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The Washington herald., 1917-05-20
The Irish Question.

John Redmond has practically ac-
cepted Lloyd Georges suggestion for
a convention of Irishmen of all
parties, for the purpose of establish
ing a form of self-government for
ireland.
The world at large will agree with
Mr.. Redmond that the convention
should be summoned without delay,
and that it should be made up of
representative Irishmen of all creeds
and parties, and high hopes will be
entertained for the success Of this
latest movement, regardless of past
failures.
The acceptance of Lloyd Georges
suggestion by Redmond, even though
he was virtually forced to accept,
seems to indicate that at last an ami
cable understanding will be reached
on the long-contested question.
There have been several indica-
tions that the recognized leaders Of
Ireland were not in full accord with
their constituents, the most obvious
one perhaps, being the election of a
Sein Feiner to seat previously held
by Nationalist member of Parlia-
ment. This perhaps accounts for
Redmond's acceptance. a
The people in America will natur-
ally concentrate their hopes on an
early solution of the problem. 1t
has been borne home to Americans
more than to any other people, just
what the constant pickering and un-
rest in ireland has meant to the fine
people of that country. A conven-
ton for the discussion of the ques-
ton in the hopes of settlement, will
receive almost universal support.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-20

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The Washington herald., 1917-05-20
Would Let People Vote
On a National Anthem

national anthem by popular
vote would be provided through a
bill introduced in the House yester-
day afternoon by Representative
Osborne, of California.
The Osborne plan is to have
countrywide competition among
song writers, whose work would
be passed upon by commission OF
hfteen members mot less than nine
of whom shall be eminent musi-
clans" The people at large would
vote on the anthems found worthy
of consideration, in connection with
the next Presidential vote in 1920.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-20
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Veteran Now Well
Commerce. Ga. R. F. D.

Commerce, Ga, r. F. D. No. IL
Mr.. G. Il. Brooks,
Marshall. Mich.
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The Washington herald., 1917-05-20
Rupture Healed
in Four Months

q Jansen St, Dubuque, Iowa
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The Washington herald., 1917-05-20

success of the loan would have been
assured in few days.
Mr.. McAdoo has made muddle.
But he is man of great initiative
and intelligence, and he will do bet
ter the next time.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-20

Agricultural colleges throughout
the country are giving out reports
that rice is a good substitute for po-
tatoes. Child's beat them to it. The
buckwheat fronts have been substi-
tuting rice for about six months.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-20
By John Kendriek Bangs
THE EDIFICE.

THE EDIFICE.
In building up your Soul the plan
prepare
With watchful foresight. and with
proper care.
That It may stand the storm and stress
of life.
And hold you safe from evil and its
strife.
Make Love the cornerstone. and that
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May hold you free from worry and
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(CopsnEht, lsHO
The Washington herald., 1917-05-20
Others Failed But
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Mr.. c. E. Brooks,
Marshall. Mich

Mr.. c. E. Brooks,
Marshall, Mich.
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Yours respectfully,
wM. PATTERSON, s
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The Washington herald., 1917-05-20

Haywood Broun, a New York
dramatic critic, is coming to Wash
ington to join the censorship board.
And Theda Bara has bought large
block of the liberty loan.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-20

And still Admiral Sims refuses to
tell his boss, Josephus Daniels, any
thing about the submarine his de-
stroycrs met and presumably con-
Gucrcd.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-20

The former Tsar wants to be ex-
lied in England, so it's said. If he
wants to come to the United States
he will have a hard time lodging
vaudeville and the movies.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-20

Why speak of the chaos in Russia
when we have the example of our
own dear Congress before US all the
time?
The Washington herald., 1917-05-20

T. R. will not join the New York
National Guard or any other regi-
ment until he is sure it will be sent
to France to do some fighting. He
does not want to meet Col. Bryan's
fate in 'o8.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-20

Nicaragua broke relations with
Germany yesterday, in case you hap
pened to overlook it. And Porto
Rico sent word up here saying she
demanded her right ito do her bit"
The Washington herald., 1917-05-20

Wonder how the sale of the liberty
loan is going in Congress? We don't
see many quotations from Capitol
Hill
The Washington herald., 1917-05-20

A current report says that Ger
many has given up Zeppelins. Most
of them, however, were brought
down by British guns.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-20
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June S is going to be a far big
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The Washington herald., 1917-05-20

years old and served three years In
Eckle's Artillery. oglethorpe Co. I hope
God will reward you for the good you
are doing for suffering humanity.
Yours sincerely,
II, d. BANKS. -
The Washington herald., 1917-05-20

Many a head waiter was a food
dictator" long before Herbert Hoover
was appointed to the job.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-20

What chance has a fellow who is
told to register in the Ketcham
School?
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The Washington herald., 1917-05-20
STORM OFF BRAZIL.

Rio Janeiro, May IA severe storm is
raging of the Brazilian coast, and ship
ping Is paralyZed
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r1a pxiStlng q N original poem. wriften talu
Car M Washington HsraA
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-01-19

to escort his visitor % the bank
vaults.
BE so good, Mr.. Wells, as to show
our clients that our vaults are not
made of tissue paper"
This the attendant took much pride
in doing.
The array of defensive measures,
puzzling as it was to the younger mem
bers Of the party, served to bring a
sense of assurance to Enoch Golden
himself.
A certain one-armed criminal, new
ertheless, was at that precise InoLIent
very busily engaged in preparing for
his assault on this Gibraltar of gold
SO proudly regarded as impregnable.
Two workmen in the uniform Of Gen
eral Electric employees, exploring a
section OF abandoned cable gallery,
were busily engaged in charging a
wire conduit which met this gallery at
right angles. There, by mean Of an
electric mining drill, they burrowed
like two moles deep beneath the level
of the street along which the traffic
of a great city so ceaselessly ebbed and
flowed. From a manhole opening into
this gallery was quietly passed a huge
cylinder Of iron capped by a drum OF
zinc having a hinged. cover. The two
subterranean workers had been
warned to handle the cylinder with the
utmost care. And this they did, know
ing full well tina. its weight was due
to the fact Of its being tightly packed
with high explosive.
Legar himself, in the meantime, hav-
ing clothed a number Of his henchmen
in uniforms and caps bearing the in
| scription western National Bank" d.
rected his attention to the much more
critical task of tracing the signature,
Henry H. Stonington, on a typewritten
sheet bearing the embossed imprint
OF the Third National.
His next move, once he had received
a report that his two gallery workers
had fitted their massive cylinder in the
wire conduit and pushed 1t gently but
firmly into the uttermost recesses OF
that conduit by means of a jointed
bamboo pole, was to verify the time
at which the decorating clock had
been set, advise his colleagues, and
take up his position in the window OF
a building commanding a view of the
great granite-bastioned bank itself.
He consulted his watch from time
to time, with his eyes always going
hungrily back to the heavy-pillared
back itself.
/ "In one minute" he announced
they'll get a dose OF the medicine they
gave MS this morning" Again hC
! looked at his watch
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-01-19
FOURTH EPISODE
THE NAME AND THE GAME

Legar had reason to feel well
pleased with his mornings work. De-
feated for the time being, in n quar-
ter, he promptly swung about and
struck at another.
His attack, in this instance, was d.
rected at nothing less than Enoch
Golden's own home. There. effecting
an entrance through a neglected coal
chute before even the servants we're
astir, he had crept stealthily upward
until he found refuge In a trunk room.
Through the door crack Of this trunk
room, however. he soon had the dubi-
Gus pleasure OF beholding a figure quite
as stealthy az his own. a figure that
wore a laughing mask and made its
way cautiously downward to the door
OF Enoch Golden's study. On that door
the masked figure, before vanishing
as quietly as It had first appeared,
pinned an oblong paper. Stealing up
TO II, Legar read:
Enoeh Golden: You have proved a
disappointment 70 me. Despite my
warnings, you still Cypress the poor
and abuse your power. Your daugh-
ter has been saved from the clutches
Of Legar, and at the proper time will
be produced. But that time will not
come until you have changed your
ways Of life. So while still you have
the chance, do some good deedl
THE LAUGHING MASK.
Legar, having t|houghtfully perused
this strange warning. promptly added
a postscript:
AZ a slight sign Of my disapproVal,
I I'M appropriating your fifty thousand
dollars from the vaults Of the Third
National bank, for which I now take
occasion to thank you.
Ten minutes later Legar had made
his escape from the house and was
speeding southwark in his car, to con
fer with his own men as to the APP
preaching assault on Golden's wealth
In the Third National vaults.
The Laughing Mask himself, in the
meantime, was busy with his own en-
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-01-19

riedly summoned for q conferences.
4 tell you. sibley,' said the man Of
millions, something has 70 be- done,
and done Don. I'm surrounded By enc
mics ! can't run down, enemies / can't
even understand. In the first place,
there's this man in a mask stalking
through my house and pinning threats
to my doorpanels. Then"
wait" cut in the man Of law. "Did
anyone actually sec this man Of the
mask7"
Yes, Wilson, my butler. came face
to face with him as he stepped out Of
a passageway. Then, when my secre-
tary, Manley. started In pursuit Of the
intruder, instead Of finding q stranger
in this fool mask, he found his way
blocked by a girl, a girl in a cloak.
who seemed to come there out Of thin
air. And that girl, sir, turned out
to be my own daughter, my own
daughter in some miraculous way res
cued from Legar."
Brought there by the man in the
mask?"
Yes, brought there by him. So
she asserts. Yet this stranger, who
brings me back the one thing precious
in my life, on the Same day
to criticize my conduct and threatens
to rob me Of my money"
But that threat, as I've already
pointed out, is foolish. Your money
has all the protection that steel and
civilization can surround It with. II
lies in the vaults Of the Third National
bank"
But l tell you I am surrounded by
enemies, by unknown enemies Of great
skill and daring. That has already
been proved. And while they can
never make me cover, they have at
least made me cauti:us."
Il guess we'd better all go down to
the Third National and make sure
they're not putting their gold and
notes out on the windowsills for the
first crook that comes along to carry
off," said the lawyer.
President Stonington of the Third
National received them in his private
Office and learned from Sibley the
reason OF his visit. That official, in
fact, was an active sharer in the mere
dulity Of the old lawyer. He quietly
touched a bell, sent for a uniformed at
tendant and instructed that attendant
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-01-19

suIky grunt, n Of the newcomers sud
denly struck a match and held II close
to the white-bearded face, the hands
gripping the wheel quite as suddenly
relinquished their hold and fastened
themselves about the throat Of the
overinquisitive cargo sentry. Before
his companion, standing quite close to
the bow Of the boat, could quite real
lie the meaning of the movement the
two men beside the wheel were writh-
ing and stamping and painting about
the narrow deck.
Fierce as that fight was, IL was not
a prolonged me. For the white-beard-
ed man, despite his age, with one final
effort, succeeded in lifting his Op-
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-01-19

A Figure That Wore a Laughing Mask.
terprise. He had rescued Margory
Golden from Legar, It was true. but
her conveyance TO a place OF safety,
In open daylight, was a much more
dificult problem. In his extremity,
accordingly, he had to resort to those
eXpedients nearest az hand.
This led him down a secluded by
way. where the powder shack Of a con
struction company still stood half way
up a wooden hillside. At the end OF
a tunnel piercing this hillside was a
timbered chamber for high explosives.
Guarded as II was with its double lock.
the Laughing Mask seemed an expert
IN the manipulation Of such obstacles,
since FIVE minutes work with his
skeleton keys threw open that we'll
hidden room. Once there, he even ven
tured TO explore his surroundings and
take from their case certain small cylin-
ders incased In grease-stAined paper.
HO did not explain 20 the already over
BaEalsd sin. however. that these
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-01-19
SYNOPSIS.

On Windward island Palidor intrigueg
Mrs. Golden into an appearance OF evil
which causea Golden 20 capture and tor
ture the Italian by branding his face and
crushing his hand. palidor opens the
dyke gates and floods the island and In
naps Golden's Hi~x-year-old daughter Mar
CORY. Twelve years later In New York a
Masked One calling himself 'the Hammer
Of Cod rescues an eighteen-year-Old girl
from the cadet Casavanti. TO whom Jules
Legar has delivered her. and takes her TO
the home OF Enoch GC'den. millionaire,
whence she IL recaptured by Legar. Legar
and Stein are discovered by Manley, Col
denis secretary, setting hre TO Golden's
buildings, but escape. Margory's mother
fruitlesaly implorea Enoch Golden 70
md their daughter. The Masked One
again takes Margory away from Legar.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-01-19

A audden mud and ruar Of sound
cut on all smaller sounds. Then came
the cries Of ter~ror-stricken human be-
ings. shriIl calls for help, hoarse
shouts from stalWart figures in uni
forms, and the sudden shrill Of a 20
liceman's whistle. The clamor and
tumult of the streets rose above the
quick and ever-nearing throb Of en-
CINE bells, the gongs of ambulances,
the rattle Of iron-tired patrol wagons
pounding over car rails, the shouts Of
blue-coated patrolmen already forming
their Gordon around the dust-crowned
ruins.
"F1rel" was the cry that filed the
canyonl "The buildings on frel"
And It was then that Legar re-
placed his watch in his pocket, and
tossing aside the field glasses through
which he had been viewing the street,
showed that he was once more him
self.
'Now's the time, men," he an
nounced to his followers, ito get ready
for work."
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-01-19
The Bitter Bitten.

The news OF the Third National
bank outrage sooa spread through the
city. And as the resultant FIRE grew
in intensity the crowd in the neighbor-
hood grew in volume. Police reserves,
msrshaled by a stalwart and stern
faced captain, had already estab-
lished their FIRE lines and still fought
back the ~overeurious that trampled
the long scorpions Of black hose and
kept edging and shouldering yer
closer to the scene Of the great catas-
trophe.
There was no relaxing Of vigilance,
in fact, when the limousine Of Enoch
Golden himself came throbbing and
crawling through that densely packed
mob u human beings, Golden himself,
alighting from that car, pleaded and
stormed in vain with the memorable
officials confronting him. And while
he still frenziedly argued and demand
ed a hearing with the officers in
charge, a second vehicle made it's way
towards the still smoldering ruins.
This second vehicle was a motor
truck on which was mounted not only
a number Of men in the uniform Of
bank attendants, but also a police leu
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-01-19

tenant, who had been requisitioned to
clear a way through the crowd. For
this was not the intrusion Of mere Gu
riosity seekers. That much the cap
tain in charge of the police lines
promptly discovered when he was on
the point Of ordering both truck and
attendants out Of the forbidden terri
tory. For the c~ool-eyed mar in com-
mand of that truck had come well
armed for any such emergency. Into
the asst FINISHED hand of the police Off
cial he thrust an notwithstanding
document from the president Of the
Third Material himself:
This letter Of introduction read:
To the officials In Charge: Act
Ing on an emergency decision Of our
directors, ! herewith authorize the
agents Of the Western National Bank
to take possession Of and remove the
contents Of Third National Bank vaults
to the vaults Ct the Western National.
As this decision was arrived at to
Illustrate any possible interference
with our gold and collateral when so
obviously exposed, ! trust you will do
everything possible to expedite the re-
movaI Of this treasure to a place Of
safety.
Yours very truly,
JOHN ELIOT BLOOMINGTON,
President.
At the same time that the police
captain, acting On this peremptory or
der, was clearing a path to the neigh
borhood Of the still smoking vaults,
Enoch Golden, with Margory and Man.
ley at his side, was fighting to break
through those j~ealously guarded fire
lines. And at the sight OF the motor
truck and the Western National at,
tendants his antics became even more
frenzied than before.
Il tell you I've got to get in therei'
he shouted to the apathetic patrolma1
holding him back.
Yes" agreed the patrolman, ''oi
course you'd like to get in there"
But l tell ycu I'm Enoch Golden
was the tinancier's frantic cry.
Il don't care If you're the president
o. the United States" was the retort
you stay out"
1t was young Manley himself, who
watching his chance, suddenly slipped
in through the lines and gained the
side Of the busy captain before h,
could be stopped. For already the
work Of removing the vault contents
was under way"
You've got to keep this gold from
going out" the young man cried int
the face Of the somewhat astoundet
captain.
"Wha are your" demanded that on
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-01-19
The Secret Attack.

Enoch Golden was no longer q con-
t~emptuously Indifferent man as he
faced his attorney. John siblsy. hur-
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1917-08-24
The Old Grey Goose Is Dead

You needn't ego tell Aunt Khody,n
but just the same the old grey goose is
dead. 1t came to It's untimely end in
n road on Woodstock Hill last Sunday
afternoon and added another TO the
long list of automobile fatalities being
piled up this summer
Not long ago IL was gosling SO it
wasn't very old goose. 1t was out in
the highway with two companions.
The auto driver saw the trio and slow :.
ed down. Mrs. Goose would have been
all right had she not exercised the fe-
male pferogative and changed her
mind. Her two companions must
have been Of the opposite sex for they
kept right on across the road and out
OF the danger zone. Mrs. Goose, how
ever, for some unknown reason, decid-
ed she would go back and changed her
course and got under the wheel Result,
dead goose.
The driver stopped, as the owner
came out, and offered to pay the dam
age. The owner showed the proper
spirit, seeing that the driver was not
at fault, and said he guessed the only
damage done was 10 the goose.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1917-08-24
ORDERS TWO
DOGS KILLED
Deputy Commissioner Of Domestic AMI
mails Takes Preventative Measure
Finds Animals Came in Contact with Dog
That Had Rabies

As the result Of an investigation
made in Putnam, Tuesday, b. e. Pat
terson Of Tofrlngton, deputy commits.
sioner Of domestic animals ordered
two dogs killed because be found that
they had come in contact with the dog
killed in Pomfret two weeks ago that
had rabies.
One dog was Collie and was owned
By j. n. GeesoB, although it was in
the possession Of Earl Kent, who lives
on the River road Mr.. Kent had the
dog on trial. 1t was found that the
dog with rabies had stopped at the
Kent place and been with the Collie.
The other dog was fine blooded st.
Bernard owned by Mrs. +. f. Har-
rington, also on the river road, but
some miles sosth OF the Kent place.
This dog was valuable animal and a
great pet Before il was killed it was
photographed.
From The Harrington place the mad
dog went TO the Carpenter farm further
south. It chased the chickens and
Clarence Erickson, employed on the
place, attempted to drive it away. He
was bitten in the arm and leg and has
been undergoing the Pasteur treatment
at the Day Kimball hospital.
There is an epidemic Of rabies in the
state which the commissioner Of do.
nestle animals is taking drastic meas
ures TO stamp out and the epidemic is
said to be diminishing. The only case
east OF the Connecticut river is that Of
the dog killed in Pomfret which il has
been found also passed through a part
of Putnam, Woodstock and Eastford.
As one measure Of stamping out the
epidemic and of preventing further
cases in this vicinity ell dogs in the
four towns where the mad dog ran
amuck have been ordered muzzied for
three months, the order in Putnam
aud Woodstock going into effect last
Saturday and in Pomfret ana Eastford
the Monday previous.
Deputy Patterson was in Putnam
again on Wednesday continuing his
investigation but as far as known no
other dogs have been found that came
in contact with the dog known to have
had the rabies.