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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-05-30

The discovery or the body of q man
lying in the woods, with a bullet from
IN automatic pistol in the brain, is
unfortunately not an event so strange
a. to call for nationwide publication.
When Grand Valley, n. Y, learned
of the discovery, under those condi-
tons, of what had been one of her cit
liens, the story was featured promi-
nently in all the local papers, for Jack
Poole had been a fnancier and mag
nate in that remote northern town.
BIT oaly here and there, scattered
throughout the length and breadth OF
the land, were men who understood
the awful portent of this occurrence.
None but they connected 1t with
the appearance of the man in the
devilchair, a vehicle with a gyroscope
attachment, running at a ~prodigious
speed, by means of which he had af-
fected a startling robbery in Brook
lyn and a still more astonishing es-
cape. The hue and cry for him had
now died down. A tickle public had
turned to new interests. But these
men knew-for Jack Poole had been
ne OF the group whom John Haynes
had marked out for vengeance.
Five years before he had been rob-
bed of vast landed interests in a west
ern state by a confederacy of unscru-
pulous men, aided by a corrupt Judge
and a bribed lawyer. He had been
treacherously wounded, paralyzed,
railroaded under an assumed name to
the penitentiary at Nokomis Falls.
John Haynes had been separated
from his wife and daughter. The girl
he had found, living upon the bounty
OF the man Poole, in the belief that
both her parents we're dead. Haynes
rescued her and sent her to Chicago,
to await the time when he should
ummou her to his side. He learned
that his wife's whereabouts was known
to another of the gang-Chauncey E.
Robertson of Benderville, a mushroom
township near Nokomis and built on
ais own lands in the midst of a will
derness of prairie and a tumble of
barren hills. After Poole had come
TO his end through a new attempt at
treachery, Haynes resolved to seek
out Robertson, discover where his
wife was to be found, and execute JUS
tiee upon him.
It was a feature Of the plans which
Haynes had formed during the period
Of his Imprisonment that each of his
enemies should meet with a fate ap-
proximating, as nearly as possible
that which he had melted out to him.
He had no further confidence in the
law; anonymously he would work, Sc
eretly he would devise: and his blow
should fall like a lightning bolt out
Of a blue sky.
But before melting out justice to
R~obertsons he resolved to consult a
phyHician In order to discover wheth-
ar or not the Gripping paralysis,
wakrh rendered his lower limbs use
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-05-30
YOU SKUNK! SAID JOHN HAYNES SOFTLY LOOK AT NE
HARDER. DO YOU REMEMBER NE 2"

would understand. On the Friday she
reached Nokomis, dressed as a nurse,
her suitcase in her hand.
John Haynes had affixed his dummy
wheels, and the automobile took them
to his cottage. There he outlined the
case. He a amazed at E%leanor's
self-possession. The timid girl, ignor-
ant of the ways of the world outside
her little circle at Grand Valley, had
become inflamed by his schemes of
vengeance; not only the sense Of 10y
atty to her father, SO strangely re-
stored to her, but the desire to avenge
his wrongs and to discover her moth
er had come to dominate her entire
being. She learned his plan and she
pronounced it good.
you see, my DEAR" John Haynes
explained, hobbling to his chair be-
side the fireplace, this Theobald is
an unprincipled scoundrel, and doubt
less he will not hesitate, under fear
Of betrayal, to turn on his former al
lies. 1 have made inquiries and I'M
derstand that they have given him a
number Of shares in the land COM
pany. He is rich and respected. II
his past, which he thinks forgotten,
should rise up and threaten him, he
would stick at no scruples. At the
same time it is necessary to frighten
him thoroughly and to impress him
with our power, SO as to prevent the
possibility of renewed treachery."
On the next day, Haynes returned
to DR.. Theobald.
I've been thinking over the mat
ter and 1 have decided to undergo
that operation" he said. "You guar
antee that there will be no danger?"
Absolutely none," the doctor an
swered. You ought to have been
operated on long ago. That physician
in Mexico who treated you, Mr..
Thompson, was criminally ignorant.
l say this without hesitation"
Good" said John Haynes. but
you must operate at my home"
you will require a nurse" he said.
Il have one at my house." an
swered the ~Englishman. "She Is very
competent" .
Then how would Monday morning
suit your suggested Theobald bland
ly. my anesthetist end j can be
there at nine o'clock"
mo anesthetist will be needed"
Haynes answered. my nurse who at
tends me is amply competent to ad-
minister ether"
"But l shall need her assistance
during the operation. OF course 1t
could be done. But"
"Dr. Theobald." said John Haynes,
smiling. 81 prefer to have my own
nurse administer the ether. You said
the operation will be a slight one. and
| would rather place myself in her
care than under that of any assistant
Of yours"
20. very WELL" answered Theobald
shortly, mentally adding a hundred
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-05-30
Home Town|
Y Helps N
URGES PLANTING or TREES
Baltimore Newspaper Points Out How
Much They Add to Appear
ance Of City.

Baltimore can well approve of the
movement for more city tree plant
ing, launched by the Women's Civic
league. There is no doubt other
cities have paid more attention than
has this to the subject, but 1t is one
In which all who are working for a
attractive as well as fora larger
and nor prosperous city can well
consider. While good care is taken Of
the trees in city parks and squares,
those along the street curbs are sadly
neglected, allowed to die and then
rarely replaced. Yet it is no great
task to make a tree grow along the
sidewalk. A little careful trimming,
a lo~osening of the earth at the roots
now n then, a watch for bugs and
borers, that's about all IL the tree be
strong and healthy when 1t is put in
the ground. OF course, now and then
an accident will happen and the tree
be unrooted or broken by a runaway
horse or a careless driver, but even
then it can be easily replaced and
when young a box placed around it.
SO as to shield it from harm.
Let us hope hat this movement
will succeed. A thoroughfare with
handsome, healthy trees on either side
is a city beauty spot and a valuable
city asset. Land is too valuable in a
metropolis to allow the creation and
maintenance of large lawns, except in
suburban districts, but there is plenty
of room for trees, even in streets on
which traffic is very heavy.
Arbor day, established to encourage
tree-planting, has amounted to little
in Baltimore, outside of the school
house program, but now it can be put
to practical use for civic betterment
and civic beauty. Plant a few now
and you will be surprised at the re-
sult.-Baltimore American.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-05-30
Good Plan for Small rown.


Villages and small towns in all parts
of the United States would do well to
follow the example of Williamstown,
Mass. There the town council has
adopted a scheme proposed by Presi-
dent Garfield of Williams college, and
providing that there shall be planted
annually along the roadside of the
town a number of trees that shall be
valuable for commercial as well as
ornamental purposes. President Gar
field, it seems, derived his idea from
France, where the plan has been car
ried out successfully and has been
found to be decidedly worth while.
Conditions vary in different towns
and villages of course, and in some
a scheme of this sort might be UNI
desirable or imp~racticable. These,
however, are the exceptions. and for
a majority of our smaller communities
adoption of DR.. Garfield's plan would
be an excellent thing. One must
wait a long time, it is true, before the
trees thus planted become valuable
commercially, and 1t may be that the
public fund would never be swelled
very largely by income derived from
them. Yet If in France hat income is
found to be sufficiently large to take
care of the towns most beautiful or
naments. its trees. and in addition
leave something over for other pur-
poses. there seems to be no good rea-
son why the same thing should not
be true In this country.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-05-30
CHILDREN AID GOOD WORK
Even the Smallest Show Enthusiasm
In the Effort to Keep National
Capital Attractive.

To turn the waste places of the city,
the vacant lots and unsightly lawns,
into beautiful gardens filed with
blooming flowers and clinging vines
is the object of the Peoples Gardens
of Washington, and in the report for
the past year. which has just been pre-
pared, what has been accomplished
along these lines is set forth. The
building up of recreation gardens for
the people of a neighborhood, the beau.
LITIGATION of parkings and back yards
of the city and general stimulation
of interest in landscape gardening
have been gone into with enthusiasm
by the workers of the association and
their labors have shown surprising re-
suits.
One Of the noticeable facts concern
ing the work is that a major portion
was done during the past year by lit
tie children. And it is in building up
the gardening inclinations of the little
one that the elders are becoming much
interested and lending a hand them
selves. The children, having acquired
a taste for gardening, are the ones
who are to make the capital beautiful
in the years to come. 1t will fall up
on them to enlarge the park spaces,
preserve the trees and encourage the
planting of d~ooryard flowers and flow-
ering shrubs. The children have ia
ken up the gardening idea as they
would take up a new game. They
have shown unusual thoroughness and
the utmost joy in their work, and even
better results are expected from their
efforts during the spring and summer
to come.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-05-30

less and was the result of a bullet
in the spine, could not be cured.
The instinct of poetic justice in
duced him to seek out DR.. Adolphus
Theobald, formerly of the Nokomis
hospital, the nan who had tended
him when he lay there, awaiting his
trial and sentence under the pseu-
donym, Pete Timmons, a gang leader
of the town. Haynes had suspected
that his wound could have been cured
and, that, in fact, Theobald had been
inyeigled into the conspiracy Of the
land gang. Theobald was o in pri-
vate practice in the city Of Nokomis.
He did not recognize in the we'll
dressed, spruce, middle-aged English
man who hobbled into his consulting
room, the wounded man whom he had
treated at the hospital five years be-
fore. Haynes had rented a furnished
cottage on the outskirts, with a pri-
vate garage in which he stored a rent
ed automobile. Beneath this he had
attached the gyroscope, fitting it to a
larger wheel. The four wheels of the
machine were dummies-for show,
but not for use. Upon its single
wheel the little machine would run at
a hundred and fifty miles, firm as a
rock-or as an operating table.
Cure your" said Theobald, after he
had examined and X-rayed his patient.
"Of course 1 can. 1t requires only
a very trifing operation. You see,
Mr.-er-Thompson-" and a vague
memory stirred dimly among the for
gotten reaches of his brain, did not
rise to the level of consciousness: he
only experienced a sense Of momen-
tary disquietude-'you see, Mr..
Thompson, this bullet which you say
the crazed workman fired at you two
years ago reached the spine but did
not penetrate it. 1t is, at present,
pressing upon an important nerve
center which controls the movements
Of the lower limbs. To remove it by
a simple incision will be no danger at
ALL"
John Haynes was sure then that
Theobald had been bribed by the con
federates; that he had left the bullet
in the wound p~urposely, to cripple
him.
II cannot understand why the ply
sician who attended you did not re-
move that bullet" Theobald added
with a puzzled face. I'm Mexico, you
say? That must account for it. In
our country no doctor would hesitate
to operate for a moment"
"Ill think the matter over" said
Haynes, in order to arouse Theobald's
expectations of a fat fee, and he went
to the nearest telegraph office. From
there he sent a message to his daugh-
ter in Chicago. "Be here on Friday
morning next" he wired. Il will meet
you at the station at 10 a. m. 1t is
al important case. You had better
travel in your nurses uniform" That
was all, but he knew that Eleanor
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-05-30

awful odds to live. They have de-
veloped a new malta long nail by
which they can retain their hold on
the fence while climbing. With this
same nail they can burrow six or eight
inches under the netting. and thus an
ter the fields that mean food and life
to them. They are now laughing at
man. Reserve power has vitalIzed for
these rabbits latent possibilities, be-
cause they did not tamely accept their
condition, but in their struggle to live.
learned how TO live.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-05-30
WAS PROOF READERS ERROR

A story demonstrating the lasting ef-
feet Of a proof-readers error was told
b. Sir Eyerard i'm Thurn in the course
Of an address to the members OF the
Royal Horticultural society recently.
II had been noticed, he said. that In
the course of its growth the nut which
was now known as the cocoanut was
similar to the face OF a monkey, and so
ths Spanish and Portuguese word "co-
so.- MEANING a grin or griuAce. was
attached TO II.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-05-30
RABBITS ourwlT MAN

About As years ago three pairs Of
enterprising rabbits were introduced
into Australia. Today, the increase
OF these six immigrants may be count
ed by millions. They became a pest
to the country. Fortunes have been
spent to exterminate them. Wire fen
ces many feet high and thousands Of
miles long have been built to keep out
the invaders. The rabbits had to fight
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-05-30

Il want damages" shouted the
bruised and battered citizen who had
just been beaten up by his athletic
rival. Il think replied his friend and
adviser. after a critical inspection.
that II you look in the glass you1i
find you've got EN-"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-05-30

When DIR. Johnson was writing his
famous dictionary, he had an article on
the coco nut" but the careless proof
reader passed a mistake in the spell
ing OF the word, the compositor having
inserted an "a" and the word appear
ed az "c~ocoa-nut." This spelling Of
the word has been adhered. to ever
since. OF late years the nuts have
sometimes been styled "koker-nuts"
and "kokers."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-05-30
English Cast eIoqest Inqot.

The biggest ingot ever cast In the
world has just been turned out by a
Sheffield, England. company, accord
ing to the Engineering and Mining
Journal. It is designed for admiralty
purposes and is cast Of acid open
hearth steel. The feat was accom-
plished without accident and stands
as a record in the production OF steel
ingots.
1t is "a feet long. Z feet l inch
mean diameter over fats and z feet
8 inches mean diameter over rne
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-05-30

The word Usk is an Anglicized form
Of the Welsh word wysg. a Celtic word
meaning water. 1t is connected with
the Irish word uisque. from which the
Saxon gets the word whisky.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-05-30

Seems This Way Sometimes.
Some men succeed In life by mind
ing their own business. Others man
age to draw large salaries for neg
lecting other peoples business
Washington Star.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-05-30
Boost. Don't Knock.
Don't criticize the old town, unless
you can offer a remedy.
Words Are as chean ID Exer

An English economist
that a worldwide decline In the price
Of commodities has begun. and that
probably it will be more pronounced
at the end Of the year.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-05-30

The average depth OF sand in the
deserts OF Africa IL from 80 to 40 feet.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-01
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= SCRIPTURE =
ggyxg xA4s r. y . u p

For when God made promise t'
Abraham. because he could swear BY
no greater. he sware by himself
Sayine. surely blessing / will bless
thee. and multiply I will multiply
thee
And 50. after he had patiently en-
dured. he obtained the promise.
For men verify swear by the great
er: and on oath for confirmation is
10 them an end of all strife.
Wherein God. willing more abun-
dainty 10 sbew unto the heirs Of pro
misc the immntabiliiy of his counsel.
confirmed it by an oath
That bY two immutable things, in
which 1t was impossible for God to
lie. we nigh; have a strong conso-
lation. who have fled for refuge TO
lay hold upon the hope set before us;
which hope We have as on anchor
Of the soul. 10th sure and stedfast.
and which entereth into that within
The veil.
Whittier the forerunner is for MS
entered. even Jesus, made an high
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-01
ORGANIZED TREE PLANTING.

An interesting item is going the
rounds Of the press 10 the effect thal
organized planting societies IL
/ Norway, the first of which was
/ founded IL 1900, now number one
fhnndred and forty four, while the
trees planted by them aggregate
twenty six millions, more than two
millions having been set out last
year. We are also told that what the
Torwegians are doing in Norway in
his regard has been even NOR
thoroughly done in some sections OIL
Germany These societies. Of course
had their origin in popular recogni
ton Of the necessity for reforestation
as means Of mailing good long
time rsvage Of wooded areas. and that
necessity is only less presslnely ap-
parent In the older states Of this
Union than in the countries Of the
Old World Obylosuly the main wora
OF reforestation in the United States
must be done under governmental
auspices and at government expense
chiefly through the establishment and
maintenance OF forest reserves I'M
the peonle also, the private owners OF
land. la an Indispensable part to
play If anYtAng even appfoXimaiins
maximum results are TO be obtained
and il may well de that this part
could in no way be more efiectivels !
performed than through the oreanl- |
zaiiou Of ffee-plauiine soo.eties after
ine Noiueaan pattern Certainlf /
.lr aleue- would ive Mnueids io
-he movement now making in differ
-nr sections Of the country TO pro-
mote tree plantue and stimulate
0rest culture generally
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-01
Lung Trouble Yielded
TO This Medicine

u You are suffering with scrlons hung
trouble it will ray 10 fully investigate
Eckmans Alternative, a rumeds which
has caused many recovefies one fol-
lows
5a23 Gira-1 AVE- Phiia. IA.
Gentlemen -In .he winter Of 1903 /
had an attack et grippe. followed by
Pneumonia ana l4ter ry I.ung Trouble
IN toe wln}cr Of 1904 | bad cough
night sweais, fevar and raised Quantities
of awigl- looking stuff and later | had
luanN hemorrhases al cue time three iu
three successive DAYS Three Physicians
treated me was ordered io me- noun
tains bai lid nor 80. Ecknan a.
frfaiive Was recommended hy friend.
AtteI taking q small quantity I had the
fisst quiet nlahts steep inr weeks. Ms
Improvement was marked from he first
gained strength ana weigh and ap
petite u.Ner had anoincr helnor-
rhage and nay cough gradually lessened
anti entirely gone am perfectly well
fAbneNjat@d)
,Aridad0 ANNIE r. LoUGTIRAN.
IsthmaH Alternative Is most sii.cacious
brqHehia estarrA ana severe throat
and lung affections and Np-bUlding t'ie
syeem Contains no harmful or habit
forming drugs scpeNt no substitutes
Sold by Owl and other leading druggists
W rise nssimau Laboratory PHILADELPHIA
Pa for hopklet Of recoveries
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-01

laziness the hegira from school at the
time boys are getting out of the
grades and into high school. or even
earlier. There is something to that
ondobtedly. Work in school is be-
ginning to be somewhat OF an ordeal,
whereas what they call going TO
work, while having a more dignified
sound than merely going to school,
is as a matter OF fact nothing like as
real. but il is an easy going kind OF
business, more or less automatic.
They whould rather spend 10 hours
day al such work than five hours
at school, even though at school they
have associates almost entirely Of
their own age
There is probably something in this
explanation OF why boys get away
from school at as early an age as
possible but as powerful a reason Is
because they are weary OF routine,
and it is not so much the laziness
that prefers an easy goins kind OF
work to school routine. as the yearn-
ing for change, something different,
whether that something different ia
easier or harder There are mixed
motives that impel boys to quit school
at too early an age, but they are all
Insufficient.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-01

always held 10 be the most import
ant for this country 1t is simply
! thai is taking the money from an
enter ise that can not pay expenses
al first and giving it to an interest
that does not need it. at the cost OF
tie whole nation
To PAS expenses Of the canal in
cluding interest on bonds Issued, will
take sll500,O01 To pay interest on
the entire investment viii require
some sS.090,0O or S9,000.000 more.
But dealing with the Sll.500,00O, that
may be ranked as fixed charges from
the start the million or more that
should be paid By coasting vessels
will be 4 serious diminution The
vessels which will get that aid, fiN
their rates by conference. They will
simply pocket the SlN00,0o0 or more
each year, giving to the shippers Of
freight no share Of it, and all com
petition from foreign lines is excluded
by our navigation laws.
IN short. the exemption Is very
thinly -disguised subsidy expressly
framed to violate a treaty, and con
trary to the real principle ayowed in
the Baltimore platform And it is
given a groiesque character by select
ing as its beneficiaries the one ele-
ment in our shipping that is com
pletely protected against foreign
comDetition.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-01
WHY eoYs QUIZ SCHOOL.

According Jo the American Machin
ISL. Whieh Gems 70 Aave looked int,
The matter die main reason shay aoy
quit school 100 early is because %
lacs oi Willingness 20 tmna ana
to use res 4onsl1iils This, 1T SAYS
is ihe op,nlou ol ole ol It's coiIe-
spondents uho has bad abundant op-
nortuuity 10 Investigate these mat-
tiers.
80 Us not due 10 entail pressure
fhai hoys leave school according 10
lae lee authority. thoueh the caolse
or r,asoa given for desiring TO quit
sihoo' Is ,na teslre ~ begin wors Hut
BOYS qn.t school in sWafms al and
under IS. 81 which age they are not
in demand for work Their fathers
have no aOrb for which they are
qualified a. that aee nor before The
ape Of 10 or Us. aud the soIt oi work
for which q boy ai the are at Whicl
.hey swarm from school Is fit. as tAe
Nachinist Saws. is such as requires
neither thinking capacity nor respQn-
.ihili'y. on rhe other hand. the wofa
lie boy ls just coming into az school
Il this age is work thas LAYS some
eqns ment upon him To think ana
o take some sort Of responsibility.
The Mll'nists correspondent
therefore, attributes 10 Intellectual
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-05-01
DOES YOUR STOMACH CONTAIN
A GLASSFUL OF ACID?

stomach only increases the discomfort,
because the acld niixes with the fresh
food and turns It sour, making a lot more
acid. The acid condition causes food
fermentation. which irrtates d tends
and mflames The iender ssonAch ns,
and it Is no. surprising that spec. listS
say acid stomaens are dangerous THIS
decidedly dang rous and uncomfortable
condition can b. overcome either by fol-
lowing a strict diet or and this Is far
easier ana more quickly effective, by taxi
ing n teaspoonful Of bsnrated magnesia
i'm quarter glassful of water after meals
% neutrallze the acdity. The latter
course Is much more satisfactory be-
cause 1t corrects the acidiy and ban
lshes discomfort without any need for
diet.