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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
<entry in the diary is as follows:
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My beloved grandson, in this
■diary are recorded events writ down
for thy especial edification. Without
comment I leave it with thee to judge
whether I have been the victim of a
terrible mind disorder, or whether 1
am gifted with perceptions beyond
the usual ken of man.
It wa3 in the first years of my
©it.'dy of the occult, long before thou
Siadst come to gladden thy grand
sire's heart, that 1 was joxirneying to
It lore Health. When night came down
fate led me to the door of a desolate
lan slowly dropping to ruia in the
.perpetual shadow of a grove of oak.
The aged host greeted me most
•cordially, for at his inn guests were
not frequent and therefore *' "> 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
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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.
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OILh- ■ "■ Emtosi.
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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
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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
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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
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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.