Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 315, 11 December 1906 — Page 7

The Richmond Palladium,

Tuesday, December 11, 1906. Page Seven

Is Disease a Crime ? Not very long aro, a popular magazine published an editorial article in which the writer asserted, in substance, that all disease should be regarded as criminal. Certain it is, that much of the sickness and suffering of mankind is due to the violation of certain of Nature's laws. But to say that all sickness should he regarded as criminal, must appeal to every reasonable individual as radically wroag. It would be harsh, unsympathetic, cruel, yes criminal, to condemn the poor, weak, over-worked housewife who sinks under the heavy load of household cares and burdens, and suffers from weaknesses various displacements of pelvic

organs and other aerangemenis peculiar to ner sex. Frequent bearing- of children, with Its e acting demand upon tne system, coupi with thn care, worry and labor of rarlrrf a lirre family. I often the cause of taknee. derangements and debility whlh are aggravated by the many households car, and the bard, and nerer-endlng woft which the mother Is called upon to pf rliSrm. iJr. IMerce. the maker of that world-timed remedy for woman's peculiar wealfWsses and Ills Dr. Pierce's Favorite Precf iption says that one of the greatest ohst to the cure of this class of maladies lthfact that the poor, over-worked housewife Ian not get the nneded rest from her many Aouae bold cares and labor to enable her Joltmre from the useof his Prescription "V,u11 benefits. It Is a matter of frequent ejy-rience, be says. In bis extensive practice ti these cases, to meet with thoe in which ras treatment fails by reason of the patient's Inability to abstain from hard work long enoug-h to ha cured. With those suffering from prolapsus, anteversion and retroversion of the uterus or other displacement of the womanly organs. It Is very necessary that. In addition to taking his "Favorite Prescription they abstain from being very much, or for long periods, on their feet. All heavy lifting or straining of any kind should also be avoided. As mwh out-door air as possible, with moderate, lijrhf exercise Is also very Important. L-et the patient observe thee rules and the "Favorite Prescription " will do the rest. Dr. Pierce's Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pav expense of mailing rrnlji. flenci to Dr. R. V. Pierce. Jluffalo. N. Y., 21 on-cent stamps for paper-covered, or 31 stamps for clolh-bouud. If sick consult the Doctor, free of charjre by letter. All such communications ar: held sacredly confidential. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets invigorate a&d regulate stomachy liver and bowels NEW PARIS. New Paris, O., Dec. 10. (Spl.) Willie Kinsey, of II chmond. spent Saturday and Sunday with Claud Dow er. Mr. and Mrs. James Knth and son ;pent Sunday with Miss Jennie Kuth. f Progress. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff McKee, of Farm and, Mrs. Clatterbuck, of Dayton, and rs. Davisson, of Illinois, brother and Ister of our aged townsman. Josiah ; IcKee, spent the latter part of last j ,vek here visiting him and othejj elatlves. j Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Kessler and ; on Harry, spent Sunday with his j rother, Mr. George Kessler Mrs. John Cunningham, of Dayton, pent Sunday with relatives here. Miss Martha White, of Smyrna pent Saturday and Sunday with Miss Eva McKee. Frank Richie and William Baker ave returned from their hnntin laine. Ray Richie, of Camden, visited relaves here Sunday. A. F. Scott has gone to .Toledo to ieit his mother. Lawrence Melody will return to tls ork in Columbus Wednesday. George Arlold has now engaged in lie real estate business. Mrs. James Kuth and con, Byron Jpent Saturday In Campbellstown. Miss Mabel Pence vts'ted V llarie Smelser ou Saturday and . nded the teachers' meeting at Jackira township, Saturday. Franchise For Pole Line. The County commissioners have tainted to the Richmond Citv Water Vorks Company a franchise to estabsh a pole line on the road just west I the driving park from the National pad to the waterworks pumping staon. i nis line is to convey an declie current of 550 volts to be used r operating machinery for the lnrease of the water supply. The curMtt will also be used for lighting lirposes. . 4.1MB WASTED bbliged to Lie With Limbs Higher I nan Head Suffered Untold Agonies and Could Not Walk Doctor Said It Was the Worst Case he Ever Saw. . ANOTHER WONDERFUL CURE BY CUTICUR) 'I received your letter aski'n for formation about -using the cura Remedies. I used them for zema. he doctor said itwas the w t case e ever saw. it ' h limbs. rom the knees t lea. We knew of, ried everything th Kit the Cuticura did the boat rood. I was o&ligoU to lie with y limbs higher thanjn head, for the kin was so terrible Drould not walk. suffered untold agcMies. One limb ated away a great deal smaller than is other, there was so much discharge om it. I found the Cuticura Rcniiies very soothing, and I still keep them the house. 1 am very thankful to Sthat I am cured, and you can pubt his statement if you wish. I found 0 Cuticura Remedies all that you say ey are. I hope that you may bo ared many years to make the Cuticura wmedie for the henerit of rvrnnna enf. ring from the torture of skin diseases. ich as I had. I remain, yours rect fully, Mrs. Gelding, Box 8, Ayr, inada, June 6, 1905.' ED OF CHAPPED HANDS "I have used the Cuticura Soap for ppad hands, which I had been ubled with for about three years. I ered intense pain and itching. I p. and my hands were completely and have never troubled me I also took the Cuticura Kesolt for the blood at the same time. can recommend the Cuticura Remies to others suffering the same, las. Young, Plattsville, Ontario, CanM, Sept. 29, 1905." 'aniBtaa External and Internal TNatnaBt tar im i laraon f uiimni soap, w., uiriiwm, Kraal. . We. la (am of ChorWst ChM Pliia. Sft. par vial TtrMr?Mililn,liav ! can iMMot, SsaJ HuMta" 1

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on o mi By ANNA AHthor ef "The Mvattrv of " ' Copyright, I90J. "I don't know what your Interest is In the small gold charm you were talk ing about, but you have done some good work In this case, and I don't mind telling you what I know about It. That little gold ball has caused the police much trouble. It la on the list of effects found In the room where the candle was seen burning; but when all these petty belonging of Mrs. Jeffrey were gathered up and carried back to her husband, this special one was not to be found among them. It was lost in transit, nor has It ever been seen since. And who .1o you think it was who called attention to this loss and Dvrbia demanded that the article be found? Not Mr. Jeffrey, who seems to lay little or no stress upon It, but the old man they call Uncle David. He, who to all appearance possessed no interest in his niece's personal property, was on hand the moment these things were carried Into Jier husband's house, with the express intention, it seems, of inquiring for this gold ball, which he declared to be a family heirloom. As such it belonged to him as the present holder of the property, nnd to him only. Attention being thus called to it. it was found to be missing, and as no one but the police seemed to be to blame for Its 0S9 the matter was hushed up and would have been retarded as too inslsrnJflcant for comment, the trinket being intrinsically worthless, if Mr. Moore uaj not continued to make such a fuss about it. This ball, he declared, was worth - as niueti to a Moore as all the rest of his property which was bosh, you know and the folly of these assertions and the depth of the passions he displayed whenever the subject was mentioned have made some of us question If he is the innocent inheritor he has tried to make himself out. At all events, I know for a certainty that the district attorney holds his name In reserve, if the grand jury fails to bring In an indictment against Miss Tuttle." "The district attorney is wise," I remarked, and fell a-tblnking. Ilad this latent suspicion against Mr. Moore any solid foundation? "Was he the guilty man? The memorandum I had come across in the book which h;id been lately pulled down from the library shelves showed that, notwithstanding his testimony to the contrary, he had been In that house close tipon that fatal night if not on the very night itself. It also showed his extreme interest In the traditions of the family. But did it show anything more? Had he interrupted his writing to finish his query in blood, and had one of his motives for this crime been the acquisition of this filigree ball? If so, why had he left It on the table upstairs? A candle had been lit in that room. Could it have been by him in his search for this object? It would be THE riLICBCC BALL a great relief to believe so. What was the reason, then, that my mind refused so emphatically to grasp this possibility and settle upon him as the murderer of Mrs. Jeffrey? I cannot tell. I hated the man, and I likewise deeply distrusted him. Rut I could not, even after this,revelatlon of his duplicity, connect him in my thoughts with absolute crime without a shock to my intuitions. Happily my scruples were nothared by my colleagues. They had listed him. Here I felt my shoulder touched, and a newspaper was thrust into my hand by the man who had just addressed me. "Look down the lost and found column," said he. "The third advertiseraent you will see there came from the district attorney' office. The next one was Inserted by Mr. Moore himself. I followed his pointing finger and ball. The disproportion in the rewards V ,r ."'A, , , IT ijj l ucie jjhviu was vuicmuieu iu rouse any man's cupidity and should hare resulted in the bauble's Immediate return. "lie got ahead of the police that time.- I laughed. "When did these advertisements appear?" "During the days you were absent from Washington." "And how sure are you that he did not get this jewel back?" "Oh, we are sure. His continued anxiety and still actiTe Interest prove this, even if our surreillance had been less perfect." "And the police have been equally unsuccessful?" "Equally." "After every effort?" "Every." "Who was the man who collected and carried out those things from the southwest chamber?" He smiled. "You see him." said he. ' "It was you?" "Myself." "And you are sure this small ball was among them?" "Xo. I only know that I have seen It somewhere, but that it wasn't among the articles I delivered to Mr. Jeffrey." "How did you carry tbem?" "In a band bag which I locked myttilC.

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ati . f t T M T J f t W r F - - ' - - - G6e KATHARINE GREEN, imaih Wehh Man'. I re - Ftr " .-5by toe Bobbs-Mcrrill Cenpaoj -Before leaving the southwest chamber r "Yes." "Then it is still in that roorr.r 'Find it," was Lis laconic reply. That night I went back to the Moore house and sought first on the open floor and then In every possible cranny for the missing trinket. But I failed to find it and was about to acknowledge myself defeated when my eye fell on the long brocaded curtains which I had drawn across the several windows to j street. They were almost free from folds, but I shook them well, especially the one nearest the table, and naturally ' with no effect. "Folly," I muttered, yet did not quite desist. For the great tassels still hung at the sides and Well, you may call it an impossible find or say that if the bauble was there It should have been discovered in the first search for it. I will not say no. I can only tell you what happened. Wfcen I took one of those tassels in my band I thought, as

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Startled, and yet not thoroughly realizing that I had come upon the object of my search, I picked at this thing and found it to be a morsel of gold chain that had become entangled in it. When I had pulled it out It showed a small golden ball at one end. filigreed over and astonishingly heavy for its size and apparent delicacy. The talisman of this old family was found. I had but to discover what it held concealed to understand what had baffled Mr. Moore and made the mystery he had endeavored to penetrate bo insolvable. And what did I find Inside? Something so different from what I expected, something so trivial and seemingly harmless, that it was not until I recalled the final words of Uncle David's memorandum that I realized fts full import and the possibilities it suggested. In Itself It wart nothing but a minute magnifying irlass: but when used In connection with-what? Ah. that was just what Uncle David failed to say, possibly to know. No: guessing would not answer. I must trust to the inspiration of the ! moment, which suggested with almost irresistible conviction: The picture! That inane and seemingly worthless drawing over the fireplace in The ColoneVs Own, whose presence in so rich a room has always been a mystery t Why this object should have suggested itself to me and with such instant conviction I cannot readily say. Whether, from my position near the bed, the sight of this old drawing recalled the restless nights of all who had lain in face of Its sickly smile, or whether some recollection of that secret law of the Moores which forbade the removal of any of their pictures from the time worn walls, or a remembrance of the curiosity which this picture excited in every one who looked at it Francis Jeffrey among the number I no sooner nsked myself what object in this house might possibly yield counsel or suggest aid when 1 subjected to the Influence of a magni- I fyine elass than the answer, which I have already given, sprang instantly into my mind the picture! Greatly excited. I sprang upon a chair, took down the drawing from the T.kin4 down the draiwinj . wall and laid it face up on the bed. Then I placed the glass over one of the large coils surrounding the Insipid face, and was startled enough. In spite of all mental preparation, to perceive the crinkly lines which formed it resolve themselves into script and the script into words, some of which were perfectly legible. The drawing, simple as it looked, t. . r ,. . those who used a magnifying glass to read It. I could hardly contain my triumph, hardly find the self control necessary to a careful study of its un- ' h therein contained But when I had done this and had copied the whole of the wandering scrawl on a page of my notebook the result was of value. Read and Judge for yourself: "Coward that I am, I am willing to throw upon posterity the shadow of a crime whose consequences I dare not incur in life. Confession I must make. t To die and leave no record of my deed is impossible, yet how tell my story so that only my own heirs may read and they when at the crisis of their fate? I believe I have found the way by this drawing and the injunction I have left to the holders of the filigree balL "Xo man ever wished his enemy dead more than I did, and no man ever spent more cunning on the deed. Mas- ? ter in my own house, I contrived a de vice by which the man who held my fate in his hands fell on my library hearth, with no one near and no sign by which fo associate me with the act. Does this seem like the assertion of a madman? Go to the old chamber familiarly called The Colonel's Own. Pnter its closet, pull out its two drawers and in the opening thus made seek for the loophole at the hack, through which, if you stoop low enough, you

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on your ngnt, ana waen it 10 acnes an obstruction pass It if it Is a handle for that is only used to rewind the apparatus and must be turned from you until it can be turned no farther but if it is a depression you encounter press and press hard on the knob concealed within it. But beware when any one you love is seated in that corner of the settle where the cushion invites rest lest it be your fate to mourn and wall as it is mine to curse the hour when I sought to clear my way by murder, for the doom of the man of blood is upon me. "The hindrance is gone otit of my life, but a horror has entered it beyond the conception of any soul that has not yielded itself to the unimaginable influThe dra.wnj undar the Magnifying glass

ences emanating from an accomplished crime. cannot be content with having pressed that spring once. A mania is upon me which, after thirty years of useless resistance and superhuman struggle, still draws me from bed and sleep to rehea rse in ghastly fashion my early manhood. I that deed of cannot resist it. To tear out the deadj mechanism, unhinge weight and op1" pantomime wnat I now go through in fearsome silence and secre cy. When the hour comes, as come it must that I cannot rise and enter that fataicloset, I shall still enact the deed in dreams and shriek aloud in my sleep and wish myself dead and yet fear to die lest my hell be to go through all eternity slaying over and over my man in ever growing horror and repulsion. "Do you wish to share my fate? Try to effect through blood a release from the difficulties menacing you." CHAPTER XXII. RESTORED the picture to Its place and left the building. As I did so the first signs of dawn became visible in the east. I had expended three hours in picking out the meaning concealed in the wavy ! ,ines of the oId picture. 1 was early at headquarters that I morning, but not so early as to find the I superintendent alone. A group of men ' were already congregated about him in his small office, and when, on being ad mitted, I saw among them the district attorney, Durbin and another famous detective, I Instinctively knew what matter was under discussion. There was with them a fourth man, who stood apart. On him the general attention had been concentrated at my entrance and to him it now returned. He was an unpretentious person of kindly aspect. To any one accustomed to Washington residents, he bore the unmistakable signs of being one of the many departmental employees whose pay Is inadequate to the necessities of his family. Of his personal peculiarities I note' -yo. He blinked vfhen be talked r. muttered painfully when excited. Notwithstanding these defects he made a good Impression and commanded confidence. This I soon saw was of importance, for the story he now entered upon was one calculated to make me forget my own errand and even to question my own convictions , The first intimation I received of the curious nature of his communication was through the following questions, put to him by the major: "You are sure this gentleman Is identical with the one pointed out to you last night? "Very sure, sir. I can swear to it.' "You recognize him positively? "Positively. I should have picked him out with the same assurance if I had seen him in some other city and in a crowd of as fine looking gentlemen as himself. His face made a great Impression on me. You see, I had ample time to study it in the few mlnutea we stood so close together. "So you have said. Will you be kind enough to repeat the circumstance? I should like the man who has just come in to hear your description of this scene. Give the action, please. It is all very interesting.'' The stranger glanced Inquisitively in my direction, and turned to obey the superintendent. "I was returning to my home in Georgetown on the evening of May 11, the day of the great tragedy. My wife was inland I had been into j town to see a physician, and should have gone directly home; but I was curious to see how high the flood was running you remember It was over the banks that night. So I wandered out on the bridge, and came upon the gvuuema.n auouc wuom you nave ueen questioning me. He was standing all alone leaning on the rail thus." Here the speaker drew up a chair, and, crossing his arms over its back, bent his head down over them. "I did not know him, but the way he eyed the water leaping and boiling In a yellow flood beneath was not the wny of a curious man like myself, but of one who was meditating some desperate deed. , He was handsome and well dressed, but he looked a miserable wretch and was In a state of such complete self absorption that he did not notice me, though I had stopped not five feet from his side. I expected to see him throw himself over, but instead of that he suddenly raised hia head, and, gating straight before him, not at the heavy current, but at some Tsion In hU own m,nd' broke forth in these words, spoken as I had neTer heard words spoken before" Here the speaker's stuttering got the better of him and the district attorney had time to say: "What were these words? Spesk them slowly; e hare all the time there is." Instantly the man plucked up heart, and. eying us all impressively, was able to say: "They were these: 'She must die! She must dieT Xo name, but just the one phrase twice repeated, 'She must die?

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vvu a tin, i waa moving tvW.j away when he drew his arms from the rail like this and still staring into space added in the same hard and determined Toice this one word more. Tonight.' and. wheeling about, passed me with one blank and wholly unconscious look and betook himself toward the city. As he went by. his lips opened for the third time. Wb!ch means, he cried, between a croan and a shriek, 'a bullet for her and' I wish I had heard the rest, but he was out of my hearing before his sentence was finished." "What time was this?' "As near half 'prist . is possible. It was " when I reached home a few minutes latar." "Ah, he must have gone to the cemetery efter this." "I am quite sure of it."

"Why didn't you follow the man?" grumbled Durhin. "It wasn't my business. He was a stranger and possibly mad. I didn't know what to do." "What did you dor "Went home and kept quiet: my wife was very ill that night and I had my own cause for anxiety." Tou, however, read the papers next morning?" "No, sir, nor for many days. My wife grew constantly worse and for a I week I didn't leave her. not knowing but that every breath would be her last. I was dead t everything out side the sickroom, and when she grew better, which wts very gradually, we j had t( take 1 i no opportunity of speaking of this I had oc currence to any one till a week ago. when some remark published in con nection wiui Mrs. Jeffrey s death re called that encounter on the bridge. I told a neighbor that I believed the man I had seen there was Mr. Jeffrey, and we looked up the papers and ran over them till we came upon his pic ture. That settled it, and I could no longer being free from home anxieties now hold my tongue, and the police heard" "That will do. Mr. Gelston," broke in the major. "When we want you again we will let you know. Durbin, see Mr. Gelston out." I was left alone with the major and the district attorney. The major wae the first to speak. Addressing the district attorney, be remarked: "This will atrengthen your case very materially. We have proof now that Mrs. Jeffrey's death was actually determined upon. If Miss Tuttle had not shot her, he would. I wonder if It was a relief to him on reaching his door to find that the deed was done." I could not suppress my surprise. "Miss Tuttle!" I repeated. "Is it so unmistakably evident that Mr. Jeffrey did not get to the Moore bouse In time to do the shooting himself?" The major gave me a quick look. "I thought you considered Miss Tuttle the guilty one." I felt that the time had come to show my colors. "I have changed my mind," said I. "I can give you no good reason for this; something in the woman herself, I suppose. She does not look nor act like a criminal. While not desirous of raising myself in opposition to the judgment of those so greatly my superiors in all respects, I have had this feeling, and I am courageous enough to avow it. And yet, if Mr. Jeffrey could not have left the cemetery gates and reached the Moore house in time to fulfill all the conditions of this tragedy, the case does look black against the woman. She admits to having been there when the pistol was fired, unless" "Unless what? You have something new to tell us. That I have seen ever since you entered the room. What ia itr I cast a glance at the door. Should I be able to finish my story before Durbin returned? I thought it pos sible, and, though still upset by this new evidence, which I could now see was not entirely in Miss Turtle's favor, I. spoke up with what spirit I might. "I have just come from spending another night in the Moore bouse. All the efforts heretofore made to exhaust its secrets have been founded upon a theory that has brought us nowhere. I had another In mind, and I was anxious to test it before resting from all further attempt to solve this riddle. And It has not failed me." As I said this I laid open on the table before me the transcription of which I spoke. Instantly the two men bent over it. When they looked op again, their countenance showed not excitement only, but appreciation: and In the one minute of triumph which I then enjoyed all that had wounded or disturbed me in the past was forgotten. The major now proposed that we should go at once to the old house. "A family secret like this does not crop up every dsy even in a city so full of surprises as Washington We will hunt for the spring under the closet drawers, and see what happens, eh? And on our way there" here he turned to me "I should like to hear the particulars concerning the little clew Just mentioned. By the way, Mr. Jeffrey's interest in this old drawing is now explained. : He knew its diabolical secret." This was self evident, and my heart was heavy for Miss Tuttle. who seemed to be so deep in her brother-in-law's confidence. - It grew still heavier when Durbin, Joining us, added his incredulity to the air of suspicion assumed by the others. Our first" more was to go in a body to the southwest chamber, take down the picture, examine it with a magnifying glass and satisfy ourselves that the words I had picked out of its mazy lines were really to be found, there. This done and my veracity established, we next proceeded to the closet where. according to the instruction embodied in this picture, the secret spring was to be found by which some unknown and devilish machinery would be released in the library below. (To Be Continued.) Take New Position. Charle Cox has resigned his position at the Wayne Works to take one with the Davis Carriage Company.

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aaaaaaaaaaa at. a, BENTON CAMP ELECTS. Officers Chosen for Coming Year by Sons of Veterans F. E. Pioneer Commander. The William P. Benton Camp, No 28, Sons of Veterans, at its meeting last night elected the following off! cers: Commander F. E. Pioneer. Sr. Vice Com. A. E. Rani s. Jr. Vice. Com. O. P. Coryell. Sec'y. C. R. Tingle. Treas. Oliver Van Zant. Camp Qouncil Claude Kitterncjiii, A. C. Thomas, Alex Martin. Delegates to Encampment at BluT ton J. M. Ranks, J. C. Pyle. Alternate Delegates J. E. Taylor, C M. Parks. In addition to the business meeting O. F. Coryell read an Interesting paper on "Oliver P. Morton. CENTEpVILLE POSTG.A. R. HELD ANNUAL ELECTION. Centerville, Ind.. Dec. 10. (Spl.) At a regular meeting of Frank Beitrell Post, G. A. R., the following ofTi cers were elected for the ensuing year: Commander- Enneas Ktterman. Senior Vice Commander John Voss. Junior Vice , Commander Ximrod Henry Seymour. Chaplain A. D. Yehrung. Quartermaster John F. Dynes. Patriotic Instructor William DeM . ss. Officer of the Day Marcellus Beit j zell. - j Officer Guard Jacob Tibbetts. Adjutant William Matthews. Sergeant Major James Dearth, f artermaster Sergeant Moss Mitchell. The post will meet on the first Thursday of each month at 2 o'clock p. m. (Signed) WILLIAM MATHEWS Adjutant. Ruple Goes Free. John Ruple. charged by Wlelacd, of the Windsor hotel beating a board bill, was rele Dy the police yesterday, the be- I log paid by a friend of the Artificial gas. the 20th Century fuel.

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