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me things like thatf I'll tell you
tonight"
All of which was 80 obviously not
government business that the caller in
wardly wondered at the holiness Of
the clerk-and that OF the girl at the
other end Of the wire. For minutes
were passing, Murphy" figured again:
also some unexplained incident of Q
shirt bosom and q drug store. The
caller blushed, and he read the old
mail he kept in his pocket for just
such occasions. More minutes passed.
"Goodby. What can I do
for you, sir?" said the clerk in an I'M
Apologize. business-like tone.
II should like to see MI. K.
please"
The clerk smiled.
Hes gone for the day."
Whence the clerks leisure. Like
master. like man-in Washington. D.
c., at least
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-05-19
THE era Of investigation has begun
L. uYaahinuAon md aoon mill a4onf

THE era of investigation has begun
in Washington and 500 will affect
every corner of the United States.
It Ia impossible to walk around
Washington without running acros q
Sherlock Holmes. There is no branch
of the government too inconspicuous
10 escape attention. The Democrat
microscope is being cleaned for use
In matters ranging from the action Of
the president In mobilizing United
States troops on the border of Mexico
10 the sanitary conditions In the pub
lie buildings.
The various committees cannot get
actively at work in this direction I'M
til December, when the estimates for
expenses will be submitted by the
president, and this affords an opportu-
nifty for the resurrection Of q number
Of committees. The Investigations
these committees will conduct are as
follows:
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Ing Of Oscar Harp. Harp was not a
bloated lumber millionaire, he was a
poor, honest working man, who re-
sponded to the duty OF his state when
It called. The court will instruct you
on the reasonable doubt. II you saw
John Deitz in the street raise a gun
and IRE In the direction OF q man 80
feet away and the man dropped dead,
would there be any doubt that he had
been killed by Deitz? True. he could
have died Of heart failure or have been
shot by some one hidden in ambush
whom you did not see and who fired
Q bullet at the same time that John
Deitx fred, but there is nc reasonable
doubt but that it was Deitz who killed
the man"
Mr.. Davis did not take up the whole
hour allowed for the states opening
and John Deitz then began his address
to the jury.
Rambling inconsistency and with no
general idea OF any sequence over the
reams and reams OF testimony, and
frequently introducing his own per-
sonel opinion and testimony not
brought out during the trial, Deitx
laced the jury and tried to prove to
them his innocence and the innocence
Il the co-defendants OF the charges Of
murder IN the nrst degree.
RM 800 NrN
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Senator Kittredge, Of South Dakota,
died at Hot Springs. Ark.
The two McNamaras we're formally
arraigned Ia q Los Angeles court.
Senator Galiinger was nominated
Tor president pro tenn Of the senate.
President Taft told q delegation
from the national grange his attitude
on Canadian reciprocity was UNI
changed.
The name Of the American ambas-
sador who will succeed Mr.. Hill has
not yet been submitted to the German
government,
a house committee has begun inves-
tigation Of chargs OF graft In awarding
Of shoe contracts.
Ex-senator Burkett expresses thanks
for interest Of Nebraska friends In
physical welfare OF his wife.
III ! speech at Kansas City Govern
81 woodrow Wilson OF New Jersey
discussed the new order Of politics.
AZ ! promoter 81 peace, Andrew
Carnegie wal presented . gold medal
~ II American republics.
Col. Theodore Shack, the Swiss
Aeronaut, Who competed IA last years
internattonal balloon w 81 ST. Louis.
disd 81 Berne. Switzerland.
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ERA OF "SHERI0CKING" AT CAPITAL

Expenditures in the department Of
agriculture.
Expenditures in the department Of
commerce and labor.
Expenditures in the interior depart
ment.
Expenditures in the department Of
justice.
Expenditures in the postofice de-
partment.
Expenditures in the state depart.
ment.
Expenditures in the treasury de.
partment.
Expenditures in the var depart.
ment.
It is the purpose Of ONE Of these
committees to ask for additional pow
er which will enable them to extend
their Investigations beyond the ex.
penditures. In addition. the Demo
Gratis desire to Investigate the admin
istration pure food law and the opera
ton Of the bureau Of education.
The railway mail service may be ex.
amined, with a view to establishing
under what conditions the men work.
The ~postofice department will be
delved into by the ~postofice commit
tee, and the Democrats and progress
sives anticipate some golden campaign
finds in that department.
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come ~secretive and has little to say
to the correspondents. The newspaper
men nailed him at the door.
Nothing doing. boys." said Mann.
and he placed the tip Of his finger to
his lips.
At that precise instant q flock OF
visiting school girls and their teach.
ers doomed into view from behind q
bush abutting the path to the execu-
tive Offices. The girls saw q dignifed
looking gentleman with q white beard
looking directly at them and apparent.
ly throwing q kiss. They giggled. thar
blushed and they retreated.
The old villain" muttered the BE-
specialized teacher.
He wasn't bad looking, was her.
murmured q Of the tenderest Of
the chickenA
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AND IS SENTENCED TO LIFE I'M.
PRisoNMENT IN PENI.
TERTIARY.
WIFE AND SON ARE ACQUITTED.
Judge Reds Charge to Jury Permit.
ted Of Only One Degree Of
ouiit.-WM Appeal to
Supreme Court.

Hayward, Wis, May 15.-John F.
Oeitz was found guilty of murder in the
first degree. denied a new trial and
sentenced for life imprisonment in
the state ~penitentiary, the sentence
providing that he shall spend the
eighth day of October each year in
solitary confinement. Mrs. Deitz and
Leslie Deitz were found not guilty.
Deitz's only hope now is in an appeal,
and the corut has granted him ten
days In which to give notice of ap-
peal and frame q proper motion.
In q moment Deitz was ~unnerved.
In an apparent daze he arose and
moved for q new trial and for a stay.
When the court had allowed his mo
ton to be entered and had denied il
he asked Deitz If he had anything
to say why sentence should not be
passed. Deitz then launched into a
bitter attack on the humber interests,
reviewing his whole case, denounced
the people Of Sawyer county and again
denounced W.. B. Rubin of Milwaukee.
who had first appeared as attorney for
him.
The fury was charged by the court
to return a verdict of acquittal or a
verdict OF guilty Of murder in the first
degree only, for either the father, the
mother or the o separately or for all
three.
John Deitz for the first time In all
his fearless life heard himself pftiless.
" arraigned and pictured In every de-
spicable light by q man who stood fear.
lessly face to face with him and In
cold. unadorned language heaped upon
him as much as II not more contempt
and ~villification than the backwoods.
man has Y e attributed to the law
and the lumber trust.
Pointing his finger almost into the
face OF the much-feared backwoods.
man. Attorney Sturdevant called him
name after name, laughed at his her
aided valor, sneered at his gameness,
and heaped scorn On his bravado.
John Deitz listened to every word of
II, heard himself held up to the world
as everything low and contemplate.
He looked at the Judge, at the jury
and then at the man who was throw.
ing the dirt In his very face.
Leslie Deitz sat behind his mother
with his hand on her shoulder as
though In restraint. He mainly ex.
pressed his feelings by smiles Of dis
belief at every depreciatory reference
to his father.
The upcontradicted evidence Of the
state makes all three Of the defend.
ants guilty as one another" said Dis
trict Attorney s. J. Davis. in the
states argument.
Mrs. Deitz had refused to come out
when she was given that chance. Les
lie Deitz was q grown man and intel
ligent and only stayed In the cabin to
help his father fight. The conspiracy
between them RAJ plain. The lumber
trust has nothing to do with the kill.
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president and Mr.. Dickinson, no rea-
son other than that of pressing pri-
vate affairs is given for the s~ecretary's
retirement.
Mr.. Dickinson will go to his Tennes-
see home Immediately upon the quail
fcation of his successor. He expects
TO devote his attention to business and
will not return to the practice OF law
In which he was engaged when Presi-
dent Taft appointed him secretary of
war in March, 1909.
New Assistant Treasurer.
Coincident with the announcement
Of Mr.. Dickinson's retirement came
that Of the appointment Of C. s. Mill
ington of Herkimer, N. Y, to be as
sistant treasurer Of the United States
in New York.
Mr.. Stimson was the Roosevelt cam
didate for governor, while Mr.. Milling
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ton was a former member Of the house
and is q close friend of Vice Presi-
dent Sherman and other leaders of
the old guard in the state. having sue
ceeded Mr.. Sherman in the house
when the latter became vice presi.
lent.
The Two Careers.
Mr.. Stimson was born in New YorA
Sept. 81, 1867. He graduated from
school in 1890. He was associated
with Senator Root of New York in
the practice Of law and in 1906 was
appointed United States attorney for
the southern district of New York.
He resigned that position after three
years service. but became special
counsel for the government in the
prosecution of the sugar trust. AS
counsel in that case he won the ad-
miration of Attorney General Wick
ersham and Mr.. Taft.
Secretary Dickinson was born in
Mississippi, spent most of his life in
Tennessee and was appointed to the
cabinet from Chicago. He is so years
old. In the Civil war he served with
the Mississippi volunteers. He was
educated in the University Of Nash
Vile, the University Of Leipsig, Sax
ony, and the Sorbonne, Paris. He was
sworn in as secretary Of war Marcn
II, 1903, previously having been rem
eral counsel of the Illinois Central
railroad, with Offices in Chicago.
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Twin City Markets.

Minneapolis, May 13.-Wheat. May,
5sAc; July, $1.0Ok; No. northern,
sl.oS%; No. 2 northern, $1.01h; No.
durum, 91hc; No. 2 corn, 5lhc; No.
white oats, 32Ac; barley. mailing.
s6c; No. 2 rye, SLOT; No. i fax. s2.55.
Duluth, May 13.-Wheat, MAY.
sl.o2h; July, $1.02h; No. / northern.
sl.o2h; No. ] durum, s1hc.
South St. Paul, May 13.-Cattle-
steers, $5.1005.25; cows, $2.50@5.oo:
.aiyes, $3.00@5.5O; hogs, s5.75@6I0.
heep. yearlings, $2.O0@5.5c
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WAR DEPT. CHIEF MENTIONS
BUSINESS AS HIS REASON
FOR REslcNINc.
STIMSON. IS SUCCESSOR
Rumors Of Friction Heard.-The Ap.
pointments In New York Re-
garded 40 a Political.
Move.

Washington, d. G. - Secretary OF
War Jacob McVavock Dickinson of
Tennessee. the Democratic member
of President Taft's cabinet, has re-
signed. Henry L. Stimscn of New
York, recently defeated Republican
candidate for governor OF that state,
has been given the wal portfolio. In
the letters exchanged between the
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-05-19

MA &emocrstic nee list bin passed
n yute of 13s to 100.
Tn6 Colorado IeeisIature adjourned
Without naming I United States sena-
volume e irslrbt business handled
by NS6s11ka railroads 4 lower than
s31n1u&u D6c~n ana Hitchcock are
oknrdy champions 81 the reciprocity
an M behave Il viii pass.
~ Town u Tijuana. Lower Califor.
1i NM capfured ~ Mexican rebels
ohort "a bloody battle.
Noron dsE~1toufnelles de Constant
D1eosnted u President TAFT Z medal
kIcm Ne International Cancellation
h de0nftely announced that
1c1andse Will be absent from
t1Fous1out the coronation
xrorksdona q manufactures IN
NxoSc4 Wero ~ the rate OF more than
6lili6n 1ollnrs ! year.
NQUxtocn laborers, residents Of
n0gxonoukh. o., vhc we're charged
1tkh oe1IinS their votes It from ii TO
oo6h WeEo disfranchised Tor 0ve
ySox1 ~ Judge Blair.
TnvSGktGaticn o. charges Of graft In
e01moction With TIE contracts for
01oGl 3oe ne army and navy was be.
Um n0b-committee of the mill
- 4N& MMI@rE
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
COOK SATURDAY FOR SUNDAY
Many Dishes May Be Prepared Thar
Will Not Lose Their SAVIOR by
Being Kept Day.

In meats, fillet of beef, roasted,
boned breast of veal, cooked in a
casserole without liquid and basted
with fat occasionally, brisket OF
corned beef or picked tongue, boil
ed, may be served hot, on Saturday,
and the remainder set aside to serve
cold on Sunday. Veal loaf may be
cooked on Saturday. At least one
hot vegetable should be prepared on
Sunday. Spinach cooked on Saturday
may be pressed in to a bowl and serv
ed on Sunday with French dressing
Old potatoes, pared and soaked some
hours in cold water, may be cooked
on Saturday. What are left may be
heated quickly in boiling water, drain
ed, pressed through a ricer. seasoned
properly and beaten with little hot
milk and butter to a snowy mass
Thus, in less than ten minutes, dish
OF mashed potatoes can be served,
as good in every particular as if fresh
cooked.
In sweet dishes blanc mango, Ba-
var1an creams, boiled custard with or
without snow eggs, floating island.
strawberry or apricot tarts, ready for
filling, fruit in jelly, as prune, rhu-
barb or lemon jelly; the latter served
with sliced bananas, are among the
many simple things that will keep in
good condition in a cool place over
night
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Things Worth KNOWING.

|. With the care of the refrigerator
the thought must always come that
butter and milk take on the fiavors Of
all that they come in contact with and
should be kept in the ice chamber
alone and covered carefully at that
The cream cheeses are susceptible to
strong fiavors and have to be care
fully protected. Wrapping in paraffins
paper is often an effective protection
for delicate food from strong doors.
If the dry staples used daily In the
kitchen are kept, as far as possible, in
glass bottles. they will retain their
flavor and freshness twice as long
The wide-mouthed preserve Jars are
handy to label and use for the pur-
pose in the pint, and even the half
pint size.
If the kitchen utensils In the heay-
Ter graniteware are placed in large
receptacle and boiled in soda water
for five or ten minutes once or twice
a week, it will remove every particle
of grease from within and without and
keep them sweet and wholesome.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
AT HOUSE CLEANING
SOME POINTS WORTH KEEPING
IN THE MEMORY.
Much Labor Can Be Saved by Know
ing just What Are the Best Things
to Use-Proper Care of
Silver.

Brass can be polished by rubbing
with mixture of powdered chalk
precipitate kind used for tooth pow
der-rubted into paste with lemonn
juice. Let it dry on and polish with
chamois. There is an excellent po-
made that Is good brass cleaner.
In applying any pomade or paste for
cleansing it will be more efficacious If
moistened with kerosene instead of
water. In the same way use alcohol
for silver pastes.
Old copper can be rubbed bright
quickly with lemon skins and salt or
salt and vinegar. Let 1t stay on
very short time and polish with cham.
ois.
Where silver that is kept in chests
most OF the year must be cleaned it
Will save time to boil in soapsuds. to
which has been added a good-sized
lump of washing soda. Rinse thor
oughly in hot water and, if extra pol
lsh Is necessary, rub up with little
silver powder
Put your silver back in the chest
In tissue paper wrappings and lump
OF camphor in the box and you will
be saved work the next time it is TAX
en- out
Never use soapsuds on cut glass.
wash In ammonia water-not so hot
as to crack the glass-scrub with a
fine brush in the facets, rinse in fresh
ammonia water and dry for an hour or
more IN cheap, fine sawdust. This
brushes out quickly and your pieces
shine like new.
When cleaning the china closet do
not content yourself with just busting
on unused sets with a damp cloth.
China should be well scrubbed at least
once a year or it may stain. Soak for
half an hour in 1ukewarm soapsuds
and rinse in clear water, not too hot,
or 1T will crack delicate porcelain.
Stains on china can be removed
with a little dry salt or by rubbing
well with wood ashes moistened with
kerosene.
If you do not superintend the wash
Ing OF your own fine china, insist up
on the maid using rubber pad In the
bottom OF the dishan and not putting
In too many pieces at a time.
Have a good carpet soap for rugs
and carpets, or use fine olive oil
soap, scrub well with the lather, rinse
twice, once in lukewarm water, then
In cold. Rub untn nearly dry. then
hang in the air.
If floors are much stained and can.
not be done over, wipe off carefully
with gasoline, then rub to polish with
mixture of half a pound of porce
lain. a quarter pound of beeswax. melt
ed and mixed when hot with four Ia
blespoonfuls of turpentine. Beat un
til cold. Apply with flannel, rub with
another piece. and polish with iron
covered with wool padding and fine
velveteen, if you have no regular floor
polisher.
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SPARKLING Mead

Sparkling mead is made by boiling
fourteen pounds of honey in six gal
Ions of water for half an hour, break
ing into 1t four eggs: then stir into
THIS half ounce each of cinnamon.
cloves, mace and bruised ginger, and
small punches of marjoram, balm and
sweetbrier; boil quarter of an hour
longer and pour out to cool. Then
toast large slice of brown bread.
spread 1t over with fresh yeast, and
put 1t into the liquor. Let it ferment
Tor day, and then put it into a cask,
but keep 1t open till the fermentation
is complete. Then cork the cask
tightly. This may be bottled in a
month, and If bottles are used which
nave not the patent spring shoppers
the corks must be securely tied.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
CHAPTER XVIII.

AS Annie entered the room and
caught sight Of Mr.. Jeffries, she in
stinctively drew back. Just at that
moment the banker was, perhaps, the
one man In the world whom she was
most anxious to avoid Capt. Clinton
no longer had any terror for her. Now
that the missing witness had been
found and the precious suicide let
ter" was as good as In their possession
there was nothing more to fear. 1t
was only question of time when
Howard would be set free. But
1t was not In this girls nature
to be concerned only with her
self. II she possessed single wofn-
anly virture. 1t was supreme unselfish.
ness. There was some one beside her
self to take into considerations
poor, vacillating, weak, miserable
woman who wished to do what was
right and had agreed to do SO. but
who, in the privacy of her own apart
ments, had gone down on her knees
and begged Annie to protect her from
the consequences of her own folly.
Her husband must not know. Annie
had promised that if there was any
way possible the knowledge of that
clandestine midnight visit to Under
woods rooms should be kept from
him. Yet there stood the banker!
She was afraid that If they began
questioning her in his presence she
might be betrayed into saying some
thing that would instantly arouse his
suspicious.
Judge Brewster went quickly for
ward as she came in and led her to a
chair Capt. Clinton and Mr.. Jeffries
eyed her in stolid silence. Looking
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
SYNOPSIS.

:, Howard Jeffries. bankers son, under
the evil influence of Robert Underwood,
felloW-student at Yale, leads a life OF dis
sipation, marries the daughter of a gam
bier who died in prison, and Is disowned
by his father. He Is out of work and In
desperate straits Underwood. who had
once been engaged to Towards step
mother, Alicia, Is apparently in prosper
GUS circumstances. Taking advantage OF
his intimacy with Alicia. he becomes
sort OF social highwayman Discovering
house. He sends her a note threatening
suicide. Art dealers for whom he acted
as commissioner. demand an accounting;
his apartments In an intoxicated condi-
ton to request q loan of $1,000 to enable
him to, take up q business proposition.
condition. and goes to sleep on a divan;;
A caller Is announced and Underwood
rta rsuna ba the
promise from Underwood that he will not
take his life. He refuses unless she Will
renew her patro1age. This she refuses ,s,ss;
kens Howard He finds Underwood dead
Howard is turned over to the police;
treatment Of prisoners. puts Howard
through the third degree. and finally gets
an alleged confession from the harassed
belief In her husbands innocence. and
calls on Jeffries. Sr. He refuses to help
unless she Will consent to divorce TO
save Howard she consents but when she
finds that the elder Jeffries does not in
terd to stand by his son. except fnan-
cially, she scorns his help. Annie appeals
to Judge Brewster, attorney for Jeffries.
1t is reported that Annie is going on the
stage. The banker and his wife call on
Judge Brewster to find some way to pre-
vent it. Annie again pleads with Brew
eGer to take Towards case. lie consents.
Alicia is greatly alarmed when Annie tells
her Brewster has taken the case. She
g the anne nisbt ~ h s death and
that she has his letter in which he
threatened suicide, but begs for time
before giving out the information. Annie
promises Brewster to produce the missing
woman at a meeting at his home. Brew
ster accuses Clinton of forcing con-
fesBion from Howard
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
EseaIIoped CABBAGE

Escalloped cabbage is a delicious
dish made from leftover boiled new
cabbage. Cut half boiled cabbage in
pieces, put in a buttered baking dish.
sprinkle with salt and pepper and
one cupful of white sauce. Lift the
cabbage with fork that it may be
well mixed with the sauce, cover with
one cupful of buttered cracker crumbs
and bake in hot oven until the
crumbs are brown. From one-quarter
to one-third of cupful Of melted but
ter may be evenly coated and light
rather than compact.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1911-10-20
Meat Patt,es.

Take pound or so of fresh round
steak, cut off the fat and run through
meat chopper. Separate into small
patties and in the center of each
place pinch of salt and small pinch
of pepper. If fond of onions, small
shred of onion. also Fold the meat
over so that seasoning is in center.
Dip each patty into beaten egg, which
also has been seasoned. then into
cracker crumbs, and fry in hot fat I'M
til nice and brown on both sides. Gar
nish with parsley.