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1 x r If you want to reAcbTthe people ' of the .Piedmont .section .puCL your ads in THE GRIT. Largest circulation of any paper inthe county. Excellent Adver tising Medium. a. life 8 A NON-PARTISAN FAMILY NEWSPAPER $1.00 A YEAR Vol. Till. m Siler City, IV. C, Wednesday, December 6, 1911. No. .17. M I E T SET it i pjafii uujLrn VAmr, ILLUSTRATIONS SYNOPSIS. Garrett Coast, a young man of New York City, meets Douglas Blackstock, who Invites him to a card party. He accepts, although he dislikes Blackstock. the rea son being that both are in love with Kath ?I? n.e t1a3itef'- Coast fails to convince her that Blackstock is unworthy of her friendship. At the party Coast meets two named Dundas and Van Tuyl. There Is a quarrel, and Blackstock-, shoots Van Tuyl dead. Coast struggles to wrest the weapon from him. thus the police dis cover them. Coast Is arrested for murder. He is convicted, but as he begins his sen tence. Dundas names Blackstock as the murderer and kills himself. Coast be comes free. CHAPTER III. (Continued.) His journey uptown In the subway which he accomplished without misad venture, shielding himself behind a newspaper, was bis first taste of un restricted freedom and by that token, a delight without alloy. At a quiet and inconspicuous hotel in the Forties, some distance from Broadway he registered boldly as "Brainerd West, Philadelphia," and paid for his room in advance, explain ing that his luggage would come in later. The open stare of the room clerk irritated him but little, whose thoughts were preoccupied with a hun dred half-formed and less than half considered plans. In his rooms, forgetful of his prom ise to telephone Warburton, he threw himself upon the bed to ponder the next move; and exhaustion, superin duced by excitement, overcame him almost immediately. For the better part of an hour he slept without stir ring, and awakened in the end only to the shrilling, prolonged and not-to-be-denied"-ring of the telephone by the head of his bed. Still a little stupid with sleep, he re quired a moment or two to grasp the import of the switchboard operator's advice, to the effect that a Mr. Cross, representing the Evening World, would like to Bee Mr. Bralnerd West. The message was repeated in accents peremptory before he comprehended that he had been run to earth. "Ask the gentleman to come up at once." he said, and, seizing his hat, left the room as soon as he had fin ished speaking. Ascendipg a single flight of the Btalrway that wound round the ele vator shaft, he waited until the car began to rise, then rang. As he had foreseen, it paused at the floor be low to discharge the newspaper man before coming up for him. As he stepped Into the cage he pressed a dollar into the operator's palm. "Down," he demanded; "ground floor. And don't stop for anybody." A single minute later he was in the street. Haste being the prime essen tial of the situation, he dodged round the corner into Sixth avenue, walked a block uptown and- turned through to Broadway. There suddenly, as he paused at the upper end of Longacre square, doubt ing which way to turn, what to do, he quickened to sensibility of his soli tude, and knew himself more utterly alone in that hour than ever he had been throughout his days. A passing handsom pulled in to his signal. He entered, giving the address of Katherine Thaxter's home. There was a crimson glare of sun set down the street when he alighted and paid his fare. "Just in time," said Coast; "I was to come to tea today I begged the privilege only yesterday. . . ." He paused, silenced by a presenti ment bred of the aspect of the house. At every window the shades were drawn level with the sills. The flight of brownstone steps, littered with wind-swept dust and debris, ran up to heavy oaken doors, tight-closed. The seal of a burglar-protective concern stared at him from a corner of one of the drawing-room windows. Only in the old-fashioned basement were there signs of life; the area-gateway stood open; a gas Jet glimmered through sash-curtains. Heavily Coast turned into the area, and rang ihe basement bell. After some time the door was opened to him and he entered, to have his hand caught and fawned upon by the aged butler who had smuggled him sweets when Coast in the pride and pomp of his first knickerbockers had come to stay with Katherine in her nursery. 'rm, Mr. Garrett. Mr. Garrett!" the old Voice quavered. "God bless the day, sir! I've seen the papers and I said that you'd be here, sir, as soon as ever you got ba'ck home. I kpew ' twould turn out so, sir, from jthe first; I've never fa'iled to stand up' for you and say you never done it. . . . But a black shame it is Justice was so long in coming Soames rambled "W, garrulous in semi-senile joy. Coast leaned wearily against the wall of the gloomy base ment hallway, with no heart to inter rupt. At length, however, he found his voice. "Thank you, Soames," he said, gent ly. But Miss Katherine?" The answer he had foreseen, hope lessly. "Gone, sir gone this many a day. . . . ,You know what hap pened, sir?" "I can guess. But tell me." He steeled himself- against the disclosure of what he already knew with intui tive certainty. "Mrs. Gresham died you knew that, fir?" Soames named Katherine's aunt, with whom she had lived after her parents' death. "During my trial yes, I knew." "She never believed you guilty, sir. Perhaps you'd like to know . "But Miss Katherine?". The old man shook his had mourn fully. "Mad, sir, mad . " .- " he mum bled. Coast caught his wrist fiercely. "What's that you say?" "I say she was mad, sir. to do what the done, and that I'll say though it cost me my place. . . It wasn't a decent three months after Mrs. Grestam' passed ftwajv r- BY you'd been been sent away barely a month when she married him " "Blackstock?" "Yes, sir. ... She didn't know what she was doing, sir. I've thought it was what I've heard called infatua tion. She didn't know her own mind when he was talking to her. He car ried her clean off her feet, "so to speak. ... So they were married and went away." "To Germany, I understood, sir." "You've heard" "Never a word not a line.' I some times wonder at it, sir. .She let me a bit of money to run things on till she returned, but that's gone long ago. sir, and I've had to . draw upon my savings. ... She . must know. Blindly Coast turned and reeled Into the servants' dining-room, where he fell into a chair by the table, pillow ing his head upon his arms. A passion of blind, dumb rage. shook him by the throat; blackness of de spair succeeded that; he sat motion less, witless, overwhelmed. An hour or two passed before the butler aroused him with an offer of biscuits and a decanter 'ot rare old port; all the house had, he protested, fit to offer to his Mr. Garrett Coast ate and drank mechanically, 'He Carried Her Clean without sense of taste or refresh ment Even the generous wine lay cold within him. Still later he asked for writing ma terials and scrawled a few lines to Warburton, briefly requesting him to look after Soames and advance him money from time to time, according to his needs, pending the return of his mistress. Then, rising, he stumbled forth into the night, at once unconscious and heedless of whither his feet were lead ing him, walking far and blindly un der the sway of a physical instinct dumbly demanding of him action and exertion. Midnight found him on a hilltop far beyond the city limits, insensibly com forted by the great calm of the tran quil countryside.t blanketed with kind ly darkness, lighted only by the arch ing stars. There was a wind, of free dom in his face, Sweet with the keen tang of the sea. Before him there was only the mystery of chance, the grateful oblivion of the open spaces; hehind him a lurid sky, overhanging the city of his renunciation. So, plodding, the night enfolded him to her- great bosom, warm with peace. Lure of Lost Many Centuries Old Fortunes Await ing the Claim of the Law ful Heirs. In Rhenish Bavaria two associations have recently been organized to obtain a $400,000 Inheritance left in 1676 by the Dutch Field Marshal Baron von Ornholm. In Bavaria there is a new effort under way to secure five for tunes now estimated at about $17,500. 000. the amounts left by five Dutch men to their German relatives, be tween 1636 and 1706. plus the interest that has accumulated since that time. Every one of these five fortunes, the largest of which was $1,120,000. has completely disappeared. There Is a record that the money left by Johann Joas, an Amsterdam ship's captain, who died in 1707. reached the representative of his neirs in Augshurg in 1785. In the next year the heirs were Informed that $700,000 had been deposited for them In an Augsburg bank. The heirs of a leath er dealer. Van Grata, received small payments on account and even ob taining $40,000 about 1791. In 1855 an Augsburg backer bj tb nam pi CHAPTER. iV. To the boatyard and siihacC!?" ing establishment of a certain Mr. Huxtable in the town of Fairhaven. on the eastern bank of the Acushnet river, there came or, rather, drifted with the tide of a casual fancy to ward the close of a day In June, Gar rett Coast A declining sun threw his shadow athwart the floor of the chandlery. Huxtable glanced up from the muddle of papers on his desk. Coast lounged easily in the doorway, with one shoul der against the frame; a man notably tall and slender and graced, besides, with a simple dignity of manner that assorted oddly, in the Huxtable un derstanding, with clothing well-worn and travel-stained, Out of a face moderately browned, his dark eyes glimmered with a humor whimsical, regarding Huxtable. The object of their regard pushed up his spectacles for a better vview. "Well?" he inquired, not without a suspicion of grim resentment who was not weathered to laughter at bla own expense. It happened, however, that Coast's amusement sprang from another cause; his own utter irresponsibility, which alone had led him to the chand lery, he considered hugely diverting. "I was, just thinking:," he said, smil ing, "that now would be a useful time to buy a boat" Huxtable, possessed of an Inherent predilection for taciturnity, liable, ever and anon, to be sore beset if not wholly put to rout by the demon. Cu riosity (a familiar likewise legitimate ly handed down to him by several gen erations of New England forebears), with a mute nod to signify that he had heard and now awaited without preju- Off Her Feet, So to Speak.' dice a more explicit declaration. "A boat," Coast added, "preferably of the center-board cat type, with a hard-working motor auxiliary." The Huxtable mind, which you are to believe typical of its caste, like a ship wisely navigated, moved cautious ly in well-buoyed channels. It clung to tradition, whether in the business of boat building, which it pursued to admiration, or in the lighter diversion o- humor, to which Us attitude ; re sembled that of the ancestor worship ing heathen Chinese. Premonitory symptoms of a reversion to type in the matter of wit were betrayed by the corrugation of the Huxtable wrinkles. "To go eailln' in?" After this utterance, tradition flapped its wings and screamed; Hux table himself condescended to chuckle; Coast, to a tolerant smile. "Possibly," he conceded. "Have you such a boat?" "I might have," Huxtable admitted cautiously. "Come along." He rose and led the way through a back door into the boat yard. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Inheritances Von Halde confessed on his death bed that the inheritances had been de posited in his bank, and that by means of them he bad made his own fortune. Since then every effort has been made to trace the bequests through the. municipality of Augsburg, the Ba varian minister of the interior, and the courts. There are endless docu ments in the case, but the money has never .appeared. . Recently the Dres den bank absorbed the Von Halde bank business, and the heirs are now of the opinion that it must acco'unt to them for $17,500,000 and they have en gaged a distinguished Munich ; lawyer to devote his time to a search, for the money. Good Advice Rub elbows with the least of the world's people, if you would quicken your brain and soften your heart Exchange. He Needed One. She "Jack has a strong face." He "It has to be. You should see his wife." Fort Worth Record. " PRESIDENT TAFT and the other prominent men who attended the mine congress at Pittsburgh were espe cially interested in the demonstration of developments in first aid to those injured in mine disasters. Among the new devices exhibited was the pulmo tor, used to resuscitate those who are asphyxiated by noxious gases. WOMEN AS Outdoor Life Is Luring to Dwel lers on Prairies. Daughters of Two Men, Who Were Disabled, Prove Expert Agricul turists Perform All Kinds of Manual Labor. Topeka, Kan. Many Kansas wom en, are turning to agriculture and to a life out of doors. Within the last two years a score or more of young wom en have chosen the farming vocation in preference to teaching and to clerk ships in stores and stenographic posi tions, gome of them declare that much of the work may be done by women now that modern machinery has lightened the burdens of the farm er. But the greatest benefits come, they say, from the needed exercise and the llfein the open air. Prominent among the young women of Kansas who are making a success at farming are the Misses Ruby and Olive Herd of Hodgeman county. These two sisters own a farm seven miles west of Jetmore. Preferring a life of independence, they bought the land and built a modest cottage and turned their attention to small farm ing, poultry raising nd fruit growing. There are no Saturday half-holidays with the two Herd sisters, for they are not seen at the county seat or the local trading place on that after noon talking politics. These two young women were for merly school teachers. Their little home is comfortable, and it shows every evidence of refinement Miss Tlllie Rheinschimdt, eighteen years old, has demonstrated this year that she knows how to run a farm. Her father is a well-known citizen of Sumner township, Reno county, but in the summer he was disabled by a serious accident and the burden fell upon his daughter to manage the work. Bossing a hired man and a Dog Has Costly Gold Teeth Little "Mexy" Had Bad Toothache and His Owner Gave Him Brand New Set of Incisors. Chicago. in the future, when Mexy's playmates laugh at him for having no hair, he will open his mouth in a yawn, carelessly display ing a mouth full of gold teeth that would fill the soul of some people with envy. The set of brldgework cost $112. At least, those were Mexy's plans when he was interviewed. Not that he was so ill-bred as to say anything about his teeth. In fact, he said nothing Intelligible to the average man, for he Is a Mexican dog. He belongs to Dr. Henri Grosser, a student at the Western Dental col lege, and lives with Grosser and his wife at 934 La Salles avenue. Dr. Grosser took Mexy from the refuge of the Anti-Cruelty society sev eral weeks ago and soon afterward Gyroscopic Car Completed. Minneapolis, Minn. A gyroscope car that can run on a single track and maintain its equilibrium through the centrifugal force of a heavy re volving wheel has been completed by Professor W. E. Brooke of the col lege of engineering of the University of Minnesota. A small electric motor Is used in starting the wheel spin ning and this will not run down for several minutes. Professor Brooke will stretch a wire across the Mis sissippi river and run the car on it. 600 Songs Entered. Columbia, Mo. More than 600 en tries for the Missouri state song con test have been received by W. H. Pommer, professor of music at the University of Missouri. The winner will receive $500. The commit tee selected to Judge the songs are W. H. Pommer, William Schuyler, Carl Buscb, F. W. Mueller, Charles Galloway and D. P. Gebbart After Dr. Pommer has selected those of merit the Judges will pick the winner FIRST AIDFOR MINE DISASTER V lilTn'"' ?3r- AO USffG 2(SZ. AfOTOG FARMERS - boy, and doing a lot of the work her self, this bright Kansas girl has put in nearly 100 acres of wheat, and per sonally helped In the work of gather ing the corn from a field of 80 acres. She proudly boasted that hers was the first field of corn gathered in Sumner township. Probably the best record made by young women on Kansas farms this year is that of the three daughters of Rennle Grlem, a Kingman county farmer. One of them was teaching school near Zenda, and the other two were attending Kingman high school. When their father was taken ill the three girls came home from their schools and sailed in to run that farm. The elder Bister, the school ma'am, prepared the ground and planted several acres of corn with her own hands, besides putting out other Says Our Music is Trashy Dr. Brunner of Berlin Declares Rag time Will Drive Us All Crazy It Jars Nerve Centers. Los Angeles, Cal. That Ragtime music will eventually drive the Amer ican public crazy because of its effect upon the nerve centers and brain cells of the human system, and that it is mainly responsible for many busi ness failures and cases of hopeless Insanity, is the belief of Dr. Ludwig Brunner, late Instructor in the Im perial academy of medical research at Berlin, who arrived here recently. "Your ragtime air. Jars the nerve centers and causes an irritation of the brain cells," says the doctor. "While the roll and thump of ragtime Is ex hilarating to the senses and acts as a stimulant, It has the after effects of an injurious drug that will eventually stagnate the brain cells and wreck the nervous system. "I have been In this country several months and everywhere I have visit discovered that the dog wa3 suffering from toothache. An examination, disclosed the pres ence of two abscessed incisors and several other teeth that needed atten tion. The basement of the Grosser home was turned Into an operating room, with Mexy as thb patient and Dr. Grooser the dentist "Mexy seemed to know that I was doing what was best for him," Dr. Grosser said, "and, although he ob jected a good deal at first, he gave me no trouble after the teeth were out It was a great relief to him. you see, for as soon as I had removed the teeth the pain stopped. "He used to He perfectly still when I was taking the Impressions and made no trouble, even when I was fitting the new teeth in place. They are good and sound, too, and not a dog in Chicago is better able to chew bones and meat than he." By reason of his teeth, Mexy has New Terror Montmartre Police Discover Counter felts of Unusual Quality Are Spread by Anarchists. Paris. A new terror has been added .to the many In store for the unwary American tourist who patron izes:: the establishments of Montmar tre. The police have just discovered that a band of anarchist coiners has put in circulation over 30,000 francs' worth of bad five-franc pieces. The leader of the syndicate is an anarchist, Maria Llopis, who was con demned to death tor her complicity in the revolt in Barcelona which pre ceded the execution of Ferrer. The proceeds are probably for the an anchlst cause. . The coins are of unusually subtle manufacture; composed of practically the same alloy as the genuine ones and such slight defects that only an expert could have detected them; hence the facility with which they were put into circulation.. VICTIMS -g. Us? crops. The two high school girls rolled up their sleeves and made full hands on the farm. The three of them plowed corn, milked cows, delivered cream, har vested wheat and oats, cut 30 acres of alfalfa three cuttings, put up a lot of prairie hay, raised corn that made 50 bushels to the acre and performed every bit of the farm work unassast ed. Not a man was seen on the Griem place all summer. When their father was able to be out they pointed to granaries full of corn and wheat, the barns housing fat cattle and sleek horses, and the bank account Intact. They were proud of the fact that they did not pay out a dollar to men to achieve this record. Generally the women of Kansas who have turned from the cities to the 6im. pie life out in the country are not concerned about marriage. They are women of mature years and judgment to whom marriage relation does not appeal unless it carries with it energy and the ability to make a living. ed, New York, Chicago, New Orleans and San Francisco, the little minds are crazy with ragtime. "If something be not done the clas sics of the long ago will be a thing of the past entirely, and they will be singing national hymns in ragtime." Good Eye Removed, Sees. Carlisle, Pa. By removing his ac tive eye, Jacob Shields, who has been blind in the other for 17 years, has oeen enabled to 6ee perfectly out of the one formerly defective. Recently Shields suffered a sudden attack of total blindness from the strain imposed on the good eye by the blind. He was removed to a Philadel phia hospital, and there the physi cians determined that his good eye, which had been affected, would have to be done away with. They discov ered, however,' that the blind eye was made so by a cataract. That re moved the blind eye regained its sight become one of the celebrities of the neighborhood. KISSES RETARD A WEDDING Osculation Nettled Kansas Justice Who Was Performing Ceremony Bride Was 40 Years Old. Kansas City, Kan. William W. Shannon will be known about the courthouse in future as the kissing bridegroom. While he and Minnie I. Stockey, both of Ottawa, Kan., were being married by Justice Cass Welch in the county recorder's office, he kiss ed his bride five times. After every question the justice asked Mr. Shan non insisted on kissing the bride be fore the question was answered. "If you don't cut out the kissing I won't go any further with this cere mony," Justice Welch told the bride groom. "You not only violate the an-ti-kissing rules of this office, but inter rupt a most solemn ceremony" "Guess I can wait 32 seconds If you finish up in that time." Mr. Shannon told the justice. He kept his promise. Mr. Shannon is 39 years old and un til the ceremony was a bachelor. The bride is 40 years old. for Americans They were made in Barcelona, two of the company going there every Friday, returning to Paris on Tues day with a fresh supply, which they delivered to the other four, who hastened to change them by making small purchases. These four are now safely under lock and key, but the two who brought the goods from Spain either received warning or stopped behind to participate in the recent outbreak, they holding anarchistic opinion like their chief. Steals Only Teeth. St Louis. Police are puzzled to know whether a thief they are anxious to find Is a faddist, in need of teeth or of a religious turn, or all of these Patrick Fitzgerald, 110 North Twelfth street, last night reported the theft of a set of false teeth and a string of prayer beads. . These articles were taken from a room in which was a sum of money and a watch- Neither of tie latter was taken- J fii-r "11 Adding Two' More WASHINGTON. Now that it seems certain that two new states will be added to the Union by Marcjh 4, New Mexico and Arizona being slated for promotion from territories, the flag factories run by the government are in for some busy times. It will be necessary first for the departments here to decide how the new stars shall be placed on the flag. The field of"the flag is becoming crowded with stars and it is no easy matter to re arrange them so that the section re served for constellations may not be lnartistically jumbled. This duty de volves upon officials of the army and navy departments, who must meet and decide how the new stars repre senting the two new states are to be placed , on the field of the flag. Then the work of rearranging the field on all the flags owned by Uncle Sam will be begun, Jnd a gigantic task it will be. The army flags are all remade at the various government depots, the work being given 'to women who are widows of army men or daughters of veterans with some claim on the government for employment' The na val flags are usually fixed up by the sailors themselves, the Jackles being just as handy with the needle and '.he sewing machine as the women and Uncle Sam Teaches A NOTED professor from the Univer sity of Chicago, who spent several months in the Philippine Islands as lecturer at the teachers' vacation as sembly, conducted by the bureau of education every year at Bagullo, the summer capital of the Islands, re turned recently to the United States. "Other nations one of these days will be coming to the Philippines to see how the, educational triumphs have been wop," he said, in speaking of the work of the schools there. Without' question one of the tri umphs of America in the Orient is the wonderful work that has been ac complished there by the public school system during the ten years since its organization". 'From a mere handful of pupils, and an expenditure of a few thousand dollars in 1901, the sys tem has developed until now it reaches into every town and nearly every village of the island, and last year instructed more than 500,000 boys and girls. The Philippine gov ernment spent csore jthan $3,250,000 of local revenue for education. The services of more than 9,000 American and Filipino teachers are employed In the various schools of the islands as ' supervisors and class 'Federal List of I A1.WAY57 DID UKE TO CO DEER. HUMTiri' THE so-called 'list of Immortals" of the United States biological sur vey a roster kept by that bureau of all hunting fatalities in this country already this year has had added to it 47 names. From this information the bureau hopes after a few years to be able to deduce general principles which will be of value In framing "life-saving" federal and state game laws. "One fact which we have learned during the three years we have kept this record," said Dr. T. S. Palmer, chief of the bureau, "is that there are practically no deer hunting accidents in states which prohibit the shooting of floes. This is because in those states the hunter hesitates a moment Pay Girls to Paw UNIQUE among government "jobs" is that of the two women who sit s,ide by side down in the basement of the treasury department and spend the entire day going through the con tents of the department waste bas kets. They are searching for stray bonds, checks and bills that may through some mishap have fallen into the baskets. The positions f the two women are more Important than ;heir place on the treasury rolls would Indicate, for some time back one of! :hem fished up a $J0,000 United 5tates coupon bond. The two women aave been doing this work for years. Not a scrap of paper is permitted :o be carried out of the treasury de partment until it has passed the cen sorship of the official examiners of ihe waste baskets. There is a rule n the service also that no envelope, etter or slip of paper shall be thrown nto a basket until It has been torn Good for American Detectives. . Detectives who discovered a copy ot Jllver Wendell Holmes poems In the mit case left behind by a burglar de eded that they had a good clew to the nan's identity. They figured out what i man who read Oliver WeDdell -lolmcs' poetry would probably look ike, and when they saw a man who mswered their mental picture they 'Xamined him. Of course, It was the ery man. American detectives lead crld. i llSFIfRCf J Stars to the Flag as they have a great deal of leisure time the sailors manage to do theit own official needlework when the flags are called in for the addition ot stars and the rearrangement of the field of stars. The addition of one star to the flag sometimes proves an easy task. The amount of work involved depends upon the position of the stars already on the flag. If there is room at the bottom of the last row of stars for the addition of another then it la merely a matter of adding that extra star and this is a comparatively easy job. But the field of stars seldom lends itself in that kind of manner to the work of adding additional stars. The symmetrical arrangement of the stars is a matter of the utmost importance and this requires much much thought and skill on the part of the officials to whom is entrusted the work of designing a field with the extra stars added. The first work when the design ol the new flag has been sent out to th arsenals, is to rip off the stars thai have to be placed in different posi tions. This work is done by rows ol women who are armed with sharp pointed knives. They place the stai to be removed on a padded base thai holds the cloth taut Then they care fully rip out the stitches until the star is removed. This work goes on for weeks and sometimes months, toi all the flags in the country must b rearranged. As the stars are ripped off they are dropped in baskets and not used again, new stars being sewn on to replace the discarded ones.- Th. new stars are cut by means of a die. Filipinos to Farm room teachers of the academic and technical subjects of the courses ol study. The University of Chicago sent Dr. Shepardson and Dr. Goode, . two of its ablest and most successful extension lecturers, to Manila during ' the past vacation to remain in resi dence at the vacation assembly . of ' teachers and conduct education . courses during the session. '- " ' 1 In referring to the class of metr and women engaged in the education., work there, they speak in the high est terms. "I have' senifainy;'gatlf erings of educators, but-non-which . average higher than this one," said . Dr. Shepardson. "The reason; no doubt, is that nowhere else could such a company be found of men and wom en who are doing pioneer work, who. have the spirit of the pioneer, and whose earnestness in pursuing ideals Is reflected in conversation and con ference talk." Immortals, Growing before firing to determine whethet the animal is a doe or a buck. In case the animal happens to be the two-legged variety that brief pause before pulling the trigger is -eSpugh to save human life." More than 150 persons were killed last year in hunt ing accidents. This was considerably larger than the number in 1909, which in turn was 50 per cent in excess ol the 1908 fatalities. "Of the 47 killed so far this year," said Dr. Palmer, "the largest number were reported from Michigan, with 15 deaths, New York coming second with nine, Wash ington and New Jersey being tied for third place with three fatalities each. "In proportion to its population the United States leads the world in the number of hunters within its borders. Unfortunately it also leads in the pro portion of fatal hunting accidents. "There Is five times more interest in game laws in this country than in any other country. We estimate that there are almost 5,000,000 American hunters. In several of the western states the hunters constitute as much as 13 per cent, of the population." Over Waste Baskets or otherwise mutilated. This disflg urement is a sign to the examiner that the paper was intentionally f?wn lnt0 ,the baskets. Consequent- T a sharp lookout is maintained . by tne two women examiners lor un?' marked envolopes and official looking papers. It sometimes happens that a gust of wind will carry a bond or a check from an official's - desk and whisk it into his scrap basket It is almost as safe there as. if it reposed under lock and key, for the chances are a hundred to one in favor of the ex- .amlners rescuing it Baptized In Irrigation Ditch. Probably tor the first time in the history of irrigation a new member of the church was immersed ta an Irriga tion ditch In a baptismal ceremony, just west of Irrican, in the Canadian Pacific railway's irrigation block. Al berta J. S. Gulp, a farmer, and also pastor of the Church of the Brethren, officiated at the ceremony.' and Mrs. E. Studdebaker was the member woo embraced the faith and was Immersed in the irrigation ditch A:" -. 4l "I t-1 i ,5 ft.' t ... . It 4-
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