The Boardman mirror., June 26, 1925, Image 3

HOUSE
IS STILL
TO LET"
By ALICE TURNER CURTIS
( by Short Story Pub. Co.)
ON ONE of the streets leading
from the park In the center of
a town near Boston Is a very
attractive modern house with
a history. It was built for the occu
pancy of a Mr. and Mrs. Leslie, whose
mysterious deaths mark the begin
ning of this story.
The facts here recorded are just as
I heard them. Indeed, I was a resi
dent of the town during the period in
which these strange occurrences took
place, and had a personal acquaint
ance with the people mentioned,
The Leslies had been married a
year, were apparently happy, and
were well and favorably known In the
town. One morning a neighbor no
ticed that lights were burning In the
Leslie house, lie ran up the steps
and rang the bell. There was no re
sponse, and after a few hours the
neighbors decided ttiat something was
wrong Inside, and that an entrance
must be made at once. The front
door was accordingly forced open, and
as the men went In they could see
into the room beyond the hall, the sit
ting room. Mr. Leslie was sitting with
a paper across his knee, apparently
asleep, and on a couch near by lay
his wife.
It took but a few moments to ascer
tain that both had been dead for some
hours. Their faces were peaceful and
composed ; there were no signs of dis
turbance in the house.
Every possible inquiry was made.
No trace of poison or of foul play
could be found. Numberless theories
were advanced, and the wonder and
excitement over the tragic death of
the young couple grew dally.
After some months their relatives
removed the furnishings, and "To
Let appenred in the cottage win
dows. The house was Immediately
taken by a man from Boston, whose
family consisted, besides himself, of
his wife and two little girls. None of
this family bad heard the story of the
Leslies, nor did they hear It until
they had been in the cottage for
some weeks. One night, after
they had occupied the dwelling for
over n week, the man of the family
was awakened by a sudden scream.
His wife awoke at the same moment,
and exclaimed: "One of the children
must have the nightmare," but Just
then the two little girls rushed into
the room, exclaiming, "What's the
matter, mother? What are you
screaming about?" Almost before they
had finished speaking two more
screams in quick succession rang
through the house. The place was
carefully searched, but no cause for
the disturbance could be found.
The next night at about the same
hour like sounds were heard. After
that Mr.-AVeston made inquiries of
the neighbors. None of them had been
disturbed. One suggested that pos
sibly a cat was shut up somewhere In
the house and had made the noises
heard, but n careful search of the en
tire premises failed to discover any
such commonplace solution of the
mysterious sounds.
A week passed without any recur
rence of the midnight sounds, when
one night Mrs. Weston awoke from
a most terrible dream. She dreamed
that she was lying upon the couch
In the sitting room. In front of her
stood a young man who held n pillow
In his hands. "I shall stifle you," he
said clearly; "It's no use to struggle."
Mrs. Weston dreamed that site tried
to scream: that once, twice, three
times ihe endeavored to rise from the
couch to push away the pillow, but
could not.
From this dream she awoke sud
denly, and, as she lay endeavoring to
overcome its Impression, gasping
Shriek, quickly followed by two more,
awakened her husband, and again
sent the little girls flying In terror to
their mother's room.
This time Mrs. Weston held herself
responsible for the terrible screams,
"I've had a dreadful dream, and I
suppose I screamed without knowing
It." she said. She had hardly finished
this explanation when again came the
screams, the last dying away In a
atlfled moan.
The family was by this time thor
oughly terrified. They had heard the
story of the Leslies, and without walt
tlng for further experiences In the
house they moved at once.
Their story got about the town,
with the result that the bouse was va
cant for a year. Then a family, con
sisting of an elderly co pie. Mr. and
Mrs. Walters, and their son. a young
man about twenty-five, moved In.
The remainder of the story was told
me by this son, and I will give It In
his own words as nearly as possible.
"I wasn't afraid of any haunted
house. My father was deaf, so It
would take a reasonably loud scream
to wake him, and my mother was a
enslble woman. The house Just suit
ed us. We got nicely settled In a few
weeks, and my elder brother and kit
wife came out from Boston to make
us a visit. The first night they were
there I stayed in town for the theater.
The train I came out In left a few
minutes nfter eleven, and I reached
the house at about a quarter before
twelve. I was nearly ready for bed
when a shriek like that of a person
Struggling for his life sounded through
the house. I hurried Into the hall,
and as I did so my brother ojiened bis
door. Before either of us could speak
a second and a third scream followed.
By this time even father's deaf ears
had been penetrated, and we all sat
up talking the matter over far Into
the night before we felt like sleep.
"In the end we decided not to men
tion the occurrence. We thought of
several possible explanations of the
noise. The next morning we made
a careful examination of the house
and surroundings. We made Inquiries
as to late trains, thinking we might
have mistaken the shriek of an engine
for a human voice ; but all our con
jecture led to nothing. We could find
no satisfactory reason for the dis
turbance. "I made inquiries about the Leslies,
and found that many people believed
that Leslie had stifled his wife, and
then taken some subtle poison which
left no trace; but there was no evi
dence to support this theory ; no sign
of poison had been found, no cause
could be given for such an act, and
nothing could explain the midnight
screams. A week passed quietly, when
one night my brother awakened our
mother, telling her that his wife was
ill. She had awakened from a bad
dream almost suffocated, and my
mother worked over her for some time
before she was restored. She refused
to tell her dream, but we were well
assured that It was a repetition of
Mrs. Weston's. The next morning my
brother and his wife went to their
home.
"I had one more experience In that
house which I shall never forget. My
father was to be out one night until
midnight at the meeting of a society
of which he was a member, and my
mother and I decided to wait up for
him.
"About eleven o'clock mother lay
down on the couch and went to sleep.
The room was brightly lighted, and I
sat near the couch reading.
"Just as I heard my father come
In I was startled by a sudden moan
from my mother. I turned quickly
toward the coach, and as I did so I
saw plainly that the sofa pillow lay
upon her face. I snatched It away,
and awakened her with some little
difficulty.
"Meantime my father had come Into
the room, and as he entered, a scream,
terrible In Its nearness and Intensity,
rang out, thrilling us all with a sick
ening shock. We left the next day."
This finished his story. No explana
tion of these happenings has ever
been given. The Leslies' death re
mains n mystery, and 1o explain the
I'resence that occupied this cottage
after their death would he to account
for a side of life which we barely
touch and cannot comprehend.
The house Is still to let.
Secret of Chemistry
Hidden in the Brain
"Know thyself was the advice
given nearly twenty-five centuries ago
by a Creek philosopher. Nearer our
own time Alexander Pope expressed
the same notion when he said "the
proper study of mankind Is man."
Probably this Idea Is as old as
thought Itself. Yet, though we have
learned a vast amount about the stars,
the earth, the animals, Insects and
plants, and the human body, we have
found out very little about the thing
Inside of us that makes use of the
body, Collier's says.
We neither know ourselves, nor
can we run ourselves half so well as
we do our automobiles. We do not
know what It Is that makes us think.
We cannot tell where our emotions
originate, and why It Is that we, as
Individuals and crowds, do many
things of which we are afterward
ashamed. We cannot say what
causes crimes, riots and wars nny
more than what makes men play the
hero In sinking ships. To borrow the
words of Ir. Alexis Carrel : "No one
suspects the manner In which mem
ory, Intelligence, courage, Judgment
and Imagination are connected with
the brain cells."
Yet the more we gain and apply
Information about other things the
more necessary does Information
about our Inner selves become.
Chemistry and spiritual progress
seem far npart, yet the secret of both
may be In the same bubble In the
brain. Some of the saints of past
ages retired Into the woods and des
erts. Who knows but those of the
future will be found in laboratories?
And our sins, like our bodily diseases,
may be cured by a more perfect knowledge.
-m j oAmong the
IOTABLES
Austrian Heavy Smokers
The use of tobacco Is Increasing
enormously In Austria. Although the
population today Is 6,750,000, the state
factories now turn out more cigars
than they did before the war whi n the
country had a population of 52,000.
uoo. one cause of the Increase le
found In the fact that women are
smoking, not only after meals, but at
all times of the day and everywhere.
Also, there is no age restriction on the
sale of tobacco to Juveniles. A recent
local exhibition arranged by the Anti
Nlcotine union, designed to portray
the alleged harmful effects of tobacco,
failed to Interest the public.
RICHARD CATLING
TDICHARD CATLING was Inventor
of the modern type of machine
gun. There were guns, before that,
which fired more than a single volley,
but none could approach the Gatling
for efficiency.
Gatling was born September 12,
1818, In North Carolina, son of a
wealthy planter with an Inventive sort
of mind. Young Richard hnd such a
good education that by the time he
was seventeen he was Intellectually
far beyond most grown men. With
his father, he perfected a machine to
sow cotton seed, and for many years
afterwards, while his work carried
him about the country and nt last to
St. Louis, he kept Inventing fanning
machines. A steam plow had great
posslbllltes ; planting and thinning ma
chines almost revolutionized farming.
He Invented a screw propeller for
steamboats, only to find Ericsson had
secured a patent for the same idea a
few days before. He studied medi
cine for a time.
Then, with the outbreak of the Civil
wr, he turned his thoughts to mili
tary weapons and made the first ma
chine gun. It fired some 850 shots a
minute and was the marvel of all who
saw it. But the ordnance department,
for some unknown reason, refused
even to look at it, General Butler
thought enough of It to buy a dozen
with his own money and use them,
however. But it was some tlmo after
the war, that congress consented to
use the gun (perfected then to a speed
of almost a thousand shots a minute).
Since then It has been used all over
the world. Of course. It Is obsolete now.
Gatling lived until 1903.
( by George Matthew Adams.)
Old Newspaper
Albert Almon of Glace Bay, N.
Canada, reading In Grit an item which
referred to a Holland publication dat
ed January 8, 1651. and said to be
the world's oldest newspaper, writes
that he has In his possession a copy of
the "The English Mercure" dated
158tf. The paper contains an account
of the Spanish armada. The English
paper, however, Is no longer published
under the same name, while the Hol
land Haarlemsche Courante has ap
peared weekly since the first date of
its establishment in 1656 Grit
OUR
Last Name
IS IT COLFAX?
TX7ILLIAM COLFAX, one of the
y,7 earliest settlers of Weathers
field, Conn., was the ancestor of the
Colfaxes in this country. He was of
pure English stock, and regarded as
typical of the stock that made New
England colonists noted for their In
tegrity and hardiness.
He was the grandfather of John Col
fax of New London, Conn., who, by his
wife, Anne Latimer, hnd William Col
fax, known later as General Colfax,
who was captain of Washington's
bodyguard, and took a prominent part
In the Revolution. He was a man of
many graces and much personal
charm, as well as one of the bravest
of fighters. And It is said that "Lady"
Washington was particularly fond of
his society. President Washington
always knew that his wife would be
treated with the utmost courtesy and
as befitted the first lady of the land
when General Colfax was on of their
guests. And In the Colfax family to
day Is treasured a curious little bag
knitted of cotton thread, which was
made by Mrs. Washington ns a holder
for General Colfax's cue when it was
not in use.
H. Schuyler Colfax was vice presi
dent under Grant.
TREAT The founder of the Treat
family In this country was Robert
Treat, born near Taunton, Somerset
county, England, In 1022. He was
colonial governor of Connecticut. His
father was Richard who, with his
wife, Alice Gaylord Trent, settled In
Watertown, Mass., In 1635.
FALKENBERG The Falkenbcrg
family Is of Germanic origin, although
their German blood is very liberally
diluted with Anglo Saxon stock at the
present time.
The founder of the family was
Henry Jacob Fnlkenburg, who came
from Holsteln, near Denmark, and set
tied In New Jersey, where his descend
ants have always been prominent.
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RAISING GEESE IS
QUITE PROFITABLE
During the past year I have been
raising geese and I have found thera
to be profitable. There Is a good mar
ket for geese.
In tlie first place geese require less
grain than any other fowl. That Is
Important. The geese derive a great
er part of their living from pasture
and roaming about, and they get Just
what they require In the way of feed, i
In winter It's different. We must ;
feed them, but they do not eat like
Other fowls, and I have found they will
fatten more quickly than other fowls, !
says a writer In the Indiana Parmer's j
Guide. The Important thing that I do J
not wnnt overlooked is the fact that j
the goslings are the easiest of all
fowls to raise. That has been my ex
perience of many years past, perhaps
ten years or longer. Once they are
hatched out, with ordinary care, they
will thrive and grow with rapidity to
maturity. The thing that Is hardest
Is to get them hatched. I have found
so many eggs that were Infertile, so I
always set plenty of them.
The little goslings will seldom
touch feed other than bits of grass
until after three or four days. One
thing is essential, and that Is having
plenty of drinking water. They must
have this, and require it, for that
seems to be their very nature,
The hen and goslings are kept in
their coop, where It Is warm for the
first week. Sometimes I keep them In
ten days When it Is damp and cold.
After that they are allowed all the
free range they want, except on rainy
days.
The first feed I give the goslings Is
hard-boiled eggs mixed with milk and
cornmeal. That Is the best thing In
the way of feed that I have ever tried.
The milk must be sweet for best re
sults. The eggs may be crushed up,
shell and all, and mixed With the milk
and cornmeal.
The first month the goslings are fed
about four times a day. I have always
done this, for while young and grow
ing they require nourishment often,
although sparingly fed each time. It
Is folly to overfeed and It is also In
jurious. The breeding birds are fed care
fully during winter. I give thera
clover, vegetables and sprouted oats, so
they do not get too fat.
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Shelter in Wet Weather
Young turkeys are susceptible to wet
weather. One precaution that must
always be observed In handling the
young poults Is to see that they have
a dry place where they are protected
from the rainstorms, and that they
have a dry place to roost.
Turkey hens will lay when a year
old If they are well matured. It Is
probably best to keep the majority of
the flock older hens, but It Is neces
sary to keep some of the better young
liens to gru dually replace the older
liens. In this way the flock can be
iept In the best of condition.
In feeding and caring for young
poults there ure as many different
rations and methods advocated as
there are for chicks.
No food should be given to the
young poults for the first 86 to 4S
hours. I luring the first w eek hard
boiled Infertile eggs chopped line and
mixed with equal parts of rolled oats
and fed In limited quantities three
times a day Is a satisfactory ration.
Sour skimmed milk or buttermilk Is
excellent for drinking purposes. Aft
er the third or fourth day cracked
corn, hulled or steel-cut oats, cracked
wheat or other similar grains may be
scattered In the light litter or hi the
short grass outside of the brood coop
In order to encourage the poults to
exercise In getting their food.
Reading the Minutes.
The word "minute" is from old
Latin, meaning a slight fraction or
small portion. Its use as a definition
of the reading of the former acts of an
organization i.s to call to the remem
brance of the members the minute or
small things which took place Which
illicit escape the attention of the
members or fail to be recorded in the
permanent records of the organiza
tion.
Age of Civilization.
Many people believe that civiliza
tion rises in waves, and that many
thousands of years ago the greater
part of the Atlantic was dry land in
habited by a race of people who, In
some respects, had risen higher than
we ourselves have risen. However
that may be, digging on what is still
dry land lias proved that civilization
is much older than we used to think.
How Industry Got Name.
As the country became settled and
it became necessary to bring meat sup
plies east from points farther and far
ther west, the expedient was found of
slaughtering tho animals and sending
meat rather than live animals. At
first this practice was confined to
pork, which was salted down and
packed In barrels, hence the name
"packing industry."
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Beethoven's Oddities.
Ileethoven had an extreme style
while conducting an orchestra. One
critic says: "At a pianissimo he
would crouch down so as to be hid
den by the desk, and then as the cres
cendo increased ho would gradually
rise, beating all the time, until at the
fortissimo he would spring into the air
with his arms extended, us it' wishing
to float on th6 clouds."
Artaxerxes' Seal Found.
In rummaging in one of the vaults
of n Russian museum, investigators
have round what is believed to have
been the seal of Artaxerxes, the Her
Ian monarch who ruled 465 to 42,r Ii.
C. The seal will now be exhibited in
the Fine Arts museum at Moscow.
The seal reads: "I am Artaxerxes,
the (Ireat King."
Truth About Tickling.
The reason why you do not laugh
when you tickle yourself Is because,
strictly speaking, you cannot tickle
yourself. Tho sensation of beiiig
tickled depends largely upon surprise
and suspense, and when you tickle
yourself there Is neither astonishment
over your act nor suspense over Us
degree or duration.
Those Balloon-Tired Glims.
Negro Cook tasked by his mistress
if she thought Hobby's spectucles be
coming) Yes'm, I think they becomes
him all right. 'Cause I does think
they makes Ills face look klnda crowded.
Temperature of t:e Sea.
The temperature of the sea, Ilka
its salinity. Is very variable. Tho
warmest, waters are found In tho
Pacific ocean, where the average sur
face temperature is 19,10 degrees centi
grade, as compared with 17.1K1 degrees
eontrigrade in the Indian ocean, and
Ki.Hl degrees centigrade in the At
lantic. The coldest sea temperatures
are found off New Scotland.
June Is the Best Time
to Caponize Cockerels
While capons are produced only In
small number where their quality Is
known, they sell for fancy prices, ac
cording to I). H. Mall, extension poul
try specialist of t'letnson college, who
suggests that the month of June Is the
best time to caponize young cockerels.
At this season the market Is usually
low for broilers and It will pay to ca
ponize cockerels and keep them for
capons.
In selling these cupons the local
market must he developed llrst. Some
of our tourist towns ore already pro
viding good market for capons and are
paying good prices for them. Several
men In South Carolina are cuponl.lng
for the farmers, and are marketing
their products for them at a small
cost.
The operation on the cockerel Is not
difficult usually, but should be per
formed with care. If the cockerels are
starved out from .'itl to 4S hours be
fore the operation, It will help greatly.
If the Intestines are full of food the
operation Is verj difficult.
Wasted Worry.
"We worry about posterity," re
marked the Man OD the Car, "lo have
posterity come along and laugh at us."
Toledo Hlade.
Brothers of the Savior.
According to the Hiblo Jesus bad j
four brothers James, Joses, Simon
and Jude, tho last named being also I
called Judas. Smith in his notable
Blble'dictionary says Jesus had three
sisters. The Scripture merely men-1
tions the sisters of Jesus without glv-l
ing their number or names. Exchange.
Great Gift to Mankind.
II Ii like taking tho sun out of tho
world to bereave human Ufa of friend
ship than which the immortal gods
haVC given men nothing better, noth
ing more gladdening. Cicero.
Unusual Dish.
A favorite delicacy of the Eskimo is
a dish of good, bad uud even half
hatehed eggs, mixed with angelica and
chokeberrieSi and thrown into a seal
skin hag filled with whale oil.
Unknown to Science.
There is DO scientific definition for
arhal Is called "astral color." It is a
term used in palmistry and fortune
telling, meaning the effect of the color
Of heavenly hollies on tho lives of in
dividuals. Riflht to Be Haughty.
'They seem haughtier than ever.
Has the daughter of the house finally
landed a title?" "No, but she's en
gaged to a journeyman plumber, Anil
Hi; is no society news" Louisville
Courier Journal.
Jf""' " if prices folng up
; n II" trlmi i I'ullrta
will I'iiru oui' k, 1 1 i ikIsimiii'
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Pneumonia Puzzle.
"A person may have pneumonia and
not know it," said a doctor at an In
quest In Crimsby, England. He said
a man who died while eating dinner
had been suffering from pneumonia
for several days.
The young lady aero the wuy Bay),
her brother la terribly muscular aid
you ought to see bis bicuspids.
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Dirty Feet Retard Eggs
When ysrds arid houses ure wet
and ooze with moisture moat of the
time. It means cold and dirty feet for
the hens. A ben that "gets cold feet"
seldom lays the right quota of eggs,
and dirty feet make dirty nests and
dirty eggs. In eases where a suit
able dry locution Is hard to get, along
with other deslruble factors, place a
three-Inch tile even with the bottom
of the foundation on the outside, um
provide proper outlet for en-ens moisture.
Go Deep for Oil.
What is said to be the deepest holo
In CUada has been drilled by search
ers for oil on tho bunks of tho I'Yasor
river In British Columbia. The holo
reaches a depth of O.SijU ftt
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