Mysterious Case of Frank Rogers and Miss Florence Ely The Fruitless Search Which Has Been Made For the Missing Couple. THAT fact is often stranger than fiction and the mystery in real life sometimes too deep for even the keenest detective of the country to find a solution thereof is strikingly illustrated by the Ely-Rogers case, of Evanston, 111. Since the disappear ance of Frank Ely Rogers, a boy of 14 years, from his home last July ac companied by his aunt. Miss Florence Ely, the police and detectives of Chi cago and the country have been un tiring in their efforts to trace the couple and return them safely home to the sorrowing parents of the boy and the aged mother of Miss Ely. Every clew has been followed up and every means employed which might possibly furnish a solution of the mystery or induce the infatuated aunt and her young nephew to return to the home where only loving welcome a wans them. Miss Ely, up to last July, had been a music teacher In Evanston. She is a handsome gentlewoman of more than usual intelligence, with large, express ive dark eyes, dark brown hair and slender form and a delicate physique. She is 40 years old, and for 20 years lias made her home with her sister, the wife of Mr. James C. Rogers, as did her mother, who is heartbroken over the peculiar conduct of her daughter. The family lives on Hinman avenue, one of the beautiful residence streets of Evanston, only a short distance from the campus of the Northwestern university. Mr. Kogers is connected with the mercantile firm of Carson, I'irie, Scott <£• Co., in Chicago, and is a man of ability and some means. Fourteen years ago, when Frank was born. Miss Ely idolized the baby, and was as devoted to him as if she had been his mother. It was her supreme delight to care for and amuse him, and as he grew into boyhood her affection grew to be an infatuation which led her to forsake all her social duties and devote her entire time to her nephew. On the morning on which they disap peared (July 13) it is known that Frank left home ostensibly to attend a picnic in the woods near thetown,but that he walked by a circuitous route to the station of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad. There he met his aunt, Miss Ely, who had left a satchel with the station agent the day before. This she secured and placed therein the contents of a box she carried, and then threw the box away. "Frank," she called to the boy. The boy turned quickly, took the satchel from his aunt's hand, and the FRANK ELY ROGERS. two walked out of the depot together. They took a north-bound electric car which runs from Chicago to Milwau kee, and that was the last time they Were seen in Evanston. On the 29th of last December a bundle of clothing belonging to Miss Ely and Frank Kog ers was found tucked away under the Central street station of the Milwau kee & St. Paul railroad in North Evans ton, and where it is now surmised by the police that the pair stopped ami changed their clothing, the boy pos sibly disguising himself as a girl—for he left his collar behind-—-and Miss Ely transforming herself into an older and shabbily dressed woman. Since then dozens of clews have been fol lowed, but not one has led to a reliable trace of the couple. A DISAPPOINTED DARKY. Ula Watermelon Proved to lie Cnrljic and There Wfln it Terrible Trim xf or inn t i oil. I stood one Saturday afternoon on the porch of a Luray (Va.) hotel, and saw file past a hundred or more dar kies, returning from work, each and every one of thein carrying a "water million" under his arm. They had been paid off, and a convenient farm wagon loaded with melons happened to pass as tbey filed along and the darkies all bought, relates a writer in Forest and Stream. One young buck, after hugging that melon for several blocks, "just couldn't stand it no longer," and without'ado sat down upon the curb, and in the absence of a jackknife he deftly tapped the melon against the jedge of the curb until it broke asun der. Mansfield, in transforming his Jekyl face into that of Hyde upon the stage, never equaled the lightning change of countenance exhibited by that darky. One moment his eyes bulged, his- mouth distorted, his teeth glistened, and his face fairly glowed Several times the couple have been reported as being in Chicago. Ballin Winger, of Evanston, declares that he one day saw Frank Kogers sitting in a window of Le Grand hotel, Chicago, but when the police whom he notified arrived, the boy had gone. At other hotels and restaurants the couple have been partially identified, but have al ways eluded capture. They are be lieved to have spent some time at Wau kegan, a summer resort. The latest clew, from Casselton, N. D., appears more hopeful than any of the others. MISS FLORENCE A ELY. A woman and a boy answering the de j scription were living in that town, but are now proved not to be the Evanston runaways. Hoping against hope and with (he j heartbreaking sorrow crushing their \ hearts, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers early last ; December inserted an advertisement in the newspapers calling upon the missing boy and his aunt to come home for Christmas and all would be for given. All day Christmas they watched for the return of the fugitives, and during the night a lamp was kept burn ing brightly in the window of the home on Hinman avenue to welcome their return. The family felt sure that they would come, but they were doomed to disappointment As a last effort to reach the missing couple or secure information regard ing them, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers have resorted to the chain letter scheme. Here is their plea for help: Dear Friend—Will you kindly help a heartbroken father and two mothers In an effort to fir.d their loved ones by writing three copies of this letter and send ing- them, over your own signature, to three friends, making the same request of them, and so on, forming an endiess chain. Miss Florence A. Ely and nephew, Frank Ely Rogers, disappeared from their home, "13 Hinman avenue, Evanston, 111., July 13, 1901. Nothing has been heard of them since. Miss Ely Is 40 years of ago, about five feet three Inches In height, very thin and weighs from 90 to 100 pounds; face rather long and very expressive: dark brown hair; large dark brown eyes, with an in tense expression, are her most noticeabla feature; good music teacher; attractive to children. Frank E. Rogers will be 14 years of ago in March, 1902. Height about live feet two inches; weight about SO pounds; medium brown hair, gray blue eyes, long, slender hands, Is left handed, writes with either right or left; draws well, always using left hand. Only love and a glad welcome await them both. A large reward will be cheer fully given for Information leading direct ly to the restoration of either or both. Printed letters with pictures will be sent upon request. Send all Information to JAMES C. ROGERS. 713 Hinman avenue, Evanston, 111. As these letters, by (he aid of sym pathetic and kind people, go broad cast over the country in ever widening circle and reach perhaps every nook and corner of the United States, the result sought for may be attained and a mystery cleared up which in some respects is one of the most puzzling ever coming to the notice of the po lice. If Frank Rogers and Miss Ely are alive, how has it been possible to elude the shrewdest detectives of the coun try? If dead, what has become of their bodies and why have they not been discovered? If they have left the coun try, where have they seemed the means for so long an absence and so extended a trip? These are some of the questions one is led to ask in con sidering the case, and which may never be answered this side the grave. with pleasurable expectancy, and in the twinkling of an eye, when Pne parted halves of that unripe and white-seeded melon fell from his pal sied hands, his eyes contracted to mere slits, showing an angry, snake like red, his face became of an ashen hue—call it pale, if you will—and through his slightly parted lips like | a devil incarnate, he hissed out iiu- J precation after imprecation upon the ] farmer, showing the fact clearly | that the disappointed one was a past 1 grand master in the art of profanity. In tlie Wroiiß I'lnct. An old printer is quoted as author ity for tin* story of Horace GieeleyJ "One day as he sat at his desk lie | looked up and saw a small boy stand ing beside him. 'Well, sonny, what do you want?' he piped. '1 want a i place to work in your office.' 'And | what do you want that for?' asked , the old man. '1 want to grow up and ' get rich,' was the answer. Mr. i Greeley looked at him for a moment, j 'Get rich?' lie said. 'I guess you i didn't notice that this is a newspa- J per oflice. You must be looking for j the druggist next door.' "—Detroit | Free Press. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1902. '"B " DITCHES AND DRAINS. Simple Aiiparntns hy Mliieh Any UrJtiht Farmer Can Family Ob tain a Proper tirade. A device for assisting 1 in getting' the grade while digging drains is described by 11. W. Smith, Somerset county, Me. 1 took a piece of board a, a, eight feet long, seven inches wide, and nailed on two three-corijered pieces, b, b, cut ting out the section of the board be tween them, as shown in the illustra tion. Then 1 nailed a piece of luth across the tops of the three-cornered pieces. A piece of clapboard, d, three feet long, was sharpened nearly to a point on the thin side and nailed di agonally to the side of the eight-foot board, tliin edge down, so that the APPARATUS FOIt PROPER GRADE. point of the clapboard would be about 20 inches above the center of the lath. A plumb line and bob is suspended from the point above the center of the lath. If the lower edge of the board is straight and placed in a level po sition the line will hang at right an gles with it. Have the edge of the lath planed. Take a sharp pencil and mark each side of the line and cut a notch on the lath. To illustrate the use of the device, when the board is level, if a two-inch block is put under one end and a notch cut behind the line, the plumb line will indicate the grade and the operator will get a two incTi< fall for every eight feet, eight feet being the length of the board. — Orange Jndd Farmer. ROADS IN GERMANY. How They Are Kept in Repair With out AiiyAppreeialile Cost to the Taxpayers. Americans concede that roadmaking In derm any is a tine art. Few, how ever, realize that road repairing has been reduced to a comparatively cheap art as well. I wish devotedly that local societies could be former in order to study it, and apply the results of the study to country roads in America. I spoke once on the subject to an audi ence of leading citizens in Ulster coun ty in New York, an ideal county to ex periment in, having all the three chief things for success. I mean stones paupers and fruit trees. Germans*, namely, find that it pays to encourage peasants to free their fields of stones; the property rises in value —taxing value. The stones thrown into heaps by the roadside are purchased by the district road-repairing commission. Poor men, who otherwise would have to be supported in almshouses, are hired to break these stones, and then are trained to the work of repairing the roadbeds. The money to pay the men is made by auctioning off to the highest bidder the crops of the fruit trees that were planted on both sides of the highway when it was built, and which are nourished well by the manure that falls along the road and is pushed at intervals by a road tender upon their roots. The purchaser of the crop sees to it that his fruit is not stolen. The road commissioners have no bother about that. And although the sale is by auction, it brings in con siderable. Every burgher knows how much, because the sales of highway fruit crops are published in the local newspapers.—Countess von Krockow, in Chicago Tribune. Amount or Seed to Sow, The amount of grain to sow per acre is a question of considerable im portance, since the saving of half a peek per acre is sls to S2O on every 100 aires of wheat sown. It is not well to skimp the seed, but too much is as bad as too little; not only is it a waste of seed, but the plants will be too crowded to develop in the highest degree. The right amount of seed, then, is the question, and yet to say what will apply in every case is not possible. By using averages, the proper amount under average condi tions may be stated, but what would be too little in a dry summer would be too much in a wet one. The im plement used in sowing also has an influence on tie amount of seed to sow. It is generally conceded that it is good practice to sow a peek less of seed with a drill than with the broad cast seeder. —Midland Farmer. Farm l.aiifls in the West, Whatever may be said of low prices of farm lands east of the Al leghenieu, there is no doubt that farms of the central valleys, from the eastern to the western mountains, are advancing rapidly, and are in de mand at greatly increased prices. Plenty of land in Illinois lias reached the SIOO mark, and farms of the Mis souri valley, from Kansas to Minne sota, are steadily increasing in value. As western competition becomes more intense, western farmers and the congressmen who represent them demand expensive irrigation and more free farms, while eastern fann ers have failed to ask for government supplies of free fertilizers; and east ern gardeners have made no demand for appropriations for plant houses and other aids to production.— Co ua try Gentleman. C?ot Ili* Dhprnnlni; Mixed. The police justice had formerly been a tenner. lie had gone into politics and had been elected by a big majority. This was his first case. Mary McMannis was up before him for drunkenness. The justice looked at her for a minute, and then said, sternly: "Well, what are you here for?" "If yer please, yer honor," said Mary, "the copper bevant pulled me in, savin' I was drunk. An' I don't drink, your honor; I don't drink." "All right," said the justice-—his former bartender habit getting the best of him— "all right; have a e!gar."—Beverages. $25.00 TO CALIFORNIA. 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Whether or not you are thinking of taking this delightful trip or looking to better your condition in life, it will pay you, your family or friends to write a postal as above. As the colonist rates open to all are good during March and April only, send your postal to-day. Only Sent Him to Funeral*. At the "captains of industry" luncheon j to Prince Ilenrv one of the hosts asked the conventional ijuestion: "How do you like America?" The prince, in a burst of sailor like confidence, replied: "Oh, I'm having the time of my life. I don't count for much i over there, you kno'r. They only use me ;to send to funerals."—N. Y. Sun. The "Wheels of it Itnilronil. I On the Burlington Railroad system of j 8,000 miles, over 385,000 wheels are in service j under the various passenger, freight and way Cars, locomotives anil other rolling I stock. An average of 40,000 wheels are pur ! chased each year and they arc very care fully inspected, as they are bought with a guarantee. According to the stipulation, each is warranted to last six years or cover I seventy-five thousand miles. All the wheels ! are numbered and a careful record kept. \\ hen they fail to do the work they are returned to the manufacturer, who is com pelled to make the loss good An Investment. Myer—You say the count is looking for | something in the way of American securi | ties? | Oyer—\ es. He hopes to secure about $2,000,000 in matrimonial bonds.—Chicago | Daily News. Earliest ItuNHian Millet. Will you be. short of hay? If so plant* i plenty of this prodigally prolific millet 5 TO 8 TONS OP men HAT PKK ACRE. Price f)0 lbs S 1.90; 10011 is. s.'{.oo, low freights John A. Halzor Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. I'acc Was Too Fast. ! The Belgian hare has gone out of style The Kansas jack rabbit set the pace too last for the foreigner.—Washington Post. Asli To-llaj' for Allen's Foot-Kane*. It cures swollen, aching, tired feet. At all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25c. Sample sent FUEJS. Ad's Allen S. 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