Ligonier Banner., Volume 44, Number 2, Ligonier, Noble County, 1 April 1909 — Page 7

RR R 1 R O PS P R B s - ' : ‘ A Pin for a Clew By an Ex-Operative of the Secret Service Capt. Dickson Illustrates a Detective’s “Nose for Details.”

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“Already sorely puzzled over the evidence which was accumulating, one moruning, upon arising, 1 was' more than ever mystified by finding a slip of paper under the door of my room. _ In a sprawling, unnatural hand, four words were written upon it ‘Mason robbed the safe. e “When 1 visited the postoffice, I noticed that Mason was pale and hag gard and he was as nervous as a raged leopard. - ““When I went to the hotel at noon, { found a tiny note on the table in my room. It was a dainty, perfumed bit .of paper, just the Kind that refined young ladies employ in their polite rorrespondence. 1 jumped to the conclusion that it must be a furthap message of the same character as the _morning’s note. It was, but there was v decided conflict in the news it contained. In a cramped, disguised writing, evidently a woman's, were five words: - ! . Miss Lundy is the robber. : “Frankly, I didn't knmow what to think. Suspicion and these mysterisus notes pointed to the pestmaster - and his handsome assistant. The letters were written by different persons, and it was easy to imagine hat Mason and the young lady had robbed the safe and that each of them had € peen seem by a different person’ as

they {eft the bullding “Ihat thess ner. achis were & womat abd 8 AR and that they had tsken the pains o ad vise e of what they had seen by means of the nrief unAsigned notes “The situaiion puzsled me wmore than sver and 1 didert fall ssieep unti! lats thal pight having fossed away many restless hours upog the tosiry ment of torture which did pervice for & bed In ihe stuffy room of the ho tel. Involuntarily, nesl mernicg | A Boon B 8 miy eyes opened. It was there, a third note, om the same pa por, in the same hand and of the samg purpert as that of the marning

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before. The ouly change was in the wording of it Why don't vyou Arrest Mason? He rotbed the postoffice Ask him if he didnt bhreak the window-glass He wion t deny it g g “I worridl through the moruing somehow, pever trusting myself to show up at the postoffice. At noon | wus forced 1o go back to the hotel, as it was the only place of public entertainment in the village. I headed siraight for my room, expecting to find a fourth note on the table., | was uot disappointed, for there it was, as big as life. the exuct counterpart of the day before: Miss Lundy is the rohber. “More. than ever puzzied, 1 strolled over to the postoffice after lunch Mason was there and zlone. - Miss Lundy had not returned from her dinner. The postmaster’'s face was piteous to behold. He shrank from me as [ greet ed him and put his hands over his face. His hands shook lke a man's with the palsy. Beforeel could find a seat he arose and went Into his private office, beckoning me to follow. “1 seated myself and watched with patience while he strode back and forth across the {imited space of the office. Suddenly he stopped squarely before me, and bracing himself with a painful effort, blurted out a_jumble of words, confessing that be bad vobbed the safe. 1 was struck all of a heap, but never for an instant did I believe him. There was something about the very language of his incoherent confession and his manner in making if that told me that Mason was not the thief. : **What more do you want? Mason breathed. ‘I did it, I tell you, and I shall be convicted of it. 1 can't restore the stamps and the money-order book because I have destroyed them, but here is the money, every penny of it ~ "He threw a roll of bills in my lap and continued: L = "~ “*My confession is sufficient to corvict upon. I will repeat it in court and I want you to arrest me and get me away from here just as soon as you can. . ; “Just at this juncture the depotagent entered the office with a tele gram for me. It was a cipher message from the department. Taking out m¥ code book, I translated it in a moment and the contents: of it, in the light of Mason's confession, was nothing less than unnerving. e “Without a word I wrote the mes. sage out ond passed it over to Mason: Money orders being passed Waco and other Texas towns. o * ‘What does it mean?’ he cried. “Before I could answer him, Miss

Lundy came into the ofios. With a woman's inteltion, she saw thatl some thing was wrong A look of terror, which smote me o the hesrt swept over her fyce. Bhe sprang fofward and stepped betwesn Mason apnd me, who stood slarisg 8! sach other like wooden images e “'Oh, Capt Dickson’ she schbed, ‘don’t you belleve Eim He dida’t have a thing 5 do with it | did i myeell The meney ix In my trusk | hawe burnesd the stamps aud ibe moneyor. der ook " el Bhe didnt do it Capt. Dickson’ ranted Mason like & man demenind “She Enows nothing about 10 1 slone sw guiity and she is merely tryiog o save me ftom priscn, she I 8 my al fianced bride’ : o . "Hold on thers | esutidned. ‘youo sre A pair of sentimenis] youog ingn. eendta and white [ am willing to give ‘sou my blvsying slthboush 8 Is A bt out of my line IAM ol BUIDE 1o be leve s word either of vyou sy about this robbery snd dokt sither of yoy dare to beeathe 8 ward of such absurd nonsense fo MAY Goe else. | know iha!l neither of you robhed the safe and you couldn't convince e of it H ¥ou talked

a thousand vears and produced the charred remains of that ?mnuyorder book itself. Dry your eves. Miss LEundy; shake yourself together, Mason, and Jet's get down to serious talk and cléar this thing up. See here' | continued, producing the four notes tnat had been left at my room, ‘honor bright, now, you wrote these notes, didn't you? . “I didn't stay to hear more but beat out of the office as if the furles were at my._back instead of two lovers happy beyond expression in the knowl edge that their doubts were unfounded and that there was happiness still re maining for them. 1 wasn't going to take chances on their being disturbed, s 0 I took possession on the porch before the post-ofice door to head off any persons wlhid might feel inclined to intrude upon their privacy. ' “After some time they called to me Between the twp of them they ex plained everything. They had long been jovers and. with the aversion thatlovers have for the clatterifig of village gossips’ merciless tongues, they had: succeeded in keeping their attach: ment a secret. They bad been engaged for some time, and it was thelr custom to meet at the home of a kindly old widow lady of an evening, she alone knowing of their engagement. On the night of the robbery they had spent the evening together at the widow's. | “She and Mason had left the widow’s about ten o'clock and Mason had left her at the gate. After leaving her, Mason had taken a long stroll and, about midnight, had passed the postoffice in returning to his home. As he approached the buliding he had seen a lady leaving it, closirg and locking the door after her. He had stopped in bewilderment, as he kuew that only Miss Lundy, besides himself, had a key to the office and, in the uncertain light, he thought that he recognized her. It never occurred to him to fol-_i low ‘the woman, but he had allowed her to turn the nearest corner andj then he had let himself into the post-i office. His hasty examination #failed to show anything amiss. On the floor, | directly in front of the safe, he had found a tube-rose blossom. Miss Lundy had worn such a bud that evening, and although he had importuned her for it she, with a woman's waywardness, perhaps just to tease him, had refused to give him the flower. “Next morning, when he opened the safe he discovered the robbery. His suspicion of Miss Lundy had then come upon him. Theére were many facts against her, as he saw it. She had received a sum of money for which she had beea waiting and which

alone had caused thelr marriage to be 80 jong postponed. ke had seon her jeave the postofon st an hoar of night when she could have had Bo busisess (here and at which even had she felt some Decrsnily for sfiting the office. propriety would have prevented i hor dolng it she had wory the vers taberose blossom that he had found 8 the office Although thess circom. Slaners seemod to Bx goilt upon his Reaistant bevond a doubt Mason had thought only of shielding her. He bad { endeavored to figure oul stme plan and had conceived the idea of the tramps and the broken windew. Im | mediately be bad smashed the glass of { e back window with the stick that *ax cmployed in fasfoning i Mo Lundy bhad-asfved at this inoppor Flane tme and had sees Mason sirike i the blow. In her eicitemnent over the { rabbery, she bad forgoites the fnch i{iﬂﬁxt‘ nor 43 she remember i oy 3% gtz&dh ang imporisnce to i ustl Mason Bad showed 1t 10 me asx the place | where the tramps had galned en irance. Miss Landy had heard me éﬁﬁﬁiafi'%ﬂ certain yiliage charariens %n&mm the trampe and had heard them é depy having seon them Ehe had beard i Mason teil me of them and knew that

1t was 4 fabrication. She had noticed the nervous condition of Mason, at tributable to his hellef that she had been the thief, but she had attributed it to his gutlt. She had desired to shicld him' and had written e the whole account herself It wasoa pretiy wangle. The lovers bad straightened it out to their own salisfaction and., while 1 knew that neither of them had any goilty knowlcdge of the deed, | was far from heing gatisfied and felt that my work had Just bLegun. ! ! « 'With my suspicion of Mason set at rest, 1 conld confide more fully in him, 80 | get out with two clewsz, the wom. an visitor that Mason had seen and the pin with the glass head. There were many women in the village that fitted the description in a general way ard that was. a hard clew to follow, 8o I fell back upon the pin There weore pone of the kind for sale in the village ror bad there ever bheen' so | knew tixat the pin must be an fmported one. This was some pregress, but | wns sti.] far from shore. “T don't know that | would ever have run the thief to earth if it hadn't chianced that 1 met a lady one afternoon who wore a flower pinned upon ‘her breast. A glance showed me that the pin which held it was the twin brother to the one | had found. The iady, 1 learned, had been in the vil: lage some.four or five months, teach ing a dancing school with great suc cess. No one kpew where she camse from. , “It was an easy matter to clear up the robbery after this. She was an old timer in criminal deeds and as slick a crook as ever wore petticoats. She had easily learned the careless methods of the postoffice and, when she deemed the occasion ripe, had selected a skeleton key from her stock and pulled off the robbery, a peat job except for Mason's untimely appearance upon the scene. She had most of the stamps in her possession, but she had sent the money-order book to her husband,” who was then operat: ing in the profitable field of the southwest. ~ “How about the lovers, did you say? They were married in due time and I had the pleasure of officiating &s best man.” : . {(Copyright, 1909, bqu. G. Chapman.) (Copyright in Great Britain.) China's Chief Port. ~ Nearly 45 per cent. of all the imports to China last year pald duty at Shanghal. ‘ A ——————— ) ~ Some tropical daisies measure a foot in circumference. ‘

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GIRL SEES SOCIAL FIRE

May or May Not Have Had a Sense of Humor. It would spoil a good story to suggest that the yvoung woman of whom the paper tells may bhave had a sense of humor. In the absence of a regular reporter, the editor sent the young woman who writes the society news to report a fire in a remote part of the city. ‘ This is what the young ‘woman turned in: > . “Quite a number of people in this part of the city attended a fire last night at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Rlank on High street. Some, it is said, went in carriages and motors, but a majority walked. “The alarm was sounded about halfpast eight, and many who attended the fire. had just returned from church, consequently they were already dressed for the occasion. “Mr. Blank was not at home, being out of the city on business, hence the affair will be a surprise to him when

. QALY A 0 BORLALS The habenarias dre very suleroun M ke moustalins. Some ol Lhetn, snch sa the whils by Grebis iHatenaris Jeseratarß vy, Chave ex guite targe splies of white awes? Seepted Bowees pnd are . 8 perlect prise to the nature lover) ‘whils silers, such as the ag by ‘v«_‘e' e his i,ﬂ‘ﬂiﬂ?%ta:‘ia Lradcieaing ’g;iz“l;‘i»'f‘ : i"‘w}:”““ HMabhenaria obiusatnl, Baly wthis tHabenaria Fyvos horeat | seandt begvad orehis (Halenarin orbleniaixd and, Jepan, crohits (Halwnsrie alviiias M | ﬁméﬁ’f: §' wod have proenioh Seliew b or purpiizn TIOGEIIE- Phatl are ab ot metithe g% [These Tessar ordbbin Erow in the woeshionnd beaide the SIMEIE. nand Cwew ensilel W »‘ﬁ 8% eßek snocivs /n ssesuk 118 GWEH Haareeg imdividcal peesiiadtied : v i wed egndy Galk et by the foan gin of the alpine strenms grow the pale , ehigsfers &Ff iße T 3 5::“'#"" i orehis (Orenls rotundifolias, s dainty Blossns spiashod wilh rose color, and B single rounded- sreen jopf growing At the base of Ihe piant And 3o we eome 81 last 1o the st exguisils ! All the wild. mountsin orohides the lady's slippers. To find these wiader ful treasures growingg in swamp or dell, theld curfons infated s6es 03 panding with Irooiial Prgarianes amid portheen alpine surtobsndings, 8 8 thrilling experis noe nheguaied i?xjﬁrf‘ history of fiower-Sunting . and so fompletels does the sighi of thedr et ons beauts enthrail the beholder that ftis with rapture akin o awe that he Bloops 35;_;::;%%*3'-5' £ /n? those C Rotden slipgere mest Tor Talres’ e, whether §1 be the iarge vellow lady's silpper (Cypripedium pubescens) or the small yellow lady's siipper Oyt }mdfum parvilloram , The great moryine ad Emeraid lake gt with these consplenous orchids is 8 marvelous sieht in July, for, surk ously enoagh, the large vellow ladv's sHpper grows both on exposed arid fiats and in ﬂ{s- deenest seciusion of the woods, while the fragrant smail sellow lady's sfipper has s Baunts close bf‘!k!%ﬂ the streams The two whité lady's slippers (Cypripedinm pasgerinum and Cypripediom wmontapami are less gorgeons than the yel low species, but are more rare and charimingly - dainty | in appearance, Their shellllke velvely sacs. ppotied inside with carmine, are very loavely, But the. pink lady's siipper (Cypol pedium scauld), the most rare and most bewitching of ail the orchide-— bow shall I describe It 2 exotic beaury! A flower carven in coral of rose, it springs like a Hving flame from the soft green of ita setting, exhaling a perfume sweet ax the breath o of Araby;: Janceshaped purplish sepals spread oul on either side to protect the. gingle drooping blossom, and Iwo jarge leaves spring. up from the base to sentinel its majesty, while the great glowing sue {5 foldéd tazetlibr to defy the attacks of depredating Loes. The pink lady's slipper I 8 50 eviremely rare in the Rocky mountains that [ regard my discovery of it in the year 1903 as the crownigg triumph of my botanical work in that region. o ; JULIA W, HENSHAW, ' Advancement in lilustration, Up 1o 1879 no dther methods were used for plates in fine art ilusira. tion than line engraving, and for blocks than wood emgraving Lithography scarcely entered Into consideration. photographic reproduction was unknown Etchings were out of fashfon, and mezzotint was - found unworkable for larze numbers. Twenty years later, line engraving was practically a dead art, and wood engraving was rapidly becoming so Reproductlons based on photography develop, until color photography appears a possible method of actus} bock illustra- ~_ Preserve the Substance. _He who has a gooll seat should not leave it —Mapuel. S

he returns. Mrs. Blank wore a light pale blue kimono and had her hair done up in kid curiers. “The firemen responded readily, and worked heroically to subdue the flames, Most of them were young and fairly good looking. They were dressed in oilskin coats, cut short, with trousers to match. Their hat brims were narrow in front and broad behind, and drooped in the rear. : “When the flames broke out through the second story and cast a lurid hue over the surrounding buildings, the view was one never to be forgotten.' “At a late hour the sightseers went home, and all felt they had passed an evening full-of interest and excitement."—Detroit News. e : Assisted Play. : Knicker—What's the matter? Mrs. Knicker—Johnny wants to play house, and 1 don't know whether to have him taught by an architect or a kindergartener, ,

GREATEST MANUFACTURING ~ DISTRICT IN THE WORLD

Take a map of North America, place tde peedls of your cotipasses balf way scross Lake Michizan néaxsiy due cast of the Wiscunsinlilinots line snd descrides & Bal! circle 1o the left from Milwsokes to Somh Hend It ooks Hke a Small bt of ferrifory] Bul that sirip of land ds it curves aremnd the end of Lake Michigasn, worme 13 miiles wide god 300 milés Jong 14 destined to becomie (he manulaciuriag venter of the "ﬁﬁ&i }'kit miscriion i not imaginative but 15 based i sciid facts and fSpures, and s tratd fulboss fe rapldly forcing Laeil o Ihe wminds of the couniry's leaders i in dustoy and fzance Condiions (here teday mers Ihas-foreshadow the fu turs © look ‘sigaln st ths .':n::s;? xnd rote the ciffes Ihal are included :*.r_s rour wembelrels Milwaukoe Hacise Kenosha, Figin. Agrors. (O hleags, Soath Clicagn Pullmas, Kenengton; Chtragsn -ﬂﬂﬂﬁ%& BheMeld Whitiok Hammond - East i_“’_!:;;iwaﬁa;i O Gary B Purte, Michigan Oty Soifty Ibmd and & weore of jdsser sete. In every abe grest manafactaring éefabilahiments

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are roaring day and nigdt o all the yvear round, furping ou? productacfor the world The smioke from the myr tad ehimneys Les ke n'ga'ivmw? ther land by day. and by nighy the glare of thedr f'i'!i;it‘d'g‘ Behts 6p 'he &Ky like & chain of conflagrations Hah drods of thousands of railséay Yraing and thousands of wWanelg . oy thede cities an rs.ai?‘gs stream of raw material—iron, steel nmber, graim eoal-~and depart apain - ixdet with manufacinres that are soid in npearly every iand on the giohe - % S 0 1t s today. What will 1t be to morrow, when the deep -_\;;ua:;A-.\au" from the Great Lakes to the Guif s opened up a 8 it must be and -the Panama canal s completed? The ac complishment of those R;%;‘,’?z‘i)‘,rﬁ'érv prises means that the entire South American contipent will be reached frodn this manufacturing distriet at the foot of Lake Michigan more “d} rectly and edonomically than from any other in the world, And . the manufacturers there are allve to the opportunily and prepared to - accep! 1. The wonderfel farmitg lands of western Canada are only begloning o be known, but already. thousands of alert progressive American farmers are there, and they are calling. for Amerfcan-made farm machinery. Mex: feo §s demanding our manufactures more and more insistently each year, American threstiers, harvesters, piows, buggles, wagons, windmills and mining machinery are used In' every civilized country on earth. And our own hrad land. rich and prosperous, steadily d(«mnmﬁa almost as much as the manufacturers have, been abie to supply. : i That is the market of the present and near future. The laws of trade are that it must be supplied by a district -so located that the raw material can be brought in and the finfshed product sent out most expeditionsly and most cheaply; a district with ample transportation facilities by land and water; a district with a plentiful supply of skilled labor and a climate in which the )aborer can work ‘to best advantage; a district with capitalists of brains and energy, who are not afraid to spend money in order to accomplish results.. In a word, such a distriet as s found around the southern and southwestern shore of Lake Michigan—and found nowhere else on earth. . Wise Americans of affairs are well aware of this fact, as is shown by the action of the United States Steel Corporation in building Gary, Ind. The steel trust did not locate its giant plant there by chance or for any fanciful reason. Recognizing the present and

The Country's Rainfall. The total raiufall of this country, including snow and that on water areas, was given as 215,000,000,600,000 cubic feet a yvear. Half or mcre is evaporated. About one-third flows into the sea. The remaining dne-sixth is eith--er consumed or absorbed. Of the 70, 000,000,000,000 cubic feet flowing annually into the sea less than five per cent. is used for power. It is estimated that &5 per cent. to 95 per cent. of the volume is wasted in freshets or destructive floods. There are in .-the lUnited States proper . 232 streams navigated for an aggregate of 26,115 miles, and as much more is navigable by improvement. - o

fotere states of the disirict sa o preal manufacigring and distridutieg ‘cotter, Ib Ihpee years it created 8 gty of 0004 people cenlered adout s mighty mills The Olivers, the Briidébakers the Desres, the Mo Cormicks, the Pwerings and all the othet manulsciurers are alive lo the opportunition of the folure They re ietew in the approaching completion of 'he Patama cansl and are deter rpiment thst false ccopoly snd polith ol seNeming shall sl delsy the Fuildtng of the Lakesiodull deep walerwas’ even il they have to pay for §t 2?2.953‘.5‘(»?. wa 2 : ‘}i%;f roanmanding position of this ledAsairial Slafriet s weil indicatird by tha' trademark of the M Rubely Chmpany of La Porte, Ind. repro dideed herewizhe This eomppany, in U 9 pirtt and & hNievement is typical of thie faanufartuierd of the -distrlet Wikin ihe last Ikree y'fﬁ,—‘t it hase Boubied the sige of ifs 1?33:;!,':5«3‘3'(1 wtiil 1 13 unable to gappiy the domand for 1 gisuta ' Netverthelens 8 dowes pobsusl Fatlsfed, Hat ls alroady pianning

i mwore new halidings and, as I 8 trademark indicates, is reaching fout faor yet broader markeis. Five ; _?; ;‘-;"E,':' Pworkmdn are emplored in ma Eing the threshers, plowing engines, At other agriculiural implements S WhicH i turng oyt and 13 branch offires and a hundred traveling sales ‘men distribaté” them The wide cawake ¢Moers of he company have had thelr eyves of the Capadian mar “kef for geme timie, Byt only recently ¢ feit Gustified Jin entering it Thelr firgt walésman: sent there met with Cextraordinary success: Now the Rumes lys are tirning toward South AmerfoA with the certain knowiedge that, - given equal transportation facilftes, thelr guods, will soon replace those of "~ Furepean manufacture Iriring the finanein] depression of las! year the Ruthely Company stood In a class alk miest by Hself.. While other manuL facturers were closing down their piants, discharging their salesmen P and in every ‘way checking expendd tures, the Rumely Company kKept right | ontarning sut machinery and selling it The demand for its goods last - year was greater than ever before, : . The reason why the Rumely goods Crell 86 well {8 not far to seek. Meinrad .. Rumely, who established the business in 1853 also established the policy of Cmaking every machine he turned out [ a little better than it had to be. His i sons aud grandsons have never de ‘t wimted from that policy for a moment: -The success of the products of | their {mmense plant lfes in correet | design, highest quailty of materiale {and thorough workmanship. The ma- { chines they turn out are always the i, best that can be bullt. : i . . Thé Rumelys have attacked a new | problem that has become actual dur {ing the last two years. Their achieve ment in the manufacture of success " ful steam plowing:gengines and -of : mechanical tractors?aiil mark an era, 3 as did ‘the plows of John Deere and : Oliver, and the binder of McCormick. . Téeday, for the first time in the his- ! tory of the world, is it possible to produce power by mechanical trac- | tors miore e(x}nom!caliy than by the |.use of the animal body. Out of every : hundred pounds of fuel or food more g,pbll can be obtained from an engine | than a horse or a mule. Twenty-eight i ‘million horses are engaged on the i farms of the United States alone for ; plowing- purposes. The motors perfected -by the Rumely inventors are f,supplnuuhg.the ‘horses wherever they s are put into use. They have reduced ‘the cost of plowing from $1.50 to 60 ‘cents per acre. Although operated | almost continuously, the factory cannot produce engines enough.

1 Baby “Helped” Mother. ¢t - “The ehild is mother to-the woman™ .may be an apt paraphrase to describe : the significance of the following incl | dent: A Perth Amboy (N. J.) matrom | recently, in honor of a visiting friend,” . baked an imposing chocolate fayer | cake. Chocolate frosting covered the _entire outside of the cake, which was | left on a kitchen table to cool. To the ' mother, entertaining the friend, her % daughter called, explaining her ab|sence: “Muvver, I'se keenin' up for { 00.” Presently the mother went to the i kitchen. “See,” sald her daughter, ex- | hibiting the cake, taken apart and | scraped of all its chocolate. “T'se ] cleaned this nassy cake.” -