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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13

Smith.
1T is true,'' asserted March, "and
1t was done with a remarkably crude
little device. | have one in a fairly
good state of preservation. [ will show
it to you.
Again he lowered his feet, upsetting
the dictionary stand and several maya
zines, and tossed his burned-out cigar
on the overturned ash tray. He
glanced toward the window to be sure
no little bird sat on the sill, and then
let his gaze wander around the room to
see that no microbe had a bright eve
on him. Then he pulled out a drawer,
touched a spring inside took from an
inner recess a small pasteboard box.
Opening the box, he took therefrom a
lump of tissue paper, which he I'M
rolled, revealing a steel pen
Z by George!' in a disappointed
tone, lis that all it is? 1t ism T much
to look at. How did they use it, and
what made the mark?"
" Well, - confessed Leonidas, "that
is where you have me. 1t comes pretty
near being lost art, | think
lie put away the pen, locking the
, drawer, The writing he put in anothe,
drawer, and picking up a book, settled
himself to read.
Montague selected a magazine, then
looking at Leonidas asked, 'What
does that relic that you just put away
say?'
1T says, 'the pen is mightier than
the sword, - replied Leonids.
" What do YOU suppose that means2 =
inquired Montague, but his friend was
engrossed in his book and answered
not.
Mary Morgan Ware.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13

- OR the final climax of CAR
q MEN, which will be shown
at the Empire Theatre Nor
day, May Is, MIR. Fox engaged
the services of the most reck-
less, daredevil, death-defying
man, that it was possible to
1ind, for jump of 83 feet on
norsepack at Au Sable Chasm,
ForG Kent, N. 7. In the final
scenes of CARMEN, after Jose
kills CARMEN, he escapes in
the woods, and instead of DIVING
by stabbing himself, he races
over the roads until he reaches
the top of the Chasm, where the
horse jumps 80 feet through the
air, carrying Jose with him tn
death.
In the moving picture which
you will sec in CARMEN. the
horse makes two loop-the-Ioops
and the rider never leaves his
back. Tt was one of the most
thrilling scenes ever enacted for
the pictures. One of the camera
men tainted and was unconscious
for twenty minutes, but for
tunately they had four other
cameras playing on the scene.
The name Of the man who made
the leap is Mr.. Art Jarvis. He
broke his leg and is laid up in
Flower Hospital, New York.
The horse, however, escaped I'M
injured. The animal was former
~ with Barnum & Bailey's cir
Gus and was named Toreador.
and was specially imported and
taken to Au Sable Chasm in a
special express car, to make the
jump.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13

The men of the Swedish Congreaa-
tional church will serve a bean supp T
in the vestry of the church Thursday.
May IS, commencing at p. m.
Tickets 25c. Children under Is Years
15c.-Adv. CT
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13

Guinea pigs do not come from Guinea,
nor are they pigs.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13

London has 1900 churches.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-30

granting to employees an additional bon
us to continue throughout the period of
the war instead of permanently advanc-
ing wages. In this way the post -bellum
railroad situation can be handled on its
merits. This plan might be a reasonable
compromise to adopt as Il substitute for
the eight hour law.
Copper stocks have been favOrably in.
fluenced by reports that announcement
is soon to be made of large additional
sales by American producers to Europe.
The strength and activity in United
States Steel are suggestive of the inn
portance of the interests who are buy
ing these securities. The third quarter
of the year is now about closing and
there seems every reason to believe that
the quarterly statement, when finally
published, will show an even greater de-
gree of profitable activity on the part
of the corporation than was the case in
the June quarter.
Gold continus to come forward in
large volume and is adding to the perm
anent ease of the general money situa-
ton. The financial requirements of the
crops now have virtually been arranged
and there appears no reason to believe
that the money situation is to enter as
an adverse market factor
The general market seems to promise
excellent returns for intelligent in and
out trading. Large interests are un-
doubtedly operating actively and will
be inclined to take profits at intervals
as they accrue.
HENRY CLEWS.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-30

tained the keys and wandered into al
its rooms, gloating over the rare wood
work and the strong, firm frame; an,
before | went away l had responde,
TO sudden inspiration, and had rente'
the place for year, with the privileg,
of purchasing. The price was ridicu
lously low, the haunting spirits tina
one was Obliged to take with it bein,
considered detrimental to the real
estate value.
/ was to be married in July, ant
here would bring my bride. knew
what wonderful and joyful surprise
it would be to Lydia-for she regarded
all superstition with fine scorn. AnC
what place for a honeymoon! Wha
romance that garden offered, what de
| light was promised in those grand ole
rooms, still stocked with gems of an
tlque furniture, moth-eaten and dust
laden to be sure, but not beyond resto
ration. left directions for its setting
in order, and hired brave man tC
make trim the gardens.
At last, we came to our own. The
joy OF those first weeks will remain a
honeyed memory forever. We arranged
and admired and recovered and re.
polished to our own particular taste
until our artistic sense was completely
satisfied, We worked and dreamed
away the hours and talked much of
the history of the place, laughing at
the absurdity Of the haunted idea and
pitying the narrow beliefs of the sim
pie people; but, at the same time, re-
joicing over them because of the
wealth of beauty they had contributed
TO our lives.
In September, Lydia was called to
the bedside of her sister. She took
the maid with her. The cook, who
was left to take care of me, went TO
her own little home each night, so that
| was quite alone in the house after
nine O'Clock. l was lonely, as q new
bridegroom would be sure to be dur
ing such a separation, but was happy
enough in my own way.
The day before Lydia returned I
received call from one of the old
residents Of the town--the Oldest in
habitant, | fancied, from his shriveled
and faded condition. / welcomed him
as character. He came in the bright
afternoon, but seemed wary about en-
tering the house, even with the glori-
GUS sunshine pouring in at the win
dows in flood, and said he preferred
a seat in the garden. He walked
feebly, leaning heavily on stout stick,
and breathlessly assured me that he
would not have made so great an effort
had ne not been impelled by an over
curiosity as to whether we
had been troubled by ghostly noises,
and also by the desire to tell me that
this was the anniversary of the trag-
edy. 1t was windy September night
that 1t happened. he said, and he quite
how Aunt Sally Waite
shivered and shook in her nightgown
when she brought the horrible news.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-30

/ cheerfully assured him that W,
had not seen or heard anything of ;
disquieting nature, and had no fsa
whatever.
He waved his palsied fingers warn
ingly, and feebly shook his head as h,
said impressively: you will yet
young man, you will. It's never failet
to come on the night of the anniver
sary. You'll hear and see things to
night. This house has been hantet
for nigh onto fifty year, and then
that's lived here has always heart
wild noises-groans and curses, higf
words. struggling, pistol.shots = two
pistol-shots!"
Then, with dramatic fervor that
seemed like the good old mans last
effort on this earth. he graphically re
hearsed every detail of the ancient
tragedy. In spite of myself, felt all
its horror and its reality.
When he had finished, he departed
creeping slowly away with many o
backward look and ominous shakings
OF the head. have to confess that
he left a depressing effect, and | felt
very lonely without Lydia. The golden
days that we had reveled in seemed
very far away; and much as ] disliked
to think of the gruesome past, could
not refrain from dwelling upon it with
an awful fascination.
AS night q. near, | found myself
prey to all the terrors OF my youth
full imaginings. Whitehall again be-
came the Haunted House; and in spite
of all of my efforts to stave it off,
was fast falling into fit of the blues.
By the time that the cook left / was
genuinely depressed. The wind sprang
up and moaned and sobbed dolefully
about the house, signing in the chin
ney and shrieking wildly under the
caves. | read very late, plunging into
the lively action of the spirited vi
Stevenson, to carry the thread of that
epic into my slumbers.
When midnight struck, the brands
of the fire flashed up. Then went out.
laid down my stirring romance,
stretched and yawned, and decided to
so to bed and sleep off my taples5
mood.
got up and moved about the room
noisily, whiStled and sang, swept up
the hearth, locked the doors and win
dows, and tried not to hear the fiend-
ish wind. But could not deny it, |
was the victim of such a disquieting
nervous tension as had never before
experienced in all my life.
When | got to bed l huddled under
the blankets and watched the cold
moonlight flooding across the floor
the very floor. thought, upon which
the tragedy took place; for my bed
room had been the unfortunate mas
ter's library. | was happy to find my
self really growing drowsy and was
Just on the verge OF slumber when !
was suddenly shocked wide-awake by
a sharp report near at hand
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-30
~ A BUFFALO INSTITUTION
Known All Over the United States.

DR.. Richard C. Cabot, who is head
of the Massachusetts General Hospi-
tai, has been writing for the American
Magazine, April and May, on the sub
ject of Better Doctoring for Less
Money"
He says that "a new era has come
in the practice of medicine, but most
people do not know it yet We have
begun to emerge from that stage OF
medical work in which the doctor Was
a peddler selling goods from house
to house, into the more advanced and
sensible era in which the doctor stays
at his place of business, like anyone
else who has goods to sell, and the
people who want these goods come
to him. The shop where he has his
goods to sell is generally called a
hospital and he has associated with
him there a body of men and women
similar to work people, foremen and
managers of any industrial plant or
dry goods store. He has there some
beginnings of satisfactory division of
labor and specialization of function
Therefore, he can give the public a
much better article for less money.
"The article l refer to is sound
medical advice and treatment"
This is Just what DR.. Pierce has been
doing at the Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo,
New York. DIR. V. NJ. Pierce has asso.
ciated with him DIR. Lee H. Smith, who
is vice president and head surgical
director and operator, and there are
a dozen other physicians and special
lists, as well as four chemists, and the
poor and the very rich get the best
medical attention. As DR.. Cabot has
properly said, "When you go to a
doctors office you may complain of
nothing more abstruse than head
ache or stomache-ache, yet for the
solution of the problem represented by
YOUR suffering there may be needed an
N-ray examination, chemical tests such
as very few experts are capable of max
ing, the consultation of experts in
diseases Of the eye, the ear and the
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-30
Colonel viii Talk at
Battle Creek, Michigan
By ]. P. Yoder.


Omitted Press staff correspondent
New York, Sept. 29.-Colonel Roose.
welt, ex-president, will appeal for votes
for another man-.Charles E, Hughes
for the place of president, in speech
tomorrow at Battle Creek, Mich.
He was ready this afternoon to leave
at o'clock and due at Battle Creek in
the morning. The spectacle of a former
executive stumping Tor presidential
candidate has been witnessed in recent
years only in the 1896 Mckinley cam
paign when Harrison spoke.
En- route, Roosevelt viii confer with
Ralph d. Cole as to an itinerary for
further campaigning. Places now named
for this swing include indianapolis,
Cleveland, Columbus, Chicago, Kansas
City, Minneapolis and st. Paul, though
the final program may eliminate some
of them.
Some consideration is also given to a
Pacific coast tour.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-30
TIE IMPRISONED GHOSTS
By ELEANOR VAN HORN
By ELEANOR VAN HORN

The room was in great disorder
Sure enough, both men lay dead. theiI
faces bruised and marked One, the
stranger had been strangled. AS fol
the master, he had evidently shot him
self. He lay within large closet,
! the door of which stood wide open, and
across the sill trickled stream OF
crimson. Upon each victim was found
a miniature of u woman of extraordi-
nary beauty, her lovely face smiling
out coquettishly-from within frame
OF pearls in one case and a plain gold
rim in the other.
Whitehall, after the tragedy, fell to
some distant cousins, and they came
to live there. They stayed but short
time, however, departing suddenly and
leaving caretaker in charge of the
place. The caretaken, in turn, left
hastily, declaring that he had heard
weird sounds at night, accompanied by
two pistol-shots, and that he knew
that the ghosts OF the two dead men
enacted the tragedy every night in the
old library.
Then the house was closed. The
weeds sprang up in the garden and
sprawled into the trim walks, and
Whitehall had, within year, become
that strange eery thing-a haunted
house.
III.
When my childhood had passed, and
| had travelled about good deal in
foreign lands and learned what fine
architecture really was, l realized that
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-30

youthful analysis. but which marke'
, him with distinction in sharp contras
to the gentle village folk.
Vague rumors filtered into the vii
lage as time went ON, which gradual,
revealed the inhabitant of Whitehall
to have been a man OF much adyen
ture. He had roamed the wide world
over; been in wars as a soldier o.
fortune; had been imprisoned, and haG
made his escape; was once an orna
mental figure at the court of France
and destroyer of many woman'a
happiness.
| His manners were those Of q Ches'
terfleld, although he was reserved and
taciturn to the last degree, and made
no man his friend. He lived entirely
within himself. He came and went
about the village in that isolation OF
spirit that some are capable of build
ing up for themselves, and which is as
impenetrable as the heart of a Sahara,
ae received no letters, but many books
and magazines and papers. He spent
long days In his library. Occasionally
he walked in his great garden, gather
ing the flowers as If he loved them.
Thus he lived until the day of a
tragic visit.
In those days stage-coach carried
mails and passengers to and from the
village. People came and went every
day, and the coach was always sure to
be well filled; so that when a mysteri-
Gus stranger, with striking face and
u foreign accent, was a passenger
at the village there were
many to carry the news. The strang-
er's fine, erect figure was set off by
a military coat His beard was cut
after q foreign fashion. When he
asked at the inn how he might reach
Whitehall, the word swiftly passed
abcc. tSat the lonely bachelor was
to have distinguished visitor.
The stranger gave the innkeeper q
zee and was, in consequence,
driven cut to Whitehall in the inn
keepers own private chaise by the
lnnkeepers son. The great door of
Whitehall was opened by the old
and the mysterious and
attractive stranger swallowed from the
sight OF the youth, who looked long
ingly after him as he fingered the
large silver coin In his hand.
And that night was night OF terror
In the village The old housekeeper
had come running wildly to the near
est house in her nightgown with her
eyes starting from her head and her
awry. She was incoherent
With terror and exhaustion. but it was
gained from her bFoken speech that
A tragedy had taken place at White
nall, and that the master and his Wis
tor lay dead.
Some Of the village men ran to the
house, entered the door that had been
eft wide open by the frightened house
teeper, and went up the stairs to the
room the master Tad converted into
4 library, led by light that was still
burning.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-30

New York, Sept 2S.-The financial
markets presented evidence during the
earlier days of the week of a tendency
on the part of some of the large inter
ests TO take profits that had accrued MS
u result of the recent sustained rise in
the stock exchange price level. Selling
of this character, not unnaturally,
served as Il temporary check upon the
enthusiasm and strength that so dis
tinctly were the features of the preccd-
ing week But definite weakness, how
ever, did not develop. Neither was
there corresponding reaction in the
volume of business. The market seem
ed, for the moment, to have lost its
sparkle and deeliued moderately, q
change suggestive of necessary read.
iustment that did not essentially alter
moro distant prospects. That such u
view was justified was indicated by the
sharp and general advances that Subse.
quently took place.
Money is Abundant.
Fundamental conditions have not
changed. Our national activities are eX-
periencing the stimulus of admitted in
flation. Gold that is not needed is com.
ing forward in steady stream in par.
tial payment, for the priducts if Amer.
lean factories. These are being manu-
factured at such favorable prices that
they leave large profits, not alone in the
hands of the manufacturers but in those
of labor and of all interests connected
with them from the point of production
to that of final delivery abroad, includ-
ing land and sea transportation. insur-
anee and other charges. Thus money is
circulating freely and is available for
luxuries and necessities at home, in this
way becoming responsible for u domes
tic demand of magnitude quite in
keeping with that from foreign sources
Eventually severe check must come
to this nationwide initiation. When il
win occur must be governed very large
! ly by the duration of the war and the
conditions that will confront the world
at large after the present stupendou'
massacre ends. Al the moment, unfor
tuuately, there is but slight encourage
ment for any expectation that peace i.
in sight. In turn this suggests an alb
scenee OF inducemeut TO believe that tn,
intlationary movement to which | have
just referred is eliminating. More like
" win it proceed still further and in tn,
long run include to more general OK
tent than at present securities as wei
as commodities in its influence Tht
iron and steel industry never has beer
so active A local trade authority. re
viewing steel trade conditions, declare.
that the drift not only is toward higher
prices but toward greater difficulties il
delivery. The situation, il adds. is tha
Europe viii take whatever amount OF
steel American mills win agree to de
liver when wanted, and that domesti,
buyers are providing for their wants IA
tho first half of 1917 at prices the,
were unwilling TO consider two MONTH
ago. Consumers are acting on the NOR,
definite signs that with the war pro
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-30
No Weakness Develops
In Financial Market

longed into 1917 the steel mills of the
country will continue to have to choose
between buyers. Trade authorities as q
whole seem to agree with this view. An
almost identical position seems to apply
to copper and, in fact, to nearly all OF
the various divisions of the metal mar
. ket, which is so representative Of in
dustry as whole.
Wall Street Wants Tariff.
The national political campaign is be
ginning to attract attention as q market
factor Of Importance. The tariff is be-
ing accepted from the market stand
point as the chief feature of contention
and the prospects of the rival candi-
dates, so far as many of the industrial
stocks are concerned, acquire importance
in proportion as they suggest the elec-
tion of high or low tariff advocate
with q national Legislature so proper
toned as to support him. Our country
is very fortunate this year in having q
choice between two such good candi.
dates, men who already have served the
people and who are well known by their
acts. 1t also is pleasant to recall that
the campaign is not one of freak issues
represented by the various "isms' that
have been such disturbing features of
presidential campaigns in the past
Increased interest is being taken in
the railroad securities This is quite
natural in view of the evidence that we
are approaching the end of the Euro
pean liquidation of American securities
that has been made necessary by the ex-
igencies OF the war. Something over
81 100000, 900 of American securities.
chiefly of our railroads have been sent
back across tho Atlantic and absorbed
by American investors as the result of
the present conflict. This is additional
to considerable amounts that were re.
turned when the Balkan wars so thor.
oughly upset European capitals. But
there seems excellent basis for the be-
lief that as practical proposition the
return movement has about ended.
England Making Fortunes.
Whatever of our securities are still
, abroad are, as r broad proposition de
posted with the British treasury and
are to be used as collateral for loans in
stead of being sold outright. Fortunes
are being made abroad out of the war IS
necessities quite as freely as is the ease
at home here. These fortunes are not
only being acquired by English and
French and Russian subjects. but by
those of Holland, Scandinavia, Denmark
and Switzerland, as neutral countries
, are piling up wealth on a large scale.
American securities have been favorite
Investments abroad for several genera
tions. They will unquestionably be
among the first to be repurchased when
peace shall fortunately arrive and the
world s financial affairs shall begin to
return to normal conditions. Mean
: while we cannot have prosperity in our
own country without full participation
OF our railroads in such prosperity.
Transportation is the life Of industry.
Products of industrial plants are not, as
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-30

the Haunted House was of rare beaut,
ana excellence, gem of architecture
such as one does net often chance
upon in our good land, and so Islookcd
upon its imposing frontage with long
ing, loving eyes.
spent several summers In its vicin.
liy in my early thirties, and each day
| made 1t the object of a pilgrimage.
| walked about its choked and neg.
lected gardens, and examined its poor
weather-worn door carvings with a
pity that would have penetrated to its
neart-had 1t had one. For Whitehall
seemed to me to be weighted down
with modification and despair. The
sun might shine its brightest upon its
windows, but they never could be made
10 nave that smiling look that the win.
COWS OF happier houses have.
The spring OF the year that I be-
came engaged to Lydia, paid a visit
or week to the old town, and, of
course, to Whitehall 1t was a lush
season; Nature was doing her very
brayest, and the old gardens of White.
nail were struggling to assert them.
serves Inere were surprising clumps
of hne, old-fashioned flowers here and
thefe' holding up their beautiful heads,
not proudly, but rather triumphantly
after all the years OF neglect. l grew
more and more fascinated with the
place; it appealed to me as never be.
fore. My being in love may have had
q good deal to do with this: but each
day l was drawn to the old house, and
spent hours about it., and even OBJ.