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NEWS Of THE WEEK General Resume of Important Events Throughout the World. T hreatened dam age by ru st is m ak ing w heat h igher in Chicago. A second province o f China is re ported to have seceded and joined the rebels. A savings bank system will be in augurated in the Portland public schools. Bulgaria will m ake no fu rth e r re sistance ag ain st the claim s of G reeks and Servians. S eattle Socialists sent a m em orial to President W ilson denouncing Secre ta ry of W ar Daniels. Much opposition to the W ilson- Bryan policy towards N icaragua has developed in W ashington. S cientists believe they have found the oldest church ( in A m erica on a small island off the coast of Y ucatan. It is believed in W ashington th a t m atters betw een the H u erta govern m ent and the Mexican revolutionists will reach a crisis very soon. Japan claim s to be em barrassed by the friendly advances of Mexico, fe a r ing acceptance of them m ight be m is understood by the U nited States. Secretary Bryan was obliged to can cel several of his speaking d ates and retu rn to W ashington to confer w ith the P resident on the Mexican situation. CONVICT HAS DEADLY DEVICE Lights Lamp, Rings Bell, Explodes Dynamite at Distance. Salt Lake C ity —In the presence of electrical experts. Federal officers and detectives here was dem onstrated w hat was declared to be perhaps the m ost rem arkable death-dealing m achine in vented in recent years. The invention is the work of W. L. Cum mings, 23 years old, who confessed to Federal and m unicipal officers when he was arrested th a t he had th reaten ed to use it to destroy Miss Dorothy Bam berger, w ealthy society girl, unless she gave him 1100. E lectricians took the m achine into a steel and concrete v ault in an office building. A nother p a rt of the con trivance, on which was m ounted a bell and an incandescent globe, was placed in a closed room across a hall. Then the electric cu rren t of the m achine in the a irtig h t v ault was turned on. On the unattached box in the o th er room the bell rang and the lam p glowed brightly. In his acknowledged le tte r to Miss Bam berger, Cum mings sen t a diagram of his invention, saying th a t he would place a suitcase of nitro-glycerine in her room and explode i t from a dis tance. The dem onstration, say the e le ctri cal experts, proves th a t he could have accomplished this. Cummings said the a tta ch m en t could be installed in locomotive cabs, w here it would give a positive signal if a train ran past a closed block signal. In war, he said, m ines could be e x ploded w ithout w ire attachm ent. OREGON STATE NEWS IN GENERAL I TkCLrofiiclei of Industrial and Educational Itema of Interest To Oregoniana ■i 1 ■ ' ■ . - ........... BANK DEPOSITS ON INCREASE NEW CATALOGUE IS ISSUED All Financial Institutions of State Interesting Data in Agricultural Show Healthy Condition. College 1913 Prospectus. Salem -According to the sta te m en t issued by S ta te S uperintendent of Banks W rig h t for the condition of business a t the close of business June 4, deposits in all banks of the s ta te in creased $1,188,490.56 over Ju n e 14, 1912. All banks of the sta te show a healthy condition. In sta te , savings, p riv ate and for eign banks there was a decrease in de posits of $2,220,116.78. In national banks th ere was an increase of $3,- 408,607.34. In th e Portland banks th ere was a decrease of $479,260.04. Loans and discounts increased during the period in all banks $7,913,499.72. The increase in sta te , savings, pri vate and foreign banks was $1,227,- 878.38; national banks, $6,685,621.34, and in the Portland banks $3,684,914.- 34. O v erd rafts in sta te , savings and p riv ate banks decreased $47,722.46, and in N ational banks decreased $27,- 127.87, and decreased in the Portland banks $7,684.21. The total resources in all banks during the period in creased $7,348,402.55. The to ta l lia b ilitie s fo r all banks increased $7,- 348,402.55. BETTER JOB OFFERED BRYAN FINE EXHIBIT IS INDICATED Secretary Can Command $24,000 a Arrangements for Coming State Year as Press Agent. ASTORIA IS WATCHING MILK Fair Well Advanced. New Y ork—Arch Selwyn, m anaging Turkey is hurrying troops to occupy territo ry le ft vacant by the m isunder director of a theatrical company, has standings betw een the Balkan allies, w ritten S ecretary B ryan: “ Sir— If the new spapers are correct and hopes to regain much of her lost in quoting you as saying th a t your sa l ground. ary as secretary of s ta te is insufficient A young society girl of Oakland, for your m eans, th a t you are therefore Cal., is w orking as a m iner to re compelled to add to your income by discover a rich gold strik e which a t ‘outside work,* I beg leave to offer one tim e belonged to her g ra n d fa th er, you a position th a t will pay you tw ice who was killed by a fall of rock while as much as the U nited S ta te s govern w orking his claim . m ent pays and which will call for your Oregon N ational G uard regim ents individual atten tio n . In o th er words, having headquarters in Portland have I offer you $24,000 as chief publicity received large supplies of clothing for prom oter of (nam ing his com pany). use only in tropical clim ates, and be “ The position is one of im portance, lieve firmly th a t they will be» ordered and like your present high office is of into service in Mexico before fall. world-wide influence, for the play is A diplom atic'scandal is believed to about to be presented not only in the be brew ing over the Mexican situ U nited S tates, but in every civilized cen ter of the world. The position is ation. G reat B ritain expects to begin no one th a t will call for the highest qual new b attleships for the n e x t two ity of in tellect and resourcefulness, the com bination for which we are years. | w illing to pay a good liv in g w a g e .” The first car of new-crop barley was received a t Portland from Chard, G ar Whaling in Great Luxury. field Co., W ash. San Francisco — The A dventuress, K ing C onstantine of Greece declares th e B ulgarians com m it all m anner of $50,000 auxiliary schooner yacht, has arrived in po rt here on her way from atro cities in w ar. Boston to the A rctic to dem onstrate Governm ent fo rest fire officials be w haling de luxe. M illionaires, scien lieve the losses from fires w ill be less tis ts and stortsm en will m ake the party th a t ’will p en etrate the frig id in 1913 than for many years. w aters ¡on the coast of W rangel is Women are losing in te re st in poli land, P oint Barrow and beyond, in tic s in Los Angeles, but are reported search of adventure, dhta, pictures to be m aking excellent officials. and the elusive bowhead, least known of the whale kind. Two Oregon towns have voted to The terro rs of the “ chuck” known supply th e ir school children w ith to ordinary w haling expeditions will books free, under the new law o f the not haunt the board of this cruise, for state. a French chef will tak e care o f the Governor Sulzer, o f New York, is cuisine. W here the harpoon points accused o f using his veto power to seaw ard from the bow, several moving coerce legislators to vote as he di picture m achines will a tte m p t to catch whales, polar bears and seals. Be rected. cause it is cold in N orthern w aters a A cloudburst in M innesota im pris heating plant is fitted up at>oard, but oned five men in a coal mine, but they becausejpart of the voyage lies through were rescued a fte r suffering from bad the tropics, the yacht also carris a a ir and hunger. special re frig e ra tin g plant. Salem —A rrangem ents for the com ing S ta te fa ir are fa r enough advanced to indicate th a t the exhib itio n will be the finest ever held in Oregon. A large num ber of race horses are on the grounds and are being trained. The G reat N orthern railw ay has offered a large silv er cup as a trophy for the b est individual a g ric u ltu ra l e x h ib it and the N orthern Pacific will donate a cup fo r the best sow and lit te r of pigs. O th er railroads a re e x pected to donate prizes. The half- m ile race trac k will be com pleted this week. By fa r the finest floral display ever had a t the fa ir grounds has been arranged and m any of the beds have been planted. W alks are being laid out, buildings repaired and m any o th er th in g s incidental to holding the fa ir are being done. S ecretary Mer edith says the in te re s t taken by the farm ers and o rchardists is much keen e r than it was last year. FIRE-BLIGHT FIGHT NOW ON Grand Ronde Valley Folk Plan Vigorous Pest Campaign. La Grande— Sums of money suffi cient to employ four or five fire-blight e x p erts to come to the G rand Ronde valley and com bat a p revailing blig h t plague and to teach orchardists here the proper m anner to fight the pest w ere asked of the county court here th is w eek, a fte r a m eeting of 100 prom inent orchard men. County Judge H enry favors the plan. Two of the apple associations, a t the sam e m eeting, decided to join the N orth Pacific agency. F ire b lig h t h it the orchards from various angles this year, and in some places has burned larg e holes through the c en ter o f fine orchards. When it became known th a t b light was p revalent here, the orchard men organized a cam paign of education in its prevention. This p a rtic u la r type of b light has been practically unknown here up to th is year, and it is not known how it gained a foothold. E xperts were brought here to in v estig ate, and P rofessor Jackson, pathologist a t Oregon A gricultural college, has passed several days in La Grande diagnosing the conditions, and placed before the m eeting th e best m ethods to pursue in fighting it. Police arrested ten women and six Chinese Revolt Growing. men who attem pted to proclaim I. W. P ekin—The Chinese governm ent is W. doctrines on the stre e ts of P o rt still dispatching troops to subdue the land in open defiance of the a uthor revolutionary m ovem ent in the dis itie s . affected Southern provinces, but has The Canadian Pacific railroad is pre not w ithdraw n any soldiers from Mon paring to establish new fre ig h t yards golia. P resident Yuan Shi Kai is anxious and build extensive fre ig h t sheds and w arehouses on a 30-acre tra c t in Spo to proceed south to lead his troops, but his associates have persuaded him kane, W ash. Mutual Subscribers Hit. to rem ain in Pekin, for fe a r th a t he A urora—The sta te railroad comm is m ight be assassinated on the way to sion has granted th e p etition of the the scene of h o stilities. PORTLAND MARKETS I t now is generally believed th a t U nited Telephone company to discon W heat — T rack p rices: Club, 88c General Sun Y at Sen, form er provis tinue its exchange here and the busi per bushel; bluestem , 92c; red Rus ional president of the republic, who ness has been turned over to the A u sian, 84c; valley, 88c. has taken sides w ith the Southerners rora Mutual Telephone company. I t O ats—No. 1 w hite, $29 per ton; and who is now at N anking, and Gen developed a t the h earing th a t m utual stained and off grade, less. eral H uang Sing, form er generalissim o companies re n tin g phones to non-mem Corn — W hole, $28.60; cracked, o f the revolutionary arm y, never in bers, m ust also charge th e ir m em bers Some of th e rural $29.50 per ton. tended to support P resident Yuan Shi the sam e rate. Barley— Feed, $23 per ton; brew Kai perm nently, but only to use him companies ren t phones to non-m em ing, nom inal, rolled, $26.506(27.50. to bring the revolution to a successful bers, but charge no re n t for the phones of m em bers, who are assessed Hay — E astern Oregon tim othy, end. annually to m eet expenses. Accord choice, $18@19 per ton; a lfa lfa , $13 ing to the commission th is is illegal. @14. Men Go Up With Factory. Onions — Red, $1@1.10 per sack ; W inchester, M ass.—The factory of yellow, $1.26 per sack. Irrigation Experiments On. the New E ngland Firew orks company Vegetables- Beans, 4(ii.6c pr pound; O ntario— R. J. Lyman, who is asso cabbage, l(<(2c; cauliflower, $2 per w ent up in a puff o f smoke, the result ciated w ith the division o f irrig a tio n c ra te ; cucum bers, $ l(itl.2 5 per box; o f an explosion late S aturday a fte r M anager E rn est Borelli and of the d ep artm ent o f agricu ltu re of eggplant, 25c per pound; head lettuce, noon. 35(o 40c per dozen; peas, 5(0.7c per three workm en disappeared w ith the the governm ent, has been here several factory. Borelli was th o u g h t to have days m aking experim ents to determ ine pound; peppers, 10@ 12c. Green fru its —Apples, old, nom inal; been killed, as portions o f his cloth the efficiency and cost o f w ater raised W hile not com plete as cherries, 4(<i:10c per pound; gooseber ing, his eyeglass case and some coins by pumps. ries, 4(05c; apricots, $1.75 per box; w ere found n ear by. The searching yet, enough inform ation has been se cantaloupes, $2.50f((2.75 per c rate; p arty la te r on discovered him in a cured to find a wide range of efficiency peaches, 60cf(($1.25 per box; w a te r clump of bushes a m ile from the scene in the plants in th is section, it run melons, l(i;jl}e per pound; plums, of the explosion, unable to rem em ber ning the low est w here the pipes are crooked or badly jointed, and the high $1.50 per box; raspberries, $1.35<ii w hat had happened. est w here the pumps are direct-driven, 1.40 per c ra te ; loganberries, $1.26 Ot ra th e r than belt-driven. Railroad Strike Still Possible. 1.60; blackberries, 8c per pound; pears, $2.50 per box. New Y ork — The E astern railroads Berries Bring Big Profit. Poultry— Hens, 14c pound; springs, and th e ir dissatisfied conductors and 20(0 21c; turkeys, 18@29e; dressed, trainm en continued the truce which Independence- W. F. House, o f this choice, 24(o 26c; ducks, 10(0.12 c ; ge^se, for the last week has rested on con city, thinks he has found a way to gress' m ediation and a rb itra tio n steps beat the high cost o f living. young, 12c. He has Eggs Oregon ranch, case count, 23 tow ards a v ertin g the th reaten ed strik e half an acre of new ly-planted logan o f 80,000 men. An anxiously aw aited berries, from which he will harvest @24c per dozen; candled, 26(o:2$c. B utter — C ity cream ery, cubes, 30c developm ent was the confirm ation by 150 crates this year. These will net pert*w fnd; prints, 32c. the senate o f W illiam Lea Cham bers as 70 cents a crate, o r $105 for the half From one acre of old berries ■'WfWW«cSPancy, l lj ( i il 2 c per pound. comihissioner of m ediation under the acre. •Veal-s^Tancy, 14J(o 15c per pound. Newlands a rb itra tio n law and G. W. Mr. House says, one should pick 500 Hops -1 9 1 2 crop, 14(o)16$c pound; W. H anger to lje a ssista n t commis boxes, which would brin g $350 a t the 1913 contracts, 16(o 164c. sioner. These men are expected here cannery. D educting cost of c u ltiv a t Wool— E astern Oregon, ll® 1 6 c per soon for the beginning of th e ir labors. ing and harvesting, the n et profit pound; valley, 18(0,19c; m ohair, 1913 should be $200 an acre. Good berry clip, 31c. Stefansson'« Ship Sails. land can be bought in th is vicinity. Grain bags S elling price, 10c P o rt Nonte, A laska — The power vessel land. Woman Is Own Stork Buyer. Alaska, the second ship of V ilhjalm ar C a ttle —Choice steers, $7.76<o;8.60; S tefansson's A rctic expedition, sailed Vale— Mrs. J . H. Rowley, of W est- good, $7.25007.76; m edium, $7® 7.25; for Teller, P o rt C larence, Monday, fall, has shipped in a carload o f th o r choice cows, $6 50(<i7.26; good, $6.26 loaded to the guards w ith supplies. oughbred Jersey cows from the Ron- 0i6.50; m edium, $60(6.26; choice cal She is in command of C aptain W illiam ney stork farm in the T ygh Valley, ves, $80(9; good heavy calves, $6.50 O. Nahmens. She will anchor near Wasco county. Mrs. Rowley visited 0(7.50; bulla, $40(6. the K arluk, the principal vessel of the Tygh Valley and selected the cows H ogs- L ight, $8.750i9.35; heavy, expedition, and aw ait the coming of herself, paying $200 per head for $7.250C8.35. Stefansson, who will leave for T eller them . She will add these to her large Sheep— W ethers, $4ot4.60; ewes, in a th ird boat. A farew ell dinner herd of dairy c attle a t her ranch near $30(4; lam bs, $60(6.36. was given to Stefansson. I W estfall. L Oregon A gricultural College, Cor v allis— A num ber of new courses in fo restry and m ining, as well as a re organization of the work offered in an im al husbandry, are announced in the new catalogue of the Oregon A gricul tural college. The 428-page book also c arries full inform ation regarding the buildings, equipm ent and student en terp rise s, as well as the faculty d irec tory and roster of students. T here are nine new courses offered by the school of forestry, all covering practical phases. These courses are outlined to cover ex istin g lum bering conditions in th e West. In the departm ent of anim al hus bandry two additions have been made to th e faculty, and the work so ap portioned th a t each instru cto r willl specialize in a separate branch. L a st y e a r’s enrollm ent a t the Oregon A gricultural college, us given by the new catalogue, was 2431 students. In th e lists are found residents of 39 sta te s and territo rie s, as well as 62 whose homes are in A rm enia, Canada, H aw aii, India, Ireland, Japan, Mex ico, Poland and Russia. On Tuesday, Septem ber 23, the fall recitatio n s will begin. The Friday, S aturday and Monday im m ediately preceding are set a p a rt for re g is tra tion and entrance exam inations. Short-Weight Butter Charge Made Against One Dealer. A s to ria —I t is not im probable th a t th ere is to be a big milk shakeup in A storia th a t will put a stop to some flagrant abuses th a t are said to have been going on among the dairies in C latsop county, both as to adulteration of m ilk and the unsanitary condition of the stables. F or the p ast few days a special dep uty in the office of the sta te dairy and food inspector has been in A storia in v e stig a tin g several cases. H e has obtained a confession from one dealer; has evidence against several others, and w ithin a few days will lay the cases before the prosecuting attorney. Short w eight b u tte r again has made its appearance in A storia, and one m eat dealer has been brought to task. The A storia cream eries are not under in v estigation, but the b u tte r shipped here from other parts of the sta te has been found short weight. Charges of selling adulterated m ilk will be pre ferred ag ain st two dealers of Seaside. Morrow Stock Is Prolific. lone—T h at Morrow county does not have to tak e a back seat among the stock and sw ine counties of Oregon has been proved by various ranchers in th is vicinity. Milt Morgan, who lives ju s t below town, has a sow th a t gave b irth to a litte r of 16 pigs this w eek, which totals 83 th a t she has raised in one year. Mrs. A. Mason, who farm s a creek ranch above town, has a cow th a t de serves a pension. In 1910 th is cow raised tw in calves, and in 1911 one m ore. In 1912 she again brought tw in s and each of her heifers raised a calf. This year the old cow and both the oldest heifers each raised one calf. Ten calves o rig in a tin g from one cow in four y e a rs’ tim e is a record th a t is hard to beat. Klamath Has Good Roads. K lam ath F a lls—The roads to C rater L ake are now in fa ir condition and the sum m er travel has begun in earnest. The roads to Lakeview , Bonanza, and M errill, are like boulevards and the road to A ger, Cal , is in good condi tion, so th a t autom obiles have no trou ble in trav elin g anyw here in the coun try. T he County court recently bought two steel bridges to replace the wood en stru c tu re s a t Keno, across the K lam ath river, and near K lam ath agency across W illiam son river. Industrial Education Grows. The cu rren t session o f the Oregon A gricultural sum m er school a t C orval lis em phasizes the rem arkable grow th m ade w ithin th e last decade by the in d u strial featu res o f education. Ten y ears ago it would have seemed absurd for a teacher to study such things as bread-m aking, sew ing, basket-w eav ing and sim ilar useful a rts, but a t the presen t session, according to Professor E. D. Ressler, head of the industrial education d epartm ent, practically every teacher is tak in g industrial courses, e ith e r in whole or in p art. Towns May Be United. Bay C ity- The business men and residents of Rockaway and Seaview, G aribaldi Beach, have organized the Rockaway Com mercial club. Floyd H. W ilkins was elected president, and A. H. Schloth secretary. T his is the first step tow ards a m ovem ent which is well under way to have Rockaway and Seaview incorporated under the nam e o f Rockaway. A lifeline 800 fe et long has ju st been placed for the convenience of bathers a t Rockaway, which will be followed by others all along the beach. Poultry Farm la Started. Eugene— E n te rin g the poultry in dustry on a large scale, M. J. Thomp son and R. R. Bly are e rec tin g pens to care for 6000 hens on a 30-acre farm near Eugene. Mr. Thompson, who has exhibited prizew inning stock a t N orthw est poultry shows for several years, will have the superintendency of the farm . It is intended to m ark et the poultry and eggs in E ugene and Portland. Orchardists Object to Rate. Salem D eclaring th a t the C entral R ailw ay of Oregon charges an exces sive ra te for shipping fru it betw een Cove and Union, a num ber o f orchard ists of th a t te rrito ry have appealed to the S ta te Railway commission for re lief. The ra te is 20 cents fo r 100 pounds and for common fre ig h t 8 cents. ^ddiiiçtoiiPeùfe ■ ¿ ^B .FLETo itR föoßmsou wá/> /I.GjskwDcy/e e/ "77¡e fïuujuj /úe /3diÁ C t^ y rJ fA / Úy U / Ú L C /ttU + M ff TH E M YSTERY OF TH E JAD E SPEAR (Continued.) As It disappeared up the avenue tow ards the house I heard a faint bubble of laughter in my ear. I tu rn ed In surprise. "W hy, Peace," I said, "w hat Is the Joke?" "T here Is no Joke, Mr. Phillips, he answ ered. "It was fa te th a t laughed, not I.” T here were m om ents when, to a man of ordinary curiosity, Inspector Addington Peace was extrem ely irrl tatlng. We walked up th e avenue In si lence. T he m otor was standing a t the front door, th e chauffeur, a bright faced youngster, loitering beside It. Peace greeted him politely, entering a t once Into a dissertation upon greasy roads and the dangers of side slips. W as th ere nothing th a t would prevent them ? H e had heard th at there was a patent, consisting of small chains crossing the tires, th at was excellent. "It'B about the b est of them , sir,” said the lad. “Mr. BulBtrode uses It on th is car som etim es." “So this Is Mr. A nstru th er Bul- strode's car?” “Yes, sir. He was th e bro th er of the poor gentlem an Inside.” "T he roads a re fairly dry now,” continued Peace, “but If you had been out this m orning------” “Oh. Mr. Bulstrode had the chains on this m orning." he Interrupted. “I did not go w ith him, but w hen he cam e back he told m e he was glad to have them , for th e roads were very bad.” “And Mr. Bulstrode thought the roads w ere dry enough this afternoon to do w ithout them ?” “Yes. He told m e to tak e them off. He------" “I am glad to see the police Inter est them selves In m otoring," broke In a high-pitched voice behind us. “I was under the Im pression—false as I now observe—th a t they w ere con firmed enem ies to th e sport.” A yellow husk of a man was Mr. A nstruther Bulstrode, as I knew this stran g er m ust be. Y ears under the Indian sun had sucked the English blood from his veins and bu rn t their own dull color Into his cheeks. He stood on the step of the porch with his hands behind him and his little eyes glaring a t the Inspector like a pair of black beads. H is mouth, tw itching viciously under his stra g gly m ustache, proved th a t th e poor colonel had not been th e only m em ber of the B ulstrode family possessed of an evil tem per. Over his shoulder I could see Miss S herrlck's white face w atching us. And now she stepped forward to explain. “T his Is Inspector Peace, uncle,” she said nervously. "I know, my dear, I know. Do you think I can 't tell a detective w hen I see him. So you have caught your man, eh, Inspector?” "If you will come Into th e library, Mr. Bulstrode, I will answ er w hat questions I may.” It was now close upon eight o'clock and the pleasant tw ilight of the long sum m er evening was draw ing Into heavier shadows. T here was no gas In the old house, but Miss Sherrlck ordered lam ps to be brought In. We all seated ourselves about the big fireplace save Peace, who stood on the hearth-rug w ith his back to the flowers th a t filled th e em pty grate. The shaded lam p dealt duskily with our faces.. T here was a strain, a vague anxiety In th e a ir th a t kept me leaning forward In my chair, nervous and watchful. "W ell, Inspector,” repeated Mr. Bul strode, "w hat Is your new s?” F or answer, Peace walked up to the lam p and laid beneath It th e Jade spearhead, now cleaned and polished, with Its four Inches of broken shaft. "Do you recognize th at. Miss S her rlck?" The girl bent over It w ithout alarm . She had no Idea w hat p art It had played In th a t grim tragedy. "C ertainly,” she said. "It Is a unique piece of stone, and Colonel Bulstrode prized it m ore than any thing else In his collection. I know It was hanging In th e hall th is m orn ing, for I was a t work with a duster. How did the shaft come to be brok en?” "An accident, Miss Sherrlck." "My poor uncle would have been dreadfully angry about It, and so m ust you be. Uncle A nstruther, for I understand you claim It to be yours." "W e did not come here. Mary, to talk about Jade collecting." snarled the old planter. “ But does the spear really belong to you. Mr. B ulstrode?" asked the Inspector, blandly. The m an stiffened him self In his chair with his fists clenched on his knees, and his beady eyes staring stra ig h t before him. "T hat spear Is mine, Mr. Detective. My bro th er having practically stolen It from me, threatened me with per sonal violence If I attem pted to re claim I t It was the m ost perfect piece of w orkm anship In my own col lection. I shall take legal steps to claim my rightful property In due course.” "Your brother seem s to have acted in a very high handed m anner with you. Mr. Bulstrode. I wonder th at you did not walk In here ons day and recover your property.” T he plan ter rose with a tw isted laugh. "I'm not a housebreaker,” he said. "Also, I m ust point out th a t I don’t Intend to sit here all n ig h t Can I do anything more for you, Inspector?” "No, Mr. Bulstrode.” "O r for you, M ary?” “No, uncle. I have my maid, and th ere Is Agatha, the housekeeper.” "8o th a t's all right. L et us thank Heaven the crim inal Is no longer at large. It didn’t tak e long for our excellent police to m ake up th eir minds. Gad! they're clever beggars. T hey had their hands on him sm art enough. It Is a pleasure to m eet such a m an as you. Inspector Addington Peace. A celebrity, by thunder, th a t's w hat I call you." He b u rst out Into a peal of high- pitched laughter, rocking to and fro and clutching the edge of the table with his hand. T hen he bowed to us all very low and sw aggered out of the room. Peace stepped out a fte r him, and I followed a t hts heels. A lamp hung In the roof of the porch, and Mr. B ulstrode stopped be neath I t In Its light he looked m ore fierce and old and yellow th an ever. "It la no good, Mr. Bulstrode," said Addington Peace. "E xactly; can I give you a lift?" he said quite quietly as he pointed to th e car. "It would certainly be m ost conve n ie n t” Mr. B ulstrode laughed again, leer ing back a t me over his shoulder, ns If my presence afforded an added zest to his m errim ent. T here Beemed an understanding betw een him and the Inspector. Frankly, It puzzled me. “You do not m ake confidants of your assistants, Mr. Peace," he said. T he little Inspector bowed. “At th e sam e tim e,” continued the old planter, "I should like to m ake a sta te m en t before we go. T here Is no necessity to warn me. I know the law.” "It Is Just as you like, Mr. Bul strode." "If I sneered a t the police this evening I now m ake them my apolo gies. You have m anaged this busi ness well. I still do not understand how you come to accuse me. Re m em ber, I did not know he was dead until I received a telegram from my niece a fte r lunch. It was ra th e r a shock; perhaps a t first I was of a mind not to confess. It would have saved me much Inconvenience.” "And endangered an innocent m an,” said th e Inspector. "W ell, well, you couldn’t have proved It against him, and I m ight have escaped. The whole affair was an a c c id e n t I had no Intention e 'e n of wounding him .” “Exactly, Mr. Bulstrode—no m ore than the excursionist who throw s out a glass bottle Intends to brain the m an walking by the line.” The tru th was clear enough now In som e strange fashion this man had killed his brother. I stepped back a pace Instinctively. “You see," he continued, "brother W illiam had, under circum stances of no Im m ediate im portance, appropriat ed my Jade spear. I m ade up my mind to get It back. I knew the hour a t which he lunched, and leaving my m otor In the road I walked down the avenue, hoping to find the front door open and no one about. I had a suc cessful Btart. The front door was ajar. I went In, took the spear from the wall, and set off back to my car. I was some fifty yards down the drive when I heard a yell, and th ere was bro th er W illiam tum bling out of the porch, revolver In hand. “I t sta rtle d me, for he had the m ost devilish of tem pers; but though I was the elder man I knew I had the pace of him, and set off running. W hen I reached the entrance gates and looked back he was nowhere to be seen. I took It th a t he had thought b e tte r of It and gone back to lunch. "I was driving the c a r myself, hav ing left the chauffeur behind, as I did not wish him to know w hat I was about. I sta rte d up th e engines. Jumped Into the seat, put the spear beside me, and let her go. We cam e jo u n d th a t corner a t a good th irty m iles an hour, and th ere was brother W illiam In the road, waving his re volver and cursing me for a thief. He had run down through th e W ilder ness to cut me off. "I give you my word I was fright ened, for I knew him and hlg tem pers. PR AYER M ODERN Inez Haynes Qlllmore Qlves It a New Expression T hat Makes Food for Thought. "Lord, we have come out of the dark and the quiet and the calm of the past Into the dazzle and the noise and the hurry of the present. But yesterday we lived Inside four sealed walls, the hearth our earth, the fam ily our world. Today the door and the window have sw ung wide and we gaze o u t The e arth lies before us. Thy world encom passes us.” T hese are the opening sentences of "T he P ray er of the W omen," by Inez H aynes Qlllmore In H arp er's Bazar In It a re also the following: "W e thank thee th a t we were born In th is day. "Help us to give bsck to the chil dren who toll all the tender love and all th e fairy lore of th eir lost child hood; Its green fields and sw eet wa ters, Its bright flowers and blue skies. Its soft winds and warm sunshine. Its golden sands and changing seas. "H elp us to give back to the wom en who sin all the love and honor of th eir lost womanhood. Its gaiety and t todk up the spear, and as I passed I threw It at hint anyhow, L et him keep It, and be d—d to him, I th o u g h t I w asn't going to h a re a hole drilled In me for any Jade ever carved I never saw wbat happened, for In th a t second I was off the road and only pulled the car straig h t with difficulty. The spear m ust have struck him end on, and I was travel ing th irty miles an hour. “My niece sent me a wire. W hen I received It I understood what had happened. I was In a blue funk about the business. I m eant to get out of It If I could. You see I am hiding noth ing. I told my man to take the chains off the m otor—I had a thought for the trac k s I m ight have left—and came back to find out how the land lay. Well, you know the rest.” "You have done yourself no harm, Mr. Bulstrode, by this confession," said Inspector Addington Peace. "T hank you. And now, If you will Jump In, I will drive you to the police station. You will want to get Boyne out and put me In, eh, Inspector?" H e was still laughing In th a t high- pitched vo(ce of his when the car faded Into the night. • * • • • e It was not until the next day th at Peace gave me his explanation over our pipes In my studio. It Is Inter esting enough to set down. If briefly. "T here were many points In the favor of Boyne," he said. “ Miss Sber- rlck's story not only coincided with th a t told us by Cullen, but It also ex plained much th a t the butler consid ered suspicious. The young man left the drive hoping to m eet Miss Sher rlck. Cullen told me th a t Boyne ask ed w here she was as he left, and was Informed som ewhere In the upper gar den. He failed to find her, however, and probably concluded she had gone In to lunch. Boyne said he was walk ing down through the W ilderness when he heard the scream . 8uppose this were a He. then how could he have obtained the spear? Was he a m an of such phenomenal strength as to use It In so deadly a fashion? You observe th e difficulties. "It was when I was upstairs exam ining th e body th a t the Idea occurred to me. The force used In throw ing the spear was abnorm al. E ither the m urderer m ust have been a man of rem arkable physique, or ho m ust have throw n the spear from a rap id ly moving vehicle. You rem em ber m e notices th a t are displayed In railway- carriages begging passengers not to throw bottles from the window which will Im peril the lives of plate layers. It Is not In the force of the throw but in th e pace of the train th at the danger lies. It was a possible par allel. "And here I m ade a rem arkable dis covery. On closely Inspecting the shaft of the spear, I found a sm ear of lubricating oil such as m otorists use. It suggested th a t a man who bad late ly been attending to the m achinery of a car had been handling the weapon. Had one of the group under possible suspicion anything to do with motors or m achinery? Not one. "I had noticed the Jade collections In th e hall. This spearhead was of unusual beauty. Could It have come from the colonel's own collection? He had not taken It with him when he ran tow ard th e W ilderness, loading his revolver. Why did he so run thus arm ed? Had he been robbed? “Yet th e thief had not pnssed that way. Cullen would have seen him If he had done so. W as th e colonel en deavoring to cut him off? “I found the m otor-tracks In the drying m ud—unusual tracks, mark you, for the driver had run off the road circling the place w here the col onel had stood. I traced them easily by the chain m arks on the tires They led to the front gate, and Just beyond It the c a r had stopped for some tim e close to the hedge. Lubricating oil had dripped on the road while It w ait ed. The case was becoming plainer. "My ta lk with B ulstrode’s chauffeur m ade It self-evident. The Information of Miss Sherrlck and her uncle's own explanation as to his quarrel with his brother over the spear sw ept away my last doubt, Do you under stand?” "Yes,” I said. "It seem s simple now. Bulstrode has had bad luck, though. Things look black against him.” "I think he will be all right," said Addington Peace. “His story has the m erit of being not only easily under standable, but tru e.” "And Boyne?” ”1 saw him m eet Miss Sherrlck. It was enough to m ake an old bachelor repent his ways, Mr. Phillips. Be lieve me, th ere Is a g reat happiness of which we cannot guess—we lonely m en.” (T H E END.) security, Its helpfulness and happiness and peace. "H elp us to open the h e arts of all good women to th e ir new duty. "H elp us to m ake easy the way of th e w orking woman. "H elp us to point out new p a th s of service to th e Idle women.” Shapes of th s Satellites. 1 Photom etric studies of s £ - of $ h e ' principal satellites of Saturfi. m ad« by Outbnlck, Indicate a confirm ation ■•of « the previous conclusions of o th er ob servers th a t several, and perhaps all, of these satellites behavts^jlke our own moon In keeping a lw a y s‘the s^qfe side tow ard the planet arOuffl wtjjch they revolve. In regard ts ‘th e satel lite named Tethys. an ln te rss tla f'h y - pot heels Is offered to account fit? Its - very m arked changes of lum inosity.. The theory Is th a t T ethys possesses the form of a long ellipsoid, the two principal azes of w hteh-are tar one -an o th er In th e ratio of five to two. A sim ilar suggestion has been made con cerning th e shape of th e asteroid Eros, which likew ise exhibits g reat va riations of light, according to Its posi tion In Its orbit around the sun._ H arper's W eekly.