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The Butte daily post., 1917-04-19

Oct. 81. 1915.
near Str: ! nm now on my fourth box
Codomene Nerve Tablets and / like
em very much, etc. Respectfully.
4 NJ cain, r. 3, Box 8S, Atlanta, Ga.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-09-07
CHAPTER v.

Boroday had used his days freedom
to warn the band and to make splans
for regaining his freedom. Of money
he had none. What he had made under
old Hilary's leadership had gone back
to Russia, dollar for dollar. He had
financed part of the Kiev defense of
the Jews, had saved Prince Ovarsky
from Siberia. There were other things.
Money would save Boroday. And
there was practically no money.
By unanimous consent they kept the
news of his arrest from Elinor.
It was Talbot who planned the coun-
try club coup. The Russian was in jail
then, on a trumped-up charge. Old
Hilary dead and Boroday in jail-there
was no one to advise caution.
''Boroday mr. Elinor exclaimed.
They were accounting for his absence
from her Saturday night dinner. "Why,
then he should be here, where he can
be cared for"
'Sye told him that" Lethbridge was
always readiest with his tongue "But
he's not sick enough to need much,
and he's deucedly disagreeable when
he's laid up"
Elinor was a little hurt.
In the arbor, after dinner, they
planned the robbery. Where old Hill
nry would have taken q month to think
and plan, they took minutes. There
was a ball at the club that night, the
last of the waning country-club season.
Tho entrance TO the grounds was a
mile from the clubhouse-two iron
gates standing open between pillars
and dense shrubbery all about. Talbot
would wreck his car there, driving into
one of the gates, That would require
each denartipg car to slcw down, prob,
ably to stop.
GRE ayvangsEasns ~ns thnt tfalhes
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CHAPTER IV-Continued.

The police were still active. so IN
sistent was Boroday on caution that all
of September went by without so mich
as a plan of campaign. Talbot played
golf and established friendly relations
that might be invaluable later. Huff
under protest, retained the taxlcaD
work.
sTts a dogs life" he said. They're
not after me now. Give me something
else to do, or else let me take Vaca-
,tion.'
But they kept him at work.
Huff fell into the way of seeing Eli
nor once or twice a week. Talbot TOOK
him out, picking him up on the edge OF
town after dusk, on his way in his Car
to a dance or dinner at the country
club, and taking him back the same
way.
And the boys infatuation for Elinor
grew and thrived on those late summer
meetings. Her sweetness and elusive
ness maddened him. Sometimes he
thought her never so far from him as
when she was in his arms.
"Do you love me?" he would demand
hoarsely.
ST think so. I know want you to
love me-"
And he had to be content with this.
On the evenings when she was alone
Elinor sat in her arbor and watched
the road up the hill. Ward had called
twice, and each time she had been out
on the long rambles she took almost
daily. After his second visit, she
stayed In the house for days, expecting
him. But he did not come again.
She was not In love with Ward, just
as she was not in love with Walter
Huff. But the clergyman represented,
In her strange and lonely life, some
thing new and different. He typifed
all that she had never known. He was
the priest, rather than the man to her
at first. The time was coming when he
would be man only, and after that
Late in September Boroday was ar
rested. The arrest came as shock to
the band. AS a matter of fact the po-
lice could prove nothing, but the chief
had q long talk with the Russian. 1t
was the Agrarian affair, of course. The
chief had recognized him. But so firm
Iy had old Hilary's respeetability been
rooted in the public mind that the chief
connected Boroday only casually with
him.
''You know that I cannot prove this
thing on you," he said, ''but you know
also perfectly well that can fix you to
the tune of about ten years."
perfectly correct in both instances"
said Boroday. "You cannot prove any
thing and you can send me up. What
ls it you want?"
ST want the members Of that band of
yours" said the chief. "And l want
your headquarters. You people have
been playing hell in this county long
enough; the newspapers are laughing
at us. Sooner or later, We'll get you
and get you all. Make 1t sooner and
We'll let you off easy"
"How much time will you give me?'
The chief offered twenty-four hours
and Boroday took it. At the end Of
that time he reported.
81 guess I'll take what's coming to
me-" he said. you can fix it any way
you like"
It was a bitter disappointment to the
pOlice,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-09-07
Things become pretty hot for
the gang and it begins to look
as though Eiinor would face
public disgrace.
(TO BE CONTINUED,
WHY HE CLOSED POST OFFICE
Ike Wanted to Transfer the Rush in
Business to His Other Es-
tabIishment.

Uncle Ike Ross, q weatherbeaten
mountaineer, who presides over a post
office among the hills of southern Mis-"
souri,, peered through the stamp win
dow at two city men who had tramped
five miles from their mountain camp to
post some business letters. He shook
his head.
There's been q plumb big rush of
business at this hyar post office this
morning." he drawled, "and I'm all
tuckered out. l reckin l won't sell no.
body no more stamps till after dinner" !"
But" gasped the man nearest the
window, "these letters have got to go!
They're important, and they've got to
catch the stage and get off today"
Uncle Ike was obdurate "Hit shore
don't pay no man to work hisself to
DEATH" he said deliberately, and with
drew to chair, where he tipped back
and dropped into doze.
Some folks" snapped the city man,
would be too lazy to make a dollar if
all the opportunities of the next so
years came and perched on their door
steps! Now, where are we going to get
dinner?"
His companion pointed silently to a
sign, conspicuous on the post office
door:
Fried chicken dinner served to visi-
tors at the Ike Ross restaurant next
door. Fifty cents."-Youth's Compan-
ion.
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found himself dumb, now that he stood
before her. He had meant to be most
impersonal, to run in. say a CHEEKY
good night" to her, and be off. But
face to face, with the dark house loom
ing over them, he plunged into the
thing nearest his heart.
"Are you still so-alOne?'
"There are the servants"
II think of you often. One of my
windows faces this way, and 1 can see
light burning very late"
Il read at night. l do not sleep we'll
But you-you are up late, also"
"Ah!" He bent a little toward her in
his eagerness. "You know that? You
know my Window"
eyes. / watch it very often"
It was we'll for Walter Huff, crouched
In the shrubbery at the country club,
eyes glittering, automatic revolver in
hand, that he did not hear the thrill
In Wards voice that night in Elinor'
garden, or her soft reply.
Many things cried for utterance in
Ward; his pitiful sense of the girls
loneliness, q yearning desire to COM
fort her, to be near her-even more
that magic night, mad longing to hold
out his arms and coax her into them,
as one might coax some shy creature
Of the woods.
But Elinor was suddenly aloof and
distant again. At any time now a car
would come wildly down the hill, and
toss ut her feet its defiance of law and
ownership. What had she aud this
man before ;:er IN common? The thrill
was Ii his srice now hnt hogy quickly
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-09-07
Something New.

An iris diaphragm in which the size
Of the opening can be altered to suit
It's users eyes forms q new rifle sight.
Telephones small enough for both a
transmitter and a receiver to be car
ried in a vest pocket are Dutch In
vention.
For boring holes in concrete a crank
operated spring hammer drill that can
deliver 1,50O blows minute has been
invented.
Steam-driVpn motor passenger cars
that resemble American gasoline-elec-
trio cars have been adopted by Eu-
rOpean railroad.
Violets are natives to nearly all
lands and thrive very generally every
where, the greater number in the
shade, but some in the sun.
A group of European electricians
decided that better results were OBJ
tained by placing the carbons in arc
lamps horizontal and one slightly
above the other.
Electrical apparatus taking current
from a light socket has been invented
by a French scientist to purify the
air in a room by literally pumping it
into q reservoir and washing it.
To display posters in inaccessible
places q gun has been invented that
shoots q nail carrying q rolled poster,
which unrolls when the nail is shot
into q surface that will hold it.
Efforts are being made to harness for
the production of power the swift tidal
currents of the Bay of Fundy, where
the tides rise to a greater height than
anywhere else in the world.
Almost all the machines usually
found In q woodworking plant have
been mounted on motor truck by a
Missouri builder so that the work can
be done on the scene of q contract.
Estimates place the losses to the
British nation caused by farm pests
the rat, mouse, hedge sparrow and
wood piguon-at $2OO000,O0O annually,
or about ,55 to each person.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-09-07
ONE GIFT THAT MONEY WILL NOT BUY
BY LAURA JEAN LIBBEY.

to force themselves to her eyes. All
in a moment the busy business man
saw he had been remiss.
ITS a bargain!" he said huskily,
returning her caress. Prom this time
you shall have full measure of all
the love you crave"
One little heart touch of this kind
will bring even the most boorish hus-
band to his senses The trouble is that
most wives are too proud to sue for the
love which they believe should be
theirs without having to ask for it.
Many husbands mean well, but they
forget that the love which Is as free as
air, yet which money cannot buy, is
worth more to loving wife than dia-
monds or rubies. A husband cannot
well put love into a wife's stocking, yet
his affection should prompt. him to
bring her some remembrance, be it lit
tie, that she may know he was think
ing of her and the desire was in his
heart to make her happy.
With all q mans wealth, he should
know full well that it is impossible to
buy the true love of youthful heart
if his heart has become cold in the
passing years. The hearts of the chill
dren one cherishes cannot be bound to
parents by the almighty dollar. Love
never can be weighed against dollars
and cents, social position or aught else.
The poor man is rich, if there's some
one who has given him a wealth Of
love.
Copyright, 1917)
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-09-07
Sop 1t, Muvver!'

A good story is told by the countess
of Drogheda in connection with Lon
don nursery home for the babies OF
munitiOn workers.
A little girl. barely two. was brought
to the home by her mother, who was
on night work, and who, therefore,
wished, as is customary, to leave her
offspring there from Sunday evening
until Saturday morning.
But tke child strongly objected,
bowling Justify when the time came
for parting, and pleaded tearfuily with
her mother in baby language to 'tum
back toon."
The mother promised, and actually
did return in a couple of days, snatch
ing an hour from her work by special
permission. But by that time baby
was more reC0nCiled to her new sur
roundings.
She was, in fact, distinctly cool to-
ward her mother, and when that good
lady fingered lovingly at the ward en-
sranet, exclaimed impetiously in the
purcsi Ernknss aessnt' ON II, mnv'
Fsgt
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-09-07
The One Woman.

We've toasted all manners of women,
We've pledged them, the old and the
young,
Since days of the gallant knight errants
All womanhoods praises we've sung;
We've pledged them for love and for duty,
For trust and faith near divine
We've held high our glasses and pledged
them
In our first and last bumpers of wine:
But somehow, in zeal for their beauty,
Fond eyes and their lily white hands.
We've overlooked one in our pledging-
The Woman Who Understands.
Our poor limitations and uses,
She knows them far better than We
She bravely accepts our excuses,
And motives refuses to see;
She overlooks all of our errors.
The things we don't do that we should.
And knows, like ourselves, we'd be better
And worthier men If we could;
In the end, when our errors confront US,
She soothes US with comforting hands,
And erases the penance-God bless her!-
The Woman Who Understands.
John D. Wells in Buffalo News.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-09-07

No One Is More Unhappy
Than the Impatient Man

No man is more constantly unhappy,
or makes others more so, than the i'm
patient man. He is out of harmony
with things; and all things fight and
worry and wound him. He feels him.
self dishonored, too, by his impatience;
and he does lose so far as he INDUCES,
1t, the true dignity of life. He Is not
cast indeed, like the victim of sensual
vice, into the slough of dishonor; his
garment perhaps is not soiled; but It.
is burnt through in a thousand spots,
by the everdropping little sparks OF
petulance; and 1t is In tatters and dis,
order with the ever-crossing f1urries of
angry passion; and he seems to him.
self and to others as one who scram-
bles through life, rather than as one
who walks in the calm and dignif1ed
robe of conscious self-possession. Con-
slant frettfng and faultfnding and
breaking out into sarcasm and anger
may bereave house of all honor.
peace and comfort, almost as effective
ly as gluttony and drunkenness. Or
suppose that the fretful temper be hid
den and smothered in the heart; then
it wastes and consumes the springs Of
the inmost life.-Orville Dewey.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-09-07
Niagara Speeds Up Autos.

1t was the touch of Niagara that
transformed aluminium from q labora-
tory curiosity into one of the most es-
sential of all the minor metals, one
which it would now be difficult to dis
pense with and which has been power
to the allied arm in the European war.
Take it out of the automobile indus
try, and the stream of cars would fall
to low-water mark instead of rising
above it, says the National Geographic
Magazine. Between Niagara's alloys
and her abrasives, it is estimated that
every industry utilizing steel has null
tiplied its productive powers by three.
Engineers who know every phase of
the processes of automobile manufac-
ture declare that If it had not been
for these abrasives and alloys every
motorcar factory in America would
have had to slow down to one-fifth of
its normal production when the war
broke out.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-09-07

walk up to the club, and establish an
alib1 and his innocence by telephonine
to city garage for help. The rest
was left to Huff and Lethbridge. A
quarter Of mile away across the golt
links, they would have a car in which
to make their getaway.
Lethbridge was only lukewarm.
We'll get lot of jewelry," he OBJ
jected. "What we need is money"
But Talbot was sure the loot would
| include money.
1t was rather cleverly planned
From the vault Huff brought up a fine
chain studded with spikes. Stretched
| across the road outside the entrance, IL
meant that every car passing over IL
would limp along on flat tires. II
meant time to the bandits.
Huff and Lethbridge, who had left
their car in a thfcket over the hill
went first. Talbot followed soon, in
his gray car.
Good luck, boys" said Elinor In
echo of her father, from her garden
and went back into the house to watch
the clock. At one, or little sooner
the summer dances were early ones
she was to be in her garden again. The
loot would be thrown over the wall.
She was there much> earlier, hands
cold, lips shaking with nervousness
Always old Hilary had done these
things. She was profoundly frightened
Ward, walking rapidly home from
the club, saw her there, a little after
midnight. There was a young moon,
and at first he thought he must be mis-
taken Then, when he was sure of her
he ran up the shallow steps. The glad.
ness that was over him rang out in his
! deep voice.
$50 now have your secret" he said
gaily. like oil the other fairies, you
are only to be seen in the moonlight p
"In the daylight" said Elinor, trying
to smile, Il frequent the woodlands,
and miss my most agreeable visitor
my only visitor" She corrected her.
self.
Her hand was ice in his.
"You are cold!"
"Really, no."
There was a minutes pause. They
had no common ground between them.
Ward, who dreamed of her eyes, and
took long walks up the hill in the mere
hope of seeing her in her garden,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-09-07
Much Food In Small Bulk

The British Tommy" when fresh
bread is not available, is supplied with
what he calls "dog biscuit" 1t looks
like just that, being thick cracker
four inches square and weighing
three ounces. OF whole wheat flour
pressed solid, it might be described as
u condensed loaf of bread.
The French have 'war bread"
somewhat similar, which, when put
into hot water or soup, swssls up like
a sponge.
The famous German pea sausage"
Is composed of pea meal, bacon and
fat. 1t was the invention of a Ber-
lin cook. who discovered a process
whereby pea meal could be made
proof against deterioration. One
sausage, eight inches long, yields
twelve plates Of nutritious soup.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-09-07

to the Hutchinson (kan) team of the
Western association as a shortstop and
Joe grabbed the job.
1t was the old story from then on.
All the regular pitchers were Grip
pied, manager tore his hair and ejacu-
lated, "a pitcher, a pitcher-my king
dom for pitcher"
Up spake Joe Wood, the hard-hitting
shortstop.
81 am better pitcher than short
stop. l can hurl the leather so fast
they cannot hit it,
He was a pitcher from then on, ex-
cept that when playing with Kansas
City the following season he first
based second-based, third-based, short
stopped and played in each of the out
field positions. The catchers managed
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1t would turn to loathirg when he
| knew! She put out her cold hand, and
he took it.
Il am going in now. Good night, and
thank you for stopping.
Ward found himself dismissed, and,
rather dazed, went down the steps to
the road. But one thing he carried
with him down the hill that night:
II watch your window very often"
The reverend Mr.. Ward left his light
on all Of that night, so fearful was he
that she might look for 1t, and not find
| 1t.
And while 1t burned, under the very
shadow of Saint Jude's once more the
vault in the basement room at the hall
swung open to Elinor's practiced fin
gers.
The village rang with the news Of
the outrage the next day. No one had
been hurt, but jewels of large value
had been taken.
! To Huff and the others, She raid had
been practically a failure. There had
been less than thousand dollars In
money-not enough to begin negotia-
tions for Boroday's freedom. 1t began
to look as though the dangerous busi-
ness of selling some Of Elinor's jewels
| would have to be resorted to. Leth-
bridge was willing to undertake 1t, try
ing London first and then Paris.
Elinor offered all the diamonds. If
she must keep part, she would keep
the pearls. Talbot sorted out the
stones to be sold, but left them with
her for safety. She had never cared
for her jewels. They were not half
so lovely as her f1owers-and she part
ed from them without a pang. But
there was one pink pear-shaped pearl
that had come in the night before, that
she would have rather liked to wear.
On Monday afternoon Ward called
on Elinor. The memory of that short
meeting in the garden had been with
him ever since. There was a new light
in his eyes, but she greeted him de-
murely, although she flushed with
pleasure.
"Not in a woodland, for once" she
said. "And all my fairylike attributes
IiueQ III Iue uayllSHl!
isn't it rather rash?' he asked
gravely-" risking the daylight?'
"I am here because I hoped you
would come to see me-" 1t was Wards
turn to flush.
"You said you were lonely, 1
thought"
II am alone, but not as lonely as
you think. There is plenty to do.
have my garden, and l make up little
bouquets for the school children. You
should see how they love them. Some
days l have a dozen clamoring in the
road under the arbor."
Ward was charmed. He had quick
vision of Elinor, eyes dancing and soft
hair blowing, bending out of her arbor
window and dropping her quaint sweet
williams and marguerites, mignonette
and garden roses, down to the children.
She led the way to the terrace, where
Henriette was setting the tea-table.
Nevertheless" Ward said suddenly,
81 am not at all sure like your living
here alone. 1t doesn't seem safe"
"Safe?"
perhaps I am unwise to alarm you.
But this outrage at the country club"
"Ah!" said Elinor, and bent toward
him.
"There is no longer any question that
band of desperadoes is terrorizing
the county; an organized band Of con-
siderable intelligence. They get their
+Io ipS Ttl,;C l-.cf
outrage shows it. No one is SAFE"
"And this country club AFFAIR." asked
Elinor, watching Ward intently.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-09-07

In order to have 4 clear cOmprehen-
sion of the Red Cross and it's work, 1t
is necessary to know about its con-
struction and its methods. The pres
ident of the United States is not mere
ly an honorary officer but an active
president of the society. He presides
at the. annual meetings, appoints mem
bers of various boards and issues i'm
portant public appeals in time of war
or disaster. 1t is important to under
stand that it is the arm or instrument
of the government for giving aid to
humanity. It's work goes on at all
times in the department of civilian re-
lief. Under its charter all accounts of
the American Red Cross are audited
by the war department and an annual
report submitted to congress by the
secretary of war. To President Taft
belongs much credit for the time and
attention he gave to the affairs of the
society, in order to build it up to its
present efficiency and establish it in
the public confidence.
The central committee is the gov
Il IIliS btliS II NOillili> III &c III
portant boards whose Chairmen and
vice chairmen are members of the COM
mittee These boards are the war, na-
tiOnal and international relief boards.
They establish the policies in their re-
spcctive fields of activity and recon-
mendations for appropriations are
made by them to the central or exec
utive committee which has the sole
right of appropriating funds
The chairman and vice chairman of
the war relief board are the surgeon
generals of the army and navy. Those
of the international relief board are
representatives of the state depart
ment and the navy and those of the
national relief board are members of
the central committee particularly IA
miliar with this part of Red Cross
work.
Under these boards are various
subcommittee. the medical bureau,
the first aid department. the nursing
service, town and country nursing and
the Christmas seal. State boards, con-
siSting of from three to ten prominent
persons, constitute permanent CIncr-