Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 4, Plymouth, Marshall County, 6 January 1899 — Page 3

A FELON'S LOVE. BY HEXRY V. NESFIELD.

CHAPTER XI. Mr. Hall then went about his business and by no meaius hurried hiniaflf to attend upon the invalid at Sullivan's. He had such a horror of drunkards in genera! that the man's illness excited no sympathy within. Besides he had nothing to communicate regarding Robert Luk the brother, and had loir.; eince ceased to take any interest in what had become of him. Leisuiely mounting his horae that afternoon, he rode down to the publichouse. There he was received by an expectant crowd of loafers, foremost amongst j whom was the landlord he to much de- ! tested. "Take Mr. Hall's horse, Bill, can't yer!" cried Sullivan. "Very good of you, sir, I'm sure, to have taken the trouble to come. This busine haa quite upset me It's awful!" and the man really did look as if his nerves were in a more shattered condition than usual. "Will you step inside, sir?" he asked respectfully. "I have a letter you had better see at once." Mr. Hall followed the landlord into the little back-parlor, which was so far in advance of the rest of the establishment as to boast of a calico ceiling. Closing the door, Sullivan pulled out a letter from the depths of one of his pockets. It was the letter written by Itobert Luke to his brother in England. Mr. Hall read the letter carefully through. "I can't make head or tail of it," he remari.ed at la3t. "It is dated on the day the man disappeared, I see: but what was the trial, and what was the thousand pounds reward he seemed so keen about getting?" "You'll remember, sir, surely! It was the great Froyles murder in England This man William Luke was taken up on suspicion. He was the butler to the old gent who was killed." "Yes, yes; I remember now reading all about it," replied Mr. Hall, becoming more interested. "Well, this William Luke wa3 condemned to death, and there seemed no doubt that he committed the murder. Shortly after the execution was to have takeu place, however, the police got upon another scent." "I remember and he was pardoned." "Yes. sir; and the people who were wanted in his stead were two of tho servants who gave evidence against him at the trial. Here is a printed handbill describing them. Mr. Hall took the paper In his hand. It was headed "One Thousand rounds Reward," and contained the descriptions of Edward Bartlett and Anne Dodson. "I cannot say that this in any way enlightens nie," he remarked presently. Then, referr'iig to Robert Luke's letter to his brother, he said, "Luke seemed to fancy that he traced a likeness in Tom ivnes to the woman who is here ed. This is abs-urd!" "lie ti . his own reasons, no doubt," reiltd Sullivan. 'Tossibly he had. or thought h i had; but which is more likely he was carried away by the hopes of gaining the reward, anil so allowed him.self to Eiispect people without jüst cause." "He may have been right, anyhow," growled the landlord. "I don't think so, and I'll tell you why. I have seen IJaynes wife, and ehe in no way answers the description of the weman here." "Oh, you have seen her?" "Yes.'' "And what was she like?" "In the first place she was not nearly so tall as this Anne Dodson, who teems to have been much above the average height of women. Then her hair was very dark." "That might easily be managed," argued Sullivan. "Of course; but her features in no way answered the description here. In fact, I am certain she could not have been the same person." "Oh!" grunted Sullivan, in a disappointed tone. "Well, perhaps, sir, you would like to see the man Luke. He is In the next room." "You wished to see me," sail the squatter, taking a seat by the bedside. "Yes, sir," said Luke, "if you are Mr. Charles Hall." "That i5 my name!" "I have come out all this way to see my brother Robert." "Yes; I know all about it. You luve heard how suddenly he went away?" "He never went away, sir," replied the sick man. "What, then, do you suppose has become of him?" Raising himself with difficulty upon one arm. William Luke looked wildly about him. "My head my head!" ho exclaimed. "Oh, don't mind me, sir! I'll think directly." "My belief Is that he has been put away!" "Put away?" "Yes, sir murdered !" "Nonsense, man; you are imagining thing3 which we know cannot be true! By whom could he have been murlered?" "By them." "Whom?" "Edward Bartlett and Anne Dodson." "My good fellow." said Mr. Hall soothingly, "there have been no such

people in this neighborhood. Your brother's suspicions as to IJaynes were quite ridiculous. He and his wife were nothing like the people here described;" and Mr. Hall held up the printed handbill as he spoke. "This IJaynes can I see him? Will you have him brought to me here, so that I may be satisfied?" "Why, he was here last night," interposed Sullivan, "and you were talking to him yourself at the door." "He was and you never told me?" "Told you? How was I to know then what you wanted? If people are so precious close " "You wMI bring him to me, then?" cried Luke, seizing Mr. Hall's hand as he spoke. "That I cannot do." replied the squatter. "Tom Baynes and his wife left the station at an early hour this morning." "Gone?" shrieked the man In an agony of excitement. "You have let them go! You are all against me. Oh, murdered, murdered!" he yelled, and struggling to leap out of the bed, he fell upon the floor iu an epileptic fit.

CHAPTER XII. By slow degrees William Luke recovered from his illness so far that he could get out and walk about a little with the aid of a stick Nothing would now induce him to touch spirits; and Sullivan grumbled mightily at having a lodger who, he declared, not only occupied his "best bedroom." but hardly spent enough to pay for his "tucker." Still Sullivan had one consolation, and that was that, as the story of the new arrival was circulated, people were curious to see this William Luke who had been condemned for murder and pardoned. Luke's one desire was to get strong enough to go on to Redmount and search for some traces of his brother. "He ain't there," replied Sullivan, as he listened to his customer's repetition of the old story for about the fiftieth time. "Didn't Mr. Hall tell you for certain that the Bayneses couldn't be the ones you are after? Didn't he see Baynes wife? And didn't the trooper and other people see her and him? And aren't they all certain you are on the wrong track?" "But what made them go off so suddenly," said Luke, still unconvinced, "the very day I came tip?" "Bless the man," cried Sullivan, getting weary of arguing with him "hasn't Mr. Hall told you over and over again that the chap got a letter, saying his sister was ill in Sydney? If you will make a mystery of everything connected with them, why, you will that's all I've got to say." But the more Luke thought, and the more he read and re-read his brother's letter, the more certain he felt that there was something about the Bayneses which no one as yet suspected. Did not his brother say that on that very night of the L'.'th of May he intended to visit their hut? "I mean to see her tonight, whether or no. Baynes is away fetching some stores, and won't be home until morning. So now's my chance!" These were the words which William Luke read as he sat beneath the shade of a gum tree on the creek side, and racked his brains to work the puzzle out. One day about a month after his arrival at Sullivan's, and when he had become tolerably convalescent Luke made up his mind that he would go to Redmount; so, borrowing a horse, he started off. Upon reaching tho station, he was received with every kindness by the hands, who felt a rough sympathy for the man who had come so far to see his brother and had not found him. Mr. Hall, too. had got over the first feeling of disgust he had entertained for "the gentleman who had been drinking and had had fits," and asked him in his kindliest manner to come up with him to the house and talk matters over. "I wish to ask you several questions sir." said Luke, "about things that have Leen on my mind." "Ask away." replied the squatter. "First of all. I must tell you something of my own history," began Luke nervously. "That is unnecessary. I am sure," said Mr. Hall gently. "It cannot possibly bear upon this present question." "No. sir; perhaps not, but still I think I'd rather." "Cio on, then I am listninj?." "Well, sir, I entered service early, and was In many a good situation; but latterly I could not keep my places. The curse of my life, as it has been the curse of many another one, was the drink. The place where I lived before I went to Mr. Hughes who. you know, was murdered I left on that account; I cheeked the master, and he said I had stolen his wine. That was true. However I made up my mind on going to my new situation to turn over a new leaf!" "And you did not succeed?" "No, sir. I went on very well for a short time; but, If it Is not wicked to speak so of the dead, he was a most provoking old gentleman. Frequently he would find fault without any sort

of occasion; aud on that particular day of the dinner-party he had been moro than unusually cantankerous. That and my old habits made me take to the liquor again. I felt annoyed and put out, and was 'nipping' pretty freely throughout the day. After the dinner was over, I took a bottle of sherry from the cellaret, and drank It up in my room." "Yes," said Mr. Hall: "and you were not quite sober in the morning." "I was three-parts drunk when I awoke, and could not clearly bring to mind anything which had occurred on the previous night " "Just so!" "Well, you know the rest. I was convicted, condemned, and ultimately pardoned. Edward Bartlett. the footman, swore in his evidence against me at the trial that I had been often talking of how I should like to raise money enough to t ike me out to Australia." "And had you done so?" "Believe me. sir, as there's a Heaven above and as I sit here, it was he who was always speakiug of coming out here. Such a notion never entered my head." "Well, but how does this bear upon the question?" "I will tell you, sir. My brother Robert was in court when I was tried. He had been for some years in the Metropolitan Police, and, unlike me, was steady in his habits. Bob always had his head screwed on right; and, putting two and two together, he made up his mind that the missing man and woman had somehow or other made their way out here!" "Yes, yes I understand," saLl Mr. Hall. "His letter explains the rest," continued Luke. "I came out here as quickly as I could not only in the hopes of tracing them and bringing them to justice, but. I must confess, of sharing the thousand pounds reward." "Exactly very natural!" "On the way out, on board ship, I was drinking pretty freely; but it was not until my journey up by the coach that it began to tell upon me. When I got to Sullivan's. I felt in an unnaturally excited state sort of wild I cannot tell you how." "I hope never to know from personal experience," said Mr. Hall, smili ig; "but I can easily imagine. You felt what the men up here call 'jumpy'?" "Just so, sir. I felt it coming on; and, when I heard of my brother's disappearance, I was takeu " "Well, we won't talk about that I know all the rest." "Thank you. sir," said Luke, wiping the perspiration from his forehead at the bare recollection of the agonies he had endured. '"One thing I most particularly wish to ask you, sir," he continued, after a pause "is it true that Baynes received a letter from Sydney that night by the mail, telling him his sister was dying?" "Poor Baynes! Well. Luke, you certainly have it firmly implanted in your mind that that harmless youth was mixed up in some way or other in your tragedy. To answer your finest ion. to the best of my belief Baynes did get a )etter io that etWct." "To the bet of your belief?" "Yes; for I did not see it." "But yo i have a locked mail-bag?" "Yes." "And you saw the letters taken out?" "Yes. I took them out myself; but his letter was not amongst thnn. He told me the driver of the coach, Sam Jones, brought it up for him by hand." "The diiver brought it up?" repeated Luke. "Yes, the driver so he told me." "That is strange. I never heard of that before. The mail comes in tonight. I will go down to Sullivan's, and ask the driver." "Poor fellow!" thought Mr. Hall, after his departure. "I should not wonder if this business drove him mad. He seems to have the Baynes on tho brain!" (To be Continued.)

GERMAN MILWAUKEE. Ignorance of Orniiiti I.:ingu:ige an Had a Ignorance of I-InglUh. The theater, art and science have found a home in the German city of America, says the Chautauquan. One German and three English theaters offer to the public an abundance of varied pleasures, and all eminent in intellect and art are accustomed to stop In Malwaukee on their American travels. A public library, as well as a picture gallery and a museum, offer gratuitous instruction to every one. In the fall there is an annual Industrial and agricultural exhibition which with each year receives a greater abundance of contributions. Dozens of German glee clubs and athletic associations serve for social intercourse. As might be expected, the English language is used in t4ie conduct of business, although at least from f0 to I), if not a greater, per cent of the propie have command of the Herman language, which is taught in the public schools. In almost every business, in nearly all the commercial houses, which are for the most part conducted by Germans, the German language is used along with the English, and so Ignorance of German is regardec as great a fault as ignorance of English, if not a greater one. Recently an attempt was made to remove the German language from the curriculum of the public schools, but the inquiry instituted for this purpose produced a result very vexatious to the investigators. The overwhelming majority of the non-German parents decided in favor of having their children taught the German language. Thus Milwaukee, in this case also, has made good her reputation ns the German city of America.

SCIENTIFIC TOPICS

CURRENT NOTES CF DISCOVERY AND INVENTION. An Invention to Protect Iluoy Cables An IndUn. Mau l'ntit I ortti a .w Idea In the Air Mil; LI la How Live Stock Is Loaded. Danger It, lometlc Filters. Persons who rely upon don.ostic filters to purify water for household use will be interested to learn that, on the authority of the State Board of Health of Maryland, such filters may steadily lose efficiency until they become firstrate culture beds for bacteria, says The Sanitarium. An example cited is that in the case of a man in Baltimore who sends the whole water supply of his house through a large filter, and subsequently puts his drinking water through one of the small domestic niters common in the market. A test showed that, on a day when the city taps were running 510 bacteria to the cubic centimeter, the large filter was delivering 9,900 bacteria in the same quantity of water. When the large filter was placed, only nine bacteria per centimeter got through it, but this same water, when passed through the small filter, came out with 71 bacteria per centimeter. A further example cited is from the office of the Baltimore Health Department, where a filter, supposed to be the best in' the market, was in use. The effectiveness of that filter was so short-lived that the precaution was observed of boiling the water after it was filtered. To Protect Iluoy Cables. In the use of floating buoys it often happens, says the Scientific American, that changes in the wind and tide drag the cable around on the bottom and it Is therefore shortened, thus impairing its efficiency. To avoid this danger, Charles Hutch ins, superintendent of "lighthouses for Nova Scotia, has invented a buoy which has been used for a year with gratifying results. Tho buoy itself holds the cable off the bottom. The submerged buoy, as shown In Tig 4, has a cylindrical body with tapering ends adapted to receive the cable. The body at one end is provided with an outwardly flaring rigid skirt, constituting a drag against the movement of the buoy through the water. In Fig. 2 the submerged buoy Is shown Interposed between the sections of the cable of a floating buoy. The full lines In the figure indicate the position of the cables and buoys in calm weather, the cable in this position being at all times held above the bottorn. When the fioatlng buoy yields to the action of the sea or of the winds the cable become? taut, as shown in the dotted Hues. In Fig. 1 the submerged buoy Is shown holding up the bight of the mooring of a sunken buoy. A cable supported in this manner may be readily grappled and the sunken buoy recovered. Without the use of the submerged buoy grappling on rocky bottoms would be difficult, perhaps impossible. Fig. 3 shows a vessel riding out a gale on a lee shore. The buoy in this case is attached by one end to the anchor chain, so that when dragged under the surface of the water it will form an effective sea anchor in addition to the anchor at the bottom. Kconoiny of the Chinese The spirit of economy in the Chinese race transcends all that can be imagined. The smallest particle of matter is utilized. The old cast-off account book of the merchant is cut into pieces and oiled to serve instead of glass In windows or lanterns. A coolie who has a six-hours march with a heavy burden will return to his point of departure without having broken his fast, in order to save the two cents his breakfast would have cost away from home. Nothing Is more curious than to see them eat, although with their famous cbopsticks they do not perform all the wonderful feats generally supposed. Everything is served them in bowls or saucers, and with the chopSticks they raise the pieces of meat or fish to the mouth, with sufficient grace. Each one has a bowl of rice, which he holds near hs lips, and with the aid of the chopsticks he pushes the contents Into his mouth. It Is very curious to see them pick up with their chopsticks the grains or rico that fall on tho ground. The children aro taught this art from their earliest years; nothing must be lost, not even the smallest grain. What remains of tho repast is put carefully away to bo served at another meal. Their dogs and cats are not over-fed, as the scraps from the table are rare.

Coil l)at Fir! nr. Fine dust of coal or of flour mixed! with air forms an explosive agent: which has been the cause of many a mine and flour-mill disaster. Advantage is taken of this property of combustible dust In a new process of boiler-firing. The fuel reduced to dust is fed by machinery Into the furnace, in which a fire must constantly be maintaluetl. The Instant the dust falls into the furnace chamber it burns with a Hash, almost explosively, and the production of smoke is absolutely prevented and the firing becomes economical as regards consumption of fuel. It would seem that it mUht lead to the utilization of the enormous mountains of coal slack which cover so many square miles of land in the mining districts.

New Aliatilp. Arcidas Farmer, a resident of Evansvllle, Ind., is a claimant for honors as the inventor of an airship that will actually navigate the air. The top of his sbip will be cigar-shaped. The balloon will be made of silk and filled with gas, which will give buoyancy to carry the necessary machinery to properly work the ship, which will not weigh more than 700 pounds. The motive power to run the airship will be two small gasoline engines of ten-horse power each. They will be constructed oh an entirely new principle and will run at a very high rate of speed about 750 revolutions a minute, which will not be too fast considering the shortness of the cylinders. HljCh Building of Olden Home. The extreme height and overhanging stories of the Roman buildings were a source of danger to the citizens In more ways than one. There were many Important thoroughfares in Rome that were always in the shade; only at high noon did a streak of sunlight find Its way between the buildings to the pavement. The streets were thus always damp, for although Rome was sewered and there was a penalty against throwing slops into the street, the city was none too clean, and there were frequent humorous allusions, among the poets and writers of odds and ends, to the misfortunes sustained by pedestrian?, who, while passing along the street, were deluged by buckets of slops carelessly thrown from upper windows. Pliny mentions a wedding which ended In a riot on account of the leading participants being thus besprinkled with filth not of design, but through the carelessness of a housewife. There was another danger hardly less serious. Queer a3 it may seem to us In these days of gas and electricity, the streets of a city which certainly contained 2,000,000 and may have had 4.000,000 of population, were at night in the darkness of Egypt. Such a state of things presented singular facilities for the operations of footpads and highwaymen, and the frequency with which their operations were attended by murder is shown by the numerous epitaphs that have been discovered intimating that he whose ashes lay beneath was killed by robbers. Every householder, every tenant In a tenement house, had to look after his own security, and accordingly the doors of residences at dark were barred, every window was secured" by a strong iron lattice, and in tenement houses the street doors were fastened and a common fund, raised by the tenants, was provided to secure the services of a watchwan to look after the building. In the tenement structures which had r. respectable class of tenants the watchman went his rounds through the building at regular Intervals, but in the better class of houses there were generally two or more watchmen, and the one at the front door was chained so that he at least would give proper attention to business through the night. Putting I.lve Mock on Board. This snap-shot illustrates the manner in which live stock is put ou board ship in the Orkney islands, it is a much more expeditious proceeding than attempting to drive them across a gangway, but it is one that is much objected to by the animals themselves. One can almost fancy the series of unearthly yells this pig is giving vent to as it swings helplessly around in midair. By the way, what a world of Indignation is evident in the severe curl of the creature's tall! M ranee Method of Catrhlnc Flh. In order to capture a fish a South American tribe whips the water with the wood of a tree which contains a substance having a narcotic influence on the fish, which are then readily causht

SOCIETY HI.

MASONIC. PLYMOUTH K I L W INING LODGE, Xo, 149, F. ami A.M.; meets first ami third Friday evenings of each month. Daniel McDonald.W.M. lohn Corberly. Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No -19, R. A. M.; meets second Friday evening of each month. L. Southworth H. P. J. C.Jilsor, Sec. PLYMOUTH COMMAND'RY, No 26 K. T.; meets seconcT and fourth Thursday of each month D McDonald E. C; L.TannerRec PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No 26, O. E. S.; meets first and third Tuesdays of each month. Mrs. Mary L. Thayer V. M.Mrs. G. Aspinall. Sec ODD FELLOWS. AMERICUS LODGE, No. 91; meets every Thursday evening at their lodge rooms on Michigan st. Ed Campbell N. G. Chas. Shearer Sec KNIGHTS OF PYTrllAS. HYPERION LODGE, No. 117 meets every Monday night in Castle Hall. Lou Allman C. C. Chas. S. Price K. of R. and S. FORESTERS. PLYMOUTH COURT, No. 499; meets the second and fourth Fri-d-iy evenings f each month, in K. of P. hall. Elmer Wernta C. R. Daniel Cramer Sec. HYPERION TEMPLE RATHRONE SISTERS, meets first and third Friday of each month Mrs J. G. Davis, Mrs. Rena Armstrong K. 0. T. M. PLYMOUTH TENT, No. 17; meets every Tuesday evening at K. O. T. M. hall. Dan. Jacoby, Com. James Hoffman, Record Keeper. L. O. T. M. WIDE AWAKE HIVE, No. 67; meets every Monday night at K. O. T. M. hall on Michigan street. Mrs. Flora J. Ellis, Commander. Bessie Wilkinson, Record Keeper. HIVE NO. 2S; meets every Wednesday evening in K. O. T. M. hall. Mrs. Maggie Fogle, Com., Alma E. Lawrence, Record Keeper. ROYAL ARCANUM. Meets first and third Wednesday eveninjrsof each month in Simon' hall. Moses M. Lauer, Regent. Francis McCrory, Sec. WOODMEN OP THE WORLD Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in K.of P. hall. C. M. Kasp2r, C. C. Joe Eich, Clerk O. A. R. MILES II. TII5 RETS POST, G. A. R; meets every first and third Monday evenings in Simons hall Dvvight L, Dickcrson Com,. Charlie Wilcox, Adjt. SONS OF VETERNS. Meets every second and fourth Fri day evenings in G. A. R. hall J. A. Shunk, Captain. Cora B. North, ist Lieut. CHURCHES. I' Ii E S B Y T K K I A N CII UIICHTreaching at 10:30 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sabbath school at noon. Junior Endeavor at 4 p. ra. Senior Endeavor at C p. ra. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening. Teacher's meeting im mediately following. Her.Thornberry, Fastor. METHODIST.-Class meeting every Sunday morning at J:30 o'clock I'rcaching at 10:30 a. m., and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 12 m. Epworth league ai 0:30 p. m. Prayer meeting ever Thursday evening at 7:00 p, m. I s. Smith, pastor. .1. W. Wiltfong, clasi leader. I. Frank Itedd, Sabbath school superintendent. I' HOT EST A NT EPIM'OPA L. St Thomas' church. Uev. Wm. Wirt Raymond, rector. Sunday services, 10:30 "a. m., 7:30 p. m. Sunday service, at noon. Services Wednesday evenings at 7:30. Communion on holy days at 10 a. tr. CI1UKCI1 OF (!OI- (Jarro and Water StB. Hegular fervices 10:30 a. ni., each Sunday. Third Sunday in each month preaching by J. L. Wince; fourth Sunday by Ii. V. Heed. 10:30 Sunday morning and 7:30 Sunday evening. Sunday school at 12 o'clock; Eva Klüsback Snpt. Prayer meeting ;at 7:30 each Thursday exening. t! X I TE 1) 1 5 K ET II E U X . Sunday 9:30 a. m., class meeting. 10:30 a. mn and 7:30 p, m., preaching by the pastor. 31:30 a. in., Sunday School. 5:00 p. m. Junior Y. l C. V. meeting. i.-00 p. m., Senior Y. P. C. IT. meeting. A cordial invitation is extended to the public. CATHOLIC CHURCH Church it held, on Sundays as follows: First masi nt. 7:30 a. m.. second mass at 10 a. m. Vepera at 3 p. m. Week day mass at 7:45. Father Moeneh pastor. ARE YOU ALIVE To the fact thai all viovesaful )u.HioR.i men credit their suci-e-i to the lit erul mo of print tV ink? Yfhy not prettt by tl.vlr eiyerteuotf