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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-03
y WAR AND ITS GOOD EFFECT .
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From Youths Companion.
The great war of today. although 1t de-
mands of many of the noble women who
have answered the call greater ability. re-
Than has ever beell demanded OF women
before, has also offered opportunities of
service to others. hitherto merely women
of fashion and the gay world, which
many nave eagerly accepted.
toll on committees; women who have
hapless refugees: women who have played
with petted children in charming nurs-
cries establish o~rphanages, care for des-
titute mothers. or adopt war babies.
type, unframed in nursing. devote their
nerve and muscle to shaving in hospitals
hastily i~mprovised. III equipped. over
they flag for the real nurses, and turn
their hands to anything from writing
Wills and messages for dying men to me
NAL and often horrible tasks of washing,
%scrubbing and ~disinfecting.
Others give Themselves. with their au-
tomobiles. to the Red Cross, and drive
their o own car, cars, filled Nv. with wopnded: over
with skill and daring. Often they run
them under fire. and not one of them has
fiinched.
IF ever this terrible time. which seems
an endless nightmare, does really end,''
the American wife of an English man of
high social position, who has been 10y
recently. a If I wake up to peace and
pretty clothes and gay doings, and life as
1t used to be-ss0metimes wonder who 1t
now. or it wouldn't be waking. and not
]. the old 1 of before the war: that /. my
dear. is as dead as II she had been shot.
! wani / t. think ns n os sSe end old i hey il a sssn. y n6
more possible to take 1t up and live It than
to go back and be a little girl. / have
died: or grGwa up. 20 born again
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-03
Publicity Foe of C;v;l Graft

New York Letter in the Boston Tran
script.
1t Is nothing new hat cities themselves
advertise, usually through chambers OF
which try to attract new resi-
dents because new residents mean new
customers for shops, new fares for street
cars, new work for builders. new deposit
tors for banks, etc.
But the latest application of the peculiar
power of advertising is by city officers
and city departments, in order to interest
citizens in their own paving. lights. wa
ter, parks, police, firemen. schools and
expenditures.
1t is a reversal of the dark policy, 1.-The
less said. the better"
When City's Expenses Grow.
That secretive, obscuring policy is CIV
ing way before a policy of extensive pub
licity, with an eye single to hauling the
light from under the bushel so that 1t
may shine before men.
What virtues rest in exposing open and
frank budgets to public attention New
Workers are not yet through finding out.
1t had been accepted as reasonable that a
fast growing city would ave an equally
fast growing set of expenses. The per
capita costs rose with the number OF citt-
zens to be cared for.
There are taxpayers who fancy this was
due to too much uplift' although what
they termed uplift meant merely a heath
fer. keener, more productive population.
It was really due to graft, waste, extrava-
gance, padding, cheating, stealing, ignor-
ancc, the use of public office for exploit
ing the public.
Graft Was Driven Out.
AS soon as the ancient systems of COW
ering up these c~hicaneries were advertised
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-03
Tom Dunn.

W O0UIS
Tom Dunn, you were a deep-sea man.
Blu now you've settled down.
The farm, the house and the wife you.
keep,
But youth recall old days. Tom Dunn
Thu tussel and the strain.
IT storm-crowned crest, the decks
The lankin' moorin' chain,
And, Tom. belikes you'll drift on back
To towns and shores again.
Old talk that circled free;
Cone me. work so !. come Hns var. come luck or loss.
Her speech times wild. times tame.
Her cali not twice the same.
The open. moving space of her
That babe US play her game.
You, Tom. q master mariner
And man alongshofe, too,
The ways You took: the sea you loved
Still sits the town along the strand.
TIL west winds constant blow.
Still clanks the chain and spreads the talk
Down docks where tall ships go,
still heaves tine main and turns the tide.
And moves the life we know.
We loved our face of Nature, felt
Religion in its change,
Where storms were born God sat, 70.
When doused our lights are, let 1t be
In smell of Puget Sound.
Her westcr gales in face OF us,
Her white-backed swells around
Two rcachin' souls. two lad at sea,
Tossed. heaven haven-ward bound.
You've heaved and drifted far, Tom Dunn.
Yet still. to town and shore
1 trust return, for ends Of men
Are judged of God before.
From births up hook to anchor down
For such as you I'M me,
Yea. storms will beat and black squalls
And menace loom alea:
And. Tcm. lad: maxim port It last.
Sea blood will seek the sea.
William Gardiner in Seattle Town Cfier.
Soda water syphons are filled throsugs
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-11-03

Soda water syphons are flled throsuss
the spout.
The Raymer enterprise., 1915-05-20

nett. Miss Dodge has just been tell
ing me-"
"Yes,' interrupted Craig. Look.
Miss Dodge, this is It,"
He handed her the letter. She al
most seized 1t, examining 1t carefully,
her large eyes opening wider In won
der.
This is certainly my writing and
my note paper" she murmured. but
l never wrote the letter!"
Craig looked from the letter to her
keenly. No one said a word. For
moment Kennedy hesitated, think.
ing
Might l-er-see your room, Miss
Dodge?" he asked at length.
why, certainly" nodded Elaine, as
she lead the way upstairs.
1t was dainty little room, breath
ing the spirit of its mistress. In fact,
1t seemed sort of profanity as we
all followed in after her For mo.
ment Kennedy stood still, then he
carefully looked about. At the side
of the bed, near the head. he stopped
and picked up something which he
held in the palm of his hand.
bent over. Something cleaned in the
morning sunshine-some little thin
pieces of glass. AS he tried deftly to
flt the tiny little bits together he
seemed absorbed in thought. Quick
ly he raised it to his nose. as II to
| smell 1t.
Ethyl chloride!" he muttered
wrapping the pieces carefully in a
paper and putting them inside his
pocket.
An instant later he crossed the
room to the window and examined 1t
"Look!" he exclaimed.
| There. plainly. were marks OF
jimmy which had been inserted neal
the lock to pry 1t open.
Miss Dodge" he asked, might l.
might ! trouble you to let me see
your arm?"
Wonderingly she did so, and Ken
nedy bent almost reverently ovel
her plump arm examining it.
On it was small dark discolora
tion, around which was a slight red
ness and tenderness.
That" he said slowly, "is the
mark Of hypodermic needle"
As he finished examining Elaine'i
arm he drew the letter from his pock
ct Still facing her he said in low
tone. Miss Dodge-you did write thi'
letter-but under the influence Of tn,
new twilight Sleep"
why, Craig" | exclaimed excited
Iy, what do you mean?"
Exactly what | say. With Mis-,
Dodge's permission l shall show you
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Leave the r00n-no, by the hal
door. We are going back upstairs
! obey him, and at the door he
switches OF the lights How l stand
It l dc not know. 60 upstairs me-
chanically into my own room-l and
this masked man.
"'Take of the kimono and slip
pers! he orders. do that. Get into
bed!' he growls. ! crawl in fearfully.
For moment he looks about-then
goes out-with a look back as he
goes. Oh! Oh! That hand--which
he raises at me-THAT HAND!
The poor girl was sitting bolt up
right, staring straight at the hall
door, as We watched and listened,
fascinated.
Kennedy was bending over. sooth-
ing her. She gave evidence OF COM
ing out from the effect OF the drug.
/ noticed that Bennett had sud.
denly moved a step in the direction
OF the door at which she stared.
"By heavens!' he muttered. star
ing. too. Look"
We did look. A letter was slowly
being inserted under the door.
/ took quick step forward That
moment | felt rough tug at my
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/ by small administration of the drug,
which will injure you in no way, Miss
Dodge, think | can bring back the
memory OF all that occurred to you
last night VIII you allow me?'
Mercy, nor protested her Aunt Jo-
sephine, who had entered the room
Il want the experiment to be tried,'
Elaine said quietly.
A moment later Kennedy had placed
her on a couch In the corner of the
room.
Now, Mrs. Dodge" he said, please
bring me a basin and towel"
Aunt Josephine, reconciled, brought
them. Kennedy dropped an antisep.
tic tablet into the water and care
fully sterilized Elaine's arm just above
the spot where the red mark showed.
Then he drew the hypodermic from
his pocket-carefully sterilized it,
also, and filling 1t with scopolamin
from the bottle.
Just moment Miss Dodge" he
encouraged, as he 'jabbed the needle
into her arm.
She did not vince.
please lie back on the couch, he
directed. Then turning to US he add
ed, 1T takes some time for this to
work. Our criminal got over this fact
and prevented an outcry by using
ethyl chloride first. Let me recon-
struct the scene"
AS we watched Elaine going under
slowly Craig talked.
THAT night, he said, "warily, the
masked criminal OF the 'Clutching
Hand. bent over, his arm crooked,
might have been seen down below us
in the ally. Up here, Miss Dodge,
worn out by the strain of her fathers
death, let US say. was neryously try.
ing to read. to do anything that would
take her mind off the tragedy Per.
haps she fell asleep.
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ing me that you don't want me to con-
tinue investigating your fathers death,
and not to try to see you again
about"
He stopped. could hear the reply.
"Why-no-Mr. Kennedy, | have
written you no letter"
The look of mingled relief and sur.
prise that crossed Craig's face spoke
volumes.
Miss Dodge" he almost shouted,
this is a new trick OF the 'Clutching
Hand I'm be right over
Craig hung up the receiver and
turned from the telephone. Evidently
he was thinking deeply. Suddenly his
face seemed to light up. He made up
his mind to something, and moment
later he opened the cabinet-that in
exhaustible storehouse from which be
seemed to draw weird and curious in
struments that met the ever new prob.
lens which his strange profession
brought to him.
watched curiously. He took out a
bottle and what looked like a little
hypodermic syringe, thrust them into
his pocket and, for once, obliyious to
my very existence, deliberately walked
out of the laboratory.
did not propose to be thus cava.
lierly dismissed. suppose it would
have looked ridiculous tc a third par
ty, but followed him as hastily as II
he had tried to shut the door on his
own shadow.
We arrived at the corner above the
Dodge house just In time to see anoth-
er visitor--Bennett-en
"And, Perry" we heard Elaine say,
as we we're ushered n. someone has
even forged my name--the handwrit.
ing and everything-te'ling Mr.. Ken.
nedy to drop the case and ] never
knew"
She stopped as we eniered
That's the Until" exclaimed Ben
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As I came up the path to the chem
istry building / saw through the win
dow that, In spite Of his getting there
early. he was finding It difficult tn keep
his mind on his work 1t was the first
time l had ever known anything to
interfere with science In his lille.
WELL" exclaimed as entered,
you are the early bird. Did you have
any breakfast"
/ tossed down the letters. He did
not reply. So l became absorbed In
the morning paper. Still. did not
neglect to watch him covertly out Of
the corner Of my eye. Quickly he ran
over the letters. instead Of taking
them, one by one, In his usual method,
ical way. quite complimented my
superior acumen. He selected the
dainty note.
A moment Craig looked at it In an
ticipation, then tore 1t open eagerly.
was still watching his face over the
top OF the paper and was surprised to
see that 1t showed, first, amazement.
then pain, as though something had
hurt him.
He read 1t again-then looked
straight ahead. as II In a daze.
Suddenly he jumped up, bringing his
tightly clenched fist down with a loud
clap into the palm OF his hand.
by heaven!" he exclaimed, II
Wilt"
He strobe hastily to the telephone.
Almost angrily he seized the receiver
and asked for number.
| "Wh-what's the matter, Craig!" !
blurted out eagerly.
AS he waited for the number, he
threw the letter over to me. took
1t and read:
Professor Craig Kennedy,
The University, The Heights, City.
Dear Sir:
Il have come to tho conclusion that
your work is hindrance rather than
an assistance In clearing up my
fathers death, and ! hereby beg to
state that your services are no longer
required. This is a final decision, and
| beg that you will not try to see me
again regarding the matter.
Very truly yours.
ELAINE DODGE"
II 1t had been a bomb ! could not
have been more surprised.
could not make 1t out.
Kennedy impatiently worked the re
ceiver up and down, repeating the
number. "Hello-hello." he repeated
"Yes-hello. Is Miss-oh-good morn
ing, Miss Dodge"
He was hurrying along as II to give
her no chance to cut him oil. Il have
just received a letter. Miss Dodge, tell
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Copyright
SYNOPSIS.

The formation of a partnership as pro-
lessor and aide in crime science between
Craig Kennedy, university chemistry pro-
lessor, and Walter Jameson, newspaper
man. is at once followed by their becom-
Ing interested In series Of murders by
a. master criminal who leaves no other
clue to his Identity than the sign manual
Of a "Clutching Hand" Elaine Dodge.
whose father Is one OF the latest victims
OF the mysterious murderer witnesses
the beginning of Kennedy's scientific In
Hestigation Of the murder.
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arm, and a voice whispered: wait,
you chump"
It was Kennedy. He had whipped
out his automatic and had carefully
leveled 1t at the door. Before he could
fire, however Bennett had rushed
ahead.
| followed. We looked down the
hail. Sure enough, the figure of
man could be seen disappearing
around an angle. | followed BEN
nett out OF the door and down the
hall
Words cannot keep pace with what
followed Together we rushed to the
back stairs.
Down there, while go down the
'front.'" cried Bennett
/ went down, and he turned and
went down the other fight. AS he did
so Craig followed him.
Suddenly, in the drawing room, l
bumped into figure on the other side
of the portieres seized him.
We struggled Rip! The portieres
came down, covering me entirely.
Over and over we went, smashing
lamp. 1t was vicious. Another man
attacked me, too
i've got him-Kennedy!" ! heard
a voice pant over me.
A scream followed from Aunt Jo-'
sephine. Suddenly the portieres were
pulled off me.
"The deuce!" puffed Kennedy. Its
Jameson"
Bennett had rushed plump intoi
me, coming the other way, hidden
by the portieres! &
II we had known at the time, oui
Michael of the sinister face had
gained the library and was standinge
in the center of the room. He had
heard me coming and had fled to the
drawing room. As we finished our
struggle in the library he rose hastily
from behind the divan in the other
room, where he had dropped. and had
quietly and hastily disappeared
through another door.
Laughing and breathing hard. they
helped me to my feet. 1t was no
joke to me- was sore in every
bone. +"
We'll, where did he go?" insisted
Bennett
II don't know-perhaps back there,
l cried.
Bennett and ! argued a moment,
then started and stopped short Aunt
Josephine had run downstairs and
was now showing the letter into
Craig's hands. r,5
We gathered about him curiously
He opened It, On 1t was that awe.
some Clutching Hand again.
Kennedy read it. For moment
he stood and studied it, then slowly
crushed 1t in his hand
Just then Elaine, pale and shaken
from the ordeal she had voluntarily
gone through, burst in upon us from
upstairs Without a word she ad
vanced to Craig and took the letter
from him. -.fs' =
Inside, as on the envelope, was
that same signature OF the Clutching
Hand. 'f tt
Elaine gazed at It, wild-eyed, then
at Craig. Craig smilingly reached for
the note, took 1t, folded 1t, and up.
concernedly thrust 1t into his pocket
my God" she cried, clasping her
hands convulsively, and repeating the
words of the letter, YOUR LAST
WARNING!"
GRO BE cONTINUED)
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shut.
"'Now, come on. he says, indicating
with the gun that he wants me to fol-
low him away from the safe. At the
desk he repeats the search. But he
finds nothing. Almost think he is
about to kill me. Where else did your
father keep papers?' he Kisses fiercely.
still threatening me with the gun.
Il am too frightened to speak. But
at last ] am able to say, II don't
know!' Again he threatens me. AS
God is my Judge cry, I don't know
1t is fearful Will he shoot me?
"Thank heaven! AT last he believes
me. But such look of foiled fury |
have never seen on any human face
before.
"'Sit down.! he growls. adding. at
the desk. do,
Take some of your note paper
the best do that, too.
"'And a pen,' he goes on. My fin
gers can hardly hold it.
'Now-writen he says, and as he
dictates, ! write
"This?' interjected Kennedy, eager.
ly holding up the letter that he had
received from her.
Elaine looked 1t over with her drug
laden eyes, yes" she nodded. then
lapsed again to the scene itself. "He
reads 1t over, and as he does 80 says
Now. address an envelope. Himself
he folds the letter, seals the envelope
stamps 1t, and drops it into his pocket
hastily STRENGTHENING the desk.
Now go ahead o. me--again
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New York's Master Criminal Remains
Observation-Disclosures New Dar-
ing Murder and Robbery on Mil
lionaire Dodge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23
Steelton Snapshots

Back From HosDitaI-Miss Albertine
Diehner. 312 North Second street, has
returned from the German Hospital,
Philadelphia, where she underwent an
operation.
To Play Football. - The Hygienic
Athletic Club and the York Colored
Giants will play a football game on
Cottage Hill Saturday afternoon at
I2.30.
To Hunt.-Harry C. Wright, Mark
Mumma, Ira Myers and a number of
Harrisburgers will spend next week in
Huntingdon county hunting.
Celebration Echoes.-At a meeting
in the First Presbyterian Church this
evening Echoes of the Celebration, d"
the thirtieth anniversary of the con-
gregation, will be discussed.
To Serve DihneF.-The Ladies' Aid
Society of st. Marks Lutheran Church
will serve dinner and supper in the
market house. North Front street to-
day
Announce Birth.-Mr. and Mrs. J. j.
Husic announce the birth of u daugh-
ter, Margaret Catherine, November 81.
Mrs. HuSic was formerly Miss A.
Loretta Flanagan, of Harrisburg.
To Hold Dance. - The Trio Club
will hold the second of a series OF
winter dances in Frey's hall to-mor-
row evening.
Choir RehcarSes. - The choir OF
St Johns Lutheran church will hold
a special rehearsal this evening at
O'Clock.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23
THAT KNIFE-LIKE PAIN
Is Only One of Natures Warnings of
Weak or Disordercd Kidneys

Have you a lame back, aching day
and night? Do you feel sharp pains
after STOPPING? Are the kidneys sore ?
Is their action irregular? Use Doan's
Kidney Pills-the medicine recon-
mended by so many Harrisburg people.
Read this case:
William II. Kelley 6O9 Harris street
Harrisburg, says: 81 suffered a great
deal at times from lumbago. I often
had sharp pains in my back, so bad
that l could hardly straighten up.
Mornings it was two or three hours
before my back limbered up so that ]
could get around without that stiff
feeling. / was bothered at times by
weak kidneys and this broke my rest
after going to bed. | got no relief
whatever. until l used Doans Kidney
Pills. The first box gave me relief.
It has been nearly year since and |
have never had any further trouble
from my kidneys and have felt better
in every way"
Price soc at all dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Kelley had. Foster -Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo, n. Y.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23
I-HIGHSPIRE ~"~-
To Give Varied Musical
Program in Church of God

Elaborate preparations have been
made for the musicale this evening at
the Highspire Church of God. The
program includes selections by some
of the best talent in Highspire, Steel
ton and other nearby towns
The program: Invocation, the Rev.
B. |. G. Baer; male quartet, Messrs.
Samuel Sides, John Wittle, Harry
Hoke and Milton Sides; piano solo,
'zalsa Cromatique,' Gaddare, Miss
Erma Henry; vocal duet, Jesus, l
My Cross Have Taken Brackette.
Mrs. Roy Bonholtzer, Mrs. Edward
Lauman; reading, Mrs. w. b. Kirkpat-
rick; piano duet, Miss Ruth Shaffner,
Mrs. Ralph Mumma; bass solo, "Out
of the Deep" Petrie, Ellis Lawrence;
piano solo, selected, Azalea Wigfield
soprano solo. plans of Peace" Miss
Helen Markley; reading, Miss Harriet
Herman; contralto solo, angels Ser
enade,| Miss Rachael Etter; piano
solo, selected, Miss Mary Baer; BARI
tone solo, Down in the Deep" Gwilym
Watkins; soprano solo, MY Sweet
Adair," Miss Mildred Rowe; duet, Sc
lected, Miss Carry Lawrence, George
Neff.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23
JUSTICES SKEIN
INDEED TWISTED
All Three of Eternal Triangle"
in Jail When Hearing
Starts

That omnipotent power known as
the law will have man's-sized job
in store for it when it's servant, the
Dauphin county court begins to un-
tangle the twisted thread of justice in
the case of the Commonwealth vs..
Troth and the several other cases in
terwoven with it.
Just now the skein is indeed
twisted
George Troth, is a laborer. and he
lived at TAT South Front street, Steel
ton. For some time Georges domes-
Laura Jean Libbey; it would read
more like one from Job, so he told
an attorney when he asked to have
suit commenced against another man
for alternating the affections of his
wife, Mary.
The suit was started last week aud
the superfluous apex of the eternal
triangle, in the person of ''the other
man" was lodged in Jail in default OF
a bond to guarantee his appearance in
court.
Then, with the alleged interloper
out of the way, George went down
to SIS South Third street, where his
wife has lived since leaving home on
account of the troubles there. The
call resulted in anoth>r quarrel.
So Mrs. Troth appeared before Squire
Gardner yesterday and lodged .
charge of assault against her husband.
Detective Durnbaugh served the war
rant and in default of bail George
was sent to Jail.
To-day, however, when Durnbaugn
attempted to notify Mrs. Troth that
her husband would be given q hear
ing tonight, he was unable to locate
her.
An inquiry was started and it was
learned that before his arrest, George
had visited a Harrisburg alderman
and as a result, his wife had been
arrested and lodged in Jail.
Now the three apeXes of the old.
old triangle rests in as many cells of
the Dauphin county prison.
And the solving of the problems en-
bodied in that triangle is the job
that's cut out for the law.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23
&STeeIrOn~s
MOTHER AND BABE
OFF TO VIENNA
Call of Home Greater Than
Fear of Submarines and
Marching Hosts

What, though submarines lurk hun
grily in the path of passing ships and
marching armies devastate the fair
fields of Europe, does pretty young
Mrs. Pauline Mandel and her little
daughter, Hermine, care for the ter
rors of war when her heart Graves for
home?
When pretty Pauline's thoughts
turned homeward not even a peaceful
home in America and a loving hus-
band can induce her to abandon her
desire to return there. according to
the story Mrs. Mandel told friend in
Steelton to-day
So, on Friday, Mrs. Mandel and her
little daughter will leave Steelton for
New York. where. the next day. they
will embark on the same ship which
bore Ambassador Dumba, of diplo-
matte controversial fame, to his home.
If the boat reaches Holland safely,
Mrs. Mandel hopes to go to her home
in Vienna by rail. George Mandel, her
husband, will remain in Steelton.