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CHAPTER XXXIII—Continued.
It must have been several hours, for
I had been tired from a busy day, and
I wakened stiff from my awkward posi
tion. I could not remember where 1
was for a few minutes, and my head
felt, heavy and congested. Gradually
I roused to my surroundings, and to
the fact that in spite of the ventilators,
the air was bad and growing worse.
I was breathing lor.g, gasping respira
tions, and my face was damp and
clammy. I must have been there a
long time, and the searchers were
probably hunting outside the house,
dredging the creek, or beating the
woodland. I knew that another hour
or two would find me unconscious,
and with my inability to cry out would
go my only chance of rescue. It was
the combination of bad air and heat,
probably, for some inadequate venti
lation was coming through the pipes.
?av,I tried to retain my consciousness by
walking the length of the room and
back, over and over, but I had not the
strength to keep it, up. so I sat down
on the table again, my back against
the wall.
The house was very still. Once my
straining ears seemed to catch a foot
fall beneath me, possibly in my own
ifdf- room. I groped for the chair from the
i-f Stable, and pounded with it frantically
Ml 'on the floor. But nothing happened
realized bitterly that if the sound
heard at all, no doubt it was
classed with the other rapplngs that
had so Rlarmed us recently.
It. was impossible to judge the flight
of time. I measured Ave minutes by
counting my pulse, allowing seventy
two beats to the minute. But it took
eternities, and toward the last. I found
ig^lt hard to count my head was con
fused.
And then—I,heard sound from below
me, In the house. There was a
peculiar throbbing, vibrating noise
that I felt, rather than heard, much
like the pulsing beat of fire engines
in the city. For one awful moment. 1
thought, the house was on fire, and
every drop of blood in my body
gathered around my heart then I
knew. It was the engine of the auto
mobile, and Halsey .had come back.
Hope sprang up afresh. Halsey's clear
v, head and Gertrude's intution might do
what LJddy's hysteria and three detict-
Ives had failed in.
After a time I thought I had been
right. There was certainly something
going on down below doors were
slamming, people were hurrying
through the halls, and certain high
noteB of excited voices penetrated to
me shrilly. I hoped they were com
ing closer, but after a time the sounds
died away below, and I was left to the
silence and heat, to the weight of the
darkness, to the oppression of walls
that seemed to close in on me and
stifle me.
Do you have any money to loan at 25 per cent per annum interest?
If
you are now only getting 3 per cent and want to make in extra
22 per cent and are farming for profit and have. 50 or more loads of
manure a year, I will guarantee you 25 per cent on a small invest
ment. See me for particulars.
The first warning I had was a steal
thy fumbling at the lock of the mantel
door. With my mouth open to scream,
I stopped. Perhaps the situation had
rendered me acute, perhaps it was
instinctive. Whatever it was, I sat
without moving, and some one outside,
in absolute stillness, ran his fingers
over the carving of the mantel and—
found the panel.
Now the sounds below redoubled
from the clatter and jarring I knew
that several people were running up
the stairs, and as the sounds approach
ed, I could even hear what they said.
"Watch the end staircases!" Jamie
son was shouting. "Damnation-—there's
no light here!" And then a second
later. "All together now. One—two—
three—"
The door into the trunk room had
been locked from the inside. At the
second that it gave, opening against
the wall with a crash and evidently
tumbling somebody into the room, the
stealthy fingers beyond the mantel
door gave the knob the proper impetus
\, and—the door swung open, 'and closed
again. Only—and Liddy always
screams and puts her fingers in her
ears at this point—only now I was not
alone in the chimney room. There
was some one else in the darkness,
some one who breathed hard, and who
was so close I could have touched him
with my hand.
I was in a paralysis of terror. Out
side there were excited voices and
incredulous oaths. The trunks were
being jerked around in a frantic
search, the windows were thrown open.
only to show, a sheer drop of forty
feet. And the man in the room with
me leaned against the mantel door,
and listened. His pursuers were plain
ly baffled I heard him draw a long
breath, and turn to grope his way
through the blackness. Then—he
touched my hand, cold, clainniv, death
like.
A hand in an empty room! Ho
drew In his breath, the sharp intak
mg of horror that fills lungs suddenly
collapsed. Beyond jerking his hand
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away instantly, he made no movement.
I think fcbsolute terror had him by the
throat. Then he stepped back, with
out. turning, retreating foot by foot
from the dread in the corner, and I do
not think he breathed.
Then, with the relief of space be
tween us, I screamed, ear-splittlngly,
madly, and -they heard roe outside.
"In the chimney!" shrieked. "Be
hind the mantel! the mantel!"'
With an oath the figure hurled it
self across the room at me, and I
screamed again. In his blind fury he
had missed me I heard him strike the
wall. That one time I eluded him
I was across the room, and I had got
the chair. He stood for a second,
listening, then—he made another rush,
and I struck out wit'h my weapon. 1
think it stunned him, for I had a sec
ond's respite when I could hear him
breathing, and some one shouted out
side:
"We—can't—get—in. How—does—
it—open
But the man in the room had chang
ed his tactics. I knew ne was creep
ing on me, i,nch by Inch, and I could
not tell from where. And then—he
caught me. 1-Ie held his hand over
my mouth, and bit him. I was help
less. strangling—and some one was
trying to break in the mantel from out
side. It began to yield somewhere, for
a thin wedge of yellowish light way
reflected on the opposite wail. When
he saw that, my assailant dropped me
with a curse then—the opposite wall
swung open noiselessly, closed again
without a sound, and I was alone. The
intruder wjjs gone.
"In the next room!" I called wildly.
"The next room!" But the sound of
blows on the mantel drowned my
voice. By the time I had made them
understand, a couple of minutes had
elapsed. The pursuit was taken up
then, by all except Alex, who was de
termined to liberate me. When I
stepped out into the trunk room, a
free woman again, I could hear the
chase far below.
I must say, for all Alex's anxiety to
set. me free, he paid little enough at
tention to my plight. He jumped
through the opening into the secret
room, and picked up the portable
safe.
"I am going to put this in Mr. Hal
sey's room, Miss Innes," he said, "and
I shall tend one of the detectives to
guard it."
I hardly heard him. I wanted to
laugh and cry in the same breath—
to crawl into bed and have a cup of
tea, and scold Liddy, and do any of
the thousand natural things that I had
never expected to do again. And the,
air! The touch of the cool night air
on my face!
long are you and, I to play our little
comedy, Mr. Bailey?"
^CHAPTER XXXIV.
The Odds and Ends.
Of Doctor Walker's sensational
escape' that night to South America,
of the recovery of over a million dol
lars in cash and security.in the safe
from the chimney room—the papers
have kept the public well informed.
Of my share in discovering the secret
chamber they have been singularly
silent, The inner history has never
been told. Mr. Jamieson got all kinds
of credit, and some of it he deserved,
but if Jack Bailey, as Alex, had not
traced Halsey and insisted on the dis
interring of Paul Armstrong's casket,
if he had not. suspected the truth from
the start, where would the detective
have been?
When Halaey learned the truth, he
insisted on going the next morning,
weak as he was. to Louise, and by
night he was at, Sunnyside, under
Gertrude's particular care, while her
mother had gone to Barbara Fitz
hugh's.
What Halsey said to Mrs. Arm
strong I never knew, but that he was
considerate and chivalrous I feel con
fident. It was Halsey's way always
with women.
He and Louise had no conversation
together until that night. Gertrude
and Alex—I mean Jack—had gone for
a walk, although it was 9 o'clock, and
anybody but a pair of young geese
would have known that dew was fall
ing, and that it is next t,o impossible
to get rid of a summer cold.
At half after nine, growing weary
of my own company. I went down
stairs to find |he young people. At
the door of the living room 1 paused.
Gertrude and Jack had returned and
were there, sitting together on a
divan, with only one lamp lighted.
They did not see or hear me, and I
beat a hasty retreat to the library. But
here again I was driven back. Louise
was sitting in a deep chair, looking
the happiest I had ever seen her, with
Halsey on the arm of the chair, hold
ing her close.
It was no place for an elderly
spinster. I retired to my upstairs sit
ting room and got. out Eliza Kline
felter's lavender slippers. Ah, well,
the foster motherhood would soon
have to be put away in camphor
again.
The next day, by degrees, I got the
whole story.
Paul Armstrong had a besetting evil
—the love of money. Common enough,
but he loved money, not. for what it
would buy. but for its own salce. An
examination of the books showed no
irregularities in the past, year since
John had been cashier, but before that,
in the time of Anderson, the old
cashier, who had died, much strange
juggling had been done with the rec
ords. The railroad in New Mexico had
apparently drained the banker's pri
vate fortune, and he determined to
retrive it by one stroke. This was
nothing less than the looting of the
bank's securities, turning them into
money, and making his escape.
But the law has long arms. Paul
Armstrong evidently studied the situa
tion carefully. Just as the only good
Indian is a dead Indian, so the only
safe defaulter is a dead defaulter. He
decided to die, to all appearances, and
when the hue and cry subsided, he
would be able to enjoy his money al
most anywhere he wished.
As Alex and I reached the second
floor, Mr. Jamieson met us. He was
grave and quiet, and he nodded com
prehendingly when he saw the safe.
"Will you come with me for a
moment, Miss Innes?" he asked sober
ly, and on my asserting, he led the
way to the east wing. There was
lights moving around below, and some
of the maids were standing gaping
down. '1 ney screamed when they saw
me, and drew back to let me pass.
There was a sort of hush oyer the
scene Alex, behind me, muttered past
me without ceremony. Then I realized
that a man was lying doubled up at I *er still lame where I had shot him—
the foot of the staircase, and that
Alex was stooping over him.
As I came slowly down, Winters
stepped back, and Alex straightened
himself, looking at me across the body
with Impenetrable eyes. In his hand
he held a shaggy gray wig, and before
me on tha floor lay the man whose
headstone stood in Casanova church
yard—Paul Armstrong.
Winters told the story in a dozen
words. In his headlong flight down
the circular staircase, with Winters
just behind. Paul Armstrong had
pitched forward violently, struck his
head against the door to the east
veranda, and probably broken his neck.
He had died as Winters reached him.
As the detective gnlshed, I saw
Halsey, pale -and shaken, in the curd
room doorway, and for the first time ,,
that, night I lost my self-control. I
tion into the channels, for, behind him,
iu the shadowy card room, were Gert
rude and Alex, the gardener, and
there is no use mincing matters—he
was kissing her!
1 was unable to speak. Twice I
opened my moth then I turned Halsey
around and pointed. They were quite
unconscious of us her head was on
his shoulder, his face against her hair.
As it happened, it was Mr. Jamieson
who broke up the tableau.
He stepped over to Alrx and touched
him on the arm.
"Arid now," he ?aid quietly, "how
Sears the
Signature
of
The first necessity was an accom
plice. The connivance of Doctor
Walker was -suggested by his love for
Louise. The man was unscrupulous,
and with the girl as a bait, Paul Arm
strong soon had him fast. The plan
was apparently the acme of complicity,
a small town in the west, an attack
of heart disease, a body from a medi
cal college dissecting room shipped in
a trunk to Doctor Walker by a col-,
league in San Francisco, and palmed
oft for the supposed dead banker.
What was simpler?
The woman, Nina Carrington, was
the cog that slipped. What she only
suspected, what she really knew, we
never learned. She was a chamber
maid in the hotel at C—, and it was
evidently her intention to blackmail
Doctor Walker. His position at that
time was uncomfortable to pay the
woman to keep quiet would be confes
sion. He denied the whole thing, and
she went to Halsey.
It was this that had taken Halsey
to the doctor the night he disappeared.
He accused. the doctor of the decep
tion, and, crossing the lawn, had said
something cruel to Louise. Then,
furious at her apparent connivance, he
had started for the station. Doctor
Walker and Paul Armstrong—the lat-
hurried across to the embankment,
certain Only of one thing. Halsey
must not tell the detective what he
suspected until the money had been
removed from the chimney room. They
stepped into the road in front of the
car to stop it. and fate playfrd into
their hands. The car struck the
train, and they had only to dispose of
the unconscious figure in the road.
This they- did as I have told. For
three days Halsey lay in the box car,
tied hand and foot, suffering tortures
of thirst, delirious at times, and dis
covered/by a tramp al Johnsville only
in time to save his life.
To go back to Paul Armstrong. At
the last moment his plans had been
frustrated. Sunnvoide, with its hoard
in the chimney room, had been rented
without knowledge! Attempts to dis-
a
.,
od?e
™e,
put my arms around my boy, and for Jo breaking into his own house. The
a moment he had to support me. A {Is-dder the chute, the burning of the
second later, over H&isey's shoulder,
I saw something that turned my emo-
bav,nS f«lled- he,was ,in^"
card room window—all were in the
course of a desperate attempt '.o get
into the chimney room.
Louise and her mother had. from the
first, bedn the great stumbliug blocks.
The plan had been to sehd Louise
away until it was too late for her to
interfere., but she canje back to the
hotel at C— just at the wrong time.
There was a terrible scene. The girl
was told that something of the lcind
was necessary that the bank was
about to close and her stepfather
would either avoid arrest and disgrace
in this way, or kill himself. Fanny
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the
overwhelmed by the situation,
girl consented and fled
From somewhere in Colorado she
sent an annonymous telegram to Jack
Bailey at the Traders' bank Trapped
as she was, she did not want to see
an innocent man arrested: The tele
gram, received on Thursday, had sent
the cashier to the bank that night in a
frenzy
Louise arrived at Sunnyside and
found the house rented. Not knowing
what to do, she sent for Arnold at the
Greenwood club, and told him a little,
not all She told him that there was
something wrong, and that the bank
was about to close That his father
was responsible. Of the conspiracy
she said nothing. To her surprise,
Arnold already knew, through Bailey
that night, that things were not right.
Moreover, he Buspected what Louise
did not, that the money was hidden at
Sunnyside. He had a scrap of paper
that Indicated a concealed room some
where.
(To Be Continued).
O S E S W E A E
E I N
(Copyrighted iflOfl by W. T.
Foster.)
Washlngton, D. C., Sept. 4.—Last
bulletin gave forecasts of disturbance
to cross continent 5 to 9*. warm wave
4 to 8. cool wave to 11. This dis
turbance was expected to cause a great
rise in temperature, generally dry
weather and severe storms In the great
central valleys. About Sept. 4 severe
storms w£re expected in and east of
the Allegrfnles and from the crest of
the Rockies to Meridian -90. Light
frosts v.ere predicted for middle prov
inces and extreme northern sections of
the U. S. middle, northwest about Sept.
5.
Next disturbance will reach Pacific
c.'ast about 9, cross Pacific, slope by
•close of 10, great central valleys 11 to
13, eastern states and provinces 14.
Warm wave will cross Pacific slope
about 9, great central valleys, longi
tude 105 to 85, about 11, eastern sec
tions 13. Cool wave will cross Pacific
slopo about 12, great central valleys
13, eastern sections 15. This will be
the most important disturbance of the
month. A great high temperature wave
will preced low—commonly called the
storm center—and that low will be fol
lowed by a great and severe cool wave.
It will probably be a cold wave in some
parts of the spring wheat sections of
the middle provinces and will carry
killing frosts farther south than usual
in the states. More general rains than
will have fallen during the previous
thirty days may be expected from 11 to
16 avid the last half of September will
average cooler .than usual.
Severe storms are scheduled for 13
to 18. These I am not now able to lo
cate except that they will occur on the
continent in or near the storm center
which I call the disturbance and the
weather bureau calls it the low. A
tropical storm off our southern coasts
will probably develop not far from
September 15.
EDDYVILLE.
Eddyville—The eight year old son of
Henry Moss of Pleasant Corners, was
kicked by a horse Wednesday and sus
tained a compound fracture of the
iower jaw, as well as having several
teeth knockcd out.
A real estate deal was made Wed
nesday in -which the H. M. Mercer farm
of 225 acres, four miles south of Albia,
was sold to Pella. parties, for $S5 per
acre, or a total of $19,125.
Miss Vina Saville is at home from^a
visit of several months with relatives
at Chippawa Falls and other points in
Wisconsin.
Miss Enola .Tohnson departed Wed
nesday night, for Cheyenne. Wyo., and
after remaining- there for a time she
may decide to move there.
John Mullenberg on Thursday pur
chased the Van Zee farm known as the
old Henry Beamer farm and located
on Millers Creek. He paid $60 per acre
for the place which consists of 140
acres, and which makes a total of
$8,400.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Wylie and Mr.
and Mrs. Hobart Parsons of Afton, N.
Y., arrived Wednesday night to spend
about two months with their relatives
James Wylie and family and Drs.
F. M. and Eppie McCrea.
Mrs. George Pendray of Ravilli,
Mont., arrived Thursday for a visit
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. B.
McNeese and other relatives.
Mr. and Sirs. Oscar Palmer departed
this week for Winchester. 111., to spend
about a month with relatives.
Prof. L. A. Garrison of Pella. who
bought the old Norwood farm, about
two miles south of town, last winter,
made another deal Wednesday, where
by he purchased the eiethty acre farm
of Herman Vcrbers:, adjoining- his own
and making him a farm of 240 acres.
Mr. Verberg will seek a new location,
possibly in the south.
John Cubit has moved his family
from White City to the property of
Miss Enola Johnson on South Third
street.
Among those from this place who
are attending the Oskaloosa Baptist
association at Ottumwa. this week are:
Abe Stuber. Arthur Piclrerell, Mes
dames S. E. Mintonye, J. H. Fields and
Jacob Hobl. and Misses Fields. Lucile
Jlofs and Helen Clark.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Palmer departed
Thursday night for the west to visit
the Yellowstone Xstional Park and to
attend the exposition and visit rela
tives at Seat'.e, and perhaps stop off at
Denver. Colo., as well.
.Miss Jennie Tune Is visiting in Pes
Moines.
SEYMOUR.
Seymour.—Mrs. Llewellyn has pur
chased the Widmer property oil Lee
and Firts street of Dr. C. C. Calbreath
and will occupy the same as her fu
ture residence.
Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Bonner. Mr. and
Mrs. Erwin Bonner, Mr. and Mrs. D.
E. Bryant, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. .Steven
son, Mr. aud Mrs. J. A. Hascher. Will
Long, Phillis Phillips, A. B. Johnson,
Lena Montgomery and others are at
tending the state fair at Des Moines.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Phillips returned
Monday from an extended visit with
relatives in Colorado and Montana.
Miss Ora Crow, who was elected as
a teacher in our schools at the spring
election, has sent in her resignation.
The Mision cij-cle of the Baptist
church met at the home of tyirs. H. E.
Morrison Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Elizabeth Briggs, secretary of
the C. E. of this county, went to Sewel
to meet with the executive committee
to arrange the program for the county
Armstrong wns a weakling, but convention which will be held in
Louise was more difficult to manage. Sewel about the middle of October.
She had no love for her stepfather, but On next Sunday each church of this
her devotion to her mother was en-1 city will hold its regular services, the
Inn. self-sacrificing. Forced into time of the usual union meetings of,
acuuiesceucc by hei mother's aupeali, I the summer having expired.
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DR. GIGLINGER BUNCOED.'
Keokuk Priest Pays $24.50 for En
Inrged Photograph Which Never
Came.
Keokuk. Sept. 4.—A big photo swin
dle swept Keokuk not long ago and it
looks as if a number of loi'.al residents
v.ere caught in the net, among them
being Rev. Geo. Giglinger, pastor of St.
Mary's Catholic church. St. Joseph's
hospital and many others. The facts
are these:
Two smooth young fellows visited
Keokuk as long as three months ago
and contracted for the enragment of
many pictures, agreeing to have the
enlargment done for nothing. the
only charge being for the frames.
Fe.ther Giglingci' was one of the heavi
est losers and was caught for $24.50.
At the police station he stated that, ho
been brought a proof of the enlarge
ment.. which was very good, and was
then asked to pay the above, suVn in
advance and thus obtain a big reduc
tion on the worlc. The sum was paid
over, but the frameu picture never re
turned. It was then after several weeks
that Deputy Marshal Jerry Ilarrinston
took up the work of investigating tlvj
matter and wrote to the Chicago firm
which the men claimed to represent.
Yesterday a number of photographs
were received from the studio com
pany which leads the local police to
believe that many people were stung.
The firm is exhonorated from any guilt
as they do not employ the agents and
it is merely through thvm that the
work is completed.
Former Chariton Girl Drowned.
Chariton. Sept. 4.—Miss Beuiah
Kitchen, daughter of ev. G. W.
Kiacfcen, who was several years ago
pastor of the Christian church at thi
place, was drowned at Onanute. Kanc.
last Friday afternoon while her father
was teaching her to swim Rev.
Kitchcn had that morning taken hts
Sunday school class of about twenty
girls to the river for a picnic. His
two daughters, Beuiah and Pearl, no
companied him. The bathers were on
a rippie in the river. The current
pulled Miss Kitchen into deep watar
below the gravel bar. Her father,
ins her peril, clutched her dress ro
drag her back to safety. The cloc-i
tore, leaving a fragment in his lian.i,
and the water dragged his daughter
away to drown lier.
IOWA SOFT COAL MAY "GO UP."
Railroads Plan to Raise Interstate
Rate to "Protect" Iowa
Miners.
Des Moines. Sept. 4.—Protection to
the Iowa coal operators against com-'
petition l'rom the Illinois operators
was assured when the coal traffic
managers of seven trunk Iowa lines
practically agreed at a conference at
the Savery to raise the interstate
^freight, rate into this state on Indiana
and Illinois coal. The result will mean
that Iowa coal mines will not remain
idle half the year which condition has
been caused by Illinois operators be
ing able to sell their coal cheaper in
Iowa than the Iowa operators.
Another conference between the
Towa coal operators, composing the
Iowa Commercial Coal association,
with the coal traffic managers will be
held in Clncfujo on Sept. 9. This con-
A
Indisputable Evidence.
You have read our oft-repeated statement, In use for over 30 years." It
was in the early sixties that the prescription now universally known as Castoria
was first made use of. With a record of over fifty, under five years of age,
out of every hundred deaths, it was the AMBITION OF EVERY PHYSICIAN to
discover a remedy suitable for the ailments of infants and children that would yr
decrease this distressing mortality. In Oastoria that relief has been found. 4
Let us take the statistics covering: the deaths in the City of New York for
we find theoenificent effect of a combination of drugs
the past 30 years, and here
excluding opiates and narootics so long sought for, namely: OASTORIA.
Of the total number of deaths in New York City !n 1870, 50 par cent, were
under five years of age In 1880, 46 per cent. In 1890, 40 per cent. In 1900, 35
per cent. only. Just stop to think of it.
Until 1897 no counterfeits or imitations of Oastoria appeared on drug store shelves,
but since that date Mr. Fletcher has been called upon to suppress a number of these 0,
frauds. While the record for 1900 does not come down to our expectation it is
owing to the carelessness of mothers when buying Oastoria. The signature of Ohas, ~r.
H. Fletcher is the only safeguard.
GENUINE
OF SLEEP.
ftcSimtle Signature of
YORK.
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his per
sonal supervision since its infancy.
Allow no oneto deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-a.s-good" are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulcncy. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach aud Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend.
CASTORIA
Bears the Signature of
The Kind. You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over SO Years.
THE CENTAUR COMMNY. TT MURRAY ST, NEW YORK CITY
Tie Call of the' Coast
Not since the World's Fair at Chicago has there been such an almofet
universal interest in any travel attraction as In the
ALASK4-YUK0N-PACIFIC EXPOSITION
at Seattle. The whole country is talking about it and that wonderful north
western country, with its magnificent resources of ranch and orchard, min«
and forest and almost unlimited natural water power, not to mention th«
fine scenery, all of which are just beginning to be generally known and ap
preciated.
You Ought to See this Country
with its rapidly growing wealth, population and modern cities and leant
what it may offer to your sons this six thousand mile journey is a broad
education and it costs only $35.40 for the round trip.
Don't Forget August 12 is Iowa Day at the Exposition.
Ask me for our Exposition folder tel
ling all about the trip and the
W.LJ0NES&C0.
POISON KILLS DES MOINES MAN
Marshalliown, Sept. .4.—C. M. New
ton. aged o2, of D?s Moines,- died
while in camp" on the river be
low the city, presumably from an over
dose of some drug. It is said that
Nowton was addict- .1 to the morphine
habit, and from appearances it is be
lieved that he got hold of strychnine
instead of morphine. Newton traveled
with his brother and family. They
were driving to Vinton and stopped
at the river to fish. His wife died in
Des Moines two months ago and he
has two children there.
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\V. S. PARKER, Agent,
Burlington Route, Ottumwa, la.
Jobbers of High Grade Flours, Wholesale and Retail V.ill Feed, O.I
Meal and Cotton See's, Meal. We carry a full Hits of field and garden
seeds. See or write us for samples and pricer.
ference will be held for the purpose
of checking up the rates on Iowa coal
and determining what shall be the
percentage of increase in the inter
state rate on coal shipments from
the southern Illinois and Indiana
fields. The roads represented today
were the Illinois Central, Northwest
ern, Rock Island, Wabash, Burlington,
Chicago Great Western and Milwau
kee.
km
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ALWAYS
Ottumwa, ia.
Thousands Suffer With
Eye Troubles
"Ji
oo
4.'
vv--
WhJ attribute the cause to sometliiU&B'Ji
else:
Headaches /.
a
Nervousness
Stomach Troubles
Floating Spots befoie the Ees
All the above are recognized
medical experts as being caused 11- i*s''
rectly by defects of the eye. •*»**•«**,
We have had a wide fexperience in"
overcoming these troubles with
glasses. Hundreds in our city aad
vicinity will testify to our ability »o
do so.
Ottumwa Optical Co.,
Upstairs Over New 5 and' 10c Store.
A*k for Dr. Hanseli,
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