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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-09-16
Child Paralysis Very infectious.

Commissioner Of Health Samuel
Dixon, asked regarding the press|
epidemic of infantile paralysis at En-
which is alarming the residents Of N
city, issued the following statement.
"Poliomyelitis has been known
the medical profession since 1SiO a
In America since 1896. Epidemics
considerable size have been repOrl
at varying intervals Throughout d
North Temperate Zone from 1887
the present time, the first great d
break in this country occurring in vI
mont in 1894 Pennsylvania had
epidemic of nearly 200 cases in d
vicinity of Dubois, Eauclaire, Ridgv]
and Oil City in 1907, small outbr,
in the vicinity of Gettysburg in N
and Statewide outbreak in 1910
Guiding a total of more than IN
cases.
THE disease is sudden and insidO]
in onset, accompanied by digestive 4
turbances, slight fever and often Cd
siderable stupor, red rash appeahd
in some instances. The average ciI
only is diagnosed about four or 4
days before paralysis occurs.
THE causative factor is so sml
that it will pass readily through 4
best of filters and may be found ba
with dark field microscopes of gTel
magnifcation. In the departments
search laboratories we often bal
transmitted Infection from MONKEY
monkey. How 1t is transmitted md
man to man still is in doubt. althorl
much evidence has accumulated whl'
would point the finger Of suspicion
ward biting insects.
at Is we'll to disinfect all dwelllnl
at the conclusion of the disease VII
both formaldehyde, gas and sulphE
sulphur to insure destruction of inse
life; and, If stables are near, to haI
them disinfected thoroughly and y
in sanitary condition. Damp hous
should be dried out thoroughly
heat"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-09-16
SYNOPSIS.

Kenneth Grlswold. an unsuccessful
writer because OF soclalistic tendencies,
holds up Andrew Galbraith, president or
tho Bayou State Securities. In the presi-
aents private office and escapes with slOO-
soo In cash. BY original methods he es-
capes the hue and cry and goes aboard
the Belle Julie as a deckhand. Charlotte
farnham OF Wahaska. MINI. who had
soen him cash Galbraith's check In the
bank, recognizes him. and sends letter
OF betrayal 10 Galbraith anonymously.
0riswold is arrested on the arrival OF the
boat at St Louis. but escapes from his
captOrs He decides on Wahaska, MINI,
as q hiding place. and after Outhtung
himself properly. takes the train. Girls.
void falls I'D on the sleeper and Is cared
for and taken 10 her home In Wahaska
ny Margery Grierson daughter OF Jasper
Grlerson. the financial magnate or Wa
haska. Margery finds the stolen money
In Griswold's suitcase. BrOtfn, detective,
takes the trail Margery asks her father
10 get Edward Raymcr into financial hot
water and then help him out OF H. Gris-
void recovers 20 find the stolen money
gone. He meets Margery's social circle
and forms "a friendship with Raymer, the
Iron manufacture. Brotin comes 10 Wa
the anonymous letter 10 Galbrhlth. Mar
gerry takes Griswold 20 the safety deposit
vault and turns the stolen money over TO
him. Charlotte bluds out BrOttn and
Margery begins 70 watch him GriswOld
puts his money In Raymer's plant and
commences 20 rewrite his book. GriswDld
goes 10 dinner az Doctor Fernham's and
Is not sure that Charlotte hes not recog-
niKGd him
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Grswold looked and was reasonably
sure that he could make out the
shadowy figure of man leaning
yalnst one of the trees.
That is my shadow" she said, low
eing her voice; "Mr Matthew Brof-
fin of the Colburne Detective agency,
In New Orleans. He has foolish idea
that | am in communication with the
man he is searching for, and he was
brutal enough to tell me, so. What he
expects to accomplish by keeping an
absurd watch upon our house and dog
ging everybody who comes and goes, !
can't imagine"
you have told your father?" said
Griswold, anxious to learn how far this
new alarm fire had spread.
Certainly; and he has made his pro-
test But II doesn't do any good; the
man keeps on spying, as you see. But
we have wandered a long way from
your book. I've been trying to prove
to you that am not fit to criticize It,"
'No; you mustn't mistake me.
haven't been coming to you for criti-
cism," was Griswold's rather incoher-
ent reply; and when the talk threat
ened to lapse into the commonplaces,
he took his leave. oddly enough. as lie
thought. when he was unlatching the
gate and had shifted one of the newly
purchased automatic pistols from his
hip pocket to an outside pocket of the
light top-coat he was wearing, the
shadowy figure under the lake-shading
trees had disappeared.
It was only few minutes after the
lingering dinner guest had gone when
the doctor came out on the porch,
bringing his long-stemmed pipe for
bedtime Whit in the open air.
you are losing your beauty sleep,
little girl" he said, dropping into the
chair lately occupied by the guest Did
you find out anything more tonight?
The daughter did not reply at once,
and when she did there was a note of
freshly summoned hardihood in her
voice.
I'VE were both mistaken" she af-
frmed. Condolences are always
likely to be misleading. | am sorry |
told you about them. He has certain
ly been present help in time of need
to Edward"
As before, the good little doctor had
recourse to his pipe, and 1t was not un-
I'll his daughter got up to go in that
he said gently: zone other word, Char
lie, girl: are you altogether sure that
the wish isn't father to the thought
about Griswold?"
Don't be absurd, papa!" she said
scornfully, passing swiftly behind his
chair to reach the door; and with that
answer he was obliged to be content.
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I'm coming to that. This escape
we read about happened on a certain
day in April. 1t was the very day on
which poppa met me on my way back
from Florida, and we took the eleven.
thirty train north that night. You
haven't forgotten that Mr.. Griswold
was a passenger on that same train?"
But, goodness gracious. Miss Mar
gerry! any number of people we're pas
sengers on that train. You surely
wouldn't"
"Hush!" she said, and through the
lace window hangings Broffln saw her
lift a warning finger. What | am
telling you, Mr.. Raymer, is In the
strictest confidence; we mustn't let a
breath of it get out, But that wasn't
all Mr. Griswold was dreadfuly sick
and, OF course, he couldn't tell us any
thing about himself. But while he was
delirious he was always muttering
something about money. money; mon
ey that he had lost and couldn't find, or
money that he had found and couldn't
lose. Then when we thought he
couldn't possibly get well, Doctor Ber-
tie and ransacked his suitcases for
cards or letters or something that
would tell us who he was and whore
he came from. There wasn't the lit
tlest thing!"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-09-16
Unsafe Buildings owner Sued

Acting for the State Fire MARSHA
Department, Attorney General Bro
brought suit against C. d. Saylor'
Ohio Plye, Fayette county, for the
covery of $3.50, alleged to be due
State in penalties for failure to
move or repair a building pronounf
by the Fire Marshal to be a fire Y
and dangerous to the community 7
penalties amount to 500 a day 9
ering the period from July 80 to y
tember 4. Saylor is said not to "a
paid any attention to the warm
of the state officials. This is the D
suit of the kind brought.
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CHAPTER XVlll-contlnued.

1T was a mamie was looking in
at the window" she returned in low
tones. q thought | saw him once be-
fore. but this time | am certain!"
Griswold sprang from his chair. and
. moment later was letting himself out
Aoiselessly through the hall door
There was nothing stirring on the
porch. He was still cropping among
The bushes, and Miss Farnham had
rome to the front door, when the doc
tors buggy appeared under the street
lights and was halted at the home
hitching post
Hello, Mr.. Griswold; is that you?"
s.alled the CHEEKY one, when he saw
q hareheaded man beating the covers
iA his front yard.
Griswold met his host at the gate
and walked up the path with him.
Miss Charlotte thought she saw
someone at one Of the front windows" 4"
ko explained; and a moment after
ward the daughter was telling it for
herself.
81 saw him twice." she insisted /;
"once while we we're at dinner. and
again just now. The first time
thought / might be mistaken, but this
lime"
Griswold was laughing silently and
lnWardly deriding his gifts when. un-
Ger cover Of the doctors return, he
made decent acknowledgement for
benefits bestowed and took his de.
parture. On the pleasant summer
night walk to Upper Shawnee street
he was congratulating himself upon
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-09-16

unlerfoot, as he was always obliged to
do in these talks with her 81 should
be discouraged II you didn't keep on
telling me that the story, as a story,
is good"
ut is good; It is big story" she
asserted, with kindling enthusiasm.
THE plot, so far as you have gone
with it, is fine; and that is where you
leave me away behind. don't see
how you could ever think It out. And
the character drawing is fine. too
some of 1t. Your Fleming Is as far
beyond me as your Fidelia seems to
be beyond you"
"You don't know Fleming yet. Have
you ever met Fidelia?"
Not as you have drawn her-no'
She is too unutterably fine, II she
had a single shred of humanity about
her, | should suspect you Of meaning
to fall In love with her, farther along
to the humiliation and despair of poor
Joan, who as you say, is a mere daugh'
ter OF men"
But how about Joan?" he fretted.
"Is she out Of drawing, too?"
Yes; you are distorting her the
other way-making her too inhumanly
worldly and insincere." Then. with an
abruptness that was like a slap in the
face; III you didn't spend so many
evenings at Doctor Bertie's, you would
get both Fidella and Joan in better
drawing"
He flushed and drew himself up,
with stabbed amour propre prompting
him to make some stinging retort con
] .r,,th ,,.ftb tho
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Instantly the Primitive. Instinct oi
self-Preservation Sprang Alert.

brackish waters Of sheer worldliness.
Then he saw how inadequate 1t would
be; how utterly impossible it was to
meet this charmingly vindictive young
person upon any grounds save those
Of her own choosing.
THAT is the first really unkind
thing | have ever heard you say" was
the mild reproach which was all that
the reactionary second thought would
sanction.
"Unkind to whom?-to you, or to
Miss Farnham?"
Ask yourself" ne countered weak
ly, and she laughed at him.
Griswold did not reply to the laugh.
He was gathering up the scattered
pages Of his manuscript and replacing
them in order. When he spoke again
it was of a matter entirely irrelevant.
Il had an odd experience the other
evening"" he said. Il had been dining
with the Raymers and was walking
back to Shawnee street. A little news.
boy named Johnnie Fergus turned up
from somewhere at one of the street
crossings and tried to sell me a pa.
per-at eleven o'clock at night |
bought one and joked him about being
out so late; and from that on couldn't
get rid Of him. He went all the way
home with me, talking a blue streak
and acting as II he we're afraid of
something or somebody | remem-
bered afterward that he is the boy who
takes care Of your boat Is there any
thing wrong with him."
Miss Grierson had left her chair and
had gone to stand at one Of the win.
dows.
Nothing that know of, she said
"He is a bright boy-too bright for his
own good, I'm afraid. But can ex.
plain--a little. Johnnie has taken a
violent fancy to you for some reason,
and he has fallen into the boyish habit
of weaving all sorts of romances
around you. l think he reads too many
exciting stories and tries to make you
the hero of them. He told me the
other day that he was sure somebody
was 'spotting you"
Griswold looked up quickly. Miss
Grierson was still facing the window
and he was glad that she had not seen
his nervous start.
"Spotting He?" he laughed "WherC
did he get that idea?"
How should | know? But he had
made himself believe It; he even went
so far as to describe the man. Oh,
can assure you Johnnie has an imagi
nation; I've tested it in other ways
81 should think sol" said the mar
who also had an imagination, anC
shortly afterward he took his leave.
An hour later the same afternoon
Broffin, from his post Of observation or
the Winnebago porch, saw the writing
man cross the street and enter a hard
ware shop. Having nothing better tC
do, he, too, crossed the street and, II
passing, looked into the open door o.
Simmons & Kleifurt's. What he saw
brought him back at the end of re
Elective stroll around the public square
When he entered the shop the clerl
was putting formidable array o
weapons back into their showcas,
inches Broffin lounged up and begar
to handle the pistols.
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the borough reservoir an enraged hen
pheasant, protecting her brood Of six
youngsters. flew from the bushes
along the mountain road and viciously
attacked his horse. She alighted on
the animals head, beating vigorously
with her wings
The frightened horse bucked, reared
and lunged in its fruitless efforts to
dislodge the mad pheasant. Finally
the bird pecked at the horses eyes,
binding 1t SO that the heavily loaded
wagon was backed OF the road and
down the mountain. Bradford leaped
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directly behind Miss Grierson chaii
to put the answer into effect, when the
opportunity was snatched away. Ray
mer, his business apparently conclud-
ed, came down the veranda and took
the chair next to Miss Grierson's.
Broffin dropped back into the writ
ing.room alcove for which the open
French window was the outlet and sat
down to bide his time.
IT'S shame to make you wait this
way, Miss Madge. McMurtry said he
had an appointment with Mr.. Gal
braith for three o'clock. and he had to
60 to keep it. But he ought to be
down again by this time. Don't walt
for me II you want to go back to town.
| can get lift from somebody"
THAT would be nice, wouldn't it?"
was the good-natured retort. "To make
you tie up your own horse in town
and then leave you stranded away out
here three miles from nowhere |
think see myself doing such a thing!
Besides, haven't a thing to do but
walt"
Broflin shifted the extinct cigar he
was chewing from one corner of his
mouth to the other and pulled his soft
hat lower over his eyes. He, too. could
wait. There was a little stir on the
veranda; rustling Of silk petticoats
and the click Of small heels on the
hardwood floor. Broffin could not for
bear the peering peep around the shell
tering window draperles. Miss Grier-
son had left her seat and was pacing
slow march up and down. That she
had not seen him became fact suiii.
ciently well-assured when she sat
down again and began to speak to
Grlswold
How is the new partnership going,
by this timer" she asked, after the
manner of one who rewinnows the
chaff OF the commonplaces in the hope
OF finding grain enough for the immedi-
ate need
80 far as Griswold is concerned,
you wouldn't notice that there is a
partnership" laughed the IRON
founder 81 can't make him galyanize
an atom of interest in his investment.
All I can get out of him is, Don't
bother me; I'm busy"
"Mr. Griswold is in class by him
self don't YOU Think" was the ques-
tioning comment.
"He is all kinds of good fellow;
that's all | know, and all ask to
know" answered Raymer Loyalty.
Il believe that-now," said his COM
panion. with the faintest possible EN-.
phasis upon the time-word.
BrofIin marked the emphasis and
the pause that preceded 1t. and leaned
forward to miss no word.
Meaning that there was time
when you didn't believe it?" Raymer
asked.
Meaning that there was time
when he had me scared half to death. '
confessed the one who seemed always
to say the confidential thing as if it
we're the most trivial. do you remem-
ber one day in the library, when you
found me looking over the file Of the
newspapers for the story of the rob
berry of the Bayou State Security bank
in New Orleans?
Raymer remembered it very we'll
and admitted 1t.
Yes; l remember it all very clearly.
Also l recollect how the second news
paper notice told how the robber es.
capped from the officers at St. Louis.
But you haven't told me how you were
scared" Raymer suggested.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-09-16
CHAPTER Xxx.
Broken Links.

IL was on the second day atter the
pistol-buying incident in Simmons g.
Kleifurt's that Brofin. wishful for soil.
tude and a chance to think in perspec-
tive, took to the woods.
A letter from the New Orleans o.
fee had reopened the account of the
Bayou State Security robbery. The
mail communication was significant
but inconclusiye. One Patrick Shee-
han, a St Louis cab driver, dying, had
made confession to his priest. For a
bribe OF two hundred dollars he had
aided and abetted the escape OF a
criminal on a day and date correspond
ing to the mid-April arrival OF the
steamer Belle Julie at st. Louis. After.
ward he had driven the man to an up
town hotel name not giyen). He could
not recall the mans name. But the
destination address, "Wahaska, Min
nesota," was submitted with the con-
fession.
Broffin felt himself short-sighted
from the very nearness of things The
single necessity now was for absolute
and unshakable Identification. To es.
tablish this, three witnesses, and three
only, could be called upon. OF the
three, two had failed signally-Miss
Farnham because she had her own
reasons for blocking the game, and
President Galbraith =. That was an
other chapter in the book OF failure.
Broffin had learned that the president
was stopping at the De Soto Inn, and
he had maneuvered to bring Mr.. Gal.
bralth face to face with Griswold in
the Grierson bank on the day after the
pistol-buying To his astonishment
and disgust the president had shaken
his head irritably, adding rebuke.
INA, ma, man; your trade makes ye
over-suspicious. That's Mr.. Griswold,
the wrlter-man and a friend of the
Griersons. Miss Madge was telling
me about him last week. He's no more
like the robber than you are. Haven't
told ye the man was bearded like
tyke?"
With two of the three eye.witnesses
refusing to testify, there remained
only Johnson, the paying teller of the
Bayou State Security. Broffin was
considering the advisability of wiring
for Johnson when he passed the last
Of the houses on the lakeside drive
and struck into the country road which
led by cool and shaded forest wind.
ings to the resort hotel at the head Of
the southern bay, Presently vehicle
overlook and passed him. 1t was Miss
Grierson's trap, drawn by the big Eng
lish trap-horse, with Miss Grierson her
self holding the reins and Raymer
lounging comfortably in the spare
seat
Half an hour later Broffin had fol-
lowed the huge footprints of the
great English trap-horse to the drive
way portal Of the De Soto grounds
where they we're lost on the pebbled
carriage approach. Strolling on
through the grounds into the lake
fronting lobby of the inn, he went in
search Of Miss Grierson. He found
her on the broad veranda, alone. and
for the moment unoccupied. How to
make the attack SO direct and SO over
whelming that It could not be with
stood was the only remaining ques-
tion; and Brofiin had answered 1t to
his own satisfaction. and was advanc.
ing through an open French window
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-09-16
CHAPTER XIX.
Pitfalls.


Within week from the day when
Raymer, angrily iubilant, had rescued
his imperlled stock, it was pretty gem
orally known that Kenneth Griswold,
the writing man, had become the
fourth member in the close corpora
ton OF the Raymer Foundry and Ma
chine works, and Wahaska was ca
gerly discussing the business affair in
all its possible and probable bearings
upon the Raymers, the Griersons and
and the newly elected directory OF the
Pineboro railroad
OF all this buzzing Of the gossip bees
the person most acutely concerned
heard little or nothing Digging deeply
in the inspiration field, Griswold speed
ily became oblivous to most Of his en-
compassmeuts; to all of them, indeed
save those which bore directly upon
the beloved task Among these, he
counted the frequent afternoon visits
to Mereside, and the scarcely less fire.
Quent evenings spent in the Farnham
home He was using each Of the
young women as a foil for the other
in the outworking Of his plot and he
welcomed it as a sign Of growth that
the story in its new form was acQuir-
ing verisimilitude and becoming crate
fully, and at times, he persuaded him
self. quite viyidly, human.
When he got we'll into the swing Of
it and was turning out a chapter every
three or four days he fell easily into
the habit of slipping the last install.
ment into his pocket when he went to
Mereside. Margery Grierson was add
ing generously to his immense obliga.
ton TO her, hoping only to find a
friendly listener. he found a helpful
collaborator More than once, when
his own imagination was at fault, she
was able 10 open new vistas in the
humanities for him, apparently draw.
ing upon a reserve Of intultlve con.
/ clusious compared with which his own
hard-bought store of experimental
knowledge was almost puerile.
"I wish you would tell me the secret
Of your marvellous cleverness," he ex
claimed. on one Of the June afternoons
when he had been reading to her in
the cool half.shadows OF the Mereside
library You are only a child in
years: how can you know with such
miraculous certainty what other
people would think and do under con
/ ditlons about which you can't possibly
know anything experimentally? IT.
| beyond mel"
There are many things beyond you
yet. dear boy; many many things,
was her laughing rejoinder; from
which It will be inferred that the epi
sode in the Farmers and Merchants
burglar proof had become an episode
forgotten-or at least forgiven. "You
know men-a little; but when it come.
to the women we'll II didn't
keep continually nagging at you, youi
two teroines-with neither Of whom
you are really in loye-would degen
crate into rag dolls. They would ac
tually"
That's true; can see II clearly
enough when you point it out" he ad
mitted. putting his craftsman prid,
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Inspectors In New Typhoid Epldsm'

State health inspectors were de'a,'
to go to Cannonsburg by CommlsslV'
er Dixon to investigate an ou'O','
OF typhoid fever. Eight cases Snu
number of suspected cases were J
ported. The Health Department W.
informed that there are 100 cases
typhoid at Danville State Hospital
Increase of. two.
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National Airs for All.

The band started up one of its big
strains. There is a grand tune--'Die
Wacht am Rhein'-I always like IT,"
said one. But" said the other, that
is not Die Wacht am Rhein, that's
The Marseillaise. But it was really
THE Star-Spangled Banner" that the
band was playing The lesson is that
all patriotism is founded In an inspi-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-09-16
Organization OF State Insurance Fp'

State Treasurer Young, Commlssl0
er of Labor Jackson and lnsurau
Commissioner Johnson conferred w
Albert L. Allen. assistant manager
the New York State Workmens W
pensation Fund, regarding the org,
lzation of the Pennsylvania Sta'e
surance Fund. Arrangements We
made for the framing Of a scneu'
and other details.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-09-16
Almshouse Betterment.

The State Board of Public Chal'ss' ~
directed that notices be sent "
authorities of several counties F" :
prove conditions at jails ana a. ~.
houses. They include Washinsw
Greene, York, Butler, Cumberland =. :,
Northampton almshouses and pli'O, :,
in Fayette, Bradford, Huntington Il Il
Susquehanna. The Executive Cou'I, 4,
tee will meet this week in pn'a'
pima to hear reports on conditOu,S 10,
others whose officials have been ~
notice to better conditions.