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rThe Ckesteilxeld Advertiser Paul H. and Fred G. Hearn Editors PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Subscription Pites: $1.50 a Year; six mo.. "1 cents.?Invariably in advance. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Chesterfield, South Carolina. THAT MICHIGAN ELECTION Readers of The Advertiser may remember tnai u long time ago, there | was an election in Michigan for United States Senator in which Ilenry Ford and Furman Newberry were the candidates for the United States Senate. Ford was defeated but it was claimed that Newberry spent $180,000 to win the election which is contrary to the State and the United States and also contrary to all ideas of right and justce. After a long delay a Congressional committee has deeded that Ford was not elected and that Furman Newberry was entiled to the seat in the Senate. As the Republicans are in the majority in both houses of Congress it is not surprising the committee decided to keep Furman Newberry in, which they did. It is said that Ford intends to have another and more important and ex tensive investigation of Newberry's right to the seat in the Senate. Mr. Ford says he is not contending for the seat 111 the Senate, but doeswant to show and rebuke the methods by which he was defeated. In this investigation that has just now come to an end a Democratic minority report signed by Senator; Ashurst of Arizona, King of Utah and I'omerene of Ohio, accused New bcrrv of consnirinir with others l"o, the debauchery of the Michigan elec torate and the violation of the Michi gan election laws and the federa statute limiting a senatorial can didate's campaign expenditures "by the expenditure of large sums u, money with his knowledge and con. sent." i tie report also charged that New berry was "familiar with the fact that large sums were being expended, and that he knew that not les than $1X8,568 was expended in viola tion of law," to further his candidacy despite statements to the contrary made by him under oath which thi report asserted were "false and untrue." ^ llad the Republican majority a sense of fairness and justice they would not have seated Newberry a. his vote was not needed n the Senate with its large Republican majority. But they swallowed Newberry with his $188,508 spent in the election and did not bat an eye. When the \vha!u swallowed Jonah that false prophet became so dis agreeable that the whale threw him up. Newberry should profit by this example and not squirm too much or he too may be thrown to the fishes with no providential hand held out to save him- J**. A newspaper head line read: "Are you ready to sow your oats?" Wild 01 tame? OUR BOYS ON THE RHINE There has been much adverse crici cism concerning the fact that a large force of American soldiers are still kept in Germany, hut it appear; that the Germans want our boys t' stay on the Rhine for the very reason that if the American soldiers come away French soldiers will take their place. A German paper expresses the wish and says that it is universal in Germany that the Americans may remain a long time. BILLIONS FOR WAR NOTHING FOR CIVILIZATION An exchange calls attention to the fact that while all this peace talk and disarmament plans are going on fourteen nations have six million soldiers under arms. Commenting upon these figures the Atlanta Georgian says: "How much useful work could be done in worm if the .e, million men ruw unit ding up and dawn doing nothing, waiting to kii!, were equally well trained, well fed, well clothed, well taken care of and put at useful work? How quickly they would do away with deserts and swamps and make this earth what it ought to he. Pillions for war, not a cent for civilization, is the revised version." COURTSHIP TICKLERS Charlie?Put I asked you, dearest, to keep our engagement a secret for the present. Claire?I couldn't help it. That Ella said the reason I wasn't married was because no fool had proposed to me, so I told her you had. She?I wish I had your talent. He?Well, that goes with me.? Life. Ethel?A 16-page letter from George? Why, what on earth does he' nay? Mabel?He says he loves me.? Pittsburgh Dispatch. "When you refused him my hand, papa, did he go down on his knees?" "Well, 1 didn't notice just where, ^ j t<r' "**" ' ^ Ti fMSlSlL H|da 3???b&Ni IHPM ^ copyright, by (.Continued from la?t Week) 1 pot up. removed the dapper from my pocket. and examined TT In the eleetrie lipid. It was a toy weapon, , yet sufficiently danperous, for all that, j and I looked at It with a sense ot horror. How could n woman have ever thrust even that keen blade with one tlii-mml. f/\ 4?.r> l.r... 1 Vn? ?l.n I evidence wiis before me. Those dark stains wore blood?htininn ldood? j dried now, but unmistakable In their ' ??roof of crime. I washed Hie steel. j 'onvlnp ttie blade hrlpht ami polished; ! ben wrapped It carefully, and hid It away at the very bottom of my bap, lockinp the latter apalnst possible in- ! speetion by n curious maid. I felt reMoved once I had the weapon out of ! slpht. The niorninp papers contained no reference to tbe tragedy?the body of lie dead man had not been found In ime. There would bo noise enouph vhen it was. no doubt, for Alva must mve been widely known and ranked is of some Importance. Kven if his dentitv was never established, if no uispicion was aroused as to his posl- I ion. and secret work In this oountry I et the very mystery of the ease would rente a sensation. 1 tut perhaps he ad papers on his person of value. I retted not having searelied Ills j aiekets. Then the convietion came hat possibly here might he I he true atliitioti of the murder a desire to se itre some doenments the man earried. I went down to Costipan's place on 'ont, not being entirely eert.ain of the xnet loeriion. It was tin ordinary orner saloon, with a stairway lending ! o rooms above. In the morning hours he barroom was nearly d< sorted, hut lie man at the bar. looking tne over atttie'jsly. said that "Mr. I'tirker" had already gone out. and had left no word as to when ho would return. I ias rather glad, yet I left a toloihotie number, with a request that I )( enuou whenever lie canto i?noK. I waited impatiently for the call in my room. i*i!i now came. It dawned upon no tlcit in nil probability llnrris was "nintlenlly endeavoring to fitul the whoivnhoiits of Alvn. ns vol having 110 illKpintoll of ids do.'llll. I lolopllonod ('osiiu'iin's, hut "Mr. Parker" luul not returned. I sent out for 11 noon edition, ontrerly scanning its roiunins. tint finding nothing. Surely the deserted car. with its grini tmrden, nmsi Imve been discovered before this. The poliee must Imve suppressed the news to enable them to work in seeret ; they might have found some evidence in the dfr.d mnn's pockets, or in 'be dark reer i>< e ' the car,- by whi< li tin \ ?lill hope ' Tr cupi ;re tlie assassin. I rcnieinber ratine in a basement ,t wh?re T was totalii on known^ and then departing for tinieiidcxi oils oti !.< <'oiuptc street. 1 approached the tiiiinlier given with serious misgivings. If tlie poliee were actually on the trail, some knowledge of this place might lie in their posses Mini, itiui i (otjjii not iip too cautious. There was no outward sign of any tsurvcillnnce us I turned into the block; indeed except for a grocery truck before one of the houses, and nn organ-grinder at the farther corner, entertaining a group of children, the street was entirely deserted. Mustering toy courage, and with a feeling of deep excitement, I advanced up the steps of the house numbered 247. and, finding refuge in the outer vestibule, rang the hell. I heard no distant tinkle, hut within a moment or two the door opened a eraek, held in "Well, What In It?" She Snapped. i i (lint position l?y n chain, hikI the fare of ii middle-aged woman peered out at me. "Well, what is it?" she snapped, in no encouraging tone. "I should like to see Miss Conrad," I began apologetically. "I have an appointment with her." "Not here yer ain't, young man, for there ain't nobody by that nnme In this house." ? "Are you aure? This la 247f la It not? That was the number given me. She. was to he here at two o'clock." "This yere Is 247 all right. I nln't denyln' that," the voice more acid than ever, "but there ain't no Mlsa Conrad ytre; ?o that'* all there la rjeijvp 436BR BALLfiU&ISH *or or g. ?ANG% CASE of CAVENDISH > * Illustrations* v^'WEIL RANDALL PARR15H "Hut tliere must be." i "Must be nuthln'! I guess I know. I I've been yere seventeen years, an' ther never was. nobody of that name ever In tills house. Besides, I'm housecleanln' and cun't stand yere talkln* i all day." "Do you know a man named Kruntz?" I flung at her desperateJy, In n last effort to arouse some resnnnsp "Ailnlnh Rrnnt*" "No, I dou't; titer ain't none of those people yere, I tell yer." The door slapped shut in my face, and I heard a bolt shot Into place? the interview was ended. I stared a moment nt the blank door In bewilderment; then turned away, and slowly retraced my steps to the street. So the younK woman had deliberately lied to me; had merely been amusing herself at my expense; had sent nie on this wild goose chase so that she might laugh over my simplicity. But was this true? If so, how was I to account for the strange coincident that both she and Harris had named the same number, and street? It could not have occurred merely through chance. Something must have happened In the meanwhile to overthrow all her plans, and to cause this rahld housekeeper to even deny her very existence. And I held the key of explanation?the murder of Alva. Beyond all doubt here was both cause and elTect. The girl hud intended to either see me herself, or by proxy In the form of .this mysterious Miss Conrad. But what had since occurred had compelled a sudden change In pluns, a necessity for concealing her escape. There was no way in which she could notify nie, but she might very easily have telephoned ii> her landlady. And, if the nlace was what 1 susplcloned it to he, she might have every confidence that her secret would he guarded. I glanced up at the front of the house, searching the windows but without results. The curtains were closely drawn to keep out the sun. and the place appeared forlorn and deserted. At the dellcutessen shop on the corner I gained a gleam of light, hut merely enough to strengthen my former Judgment. The keeper, a flaxen-haired Swede, was loquacious enough, hut had only been In business there a few weeks. "247 Le Compte, you soy. Yes, she takes roomers; some ore men, and some are women. They come In here and buy, hut I never ask the names; it was all cash, so why should I care? | Sometimes I hear them call names? sure; hut never Conrad. The woman what keeps the house? Waft and I j tell you; it is on the hooks; ah! you rend as site wrote It for me?Mrs. Augusta Wnldron; maybe a widow? | What you think? Bah, she never like anything I have to sell. I rare ing for trade with her?n cut this Mrs. Augusta Wnldmn." T loft b'ni with the fnrnllinr sound of tb" 'jtmp rinplnp In my ears?tho whole thlnp was traveling In n circle, and the circle 'vns growinr continually mote compact. Blindly, I was stumbling up against It here and there most unexpectedly. Augusta Wahlrou, beyond doubt, was Ivan Waldron's wife. No wonder her houite was designated the meeting place for those people. 1 I returned to the hotel. Only as I stood before the door did I realize that the newsboys were calling out, "Kxlrn ! All about the murder!" I felt that my face was white, and that by band shook, yet I hastily bought copies of haJf a dozen sheets^ shoving them Into my pockets. j The reports were mostly alike, exceedingly brief and unsatisfactory, except that they conveyed the impreeslon that thus far the police possessed no real due as to the perpetrator of the crime. No one connected with the meeting the night before was mentioned in any article, nor was any suspicion of such a meeting mentioned. I read the last line with a distinct feeling of relief, dropping the paper on the floor. They had discovered no clue, noth in* Mimirvrr m worn upon. U'lie interior of the car hud yielded no evidence of Its former occupant, the only reference being to mud on the floor. Outside nil footprints had been obliterated by the falling ruin. No one In the neighborhood had heard a sound, or witnessed any movement. The whole ntTair was shrouded In mystery. What, under these conditions, was my duty? What could I either do, or suy, to clarify this tragedy, and bring the guilty to justice? I sat there for an hour thinking and smoking, endeavoring to answer these queries. I could study out 110 clear way to any confession, which would not directly involve myself In the tolls of the police, or else implicate Marie Uessler, so as to make any defense on her part almost impossible. No doubt she was guilty vet I could not <lrivo muuolf w ~ " "v"v" lv openly charge her with the crime. There must he some extenuating clrcumstances, some unknown cause, which had led to the act. I could not forget her face, her manner, the clear, womanly look of her eye?she was no murderess, and It was not In my heart to denounce her as such. Besides, If 1 took this responsibility it would onJy serve to shield other crimes of more Importance than the violent death of this Chilean revolutionary? the murder pertfhp* of many Innocent victims, and the destruction of much valuable property. For Alva'a death wouid hardly atop the plotting already ' iimiiii I nn 11 mi i Three ^ ^ ^ VIRGINIA (I Friendly BURLEV 0 Gentlemen TURKISH The perfect blend of the three perfect cigarette tobaccos in one perfect cigarette one-eleven j cigarettes 20forl5* i (?j|) %, jLL.?? ,aC.,~? i; * l||Pl.tTJJ.AV? I, E- -HLIU- JL."Xav ttB?a ?J i | New York ready to be used; the propagandists at Washington would never | permit It to long lie idle. They would lind somewhere another leader, and 1 ! alone seemed to he in a position to balk their hellish purpose. Perhaps it was even hy their orders that Alva had thus heen put out of the way. He had acted too slowly, and sua- , plcion might have heen aroused as to his real purpose. On every side I was assailed with doubts. Yet, even if I held silent, I knew not in which direction to turn. 1 had I apparently lost all touch with the j girl. She had Jailed tne completely? i either hy accident, or design. Her appointment with me had served to reveal only one fact which might prove of importance?217 Le Compte street was undoubtedly a link in the chain of the conspiracy; it was the home of | Ivan Wnldron. Once I told this dlsi covery to Harris the way might be opened to closer investigation. But what had become of Harris? It was already approaching six o'clock, and the man had not telephoned me. Surely he must lie aware by this time of the murder of Alva; the uselesstiess of seeking longer to find him alive, Was he also endeavoring to avoid me? I was ids purpose deceit? or hud some suspicion arisen in his mind as to my really being Harry Daly? Aroused by this possibility, and un! able to remain quiet longer, I slipped a revolver from the depths of my hug Into a coat pocket, and departed again They Tell Me You're Hunting Parker." for C'ostlpnn'a, determined to lenrn th? truth. 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EDDINS, Treasurer. [EALTH, HAIL, LIV1 STOCK RANGE I '' I Stories of Great Scouts **?. ?. Western Newspaper Union. ' THE LONG SHOT MADE BY BILLY DIXON "The old Sharps rifle ended the North American buffalo," once wrote Theodore Roosevelt, the chronicler of the w Inn lug of the West, and he might have added that this famous gun helped write "Finis" to the story of the Indian with a few periods of lend. One of the most remarkable shots ever made with this rifle too* place at the Adobe Walls tight In the Texas Panhandle In 1874, when a war party of Kiowa8. Comanches and Cbeyennes tried to wipe out a little groep of buffalo hunters who had their headquarters there. The shot was flred by Billy Dixon, known to the Indians as "Hants?Long Hair." After three charges against the stockade had failed to overwhelm the buffalo hunters, the Indians settled down to starve them out During the siege "Bat" Masterson, one of the hunters, noticed a* group of Indians gathered on a hill nearly three-quarters of a mile away. They could be nlslnlv gpon nnri u'nrn nvlriontlu hillr. log over some new plan for overcom-. tog the white men when Masterson called Dixon's attention to the group. "Billy, it wouldn't bo a bad Idea to break up that little pow-wow over there, would It?" he said. "Don't know whether the old Sharps Is good for It or not, but I'll try it," replied Dixon. He knew the range? approximately 1,200 yards. Fixing tho sights of his gun to this range, tho scout aimed carefully and fired. Tho white men saw the conference of tho warriors break up hastily and the savages retreat to a safer place. Dixon served as a scout for General Miles In the campaign against the southern tribes that year, and he was one of the six dispatch bearers who made a heroic stand In an old buffalo wallow against a war party of 125 Comnnehes and Klowas. In this fight Amos Chapman, a fellow scout, lost h's leg. Although Dixon's shirt front was riddled with bullets, he received .. only one slight wound. That night he volunteered to go for help and m'ter a perilous trip he brought hack t troop of cavalry and rescued his comrades. For nine years Dixon was a governaient scout at Fort Elliott, Tex. Then he homesteaded a ranch In the Panhandle. building his log house on the ruins of the old Adobe Walls where he had made Ills fumous shot with the Bid S*ai7v?. Later he moved to Cimarron county, Oklahoma, and died near the little town of Oresham In 1914. Stories of i y Elmo I Great Scouts Wot ton | ?, WMOrn Newspaper Union. TEN TO ONE?WILD BILL'S GREATEST FIGHT When the Overland stage route to the Colorado gold fields was estab- ~~ IIshed shortly before the Civil war, one of the bravest drivers in its employ was a young man from Illinois named James B. liickok. In 1861 llickok was taken off the stages and mi + In /iKn wma /\# n ^n- ? ? ... vii?i?c vi iuc ivucit ^ruen siatlon, west of Topeka, Kan., In a region tilled with gangs of outlaws and highway robbers. One of these, known aa the McCandlass gang, invited Hlckok to Join them and, upon his refusal, i threatened to visit him some day and , make him regret his defiance. "You'll find me here any time yon I come," was Hickok's reply. | A few days later the McCandlass gang did-And him there. They atI tacked him in his dug-out, battered dowu the door and Jim McCandlass, the leader, sprung Into the room. Us was killed by_a bullet from Ulckok's rifle. Three more of the gang were shot down with a pistol before the other six drew their bowls knives and rushed upon blm. "Then I went wild," said Hlckok In telling of the fight afterwards. Desi perately wosnded but terrible In his ! berserker rage, he came to grips with the outlaws, and when the fight was over eight of the ten were dead and the other two fled for their Uvea Ever afterward Klckok was known as "Wild Bill." Later Wild Bill enlisted In the Union army as a scout lie served with General Curtis In Arkansas and repeatedly entered the Confederate lines as a spy. More than once he was discovered and forced to flee, and more than once the fleetness and Intelligence of. his favorite horse, "Hlnck Nell." saved ! his life. He was a sharpshooter at the Battle of Fed Itldge, where he distinguished himself by killing the Confederate general. McCullough. 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