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to Miss Louise or Miss katharine"
blank left for the name to be filled in.
Without stopping to read the letters,
which seemed to be all after the same
form, Davis lifted the tray. In the
bottom of the box was a type-writ-
ten list of names and bulky sealed
legal envelope, marked on the out
side Papers in the Parrish case"
Here, Kent" said Davis, handing
me the envelope, take charge of
these and give them to Miss Louise
or Miss Katharine You're entitled
to that"
Joyfully | slowed the envelope in
my breast pocket, my heart bounding
at the thought of the relief the sight
of the package would bring to the
Parrish family. But as yet the whole
affair was blind puzzle to me and
waited eagerly for further develop
ments.
Nov. Young" said the inspector,
tell me all about your scheme"
IF the damn thieves hadn't been
such towards as to go and kill them
selves" said Young with glow of
enthusiasm, II would have been a mil.
lionaire within year. Read one of
the letters and you can see for your
self just how good the scheme was"
Lifting the topmost sheet the in
spector read the yellow letter aloud:
Lock Box L.
Ardway. y. j.. Feb. s. 1910
Dear Sir:
l am writing 10 you in pursuance OF
my duty as executor OF the late Edwin
Green, who died here recently. leaving
his entire estate, amounting to some
$3.50 GEO. in my hands for what he was
pleased to term 'Defaulters' Fund"
l can best explain its purpose by briefly
summarizing the founders life. In his
early youth Mr. Green was employed for
a short time in bank In small city in
another state. Becoming involved In
speculation he used several hundred dol
lars of the banks funds. He had no rela-
tives but sister. to whom he knew Ii
was useless to apply for aid. AS dis
covery seemed inevitable he was con-
templating suicide. seeing nothing but
prison and disgrace ahead of him. But
an old friend of his father. who entirely
by accident learned OF his plight adj
vanced him the money he needed to make
good his defalcation, exacting from him
a promise that he would help others in
similar plight whenever he had oppor-
tunity.
His subsequent life was of the highest
recititude. Though he amassed fortune
he never found opportunity to aid any
one in a plight similar to the one in
which he once found himself. 1t became
almost mania with him and resulted in
his leaving his entire fortune to aid first
offenders in turning back into the right
path.
l know of no way of reaching the per-
sons he intended to aid. / am sending
out this letter to persons employed in
banks and positions of trust, hoping that
you or others who receive 1t may know
of some man. young or old. who has
made the first misstep and is wrongfully
using funds belonging to others. but is
DESTROYS of making good his populations
If you should know of any such 1 will
gladly make good his defalcatiOn and en-
deavor to save him from exposure, dis
grace and Imprisonment, asking only his
word that he will not err again, for Mr.
Green, in the deed of trust expressly
specifies that this is the only security to
be exacted I am. sir.
Very truly yours.
HENRY MALCOLM STEWART
{TO BE CONTINUED)
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CUT THIS OUT
Recipe that Breaks Cold in Day
and Cures Any Durable Cough.

From your druggist get half ounce
of Globe Pine Compound Concentrated
Pine) and two ounces of Glycerine.
Take these two ingredients home and
PIT them into half pint Of good whis-
key; shake we'll and use in doses OF one
to two teaspoonfuls after each meal
and at bedtime" Smaller doses to chill
dren according to age. But be sure to
get only the genuine Globe Pine Com
pound concentrated Pine). Each half
ounce bottle comes in a sealed tin screw
top case. II your druggist does not have
lures are OF large quantity and cheaper,
but it IL risky to experiment. This
formula comes from a reliable doctor
lished here six years ago and local
druggists say It has been in constant
demand ever since. Published by the
Globe Pharmaceutical laboratories of
Chicago
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Friendly Blow.

Louis Brownlow, Washington news
paper man, paused in drug store In
Greensboro, s. c., not SO long ago. to
ask for a match. While he was there
a young colored chap came running
in with a big cash the whole length
of his skull, and apparently a good
deal put out about some accident that
had befallen him.
What's happened to your" asked
Brownlow, excitedly but sympathetic
ally.
"A friend hit me with a Ratchet"
replied the bleeding stranger.
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The Otter a Wanderer.

OF all the beasts in the world, the
otter. that fierce outlaw. is the great
est wanderer. 1t Is as If he were af-
fiicted with a curse that forbids him
to be still, that forces him ever to
push on--on-on! Rest. as rest. he
knows not. Three days will see the
end of his longest inaction, and the
amount of miles he covers in fort
night would amaze some foks.--Out.
ing.
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H. NJ Fieenor- Using your pills, and
resolved to try them. I did, and took
only two boxes, and I am now sound
and we'll. regard my cure as remark
able. can recommend Dodd's Kidney
Pills to any one who is suffering from
Kidney Trouble as was" Write to Mr..
Fleenor about this wonderful remedy.
Dodd's Kidney Pills, SOC. per box at
your dealer or Dodd's Medicine Co,
Buffalo, N. Y. Write for Household
Hints, also music of National Anthem
English and German words) and reci-
Adv.
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Made Him Suspicious.

did you ask your girls father for
her hand in marriage?' Il did"
And he refused you. / can tell by
the way you look" mo, he didn't.
He gave his consent" ''Then why
the peculiar look you are wearing"'
"He was so darned willing. Houston
pccf
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Si0nihcant.

Albert. what did your sister say
when you told her was In the parlor
waiting?" inquired the hopeful young
man.
''Nothin' But she took ring off
one finger an put 1t on another
Lippincott's.
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sigh of relief. The color came back
into his face and strength to his
voice His muscles stopped witch
ing.
Now" said Davis gently, where
are the yellow letters hid?"
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to quit work, and
doctors failed to do
me any good. / kept
getting worse all the
time, and 1t at last
turned to inf1amma-
ton of the Bladder,
and I had given up
all hope. when one
day l received your
little booklet adVer.
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SUFFERED FOR 25 YEARS.

Mr.. r. M. Fleenor, r. r. d. SO, Otter
bein, Ind, writes: Il had been suffer
er from Kidney Trouble for about %
years. / finally got SO bad that had
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-02-20
When the Peanuts Ran Out.

For two hours an cid back country
man, who had never before seen an
elephant, had been standing before a
row of them in enrapt silence deal
ing out peanuts one at time. When
the last was gone and no more forth
coming, Jumbo, the largest elephant,
reached over and removed the enter
tainer's hat from his head to the top
of lions cage nearby.
For the first time in two hours the
old man expressed his emotions in
words: You old two-tailed Indian
rubber nuisance you!" he exclaimed
Indignantly. IF knew which end
your head was on. I'd slap your face. y
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CHAPTER XVI.

The Forty-Ninth Hour.
Two days--two unforgetable days
we passed there in the hut, Davis and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06

carl Coxey's Army was bad enough,
made up as it was of poor, miserable
lot of tramps and panhandlers, all SO
shy; but in their most riotious moods
the worst those poor chaps could do
was to heave a few bricks, or a dead
cat, through millinery shop window;
or, perhaps--bat village magnate on
the back of the head with bed slat.
There was nothing insidiously subtle
about the warfare they waged upon
Society.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
THE GENIAL IDIOT ADVOCATES MEDICAL CONSERVATION

remove a mans vermiform appendix
is there any system of medical, or
surgical, fertilization and replanting
that would cause two vermiforms to
grow where only one grew before, so
that sooner or later every human in
terror may become sort of garden
close, where one can go and pluck
a handful of vermiform appendices
every morning, like so many hardy
perennials in full bloom?"
q I'm afraid not" smiled the Doc
tor.
Anybody but the Idiot would
know that it couldn't be DONE" said
the Bibliomaniac, because if it could
be done it would have been done long
ago. When you find men success
fully transplanting rabbits tails on
monkeys, and frogs legs on canary
birds. you can make up your mind
that If 1t We're within the range of
human possibility they would by this
time have vermiform appendices
sprouting lushly in geranium pots for
insertion into the systems of persons
desiring luxuries of that Sort"
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Triumphs of Surgery.

You mustn't sneer at the achieve
ments of modern surgery. Mr.. Bib
said the idiot. There is no telling
how soon any one of us may need
to avail himself of It's benefits. Who
knows-maybe Surgeon will come
along some day who will be able to
implant a sense of humor in you. to
gladden. all your days."
Preposterous!" snapped the Biblio-
manidc.
Well, 1t does seem unlikely" said
the idiot, but I know of a young
Doctor who without any previous ex-
perience planted little heart In a
frigid Society Girl; and though I
know the soil is not propitious, even
YOU may sometime be blossoming
luxuriantly within with buds of cheer
and sweet optimism. But however
this may be- it is the unquestioned
and sad fact that a once profita BILE
Industry for our surgically inclined
brothers has slumped; and they tell
me that even those Surgeons who
have adopted modern commercial
methods, and give away set of Rud-
yard Kipling's Works and years
subscription to The Outlook with
every vermiform removed, are making
less than thousand dollars week
out of that branch of their work.
Mercy!" cried the Poet. What
couldn't do if had thousand dol
lars a week.
- You could afford to write real
poetry all the time, instead of only
half the time, eh, old man?" said
the Idiot, affectionately. But don't
you mind. We're all in the same
boat. I'd be an infinitely bigger idiot
myself if 1 had half as much money
as that"
Impossible! said the Biblio-
maniac, chuckling over his oppor-
tunity.
Green-eyed monster! " smiled the
Idiot. but speaking of. this over
crowding of the profession, it is a
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" You think the public would stand
for that, do you?" querled the Bibli-
omaniac, seornfully.
"Oh, the public is always inhospitable
to new ideas at first" said the idiot,
" but after a while they get SO at
tached to them that you have to start
an entirely new political party to
prove. that they are reactionary. But.
as the Poet says,
Into all lives some mumps must fall,
and the sooner we get 'em over with
the better. If the public once wakes
up to the fact that the measles and
the mumps are as inevitable as coal
bill in Winter, or an ice bill in Sum
mer, 1t will cheerfully indorse a Fed
eral Statute which enables us to have
these things promptly and be done
with 'em. It's like any other disagree
able thing in life. AS old Col Macbeth
used to say to that dear old Suffra-
gette wife of his,
If 'twere done when tits done, then
'twere we'll
It were done quickly.
Like taking a cold bath in the morn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
AS to Lawyers.

ugh! shuddered Mrs. Pedagog.
You almost make me afraid to let
the Doctor stay in this house a day
longer"
Don't be afraid, Madame" said the
Doctor, amiably. After all, I'm Doc
tor, you know, and not Plumber"
IN guarantee his absolute HARM
lessness, Mrs. Pedagog." said the
idiot. We're perfectly safe here. It
is no temptation to a Doctor to SOW
the germs of disorder among people
like ourselves who have reduced get
ting free medical advice to a system"
Well" said Mr.. Brief, the lawyer
your plan is all right for the Doc
tors, but why the Dickens don't some-
body suggest something for us law
yers once in awhile? There were sew
enty thousand new lawyers turned out
yesterday. and you haven't even
peeped."
No." said the idiot, it isn't neces-
sary. You lawyers are well provided
for. With one National Congress, and
forty-eight separate State Leglsla-
lures working twenty-four hours a
day. turning out fifty-seven new va
rieties of law every fifteen minutes.
there's enough trouble constantly on
hand to keep 20,000.0O0 lawyers busy
for 100000 years, telling us not
what we can't do. but what few things
there are left under the canopy that
man of religious inclinations can do
without danger of arrest
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Terrific Possibilities.

But suppose that, laboring under
a smarting sense of similar wrongs,
there should come to be such thing
as old Doctor Pepsins Army of I'm
employed Physicians and Surgeons,
marching through the country, headed
for the White House in order to make
an impressive public demonstration of
their grievances! What peril to
the body polite that would be! Not
only could the Surgeons waylay the
village magnates and amputate their
legs, and seize hostile Editors and cut
off the finger with which they run
their typewriting machines, and point
with alarm with; but the more in
sidious means of upsetting the public
veal by pouring calomel into our
voirs, leaving cholera germs and ty-
phoid cultures under our door mats
or transferring a pair of jackass's
legs to the headquarters of an old
family horse. found grazing in the
pasture, would transform once smil-
ing countryside into scene of misery
and desolation.'
Poor, poor Dobbin!" murmured
tba I2iblioroopiac
Indeed. Mr.. Bib, it will be poor,
poor Dobbin!" :" said the idiot. II
don't think that many people besides
you and myself realize how desperate
ly serious menace it is that hangs
over us; and 1 feel that one of the
first acts of the Administration, after
it has succeeded in putting grape
juice into the Constitution as our
National Triple, and constructed a
solid Portland cemen all across the
Vice Presidents thorax to insure that
promised four years of silence, should
be an effort to control this terrible
situation"
"You talk as If it could be DONE"
said the Doctor, doubtfully
"Of course it can be done." said the
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ing You don't mind It at all if you
jump in in a hurry and then jump out
again.
But even IL the public didn't take
that sensible view of 1t, we have leg
islative methods by which the thing
could be brought about without the
public knowing anything about =.
For instance, supposing somebody In
Congress were to introduce on inno-
cent little bill appropriatlng 100000
for the erection of a residence for a
United States Ambassador to the Com
monwealth of California, for the
avowed object of keeping somebody
In San Francisco to see that Gov.
Johnson didn't declare war on Japan
without due notice to the Navy De-
partment, what could be simpler than
the insertion In that bill of a little
joker providing that from the date Of
the enactment of this statute the De-
partment of Agriculture is authorized
and required to expend the sum OF
twenty thousand dollars annually on
the dissemination, through Congress
sional Seed Packages, not less than
one ounce per package of germs of
49, l.,f
atively harmless disorders. for the
benefit of the medical profession?
Ta4idermists tell us that there are
more ways than one to skin a cat, and
the same is true of legislation.
"There's only one other way that l
can see to bring the desired condition
about and that is to permit physicians
to operate under the same system of
ethics as that to be found In the
plumbing business. II a Plumber is
allowed, as he is allowed in the pres
ent state of public morality, to repair
a leak In such fashion to-day that
new business Immediately and auto
matically develops requiring his at
tention tomorrow, I see no reason
why Doctors should not be permitted
to do the same thing. Called in to re-
pair a mump, let him leave measle
behind. The measle cured, a few
chicken-pox left carelessly about
where they will do the most good, will
insure his speedy return; and so on.
Every physician could In this way
take care of himself, and by skillful
manipulation of the germs within his
reach should have no difficulty not
only in holding but In increasing his
legitimate business as well.'
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to draw, and have filled, prescriptions
involving the whole range of the ma
terra medica, from Iceland moss and
squills up to prussic acid and cyanide
of potassium
1T makes me shudder to think of
it,! said Mr.. Brief, the lawyer. with
a grin at the Doctor
Shudder isn't the word, said the
idiot. 8 The bare idea makes my
flesh creep like a Philadelphia trolley
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
By John Kendrick Bangs.

- SEE by the paper this morning."
/ said the Idiot. as he put three
Jumps of sugar into his pocket
and absentmindedly dropped his
eyeglasses Into his coffee. that,
thanks TO the industry of our Medical
Schools and Colleges. the world IS
richer by 10000 new Doctors to-day
!, than it was yesterday. How does
the law of Supply and Demand work
In cases of that kind. DIR. SquillsF
Badly-very badly, indeed" said
the Doctor, with a gloomy shake of
his head. 1.-The profession is sadly
overcrowded, and mighty few of us
are making more than a bare living
"I was afraid that was the ease,"
said the Idiot, sympathetically. Il
was talking with prominent Surgeon
at the Club the other night, and he
was terribly upset over the situation.
He intimated that we have been
ruthlessly squandering our natural in
ternal resources almost as riotously
and as blindly as our lumbermen have
been destroying the natural physical
resources of the country. He assured
me that he himself had reached a
point in his career where there was
hardly a vermiform appendix left in
sight. and where five years ago he
was chopping down not less than
four of these a day for six days Of
the week at thousand dollars per,
It was now lucky time for him
when he got his pruning knife off
the hook once a month"
"That vermiform appendix craze
was all a fad anyhow" said the
Bibliomaniac, sourly, Like the
Tango, and Bridge. and Golf. and
Summing. and all the rest of those
things that Society takes up, and
then drops all of sudden like a hot
stick. 1t looked at one time as If
nobody could hope to get into Society
who hadn't had his vermiform re-
moved"
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Something Must Be Done.

"Well, social fad or not said the
idiot. whatever it was, there is no
question about it that serious inroads
have been made upon what we may
call our Vermiforests, and unless
something is done to protect them,
by George. in a fvw years we won't
have any left except few stuffed
specimens down in the Smithsonian
Institution.
~ asked my friend DIR. Cuttem
why he didn't call for a vermiform
Conservation Congress to see what
can be done either to prevent this
ruthless sacrifice of L product that if
suitably safeguarde- should supply
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surprise to me, Doctor, that so many
young men are taking up medicine
these days when competent. observers
everywhere tell us that the world is
getting better all the time
If that is true, and the world
really is getting better all the time,
it is fair to assume that some day it
will be entirely well. and then, let
me ask you, what is to become Of all
the Doctors? 1t will not be a good
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06

ourselves. and our children. and our
children's children to the uttermost
posterity. with ample appendicular re-
sources for the maintenance in good
style of reasonable number of sur
geons; or to re-seed scientifically
where the unscientific destruction of
these resources is uncomfortable. How
about that. DoctorS Suppose you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06

thing for Society ever to reach a
point where it has such an army of
unemployed on it's hands, and espe-
cially that kind of an army, made UP
as it will be of highly intelligent but
desperately hungry men, face to face
with starvation, and yet licensed by
the possession of a medical diploma
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
A New Bureau.

ITO this end we might have, for in
stance, Bureau of Disease Dissem-
ination, subject perhaps to the juris-
diction of the Secretary of the Inter
ior, under whose direction, acting In
cooperation with the Department of
Agriculture, every package of seeds
sent out by Congressman to his con-
stituents would have a sprinkling of
germs of one kind or another mixed
in with the seeds, thus spreading little
epidemics of comparatively harmless
disorders like the mumps, the measles,
or the pip, around In various over
healthy communities where the Doc
tors were in danger of going over the
hill to the poorhouse. Surely if we are
justified in making special efforts to
help the farmers we ought not TO hes
itate to do the Doctors good turn
once In while."
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idiot Doctors being engaged in In
ter-State Commerce.
Doctors? State Commerce?"
cried Mr.. Brief. That's a new one
on me, Mr.. idiot Everybody is appar-
emily in Interstate Commerce in your
opinion. Seems to me it was only the
other day that you spoke of CIairvoy-
ants being in It,"
Sure" said the idiot. And it's the
same way with the Doctors. In nine
ty-nine cases out of hundred, where
a man passes from this state into the
future state, you'll find a Doctor
mixed up in it somewhere, even If it's
only as a Coroner. This being So 1t
would be perfectly proper to refer the
matter to the Interstate Commerce
Commission for solution.
Anyhow, something ought to be
done to handle the situation while
the menace is in it's infancy. We need
the ounce of prevention. Now. my sug-
gestion would be that the law should
step in and either place limit to the
number of Doctors to be turned out
annually, on a basis of SO many Doc
tors to so many hundreds Of popula-
tion-say three Doctors to every hum
dred people-just as in certain COM
munities the excise law allows only
one saloon for every thousand reg
istered voters; or else, since the State
permits medical schools to operate
under a charter, authorizing them to
manufacture physicians and surgeons
ad lb.. and turn them loose on the
public. the State should provide work
for these Doctors to do.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-10

mase.9 which he calls purpurase. This
ferrnent is present in all three species
which he calls purpurine. This Is diff
ferent In each species and is acted
upon by the ferment in such a way
that there results a conversion of the
%purpurine into a chromogene or color
maker.
The chromogene then changes i;ito
q pigmentcd substance, becoming at
first yellow, then green, and finally
purple, under the influence of heat or
light. Accompanying this change from
the electromagnetic to the pigment there
Is an elimination of a peculiar sub
stance with a strong, disagreeable
odor resembling asafetida. The pig
ment produced from the chromogene
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-10

Of two genera, purpura and murex, the
latter a bristling periwinkle, some
times called the rock snaI n
species of the former genus used was
purpura lapillus. while Of the murex
there are two species available, brand
arts and t%runculus.. The three species
yielded coloring matter OF three dis
tinct shades. The brandaris cores
ponds probably to that produced at
Tyre. The species ~trunculus furnish
ed amethyst purple and was chiefly
prepared at Sidon. The pigment from
lapiIlus lis of deep violet, more red
than blue. having q shade in~tersiedi-
ate between the other two.
dyers of olden times added cOlOring.
matter extracted from the emadder
plant OF from the chochineal insects