The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 13, Number 23, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 October 1920 — Page 2

The Mystery of Hartley House By CLIFFORD S. RAYMOND Illustrated by IRWIN MYERS . Copyright by George H. Dor»n Co,

CHAPTER XVl—Continued, ?■ ‘■K - ~ 16 - '- •*Buo hi scheme of-Mlfe.had .this in It disaster .tojhis n Inxnf'S of any discipline related to their spiritual and mental development. When we were corrected or punishf-fl 'it wds fd- corfduct which affected his, comfort or dignity, never for .a thing which affected lite development of our character. ._ ‘‘We had abundant hjoney to spend. It was . a part of our father's egotism that we should be young swells, and we w.eije' eaj'Ly in disorderly wajs. Richard had a genius for cruelty. A normal boy is likely Hfo be thoughtless, but Richard was inyentiye in his cruelties. It was brutal.' He liked to tear things to pieces‘slowly, a fly if-It was all he could catch —a ( grassliopper. a field mouse. I had a faithful little dog. w'hiAb Richard staked out in the ground, ajul.. killed. by._ vivisection. I saw the little animal when it was breathing its last with its bowels exits Jungs laid bare. “Hi hard destroyed birds’ nests for pleasfiVe. 'Tie liked to cut a leg off a hen fJnd-.fc'e it stagger about vainly trying to walk. He maimed dogs. He tortiftdfi Hittie and horses: He killed a fine carriage horse by-driving it to death purposely to see how long it would live" under the treatment he gave it. I typs /i more lovable chilli, but at least I fil'd not have the attribute oT cruelty. I was not only youhger btlf I Was weaker I was sensitive to a degree .which made me an .extraordinary victim to Richard when he cart'd tM exppess* , iiis fiendishnesßlt<wor up<’f. ”«¥• .<. • “We, w.mre , getting into late childhood—l 'say tIuAT wps about fourteen—when Richard began to use his -indentiyeness,.in cruelty upon me directly. As soon as he had a taste of fiio'doligh't ;: <v*lileh daYfte from tormenti W M-' b had peaqp. . “I remember with a still agonized vividness my experience In finding a sn'a’S* n mV bed. ; .He<.had put it there. He *use4 hiY.yißeripr strength? to torture me physically.’ He dominated me spiritually.' lle''hiade life a hell, such a hell as life can. hesmade only for a chil>,d ’.y .mistreatment, when reality has' not' starkly' s asserted itself, when proper:ioiis ■ iffe. ■ not "established and when illusions caji, lie kindly or hideous. ' ‘•Richard nYid' t grow up In this fashlorn L'.llr. and his malevolence., When.l was fifteen mother dihd. She, bed been .fin unassertive mother. Cirri.l' stances and Conditions were beyosti’..hi'r strength of mind or body, but she b <1 been a friend, and I missed her c"”.olly. It really a terrible time wh\T I much needed a ‘.‘As, we' grew older Richard’s dlabolßhl habits bAcame'-only shrewder, nbr ress' J assertiv«x ( He contrived the most ingenious schemes for my torment. He humiliated me whenever possiMeC’iW'fore 'other <b<jys find, better for Js’* par;yise, bpfori} . girls., . ‘.‘My father put us out to'school together.’ and this suited Richard’s puradmirably* Ho*v I;, hated . this thing that bore my name and my blood 1 jt became an indomitable 1 hate. It ■exHts*to 'fYiis ‘(Tn\. NiV'hhinan being .eii’r.^fras’spfhdjfijj jby .as my Jjijvthpi - Richard was by .me —and Isis* to. .this' mon&nWtW* will' be hated \vTff?4'rv I’wMi fVnfrttfisuln-jny hpdy, “When L,(.<VK.aa jiny father aU($. and .Riclmx'f « n d I inherited the estate ’tih‘ffi > 'r“h Trusteeship to continue WftHn .tOined his majority. He was profligate andYvlldYn heavy drinker, a coarse, ..i» licentious ydung .ruffian who had suffered t twice in actions brought by weal ‘ and unfortunate '£trls. ■ ' ■ ' -• ' . - . < •’■fit Jfritat.'ed him .beyond expression ■ ithtit MJiad to wait the slow process .of*my coining of Agd before he could "cbhie' intb his share of -.the property. iBLls-constant demeanor toward me was : violent... Several times I tried to establish the reasonable relations which ought, in convention, to exist between brdthers. It was quite hopeless, and xny piite.for this boor came to be an insane passion; It fPmaihs as a passion UAyV’.yv- -. , ... .. • ■ - - <% “I nyiy be able to -dtisfy anyone that, .this was ' the inevitable conse’qi’eiii'e of the tfehtmohf given mm but I- could if I were to elaborate the demerely state tjiem. However, my purpose is riot so much to indict my brother as to record my own tri- .. nmph-—to .assist the commission of a crimp which, has been of intense satisfaction to ihe, a crime im which I have ’maintained ‘ my ciflpqbillty with joy an(J;fvoni which,. Richard has suffered . apdjs suffering.' \ , “He Is a -broken old ffian. He is in .penitentiary.” ■' .JTere followed a section of the manuscript from 'which, as' I recognized; .the page Dravada had taken was miss- ■ lag.’ ■ Then it continued: a little more.assertive of . my ‘rights and dignity, with the result 5 quhrrels were more violent. .<lfrr>d to .fit myself physically to meet lilcltard, but he was very sturdy, and his profligate tfabits Had hot yet undermined his'health. When I resisted •him. physically he had the better of ihe. Three times knocked me ’ unconscious.' Once I was ill Tn bed a week as ttj? result of a beating he gave me. .he threatened that he me. * He’ said this often and operflyn with every evidence of earnestiftesS aod determination. Later that counted, against him.' “I was not cowed, and with the great ‘hatred firmly rooted.l was willing tc the (Unequal struggle yylth him. ..It. was a joy to hate him, fight him, even to be beaten by •him. I had re gained 'enough courage; tn seek, sociability. • It was difficult, because his xefiaed sense of cruelty 1“*

‘Search me out. wherever I might be With my friends, and to humiliate me, if possible, be fore them. “One night I had been at a tavern In the village with some boys of my acquaintance when Richard, being drunk and very violent, found me, and there was a scene in which he made loud threats that he intended to kill me. “One of my friends persuaded me to go home. At Hartley house we walked the distance from the house to the village in those days. I set out alone, but Richard, breaking away from the young men who would have detained him, pursued me. He caught up with me, and we abused each other as we walked, being overheard by several persons along the way. “When we came to a pool by the river near the house, he became insanely violent, cried that he was sick of seeing, me on earth and would rid himself of she sight of me. He attacked me with a heavy stick he carried, • succeeded in breaking down my guard and knocked me unconscious. cries, while he was attacking, were heard by a farmer living across the road. Richard was insanely drunk. He intended to kill me and thought he had done So. He left the spot, disturbed, probably, by the thought of physical consequences but, I am sure, not by any spiritual misgivings. “I do not know how long I remained unconscious or when ,1 awoke. It may have been ten. forty or sixty minutes. It may-have been an hour or two., When it was, consciousness brought an aching head and a dawning detenpinirtlon. “Life with Richard at Hartley house hath become impossible. I could no longer control him, I could no longer endure him. “A chance of escape and of revenge was -possible. I was. in Richard’s understanding, dead. He had tried to kill me; He 'might tie made to think he had. I had considerable money with me. Richard, of course, had not touched it. Each of us had been given, that morning, five hundred dollars by trustees. That had been the occasion of Richard’s murderous debauch. It is strange—or is it?—that I never think 1 of him as, or ever called him,Dick. “I arranged the spot as well as I could' in the details to suggest that my drunkdn and brutal brother had not only killed me but had disposed. of my body in the'river. When I had If ill KwWjl Bl E / z He Became insanely Violent. done this, relying for success on his uncertain mbmory of the act which •already had terrified him, I left Hartley house—all its painful memories and brutal experiences, the unhappiness I had experienced there, the miserable childhood, the wretched boyhood and the young manhood, come to this furtive, malevolent end. And I there resolved that if I got safely away anil if my design worked out successfully, I should return to the selfsame spot some time to live a jo'vial life where life had been so drear. “My plans were not perfect; my .resources and my intelligence for this sudjlen meeting of the world were slender ; but my success was beyond expectation. “First I had the satisfaction of knowing that my brother ‘was taken for my murder. Circumstances were all against him, and he was .convinced :in his own heart that he had, not only killed me as he so often had wished to dp, but that he had disposed of my body. ■ “In arranging the spot to indicate a murder I had thrown my hat, which was broken and bloody, down the bank. It had caiight .on a projecting rock. •! had taken a ring off my finger and had thrown that into the pool. I also had thrown in my coat. It had blood on the collar and shoulders. All this seemed to me to afford inconclusive evidence, -’but there were obvious difficulties in finding a body which might increase Richard’s troubles. “1 waited in New York, carefully concealed, many months, reading of the progress of my murder trial in the newspapers. It gained some celebrity. The prosecuting zeal was tremendous, apd public interest. I gathered, acute. My ring was dredged up and was regarded as. Important evidence. The dredge also brought up some bones which, as I read in the papers, were regarded as *fish-nlbbled remains of me. “Much legalistic argument ensued. I became a case of Importance, Involving prlficlples of evidence. The superficial facts were all against Richard. . Hia confession faced him. Xbe evi-

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dence I had arranged damned him. Our relationship in hate and his threats against me arose against him. He thought he had killed me. He knew he had. There were many witnesses against him. “The only thing helping him was *he lack of a clearly identifietl body. But there were vestiges of something which, in the circumstances, were accepted as parts of the corpus delicti. I think the prosecution and the jury, convinced that I was dead and my remains swept away, were anxious to, meet technically the requirements of law. “The story of our lives together, as I read it in the testimony of witnesses who knew more of its terrors than I thought anyone knew, was terrific. It would have damned jmy aggressor In the opinion of any body of men. Everyone who knew anything of the case, Richard himself included, was convinced that I had been murdebed. Ibe doubt which remained merely served to get Richard a life sentence instead of the gallows. Popular psychology condemned him. The lack of essential evidence was ignored. “I waited until I knew what his fate was. and then, rejoicing. I left the country. I had no. prospects and few plans, but my inclination was to go to South America, and 1 followed it “My hatred never ceased. It grew as a passion, at first a disturbing one, later a satisfactory one. I wanted this man to suffer. Nothing that he can sniffer will properly pay him —at least it will not pay my score. “Some day, I know, for I have the determination, I shall return to Hartley house as its owner, although esteemed an alien, with a false name, a. false life and a great joy. What is a family that I should not enjoy my perfect revenge upon this brute who made fifteen years and more of my dife, in its most impressionable form, an undesirable tiling when it was most desired? “I shall go back to Hartley house, and if life and health be spared me, I shall make it and life in it jovial, and if strength be spared my will, the knowledge that my brother Richard is suffering for the murder of a dead live man shall be the cosy north wind in the caves below which burn my cheerful fires. “This is my crime, and if it causes no-one dear to toe later to suffer. I want it known. Some day I shall go back as a man wholly unknown tcfl people who knew the Dobsons. I shall | be whab I have been, Homer Sidney, i I shall buy the old place. I shall know I that Richard Dobson is suffering a ■ most equitable but Illegal punishment , in a penitentiary close to the’ place where I shall live in the circumstances which a great deal of money will enable me to set up. “That is my natural revenge upon a fiend who happened to come of the same parents as I. Hate is a wonder--ful friend.” CHAPTER XVII. Jed came Into the room again as I finished reading, and put another log on the fire. Then he sat down in a rocking chair by the fire. • “They met that night, you know," lie said after he had rocked a while. “They?” I said. “Arthur and Richard Dobson,” said Jed. “Mr. Sidney and his brother, who is over there in the penitentiary.” “They met what night?" I asked. Jed was patient. “They met the night last fall,” he explained, “when you found Mr. Sidney leaving the house,. the night 1 found you outside, the night we pretended I was sick, the night he came in here and had us call the penitentiary to say a convict had escaped. That night, he met his brother. His brother was the convict.” • Jed was rocking and talking to the fire. “Mr. Sidney—Arthur Dobson—” he said, “went out to see the pool on every anniversary of his murder. He found the strength out of some reservoir of will. The reaction was almost disastrous. I imagine he might have lived another year or two if he had not had the experience he had this fall. " . ’ “I knew it was a great hate that was keeping Mr. Sidney alive,” be continued. “Such a hate as he had! I don’t know that I understand it now. It was so unprofitable. Or was it? I do not know. It had a great value in hi? life. I think the hate he cherished warmed and colored his life. “He went to the pool every year the night of his murder. He did not know that I went with him. It was sqph an abnormal abuse of his strength. I was afraid for him.”' “Your prospects depehded upon him,” I suggested. He allowed a moment to pass in silence. It was as if he permitted ventilation before we again entered'the room of common thought and communion. He did not look pained or hurt in any fashion. There was nb display about' it. He just refrained for a moment from talking. It \vas as if he were opening the windows for that moment. When the air was cleared of the odors of my testy remark. he on as if I had said nothing. The old rascal was very difficult to deal with. “The night I am reminding you of he met Richard Dobson at the pool and recognized him. The poor old fool, Dick, had walked out of the penitentiary. He had every opportunity to do so. The warden would have let him out if he had asked, to go. He was helpless outside. He did not have a place to get a rag or a crust. But he wanted to escape.

“There must have been something in his mind about this night and this place. Arthur Dobsop found' his brother standing by the pool. I was 50 feet away, hidden by the bushes. I could see the two old men in the moonlight, and when Arthur Dobson began to speak, I could hear distinctly. "‘Well, Richard,’” said Mr. Sidney, ‘we are here again.’ “Richard Dobson quavered in a weak, senile tone, almost a falsetto: ‘Who are you?’ “ ‘l’m your brother Arthur,’ said Mr. Sidney. ‘What are you doing here?' "Richard Dobson must have felt that he was confronted by a ghost. He made a shrill little sound, as an old woman might. I was palsied. The situation was tremendous. I didn’t know what would happen, and I didn’t know what to do. Mr. Sidney was calm as an oyster. “‘I am your brother Arthur, Richard,’ he said, ‘and I am not dead. I haven’t been dead. You didn’t kill me. I have been living in the old place comfortably while you have been in prison. No one would believe you if you told that. You are old and half crazy. If you were out of prison, you would die of starvation anti exposure In 24 hours. I am not a ghost, Richard; I am your living brother.’ (TO BE CONTINUED.) LUCKY AND UNLUCKY DAYS Study of Statistics Will Enable Almost Any One to Justify His Pet Belief. Cold, hard statistics prove that the greatest number of premier awards for gallantry were won on Monday. .No other day showing anything like the same record, though the muchmaligned Friday stands out noticeably. Which fact give§ some color to the superstitions many people have about certain days of the week being lucky, while others are unlucky. . Tuesday seenis to be the bad day of the week: calamities are far more common On that day than on any other day. Railway disasters, fires, street accidents—-the record in each case is held easily by Tuesday. And it is the day most favored, too, by those who desire to put an end to their existence. Saturday also has a bad reputation; its specialty is ( murders; and fully half the petty crime that is,dealt with in the police courts occurs on that day. But probably that is because Saturday also holds the record for drunkenness. There is nothing very distinctive about Thursday beyond the fact that it is the day upon which the, birthrate is highest: and Sunday is noticeable only for its low death-rate. Wednesday is, above all the rest, the day of weddings. This applies to all classes, and nearly as many marriages are celebrated on that day alone as upon any three of the others. —Montreal Herald. Don’t Neglect Your Play. There are men in the world who feel that the whole works would stop if they took time enough to play a -little. That’s all bosh. The man who can play well is usually the fellow who can put the work across. Some have the play spirit so well in hand that they make sport of their work. It is real pleasure, to them. They get both recreation and profit from theii efforts. It’s no wonder they stay young in their work. And don’t forget that if you would succeed you must carry yous load. It’s a mistake to get out from under responsibility. It’s meeting responsibility that makes progress possible. Shirkers are not in demand. They may put things over occasionally, but they do it at the expense of personal discount. You can’t afford to do it. Carry your load like a man.—Grit. An Acre. The word acre is derived from the old Anglo-Saxon word aecer, and is identical with the Latin word aver, meaning a cultivated field. The English acre* consists of 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. If yout field is a rectangle, that is, having four sides and each angle a right angle or “square corner,” its area is obtained by multiplying the length by the breadth. If your measurements are in rods, the result will be square rods; if In yards, square yards; and if in feet, square feet. A field 132 feet by 165 feet of rectangular shan ( contains 21.780 square feet. It is therefore, half an acre. But a rectangular field might be different length and width, and yet contain ar acre. For example, if it is 330 feet long and 66 feet wide it will contain 21.780 square feet, or half an acre. Not a Fixed Opinion. Lawyer (examining prospective juror in criminal case)—Mr. Juror, have you any fixed opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused? Juror (emphatically) —Naw, I ain’t get no doubt but the. guy’s guilty, but they ain’t nobody fixed me. ,y/hy Holland Grows Willows Holland is covered with willow trees, and the great dikes of the country are made stronger by the network formed by the roots. —Brooklyn Eagle. Some Never Unmask. Unfortunately our blessings in disguise are painfully slow in unmask tng.—Boston Transcript. . Philosophy. If I live another couple of years » ought to be able to hold out for tin rest of my lifer—Chrjstiaaia Tjrihaux * •*’* »* <# *’* ‘ ;1X

WOMENMAHDTE TO SUIT SELVES SOME POLITICIANS SEE SIGNS THAT THEY WILL NOT FOLLOW LEAD OF MEN FOLK. REGISTER AS INDEPENDENTS Headquarters of the Old Parties Learn the People Are Rather Apathetic— Campaign Hasn’t Developed Any Overshadowing Issue. f By JAMES P. HORNADAY. Z Washington.—With the presidential election drawing near, politicians would be happier if they knew how the women will vote. The recent promulgation of the amendment to the federal constitution conferring the right to vote on all women has introduced a factor in the campaign with which the politicians have not had to reckon to any great extent in the past. Wherever registration of voters has taken place since the amendment was promulgated, the women have shown an eagerness to register which iridicates that the new vote will be a heavy one; It is. regarded as significant that in a good many states the women are registering as independents, rather than as Democrats, Republicans. Prohibitionists, Socialists or whatnot. Politicians generally agree that this probably means that the women have not made up their minds what they intend to do on election day. Some persons xvhose business it is to keep track of things politically have a theory that the women as a rule will not vote as their men folk vote. In this connection it is pointed out that in the home circle it has been the habit for a long time to chide the prospective women voters about voting as their husbands or brothers or sweethearts voted. It is asserted that this chiding has got on the nerves of a great many women who feel that it is incumbent on them to display some independencewhen they go to the polls, and the prediction is made that in every state there will be many thousands of women who will make it a point not to vote the way the men folk in the family voted. All this speculation interests the politicians and where it is taken seriously makes the problem before them more difficult of solution. People Rather Apathetic. The reports to the headquarters of the old political parties as a rule indicate that the people are not as yet showing any keen interest in the election. The two leading candidates for president have received cordial receptions wherever they have traveled,, but the common run of spellbinders sent out by the speaking bureaus of the committee have, it is asserted, not faced unusual crowds. The people are nojf disposed to be demonstrative at al£ Some of the politicians argue that tiff voters have made up their minds, while others set forth the view that the people who are to do the voting are yet to be convinced. With the period of time for presenting arguments to the people becoming brief it is generally agreed that the campaign has not developed any overshadowing issue. The Leagud of Nations has been talked about more than any other one thing and in some localities has apparently become a real issue, but for the country as a whole it has not stirred things as some of the politicians thought it would. Attempts have been- made to introduce the “wet and dry” issue into the national Campaign, but thus far they have not succeeded to any great extent. It is a’ real issue, however, iff a good many congressional districts. The supporters of the prohibition amendment are seeking to bring about the election of members of congress who will not vote to weaken the law under which prohibition is enforced. It is generally agreed that the amendment itself is in the constitution to stay, and that the only question is whether congress will ever see fit to weaken the enforcing legislation. Alaska to Solve Paper Problem. That tlie shortage of newsprint will >e overcome by new paper mills n Alaska is predicted by Col. W. B. Greeley, chief of the forest service, who has just returned from a month’s inspection of timber and water power on the Tongass national for?st. “The national forests of Alaska.” said Colonel Greeley, “contain resources sufficient to produce 1,500,000 :ons of paper annually in perpetuity, md a paper industry in the territory is now assured.” Colonel Greeley beieves that the administration of Alasgreat resources should be put in the hands of men on the ground, out is opposed to the transfer of all federal interests to a local commission. “The Tongass national forest,”" says oe, “comprises 15,500,000 acres. The sulk of its woodland is along the water edge. The forest is a narrow coastal belt running from one to six miles fronf the water. Until now Alaska has had no pulp mills. It boasts »f twenty sawmills up and down the coast, but they have been used principally to cut lumber for local use and for making cases in which fish are packed. I am satisfied, however, as a result of my recent trip, that the opportunities are there for a second Norway in the paper Industry. My ambi:ion is to help develop the paper iniustry in Alaska along the same lines is in the Scandinavian countries. I ivould make it a permanent industry.

PAGODA, A PLACE OF WORSHIP. A pagoda is a Hindu place of worship, containing an idol. It consists ?f three portions—an apartment surmounted by a dome, resting on columns, and accessible to all; a chamber Into which only Brahmins are allowed to enter, and, lastly, a cell containing the statue of the deity, closed jy massive gates. The most remarkable pagodas are those of Benares, Slim, Pegu and particularly that of Juggernaut In Orissa.

The forests contain the timber te make 1,500,000 tons of paper a year and keep that up perpetually. Only Solution of Problem. • “Development.-of the paper industry in Alaska is the only practical solution of the paper shortage in the United States. We must have more paper mills on American soil.: Until we have more mills \ve shall be confronted with the situation we have now. With additional mills we shall not be compelled to worry about foreign embargoes and trade treaties. Alaska gives us the opportunity to build the mills. It has resources for ten or twelve mills which can be kept going for all time. A larger number of mills might make for overdevelopment, which should be avoided. “A beginning has been made already. One small pulp plant is being Vuilt this summer at Port Snettisham. A company has purchased 100.000,006 feet of national forest, timber and is now making this small installation. If the venture is successful it will erect a much larger plant. A second enterprise hf larger proportions is assured near Juneau. A company is preparing there to install a 150.000 ton mill and we are preparing now to offer for sale sufficient timber tn that vicinity to supply the plant for thirty years. We are willing also to reserve for sale sufficient timber to. carry the company for art additional fifteen years. Thes° are the only pulp installations which have been definitely assured. Engineers representing other interests in Alaska have been inspecting the forests this summer and it is possible that additional applications for timber will be received. To prepare for these applications the forest service is surveying land and locating water-power sites, which are the key to pulp work.” Cutting Expenses Not Easy. It is evident tlfat th£ problem of federal government expenses will not be an easy one to solve. Each of the old political parties is promising to cut down these expenses in case it is trusted with the affairs of government for the next four years, but the spokesmen for the parties are refraining from saying just hoW expenses will be reduced. Tire demand for a reduction in federal taxes is widespread. -Whether there can be a I substantial reduction in these taxes depends, of course, on whether congress can find away to make large reductions in appropriations. Congress has authorized the United States treasury to pay out $4.559,5'.K),327 during the fiscal year which began July 1 and will end June 30, 1921. Os this, amount $3,835,670,410 will be on account of war. To present it another way. 78 per cent of the money the federal government will pay out during this fiscal year is chargeable tv war, War Expenditures This Year. Tlie $3,835,670,410 to be paid out this fiscal year on account of war is itemized as follows: (1) Soldiers and sailors of the war with Germany, for compensation for death and disability, vocational training, hospital treatment and return of remains from France. $293,168,400. (2) Pensions ■ incident to Mexican war. Civil war, Spanish-American war and on account of service in regular military and naval establishments, $279,150,000. (3) Interest on the war debt, S9SO.000,000. (4) Sinking fund, $260,800,000. (5) Federal operation and control of transportation systems made necessary by tlie last war, SI.O2S,OOt\(KM). (6) Military establishment, incident to present national defense, $418,232,352. (7) Naval establishment, incident tc present national defense, $437,724,580. (8) Deficiency appropriations including $85,000,000 fpr the war risk insurance compensation, $23,000,000 for vocational rehabilitation of soldiers and sailors, $13,166,187 for care of war risk patients, and $14,000,000 for payment of deficit on account of war operation of telegraph and telephone lines, a total of $186,495,048. The civil functions of federal government for this fiscal year will cost the people only $1,279,319,916. This sum includes $497,575,190 for the postal service, and $481,744,726 for al) other services of the government of a civil nature and also includes $300,000,000 appropriated as a war expenditure.' Mr. Mondell’s Views. The expenditures on account of past wars are not likely to be reduced. The damage has been done and tlie people must pay for it. The day the last session of the congress adjourned, Representative Mondell of Wyoming, the Republican leader in the house of representatives in reviewing the work of the session said this : “We cannot expect immediate reductions in the expenditures on behalf of the soldiers of the great war, their widows and dependents or those pensions for the soldiers of other wars. We cannot took forward to a reduction in the interest charge on the national debt. . . . The appropriations for tlie sinking fund must continue.” In that same speech the Republican leader also said: “Our appropriations for the civil and constructive activities of the government will somewhat increase rather than decrease.” Mr. Mondell was undoubtedly correct. The appropriations for the next fiscal year on account of past wars will be just as large as they are this year, and this generation is not likely to see any material reductions in those appropriations. A wheel chair has been patented that can be folded compactly for storage when idle.

APPEAL THAT ALL UNDERSTAND. The variety of languages Is one of the marvels and mysteries, yet beyond the grammar and the etymology there is forever a fundamental sact — that men are brothers In the blood, bound to help and to serve one another in time of need. Hunger, thirst, sickness and weakness speak for themselves. We can tell when our brother has need of our aid, through his appeal Is mute, or Inarticulate, or in an outlandish ton|ju§.”“Ex<-‘t‘unge,

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Dye right! Don’t risk your material in a poor dye. Each package of “Diamond Dyes” contains directions I so simple that any woman can diamond-dye a new, rich, fadeless color into old garments, draperies, coverings, everything, whether wbol, silk, linen, cotton or mixed goods. Buy “Diamond Dyes” — no other kind —then perfect results are guaranteed. Druggist has “Diamond

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