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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-21

Was your man quite right?' she
asked. touching her forehead.
How do you mrnn?"
81 mean did he act pueerly Mt times %
why. now you come TO speak of 1t.
yea thought he was tast erratic."
Here's IA bit Of rooj hsck." said Nv.
dora suddenly. 'sbe pointed down the
road bit where wagon was visibly
approaching Hen be able to give us
lift back to the village want t.
We. tho suthoritie. ~ once. I've an
Iiss bow your b.ssbasd came to die"
How
IAN In good time" Zndc.a hailed
the farmer He would gladly give
them lift. These two men," sale
Zudoru. indicating John aud Hassan
All, have met with an accident. Hell
me get them into tho wagon
I'm jifry. MISS
The exhausted men were bundled
into the wagon, and the farmer touch
ed his team with his whip.
At the outskirts Of the town they
came upon mob. II was very disor
DERBY In the midst of this mob was n
pale man securely bound
MY brother! They are going to lynch
him" cried the widow wildly.
1t looked that way to Iudura too
There was one thing for her To do
Into this mob she resolutcly pushed
her way. The excited men stepped
aside grum5lngly.
Men, even " this poor man was
guilty you are acting like n pack OF
wolves. He IL innocent. can tell
you how John Mcwintcr came 10 his
death. He died In a trap he had sci
for this very msn you would hang
His own dog was the cause of h
death"
His dog
Come. come this IL no time 70
fairy stories String him up. boys. be-
fore the police morse in
Smith was backed against a tree.
81 warn You that yOu will he COM
hitting murder Give me one hour.
ana II cannot reasonably prove that
Smith Is guiltless. why. engage to
stand aside aud watch you hang him ="
This declaration made the more sober
men pause.
And III help you pull the rome"
shouted the sheriff. quick To recognize
the vnlllr Oi II respite
"t'hnnSr six among you TO follow
me. said Indorn. "Or ms many us you
wish
We'll All 20; Smith too
Tint settled II. The. mob began To
surge along the rond M n dog trut. II
this girl could prove what she said.
why, Smith could 20: II not tbpre'd be
enough trees near the shack TO serve
their purpose
When the eagpr girl exhibited the
bottles ana explained what was iu
them. pointed Ia the little platform
ana then Ia the doOr with its sprin.
calm began To settle upon the blood.
thirsty men
To hold the door open against the
pressure Of the spring IL was necessary
to prop this log against II. McWiutpr
and smith had gone out hunting Sud.
denly smith missed McWinter, VINO
was. In fact. arranging the details of
the trap. McWinter's dog evidently
got In his way, ana he kicked 1t. The
dog III itS rndenvor to escape see
ond Kick bumped against the Jog shut
ting McNinter IN the shack and rullS-
ing the poisonous fumes to be Iibernt-
ed. My uncle has already proved this
fact To his satisfaction"
inssam All nodded gravely. There
was nothing else for him to do. Storm
stared AT him Ironically for n moment.
But there II something else 10 add. ="
went on ZudOra. now satisfied that she
had won the interest OF the mob.
"hcWinter mad laid this trap for
Smith himself. He WINS an insane
man. and none OF you ever suspicioned
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-21


him after debauch But she WAS
glad enough 10 accent II NJ fac. vume
being an honest and simpl. minded
woman.
McWinter aid odd i,bs -, ,n. o,or
ical laboratory in the VILLAGE flo wns
an eynert In r.rtuip denortm,nt, and
occnsiopoIlv abe chi.f ch.mis, r,srod
the CHANG. oy s.nd,ny for him
II wos no,ir.,hI., ,h,, ,,o ,oo,,,,
worked raithfu,lv nm tbs, d,,s n.,,,
tb. hon. NJ co,,,,,o,. .,,nInvmon,
When afternoon earn. a ,eIonhn,.
call arrived v,,b n and Ncy,n,ar
h,rr,.s oS An IN. ,,n,r.,,r ,,,n..
ple.s~d too IN ana h,m..,, tamnn
:, "a, n....d 49, ,n- 49, - ~
hes rtuy.
Ths sane smiabil,tv bs Ind sbowp
to his wife b, now exhibited I'm = Iasser
degree toward Smith who was rather
nstonished M the sudden turn NJ NJ.
fairs.
"I.u SORRY loo, ~ ,,o. c,,.,, -.
said Ncvin,sr r,,hor soIa,,,,ir Cd,
nAFNnA nGh nd
I'm, imapin,nv all sorts az th,n,, ;,
"Don,t let tbot worry vou !" ro,,,oa
sui,h orIr ,no ,,,o, 90 -, -. 80,
81. 1--WE an lose orr temnars onca I'm
awhile. But Won ought IN he 4, Iittle
81 Lna,v -" ,m,,,,
,I,,,l. ,,,,,.da 49, 49, "' arv m"'e
hyco,a, na ,,,o n w
day rnr :, hrn, In. -
notb,n, ho,,ar tb,, ,,,,,,,,
and snI,v Knows hon 90 aao,' =. !" '''"'
pa lilo p,,n,n, ro,,or" ,, a.,
other man haIIevino IN his -, ,,a.
this new fr,.ndIv otti,rd., ,,o,,Is 49,,
In making an. nonr womon u,,Ia
bnnn,er
81 s,,d s,,n.,,iro o,, ~
~, SATURDAY. n,,,h, w., d., 80, =. p
IAN r,phr I" s,id sn,,,h "
Ar q o'cloeL Nrw,,,.r ,,,, ,h. II.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-21


was the secoud opening OF the door.
which let In u gust or pure air and ear.
ried out certain volume OF the poi
son.
Fortunately for both OF them Judo
RI and Mrs. McWintei were both start
Ing out for the shucs NJ the very mo.
ment the door closed upon ilnssnm
Ali.
Mrs McWiuter dreaded to see the
fatal shack again. nut Iudurn Insisted
She must Sec the shack nnd everything
In II II she was to nid Smith In the
! slightest degree
After Mrs McWinter mad fully OK.
| planned the conditions Iudnrn was
quite confident that the man Smith
| was Innocent no matter how deeply
/ circumstantial evidence had involved
| him.
| She also felt instinctively that the
widow was holding something back.
There II iS. annuunCrd Mrs. Me
Winter. with Shuddrr
why. there are no windows In IT,"
vi
For what purpose cannot say. unless
II was 10 experiment In %
Mrs McWintrr began to cry.
There, there" said Iodoru. From
what you nave told Inc | don't think
( that husband VI yours was worth
tears"
"Bnt | have not told you ALL"
We'll. what more 10 there to tellr'
The man accused OF my husba nd's
death was never my lover lie was
my brother"
Good heavens. Why didn't you tell
that to the coroncrT'
II dared not. | dared not tell even
my husband that"
"Why?'
my brother il an escaped convict
Again II was circumstantial evidence
He suffered In another mans place
For two years he has lived quietly
here. and the police have lost all track
OF him. He was sentenced for i've
years and escaped during the first year
OF his term. II had taken my nus.
band into my confidence he would have
enjoyed nothing greater than exposing
George"
You can trust me with your secret
He would he totally lost II the people
knew this. Wen. there's the shack
What II thick door"
Reaching H. she tried TO open It. II
refused To bulge. She called to Mrs
McWinter, and the TWO OF them sue.
ceeded in pressing II back.
Hold it, cried Xudura. reaching for
log near nj hand. With this she was
able TO hold the door.
Then she saw Storm and Hnssam An
lying senseless on the floor. She sniff
ed and for q mOmert felt dizzy.
The fresh mir, however. came IN
strongly. and after few moments the
two men dnZedly opened their ewes.
Nudora helped them both outside.
shaking them roughly. II took n quar-
ter or an hour 10 bring them around u
anything like normaity. Whatever
Storm thought Ut the affair he kept ~
himself.
Tudora. believing II wise Ia close IN,
door again, WIS ilbOut IA east inside IN,
log when her eye was attracted toy
turf ~ coarS" inir caught IN II splinter
did yOur hu.nnud havr II dug:' Sn
asked the frightened wonnn al nsI
side.
Yes. But h" ran away the dry ~,
husband died, ana ~ one nas seen MIN
ince"
Zndora ngnin sudrd the log thought
fully. The eartn about was soft and
presently she discovered the footprints
OF dog, The tuft Of hair and the
tracks set her thinking deeply.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-21
CHAPTER VI.
The Case Of the Mowinter FamiI,

sVo Sasv W tfo WC"tHtcF VdmiIt.
In room In aD ordinary dwelling a
woman sat before u sewing ma
u chine. The low hum Of II filed
the room with u murmur like that
Of many bees.
The woman's husband, seated ut Il
table near by, was reading and smok.
ing. and he looked up absently each
time the humming ceased temporarily
He scowled. shifted and reshifted mis-
pipe.
Are you crying again?" he growled.
laying down the pipe. I'm getting
tired of your constant snivelsnivel."
He rose and walked over toward her
threateningly. He shook u finger I'm
der her nose.
THAT man has got to get out Of this
house or I'll know the reason why
He bothers me every time | look at
him. | tell you he's got to seek anoth
er boarding house. I don't want his
hangdog face around any Ioager."
"Hangdog" she protested.
That's what l said. TheCe'n be 4
~ hC uoOoh oiAo-
you are wroax-you are wickediy
wrong" said the wife. She wiped her
eyes on her apron. Just because he
speaks kindly to me and pets the child
you act like an insane man. I've slav.
ed for you. I've done everything wo.
man could. What do you dor You sit
and read oil day"
That's lie!" the man roared. I'm
not an ordinary workman. and there's
very little demand for my work"
80 I've noticed" dryly.
II don't want any back talk. All !
say is that man Smith has got to get
out, | won't have him on the prem.
ises after his week Is up"
The tears began to run down the wo-
mans cheeks again. "YOn were a diff
ferent sort OF man before you took TO
drink"
Your whining d send any man to
drink. But you two are always whis-
pcring. and when ! show up you break
apart and begin To talk Of the weather.
Maybe you think I'm foolp"
John McWinter!' she cried with
passionate indignation.
That's right; work mp the injured
look. But the martyr stuff doesn't go
with me, Sally. I've got eyes, and
I've Oeen using them, He goes at the
end of his week. and that's all there
is to II. Hes got the child running
around after him as II he and not 1
was the father"
That's because he IL always kind
TO her and never strikes her unJusty,
AS you do"
Hasn't man got right to correct
his own offspring. I'd like to kpowy'
III she gets In your way you box
ner enrs II she does not come IN
stantly when You call her you use the
whip. Can you blame the child for
not loving you a. you expect?'
FoI herself she did not care; she had
no Illusions left. nut where her child
was concerned she was something OF
non~s, She did not want the fairy
tale beliefs Knocked out OF the little
ones head before hrT time,
'Stop sniyeling The mans coming.
IL b" Just like you to pay the beaten
VIE when he comes IN Perhaps II
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-21

Comedian While Ravenyelp was
travelling In Italy ne thought it would
be II great press ngent stunt TO get him.
self captured by bandits ana held for
ransom.
SoubrPtte- How did the scheme work f:
Comedian Robbers captured him u.
right. hui when they found NE WIS All
actor they made him work for his
board.-Judge.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

Hard work trying to dodge the is.
sue-that of desirability of patron
izing home merchants and the nation
sending to Europe for our supplies
But the leaven is working-beer
working for some months as the ad.
ministration tariff measure is prov.
ing. With all of the Wilson panaceas
the country continues to go backward
If our readers will remember, Hon
est John" Shafroth was bubblinp
over with new ideas which he insist
ed in placing on our statute books
being able to dupe a majority of his
party for a number of years. But il
would be difficult to elect legisla.
tive body in this state Shafroth could
fool again.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

New York is growing six-fold fast
er than London 1t is only ques-
ton of time when that city will out
strip the British metropolis. In the
weekly bulletin issued by the New
York Merchants association attention
is called to the probability that the
war in Europe will hasten this day.
If the Kitchener estimate of the con
flict's duration is realized, if war is
to continue three years, or anywhere
near that long, not only will London 5
growth be retarded but its population
may notably decrease. New York is
going ahead. While the first effect OF
lhe European conflict has been hold
ing up of immigration into this coun-
try, the ultimate result will be an
increase. With normal percentage
of the new comers settling there and
with constant accretions from other
parts of our own country, it is easily
conceivable that New York's rate of
increase in the next few years will be
greater than it has been during the
last decade.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

If anyone imagines he (or she)
knows a woman who is the most per-
feet fool let that person read the
Miss Billy" stories running as ser
ial in the Kansas City Star. Miss
Billy as girl invited herself to make
her home with three old bachelors
no earthly kin to her. She upset the
household, and finally went to Eu-
rope. When she came home she de-
cided the Oldest of the bachelors was
crazy to marry her, and just about
had him married when she discover
ed he did not want her. She married
the youngest bachelor, and her house
keeping mistakes, her idiocy over her
baby, her interference with other peo-
pies affairs makes of her the silliest
and most tiresome heroine ever pa
raded on the pages Of fiction.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

Unemployed from other cities are
warned by the city council to stay
away from Des Moines The city will
not give them work. The council
passed a resolution stating that it is
the sense of the council that the ex-
ira work the city has arranged to
carry on this winter is to be given to
bona fide residents of Des Moines and
not to outsiders. Each case has been
ordered investigated to determine that
the applicant is both u resident of
the city and has a family which is in
need of his wages.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

place to another as an auctioneer, 50
he called up the newspaper office, anu
gave it u snort notice for three .niseI-
tions. The first evening after the ad-
vertisement came out he got several
inquiries, and before the third one
was printed he had sold his entire
supply of APO bushels. The experience
was SO profitable that the same fam
er has used the newspaper every time
he has a sale, whether it is cows,
hogs, or an old plow. During 1913
he sold products of his farm amo unit
ing to $1,000 with an expenditure Of
$40 for advertising. Buyers besieg-
ed him. All he had to do was to take
the money to the bank, then settle
with the editor for his advertising
Isn't the plan at least worth thinking
about ?-The Kansas Editor.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04
MUNICIPAL HoUsEK EEPING.

The comfort, healthfulness and
good repute of a city, as of home,
depend largely upon the housekeep-
ing; and eternal vigilance in muni-
cipal housekeeping is perhaps the
most important duty of city gov
ernment, says the Municipal journal,
Imagine the effect of an entire cessa-
tion for one week of the garbage and
throughout an entire city! And a
city which half neglects these at all
times is certainly not an especially
desirable one for residence.
In spite of its Importance, how
ever, those duties which come under
this head are often undertaken but
half-heartedly, and effectiveness and
efficiency in this department receive
less serious consideration than in
most others. But city officials arc
waking up to the needs and public
demands for clean streets, frequent
collection and sanitary disposal OF
refuse without nuisance, and in gen
eral for keeping their city in such
condition that its citizens can breathe
fairly pure air, be offended by no OBJ.
jectionable odors or sights, be unan-
noyed by flies bred in filth or mos
quitoes from stagnant pools, and be
able to point with pride" to every
section of their city and its surround
ings as inviting outsiders to make II
their home also.
The day has passed when a self
respecting city turns its political pen
sioners loose on the streets with hoes
and shovels twice year and calls
that street cleaning; entrusts its gar
bage disposal to uncontrolled collec.
tors who feed II to pigs along the bor-
der OF the city, and dumps its ashes
and rubbish in unpaved alleys or on
the nearest vacant lot. Cities which
continue these practices are living in
the dark ages. Duranog should keep
step with all prospecting cities.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

We have another fine specimen tes-
tifying in Washington-John Lawson,
who evidently labors under the i'm
preston that he must earn the salary
he is receiving from the United Mine
Workers. But such men must have
an opportunity of shooting off their
mouth and the hearing now under
way in Washington affords what is
probably the last chance for some
time, as Keating will not be able to
start an investigation with every
change of the moon hereafter.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

The Steamboat Springs Pilot says
the state after the Democrats got
through with it had $4,164, 1876 in the
state treasury. Then why didn't those
Democratic officials pay off some of
the debts instead of permitting state
warrants to go begging and state
bonds to be unsalable? Even the
late Democratic governor says he ad-
vanced 100000 to keep the old ship
of state floating. OF course the Re-
publican officials will redeem the
credit of the state right away. Any
way, that is what the people voted
for.-Pueblo Opinion.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04
NOT STATE OF MIND"

From New York Herald.
1t has been my privilege to be en-
gagged auditing the accounts of firms
in various parts of the country. My
experience during the last two years
compels me to differ with the views
as expressed by the president in that
business depression is a state of mind,
The business of nearly all my clients
has decreased from forty to sixty per
cent in two years and their output
has also correspondingly decreased in
selling prices.
am free to say that the only
state of mind" | am in is to wait for
the coming election, and then do my
humble share to make it evacuation
day. for those persons whom l con-
slider to be responsible for present
conditions in business
L. C.
New York City, Jan. 10, 1915.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

The kaiser became quite generous
on his birthday. If he had been more
generous in the part played in bring
ing on the war it might have saved
many millions of men, women and
children from an ignoble death. The
great rulers and monarchs will have
to answer to the Divine Being as the
Divine Right of Kings will not count
when they appear before the AL
mighty tribunal.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

tutions where the cooking must be
done ia large uantities, and at first
thought the use of coal or gas with
live steam when ayailable) would seem
to make for final economy.
Apparently the science of electric
cookery is today, speaking from an
economic standpoint) just about where
electric street railway operation was
some twenty-five or thirty years ago;
a recognized possibility of which those
familiar with results already obtain
ed were most sanguine for the future,
but Of which the public at large was
skeptieal, and inclined to consider in
the light of an interesting experiment
for which the manufacturer-not they
must foot the bills.
Fortunately, for the public welfare,
the development of electric cookery
methods has in the very nature of
things been more gradual and based
on more carefully and broadly obtain
cd data than was the case in electric
|railroading. and at the present time
its assured place in household and
civic economies seems TO be mainly a
question of publicity and of the minor
improvements inevitable in the evolu-
ton of any line of apparatus intend
ed for general public use.-Scientific
American.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

John ID. Jr., and Mother Jones"
are becoming quite crony. Strange
things happen. 1t is well, however.
The miners union called the strike
off and it is only right Rockefeller
and other interested capitalists should
meet the men half way. Let unity
prevail and lasting friendship
brought about.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

They are talking about wonderful
changes at the next Chicago city cleo
tion. We predict, however, that the
returns will show that Chicago is still
hopeless slave to. the Carter Har
rison habit.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

George w. Perkins has given din
ner to thirty surviving members of
the late Bull Moose party. When n
political organization which had a
presidential ticket in the field but a
little more than two years ago can
now be practically convened in sin
gle banquet hall, we have a forcible
reminder of the changes which little
time can bring.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

The fact that the steel industry is
only employing or running 40 per
cent capacity and that steel common
is below the As point, is only 'the
condition of our mind" according to
President Wilson. The great mass of
people. especially those on the out
side with wrinkled bread baskets,
think otherwise.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

Once in while the French and
German war bulletins agree pretty
well, which is unusual at time when
it is so hard to find anything agree
able in Europe.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

A bill has been introduced in the
house to reapportion the Legislative
districts. There IS no question but the
one passed two years ago is thorough
ly partisan, but in changing the Re
publicans should be fair. 1t does not
pay to foster a bad Alignment on the
voters because in the long run they
will resent it. Be honest.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

President Wilson and the talk Of
the second term recall the note of the
old maid to the local editor who had
announced her engagement: "There's
not a word of truth in it, but l am
awfully obliged to you for mentioning
II -
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

Democratic papers are having a
hard time apologizing for the present
administration. OF course it's the
federal patronage sheets that are at
tempting it. The untrammeled Demo-
cratic press gave up the job long ago.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04
FARM ADVERTISING.

That farmers can use advertising
to just as good advantage as the
storekeeper has been proved by at
least one wide-awake farmer, asserts
the Hopkins New Era. A farmer had
some corn to sell. It was good corn,
the price was right, but the farmer
didn't have time to trudge from one
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

Germany has proven wonderful
deficiency in coping with England on
the open sea. Germany's achieve
ments have been demonstrated by the
silent submarine.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04
Of this country are open upon equal
terms to all the world, to every ma
ton, belligerent or neutral.

terms to all the world, to every ma
ton, belligerent or neutral.
war vessel after another by German
submarines, the question is asked
whether there is not some means of
meeting these attacks. This subject
is dealt with in an interesting article
by navy expert in the special war,
issue Of the Scientific American of
recent date in which the following
statement appears:
80 far, no single effective means
of defense, such as that of armor
against the gun and the gun against
the destroyer, has been devised
against the submarine. Protection
must be sought in the cooperation
of several precautions, which, in their
aggregate effect, should afford, and
are doubtless affording, fair meas
ure of security. Among these may
be mentioned: Thorough subdivision
of the hull; interior armor; a careful
look out from the ships and by aero
plane scouts; a high-cruising speed
and frequent changes of course; in
stant ramming of destroyers; and the
rapid-fire gun. The above defenses
are effective if the fleet is under way.
If the fleet is at anchor in a road
stead or harbor, protection may be
afforded against the submarine by
mine fields, heavy chain cable en-
tanglements and netting.
The best protection against the sub-
marine, so far as the absolute loss
of ship is concerned, is a thorough
system of subdivision.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

No one seems to complain about the
parcel post or the postal savings bank
any more. Getting harmoniously ad-
justed to low tariff schedule is an
entirely different matter.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

The British government says the
transfer of the ship, Dacia, to Ameri-
can registry, was not genuine, and
nobody seems to claim it was. Are
we honest, or easily bluffed?
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-04

If President Wilson was anxious to
stir up the animals when he made
that Indianapolis speech he should
feel satisfied with the success of his
effort. 1t is barely possible, however,
that that speech will eventually cause
him more embarrassment than it
will insure him of lasting fame.