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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
PERSONAL

Miss Ella Domitio made business
trip to Toledo Monday.
Miss Inez Boone of Detroit spent
Sunday with her parents.
Mr.. Benson Waid, of Detroit, spent
Sunday with his parents.
Miss Clara Miller spent Saturday
with home folks in Kendalville.
E. r. and Donald Barrett, of Toledo.
spent Sunday at the parental home.
Miss Florence Bennett returned to
Oberlin College Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Frank Longneeker of New
York called on Wauseon friends Mon
day.
Fern Harrison and Carl Geringer
Of Toledo, spent Saturday and Sun
day here.
Miss Marjorie Humphreys return
ed to Western College at Oxford. Ohio
last Monday.
Mrs. James Doovan, of Napoleon,
visited her mother here the latter part
of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Soule were
guests Sunday of DR.. and Mrs. Rey-
nolds of Stryker.
Mrs Geo. Haumesser of Toledo,
spent the last of the week with
friends in Wauseon.
Miss Maude Zonker, of Delta, spent
Saturday and Sunday with r. H.
Kenyon and family.
Mrs. Clarence Geringer and baby
of Bryan, are visiting her parents,
Rev. and Mrs. Barker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Dennis of Wau-
seon spent Sunday with her parents,
H. Partridge and family.
Miss E. Gushman and Mrs. Sam
Morningstar were in Archbold on
business Saturday evening.
Master Weir Mckinley of Detroit
spent last Sunday with his grandpar-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Weir.
Mrs. DR.. Mills of Toledo was the
guest of Mrs. Wales and Mrs. U. A
Stevens for two days last week.
Miss Blanche Rossman was in Ma
pOleon part OF last week the gueS
Of Mrs. Charles, at Hotel Wellington
Miss Winifred Light of Sandusky
was a weekend visitor with her sis
ter. Mrs. w. w. Ackerman and fami
ly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank E. Kenyon re
turned from a visit with relatives il
Baltimore, Maryland, and Washing
ton, d. c. last Tuesday.
Nancy and Bruce Williams return
ed to college work at Wooster Uni
versfty Tuesday, after a few day
vacation spent with the home folks.
G. F. Handy of Ottokee. who ha
just recently recovered from a sever
attack of pneumonia was shaking
hands with Wauseon friends Tuesday
Rev. W. D. Hayes will leave Nor
day for st. Joseph, Michigan, to at
tend the Annual Conference of tn
Evangelical church for this distric
Mrs. Dorothy Geyser Longneckel
of New York, attended the Congregs
tional Church Social at the Home q
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. II. Ham last Monda
evening.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
FULTON COUNTY bOND SALE.

Pursuant to resolution passed by the Coun-
ty Commissioners April 8, 1916, sealed bids
will be received at the Auditors Office Wau-
seon, Ohio, until o'clock p. M, Monday
May l, 1915 and opened Immediately there
after for bonds of said county as follows, to-
wit:
Petition 1887.
2 Bonds, each $500, due JAN /, 1917
Bonds, each $500, due July 1, 1917.
2 Bonds each $500, due JAM l. 1918
Bonds, each $500, due July 1, 1918.
Bonds, each $500, due Jan. l, 1919.
Bonds, each $500 due July 1, 1919.
Bonds, each $780, due Jan. l, 1920.
Bonds, each $500, due July 1, 1920.
Par value of bonds S8,0O00O.
For Road Improvement, 1. C. H. No. 81
Petition No. 1850.
2 Bonds, each $500, due Jan. l, 1917
Bonds, each $500, due July l, 1917.
Bonds, each $500, due Jan. l, 1918.
Bonds, each $500. due July l, 1918.
Bonds, each $500, due Jan. l, 1919.
2 Bonds, each $500 due July l, 1919.
Bonds, each $500, due Jan. l, 1920.
Bonds, each $500, due July 1, 1920.
Bonds, each $500, due Jan. l. 1921.
Par value of bonds 100000.
All the above bonds payable at the Treas
urer's office of said County, Wauseon, Ohio,
and to be of issue of May 10, 1916, with in
terest at the rate of five per cent. per annum,
payable sem-annually on the first day of
January and July at the Treasurer's office of
said county.
Proceeds of each allotment to be applied
exclusively TO the payment OF the county,
township and abutting property owners share
of the cost and expense of locating and con-
structing the road improvements as above un-
der authority of Section 1928 o. L., 103. The
County Commissioners reserve the right to
reject any and all bids and require that all
bids be separate and each bid be accompanied
by certified check of s5OO.0o as a guarantee
that if the bid be accepted the bidder will
pay the Treasurer of said county the amount
of the sale of said bonds upon delivery of
the completed bonds at Wauseon, Ohio
By order of the Board of Fulton County
Commissioners.
W. w. ACKERMAN, County Auditor.
Wauseon, Ohio, April 8, 1916. 52-4
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

Dick Teeple aged 35, of South Ma
poleon, was literally torn to pieces
Tuesday morning by explosion of ten
pounds of dynamite which he was
carrying in basket while engaged in
blowing stumps on the George Gum
farm, four miles West of Napoleon.
The explosion was heard in Napoleon
and Liberty. Teeple leaves wife
and five children.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
AUCTION SALE OF STOCK.

Having sold my farm I will sell at
Public Auction, on the place, Monday
Apri II. 1916: 10 head of good work
horses, IS head of registered Hol-
stein cattle. Is high grade cows and
heifers; about 35 good ewes due to
lamb soon; brood sows due to far
row soon; about 30 head of feeding
hogs; 20 tons of hay; a quantity OF
corn fodder, etc.
See sale bills and papers next
week for full particulars.
H. J. GELZER.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
CARD OF THANKS.

We wish to thank our many friends
and neighbors for their assistance
during our sad bereavement; the loss
of our beloved wife and mother, also
the singers, pastor and donors of
floral tributes.
Mr.. Elmer Milliman and Children
Mrs. Lucy Pierce,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Williams.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

Inspection of officers of Fulton
Chapter Eastern Star, will be held
Tuesday evening April 25. Mrs.
Cora Stewart, Deputy Grand Matron
of Montpelier, will be present as in
specting officer. An next Tuesday
evening, April II. there will be initia-
tory work and good attendance is
desired at both meetings.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
BELGIAN FLAG TAG DAY.

On Saturday April 9Th, the ami
versary of the birth Of King Albert
of Belgium the National Society of
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton will assist the Commission for
Relief in Belgium, to provide food
and clothing for the war sufferers in
occupied Belgium and Northern
France, by holding "Flag-Tag
Day"
Tags representing the Belgian
Flag, bearing picture of King AL
bert and the letters, &c. R. B.. Com
mission for Relief in Belgium will
be offered for sale at not less than
seven cents each with the request
that these tags be worn over Sun
day April 9th. The entire amount
received from the sale of the flags
will be turned over to the Commits
sion named above and will be used by
them to purchase food and clothing
for the 100000 people of Belgium
who are entirely or partly dependent
upon charity and who can receive
help through no other channel than
this Commission. The Wauseon Chap
ter D. A. R. will participate in this
movement and the "Flag-Tags" will
be offered for sale on the streets, in
the homes and places of business of
Wauseon Saturday, (to-morrow).
Queen Elizabeth of Belgium in ex-
pressing her appreciation of the
effort to help her destitute people, in
a cablegram to the President General
of the National Society, D. A. r.
closes her message with these words
"To all who will wear the Belgian
flags on April eighth and ninth 1 send
in the name of the Belgian mothers
my heartfelt thanks"
| (sipned0 ETJZARETH
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

The ]. c. Robinson Sunday School
Class of the Christian church gave
Mrs. E. L. Barrett a surprise last
Monday evening with pot luck sup
per. Mr.. and Mrs Barrett and fami-
ly will move to Toledo in the near
future.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

The members of the Woman's Club
enjoyed the hospitality of Mrs. C.
w. Struble at their meeting last
Tuesday afternoon. The Club voted
at this meeting that the Civic Com
mittee of this Club be asked to CO.
operate with the Civic Club of Wau-
seon along all lines of civic improve
ment and that they be authorized to
use funds of the club to the amount
of ten dollars in this work.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

The entertainment given by the
Bayes School last Friday evening will
be repeated, by request, on Friday
evening April 14th. "Way Down
East" and "Obstinacy" will be pre-
sented by the young people of the
district.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
NOT A RUSH ORDER FOR TROOPS
BUT BURGOON'S CELEBRATED
REMEnTFS

Wauseon, Ohio, March 21, 1915.
c. W. Burgoon, Bowling Green. Ohio.
Dear Sir:-Kindly ship US at once
two dozen Alternatives, and oblige,
FINK & HAUMESSER.
Sold by all dealers. 51-2-c
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

Sheriff John McQuillin who has
been quite i'll since last Sunday af-
ternoon is much improved and will be
in working order very soon. Some
thing has to be radically wrong with
"John" to keep him down.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

The situation in Toledo in regard to
the street car strike remains rather
serious; no indication of settlement
in sight. 1t is rumored that 200
Militia are guarding the car barns.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
Worth While ouotei:c-,

Wealth cannot purchase a',y great
private solace or convenience Riches
are only the means OF so> iaIity.-
Henry D. ThCreau.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
Test of, Bananas.

Bananas are fit to eat as soon as
they have lost all their green color,
and remain fit, no matter how black
they may be, as long as the skin is un-
broken.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
NOTICE

E. D. Myers and company having
purchased the barn raising outfit of
A. J. Field are now ready to accomo-
date any one at any time. For in
formation, call E. D. Myers, Phone
260, Wauseon, O. 52-tf w
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

The members of the Defiance City
Federation of Womens Clubs are
engaged in a campaign to provide
markers for the streets in that city,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

The M. E. Ladies Aid Socity of Oak
Shade will have a market of baked
goods and also ice cream at the home
of Mrs. H. Partridge Saturday after
noon April 9Th.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
Fish Lack Brains.

If fishes knew enough to five in
the ground instead of the water they
could get ali the worms they wanted
without hooks in them.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

You will be surprised, how cheaply
you can paper your bedroom, dining
or living room. Make your selection
now.
READ & WAGER.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
LACE OBTAINS

I am prepared to laundry all kinds
of lace curtains. Prices reasonable
Your patronage solicited. Mrs. B. P.
Omlor. 52-tf
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

The M. L. T. Club and their hus-
bands gave Mr.. and Mrs. E. L.Bar-
rett a surprise last Tuesday evening
in the way of a pot luck supper.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

Better be safe than sorry-Reads
White Diarrhea Remedy will keep
your chicks safe from the ravages of
this disease. 25c bottle.
READ & WAGER.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
READ & WAGER.
NOTICE

Tedrow people watch for the an
nouncement Of the play the Cleaners
Opera Troop are contemplating put
ting on at that place soon.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
LUTHERAN CHURCH.

III 11EIEIAIN OII NOd.
Sunday April 9th.
TRINITY, Wauseon
Sunday School at 100.
Service at 200.
Lenten service Friday evening at
700,
ST. PAUL'S, Pettisville.
Sunday School at 800.
Service at 1000.
Lenten service every Wednesday at
1000.
TTTDEET
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

Window Shade materials have ad-
vanced but we're selling Window
Shades at the old price.
READ & WAGER.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
U. B CHURCH

U. B CHURCH.
Preaching 900 a. m. and 80 p. m.
Sunday School 1000 a. m.
Christian Endeavor $3.50 p. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday 7:30 p.
m.
Quarterly Conference and Institute
Thursday the 9th at 100 and 7:30 p.
m.
Conference Supt. Rev. H. M. Bal
linger to be present. All are invited.
j. H. WILLIAMS. Pastor.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

Miss Helen Hartmann pleasantly
entertained the Delta and Wauseon
teachers clubs at her home Monday
evening.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

The mothers of the Junior H. S.
Class had a meeting Monday even
ing to arrange for the Junior ban
uuet,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

The regular meeting of Wauseon
Chapter D. A. R. will be held this af-
ternoon at the home of the Regent,
Mrs. Frank E. Kenyon.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Bible School 9:30. We want to
make April and May banner months.
Good orchestra music. Fine spirit.
Many new scholars.
Sermon 10:45 and 7:3O.
Junior and senior Endeavor $3.50.
Ladies' Missionary Society meets
this Friday at home of Mrs. Ralph
Miley.
One weeks special meetings of the
church preceding Easter.
J. 4. WHARTON. Pastor,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

Mr.. c. E. Brigham's condition is
reported as somewhat improved since
his return from Florida, though he
is still very seriously i'll.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

LUTHERAN CHURCH.
Sunday April 9th.
Fifth Sunday in Lent.
CLINTON TWP.
900 Sunday School.
$3.50 German Service.
WAUSEON
Congregational
1:30 Sunday School.
200 English service.
Mid-week Lenten services.
Wednesday April 18th.
900 Clinton Twp.
7:3O Bradley, English preaching.
Thursday April 18th.
900 German Twp.
H. E. PLEHN, Pastor.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

EVANGELICAL CHURCH.
Sunday School $50.
Sermon at 10:45, after which we
will receive new members into the
church fellowship.
Y. P. A. 500.
Sermon 700.
Prayer meeting Wednesday even
ing 1880.
All welcome, at these services.
w. D. HAYES, Pastor.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
TIE CHURCHES
M. e CHURCH.

9:15 Sabbath School, C. J. Ives.
Supt.
1890 Gods Bargain Sale.
6:30 Epworth League, led by Mr..
Pike.
7:30 A Blind Man Heraled.
Good music.
q p HOFEM A NJ Pastor
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Ae-
schliman of South Franklin street,
a son, on Wednesday April 5th.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
The Aches of House Cleaning.

The pain and soreness caused by
bruises, over-exertion and straining
during house cleaning time are sooth-
ed away by Sloan's Liniment. No need
to suffer this agony. Just apply
Sloan's Liniment to the sore spots,
rub only little. In short time the
pain leaves, you rest comfortably and
enjoy refreshing sleep. One CRATE
ful user writes: ~Sloan's Liniment
is worth its weight in gold" Keep
a bottle on hand, use it against all
Soreness, Neuralgia and Bruises.
Kills pain. 25c at your Druggist.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
LOCAL BRIEFS

The Ladies Aid of the Christian
church will serve an Easter supper
from 5 to Thursday April 13.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

CONGREGATIO CHURCH.
9:3O a. m. Bible School. Harold
Collins, Supt.
11:00 a. m. Morning Worship. "The
Claim of The. Church"
500 p. m. Junior Endeavor.
700 p. m. Evening Worship. "The
Conquest of The World AS Jesus Saw
It."
Wednesday at 700 p. m. Church
night.
WALTER C. SCHAFER, Pastor.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
NOTICE.

A short program land Box Soiial will
be held at Whitcomb School Wednes-
day April 18th for benefit of school.
Everybody come.
25e will save your chicks from
White Diarrhea-get a bottle of
Reads White Diarrhea Remedy. We
guarantee it.
READ & WAGER.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

Mrs. Harry mabel Coffin) Brig
ham of Portland, Oregon, with her
daughter arrived in Wauseon last
Saturday; she is visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Crawford Blair
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07

Mrs. Chas. Waid and daughter
Gladys visited Mrs. Knowles and fami-
ly in Toledo this week. Mr.. Knowles
has recently purchased a greenhouse
on South street in Toledo.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

P. KLEUPFEL, Pastor.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
EVANGELICAL CHURCH.

0. P. HOFFMAN. Pastor.
Evening star., 1916-01-02
SUNDAY MAGAZINE for January 2, 1916

saddle, and then the body in the grove
with hole through its breast. say, all
anybody ever knew, he smiled apollo
getically y,-"but I've often thought, or
used often to think in the old days, of the
man who did know-the man who fred
the shot. He must have had story to
tell. suppose now, Mr.. Thatcher, one
of your hustling young reporters would
have got hold of him and printed the
story" he added with an amiable and
wheezy chuckle. "But that must have
been all of forty years ago-all of forty
years ago or more. We weren't so keen
for news then. There was pretty gen.
eral disposition just to let the thing
rest"
"But what became of Fanny Ray
burn?" Thatcher asked.
"Why, she went back to Markham,
Kentucky the old man replied. "Sort
of seems to me she went to teaching in the
school again-if she'd ever really taught
there before, and I'm not perfectly sure
about that. Yes, she went to teaching in
the Misses Shelby's school-for several
years. Then she died. l recall very well
hearing of her death. 1t couldn't have
been more than three, four years, or such
a matter, after she left here, for had just
been married."
He rubbed his head once more, thought
fully.
"She died of slow consumption, as we
called it in those days. recall it very
well. I'd been married only little while.
l needn't say / was in love with my
Evening star., 1916-01-02

got tired of the whim. Mrs. Carrheart
was woman that would be likely to do
/, that-dashing and domineering, you
know.
Mrs. Carrheart was Livingston. |
suppose there's no harm, now they're all
dead and gone, in saying the Livingstons
We're pretty bad lot, in their blue
blooded way. l remember the stories
they used to tell about the old man-her
father: quarreling and dueling and so on,
you know. Then, her brother, Sylvanus
Livingston, was famous character in his
day. l remember him very we'll | saw
him jump off his horse one day, right
down here at the corner of Jackson and
Chestnut streets, and beat man bloody
with the butt of his riding-whip because
the man swore when the horse bumped
into him. He was big, black, handsome
brute. Pretty near everybody was afraid
of him. know was. 1t wasn't good for
any young woman outside of that social
set to be seen as much as saying how d.
do to him on the street. To be seen
talking to him for minute was as much
as her reputation was worth
He gave deprecating little cough be-
hind his pudgy hand, and wheezed along:
Evening star., 1916-01-02

beauty that appeals to you. To think
it's gone and nobody will ever see it again
brings a lump into your throat" He gave
his wheezy little sigh, and concluded quite
briskly:
II guess that's all the story | know;
but | can look up the dates for you, if
you like"
"Well, you might" Thatcher replied
vaguely, not minding exactly what he
said. In fact, the old daguerreotype was
present to his mind, and there was
slight sensation in his own throat.
QUITE a story" he commented, half
absently, to Daisy Martin, when the
old man had left the corner room. "Quite
a story-but it doesn't come off; there's
no end. OF course, Adoniram Waite was
engaged to her-probably secret en-
gagement. He left his money to that
school because she was connected with it.
That's pretty good-forty-odd years af-
terwards. But why the deuce didn't he
marry her? There's no real nub to the
story
He got up in restless dissatisfaction and
wandered around the Office. Again he
looked over the objects they had found
in the old safe, particularly the old daguer-
reotype. Then he looked rather resent
fully at the old safe itself Nothing else
was in sight within it, but abruptly his
mind caught at the small upper compart-
ment of the safe-a strong box evidently
designed as a receptacle for money. 1t
was locked tight, and there was no key.
He thumped on the door with his knuckle
tried the handle by which, when the lock
was thrown, the door was opened; then
turned to Miss Martin, saying:
Lets go through with it! Maybe
there's something in here. Telephone
down to the safe company Tell 'em to send
at once man who can drill safe door.
While they were wait
ing, Titherington wad-
died in, Juggling a dusty
n old file of the Beacon,
bound in checkered
Evening star., 1916-01-02

finding Sylvanus Livingston's body" he
said, putting fat forefnger on the head
line.
The account substantially agreed with
the one he had given. 1t told of the rider
less horse appearing at Cottonwoods, and
of finding the body with a bullet hole in
the left breast. 1t added that the victim
had probably been shot while on horse
back, because there was no bullet hole
through the coat corresponding to that
through the shirt and waistcoat, indicat-
ing that the coat was thrown open-as
might easily happen when man was
riding against the wind. Deceased's
eminent social qualities and connections
We're duly extolled, and his demise duly
deplored. But, except for the detail
OF the coat, there was nothing essen
tial that Titherington's memory had not
supplied
THEY were still looking down at the
printed page, yellow around the margin
with the damp of forty years, when the
safe expert arrived. The thin steel door
of the strong box offered little resistance
to his drill. Thirty minutes later,
Thatcher had reached into the long
sealed receptacle and taken out stout
legal-cap paper.
From its thickness one might surmise
that it contained several sheets of such
paper. On the back, along the line where
the flap folded down, it was sealed in four
places with red wax. The patches of wax
were thick, and each of them bore diff
ferent impress. One of them seemed to
have been made by large intaglio finger
ring; another, perhaps, by watch
charm. The third had evidently been
made by a small key of rather odd shape.
The fourth was the biggest of all. Thatcher
studied it moment, with puzzling
notion that it ought to suggest something
to him. Then he opened the little drawer
in the walnut desk and took out the an
cient derringer.
While examining that obsolete weapon
before, he had noticed that the end of the
butt was slightly concave and corrugated.
1t fitted smoothly into the impress in the
wax. Evidently, then, the fourth seal
had been made by the butt Of this firearm.
On the front of the envelop was written,
in ink now faded:
Sealed in our presence in the Tyre Beacon
Office, L 20 PM, October 18th, 1871.
EDGAR CARRHEART.
PETER BELNAP.
SYLvANUs LIVINGSTON.
ADoNIRAM WAITE.
Each name was written in different
hand-evidently signature. Evidently,
also, each man had sealed the envelop
with some object that he could identify.
Thatcher looked over at the outspread
newspaper file. Sylvanus Livingston
had been shot in the early morning of
October Ia, 1871; not-they now knew
on horseback, but with his coat
thrown open and dueling pistol in
his hand.
The two upon whom this buried
drama arose stared at each other with
what Titherington had said about Syl-
vanus Livingston's reputation in their
minds. They could see the protegee
of doubtful, insecure position, in his
sisters house-the proteg6e whose beauty
appealed 1t could have been no light
thing for one of the men whose sigma
lures appeared on the envelop was Syl-