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A STUDY
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Bj Sir A. Conun Doyle.
CHAPTER XI.
A Flight for Fife.
On the morning which followed his
interview with teh Mormon prophet,
J110. Ferrier went into Suit Lake City,
and having found his acquaintance
who was bound fo the Nevada Mountains,
he intrusted him with his message
to Jefferson Hope. In it ho told
tho young man of the imminent danger
which threatened them, and how
necessary i^ vac that he should return.
Having done this, he felt easier
in his mind and returned home with
a lighter heart.
As he approached his farm ho was
surprised to see a horse hitched to
each of the posts of the gate. Still
more surprised was ho on entering
to lind two young men in possession
of his sitting-room. One, with a long,
pale face, was leaning back in the
rocking chair, with his feet cocked up
upon tlie stove. The other, a bullnecked
youth, with a course, bloated
features was standing in front of the
w imiow, with his hands in his pockets
whistling a popular hymn. Ilotli of
tin'm nodded to Ferrier as ho entered,
and the one in the rocking chair comiim
need the conversation.
"Maybe you don't know us," lie
said. "Thiv here is the son of Elder
Die her, and I'm Joseph Stangerson,
who traveled with you in the desert
when tlie Lord stretched out His hand
and cat heed you into the true fold."'
"As lie will all the nations, in His
own good time," said the other, in a
nasal voice. "He grindeth slowly,
but exceedingly small."
John Ferrier bowed coldly. He had
guessed who his visitors were.
"We have come," continued Stangerson,
"at the advico of our fathers,
to solicit the hand of your daughter
for which ever of us may seem good
to you and her. As I have but four
wives and Brother Dre,bber here has
seven, it appeas to mo that my claim
is the stronger one."
"Xay, nay, Bother Stangerson,"
cried the other, "the question is not
how many wives wo have, but how
many we can keep. My father has
now given over his mills to me, and I
am the richer man."
"But my prospects are better," said
the other, warmly. When the l,ou
removes my father I shall have his
tanning yard and his leather factory.
Then 1 am your elder, and am higher
in the church."
"It will be for the maiden to decide,"
rejoined young Drebber, smirking
at his own reflection in the glass.
"We will leave it all to her decision."
During this dialogue John Ferrier
had stood fuming in the doorwal,
hardly able to keep his riding-whip
from the backs of his two visitors.
"Look here,' he said, at last, striding
up to them; "when my daughter
summons you, you can come; until
then, I don't want to sec your faces
again."
The two young Mormons stared at
him in amazement. In their eyes this
competition between tlieni for the
maiden's hand was the highest of
honors both to her and her father.
"There are two ways out of the
room," cried Ferrier; "there is the
door, and there is the window. Which
do you care to use?"
His brown face looked so savage,
and his gaunt hands so threatening,
that his visitors sprang to their feet
and beat a hurried retreat. The old
farmer followed them to the door.
"Lot me know when you have settled
which it is to be," he said, sar
donically.
"You shall smart for this!" Stangerson
cried, white with rape. "You
have defied the prophet and the Council
of Four. You shall rue it'to the
end of your days."
"The hand of the Lord shall be
heavy upon you," cried youg Drebexclusion
for poor attendance. That
would save more of the lapgards?
and many who have never had a
chance because of their surroundings,
ehiefiy their parents. An end should
be made to letting children come to
school just often enough to disturb
the work of the regular attendants
and not enough to do themselves any
real good. An end should also be put
to the whimsical action of Ignorant
and prejudiced parents who keep
their children from school altogether.
State compulsion of education should
stop parental compulsion of ignorance.
John J. McMahan.
Columbia, August 1 G.
Memorandum: "Delenda est Carthago"?which
beinir interpreted
means, "The primary has got to bo
reformed."
The enlightened mind revolts at
ho idea of ignorant parents compelling
their children to remain in ignorance
without availing themselves of
the schooling offered freo by the
Stato within the reach of every homo.
Add to those that never go to school
the large number that attend irregularly,
and wo probably have half of
the children failing to make proper
use of the facilities provided for their
education. Let us consider the meaning
of it all, as if wo were explaining
to the simplest mind that does not
see the evil.
The child Is not his own master,
but is subject to his parent. Left to
himself, the child will bo Ignorant
and undeveloped. Ho will not have
a compelling desire for knowledge,
and will not apply himself to learn,
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until he is made to taste a sample
and perceive that It is good?acquire
an appetito for learning, Meantime,
unless made to go to school ho may
prefer to idle at home.
l'i'imitivo Tribal Education.
In a state of primitive nature, with
no law but the Individual will (if
there ever was such an individualistic
stago of man's progress) it rests
wholly with the parent to compel
either ignorance on-learning, and wej
can not doubt that the instinct of I
race-preservation secured for the
child instruction in tho essentials of
well-being according to tho then
standards?just as in the animal
creation the parent teaches its offspring
how to obtain food and how
to escape from its enemies. But in
the earliest known times, thero is
some sort of custom which none
would defy and which is thus the
cuunnounlty or common law. This
customary law has from the beginning
prescribed tho education which
is the requisite of the times. Thus
in iiioivi reiauons,
the parent never neglects, and would
not be allowed to omit, to givo his
on tbe standard training for the
chase and for war?tho great duties
of citizenship at such a period of
human society.
Difficulties of Modern Discipline.
In modern times, with tho higher
developments in the main, there is a
strange decadence constantly manifesting
itself. There is more parental
neglect, relatively, than among savages,
and in tho more artificial training
of the schools to lit for new con
ditions of man's life, there is more
difficulty in keeping alive in the child
a zest for learning. Thus even after
his taste is somewhat aroused and he
has formed the general purpose to
learn, he will have his periods of
sloth, of reaction, of revolution
against the labor of application,
against regularity, against system,
against obedience?the very things
that ho needs to become inured to.
If allowed to have his own way as his
fancy changes, he will attend irregularly,
will loiter and ho tardy. His
latenesses and absences will suffice
to destroy the effectiveness of his
studying, the connecting links of his
learning being lost. When present
he will be inattentive to instruction,
neglectful of tho assigned tasks, will
not be seriously in earnest, will not
view his obligation to get an eduea-|
tion as a closed question, and will
therefore dwadle and fritter away his
time. If allowed to acquire such
habits, he will be injuring instead of
building up his character, and will
be lessening instead of increasing his
future usefulness. A largo part of
the benefit of true schooling is the
acquiring of correct and useful habits
under compulsion?such as the habit
of regularity, of system, of obedience,
of self-control, of diligence, of steadfastness,
of ability to do unpleasant
things, and at last the ability to find
pleasure in doing duties whether or
not inherently unpleasant. This modification
of natural desires to recognized
duties has come to be best doscribed
by a term derived from the
classical name for the pupil in school,
the ideal of all schooling being the
resultant "discipline", the mental
and moral acquisition of the true disciple
or pupil.
Regular Attendance.
If the child goes to school spasmodically,
he will havo more friction
with the teacher than otherwise, for
he will not be as well up in his studies,
or as well trained to applying
himself, or as accustomed to obey,
and thus he will have to be the more
controlled, punished if need be, and
as a result of the corrections or punishments
he will be angered and have
further disposition to vent his resentment
by staying away at will or altocrrOhnr
I'nnr ntfnnHnnnn hrooila wnrao
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attendance. Irregular attendance
ends in non-attendance. If the parent
indulges him, let him be his own
master, spoils hiin, he will do poor
work at school or will stay away.
Such is often the indulged child of
parents who should know better and
do better, and not very different in
the misfortune of the neglected child
of parents of a peculiar type of ignorance.
tions (so necessary to enable the
teacher to accomplish much when
there is a largo number to teach).
Classes are further rendered impossible
by some children entering school
later than others and dropping out
sooner. Such a child can not go forward
with his proper grade from year
to year?having entered ana ien so
Irregularly and done so little in the
time at school that he must bo in a
class by himself or start over again
every year.
Irregular attendance is harmful to
the other children?those that attend
perfectly, because it disorganizes the
school, the discipline and the teaching.
Many of our schools are afflicted
with this ystematic lack of
system. The principle of law, "So
use your own as not to injure another's,"
would fully justify the absolute
exclusion from school of every
child that can not bo made to conform
fully to the implied reduirement
of attending regularly and seriously,
from the beginning to the
end. Most graded schools do this, in
solf-dofenco. This protects the earnest
pupils and may save some laggards.
Hut the law ought to authorize
the requirement of attendance
without the necessity of resorting tc
her; "He will arise and smite you!'
"Then I'll start the smiting," exclaimed
Ferrier, furiously, and he
would have rushed upstairs for his
gun had not Lucy seized him by tho
arm anil restrained him. 'Before ho I
could escape from her the clatter of
horses' hoofs told him that they were i
beyond his reach.
"The young canting rascals!" he
exclaimed, wiping the perspiration; <
from his forehead; "I would sooner
see you in you grave my gi*l than tlie
wife of either of them." i
t "And so would I, father," she answered,
with spirit; " but Jefferson
will soon be here."
"Yes, it will hot be long before he
comes. The sooner the better, for we
do not know what their next move
may be."
It was inded, high time that someone
capable of giving advice and help
should come to the aid of the sturdy
old farmer and his adopted daughter.
in the whole history of the settlement
there had never feen such a case of
rank disobedience to the authority of
the elders. If minor errors were punished
so sternly, what would be the
fate of this arch-rebel? Ferrier knew
that his wealth and position would be
of no avail to him. Others as well
known and its rich as himself had
been spirited away before now, and
| there had never seen such a case of
J lie was a brave man, but he trembled
at the vague, shadowy terrors which
hung over him. Any known danger
he could face with a firm lip. but this
suspense was unnerving. He concealed
his fears front his daughter, however,
and affected to make light of
the whole matter, though she, with
the keen eye of love saw plainly that
he was ill at ease.
lie expected that he would receive
some message or remonstrance from
Young as to bis conduct, and he was
not mistaken, though it came in an
unlooked-for manner. I'pon rising
next morning he found, to his surprise,
a small square of paper pinned
on the coverlet of his bed just over
his chest. On it was printed, in .bold,
straggling letters:
"Twenty-nine days are given you
for amendment, and then
The dash was more fear-inspiring
than any threat could have been.
How this warning came into his
room puzzled John Ferrier sorely, for
his servants slept in an outhouse, and
the uoors and windows had all been
secured. Ho crumpled up the paper
and said nothing to his daughter, but
the incident struck a chill into his
heart. The twenty-nine days were
evidently the balance of the month
which Young had promised. What
strength vor courage could avail
against an enemy armed with such
such mysterious powers? The hand
which fastened that pin might have
struck him to the heart, and he could
never have known who had slain him.
Still more shaken was he the next
morning. They had sat down to their
breakfast when Lucy, with a cry of
surprise pointed upward. In the center
of the ceiling was scrawled, with
a burned stick, apparently, the number
28. To his daughter it was unintelligible,
and he did not enlighten
her. That night he sat up with his
gun and kept watch and ward. He
saw and heard nothing, and yet in the
morning a great 2 7 had been painted
upon the outside of his door.
Thus day followed day; and as sure
as morning came he found that his
unseen enemies had kept their register
and had marked up in some conspicuous
position how many days were
still left to him out of the month of
grace. Sometimes the fatal numbers
appeared upon the wallg, sometimes
upon the floors; occasionally they
were on small placards stuck upon
the garden gate or railings. With all
his vigilance John Ferrier could not
discover whence these daily warnings
proceeded. A horror, which was almost
superstitious came upon him at
the sight of them, lie .became haggard
and restless, and his eyes had
the troubled look of some hunted
creature. He had but one nope in life
now, and that was for the arrival of
the young hunter from Nevada.
Twenty had changed to fifteen, and
fifteen to ten; but there was no news
of the absentee. One by one the numbers
had dwindled down, and still
there came no sign of him. Whenever
a horseman clattered down the road
or a driver snouted at nis team, me
old farmer hurried to the gate, thinking
that help had at last arrived. At
last, he saw live giving way to four,
and that to three, then ho lost heart
an<l abandoned all hope of escape.
Single-handed, and with is limited
knowledge of the mountains which
surrounded the settlement, ho knew
that ho was powerless. The more frequented
roads were strictly watched
and guarded, and none could pass
along thorn without an order from the
council. Turn which way he would,
there appeared to be no avoiding the
blow which hung over him. Yet the
old man never wavered in his resolution
to part with life itself before he
consented to what he regarded as his
daughter's dishonor.
Tie was sitting alone one evening,
pondering deply over his troubles,
and searching vainly for some way
out of them. That morning had
shown the figure 2 upon the wall of
liis house, and the next day would he
the last of the allotted time. What
1 was to happen then? All manner of
i vague and terrible fancies filled his
Imagination. And his daughter?what
was to become of her after he was
goner was tnero no escape rrom mo
, Invisible network which was drawn
all around them? Ho sunk his head
upon the table and sobbed at the
thought of his own impotence.
What was that? In the silence he
heard a gentle scratching sound?low
but very distinct, in the quiet of the
night. It came from the door of the
house. Ferrler crept into the hall
and listened intently. Thero was a
pause for a few moments, and then
the low, inisdious sound was repeated.
Someone was evidently tapping
very gently upon one of the panels of
the door. Was it some midnight assassin
who had couio to carry out the
murderous order of the secret tribunal?
Or was it some agent who was
marking up that the last day of
grace had arrived? John Ferrler felt
that instand death would be better
than the suspense which shook his
nerves and chilled his heart. Springing
forward, he drew the bolt and
throw the door open.
Outside all was calm and quiet. The
night was fine, and the stars wore
twinkling brightly overhead. The little
front garden lay before the farmer's
eyes, bounded by the fence and
gate; but neither there nor on the
road was any human being to be seen.
With a sigh of relief FerrSer lookeed
to right and loft, until, happening to
glance straight down at ills feet, he
saw, to his astonishment, a man lying
flat upon his face upon <1 e ground,
with his arms and logs all r sprawl.
(To ho continued.)
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breeding. Write for prices. S. J
Summers, Cameron, S. C.
For Sale?Registered C). I. C. Pigs,
2 to 3 months old at reasonable
prices. R. P. Jones, Reynolds, Ga.
(tarred Rocks, White Leghorns?
Eggs, 36 for $1; chicks, dozen,
1.20; weaners, 3 5c; half grown, 5 0c.
Marion Moseley, Jeffers, Va.
MISCELLANEOUS.
bogs?Wanted to buy trained bird
dogs for cash. Write E. C. Stark,
Commerce, Ga.
I buy all kinds of empty barrels and
bags. Try me. Walter A. Moore, I
George St., Charleston, S.' C.
W aided?Ity every family. Return
If not delighted. Yours for flvo onecent
stamps. S. 1). Jones & Co.,
Melrose. Fla.
Wanted?Party to log 4 00 to 000,0
00 feet saw timber, will also contract
mill. For particulars apply
W. IF King, Rowosville, S. C.
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For Sale*?-Ton farms ranging from
fifty to eleven hundred acres finest
lands in the State. Three million
feet timber. Box 50, Bonncau, S. C.
Farms for Sale?Large or small In
lower and upper country. Ten tc
forty dollars per acre. Some bar
gains. Address Box 4 13, Greenwood,
S. C.
Piles can be relieved at once?Sen J
15c for liberal sample, ''Lino Pile
Remedy," and bo convinced. Large
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and Co., Manufacturing Pharmacists,
Lancaster, Penn.
Marry if you are lonely. The Reliable
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no-tubers, both Hex?*s wishing early
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Wrubel, Box 20, Oakland, Cal.
For Sale?1 10x12 Liddell-Tumpkins
just overhauled; 1 Boss cotton
press and 1 70-saw gin, both in
pood condition. Also a full lino of
gin and saw mill repair parts. Orangeburg
Machine Shop.
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automobile at our expense to see the
many desirable farms that we have
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Richmond, Columbia, Jefferson,
Burke and other counties at $20,
$25, and $30 per acre. Information
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Fine accommodations. Rates
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Tenn.
Fortune as Reward.
Pedestrians pasing tho Rrawley
street crossing, of tho Southern railway
at Spartanburg about 11 o'clock
Tuesday morning found the mangled
and decapitated body of a middleaged
white man lying beside the
track. Tie apparently had been killed
by a train but no eye witnesses have
been located. The man is believed to
ho Perry D. Scruggs of Chesnee. Note
hooks hearing that name were found
in his pockets and a description of
i in*, mini it'icpnunea 10 cnesneo, was
said thero to fit Mr. Scruggs exactly.
Swept by Storm.
Goldfteld, Nov., was spent Saturday
by a torrent from a cloudburst
that caused tho loss of at least five
lives, carried away several scores of
dwellings and damaged merchandise
estimated at $100,000. Tho town
was in darkness Saturday night and
at a lato hour rain was again falling
in a volume amounting almost to a
second cloudburst.
ONE SHOT KILLS TWO MEN 1
llKOTHKKS AUK KIHKI> I PON
WITH DKAOLY ICFFKCT !
Were Standing Timotlicr So Shot
Lands in Shoulders ??f I lot It?Cor- |
oner Illumes Two Others.
Messrs. J. V. and W. II. Hogg,
brothers of Kline, S. ('., eight miles I
from Alendalo were shot and killed
Monday night at "J o'clock. The load
entered tho right shoulder of one of
tho brothers and tho left shoulder of
tho other. One shot ended tiio life
of both men.
The verdict of the coroner's jury
places the blame for the double homicide
011 two men, "that Henry Hogg (
and J. Y. iiogg came to their death (
from gunshot wounds in the hands of ,
J. W. Hogg and \Y. A. Williams. I
The fatal shot it is claimed, was (
fired from a window in the negro j
waiting room of the Kline depot, ]
where tho deceased had taken refuge.
It is said the shooting grew out of an
old grudge between tho two brothers
011 tho one hand and their cousin oti
the other. Previous to tho shooting
tho opposing factions, it is said, were
Hoard speaking In heated terms when
young Johnson lloyg, a brother of
tho slain men, went into their store
and told them that they were being
waylaid. (
Tho throe men wont out into the ,
street, it is claimed, each armed with ,
a shotgun. They had hardly loft their
door, according to the testimony, (
when a shot was fired from a window
in the depot, llenry Hogg exclaimed,
"Oh, Ivord, Velpo, we are shot."
Seeing a man dart from the door of (
the depot John Hogg fired a shotgun
that he was carrying, tho load taking
effect in "Jim Hogg's back. The
two wounded brothers staggered back (
to their store, Velpo falling across (
tho threshhold. Henry walked inside <
and sat down on a box pitching forward
almost immediately on his face ,
beside tho already dead body of his (
brother. It was thus that they were ,
found by their friends. Neither of ,
them lived longer than flvo or ten
minutes. Each was shot in the (
breast, Henry, it is said, being hit
with about thirty shot, while Velpo
carried some fifteen wounds. Jim (
Hogg is not seriously wounded, the
shot, being too small and the gun bav- (
ing been fired at too great a distance
to penetrate deeply.
WITIIDKA\\ S EN IK)KSE> 1K\T.
Tillman Takes Mis Support lTom
Sims for Marshal.
Senator Tillman, according to a
Washington dispatch to The News
and Courier on Saturday, has notified
the department of Justice that his official
endorsement of J. L. Sims, of
Orangeburg, as a oandidato to succeed
J. Duncan Adams as United
States marshall for South Carolina,
lias been withdrawn. This information
was given by the senior Senator
in response to a question from The
News and Courier's correspondent
who has observed the activity of
friends of Ex-Sheriff P.uford, of New.
berry County, and asked Senator
Tillman if tbere was any possibility
of his withdrawing the Sims endorsement.
In explanation of his course,
Senator Tillman remarked that some
people had been saying that Ve was
trying to hog both offices, that is, the
district attorneyship and the marshalship
and he felt constrained to take
this action to clarify tlio situnt'on.
Senator Smith, who bad not actually
endorsed Mr. Sims, but had agreed
to acquisce In his nomination, was
promptly asked what position be
would take with regard to the marshalship
In view of Senator Tillman's
latest move. The junior Senator replied
that lie bad nothing whatever
to say for publication.
The indications arc that Senator
Tillmcn is concentrating all his!
foT''P'i hrhtrwl t>ir? Tli n I'mAnd o?->rwi! I
v. , Vft .. ?? v/ I II U I II1UUVI tcum I"
dne.v for district attorney, recognizing
the feet that during the pnc* :'?\v
days Weston has gained ground h^<
ily. Whether tho last mow. of the
senior Senator will resu.t in n undors'ending
between . 'n? and his colleague
or only deepen tho cleavage
between them remains to he seen.
?
( T TS INFEItXAIi MACHINE.
?
Dyiiuni iters Vccr.i Del or nil nc<l to Got.
I id of General ()tis.
An In ornal machine vas sent by
tho mail i Tuesday to C? 11. Harrison
Grey Otli, owner of the ,os Angeles
Tim?s, which was b^own p In October,
1910. by the McXan . i conspirators.
T! o bomb, which \ is contained
in a >o.\ four by flvn nches, was
received it the Otis rc n uco Tuesday
inor.iin :. Gen. ( ti . 1 "came suspicious
id Inrnod it ovc to the pofW
. I * ?? ? -
live. ii uu.v >vu? i uoi uy oponod
and was found to contain two sticks
of dynar ite, each cut in "o pfeces.
Fulmln; ng caps wore Imbed wi In
each and an arrangement of
sandpa^-vi* and mate' s I icd a devlco
to explode the bomb when the
box lid shbuld be 11 Tied.
.
Wo agreo with The Charlotte Observer
that tho Ilarry Thaw case
threatens to outdo tho famous
Greene-Gaynor caso in the length of
time before tho courts. J
FIND OTHER CRIMES
SCHMIDT CONFESSES THAT HE IS
A COUNTERFEITER
BELIEVED TO BE SANE
?
H'toe lives Think Ilo Is Feigning Insanity
Along Preconceived Plans?
l>r. Ilrnest .Morel, a Dentist, Considered
His Confederate in Counterfeiting,
Is Also Jailed.
Announcement was made late Moniay
night by Police Inspector Fourat
>f New York that another man waa
under arrest thero In connection with
Lho murder of Anna Auinuller, the
jrlmo with which Hans Schmidt, the
priest, is charged. Inspector Faurot
late Monday night arrested l)r. 10.
\luret, a dentist, of 301 St. Nicholas
avonuo. The doctor was taken
it his homo, which was left in charge
of detectives. No. 301 St. Nicholas
avenue is in the vicinity of I25t.h
street and near St. Joseph's Church,
where Cat her Schmidt w as arrested.
Dr. Muret is about thirty years old.
Schmidt, who confessed that he
killed Anna Aunitiller with a butcher
knifo as a "sacrifice to bo consummated
in blood," was at the observation
ward or the Tombs Monday
under the watchful eye of Dr. McCuiro,
the prison physician. Warden
Col ton, of the Tombs, declares tho
man is insane, one of the most dangerous
men ever confined lit the prison,
and in this view ho was upheld by
Deputy Commission of Corrections
Wright.
Tho discovery of a counterfeiter's
ilen, which Hans Schmidt, priest and
confessed slayer of Anna Aumuller,
Tuesday admitted was fitted up by
him to make spurious money, led tho
detectives, Coroner Felnberg and other
visitors to bis cell in the Tombs, to
express tho opinion that Schmidt Is
anno and that furtl r Investigation
will develop that counterfeiting was
only one of his "side lines". They
declared it is their belief be is feigning
Insanity after carefully thought
out plans of a master criminal ?'.? nd.
To tho Rev. Father Kvers, "'haplain
of the Tombs prison, to his attorney
and other callers SchmiJ. admitted
his connection with the Hat in West
13 \ tli street, where detectives found
bundles of imitation $10 gold certifl
cat oh.
Dr. Ernest Arthur Muret, the dentist
arrested Monday night u.^er tho
raid on the counterfeiter's flat, Tuesday
was held in $.r>,000 bail for hearing
on the charge of having in his
possession a revolver in violation of
a State law. Through his knowledge
of the law Muret forestalled tho plans
of tho Federal secret service agents
waiting to arrest him on a warrant
charging counterfeiting. Hv waiving
preliminary examination, Muret for
the time helntr at least, escaped tho
more serious charge
v^'iUiam Flynn, chief of the secret
service, announced that he had temporarily
taken charge of the government's
end of the case and would
work with the Now York police In
tracing the operations of Schmidt as
a counterfeiter and also the connect
tion Muret might, have had with tho
fake money plant. Chief Flynn is
working on clues furnished by the
passing of much counterfeit money
in Massachusets and Connecticut In
April, 1012.
MAGAZINE FOK FARMERS.
To Re Published by the United States
Government.
The United States government is
going into the magazine publishing
business for tho benefit of tho farmers.
This is the announcement made by
the Department of Agriculture,
which adds that the first issue of tho
magazine will be out this mfonth, and
that other Issues will follow regularly
at monthly intervals. Tho publication
will be devoted principally to .
a detailed review nf ernn pnnillHnno
v *. v- I J' VVUVIIi.lv/liO
nationally and by states. .1
It Is the department's purpose to
make tho periodical which will bear c
the title of "Tho Agricultural Out- 5
look," a magazino of from 18 to 20 *
pages. It will deal not alone with s
the production and conditions of
crops, but will instruct the farmer as
to the marketing of his wares.
Daughters Surprise Parents. '
While Miss Lizzie Jones and Mr.
Earl Cavender wero being married at
tho home of Rev. W. H. Bird, near i
Center Point, Oa., Miss Estelle Jones,
a young sister and the only other
singlo daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. ~
I Jones, of Dalton, O.a., was being marI
ried to Mr. Cephus Mallet, of Tilton,
| at the home of Squire N. A. Brad- e
ford, at Carbondale, both surprise
weddings. p:
I
Biggest Man I>oad. >v
Tails Mollanem, 30 years old, he- G
lieved to he the largest man in the 11
U'rtrld Tnoo/loi. I * ? V.???1I
, MIVVI I UVOMIV,! Ill <l liunpuni til
Hancock, Mich., after an illness of a
few days. Tie was seven feet anl eight
inches tall and at one time travelled '
with a circus. Ho became tired of
show life and engaged in farming.
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