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Thursday, June 5, 1930
THE HERMISTON HERALD
The Mazaroff Mystery
By J. S. FLETCH
Illustrations by IRWIN MYERS
<•> by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.)
W . N. U. S e r v ie «
T H E STORY
M e r v y n H o lt la e n c a g e d by a
m a n c a llin g h im s e lf M a s a ro ff aa
a t r a v e lin g c o m p a n io n .
A fte r a
s h o rt to u r th e y p u t u p a t th e
W oodcock
In n
on
M a rra s d a le
m o o r. T h e y m e e t, c a s u a lly , M r«.
E lp h ln s to n e a nd 8 h e ila M e rc h l-
eon. M a s a r o ff te lls H o lt th e y a re
his w if e an d d a u g h te r a n d t h a t
h is r e a l na m e la M e rc h ls o n . T h a t
n ig h t M a s a r o ff f a lls to r e t u r n to
th e In n a n d h is d is a p p e a ra n c e is
u n e x p la in e d .
H o lt m ee ts S h e ila
a n d te lls h e r o f M a s a ro fT a d is a p ­
p e a ra n c e .
H o lt 1« q u es tio n e d by
P o lic e S e rg e a n t M a n n e rs an d a
r e p o r te r ,
B ow n aa.
M a s a ro fT a
m u rd e re d body la fo u n d . C ro le ,
M a s a ro ff a
la w y e r ,
an d
M ay-
th o rn e , p r iv a t e d e te c tiv e , a r r iv e .
V a lu a b le d iam o n d s t h a t M asarofT
u s u a lly c a r r ie d a re m is s in g .
A
g u n , s to le n fr o m M u s g ra v e , Is
fo u n d a t th e scene o f th e m u r ­
d e r.
E v id e n c e a t th e In q u e s t
p ro v e s M asarofT w a s M e rc h ls o n .
H is w i l l le a v e s a ll to H o lt . H e r ­
m a n K lo o p , close fr ie n d o f M a ­
z a ro ff Is In L o n d o n .
F r o m h im
I t Is le a rn e d t h a t M a s a ro ff pos­
sessed tw o r e m a r k a b le diam on ds.
CHAPTER V — Continued
run of things In that way. The room
Into which we were ushered after we
had sent In our cards looked as If
some very high-class upholsterer had
been given carte blanche to wreak his
own will and fancy on IL A little,
apple-cheeked, rotund man, who wore
mutton-chop whiskers and a ready
smile came bustling in, a big h a lt
smoked cigar In one pudgy hand.
“I know what you chaps have come
fo r!’’ he exclaimed, beaming from one
to the other of us. “This Mazaroff
affair!— I ’ve read it a ll,In the papers,
and your names, too, same as what I
see on your cards—Just so. Now
then, what’s It all about, gentlemen?
It's a queer business, I think—what?"
“You're aware of it, then, Sir Sam­
uel?” suggested Crole. “Well up In
things as fa r as they’ve gone?”
“Who Isn't?” exclaimed Sir Samuel.
“Been plenty In the papers, anyway.
Of course me and her ladyship's read
all we could set our eyes to. It was
only this morning the says to me,
'Sam !* she says, 'as sure as fate some­
body'll be coming to us about this here
a ffa ir!' And— there you are 1 But
I ’ll tell you what—come this way, gen­
tlemen, and then her ladyship can
hear all you’ve got to say."
We followed Sir Samuel out of the
cold grandeurs of our first haven Into
the less formal and more comfortable
harbor of another and smaller room,
where we found Lady Loeke. She
was as rotund as her husband; her
dress wus of the latest fashion, and
she had many rings on her fingers, and
It struck me that she was somewhat
sharper of Intellect than Sir Samuel,
not quite so open, and Infinitely more
watchful.
“O f course I knew we should have
Inquiries made here,” she observed,
lu a slightly affected tone. “I said so,
this morning, to Sir Samuel.”
“As I ’ve Just told ’em," said Sir
Samuel. "Though, to be sure, I ’ve no
Idea as yet as to how they got here.
Nobody knows about our transactions
with Mazaroff outside ourselves—so
far aa I know. Of course, Mazaroff
may have talked. But now— how did
you come to hear of ua?”
"My dear Sir Samuel,” replied Crole,
solemnly, “there are mysteries within
mysteries! A man of your position,
and your knowledge of the world will
understand me when I say that Is a
big thing. You’ve alreudy read a good
deal about It—now, to be brief, what
can you tell us?”
Sir Samuel settled himself In a
chair.
’ “Well,” he said, with a glance at
Lady Loeke. This Mr. Mazaroff called
here one day—Just as you’ve done—
and Introduced himself as a man that
had had big dealings In diamonds and
the like in South Africa. He’d heard,
so he told us, of Lady Loeke as a like­
ly purchaser of something exceptional
in diamonds, and he'd thought she’d
like to see a particularly fine bit of
property that he’d got in that line o’
goods. Then he told me it was a pair
of very fine and rare blue diamonds,
und he produced one.”
“Only one?’’ Inquired Maythorne.
“Only one. The other,” continued
Sir Samuel, “he said was In the pos­
session of his agent, a Hr. Armlntrade,
of Courthope's bank, who was just
then away holiday making In Nor­
thumberland. He said he should b i see­
ing Mr. Armlntrade very soon, and be
would get the fellow diamond from
him— ”
“Unless!” Interrupted Lady Loeke.
“There was an 'unless' abont it.”
“So there was,” admitted Sir Sam­
uel. “Yea— unless Armlntrade had got
a definite offer from some other cus­
“Well, about a month or five weeks
ago, I was called to the telephone
one afternoon, and found Sir Suinuel
speaking to me. He wanted me to go
round to Park lane there and then,
to look at and estimate the value of a
diamond that had been offered to him.
I found Sir Samuel and Lady Loeke
In their library: they had with them
a stranger whose appearance, as I
recollect it, corresponds with the de­
scription of Mazaroff given In the
newspapers—I particularly remember
the cast In the left eye. He was not
Introduced to me by name. It ap­
peared that the stranger wus one who
was Interested In diamonds In a large
way, had heard of Sir Samuel and his
w ife as possible buyers, and was w ill­
ing to sell them something of very
special value; to wit, a remarkable
pair of blue diamonds, of which he had
one In his pocket I t wag this that
I was asked to see. He told me that
It was one of a pair— the other was
equally fine. He further aaid that he
had been In the diamond trade for
some years. In South Africa, had now
retired, and thia would be his last
deal. What the Loekes wanted to get
at was—what were the two diamonds
worth? The would-be vendor and my­
self had a good deal of talk about the
matter. He was very fa ir and reason­
able, and he and I eventually came to
a decision as to a proper price for
the pair."
“And what might that be?” asked
Crole, eagerly.
“Well,” answered Frobenius, “we
agreed that a fair price would be a
hundred and sixty thousand pounds.”
Crole let out an exclamation of as­
tonishment.
“One hundred and sixty thousand
pounds!—for a couple of diamonds!”
be said. “Whew I—that’s a bit excep­
tional, Isn't it?”
"You have to bear In mind that the
diamonds are exceptional,” answered
Frobeulus. “The sum we agreed upon
was a reasonable price—not an ex­
travagant one.”
“And what happened?" asked May­
thorne. “Was the deal carried out?'
“That I do not know," replied Fro­
benius. “I perceived that after having
agreed with the seller aa to what
would be a fair price, my part was
played, and I left seller and buyer
talking the matter over.”
“You've beard nothing since?” In­
quired Crole.
“Nothing. I haven’t seen Sir Sam­
uel Loeke. nor Ijtd y Loeke, since that
afternoon,” said the Jeweler. “And of
course I haven’t seen the blue diamond
man. But I feel sure that he was the
man who la referred to In the news­
papers as Mazaroff.”
Children's aversion to music lessons,
“I don't think there's much doubt entailing long hours of practice for
about that,” assented Crole. “Well,
many months, can be overcome by
now, we'd better get In touch with
making them fam iliar at an early age
these Loeke people," he continued, with musical toys, according to Frank
glancing at me and Maythorne. “Park
H. Richardson, M. D., In Woman’s
lane, you said?”
Home Companion.
Mr. Frobenius gave us the exect ad­
“Many families have found the ap­
dress of S ir Samuel Loeke and left proach to a real appreciation and love
Crole and I, as If by common Im­ of music Is made easier by having the
pulse. looked at our companion.
simpler musical Instruments around
“Well?" said Crole. “What’s May- where they can be picked up and
tlioroe asking himself?”
played casually even before formal
Maythorne looked up from a pattern lessons have begun,” says Doctor Rich­
which he was mechanically tracing on ardson. “Such simp'« things aa the
the tablecloth.
fife, flageolet and piccolo; the banjo,
“Only one thing to ask—at present,” mandolin or even the humble ukulele;
said. “DM Mazaroff sell those dis- the xylophone or hells will often tempt
ads to Sir Samuel Loeke? I f he not only the child but also the guest
didn't—"
la the home.
“Well?" demanded Crole.
"Improvised ensembles prove de­
“Then. In that case, Armlntrade's lightful ways of teaching children
got th e»—In my opinion. And— tlie
Job will be to prove that he has!
Where have we got the slightest elew
First Fireplaree W are W i
to what we wont to establish—that
Many of the first fireplaces were
be and Mazaroff met on that first day built of wood, and plastered over on
after Mazaroff and Holt arrived at
the Inside with s sort of mud mortar.
the Woodcock? But we're getting at These enrty crude fireplace« wire, huge
something—and It all points to Ar- things, and unquestionably It Is from
mlntrade. Now let's see this Sir Sam­ them we got our story of Santa Clans
uel man and get a step further."
anil the chimney. Certainly he vnsM
We chartered s taxicab and were have had no difficulty coming down
driven to Park lane, «here we pulled
those early flees. In fart, they were
up In front of an Imposing mansion,
provided with steps on the I n s id e In
at tlie <l«>or of which we were enennn-
order that the man of the honse could
tered by footmen whose liveries were patch tlie crai-ks In the plaster with
forg-ous than tt«a
new mud.—Successful Farming.
tomer—Armlntrade, he said, had had
the first blue diamond in hia posses­
sion for some months and might have
found an advantageous customer for
the pair.”
“Then you didn’t buy?” asked May­
thorne.
"No—we didn’t buy," replied Sir
Samuel. “What we did was this—I
telephoned our regular Jeweler, Fro­
benius, and got him to come here and
examine the diamond that Mazaroff
had with him. They agreed that a
reasonable price for such a pair of
blue diamonds would be a hundred
and sixty thousand pounds. After Fro­
benius had gone, Mazaroff and I came
to this agreement—if his agent, Ar­
mlntrade, hadn't got a better offer, or
made some arrangement to which they
were committed, Mazaroff was to get
the second blue diamond from Armln­
trade, and, on his return to London,
a
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.
William Nichols, founder of Milton,
was buried there recently. He was
92 years old.
T h is
W e e k
b y ARTHUR BR1SBANB
M r. Ford's Recipe
India Is Tired
Desperate China
Mussolini’s Warning
Henry Ford says people must keep
up their spirits, American farmers
must develop mass production as
American factories do, wages must
not be cut, and everybody must be
cheerful.
or he could tell you himself. But 1
W aterfront mill plant No. 5 of the
never heard him speak of meeting Maza­
Port Orford Cedar Products company
roff again—did you, Maria?"
Sound advice for everybody except
opened recently at Marshfield with a
“No—I never heard him say any­
the man out of a Job, and the farmer,
small crew.
thing of that,” replied Lady Loeke.
who doesn’t know how to get mass
We had a little more conversation
Married in North Bend In May, 1871, production out of fifty acres.
with this worthy couple, and then left Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Simpson celebrat­
Mr. Ford lets the workmen stand
them. 1 was anxious to get out of the ed their 57th wedding anniversary still while their work passes in front
house: I had an announcement to
of them. The farmer can’t stand still
there May 21.
_
.
8»l» eruption,, exoecalen
make which I cpuld not make before.
pempl ration. lo u c t blu-«
! and make the rows of corn or cows
33%L/cPur<
rollevAd at once by thia re-
At the final season of the P. E. O. pass In front of him.
“I say 1" I exclaimed, seizing my
Sulphur
f reahlnff, beautifying
companion's elbows. “You remember state convention held in Klamath
and bath aoap. Beat for
But Henry Ford is a genius and may
that—this morning— I spoke of seeing Falls recently, Mrs. Grace Kent Ma- find a way.
Mazaroff in conversation with a man gyudcr of Clatskanie was elected pres-
who was a stranger to me, but whom ident.
Bombay predicts an early end to the
Bobland'» Styptic Oottoa.SBe
Mazaroff evidently knew?
Well—
fight between Gandhi, sincere coura­
Polk county paid approximately 65
there’s a photograph of that man—
geous, shriveled up little Hindu, locked
the very manl— on Lady Loeke's man­ cents for each vote cast at the pri­ In a British prison, and the power of
telpiece !"
mary election. The total vote was the British empire.
The two men stopped, staring at 3278 and the cost of the election was
Compromises and concessions that
me— Crole with an ordinary glare of 31800.
the wise British understand thorough­
surprise, but Maythorne with a sudden
The >60,000 armory to be built In ly, are expected to end India's latest
Uash of the eye and an alertness that
struggle for home rule and absolute
I had never noticed before In him: It Cottage Grove, voted by the last Ore­ self-government.
gon
legislature,
w
ill
be
erected
on
was as If my remark bad acted as an
Thus far in history no country has
North Eighth street between Gibbs won freedom unless It was willing to
illumination.
“That's the man I saw talking to and Whiteaker avenues.
fight for It. Individually the Hindus
Mazaroff at Huntingdon and again at
George H. Brown, 67, known as the are brave. Collectively they are not
York,” I asserted. “I recognized the
SUFFERING ELIMINATED
potato king of Clackamas county, was combative.
photograph Instantly.”
15-yearz success in treating Rectal and
fatally injured when he was struck
Colon troubles by the Dr. C. J. Dean
“Tbe probability Is that that’s the
China is In a desperate situation,
by
the
fender
of
a
truck
driven
by
NON-SURCICAL method co .
nephew we heard about—Mallison,”
ablts u> to give WRITTEN AS-
according to “the established govern­
said Maythorne. “Let's see— be was Wilson Wilde. Clackamas.
SURANCE o f PILES EI4ML
ment.” Unless that government can
NATED or FEE REFUNDED.
referred to as Lady Loeke's nephew
No hope Is held out for the rebuild­ soon win a decisive victory In the civil
Send today for FREE 100-reee
and Sir Samuel spoke of him as ing of the business section of Bonanza,
i hookdctcribinscuueeaB diaop.
war now raging, China will collapse,
‘ — treatment of such i ~
knowing his way about town pretty recently destroyed by fire. Six main
economically and otherwise. Banditry
well.
Now then, where are we?
buildings, including the bank, sup­ on a gigantic scale makes the situa­
MalliRon, according to what we’ve Just
tion unbearable.
heard, met Muznroff at Loeke's house. posedly fireproof, were burned.
MKirrroai ¥»«7« 57
A boulder dislodged from the hill­
Mallison heard about, and saw, one of
Imagine this country In our civil
the blue diamonds. I f the photograph side by heavy rain demolished Oscar
BE YOUR OWN BOSS
Is that of Mallison, as you assert, Kelty's new automobile when he war, the North fighting the 8outh, 1
Learn H offm an and Prosperity pressing,
Holt, Mallison Is the man to whom struck the rok on the highway two with tens of thousands of bandits on
h a t b lock in g, «p ottin g and buahellng.W rlt«
both sides of the line, preying on
fo r free literatu re.
you saw Mazaroff talking first at miles west of Clatskanie recently.
H O FFM A N PR K 8BIN O SCHOOL
Northerners and Southerners.
Huntingdon and then at York. So—
• 4B Larkin 8t.
-
Ban Francisco. C alif.
The Stoddard Lumber company of
China accuses Russia of Instigating
does Mallison know anything about
this affair? That's to find out— when Baker has obtained a lease on the and financing bandit kidnaping oper­
abandoned Baker Molding company ations.
we enn come across Mallison.”
He paused for a moment in the plant on the west side of town and
middle of the sidewalk, hands pluuged reopened It June 1 as a cut-up plant.
Talking to a crowd of 100,000 In the
Try Hanford’s
In his trousers pockets, eyes staring
The Pendleton city council recently ^ aza del Euomo at Milan Mussolini
at the pavement. Suddenly he looked
,,
.
____
heard savage cries of "Down with
All tfeelere are authorized te refund «our
up, signnled to a passing taxicab, and passed a milk ordinance for regulation France." He told his audience he knew
money to rth e fin hottli I' not suited.
and
inspection
of
dairies
providing
'
what
other natlong were doing, how
motioned ua to follow him Into It.
“Come to my offee,” he said. “I ’ve milk for Pendleton. C. W. Daley, J they felt toward Italy, und did not In- 1
a chap there— my confidential clerk— Pendleton, will be employed as milk tend that Italy "should be suddenly
Her Need
who possesses one of the sharpest Inspector.
awakened with a start by some tragic
. Little Betsy
... a III, and with
brains and most retentive memories
the privilege of an Invalid, demanded
While the fruit crop In the vicin­ turn of the wheel of history."
In Europe. He’ll know!"
so much of her mother's time and at­
ity of Corvallis does not look as prom­
tention th nt her older brother, Fred,
Maythorne’s office was In Conduit
France and other European coun­
ising as growers would like, it Is in­
street, so we were there In a few
was a trifle annoyed. One dMy when
tries will keep out of war, if they can.
Betsy hnd kept her devoted parent
minutes. At each end of the room we dicated that there will be more than But war conies like a flash of light­
entered stood a table-desk; at that at an average yield. Cherries and prunes
reading aloud to her until Hhe was al­
ning, It could come tomorrow, with Its
most hoarse, Fred remarked succinct­
the further end sat, when we walked have been damaged.
hatreds, blazing patriotism, clergy
ly : “Well, mon, I think wlint Betsy
In, a young man who would have at­
A serious situation In Dougina coun-
. , ,
„
....
, calling for recruits, promising God’s
needs Is a ‘talking picture of you.’ ”
tracted my attention wherever I had ty
Is in connection with fire blight , gupport, profltTOr. calllng for bond
met hhn. He wag a smallish-sized
Infestation of apple and pear orchards. iggueg| etc.
chap, and his thlnnish person was ar­
Under present weather conditions the I
_____
rayed In a tweed suit of very large
checks; he wore a hunting stock In­ blight is apt to make rapid headway j New y ork becomes the center of all
kinds of high finance. Secret Service
stead of an ordinary collar, and Its until hot weather comes.
Traffic accidents on Oregon high- ' uncovers the biggest counterfeiting
folds were gathered together hy a gold
horseshoe pin: he might. Indeed, have ways took a toll of 16 lives and re- i achenie ,n history. One million dollars
been a head stable boy as far as this gulted in the lnjury of J7g otherg dup. , in counterfeit gold certificates were
Coated tongue, bad breath, constipation, bili­
sort of thing went. But he hnd the
ousness, nausea, indigestion, dizziness, insom­
lng April. A total of 2436 accidents selzed. The plant raided would turn
sharpest and queerest pair of blue
out >5,000,000 such bills tn a week, a
nia result from acid stomach. Avoid serious
illness hy taking August Flower at once. Get
eyes I have ever seen ; tlie most In­ were reported d y in g the month, four simple way of combating hard times.
of
those
killed
being
pedestrians.
at
any good druggist. Relieves gromgify —
quisitive nose, and the stralchtest line
sweetens stomach, livens liver, aids digestions
of Up above' the squarest and most
Further proof that an ocean long
clears out poisons. You feel fine, eat anything»
Commissioner
Mulrooney’s
New
obstinate of chins— and yet these ages ago rolled over central Oregon York police having arrested thieves
with
things were not, severally or collec­ was obtained recently when there was with hundreds of thousands of dollars
tively, the most remarkable of his discovered on hilltops near Mitchell, ! worth of stolen Jewelry In a New York
features. The thing that one's eye
at an elevation of 30G0 feet, numerous { hotel, picking up some of the >1,000
went to first was the fellpw's red hair
marine
shells, Including a huge coiled bills thrown out of the window, now
Or a Press Agent
—absolutely, genuinely red. a veritable
find in thelf safe deposit boxes >1,000,.
ammonite.
flame of color. I don't know what
A fouriveii-yaur-old sv . hmi I boy has
000 worth of stolen Jewelry.
An airplane will be used to dust
Crole thought of him—he hud doubt­
been expelled because Ids teachers
less seen him before, perhaps often— clover with sulphur on the Henry
claim that he Is Incapable of telling
Cyrus
H.
K.
Curtis,
on
the
alert
for
the truth. I f this young man doesn’t
but my own mind Immediately crys- Strlxner ranch near Redmond. Sul­
tallzed Its Impressions Into a word nt phur ducting appears to be the only interesting things, tells you that in
mend Ids ways lie will likely end up
sight of tbe vivid poll, the sharp nose, method of preventing mildew, which Chicago last week Jacques Gordon,
In the weather bureau.—Life.
famous violinist, carrying a >40,030
the general aspect of ready watchful­
has been known to reduce crops by Stradlvarlus, once owned by Paganini,
ness : Ferret 1
50 per cent.
dressed himself In threadbare clothes
“Cottlngley !" Maythorne said, going
J. H. Billlngslea, supervisor of the and played on the sidewalks of Michi­
straight to the subject without prefnee.
Siskiyou national forest, has announo- gan avenue with a little cigar box to
Do we know the name Mallison?”
collect coins. He got a few one. five
I saw a swift flash of light In the'! ed that the Unlted States foreat
and ten-cent pieces, very few, for a
red headed one’s queer eyes— It was Ice th‘a summer will reconstruct the
concert for which be would ordinarily
aa If a lamp had suddenly been lighted suspension bridge across Rogue river
be paid >1,000
somewhere behind them.
at Agnes. Work on the strnctnre will
“We do! Mallison. Janies M alli­ be started soon. The bridge, which
Someone concludes that the experi­
son."
was built several years ago at a cost
The creature’s voice was as odd as of approximately >26,000, wca wrecked ment proves great reputations to be
“all ballyhoo.”
his appearance. It was a sort of sub­
when a flood washed out one of the
It proves only that reputations are
dued falsetto — piping.
Maythorne
main piers.
real, but bearers are Ignorant.
nodded.
USJ GLENN’S
S ulphur S oap
Soft* C le a r Skin
R ectal V j
ForlvyPoisoning
Balsam of Myrrh
"Unless!” Interrupt«! Lady Loeke.
“There Wae an ‘Unleea* About It."
show me and her ladyship the pair.
I f then we decided to buy, we were to
have the pair at the price I've just
mentioned to you. And of course,
that's where it ended. We’ve never
seen the diamonds since.”
"Did you ever see Mazaroff after that
first call?” asked Maythorne.
“Oh, yes, we did!” answered Sir
Samuel, readily enough. “He was a
very friendly, sociable pleasant sort
of man, and we asked him to come
and dine with us.”
“Had you any other guests. Sir Sam­
uel?” Maythorne asked,
“No, we hadn't, that night," replied
Sir Samuel. “Leastwise, there was
her ladyship's nephew, young Jim
Mai I Ison—but we don’t reckon him a
guest. Nobody else.”
“And you never saw him again after
that?” asked Maythorne. “Never met
him anywhere about London?"
“No—never saw nor heard of him
agnln,” replied Sir Samuel. “Until
we saw all this In the papers.”
“Your nephew, Mr. James Mallison,
I think you said," remarked May­
thorne. “Did you ever hear him men­
tion seeing Mazaroff In town—after
that dinner?”
Sir Samuel looked at his wife.
“I never heard Jim mention that,”
he answered. “To be sure, Jim knocks
about a good deal In fashionable
places, and so on— he's away just now,
Lessening Aversion to Formal Music Lessons
ua
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERALJNTEREST
good-fellowship and freeing them from
the embarrassment so overpowering
In children whose only contact with
strangers has been formal.
“Many a child who would have been
repelled at first by the technical diffi­
culties of the violin or piano, has
come happily to these more difficult
musical Instruments by way of their
humbler and more easily mastered
brothers In the musical family.”
“I thought you’d remember, Cot­
tlngley. In what connection, now?”
“Welralnster square affulr. No di­
rect connection—with him. One of
our clients was In It, though. M alli­
son— his name was In the list. Mem­
orized IL James Mallison— do occu­
Barfed With H l. Five Wire«
pation.
Address— Park lane.
Lady
In a country town not more than
Loeke's nephew—that's who Malli­
ten miles from Springfield. III.. Is a son Is."
cemetery near the roadside whose an­
“And that Welmlnster square affair,
cient stones, moss-covered and weath­ Cottlngley? Gambling business wasn’t
er-beaten. attract the passerby who
itr
may he Interested In curious epitaphs.
“Police raid In a private gambling
In the center of one lot Is a large
house In Welmlnster square. About
monument on which la Inscribed:
three or four months ago. Thirty or
"Hera lies John Jones, aged ninety-
forty arrests. Mallison was one of
two. At rest” On the side of the
the men on the premises. If you ra-
monument are five small «ones ex-
member, one of our rllents was there
scfly alike, each bearing the name of
a woman and date of death and each —came to you In a blue funk. Noth­
ing! Like the scrapbook ?”
having Ibis Inm-ription: "Beloved wife
Maythorne nodded hla head and held
of John Jonea"— Springfield Kepub
out a hand, and the clerk, turning to
llcan.
a Mg table that stood In the center
"Eternal Light"
4 of the room, took up a solidly hound
volume which proved to contnln new»
The lllumlnathm used In the “Eter­
|iar>er cnttln-s. and with almost an
nal Light" In New York city Is pro­
canny eelerity found a pnge m w
cured through the eteetric llgtna These
handed the book over.
Mnytbnrp«
lights are attached to rlrcwtts eon-
glanced at the extract, nrd the«
nected In such a manner thnt If one
twlrteil tlie volume toward Cce
falls another automatically will begin
and me.
functioning.
IT O ■ ■ IX lM T tM l’S D I
Stom ach
and LIVER TROUBLES
^UGUST p LOWER
In London a man In a crowded street
offered genuine gold sovereigns, worth
>6, for sixpence each. He didn’t sell
any. The sovereigns were good, the
croeld was skeptical.
TH E MARKETS
Portland
Wheat— Big Bend bluestem, >1.17;
soft white, western white, >1.04;
bard winter, northern spring, western
red, >1.02.
Hay—Alfalfa, >20 per ton; Talley
timothy, >20.50621; eastern Oregon
timothy, >22.50 6 23; clover, >17; oat
bay, >16; oats and vetch, >16617,
Butterfat—28 6 3lc.
Eggs—Ranch, 20624c.
Cattle— 8teers, good, >11611.50.
Hogs Good to choice. >9.75 611.31.
Lambs—Good to cbocie, >869.
Seattle
Wheat—Soft white, western white,
hard winter, western rad and northern
■pring, >1.05; Big Bend bluestem.
*1.18.
Eggs—Ranch. 21628c.
Butterfat—14c.
Cattle—Choice steers, *11611 M.
Hogs— Prime light, *11.40011-6«.
Lambs—Choice. » O I L
•pakana
Cattle— Steers, good, » 1 0 6 1 9 » .
H i gs— Good to choice, *11.
Lam I« —Medium to good, > 8 O tJ i.
Our Intellectual Senators refuse dial
telephones. The old fashioned. Inferior
system will be restored. W ill Rogers
says the Senators lack Intelligence to
work tbe dials. Carter Glass, says
Rogers, thought his dial was a rat trap
and baited is with cheese.
That Is exaggeration. But the dial
system Is far better than the old sys­
tem. Any Senator Is capable of the
mental effort necessary. And every
Senator should encourage all substi­
tutes for needless human labor. An '
Intelligent New York doctor said; “I
would have the dial system If It cost
>100 a year extra.”
This w ill Interest ten million farm­
ers more than the tariff fight.
Tbe grand champion bull Is dead.
He lived and died In the Argentine
and was sold for »4,689, his name waa
Faithful 20, and he was a short horn.
No other bull ever brought such a
price.
I
was tired, nervous and run­
down. I saw the advertisement
and decided to try it because I
was hardly able to do my
housework. It has helped me
in every way. M y nerves are
better, I have a good appetite,
I sleep well and Id o not tire so
easily. I recommend the Vege­
ta b le C o m p o u n d t o o th e r
women for it gives me so much
strength and makes me feel
like a new person.”—Mn. Lena
Young, R - f l , Ellsworth, Maine.
Lydia E, Pinkhaaij*
Vegetable CohiMiiiid