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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19

at the hour of 9 o'clock a. M, or as
soon thereafter as the business OF the
court will permit.
All persons desiring, may file objec-
tons in said court, before said DAY.
and may appear on the hearing and
make their defense.
Dater Rock Island, Illinois, April
is, 1916.
GEORGE w FLOOD,
Commissioner appointed to make said
assessment.
JOHN X. SCOTT,
City Attorney.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19

Of guilt, though knew no better g.,
what | was guilty, So 1t was through
long years that | suffered in silence
until came to mans estate and learn
ed the why and wherefore Of my
dreams.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19
CHAPTER II,

G7ND now, before I take UP my
TAI tale, I want to anticipate the
S doubling Thomases of psy-
n.y. chology. who are prone TO
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board. was sunk last night at about
8 o'clock to the west of the Orkneys,
either by mine or torpedo.
-Four boats were seen by observ-
ers on shore to leave the ship. The
wind was north-northwest and heavy
seas were running. Patrol vessels
and destroyers at once proceeded to
the spot and a party was sent along
the coast to search, but only some
bodies and a capsized boat have been
found up the present. AS the whole
shore has been searched from sea.
ward l greatly fear that there is
little hope of there being any sur
vivors.
mo report has yet been received
from the searching party on shore.
H M S Hampshire was, on her
way to Russia"
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and in the three game series with
the Georgetown team during the
present week, it is probably safe to say
that the home teams chances Of
success as pennant winners in the
Pee Dee league are excellent.
Some time ago the promoters Of
the local team decided to have the
ladies' of Kingstree submit names
for the club, offering a season ticket
to the one who sent in the name Sc
lected by the officers Of the club.
RED Sox" was the name chosen
and was proposed by Miss Ruth
Winn, ,stenographer in the law Offices
of Stoll, Stoll & O'Bryan. The red
stockings are a part of the club uni
form.
The team is composed of live ball
players, nearly all of whom have
played semi-professional ball either
in the minor leagues or on college
teams. They are all new men in
Kingstree except Simms Of Cowpens
and Schachte of Charleston. These
two young men played splendid ball
with the Kingstree team last year.
Simms is live man on third, while
"Shackn is q successfll tWirler.
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OPENING OF THE
BASEBALL SEASON.
WILL PLAY THREE
GAMES WITH LAMAR ON THE
HOME GROUND NEXT WEEK.

The Pee Dee Baseball league will
open it's season Monday. June IL,
when Kingstree's Red Sox" will
play q series of three games with
the Lamar team at Kingstree; Ben
nettsville will play at Bishopville
and the Florence team will play at
Dillon, according to the schedule
mapped out by the executive COM
mittee of the association.
Local fans are looking forward to
the opening games with great inter-
est and enthusiasm, and they are not
the least bit reserved in their pre-
dictions as to what their favorite
team is going to do for the rest of
the clubs. Kingstree's Red Sox"
are already slated to win the PEN
nant in the first half of the thirty
game series; Florence is booked to
win the second half, then Kingstree
is to win over Florence in the cham
pionship contest at the end of the
season. This is the way local fans
have cast their predictions for the
home team. Whether such predic-
tions have merit or not. we shall not
venture an assertion. However, the
Kingstree team is composed of good
ball players,as good, perhaps, as will
be found in the amateur field, and
we gather from unbiased critics the
opinion that this teams prospects
for successful season are exceed
ingly good. Then, again, according
to the statements of Manager Biel
and President w R Scott, who base
their judgment upon the individual
work of the team on the field here
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ENGLAND'S WAR CHIEF
AND STAFF DEAD.
KITCHENER. MINISTER OF WAR.
PERlSHES WHEN CRUISER GOES
DOWN OFF ORKNEY ISLANDS.

London, June 6:-The news that
Earl Kitchener, Secretary of State
for War, and his staff, who were
proceeding to Russia aboard the
cruiser Hampshire, were lost off the
Orkney Islands last night, was the
most stunning blow Great Britain
has received since the war began.
This is the second shock the coun-
try has sustained within a week.
The other was when the newspapers
appeared Friday evening with the
first intelligence of the naval battle
in the North Sea in the form of q
list of the ships lost, with practical
ly no intimation that there was any
compensation in the way of enemy
losses. The bulletin telling of the
death of Kitchener gave the country
even q greater shock.
Kitchener was the one outstand-
ing personality whom the people
talked of and believed in as a great
man, Notwithstanding newspaper at
tacks, which at a former period Of
the war threatened to undermine
his popularity and the public con-
fidence in him
JELLICoE's REPORT.
A telegram from Admiral Sir John
Jellicoe, commander of the fleet,
giving the bare facts, was received
at the admiralty about II o'clock in
the morning. This official announce
ment was issued about 1:30 in the
afternoon. Before noon, however,
rumors were spreading.
Admiral Jellicoe's report to the
admiralty follows:
Il have to report with deep re-
gret that his Majesty's ship Hamp-
shire. Capt Herbert ] Saville, R N,
with Lord Kitchener and his staff on
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These are the days that the live.
energetic candidates are doing their
best to get every subscriber possible.
A great many are meeting with sue
cess just for the simple reason that
they are using their brains to think
and plan and are going at it with
system and organization.
The Record has q large list of
subscribers. Everyone of these will
renew their paper at some time in
the near future. If you only ask
them to give you the votes when
they pay their subscription, they
will gladly do 80. 1t costs them
nothing and will be pleasure to
help you. There are also any num-
Der of new subscriptions to be had if
you will only try to get them. Some
other candidate will get them if you
do not. Make up your mind that
you will get certain number each
day, new or old, and do not stop un-
til you get them or the promise of
them.
The days of the contest are flying
past and although the candidates
are punched together now. there is
no reason to believe that they will
stay that way. Some are sure to
forge ahead of the others and you
may as well be one of the ones to
keep ahead.
Set the germ of enthusiasm afioat
in your campaign of votes; carry it
in your attitude and manner; it
spreads like contagion and inhu-
ences every fibre of your industry
before you realize it; it begets and
produces effects you do not dream
of; it means increase in production;
it means joy and pleasure and salts
faction to your helpers; it means
life, real and virile; it means spon-
taneous bed rock results-progress,
accomplishment and success.
Saturday night, June 10. will be
the close of this period of the con-
test. Candidates in District No l
must bring in their reports by Z
o'clock Saturday evening in order to
have their subscriptions counted on
the bed room suit. Candidates liv-
ing in District No 2 will be allowed
to mail subscriptions Saturday even
ing. All that is necessary is that
the letter bears a post mark of
June 10.
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PetersHeld.

Petersfield.
Mrs II II DuRant. .......5, 200
The following merchants are issu.
ing ballots in The Records Ladies'
Voting contest.
Any merchant can obtain these
ballots by seeing the contest man.
ager:
Silverman's Dept Store,
King Hardware Co,
Kingstree Furniture Co,
Kingstree Dry Goods Co,
Kingstree Hardware Co,
Peoples Mercantile Co,
Kingstree Drug Co,
Baggett's Jewelry Store,
Rodgers & Goodwin,
Wv Brockington, M D,
M II Jacobs.
Peoples Market,
RW Lewis,
Mcintosh & Alsbrook,
S Marcus,
DC Scott. Jr,
Maxwell Motor Car Agency,
w EJenkinson.
Paris Green in pound packages.
KINGSTREE DRUG Co.
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GREAT NAVAL Bat
Tile OFF JUTLAND.
BRITISH ADMIRALTY ASSERTS
GERMANS LOST EIGHTEEN MEN
O'WAR IN THE FIGHT.

The greatest sea fight in modern
times took place on the afternoon
and evening of May 81, off Jutland,
in the North Sea, between the Ger.
mar High Seas Fleet and a portion
of the British navy. The first news
of the battle came from Berlin. by
wireless to Sayville, and claimed a
great German victory. The British
loss in men and ships was at first
reported to be considerably greater
than the German.
On Monday the British admiralty
issued statement saying there was
the strongest ground for the belief
that the British navy in the battle
with the Germans off Jutland last
week had accounted for a total of
eighteen German men of war and
that there was nothing to add to or
subtract from the original announce
ment of the British losses.
|. The statement gave the German
losses as two battleships, two dread
naught battle cruisers, four light
cruisers. nine torpedo boat Destroy
ers and submarine.
A dispatch from Copenhagen says
rumors are current in Hamburg that
two additional German warships
than those announced in the German
communication---the battleship West
fallen and the battle cruiser Lutzow-
were sunk in the battle. A wireless
dispatch received in London Satur-
day, from Berlin said the German
admiralty admitted the loss of the
Westfalen.
The admiralty statement Monday
night declares that the German losses
in the fight were not only relatively
but absolutely greater than those of
the British. Maintaining its prac-
tice of caution, the. admiralty still
refrains from giving the names Of
the lost German ships.
The official list of the casualties
among the officers shows that hard
ly a single officer of the line escaped
from the British cruisers sunk in
the battle. An additional casualty
list of petty officers shows that for
ty-three of them were saved from
the Queen Mary, Invincible, For
tune, Ardent and Shark. None was
saved from the Indefatigable, De-
fence, Black Prince, Tpperary, Tur-
bulent. Npmad or Nestor.
Admiral Lord Beresford, in an in
terview, while contending strongly
for the view that there was no fail.
ure in the British strategy and that
Vice Admiral Beatty won brilliant
success, though it was dearly bought.
declared that the only mistake made
was by the admiralty in allowing
the Germans to get first in the field
with the news of the battle, or as
he puts it, with impudent fabrica-
tions." Otherwise, said Lord Beres-
ford, no fault can be found with the
admiralty.
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Soil Survey OF Williamsburg.

The Kingstree Board of Trade is
advised by Hon ] W Ragsdale in
recent letter to President P H Stoll
that a soil survey of Williamsburg
county will probably be made this
winter by the Federal government,
department of agriculture. Mr.
Ragsdale has been pressing this mat
ter vigorously and has received such
encouragement from Secretary of
Agriculture Houston that he is of
the opinion the survey will be made.
A similar survey has already been
made in several nearby counties.
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KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1915.
ENTHUSIASM, ENERGY, EFFORT
THESE THREE MEAN SUCCESS.

Saturday Night June 10, is the Date Set for the Closing
Of this Period Of the Contest-A Beautiful Bed Room
Suit Will Be Awarded to Some Energetic Cand-
date-New and Old Subscriptions Count Get
Every One You Possibly Can--Ihere are
Plenty OF Subscriptions to be Had
by the Industrious One.
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We have the most complete stock
of furniture in this section and our
prices are right. Ask for votes.
KINGSTREE FURNITURE Co.
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FREE DELIVERY SYSTEM
FOR KINGSTREE.
BEGINNING JULY 1, MAIL WILL
BE DELIVERED BY CARRIERS
TO RESIDENTS OF TOWN.

Yesterday afternoon Postmaster
Stackley received the following tel
egram:
Washington, D C, June Z, 1916.
Mr. Louis Stackley,
Kingstree, S G.
Have just secured order giving
city mail delivery to Kingstree
July /.
W RAGSDALE.
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Dist. No. 1.-.All Territory within
Corporate Limits Of kingstree.
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CONTEST CANDIDATES.
Evening star., 1916-07-23
MAGAZINE SECTION for July 90, 1916
| 0
Continued from page 7

@No. 9" said the other. Il thought"
Bland interrupted him.
"No. 2 Code?' he said, slipping his book
Che was for the time being Belgian peas
anti. 4Of course that's rubbish. Neither
you nor know No. 2 Code: the code you
stole was No. 3.
Schiller smiled superiority.
"When you get back to London" he
said, task your chief whether Agate does
not mean Transports loading at Bor-
kum."
"You might have got hold of that par
ticular word by accident" said Bland
grudgingly.
"Ask him if 'Optique' does not mean
Emperor has gone to Dresden" per-
sisted the calm Schiller.
Bland looked round the room thought
fully.
"You know great deal, my friend, s"
he said.
THE woman who managed the estaminet
came in little later, and found Bland
pulling slowly at a rank cigar, his elbows
on the table, half emptied book before
him.
The woman glanced with little smile
at Schiller.
"He's tired said Bland, emptying the
book. aLet him sleep on-and don't let
the flies disturb him. he added humor-
ously.
Schiller lay sideways on the bench at
which Bland was sitting, his face to the
wall. Over his head was a coarse blue
handkerchief.
4He will not be disturbed" said Ma
dame, and pocketed the five-sou tip that
Bland gave her with grateful smirk.
"When he wakes" said Bland at the
door, "tell him have gone on to Ghent. !"
Three hours later German soldier,
who had come for his evening coffee,
whisked away the handkerchief that
covered the sleepers face and stammered:
"GohF
For Schiller was dead-and had been
dead for three hours. 1t took even the
doctor quite long time to discover the
blade of the glass dagger in his heart.
A WEEK after this Bland was dressing
II for dinner in his West End fiat, and
had reached the patience stage of bow
tying when his valet informed him that
Grlgsby Aad called.
Il told him you were dressing, sir said
Taylor; "but Mr.. Grigsby is that full of
his horse winning the Gatwick steeple-
chase that he won't take mo- for an
answer"
"Show him up here" said Bland.
Mr.. Grigsby came noisily into the
dressing-room, though his greeting of
Bland was little cold.
ave bone to pick with you, he said.
aWhat have you been saying to Lady
Greenholm about me? You know my
feelings about Alice"
@Wait moment, please" said Bland
sharply, and turned to his servant. @Tay-
lor, you can go to the General Post Office
with the letter you will find on the hall
stand"
Mr.. Grigsby waited until he heard the
door of the fat close, then walked into the
passage and shot the bolt of the front
door.
He came back to where Bland was
standing with his back to the fire, his
hands thrust into his trousers pockets.
"You're sure he had No. %" he asked.
Bland nodded.
Griushv hit his lin thouuhtfulv
Evening star., 1916-07-23

you expect your South American vistor?"
Tomorrow. OF course, the room will
be guarded and he will have no chance to
search.
Her eyes were still dancing when she
nodded.
ave shall see-to-morrow. fancy you
will have frank visitor from Valparaiso,
and when he comes l want you to send
for me-"
@What on earth"
"Wait, wait, please! What will he
say?" She closed her eyes and frowned.
3I can tell you his name; it is Raymond
Viztelli-"
"You knew this all along?' asked the
astonished Grigsby; but she shook her
head.
II knew it when went into the room"
she said; "but now l am guessing. l
think he will offer to help you discover
the code, and he will tell you there is a
secret panel in the wall and that it will
ta'.e days to make the discovery. And
think he will ask you to be present when
he makes his search
"He needn't ask that" said Bland un-
pleasantly. "I think you're very mys-
terious, May-but I've a kind of feeling
that you're right
She had few questions to ask the
janitor of the building before she left.
3Mr Schiller did all his own decora-
tions in the dining-room, didn't he?"
eyes, MISS" said the man. "A regular
Teller he was for potterin' about with a
paste-pot or a paint-brush."
"And he has paid his rent in advance?'
"That's right, miss.
"And said that nothing was to be done
to the fat till he came back?"
"His very words!" said the care-taker.
"I thought So, said May.
AT ten o'clock next morning card was
brought to Bland. 1t was inscribed:
Senior X Bertrand Silua.
And, written in corner, "of Valparaiso
Bland pressed bell, and in little
while Grigsby and the girl came in.
Hes come said Bland shortly, and
handed her the card.
The visitor was shown in. He was a
dapper little man with a pointed beard,
and he spoke excellent English. More
over, after the preliminaries he plunged
straight into the heart of his subject.
al am going to be very frank with you,
MIR. Bland, he began; and Bland, shoot
ing swift glance at the girl, saw the
laughter in her eyes.
Il was for some time an agent of the
Central Powers-I tell you this because
1 wish you clearly to understand my po-
sition, he went on. "Safe in South Amer
lea, thought no call would be made upon
my services. A few weeks ago, however,
l received cablegram which was inter-
cepted by the British authorities.
IL had known, of course, that in certain
eventualities might be obliged to come
to England to make search for certain
documents, and that should learn the
place where they were hidden by tele-
gram. That telegram came. l am here!'
He flung out his arms dramatically.
II came straight to you on my arrival.
tell you frankly why l came, because
decided, the night before reached
Plymouth, that the game was not worth
the candle. l will assist you, as far as
possible, to discover the documents; and
then ] shall, if you will allow me, return
to South America"
,yoc oil 1,or,, N, , ,;,Cr 70 Dlo nd Tbo
Evening star., 1916-07-23

slip of paper on the table. The message
was short and was in Spanish:
Schiller's London lodging.
"It's rather puzzling," said Bland.
Schiller wouldn't have written the code
out--he was too clever for that. And
yet, he must have given the authorities
guaranty that the secret should not be
lost with his death. 1t has probably been
arranged that he should tell some person
agreed upon-in this case a man in South
American what manner the code was
hidden. The exact locale he left until his
death, probably sealed up among his
private papers.
"That is sound theory" said Grigsby.
He told you nothing more?"
Bland shook his head.
II had to kill him, of course" he said,
with note of regret. at was pretty
beastly, but the lives of thirty good men
were in his holding. He probably knew
where each was stationed"
"And the man that comes after will also
know" said the other grimly. "We start
tonight to make very scientific search
of his lodgings"
But the fiat in Soho Square yielded no
profit.
For the greater part of fortnight three
of the cleverest Intelligence men Gnclud-
ing Lecomte from the French Department.
probed and searched, Sitting furniture,
pulling up floors, and dismantling cup
boards.
And the result was a negative one.
"I'll swear it is there said Bland de-
jectedly. "We've overlooked something.
Where is May Prince?"
"She's at the Chief Censors-she has
an office there explained Grigsby.
"Ask her to come over"
May came in some triumph.
II thought you'd send for me-" she
said IL could have saved you such lot
of troubled"
Bland apologized.
aIve neglected you terribly, May" he
said "Do you know, | have never seen
you since you sent me the wire about
Schiller"
She nodded.
81 know. Schiller is dead, isn't he?"
"How did you know?'
She shrugged her shoulders.
zone reads things in the Censor's Office
Innocent letters from Holland with mes
sages written between the lines in formic
acid and milk which become quite visible
if you use the correct formula. Mr..
Schiller was. a remarkable man, and his
father was one of the greatest scholars
Switzerland has produced, though he was
blind What do you want of me now?"
RLAND explained briefly. The girl knew
- of Code No. 2 and the secrecy that sur
rounded it, and realized the urgency Of the
situation.
"By the way, how did you know that he
was an enemy agent?" he asked.
II discovered his code," she replied
graphically.
Accompanied by the two men, she went
to the fiat in Soho Square. The flooring
had been replaced and the rooms were
habitable again. She made tour through
the fat, then returned to the big dining
room.
"This is the room where the code is,"
she said decisively.
It. was cheerful apartment, papered
in rich brown. A broad dado of simple
design belted the walls, and the wainscot-
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Evening star., 1916-07-23

died from the mans eyes.
"Ihave an excellent memory, madame"
he said curtly.
THEY went together in cab, and were
admitted to Schiller's fiat by the police
officer on guard.
"Have you any theory?' asked Bland,
as they stood in the hall.
"Yes,' replied the other quickly; IL
think the documents are hidden in
recess in the wall behind secret panel.
1t may take a week to find the panel.
This is very old house, and it is possible
Mr.. Schiller chose it for some structural
advantage it may have"
Again Bland thought rapidly. The
frankness of the man, his willingness to
help, the talk of secret panels, was all
in accordance with the girls amazing
prophecy.
He saw the glee in her eyes-glee at the
mystification of her chief.
Then he turned to the little man.
"Go ahead he said.
Seflor Silva bowed.
Il will take this wall first" he said,
"and will search for the evidence of a
panel. My fingers are perhaps more sem
sltlVe than yours"
His hand was outstretched toward the
dado when
"Stop"
At the sound of the girls sharp warning
Senior Silva turned.
Before you go any farther she
said, "let me ask you if you value your
life?'
The Chilean shrugged, and spread his
hands.
Naturally, madame"
The girl turned to Bland.
IF this man learns Code 2-what will
happen to him?"
Bland looked from May to the stranger.
"He will certainly die he said simply.
The man nodded.
"You may go on If you wish-but
you are starting little too far to the
right"
His face went CHASTITY gray.
"To the right!' he stammered.
"The message to you begins at the door,
Sefior Viztelli, she said calmly. "The
code does not begin until you reach the
window. Will you continue?"
He shook his head, having no words.
Bland called in his men, and they
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cab.
"And now explain, said Bland.
MAY walked to the wall near the door,
and touched the dado
Feel, she said.
Bland's fingers touched the wallpaper
gingerly. He felt a few pin-point erup.
tions; then he passed his hand to the
right and felt more Then the truth
dawned on him.
"Braille!' he whispered
The girl nodded.
4Schiller's father was blind man, she
said, "and Schiller evidently took up the
study of the alphabet by which blind men
read. Silva was informed how the code
had been written, and learned it against
the time when it would be necessary to
take over Schiller's work"
She ran her fingers along the dado.
"There are seven lines of writing, and
they run round the room,' she said.
SCHILLER pasted on this dado himself, a bit
at time-as fast as he was able to pho
tograph Code 2. This is how the top line
L