16 MURDER WILL OUT By Edith Austin (Copyright, 1806, by Joseph B. Bowles.) 112 was a youth of 17 when my grand father died, hence my recollections of Aim are quite distinct and mature. I was orphaned in niy infancy and from my earliest recollection my grandfather had made me his con stant companion. He was an itiner ant preacher of western England—his «-.irc«it calling him from walled Ches ter on the west to the hovels of the nhareoal burners in mid-England; and daring the years of his itinerancy I followed him in the pursuance of bis duties through sun and rain and winter gale. I repeat this in order to explain Just how I regarded my grandfather in the light of a certain hereditament lie left to me, his diary, but which j fee expressly forbade me opening antil I had passed my twenty-fifth birthday. There were many things I witnessed and heard in my boyhood for which I could find no explanation until I broke the seal of this book wherein the magnitude of my grandfather's very soul stands revealed. The first more welcome. In the parlor back of the denuded bar I found his old wife and his daughter, the only other persons about the place, moving silently here ami there preparing the eveninf meal. The daughter was young and tall and straight and strong and her hands ■were coarsened witli outdoor work for, it appeared, she was now the .burden-bearer of the family. After the supper was cleared away, the a&ed parents entertained me with reminiscences of a past glory, of when the inn was new and the great tide of travel used to pass its door. Then in saddened tones they told of bow the opening of a new thorough fare had diverted custom to other hos tftJries. So when the daughter was married to a well-to-do young farmer they closed the inn, perforce, and went and made their home with her. lint one ill-fated day the newly wedded husband rode away to a neighboring market town and never returned. After due time the farm and tene ments passed into the possession of the next heir-at-law, a cousin of the husband; and the eld couple with their dowerless daughter returned to the deserted inn, now racked and wrecked with storm and long neglect. "Thou canst sec the gables ol' the farm over yon above the trees," said ♦he mother, "and we might be living there now 'mid comfort and plenty if Liisheth would only hearken to us and wild with Carver Hallard. the cousin •who succeeded to the estate. Then Lisbeth, lifting her sorrow ftaders eyes to a portrait of her hus band on the wall, said: "Mother, ■thon need'st not grieve for the rich living at the farm beyond Whitsun. tide. That day I promise to give my kind to Carver Ilallard an' he still de .sires it." Then a gloomy silence fell like a funeral pall over us, and we sat about the fire absorbed in our own thoughts vunt.ii there came the sound of a quick «tCi> up the pathway and an im perative knock at the door, and Car ver Hallard entered. He was a dark, hani-featured, harsh-spoken man whom any tender young woman might well have shunned. I could not understand it then but I intuitively felt that he was a man a guilty conscience. And in the light of the recent narration, I fell to comparing his features with those of the picture hanging above his head. Ar> my gaze wandered from one to other there came to me a sense of a presence in the room, a conviction I could neither define nor evade; and -while I strove to analyze critically this impression a strange metamor phosis seemed to come over my senses and I felt myself drifting, as it were, Into a state of double consciousness. Still with that sense of a divided «go, with the voices about me echoing vaguely through my brain, I thought myself riding along a country road, sunken and scarred deep with old cart ruts, a road 1 had never traveled before. Under the influence of this unseen force, I appeared to come to where the crumbling shell of an an cient oak spanned the path. I reached •into the hollow trunk and drew forth a spade corroded with rust, and roll- Sag the log away I began to dig into ithe damp, soft earth. In my trance I . Sfmtoined to throw the dirt to the and to the left until from out the 4m>wr; loam appeared (he face in the picture. Then the feverish vision broke, and I emerged as from an hyp notic spell to find the old couple dis cassiaj? eagerly with Garver Hallard concerning the wedding settlement, Tbta synthesis of psychic sugges- tions —I dared not call them more— so deeply impressed my mind and so harassed me that I thought of scarce aught else when the next morning I started out to follow my itineracy, preaching the peace on earth of which this world knows little until the time was come for me to return to read the marriage service over Lis beth and Garver Hallard. I had stopped the night at the market town of Oswestry, a day's journey from the inn, and when I rode away in the morning I galloped over a goodly number of miles before I gave small heed to my surround ings. Gradually I became aware of something familiar in the landscape though to my ken I had never passed that way before, and I began to think that for mo memory and madness must be moving hand in hand for here was the deeply rutted cart-road I had traveled in my vision of the inn, and before me lay the steep as cent. Again, as in my vision, I felt my volition chained by some higher pow er, and in obedience to an overwhelm ing impulse I turned aside from the highway. When I came upon the fallen oak, in a tremor of mingled awe and ex pectancy, I reached into the hollow trunk and searched among the dead 111115' A. 11l * I Reached Into the Hollsw Tr'>rik. leaves and woody fragments for the spade which I did not doubt but 1 should find concealed therein; and after I drew it forth I paused tc verify each stamp which time and the elements had set upon blade and handle, as I had remarked then: erstwhile in my vision. As I rollec the log back from its hollowed bed 1 espied among the crumbling bits ot bark the remnant of a glove, with the initial 11 embroidered upon the wrist I hastened back to Oswestry anc raised a hue and cry that murder hac been committed. Accompanied by a sheriff anc posse and a motley crowd of ex cited citizens, I returned to the spot —my absence of explanation un noticed in the frenzy of the hour. With the exhuming of the body ar unusual phenomenon was discovered to have taken place. The waters ol the little brook close by had per meated through the soil to the corpse of the murdered man and, acting upon the tissues, had preserved it with life like features. Roth I, and those witli me who had known him in life, recog nized in him Lisbeth's husband whe had so mysteriously disappeared foui years before. A stab in the back that penetrated to the heart told how he had met his death. When I went onto the inn to pre pare the widow and her parents for the bringing home of the husband sc long dead, I found Garver Hallard, and a few guests who had been in vited to the wedding, impatiently awaiting me. Lisbeth had been I tricked out in bj-idal white, but her expression was that of deepest de , spair. "In view of the news I bring, the marriage would better be postponed awhile," I said low yet so that ail might understand. "Lisbeth, I brifig thee sad tidings of thy last husband.' Then I said that the • body was found and Hallard staggered back against the bar as though I had dealt him a blow. There came a great fear into his narrow eyes, his swarthy fea tures grew livid; and after I had told my tale he asked with quivering lips and voice if any clue to the assassin had been discovered; and I, bearing the glove in mind, did look him level in the eye and answer him shortly "yes." In the confusion of the laying out of the dead man and the impanelling of a corner's jury, Garver Hallard escaped from the house and from the vengeance of man. nut his account is with God! He keeps it, and He will settle it when the dial points the hour! With the disappearance of Hal lard, Lisbeth, as the only heir-at-law again came into the estate that her husband haunted the earth to restore to her; and now that his body was laid in a consecrated grave, his rest less wrath seemed to find peace be yond the portcullis of the Borderland, in that Heaven, that Nirvana of oni hopes, we pray Here ended the first entry In my grandfather's diary. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1,3, 1906 d INVE^Bs SOUND DEFLECTOR FOR PIANOS Arrangement by Which the Sound Is Thrown Out Into the Room. It does spom rather odd lhat the source of music in a piano should be completely boxed up in a case, so that the sound waves must first pentrate the case before they can reach our ears. To be sure, some pianos are provided with a swinging front, and a hinged lid at the top, which may be opened to prevent complete muffling of the sound; but the sound is de flected downward by the hinged front, or passes directly up to the ceiling when the top of the case is open. In the accompanying engraving, says the Sientiflc American, we illustrate a device which may be placed over the Sound Deflector, open top of the. piano to deflect the sound waves issuing therefrom, and direct them to the audience in the room or concert hall. The deflector is a very simple device of light con struction, comprising two end boards connected by a curved back of such form as properly to direct the sound into the room. The end boards are formed with cushioned flanges adapted to rest on the side wall and thus pre vents lateral displacement. In conse quence, the deflector does not need to be fastened in place, but may be read ily set in position or removed without operating any fastening means. By its use the full volume of sound passes in concentrated form into the room without being diffused. A patent on this sound deflector has recently been secured by a Newport, 11. 1., man. THE NAILLESS HORSESHOE. N«w Invention by Which Every Man Can Do His Own Shoeing. By means of this nailless horse shoe, the inventor declares, every farmer may become his own horse shoer. The base of the nailless horseshoe is made very much like the ordinary shoe, except that, the toe and heel calks are removable. They are fas tened by short, heavy screws from the upper side. If, in icy weather, a "rough shod" is desired, the smooth ialks which are usually used in dry The Nailless Horseshoe. weather, may be takeu off and re placed with sharp ones. The shoe is held in place by clamps mado of rolled, steel that is so pliable it may be doubled withou breaking. The band, or clamp, touches the shoe at each heel and at the toe, but does not cross the back of the hoof, thus af fording the natural expansion of the frog when the weight of the animal is thrown upon it. There are four short brads coming up from the sole of the shoe which extend into the shell of the hoof a quarter of an inch. They are merely to stay the shoe. The shoe is fastened on with the aid of a small wrench. This shoe may be taken off or re placed at will. Every part of the years. All that is necessary Is to have on hand a few extra calks, which any farmer or horseman may re place. Hornets as Protection Against Flies. A Maine woman owns the best pro tection against the übiquitous fly. It is nothing but a simple hornet's nest, that hangs just outside the house door. Its inmates are so tamed by the kind ness of their owner that they never molest or sting her. Not a fly has entered the house since the installa tion of this unique flytrap. Troublesome Metal Nodules. If metallic iron Is melted along with copper or brass, it is said that part enters the alloy and becomes chem ically combined, and the remainder separates in pellets or nodules of the hardness of steel. These nodules are the source of much trouble in brass, as they injure tools to an alarming extent. Underwater Bell. Experiments are being made at the Ausuenjade lightship with a bell fixed beneath the surface of the water, to ascertain hew far sound signals inter fere one another. A DEADLY PLANT. Sharp, Darbed Seed Vessels Which Penetrate Vitals of Animals. A plant that, is often fatal to ani mal life, not on account of any poi sonous qualities, but because of the pey.'trating effect of its sharp barbed f/ed-vessels, is described by a French botanist, Mr. Blanchard, in the Archives de Parasitologic (Paris). Mass of Stipa Grass. We quote below, saya the Literary Digest, from an abstract made for the Revue Scientifique. Says the writer: "In South America chiefly in the vast plain that extends from Pata gonia up to Bahia Blanca, and also in the province of Santa Fe and in Uruguay, there are large grasses of the genus Stipa, which grow in tho spring, and whose misdeeds have been exposed by Mr. Blanchard. "These grasses have a fruit about 75 millimeters (three inches) long, made up of three parts; first, a short basal portion formed of a conical axis with a very sharp point covered with sharp stiff hairs directed hack ward; secon'd, a cylindrical part formed of a membrane enclosing the seed; and third, a shaft like that of an arrow. "All the Stipas of South America have these arrows, which, when the wind blows, strike (people in the face and hands, and produce very painful wounds; K they are so abun a dant that they I Sj adhere to the I a fences, forming a A Jj continuous fringe I E mi '° 3 ' n legnth, H H] and giving the il- H fed lusion of vast Jtt 0 lines of loam. A man may get rid 1 W of the darts that light on his beard, hair or clothes, but if he neglects to pluck them off at once they penetrate the thickest, garments and reach the skin; if an attempt is made to withdraw them they break, and the seed remains embedded in the cloth, being removed with great dif ficulty. In any case, although man may contend successfully against them, animals are unable to do so, and the sheep that are bred in such numbers on the pampas are their chief victims; the darts of the Stipa penetrate their eyeballs and blind thorn, so that, being 110 longer able to find their way about, they die of hunger and thirst. The seeds also form amid the hair of the feet, and over the whole cutaneous surface a mass of sharp points which every movement pushes nto the flesh, giving rise to ulcers, to which the animal generally succumbs. "The darts also penetrate into the salivary glands of herbivorous ani mals, where they accumulate in great masses; these form especially under the tongue, where they render difficult the movements of the organ and the prehension of food. "The genus Stipa is disseminated throughout warm and temperate re gions, but is rarely found in Eu rope. There are about a hundred spe cies, oi.' which four are found in France, but as these grasses are driven out by cultivation, they are seldom found in gardens and fields, and are not at all dangerous to cattle in France." MIMICRY IN NATURE. How Birds and Insects Protect Them selves from Notice and Attack. An official of the National museum at Washington, who has made many trips abroad in the interest of that in stitution, states that in South Ameri can forests the butterflies and the birds are equally brilliant in their colors, but that the butterflies, being weaker, fall a prey to the birds. One very bright-hued species of butterfly, however, is not disturbed by the birds, on account of the disagreeable odor that it emits. Singularly enough, some other groups of butterflies, which resemble in color tho species just de scribed, also escape persecution by the birds, although they emit no odor. It is evident that the similarity of color deceives the birds, and thus serves as a shield for the butterflies. This sort of mimicry of color and form, which naturalists call "protective resemb lance," is not very uncommon among insects. Another form of "protective resem bianco" which exhibits much contriv ance and skill is sometimes found among birds. Some birds hide their eggs among stones that resemble the eggs in form and color. The little "bottle tit" in England weaves a bot tle shaped nest oui, of moss, lichens and spiders' webs, and when placed in a trcJ or bush tho nest so closely resembles its surroundings that It can hardly be detected. The color and appearance of the nest are Imitations of the prevailing color o a( j appear auc« of the particular tree in which it is placed. ,l£^r LB %) WHA.Badfosd OILh- ■ "■ Emtosi. Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions ana give advice FREE OP COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide expe rience as Editor. Author and Manufac turer, ho is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Hadford, No. 194 Fifth Ave., Chicago. 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. Building a house for a home is one of the most interesting propositions that a man can undertake. Every married man expects to build a house and every single man hopes to do so some time. If he doesn't he is not constructed on the right plan. It often V 111 First Floor Plan. happens that a man has a small fam ily which may consist of himself and wife and possibly 0110 small child. They don't want a large house, they don't need it and they don't want the care of it, but at the same time it is only business to build in such a way that the house may be sold if occasion should require. But no matter how small the house may be, a woman wants the down stairs to appear right. She naturally takes pride in having a well-arranged house neatly furnished 1* and well kept. If the plan suits her she is perfectly happy in working out the details. In this plan only two rooms are fin ished off upstairs. About one-third of the upper floor is left unfinished to be used as an attic store room. This saves expense when building, and the housewife has fewer rooms to take care of afterwards. Two rooms may be added hero any time in the future at very little expense. Two bedrooms and bathroom up stairs makes a very nice arrangement for a family of two, and leaves a spare bedroom for use when required. The bedroom downstairs may be made in to a library, if so desired. It io real ly more appropriate for this purpose than it is for a bedroom, if so wanted by the family. Families are different, their tastes and requirements are dif ferent; what suits one would not suit another, but this room would make a very nice library or smoking den, and that is what every man should have. If he doesn't smoke, some of his friends do, and most women object to having tobacco smoke scattered pro miscuously through any other part of the house, and they cannot be blamed for this objection. The house means more to a woman than it does to a man, and it is her pride and ambition to have it exactly right and to have things as nice and delicate as her keen sense of propriety suggests. The sitting room and dining room in this plan are almost like one long room. The archway between may be fitted with portieres or not. If por tieres are used and looped well back the view is not obstructed to any great extent, and a company of a doz en or two may comfortably occupy the two rooms. The general plan of this hous<» is what used to be called the Boston style. It is rather after the long and narrow order, being 22 feet wide and feet long, exclusive of porches. There are some advantages in a house of this shape. You get more light and better air. The rooms may be placed to better advantage without using diagonal partitions, which are objectionable becaime they do not leave nice corners to place good pieces of furniture. Every corner in this house is square, except the bay windows, and nobody wants a sqnaro corner in a place of this kind. The display here is principally composed of curtains and a nice chair or two de signed for looks as well as comfort. The general air of this house is what may be called "tony." It has a neat, clean, dignified appearance, rather 011. the prosperous order, but the beauty is in the design rather than in the ex pensive finish. The materials are good but ordinary, no unnecessary work or expense is specified, but everything is plain and substantial. The back porch is a feature a little out of the ordinary. It is intended for a sort of a summer addition to the kitchen, an out door work room that may be enclosed with climbing vines and furnished with a couple of old fashioned rocking chairs, with ging ham-covered cushions, somewhat on the grandmother order, but comforta ble as everyone knows. This back porch offers a good place for an ice box, especially in the summer time, which is the only time in the year when an ice box in this kind of a house is really neecssary. The cellar is cool enough at other times, and i 3 fairly convenient to the kitchen. The outside grade entrance to the cellar is a great help. It gives an easy entrance from the garden for carrying things in and out without tracking through the kitchen, a fea ture that every woman knows exactly how to appreciate. A long cellar like (his is especially well designed for keeping fruit. With a partition behind the furnace the part under the kitchen may be kept cool enough to keep ap ples and veegetables without drying up. The cellar walls are built with cement mortar and broken stone or rubble. All stone wall surfaces are plastered outside and the joints filled and beaded with black beading, which gives the wall an attractive finish. If iho house faces the north it would be better to put the fruit room in the front end of the cellar. The north end is several degrees cooler than the run furnace pipes past the partition south end, and it is not necessary to in the sitting room. To reach the front bedroom an up stairs pipe may be placed on an in cline through the wall partition. Such little details must be looked after by the owner. That bedroom upstairs would be difficult to heat from a fur nace with the pipe improperly laid. There is a right and a wrong way to putin furnace pipes, and my experi ence is that the eye of the owner is a little better than the eye of the in spector. In arranging furnace pipes it is a flood plan to study the different rooms before the building is started. Almost as soon as the cellar wall is built you want your furnace pipes in place. You want the hottest pipe in 9 I I jCO "° rvvf | IB aero I^l Second Floor Plan. the sitting room and the next hottest pipe in the bathroom. The old-fashioned way of heating a house was to lead the biggest pipe to the lower hall and let the air float up stairs naturally, but natural conditions cannot always be depended upon to furnish good results. A good furnace man, if given plans before the build ing is started, can lay out a system of pipes that will heat every room with out passing the air through the front hall. There is another extreme Co this proposition, and that is to keep the front hall shut off and not have any air carried in that direction. This is as much of a mistake as the other. Ventilation is just as important aa heat and you cannoL huve gciod ven tilation with tne hallway etui jfl.