Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 30, 1912, Page 2

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ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MAT- TER AT THE POSTOFFICE AT BE- MIDJI, MINN.,, UNDER THE ACT OF MARCH 8, 1879, .8 .40 4.00 1.00 2.00 . 4.00 THIS DATE IN HISTORY 1623-—Francis Xavier de Lava. Montmorency, first R. C. bishop ia Canada, born. Died in Quebec, May 6, 1708. 1789 — Washington inaugurated first president of the United States. 1798—Congress passed an act es- tablishing a navy department. 1810-—A general ' post-office was established in Washington, D. C. 1812-—Louisiana admitted to the Union. 1825—Reception given General La. fayette at Kaskaskia, IlI. 1861—Gov. Curtin convened the Penusylvania legislature in special session to make military prepara- tions for the coming war. 1865—A. B. Latta, inventor of the steam fire-engine, died in Ludlow, Ky. Born in 1821. 1867—Generals Hancock and Cus- ter marched against the Indians in western Kansas. 1870—Charleston became the capi tal of West Virginia. 1877—England proclaimed ber neutrality in the war between Rus- sia and Turkey. 1889—Carl Rosa, the first to_suc- cessfully produce standard operas in English, died in Paris. Born in Hamberg, March 22, 1842, 1903— Dedication of Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis. 1911—Fire in Bangor, Me., de- stroyed property valued at §3,000, 000. THIS IS MY 56th BIRTHDAY. Colonel Heistand. Col. Henry O. S. Heistand, who is expected to be the next adjutant general of the United States Army, was born on a farm near Richwood, Ohio, April 3, 1856. Few officers in the army have had a more interesi- ing career. He was graduated from West Point in 1878, and for the next fourteen years served as an officer oi the line, most of the time in the iar west, where he participated in many Indian campaigns. He was a clute friend of William McKinley and when the latter was elected president Major Heistad became his military aid. He served as adjutant general of the Second Army Corps in the war with Spain in 1898 and the next year he was aid to the American com- missioner at the Paris exposition. He was with General Chaffee in the in- ternational march to Pekin and later served as adjutant gemeral of the Philippines Division, now the D= partment of the East. Congratulations to: The Princess Juliana, heir to ihe throne of the Netherlands, three years old today. William Wainwright, senior vice- president of the Grand Trunk Paci- fic railroad, seventy-two years old to- day. Lord Avebury, one of the greatest living authorities on the subject of finance, seventy-eight years old to- day. WHAT THE OTHERS SAY. Montevideo Leader. It is plain to be seen that a lot of Republicans do not want Eberhart to have the office another term, but they are not of one mind as to who shail be his successor. In the meantime the Democrats are doing some “casting about” but ia a sort of half-hearted way. It is un- derstood that Hammond will not ac- cept a nomination for the governor- ship, preferring to take his chances on a re-election to congress. In this dilemma we suggest a candidate who can be elected, and his front name is Jim Hill. Mr. Hill evidently does not hanker for office and he is not what we would call an orthodox Democrat, but we think he would make a governor that all the people could look up to and know that we had a man there who attends to biisi- ness, and that he wouldn’t be run by anybody. With James J. Hill in the gubernatorial chair we would have an efficient business administration and that is what the people of this state need vastly more than t(hey need a politician. We therefore nom- inate Jim Hill for governor, ana without asking his consent. . Little Falls Herald. Tom Kane of St. Paul is talked of for governor. He is a Democrat, but he has a backbone of steel, and ‘not of cork, and on that account is not THE. BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER lpurticularly liked by the soft back- boned members of his party in St. Paul. Kane has ability and has cour- age and independence. A few more like him in St. Paul, and that city would become the capital of political freedom as well as the capital of Minnesota. . Glencoe Enterprise. "The political writess in Minnesota who claim the Third congressional district for Taft, apparently are ot informed as to the real sentiment of the people, or else they have confi- dence in the ability of the president’s supporters in the district to manipu- late the county conventions in his behalf. Squelched. “Say, can’t you read the sign?” asked the elevator boy. “I beg your pardon,” replied the man with the cigar, “were you speak- Ing to me?” “It says: ‘No Smokin’ in the Car.’” “Does {t? Where does it say that?” “There. Can’t you see?” “But it doesn’t say: ‘No Smokin’ in the Car’ there.” “@wan, you highbrow.’” Art and Its Rivalrles. “I don’t belleve that story about Nero fiddling while Rome burned.” “Why?” “Any true musiclan would have known better than to try to hold an audience while the fire department was turning out.” Saying Nothing, “There 18 a rumor afloat that Old Goldrox is dead,” said the editor. “Yes,” replied the reporter; “I was Just down to the house.” “Is it 80?” “Well, his wife sald that her hus- band would neither confirmy nor deny the rumor.” Why It Was Hard. “T want you to understand that I £0' my money by hard work.” “Why, I thought it was left you by your uncle.” “So it was, but I had hard work get- ’ ting it away from the lawyers.” . A Witness. “Although I am positive you saw Jimpson take your umbrella just now, you made no effort to stop him.” “Well—er, you see, Jimpson hap- pened to be standing by when I got that umbrella.” . CERTAINLY. The Philosopher—It’s the man with & pull that géts ahead, The Politician—Yes; but it's the man with the head that gets a pull. Meaning Mrs. Lot. I know this joke is rather old And youw'll think me a dubber, Before she turned to salt, we're told, She first had turned to rubber. Her One Lack. Nora (just landed)—Bridget, must I buy many clothes whin I git mesilf a Job? Bridget (old hand)—Indade, mno; yow'll need nothin’ but a goin’ aw: gown.”—Harper’s Bazar. o Cutting Him Short. Boreleligh—Ah! good morning, Crusty. How do I find you this morn. ing? Crusty—Your finding me this morn. Ing 18 purely accidental, I assure you, Why She Drew Herself Up. Nell (reading from a novel)—Ha kissed her on the forehead. The proud beauty drew herself up. » Belle—I suppose that was to get her cheek up to the proper height. Men That Are Clever. “Do you think men are more clever than women?” “Some men are.” “Who are they?” “The single men, my dear.” Don’t be surprised If you have an attack of rheumatism this spring. Just rub the affected parts freely with Chamberlain’s Liniment and it will soon disappear. Sold by Bark- er’s Drug Store, (Continued from Yesterday). The lodger occupied two rooms at the vicarage, which were in an angle by themselves, the one above the other. Below was a large sitting room; above, his bedroom. They looked out upon a croquet lawn which came up to the windows. We had ar- rived before the doctor or the police, B0 that everything was absolutely un- disturbed. Let me describe exactly the scene a8 we saw it upon that misty March morning. It has lefi an impression which can never be ef- faced from my mind. The atmosphere of the room was of a horrible and depressing stuffiness. The servant who had first entered had thrown up the window, or it would have been even more intolerable. This might partly be due to the fact that a lamp stood flaring and smoking on the center table. Beside it sat the dead man, leauing back in his chair, his thin beard projecting, his spec tacles pushed up on to his forehead, and his lean, dark face turned towards the window and twisted into the same distortion of terror which had ‘marked the features of his dead sister. His limbs were convulsed and his fingers contorted, as though he had died in a very paroxysm of fear. He was fully clothed, though there were signs that his dressing had been done in a hur- ry. We had already learned that his ‘|bed had been slept in, and that the_ tragic end had come to him in the early morning. One realized the red-hot emergy which underlay Holmes’ phlegmatic exterior when I saw the sudden change which came over him from the moment that he entered the fatal apartment. In an instant he was tense and alert, his eyes shining, his face get, his limbs quivering with an eager nctivity. He was out on the lawn, in through the window, round the room, end up into the bedroom, for all the world like a dashing foxhound draw- Ing a cover. In the bedroom he made & rapid cast around, and ended by throwing open the window, which ap- peared to give him some fresh cause for excjtement, for he leaned out of it with loud ejaculations of interest and delight. Then he rushed down the stair, out through the open winanw, threw himself upon his face on ihe lawn, sprang up and into the room By It Sat the Dead Man. Jnce more, all with the energy of tne hunter who is at the very heels of his quarry. The lamp, which was an or- dinary standard, he exawmined with minute care, making certain measure- ments upon its bowl. He carefully scrutinized with his lens the talc shield which covered the top of the chimney, and scraped off some ashes which adhered to its upper surface, putting some of them into an enve- lope, which he placed in his pocket- book. Finally, just as the doctor and the official police. put in an appear- ance, he beckoned to the vicar and we all three went out upon the lawn. “I am glad to say that my investi- gation has not been entirely barren,” he remarked. “I cannot remain to discuss the matter with the police, but I should be exceedingly obliged, Mr. Roundhay, if you would give the hnspector my compliments and direct s attention to the bedroom window and to the sitting-room lamp. Each is puggestive, and together they are al- most conclusive. If the police would desire. further information I shall be happy to see any of them at the cot- tage. And now, Watson, I think that perhaps we shall be better employed slsewhere.” 3 It may be that the police resented-| the intrusion of 'an amateur, or that they imagined themselves to be upon some hopeful line of investigation; but it s certain that we heard noth- Ing from them for the next two ‘days. “You will remember, Watson,” said Holmes one afternoon, “that there is p single common point of resemblance In the varying reports which have reached us.. This concerns the effect of the atmosphere of the room in each case .upon those who have first en- tered it. You will recollect that Mor- timer Tregennis, in describing the episode of his last visit to his broth- er's house, remarked that the doctor on entering the room fell into a chair? You had forgotten? Well, I can an- swer for it that it was gso. Now, yon will remember also that Mrs. Porter, the housekeeper, told us that she her- self fainted upon entering the room and had afterwards opened the win- dow. In the second case—that of Mor- timer Tregennis himself—you cannot have forgotten the horrible stuffiness of the room when we arrived, though the servant had thrown open the win- dow. That servant, I found upon in- quiry, was go ill that she had goie to her bed. You will admit, Watson, that these facts are very suggestive. In each case there is evidence of a poisonous atmosphere. In each case, &lso, there is combustion going on in the room—in the one case a fire, in the other a lamp. The fire was need- ‘BEMIDIT DAILY PIONEER &d; but the faip was Ht—as a com- parison of the oil consumed will show ~—long after it was broad daylight. Why? Surely because there is some connection between three thinge—the burning, the stuffy atmosphere, and, finaliy, the madness or death of those unfortunate people. That i8 clear, is It not?” “It would appear 80.” “At least we may accept it as a working hypothesis. We will suppose, then, that something was burned in each case which produced an -atmos- phere causing strange toxic effects. Very good.: In the first instance—that of the Tregennis family—this sub- stance was placed in the fire. Now, the window was shut, but the fire would naturally carry fumes to some extent up the chimney. Hence, one ‘would expect the effects of -the poison to.be less than in the second case, where there was less escape for the vapor. The result seems to indicate that it was so, since in the first case only the woman, who had presumably the more sensitive organism, was killed, the others exhibiting that tem- porary or permanent lunacy which is evidently the first effect of the drug. In the second case the result was com- plete. Tiie facts, therefore, seem to bear out the theory of a poison which worked by combustion. “With this train of reasoning in my head I naturally looked about in Mor- timer Tregennis’ room to find some re- mains of this substance. The obvious place to look was the talc shield or smoke guard of the lamp. There, sure enough, I perceived a number of flaky ashes, and round the edges a fringe of brownish powder, which had not yet been consumed. Half of this I took, as you saw, and I placed it in an envelope.” “Why half, Holmes?” “It is not for me, my dear Watson, to stand in the way of the official police force. I leave them all the evi- dence which I found. The poison still remained upon the talc, had they the wit to find it. Now, Watson, we will light our lamp; we will, however, take the precaution to ope@ our window to avuld The premature uecease O UWO deserving members of soclety, and you will seat yourself near that open window in an arm-chair—unless, like @ sensible man, you determine to have nothing to do with the affair.’ Oh, you will see it out, will you? I thought I knew my Watson, This chair Iwill place opposite yours, so that we may be the same distance from the poison, and face to face. The door we will leave ajar. Hach 18 mow in a posi- tion to watch the other and to bring the experiment to an end should the symptoms seem alarming. Is that all clear? Well, then, I take our pow- der—or what remains of it—from the envelope, and I lay it above the burn- ing lamp. So! Now, Watson, let us sit down and await developments.” They were not long in coming. I had hardly settled in my chair before I was conscious of a thick, musky odor, subtle and nauseous. At the very first whiff of it my brain and my Imagination were beyond all control. A thick black cloud swirled before my eyes, and- my mind told me that in this cloud, unseen as yet, but about to spring out upon my appalled senses, lurked all that was vaguely horrible, all that was monstrous and inconceiv- ably wicked in the universe. Vague shapes swirled and swam amid the dark cloud-bank, each a menace and a warning of something coming, thei advent of some tunspeakable dweller upon the threshold, whose very shad- ow would blast my soul. A freezing horror took possession of me. I felt that my hair was rising, and that my eyes were protruding, that my mouth was opened, and my tongue like leather. The turmoil within my brain ‘Wwas guch that something must surely snap. I tried to scream, and was vaguely aware of some hoarse croak ‘which was my own voice, but distant and detached from myself. At the same moment, in some effort of es- cape, I broke ‘through that cloud of despalr, and had a glimpse of Holmes’ face, white, rigid and drawn with hor- ror—the very look which I had seen upon the features of the dead. It was that vision which gave me an instant of sanity and of strength. I dashed from my chair, threw my arms round Holmes, and together we lurched through the door, and an instant aft- erwards had thrown ourselves down upon the grass plot. and were lying side by side, conscious only of the glorious sunshine which was bursting its way through the hellish cloud of terror which had girt us in. Slowly El The Lamp, Which Was an Ordinary Standard, He Examined With Min- ute Care. 1t Tose Trom our souls Tike the mistd from a landscape, until peace and rea- son had returned, and we were sitting up on the grass, wiping our clammy foreheads, and looking with apprehen- sion at each other to mark the last traces of that terrific experience which we had undergone. “Upon my ' word, Watson!” gald Holmes at Iast, with an unsteady voice, “I owe you both my thanks and an apology. It was an unjustifiable experiment even for oneself, and doubly g0 for & friend. I am really very ‘sorry.” % % ou know,” I answered, with some emotion, for I had never seen 8o .fon. much of Holmes' heart before, “that itis my greatest Joy aud privilege to nelp you.” He relapsed at once into that half- bumorous, half-cynical vein which was his habitual attitude to those about him. “It would be superfiuous to drive us mad, my dear Watson,” said he. “A candid observer would certainly declare that we were 8o already be- fore we embarked upon so wild an experiment. I confess that I never imagined that the effect could be so sudden and so severe.” He dashed into the cottage, and, reappearing with the burning lamp held at full arm’s length, he threw it among a bank of brambles. “We must give the room a little time to clear. I take it, ‘Watson, that you have no longer a shadow of & doubt as to how these tragedies were produced?” “None whatever.” “But the cause remains as obscure as before. Come into the arbor here, and let us discuss it together. That villainous stuff seems still to linger round my throat. I think we must ad- mit that all the evidence points to this man, Mortimer Tregennis, having been the criminal in the first tragedy, though he was the victim in the sec- ond one.” “Then his own death was suicide!” “Well, Watson, it is on the face of it a not impossible supposition. The man who had the guilt upon his soul of having broughu such a fate upon his own family might well be driven by remorse to inflict it upon himself. There are, however, some cogent rea- sons against it. Fortunately, there is one man in England who knows all 4EOUT 1T, and 1 have made arrange- ments by which we shall hear the facts this afternoon from his own lips. Ah! he is a lttle before his time, Perbaps you would kindly step this way, Dr. Leon Sterndale. We have been conducting & chemical experi- ment indcors which has left our little room hardly fit for the reception of 8o distinguished a visitor.” 1 had-heard the click of the garden gate, and now the majestic figure of the great African explorer appeared upon the path. He turned in some surprise towards the rustic arbor in which we sat. “You sent for me, Mr. Holmes. I had your note about an hour ago, and I have come, though I really do mot know why I should obey your sum- mons.” “Perhaps we can clear the point up before. we separate,” sald Holmes. “Meanwhile, I am much obliged to you for your courteous acquiescence. You will excuse this informal reception in the open air, but my friend Watson end I have nearly finished an addi- tional chapter to what the papers call the Cornish horror, and we prefer a clear atmosphere for the present. Perhaps, since the matters which we have to discuss will affect you per- sonally in a very intimate fashion, it is as well that we should talk where there can be no eavesdropping.” The explorer took a cigar from his lips and gazed sternly at my compan- “I am at a loss to know, sir,” he said, “what you can have to speak about which affects me personally in & very intimate fashion.” “The killing of Mortimer Tregen- nis,” sald Holmes. For a moment I wished that I were armed. Sterndale’s fierce face turned: to a dusky red, his eyes glared, and the knotted, passionate veins started. out in his forehead, while he sprang forward with clenched hands towards my companion. Then he stopped, and with a violent, effort he resumed a?‘ cold, rigid calmness which was, per- haps, more suggestive of danger than his hot-headed outburst. “I have lived so long among sav- ages and beyond the law,” said he, “that I have got into a way of being,| a law to myself. You would do well, Mr. Holmes, not to forget it, for I have no desire to do you an injury.” “Nor have I any desire to do you" an injury, Dr. Sterndale. Surely the clearest proof of it is that, knowingi what I know, I have sent for you and. not for the police.” Sterndale sat down with a gasp, overawed, perhaps, the first time in | his adventurous life. There was a calm assurance of power in Holmes’ manner which could not be withstood. Our visitor stammered for a moment, his great hands opening and shutting In his agitation.” | “What do you mean?” he asked, at S ———— Jast. *If this T8 Blult upoh your part, Mr. Holmes, you have chosen a bad an for your experiment. Let us have no more beating about the bush. What do you mean?” “I will tell you,” said Holmes, “and the reason why I tell you is that I hope frankness may beget frankness. ‘What my next step may be will de- pend entirely upon the nature of your own defense.” “My defense.” “Yes, sir.” “My defense against what?” “Against the charge of killing Mor- timer Tregennis.” 3 ‘(Continued Tomorrow). Observation of the Cynic. Some women appear to their hus- bands to be angels after marriage; but the husbands’ regret afterward is that they lose their wings.—Exchange. His Creed a Selfish One. The philosophy of the man in the Btreet i3 to get through life -with a minimum of self-sacrifice and a maxi- mum of self-indulgence. —_— Foollsh Notlon, Some people never seem to get over the idea that a thing must be dismal and depressing to be artistic. You will look a good while before you find a better medicine for coughs and colds than Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It not only gives relief— it cures. 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