Thursday, February 24, 1927. :>=—• —1 ■ -- ■ ■ —— ; THE POISONED BOOTS By H. M. EGBERT (Copyright by W. Q. Chapman.) SUSPECTED Louise Carey from the first; but in that I was no dif­ ferent from the farmer’s neigh­ bors. John Carey had married a second time, late in life, when his three sons were growing up to man­ hood. Jim, tiie eldest, was twenty; Flunk, eighteen; Leonard, the young­ est, fourteen. Joi in Carey was rich, and Louise Brand had been a poor girl in the city when the elderly man, making a busi­ ness trip there, saw her working as a stenographer in the lawyer’s office. Tiie courtship was brief, and they were married three weeks after their first meeting. i John Carry had been a close-fisted man. but a good neighbor and had been generally esteemed. He fell un­ der the rule of Ids young wife. His lous resented the stranger’s presence In H e home. Quarrels between father j and ^<.ns en»»ied. There was a bad one a week bei^re the ’uruier’s death. He du nged his will, leaving Aery- | thing to bift wife, with reversion to | Leonard, tiie youngest, the only one who cared for his stepmother. Be­ tween the two a devoted attachment bprung up. Tiie motive for murdering John Carey? bear lest be should change Ids will again. Three days later Cany came In from the field, where lie bad been binding, In high spirts, lie had Ills supper, pulled off his boots, • complained of feeling ill, and lay down on tiie lounge. Nobody else wus in tin.* room. When his wife entered, an hour later, lie was dead, his lower limbs and body terribly swollen. It was like snake poison; the ex­ perts said the condition of the body rcsemb'ed that of u man who had been struck by a rattler. But there wus no rutin i in iln* house, though they were plcnlilul in the livid. If Carey had bei n killed by a make, the poison would have taken effect before be en­ tered ids home. John Carey was buried, and the few w’hispe/s on the part of the neigh­ bors died away. Jim und Frank had left Hie house at the time of the quar­ rel. They started suit, alleging undue induunec. They had removed their pt-r.-.onal effects, including some cloth- ' ing, me property of their father. C ose-listed IHe him. they did not see the scuse of leaving his effects to Louise; and she offered no objection. It was just a month later that the sec-ord dt aih occurred. Jim Carey had gone io the stepmother’s bouse to talk things over with her. Louise Carey was a sensible woman aud had volun­ teered Io come to a settlement. Ac- tording to her story, they had practi­ cally reached an agreement, She had given her stepson tea, and he laid com­ plained that bis fathers boots hurt him i nd pulled tbeuj off. A few mo­ ments later be begun Lu cuiupluiu. She run to I he telephone aud summoned I lie doctor, r«c<-guixing tbs same symp­ tom.« ¡¡« those ef which her husband had died. Before die ductor arrived, ■Iini was dead, aud dreadfully swollen. The boots? They were u pair of h gh, farmers’ boots, und John Carey h -in, fo ks aru liars, that s all,' he said. He Jenched bls lists. “Just let me see the unto who says you are a murderess 1“ he cried. “Ai d, mom,” he added, “1’11 take them off right away." He sat down in the sun and pulled off the boots. Then, carrying them iu his bund, he run in his stockinged feet back into the house. I saw tiie tension on Mrs. Carey’s face. Presently Leonard came back, wearing a pair of ordinary boots. He looked very sober and paler than be fore. He came rather unsteadily up to his mother. “I don't feel well, mom,” he gasped, and fell ut her feet. Mrs. Carey ecreamed wildly, und I carried the boy into the house and called the doctor. The doctor arrived in half au hour and diagnosed the case us hopeless. By that time Leonard's legs were swollen to three times their size, and he was black below the waist. But 1 refused to accept the verdict. Mrs. Carey and I worked ov^r him all that day. It wus u desperate effort to keep him awuke, und we could not walk him on his swollen feet. But we punched und struck him, and pulled up his drooping eyelids. We struck 1dm and pushed him from side to side, trundling him ubout the room. Some­ how we managed to prevent the coma of death from developing that night, und by morning the boy was better. The doctor, who called expecting Ulna to be dead, wus umuzed. The next day wus a critical quo , but by nightfall Leonard was able to gw to sleep, und by the Hext morning to« swelling had gone down a Utile and be was on the way to recovery. Thea, only, did I think of the booth. The story had spread through to« village, and warrant for Mrs. Carsgr’s arrest had already bean Issued. ft was I who confronted to« consCabto al the door with my evidence. For I had slashed the boots to pieces aud dtoeev- ered the mystery. In the left boot was no thing. Bat to the right boot, set near toe ankle, vac a tiny snake fang, with a portlan of the venom sack attached to Ik ft had been thrust out with such vlolcnee that it had penetrated the leather aud carried this minute portion of toe peF son suck with It. It was set downward at such Mi angle thut It would not abrade the skin when the boot wus put oa, but must Inevitably do so when U was pulled off. The explanation wus au obvious cue, and It cleared Mrs. Carey, who new re sides, with Frank and Leonard, on to« old pluce, esteemed by «veryeae. The deadly poison was IdeutlAed wMh fhaX of the Indian hooded cobra. He «Make had escaped from the charmer and bad struck at the farmer’s leg, with­ out his knowledge. The fang, rwmato Ing In the tough leather, had done ne injury until Johu Carey pulled off hie boots. Then It hud killed him. VERNONIA EAGLE PASTORS’ CHILDREN TO HONOR PARENTS Alma Urie, Memorial Takes Form of Tuberculosis Sanatorium. Chicago.—“Silver key» to golden memoria*.*' In these live words are epitomized a national movement, with Its headquarter» here, which ha» as lta objectives: Creation of a sunshiny, life and health-giving memorial to the spirits of thousands of America's best-loved men aud women, and A lasting and complete refutation of the old theory that the majority of mltgstera' chlldreu are ne’er-do-wells. The “golden memories" are those which all of us treasure of the kindly ministrations, the heartfelt sympa­ thies and the helping hands extended to us la times of stress by pastors or our acquaintances. The “silver keys" are the dollars that are pouring Into the Methodist Ministers’ Sons' and Daughters’ asso­ ciation. tor the memorial which that organization has planned and on wli'ch construction zls expected early this year. Plan Great Sanatorium. That memorial Is to be the Method­ ist Ministers’ Memorial sanatorium at Colorado Springs, Colo. It Is planned us th» principal unit of the National «Ikttaod'ít Episcopal Sanatorium for Tuberculoid»-* p.eject »mbraclng al­ most a million dollurs tu búllalas» and equipment. “Qur unit,” says Rev. J. W. Irish, D. executive secretary of the asso- (fiattOB. “will cost about $800.090 and wlU afford u*—the sous aud daughters of Methodist ministers—an opportu­ nity net only to honor our fathers and mothers, but also to assist Iu caring for the more than a million persbns la. America who are afflicted with tills drend disease. The service will be non- Meterían and will be provided with out cost to those who are unable to pav the cost of their fights for heelt'a. Doct.or Irish added that probably uo piovement Iu the history of Metheá Ism ever has struck such a popula" cljprd of appeal and that the success of the venture Is assured, In his of- flees at 740 Rueb street, he airee1" hus the names and addresses of ID''*', eons end daughters of Methodist mln Istcr«. “Our greatest concern now," he o-n tlnued, “Is that of obtaining as necr’- as possible a complete list of the sons and daughters of Methodist mlnlst""« and their wives. The opportunity which our association afford» these fotlrs of memorializing their parents Is such that we have Issued a general ap- | peal tv th» public everywhere to »cud fts BaissM aud adtlrus«>* M m 4 St Beth 4B Ueueral bos- aKwT. B*ttu*»Uy kaewu fcr lta achtave- bm *B> Bi earalsal »ad geaeral siedlcal traataaaiC. “Vt®» salt ef ear saaaterlum, a beat tag ptaat and laanftry large eaeugh te previd» Ser tarare expaBaluu. already have beeai erected oa eur sit*.’’ IHnlater»* Sene Rank High. htavaiepiueut ef the hospital memo­ rial to children of preacher», has kreagM to light an almost startling array ef prominent personages wbe were the son* or daaghtera of mlule- tere. Jaba Hancock, flrat »Iguer ef the D»P!»ratl*a ef Independence, was a greacber’a oea. as were eight ethers wbe Mgued that doemneut. Oss ef every atoe ef ths Presidents of tbs Ualfed State» bars been ministers’ •en». wliUe la eae ef every feur ad wawloCreOoB», America’s Presidents ba* gMghtor* ef mlalsters as the na- MeM'a Beta balp? •ne eg ev«*y $v» persea, to the Bail ef Fame to New York elty Is the ■eu or daughter of a preacher. to the todaatrial field, la science, toveuMoa. literature and the arts, many of (lie eatataudlag uatuea are those of »delator»* son, Rlutiep Edwin Holt Ungke* ef Chi­ cago lb pranMeot ef th* association; Duchesse d'Uzes Leads Rev. Merle N Bngllsh. D D., et Oak in Aristocratic Chase Pert, 111 I» vice president. Other I The Duchesse d’Uzes Is on* ef the agleen, kealdes Decter Irish, the ex- most characteristic and picturesque eontiy* »»cretnry, Inclade L. O. Jones. figures In that French aristocracy Ijrfeeia. Neb . secretary, aud Dr. C. 8. which pays mure attention to ft« com Weed«, Cleveland. Okie, treasurer. try estate than to Faris and ths r* publican government. The dneheoe, SnapghoU of Cruiser opined the season with hsr pack ef Emden Stir Germans steghounds on St. Habert’s day. hi pink riding habit and with ths threw Wtlbelmskavea. Germany. — There cornered and braided bat which ra was excitement amoug member» of the called the Eighteenth century, aha led Garman uavy whan th* cruiser Em­ her huntsmen, the large brass bunt­ den departed on a world tour. For ing horns encircling their bodies, and aaliera ea board a British (auk »hip her guests to the pursuit ef the were »toiarved to ba photographing the quarry. But, first of all. a maw ef tierwaa naval veeael as »he steamed St. Hubert was celebrated In the all oat ef pert W1H raanaaa bogs a to »irentete to Ince church. huuUag haras batag », eluded tn the atwaleal part ef