Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1910 — A Mystery Solved. [ARTICLE]

A Mystery Solved.

A new kind of excitement to which dwellers in the country are henchforth likely to be subjected is set forth somffwhat amusingly in the Baltimore Herald. The energetic editor of the Gunawamp Advocate was rudely awakened from his afternoon slumber in his office chair by a violent ringing of the telephone bell. At first he thought it was the jingling of a silver coin, and a smile played over his sunken features; but when he realized what it really was he sprang to his feet. “Hello!” he shouted, and seized a pad and pencil. “Hello!" came the answer. “Is this the Advocate office?” , “Yes. What do you want?” “Well, say, there has been a murder committed out here on my farm, and I want to have you come right out and write it up.” “A murder! What makes you think so?” “Well, I just found a hat, a pair of spectacles and a set of false teeth down in my south medder, and there ain’t another blessed thing in sight anywhere. Oh, it’s murder, all right.” “Have you run down all the clues?” “Yes. Ain’t even a footprint in the grass.” ' “AU right; I’ll be right out.” The editor had jumped into his shoes and coat, and was giving directions to his office bay, when the bell rang a second time. “Hello!” he shouted, nervously. “Hello!” came the answer. “You needn’t come out. An air-ship feller has just come in, ana says ne dropped ’em.”