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Gets Recess Appointment.
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tEy AssOcIatcN TrUs~-I
WASHINGTON, June 12.--Elmer ID.
Ball. OF Iowa. was given a recess ap-
rointment today by President Wilson
rs Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.
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TheMysteryof HartleyHou
By CLIFFORD S. RAYMOND
yuRWUNN MYERS pddsb cayA Dco

She affected familiarittes and called
me "John" derisively, or worse 'dear"
or "old dear" protested, in more
pain than she could guess.
"We are engaged" she said. "What
should I call your"
"You might consider the fact that
we are not engaged" | suggested.
"But we are. If we don't act as if
we were, you'll not be any protection
against Jed. Don't you want me to
call you John?"
s'Of course do" I said. ''It's per-
fectly straightforward, natural and
proper"
.Then it's the dear and old dear
you object to, and perfectly delight
in calling you old DEAR 1t fits so
well-it is really wonderful. It is al
most complete description as we'll
as a charming appellatio1. adore it. :"
81 object to unnecessary freedom, =
/ said.
ssBut it helps to deceive jed"
Nothing deceives Jed. He was de
ceived only for short while. Then he
tried to kill me. He apologized after
ward for his mistake. He knows the
character of our engagement
"Just the same, he has not bothered
mother since then as he did before"
'.That is because ne is coward and
l have him where can control him."
Mrs. Sidney did not understand her
daughter. That was not astonishing
Isobel was young American woman !;
Mrs. Sidney had Spanish traditions.
IsobeI came naturally, through her
father, to a candor which never ceased
to amaze ENTHUSIASTICALLY dis
tress her mother. Isobel said what
she thought. Her frankness came
from honesty of character. Her lovely
mother regarded life as something to
be managed by retfcence and denial.
Mrs. Sidney was esthetfc, and if a fact
were unesthetic, she denied it and put
it out Of her consideration. 1t was, to
her, the only proper thing to do.
Isobel was a clever tennis-player
and I poor one. She beat me three
or four sets every fine afternoon. She
liked to drive car and ride horse.
drove and rode with her.
When Isobel said for the first time
that she wanted to take me for drive
in the car, her mother made a gesture
Of dismay. Isobel stood before her a1d
smiled.
.You know we are engaged, mother, !"
she said.
| thought Of the hen at the ponds
edge seeing her brood Of ducklings in
the water Mrs. Sidney was not in a
panic and she did not futter, but her
distress was acute. She knew the girl
had to develop and she knew that she
had to live in North, not South Amer
lea. But knowledge is aot a complete
anodyne to pain.
IsoDel took her mothers hand and
kissed it, and then her lips. She smiled
in such an honest, frank, perceptive
fashion, know that smile can con
tain all the human understanding in
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CHAPTER IlI-continued.

Mr.. Sidney never liked to have his
vicarious drinking interrupted, but he
always was good natured.
'''Well, DOCTOR" he said, "what now?
Is Jed drinking too much for my
health?"
At that moment no possible amount
of liquor would have been too much
for Jed. The wretch must have thought
was ghost.
"Jed may drink himself to death,
for all me-" I said. ''That probably is
the best end he can come to. | think
he is gaIlows meat, but l want to talk
to him when you can spare him."
"We can't spare Jed to have him
hanged" said Mr.. Sidney. Hes too
useful. Who else could drink my wine
of an evening? Go along with the
doctor, Jed, and see what he wants.
It's probably a matter of pills or pow
ders for me-"
Jed was recovering from his shock,
but he still showed the effects Of it.
mo hurry" said. 'Td rather wait
a half hour. I'll be in my ROOM"
/ went there and wrote two letters.
Both were to one point. They related
circumstantially what had happened
that afternoon. One addressed to a
lawyer / knew, and the other to DR..
Brownell. Jed knocked at the door as
/ flashed them. He was still un-
nerved.
81 have something I!want you to
read l said, and gave him the letters.
He read them and moistened his fps.
'You don't need to talk, Jed" said.
*'PE do all the talking that's neces-
sary. l am not going away. | am go
ing to stay right here, and you'd better
be very careful of my health. These
letters go out tonight. The men who
get them will keep their mouths shut
so long as / am alive. If anything
should happen to me, whether you had
anything to do with it or not, you'd
have difficult time with jury"
'It was a mistake he said. II
would not do you any harrn. / shot at
a rabbit"
"Twice with pistol, when you had
a shotgun?" l said. you did! I was
the rabbit.
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"JOHN!"

Synopsis. = DR.. John Nicholson.
Just beginning his career, becomes
resident physician and companion
of Homer Sidney at Hartley house.
Mr.. Sidney is an American, semi
invalid, old and rich and very de-
sirous to live Mrs. Sidney is
spanish woman. dignified and reti-
cent. Ged, the butler, acts like q
privileged member of the family.
Hartley house is a fine old isolated
country place, with a murder story,
a haunted pool" and many watch
dogs, and an atmosphere of mys-
tery The haunted pooP' is where
Richard Dobson, son of a former
owner of Hartley house, had killed
his brother, Arthur DObson. Jed
begins operations by locking the
doctor in his room the very first
night. Doctor John fixes his door
so he can't be locked in. He meets
Lsobel daughter Of the house ana
falls in love at first sight. In the
night he finds the butler drunk and
holding Mrs. Sidney by the wrist.
He interferes. Mrs. Sidney ex-
plains John buys a revolver. John
overhears Jed telling Mrs. Sidney
he will have his way. In reply she
says she will not hesitate to kill
him. Mrs Sidney asks John to
consent to the announcement of
his engagement to Isobel. The
young people consent to the make
believe announcement. Jed tries to
kill John.
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CHAPTER ~.

Jed came to me the next day in one
of his candid moods.
81 did shoot at you yesterday" he
said.
81 know you did," 1 replied.
"And you're wondering why and
you're wondering if l intend to- do it
again"
81 don't wonder at anything you
do" | said. "And you know that if
YOU do it again, the evidence is pre-
pared against you l think I am per-
fectly safe. l know you are a cow
ard"
'No, I'm not a coward" he said, as
if he were stating fact and not max
ing a boast. 81 never do anything
without purpose, AID when / have a
purpose, do it no matter what the
consequences may be. The reason /
wanted to shoot you was because you
we've engaged to Isobel. | intend to
marry Isobel. Now / know that you
are not going to marry Isobel You
are just the foolish fence that her
mother thought she could build up
around Isobel and keep me from try
ing to marry her. IsobeI doesn't want
you. She is laughing at you. So we
might as well be friends again."
"You preposterous old fool ~ / said
''You seaile alcoholic! You are a vio-
Iation of decency. You enfeebled. ex-
asperating old goat! You would sicken
the moral conscience of mummy. If
you ever associate your aspirations
with the name of Miss Sidney again,
I'll cut your throat with a paper
knife"
Jed smiled and made me feel ridicu-
ious.
81 am a more intelligent man than
you," he said. "You are too simple for
the complexities of life. You could not
possibly be sufficient for a girl of Miss
Sidney's character. She would die of
boredom IN six months. There is moth
ing preposterous about my candidacy
for Miss Sidney. / am older than I'd
like to be, tut that is ALL"
"You are hideous old fool" said,
i''bgt 1 think / can handle you, and I
give you warming"
T am going to be quite friendly"
,saic5 Jed.
"You f1atter yourself" said.
"Well. anyway" he said, 'Tm friend
ly."
He proved to be so. The life of the
house went placidly from day to day.
Isobel, with sense of our posturing
toward each other, made knocking ges
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q think I shall continue to call you
John just that way" she said TT
seems more honest and decent After
all, we are engaged"
Sometimes Mr.. Sidney could be
taken out in an automobile, of a warm,
fair afternoon. It was not often that
his strength permitted this, but when
ever it did, was glad not only to al
low but to suggest that he make use
of all opportunities.
The most beautiful of our river
drives brought US, within the limitation
of Mr.. Sidney's strength, to the peni-
tertiary at AIwick. It was a hideous
structure of barracks, work-rooms and
walls, of cells and armed guards; but
it was in lovely surroundings. and if
we took the best roads, we came natur-
ally to the prison walls.
Mr.. Sidney would look at the en-
closure and the guards in the turrets
as if interpreting his own life in the
terms of prison existence. We may
have taken this drive by the prison
road ten times when, approaching it
on another of our outings, Mr.. Sidney
had the driver stop at the entrance.
II feel very strong and well today,
DOCTOR" he said, "and if you do not
object, think should like to go in
side. I have seen the outside so many
times. have curiosity to see the in
side"
I consented, thinking that with Jed
and me helping him-we acted as his
legs, guiding and sustaining his feeble
motions-he was strong enough to
make the effort. / did not know
whether it was good or bad psychology
to give him a sight Of so many impris-
oned men, but my instinct suggested
that it would, in his case, be good. He
was a logical, reasoning mana rare
phenomenon in the human race. Ii he
had been emotional and sentimental. /
! should have had more doubt.
Mr. Sidney was important enough to
be known in the neighborhood The
warden of the prison came to meet him
| in the office as soon as we had entered.
He was very cordial to Mr.. Sidney,
who himself never showed more his
aristocracy Of democracy, am
democrat. I am most fond of an
aristocratic democrat. Such was Mr..
Sidney.
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seven, enlisted as carpenters mate
second class, United States navy, at
Norfolk, Va, March 5, 1917. This
was 80 days before the United States
and Germany were at war.
Lowe was a seaman in the United
States navy during the American
Civil war, and with him in the United
States forces in the war against Ger
many were two Of his grandsons.
Lowe was called into active service
in this war May 20. 1917: was dis
charged on medical survey December
6. 1917; enlisted again Ii days later
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Scientists in Dispute as to What Kind
of Food Had Such Remark
able Effects.

What was the plant the "lotus eat
ers'' ate, which so destroyed their
'spep," strangers who visited their
land and partook of the remarkable
vegetable losing all desire to return TO
home and friends?
There has been no end Of dispute
on the subject One thing is certain,
however, is that 1t could not have
been the Egyptian lotus, which within
recent years has begun to be widely
grown in water gardens. This plant
develops tubers, deep in the mud,
which are about the size of hens eggs
and good to eat, but the eating Of
them has no such deleterious effect as
that above described.
The Egyptian lotus is kind Of
water lily, whose superb flowers look
like huge pink tulips. Once upon u
time it grew wild along the banks of
the Nile, and the surmise is that orig
inally it was fetched from India.
where it is native. 1t was regarded
anciently as the emblem of the Nile,
and the symbol of the creation of the
world from the waters. To the Egyp-
tians it was a sacred plant. They
cultivated it in ponds and tanks.
wreathing their heads with the bios
SONS on festive occasions.
The lotus has had a wonderful infiu-
ence upon architecture. It's leaves and
buds appear in the capitals of classic
columns and in every sort of antique
decorative carving it is the motif most
frequently chosen. The art work of
Japan (into which country it was I'M
ported) is inspired by it to a greater
extent than by anything else in ma
ture.
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the world, because saw Isobels-and
then, holding her mothers hand, she
allowed Mrs. Sidney to have the mo-
ment of distress with the intimate sup
port of her own presence.
1t may seem small struggle that
mother and daughter went through,
but 1t did not seem small to me who
witnessed it, and it had no rhetorical
and little emotional expression.
Isobel knew her mother suffered, but
she was wise. Mrs. Sidney dreaded
her daughters adopted mode Of life,
but knew her daughter.
Goodbye, mother" said Isobel. Eve
sha'n't be gone long. Come on, John. !"
That was the first time she had
called me John honestly and without
comedy. I knew her f1nesse. She did
1t to give her mother the comfortable
sense that she was not going upon a
wild adventure of an automobile ride
with an unrelated man but was within
the strict intimacy Of the family.
We went driving Isobel at the wheel.
She liked to drive fast and do not.
/ am timid. do not think that loco
motion is a genuine human pleasure.
Possibly it is, behind either a fast or
Flooding horse. / prefer the piodding
horse. Locomotion then merely reveals
gradually changing facets of the scene /;
one likes to see the manifold aspects
Of a landscape unfold. But an auto
mobile driven as Isobel wanted to
drive 1t revealed no facets. It merely
blurred the vision and gave the idea
that the satisfaction sought was GER
tain amount of wind blown in the face.
For such as love it. not for me!
''That was a difficult scene. doctor"
she said.
I knew that was what she would
call me next-"doctor." l came di-
rectly down out of the clouds.
81 know it was" / said, land | adj
mired the honest way in which you
managed it"
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Elvina Casualties.

Revised figures from the war depart
ment show that there were but 583 cas-
ualties among American aviators in
Ellrobe during the war; OF this num-
her 491 were among aviators with the
A. e. r. and the remainder among avi-
ators on duty with the British, French
and Italian armies. The casualties are
classified as follows: Killed in combat
2O8: prisoners, 145; wounded in action
1872: killed in action; Al: missing in
action, %; injured in action. Is; in
termed, 8.
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and served until May, 1918, when he
was discharged.
In a recent letter to the war risk
insurance bureau the aged sailor said
regarding his enlistment to fight Ger
many: when the war between the
United States and Germany was immi-
nent in March, 1917, and saw in a
store window a acknowledgement OF
the spirit OF 1916 grandfather ia.
Their and son, concluded l could serve
as well as that grandfather Of the
Revolutionary days, especially as
was still young man."
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Fox SQUIRRELS Nests.

In the South, instead of living In
the hollow trees. the fox squirrels build
big nests in the tops of the pine and
other trees, usually of Spanish moss,
saws the American Forestry Magazine.
In these they sleep, also carrying to
them the pine cones. In the hardwood
forests Of the North, dry leaves take
the place Of the Spanish MOSS and a
conspicuous nest is built with an en-
trance hole at the side.
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Flat Feet.

Symptoms of fiat foot are pain
along the fnstep or even in the calves
of the legs, knees, thighs, hips or
back. often mistaken for rheumatism
or other troubles. The person stands
with feet well apart and toes turned
outward. The ankle bends inward and
the weight falls on the inner line of
the foot so that the entire sole rests
fiat on the ground.
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GERMAN MADE GOOD RECORD
seventy-Seve Years Old, He Did His
Part for the United States
in the Late War.

Washington.-Adol Louis Lowe.
born in Germany in 1910, was the old
est American citizen to enlist in the
war against his native country.
This fact was disclosed by the bu-
reau of war risk insurance which dis
closed that Lowe, resident of Lynn
haven, Va, at the age Of seventy
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Every boy knows several men whom
be intends to whip when he grows up.
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France Acts independently of
Great Britain in the Russo
Polish Complication.
PROMISES AID TO WRANGEL
America to Use All Available Means"
to Preserve PoIand's independence
Resistance to Red Armies IN
creasing-Express Workers
Get Wage Increase.
BY EDWARD w. PIcKARD.

The United States will employ fall
available means" to safeguard the in
dependence and territorial integrity of
Poland. and will not recognize the
soviet government of Russia.
The French government has recog--
nized the Wrangel government of
southern Russia and will give it mill
fairy aid against the bolsheviki; and
the French representatives in London
have been instructed to break off ali
relations with Krassin and Kameneff.
the soviet trade commissioners there.
The British government, though
somewhat dismayed by the American
and French announcements and the
apparent break with France, still
hopes and believes a peace can be ne
gotiated between Russia and Poland.
The Russians, persisting in their re-
fusal to permit mediation by any third
party, sent a delegation to Minsk to
meet the Poles, and continued their
circling movement designed to cap
ture Warsaw.
The Poles sent representatives to
Minsk to talk armistice, and, having
withdrawn in good order from their
advanced positions, established two
lines of defense before Warsaw and
prepared for an extensive counter
stroke.
In the lineup Of the powers, Italy
stands with Great Britain. and France
counts on the support of the United
States. Germany maintains an osten-
shle neutrality while hoping for the
crushing of Poland, believing the
Polish adventure was instigated and
directed by France.
Such is the summary of conditions,
on the day of writing. in the biggest
of the wars that are still going on.
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Technically the world war came to
an end Tuesday. so far as the allied
nations and their opponents are con-
cerned. On that day the last of the
peace treaties. that with Turkey, was
signed in Sevres, near Paris. The
Jugo-SIavs refused to sign because the
treaty provides that the Ottoman debt
be partitioned among former Turkish
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-08-20

The British parliament has passed
and the king has approved the new
Irish coercion bill. The debate in the
house of commons was bitter. Very
optimistic persons think the law will
restore order in Ireland.
Much interest and some excitement
were caused by the British govern
ment's course in dealing with the visit
of Archbishop ManniX of Australia,
the warm advocate of free Ireland,
who spent some weeks in the United
States. He intended to land in ire
land, but government agents removed
him from the liner md put him ashore
at Penzance under technical arrest. He
proceeded to London, but his move
ments were restricted by orders. He
received invitations to address meet
ings in many places in England, Scot
land and Ireland. The treatment of
the archbishop looks. at this distance,
like characteristic bit Of British
''muddling," but probably the govern
ment knew what 1t was about. To an
interviewer the churchman said what
he wanted was to see England get out
of Ireland. intimating that the latter
as an independent country would be
nc more the enemy of Great Britain
that it is now.
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A conference OF the British and
French premiers was held at Hythe
and. returning to London, Lloyd
George told the house Of commons
that he still believed in peace. He
said Russia was entitled to strict
guarantees against repetition of the
Polish attack but was not entitled to
destroy Poland as nation; if Russia
acted within those conditions there
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-08-20

President Wilson'S statement Of
Americas position was made to Italy.
In it he suggested that the conflict
might be ended by the withdrawal of
all Russian forces from Poland and
the withdrawal of all allied troops
from photographic Russia, together
with assurances by the allied and as
sociated powers that Russia will not
he dismembered. He urged that any
dealings with the soviet regime be con-
fined within 'sthe most narrow boun-
daries to which the discussion of an
armistice can be confined" and scored
the soviet government as that of
whose assurances and guarantees are
practically worthless. In asking that
the true boundaries of Russia be re-
speCted, the note specified that those
boundaries should not include Fin
land, ethnic Poland or such territory
as may by agreement form part of
the Armenian state Just what the
president meant by "alI available
means" in promising aid to Poland
was not made clear but it was as
sumed. both by government officials
and by the representatives of Poland
in Washington. that the phrase did
not include the dispatch Of troops.
Prince Lubomirski, the Polish minis
ter, did not ask for armed assistance.
but said the need of his countrymen
was for food. clothing. arms and other
war munitions. These, he added, are
needed Immediately and imperatively.
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territories aIlocated to other states
and because Jugo-Slavia did not re-
ceive Macedonia as she asked. The
United States did not sign the treaty
owing to President Wilson's objection
to the presence of the sultan in Con-
stantinople, the ALLEGATION of Thrace
and Smyrna to Greece, and the Asia
Minor mandates
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Mr.. Sidney visits the peni-
tentiary.
PLANT A MYSTERY

GO BIZ GOfss'I1N y JEDI
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Charles Ponzi of Boston, whose sem
sational operations in international
postal coupons attracted the attention
Of the authorities, came to grief. at
least temporarily, when state bank
examiner closed the Hanover Trust
company, through which he carried on
much Of his business, and he was ar
rested on state larceny charge. The
same day the wizard" admitted he
had been an inmate of prisons at At
lanta and in Canada. Ponzi has not
revealed the exact method by which
he made so much money for his clients
and himself in a few weeks. He as
serts he can take care Of all his f1nan-
cial obligations.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-08-20

Another big wage Increase award
was made last week by the United
States railway labor board, the en-
ployees of the American Railway Ex-
press company being the beneficiaries
this time. They were granted fiat
increase of is cents an hour and the
total will amount to $30.556, 445 a
year. The heads Of the four unions
affected appeared well satisfied with
the award. ;.daAaNas.
The railway rate increase ran
against a snag in Illinois when the
state public utilities commission ruled
that the 2-cent passenger fare in the
state was restored by the passing OF
the wartime transportation act; de-
MED applications for increases to BE
cents per mile, for increased surcharges
on Pullman and parlor car fares
for increase of communication rates and
for increased milk rates; and denied
application for 40 per cent increase in
freight rates, granting a temporary
increase OF SO Is per cent, -~afs
n sTgsaFsa$t EssHs