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m" M HENRY PLAINt)EALER» M HENRY, ILL. --•"»2pir^Si«p F R E D E R I C K P A L M E R l i . (Copyright. 1914, by C>«Hf« Scribner'* Sons) SYNOPSIS. Attheir home on the frontier between m Browns and Grays Marta G-a!I*nd and per mother, entertaining Colonel Wester- line of the Grays, see Captain Lanstron "of the Browns injured by a fall In his aeroplane. Ten years later. Westerling, nominal vice but real chief of staff, re-en- rorces South La Tir and meditates on war. Marta tells him of her teaching children the follies of war and martial patriotism, «nd begs him to prevent war while he is chief of staff. Lanstron calls on Marta her home. She tells Lanstron that she Mlinves Feller, the tfariloner, to be a spy Lanatron confesses it is true artd shows ijer a telephone which Feller has con­ cealed in a secret passage under the tower for use to benefit the Browns in v/ar •emergencies. Lanstron declares his love for Marta. Westerling and the Gray pre­ mier plan to use a trivial international dffair to foment warlike, patriotism and Etc before declaring war. Partow, vrn chief of staff, reveals his plans to stron, made vice chief. The Gray army crosses the border line and attacks. The Browns cheek them. Artillery, in­ fantry, aeroplanes and dirigibles engage. Marta has her first glimpse of war in its ftpodefn, cold, scientific, murderous bru­ tality. The Browns fall back to the Gal- land house. Marta sees a night attack. The Grays attack in force. Feller leaves Ms secret telephone and goes back to his puns. Hand to hand fighting. The Browns fall back again. Marta asks Lanstron over the phone to appeal to Partow to stop the fighting. Vandalism in the Gallanii house. Westerling and his, staff occupy the Gal- land house and he begins to woo Marta, who nppr.rently throws her fortunes with the Grays and offers valuable information. She calls up Lanstron on the secret tele­ phone and plans to give Westerling infor­ mation that will trap the Gray army. CHAPTER XV--Continued. "Yes?" the monosyllable was de- tabbed, dismal, labored. "A woman can be that!" she exclaimed In an un­ certain ton?., which grew into the dis­ traction of clipped words and broken sentences. "A woman play-acting--a woman acting the most revolting hy­ pocrisy--influences the issue between two nations! Her deceit deals in the lives of sons precious to fathers and mothers, the fate of frontiers, of insti­ tutions! Think of it! Think of ma­ chines costing countless millions--ma­ chines of flesh and blood, with their destinie* shaped by one little bit of lying information! Think of the folly of any civilization that stakes its tri­ umphs on such a gamble! Am I not right? Isn't it true? Isn't it?" i "Ye* yes, Marta! But--I--•" If she wttre weakening it was not. his place to try to strengthen her purpose. "It Will the sooner end fighting, won't tt, Lanny ?" she asked in a small, tense voice. "Yea" ' "And the only real end that means Teal peace is to prove that the weak can hold back the strong from their threshold?". i "Yes." •- i ISven now Westerling might be on the veranda, perhaps waiting for news that would enable him to crush the weak; to prove that the law of five pounds of human flesh against three, and five bayonets against three, is the; law of civilization. ! "Yes, yes, yea!" The constriction was gone from her throat; there was a drum-beat in her soul. "Depend on me, Lanny!" It was Feller's favorite phrase spoken by the one who was to take his place. "Yes, I'm ready to make any sacrifice now. For what am I? .What is one woman compared to such a purpose? 1 dont care what is said of me or what becomes of me if we can win! Good-by, Lanny, till I call yen up again! And- God with us!" "God with us!" as Partow had Baid, over and over. The saying had come to be repeated by hard-headed, agnos­ tic .staff-officers, who believed that the deity had no relation to the efficiency of gun-fire. The Brown infantrymen even were beginning to mutter it in the midst of action. Waiting on the path of jthe second terrace for Westerling to cjome, Marta realized the full meaning if her task. Day in and day out she was to have suspense at her elbow and the horror of hypocrisy on her conscience, the while keeping her wits nicely bal­ anced. When she Baw Westerling ap­ pear on the veranda and start over the • lawn she felt dizzy and uncertain of her capabilities. "I have considered all that you have Mid for my guidance and I have de­ cided," she began. She heard her own voice with the relief of a singer in a debut who, with knees shaking, finds that her notes are true. She was looking directly at Westerling in profound seriousness. Though knees shook, lips and chin could aid eyes in revealing the pain­ ful fatigue of a battle that had raged In the mind of a woman who went away for half an hour to think for herself. "I have concluded," she went on, "that It is an occasion for the sac­ rifice of private ethics to a great pur­ pose, the sooner to end the slaugh­ ter." "All true!" whispered an inner voice. Its tone waB Lanny'#, jn the old days of their comradeship. It gave her strength. All true! "Yes, an end--a speedy end!" said Westerling with, a fine, inflexible em­ phasis. "That is your prayer and mine and the prayer of all lovers of humanity." "It is little that I know, but such as it is yon shall have It." she began, conscious of his guarded scrutiny. When she told him of Bordir, the weak point in the first line of the Browns' defease, she noted no change In his steady look; but with the men­ tion of Engadir in the main line she detected a gleam in his eyes that had the merciless delight of a cutting edge of steel. "I have made my sac­ rifice to some purpose? The infor­ mation is worth eomethlng to you?" ehe asked wistfully. "Yes, yes! Yes, it promisee that •way," he replied thoughtfully. Quietly he began a considerate cate­ chism. Soon she was subtly' tinder- standing that her answers lacked the convincing details that he eoURht. She longed to avert her eyes from his fiar as instant, but qhe knpw that this froujd-be fatal. She f him directed in professional channels, free of all personal relations, beat­ ing as a strong light on her bare state­ ments. How could a woman ever have learned two such vital secrets? How could it happen that two such critical points as Bordir and Engadir should go undefended? No tactician, no engineer but would have realized their strategic importance. Did she know what she was saying? How did she get her knowledge? These, she understood, were the real questions that underlay Westerling's polite in­ direction, "But I have not told you the sources of my information! Isn't that like a woman!" she exclaimed. "You see. it did not concern me at all at the time I heard it. I didn't even realise its importance ami I didnjt hear much," she proceeded, her introduc­ tion giving time for improvisation. "You see, Partow was inspecting the premises with Colonel Lanstron. My mother had known Partow in her younger days when my grandfather was premier. We had them both to luncheon." * "Yes?" put in Westerling, betraying his eagerness. Partow and Lanstron! Then her source was one of authority, not the gossip of subalterns! "And it occurs to me now that, even while he was our guest," she inter­ jected in sudden indignation--"that even while he was our guest Partow was planning to make our grounds a redoubt!" "After luncheon I remember Partow saying, *We are going to have a look at the crops," and they went for a Walk out to the knoll where the fight­ ing began." "Yes! When was this?" Weeterling asked keenly. "Only about six weeks ago," an­ swered Marta. "Later. I came upon them unexpect­ edly after they had - returned." she went on. "They were sitting there on that seat concealed by the Bhrubbery. I was on the terrace steps unobserved and I couldn't help overhearing them. Their voices grew louder with the in­ terest of their discussion. I caught something about appropriations and aeroplanes and Bordir and Engadir, and saw that Lanstron was pleading with his chief. He wanted a sum ap­ propriated for fortifications to be ap­ plied to building planes ahd dirigibles. Finally, Partow consented, and 1 re­ call his exact words: 'They're shock­ ingly archaically defended, especially Engadir,' he said, 'but they can wait until we get further appropriations in the fall!"' She was so far under the spell of her own invention that she believed the reality of her wordB, re­ flected in her wide-open eyes which seemed to have nothing to hide. "That is all," she exclaimed with a shudder--"all my eavesdropping, all my breach of confidence! If--if it"-- their chairman to speak. He asked some categorical questions almost per­ functorily, and the answer to each was, "Ready!" with, in some instances, a qualification--the qualification made by regimental and brigade command- era thqtt, though they could take the position in front of them, the cost would be heavy. Yes, all were willing and ready for the first general assault of the war, but they wanted to state the costs as a matter of professional self-defense. Westerling could pose when it served his purpose. Now he rose and, going to one of the wall maps, indi­ cated a point with his forefinger. "If we get that we have the most vital position, ha vent we?" Some uttered a word of assent; some only nodded. A glance or two of curiosity was exchanged. Why should the chief of staff aek so ele­ mentary a question? Westerling was not unconscious of the glances or of their meaning. They gave dramatic value to his. next remark. "We are going to mass for our main attack in front at Bordir!", "But," exclaimed four or five ©Ul­ cers at once, "that is the heart of the position! That is--" "I believe It is weak--that it will fall, and tonight!" "You have information, then, infor- -mation that I have not?" asked Bou­ chard. "No more than you," replied Wester­ ling. "Not as much if you have any­ thing new." "Nothing!" admitted Bouchard wryly. He lowered hie head under Wester­ ling's penetrating look in the con­ sciousness of failure. "I am going on a conviction--on putting two and two together!" Wes­ terling announced. "I am going on my experience as a soldier, as a chief of staff. If I am wrong, I take the re­ sponsibility. If I am right, Bordir will be ours before morning. It is settled!" "If you are right, then," exclaimed Turcas--"well, then it's genius or--" He did not finish the sentence. He had been about to say coincidence; while Westerling knew that if he were right all the rising skepticism in cer­ tain quarters, owing to the delay in his program, would be silenced. His prestige would be unassailable. together made me look you up in the capital. Now It brings us together here on this bench after all that has passed in the last twenty-four hours." She realized that he had drawn per­ ceptibly nearer. She wanted to rise and cry out: "Don't do this! Be the chief of staff, the conqueror, crushing the earth with the tread of five against three!" It was the conqueror whom she wanted to trick, not a man whose earnestness was painting her deceit blacker. Far from rising, she made no movement at all; only looked at her hands and allowed him to fu uu, voa- scty^ of force of a personality 'I'm Not a Human Being "I'm Going on My Experience as a So|dler." and her voice trembled with the in­ tensity of the one purpose that was shining with the light of truth through the murk of her deception--"it will only help to end the slaughter!" She held out her hand convulsively in parting as if she would leave the rest with him. "I think it will," he said soberly. **I think It will prove that you have done a great eervice," he repeated as cold from her ordeal. His own were uiovu*™/. warm with the strong beating of his heart stirred by the promise of what he had Just heard. But he did not prolong the grasp. He was as eager to be away to his work as she to be alone. "I think it will. You will know in the morning," he added. His steps were sturdier than ever in the power of five against three as he started back to the house. When he reached the veranda, Bouchard, the saturnine chief of intelligence, ap­ peared in the doorway of the dining- room ; or, rather, reappeared, for he had been standing there throughout the interview of Westerling and Marta, whose head;, um'u Just Visible, above the terrace wall, to his hawk eyes. A little promenade in the open and my mind made up," said Westerling. clapping Bouchard on the shoulder. "Something about an attack to­ night?" asked Bouchard. "You gue8B rlght- CaU others." Five minutes later he was seated » fnr« I atih®, head of the dining-room table e force of . with hie chiefs around him waiting for ' ' ' ' - ;i 4*. CHAPTER XVI. Marking Time. Soon after dark the attack began. Flashes from gun months and glow­ ing sheets of flame from rifles made ugly revelry, while the beams of search-lights swept hither and thither. This kept up till shortly after mid­ night, when it died down and, where hell's concert had raged, silent dark­ ness shrouded the hills. Marta knew that Bordir was taken without having to ask Lanstron or wait for confirma­ tion from Westerling. She was seated in the recess of the arbor the next morning, when she heard the approach of those regular, powerful steps whose character had become as distinct to her as those of a member of her own family. Five against three! five against three! they were saying to her; while down the pass road and the castle road ran the stream of wounded from last night's slaughter. Posted In the drawing-room of the Galland house were the congratula­ tions of the premier to Westerling, who had come from the atmosphere of a staff that accorded to him a mili­ tary Insight far above the analysis of ordinary standards. But he was too clever a man to vaunt his triumph. He knew how to carry his honors. He accepted success as his due, in a matter-of-course manner that must in­ spire confidence in further success. "You were right," he said to Marta easily, pleasantly. '"We did it--we did it--we took Bordir with a loss of only twenty thousand men!" Only twenty thousand! Her revul­ sion at the bald statement was re­ lieved by the memory of Lanny's word over the telephone after breakfast that the Browns had lost only five thou­ sand. Four to one was a wide ratio, she was thinking. "Then the end--then peace is so much nearer?" she asked. "Very much nearer!" he answered earnestly, as he dropped on the bench beside her. He stretched his arms out on the back of the seat and the relaxed atti­ tude, unusual with him, brought into relief a new trait of which s(ie had been hitherto oblivious. Th<e con­ queror had become simply a compan­ ionable man. Though he wae not sit­ ting close to her, yet, as his eyes met hers, she had a desire to move away which she knew would be unwise to,' gratify. She was consciousi of a cer­ tain softening charm, a magnetism that she had sometimes felt in the days when she first knew him. She realized, too, that then the charm had not been mixed with the indescribable, intimate quality that it held now. "In the midst of congratulations after the position was taken last night," he declared, "I confess that I was thinking less of success than of its source." He bent on her a look that was warm with gratitude. 8he lowered her lashes before it; before gratitude that made her part appear in a fresh angle of misery. "There seems to be a kind of fa­ tality about our relations," he went oil. "I lay awake pondering it last night" His tone held more than gratitude. It 'He is going to make it harder than I ever guessed!" echoed her own thought, in a flutter of confusion. "Yes, it was strange our meeting on the frontier in peace and then in war!" she exclaimed at random. The sound of the remark struck her as too eub- dued; as expectant, when her purpose was one of careless deprecation. "I have met a, great many women, as you may have imagined," he pro­ ceeded. "They have passed in review. They were simply women, witty and frail or dull and beautiful, and one meant no more to me than another. Nothing meant anything to me except my profession. But I never forgot yon You planted something in mind? a memory of real companionship." "Yes, I made the prophecy that came true!" she put in. This ought to bring him back to hlmeelf and* hie ambitions, she thought. "Test" he exclaimed, his body' stifu fening free of the back of the seat. "You realized what was in me. You foresaw the power which was to be mine. The fate that first brought us that mastered men and armies now warm and appealing in the full tide of another purpose. "The victory that I was thinking of last night was not the taking of Bor­ dir. it was finer than any victory in war. It was selfish--not' for army and country, but born of a human weakness triumphant; a human weak­ ness of which my career had robbed me," he continued. "It gave me a Joy that even the occupation of the Browns' capital could not give. I had come as an invader and I had won your confidence."' "In a cause!" she interrupted hur­ riedly, wildly, to etop him from going further, only to find that her intona­ tion was such that it was drawing him on. "That fatality seemed to be working 1'self out to the soldier so much older than yourself In renewed youth, in another 'form of ambition. I hoped that there was more than the cause that led you to trnst me. 1 hoped--" Was he testing her? Was he play­ ing a part of his own to make certain., that she was ndt playing one? She looked up swiftly for answer; There ( was no gainsaying what she saw in his eyes. It was beating into hers with the power of an overwhelming masculine passion and a maturity of intellect as his egoism admitted a com­ rade to Its throne. Such is ever the way of a man in the forties when the clock strikes for him. Bui who could know better the craft of courtship than one of Westerling's experience? He was fighting for victory; to gratify a desire. did no* expect thJs-~-Ir*? the words escaped tumultuously and chok­ ingly. He was bending so close to her that she felt his breath on her cheek horn­ ing hot, and she was sickeningly con­ scious that he was looking her over in that point-by-point manner which she had felt across the tea-table at the hotel. This horrible thing in his glance she had sometimes seen in strangers on her travels, and it had made her think that she was wise to carry a little revolver. She wanted to strike him. "Confess! Confess!" called all her own self-respect. "Make an end to your abasement!" "Confession, after the Browns have given up Bordir! Confession that makes Lanny, not Westerling, your dupe!" came the reply, which might have been telegraphed into her mind from the high, white forehead of Par­ tow bending over his maps. "Confes­ sion, betraying the cause of the^right against the wrong; the three to the conquering five! No! You are in the thing. You may not retreat now." For a few seconds only the duel of argument thundered In her temples --seconds in which her lips were part­ ed and quivering and her eyes dilated with an agitation which the man at her side could interpret as he pleased. A prompting devil--a devil roused by that thing in his eyes--urging' a finesse in double-dealing which only devils understand, made her lips hyp­ notically turn in a smile, her eyes soften, and eent her hand out to Wes­ terling In a trtancelike gesture. For an instant it rested on his arm with tell­ ing pressure, though she felt it burn with shame at the point of contact. "We must not think of that now." she said. "We must think of nothing personal; of nothing but your work until your work is done!" The prompting devil had not permit­ ted a false note in her voice. Her very pallor, in fixity of idea, served her purpose. Weeterling drew a deep breath that seemed to expand his whole being with greater appreciation of her. Yet that harried hanger, the hunger of a beast, was still in his glance. t (TO BE CONTINUED.) IS HUNTER SHOOTS A *s ? DEER WITH OPIUM Ptnnsyfyartfa Farmer Imprisoned Under Arch of Tons of Earth and Stone. DIRECTS OWN RESCUE Strain of Spending 18 Hours Under S5 Feet of Fstlen Wail Prove Too Great for Chapman and- His Heart Fails. FIRST USED FOR AMUSEMENT Inventors of Gunpowder Appsrently Had No Idea of Its De­ structive Qualities. That gunpowder was well known for a century or so before It was used in guns appeartj probable from investiga­ tions in connection with celebration at Oxford of the anniversary of the birth of Roger Bacon, the Literary Di­ gest states. Bacon's claims to the in­ vention of gunpowder are often pressed by English writers in opposition to those of Berthold Schwartz, who is generally said to have Invented It about 1344--a century after Bacon's time. It seems certain from the lat- ter'8 writings that he was familiar with the composition, not as its Inven­ tor, but because of its use in various countries of the world. Apparently, however, it was regarded merely as a firework, a means of producing sud­ den and brilliant flame, and its' users were far from suspecting that in a confined space the expansive power of its gases could be put to use in .hurling projectiles. Says an editorial writer in the Revue des Questions Scientiflque: "The text that we have studied allows no further doubt that Bacon knew of gunpowder. On page 213, under the title 'Of the Power of the Lombards,' he restates what he has already said in his 'Opus Majus' of the explosive properties of this powder, but he also informs us that it is known in various parts of the world, and that It 1b composed of saltpeter, sulphur and willow char­ coal." Activities of Women. Fifteen women are Beeklng eeats in the Washington legislature. The former sultan of Zanzibar is stranded in Paris with his 15 wives. Baku, Caucasus, has a population of 217,853, of whom 93,982 are women. Under the provisions of the will of Mrs. Emily Zoller of New York city, her pet dog is left $200 for his keep during the rest of his life. Textile workers in Japan threaten to go on a strike unless the 32 women who were discharged from one of the mills are reinstated. To avoid the use of the name of a German town a Paris magazine has opened a competition asking French girls to find a new name for Cologne. MUST LOOK INTO THE FUTURE Doing That, the Voter Will Be Brought to a Comprehension of His Full Duty. We, the people, need to have eyes of imagination in order that we may be good citizens. A voter with suf­ ficient ability to see the rest of man­ kind and the generations yet unborn will sacrifice his convenience, and even much more, to go to the polls. The better we come to know man- kind-^-the actual character and lives of people whom perhaps we have never seen or never will see--the strohger grows our altruism, which Is p. normal quality of human natui^ The literature of the magazines is rendering an invaluable service. _ It is forwarding a gradual reconcilia­ tion'of classes and races by its vivid portrayal of .what people really are. It is bringing ou£ conception of "the rest of humanity" nearer to the hu­ man reality. The psychology that tells us clear* ly how we are separated by time, rather than space, from those who will be affected by our acts, is im­ portant in ' the development of civic Imagination. For every ton of coal that we mine, for every beautiful hill­ side that we rob of Its forests, for every law put on the statute books by the legislators that we elect, for every vote that Is cast at the polls, we are answerable to' future genera­ tions. Without imagination it is impossible to comprehend our civic responsibili­ ties.--Philadelphia Evening Ledger. Lots of Letters. Little Marlon and Agnes were play­ ing in the yard one morning as the mail man passed. "Oh, Agnes, look." cried Marlon, "I think he is going into your house." "Yes, he is," replied Agnes, "we get lots of letters. Why, sometimes we get as many as three or four at a time." "That's nothing," ejaculated Marlon. ' scornfully, "yon ought to see the let­ ters my father gets at the first of every month." Helping the Youngsters. One of the Chicago municipal court Judges has established a library for foreign boys in the boys' court. Ar raneejr.rrts by him with the public library to furnish books written In the native tongues of the nationalities most frequently represented'in the court,--The Living Church. 4 But Not on That - However, the city chap wb® Imag­ ines he could get rich raising chick­ ens on a two acre farm may be per­ fectly sane on all other subjects.. > Old Wine In New Bottlee. Dad (from the hall)--"Why, Mar- Jorie. how dim the light is In here!" Freddy (the fiance, not a college graduate in vain)--"Yes, sir. Profes­ sor Munsterberg has a theory that brilliant light benumbs the intellect. We are experimenting to find the de- prroo of by which tbe at­ tention is kept vivid and the mental functions active."--Judge. Interrupted Communication. "You don't mean to say that this is the first you've heard of it?" "Absolutely," "Why, it's the talk of the neighbor­ hood." • ? "Yes. but my wlfftfts asraj oaa visits ' Wheatsheaf, Pa.--Im prlsonment tor IS hours under tons of earth in an old 32-foot well so seriously affected Wil­ liam Chapman of Wheatsheaf that he died a few minutes before he was dug out, after directing the efforts of res­ cuers for several hours. Physicians worked for an hour with a pulmotor and oxygen, but failed to revive Mr Chapman. It is believed his heart failed when he felt the hand of the first rescuer to reach him and that death followed Instantly. Mr. Chapman was a fanner and was also employed as engineer in the workings of the Penn Sand & Gravel company of Tullytown. He was a sturdy man of middle age, in excellent health. Well Caves In. Because of recent rains, Mr. Chap- man was unable to work in the Penn quarries and determined to make some repairs in the well on the farm he had rented. He was descending the slip­ pery wall when two large stones slipped from tljeir places in the wall of the well and precipitated him to the bottom, following which the sides caved in on him. Mrs. Chapman, who was in the house, heard the crash and rushed to the well. It is believed that when the wall of the well collapsed the stones formed an arch, thus saving Mr. Chapman from instant death. In his narrow prison he obtained air through crevices in the rocks and was able to make such sounds that his relatives and friends knew he was alive. Men Worked Frantically for Hours. For 18 hours men worked in relays of four hours each removing earth and stones from the well. Several times Adirondack Guide Puts Bin r to Steep and Captures it Alive. N. Y.--An Adirondack dropped into Boonville, north of city, the other day to lay in his winter supply of provisions, traps, ammuni­ tion ahd clothing, and told of Wb-Jb* genious capture, alive, of a big buck. A man who owns a large deer park in the southern part of the Adlnm dacks had seen an unusually large buck that he was very anxious to se­ cure for his preserve, and he offered $100 for it, alive and crated, ready for shipment All the guides in that see- % '4 Precipitated Him to the Bottom. they were driven from their task by cave-ins caused by heavy rains. Finally they were within a few feet of Mr. Chapman. He directed their efforts, took nourishment through a tube, spotoe words of comfort to his wife and appeared to be both ratipnal and sound. Soon the workmen reached the last layer of stone. Some worked at the stone while others slipped their hands through crevices and supported Chap­ man. Even then he appeared to be able to help himself, but when the last rocks were removed and Chapman was taken from the well he was dead, having succumbed just as assurances of safety reached him. HAIR CUT OFF AS SHE SLEPT Girl Awakes to Find Her Tressee, the Family's Pride, Gone--Act of * Revenge. Orange, N. J.--When Mary Carnova, the thirteen-year-old daughter of An­ tonio Carnova of 12 Forest street. Orange, awoke one morning recently she found that her long black hair, which was of exceptional beauty and the pride of the family, had been cut off. She did not know how or when she had been despoiled. The police arrested Polo Cripsy, aged fifty-one, a boarder at the Car- nova home, but Carnova would not be­ lieve Cripsy was guilty, and the charge against him was dismissed. Chief of Police Drabell believes that the hair was cut off tor revenge by some enemy of the girl's father. AUTO RUNS OVER BUCK BEAR Bruin, Amazed at New Kind of Enemy, Breaks Speed Records Getting Away From There. Lewlston, Pa.--William Boyer and Willis Riden, while taking a spin in an anto State road, in the Lewigton Narrows, ran across a black bear that was ambling across the road Just as thej shut around a sharp turn at Ryan's camp. Bruin promptly gathered himself to­ gether and cut the dust for the tall timber, and the boys hurried here to tell their story. More than one hundred hunters took the trail with guns, hunters' licenses and vision* ef bear ste*k for tfee-lam- Uy mens 8ent Contents of Both Barrel* Into Ite Side. tion knew of the big deer and made forts to get it alive. *.,•! John Benham went to the nearest village and had the druggist make some pellets of glue, flour, paste and opium a trifle larger than buckshot. Then be loaded several shells with them. The next time he saw the big buck on the runway he sent the contents of both barrels into Its side. It ran and he followed It, coming up to it about two hours later. The buck was in a clump of evergreens fast asleep. As soon aB the hardened mixture so heavily loaded with opium entered the deer's body It had begun to dissolve, and soon the animal was overcome by sleep. Benham said the deer had run in tt: circle and was only a few rods-froui^ his camp when it dropped asleep. It was carried to camp and boxed tar- shipment, the antlers and hoofs being tied to the sides and bottom of the crate. When the buck awoke It was well on its way to the private parte. Benham got a check for $100 the nest day. TOUGH EAR TURNS A BULLET Would-Be 8ulcide Fires Twice; First Bullet Only Tickles; 8econd Is s Mystery. San Francisco, Cal.--Eflward Duclos, an aged man, thought he wanted to die, so he bought a revolver and bor­ rowed two cartridges. He suffered from an affliction in one ear. Putting the muzzle of the revolver in his eftr he fired. The explosion was followed by a tickling sensation, so he. took a little silver instrument; used to probe his troublesome ear, and with this b<»- gan feeling in the wound. The bullet dropped to the floor. ^Vgain he stuck the muzzle of the revolver in his ear and fired. Another explosion and still the tickling sensation.' Having no more bullets, Ducios went to Dr. E. W. Parson ^nd told him a rambling story of a revolver accident­ ally going off and the bullet lodging in his ear. He said nothing about the second shot Doctor Parsons sent him t > St Mary's hospital and notified the police. Detectives de la' Guerra and Maloney investigated. Ducios seemed worried about something until the de­ tectives found the revolver hidden in a woodpile with the second bullet' jammed in the muzsle. They told 1*1- cios. "I'll never try to commit suicid* agair," he said. "I was afraid I Wtd swallowed that second bullet" * V SAVED FROM. LIVING TOMS Held for Forty-Eight Hours I* Quick- sand--Barrel Is Improvised Dlver'e Helmet. Ware. Mass.--After 48 hours' im­ prisonment in qulckteand, 25 feet below the surface of the earth, Maurice Allen was rescued by a gang of 50 firemen, policemen and citizens, who had dug k ditch 60 feet long and 30 feet deep to reach him. Allen was conscious when rescued, but very weak. He said he had bee* unable to help himself, as his feet were held firmly by a piece of plant* ing. A bit and saw, which were low­ ered to him, enabled him to work on* of his feet free, but another cave-tn buried the tools and left him as helprl less as before. H An Improvised diver's helmet mad(S from a barrel was lowered into toft bole just after midnight and Allen wa£ supplied with air by a pump. COW ON TRESTLE HALTS AL& Falls Between Sllle end Owner Cau­ tions the Trackmen to Handle Her Carefully. !Tr.r!5ton, Pa.- .wi ­ the -Jeddo branch of the Hasleton ft Mahanoy division of the Lehigh rait road was tied up for half a day by % cow which in alking across the treo*- tl^ near Drifton fell down between tlfeft sills. * her owner would not permit her be handled roughly and the railroadei^ - bad their hands full to get her out. P*;- v.*. - VvV