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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1914-01-29
CHAPTER vi.
Guesses at the Riddle.

ERE are the 1actS OF our
case" and Godfrey checked
them off on his fingers.
THE cabinet contains a Sc
cret drawer This is inevitable If 1t
really belonged to Nine. de Montespan.
Any cabinet made for her would be
certain to have secret drawer That
drawer must be adequately guarded,
and therefore mechanism was de-
vised to stab the person attempting to
open 1t and to inject into the wound a
poison so powerful as to cause instant
death. Am | right so far?"
Wonderfully right" | nodded. "I
had not put it so clearly even to my
self. Go ahead"
1--WE come to the conclusion. them"
continued Godfrey. "that the business
Of this unknown Frenchman with Van
tine. in some way concerned this cabi
net"
"Vantine himself thought So" broke
In. He told me afterward that it was
because he thought SO he consented tc
see him."
"Good! That would seem to indi-
cate that we are on the right track.
The Frenchman's business, then, had
something to do with this cabinet and
with this secret drawer. Left to him
self, he discovered the cabinet in the
room adjoining the anteroom, attempt
ed to open the drawer and was killed"
YES" agreed. "And now how about
Vantine?"
"Vantine's death isn't so simply ex-
planned Presumably the unknown wO-
man also called ON business relating to
the cabinet. She, also wanted to open
the secret drawer, in order to secure
its contents. That seems fairly GER
tain from her connection with the first
, caller"
"You still think it was her photo
graph he carried in his watch?"
81 am sure of 1t. But how did II
happen that ii was Vantine who was
killed? Did the woman, warned by
the fate of the man. deliberately set
Vantine to open the drawer In order
that she might run no risk? o: was
she also ignorant Of the mechanism
Above all, did she succeed in getting
away with the contents Of the
drawer?"
what was in the drawerY'
"Ah. If we only knew"
perhaps the woman had nothing to
do with it, Vantine himself told me
that he was going to make careful
examination OF the cabinet No doubt
that is exactly what he, was doing
when the woman's arrival interrupted
him. He might have let her o Of the
house himself and then. returning tC
the cabinet. stumbled upon the secret
drawer after she had gone"
"Yes; that is quite possible too. But
there are objections, and rather
weighty ones. In the first place. 4
the Frenchman got the drawer open
who closed itr
perhaps 1t closed itself when he lie
| - - a."
Gro be Coutinued)
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1914-01-29

before long. You will meet them at
the door; you will refuse to admit one
Of them; you will tell them that there
is nothing to be learned here and that
they must go to the police. Is that
right, LesterY
"Yes, Ulysses" / agreed, smiling.
"And now" continued Godfrey.
watching Rogers keenly, II have a
photograph here that l want you to
look at. Did you ever see that person
before?" and he handed a print to Rog-
ers.
The latter hesitated an instant and
then took the print with trembling
hand Stark fear was In his eyes
again. Then slowly he raised the print
to the light and glanced at 1t.
Catch him. Lester!' Godfrey cried
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1914-01-29
Teachers Examination.

The Highland county Board of School Ex-
aminers hereby gives notice that examina-
tions of Applicants of Certificates viii take
place In the Washington School Building.
Hilisboro. on the first Saturday of every
month
Patterson examinations will be held on the
third Saturday of April and on the third
Saturday of May.
AS prescribed by law, the fee for teachers
examinations will be so cents while, for
Patterson examinations no fee is charged.
o. A. TBNER, Sinking Spring. Pres.
adv W. B. VANCE, Hillsboro, Vice Pres.
II. B. GALLIETT. Lynchburg, Sec.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1914-01-29
Notice of Appointmenr.

Estate of George W. Barrere sr., deceased
Granville Barrere has been appointed and
qualified as administrator OF the estate of
George w. Barrere Sr., late of Highland
county, Ohio. deceased
Dated this ieth day of January A. D., 1914.
j. B. woRLEy,
Probate Judge of said County.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1914-01-29

Mrs. Neighbor-They tell me your
son Is in the college football eleven.
Mrs. Malaprop-Yes, indeed.
Mrs Neighbor-Do you know what
position he plays ?
Mrs. Malaprop--Ain't sure, but I
think he's one Of the drawbacks. -
London Tit-Bits.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1914-01-29

81 had toilet that new maid go.
discovered that she was neglecting the
children when l was attending my
club meetings."
'sThat so I''
"Yes. Positively she couldn't think
less Of them If they were her own. -
Detroit Free Press.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1914-01-29

Molly-Don't you.think agirl should
marry an economical MANI
Dolly-I suppose SO; but it's awful
being engaged to one.-Liverpool Mer-
curry.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1914-01-29

The weight ofipersonal baggage al
lowed free of charge on English rail-
ways for each ordinary first.class pas.
senger is $50 pounds, and for each
ordinary third.class passenger 100
pounds.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1914-01-29

"What is frenzied finance ?"
"Financinglyour friends. ~ udge.
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A Visit to Sindbad's Home

We were on our way to Bussorah, fa- nous as the apocryphal nome of Sindbad the sailor and the prospective terminus of the Bagdad railway, says writer in Chambers Journal.
 Bussorah is the seaport of Bagdad. from which it Is distant about 800 miles by river.
 Bussorah in the summ| is nothing less than fiery furnace, for the thermometer registers more than 100 degrees Fahren- heit in the shade during .12o consecutive days, and the mean temperature, night and day, for upward of four months, is about 90 degrees.
 Malaria1 levers. dysentery and ague are prevalent and the town is frequently vis- ited by plague and cholera: and yet thanks to the cool winter and prevailing north winds. the place is not essentially unhealthy for those who are acclimated.
 Europeans appear to stand the climate better than natives. possibly because they take better precaution1 are better rouscd and live moro active lives. The mortality In the case of natives is high, especially among infants. Europeans rarely succumb unless carried off by cholera, of which the epidemics in the last few years have been unusually se- we're.
 The governor general of the province of Bussorah had his private residence in the upper story of d nimsy lath and plas- ter edifce overlooking the main road. Tbe walls of his house could not have been more than six inches thick, and it was full of windows. The ground floor seemed to be a stable and was occupied by goats.
 As our carriage approached. churning
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ment over dead man as the resurrec- tion body of one who has written and yet survived. On my shelves quite the larg- est number of volumes are tombstones. Some. even before they had left the pub and some like Lazarus of old, were fast putatively decaying. Only the few elect rise again.
 But however well we sort them out we take these life-like monuments, crowned with harps and sheaves and cherubim. the product of every species of human intel tect and experience, and tumble them to- gether because we desire not to have them mingle with dust of all sorts We put them all upon a common shelf. be- cause 1t is five feet long and Dr. Eliot is looking at rs-history poetry. art, mod ern civics and ancient divinity. modern science and ancient magic humor and devotion, on a single shelf. They look out at us from a single pane of glass, or if We have enough of them we spread them further: but we can by no means avoid the haunting sense of a ghostiy guffaw or else a shadowy whisper of an- gry protest Ineongruity may be comic or tragical
 What do these deceased ladies and gem tlemen think of us who have bought them and then ,rudely slammed them behind these cemetery bars? What do they say when they find the place of sepulcher crowded place, where they are cheek by jowl with persons whom they never met and whom they would scorn to acknowi- edge as being in the same Charon-boat with themselves? What does my Epictetus think when he finds himself with his el- bows in the ribs of a living lady, Mrs. Humphrey Ward? Mrs Wards famous
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relative, Matthew Arnold, is happily sur rounded with Emerson on one side and on the other Fuller Andrew of that ill<. chief and glory of Baptist divines. and even something of a philosopher.
 Noah Webster, the somewhat doctrin- aire sehoolmaster, is cheek by jowl with that other schoolmaster, Thomas Carlyle. But what will Tammas say? And talking about Baptists, there's that famous essay ist and Baptist. John Foster, rubbing Ed ward Gibbon on the one shoulder and a brilliant living gossip. Henry Van Dyke. on the other. Ah. when the fire burns low and the light is out of the mazdas, might we not hear strange talk at mid night or in the wee srla' hours? In that shadowy land whither they have gone surely some of these have made happy aequaintanceship. The surviving few may brag in the daylight how well they know their Carlyle and their Arnold, their Elm erson or their Foster or their Gibbon but at night what talk it would be. along ul- tra violet waves of sound with what piercing whispers, when Fuller answers Gibbon and Gibbon offers a confession of faith to Epictetusl will leave Mrs. Ward and pr. Van Dyke to the sunshine, but some night. when courage grows big enough. I will come and listen for proph- etic murmur from the astral sphere! So did Walter Savage Lauder, long ago lugubriously. Graveyard wanderers need vaster inspiration.
 The body of Charles Lamb, safely risen from among the dead, stands beside that of Chaucer and their souls hold welcome fellowship. as of kinsfolk. Dante is dressed like Ella, and makes a third lit member of the group, immortal bays on every head. But what odd freak of the mind put that sweat and gracious invalid
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"CHEEK BY JOWL'-By George Eaves, D. D.

The foolish old adage says that misery makes strange bedfellows. But who ever saw misery making beds? Some have changed the prorerb applying it to poli- tics, and experience has always applied it to treason. For instance who could make more ill-assorted bed-fellow to Sir Edward Carson than some pious Presby- terian survival in northern Ulster, who thinks of the Eternal and Almighty King as an immovable mass of carved gran ite. and who would be startled beyong words if he met with new idea? Sir Edward Carson is very shrewd and ca- pablo lawyer, but the two are forninst the government cheek by jowl. Also there are traders in treason nearer home who will ono day kick each other out of bed, politicians and lawbreakers and undesirable citizens" But not even pol itics nor treason makes the bed. Indeed it is only when most actively wide-awake that the oddity of their association ap- peals to the disabilities of politicians. It may be that this awakening is caused by the other man having pulled away most of the blankets. sheets. comforts and other coverlets, leaving limbs unsightly, as well as shiveringi The dawning of election time is of course chill and grey, when there is prospect of keen and windy op- position. So it must be said rather that politics and misery and treason alike awaken strange bedfellows to the fact of their odd bedfellowship and set them pret- ty frequently to quarrelling over the clothes.
 Authorship, We may perhaps more wise ly say, makes strange tombfellows, grave companions. knights of the same sep ulchral ropnd table. For a bound volume is just as likely to be the tomb or monu-
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the race Death is the antecedent to life In nature. and in the world of eternal verities aPd being
 Under 'the green bilowy graves of cemeteries many of our loved ones have been sadly laid away and at this East ertide we place above them our floral remembrances. We said long fare well to them with aching hearts and streaming eyes. But is all over? Will they live never again? Is a grain of wheat, or a flower. of more importance than they? Has not the Great Thinker answered the ancient and ever recur- ring question. If man die shall he live again?' And has not He declared a life after death? If the thoughts of the Great Thinker stand for anything, they stand for an affirmation of the resurrection. I am not sure that science as yet can establish the fact as 1t ap- plies to man. But there are many things before which science is still inn potent. So we do not go to science for information on this subject We go to the Great Thinker and Teacher, to the church and to the authoritative word.
 There was one who was in close touch with the Great Thinker, though born out of dNe time" He knew the mind of the Thinker. In an essay this wonderful man said, "The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised" By analogy, by repeated argu- ment, and by authoritative declaration the fact of the resurrection of the dead is set forth in this wonderful essay.
 I do not understand that the identical fleshly body is to come to life again. This were undesirable. Many have been laid in their graves after disease has made their physical frames unsightfy; many have been horribly mangled in accidents and buried thus; some have been burned to death and the poor cln- der of body was buried; and other some have wasted away with con
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suming fever until the pathetic body that was buried was indescribably un- like the body of our friend l do not think that such bodies are essential to the fact of the resurrection.
 The man of the essay alluded to said, But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and win what body do they -cbme?'" He then proceeds to show that the resurrection body is not the identical fleshly body that was buried in all it's weakened, and dis figured unsightlihess. He appeals to analogy to show that it is not the same kind of body, saying, Thou fool that which thou sowest (wheat or oats) is not auickened except 1t die and that which thou sowest. thou sowest not that body that shall be. but bare grain
 (this of mere grain), il may chance of wheat or of some other grain: (the wheat or other grain that you SOW Is not the identical seed that you reap) but God eiveth it a body as 1t hath pleased Him, and to every seed it's own body" He then draws analogies be- tween different sorts of bodies, those of men. fishes and birds. Then he advances to the thought that the ex cellence of some bodies is superior to some others. The climax is reached when he touches upon "the spiritual body" saying. Tt Is sown natural body; it is raised a spiritual body After a further argument to prove that the body of the resurrection Is a spir itual one, he firmly declares, Now, this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom God" Even those persons who are alive at the coming of the Judge of All, may not enter into the glories of the resur- rection life without some wonderful for the essayist affirms Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep (die), but we shall Ia al., nc.ad In, a. mo mi in thn
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Then therAls Crahbe. certainly the last man to live with Francis Quarles. Who sees in him a forerunner and prophet of democracy9 1t was Edmund Burke who rescued Crabbe from starvation, recog nized his poetic talent and setting his fees on the ladder of hope. It was Samuel Johnson who secured publisher and pur- chasers of Crabbes handiwork and read CTS will soon find the reason Hear him justify his description of an English vil- lage:
 Vet why. you ask. these humble crimes
 relate?
 why mako the Poor as guilty as the To show the great, those mighty sons of
 pride.
 How near in vice the lowlest are allied
 And. curiously enough. Crabbe has a passage which might have suggested this present theme. He Is describing the thee- logical section of a library: An Athanasan here. in deep repose Sleeps with the fercest of his Arian foes: Sooinians here with Calvinists abide, And thin partitions angry chiefs divide, Here willy Jesuits simple Quakers meet And Belarmine has rest al Luther's feet. -
 Belarminc of course, Is the great Cath ollie theoloeian, famous for disputation with the earlier Protestants. But behold how the dividing seas of yesterday have left us dryshod today crossing and re- crossing,
 My copy Of Quarles lacks title page and the first few leaves. Some thrifty but unlterary rossessor in 173e q thinlQ used the inside front cover and some mar
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And cuckoo buds of yellow hue,
 Do paint the meadows with delight
 Spring is here. And with it's coming came the birds. The first of my feathered friends to appear brought no song in his little throat, but his very appearance breasted robin. He had not learned Ito turn a tune,' he could only chirp, but I welcomed him most cordially. His advent was excitive of wonder. He brought one or two scouts with him at first, but in a moment I saw following him. scores and scores of his kind. They were tumb- ling, darting, whirling, dashing upward and downward, and performing all man. her of gymnastics in the soft, warm air At the conclusion of some graceful "act," they would sound forth merry chirp which seemed to say. Did you see that, sir? You could not do-ft if you tried all spring-now, watch' and then thera would be a flash of gray and red in the direction of the fields where the little sinners would nip the delicate grass blades just springing forth to meet the sun.
 At this time O spring, I greet not only the robin, but other birds, as well. There has been a family of red-birds near the house for a number, of years, They come with the warm days of spring and disap- pear with the advancing of autumn. But they always return. They seem to know that they will ever find sanctuary in my woods and grove. l feel that I have a property right in them I have the right to protect them, and am always careful to see that no one ever frightens them They love to come about the house and perched upon twig. they will watch us at the doors, in the hammocks, and peer through the windows with unweary ing curiosity. They pay me for my lsolicitude for their safety by their beauti- full songs. Does the skeptical reader ask,
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IF is a balmy spring morning, and sim
 cerely grateful am I that winter is -s gone. It was such a long winter, and su cold. We had more snow and ice in this section than in many winters com bined The trees were bare for so long & time, and for many months the birds were absent from their accustomed haunts. How we missed them. The earth has had the appearance of a cold, dead indifference to the husbandman's needs, and has seemed to say, T have served you for the last time-never again shall the bright blade of the scythe flash above me while you gather the yellow grain it is all over, this is the end.' This is the end" said the tall trees of the woods 'as the freezing winds swept through the snow-laden, leafless branches. The end is come to the music of the brook" said the hard gray ice where the stream once tinkled its joyous song down the shady glade You have heard the songnirds for the last time" so the winter silence in wood and plain seemed to say. Dead the buried seed he husbandman scattered in the crisp days of autumn. Deadl
 It seemed that the cold arms of nature had embraced all things in the clasp of death. But it is now delicious spring again. Winters blasts have yielded to an ethereal mildness that came up out of the west. The ice is gone, and again the brook sings on down it's winding way Bare branches of thousand trees, have assumed tender promise of delicate leaf age. On such fruit-bearing boughs as peach, plum, and wild cherry, spring has hung infant blossoms of pink, and white. In the garden and along the walks flow CTS are showing signs of waking after the long sleep of winter. Here are jonquils narcissus-blooms. and others. Spring is here!
 'When daisies pied, and violets blue,
 And lady-smocks all silver white,
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N the old song, My Dog and I,'' are
 placed "cheek by jowl.' But it seems a sad affinity, a fitness far to seek. when one observes a pug dog nuzzling against a fair face, while onlookers de- plore that so beautiful woman should have gone to the dogs for fidelity. Two faces, side by side, upon a single pillow, are not necessarily cheek by jowl; never theless every tiny maid clasping her old grand-dad around the neck and resting her soft cheek on his lean jaw, makes a. picture worth painting. The cheek should be smooth and round, the jaw hard and perhaps hairy; otherwise the phrase re- sembles a wagon horse carving a butter fly.
 With some such feeling I have been collecting in orderly array some scattered books of my modest library, volumes that had gotten themselves mixed in company not of their class, and in the same mood I happened upon a. sick friend and noted & half dozen books upon the mantelpiece. These latter gave me most pleasurable shock of hun1or as the cold splash Of an unexpected shower on a hot and dusty and tiresome journey. Some of these were borrowed books; but I gasped to see Mnss SylNla fanhhufst on the lap or Miss Mary Johnston. My own few vol umes are now decorously sorted out but my friends pile should be kept intact and secure to the day of judgment For along with the suffragette militant and the mill itant novelist are Ibsen and the fierce Russian political martyr Dostvieffsky, and that explosively funny churchman, George A. Birmingham, with the longest joke on record. General John Began" fin which he turns his laughter upon all political passions.
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BYPATHS OF HSTORY-THE DARK AGES-By B. F. Riley, D. D..

winter has its important function. not otherwise was it with the dark ages There We're lalwessness and violence. crime and violence, in abundance, but there was also much of worth. There was also war, but war is not an unmixed evil History shows that the greatest revolu- tions of progress have sprung up in the wake of war.
 Not to go even into a general review of what is known in history as the middle or dark ages, we will confine ourselves for the present to the intellectual and humanitarian phases of that long period. All know that there are no agreed limi- tations of the period; it is thought of as an age intervening between the times of classic antiquity and our modern period Somewhat more definiteness is reached when the middle ages are thought of as beginning with the overthrow of the west ern empire, in A. D. 476, and closing with the outbnrst of the reformation.
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stylus in hand, writing. working. de- eiphering. reading. preserving. perpet-
 uating. With the vellum spread before them. these men with snowy hair would trace every character and every par ticle with the utmost minuteness. In the burst of the renaissance which came anon, the world has lost sight of this seed time of the history of litera- ture. during which time laborious monks immured within stony walls, did that which made possible the re- vival of letters. The scholarship of the middle ages was a spring board 10 the generation that gave to the world such an affluence of literature. Minerva like. literature sprang into full life, while the wrecks of the dark ages were still 10 be seen. It requires but mo-
 ments reflection to discover that this spring time of literature could not have been without the winter preparation which immediately preceded. With in