Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1913 — Page 2

The Daily Republican ; ’ Bvery Dwy Kxcopt Soyay HEALEY A CLARK, Pubilsdbrs. RICNRgfCLAER. INDIANA.

REMINISCENCES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES %y ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Illustrations by V. L. BARNES

The ADVENTURE OE THE RED CIRCLE

(Continued.) „ “Well, Mrs. Warren, ~ I cannot see that you have any- particular cause f&r uneasiness, nor do I understand why I, whose time is of some- value, should interfere in the matter. I really have other things to engage me.’’ So spoke Sherlock Holmes, and turned back to the great scrapbook in which he was arranging and indexing some of his recent material. But the landlady had the pertinacity, and also the cunning of her sex. She held her ground firmly. “You arranged an affair for a lodger of mine last year,” she said—“ Mr. Fairdale Hobbs.” "Ah, yes—a simple matter.” “But he would never cease talking of it —your kindness, sir, and the way in which you brought light into the darkness. I remembered his words when I was in doubt and darkness myself. I know you could if you only would." Holmes was accessible upon the side of flattery, and also, to do him justice, upon the “ side of kindliness. The two forces made him lay down his .gum-brush with a sigh of resignation and push back his chair. "Well, well, Mrs. Warren, let us hear about it, then. You don’t object to tobacco, I take it? Thank you, Watson —the matches! .You are uneasy, as I understand, because your new lodger remains in his room and you cannot see him. Why, bless you, Mrs. Warren, if I were your lodger you often would not see me for weeks on end." “No doubt, sir; but this is different. It frightens me, Mr. Holmes. I can’t sleep for fright To hear his quick step moving here and moving there from early morning to late at night, and yet never to catch so much as a glimpse of him—it’s more than I can stand. My husband is as nervous over it as I am, but he is out at his work all day, while I get no rest from it What is he hiding for? What has he done? Except for the girl, I am all alone in the house with him, and it’s more than my nerves can stand." Holmes leaned forward and laid his long, thin fingers upon the wOman’s shoulder. He had an almost hypnotic power of soothing when he wished. The scared look faded from her eyes, and her agitated features smoothed Into their usual commonplace. She sat dbwn in the' chair which he had indicated. "If I take it up I must understand every detail,” said he. “Take time to consider. The smallest point may be the most essential. You say that the man came ten days ago, and paid you for a fortnight's board and lodging?” "He asked my terms, sir. I said fifty shillings a week. There is a small sitting-room and bedroom, and all complete, at the top of the house.” “Well?” “He said, ‘l’ll pay you five pounds a week if I can have it on my own terms.* I’m a poor woman, sir, and Mr. Warren earns little, and the money meant much to me. He took out a ten-pound note, and he held it out to me then and there. ‘You can have the same every fortnight for a long time to come if you keep the terms,’ he said. ‘lf not, I’ll have no more to do with you.’ " “What were the terms?” "Well, sir, they were that he was ■to have a key of the house. That was all right. Lodgers often have them. Also, that he was to-ha./eft entirely to himself, and never, upon any excuse, to be disturbed.” "Nothing very wonderful in that, surely?’’ "Not tn reason, sir. But this is out of all reason. He has been there for ten days, and neither Mr. Warren nor I nor tbe girl has onoe set eyes upon him. We can hear that quick step of bls pacing up and down, up and down, night, morning and noon; but except on that first night he has never once gone out of tbe house.” “Oh, he went out the first night, did her "Yes, sir, and returned very late—after we were all in bed. He told me after be had taken tbe rooms that be "would do so, and asked me not to bar tbe door. I heard him come up the stair after midnight.” “But bls meais?” "It was his particular direction that we should always, when he rang, leave bis meal upon a chair outside hie door. Then be rings again when be has finished, and we take it down from the same chair. If be wants anything else be print* It on • slip of paper and leaves it” "Prints Itr "Yea, sir; prints It In pencil Just

the word, nothing more. Here’s one I*brought to show you—SOAP. Here’s another—MATCH. This is one he left the first morning—DAlLY GAZETTE. I leave that paper with his breakfast every morning.” “Dear me, Watson,” said Holmes, storing- with great curiosity at the slips of foolscap which the landlady had handed to him, “this is certainly a little unusual. Seclusion I can understand; by why print? Printing i§ a clumsy process. Why not" write? What would If suggest, Watson?" "That he desired to conceal his hindwriting.”

“But why? What can R matter tb him that his landlady should have a word of his writing;? Still, it may be as you say. Then, again, why such laconic messages?" L ’ —“lcannotiinagine.” , “It opens a pleasing field for intelligent speculation. The words ape written with a broad-pointed, violet-tinted pencil of a not unusual pattern. You will observe that’ the paper is torn away at the side here after the printing was done, so that the ‘S’ df SOAP’ is partly gone. Suggestive, Watson, is it not?” “Of caution?"

“Exactly. There wras evidently some mark, some thumb print, something which might give a clew to the person’s identity. Now, Mrs. Warren, you say that the man was of middle size, dark and bearded. What age would he be?” > “Youngish—not over thirty." "Well, can you give me no further indications?” “He spoke good English, sir, and yet I thought he was a foreigner by his accent.” “And he was well dtessed?" “Very smartly dressed, sir—quite the gentleman. Dark clothes —nothing you would note.” “He gave no name?” “No, sir.” "And has had no letters or callers?” “None." "But surely you or the girl enter his room of a morning?" “No, sir; he looks after himself entirely.” "Dear me! that is certainly remarkable. What about his luggage?” “He had one big brown bag with him —nothing else.” \ "Well, we don’t seem to have much material to help us. Do you say nothing has come out of that room—absolutely nothing?” The landlady drew an envelope from her bag; from it she shook out two burned matches and a cigaretteend upon the table. “They were on his tray this morning. I brought them because I had heard that you can read great things out of small ones." Holmes shrugged his shoulders. “There is nothing here,” said he. "The matches have, of course, been used to light cigarettes. That is obvious from the shortness of the burnt end. Half the match is consumed in lighting a pipe or a cigar. But, dear

"There Was Evidently Some Mark, Some Thumb Print”

me! this cigarette stub is certainly remarkable. The gentleman was bearded and mustached, you say?” “Yes, sir.” “I don’t understand that. I should say that only a clean-shaven man could have smoked this. Why, Wat-

Keeps Out of Water Now

Gander With Fishing Line Tied to His Leg Has Lively Time With Pickerel. A Wisconsin gander was so upset by experiments made upon and through him by a mischievous boy that tor a long time he would not go into the water. The gander's determination to abstain from water as a means of bathing grew out of the following circumstances: Tbe boy thought he would tie a fish-ing-line to the gander's leg add with a hook properly baited turn the bird qut Into the water. The bait was a frog. Tbe gander went Into tbe mill pond, where he swam around for half an hour, turning “flip-flaps” and diving for food. Suddenly he felt a pull at bis leg and looked as surprised as the “lone fisherman” when be caught a whale. /

Tbe gander concluded that there was something the matter, and be looked to ascertain tbe cause. The pickerel on the hook gave several jerks, whereupon the* gander decided that he wanted to go home.

He at once started for the shore, but tbe pickerel on tbe hook wanted to go the other way. The gander

sou, even your modest mustache would have been singed.” “A holder?” I suggested. "No., no; (he end Is matted. I sup-, pose there could not be two people In your rooms, Mrs. Warren?" “No, sir, He eats so little that I often wonder it can keep Hfe in one.” "Well, I think we must walt fsr a little more material. After all, you have nothing to complain of. You have received your rent, and he is not a troublesome lodger, through he is certainly an unusual one. _He pays you well, and if he chooses to lie concealed it is no direct'-business. of yours. We have no an intrusion upon his privacy until we have some reason to think that there is a guilty reason for it. I’ve taken up the matter, and I won’t lose sight of It Report to me if anything fresh occurs, end rely upon iny assistance if it should be needed. “There are certainly some points of interest in this case, Watson,” he remarked, when the landlady had left us. “It may, of course, be trivialindividual eccentricity; or it may be very much deeper than appears on the surface. The first thing that strikes one is the obvious possibility that the person now in the rooms may be tlrely different from the one who engaged them.” “Why should you think so?” “Well, apart from this cigaretteend, was it not suggestive that the only time the lodger went out was immediately after his taking the rooms? He carhe back—or someone came back—when all witnesses were out of the way. -We have no proof that the person who came back was the persoq who went out. Then, again, the man who took the rooms spoke English well. This other, however, prints ‘match’ when it should have been ‘matches.’, I can Imagine that- the. word was takep out of a dictionary, which would give the noun but not the plural. The laconic style may be to conceal the absence of knowledge of English. Yes, Watson, there are good reasons to suspect that there has been of lodgers.” “But for what possible end?" "Ah! there lies our problem. There is one rather obvious line of investigation." He took down the great book in which, day by day, he filed the agony columns of the various London journals. “Dear me!” said he, turning over the pages, “what a chorus of groans, cries and bleatings! What a rag-bag of singular happenings! But surely the most valuable hunting-ground that ever was given to a student of the unusual! This person is alone, and cannot be approached by letter without a breach of that absolute secrecy which is desired. How is any* news or any message to reach him from without? Obviously by advertisement through a newspaper. There seems no other way, and fortunately we need concern ourselves with the one paper only. Here are the Daily Gazette extracts of the last fortnight. ‘Lady with a black boa at Prince’s Skating club’ —that we may pass. ‘Surely Jimmy will not break his mother’s heart’—that appears to be irrelevant. ‘lf the lady who fainted in the Brixton bus’—she does not interest me. ‘Every day my heart longs— ’ Bleat, Watson —unmitigated bleat! Ah! this is a little more possible. Listen to this: ‘Be patient. Will find some sure means of communication. —Meanwhile, this column. —G.’ That is two days after Warren’s lodger arrived* It sounds plausible, does it not? The mysterious one could understand English, even if he could not print it. Let us see if we can pictf up the trace again. Yes, here we arethree days later. ‘Am making successful arrangements. Patience 'and prudence. The clouds will pass.—G.’ Nothing for a week after that. Then comes something much more definite: .‘The path is clearing. If I find chance signal message remember code agreed —one A, two B, and so on. You will hear soon.—G.‘ That was in yesterday’s paper, and there is nothing in today’s. It’s all very appropriate to Mrs. Warren’s lodger. If we wait a little, Watson, I don’t doubt that the affair will grow more Intelligible.” So It proved; for in the morning I found my friend standing on the hearthrug with his back to the fire, and a smile of complete satisfaction upon his face. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

seemed frightened at first. Then he Evinced signs of anger and tried to fly to shore, but the pickerel pulled him back. After half an hour of the hardest work he bad ever done, the gander came ashore dragging a six-pound pickerel up the bank.

She boy took off the pickerel and ed the hook with another frog. He tried to Induce the gander to go in for another swim, but no amount of persuasion could get the bird to do so. He simply could not be driven in. For many weeks tbe gander would not go into the water. He would proceed with the rest of his flock to tbe water’s edge, but there he would stop. He would seem to be arguing with them with reference to the danger they were courting.

Not In the Dictionary.

A teacher was reading to her class and came across the word "unaware.” She asked if .any one knew its meaning. One small girl timidly raised her hand and feave the following definition: *

‘‘/Unaware’ is what you take off the last thing before you put youg qlghila on.” —Harper’s Monthly.

This photograph from the seat of war in the Balkans shows a Bulgarian transport train of ox teams at rest near the outskirts of Pasha. .

KIN STOLE HIS WIFE

Philadelphia Park Guard Is Unable to Find Wealthy Spouse.

Believed Relatives Spirited Woman Away-—Begins Search in Sanitarium—Declares She Proposed Marriage to Him. Philadelphia.—Thomas S. Downey, a Fairmount Park guard, recently started a systematic search of all the private sanitariums here in a quest for the wealthy woman to whom he has been twice married, never lived with and who he believes has been spirited away by her relatives. Not only has he been twice married to her, according to Downey, but both timps she proposed to him. The first marriage took place July 22 and the second was performed two months later. Downey’s wife feared the first ceremony was not legal because she gave her maiden name to the license clerk, although she was a widow. Downey has been a guard for many years and became acquainted with Mrs. Josephine Wolf, who took walks In the park with her husband, a retired business man. Although 50 years old Downey Is hale and hearty and he used to look after Mrs. Wolf and her husband.

“It was shortly after March 12, 1911,” he says, “that Mrs. Wolf came to the park alone. She sought me out and told me her husband had died on March 12, I took_ Ah.e. sajne care of„ her that I had taken when she accompanied her husband. She came to the park nearly every day, and one day she said to me: "Tom, I need a bodyguard and you have been good to me. Suppose we go and get married.” “I accepted the proposal,” continued Downey, “and we went and got a marriage Wolf gave the name of Josephine Gigon, which was her maiden name, but we were married Just the same.”

“Following the ceremony I walked home with her and when we got to the house she suggested that I had better not come in as the neighbors might talk. So I went home and every day I would call and take her for a walk. “One day several weeks after the first ceremony she came to my house and said we would have to be remarried immediately, as the first marriage wasn’t legal because she had given her maiden name Instead of that of her first husband. I told her there wasn’t any need of a second ceremony, as we didn’t live together anyway. To please her I agreed to the second ceremony.”

Downey kept the search for his wife secret until he learned that a local attorney had been retained by her. family for the purpose of annulling the marriage. Then he got busy, kef says, not because he wants any of his wife’s money, but because he doesn’t propose to be the “goat.’* Owen J. Roberts, who has been retained by Mrs. Downey’s family, declares that there will be no necessity for annulling 4he marriage, as the woman was adjudged incompetent several years ago and therefore could not contract a marriage.

The relatives of Mrs. Downey acknowledge that she is in a sanitarium. but decline to tell where it is situated. They also admit that she is in comfortable circumstances, having 158,000 in cash in one local bank.

Downey declares he won’t give up the search until .he has straightened the affair out and ascertained 'the reason for the action of Mrs. Downey’s relatives.

Four Jailed In Jury Room.

New York. —Four men walked into a Jury room by mistake, the door slaftlmed and they were locked in. No one heard their frantic pounding and they were released when, a bote dropped out of the window told of their predicament •_. *

BULGARIAN TRANSPORT TRAIN-AT REST

NERVES KILL IDLE BEES

Their Death During the Long Winter Months Caused by Repression of Their Energy. Baltimore, Md. —It Is acute nervous prostration that kills off the busy little bee. The discovery has just been made by bee scientists, who have long puzzled over the problem as to why the little workers die in such numbers during the winter. How the disease works on the honey gatherers was described recently by Prof. E ,T. Phillips in a talk before the Maryland State Beekeeper’s association. After a hard summer, working ten hours a day gathering honey, the bee goes intc winter quarters for a vacation. All that time he has to suppress his temperament and smother his energy. Then is when the troubles come, according to Professor Phillips.

THROWN IN TREE BY TRAIN

Odd Accident to Wisconsin Autoists— Two Are Severely Injured by Collision. Superior, Wls. —Chris Eimon, a wholesale merchant of this city, and his 11-year-old daughter, were severely injured when their automobile was struck by a Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic railway train near Rockmount, ten miles east of here. The automobile was demolished. Three other children were Thrown into a tree top, two of them hanging by their clothing until rescued half an hour later.

THEATER FOR GOTHAM YOUNG

Only Playhouse In World Devoted Exclusively to Children Will Be Open Soon. ■— New York.—A children’s theater, the only playhouse in the world devoted exclusively to the entertainment of children, will be opened in New York soon. The funds for -the enterprise were provided by William K. Vanderbilt, but the theater is expected to be practically self-support-ing. The auditorium, which is placed on the roof of the building erected by Mr. Vanderbilt and others for their new theater enterprise, will seat 800 children and has twelve boxes. The wall decorations are in nursery style, and great arched windows looking out over Central Park give it an abundance of pure fresh air. Plays will be given in the afternoon beginning at 3:30 o’clock, an hour convenient for school children.

A partial description of the theater was made public. The stage is low and has the general appearance of the stage of a toy theater in some garret. The seats are lower than those of the ordinary playhouse. The frame of the proscenium is decorated with a frieze. The base of this frieze is supported with bits of animal life illus■tratlve of the fables of Aesop apd La Fontaine. This idea Is carried out through the interior of the building, through eight pictures in cameo relief in the arches of the boxes.

BURIED DOG IN FINE COFFIN

Cincinnati Woman’s Twenty-Year-Old Pet Given a Real Funeral—Four Doctors Attend Him.

Cincinnati. —With greater funeral honors than are accorded many men. ‘‘Monkey,” a pug dog, owned by Mrs. Harry Jackson, was buried recently. "Monkey” died of old age recently, after four veterinarians had been in attendance. Mrs. Jackson was prostrated almost, and sat weeping beside a costly coffin containing the body. The dog was twenty years old

"Monkey” and Mrs, Jackson traveled nearly 50,000 miles together in the United States. Mrs. Jackson spent

BUFFALO BEING VACCINATED

Infectious Disease Which Kills Its Vlotim in Every Case Alarming Grand Forks, N. D. —Dr. W. S. Newman, government veterinary inspector from Bismarck, N. D., has gone to Yellowstone National Park, where he is vaccinating 250 buffalo which belong to the government. There are also twenty-two head of buffalo calves In the herd. An infectious disease, known as hemorrhagic septicaemia, has appeared among the buffalo in the park with deadly effect The mortality of this disease among domestic cattle has been placed at 90 per cent., but among the buffalo it has proved 100 per cent., not a single one attacked escaping death. The authorities are puzzled to know how the disease was communicated to the buffalo In the Interior of the park, as It Is generally communicated through food, and there has been no way In whlclTthese animals have been exposed that is known. The disease is of short duration, generally taking the animal away within twenty-four hours after It develops. This disease originally came from Egypt and Germany, first appearing a few years ago In Minnesota and later In Tennessee. That the disease which has appeared among the buffalo of national park is the same as above mentioned has been proved beyond doubt on government laboratory diagnosis. Two vaccinations are necessary, the second being administered eight days after the first. The authorities are much concerned over the appearance of this disease among the buffalo herd of lhe national park and are endeavoring to ward off any further fatalities.

more than >3,000 for his comfort and health in the last 12 years. A hearse carried the casket to Prince Hill, “Monkey” was buried in a lot furnished through the Ohio Humane society. There were four carriages in the procession. Funeral services, consisting of short addresses by members of the society, were held at the residence.

KILLS TO END SUFFERING

Frenchman Says Wife, Who Was Cancer Victim, Implored Him to Slay Her. Paris. —The question whether a husband is Justified in ending the sufferings of a wife afflicted with an incurable disease has again been raised by a case at the village of Sannois in the department of the Seine and Oise. Emile Breguery, formerly a magistrate, sixty years old, killed his wife, five years younger. She became a victim of paralysis and cancer and for many days begged her husband to end her agony. Driyen well nigh mad by the sight of his wife’s sufferings, Mr. Breguery shot her three times in the head. Death was instantaneous. The husband then gave himself up to the police.

FINDS GOLD OF MINER OF '63

Dredger Gets Nuggets of Man Who Died In a California River— No Trace of Skeleton Found.

Chico, Cal.—ln 1863 Wiliam Kastman, a well-known placer miner of Trinity county, was • druv»«. 4 in the Trinity river, and no trace ot his body was ever found. Monday, nearly 60 years after Eastman’s death, a dredger brought up in one bucket a flask of gold nuggets Eastman is known to have had in his pocket, a gold pocket piece identified as hts. and several silver coins, two of which were 12 % cent pieces, common tn those days. Two dimes were dated 1827 and two quarters bore nearly the same dates. No trace of the skeleton has been found.