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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-23
CANVASS VOTES IN ETOWAH SATURDAY Executive Committee Will
 Make Official Count STORM AT GADSDEN Barnell Brothers Who Made Attack on Special Officer Arrested-Mana-
 ger Seigle of Gadsden Team
 Suffering From Malaria

| Gadsden, April 22.-(Special. )-The count of the. votes in the county pri- mary is unofficially completed, but the official canvass is not to be made until next Saturday when the county dem ocratic executive committee will meet for this purpose There were only three offices voted on and in these s. c. Me- Daniel defeated J. P. Williams for county superintendent of education by a majority of about 50 votes. Walter Sitz was elected as tax assessor with a majority of 25 over Bailey Mccartney. and F. M Tabor was reelected as com- missioner from the Third district by q ma jority estimated at 150. The total vote in the county was heavier than was anticipated, about 2100 Voters go- ing to the polls. which is within 500 of the number voting at the first pri- mary on March 1.
 Storm at Gadsden
 Gadsden was visited by rainstorm in the early morning hours today that was the severest known in more than a year. Two inches of water fell with in about two hours time. The rain was accompanied by high wind that did some small damage in various To- Ca1ities in the county and the display of lightning was incessant during several hours. The streets of the city were badly flooded as the storm sewers were insufficient to carry the heavy fall of water.
 Darnells Arrested
 Will and Dave Darnell, who made an attack on Hansel Railey at Alabama City on Friday night. have been arrest ed charged with an assault with in- tent to kill. One of the brothers stabbed Railey in the neck, barely miss ing the jugular vein. The wounded man Is improving and will recover.
 Manager Seigle Sick
 Manager Seigle of the Gadsden base ball team Is confined to his room at the Printup hotel in this city suffering with malarial fever. His condition is not serious and 1t Is believed that he will be out within few days at most.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-23

from 4 to 2e degrees over the greater DOT ton of the great central basin. A gen. eral rise has occurred in the eastern gulf and Atlantic coast states, and from the Rocky mountains westward.
 In the cotton belt temperatures have fallen slightly and fair weather has pre- vailed west of the Mississippi. In central and eastern cections, however heavy rams have been general, but skies are generally clear at z p. m. Over an inch of rain fell at Memphis, Montgomery, Atlanta. Knoxville, Louisville and Ral- egn during the past A hours. High winds were reported along the Carolina and Georgia coasts.
 Summary of observations made at United States Weather Bureau stations April 9, 1912:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-23
NEW YORK IS A
 CITY OF MOURNING

That New York is a city of mourning over the Titanic disaster was the state ment of Otto Marx. who returned yes terday from New York. MT. Marx said that the disaster of the Titanic had affected New York as nothing had ever d Ne. He said everyone felt mis- erable, sad and dejected over the ac- cident. The prominence of the men who sacrificed their lives in New York city accounts for great deal of the grief in that city. Mir. Marx has been in New York two weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-23
MONTGOMERY CLERK
 GOES TO WASHINGTON

Montgomery, April 22.-tspecial-l- l- William F. Black, clerk of the city. is in Washington. D. C.. attending the conference of the heads of commercial organizations from all sections of the country called by President William II. Taft for the purpose of considering various commercial and industrial prob lems. MT. Black went to Washington as the representative of the Business Mems league of Montgomery. He will return to Montgomery about the middle of the week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-23
BREMEN CONFIRMS
 FORMER REPORT

New York, April 22.-The steamer Bremen, in a wireless message to the Associated Press tonight, sent via Sias- conset Mass, repeated the information sent Sunday that she had passed wreckage and great number of bodies In APO north latitude and 49.20 west longitude The message said the Bre- men had no bodies on board.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-23

of the time while he was on the way to Greensboro Despite the storm he was met by crowds at a number of stations and made several brief speeches from his train.
 At Greensboro Colonel Roosevelt said he was relying for his support upon the plain people.
 That's the only chance I have" he continued. 'I have nobody with me but the people Wherever the people are al- lowed to express their preference by vot- ing we will win, nine times out of ten. In Pennsylvania and Illinois the people had such an opportunity and they haven't got through counting the majorities yet.'
 Colonel Roosevelt was taken to the State Normal college. ah institution for young women. His audience consisted of FOG girls and one man. The colonel said that he didn't want to make a conven- tional speech about the duties of the young women. because they probably knew more about that than he did.
 change in plans for Colonel Roose- velt's trip to New York was decided upon today and he now expects to reach New York shortly after noon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-23
sTENZEL'S
ECZEMA LIQUID

A clear white liquid for cleansing, purifying and healing skin and scalp diseases. Stops itching instantly; currs eczema permanently. A few days after using the disease begins to disappear. Price sl. Sold in Birmingham by Ja- cobs' Pharmacy and Patton-Pope Drug Co. Collier Drug Co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-23

children, who were in the Burden home when it was blown down, are all SO severely injured they are not expected to live. Mrs. Burdens face was crushed. two limbs broken and a hole torn in her neck. Two negroes living near the Burdens had their home blown down and every thread of clothing was stripped from their bodies.
 Four churches and schoolhouse5 In the path of the storm also were de- stroyed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-23
Gen. witherspoon Assumes Command

Atlanta, April 22.-Brig. Gen. W. W.. Witherspoon today asumed command of the department of the gulf. United States army, whose headquarters are here. He succeeds Gen. Albert Mills. who has been made president of the army war college.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-23
Weather Forecast

Washington, April 22.-Forecast fer Ala bama. Tennessee and Mississippi: Fair Tuesday and Wednesday.
 For Georgia: Fair Tuesday and Wednes- day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-23
Stanley Beats Frenchman

London. April 22.-"Dgger Stanley of London tonight beat Charles Ledoux. ban tam champion of France. Stanley won on points. The fight went 20 rounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-23
Local Data

For the 24 hours ending at p. m. April
The Washington herald., 1912-04-21
CHAPTER XVII
The End OF the AIystery.

TA1 ITH one of the conspirators
" lying in the undertaking shop
of Milleryale and the other
safe behind the prison bars in Ardway,
the documentary evidence against him
in our possession REINFORCED by his full
confession signed and witness. In
spector Davis and that same afternoon
hsstened back to New York, where, it
can be imagined, / lost no time in reach
ing the Parrish home.
As We waited for the train had
telephoned Louise and she was expect
ing me She met me in the lower hall.
One glance at my radiant face told
her that our mission had been success
ful and she flung herself into my arms
while / rained happy kisses on her lips,
her cheeks, her glorious hair. But
thoughtful ever of others, even in such
moment of ecstasy, she gently un-
clasped my arms and whispered: "The
pspers-did you get them"
A little cry of joy came from her
lips as handed her the envelope.
Come" she cried jubilantly, Tets
take II to Katharine at once? The
sight of it will do more to cure her
than all the doctors in the world"
Together We fastened to Katharine's 5
room, where We found her sitting up
in bed, much stronger than when / had
last seen her, though a nurse was still
in attendance. Hugh Crandall was seat
ed in a chair beside the bed. The joy I
read in the faces of Katharine and
Crandall as Louise handed her sister
the envelope was reward enough for
all / had gone through since had
set out to solve the mystery.
Frantically Katherine tore open the
envelope and Inspected three documents
it contained.
They are all here" she exclaimed
with sigh of relief as she passed them
to Crandall.
YES" echoed Crandall happily, they
are all here"
Burn them, Hugh; burn them at
once" she demanded.
Crandall, gathering them up with the
envelope in which they had been en-
cased, crossed to the CRATE where a
cheerful FIRE was burning and one by
one fed the documents to the flames,
watching carefully TO see that every
fragment was destroyed.
That was three months ago. Louise
and | are married now and Katharine
The Washington herald., 1912-04-21
SAGE TEA WILL
DARKEN The HAIR
Restore Faded and Gray Hair to
Natural Color-Dandruff
Quickly Removed.

There Is nothing new about the idea OF
using Sage for restoring the color OF the
hair. Our grandmOthers kept their hair
dark. glossy. and abundant by the use OF
a simple Sage Tea" Whenever their
hair fell out or took on a dull, faded. or
streaked appearance. they made q brew
OF Sage leaves and applied II to their
hair with wonderfully beneficial effect.
Nowadays We don't have to resort to
the old-time. tiresome method OF gather
ing the herbs and making the tea. This
Is done by skillful chemists better than
we could do II ourselves; and all We
have to do Is to call for the ready-made
product, wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair
Remedy. containing Sage in the proper
strength, with the addition OF Sulphur,
another old-time scalp remedy.
This preparation gives youthful color
and beauty to the hair. and Is one OF
the best remedies you can use for dan
drum. dry. feverish. itching scalp. and
falling hair. Get q 50-cent bottls from
your druggist to-day. and you Will be
surprised at the quick results. All drug
Ists sell Il. under guarantees that the
money win be refunded Il the remedy u
not exactly as represented
JAMES o'DoNNELIA
The Washington herald., 1912-04-21
CHAPTER XVI
THE FoRTY-NINTH HOUR.

TWO days-two unforgetable days
we passed there in the hut,
= Davis and I and our self-tor-
tured prisoner Each day the constable
came and went, the first day TO tell us
that the inspectors plan for disposing
of the postmaster's body had been sue
cessful and that no suspicion had been
aroused. The second day a pleasanter
mission brought him TO deliver tele-
grams from Crandall and Louise that
all was well, that the general was slow
ly improving and that Katherine was
recovering rapidly ...
And all the while Young lay there
bound, defying US, now curslng, now
pleading, now in brilliant phrases striv-
ing to convince us by logical argu-
ments so deft SO forceful, so cunning
that a weaker and less wise man than
Davis might have been convinced by
them.
His logic failing, he would turn to
merciless invective and ribald threats,
his penetrating voice making the whole
hut hideouS as he prophesied for US
both grotesque horrible deaths, brain
breaking punishments in this world and
the next. Then, overcome once more
by the intensity of his unsatished de-
sire for the drug that had long been
his master, he would moan and plead
and weep for morphine. At times de-
lusions would seize his brain. By the
hour he would rave of beautiful cities
and wonderfully fair women and pleas
ant pastimes Majestic lines of poetry
would flow from his feyered liDs to end
knotted X muscles ali but tore his nerves
tastes would take hold of him and
rush of horrible grotesque ribaldries
would foul the air.
At times he dozed, moaning in agony
even in his sleep. Three times day
we offered him food, and once or twice
The Washington herald., 1912-04-21
By WILLIAM JOHNSTON.
CcOpyrisht. isu-rhs BOSSs-Merin Col
synopsis Of PreeedInr CEapfers.

SynOpais OF Preceding Chapters.
The. hero. who has been impatiently
Louise Parrish. with whom he IS in love.
necides 70 go TO her home IN Madison
avenue. Just as he reaches the house
rjT.. 3T, MiicSx: Y the family physician, ar, ar,
katharine Parrish, sister OF Louise, has
just attempted TO kill herself. Gen. Far
rish, the father OF the girE, Is sum
thinks that possibly the cause Of Kath-
arine's deed Is the fact that the father
has objected to her friendship with Hugh
not seen him. ToSether @ T Louise E and and
Harding visit Louise's apartment TO
search for clews TO the mystery, and
before the crate they notice a scrapS OF
yellow paper. Just as they are about 10
pick II up, Gen. Parrish appears and at
sight OF the paper is stricken with pa
TaIysis. After the general Is cared for,
louise and Harding attempt to decipher
the paper, on which they make out the
words disgrace and accident" but
without arriving at any conclusion.
but Is told that he has left town. In
a paper which Harding picks up he mo-
tices an account Of the mysterious sui
side ho5 Of an aEed lawyer named ElSer' in
Post-ofhce Inspector Davis and asks him
10 aid In clearing up the mystery that
hangs over the Parrish home. While the
to the one A Which caused 1Sd eeRR eRsr Farrish's f
agitation, is brought into the Inspectors
oflce as having come from Elser's room.
railway mail clerks on New York and
New Jersey routes TO report from what
office they have been receiving letters in
yellow envelopes. The two visit Eiser's
conclusion that whoever mailed the yell
low letter was left-handed He does not
however. take Harding into his con-
Katharine Parrish RECEIVERS her reason
for a moment and shrieks out plea to
Hugh crandaI In CrandalFs room a
dsd6es that te yseiox ietteTs Saea came n aS fom
Ardway, N ]. Harding goes to Ardway
and visits the local post-ofhce, which,
strange to say, he finds empty. One box,
No. IL, alone is not listed among the
box owners. A third suicide, which ap-
pears to have some connection with the
mystery, takes place in the Ardway
hotel, when a middle-aged woman, whom
nobody knows. hangs herself. II is
learned that the postmaster Of Ardway
has disappeared. His substitute. Miss
Coy, arrives and takes charge Of the
the premises, 5000 Is found concealed.
Harding concludes that Hugh Crandan
Is the guilty person, but the inspector
nent which the dead woman in the hotel
has worn, Davis succeeds in establishing
her identity, and II seems probable that
she too has received the yellow letter.
Harding is astonished TO receive an i'm
perative summons from Louise to drop
the case and return to New York He
does so the next morning. While sitting
in Central Park before going TO the Far
rish home, which he considers II too
early to intFude upon, he sees before
him in the lake the drowned body Of a
woman. In her fingers he finds a scrap
OF yellow paper. When he finally goes
to the Parrish home he Is told that
Louise cannot see him. Just before him
he has seen Hugh Crandall admitted to
the house.
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and Hugh are on their honeymoon, too,
taking a six months European trip.
Though we never mention the mystery
Of the yellow letters in the presence Of
our wives, for it recalls too many sad
memories unnecessarily, my new broth
er-in-law and / had a good laugh the
night before / married Louise. As l
at first suspected him OF being one of
the conspirators, so il seems he had
suspected me. 1t was he who peered
into the post-ofice; that night as ! was
examining the books BY the light OF
my electric lantern He knew that
Young had an associate and was trying
TO find him | had to admit that my
conduct in Ardway fully justified Gran
dalPs suspicious of me, and he realized
that l was justified in suspecting him !,
The mystery of the disappearance OF
the yellow fragment that had given US
the first clew is a mystery no longer.
It merely had slipped behind the draw
er in which Louise had put it. Aleck
Young is serving a we'll deserved SEN
tence of fourteen years. as nonchalantly.
presume, as he underwent his trial.
So long as prison-keepers can be bribed
to keep him supplied with his beloved
drug, / doubt If he bothers over his
lack of freedom. Sometimes think
his punishment falls far short when /
recall all the misery and suffering he
caused, vet my new-found happiness
has softened my view of life. / fnd
myself wondering whether after all In
spector Davis is not right when he says
that criminals, even the worst of them,
should be treated as sick children, to be
cured, rather than as bad children, to be
punished. / can not help but feel that
the parents of Young were far more to
blame for his crime than he.
As for Gen. Parrish, he died three
weeks after Ioung's arrest. Before tho
end he regained his faculties sufficient
" to understand that the papers that
had menaced his peace and reputation
had been destroyed In his last hour
he put Katharine's hand into Hugh
Crandalps.
What was in the documents that
Katharine and Hugh Crandall burned'
What was the secret with which Young
threatened him for months and months?
/ do not know.
Louise does not know.
We never discuss it even among our
selves. Il is better So Only Katharine
and Hugh Crandall and a poor drug
sot in a distant cell know what those
papers were. might conjecture If
cared, but what would be the use? After
Gen. Farrish'S death it came out that
his vast estate had shrunk to almost
nothing. Unfortunate investments in
his old age had swept away his fortune.
He was the custodian of various trust
funds. 1t may be that in a senile effort
to recoup his losses he had misused
some one else's money and Young, with
his devilish ingenuity, had found It out.
Certain it is that while the papers conf
mented widely on the small estate he
left, in none of them was there the
slightest hint of scandal. Equally GER
tain am that neither his daughters nor
his sonS-in-law bemoan the lack OF an
inheritance. Louise and /, know, have
learned that happiness lies not IN wealth
and luxury. but in loving service each
TO the other.
And one thing more.
Both Davis and myself have quietly
Withdrawn our accounts from the Mil
lion Bank
The cashiers name there IS Henry
Eberle.
THE END)
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got the whole thing-eyery paper bear
ing on ii in your pocket there
Quickly snatched the envelope from
my pocket and was about to rip II open.
At last ! was to know the secret that
had brought such unhappiness into the
life Of Louise At last the mystery
was TO be cleared up But just as my
thumb went rudely under the flap,
Davis laid restraining hand on my
arm.
Wait" he said gently. would il
not be just as well to deliver that enye-
lope to Katharine just as il is? The
fewer people know its contents the less
unhappiness there viii need to be-"
Slowly and thoughtfully / put the
envelope back in my pocket.
Davis was right.
/ was beginning to think he was al
ways right.
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Now the inspector went on. what
does Young say over the telephone 70
Elsers Something like this-''Y
an old thief Pve got the proof You
are stealing somebody's money. Steal
some more. and give it TO me or I'll
tell Unfortunately. in old Elser's case
there was no more money left TO steal,
so be killed himself Am right
Young?"
SAgain the prisoner nodded. and again
he demanded another dose of morphine
His muscles were again getting beyond
his control As Davis fixed the hypo-
dermic, | asked; But where does the
old maid from Connecticut come in?
Surely she wasn't a defaulter"
Il suspect it was the brother with
whom she made her home" said the
inspector.
Damn her.. said Young bitterly, st
was she who queered the, whole game
We tackled her brother for FIVE hum
dred and it came so easily we decided
to make another try. The weakened
The Washington herald., 1912-04-21
WARNING TO PARENTS.

II is risky to feed raw milk and
cream to children or tnvalids un-
less you are sure that at the farm
which produces the milk the utmost
cleanliness q observed at all times.
particularly during milking; that
the employees are thoroughly heal
thy and cleanly persons, that the
cows are free from diseases, that
the water used for rinsing Is Of un-
doubted purity. and that the milk
is quickly cooled and kept cold and
covered until delivered to you
Raw milk often produces Tuber-
culosis, Scarlet Fever, also Ty-
phoid and other intestinal dis
eases.
We can guard against Infection
by properly pasteuriziag milk or
by home pasteurization.
Properly pasteurizing milk Cand s
eream) by keeping # at 40 deg.
F, for twenty to thirty minutes
does not affect its nutritive value
nor its digesubiiity. Quick or COM
merciai pasteurization. however. is
unreliable.
You can home paxteurize raw
milk by heating it to near boiling.
then cool, and keep cold and COW
cred until used
Most indigestion In babies u
caused by milk too rich In cream
Society Tor Prs..uiiO, OI Sickness.
t.IsEInIs, s,utE,
The Washington herald., 1912-04-21

Prom the London Telegraph.
The blackmailing evil in England has
taken such a firm root that It seems i'm
possible to check its devastating growth.
And the vampires in human shape who
live in this manner continue their ne
farious practices with almost complete
/ immunity from punishment
The experienced blackmailer is rarely.
II ever, caught, and even Scotland Yard
IS baffied. Cunning to a degree, he laughs
defiance at our laws. He Is known to
the police and he is perfectly cognizant
of the fact, but the knowledge does not
in any way disturb his effrontery. Man
kind is frail. and he exploits this weak
ness. Either he sets trap for the net
ting of his victim, or he unearths an
intimate secret The result to the vic
tim is equally disastrous. Demands for
hush money are accompanied with terri
flying threats OF exposure, the effects OF
which on a sensitive disposition can be
readily imagined.
All Pity Is Deadened.
The blackmafler is callous. with every
sentiment Of pity deadened. and as long
as his victim can beg. borrow, or steal
money to satisfy his demands his ex-
tortions will continue. Neither age nor
sex form any protection against his
Vaccinations. His one objective Is to ex-
tort money, and so successful is he in
this aim that he lives in riotous lux
ury, fattening on his victims misery
and frequently posing as q gentleman
and a man Of independent means.
II he makes a slip, as sometimes does
happen, and receives his deserts, there
by being removed from his scene Of op-
erations, It by no means follows that his
victims will be relieved. The names OF
his prey and the circumstances which
have enabled him to blackman them are
kent carefully compiled, and this COM
piIation is passed on to a confederate. so
that his punishment merely means for
his victims a change OF taskmakers. To
seek relief at the hands Of the law is
an alternative which the sufferers rarely
contemplate. Even II innocent, they
dread the publicity involved. for 1t prob
ably means social, financial, and domes-
tic ruin.
Leads Victims to Suicide.
Victims continue to pay with a de-
spairing hope that the demands viii
cease, and In the interim they suffer
some OF the most poignant mIseries that
mankind can endure They live In
constant state OF terror that a catas-
trophe win overtake them, for It is
part Of the blackmsiler's game to pro-
duce this effect. As a consequence, ply
steal and mental prostration result. and.
as stated by the Official already referred
to, suicide Is Contemplated. In many
more instances than Is generally known, |
crystallizes into action. |
and this Is a state OF AFFAIRS which OBJ |
tains in a highly civilized community. |
Men should not on any account what |
ever permit themselves to be driven into |
taking the first fatal step Of acceding |
to the blackmailers demands for hush |
money. To adopt this course Is 70 court |
ruin, and there Il not the |
slightest necessity for II. At q Chan |
Gerry Lane. London. there is the William |
Pterpont bureau, q special feature Of
which is their summary method OF deal |
ing vita the blackmaiiing fraternity. |
whether innocently trapped or lursd
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Henry Z MAlLiicoEM Z siTEJ

As Davis finished reading the letter
/ took it from his hand and carefully
re-read II. There could be no doubt
that it was the same in form as the
scrap Louise and / had found. As II
scanned the lines, the words at the be-
ginning Of each, from the seventh on