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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-03-03
SYNOPSIS.

-.,-o BIakeley. lawyer, goes to
i2W,L,' With the forged notes in the
f. ls.oo case to get the deposition of
NoIS' .lmore. millionaire. A lady re-
baa "T1Iaknlev to buy her Pullman
@Ss He gives her lower IL and re-
aEH lower 10 He finds drunken man
ems ,, U" 10 and retires in lower
n ,,qIN" ayalcns in lower and
HE clothes and bag missing. The
tHf "II lover 10 is found murdered. Cir
nan ',rtiaI evidence points to both
GDF and the man who stole his
@Ef,' q'hr train Is wrecked and Blake
co !. rescued from q burning car by a
H r. h1ua His arm is broken. The girl
gu. ia be Alison West, his partners
F'Goort BIakeleY returns home and
a,g . Tc is under surveillance. Moving
taoS If the train taken just before
pC'ur@, reveal to BIakeley a man leap
ut wan, fine train with his stolen grip.
E aa,iiaafioy proves that the mans name
mS n.J,7~,n Mrs. Conway, the woman for
IS o, n' pIqIiclcv bought a Pullman ticket,
WIZ. "a make q bargain with him for the
n no.oJ notes. not knowing that they are
Ws5r EIgkcley and an amateur de-
Il"'. investigate the home of Sullivan's
W" From q servant Blakeley learns
@ I,, Alison West had been there on q
I wa, and Sullivan had been attentive to
W., va" gIlilau is the husband of daugh-
g. y. N the murdered man. Blakeley'S
g,,,r is ransaCked by the police. He
gsrns that the affair between Alison and
Ss rgrlnrr is Off
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-03-03
by f1AR ROBfRTc RINJEFTA

as merely held it she let it lie warm
IN NINE But when l raised it to nv
Ups, and kissed the soft, open palm.
she drew it away without displeasure.
Not that, please" she protested.
ana Tell to whistling softly again, her
chln In her hands. II can't sing" she
said, to break an awkward pause.
and so, when I'm fidgety, or have
something on my mind, I whistle. I
nope you don't dislike it?"
I love it," I asserted warmly. I
did; when she pursed her lips like
that l was mad to kiss them.
L saw you-at the station" she
said suddenly. "You-you were in a
hurry to CO." I did not say anything,
and after pause she drew a long
breath. Men are queer, aren't they?"
she said, and fell to whistling again.
After awhile she sat up as if she
had made a resolution. II am going
to confess something" she announced
suddenly. you said, you know, that
you had ordered all this for something
you-you wanted to say to me. But
the fact is, l fixed it all-came here,
l mean, BECAUSE knew you would
come, and / had something to tell
you. 1t was such a miserable thing l
needed the accessories to help me
out"
Il don't want to hear anything that
distresses you to TELL" I assured her.
Il didn't come here to force your con-
fidence, Alison. 1 came because I
couldn't help It," She did not object
to my use of her name.
'HaYe Won found the=Your ma
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-03-03
Leaves Pennle, In Church.

A Boston clergyman, commenting
on the large number Of cents in the
average church collection, said that
when on a recent Monday he had
offered a newswoman outside the SUBJ
way station a scent piece in payment
for a newspaper she threw up her
hand, remarking:
"Why is it that men never have
pennies on Monday morning? 1t Is
the only day in the week / have
trouble making change"
MY good woman" replied the
clergyman, the reason Is that on SUM-
day they leave their pennies In
church"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-03-03
"Did You Marry HimT" | Demanded.

an orphan" I said, with cherries
attempt at levity. GO on"
eff Mrs. Curtis knew, she never
said anything. She wrote me charm
ing letters, and in the summer, when
they went to Cresson, she asked me
to visit her there. I was too proud
to let her know that I could not go
where I wished, and SOL sent Polly,
my maid, to her aunt's in the country,
pretended to go to Seal Harbor, and
really-went to Cresson. You see l
warned you it would be an unpleasant
story"
I went over and stood in front of
her All the accumulated jealousy of
the last few weeks had been fired by
what she told me. If Sullivan had
come across the sands just then, l
think would have strangled him with
my hands, out of pure hate.
did you marry him?" demanded.
My voice sounded hoarse and strange
in my ears. That's all I want to
know. Did you marry him."
mo"
drew long breath.
"You-cared about him?'
She hesitated.
mo" she said finally. II did not
care about him."
sat down on the edge Of the boat
and mopped my hot face. / was heart
lily ashamed of myself, and mingled
with my abasement was great re-
lief. If she had not married him, and
had not cared for him, nothing else
was of any Importance.
81 was sorry, of course, the moment
the train had started, but had wired
l was coming, and l could not go
back, and then when I got there, the
place was charming. There were no
neighbors, but we fished and rode and
motored, and-it was moonlight, like
this"
put my hand over both of hers,
clasped in her lap. 81 know" / &C
knowledged repentantly, "and--people
do queer things when it is moonlight.
The moon has got me tonight, Alison.
If am a boor, remember that, won't
your"
Her fingers lay quiet under mine.
"And So" she went on with little
sigh, 'I-began to think perhaps
cared. But all the time ! felt that
Now and then Mrs. Curtis would say
or do something that gave me
queer start, as If she had dropped
mask for a moment And there was
trouble with the servants; they were
almost insolent. / couldn't under
stand. l don't know when 1t dawned
on me that the old Baron Cavalcanu
had been right when he said they
were not my kind of people. But
wanted to get away, wanted it des-
perately."
"Of course, they were not your
kind" I cried. "The man was mar
ried! The girl Jennie, housemaid,
was a spy in Mrs. Sullivan's employ.
If he had pretended to marry you
would have killed him! Not only that.
but the man he murdered, Harrington,
was his wife's father. And I'll see
him hang by the neck yet If it takes
every energy and every penny l pos
sess."
could have told her so much more
gently, have broken the shock for
her; I have never been proud of that
evening on the sand. l was alternate
" a boor and a ruffian-like hurt
youngster who passes the blow that
has hurt him on to his playmate, that
both may bawl together. And now
Alison sat, white and cold, without
speech.
(To BE CoNTINUED.)
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-03-03
POULTRY
|Es,NI,,y(Z7S~1I
" x Y - j
OPEN FRONT POULTRY HOUSE
So Constructed That Air Is Constantly
Changing, Leaving 1t Always Pure
and Hens Comfortable.

Up to the present time, all building
of poultry houses, at and in connec-
ton with University Farm, has been
with a view only to economy. sim
plicity, the convenience of the keeper
and the comfort of the fowls. The
aim has been to keep the cost of con
struction down, so that the average
farmer, who wishes to adopt our plans,
will find them easily within his means.
We have introduced no fancy or com
plicated devices, which consume time
and so easily get out of order. We
have sought to locate doors, windows
and nests in such places as will be
convenient in doing the work; and to
insure such protection and comfort to
the fowls as shall promote their best
endeavors in the line Of laying eggs,
says the Minnesota Farmers Library,
In all of our houses the so-called
open front" is adopted; that is, a
front a large portion of whose area is
occupied only by thin sheet of mus
lin, and by windows which may be
opened or closed. to suit the weather.
The aim has been to make the walls
perfectly tight except in front. We
then have the same principle in ven
citation by trying to create a draft in
u bottle by blowing into it. The inner
and outer pressure of the air in the
bottle equal each other, and what air
is forced in must come out through
the same opening Just so with the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-03-03
done that kind Of thing before, e-.u

0VAC Nu0S AAAu "a SAAA0 OCkOk S~--S
well, have paid UP. think
What sort of looking chap was
Sullivan" l demanded / had got uI
and was pacing back and forward on
the said. l remember kicking savage
ly at bit of water-soaked board that
lay in my way.
VERY handsome-as large as you
are, but fair, and even more erect"
drew my shoulders up sharply. l
am straight enough, but / was fairly
sagging with jealous rage.
when mother began to get around,
somebody told her that had been
going about with Mrs. Curtis and her
brother, and we had dreadful time
/ was dragged home like bad child.
Did anybody ever do that to you?"
Nobody ever cared. l was born
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-03-03
Improving the Flock.

There isn't much chance for a farm.
er to make his poultry more profit.
bile until he gets the idea out of his
head that a male bird for improving
his flock isn't worth more than a com
non market rooster.
The Washington bee., 1911-12-02
The Couraue of Life,

The two virtues that help US along
most in life are trust and courage.
Apart from the tragedies invited by
sin and violence and self indulgence,
a large part of our trouble comes from
anxiety, distrust, apprehension. 1t was
not all frivolity that dictated the an
swer of young girl who, being urged
to prepare herself for a profession or
a definite work, responded: I'm not
going to look ahead and worry. l can
do a lot of useful things. I can mend,
and make salad and amuse children,
and be patient and economical and
help people to enjoy themselves, and
1 don't believe nice girls starve." COur-
age and faith are always assets. Even
if life goes back upon them and fails
to come up to expectations the prac-
tice Of these virtues is just that much
to the good, and we have at least not
lived in the evil moment until it ar
rived.-HaTper's Bazaar.
The Washington bee., 1911-12-02
For Peace ONLY,

It is well known that the Friends
have always been devoted to the prin-
cipIes of peace. As they had a con-
trolling influence in the public affairs
of Nantucket, there was no military
organization on that island for several
generations. How the matter was
managed is told by the author Of
September Days on Nantucket
Whenever military companies came
to the island for holiday young wO-
men thrOnged the windows and waved
handkerchiefs, but there was no rise
of military ambition in the town.
Once a cOterie of young men formed a
training company and sent to Boston
for equipments, but their elders com
PEELED them to make the first article Of
their constitution read, This company
shall be disbanded Immediately in case
of war"
The Washington bee., 1911-12-02
Delhi and Its History.

Shah Jehan in 1881 built the present
city Of Delhi, close to the old Delhi,
and made it the royal residence. The
Mohammedans still call it Shahjehana-
bad, the "city of the king Of the
world" Nadir Shah, the Persian usurp-
er, captured it in 1879, massacred
thousands of the inhabitants and bore
away pIUnder to the value Of nearly
S1OO,OOOOOO, including the famous pea
cock throne and the great EohinOOr
diamond. The British first came into
control in 1903, when the Mahrattas
were defeated near Delhi by Lord
Lake. When the sepOy mutiny broke
out in 1857 Shah Nohammed Bahia
dour, then ninety years old, took com
mand of the city and until the English
again triumphed enjoyed the imperial
state to which he had long been a
stranger.
The Washington bee., 1911-12-02
THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS.
They Extend East and West For More
Than a Thousand Miles.

They Extend East and West For More
Than a Thousand Miles.
Few persons are aware that the
shortest route from San Francisco to
Japan is by way of Alaska. Nearly a
thousand miles are saved to vessels
trading with the orient by coasting
along the Aleutian islands rather than
following the Hawaiian route.
The Aleutian islands, which extend
In a chain east and west for more
than a thousand miles, are inhabited
by the remnant of the Aleuts. Their
war of the revolution closed just as
the American Revolutionary war be-
gan. So patriotic were the Aleuts, so
brave in their struggle for independ-
ence, that they succumbed to the Rus
slams only after a conflict of nearly
fifty years, and then simply because
the race was almost exterminated In
the struggle.
While the Aleutian islands must
eventually form an important link in
the commerce between the United
States and the orient, other islands
link our country with the vast empire
to the north. In the narrow Bering
strait lie two little islands, one Occu-
pied by Russia, the other by the Unit
ed States, so that citizens of the two
great nations live on respective islands
within a few miles of each other
New York Press.
The Washington bee., 1911-12-02
Hartman Told Him.

Hartman had an almost supernatu-
raj instinct for knowing what was
going on and who was doing it in the
mysteries of stock manipulation. Once
when Southern Pacific had been going
up fast, Hartman and various bank
ing houses buying in concert, he called
up on the telephone one Of his private
brokers. Somebody is selling" he
said ''Yes, sir" was the answer.
''Wen, hand the market 25,0O0 for
me-" Immediately he called up the
head Of a banking firm much inter
ested in the market. who's selling
Southern PacfficFD he asked. 81 don't
know; we haven't been able to find
out" was the answer. "I'H tell you,"
snapped Hartman; 'it's your house"
And he cut off the connection before
any reply to him could be made.-Ex-
change.
The Washington bee., 1911-12-02
MOURNING CUSTOMS.
They Are Very Ancient, and Thstr
Origin Cannot Safely Be Fixed,
Even by Experts.

The origin Of going into mourning
was discussed recently by a body Of
anthropoiogists. Some students hold
that the wearing Of black was orig
inally a disguise assumed as a pTOtec-
ton from the dead persons spirit.
The idea was that the deceased was
naturally disgusted to find himself
dead and that he wreaked his resent
ment upon his relations. Therefore
the relations thought that to alter
their appearance would be a means Of
escape, and all over the world wells
were used to hide the faces Of mourn
ers-a practice still surviving in the
impeneuable veil of the widow.
The DISCUSSES mOurners used-such
as the veil, the turning Of the clothes
inside out and the shaving Of the head
as practiced by the Ainos-were sim
pie enough, but supernatural beings
were always, it appeared, easy to
trick.
Another theory of mourning was
that it was put on to warn people that
its wearers had been contaminated by
death. There was an idea of pollution
attached to the great mystery. All
early people shared the horror Of death
and the fear Of the return of the spir-
its. Thus in the Sudan widows sprin-
kle their food with ashes to prevent
their husbands ghosts from eating it.
Exchange.
The Washington bee., 1911-12-02
STRIPPED AND FL0GGED.
The Sudanese Go Through a Fearful
Ordeal When They Are Candi-
dates For the Ackou Binat.

Is the black man more stoical or
merely less sensitive than we are?
"At a fantasia in the Sudan" says
MIR. Edward FOthergil in Five Years
In the Sudan" Il have myself seen
the part that a young man plays OF
his own free will in order to obtain
the title of ackOu binat the brother
of the girls). This ceremony would
turn a reformer's hair gray.
1.-The men and the women of a vii
lage sit round in a circle, leaving a
space in the center of some six yards
in diameter. 1 describe it as I saw it
myself. The strongest man in the vii
lage is then picked out of the crowd,
and, armed with a whip of hippopOta-
mus hide, he and the young man vino
is to strive for the title enter the
arena. The women beat their drums.
and the men clap their hands to the
tune.
''The candidate for honor is stripped
to the waist. He stands with his arms
folded in the center Of the ring, and
the strong man dances up to him to
the tune which is being played. He
brings the whip round with all the
force Of which he is possessed and
lands it on the bare back of the man
in front of him. He dances away;
again he advances, and the operation is
repeated. This goes on until the num-
Der of strokes previously agreed upon
have been dealt. In the particular
case I saw it was twenty-five. If the
man who is being fiOgged winces, if
he so much as moves an eyelid as the
whip descends, he is disqualified and
branded as a coward until such time
as he may choose to undergo the op-
Grafton a second time.
"On this particular occasion he went
through with it like a Trojan. Indeed,
the man who was delivering the blows
got tired first, and the last three cuts
Of the twenty-five were unsteady and
, flickered round the ear and neck OF
the brother I leave my readers to
imagine the state of his back when al
was over, but he appeared to be as
happy as a king, and certainly he was
accorded a great ovation by the as
sembled crowd of women"
The Washington bee., 1911-12-02
The Social Settlement

In calling attention again to the
urgent needs OF the colOred Social
Settlement, we do so the more readily
because Of the really earnest efforts
now being made under the direction
OF the new president, Dir. John r.
Francis, to put the whole enterprise
on a well sustained basis.
We should take particular pride in
sustaining DR.. Francis and his ener-
getic co-wOrkers, because they are
working Unselhshly and along practi-
cal lines to help refute the charge
that we do not, as a race, give proper
support to such work in our midst
and for the direct benefit Of the un-
tor innate IN our own race.
1t IS not enough that we give of
our dollars, but we should give per
sOnal service as well. We should
visit the Settlement, and encourage
by our presence the good work car
ried on down there by the ladies who
are giving their whole time to the
work, and for very inadequate COM
pensation.
It was a fine thing for Mrs. West
and Mrs. Bruce to assume the re-
spOnsibility personally of raising a
fund to insure the prompt payment
of the salaries of the two lady work
ers at the Settlement, and we should
faithfully uphold them in their efforts.
It is equally meritoriOus III Mrs.
L. B. Moore to undertake the NAM
moth charity reception which she has
planned in aid of the same cause, and
we should literally support that pro-
ject, also not alone by individually
purchasing tickets for it, but by per
suading others to do the same thing.
Let us remark that the good book
contains no truer axiom than this
He that giveth to the poor, lendeth
to the Lord"
The particulars of the charity re-
ceptiOn will be found elsewhere in
this paper, but special attention is
here called to the following extract
from one of the circulars sent out by
Mrs. Moore's Committee.
NOTE: Please cut off this coupon
at dotted line and mail it to DR. John
R. Francis, Sr., IIo2 Ninth Street
Northwest
% .
You may print my name on your
list of patrons and I agree to take two
tickets for the Citizens Charity Re
ception at Convention Hall, December
Is, 1911. Tickets to be paid for not
later than December 4th.
Name. .,,,,-,,,.,,.,,-., -.,,,,,s,
Address. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
o
Tickets will be forwarded to you
Sale of Patrons tickets, including re-
served seats, closes December 4, 1911
after which single admission tickets
will be on sale at some of the drug
stores.
The Washington bee., 1911-12-02
A Garnnan TifIa-

In the matter of titles the Germans
show more courage than we do. On a
card which reached London the other
day the sender describes herself as
Frau --, Observation-Disclosures
rektOrswitwe. Would any English wO-
man venture to describe herself as wild
OwOfthemanageTOf d
ingwOrks? When this was shown to a
German friend he produced a card on
scnuldentilgunsbur $ W +
We" a description which she held tn
be her due as the widow of an official
in the national debt Ofice.-LondOn
Chronicle.
The Washington bee., 1911-12-02
THE CYCL0PEAN EYE.
IL Exists Today In Certain Animals
and In Rudimentary Form
In Mans Brain.

The Greeks were. unwittingly. very
near an anatomical truth when they
ascTibed to certain monsters called cy-
clOps only one eye apiece, which was
placed in the center of their fOreheads.
The cyclopean eye exists today in
the brains of men in a rudimentary
form, for in the pineal gland we find
the last vestiges of that which was
once a third eye and which looked out
into the world, if not from the center
Of the forehead, at least from very
near that point. There is alive today a
little creature which would put to
shame the one eyed arrogance and
pride of POlyphemus and Arges and
BrOntes and Ster0pes and ali the rest
of the single eyed gentry who, in the
days of myths and myth makers, in
habited the flair SiciGan isle"
The animal in question is a small
lizard called Calotis. It's well develop
ed third eye is situated in the top Of
its head and can be easily seen
through the modified and transparent
scale which serves it as q cornea.
Many other lacertiians have this third
eye, though it is not so highly organ
iZed as it is in the species just men
HOned.
A tree lizard which is to be found in
the mountains Of east Tennessee and
Kentucky has its third eye well de-
velOped. This little animal is called
the singing scorpion" by the noun
taineers. On dissection the third eye
will be found lying beneath the skin.
It has a lens, retina and optic nerve
New York Herald.
The Washington bee., 1911-12-02
TIGERlSH TUNAS.
Wild Carnage When They Meet Their
Natural Prey, Flying Fish.

WIG carnage Wnen iney MeSG nslF
Natural Prey, Flying Fish.
One time at st. Clements we sighted
a feeding school Of tuna, an exhilarat-
ing sight A flying fish weighing
pound and half or more would start
from the water and soar an extraor-
binary distance, nearly out Of sight,
but every inch of that fight / knew
was covered by a big tuna keeping
his place just beneath the "fier" and
ready to seize it the moment it fell
into the water. This rarely failed.
The moment the fish began to drop the
tuna would spring at it Ike a tiger,
turning and tossing the spume into
the air with a splendid and electrtfy-
ing rush, q maneuver that was re-
peated all over the blue channel.
The sensational charge meant that
school Of tunas had discovered a school
of its natural prey, flying fishes. at
once the lust for blood and food was
on, and the carnage was the result.
1 have observed some curious scenes
at sea, but never have I seen fear so
forcibly expressed as by a school Of
flying fishes exhausted and at the
mercy of the vOraciOus tunas. have
had them gather about my boat and
cling to its keel as closely as they
could, while the air was full of leap
ing tunas and soaring flying fish. At
such times when a school Of sardines
Is rounded up the fishes are so terrified
that men have rowed up to them and
scooped them in by the pailful.-C. F.
Holder in Outing.
The Washington bee., 1911-12-02
Her Stimulation.

The pale young man with sheepish
eyes glanced timorOusly at his fair
companion They had sat together in
the conservatory for fully five minutes
and had hardly exchanged a word.
At last, in desperation, he dived his
hand into his breast pocket and
brought out his cigarette case.
'Do you mind, Miss Smilax, if I
smoker" he asked.
mot in the least" replied the young
lady sweetly, ''if you don't think it will
make you sick!'
The Washington bee., 1911-12-02
Old lime Theater RoWdies.

ROwdyism in London theaters was a
common occurrence in the old days, as
is shown by the following from the
London Post Of Oct. q, 1898:
1.-TWO men in the PIT at DruTy Lane
theater last night were so turbulent
and riOtous during the last act Of
Henry " that the performance was
Interrupted upward Of a quarter Of an
hour. The audience at last asserted
their power and turned them disgrace
fully out Of the theater. This should
always be done to crush the race of
disgusting puppies that are a con-
slant nuisance at the playhouse every
night"
The Washington bee., 1911-12-02
More territory.

'T envy you" says the very thin
man. Il wish I had your weight.
Here am, a skinny, dyspepdc crea-
ture, suffering half the time with
stomach ache"
Envy mer chuckles the very fat
man. "Why. what if you do have the
stomach ache half the time? Think
what a little bit of a stomach ache
you can have. Now, when I have the
stomach ache it amounts to some
thing."-Life.