montgomery delivered the principal address today 10 the camp of Confederate Veterans assembled here. A large crowd was present to hear him. The old soldiers were treated royalty on this occasion Many chickens and other eatables had been provided for them
 A. Poytinskey is having brick put oni the ground for the erection of smalp brick storehouse just east of his present place of business. The house is to be occupied by A. J. Norwood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-19
w. E. Nethery Dies

Athens, August 1s.-(Speciai)-W. E. Nethery, station agent of the Southern road at Belle Nina, this county, died in Nashville this week, where he had gone for treatment for cancer of the stomach. His remains were brought to Belle Nina for burial and his funeral yesterday was one of the largest ever witnessed in the south part of the county
 The deceased leaves widow and three children. He was a. fine character and will be greatly missed in the community where he has resided for so many years.