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THE RED HEADED LEAGUE . BY Hilt A. CX>NAN DOYLK. " i V I In Two Parts??Fart II. v f The road iu which we found our- * f selves as we turned round the corner from the retired Saxe-CoburK Square presented as great a contrast to it as j the front of a picture does to the c back. It was one of the main arte- ' ^ ries which convey the tratlic of the City to the north and west. The ^ roadway was blocked with tho im- , rnense stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, f whilo the footpaths were brack with the hurrying swarm of pedestrians. , 1 It was dillicult to realize, as we look- 1 ed at the line of fine shops and state- J iy premises, that they really abutted { on the other side upon the faded and ! stagnant square which we had just , quitted. ( "Let me see," said Holmes, stand- j ing at the corner, and glancing along the line, "1 should like just to remember the order of the houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an ' exact knowledge of London. There ; ' is Mortimer's, the tobacconist; the ' little newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Surburban j Hank, the Vegetarian Restaurant, and MacFarlane's carriage-building depot. That carries us right on to ; the other block. And now, doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violinland, where all is sweetness, and delicacy, and harmony, and there are no red-lieaded clients to vex us with their conundrums." My friend was an enthusiastic mu?5r?5nti tinititr tint nil 1 v n vprV i capable performer, but a composer of I no ordinary merit. All tbo afternoon ho sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect happiness, gently waving his long thin fingers in time to the music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was possible to conceive. In bis singular character the dual nature alternately asserted Itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was never so truly formidable as when, for days 011 end, he had been lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his black-letter editions. Then it was that it was the lust of the chase would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a man whoso knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James' Hall, I felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set himself to hunt down. "You want to go home no doubt, H Ant nr '' rnmnrl/n/1 o a ortrat) UVX/IV I 9 I1XJ 1 X.IIIUI l\X/U I UO TV v> VvlWV I ^XJVi . "Yes, it would be as well." "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This business at Coburg Square is serious." "Why serious?" "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to believe that we shall be in time to stop it. Hut to-day being Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help to-night." "At what time?" "Ten will be early enough." "I shall be at Taker Street at ten." "Very well. And, I say, doctor! there may be some little danger, so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the crowd. 1 trust that I am not more dense than my neighbors, but 1 was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evi ent that he saw clearly not only what happened, but what was about to happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and grotesque. As 1 drove home to my house in Kensington I thought over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxo Coburg Square, and the ominous words with which ho had parted from mo. What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a formidable man?a man who might play a deep game. I tried to puzzle it out, hut gave it up in despair, and set the matter aside until night should bring an explanation. It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my way jifrnss tho P?rU nnd an (hrnmrli Oy ford Street to Baker Street. Two <i hansoms were standing at the cioor, and, as I entered the passage, I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering his room, I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men. one of whom I recognizei as Peter * Jones, the official police agent; while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. "Ha! our party is complete," said a lolmes, buttoning up his pea-jacket, c ind taking his heavy huutlng crop c rom the rack. "Watson, I think you p ;now Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? ,et me introduce you to Mr. Merrv- tl veather, who is to be our companion * n to-night's adventure." n "We're hunting'in couples again, loctor, you see," said Jones, in his icneequentlal way. "Our friend hero n s a wonderful man for starting a's base. All he wants is an old dog to p lelp him do the running down." t "1 hope a wild goose may not prove k o be the end on our chase," observed s dr. Merry weather, gloomily. ii i uu uwiv j'ia\;u tuusiuuiaulo uuu- u Ulence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said the s jolice agent, loftily. "He has his e ;wii metho Is, which are, if he won't 1 nincl my saying so, just si little too n heoretical and fantastic, hut he has a .he makings of a detective in him. It I s not too much to say that once or Lwice, as in that business of the c >holto murder and the Agra treasure, t lie lias been more nearly correct than j the oilicial force." i "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is i [til right!" said the stranger, with i deference. "Still, 1 confess that I 1 miss my rubber. It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty sears that I have not had my rub- i ber." t "I think you will find," said Slier- ( lock Holmes, "that you will play for ? a higher stake to-night than you j have ever done yet, and that the ( play will be more exciting. For you, , Mr. Merry weather, the stake will be | some thirty thousand pounds; and j for you. Jones, it will be the man i upon whom you wish to lay your ] hands." : "John Clay, the murderer, thief, < smasher, and forger. He's a young man, Mr. Merry weather, but he is at ] the head of his profession, and 1 would rather have my bracelets on i him than on any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John Clay. His grandfather was a Itoyal Duke, and he himself has been to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to find the man himself. He crack a crib in Scotland one week, and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. I've been on his track for years, and have never set eyes on him yet." "I hope that I may have the pleas'ure of introducing you to-night. I've had one or two littlo turns also with \1 r- Inlin Pin v nnil T n irrnn u'itli Vnn that he is at the head of his profession. It is past ten, however, and quite time that wo started, if you two wll take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the second." Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive, and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit streets until we emerged into Farringdon Street." "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow Merry weather is a .bank director and per sonally interested in the matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is not a bad fellow, tho' an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog, and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon any one. Here we are, and thoy are waiting for us." We had readied the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and following the guidance of Mr. Merryweatlu r, wo passed down a narrow passage, and through a side door which he opened for us. Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding I stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a third door, into a huge I vault or cellar, which was piled all round with crates and massive boxes. I "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked, as he held up the lantern and gazed about him. "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. "I must really ask you to he a little more quiet," said Holmes, severely. ''You have already imperiled the whole success of our expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" The solemn Mr. iMerry weather percneu nimsou upon a craie, wun a very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his knees upon the floor, and with the lantern and a magnifying lens, began to examine minutely the ' cracks between the stones. A few seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again, and put his glass in his pocket. "We have at least an hour before us," ho remarked, "for fney can hardly take any steps until the good | pawnbroker is safely in bed. Then they will not lose a minute, ror tlie sooner they do their work the longer time thoy will have for their escape. We are at present, doctor? as no doubt you have divined?in the cellar of the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to you that there re reasons why the more daring t riminals of London should take a ( onsiderable interest in this celiar at ( resent." j I "It is our French gold," wh'spered he director. "We have had several r earnings that an attempt might be 1 lade upon it." 1 "Your French gold?" J "Ye. Wo had occasion some I nonths ago to strengthen our re- \ ources, and borrowed, for that pur- ( ose, thirty thousand napoleans from t he Hank of France. It has become t nown that we have never hud occult... < unnn/ilr Mm mnnnt, ? n .1 Mt?? M I 1UU lu UU)/U^|\ Iiiuur; , tiuw mat it ' a still lying in our collar. The crate < ipon which I sit contains two thouuml napoleons packed between lay- \ rs of lead foil. Our reserve of bill- t ion is much larger at present than Is > isually kept in a single branch oftlce, uid the directors have had inisgiv- i ngs upon the subject." i "Which were very well justified," ibserved Holmes. "And now it is I ime that we arranged our little ilans. I expect that within an hour natters will come to a head. In the i neantime, Mr. Merry weather, we nust put the screen over that dark I antern." i "And sit in the dark?" "I am afraid so. I had brought a lack of cards in my pocket, and 1 bought that, as we were a partie < "arree, you might have your rubber ifter all. Hut I see that the enemy's ireparations have gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light \nd, first of all. wo must choose our positions. These are daring men. md, though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us some liarm, unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, and do you conceal yourself behind those. Then, when 1 flash a light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no compunction about shooting them down." I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front of his lantern, and left us in pitch darkness?sueh an ubsoluate darkness as 1 have never before experienced. The smell of hot metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready to Hash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold, dank air of the vault. "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back thru' the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have done what 1 asked you, Jones?" "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent and wait." What a time it seemed. From comparing notes afterwards, it was hut an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must have almost gone, and the dawn bo breaking above us. My limbs were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position, yet my nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my hearing was so acute that 1 could not only hear the gentle bearthing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, heavier inbreath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing of the bank director. From iny position I could look over the case in the direction of the lloor. Suddenly iny eyes caught the glint of a light. At first it was but a lurid spark upon (he stone pavement. Then it lengthened out until it became a yellow lino, and then, without any warn-, ing or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the center of the little area of light. For a minute or more the hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then it was withdrawn suddenly us it appeared, and sill was dark again save the single lurid spark, which marked a chink between the stones. Its disappearance, however, was hut momentary. With a rending, tearing sound, one of the broad white stones turned over upon its side, and li ft a square, gaping hole, through which streamed the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and waisthigh, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another instant he stood at the edge of the hole, and was hauling after him a companion, 'ithe and small like himself, with a pale face I and a shock of very red hair. "It's all clear," he whispered. nave you uie cnisei and ine oagsr should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed, in unfeigned admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings true." "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so." "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of some little use," he remarked. " 'L'homme e'est rien?l'oeuvre e'est out,' as (iustave Flaubert wrote to Jeorges Sanil." Jreat Scott! Jump. Archie, Jump, and I 11 swing for it!" Sherlock Holmes had sprung out md peized the Intruder by the collar, i he other dived down the hole, and I ( eard the sound of rending ciotli as fones clutched at his skirts. The Ight flashed upon the barrel of a reolver, but Holmes' hunting crop mme down on the man's wrlet, and he pistol clinked upon the stono loor. I " I f'? lui 11 Qo Inlin Pin v " unid i v- - I lolines, blandly, "you have no 'banco at all." , "So 1 see," the other answered, ( vitli the utmost coolness. "1 fancy hat my pal is all right, though 1 see ou have not his coat-tails." "Oh, Indeed. You seem to have ( lone the thing very completely. I mist compliment you." "There are three men wailing for aim at the door," said Holmes. "And 1 you," Holmes answered. 'Your red-headed idea was very new and effective." "You'll see your pal again presently " said Jones. "lie's quicker at limbing down holes than 1 am Just hold out while 1 tlx the derbies." "1 beg that you will not touch me with your fllthy hands," remarked our prisoner, as the handcuffs clatt? red upon his wrists. "You may not he aware that I have royal blood in iny veins. Have the goodness also, when you address me, always ;o say 'sir' and 'please'." "All right," said Jones, with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would you please, . ir, march upstairs w here wo can get a cab to carry your highness to the police station." "That is better," said John Clay, serenely. lie made a sweeping how to the three of us, and walke i quietly off in the custody of the detective. "Kenny, Mr. Murines, sum .Mr. i Merry wont her, as we followed thorn j from tlie cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank yon or repay yon. There Is no doubt that you have detected and defeated in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "I have had one or two little scores of mv own to settle with Mr. John Clay," said Holmes. "1 have been at some small expense over this matter, which I shall expect the bank 10 refund, hut beyond that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of the Red-headed League." "You see. Watson," he explained, in the early hours of the morning, as we sat over a glass of whiskey and soda in Raker Street, "it was perfectly obvious from the (irst that the only possible object of tills rather fantastic business of the advertisement of the League, and the copying of the 'Kneyelopaedia', must be to get this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of hours every day. It was si curious way of managing it, but really it would be dit ticult to suggest si better. The method was no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the color of his accomplice's hair. The four pounds si week was 11 lure, which must draw him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it., j and together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive for securing the situation." "Hut how could you guess what the motive was?" "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a mere vulgar intrigues. That, however, was one of the question. The man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and such an expenditure as they were at. It must then be something out of the house. What could it be 1 thought of the assistant's fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clew. Then I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant, and found that I had to deal with one of the coolest anu most daring criminals in London. He was doing something in the cellar something which took many hours a day for months on end. What could it ho, once more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel to some other building. "So far I had got when we went to visit the scone of action. I surprised you by heating upon tin* pavement with my stick. I was ascertainine whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. It was not in front. Tlinti T r?? it tr 1 1m Vinll o >1 rt no f linn. cd, the assistant answered it. We have h<ad some skirmishes, but we had never set eyes upon eaeh other before. 1 hardly looked at his fare, His knees were what I wish to see You must yourself have remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of those hours ol burrowing. The only remaining point was what they were burrowing for I walked around the corner, saw th< City and Suburban Hank abutted or our friend's premises, and felt that 1 had solved my problem. When yoi drove home after the concert I called upon Scotland Yard, and upon tlu chairman of the bank directors, wltt SWAT TIIK FLY. ; I Hit Him Hard ? the Trice of the " Skins in 10c Ter Tint. The Orangeburg Times and Demo- ]] 'rat says: Tho ladies of tho Domestic Circle )f this clt yhave inaugurated a "Swat ho fly" campaign and have arranged :o buy all tho dead flies that can be ornered and killed. All you have to 1 lo it to get you a weai>on, And tho (lies and go to work. When you have a pint or over take it to , 'Dncle Wad" Way at the town hall ind you will bo paid ten cents for overy pound.: There is no time limit you can bey In now and kill them us long a? you want to. Hut this i8 a soriouH matter. Flies carry disease, hundred of germs may he on the foot of the fly walking over your table, and these germs entering your body start diseases. According to an expert, germs enter the body in only two ways: through the natural openings such as your mouth or nose, and then through cuts and punctures in the skin. A great majority of them come through the first way. As soon as a germ enters your body it hunts up a favorable place and begins breeding other perms. They are some plentiful in a little while, too. A germ population doubles its inhabitants every hour. Now figure for yourself how many germs there will be in your body if one germ enters an 1 multiplies regularly for two days. Of course that would he impossible, for long before the germs' two days were up. you would be there wouldn't he room for another germ. Several hundred thousand millions times million germs would have been brought Into existence, and it would take over one hundred freight ears of ordinary capacity to carry them out. If you don't believe these, figures, try it? Start with one and double them each hour for two days. The fly is a great carrier of germ a, especially typhoid. The only way a person can become infected with typhoid germs is by taking to his body an infinitcstimal portion of tin* oxer? ill out of another person who lias the disease. The fly is the carrier, swat the 11 y and stave off disease. FOR KNTlltK ARBITRATION ? American Ponce Conference SuNjM'rts a "Hiuikoiinn" After War. I The fourth American Peace Congress began a three days session at St. Louis Thursday morning with delegates present from all parts of the country. The chief adresa of the morning was delivered by Andrew Carnegie. I Benjamin F. Trueblood, secretary of the American Peace Society spoke on t he" Present Demands of the Peace Movement," saying "wo have heard too much about 'national honor* and 'vital interests' and hair splitting distinctions betwon justifiable and non-justitiablo disputes. Are we not trying to conceal a hankering after war and pilage every time wo use one of these vague and indefinable terms? There are no unar.bUral controversies in our day between nations where independence mutually is recognized." He also urged that the United States take the lead for an agreement among the powers for a limitation of armament. THACIIICItS OF AGIIIOUI/TUKK + Are Scarce and the Government Calls For More of Them. The United Stjitos bureau of education at Washington Thursday Issued an appeal for agricultural teachers in high schools. The bureau incidentally pointed out that while the salaries of the majority of male teachers {.I * l. I.l?k ....linnli. 1 .. ?<->/"?" iii i iiu nif^ii nviiuum avei iige uniy the teacher? of agriculture were receiving $ 1,2 0 0. "Lack of teachers" is the explanation offered by the bureau a? the cause for the higher remuneration for those who teach agriculture. "Not only is it found that the average pay of instructors in agriculture is higher than of other teachers," says the bureau, "but that teachers who are able to give such instruction in addition to regular work command better salaries than they otherwise would and are more likely to be advanced to principalships than if they had not specialized in agriculture." ? President to Urge .fury Iteform. During a trip to New Jersey, tliif week in the interest of jury reform calling for a state constitutional con volition, President Wilson hopes t( mo t the Democrats of the legislature for i conference and will urge their to carry out their pledges of th( i state plat form. .? Now that '"hina has an lndepend ence dnv of her ov, n to eelcbrato The Savannah News ;usks "Will sh< please keep her firecrackers ai I home?" We agree with The News., ' the result that yo? have seen." "And how could you tell that thej would make their attempt to-night?' * I asked. i "Well, when they closed theii [ League offices that was a sign thai i they cared no longer about iM'r. Jabe; I Wilson's presence; In other words i that they had completed their tun ? nel. B.ut it was essential that the] 1 DIED IN THE MINE I EXPLOSION KLLLS ONE HUNDRED I OR MORE MEN I MOT VERY MANY ESCAPE I IPilllillKk OA ? nt ia?i m |<H?| III in** * 1111**11 r> IM V* * * |Q Bureau of Mines Ijocutoal Hodl?t fl of the Victims and Brought Seven ty of Tlieni to the Surface by Mid- gj night. 1 Tho lives of 100 miners, possibly jl 120, paid the toll shortly after noon 1 Wednesday of a disastrous explosion pS In the Cincinnati inrne of the Monongahela River Ooneolldated Coal and H Coke Company at Flnleyville, Pu [ Over three score of workmen In the mine made thrilling escapes, crawling most of the time on their hands and knees through deadly gas fumes and over debris. Preparations are being made to ^ handle the dead. Box ears have been ordered to a mine siding. The victims probably will be taken from the mine at daylight and shipped at oni? to Monongahela City, where the} ai*to he prepared for burial. At i> o'clock Wednesday night rescuing parties coming from the mine were of the belief that all the entomberd men were de<ul. The force of the explosion was terrific. A fifteen-ton motor was turned over. Many feet of mine track were twisted and ripped from the t i*?s. The mine is aflame. Rescue work is being carried on with difficulty, owing to the lire and deadly fumes. The coal company maintains a rescue corps patterned after mine force of the United States (Government.. Aid from the Federal mining exports, it !h h.tid, wuh declined by the coal coin pany. Only a few of the miners who reached the surface could talk. Sul( ferlng from burns or fright the miners only knew that an explosion had occurred and that a large number of men are either killed by the explosion or asphyxiated by the after damp. Several hours after the explosion seven foreign miners crawled fr?m one of the entrance. All were h?~ riously burned. They could give ?o connected account of conditions in the mine. They also said the initio is full of dead. Relatives and friends ^ of the miners beneath the earth arc frantic. Many of them had to be restrained. After a time a guard was placed completely around the entrances to ^ the mine and all persons except rescuers and mine officiate woro held ata distance. A gas explosion is thought to have caused Wednesday's disaster, altho this fact has not been exactly determined. Fire damp, it is said, may have been responsible. Of the known dead all are Americans. The oxpkvsion occurred between No. 1 and Nc. 2 right entries, 3,000 feet from the month of the mine. A. V. Brown, assistant mine foreman, stated that 179 riien wont to work in the mine Wednesday morning. Of the 179 men , who entered the mine for work Wed18 rrifwl.i tliolf . | w v \?V VUIUU^U what in known an the Mingo entry o< the mine, and 3 8 or 4 0 miners also escaped through the Courtney entry At h-ast 100 men are unaccounted for. Robert Carton, n track-layer, who esc a p (Mi Wednesday night loid the, following story: I had been working at the head of No. 1 6 entry, after eating lunch I resumed work at 12:36 and had driven only tv/o spikes when the explosion occurred. The concussion knocked me downr and I was unconscious for fifteen minutes. Others quickly arrived where I was, Followed by about twenty-five men 1 started down No. 8 Motor road, one of the main roads of the mine. We ' i had not gone far before wo found ^ ' there was so much smoke we coulc go no further. Wo tried No. 7 Motor road and found tins also choked with smoke and debris. Tvoss than 100 feet in No. 16 entry we found ojut _ way blocked. Wo turned back and had penetrated No. 15 entry some 1 distar.ee when we were again blocker* ! by debris. "I found a hole at the top of ther debris. I crawled through this oi> my stomach for a distance of 20(> feet and the others followed. Finalhv I reached No. 4 Motor road, whicb was clear. I could not hear those behind. After a time I reached the surface. "Later the other men reached the ' opening. All were ill and dazed on i account of fumes." > H Loom for Hadley and llutler. Kv-flov Herbert ??. Hadley, of Miff "jsouri, was boomed for the Republican nomination for the presidency In ! 191b, and Nicholau M. flutlor, presi1 i dent of Columbia, as his running ' I mate, at an enthusiastic Republican dinner of the Middlosex chib, at Boston, Mas?. r ? ? Mauled by liKhtweighti Landlady. r Frank Demarest, of Chicago, who t weighs ISO poux?}?i, failed to pay his i room rent for three successive weeks, , and Mrs. Kmily fRarceren, landlady, - weight, 130 pounds, heat him so bari/ ly that he had to go to a hospital. * v.- ,sJl i