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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-06-09

quarters windows. Red Egan, It Is
true, had promptly emptied his six
shooter at that phantasmal intruder.
but with nothing more to show for 1t
than a shattered window-sash and six
panes of broken glass.
When the master-criminal, to put
an end to all such absurdities, had by
oaths compelled both One-Lamp Louie
and Red Egan himself to repair to the
Golden mausoleum and verify the con-
tents of the mysterious casket there
deposited, Red Egan had returned with
the preposterous story of white sheet
suddenly descending out of, the black
ness of the vault and whisking One
Lamp Louie out of reach and also out
of sight. And since the once valiant
Red Egan showed so craven q spirit
that nothing short of quart of three
star brandy could tranquilize his shak-
en- nerves, and since One-Lamp Louie
showed no signs OF returning from
the mysterious realms into which
the aforementioned white sheet had
whisked him, Legar promptly and
wrathfully decided to take the matter
into his own hands. He would lay
this ghost. he announced, or something
would go smash in the process.
But he had no intention of approach
ing that intimidating mausoleum with
out due and definite preparation. With
him he took powerful pocket flash
light, Colt automatic pistol and a
couple Of extra clips of cartridges.
Dut the instrument on which he re-
posed the most confidence was a gun
metal disk little bigger than pocket
aneroid, some three inches in diane
ter and no thicker than a mans hand.
This sinnocent-looking disk, which
could be slipped into vest pocket as
easily as a timepiece, was known to
the habitues of the Owls Nest as the
Black Watch
While actually nothing more than
a small-sized hand grenade, it's claim
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-06-09
Alive or dead. I'm going to take

Alive or dead. I'm going to take
you!"
/ you're sure of that?"
I Yes, I'm almost sure of it"
Then take this first" CRIED ,Lssgar
AT the same moment that he spoke
the left hand In which he still held
what seemed to be a black metal
watch case swung forward. And as
that object which so closely resembled
a black watch hurtled through the air
Legar flung himself fiat on his face
along the vault flooring. Then the
black watch struck.
The next moment the walls Of that
ponderous structure OF marble and
sandstone seemingly built to defy time
itself, lifted bodily in the air. like the
hull of a torpedoed dreadnaught
Then, following the roar and rumble
OF that vast defamation, came the mo,
mentary catastrophe silence which
so strangely and yet so inevitably sue.
ceeds calamity too gigantic and too
abrupt to be understood.
That Ominous silence, however. last.
ed only for a few seconds. Out of it
arose muffied calls and thin cries for
help, followed by answering shouts
from many different points in the
darkness as rescuing hands set to
work on the ruins.
And out of those ruins, while this
work was going on, emerged two
bruised and tattered figures strangely
divergent in appearances. The first
figure, worming its way out through
the interstices of crumbled rock and
cement, as cautiously and as silently
as a wounded blacksnake might crawl
from cave, bore an iron claw at the
end of it's right arm and betrayed an
unmistakabie desire to creep away in
to the darkness before being observed.
The second man, who, on recovering
consciousness found himself ENGAGED
between two fallen pillars Of marble
topped by one of the roof slabs, expert
enced no little difficulty in emerging
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-06-09

to distinction lay in the tremendous
explosive power which stood COM
pressed between it's slender metal
walls
Legar was not coward Yet as he
stood in the clammy midnight air of the
Golden mausoleum and quietly removed
the screws that held the top on the
black casket beside him, he found that
combination of silence and gloom and
unsavory surroundings little more of
a strain on his nerves than he had
anticipated. Yet as he lifted back the
sable cover of the casket he did so
with a hand that was still steady.
Thence he took up his fashlight, and
pressing close to the collins side,
stood studying the pallid face that lay
surrounded by it's even more pallid
drapery of white satin.
He stared at that pallid face long
and intently. He stared at 1t with stu
dious and narrowing eyes. Then he
did a strange and an inexplicable
thing.
Lifting his MANNED right arm that
ended in it's shank of steel, he brought
it down with a crash on the glass
cover of the casket. Then, as though
Infatuated by some unreasoning hatred
for the pallid face still staring SO i'm
passively up at him, he struck again.
This time the blow fell directly on the
head between the white satin swath-
D,,x xhof 40; RIM N of oad nf
striking a human head of flesh and
bone, crashed down through a thin
shell of fiber and tinted wax. sos
Legar, focusing his light on that
shattered mask, emitted short bark
of triumph as the meaning of 1t all
came home to him. He leaned for
several minutes over the violated cas-
| ket, staring at it with insolent yet abb
| stracted eyes, bordering just what
move could lie beyond so intricately en-
gineered a subterfuge. And the an
swer to that question came more
promptly and more directly than he
had anticipated For as he stood
there, turning a piece of the wax-cov-
| cred tissue meditatively over in his
fingers, the electric bulbs that strung
the mausoleum roof broke into sudden
light. From different quarters Of that
! shadowy building, at the same time,
stepped a group of hidden officers,
headed by David Manley himself.
So quickly and so quietly did that
| Transformation take place, indeed,
that the man leaning over the casket
had neither time nor chance to change
his position. He merely blinked lit
tie stupidity at the revolver which
glimmered in Manley's hand. Then,
with gesture that seemed equally
stupid, he reached for his watch and
held the heavy gun-metal case medi-
tatively between his fingers.
stick 'em up!" Manley was at the
same time commanding with a curt
head movement towards Legar's
hands. 1T may have taken some
work, but this is the time we gather
you I'M"
Legar laughed as he confronted his
enemies.
DO you want to take me alive?" he
calmly inquired.
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tylose which seals all the little pores
Of the wood. Red oak has none of the
tylose. For this reason fence post
of white oak will last much longer In
service than one of red. Timber en-.
gineers who inject creosote and other
substances into wood to retard decay
long ago made lists of species that
were hard to treat, and others which
were easy. The preservative fluids
penetrate certain woods to a consider
able depth when moderate pressure is
applied; while others are almost i'm
pervious. no matter how great the
pressure. Those hardest to penetrate
by preservative fluids are those best
supplied with tylose.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-06-09
MUCH VARIATION IN WOOD
Scientists Have Discovered Reason
Why Some Resist Entrance and
Action of Decay.

The reason why one kind of wood
is more durable than another is ow-
ing to the fact that it contains the sub
stance known as tylose in more gen.
erous quantities.
Tylose is the material which fills
the pores of the wood and resists the
entrance and action of decay.
For instance, white oak is well suit.
ed and much used for barrel slaves,
where barrels are to contain liquid,
while, on the other hand, red oak,
which is apparently of the same struc.
ture, is not at all suited for the pur.
pose. A close examination II the
white oak reveals the presence of the
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to the open, so closely were these pro.
tecting pillars wedged about him.
But as he worked his bruised body
through that Giants Causeway of bro.
ken rock, he felt grateful enough, re
membering what had happened, to be
still alive. And sore as he was in
body, he was even more bruised in
spirit at the memory Of the fact that
his enemy. Jules Legar, had at the
last moment escaped from his clutch
The Lake of Fire.
knew that his margin of safety was
still too narrow for much immediate
comfort Of either mind or body So
he crawled away as best he could,
nursing his strength when he came to
cover and going on again when some
passing light showed that cover to be
none too dense. But he did not give
up until he had reached higher
ground There he was able to hide
himself in thicket and rest for an
hour or two.
But to remain In that neighborhood
| until morning, he knew, would be out
of the question. About that whole
| suspected area, he felt, the police
would surely throw Gordon, and the
resource of disguise was no longer at
his disposal. Already from where he
| lay, he could see dozens of moving
| lamps of workers about the mauso-
| leum ruins. He could also see the
glow of a powerful pair of headlights,
apparently on a motor car threading
its way to the scene of the explosion.
And to the north he could even more
distinctly see the fiery tongues Of the
chimney flares above the Westingham
foundry, where hundreds of toilers,
turning night into day, worked about
the great blast furnaces and cauldrons
of molten metal.
In a foundry such as that, he sud
denly remembered, lay his best
chance for escape. Disheveled as he
was, he could pass unnoticed among
those sooty workers. And when the
night shift went off. he told himself
he could slip away in their midst, un
noticed and unchallenged And If the
worst came to the worst he could
crawl into hiding somewhere about
the tangle of machinery under that
foundry roof itself. and there lay up
until he knew the coast was clear
again, with the chance of stealing a
puddler's Jumper" for disguise and
a dinner pail or two full of food for q
meal
All this Legar might have done. and
might have done without great diff
Guilty, had not a trace of his older OBJ
session of hate impinged on his clear
ly outlined course of action.
He was once more himself, by this
time, walking with limp that was
scarcely discernible. But as he stole
down from the higher ground ane
made his way back towards the West
ingham chimney flares he became
once more conscious of the whitel
glare along the roadside he was 81
cautiously skirting. This, he remem
bered, as he stole nearer, came from
the headlights of stalled Limousine
Then he made q second and Q NOR
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-06-09
SYNOPSIS.


On WindwarS Island Palidori intriguss
Mrs. Golden Into an appearance of evil
which causes Golden to capture and tor
ture the Italian by branding his face and
crushing his hand. Palidori floods the is
land and kidneps Golden's little daughter
Margery. Twelve years later in New York
q Masked One rescues Margery from Lee
gar and takes her to her fathers home.
whence she is recaptured. Margery's
mother fruitlessly implores Golden to find
their daughter. The Laughing Mask
again takes Margery away from Legar.
1,egar sends to Golden a warning and a
demand for a portion of the chart Of
Windward Island. Margery meets her
mother. The chart is lost In a fight be-
tween Man,ey and one of Legar's hench-
men, but is recovered by the Laughing
Mask. Count Da Espares figures in a
dubious attempt to entrap Legar and
laims to have killed him. Golden's house
u dynamited during a masked ball. Lee
gar escapes but Da Espares Is crushed in
t!ie ruins. Margery rescues the Laughing
Mask from the police. Manley finds Mar
gerry not Indifferent to his love. He saves
her from Mankes poisoned arrows.
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recommend it to any woman suffering
from female weakness. You may pub
lish my letter if you wish. Mrs. JAMES
CoNLEY, Sig st. Clair st. Frankfort, KY.
No woman suffering from any form Of
female troubles should lose hope until
she has given Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound fair trial.
This famous remedy, the medicinal
ingredients of which are derived from
native roots and herbs, has for forty
years proved to be most valuable tonic
and invigorator of the female organism.
All women are invited to write
to the Lydia e. Pinkham Medi-
cine Co., Lynn, Mass, for special
advice,-it will be confidential
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help FOR
WORKING WOMEN
Some Have to Keep on Until
They Almost Drop. How
Mrs. Conley Got Help.

Here is letter from a woman who
had to work, but was too weak and suf-
fe-ed too much to continue. How she
regained health -
Frankfort, Ky.-"I suffered 50 much
with female weakness that I could not
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Well Supplied.

do you ever borrow trouble?"
asked the originator of fool questions.
"Not me-" replied the easy-going
man. 81 always have more of my own
than l can use to advantage"
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Shows Lack Of LfberaIity.
Don't believe that neighbor Q 'trai-
tor" whose opinion on matters Of pub
lie policy differs from yours,
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| do my own work,
had to hire it done.
heard SO much
about Lydia E. Pink
hams We BILE
Compound tn at I
| triedit. / took three
bottles and 1 found
it to be all you
claim. Now I feel as
well as ever I did and
am able to do all my
NUv, u,orL a~o;- Z
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-06-09

Poverty is not a crime-but that
isn't the reason so many people are
poor.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-08-18
Primitive Life in Hawaii.

Steps are being taken at once to
preserve the fast-vanishing remnants
of the picturesque Hawaiian native
life. There are now but few places
in the group of islands where the old
primitive conditions may be found, but
it is now proposed to set aside con-
siderable area of forest land few
miles from Hilo, Hawaii, the second
city of the territory. Here will be es-
tablished a real native community of
the ancient type; grass houses will be
erected and all of the tropical trees
and fruits Indigenous to Hawaii will
be carefully cultivated. The natives
will be settled in the reserve under
certain wise restrictions and every en-
couragement will be given them to
dwell together in the ancient native
fashion. Here will be carried on the
making of tapa cloth and the beautiful
calabashes which now command high
prices among connoisseurs the weav-
ing of the exquisite headgear and mats
from the leaves of the puhala tree will
be undertaken and every effort will
be made to provide a park which will
not only restore the old conditions of
native life, but prove an immense at
traction to tourists.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-08-18
Dora, Seated Near Him, Understood.

he began. Then, "where is that let
ter?" he asked.
"Mr. Lawson has it," said the ste
nographer.
The manager telephoned and
learned that Lawson had gone home.
Lawson's work for the company had
ended. And Dora's heart gave great
leap. She knew where that letter was.
1t was the most important letter that
the company possessed, though the
new president had never had the sense
to understand how much hung upon
it, nor Dyer either. Dora saw Dyer
suddenly turn white.
"We must get him at once" he said.
swell, Miss Henderson,"
SIN discharging Mr.. Lawson" said
Dora, ''you have lost the services of
your most useful man. And | won't
stay"
II intended to ask for your resigna-
ton tomorrow" sneered Dyer. Now
I discharge you instead. You can get
your money at once aid 60"
Dora clenched her fists and choked
down her sobs. All right, Mr.. Dyer"
she said, ''but have one thing to say
TO you. When the new management
took things over / had charge of that
letter about the patent. 1t was placed
in my hands by Mr.. Atterbury week
before he died. 1t wasn't filed among
the other letters. Mr.. Atterbury knew
that some day there. would be thou
sands of dollars dependent on it. And
you won't get it"
"Ehg' clustered Dyer. what do
you mean?"
II mean just what / say" answered
Dora. THAT letter was placed by me
in certain part of the Office, among
certain papers. and it'll take the whole
force just month to find it. Think
you can wait rlonth, Mr.. Dyer?"
What the" began Dyer. Then.
checking himself .See here, Miss Hen
derson, do you realize that this Is
-blackmail?"
stNo," answered Dora. Il have not
asked you for anything"
'But you imply that you refuse TO
hand over that paper unless you are
reinstafed."
Nothing of the kind" said Dora.
Il wouldn't work for a man Like You.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-08-18
A WoInan's
Loualtu
II
BIZ
GEORGE MUNSON
copyright, 1916. by W. G. Chapman)


Copyright. 1916. by W. G. Chapman)
When Dyer was made manager of
the company the employees knew that
changes were coming. Dyer was a
small-minded man, and the new presi-
dent was a man Of the same type.
Efficiency was to take the place of
goodwill.
"It isn't that I'd care, ordinarily,
Dora" said Lawson, the chief execu-
tive, to Miss Henderson, his stenog-
rapher. 'rve got three thousand
saved But ! reckoned on three years
more before I could start for myself.
Now"
There was a big question tagged to
that now" For Dora and Jim Law
son had been engaged a whole year,
though nobody in the office suspected
it, and they had planned to be mar
ried the next vacation.
Hell overreach himself" said Dora
calmly. HE thinks he knows every
thing-and he knows nothing"
"He hates me-" said Lawson. Il
guess I'm slated to be retired"
So events proved. Dyer sent for
Lawson a few days later, and Lawson
came out of the office very white and
began gathering up the papers. on his
desk. Dora, seated near him, under
stood.
Tomorrow" whispered the chief
executive.
"The small-minded BEAST" said
Dora angrily.
She went into Dyer's Office after
luncheon. She was half incoherent
with anger. Lawson had been with
the firm nine years, and she and Law
son knew every detail of the office
work
The manager was debating as she
entered, and Dora heard a few words,
enough, however, to make her realize
that the company's fight for the patent
rights had come to a head. She en-
tered, but Dyer neither looked up nor
offered her a chair.
"And as we stated in our letter.
quoting that of the patent owner
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-08-18

the Todas number only little over a
thousand, and are said to be steadily
decreasing, which may be partly ac-
counted for by their custom of po-
lyandry. They have preserved their
traditions to an extraordinary degree
without any written language, and it
is only to the complex ritual of their
customs and ceremonies that they
show the least servility. With an alb
solute belief in their own superiority
over the surrounding races, it would be
difficult to find people more innately
conservative, but Mr.. w. FL. Rivers,
during his mastery study of this most
interesting race, came to the conclu-
sion that they were far from lacking
in intelligence. Their life is chiefly
concerned with the keeping of their
buffalo dairies, and in his records of
their mythology Mr.. Rivers thus trans
lates their own account of Toda ORR
gin:
Behind On's buffaloes there came
out of the earth a man, holding the tail
of the last buffalo, and this was the
first Toda. On took one of the mans
ribs from the right side of his body
and made a woman, who was the first
Toda woman. The Todas then in
creased in number very rapidly, so
that at the end of the first week there
were about hundred"
One of the finest views in the
Nilgiris is that of the Droog from the
rocky bluff called Lady Canning's
Seat, about four miles from Coonoor,
which is 1000 feet lower than Ootaca-
mund. To this l drove through the
woods, one morning just after sun
rise, along a road bordered at first
with roses and wild heliotrope, past
villas and tea plantations, past tall
tree ferns and tree rhododendrons
crimson with blossom. Suddenly round
ing a corner of the road / came on
wider landscape. Grandly from the
plains rose the Droog, from the steep
summit of which Tippoo Sultan is said
to have thrown his captives. This,
and other cloud-girt heights beyond
were all of that deep blue color that
gave the Nilgiris their name.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-08-18
Gold You Can See Through.

Gold, which becomes so important in
war time; is an extremely interesting
substance in many ways.
1t can be beaten SO thin that $4,000
leaves of 1T piled on top of one another
would only reach an inch in height.
When beaten into the thinnest possible
sheet it becomes transparent.
Gold, too. can be drawn into the
finest wire of any metal. Michael Fara-
day. the great British chemist, once
calculated that he could make gold
wire from four sovereigns long enough
TO go around the earth.
1t is because gold can be beaten so
thin that loDacconists are able to use
real gold for tipping cigarettes, and yet
not charge an exorbitant price for
them.-Pearsons.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-08-18
OTRANTO AND ITS STRAITS
italian City and Expanse of Water
Have Seen Many Important
Historical Events.

Across the Straits of Otranto, where
an Austrian cruiser Is reported to have
sunk several armored British patrol
boats recently, have sailed some of
the greatest history making expedi-
tions of ancient and medieval times,
says a bulletin issued by the National
Geographic society. This 50-mile ex-
panse of water, which joins the Adri-
attic and Ionian seas, separates the
southeastern extremity or heel of the
italian peninsula from that part of
Albania which was known in ancient
times as Epirus.
1t is go miles from Otranto, the
beautifully situated Italian fishing viii
lage which gives its name to the
straits, to Avlona, the nearest port in
Albania. Four hundred miles to the
northwest are Venice and Trieste, at
the head of the Adriatic while three
hundred and fifty miles to the north
west. beyond the Ionian sea, is the
British possession, Malta.
At the beginning of the war 0tranto
was a town of scarcely more than 1000
inhabitants, but of some Importance
as the Italian terminus of the cable
and telegraph line to Constantinople,
via Avlona. 1t also had cable connec-
lion with the island of Corfu. The
back TO Greco-Roman times, for 1T oc-
cupies the site of the ancient Hydrus
and was one of Rome's ports of en-
barkation for Apollonia, the famous
Greek center of culture and city in
which the future emperor, Augustus,
was completing his education at the
time that he was summoned to the
capital following the assassination of
Julius Caesar.
Otranto was one of the Calabrian
towns captured in 1908 by Robert GUS
card (the sly). that resourceful Nor
man adventurer who, at the high tide
of his career, gave promise of dupli-
eating in southern Italy and in Greece
the triumpils won by his fellow coun-
tryman, William the Conqueror, who
during the same decade was subduing
England. Four hundred years later
the seaport was again raided and this
time fell under the hands of the
Turks. From this setback it never
recovered. Among the points of in
terest in the village today are the cas-
tie. built by Alphonso of Aragon, and
the cathedral, which dates back TO the
eleventh century and in which are TO
be found some of the columns that
once graced the temple OF Minerva at
San Nicola. near BY.