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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-01
Rescuer Forced to Saw of Foot Of
Plank to Liberate
Victim.

Boston.-After lying helpless for an
hour and half in an abandoned barn,
pinned to a board by rusty tenpen-
ny nail, which had pierced his hand,
eight-year-old James Gallagher OF No.
1870 East Eleanor street, Olney, was
discovered by passing farmer, who
found II necessary to saw of a foot
of the plank to liberate him. The boy
was treated at the Frankfort hospital,
where the surgeons had to use saw
again and cut away the remaining
portion of the board before they
could remove the nail. The wound
was cauterized and a large quantity
Of lockjaw antitoxin was injected.
The lad had been amusing himself
by sliding down an inclined board in
an unused barn in Cedar Grove lane,
about a mile from his home. He had
made only one or two trips when his
hand suddenly struck the huge nail,
which had been driven through the
edge OF the plank and bent over TO
form a hook. The force OF his swift
descent caused the sharp point to
penetrate entirely across the palm.
Screaming with pain, he tried to
writhe free, but every movement only
increased his agony, and he was I'M
able to extricate himself Literally
nailed to the plank, he lay for more
than an hour, until Joseph Wilson. a
farmer, of Second street pike, above
Fox Chase, heard his cries as he
passed in a wagon.
Wilson found the lad almost ex-
hausted from pain. He endeavored to
free him, but found that his efforts
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-01
FIXES LOST LOVE AT $4,000
Philadelphia Girl Who "Waited at tho
Church" Itemizes Her Bill
Against Wealthy Man.

Easton, Pa.-Miss Edith X. Clotts
of Philadelphia filed a suit in the
courts here claiming $4,000 damages
from Frank /. Groman. member OF
a prominent and wealthy South Beth
lehem family, for alleged failure to
keep his promise to marry her.
According to the bill of particulars
filed by Miss Clotts 1t was a case OF
waiting at the church" Groman was
to have married her on January 8,
1912, but failed to appear
Miss Clotts itemizes her loss as fol.
lows: For loss of marriage and men
tai suffering, $4,000; for loss of po-
sition, $500 for wedding trousseau,
$500
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-01
Willing to Wait.

"Brothah Wash'mton," says the
preacher, 81 isn't seen yo' at de
p'tracted meetin' so fab. rs comm
to yo' house TO dinneh mex Sunday
an 1 sholy desiahs to see yo' in de
fol- afo' dat day"
"Well, brothah Johnsing, Use been
layin' out ter come mos any night,
but tonight wuz intendin' to projick
'roun' whah l happens ter know dey
is two fine fat pullets-en eff I git
dem tonight I'll sho' be at p'tracted
meetin' tomorrow night"
"Well-uh, brothah Wash'mton,
keep a-tryin', even If yo' has ter come
to de moneh's bench as late as
Sadly night"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-01

"Bliffton is the human limit" says
Mr.. Guphers, coming into the house
after few words with his neighbors.
what has he done. now?" asRs
Mrs. Guphers.
We'll. you remember last fall he
borrowed our lawn mower and then
neglected to return it,"
Yes. told you at the time"
II know you did. He left it in his
yard, and now the snow has covered
1t. and he came over to borrow our
snow shovel to dig It out"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-01
Ducks Eat Bees.

Jersey Shore, Pa.-Mrs. w. p
Sheesley OF Jersey Shore rural route
No. is a successful duck raiser. She
never permits her ducklings out OF
their Enclosure till the honey bees are
through work for the day, and the
consequence is her ducks live TO adult
age.
The new theory is that the duck.
lings are such greedy eaters that
many are lost each year by swallow.
ing honey bees, which retaliate by
singing the ducklings department of
the interior to the point where the
quackiet gives up the ghost.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-01

Minneapolis, Minn.-Strains OF
music from a photograph were taken
advantage of by burglars to cover the
noise made by their entrance into a
house. Loot valued at nearly 500
was taken from the home OF p. II.
Ware while members Of the family
were being entertained by the ma
chine
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-01
TELL OF PIRATES

to the activity of the pirates in Ba-
hama waters.
Some months ago the steamer
Prince Joachim, plying between the
West Indies and New York, went
aground at about the same point,
where the crew of the Genee was ship
wrecked, and WAS boarded by pirates,
who ransacked the ship for valuables
and robbed the passengers.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-01
Conversations.

He (mournfully)-I wonder, when a
wife gets all her rights, as you women
see EN-
She (truculently)-Well
He-I wonder II any judge will say
husband has a right to go through
his wife's pockets?
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-01

||WVVVs|
oCoCK PLAN FOR HEN HOUSE
Convenient and Satisfactory Building
to Accommodate Flock Of FIJI
teen Chickens In City.

The Ocock chicken house is a con-
venient and satisfactory house for city
lots 1t will accommodate IS indl-
viduals II good care is given the flock.
a dirt floor is shown at the left in c.
At the right in c is a board floor on
which the straw litter is placed in
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-01
GeometrIcally Explained.

sold Blunderby insists on fishing
for bass in that pond in the abandoned
stone quarry" said Ike Walton. "Tve
demonstrated 10 him time and again
that bass cannot be found there. but
still he sticks to his notion"
"Ah." observed the schoOlmaster.
that is an obtuse angle. and 1t is
hard to show the point in that case"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-01

my kTedl party HtGdu DethOHs
Calling me to join the strife.
We have solved each weighty questiol
We have risen In our might
But I've got the Indigestion
And I cannot eat a bite.
I'm as patriotic. brother,
As the pilgrims were of old
But they ut with one another
II there's truth in what is told.
Yes, l know we had a riot
And a lot of things was yelled
But it's trouble to keep quiet
When a fellows feet is swelled.
I believe we're marchln' onward,
As the fellow said that day:
"Sturdlly progressing dawnward
On the high and clearer way"
But I'll let the others get on
While I find a bed or floor
Or some place to lay or set on
Where I'll not find out I'm sore.
agree the foes inviting
All a mighty peoples wrath
But before l start to fighting
want one good. long, hot bath.
From the minions of the dollar
desire our land to save
But wear four-day collar
And I'm dying for shave.
We will lick the foe to flinders
And will save the land from wreck
But I've got n pint of cinders
In my hair and down my neck.
Say-to sleep on cots is awful,
For you mostly stay awake.
And my back looks like waffle,
And. o lordy, how ache!
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-01

three-light glass sash above the six
light sash is also hinged and is shown
open at in d.. The roof, side wall
and ends are covered with tar paper
inside in the half which is devoted TO
the roosts, nests and part Of the
floored space. The boarding of this
house is nailed up and down.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-01

winter months. A piece OF by IL
inch material is used as n partition, to
prevent the straw from getting over
on to the dirt, and is shown in u.
The perchos, c, on the dropping board
are movable to make cleaning easier.
The dropping board is hinged and
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-01
His Understanding OF Il.

Bobby, what was the preachers
text"
Something about it's being easier
for a camel to go through the Iowa
needle than for a rich man to go to
heaven"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-01

should be swung up as high as the
cloth screen during the day, especial
ly during the winter and early spring.
The nests are open under the dropping
board and have small doors on the
side next to the flooring for removing
the eggs. The nests are so construct.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-01
Would Be Terrible.

"The doctors are going to operate
on her"
whats wrong?"
Something about the coat OF her
stomach, l understand"
II hope they don't find 1t out OF
style. She'd never get over that"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-01
Not Very Deem,

Didn't you tell me you bought |
lot at Mosquito Beach,"
II did"
How deep is TT"
About three feet at high water"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-01

Human nature Is the same in every
one. The real difference between in
dividuals is that some are heavier
than others.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-01
Nalue ~ chareoaI

Value Of Charcoal.
For all kinds of digestive troubles
charcoal 10 c1e OF the best remedies
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-04-25


| He had not long to walt Long be
fore the moon twilight had gone out
Of the sky he saw in It silhoueued
against It. the sight from which
he had once fed with such mad
terror-the broad expanse OF the sky
mans wings.
Instead Of firing. he scrambled up 10
and from there watched Cayley' flight
to his landing place
He laughed aloud when he saw that
/ fl was not in the side OF the cliff, as he
had feared. but quite at the crest of Il
where II was as accessible to a man
who could climb bit as to one with
wings
He did not move from his attitude
Of strained attention. on the summit
OF little ice hill. until he saw faint
glow OF golden light dffusing itself
from the mouth OF the tunnel that led
to the pilot house. Then. with that
queer shufiling gait OF his, which was
neither walk nor run. he began max
ing his way inshore. over the ice, to
| ward the foot OF the cliff
Cayley's tunnel was not at right
angles TO the crest, but bore OF dag
onally westward. Roscoe had noted
this fact. and he figured II out from
the top of the promontory. which
formed the western boundary OF their
strip OF beach. he should be able to
command a view straight into the tun.
mel. Also. there was at this point a
precipitous trail up the cliff No one
but Roscoe would have called 1t a
trail. but that was the way It existed
In his mind.
His calculation Of the angle OF the
tunnel proved to be correct, for from
his newly gained coign OF vantage. he
could see straight into the pilot house
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-04-25


working without fatigue and without
working so long as the
moonlight lasted
He was just setting out with his last
load when. glancing skyward to see
how long the light would hold. he
caught a glimpse OF Cayley on the
wing The sight occasioned him no
return-not even momentary--of the
old terror He cursed a little because
he had not his rifle with him: the sky
man soaring slowly and not very high.
presented a mark he could almost Ger
tainly have hit.
II was surprising. of course. to see
him alive. but Roscoe. IN his present
state. never thought Of looking to SUI
pernatural means to account for the
fact Indeed. he was hardly MOTE than
a moment in approximating the true ex-
PLANTATION. There might we'll be. he
supposed, up somewhere In the face
of the cliff a cave or shelter. OF which
he knew nothing, and easily acces-
sible to anyone who happened to pos
sess a flying machine.
ohlTllHB tns Gun anu keeping wen
in its shadow. he made his way with
his last load. back TO his cave. Here
he spent a few minutes cleaning his
rife. making sure that the mechanism
Of the breech was working perfectly.
and filling its magazine full of car
tridges
The moon was just setting. but the
sky was still bright enough to give
him good hope OF making out Cay
ley's winged figure against It,
Roscoe squatted down In the lee OF
the great hummock OF Ice. surveyed
the heavens with keen. practised eyes.
munching on a strip of dried walrus-
meat which he had brought with him
and waited very contentedly.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-04-25
SYNOPSIS

Phiup Cayley, accused Of crime o.
which he ls not guilty. resigns from the
army In disgrace and his affection for
ais friend; lieut.. Perry Hunter turns TO
hatred. Cayiey seeks solitude. where he
perfects a dying machine. While soaring
over the Arctic regions. he picks up q
curiously shaped stick he had seen In the
assessin's hand Mounting again. he dis
covers yacht anchored In the bay. De-
scending near the steamer, he meets a
ST. 90 an Zee Zoe He d learns t that The the
the yachy has come north TO seek signs
of her father. Captain Fielding, an arctic
ssT,p,ossr party from the yacht Is ma
Jeanne duds that ne had dropped a GU
riousiy-sheped stick Captain Planck and
are IN S,,ns Srew ,h OF ms WresN sar, s,s
nan named Roscoe. had murdered Field
ing and his two companions, after the ex-
enormous ledge Of pure gold. Roscoe then
took command OF the party. II develops
that the rufhan had committed the muir
20 cspnSe tSe o YACHT sy snd osHsSs
big load of gold. Jeanne tells Fanshaw.
owner ot the yacht, about the visit OF the
sky-man and shows him the stick left by
Cayley. Fanshaw declares that Il Is an
Eskimo throwing stick. used to shoot
darts. Tom Funshaw returns from the
pcrry Hunter I. found murdered and
t'aNlev Is accused Of the crime but Jeanne
believes him innocent. A relief party goes
love FOR Jeanne. She rows ashore and
enters an abandoned hut. and there finds
ner fathers diary. which dscloses the eN
piorers suspicion Of Roscoe The ruff
nan returns to tho hut and sees Jeanne.
Vie II intent on murder when the sky
man swoops down and the ruffian fees.
Jeanne gives Cayley her fathers diary
Go read. The yacht disappears and Ros-
GOES plans to capture II are revealed.
Jeanne's only hope Is in Cayley. The
seriousness OF their situation becomes APP
parent to Jeanne and the sky-man. Cay
ley kills polar bear Next he finds q
clue TO the hiding place OF the stores.
Roscoe " about to attack the girl when
Ne % sent 0eelng in terror by the sight
OF the sky-man swoopins down. Measures
arb taken to fortify the hat. Cayley Kills
a wounded polar bear sUd receives the
first intimaion that Roscoe possesses
firearms. 4 hssure in the ice yields UP
Hunters body and Roscoe. finding II. re-
fnoYes the dead mans rifle lie discovers
that Cayley Is "A human being and not n
spirit. The ruftian IL baffled in his plan
~ murder Cayley when the latter and
Jeanne take refuge In the cave where q
furious storm keeps them imprisoned.
They confess their love for each other.
tayley. resolving to seek the ruffian and
Kill him finds Roscoe's cave.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-04-25

she was safe, he told himself She
was armed with heavy revolver, was
good shot and had plenty OF nerve.
She was in a place, the only avenue
OF access TO which would give her q
tremendous advantage over any in
yader So that, even supposing the
worst--supposing that Roscoe's alb
gone to make an attack on the pilot
house. there could hardly be a doubt
that Jeanne would kill him.
His reasoning was all based on the
assumption that the pilot house was
inaccessible TO any wingless creature
except by way OF the ice chimney.
Even now, when his fear for the girl
was amounting to a superstition of al
most irresistible intensity. It did not
occur to him to question that.
He steadied himself as best he could
and crouched down in the shelter OF
the big rock to await Roscoe's return.
He had hardly settled himself here
when he saw something that made
him shake his head impatiently, and
swear a little II was the winking
glow of an aurora borealis, of to the
north.
Cayley gazed at the spectacle unwill.
ingly. but still he gazed. And, some
how. though he fought the feeling des-
perately. II began to assume a per-
sonal significance to him-a slgnifi.
canoe OF mockery. The whole sky was
Quivering with vast. silent laughter.
Was 1t because he. with his fancied
cleverness and daring in finding Ros-
GOES lair and waiting for his return to
II, was really doing precisely the thing
that Roscoe would have had him do?
Were those sky-witches laughing over
what was happening up at the pilot
house while he sat here and waited!
No Intelligence. no sane power Of
consecutive reasoning can resist this
sort of thing definitely, and at last
Cayley's power of resistance came to
an end
He sprang to his feet. at. last. drip
ping with sweat, In spite OF the cold.
caught up his bundled wings. unfurled
them and took the air with a rush
Once he had jerked himself aloft TO a
height a little above the crest of the
cliff. 1t was hardly more than a mat
ter of seconds before he came oppo-
site the dome-like mound of snow
which covered the pilot house.
There was no light shining out OF
the tunnel entrance. But that was
as he had expected it to be. He made
1t out easily enough; and in another
moment had alighted there.
"Jeanne!" he called.
II was not the exertion of flight. but
a sudden intolerable apprehension that
made him breathless. The word had
halted a little in his throat. Exact
ly as he uttered II he saw down the
tunnel, and in the pilot house itself,
tiny spark of FIRE, and heard the
click of steel against flint.
What the spark illuminated were
the fingers of a gigantic. hairy hand.
Jeanne" he called again. and now
his voice came clear enough. Wait a
minute and I'll make a light for you"
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-04-25
CHAPTER XXI.
In the Pilot House,

Cayley had been right In assuming.
as he did In his conversation with
Jeanne, upon the subject. that Roscoe
and the other people Of the Walrus
had never noticed the ice chimney, nor
suspected the existence of the pilot
house upon the cliff-head Also, he
had followed correctly the track OF
Roscoe's mind In the deduction that
the two latest castaways upon this
land-that is. Philip and Jeanne
must have persisted In the great storm
which began on the night when he
fired the hut. and continued for so
many weeks that he. like them. lost
all trace of reckoning
During the storm he had lived In
the cave, much as Philip and Jeanne
had lived In the pilot house on the
cliff; he had. that is TO say, in some
purely automatic fashion, kept on ex.
isting. The mere momentum of a ma
ture mans vitality makes It hard for
him to die. But when the storm
abated and milder weather came, he
bestirred himself. as Cayley did, and
set about digging a tunnel OF his own
through the great drift which had
blocked the entrance to his cave.
The next time the moon came up,
after he had completed the tunnel
from the cave, he set out down the
beach toward the ruins of the hut.
II was not mere curiosity which
attracted him, nor any lurking fear
but simply the hope OF making some
salvage from the wreckage OF the hut,
or possibly. from the bodies OF his two
victims, In case he was lucky enough
to find them. He had no doubt at all
that they were dead.
His pleasure over the quantity and
condition of the stores he found In
the ice cave compensated for his
disappointment over not finding the
bodies of his two latest victims
Evidently they had not even at.
tempted to use such shelter as the ice
chamber afforded. for II showed no
mark Of human habitation at all. They
had probably wandered outside and
died In one OF the nearby drifts. Per.
haps he would fnd them some day
For the present. however, the stores
occupied his whole attention.
Very methodically he set TO work
carrying them on to his own cave
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-04-25
CHATTER xxi-Continued.

Probably no apparition OF the mon
ster he expected to find there-no
sight of him towering expectant.
armed. anticipating all that Cayley
hoped to do. and ready TO Illustrate IL,
could have been so terrifying to Philip
as the thing he actually saw, which
was-nothing At least. so far as a
first glance into the cave would re-
veal. his enemy was not there
Cayley shuddered. not with fear,
and yet with a sensation stronger
than disgust. II was as il a leopard
had been standing over the deserted
lar of hyena. A wild beasts lair
II was and not a human habitation.
The floor was Uttered with feathers
and half-gnawed bones. The rocky
walls dripped with oil SCOT of his hor-
rible cooking. The foul air Of the
place was actually iridescent. But
the real horror Of II lay in the fact
that Roscoe was not there.
Cayley's reasoning faculties attack
ed that blind, irrational horror with
all their force. From the condition Of
the fire II was evident that Roscoe
had been gone several hours. II was
almost certain that he would return
soon. Cayley's arrival in his absence
really gave him an immense advant.
age. A man always comes unwarily
into the place he calls home II Ros-
coe came back now he would have no
chance at all against Cayley's quick
spring and the fash of the long knife
blade.
Certainly II was reasonable TO ex.
pect that Roscoe would wait for an.
other moonrise before setting out on
any serious sort OF expedition. and. II
that assumption were correct. he
might be returning TO the cave at any
moment.
He strobe abruptly back to the cave
mouth. As he did so. however. his
eye alighted on something that made
him pause-something so strangely
out OF keeping with its surroundings
that il caused him-or he thought that
was the reason-a sense of recogni.
tion, almost Of familiarity.
The thing which so evidently did
not belong to Roscoe that II seemed
almost to belong to Philip himself,
was a gold locket. II lay on a fiat bit
OF rock, which seemed 10 serve Ros-
GOES purpose as a table The objects
which surrounded tan irregular
piece Of raw walrus hide, an over.
eurned bottle OF whale oil. with a
smudgy wick in II, a sailmaker's
needle and some rawlings OF canvas,
together with some scraps OF food-all
spoke so loud of Roscoe and made such
a contrast with this bit of jewelry that
Cayley's action in STOPPING to pick 1t
up was automatic.
He held II In his hand a moment as
n no did not know quite what to do
with II. then put II in his pocket and
went out OF the cave Only during
tho moment when IL had first caught
his eye had II really commanded his
attention at all BY the time he got
outside OF the cave he had forgotten
II.
Two or three breaths of the clear
air outside OF the cave were all he
needed TO revive him. physically. But
TO his surprise they did not suffice to
rid him OF the feeling which he re-
garded as superstitious. namely the
impulse to fly back to Jeanne as fast
an wing could carry him.
lie had every reason To believe that
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-07

faith with the people they must at
times be insurgents" and oppose the
program of the leaders. The president
was particularly interested in any
tariff revision program and laughed
when he said he was eagerly await.
ing the democratic efforts to reduce
the schedules of that UBIQUITOUS
Payne -Aldrich law"
Asked ii he did not consider Mr..
Wilson more conservative than radi-
cal. the president told the following
story about Senor Zias. head Of the
radical party in Cuba:
"Zias was campaigning once" said
the president. and was accused Of be.
ing conservative. I am not a con-
servative' Zias said, l am a radical. I
must speak as a radical on the plat.
form to keep my following. but in of
flee I am not RADICAL"
The president left Columbus at $40
last night for Washington. He expect
ed to stay there pretty much of tho
time until March 4. He announced
that he will not visit the Panama
canal during the Christmas holidays
as he had planned and authorized
Congressman Sherley Of Kentucky y
caller on his private car who was en-
Goethals his kind regards.".
Richard L. Jervis. one of the husky
SIX foot secret service men who has
guarded President Taft since he was
elected four years ago. today was no.
titled to proceed to Princeton He will
he Joined by other secret service mon
later.
Jimmie" Sloan. who has been head
Of the white house secret service force
for seven years and Jack Wheeler
his principal assistant. who has laid
out the Taft trips. will stay with the
president.