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m THE ARGUS. PubUsaea onily 3614 Senond Hue, Sleek triind, int. (Entered at the peetefllce eesoad-olaas matter.) Reek K1u4 Member Aaotae4 Fnu. BYTHE J. W. POTTER CO. JTBRMB Ten cents per week, fey car rter. to Rock Island; 8 per year by mall la (XAnanae. fMoaplaanta-ef eUery eerrlee-ehould fee, tn4 to t oi rouiakd on department, wtfah aUjwaM aJo tie notified In every iwteoee nrbera It la Ifiesired to have peqpar flfaooattnueO. aa carriera bare no audacity In the premie. All eommunloatlotia of r;umeittive Aeoctexv poJrUceJ or rellglou. must fcajve real name ettao&ed for publlca ttoa. No such article will printed vs fiottoaua signatures. Telephone In all tfepartraenta. Cen- ' trej Union. Rock bland 146. 1H6 and . aies. Tuesday, November 24, 1914. And now Little Lord Fauntleroy has 'grown up and gotten married. Grac ious -bow. time fliee! Frank; James, the one time Missouri bandit, lfl In Imminent peril, judging by the dipatcb.es, ot dying with his boots -off. The Moslem uprising, while it may not directly menace the security ot the allies, promises to make It ex ceedingly uncomfortable for some of their subjects. The aristocracy of the poultry yard la on parade this week at the Daven . port Coliseum and opportunity Is of fered to pay tribute to the living bird as "well as to the dead. What has become of the Spugs," the society organUed by the daughter of the president last year and one with a most sensible purpose In view? They should not be permitted to become ob solete. The Kansas wheat crop this year is worth 151,5S3,0S2. Heretofore the im pression has prevailed that that sum would buy the entire state, with the possible exception of William Allen White. The war has entered upon a new stage in which each of the leading nations involved is trying to make it appear that its capital is the gayest. It has gotten around to the question of who is worrying the most. Football claimed the lives of only 13 young men this fall. The number, though not the smallest reported in the last decade, does not look as large, now that we have become accustomed to reading the war casualty lists. If the armies opposed to each other been armed with the au.uuv baa eggs destroyed by government agents in Chicago the other day the use of hand grenades might have been temporarily dispensed with. Withdrawal of the American troops from Vera Cruz clears the decks for action by the dixafTected factions of that unhappy country. The United States now has little left in Mexico to suffer damage and it is a good time to let them fight it out to the bitter end. Pleas of temporary insanity or the unwritten law will hardly cut much figure at the trial of the Russians ac cused of hatching a revolutionary plot in opposition to the war. The govern ment probably will hesitate even to take chances on commitment to Siberia. An increasing number of the soldiers now fighting in Europe are walking on : American leather. A great many I Americans, however, v. ill liavp to continue to get alon on paper which, when properly made up and polished, looks exactly as good as cowhide " till after it gets wet. Tests of John Hays Hammond's radio boat which can be steered by wireless indicates the way is now open for the waging of wars without peril to the lives of citizens of .the contend ing nations. Perhaps it will be pos sible to arrange for future wars to be fought out la land or sea territory set apart for the purpose by international agreement while the world looks on. It may even be possible to make the gate receipts pay at least part of the cost. It will be a relief to learn from offl- lal sources that there Is no founda tion for the report that the "epizootic" infection has been-circulated among live stock in the United States to stop sale of meat to warring nations of Europe. If the epidemic had broken out before the election doubt less the republicans would have been charging responsibility to the adminis tration on the ground that the disease had been fostered to draw attention from the tariff. CHANCE FOR THE IMPOSTER. Reports are now beginning to come In to the department of agriculture from several of the state quarantined tor the foot and mouth disease that persons who have no connection what soever with the department are at tempting to pass themselves off as fed eral inspectors. There are several possible motives that might account for the existence ot these Imposters In the outbreak of 1908 there were in stances of a who obtained money from credulous victims who believed lbt In this way they woulfl escape the Inconvenience of Quarantine and die Infection. This Is, of course, a very imnle form of extortion. Another motive mar be the sale of some quack remedy for the disease. Stock owners can protect themselves very easily against this fraud, for there Is no specific remedy for the foot and mouth disease. Since the germ has never been isolated, it has sever been possible aa j'et to find any serum that would act either as a cure or preventive, and the public may be quite certain that any one who says that he Is an employe of the depart ment of agriculture, and at the same time attempts to sell, or even recom mend anything of the sort. Is simply an ImDoster. For this reason, stock owners are warned by the depart nient not to allow strangers to visit ineir stock or attempt any demonstrations of so-called cures by injections or otn erwise. CLOTHING FOR POOR CHIL DREN. Steward Frank B. Wylie of the Rock Island county farm has fathered a movement in Which The Argus will be glad to Join, together with the other daily newspapers of the county. It is for the collection of a fund for the clothing of poor children during the coming winter. If the clothing is pro vided before Christmas so much the better. Mr. Wylie himself heads the subscription list with $50. The money which is expended in Rock Island will be handled through the Associated Charities. Mr. Wylie, as a matter of course, is brought Into contact with a great many of the poor people from all parts of the county and their wants this winter have impressed him most forci bly. He knows first hand of many cases of destitution among grownups and he feels that in such times of stress the suffering of the unfortun ate children who are not in any man ner responsible for their condition is particularly to be regretted. So he has asked the three dally newspapers of the county to lay the matter before the public and arrange to receive such funds as the people care to give and turn them over to those who are ap pointed to disburse them and see that the clothing purchased gets Into the hands of those who most need it. The Argus is glad to cooperate in this work and although it has but re cently completed its campaign for the Christmas ship and Is now raising its annual Santa Claus and Good Fellows' fund to buy Christmas presents for poor children It welcomes the chance to aid Mr. Wylle's undertaking. It will receive funds and keep them sep arate for the purchase of clothing. It is not Mr. Wylie's Idea that this is to be made an occasion for the dis tribution of second hand and wornout apparel which the owners have no fur ther use for. It Is the intention to buy only new apparel, as warm and serviceable a3 can be procured. Kven small contributions for this fund will be thankfully received. BARGAIN IN COTTON. There is one port in this-country in which exports have doubled, as com pared with figures turned in a year ago. This is San Francisco. In Octo ber of last year exports from that port were Just a shade in excess of $5,00, 00i; in October of this year they were close to Ill.noO.O'.irt. And still there is not much war on the western side, in the Pac ific. When you get on the eastern coast of Asia you find that few people realize there is much doing in the war line. Ja anese are in the fight and a fringe of China has furnished battleground; but perhaps not more than one out of a hundred in those two countries are actively participating. Hut Japanese and Chinese are busy at scm'-thini; else, and -this accounts for increased exports from San Fran cisco, says the Decatur Review. Jap anese especially are quick to see an opportunity, and it seems that some cf this trait has got over into China. And so we read manufacturers in those two countries are mighty active buyers of American raw cotton. Dis patches tell us they are buying this staple as never before, and the quan tity they are willing to take Is lim ited only by transportation facilities. If those fellows could get ships per haps they would buy all surplus cotton now in this country, that is if they could get it at present bargain prices. Exports of cotton are what make the San Francisco market show big. Ja pan and China are getting cotton at about eight cents a pound, and at this price they want all that can possibly be got to them. They are smart enough to realize this Is a real bargain, that It Is getting something at less money than it will sell a few months hence. Isn't It a fact that In this matter cotton manufacturers of Japan and China are showing a better quality of foresight and enterprise than are those hi this country? THE AUTO VAMPIRE. Auto vampire motorist who kills or injures victim and then speeds away. This is the term for which newspa pers of the country have been looking to apply to tho species of animal re ferred to in the definition. It has been originated by the Chicago Her ald and should be generally adopted. A vampire is supposed to be active at night and this is the period during which this stripe of autoist does bis deadly work and then runs away. He would operate In daylight If there were any chance for him to get away. There is an alleged "auto vampire" under bond in this city now, so the community may be said to have a specimen in captivity. Mexican Indians derived from their ancestors, the Aztecs, the method of making the poison of Talavatchi. It la a subtle drug, the constituents of which are not known. The peculiar effect of the poison is to destroy the rnlnd, while only slightly affecting the body. REGION OF THE The National Oeographlo society gives out the following description ot the Dardanelles and Austrian Gallcla, which are figuring prominently In the war In Europe: Keen political Interest has centered around the Dardanelles slnoe the time when Persian strength was tested up on the soldiers of free Greece. XerxeB came this way with bis vast army for the Invasion of Europe, and crossed the Dardanelles, then known as the Hellespont, over a pontoon brld-j constructed near Abydos, on the Aai- atlc side, and touching Grecian shores near.Sestos, where the waterway is about 6,500 feet wide. It was on this occasion that the, capricious currents of the strait called forth the most historic spanking ever given. They carried away the pontoons, whereupon Xerxes ordered the Hellespont to be soundly flogged. When the eastern invasion had spent Itself after Marathon and Sala- mis, the Dardanelles became a point of departure for the' hardy conqueror who turned the tables. Alexander, in S34 B. C, 1146 years after Xerxes, crossed in the path of the "Persian, and began his successful subjugation of the outworn'east. The tide shifted once more; and throughout , the long struggle of Byzantium against the east, the "Dardanelles were ever and again frontier waters. At last, in 1356 the Turks forced themselves over the much-contested territory, spread over its European banks, and settled down to stay. No longer a frontier of easter-west- ern struggle, the Dardanelles, never theless, preserved their political im portance, an importance derived, first from Turkish, control of Mediterra nean-Black sea commerce, and, later, from the complex diplomatic game in which the great powers of Europe sought to balance themselves one against the other, and each to make that balance contribute to its own advantage. Mighty" Russia's only ports upon warm waters were in her Black sea territory. Conventions ot the powers, however, have held her shut up fast within the inland sea. For a century these conventions have stood between Russia and her ambi tions to have an outlet on the Medit erranean. By a five-power treaty in 1S41, it was arranged that no ship of war of any nation other than the Ottoman should pass the Dardanelles without express permission of the forts. The closing of the strait was reaffirmed at London in 1871 and. at Berlin in 1878. Kven merchant vessels must have have passes, which they are re quired to show to the authorities aV William Turning. Like that non-existent ailment, the "seven years' itch," most illnesses are properly supposed to fall into con venient periods according to some mys. terious law. Thus, fractures are sup posed to "knit" or begin knitting on the ninth day. I believe. Mothers fix on the ninth or tenth day as the pro per time to arise from childbed. Ty phoid fever is due to "turn" some where in the neighborhood of the twenty-first day. And the protective effect of vaccination is generally said to last precisely seven years. All of these fancies savor of as trology or black magic. Disease doesn't follow any fixed rule of behavior. Pneumonia reaches the "crisis" that point at which the high fever drops to normal in the course of 12 hours, more or less In seven days as often as in 10 days. Each case is a law unto it- self in the matter. Fractures are "knitting" or uniting frrm fYia Inctnnt rf tho nrplHpnt tn the i very end of disability. The process is, no more active one day than another. Mothers are ready and able to leave their bed in 10 days no more common ly than in eight days or 16 days. And vaccination proteetion, so far as any body knows, may be lost in a few months or It may continue for a life time In a given case. But the "turning" of typhoid is less easily disposed of, because our revered medical fathers, we fear, en couraged the fancy, so anxious were they to reassure worried relatives of the languishing patient. If the Patient Wins, the Fever Turns. We doubt whether any physician ever attends a case of typhoid fever in private practice without being called upon sooner or later by some one to answer this question: "Doctor, how soon do you think the fever will turn? This is the seventeenth day it turns on the twenty-first, doesn't it?" Suing tired, possibly even busy, the doctor is sorely tempted to give an evasive reply or to tacitly sup port the hope. In order to escape a laborious explanation. The average duration of typhoid fever is about four weeks that is, the duration of the high tempera ture. In an average case the tem perature does begin to show a slight daily decline toward the end of the third week or the beginning of the fourth but not especially on the twenty-first day. Vet even after that slight decline there is always the possibility of a rise again and a continuation of the fever for many days after the "turning." Some of these fine days. If indeed typhoid is not absolutely stamped out by universal typhoid-vaccination, we shall have a vaccine or serum which will abort the disease at any 6tage, as antitoxin aborts diphtheria. Then it will be a long siege that has no turning. DARDANELLES the narrows. Boats may pass through only during the daytime, yet they are required to pay a small lighthouse lee. The strait Is a narrow. Irregular channel, connecting the Aegean sea with the sea of Marmora. It cuts Lu rope from ABla on a course from southwest to northeast. It is only about 45 miles long, while it varies in width from one to five miles. Its average depth Is 180 feet. Upon the European elde the shores are eteep and barren, and their inhospitable line of battery-crowned rocks makes the Dardanelles a .place for unusuahy strong defense. The shores on the Asiatic side are long-sloped and very fertile; for the most part being clothed with beautiful forests. The Dardanelles guard the approach to Constantinople from the Mediter ranean, as the Bosphorus guards the approach from the Black sea. They were first fortified by two castles, one on either shore. In the path of Xerxes and Alexander, built by Mohammed II In 1462. These have been often re modeled. During the last century. with Turkish power on the wane, and the Turk himself, apparently acquies- cent, the remodeling and extending ot the old fortifications was brought about by French. English and German nroddinr. as temporary interests pointed toward the Golden Horn. Most of old Poland which survives in race and In political consciousness, in typical culture and in folk-charac ter, survives in the lAustrlan crown land of Gallcla. Under the more sternly repressive rule of Russian and German overlordshlp, the Poles In Russia and Germany have been driven little by little from their strong hold of national feeling. They are becoming half-hearted Russians and Germans, for Russia and Germany have done all In their power to asslm ulate the well nigh unassimulable Pole. In Gallcla, however, with a con stitution of their own, under a per plexed and lenient central govern ment, a consciousness of old Poland remains, and has grown in Intensity In recent times. Hemmed In by Russia on the north and east by the suspicious border pa trol, naturally cut off from Hungary on the south and southwest by the Carpathians, barely touching its sov ereign Austria, on the west, the Gal ician Pole has been left to himself, to the single-handed solution of his own difficulties, political, economic and ad ministrative. With little to prod him into violent industrial exertion, lie. has continued the past into the pres ent, with its quaint customs, its devo tion to agriculture, and its poverty- stricken idealism. Drady.M. Questions and Answers. Mrs. L. J. F. writes: 1. Please tell me what causes hives. 2. What will cure them? 3. How many kinds are there? 4. What can I do to get im mediate relief? 5. Is there a perma nent cure for the eyes that have been badly affected by taking cold when the individual had the measles? The eyes have been sore about eight years. I believe, and the girl is now 16. Reply. 1. Nettle stings, caterpillar bites, mosquito bites; the eating of straw berries, shellfish, venison, cheese, cer tain spices, op certain kindsof smoked or canned fish or meat in sensitized persons; auto-intoxication from intes tinal mal-assimllatlon; round worms or pin worms In the bowel; a neurotic or hysterical predisposition. 2. Remove One kind. the cause or avoid it. 3. with about a million minor types in each case. 4. Take an active cathar tic, milk diet, warm bath containing much ordinary salteratus, then slightly pat the hives with 1 or 2 per cent car bolic acid solution and let dry slowly. Powder the dry skin with corn starch powder. 5. A child could not take a cold in the eyes. The measles in fection itself usually affects the eyes. Yes, the trouble is curable. M. S. inquires: Could you suggest 'means of ridding the face of black- beads? I have been taking peptoman- gan for some time, but with no relief. Reply. The stuff you are taknlg is a mild in. toxicant and of no value. We do not prescribe, but general suggestions will be sent if you will furnish a stamped addressed envelope, i Miss L. says. I weigh 185 pounds, am 34 years old, and want to get thin. I eat meat three times a day and six cups of tea a day and much pastry. Please suggest a diet for me. Reply. You omit to mention your height. If you are 70 lnohes tall your weight is all right, but you ought to save lots of money on butchers' bills and try to be content with two cups of weak tea per day. If you shovel coal for a living, meat once a day is ample; if you do needlework, meat twice a week is sufficient. E. W. complains: My eyes run water, burn and pain a great deal. Have had glasses fitted, but with no benefit. I use a boraclc acid solution as an eye wash. Do you approve of it? What causes the trouble? Reply. If you are under 50 years of age and if your glasses were not fitted by an oculist, perhaps you should try again. Boraclc acid solution is a good eye wash. The trouble may be due to some obstruction of the tear duot in Uie nose. CHORDS AND DISCORDS CAFE CONVERSATION. Maine "My folks bawled me out somethln' awful for stlckln' out so late Rnttnrlnv nieht. but I told 'em I wuddent stand for no more uv It. kin take care of myself. If worse comes to worse, and youse knows it, 'cause I've always bin a hard worker and saves my money." Gert "Far be it from me to cause any split in your family, dearie, but them old folks is altogether too harsh with we younger ones. My people is Jes dear to me an' all that, but onct in awhile they pulls that log cabin stuff on me, and I gives them a piece of my mind- That business about fa ther struggling at the old' mill for nine per and raising a fambly was a good song years ago, but It don t llssen right these days. A girl has got to have a little of the lights or she'll just pass away at the cook stove, that's all they is to it." Mame "Youse certinly gits things about right Gert. 'Course youse bin around more'n me, and youse have a better idee of the world than me, but honest, now, youse don't see no harm In a girl of my age taking a few drinks on a Sattuday night." Gert ''Dearie, it's all on how youse handles the stuff. When I first went agin the brew it give me terrible headaches, but'lt never touches me no more. The doctors say it s great fer buildin' purposes, and that's the onny reason I don't drink more of it, 'cause I certainly like my crock, dearie, as youse knows." Mame "I wuddent think you would go very strong on it. Much do youse weigh now, honey?" Gert "I pushed a fellah in the face fer askin' me that question onct, fer youse know we wimming is a trifle ticklish on the flesh game. But be tween youse an' me, dearie, I have been losin' steddily, an' I am now jest on the other side of 150." Mame "I neverd believe youse weighed so much. I'm jest 110." Gert "You positively looks less. dearie. You have been worrying me. You have the style, an' I have heard many compliments about youse you're classy walk seems to make the biggest hit but youse have got to get a little more fillin'. I'm not trying to roast youse, you know, but to wise youse up. I hears what you don't have said to your face by them jealous huzzies. If youse jest quit trying to wasp your waist and do them deep breathin' stunts in the morning I be lieve you'd come out purty quick. Well, I never advised no girl to drink too much, but I don't believe a liberal supply will do youse any harm so long as you don't get the habit." Tom Barron of England, according to an agricultural paper, is winning egg-laying -contests in every part of the world. The Outlook. A Round Grove, 111., correspondent mourns the sudden change in the weather, and the coming of a "snow blizzard." Grateful In Defeat. Editor Courier: I cannot forego this opportunity to express my thanks to those friends, in Winfield particu larly, who so kindly intervened on election day and protested against my being dragged off to Topeka this win ter to be exposed to the allurments of modern civilization. Knowing as they did of my constitutional frailities, men tal weakness, moral characteristics and physical delinquencies, it was an exceptional exhibition of Christian charity and a philanthropic devotion toward a fellow citizen who, under a thoughtless and Inconsiderate impulse, threatened to throw himself into the arena of political turmoil and unset fish devotion to the public welfare. Here In Winfield, where I am best known, the largest interest in my per sonal welfare was manifested. What little usefulness and sweetness there is left In me at my advanced age they wanted to be retained at home and in our midst, instead of being wasted on an unappreciative public. This evi dence of devoted consideration for my personal welfare will be a solace to the sunset of life. Surely the Lord takes care of his own. Letter from defeated candidate to the Winfield Kas., Courier. Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, from Hot Springs, are new residents of itapid City and are living in Riverside. Rap id City, S. D., Journal. Cbas. Brown assisted John P. Kroefsch in digging a cellar last week. When the job was completed they found the cellar was too large for the building. Don't step it off next time, John. Buy a rule it pays in the long run. Daysland, Alb Press. Accomplished Family. (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Miss Emellne Wigand, 16, daughter of John Wigand. 1371 Giddings-Rd.. N. E., in less than a year has given prom ise, her friends believe, of being a fin ished painter of flowers and animal life. Miss Wigand's propensity runs in the family. She has a sister. Miss Mildred, who works at the East Ohio Gas Co.'s offices, who has painting for her hobby. Her brother William is a sign painter. Footing Corrected. (Terre Haute Star.) It is officially announced that Ger many has 432,147 prisoners of war. Several millions of those the corre spondents told about have escaped. SPEAKING of courage, it is an nounced that England will take all of our cold storage eggs. NEW YORK talks about the rubens of the west, but bicycle racing long ago became blase in these parts. In Gotham they are still strong for six- Ldajr rlnda. ' J. M, C. The Daily Story A aoicuer s vision uy m. Quad. Copyrighted, 1914, by Assocrated Literary Bureau. - For a period of three weeks aTong the front of our brigade a picket bad been murdered on bis post every night. The front was a mile long, with the posts within ten rods of each other, and a bushwacker bad crept up on the lone picket with all the craft of an Apache and stabbed him to death. The one assassin bad killed twenty two men before any great stir was mado about it All that was done when the matter was finally taken bold of was to put two, three and four men on a post In place of one and to send out small parties to look for a needle In a haystack, as it were. That all these murders bad been committed by one single hand no one doubted. A knife bad been used, in every Instance. On the night that the order was is sued to double the men on the posts I was 111 In my tent witn a sore throat and fever. My tent mates were on guard or detail, and I realized that I was light headed. I could not fall Into a sound sleep, but Z dosed at Intervals, and the noises of the camp were con fused with queer dreams. Of a sud den this confusion cleared away, and I bad what yon call either a dream or a vision. I saw a man In the uniform of a Federal captain, mounted on a dark bay horse, ride up to a farm house. The face and form of rider and horse were as plain to me as If I had seen them In my normal state of health at noonday. The captain was a man of about thirty, blue eyed, with, brown hair, brown mustache and a front tooth filled with gold. At the corner of the left eye was a small scar from a wound Inflicted years before. As the officer descended from the saddle and hitched his horse to the fence I saw a woman's face at the , window for a moment. The same face was seen again for a moment as she opened the door for the captain. She was a tall, dark baired woman, and the face bore a smile. As suddenly as the vision came It was blotted out, but it returned again. This time the captain -was mounted. nnd It was night. It was the same house, and his horse wanted to speed too fast and was pulled in. I could not make out how I followed on, but fol low I did. and we had Just descended a hill and were crossing a creek by a plank bridge when there came a red flash, followed by the report of a fire arm, and the captain threw up his arms and lurched to the right and fell out of the saddle. The horse sprang to the left off the bridge, which bad no rail, landed in the creek and went off among the underbrush. I saw that the officer was dragged along with bis foot In the stirrup. 1 also saw the man who bad fired the shot. He was tall and Sidelights on the European War London. (Correspondence of the Associated Press). Great Britain's now rigorous round-up of Germans and Austrians within her dominions caused a rush to the home office of those who by virtue of advanced age, sex or other disqualification for mili tary service, aye allowed to go to the Fatherland through reciprocal ar rangements for a transfer of a like number of British men and women. It is etated that within the last few weeks two thousand German and Aus trian women and twelve hundred men left this country. At the outbreak of the war many Germans and Austrians deluged the authorities with applications for nat uralization papers. The number seek ing British citizenship has been placed at ten thousand; yet fewer than twenty applications have been granted. Between eight and ten thousand Germans and Austrians are under a rest and in detention camps all taken from Greater London. Hun dreds of others are yet to be arrested. Only this week there was a brief re spite. in the round-up due to the fact that there were not enough adequate detention camps. The agitation is not over, however; daily the newspapers are urging the authorities to more ac tion. The exclusive German clubs are under surveillance; buildings built by or known to have been recently occu pied by Germans are being watched, and great precautions are being taken to guard the vaults of the stock ex change. There are so many German firms using the strong boxes of the exchange that every member entering the rooms is searched for bombs or other explosives. Paris. (Correspondence of the As sociated Press.) "On coming out of a dirt road, descending from Verdun." says an officer who is quoted in the Paris Midi, "I crossed a miserable creature leaning heavily on an oak staff. He limped painfully as if he were wounded and doffed a greasy hat in humble salute. I responded ab sentmindedly and went on my way. "An hour later, a dull rattling as of the cracking of branches and the bursting 'of a shell in a thicket beside the road, brought us back to the real ities' of war,- and at the same time to the wandering vagabond, the only creature who could have so soon and so accurately posted the enemy on the position of my little detachment. We turned aside from this dangerous route and by a crossed road reached maiu road leading to X " I continued to think of the vaga bond, who now clearly appeared to my mind as one of those sofciuannered spies of whom we have seen so many iu this war, who follow their tortuous way, seeking information as the mendi cant seeks alms, faltering, insinuating, scenting, listening, watching, then dis appearing Into some secret under gaunt faced, with long bi-v b.,. glittering black eye, andl' the rough clothes ot a farmer h When one of my tent mates . I at once related the orwim n? to him, but neither of cs attarhJr01 Importance to It One with thrJ! ways has queer dreams and fwi A week had gone by . W right again when I read fa . 5 lngton paper of the slngnlw aw acce of a captain In our briX officer, so it was stated, h.aJ on a certain afternoon oa hia-oortT had not been beard of abu " sion came back to me so dewt was so sure that It fnral. . r 1 that I reported to my a ridiculed the idea, but sent nTL Z colonel. My statements were rL., with a smile, but I was gTt and a note to the brigade .J He was a gruff old dog, and bTZS me a fool before I had tleTZ words. When I had given a el XT scrlptlon of the missing officer bt hL gan to listen, and the molt wu thu I went out with a squad to ttu We passed for two miles over 7rs I had never set foot on befors, came to a farmhouse I had nerer tm la my waking moments. Wafonndti. black haired woman, and sbe cottob rated my story of the captain"! tram. She was a widow, Hring with he mother, and the captain had been al tag for many weeks, and It wu a cut of love. A horse had gnawed a ban rail; a horse had pawed np the eartfc the captain's horse was a bay. Whet we returned to the bridge w total the marks where the bushwhacker lad Jumped. We found where the tn shoes of the horse had scraped the stones and where he had clambertj out In the woods, a miler awtj, , found the bone and the rider. Tbe captain had been shot throojt the body. He bad been dragged br ti stirrup, until his body had become tu gled among the underbrush. The ham 4ku1 eaten every bush and limb wBth reach, but had been without water was just able to stand. His rider u probably dead within five mlnntes sli er being shot Yoa may have made q your mind to bear that the sjatatia was also discovered through my diem, bat be was not I have alwayi better ed that it was his hand which knifed tbe pickets, but it Is only my baU No one charged with any of theerlna was ever brought to book so far u I know. I could have identified the tm& whacker among a thousand men, bntl never had the opportunity. A week after the finding of the captain's bod; our brigade was marching and fight!:? forty miles away, and if the assusj was a farmer living In the neighbor hood of bis crimes be was safe froa discovery. ground route by which he bean t fruitful harvest to his chiefs, the coming back in the role of the cot queror, serving as a guide to the It vader. "Suddenly, there before me appec ed the man, gliding out of the thick et. He also had taken the roundalx way and after posting 'the Germii battery, had at once started on t it hunt for Information. "I rushed upon him and he fin start of surprise, then his greasy had went to his eyes in the gesture ! wiping away tears. "'Your papers,' I demanded, ft produced a greasy bunch with 'm and there an illegible trace of wr!d8 on them, and with here and there to clever imitation of an official TiS safe conduct, no passport "If he had no papers it was beat the mayor had been shot, or the b ables of the town had fled. The lage existed no more; the chili even had been shot "Take him in charge.' Two. ma either side execute the order, theaU spring of steel hidden beneath k rags of the vagabond shows itself. T man is upright, tall robust, KV ive, the eye flashing and the Toice flant. , 'if mi want to take me, j have to bring a vehicle, for I'D walk.' Then he sees his 'nlBtke'' form bends again, his voice be"0 humble and supplicating. TU wherever you like, my good air. "Too late! No more doubt poi The vehicle Is dispensed wM- stone wall at the entrance to sfU is sufficient." London, (Correspondence of sociated Press.) It aPPears", three shortest men in the how common? are three of the like. Their names are Benn. L. S. Amery. and H. X Tw The first two have already on " front, and Mr. Tcnnant is PruJ(. tary Under-Secretary r Amery also saw service In & t rica. Mr. Benn Is so short tnw f affectionately known in the Boss? "Little Ben" and "Buttons." Daniel Lauver died in Carlltfc weighed 3S5. Belonged to tn ' partment. Nov. 24 in Amen History. lS07-Josei.li IJrant. famous M chief, died; born about 1826-Coates Kinney. I ""J nalist. author of the "'""4 "Uaiu Upon the Uoof." xro. 1902. . KrtST 1S90 August Belmont, "O,,,. and politician, died: born IP03-Jullan Rlx, talented painter, died. '