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in one long kiss that was a pledge-a
pledge that henceforth my life, my
heart, my mind, my powers, my every
thing were hers. All my abilities would
be devoted to clearing this mystery
that was stealing the joy from her
years, when they should be the pleas
ATTEST. But this was no time COR love
dalliance. The mystery must be
sc'ved. Suicides generally left letters
Perhaps
Hand In hand, Louise and | went
into hatharine's apartments. where
the rooms disorder still told Of the
tragedy so recently enacted there In
one corner stood a little open desk.
It's contents bore evidence of 4 recent
careful sorting that limited very plain
ly OF reconciliation. but there was no
note or letter there. / looked next on
the mantelpiece. hoping to find among
the photographs and cotillion favors
that Uttered it some clue which might
solvo the mystery, but there was moth
ing there. either. a. cas
My eye fell to the CRATE below
where fire burned cheerily Here
again was evidence of generalization
in the ashes of burned letters and the
charred corner of a photograph. A
blackened bit of paper that had fallen
through the CRATE before 1t burned
caught my glance and 7 stopped to
pick it up. 1t was just scrap of vel
low. torn from folded letter. With its
edges burned to fragileuess. Careful
ly Louise and upfolded it. for 1t
seemed the only thing in all The room
that might yield some explanation. AS
We pored over the meaningless frag.
ments Of sentences. an exclamation of
horror came from the doorway. Look
ing up we saw the tall form of General
Parrish tottering on the sill
Clad in dressing Jacket. bis white
hair in wild disorder. he pointed with
accusing finger at the yellow scrap of
paper in my hand. Never In mortal
face have seen such terror rs saw
in his. His eyes. dilated. seemed bulg-
ing from their sockets His counte-
nance was white as chalk His law
had dropped in the paralysis OF terror.
From bis throat came horrible numb
lings. as he tried to speak and could
not.
Louise and ] sprang to his side. but
with almost maniacal strength he
shook us off and, with finger still
pointing to the yellow scrap ! had let
fall to the floor, he managed to gasp:
That yellow letter. Where did"
Before he could finish the sentence
he fell stricken to the floor, his voice
choking. his eyes glazing. paralyzed by
some hidden terror--we knew net
what.
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that II had been her purpose to de-
stroy 1t. On the other hand, General
Parrish, too. must have known OF the
existence Of this, letter. else why did
ne show such terror at the mere sight
| or scrap or It? 1t must have been
part Of some document that had made
vivid impression on his mind. More
than likely. We felt. whatever the let
ter was. 1t had played some part in
the quarrel between Katharine and
her father the afternoon before she
dismissed Hugh Crandall.
We ran over all the words We could
think Of that begin "b-a," trying to fit
one to the phrases following-back.
bar. ban. bank. bankruptcy. basin, bar
rel, barren, battle-there were too
many of them. We gave 1t up and
passed on to the next phrase, used
Sc" 1t proved equally puzzling. We
could make nothing out of it, but the
third line at least was definite enough
for discussion.
IA sister," said Louise. THAT
makes 1t certain that this letter did
not apply in any way to father, for he
never had sister. He was an only
child" H - -a3S tr tS8
was not so positive as she that the
letter did not apply to the general.
The thought came to me that perhaps
even In the proud Parrish family there
might have been some girl child of
unblessed birth whose existence had
been kept secret from Louise. Per
haps some knowledge Of this sort had
come to Katharine and the letter re-
ferred to it. l refrained from suggest
ing such theory, for l felt 1t would
be the height of cruelty even to hint
such thing to Louise at time when
the father was helpless to explain.
Yet the following phrase. seemed in
evitable." might well fit into some
theory such as this, followed as 1t was
in the next line with the word dis
grace" sal ,f...- asa '''-s,.s'-.
For a moment 1 felt that was on
the track of the solution of the mys-
terry. Some specter from the generals
past had risen to haunt bis declining
years, " iii eaten uto SOOu HI uc. ~
worry him into his grave. His elder
daughter had discovered it and had
been unable to carry the burden of
shame Could this have been the
secret that these two shared and kept
Louise in ignorance Of? A word from
Louise all at once upset my theory.
II wonder" she said. ''if this isn't
part of letter about Hugh CrandaIl"
Both she and ] were convinced that
in some way Crandall was involved.
My theory would not account for his
connection with the case and at once
abandoned it, listening intentiy to one
Louise advanced. s'u aa1 f" a@Esi
There must have been some con-
nection between his having telephoned
her and what she did this afternoon.
Before she shot herself she burned
this letter. or most Of 1t. Father must
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-25
ROOSTER MATCHES CHICKENS
New Answer to the Question: (which
IL the Mother to the Off
spring"

Baltimore, Md.-Tho question wheth.
er the incubator that patches the chick
or the hen that lays the egg is the
mother of the offspring has been both,
ering amateur poultry fanciers for
years. But suppose rooster matches
the egg-what them" Captain John
H. White. 1914 Retreat street, would
like to know.
Captain White, who halls form Sails
bury, Wicomico county, has rooster
that Matched two chicks. In wooden
box Pete, the rooster, sits with ruffied
feathers clucking like a men. Under
his wings are two tiny, fuzzy chicks.
Some time ago the captain saw Pete
sitting on nest in which were several
eggs. "Shoo." yelled the captain. But
Pete refused to bulge. The same thing
happened the next day. In order to
see what happened the captain placed
three eggs in box and Pete on top
of them The rooster accepted the sit
uation and stuck to his post until yes
terday, when he strutted forth and two
chicks followed him. Since that time
he has taken care of them as carefully
rs a hen.
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and months we saw ~ much Of him.
do not recollect his ever having men,
toned any of his relatives"
My brain recorded victory for
woman's intuition over mans logic.
Her theory seemed infinitely better
than mine. After all 1t was absurd to
suspect skeleton in the life of man
like General Parrish. who had been
constantly under public scrutiny for
many years. 1t was much more prob
able that the letter referred to some
incident in the life of Crandall. some
thing so discreditable that the general
had been forced to forbid Katharine
having anything to do with him. This
theory would account for the quarrel
between father and daughter, for Gran
dall's reticence about his family, for
Katharine's distress, and naturally
the sight of the letter that had caused
all the trouble would upset the gen.
eral. l began to see plan for action
Louise, dear" How quickly al
versity strips off conventionality ana
puts us where our hearts would have
u.s. Louise, dear" / said. 1T VIII
probably be days before either your
father or Katherine will be able TO
give us any assistance, yet the knowF
edge that everything has been cleared
up, that tho specter has been driven
away. undoubtedly would hasten the
recovery CT both. So ! feel that we
must go ahead"
"Oh, Harding" she breathed. Her
hand sole out and sought nrine. What
comfort you are to me! What would
/ have done this afternoon without
you' You're right, dear, we must solve
this awful mystery at once. We must"
THE first thing for me to do l
want on. lis to find Hugh Crandall.
He can probably tell US all about this
letter. Even if he can't he can say
why he telephoned Katharine and
where she went this afternoon. When
We have learned this much We shall
at least have made good start The
next thing will be to trace the letter.
II Crandall does not know about 1t, we
will try to learn from whom it came"
That's impossible" objected LOU
Use. Haven't we looked everywhere
in Katharine's room for the envelope
In which it came. ! am positive that
she burned it. Without the envelope
you can never discover where 1t was
mailed or to whom 1t was addressed"
I'm not so sure about that The
post office has wonderful ways Of
tracing mail. One of the inspectors is
a friend of mine and we will enlist his
help But first l must find Crandall.
Probably he can tell US everything If
be will. Do you know where he lives?"
"He has bachelor apartments some
where along the avenue, don't know
just where know his place Of busi-
ness"
81 know that, too, but 1t is useless to
try to find him there tonight"
Katharine used to send, all her
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-25
LIQUID Measure,

1t was the time OF the singing les.
son at the local council school, and
the teacher was explaining to the
young hopefuls that If treble" and
ALTO" a tenor" and bass sung
together, their united efforts would
constitute a quartet
There seemed no trouble about that.
and the teacher thought the class was
getting on very nicely.
NOW, Jimmy, leave off pinching
your brothers leg and listen to me-"
said she. If bass and a tenor sang
together, what would you call that?'
Jimmy was the son of the local
milkman, and a bright lad withal. His
answer was not long in coming.
please, miss" said he, that would
be- 'pintette.'
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-25
BATTLE FOR LIFE ON
THE LAKES BOTTOM
Rescuer Dives for Drowning Man
and Is Seized in a Death
Embrace.

Chicago.-A terrific battle on the
bottom of Lake Michigan, thirteen feet
below the surface, between drown
ing man and his companion who had
dived to his aid was waged the other
day. Frank Halla succeeded in break
ing the death strangle hold of Frank
Bailer, a drowning man, brought him
to the surface and towed him to the
shore.
The rescue was effected after Halla
almost had been suffocated by the
grasp of the drowning man.
Persons who witnessed the rescue
declare it to be one Of the bravest.
Efforts will be made to obtain a Car
negie medal for Halla
Halla, who lives at 1913 North Clark
street. and BaiIer, So West Ontario
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-25
tons are favorable for the growth and
increase Of the fish.-Washingto Star.
DEDUCTION.

A director of one OF the great trans
continental railroads was showing his
three-year-old daughter the pictures in
a work on natural history. Pointing
to picture of zebra, he asked the
baby to tell him what 1t represented
Baby answered, "Colty." Pointing to
a picture of tiger in the same way,
she answered kitty" Then a lion.
and she answered Doggy" Elated
with her seeming quick perception.
he then turned tc the picture Of a
chimpanzee and said; Baby, what In
this?"
Papa. Journal
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A DOCTORS TRIALS.
He Sometimes Gets Sick Like Other
% People.

Even doing good to people is hard
work if you have too much of 1t to do.
An overworked Ohio doctor tells his
experiences:
',About three years ago as the result
of doing two mems work, attending a
large practice and looking after the
details of another business, my health
broke down completely. and was
little better than physical wreck.
81 suffered from indigestion and con-
stipation. loss of weight and appetite.
bloating and pain after meals. loss Of
memory and lack of nerve force for
continued mental application.
81 became irritable. easily angered
and respondent without cause. The
hearts action became irregular and
weak, with frequent attacks of palpi-
tation during the first hour or two
after retiring.
Some Grape-Nuts and cut bananas
came for my lunch one day and
pleased me particularly with the re-
suit. / got more satisfaction from 1t
than from anything / had eaten for
months. and on further investigation
and use. adopted Grape-Nuts for my
morning and evening meals, served
usually with cream and q sprinkle Of
salt or sugar.
"My improvement was rapid and
permanent. in weight as well as In
physical and mental endurance. In q
word, / am filled with the JOY Of nv-
ing again. and continue the daily use
OF Grape Nuts for breakfast and often
for the evening meal.
1.-The little pamphlet, The Road to
wellville,' found in pkgs.. is invari-
ably saved and handed to some needy
patient along with the indicated rem
edy."
There's a reason"
Name given by Postum Co. Battle
Greek, Mich.
Ever read the above Ietterf A new
one appears from time TO time They
are genuine. true, and full OF human
kDasrsst. Adv.
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we'll and hearty and weigh about
200 pounds. 1 feel very grateful that
/ found Dodds Kidney Pills and you
may publish this letter if you wish. I
am serving my third term as Probate
Judge of Gray Co. Yours truly,
PHILIP MILLER, Cimarron, Kan.
Correspond with Judge Miller about
this wonderful remedy -
Dodds Kidney Pills, soc. per box at
your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y. Write for Household
Hints, also music of National Anthem
English and German words) and re-
cipes for dainty dishes. All sent free.
Adv
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Knew q Poets Troubles.

Had queer experience recently"
said the Billville poet. "Robber held
me up on the highway. Didn't have a
cent in my pocket-only poem which
! was takin' to the editor"
Didn't take the poem, did he?"
mo. Read three lines of it, handed
1t back to me and said: Friend, here's
81. You need 1t worse than l do"
Atlanta Constitution.
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my breath was
short and I had
chills and back
ache. I took the
pills about a year
ago and have had
no return Of thu
palpitations. Am
now 63 years old,
able to do lots Of
manual labor, am
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COPXplG77T 1911
.M BORRS1NfRpZL COHp4NY
SYNOPSIS.

Harding Kent calls on Louise Parrish to
propose marriage and finds the house in
great excitement over the attempted sui
eide of her sister Katharine. Kent starts
an Investigation and finds that Hugh
Crandall sutton for Katharine. who had
been forbidden the house by General Far
IRISH. had talked with Katharine over the
telephone tust before she shot herself.
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A Wise Retirement.

$50, you young jackanapez. you
want to marry my daughter. You want
to ask me about it, do your"
81 did. sir. but / guess I'll = A0E
sec there's q kick coming
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CHAPTER u.
Our First Clue.

. .
Louise and / sat at dinner together.
Isn't 1t strange in this world of
ours how the commonplace follows on
the terrible, how the usual ami the un-
usual intermingle, how the clock ticks
on when the whole universe seems to
be tumbling about our heads! In one
Of the rooms upstairs lay Katharine,
still unconscious, with doctor and
nurse constantly at her side. The bull
let had been removed, and while it
had penetrated the brain some slight
distance, Doctor Wilcox said there was
Just chance-the barest chance-that
she might recover, 1t might, however.
be hours, he explained, before she re-
gained consciousness-ifs she ever did.
In another of the rooms lay General
Parrish, more dead than alive. Paraly
sis had deadened his limbs and tied
his tongue. Only his eyes seemed
alert. Most of the time since the
stroke had felled him he had been
slumbering heavily.
While the hustle of caring for the
two stricken ones lasted there was
little time for thought. and was. glad
for the activity that kept Louise's
mind distracted. Just at the moment
when it seemed that everything mad
been done and there was nothing left
but the anxious waiting-waiting for
the worst-the butler had tiptoed In to
summon !LS to dinner Bravely, at
first, Louise and l made pretense Of
eating, each trying to encourage the
other, but the unforgetable events of
the afternoon, the missing faces at the
table and the sorrow that filed us both
made food impossible. Drawing our
chairs together, We discussed in vhis-
pers the battling mystery of Kath-
armies attempted suicide and her ia
Tiers strange terror. go
On the table before US lay the scrap
Of yellow paper, the sight of which
had so agitated General Parrish. 4 AS
soon as he had been carried into his
own rooms had fastened to rescue 1t
from the floor. felt that, Insignificant
as it appeared, it must have some i'm
portant connection with the events Of
the afternoon. Yet as Louise and l
puzzled over IL, there seemed nothing
sinister in the fragments. of sentences
that the flames had left, all but indie
cipherable 3 s -
The paper. of peculiarly yellovish
tint, was hardly more than two square
inches. the torn corner Of folded let
ter On 1t we could make out these
words: 2Ns aH 10
ba ', s.s -
used sc
a sister
seemed inevita L.
and disgrace ah
by accident lie
make good
AS we studied the bit of type-writ-
Ing, word by word, we tried to trace
In 1t some hidden meaning, some sim
lister warning. something or anything
that would connect it with poor Kath-
arine's mental distress and her ia
theirs poignant terror. That the let
ter of which this was a part had been
in Katharine's possession was evident
from the place where had picked up
| the fragment 1t was equally certain
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have known about the letter. so l am
certain that it concerned Crandall."
Has Crandall a sister,"
81 do not know" said Louise. Il
know nothing about his family. 1t
seems strange, too, when for months
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notes to one of his clubs where he re-
ceived his MALL think 1t vas the
University"
Come into the library" said /, I'VE
can quickly locate him."
CTo BE CONTINCED.)
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JUDGE CURED, HEART TROUBLE.

took about 6 boxes Of Dodds Kid
ney Pills for Heart Trouble from
which had suffered for 5 years. I
had dizzy spells, my eyes pulled,
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CURES ITCHING SKIN DISEASES.
Coles Carbolisalve stops itching and makea
the skin smooth. All druggists. rs and SOC. Adv.
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viii Soon Wake up.

Cincinnati woman declares she has
discovered man without a fault
Wait till they've been married ten
years.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
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Innnorfant "a Rnnthsra

Important 20 Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, e safe and sure remedy for
infants and children. and see that It
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Not a Dry Book.

This is the most~lachrymose novel
I've ever read. The heroine weeps in
almost every chapter" Then you
certainly can't call 1t dry book"
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Go South,
Young Man
Don't Freeze To Death
Trying To Make a Living

Go to Mississippi or Louisiana
where you can be outdoors al!
the time. Where you can grow
two to four crops a year and
where the fertility of the soil Is
mexhausible. Land is cheap
now. Go and look at it before
il is too late. The road to the
south is the sure highway to- for
tune. Wntetoday for illustrated
booklets and full information
about the money making OPP
portunities In these states.
!. G. CLAIR, immigration Conn.,, I.c. R. R
Room H600, Central Station, Chicago
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-02-15

one Of the January magazines, Of this gear.
We are constantly seeing, in Democratic and
Republican periodicals, the articles contrib
uted by Socialists.
Then, again, Mr.. johnson refutes his own
statement by alleging that Mrs. O'Hare
wanted to come into The Jefersonium, to
debate Socialism with me, and that I wouldn't
let her. So it seems that Mrs. O'Hare was one
Socialist who was willing to boost our circu-
lation. And by the way, it seems that
Brother johnson and his son are two other
Socialists who are willing to boost our circu-
latlon-at 81 per boost Therefore, it is clear
that Mr.. johnson must retract his statement
that ''no Socialist would boost" etc. Here are
three Socialists who were willing to boost,
and two Of them pay for the privilege. Incl
dentally, who is Mrs. O'Hare? Is she any kin
to cold Mother Hare?"
It is most unfair for "Ihe Appeal to Rea-
son" to answer letters Of inquiry by stating
that I refused to debate with Debs, and by
calling me "a faker." Such an epithet applied
to lifelong champion Of oppressed human
ity, is meaningless. No reasonable man would
expect me to debate Socialism with Debs, or
any one else, In oral discussion. But all rea
sonable men must feel that Debs is afraid
Of sonaethjssg, when he fails to even notice a
public and repeated challenge to a aoritterp
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controversy. I leave it to The Appcq7 to say
what it is that Debs is afraid Of
(2) Mr. Johnson says that majority Of
the Socialists toiU decide, as to Marriage,
Social Equality, Religion and Home Owner
ship.
But how can he expect us to embrace Social
ism, while majority may be in favor of Free
Love, Social Equality, Atheism and Com
nunlsm? DO we take passage on a ship,
before knowing whittier she is bound?
Brother johnson let the gap down, there.
(3) Brother Johnson argues that, because
Herr Bebel is not a corrupt man, his teach
ings cannot be corrupt. That won't do. Cot
ton Mather, who egged on the hanging of
old women, as witches, in New England, was
not a corrupt man. Far from it. He was a
pure, jealous Christian, led astray by delu-
sion.
The Inquistors of the hideous Roman
Inquisition believed they were doing right, in
torturing and burning heretics They were
not corrupt men, but fanatics.
az Yes; [ read the Romanist papers, also
Democratic and Republican dailies. None of
them teaches such rotten doctrine as Herr
Bebel, and other Free Love Socialists propa-
gate.
(5) To teach Free Love, as so many Amer
CONTINUED ON PAGE NINE.
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Preiu1 die 2

reunion of the Society of the Army of the
Potomac. He knew what he was talking
about Perhaps those you quote did not,
| guess no man was ever more loved and
revered by his neighbours than Brown was.
[ did not at the time approve of his raids:
Now, / do. [ think he was an honest, quiet,
peaceable kind-hearted man. Slavery sought
to kill him, ana he killed slavery. He thought
4lAmself an instrument of God for the destruc-
ton Of slavery. | guess he was
E. E. Ropes"
(ANswER)
The fact that I give fair play to all, was
shown by my printing Mr. Ropes letter.
Until he paid for it, was not under obiga-
ton to send him our paper. If his acquaint-
ances in Florida are right thinking people,
they will not esteem him the more highly
because of his second letter.
In giving the evidence against John Brown,
I used the man who organized The New Eng
land Aid Society = the Abolitionst, Eli
Thayer. / also used the history of Kansas,
adopted as authentic in the Commonwealth"
Series. Also, the narrative of DR.. Geo. w.
Brown, Honorary Corresponding Secretary
of the HrsroRIcA1 SOCIETY OF KANSAS. DR..
Brown was one Of the original pioneers and
Abolitionists, who made the fight for Free
State Kansas.
What better witnesses could be introduced?
They were Northern men; they were anti
slavery men; they were ON the ground; they