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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-06-20
He Studied Ny Face Sharply as II to Read My Mission.

about General Parrish and Andrew
Elser and the woman from Bridge
port. l know about Dora Hastings.
who committed suicide In the park
lake yesterday, and about Henry
Eberle. who sent you the five thous-
and. l know everything that your
unfortunate aide, Rouser. knew, and
nov I want you to surrender all the
letters and papers In your posses
Sion"
AYou will never get them" sneered
Young, as l sat there marveling at
the inspectors revelations. 1t was
news to me that he knew the name
OF the Central Park suicide, and while
l myself had found the five thousand
dollars, I had had not the slightest
intimation that Davis knew from
whom It had come.
Either I get those letters" said
Davis evenly. "or you get no more
morphine"
Young laughed Il his face
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-06-20
MARkEN IS QUAINT
Strange Island Community That
Is Found in Holland.
Sturdy, Vigorous and Happy People
Who Spend Their Lives in Peace
and observation-disclosures Of
Their Domestic Manners.

Marker, Holland.-Marken, too
small and unimportant to be found on
many maps, is a quaint community OF
about 1000 people, who live on II
small islands In the Zuyder Zee.
These small, sandy knobs are con
nected by narrow brick foot bridges
and protected by bikes. R~ed-roofed.
gabled houses made OF wood, and
tarred, or ornamented by paint in red
and gren stripes, are built or piles.
During spring freshets the inhabitants
are sometimes obliged to remain on
the upper floors, or drown. Stairs
are unknown, SO the ascent Is made
by ladders. After the annual spring
bath the Uneven little streets lock
fresher and brighter than ever and
the place is a real spotless town.
Only the newer houses have chin
neys. In the older ones the smoke
from constant peat fires must escape
through a small, square 'smoke-hole'
in the roof. The chimney place is
faced with ~tiles-usually blue-and
the hearth Is black thing rubbed to
a polish. Everywhere there is gleam-
ing brass and copper and the whole
house shines. Personally, the people
are also very neat, but, strange to say,
large, f~at-looking leas are plentiful
more plentiful than u mosquitoes
The kitchen, usually the living room
as well, is the largest in the house.
From the beams overhead hang hams,
strings of drying fish, wine jugs and
native delicacies. At the windows are
green shutters and lace curtains. The
floors are made Of wide planks, highly
vanished to a dark brown. Chairs
have rush bottoms and Stat backs.
Well-scoured candlesticks are numer-
Gus. Every house contains an old
carved cabinet filed with rare treas
ures that would gladden. the heart Of
a connoisseur. Each man has 4
treasure chest Of his own, which Is
kept securely locked, and the contents
often remain a mystery TO his wife
and family.
Not far from the big chimney are
the beds-and such beds, They are
built in the wall, on a decided slant
the head being much higher thar the
foot! There is a feather mattress,
coarse linen sheets, quilts and last.
but not least, always a thick cover
stuffed with feathers until 1t re-
sembles another small mattress. At
ter the Markenites have crawled in
under these bed clothes they pull a
sliding door, or panel, and shut them
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-06-20
Catching Flies Pays Well.

Catching flies is affording a Shreve-
port tLa.) man a profitable n indie
pendent living. He sells them to the
city board of health. His name Is
Bartsch. and his Eet went from the
fly industry for the first two days OF a
recent week was $2420. When the
health board began Offering premiums
for the flies, dead CT alive, Bartsch
purchased about 100 traps and placed
them in fly ridden sections of the city.
Then he began making inroads on the
health boards ~exchequer. and SO we'll
did he operate that he bore the market
price down from so cents to 20 cents a
quart, for 1t is by that measure that
the board purchases. Bartsch is still
working, and he will work as long as
the treasury holds out. He finds fly
catching pays.
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Johnston
m1o'a'71zsu oan+~ NRaney

failed 1t was more than she could
bear"
THAT all seems logical" I said. but
fail to SCI yet what connection there
is between General Parrish and old
Andrew Elser. Nor do l see the con-
nection between the suicide of the old
woman in the hotel at Ardway and
the suicide OF the young oma in
the park lake, yet In each of these
cases there were yellow letters"
Il do no see 1t myself, yet" said
Davis frankly, "and yet | know II ex-
lists. l know that the hellish idea that
drove them all to death was planned
by hat distorted brain inside the cot
tage there"
He was silent for several minutes
as he gazed at the rising sun, seeming
ly absorbed in the glorious spectacle.
I'm find QUIT" he said explosively.
"Pn make him tell"
What are you going to do" l
asked. How will o make him."
For answer he took from the pocket
OF his coat WI sets of thin steel cuffs.
oAS y 1hO - 4 II tlg II " liIC
ankles, and stepped within the cot
tage. | followed wonderingly and
watched him as he turned Young over
on his face and. bringing his hands
together behind him, snapped on the
cuffs. He shackled his feet, too, and
then picking up a stout rope. passed
1t between the two sets OF shackles
a ND n wntrvNl n h~ar1 - 49,. IL - 49,
cottage wall, leaving enough slack
to permit the shacEled mar a small
amount Of liberty. During the whole
operation Young hung limp and aD-
parently lifeless. still in the drug stu
por. but as Davis finished his work
he began to talk incoherently.
The shaking up / gave him in fast
ening him up" said Davis. will bring
him to. He will wake up in a few
minutes and then I'll find out every
thing | want to know. I'll make him
tell"
What are you going to do" I
gasped, torture him."
NO" said the inspector grimly as
he dragged a stool over near the couch
and placed on it a hypodermic syringe
he had found in the cabin, and with
1t a morphine preparation.
He gagged the distance with his
eye, and moved the stool SO that while
1t would be in plain sight of the
shackled man when he awoke, 1t would
be utterly impossible for him to reach
1t.
NO. he said. I'm not going to
torture him. His drug.racked nerves
will do 1t for me-"
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Unique Suicide.

A safe was used by a man nam
ed Jacob ~Rabinowitz, fifty-four years
old, Of Philadelphia, Penn, to com
nit suicide, a few days ago. First he
lacked up al 500 pound safe with q
block OF wood. Placing his head be-
meath it he drew a strap as tightly as
he could around his neck. Then he
knocked the block from under the
safe and the heavy weight fell upon
his head. He was found by his wife.
but died before a physician arrived.
He had been Respondent for several
weeks because he lost a lawsuit.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-06-20
Eroland's Oldest Bowling Green.

Which IS our Oldest recreation?
There are not wanting Psychologists
Who profess to be able to trace refer
ences to football and baseball on
Egyptian moral tablets. However.
when it comes to actual records, the
fine old English game Of bowls would
appear to be as old as any.
Southampton, Eng. has records
showing that one of the local bowling
green's was in existence in 1899.
Many interesting customs are asso-
ciated with the game on this historic
green. Every summer a fire jack
competition is held, and an order or
knighthood is conferred on the win
ner, who kneels in the center of the
green While the other players gather
round him and the master ouches
him with a sword and dubs him sir"
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BEGAN YOUNG.
Aac Coffee Nerves" From Youth.

when very young l began using
coffee and continued up to the last six
months" writes a Texas girl.
Il had been exceedingly nervous.
thin and very sallow. After quitting
coffee and drinking Postum about .
month my nervousness disappeared
and has never returned. This is the
more remarkable as l am a primary
teacher and have kept right on with
my work.
MY complexion now Is clear and
rosy, my skin soft and smooth. As .
good complexion was something / had
greatly desired. feel amply repaid
even though this were the only benent
derived from drinking Postum.
Before beginning Its use l had suf-
fered greatly from indigestion and
headache; these troubles are now un-
known.
Il changed from coffee to Postum
without the slightest inconvenience.
did not even have a headache. Have
known coffee drinkers, who were
visiting me. to use Postum a week
without being aware that they were
not drinking coffee"
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek, Mich. Write for booklet. The
Road to MELVILLE"
Postum comes in two forms.
Regular Unjust be boiled).
Instant Postum doesn't require boil
Ing bat Is prepared instantly by stir
ring q level t%easpoonful In an ordinary
cur Of hot water, which makes It
right for most persons.
A big cup requires more and some
people who like strong things put In
= heaping spoonful and temper II
with a large supply OF cream.
Experiment until you know the
mount that pleases your palate and
have It served that way In the future.
There's . Reason" for Postum.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-06-20
BOILED EGGS BETRAY Them
Nationality Of Diners Is Shown In
Their Various Methods OF
Eating.

Sherlock Holmes might have figured
this out, but he did not!
The average Englishman will al
ways demand his egg boiled just
three minutes, then he places 1t IN an
egg cup, just large enough to nave
the egg fit It, taps the top OF the
shell, and o the broken sneil
with his fingers. The egg is eaten q
spoonful at a time.
A Frenchman, much like the Eng
lishInan, likes his eggs Of three MIN
ntes, exactly. He then "peels' them.
places them in a glass, stlrs anu
mixes Well together with salt, pepper
and butter. He makes a practice OF
dipping bread into the mixture. and
eating it along with the eggs.
A Spaniard wouldn't think OF letting
his egg boil more than n minute.
He then breaks it, and let's the CON
tents run into a glass, n consumes
it as il he were drinking a glass or
wine.
An egg is only fit In an Italians
estimation when it has been placed
In COld water, n just dS
the water begins to boil. He then
breaks it, pours it on a plate. and
proceeds to sop it with bread.
The German, like the Italian, de-
mands his eggs as ear the liquid
state as possible. He breaks his egg
liquid out as il it were soup.
The American is about the Only n
who prefers his eggs boiled hard.
When they are served up to him, he
knifes them in half, o the con
tents into q glass, after which he
adds a plentiful supply Of pepper, but
ter and salt. He then minces the
eggs fine, mix5ng them we'll with the
spices, and eats them with his toast.
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selves within the wall. How and why
they survive until morning is not
known. But survive they do and they
are fond and proud Of their beds.
They retire at seven o'clock In the
winter and at nine in the summer.
Candles being expensive they usually
60 to bed in the dark.
In appearance these people are tall
and heavily built, with coarse fea-
lures. sallow skin, light hair and pale
blue eyes. Up to the age Of ten chill
dren are all dressed alike and only a
close observer can pick out the boys
by an odd button sewed on their caps.
The girls caps are adorned with q
email rose bud.
Corsets are unknown; but at ten
years the girls are put into tightly.
laced bodices and loaded down with
heavy woolens and silks. their nu-
merous petticoats spreading out over
wooden hoops. On their heads they
e muslin caps, owe which Is q
mitershaped pasteboard affair. COW
cred with calico, silk or bright rib.
bons. Their yellow hair Is banged
to the eyebrows and from each tenn
pie hang two long curls that reach
nearly to the waist. Now here is a
secret. Old ladies with scanty hair
wear bangs and curls like the girls
only they are made Of yellow silk
floss! Isn't It terrible?
There is only n style in stockings
the year round-thick wooden ones,
knitted by hand; color dark blue.
Skirts are short enough to show
about six inches Of ankle and on
week days wooden shoes (klompen)
painted white. On Sundays heavy
leather ones with silver buckles are
worn. Klompen are always kicked
OF at the doorstep before entering q
house.
On dress occasions the bodices are
very gay-bright red, range or pur-
ple-and have funny little coat tails
On the back. The voluminous skirts
are brilliantly striped. This gala dress
ls not only saturated with farina ex.
tract, but many ladies carry q sup
ply along with them in scent bot
0eai
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XIV.
The Torture.

UO =
He'll Is a place of dissatisfied desires,
and In it's lowest depths are those,
who. writing in the agony OF their
decaying nerves., shrek for their be-
loved morphine and shrek in vain.
Many times in my life l have seen
the souls of men, and women, too. put
to hard and bitter tests.
Once l saw a motorman whose car
had crushed a lovely child. Around
him pressed a bowling, angry mob,
led by the baby's father, who would
have had his life. With bold daring,
he stood on his platform as on a
throne, with his controller bar for his
Yet, even as he stood there outwardly
so bold, | saw In his eyes a misery as
great as man could bear and live.
For days and months l doubt not that
his nightly dreams brought him con-
slant horror-pictures of the child he
had killed.
Once, too, l had to be the bearer
Of the new when a workman's mis-
step on a frame of steel sent him
plunging down eighteen stories to
death. In the foul tenement where
told my news / saw a tired, gaunt
woman walk the floor and scream and
moan. three frightened little children
clinging to her skirts.
Often, too, in my practice in the
courts, l have seen men in dreadful
misery-a rufian bold and defiant de-
spite the blood-guilt on his soul. face
all the world courageously until the
jury's foreman said the word that
brought the de~ath-chair's horror to
his heart and crumpled him weeping
to the door.
Yet all the concepts that my brain
had formed Of the utmost In pain and
shame and misery faded into insig
nificance before the things saw In
that rude cottage In the Jersey hills
where for two long days Davis and
myself kept watch on the fettered
master criminal-waiting. waiting.
waiting till his drug-tortured nerves
should make him tell us the secret Of
his yellow letters.
Shackled hand and foot though he
had found himself when he came out
Of his stupor. his ~self-control was at
first wonderful. For q few minutes
after Davis had fastened his bonds he
lay there tossing and twitching. then
suddenly opened his eyes-piercing.
Aevilish, uncanny black eyes they
were--and tried to sit up.
The rope through the manacles be-
hind him stopped him short and
threw him back on his couch. At the
same time he caught sight Of Davis
sitting near the foot Of his couch. In
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silence ,hev eyed each other, neither

silence they eyed each other, neither
of them saying a word. Stealthily
Young shifted, first his hands and then
his feet as If to ascertain the extent
of his bonds. Finding himself ecure-
ly fastened. he let his eyes rove
around the room, and discovered me.
He studied my face sharply. as If to
read my mission, but quickly turned
his gaze to Davis again, as II recog-
nizing in him his master captor.
Then he laughed-a hideous, chill
ling, defiant laugh, thai ended In an
unhealthy gurgle in his throat.
"Well?" he asked inquiringly.
l looked for Davis to seize on this
propitious moment. when Young, just
aroused from drug-slumber, would be
weak and nervous. to ply him with
questions about the things we wished
to know, but the inspector was too
much a master Of his craft for that.
As II he had not heard his prisoners
question, he sat there staring fixedly
at the man before him.
One minute passed, two minutes
three, ard still Davis sat silent and
unanswering. The cumulative force
Of prolonged silence began to grow
on my nerves. This waiting, waiting
was torture. If only one OF them
would speak. To Young 1t must have
been far worse.
Still they kept at 1t, Davis staring
straight into Young's eyes and Young
trying to stare back. For a few
minutes he succeeded, and then his
eyes shifted and fell. With a master
effort Of his will he brought them
back to Davis and held them steady.
There the two of them sat as in q
duel. the prisoners baleful eyes shoot.
ing forth venom hate, murder. while
in the others steady glance was pic
tured relentless justice.
OF course, there could be but one
end to it. Powerful as was the will
In the drug-racked body. the witch
ing OF the muscles, the involuntary
drawing up of the limbs and arms as
far as the bonds would permit, and
most of all the clasping and unclasp.
ing Of the fingers told what torture
the silence was bringing to Young
He burst forth at last In a wild
flow Of profanity, cursing Davis, ours.
ing me, cursing everything, c~ursine
God, and still Davis sat there as rigid
and as silent as the superior OF q
Trappist monastery doing penance
At times the prisoners voice was
raised to a hideous shrek, at times
it sank to a pitiful sob, and all the
while he tugged and strained at his
bonds. twisting. turning, reaching
trying always to find some position ir
which he could gain possession of the
morphine that lay on the chair JUS
beyond his reach.
At last-it must have been an hour
metaphysical exhaustion conquered
him and he lay back, after one las
frantic struggle, weak and painting
unresisting.
The inspector arose, and. watkins
over to the couch, stood there look
ing down at him.
"Aleck Young" he said evenly
your whole game Is up. I know al
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you haven't the slightest evidence

you haven't the slightest evidence
against me for anything. Without let
tiers or documents you can prove moth
ing. You have no right to keep me
bound up here. l shall get free and
shall make you pay for this. l don't
care what Rouser has told you. you'll
get nothing out Of me and you have
proof of nothing"
Very WELL" said the inspector, mo
letters, no morphine"
Turning away from the couch, he
spoke to me in a one as Indifferent
as II We had been camping together:
Come on, Kent, let's see what we
can dig up for breakfast"
We found the cottage well supplied
intention OF the conspirators to make
1t their headquarters for some time.
In q very few minutes Davis had some
bacon fried and toast and coffee
made, which he spread In the little
lean-to that was used as a kitchen.
so you mean to starye him, too :
| asked In an undertone, pointing to
the couch.
1T won't be necessary" said Davis.
Take something in to him ii you like.
You'll find that the only appetite he'll
have will be for morphine"
Nevertheless, l took a cup Of coffee
and some toast in to the prisoner. A
yolley Of oaths was my only reward,
SO | returned and sat with Davis
while he ate. | myself had no appe-
lite. but the events OF the night did
not seem in the least to have affected
his. l drank only part OF a cup OF
coffee. though he urged me to eat
something.
1T Is apt to be a long siege" he
said, and you must keep your
strength. Our prisoner IS a man OF
considerable will power and is not
! going to confess readily. Ii you will
keep guard on him for a couple OF
hours | am going to sleep"
"Of course, | Will"
Under no circumstances" said
Davis. as he flung himself down on
the floor OF the ~lean-to, loosen any
of his bonds. and pay no attention :"
his pleas for mercy. He has 2 ~1a
ming way about him that Is dagger
GUS"
You need not fear" I replied. RE
member the agony he has CAUSED &c
the woman | love"
And to many others" said Davis
Speaking Of that" said |, II wish
you would tell me before you &C
asleep how you learned where the
five thousand came from"
"Rouser told me-"
II was not aware that you had any
opportunity to talk with him."
Il didn't" said the inspector. Il
Just used my eyes in the postoftice.'
thought | had used mine pretty
we'll In the post office, but certainly
had seer nothing that would lead
me to identify the person who had
sent the five thousand dollars l had
found in the cash drawer.
Don't talk in riddles," exclaimed
rather petulantly. What did you find
In the post ofiiee?'
Davis grinned.
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l nodded assent.

nodded assent.
did 1t not strike you as peculiar
that there should be over two thous.
and names and addresses in the for.
warding list of a small post Office like
Ardway, where probably not more
than ten families move away In ten
years."
Il did not examine 1t closely" ! 70
piled. but even II l had | am afraid
| would have failed to identify 1t a.
important"
lTo BE CONTINuEDl
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Grapefruit With Fios.

Have some fine figs and cut them
into small pieces: put them In a glass
Jar and owe with brandy. Let them
stand in this for "a hours. Cut the
grapefruit in halves, scoop out the lit
tie cavity In the middle of each half,
az usual, fill this with figs ana let the
grapefruit stand on ice three or SoE
hours before serving
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CHAPTER xiv.-(continued.)

CHAP EH AIv.-(Iontinucu.J
"But are you sure Young wrote all
ehe yellow lettefr?"
Certainly" said the inspector, get
Ting up from the bench and entering
The cottage.
When he returned a few minutes
later he had in his hand a bundle OF
yellow paper and envelopes. As ex-
Amined them l saw that they OF
exactly the color and texture OF all
the fragments Of yellow letters that
I had seen.
Where did you find them" l asked.
I'm a cupboard yer there by the
fireplace. l don't know whether you
noticed 1t or not. but over there. too.
Il the typewriter on which Young
wrote the letters that he gave Rouser
20 mail for him."
What makes you think Rouser
mailed them"
There are six different things that
prove Rouser's connection with
MOung's flendish plots. The stamps
were put on by a left-handed man. and
Rouser was left-handed. The answers
were received in the Ardway post
office. where Rouser was postmaster.
Lock Box II, to which they were adj
dressed, was not entered In the list
Or box-holders. You yourself found
= large sum Of money In the post-oflce
Cash-drawer that had no business be
ing there. Rouser himself mysterious
" disappeared when he found that
some one was on the trail OF the yell
low letters. And lastly. Rouser and
Young for weeks have been together
most Of the time"
How did you learn that"
"Young, 1t seems" the inspector
continued, rs well known in Ardway.
nis boyhood having been spent in the
town. His father was a well-to-do
lawyer who became addicted to drugs.
Ais mother died In the state asylum
Tor the insane. The constable, Dodds.
has known him for many years. He
went to Harvard and there was q
classmate for q while OF Crandall. He
has been going from bad to worse,
zach time he returned to Ardway on
hts periodic visits seeming to be more
and more addicted to morphine. His
inheritance vas spent long 6 and
81 has been q mystery to every one
where he got considerable sums that
~ has had 1t times. With all his
Gaults, he has much magnetism and .
Dlausible tongue and makes friends
readily. SO far as | can discover.
aftsf 10 had concocted his plot against
General Parrish he had some dihlculty
n obtaining satisfaction and tried to
1nliot the aid OF Crandall. Crandall
went 1t once to General Parrish and
49, ordered out Of the house. Gran
dall. despite his treatment by the gem
Dfal, wal determined to solve the mys-
4ery. and for months kept track Of
Toung. trying to worm out the secret
md render him powerless. At times
~ eAye Young small sums and for .
Wh1le. - ! have said. had him in his
rooms. Ono day Young disappeared.
taking With him some jewelry Of Gran
0nalag and # wa only q few days ago
TIT Crandall succeeded In finding him
oco IN Ardway. Young, having
fnllod TO blackmail General Parrish.
ifF5e4 70 opsn up negotiations for the
- q III documents through Gran
an. CrandaIl. Of course, could not
eommnnlcato With General Parrish. 90
noV1S11o1 Katharine On tho telephone
- $3.50 q appointment With her.
vnSSI1Y - explained tho whole C.
~. - 49, the nagotiationa