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Omaha daily bee., 1916-04-16
OMAHA MILITIAMEN
AT CASAS GRANDE
Dan Pugh, Sergeant in Local Ma
tional Guard, Hikes for Mexico
at First Sign of Trouble.
WRITES LETTER TO HOME BOYS


Major Elsasser OF the local regi-
ment OF the National Guard has an
interesting letter In his possession
which was sent George 8. Hefner.
battalion quartermaster OF tho First
battalion, First regiment of the Me-
braaka National Guard, by Sergeant
Dan Pugh Of the local militia. who
~ at casas Grandes at tho present
time. Correspondence paper was
unobtsinable and the letter was
written on the back OF piece OF
cardboard which was an ADVERTISE
mept Of a boxing bout that took place
in Columbus.
Sergeant Pugh IA 70 years Of age. an
sx-army man. and served in the Cuban
cAmpign OF the spanish-American war.
When the United states troops were
concentrated on tbs border few years
ago and everyone thought At the time
that Intervention would surely take
place, Sergeant Pugh, who re-enliats at
svory sign Of trouble, e..as ell the way
from New Orleans. whore he was stay
Ing ~ the time. to enlist IN the local
militia, saying that be would rather
fight with them than 70 Join the regu.
lars The militia was not called out and
he secured his discharge.
The letter follows;
Hello, Everybody; Well, ] guese you
all think am q thing Of the past, but
far be II from such. arrived IN Co
lumbps and Il was suriiy raining hard
and alao Tas cold. stayed AROUND .
couple OF days and finally grabbed O.
truck and went 10 casae Grapdea. i1
Yuileg by trail, on the line Of communities
ton. This line starts 1t oibson's ranch.
which IL about fifteen miles from Co
lumbua, Then abvut every twenty OF
thirty miles MI the way from ffty 10 no
men IN zach detachment arc posts that
have been established as the Line Of COM
munication has been extended. The pa
trols from each detachment keep In
touch with each other.
Truck Driver blinded.
Say, this n 49, Of country-caetus,
sand, aikali dust and lots OF wind.
brought back seven drivers Of trucks
who had been blinded on the trip. There
are over 1900 greahefs around and in
hack Of our troops.
One Of our columns IN over 100 miles
from Pershings base, but the main col.
unnn IL about 800 miles south Of Casas
fteanAea White In MI paan / sDdnf oyar
70 JuaFez, and say. II almost made me
sick Thh dirtient rottenest bunch
ever cav, just think Kids IA and Is
years old with three bandeIIers Of cart
ridges around them
Ran nail IN my foot this morning.
20 do not feel much like writing. WIN
havs q whole LOT 10 tell you when get
back. You have 70 BE- careful what you
say down here. win leave here about
The first Of neat month. Regards 70 al.
! am, ~ ever. your old sIde-kiek,
DAN
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one which had just reIessed 10 roe.
dom man seemingly doomed.
Few persons were now left in the
great room, and Deborah, embarrassed
to find that she was the only woman
present, was on the point CT escaping
from her corner when she perceived a
movement take place In the rigid form
from which she had not yet withdrawn
her eyes, and, regarding Judge Os.
trander more attentiyely, The caught
the gleam Of his suspicious eyes as
he glanced this way and that to see II
Ills lapse Of consciousness had been
noticed by those about him.
Wherever the judge looked he saw
abstracted faces and busy hands, and,
taking heart at not finding himself
watched, he started to rise Then
memory came-blasting, overwhelm-
Ing memory of the letter he had been
reading; and, rousing with start, he
looked down at his hand, then at the
moor before him. and, seeing the letter
lying there, picked it up with secret.
sldelong glance to right and left,
which sank deep into the heart of the
still watchful Deborah
If those about him saw, they made
no motion. Not an eye looked round
and not head turned as he straight.
ened himself and proceeded to leave
the room. Only Deborah noted how
his steps faltered and how little he
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SYNOPSIS.

tha a r,matH curious crowd of neighbors invade
on9 mysterious home of Judge Ostrander,
ITounty judge and eccentric recluse, fol-
1Wing q yelled woman who proves to be
tne widow of q man tried before the Judge
4nd electrocuted for murder years before
aer daughter Is engaged to the Judges
son, from WON he Is estranged but the
murder is between the lovers She plans
20 clear her husbands memory and asks
the judges aid. Deborah Scoyille reads
me newspaper clippings telling the story
VI the murder of Algernon Etheridge by
uMonn M Scoville In Dark Hollow twelve
years years before. The judge and Mrs. SEQ
,', vtile meet at Spencer's Folly and she
s5nows 5ws him how, on the day OF the MUIR
HHer, she saw the shadow Of q man, whit
ong LING stick and wearing long peaked
cup. me Judge engages her and her
uaughter Reuther to live with him In his
mysterious home. Deborah and her law :.
yer Black, go to the police station and
see see tne dtso stick used to murder Etheridge.
~ tt'Pmsuued m,d IN IT. Deborah and Reuther go
10 i've with the judge. Deborah sees n
Portrait Of Oliver. the Judges son, with
piack band painted across the eyes. That
nght she finds, in divers room, q cap
with a peak like the shadowed one, and
knife with broken blade point Anon
ymous letters and talk $with Miss
weeks Increase her suspicious and fears
Sne iinds that Oliver was I'm the ravine
on the murder night. Black warns her
anu i.u SHOWS her other anonymous letters
hihting at divers guilt.
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Come here, child" said he. in a
way to make her heart beat; and,
as he took the gloves from her hand,
he stopped and kissed her on the fore.
he4d-something he had never done
before. LET me see you smile." said
he. ITS memory like to take with
me into the courtroom
But when in her pure delight at his
caress and the fatherly feeling which
gave tremor to his simple request,
she lifted her face with that angelic
look Of hers which was far sweeter
and far more moving than any smile,
he turned away abruptly, as though
he had been more hurt than comfort
ed, and strode out of the house with
out another word.
Morning passed and the noon came3
bringing Deborah an increased un-
easiness. When lunch was over and
Reuther sat down to her piano the
feeiing had grown into an obsession,
which had soon resolved itself into a
definite fear She found herself so
restless that she decided upon going
out Donning her quietest gown and
veil. she slipped out of the front door,
hardly knowing whittier. her feet
would carry her.
They did not carry her far-not at
this moment, at least On the walk
outside she met Miss Weeks hurrying
toward her from the corner, stumbling
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7e Assumed Some Show Of His Old
Commanding Presence.

was to be trusted to find his way uu.
guided to the door. 1t lay to the right
and he was going left Now he Stun
bles-isn't there any one to---yes, she
Is not the sole one on watch The
same man who had read aloud the
note and then dropped it within reach,
had stepped after him, and kindly, IL
artfully. turned him towards the
proper place Of exit. AS the two dis
appear, Deborah wakes from her
trance, and, finding herself alone
among the seats, hurries to quit her
corner and leave the building.
The glare--the noise of the square,
as she dashes down into 1t seems for
the moment uncomfortable. The push.
Ing, painting mass of men and women
OF which she has now become a part,
closes about her. and for the moment
she can see nothing but faces-faces
with working mouths and blazing eyes.
Thick as the crowd was in front, It
was even thicker here. and far mors
tumultuous. Word had gone about
that the father of Oliver Ostrander
had been given his lesson at last, ani
the curiosity Of the populace had risen
to feyer-heat in their anxiety to seq
how the proud Ostrander would bear
himself In his precipitate downfall.
They had crowded there to see and
they would see.
fie was evidently not prepared to
see his path quite SO heavily marked
out for him by the gaping throng; but
after one look. lie assumed some show
of his old commanding presence and
advanced bravely down the steps, aw-
Ing some and silencing all, until he
had reached his carriage step and the
protection of the officers on guard.
Then hoot rose from some far-off
quarter OF the square, and he turned
short about and the people saw his
face. Despair had seized it, and IL
any one there desired vengeance, he
had 1t. The knell Of active life had
been rung for this man. He would
never remount the courthouse steps.
or face again a respectful jury.
CfO BE CONTINUED)
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In her excitement. At sight of Debo.
rahs figure she paused and threw up
her hands.
"Oh, Mrs. Scoville, such o dreadful
thing!" she cried. Look here!" And.
opening one Of her hands, she showed
a few torn scraps of paper whose
familiarity made Deborah's blood run
cold.
"On the BRIDGE" gasped the little
lady. leaning against the fence for
support. Pasted on the railing of
the bridge. should never have seen
1t, nor looked at it, if 1t hadn't been
that l."
Don't tell me here" urged Debo.
rah. Lets go over to your house.
See there are people coming"
Once In the house, Deborah allowed
her full apprehension to show itself.
What were the words? What was
on the paper? Anything about"
The little woman's look OF horror
stopped her.
ITS lie, an awful, abominable lie.
But think Of such lie being pasted
up on that dreadful bridge for anyone
to see. After twelve years, Mrs. SEQ.
Vile! After"
Miss Weeks" All. the oil Of
that golden speech on troubled wa.
ters! What was it's charm? LET me
see those lines or what there Is left
Of them SO that may share your
feelings. They must be dreadful"
They are more than dreadful. They
are FOR the kitchen fire. Wait mo.
ment and then we will talk"
But Deborah had no mind TO Iet
these pieces escape her eye. Nor did
she fail. At the end of fifteen min.
utss she had the torn bits of paper
arranged In their proper position and
was reading these words:
The scene of Olive dor.s or,,,o
The beginning Of the end!" was
Deborah's thought. "If, after Mr.
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CHAPTER xl-cont,nued,

Madam, we have said our say on
snis subject. If you have come to see
the matter as l see it, can but con-
graduate you upon your good sense,
ana express the hope that 1t will con.
tlnue to prevail. Reuther is worthy
or the best" he stopped abruptly.
Reuther is girl after my own heart"
ne gently supplemented, with glance
toward his papers lying in bundle at
MS elbow, "and she shall not suffer
because of this disappointment to her
girlish hopes. Tell her so with my
love-"
1t was plain dismissal. Mrs. SEQ
vile took it as such, and quietly left
the room AS she did so she was ap-
preached by Reuther, who handed her
letter which had just been delivered
1t was from Mr.. Black, and read thus:
Ve have found the rogue and have sue
c,,oded In inducing him to leave town
He's man in the bill-sticlting business
aAd he owns to a grievance against the
person we know.
Deborah's sleep that night was with
ouT dreams.
About this time the restless pacing
or the lTdge in his study at nights
became more frequent and lasted
longer. III vain Reuther played her
most cheerful airs and sang her sweet
est songs, the monotonous tramp kent
up with regularity nothing could
break.
He's worried by the big case now
being tried before him." Deborah
would say. when Reuther's eyes grew
wide and misty In her sympathetic
trouble. And there was no improb-
ability In the plea, for it was a case
Of much moment and of great local
interest. A man was on trial for his
life and the circumstances of the case
were such that the feeling called forth
was unusually bitter; so much so, in
deed, that every word uttered by the
counsel and every decision made by
the Judge were discussed from one
end Of the county to the other, and in
Shelby, IL nowhere else took prece.
dence Of all other topics, though it
was a presidential year and party
sympathies ran high.
The more thoughtful spirits were in.
clined to believe in the innocence of
the prisoner; but the lower elements
Of the town, moved by class prejudice,
were bitterly antagonistic to his cause
and loud for HIS conviction.
The time Of Judge Ostrander's office
was nearly up, and his future continu.
ance on the bench might very easily
depend upon his attitude at the pres.
ent hearing. Yet he, without apparent
recognition Of this fact, showed with.
out any hesitancy or possibly without
self-conScioufness, the sympathy he
felt for the man at the bar, and ruled
accordingly almost without variation.
A week rassed, and the community
was all agog, in anticipation Of the
judges charge In the case just men.
toned. IL was to be given at noon,
and Mrs. Scoville, conscious that he
had not slept an hour the night be.
fore tbsving crept down more than
once to listen If his step had ceased),
approached him as he prepared to
leave for the courtroom and anxiously
asked If he were quite we'll.
"Oh, yes, I'm WE'LL" he RESPONDED
sharply. looking about for Reuther.
The young girl was standing a little
behind him, with his gloves in her
hand--a custom she had fallen into
In her desire to have his last look and
FOND good morning.
>e~<-N~~>~~>~.~ro>~
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1916-01-13
. 'CASCARETS" ACT
ON LIVER; BOWELS
No sick headache, biIiousness,
bad taste or constipation
by morning.
Get a 10-cent box.

Are you keeping your bowels, liver,
and stomach clean, pure and fresh
with Cascarets. or merely forcing a
passageway every few days with
Salts, Cathartic Pills, Castor Oh or
Purgatiye Waters?
Stop having bowel wash-day. Let
Cascarets thoroughly cleanse and reg.
uiate the stomach, remove the sour
and fermenting food and foul gases.
take the excess bile from the liver
and carry out OF the system all the
constipated waste matter and poisona
In the bowels.
A. Cascaret tonight will make Won
feel great by morning. They work
while you sleep-never grippe, sicken
or cause any inconvenience, and cost
only 10 cents box from your store.
Millions Of men and women take a
Cascaret now and then and never
have Headache, Biliousness, Coated
Tongue, Indigestion, Sour Stomach or
Constipation. ADV.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1916-01-13
CHAPTER XII.
"The MIsfortunes Of MY House"

TIC WTsroTtuHe6 OF WY House,"
Schooled as most Of them wero to
face with minds secure and tempers
quite unrufiled the countless surprises
Of courtroom, the persons within
hearing paled at the insinuation con-
veyed In these two sentences, and with
scarcely the interchange of glance or
word, drew aside in silence which no
man seemed inclined to break.
AS for the people still huddled in the
doorway, they rushed away helter-skel-
ter into the street, there to proclaim
the Judges condition and It's probable
cause-an event which to many quite
ecliDsed In interest the more ordinary
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STOP EATING MEAT IF
KIDNEYS OR BACK HURT
Take Glass OF Saits to Clean Kid.
neys IL Bladder Bothers You
Meat Forms Uric Acid.

Eating meat regularly eventually
produces kidney trouble in some form
or other, says well-known authority.
because the uric acid in meat excites
the Kidneys, they become overworked:
get sluggish; clog up and cause all
Sorts or distress. particularly backache
and misery In the kidney region; rheu.
matte twinges, severe headaches, acid
stomach. constipation, torpid liver.
sleeplessness, bladder and urinary tr-
ritation.
The moment your back hurts or kid.
neys aren't acting right, or IL bladder
bothers you, get about four ounces OF
Jad Salts from any good pharmacy:
take tablespoonful in a glass OF
water before breakfast for few days
and your kidneys will then act fine
Ihis famous salts is made from the
acid Of grapes and lemon Juice, com.
bined with lithia, and has been used
Tor generations to flush clogged kid
neys and stimulate them to normal
activity; also to neutralize the acids in
the urine 30 1t no longer irritates, thus
ending bladder disorders
Jad Salts cannot injure anyone.
makes delightful effervescent lithtn.
water drink which millions Of men and
women take now and then to keen the
Kidneys and urinary organs clean. thus
avoiding serious kidney disease.--Adv
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1916-01-13
TESTS QUALITIES OF CLOTH

termined by placisy them in the ma
chine and giving tsem uniform nun
Der OF rubs. perhaps two hundred
each. Fhis makes 1t possible to com.
pare one kind Of cloth with It's lmta
tioh' or to compare cloth samples of
the same character from different
mills.
a piece of cloth is clafnped In a
rigid Jaw and passes over rubbing
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1916-01-13
Surely Not the Old Crowd.

"Ah, my boy" said the millionaire,
II hear that you are going the pace
that kills"
"Pshaw! Don't believe everything
you hear, dad" answered the gilded
youth. I've been told that my esca-
pades are nothing as compared to
yours when you were young man."
"Ahem! That's absurd. Ter
Who have you been running with, any
hOw?"
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1916-01-13
What an Author Does.

Margaret Turnbu1l, author Of the re.
Gently published novel, Looking After
Sandy" is a believer in the back to
the country" slogan-that Is, tcmpo.
rarily. III run down to the country I"
she says, whenever want to write.
whether summer or winter-away
from telephone and all other distrac.
tions of the town. find that the only
way to get a lot Of work done. like
to walk, play tennis. row, dance-and
cook. Otherwise I'm just like every
body else"
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1916-01-13

surface formed by dull blades set in q
cylinder This cylinder makes one
revolution clockwise. then one in the
opposite direction, and this Is record.
ed by counter as one rub. The other
end or the cloth Is clamped to
roller, on which is placed the quad.
rant from which any number OF
weights can be suspended. and thus
put the cloth in tension. The ma.
chine can be driven by an electric
motor When the cloth Is worn
through the machine automaticall,
stops.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1916-01-13
English Town, It 10 Claimed, Has
Machine That Makes II Possible
to Tell Value Of Goods.

A machine for testing the wearing
quality OF cloth has been produced In
Bradford, England. 1t may be found
OF interest to American firms which
manufacture. sell or use textile fab.
rios, Relative wearing qualities Of
dtHerent pieces of cloth may be de.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1916-01-13

RHEUMACIDE FOR RHEUMATISM.
A few people still imagine that
Rheumatism can be cured by outward
applications, but the best medical
science today recognizes the necessity
Of internal treatment to eliminate ex-
cess uric acid and Rheumacide does
this. Your druggist keeps it.-Adv,
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Best Place..

Il want my advertisement put next
to pure reading matter"
All right; we'll put 1t right next
to the most sensational murder on
the page"
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The Trouble.

Nov, let me tell you about this new
lbat of mine. 1T came direct from"
4 You needn't go all oyerFthat again.
anybody to look at you can see you've
rSot Panama on the brain" ;lIs
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Its Class.

What did you say when the author
asked you what you thought of that
rotten open-freplace episode in his
play?"
Told him no lie-said thought It
was crate scene"
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< He Was Company All Right.
Make yourself perfectly at home.
We don't look on you as company"
Don't believe 'em. mister. They
made me wash my face and hands
Just because you we're coming to sup.
per
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Imports OF France during the first
half of 1915 we're $710,0O0,O00, q de-
crease Of $lS1,S00,0 900 from year ago.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1916-01-13

A man never knows what a woman
thinks OF him---iior does she.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1916-01-13

The Quinine That Does Not Affect Head
BECAUSE Of its tonic and laxative effect, IAXA
TIVE BROMO QUlNiNE Is better than ordinary
Qunns and can be taken by anyone asc.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1916-01-13

Vfck's "Vap-O O.Rub" Salve Relieves by
Inhalation and Absorption.
No Dosing.
No need to take internal medicines or
habit forming drugs for these troubles.
When vick's "Vap- Grub" Salvo is applied
10 the heat of the. body, soothing, lncd-
catea ca yapors arc released that are inhaled
all night long through tho air passages to
VI wYIg"Y TE1" "O@wG8IN NJ; 15ls;sf;sa 20.
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Neuv Treatment for Bronchitis.
Asthma, Catarrh and Head Colds

the lungs. In addition, vick's 10 absorbeda
through the skin, relieving the tightnesa
and soreness. 's|- =
Viek's can be applied over the throat and
ches1 ana covered with o warm flannel
cloth-,or little put up the nostrils--or
melt little in spoon and inbaie fha 10.
pors arising. Also for Aathma and Hav
Fever, rub Vlcks we'll over the spinal coi,
umn to relax tho nervous tension. 2To.
Boo, Or $1.00. 7''ls83 q
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1916-01-13

Matrimonial bonds are always n
source Of revenue to ministers.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-01
DON'T SUFFER
WITH neural. GIA
Musterole Gives Delicious Comfort

When those sharp pains go shooting
through your head, when your skull
seems as If it would split, just rub lit
tie MUSTEROLE on the temples and
neck 1t draws out the inflammation,
soothes away the pain-giyes quick
relief.
MUSTEROIE is a clean, white oint~
ment, made with oil Of mustard. Better
than a mustard plaster and does not bis
ter
Doctors and, nurses frankly recon-
mend MUSTEROLE for Sore Throat,
Bronchitis, Group, Stiff Neck, Asthma,
Neuralgia, Congestion, Pleurisy, Rheu-
matisfn, Lumbago, Pains and Aches of
the Back or Joints, Sprains, Sore Mus
Giles, Bruises, Chilblains, Frosted Feet
Colds of the Chest (it often prevents
Pneumonia).
At your druggists, in 25c and SOC Jars,
and special large hospital size for s. So
Be sure you get the genuine MUS
TEROLE. Refuse initations-get what
YOU ask for The Musterole Company,
Cleveland, Ohio.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-01
DEADLOCK ON ARMY BILL.
Intimation that Disagreement May Be
Reported

Washington, May l.--Conferees Of tn.
House and Senate after three days de
liberation on the army reorganization
bill, the first Of the big preparedness
measures, have come to complete dead.
lock over several important features. Il
was strongly intmated Saturday night
that they would report disagreement
and ask their respective branches OF Con.
gress for further instructions
'"Hopelessly apart" on the size OF the
regular army and the proposals for a
volunteer reserve army and govern
ment nitrate plant was the report Of one
OF the conference Saturday
night. and he declared Congress would
be asked in the near future to pass again
On these features OF the measure The
Senate conferees are insisting upon the
provision in the Senate bill Tor a regu-
lar army Of 100000 men and Representa-
live Kahn, the Republican House con
cree. il standing with them. Represen-
atiyes Hay and Dent, however, are in
iistent upon the House provision for
10000 men.