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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE.
Friday, June 7, 1929
(DieiLP BULLETS
. by Charles G. Booth.
8YNOPHIH: IiivlnBf the Ok
don mine attar Hammond had
departed without :Hn them,
I'eehi. i and Deacon rrturn to
Han FYllpe. J'tehlr Is w.-rfoua-ly
alarmed whn h learn that
I.uoy and Jerry havi; not re
turned. He dec-Mrs to wall un
til the next day before organ
izing a ;arohinf party. Knip
tying the pocket of hl trou
HerH. he find, to Mm mtr
amazement, a playing card
the ace of Hpades a card from
the table at which Kit the two
i tent figureH in the room of
J,undy'n Kuloon. Kin night
mare of horror had not been
a dream.
fhnpter 29
MAICKI.I) 'AUOS
The powdbillly that iny experl-f-nco
behind the bolted door might
hi reality of a grim and t''ii.tl:
kind hadn't occurred to me iins
a few nil nut cm after my return to
eonttclousner-K thi morning and I
had ptit completely out of my mind
the thought that It wu Hiiythlng
else but a nightmare. And yet
Jiere I wat with proof of lift reality
In my hand!
Kvery detail of the experience
Htood out In my memory uh hIhh p
ar a beacon on a, dark night, TJic
earful cjuletiuH after the Morm
. , the xhupeH at the tahle . . ,
the Htrihlng of the faulty match . .
the two men playing pok-i In the
dark . . . the card I had auto
matical ly muffed into my pocket
and forgotten about. And then . .
Hello, w hat's thlM?
1 wh fiddling with Furle's eye
! piece, f'hanclng to look through It,
i 1 flaw, to my Hurprliie, the. grain of
the top of my dek enormously
magnified.
"f.ook through thin," I said,
handling the I'-nn to MacNair.
"Kxceilent for cloe-up work,"
he grunted, "lint I don't nee how
I-'urio managed the distance.
"1 doubt If he got much out of It
at all." 1 wild. "It's effect upon,
him fieemed to be largely psycho
logical. It fteemed to give him con-:
fldence In hiniHelf." j
"I've got an Idea he inn't as blind j
ax he pretends."
"What makes you think that?
Whipping five playing cards out
of his pocket, MacNair tossed them
In front of me, faces down. By their
backs J recognized them as part of
the deck lieacon bad found In Og-
deli's nitCv.
"Look at their back through the
leriH."
"These cards are marked," I
shouted.
MacNair nodded. "You wouldn't
have seen the marks without the.
Ii-iik, JiJHt the hitfh cards are mark
ed." I studied the cards through the
JeiiM again. The two marks on the
diagonally opposite corners of each
card were the same, but no two
I cards were narked alike. On one
j ca rd two curved lines we re
j thickened; on another, two straight
j lines: on another, two half circles;
and son on. In no Instace was
j the thickening longer than half un
OUT OUR WAYi
Me.Re. 1 "'-' ! REFfiAlM FROM
FUNNIER Ml
7 : T ;I7N -JIGGUKJGr ?.
71 nrrir
1 1 FarTi
I Pointers
Marked canlH rurlr's lens "p
my hand going over that cold face.
"Hut they couldn't havo been
dead!" I Kroaned. "And they
couldn't have been alive! It in nut
Iiavo been a nightmare'' And then
3 looked at the aee of spades aaln
and know thut It v.nati'i,
1 tried nnothci tack. Why had
Kurlu lied to me? Were ho and
JMIIon in the thing loKethcr? Kor
lie certainly hadn't found mo in
.that room in which 1 had coma
to my senses. As 1 had supposed
at first, the room Into which I hud
fallen was In the north wall of the
building. Kurle, then, had gone to
the trouble of climbing through
the window of the north room, un
bolting tilts door, and carrying me
Into thu room off, the west side of
the gallery. If ho weren't Idllon'H
accomplice he must Imvit guessed
Homethlng of the condll hms under
which 1 had fallen into the north
room; and in either evet lie had
Htuashed in the door of the west
room to create In nly mind the im
pression that It wuh this room Into
which , hud fallen.
Evidently there was some) hlng
In thu north room he wanted in
conceal. What? The poker players?
J'lohuhly, And who, ur what, were
the poker players?
There wun another thing, too,
The rcrtirri'ticc of ihls "poker"
luotlf, Andrew had dchHled the
ttame, yet w had found the imple
ment! ot it in his sale; t ho plnasn
the "poker Kame that craekeil (he.
town," and sonui nonsense about
playing poker lor a human life
Were U plirl id the IVtersoli legend
and then I had come upon that
Khastly uauic in Die north room.
What did these reciu rem m mean?
I decided to let thn matter rent
until after supper when l would
eo Henry or MacNair and give
one or the other a chance to ex
press an opinion about my experi
ence. When 1 had deposed or sl.ahhi
helpings or .Mrs. .Mnftlt'H te f;;teak
pie and caramel pudding I unit
Into iny di n, took out my lltthi red
notebook, and heunn to peneii m it,
1 Was still wrltlnif when M cm M..r.
fit Ushered 111 J.llt ht i- M:h Nil Ii- !
"Hello, there." 1 meet.-d l.lm.
"When did you ct luu k "
'lhl munilng," Iu tt.tld bilelly,
kcr game Ibal crackcfl thu townl'
Inch and it had been done so dcli-
l cately that It was almost Impercnp
' Hide to tho nakerl eye.
"The cha nces of the crooked
(j layer would b increased enor
moiihly," MacNair was saying. "The
i ni i Wtiiihi enCii ptf llioi HOW Ulld
i hen but In crooked gambling a
certain percentago of losses In de
sirable,' "Hut he couldn't see the marks'
I exploded, "unless he hud the cye:t
of a hawk!''
MacNair took Hie lens out of my
hand and stuck It In hlH light eye,
leaning forward a Utile,
"I see the marks o,nlte clearly as
you hold the cards."
f stared at him, dumbfounded.
"You think (lood Heavens! you
eoiineci that lens with these mark
ed card! Nonsense! No one in
! his sensi-s would play a man with
it magnifying glass In his eye!"
"Not if I he glass were set In a
pair of old-fashioned spectacles "
MacNair drawled.
I half rose In my seat. "Yoi
mean- (iooil (iod!" 1 almost shout,
ed. "The 'poker game that cracked
thn town'!"
((-opyrlKht, Ht2'jt W. Morrow Co
fan MacNair be correct? If
ho. Is (his another imk in (he
A in I re w I igden murder An
other absorbing chapter tomorrow.
A fat liiau may have trouble but
H hi dlffei ent with a fat parse.
!
let, III
bill
and,
Us we shook bauds.
"When (lid 1 set. von IiimI
went on. "only yesterday mom
Ink. was It? Keeuu like a month
I've be,. a thi-OUHh a KOud deal, Mae
Nalr."
Whereupon I told ev.ny ,
of my experiences. When 1
done, 1 laid my exhibit ,
I'lui: Hie Torrhity I'lrel,
KlirleV evenl. ee. tb.. a.-.. ..t
"What do you think ot 1 1 pol
ldnyeiH?" deionild. d.
MaeNal,- laiiu.h d Krlinly.
Vonr poker plujers? I
u,ey were pnit ..f (he pattern.
J'-Wrrylhlng you have told me about
u part of the pattern. Hufl i
of the pai ls are missing und u ,
ec notliiiitt but cuutu.vion,
tho patt-m lM roioiiieie c
prnbiildy have ., intricate
ui mosaic uoi k as you or
haw,'
'!tut whal abnul my tw o m
J persj Wi t ,, n,.. .i
What? Von mlKht hazard a l;
' iniKht lui.nid a dozen u-itv,s,.
What do -ou think yotit i It ?"
"Th-y touidu't have hvi-n alive,'
1 Hi, hi.
"HardK," M.N,.!,- Mn,,i,,l
J "e J.oint ix; were they ),
', 'Y'' d- n'l Unow thai.
should
When
shall
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By Williams Thomas Edison
Appears Before
Group in Talkie
ATLANTIC CITV. N. J., June 7
f Ai') Krom his home near Kort
Myers. 1-Torida. Thomas A. Kdison
f delivered a personal nieiige to
'the delegates of the National Klec
! trie Light a.ssociation who cele
i bnitcd "Kdison I.Jay." Mr. Kdi
son appeared through the med'.uin
of a movie tone film, which pictur
ed him as strong, active and smil
ing. Mr. Kdison said:
"When I invented the incades
cent lamp, I realized that the lamp
alone was not enough. It was
necessary also to perfect a system
of electric generation and distribu
tion. I immediately set about to
develop it, and it makes me happy
to know that the system as well
as the lamp still persist in all Its
essentials.
I "I had in those cays a high opin
ion of my invention. All inventors
have. Hut I must confess that I
never dreamed that from it would
come the stupendous electric in
dustry of today.
"Naturally I am gratified to feel
that I have been privileged to play
a part in this vast achievement. I
am proud of the electrical industry
of its vision, courage, zeal ano
devotion to public service and I
suspect every American feels the
same way about It.
"It is a great reward to me and
the many colleagues and co-workers
who I rejoice to say are still
living, that we have survived to
see the full fruit of our labors. The
record is wonderful; but fine as It
Is it can be made mill better mid
I have a feeling that In your hands
it will be."
KOISK TO SKNI) TKAM
nOLSE. Ida., June 7 (AI) The
Boise polo club will send a team
to Portland to meet the Hone Cily
aggregation and other nearby
points beginning June Dr. A.
C. Jones, president of the club, an
nounced yesterday.
The Boise teams recently defeat
ed the Portland club in u three
game series here.
Kvery colony of bee has a dis
tinctive odor that Is recognized by
the bees of that particular colony
and In uniting two colonies the
odors must be blended gradually
so the bees of the two colonies may
unite peacefully. It Is beBt to place
a sheet of newspaper between the
stories containing the two colonies
to bo united.. Home time will
elapse before the bees can gnaw
iiway tho paper and in the mean
time the two odors will have lost
their Identity and tho united colo
nies havo the odor of a single
colony.
Success starts at the
To make whitewash according
to government fprmula, slake one
half bushel of stolid lime v 1th
warm water and strain It through
u fine sieve or strainer, dissolve in
warm .water and boil into a thin
paste u pounds of ground rice. Then
dissolve one pound of glue In boil
ing water, i'oui- one peck of salt
In solution Into the lime, add thn
rice punte, mix therein one-half
the glue. 1'inally add five gallons
(of hot water, stir thoroughly and
let It stand for a few days. Then
'apply hot with a brush. This Is
considered the most satisfactory
whitewash, says tho Oregon ex
periment station.
Providing amplo brood rearing
room surrounding and above the
brood nest reduces swarming of
bees to a maximum of 5 per cent,
and In many cas"s eliminates it for
the season, says the Oregon ex
periment station. The (rallies of
solid honey may be moved to the
outside of both stories. It is ad
visable to place a standard f ill
depth hlvi body of worker comb
on top of the colony. At least two
middle of the second story and the
remainder is crowded together in
the center of the lower one. Some
empty drawn combs are also nec
essary at the sides of each brood
nest.
breakfast table
Sweet cherries are self -sterile,
and the common varieties,
Hoyal Ann, Lambert and Hlng
(tie aiso inler-steriU says the Ore
gon experiment station. Any one
of these varieties standing along or
a combination of all of them will
fall to produce fruit. It Is neces
sary, therefore, to Interplanl a third
variety that will pollinate these
commercial varieties. As a rule,
some kinds of Black Republicans
pound of plaster of pails, and add I frames of brood are placed in tho are satisfactory for this.
A few of the famous aviators who use
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