Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1921, Page 54

r 0., AUGUST 21, 1921-~-PART 4. WYOMING SENATORS STAND SIDE BY SIDE "IN FIGHT FOR THE GOOD OF THEIR STATE THE SUNDAY STAR,. WASHINGTON :T he Revenge; Or, The Simplicity of Mystery. .| BY HUGH S FULLERTON “ YSTERY" is & word vhleh;lcth. Attempts to revive the cue-|Ben. “Ordered sweet potatoes! I|the next day and v-l-a,u miles into holds magic power in fiction | tomer. failed, and the frightened em-[couldn’t stand it! Sweet potatoes!|the city without & bite to’eat. 2 and & strangoe fascination | S107SS, Summoned a physician. who [Why dld he come to me to order| 1 staggered into the hotel just be- g declared he had a fractured skull and | sweet potatoes? fore noon. They were going to thyow BY V. M. HUDSON. the statements made by Senator Ken- me out, but I begged to see the man: drick would indeed be fool the Ben bowed his face in his hands and wept, while I became suddenly regretful that I had not taki the Jailer’s advice and conducted the in- terview from the outside of the concussion of the brain and ordered his removal to & hospital. The walter was tahen in charge by the police, After reaching cemtral police tation he ceased in real life. It is the basic principle upon which all the penny fireadfuls subsist, and it is the open sesame to the front page of me Senator gives great care and study to any question upon which he ) That he is held in the highest es. teem, not only by the members of his party, but also by the republican HE people of the state of Wy- oming are not only big-hearted and generous folks, but they are politiclans of the superia- ARREN and Kendrick, One Republican, One Democrat, Forget Party Lines in ager. “Mr. Black,’ I ‘when u? “for God's sake ‘lv-:'o & job. h:.(y wife papers when deftly handled by the - ¥eporters. Reporters know one thing which, happily for them and for the circu- Jation of their papers, does not know, viz.: that mystery §s the rarest, instead of the most common, element in human life. They know that the newspaper and the police “mystery” is generally one part ignorance of the investigators and four parts imagination of the report ‘The “solution” of these mysterie: 4n almost every instance reveala clues that should have been plainly read at the beginning. For in every such “mystery” there is a clue—plain, unmistakable—and that clue always is in the unusaal act or word of the perpetrator of the deed. ~ There is a mystery famous in the 2 COOKED A PIECE OF MEAT AND MY WIFE BROKE DOWN AND SOBBED—AND IT WAS annals of Chicago, & mystery 8o pro- found that veteran police reporters d the older members of the police and detective force ll&grow warm in debate en they recall it. That is known as the Tierly mystery. Only three of us ever knew the solution— and Tierly dled recently: so only two of us know that police and reporters, detectives and others, neglected the one unusual thing that Wwould have revealed all. James L. Tierly was a millionair: residing with his family in & hand- some home on_the shore of Lake Michigan in Evanston, Chicago's arnstocratic northern neighbor. He | maintained offices in Dearborn street, - Chicago, owned large parcels of land in the city and elsewhere, was stock- holder and director in several larg: private enterpri: and was inter- ested In public service corporations. His ,wealth was estimated at close to_ten millions. Tierly had come to Chicago as & young lawyer, had struggled several years without much succe: and turning to real estate at a fortunate moment. discovered that he was be ter fitted for operating in land than $n law and that his legal knowledge assisted him in avoiding unpleasant oconsequences in many cases. ‘When he pagsed the million-dollar mark and began to give to charitable the publie | J; sullen apnd silent, ref: g k or to explaifi his actions beyond stating u:;: “he got what was coming to| At the hospital, when it was di covered that the injured man was L. Tierly, the Evanston mil- philanthrepist, h ceased to be a common restaurant brawl, became a sensation, then a mystery. The best reporters and detectives in the city went to work on the case, and the net result was the hatching of numerous and startling theories— the favorite of which, as usual, was that it involved a woman. * % * ¥ S far as facts went, it was dis- covered that Tierly had started from Evanston to keep a luncheon en- gagement at 1 o'clock. His motor car had broken down. He had walked te the street car line, had been de- layed, and had reached his office too ames lionaire late to meet his appointment. He expressed exasperation and s his club to get luncheon. was informed that the dining room had been closed early in order to per- mit decoration. Hungry and further irritated. h gone to the public in years. So far as could be ascer- tained, he never had been in the place. So far as any one could discover. he never had seen Ben Klingman, or had Klingman seen him. Klingman never had worked in any club in which Tierly was a member. Employes of Tierly’s office atated that Klingman was entirely unknown there. Waiters and patrons of the restaurant stated that no quarrel had proceeded the as- sault, that Tierly had given his order briefly, and evidently had not noticed the waiter. Three days after the assault Tierly recovered consciousness long enough to state that he pever had seen Kling- man, did not know who he was, or why he was atiacked. He remem- bered he was glancing at & news- paper when he suddenly -heard the waiter cursing wildly and saying something about sweet potatoes. Be- fore he could move he was struck. Police and reporters insisted there was deep zyna;{ back of the assault and thatsboth Klingman and Tierly were concealing it; thereforq neces 'Oh, yes, sure! Sweet potatoes, said, moving toward the door and “Sweet potatoes. Ha- I don't blame you for swatting FALching him, 2! im, Ben. Sweet potatoes!” 1d Ben, kept quiet. “Tell me about 1t.” I said, reassured by his manner rather than his words. “All right,” he said slowly. “Maybe you'll understand. * x %% 'URTEEN years ago I was @ good money and saving every cent babies were too much for her. save her life. live two years in this hard flimate. “I was worried all the time. was working hard, working a shi and a half every day, and working for tips, to get money.” We talked of restaurant—a thing he.had not done |80ing to California and buying a little |place. Every night when I got home we studied the maps amd wondered how we could get a farm. “One day this man Tierly came inta the restaurant with two of his agents. I knew hg was a rea] estatd man. waited on their party and @verheard nd they Fulfeqast. They t up into tarms them talking ahout yomae: owned down near the were planning to eut and sell in forty and elghty gizing, told them I was Js mate. I wanted—flne climat: ter, not tod hot in summer, avith fe tile =oil, close to a big city and jrailroad. A fellow could live like big money—three crops & year. told them aboy; two years. next time they came. “No_one '—that's why I have waiter in De Jonghe's, making could. I was married and we had two bables—two In the first two .years. ‘The doctor said she must gd out into the country, go to some milder climate, to HAMBURG STEAK. He said she could not I had sixteen hundred dollars saved up and acre pleces. I was interested, and, apolo- ing for something of that kind in & mild el They said it was exactly what warm in win- i king on eighty acres of it, and make my wife; how the doctors safd that if she &ouldn't go to a mild climate she wouldn't live They said this would be just the place for her, and they prom. ised to give me more information the “et c'hllfll'fl are starving. Put me to wo! “‘Why, it's Ben! he sald. ‘What's hp[penur “I told himy of 1t. o < All‘l’ right, Ben; you start Monday,’ o said. “Then I broke down and cried. I was afrald to ask him for money for fear he wouldn’t give me the job. My nerve was gone. I started towalk home: But I was so weak I'was afraid I couldn’t get there, so I went back, lumlw)ned all my nerve, and asked him if he Would advance me a doliar. “‘Is it that bad?" he asked. ‘Better 3 & hurry to get home. I bought and bread and some milk for and some toffea. My wife's health broke down. She] *Trode out on the train-to the station was not strong and the work and two | 1°5ogt the famm and walkeg threa 49 almost insane, ' “The closer I got to the shack the got. 1 thought my wi and bables had died while I was away. 1 ran into the yard calling and shoutin The babies Wgre crying agd my wife way potatoes. I grabbed the n happiness because there w: thing to eat? Did you ever own wife- and kids crying and stuff- ing dry bread into their mouths as if it were the best food in the world? They tore a loaf of bread to pleces and ate it as if they had been animals. I cooked a plece of meat, and my wife broke down and lay on the bed and sobbed, and then hugged the children and prayed, thanking God— and it was Hamburg steak. I made coffee—the first in filve months—and half the night. onday we went Into the city and 1 went to work. In two the boss advanced mie emough to get a little place on the edge of the oity. We worked there six years, until my he bosa left. wife was better and ti B8 THen we came back ta Chicago. “I dldn’t want to see that man. ¥ hadn’t forgiven hb ut I t want to see him, or remember h or re- member the farm or that year we spent there. Then he came into the lae-unnt«ung right to my table, and ordered sweet potatoes. Think of it, man] Sweet potatoes!” ; P LA“ that afternoon I walked up the marble steps of a handsome residence ‘set far back in a beautiful lawn in Evanston. A butler admitted me and the nurse sald Mr. Tierly was sitting up and would see me. “Mr. Tierly,” I sald, “I have solved the mystery. “No mystery about it,” he snapped. “The man is crazy' 9 I said, "He lsn't grazy. I came to ask you to furnish bail bonds for him and drop the prosscutian.” “Some one else is crasy now,” he commented coldly, staring at me. “Perhaps—crazy or crazy mad” I remarked. “I'll outline his story, and maybe you'll go crazy; at least crasv enough to @o as T ask.” Toward mf!nm‘.'x of the story he quiet. " I remarked, “is tire story 1l if he has to take the witnesa stand.” -~ & “I'll arrange to get him out in the mornin, said Mr. Tierly quickl: nat & word of thl in_the newspapers. ‘ “I'll tell Ben you will furninsh bal and drop the charges if he will not tell the story." Then I went to the restaurant owner, who protested against glving Ben hia job again because customers might be afraid of him. ‘Il vouch for Ben's sanity,” I said. 1 nd, further, I'll agree to pay for every platter he breaks over Tierly's head if he ever comes into this res< taurant again.” But Tlerly never did, and I doubt whether he ever ordered sweet po- tatoes again. A Venerable Town. T-|TT ie not an American town, whose a|t innabitants put on airs because it 2|was founded 250 years ago, hut & 1| really old old-world town, ten times aged. The city of Marseille is the place to which reference is made. The ex: act date of the foundation of Mar- seille can hardly be reckened, the Marseillalse cleverly make out a cried ft f | them to the United States Senate, and but tive degree and their keenness in political matters is most foroefully demonstrated by their selection of men to represent them in the United States Senate. The citizens of that commonwealth, weighing In the balance the merits of two of the state’s foremost citi- zens, concluded’ that, although one might be & republican and the other a democrat, it would be an excellent ldea- for the state to send both of the_result has been that the interests of Wyoming have been in the hands SENATOR JDHN B. KENDRICK. of two men who, although members of different political parties, have worked hand {n hand for the goed of the state they represent. No finer example of teamwork has ever been seen {n the Ben: of the United States. It is no unusual sight to view thesc two senators conferring on the floor of the Senate, to see them eating lunch together or to glimpse them working side by side on committee work that affected their state. Both of these gentlemen are recognized by their colleagues as be- ing statesmen of the highest order. Each senator from Wyoming respects and admires the ability of the other; in addition, there is a close friendship existing _between the two men. Neither of the senators cares for the glory for any particular branch of legislation that he originates or puts through. Personal aggrandizem: means nothing to either of them. e thing they are constantly striving for, and also getting, is the something that will benefit the people they rep- rosent. g T= Cheyenne. The senator was berm in Massachusetts in 18¢4¢. He received his education in the common gchools of the state in which he was born. In 1862 he enlisted in the 49th Massachusetts Regi- ment of Infantry, served as a private ang later was made a corporal, and it was while holding this rank that he re- cclvo: the most coveted decoration our country can bestow, the congreasional medal of honor. This he received for % x% Erepublican senator from Wyo- gallantry 'on ‘the battieflelds at the siege | Wyomi of Port - Hudson! His regiment after several days of forced marches had ar- rived at & position just outside of the Confederate intrenchments, the men were tired out; they had little, if any, sleep; they were footsore and weary they were tired and dropped to the FROM MAIL CARRIER TO REPRESENTATIVE BY D. A. LANE, ROM Towpath to the White ¢ House" {s the title given in the biographies to two or three ex-Presidents, but From Letter Carrier to Congress” will suffice at present for Joha J. Gorman, representative from Illinojs. ming is Francls Emory Warren of 15 colleague, Senator Kendrick. he Whole-hearted Desire the next order came from headquarters. Hardly had they thrown themselyes and their muskets on the ground when the beating drums brought them to their feet. - Gen. Banks had ordered an at- tack. Two men were needed from each company to ede the troops to fill in the Confederate first line trench In order that the Federal astillery might be placed in strategic positions. Two men from each company does not have much of & sound in ;igm:e time, but on an occasion like this i¥ meant a great deal. Young ‘Warren was the first man in his company to volunteer. These men realized that they faced almost certain death, butnever for an instant did they hesitate. Each man was provided with a bundle of fascines (short lengths of wood) and a skovel. It wus suj that the Confed- erate aptillery had suffered such losses a8 to make it a fairly negligible quan- tity, but the moment the attack began the southern artillery opened up with a murderous fire. The result was that about 80 per cent of the men who had velunteered were killed or wounded. Corp. Warren today carries on his fore- head the scar made by a bursting shell. * % %% D'I'apx'n: the fact that the senator is seventy-seven years old, his step is quick and firm and his mind s as accurate and alert as it was when the writer Interviewed him twenty years ago. He is one of the Joungest men of his age in public today. Upon his discharge from Army, C ‘Warren returned to e and was made a captain in Massachusetts militia. His business pursuits were farming and stock raising in that common- wealth unt{l the early part of 1868, when, like many another youth of the east, he heeded the call of the clll. and moved to Wyoming, which a8 then a part of the territory, of Dakota. It was not long before his fitness for ro"tlul office WRS recog- nise and in 1873-74 he wag elected D ¢ the senate of the Wyo- ming 1 lature. He also served another term in the state senate, has been a member of the council, alsgo the mayor of Cheyenne; seyved . three terms as treasurer of tate of Wyoming, has been to s all the republican conventions simte 1288, was appointed Governor of Wyoming by President Arthur in 1885 and reappointed to the same po- sition by President Harrison, serving until Wyoming was admitted as a state, when he was honored by the peapis by being elected the first Gov- e of Wyoming. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1830, re-elected in 1895, 1901, 1907, 1913 and 1919. His business interests consist of real estate and sheep holdings: in fact, the senator is the largest indl- vidual sheep owner in the state. Like y, his native is intensely patrietic. believes In the United Stat and the_ Constitution under which it exists. is tall, of a heavy muscular type, has fine white hair and a flowing mustache; he makes no attempt at belnf an erator, doing most of work in the com mittee roo: erous and kil kle in his eye ; has a merry twin. and_enjoys himasel: most whem he and Senator ndrick are entertaining “home folk: from during their visit to the NATOR WARREN is ctairman of the appropriations committee {n SE good {riends among the lawmakers whose knowledge of their wants is purely theoretical, Mr. Gorman is the firat to emtér the halls with a prac- tical knowledge of every phase gained by actual experlence. This not only makes him an inval- uable member of the committee on ents — True Americanism Shown in Their Romantic Lives and Long Years of Service for ‘the People—Held in High Respect by All Their | /Colleagues—Former Is Only Senator With Congressional Medal of Honor. ground to catch a few hours' rest Dbefore | mittees of education and labor, mil- to Aid Their Constitu- itary affairs and public buildings and grounds. The other member of the sengforial team of workers for Wyoming is John B. Kendrick of Sheridan, Wyo. He I8 a native of Texas, having been born in Cherokee county in 1857. His education was gained at the public schools. He remained in Texas until almost twenty-one years old, but for the last forty-three years has been a resident of Wyoming. People of the east, with the excep- tion of some of the old-timers, know little, if anything, of the famous “cat- tle movement” that took place in the sixties, seventies, yes, up to '84-85, but the movement in those days meant much to the future of our country, and its magnitude can only be understood when we realize that about a million cattle a year passed over the different trails. in the early days of his manhood Senator Ken- drich punched cows for $30 a month and was one of the men who partici- pated in the great undertaking of moving cattle across the country. It took grit for these men to drive the Texas “long horns” across the desert. The average trip took about five or six months and extended through a trackless waste without & sign of habitation for hundreds of miles,; a journey that called for courgge as well as patience. On the second trip the young man was, placed in _charge of the cattle, because of the faithful manner in which he had performed his work; serving faithfully and do- ing & job well is one of the senator's characteristics. Later we find him on the trail again, this time owning an interest, until today he is recog- nized a8 the largest individual cattle owner in the state. * % * % ]_IXE Senator Warren, Senator Ken- drick hag been honored on nu- merous occasions by the people of Wyoming, being elected state senator in 1910 and serving in the eleventh and twelfth state legislatures. In 1914 he was elected governor of his state and served until February, 1917, when he resigned to take his seat in the United Statés Senate. He is & member of the following committeel committees that are of vast impor. tance to the state: Agriculture and forestry, bpanking and currency, In- dian affairs, irrigatign and reclama- tion and public lands and surveys. The senator takes great pride in the state of Wyoming, he is ever on the alert to protect the interests of the people he represents. It was largely through his efforts that the Treasury Department took up with eastern financiers the mat- the cattlp industry. A meeting wasar- ranged between the capitalists and Senator Kendrick and his associates and during the conference the eastern men consented to advance the money needed, as they realized that the western senators knew every detail of the cattle business and had pre- sented their case accurately and forcefull He has been a friend of the sol- dier, both during and after the war. | While Senator Kendrick does not pose as an orator, members of the Senate, democrats _and republicans alike, recognize the fact that he is a force- ful speaker and well able to take care of his state during debate and | used by Postmaster General Will S. | Hays in carrying out his humanizing plans. humble wearer of the gray, and they consider him in his present incumb- ency as only catching his wind in a poat office and pest roads, but will be And a Tale The “Old- Towson House” final lap to & higher office. of Irish Fairies ter of a fifty-million-dollar loan to aid | Johnnq Gorman, as his legions of | friends style him, has risen from an | him by the coat, which made Jim is evidenced by the statement made the other day by one of the Senate's outstanding and courageous figu Senator Kenyon, well known progres. sive republican leader of Jowa, who in peaking of Senator Kendrick said: “Senator Kendrick is one of the men 'who has been fighting the battle of the everyday folks, he had fought for the interest of the people with no blare of trumphets, with no thought of seif- advertisement. I have long regarded him as one of the best Senators in the body where he sits. He is a splendid man,. He is a splendid senator. Any word of praise 1 might utter would be inadaquate. He is one of the every- day folks. He is the kind of & man the Senate, is & member of the com-{a man who would try to deny any of | excellent state. | of all that develops a country, the kind of SENATOR FRANCIS E. WARREN. a man that we need. He is a true American.” * % ¥ ¥ \\flflLE Senator Kendrick is not as tall as his colleague, he is not a small man. His figure is well knit and denotes strength and endurance. His dark hair is plentifully sprinkled with gray, he wears a short cropped gray- ish mustache. The lines of his face denote strength and concentration. He wears plain but well fitting clothes. He i always glad and never impress vi counting what he has donme for the state, being content h the knowl- edge that he is faitafully serving , the people of Wyoming. When it comes to political sagacity the people of Wyoming lead the coun- publican senator secures for his state the support of his republican col leagues. the democratic Scnator Se- cures the support of his democratic colleagues; the effect of this team- work has’ been particularly notice- * able in legislation affecting irrigation in the state. Snator Kndrick is a tower of strength among_the members of his party. Senator Warren is a tower of strength in the republican ranks and both senators are respect- €d by their political opponents. Both men “enjoy the confidence and respect the members of the United States Senate. Their teamwork has ac- complished much. They stand shoulder to shoulder, ever alert and always waorking. Two excellent men from an stranglo you!' roared Jim, approach- ing her * menacingly. ~ Unafraid, she lecred up at him and put out a skinny claw of & hand as though to grasp stop and draw back a step. ‘Jimmie, I'm old, old, end I know many oid, regotten things; I can tell you where your grist is going. ‘Then tell me before T make a quick end of vou! cried Jim, taking tep forward. _“‘You can't frighten Goody Me- Gonigail, Jimmie. Oh, no. But I can tell you if you will pay my price. 1 am hungry. For ten rations of meal T wiil Jet you see who is getting your gris “Ten cracked bones in ~ curse more violently. “They came again the pext day and brought maps and fold !acriptions of the cliw: That evening my wife your sarily, another crime was being con. “Out cealed. Klingman's friends employed a lawyer to defend him. To him Kling man refused to talk, beyond réiter- aj ting the statement that Tierly “got|them, and we were happief than we what was coming to him.” He stated, | had been in a long time. We had however, that he did mot intend to qund just what we wanted. The men Representative Gorman was born in Minneapolis, June 2, 1883, and Is fhe eldest of eleven children. After | The fairies have ever a peany to spend, graduating from grammar school. be | They haven't a thing put by, workg his mavithrongnin 8cRool | Bat theirs is the dower of birds and of fower, v selling newspapers, whiel e a earth and the Ak, story of other successful men of t Avd thetea a1y he: 3 d | past and present. And theugh you should live ia & pslgee of gold When he was nineteen years old he{ Or sieep in & dried-up ditch, - wag appointed & clerk in the Chieago | You could never be poor as the fairies are, pest otfs, harboring the idea that | Asq pever aa rich e e cpaned for & desk andl,, . ver and ever the world begen comfortable chair. His dream wi They have danced like a ribbon of Sam They bave suag thelr aong through the cea- ¢ tories leag, Asd yot 1t is Dever the same. Asd though you be foalieh o theugh you be causes the newspapers, in their in- frequent mention of him, spoke him as “millionaire philanthropist. He belonged to a few of the best clubs, he played golf because his doctor advised it, and without enthu- slasm, and attended church quite regularly because his wife desired him to do so.~ He grew weary of business after achieving extreme wealth, and re- stricted his activities to improving his vacant section line property with apartment buildings and the corners with business blocks, because his agents could attend to details of rent collecting and tax reducing without troubling him to do more than per- jure himself in gwearing to the re- turns. He forgave his perjury lightly ‘hecause the ded to de- tails. e never had been active in politics; his circle of friends, even of acquaintanc gre ler each year, and it he had enemies no one knew of them. *®H ON’E day, shortly after 3 o'clock, a well dressed. prosperous-appear- ing man entered ona of the larger loop restaurants. He seemed a trifie irritated and was red In the face from the heat and from rapid walk- ing. A waiter named Ben Klingman prepared to serve him and the bus water, silver orde! an English mutton chop, lima beans, a salad and coffee and, as if by an after- thought, braised sweet potatoes. Klingman, according to witnesses, auddenly became violently ' excited. He walked rapidly toward the kitch- en, but before leaving the dining reom commenced to swear. Once in the kitchen he cursed and raved wildly. His conduct was thé more neticeable because Klingman was a quiet, inoffensive, good-natured man ‘who had been the good-natured butt of jokea by waiters and bus boys for years. \He never been known to lose his temper and was highly valued by the cafe manager, and fr: quently was assigned to wait upon unreasonable and complaining pa- trons The other employes in the Kitch seeing Klingman was angry, inquired the cause. Hia only reply was to The fact that he had suppressed his outburst until safely out of the customer’s hearing caused the other waltera ta think his anger would subside, and they pald little attention to him. th.::m-.n received the - order, stopp shriveled with yor case In favor of the time about 600 yeara before Christ. In celgbrating some years ago ita twenty-fifth centenary, 3Marseilles wished to entertain hn-;mbl) the mayor of the city of Phocaea, its mother city. That intention raise the question: What had hecome of Phocaea? In day the Ionian city of Phocaea, in Asia Minor, was a place of at least 1§0,000 inhabjtants. It was one of the most enterprising maritim: cities of antiquity, and its ships 1-3 the way to the Adriagic, the Tyrrhen- ian and Iberlan seas. It glllnlfid the o i town of Massalia, which the Romans i 4 called Massila, the Provencaise Mar- , sillo, and the French call it Mare seille. * The geogTdphers agree that ancient Phocaea is represen the present day by the little Turkish town of Karadja-Fokia, er Nova Feggl, not far from Smyrna. The anglent city, like ancient Massalia, has handed down its name to the present day. Se (thls befere t invitation at Karadja-Fol bration at Merseille. Sut he was com- felled to reapond that Phocaea had 'allen so far from its ancient wealth and splendor that it could not raise h.money to send ita chief magis- old neck!” cried Jim. membered; but there was one man in Edenderry, Seumas Dowd. who could tell exactly how the mill looked, for he had been coming home late ome night and saw by the road not the familiar le of weed-covered stones, but & mill with sails looming black against the “Seumas said that although he had been drinking, at sight of the mill, he went cold sober with fright, and his knees trembled and knocked together so he eould hardly stand; and, as he looked, he saw a light shining through one of the windows. As soon as he had come into possession of himself sufficiently he climbed the stairs and peeped through the window and there sat Jim Dunn, one-eyed, gloating over his golden uineas, counting them, holding them in :ifl hands, clinking ‘them together, and Futllng them in little piles. As Seumas ooked, there came a blinding flash of lighting, a crashing peal of thunder, and he fell senseless; nor did he come to un- til he was awaked by the morning sun in his face, and he found him- self by the roadside with no mill in sight, oniy the pile of stones he always known. “As you may have truthfully gath ered aiready, Jim Dunn wam a mise hard, {nnlnl’ and pitiless. It wa said of him there was only one thing he loved more than a guinea, and that was another guinea. Also, it was said of him that he had been a sailor; that the ship upon which he sailed had captured a pirate ship, and the booty taken” had been divided among the crew; that one of the crew had ri ceived wounds during the fight with the pirates from which he died later, but before he died he had given his portion of the captured treasyre to Jim Dunn, asking that it be delivered to his wife. But it never was, for, with his own por- tion and the dead man’s, Jim had come to Edenderry, bullt the mill and begun a career which, year by year, made him richer, but all the time meaner, more morose, selfish and grasping. People said that his conscience was eating at his soul. “But good luck will sometimes turn to bad, and Jim Dunn found one day that he was being robbed of his grist. This made him vfir; o .use there was a famine in Ireland and he could charge usurious prices for all the grist he had stored up. But, do what he might, he could pot catch the thief; and all the time the store of meal was grow- ing less. At last, one morning, after he had wi across his kn bin and saw that raged, he hurled the club to making a loud *‘Jimmie, I declare to vou, I can tell you who is robbing you. Think a minute. Wouldn't it be worth many times more than ten rations of meal to ’know who is stealing your grist? . “Jim reflected—perhaps she was telling the truth. —He'd risk it an: way. ‘Agreed, old witch. Here are the ten rations of meal. Now tell me who is robbing me of my grist.’ “Goody ran a hand deep down into her pocket and drew out a dry twig. She traced some queer hieroglyphics on the floor with her cane, mumbling the while to herself, and th began presently to take on b and the branches to bear leaves and little buds which burst into full oom. 1t was a sprig of foxglove. She handed it to Jim and said: ‘Hide behind a bin in your mill tonight, Jim, and put this foxglove in your hair, and you will see who is robbing you. But mind that you do not pay for the seeing.’ “Jim took the flower, and, for & mo- ment, was too astonished to speak: but, as Goddy's doddering step and thumping cane grew fainter and fainter on the stairs, all his mean. pitiless, stinginess returned, and he mutter: “‘No fear, old beldam. The rogues will do the paying unless you have only tricked me into giving you my meal, in which event you will do the paying.’ “That night Jim put the foxglove in his hair, as Goody had told him, and hid behind a bin to watch; and presently a host of fairies came trooping into the mill, carrying sacks to contain the m nd looking very brave, indeed, all dressed out in green and red velvet suits, feathers in their hats and pointed-toed shoes on their feet. They went to the bin behind which Jim was hiding, lifted the 1id, and, taking up soms the meal, began crushing and rolling i in their hands to see If it were - ciently dry. Whereupon Jim rose up before them and exclaimed: ‘Why do you select me for all your stealing? There are other mili- ers in Ireland. Why do you wish to bring me to starvation? | *4Jim,' said the fairies, ‘do you see us? l ‘Ay!" reared Jim, by now in & tow- ering r: 1 see you. *“Then, Jim,’ answered the fairies, '-h;:w us out of which eye you see us? “Jim closed first his right eye, then his left, and answered, ‘Out of my Iright eye’ The words were ly spoken before he was rolling on the howling with pain, for the fairies had thrown & handful of meal in his right eye and put it out” * % %% Md:ul said that Bridgle Keenan told the story to him and & younger brother in the ice of + their mother. At the conclusion, his brother, who had been & wide-eved, breathless listener throughout the apoke up, showing mt., to be imj upon: Roentn, do you be- ™ cried kill Tierly, but wanted to choke him |3@ld me I could make as much money to death on sweet potatoes. Where-|On one crop as I could on a year's upon the lawyer made. a hasty exit|Work up here. They advised me to from the cell and announced that his|buy eighty acres, saying it was the line of defense would be temparary |thance of a lifetime and was going insanity. fast. - Reporters following the “woman angle” learned that Klingman's wife waa a semi-invalid who had died six months before, and that his two young daughters were in a convent school, and that neither knew or ever heard of Tierly. ~Thereupon they dropped the “mystery” as quietly as possible and reached the conclusion that Klingman's mind had been dis- Jsrdered by sorrow. The case seemed ended; but two weeks Jater Tierly, who had insisted upon prosecution, who charged that Klingman was a dangerous semi- criminal and insane, who had resisted all efforts to secure his release on' bail bonds, denly appeared in court, gave bail himself, secured the release of Klingman and, departing hastily, refused to prosecute.the case or appear as witnes: * % ¥ ¥ TBXS_ amazing change of attitude, and the fact that Klingman went back to work In the restaurant, and refused entirely to explain or even talk, served only to make the mys- tery deeper. The reporters resumed their research—and learned nothing. It became tradition tl behind the Tierly mystery was one of the great- est financial and romantic crimes ever conceived. I have heard tales, wilder than any fiction, purporting to be_the true solution. Yet the @ to the motive in the case, a clue which would have led at once to the solution, w. before avery one, was repeated again and again, and never suspecte It wal the unusual. It had been used in tel lnf these facts. had been interested because, for several years, Ben Klingman had waited on me in that restaurant. “The next day those fellows Invited me to their office. I got off for half & day. They showed me more maps, and picked out a cholce tract for me. They took me to lunch, bought'me a big steak. and called me Mr. Kling- man.' No one ever had called me that before. “I paid them fourteen hundred dol- lars cash, gave them a mortgage for twenty-eight hundred dollars and rushed home to tell my wife. “We spent half that night studying maps and planning our farm. It was fall, and the doctor had warned us to get her away before the winter came. Two weeks later we both went south. “We found our land. It was fou teen miles from the city, three and a half from the nearest railroad sta- tion, and it was sandy loam, just they said, only mostly sand. We bul a little shack. There were no neigh- bors nearer than three miles, except- ing a few negroes. Those fellows had advised me to plant sweet pota- toes—" “Oh!" 1 exclaimed, commencing to see light. 1 had only about two hundred dollars left when I had finiahed the little shack, tut the sweet potatoes were planted an I counted on them, My money was almost gone by the time they were ready for market, and I had to rent a mule from a_darky to haul my firat load to tcwn. When I got there people laughed at me. Sell sweet potatoes? The mar- ket was glutted with them. Nebody wanted them at any price. I might as well have tried to sell the sand I had grown them in. “But I couldn’t give up, I had to sell them. So I shipped a carload to Chi- cago at my own risk, thinking there would be a market here. rallroad-| sold them to pay clurfl.u—uul a bill for fourteen dollars they spid 1 owed them. = e “My money waa all gope. Qur flour anduzlcon and corn meal were gone, There was nothing to eat—but sweet potatoes. So we ate those, My aick wife, my babies, lived on sweet patatoes until I got 80 desparate I killed a little l-nurhsekt belongink to some wegroes wa ate Y o o # “;::n um‘ 'u'.m there wes n'.h; ob ‘sweo . exoept whe for observation and a date had been Lsgrr - fro; e - Feu] I T ontion o 1o hib sen | tols, oo, pomtod Tt tnis A o), dispelled when ‘wise, Witk halr of gliver or gold, ‘¥ou eoald never bo young as the falries are, And never as ald. - —Rese Fyleman. OMETIMES you hear of an old house with talea about ghosts, but here is a house with a tale about fairles. It is the “Old Towson House”™ It stands on the southweat cormer of "17th and F streets morthwest, with a placard, “To Let" on it. The guartermaster .\wplt officer of the Army has gone elaewhere for his office; and the career of the old house, a8 & barrack, has, doubtleas ended forever. Gen. Gran began to use it for his headquarters back in the days immediately fol- lowing the civil war, when he was in command of th An'n‘ and was living in ts use by some branch of the War Department’'s & tivities has been almost yninterrupted down to the day. & few weeks ago, when the sign, Let" waa nailed to_its walls. It can doge a g WAy, now, uninter- rupted, live among H 3 1 lhm mnrl-bl. a8 t we) And surely they are brave enou ?.' those memories of bluff old vm!on. with the scent of tobacco in their harsh beards, as the smell g of n‘a‘u‘:«» is in mnh"m:’l,b:llun of n ell and bayone realising that the fob, & night as- |35 CRElr shrapnel. o D signment, consiated in trundling 2 phee| against the v in annoyance, heavily ladened truck across the |gometimes lsughing loudsat & rude floor, emptying bulky sacke story of Army camps. and ‘sorting the same, all ¢ From among the silence and shadows rincely sum of 30 centa an hour.|of the old rooma let me recall the tly | His daya were spent in taking & |wraith of one of Gen. Grant's soldler: ng | busi course in order to round|g, Thomas McCabe. Irish, yes, un- out edycation obtained mainly | m ably, but charmin ‘l so, with e Bii own efforta Yot Mr.|Rie moft tpesch. onriched by Db Gorman did nat consider his educa- [ hig clear-cut, almost delicate, tion complete without & course In w. h“ further this design, he transforred to the carrier branch o the service in order to study law nings at Loyola University. Here od rs, and lsae. Tayar of Athens and th mayaor of hens and the di 180 Invi tn;' tl‘lo; y beheld, in popul tl|nl o': tn:' third , & people Who . tain tyaces of tgq onfan I.!o{}omu blood which the founders of the city toak In their veins from Phacaea. Holland'’s “Hil I'l' seem absurd to apeak of s hill in Holland, but if the best guegsers are right the name of the country ia from our word “hollaw,” meaning s depresaion in the land. An American, however, found at Gronigon a hill that was the ahowplac town. It was artificlal. Disoniatithetomn, ‘ REPRESENTATIVE JOHN J. GORMAN. : t me " sald his companion, ‘and from the summit of' it h'e able to see the ted the American at_there was puch asked, - }anln h;fflg-“"t He was @0 _even-tempered, 80 courteous and willing, and such an excellent and considerate waiter, that it was hard to think of him either as a vio- lent man or an insane one. The aother waiters in the place and friends of Klingman asked me to see whether it ‘would be possible to secure lease on bail. Two efforts had been futile, as Klingman was being held |{ [ e il his re- tures and merry blue eyes. about Irish fairiea ware vorlll&l e his tongue's ond, eager to be told .{: 335‘-:".:: :: and always w! lish 'l'.l L mm:n:m: - the end, uMm. wery many, years ago,|always prosper. there lived in the viliage of just ‘ovar there, but you can-. Bot us it for 1t ia hlucn’ly tha! The American -ascended thia fine hill, which proved ta be an artificial | & 'waenty feet in height, but the natives are very Proud of it and speak of it aa if it were some huge mountsin. Aa_an instance of ‘how T aaiairation’ fomthe. town ik y ! wR it m entioned tint the Mfa- a at the desk of the checker, was checked out into the restaurant, and carried plates and platters to the table where the customer Was aitting. 3¢ any words passed between the cus- tomer and the waiter neither of the parties untlni at the nol‘hborh:s tables heard them. Klingmaun plac the meat platter in poaition, turned he service table to get the vege- ddenly bursting into & vy platter it to bits ity, if the prosecutor decided to drop (and we ate that. the charge of ult with intent to| Pe s kill and tm:blt'l':lltm;l. of insanity. went to the learing the ot e Jatlor advised me to tamk | ‘MAN: ':" ':" months we ate swest with Ben from outside his cell. But potatoes! Sweet potatoes fop breakfast, for dinner, fof supper; and we ate practically pothing but sweat Ben was 30 pleased to see me, gratefyl and so lnnount--.npurm toes. The bables were starving, and cried all ‘the time—excent when "they t 1 forgot my vague fears, ente! & cell Ifi shook hands. N were too weak to do eveir that. My wife was a skeleton; I was placed of ‘with hi to& J ;‘Iollcuirl?‘nl :.! :;. ol After n m! in 1914, he !o!-ed a partnership with Foward A. Brundage, formerly first lioutenant of infantry of the famous Blackhawlk division, During_the interim of buildin 13 ?noueo he worked 1lector to t! tables, and, viplent rage, lifted the he: of sweet potatoes, smashe the customer's head, and when r waiters and patrona rushed to intervene he was kneeling upon the prostrate form of the unconscious man, smearing his face with the con- tents of the platter and m‘luE to press braised gweet potatoes and yor where it's going. Ha! LR R ¢ QURPRISED, Jim turned and saw L3 1f | auccean as ¢ mail, e, T ol ... 3 ty of ity thousand postad ‘When I asked him the reason for gt telling, now he was not One morning I found a&n old 3 o h hit il 5‘.‘.1'}"1«':(‘7‘914 sw 1 newspaper along the road. wnd dis- “No. He never apoke o me eX0eDt | covered that 3 man I had worked for Mo o wan a hatel I