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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12

borne away. And the breach Is wider
yet between Fairfax aud Monticello In
consequence.
The next day Hagar has visitor at
Stanley hall II Is Detective Tom
Blake of Richmond, nad he bears with
him curious Hat portfolio of curious
photographs. He and Hngar examine
these curious photographs in the libra
ny at Stanley hall. leaving Esther upon
the broad piazza, Innocent of any
knowledge of what passes between the
gypsy woman and the astute private
detective Hagar employs.
But the photographs are vital things,
vital especially to Blair Stanley, for
they hold the evidence that proves him
guilty Of the murder of Dr. Lee!
For the photographs are the telltale
reproductions Of Blair Stanley's finger
prints. Some were made by Blake
from impressions he found on the RI
fed cash box and the dead doctors
throat, and one other Is the reproduc-
ton of the plain mark of his ink stain
ed thumb, stained by leaky fountain
pen, made on the bad check he passed
ON Abe Bloom, gambling den keeper of
Richmond
The check has come back to the win.
dictive, angry gambler marked mo
funds" and when Abe Bloom has call
ed upon the Blake Detective agency to
aid him recover the amount of thu
check the willy Tom Blake has In his
possession the convincing Identification
he has been seeklng-the duplicate
thumb print of the murderer of Dr..
Lee, the thumb print of Blair Stanleyl
The astute If not oyerscrupHous de-
tective Is working only for his client,
Hagar Harding. who pays him well,
There Is no reward offered for the ap-
prehenslon OF Blair Stanley or any 9th.
err man save the innocent Arthur Stan.
ley.
Detective Blake knows that Hagar
will use the evidence he brings her In
her own time and In her own way.
II concerns him no further, for the
present at least, and he takes his fee
and returns to Richmond, strangely
enough, on the same train that bears
Mrs. Burton Randolph aud Vivian
Marston.
Blair ana his mother have returned
from the little station at Fairfax after
seeing their late guests to the train
Blair ana his mother are at daggers
drawn He asks thar she give him
money ana let him 20 upon his way in
the world, as he wishes TO leave Fair
fax and never return.
you have been under enough eyi
influences Ia following the promptlngs
Of your own unfortunate ways" says
his mother coldly. "Thls Vivian Mars
ton cannot deceive me for moment
And as she seems TO have also com
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12
TO CREATE FACTORY
HEALTH STANDARDS

Pittsburgh, Pa, Aug. 9.-Work is
to be started here this week to Gre
ate government factory standards,
which, it is expected will in time be
extended to every corner Of the Uni
ted states, according to announce
ment today by DR.. j. w Sheresch-
ew9lly chief of the newly created
Pittsburgh branch of the public
health service. Some Of the stan
dards sought to be established thru
laboratory experiments based on ac'
tual conditions in shops and factor
les, will be factory illurinction shop
hygiene, water supply, air supply
working space, Industrial poison pre-
vention, effects Of fumes and dust and
safeguards.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12

chine had overturned on to them
about three miles from his summer
home.
The President this morning was au.
tomobiling with Mrs. Francis II.
Sayre, his daughter, and DR.. Gray.
son, his naval aide and physician, on
the road between Windsor and Ascut-
NEVILLE, Vt. AS the Presidents au.
tomobile rounded curve he and his
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12

that had disappeared-the diamond
from the sky-and an earldom farther
away than even distant Warwick
shire?
The diamond from the sky and the
earldom were not for her. They were
never to be the possessions of her son
either, 1t would SEEM
Dead men lay between and living
man, wanderer and fugitive, and
the earl, old and feeble. helpless in
valid for years, still fingered on. And
Arthur Stanley, prescribed as muir
derer though he was, bore a charmed
life that stood between her son and
the earldom and the diamond from the
I sky.
The diamond from the sky itself was
gone, vanished from the sight of man.
| AS for her son, that son was infatu-
ated with n worthless woman. Vivian
Marston would make a fit mate fol
Blair Stanley, son she had borne and
reared!
| But bitter as all these reflections
were, the Stanley pride was strong 10
the breast of Blair's mother. Bad as
he was, she thought, It were better he
never possess the diamond from the
sky or the Stanley eardom with such
a woman to share these great posses
sions.
And then the judges widow saw
coming toward her Hagar Harding,
the present mistress of Stanley hall,
At the sight Of Hagar Mrs. Stanley
stiffened, and instinctively all the old
hopes and all the old hatreds leaped
again within her withered breast. She
rose as II to enter her house and ignore
Hagar, but Hagar stayed her with n
gesture.
do not go, Mrs. Stanley" said Ha-
gar In even tones. III have with me
the proofs that your son and not Ar.
thur Stanley is guilty Of the murder
Of DIR. Henry Lee" And she Indicated
with a meaning gesture the fat black
portfolio she carried, the same porto
Ito Detective Blake had brought from
Richmond.
"Hushw whispered the judges wild.
ow tensely. "COme inside!" And she
led her strange guest within the por.
tails OF her home and up TO the living
room.
Here Hagar without further word
showed her the photographs OF the
thumb prints left by the murderer in
DR.. Lees study and the photograph OF
the returned dishonorcd check, with
the fatal inky thumb print of Blail
Stanley resting against his signature
MS though he had attested TO it.
81 will get my son. He IS some
where about the house" cried Mrs
Judge Stanley. what Is the price
you ask for your silence? cannot
think you would come here except tC
bargain"
my price IS an easy one replied
Hagar 81 ask that you and all yOm
friends receive my daughter Esther
and myself I'm FarllS. I have ouly
this to say; Deem me who ydu may
my daughter Esther is OF ass high birth
aud blood rs the proudcst raw!IiGs Of
Fairfax
"What you ask cam he arranged
feel sure" said the Judges widow, re-
ginning her cold composure "Wui
here I'm lind my son"
Mrs, Stanley bowed and hurried down
to the porch, where she called LOUDLY
for BIair thmkiuE perhaps he was d
the garden or at The stable.
Meanwhile Blair in the Tory hidln'
place" behind the chimney had hear,
every word that had been uttered II
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12

companions discovered another ma
chine overturned at the bottom of an
embankment.
Mr.. Wilson and DR.. Grayson hur-
ried to investigate. They found Miss
T.. A. Swasey, Mrs. Emma Hatha-
way and c. c. Judd, all Of Norwich,
VT, underneath the automobile, and
extricated them. None were serious
ly injured.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12
CHAPTER XIV.
"kiers Are the Proofslr

= ND Mrs. Burton Randolph re-
~ turns to Richmond Vivian
and Blair have quarreled. Wv
Ian realizes Fairfax will be
dull while 1t feasts upon gossip that
will not interest her. She will return
to Richmond with her friend.
With woman's prescience she real
ICES that Blair's mother intuitively sus.
poets her. So Vivian Marston thinks
1t best to return to Richmond too.
That night the Monticello hunt is mi.
nus a member Inquiry and investiga-
ton bring some of the huntsmen to
Stanley hall. The dead man is identi
fed for the man he really is and is
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12

the room, In his hands he clutchcd Il
mass OF bank notes Thrustng them
In his pocket, he touched the spring
and pushed aside the swinging fire.
place noisclessly.
Hagar stood by the table. her back
to the fireplace, watching the door. In
her hands were the discriminating pho.
tographs Of the thumb prints of Blair
STANLEY
AS she turned ut the sound Of Blair's
advance he struck her down with the
heavy iron poker and she fell to the
door rs though lireless, in n crumplcd
heap.
AS Blair stopped to seize the photo.
graphs Of his guilty thumb prints that
had fallen to the floor Il CLEAN of steel
on the taulS caught his eye II was
the shcrirf's handouts that Vivian
Marston had brought to the house with
her and left for Blair. as she said
mockingly, "as n souvenir of the white
knights leap"
Hagar mOanel and stirred. Blair
could hear his mother calling him In
the hallway now. He seized the hand
cuffs and clasped them on the unre.
sisting wrists of Hagar.
Picking her up. he thrust her In the
"Tory's hiding place" and hastily
swung the wall back In position. leav.
Ing the unconscious and manacled form
Of Hagar imprisoned by the broken
open chest In the darkencd niche.
At this instant he heard his mother
on the threshold and turned and fed
with the photographs and the stolen
money by the door that led to the inner
rooms and was gone.
Far away a colored boy, who had
been driving Il pig the day the gentle
folk of Fairfax held their Wanted
tournament, is playing he Is hunter
after eagles
boy who herds pigs while gentle white
folk ride to tournament and to chase
| the fox, and with his wooden gun he
plays part In the destlnies of those
concerned In this strange story.
For beneath n wayside tree he finds
handful of feathers "Owls up darr'
says the mimic hunter, and he drops
the rude wooden gun and climbs the
tree. An owl dies from its nest with
a querulous screech
That evening an obscure negro ur.
chin. whose lot It is that he must at.
tend to swine. leans over nolsomc
pen and dnngl,< before an unhpprccia.
tive pig. gcrCing nj his swill. the dl1.
mond froIn tho skvl
To Be Continued
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12

husband eighteen long years agor
What was the use to scheme and
plot and hope and bate for a bnuble
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12

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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12
PRESIDENT REscUEs
AUTOMOBILE PARTY
Finds Women and a Man Under
meath Wreck at Foot of
Embankmkent

Cornish, N, H., Aug.9.-President
Wilson this afternoon helped to res
cue three Automobiles whose ma
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-12
By ROY" L. Me CARDELL

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PRESIDENT KEEPS
PEOPLE TALKING
Like Roosevelt, Wilson Is A.
ways In Public Eye.
DRAMATIC AND SPECTACULAR

BY Reviving Old Custom of Reading
Messages President Has Made Won
derful Change-Great Days For Two
Clarks, One with an "e') From
Arkansas, One From Missouri.
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CUMMiNS FATHER OF PLAN
Wants Government TO Manufacture
War Munitions.

Washington, Dec. Ex-senator Cum
Minis of Iowa has introduced a resolu.
tion looking toward government manu-
faeture OF wal munitions.
The resolution provides that the
subject shall be investigated by a com
mittee OF five.
Profit incident to the manufacture
Of al munitions corrupts public opin.
ION, prevents peaceful settlements OF
disputes, and no person should make
profit out of war" the resolution says
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ITALIAN PREMiER is UPHELD
Chamber Declares Confidence by Vote
of 391 to 40.

Rome. Dec. 14.-During the debate
in the chamber that preceded adop-
ton of the bill giving full financial
powers TO the government for six
months, Premier Salandra raised the
question of the chambers confidence
in the government. A vote of conf.
dence was adopted by 391 to 40.
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Improvement.

Don't you think the world Is be
coming better than ii used to be?'
Yes" replied the querulous person.
slowly. Il shouldn't be surprised IL 1t
were somewhat better than in the days
when 1t was entirely a molten mass
Exchange.
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BURLESON'S ANNUAL REPORT
Blames European War for Lsru~ Pos
tai Deficit.

IN
Washington. Dec. 14.-Postmaster
General Burleson's annual report says
the European val has cost the Ameri.
can postal service s21 .000, 900, but that
economies of administration have re.
duced the audited deficit TO a little
more than S11 600, 900 for the fiscal
year which ended last June.
Had 1t not been for economical re.
organization begun before the war
started and continued since. the post
master general says the audited de.
felt would have been at least s24,.
900, 600.
Chief among recommendations to
congress is a renewal of recommended
tons for government ownership of
telegraphs and telephones.
The greatest expansion in the post.
office. the report shows. was in the
parcel post,
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BIRTH OF A nation
Facts About the Declaration of
independence.
SIGNING OF THE DOCUMENT.

The Last Name, Thomas Mexican, to
Go on the Precious Parchment Was
Not Appended Until 1781-The Meek
lenburg and Maryland Declarations
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Senator Robert NJ. Owen of Okla,
homa would have the federal Consti.
tuition so amended as to prevent any
var Of aggression by this nation with.
u approval by popular vote. The
Oklahoma senator will press a resolu.
ton providing submission of such an
amendment.
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Increasing wealth is attended by care
and by the desire Of greater Increase
Horace
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Arizona republican., 1915-06-24
Semi Annual Payment of Taxes

The consideration in the house of the bill pro viding the scmi-annual payment of to involve a study of applied mathe- luatics known book keeping which always science mathematics But that is the fault tie who apply it and not of the science itself
 The opponents of the nil claim that it be of no benefit to taxpayers; that it will relieve ther. uf nothing O their burden; that they will have pay their taxes anyhow, and that the payment of will prevent the narrowing contem- llation of a debt which will be as inexorably col Iected as the debt of nature. By the same process of reasoning taxpayers would save themselves a lot of worriment by paving their years In advance
 The chief object of taNDayng is provide for the expenses of government and .o more It is intended that large shall kept enee. credtable a government point d large volume cash hand That would be credtable private citizen. His as well as money should where can do the good. and think or place where the will do good, until they actually needed. than in the possession of payers.
 The original law defective in the matter ot fixing the time for the first annual payment That left the schools the state without of sup bort a perioG six months they would always be months in The pending bIl pro loses that and provide the money needed. the of the payers until it shall be needed.
 The semi-annral payment os experiment. It been tried with success in majority of the states and it is working very isfactorily tho city Phoenix.
 objections the opponents of tho lending bill were forcefu and final resulting It's defeat. would still have the semi annual pay plan. and would always he in arrears
Arizona republican., 1915-06-24
THINK. AND LIVE LONG

Rolled down into two words the best prescrip- tion in world the elixir ot long fife is ing" and thinking"
 This experimentally demonstrated than four hundred years ago oy an Italian gentle of quality named Luigi Cornaro.
 Having nothing do and great deal of money to do it with. Luigi Cornaro disported him self so gorseously that by the time he was 4G he had acquired a reputation Broadway speeder might envy.
 Also he had acquired bad kidney doctors looked him over shooI, their heads mourn fully; and advised him to lose no time in making his will.
 But Luigi who had always been accustomed having his way. told the doctors naty that he did intend die
 'I know what is the matter with me" said he. T have eaten too much and drunk too much. and l haven't used my brain enough. But I ing to change all that. and mean to live to be l00.~
 What is more, he kept his word. To be exact. it was two years over the century mark wher he surrendered to the grim
 Nor did he wheeze and whine and maunder through a decrepit old age He enjoyed life the last and remained so hale and hearty that at % he able finish writing a big book telling how he had managed to live so long and keep young.
 which in substance he his readers do and think.
 Quite the very prescription for than Luigi Cornaro-the nonored eX-president of Harvard university Dr. Charles w. Eliot, who. at S1. is astonishing the world by the vIgor and variety his activities. Said Dr. Eliot:
 There two things man must be sure tc do if he wants to live to a happy healthy, useful old age
 '"One is to eat and drink in moderation--to be temperate all things. The other is his mind exercise well as life Do really think"
 Now. these the very things that most of neglect doing
 many drink much especially of alcoholic beverages. And nearly everybody 
 As for thinking, nine people out of ten do no; think all in the true of the tern. but content to let others do their thinking for them.
 Reader, put it to you personally: To which class do you beong@ Do you lead temperate life? you really think?
 both if you would make a long prosperous life--H Addineton Bruce
Arizona republican., 1915-06-24
Hayden Happenings

The Ray Consolidated company have put a force of men to grading and lev cling building lots on the west side of School street. Several new houses are to he built there and the school houses will some day be partitioned into rooms for family use. New houses are going up all over town, eight of them being in San Pedro.
 On Sunday MT. Thomas Dennis and daughter Thelma, went by auto to Crock one of our summer resorts, 40 mics from Hayden. They were accom- panied by MT. and Mrs. Dodd and Mrs. Hill. They report fine roads and a most enjoyable trip.
 The Miners baseball team of Ray Played against the Ray Consolidated team of Hayden on Sunday afternoon. ! Both teams played well. The scores stood to 6 in favor of the Ray Con- solidated team. A blast shot off too near the Ray ball grounds left the dia- mond in too bad shape to be used for q week so the Ray team came to Hay den. The Ray team will visit Hayden again July Fourth.
 Rev. G. Carter of Newfoundland occupied the pulpit at the NJ. E. church at, the evening service on Sunday Rev. 1 Carter is a graphic speaker who held his audience. many of them boys, with
Arizona republican., 1915-06-24
DOMESTIC POSTAL RATE
 FOSTER TRADE ID 5. AMERICA

offset the postal revenue that would be lost by reducing the rate.
 T believe that one postage rate should be common to every country upon the western hemisphere. and q letter written in Patagonia ought to go up to the furtherest point in Brit iSh Columbia with a stamp of the same denomination that is used be- tween this country and Cuba or te- tween our own country and Argen- tina, or any other country on this hemisphere"
 Under the agreement with the Dutch West Ind:es, the prepaid rate of postage applicable to letters mailed in the Dutch West Indies addressed for delivery in the United States will he five cents Dutch (eqIal to two cents United States currency) up to 20 Srams, and to letters mailed in the United states addressed for delivery in the Dutch West Indies two cents an ounce or fraction thereof.
 Beside the dependencies included by recent agreement, the two-cent letter rate is now in effect with Canada, Cuba, Mexico, The Republic of Pan anna. the United States Postal agency at Shanghai, China, Newfoundland and with Great Britain. It also ap' plies with Germany for letters dis patched i,y direct steamship to Ger man ports.
Arizona republican., 1915-06-24

Two-cent letter postage will go into effect between the United States and the Dutch West Indies July l. The agreement includes Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Sata, St. Eustatius and the Dutch part of St. Martins.
 The governments of aGout half of the Caribbean islands have accepted the proposals of the United States and have adopted the two-cent letter rate with this country. British Hon- duras, the Bahamas Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands. all British de- pendencies. recently entered into two- cent agreements.
 These agreements are the first re- sponses to the negotiations initiated by Postmaster General Burleson with a view of introducing the do- mestic letter rate throughout the western hemisphere. The lower rate. it is believed, will stimulate and facilitate trade relations. At the re- cent Pan-American financial congress the postmaster general reiterated the announcement, first made about a year ago. of his purpose to push the negotiations for a two-cent letter rate throughout the new world insistently. He said:
 Relieving that l should do every thing I could to improve the postal facilities between the United States and the countries Of Central and South America, I caused to be ad dressed to each of those countries a proposal that they should be given the advantages of the domestic rate of two cents, just as 1t existed be- | tween the United States and Mexico and the United States and Canada. c Unfortunately, the European wal | came on and the countries of South and Central America found it mad | Visabie, from their standpoint tC make any change in the postal rate 1 because, as they believed, it woulc diminish their postal revenues, whicf l they were unwilling; to suffer at this l time.
 | But the opportunity will be SiVer again, immediately upon the cessation
 of this horrible war across the waters | for then l purpose again to press I i upon the attention of each Centra American and South American coun-
 try that they ought to avail them 1 selves of an opportunity to enjoy tht ] domestic rate of two cents on letters | going from this country, and what 1 ever the domestic rate is in thei
 country, for letters coming from thei
 country to the United States.
 T confidently believe that. If thel
 would enter into this arrangemen | with the United States, the increas' | in the volume of business would re iv,or in ha n mail matter, which would more thaI