The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11
By VIRGINIA LEE

tlluI you anu i are going W uldIlJ
some day. I'm going to keep saying it
till l make some impression on YOU"
He went off with a happy smile and
Winnie watched him out of sight. No
engagement yet existed. The pay down
at the factory vas not enough to sup
port q wife and Marvin was sensible
and Winnie patient.
His work was arduous. Marvin was
expected to report for duty at six
o'clock and remove the books from the
vaults and have them in place on the
various desks by the time the office
force arrived.
His last thought was of Winnie as
he fell asleep. He yawned, half re-
freshed, as his mother knocked at the
door of his room next morning.
give o'clock, Marvin" she an
bounced. breakfast ready"
cit seems as if 1 just went to bed"
spoke Marvin, as he appeared down
stairs. "It's dark enough, isn't it? |
don't know that l at all favor this
pushing the clock ahead"
1t struck him hat daylight was be-
hind time and nature all out of kilter
as he left home. Nobody seemed asttr.
The Druse home was half q mile, from
the town. Marvin started across a
field ending in q stretch of timber. AS
he penetrated the wooded stretch he
came to a sudden halt.
tr 1-aJ-.o - 10 hnn0{hn1 tUNh fSc
queer. It's a baby's cry !" and he
peered ahead down the leafy arcade
and walked on slowly. AS he advanced,
however, there sounded the echo of
human voices. This was all quite mys-
ferrous. and as Marvin made out two
men near an automobile he stepped
aside into the underbrush.
"The kids got to have milk" fell
upon his ears. IF 1t gets started bawl-
ing we'll have the whole country on
our TRAIL"
"I don't see how you're going to get
any," was retorted.
'There's a lantern bobbing around
what looks like a little farm yOnder,"
resumed the first speaker. "Sure to
have milk. there. You stay here and
cuddle the brat If he gets going again.
Only an hour to reach cover, and rich
Robert Marsh has probably discovered
his baby's absence by this time. It's
twenty thousand dollars or
the pe~nitentiary for us, so we want to
hustle"
The speaker started away. His conn
panion stood gazing at a bundle Of
robes on the rear seat. In a flash Mar
vim comprehended the situation. The
name mentioned, Robert Marsh, was
fully familiar to him. He was the son
of the richest man in the district and,
as Marvin knew, had one little child.
These wretches had kidnapped the in.
FAINT, intending to hold the little inno-
cent for ransom.
Marvin acted on impulse. Just as
the nan at the automobile stepped into
the front seat to sit down Marvin
sprang upon him. He dealt him a
dozen blows, sending him senseless to
the floor. A renewed wailing on tho
rear seat advised him that there was a
child there. Marvin seized the wheel.
In three minutes he was on the main
road, in five more he halted in front of
the town Jail and sang out briskly for
the marshal.
The official appeared speedily. Mar
vim told his story. The insensible ruff
fan was carried to a cell and assist
ants were sent to apprehend his mate.
The marshal got quickly in telephone
communication with the town thirty
miles distant where Robert Marsh
lived. The baby set up a hungry cry.
nIH take care of the child" an
nounced Marvin, and carried it again
to the automobile and within a brief
time it was in charge of his mother.
Robert Marsh fairly embraced Mar
vim when he arrived three hours later,
wept tears of joy owe the recovered
child and left a check for five thou
sand dollars in the hand of Marvin.
81 like this getting up early, for a
fact" jubilated Marvin, for now, he
swhispered to himself, II can marry
Winnie"
"Oh! but you got up an hour too
early" explained his mother. "When
father came down | found that after /
had set the clock ahead he repeated
the operation"
BLESSED mani" commended Marvin
IF he hadn't, I wouldn't have met
those scamps in time to outwit their
wicked schemes"
"Germ-Proof" Money.
TO a bank in Spokane, Wash, be-
longs the distinction of circulating the
first antiseptic germ-proof national
bank notes. The United States treas
ury is still experimenting with devices
to laundry dirty bank notes to bright
crisp ones, but the Spokane bank q
the first sanitary money on record.
Fifty thousand dollars In bills, put out
by the bank, were signed with an Ink
said to consist largely of carbolic acid.
The result Is the bills are saturated
with an agency which means death to
the most vigorous germ who'd live
there.