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T h e woman of over-developed figure who puts on a J

0 C ReducingCorset immediately gains a mou ld ing of the

[filTiue that is ent irely lTaTuTaT~r|ui- wonderfnily-

K I t is tho one curset which reflects every detail of s tyle corshy

rectness the f lexib i l i ty aud ease so much desired and id ad-

dit jon accordpli^heo a positive reducing of the figure I n

every re p^ct the J C C M o d e l iamp the most advanced idea

in au ext k Imjj relucintlt corset Y o u can find a J O 0

Corse t t h a t i laquo tit ted in every way to every type of figure-

fur youn^ midwes for woaimi of s l im figure and a complete

range embrac ing the new smart uncorseted effects

Q G e t c n e o f those $15 suits for $12 t Dancer s

J o h n B u l l i s of Handy was a G r e g o r y ca l le r Wednesday

Muncfo Coffee at 30 cents i t good value at M E K u h n s

R o b t L e a c h and M a x Cameron are on the l is t of those a i l i n g

Dat f Cameron and i f e spent Sunday w i t h the i r son M a c k

O t i s P o n d of J ackson waaamp G r e g c r y the first of the week

D o n t forget S A B e n t o n s bargain counter every Sa turday

C M Swar thout and fami ly spent the hol iday season i n P a r shyma

0 B A r n o l d and famil ies v i s i t ed relatives near P o w l e r v i l e Tuesshyday

Jas W a l k e r sh ipped a large bunch of stock to Toledo W e d shynesday

W m B u h l and fami ly and L i l l i e B u r d e n were Jackson vis i tors spent N e w Year s at the home of

25c work aprons at K u a n s L o i s W o r d e n has been on the

sick l ist

M e n s HQ overcoats now $8 at Dancer s

E t h e l L i l l y white is v i s i t ing near Grass L a k e

bull M r s Jane Jacobs is under the care of D r W r i g h t

Mrlaquo4 C a r l B o l l i n g e r wa in Jackson Thursday

Cbas B u r d e n transacted busishyness i n Jackson Tuesday

L a d i e s $750 Caracule Coats now

$6 at Dancer s Stockbr idge

Jaa JStackable had the misfor-ture to lose a horse last we^k

J J i s s B e l l e Coates has been spending a few days i n Detroi t

M rs Vauc ie A r n o l d has been v i s i t i n g relatives near Fowfe r -v i l l e

M r s W J Wr igh t of S t o c k -bridge is v i s i t ing her son D r J W r i g h t

L o u i s e Coleman spent the past week wi th her aunt Mrs L i l l y B u r d e n

j M r s J W W r i g h t entertained^

her brother from Y p s i l a n t i W e d shynesday

R e v McTaf tgar t and family

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Rev J o h n Stackable of N e w Y o r k C i t y has been v i s i t i n g relashytives here

Jas Stftnkable and wife took i n

Thos Howle t t

I f y o u want any th ing i n the l ine of e l i c t r i c a l goods or supl ies go to W a r n e r Den ton

H a a k e L W o r d e n and family of the inaugeral ceremonies at L a n - Jacfeson have been v i s i t i n g rela

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t h e w i n t e r i s w o r t h t w o tha t o n l y l a y i n t h e s u m m e r t i m e

Y o u c a n m a k e y o u r hens l a y i n w i n t e r b y t h e con shys i s ten t f eed ing o f

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E r m a P y p e r of J ackson spent the hol idays wi th her people here

R i c h a r d Webb wife a n l son E d w a r d of E l l enda le JS D visi tshyed at J o h n Webbs Thur sday last

I M r s F r e d M a r s h a l l entertained the sewing c i rc le at her home last Saturday

B o r n to M r and M r s War ren Bar ton M o n d a y Dec 30 a daughshyter

1 Chas Teachout and f a m i l y spent Xraas i n Jackson wi th the i r son Ol ive r

M a r i o n Holmes entertained V e r a Hartsuff M o n d a y evening

| I t is reported that A l b e r t U p -i d ike has scarlet fver

W T B a r n u m had a new fnr rmre ins ta l led i n hie residenre last week

T h e Sunday Ptahnol harrfelected the Wlow5ns(ofl5cers Snot C a r mi W e b b Alaquost Banas R i c h r h o n d SraquocV Doncflss W a t s o n Treas E m o r v P i c k e l l

T h e most pleasant event of thltgt peason occurred at the pleasant home of M r alarl M r s G o o M a r i h a l l M o n d a y evening D e c 30

s ing Wednesday

W H M a r s h audi wife speatJ the past week i n Ch icago wi th their sod S tanley

D a n Denton has returned to Chicago after spending some time wi th his parents

Thos W i l l i a m s of Jackson was the guest of his parents M r and Mrs L R W i l l i a m s N e w Years

D a i s y B o w l e t t entertained a number of friends at her home last M o n d a y evening A l l enjoyshyed f very pleasant t ime

F r a n k W o r M r and M r s C a r l B o l l i n g e r spent New Years at the hotoe of T o m C h r i s w e l l i n Stockbr idge

P l a n s are under way to i n t r o shyduce a b i l l at the next session of the legislature establ ishing a state house of correction at L a n s i n g

Lawerence M c C l e a r was the first person to use the parcels post at G r e g o r y sending a 6 pound parcel to the A l m a Manufac tur ing C o at A l m i M i c h

H o m e r Moore Chas B u r d e n and H a r l o w Munsa l l attended the meeting of the H o w e l l G u n C l u b at H o w e l l last F r i d a y The first was fortunate enough to win a gjonse and the second a duck

L L r W r i g h t superintendent of p n H i c instruct ion is exhor t ing dis t r ic t school officials to have the state leg is la ture take some action on school matters this w i n t e r H e nrges that the school system of M i c h i g a n needs reorginazat ion and that now is the t ime to act

I t is rumored that a p lucky H o w e l l g i r l demurred against ae cept ing an engagement r i n g re-centlv g i v i n g aaJher reason that she had learned ner finacee was

pu rchase r of godds f rom a ma i l order house and she had fears that

tiyes and friends here

M r and M r s B M c C l u s k y of near P i n c k n e y were guests of relatives here F r i d a y

F A H o w l e t t and fami ly spent N e w Y e a r s at the home of A Jackson i n Stockbr idge

M r s F 0 Mon tague and M r s W i l m e r Crossman ca l led on A u n t F a n n i e C h a p m a n i n U n a d i l l a Wednesday

The B a p t i s t Lad ie s A i d Society meet w i t h M r snd M r s Geo M a r shyshal l Thursday J a n 9 for dinner P r i c e 15 cents

e famil ies of E H a d l e y L Clark C Hartsuff and L E H a d shyley were enter tained at W J B a h i s N e w Y e a r s

W m Doug la s of I n d i a n a is i l l wi th t y p h o i d fever at the home of C N B u l l i s H i s mother from Ion i a i s c a r i n g for h i m

S the beat thing we bave to offer Other inducements are only of ecoadary Q importance Upon this basis only do we solicit your pnroaage Postpone the 8 9 getting of some things that you can get aloug without and put the money in the ^ bank You bave never met a person with a bank account who regretted bar-0 ing started it Why not start one today Many working men start a tagk ^ accounTand watch it grow from month to month 4 Depositin any amount respectfully solicited and all alike will receive

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A N e w Y e a r s d inne r was held at the home of M Sopp

T h e young people gave a shower Monday n i g h t for M r and M r s A N icb i e son

M r s W B M i l l e r and M r s E l l a Oat re l l are at Jackson attendshyi n g the poul t ry show and v i s i t i n g friends

his love for a home g i r l would not be las t ing

T h e fo l lowing officers were ^elected last Saturday b y the LfO T M for the ensu ing year Qom Sa rah M o O l e e r F 0 M a r y D a n i e l s L M a g g i e F u b n Blaquo S v ^ v ^ f S t a c k a b l e F Klaquo Oora

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spetij at the home of J o h n Burgess Mouday when 16 of the i r fr iends gathered there to help them celeshybrate their 15th anniversary

Caspar and J a y G l e n n have gone to A n n A r b o r to enter c o l U ege

H e n r y L e w i s is spend ing the hol idays wi th bis sister M r a Gi l l t f io re i n A n n A r b o r

M r s L e n Oook baa been spendshyi n g a few days w i th her siatfr9

M r s J a m e s Jackson

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SUSPENDERS Society has frowned on tbe mascushy

line suspenders So the suspender musCgo1mdashhas gone almost say those who sell wearing apparel for men Its the age of the belt Manly shoulders must be unhampered by straps only the patient diaphragm is to be subjectshyed to a harsfesS 60 passes another useful device sacrificed to fastidiousshyness We used to eat mashed potashyto with a knife t i l l someone with sushypercilious manners came along and told us the fork was the proper utenshysi l for that important duty Formerly people poured out their hot coffee into saucers blew it cold and then drank It from saucers all unconscious of the terrible impropriety involved Nor was it formerly considered an indicashytion of boorish origin for one to sip tea from a spoon Oh these changing times Suspenders gone the way of the bicycle and the crocheted necktie Is no one bold enough to do them revshyerence Fashion is a tyrant It takes no cognizance of mans various shapesmdashhis embonpoint his fullness or deficiency of girthmdashit merely isshysues a flat and expects all to obey The Jtime is opportune for a new declarashytion of independence Let every man who prefers suspenders to a belt buy a pair forthwith and wear it in defishyance of the world

CIVIL SERVICE L A W T H O U G H T TO BE COMING A N D IS IN E F F E C T

IN SOME D E P A R T M E N T S

SOME I M P O R T A N T P L A C E S TO B E F I L L E D BY GOVENOR FERRIS

AND WHO GETS T H E M

The Abolition of the Land Commission and Some of the Appointments tb

Be Made Are of Special Interest

Some people are determined not to let Christopher Columbus rest in peace Not long ago a celebrated Jewish rabbi insisted that the great f p i 0 y of the state after their duties explorer was a Jew and now comes a member of the Royal Geographical society with the claim that Columbus was a Spaniard and not an Italian

veil of mystery that has for four censhyturies enshrouded the cradle of Coshylumbus has at last been torn aside to reveal him without doubt or argument as a Spaniard Dr Horta says that the Italian lineage of the discoverer was accepted because there was no authentic respectable and authorised historic documents to prove to the contrary on tne other hand the Spanish historian says the only acshycepted proof of the Italian birth of Columbus was his own statement that he was born in Genoa

[By Gurd M Hayes] There is every reason to believe

that the next legislature wil l enact a civil service law for all state departshyments and that an effort will be made to eliminate politics to a large exetnt in determining the class of men and women who wil l transact the busishyness of the commonwealth

Ever since he came i o office two years ago Governor Osborn has stood for a civil service law for all state employes in recognition of meritious service Every employe in the state should be under civil service rules that are honestly made and honestly enforced said the governor Howshyever I am not speaking of a political service that works solely to the adshyvantage of the parties There is no reason why competent help in the em-

have been learned well should be reshyplaced for merely political reasons than there is that business firms should engage men for a short period

The Spanish scientist says that thet toHurn them loose after that time has been served

In his ex-augural message the retirshying chief executive will advocate the passage of a civil service law and the newly elected governor Woodbridge N Ferris says that he is heartily in favor of such a measure and many members of tlie legislature are already pledged to support such a bil l mdashSome of the departments fctave al-

An Englishman in Shanghai was twitting the eldest son of Dr Sun Yatsen about his fathers cosmopolishytanism Nobody knowB for certain where your father was born he said Canton claims him and so does Honshyolulu Before the revolution he bad not been here in China for manpound years The English port of Hongkong was tbe nearest he ever approached I dont see how your father can call himself a Chinaman and in fact i-kemploye found to be incompetent as dont know what to call hira Part of what you say Is true answered the son 6frac34 the famous patriot For fifteen years my father was a man without a country b u t bull laquo o w ^ a n d - t l r e + - copy m ^ - - raquo e e J i e ^

is somewhat of an innovation in Mich bey smiled proudly a country has been made for him

Ireland is to send a deputation to this country to protest against the landing at Queenstown of certain menshytally defective persons alleged to be Irish and having Irish names but deshyclared to be from other countries of origin than Ireland These objection ables are excluded from the United Sta s PS undesirable immigrants^ It Is said they have no claim on Ireland Certainly they have no claim on the United States

The mines department of Canada is preparing an official announcement that theeffective smelting of Canashydian orem-4s a commercial possibility The Iron business has undergone a revolution every few years for more than a century Is another due Wi l l i t result in the general adoption of electric smelting

Scientific experiments demonstratshying that caffeine is fatal to rabbits and that nicotine paralyzes the cptlc nerve should Impress the public Hereafter no truly numane persons wi l l give the rabbits coffee for their breakfasts nor put cigars smoking or chewing tobaccos in their own or others eyes

ready inaugurated a civil service sys-tern State TreasureT-elect John W Haarer has already announced that he will appoint the present cashier in the treasury department to the dep-utyship the first of the year while the chief clerk wil l be advanced to cashshyier and so on Auditor General 0 B Fuller has paid more attention to efshyficiency than political pull while Sec-~ retary of State Frederick C Martin-dale has many emjloyes in his departshyment whose political activities ceased years ago Martindale sampys that a civil service law would not cause him to

1 make a single change in Ills office as he declares he would discnarge a state

dreds of blind children in the state Who are unable to gain admission owshying to the limited facilities ot the im-stitution

At a recent Besslon of the legislashyture a law was enacted requiring comshypulsory education for all blind childshyren in the state and Superintendent Holmes points to this as a sufficient reason why sufficient money should be appropriated to care fo rthose who are being neglected at present I t IS pointshyed out that in many cases the parents of these children are unable becaiifie of adverse financial conditions to edshyucate them in private schools and as a result they grow up and become obshyjects of charity where they might be developed into self supporting citizens had they received the advantage afshyforded at the Michigan School for the

bull Blind The educational course at the Michshy

igan School for the Blind compares favorably with the advantages afshyforded in regular grammar and high schools of the state and in adition each pupil is taught some trade

Superintendent Holmes wants to add 40 acres to the school property in orshyder that a course in agriculture may be added to the curriculum From obshyservation i n other states he has learned that agriculture is a pursuit 1

that may be followed to considerable advantage by blind persons and he -says that polltry arising is another industry favorable to those who have lost their sight The legislature has always dealt generously with the School for the Blind and there is every reason to believe that the arshyguments of Superintendent Holmes will carry considerable weight at the coming session

A Warm E+ec^lon There is sure to be a wkrm contset

over the election of ^secretary of the senate to succeed E V Chilson who has announced his retirement after serving in that capacity for aXnumber of essions past Chilson says that his business demands all his time ami he is forced to drop out of politics temshyporarily The secretaryship of the senshyate is worth $10 per day and carries with it considerable political prestige Consequently it is much sought-after and friends of the respective candishydates are already soliciting the supshyport of the various members of the upper house

Dennis E Alward of Clare for a

M I S S H E L E N G O U L D A N D H E R F I A N C E T H E M A R K E T S

Miss Helen Gculd the philanthropical daughter of the late Jay Gould Is to wed Finiey J Shepard assistant to the president of the Missouri Pacific railroad

Quickly as he would turn a noor worker out of a private enterprise

For a man to run for office on a platform that he is to abolish that

igan politics but that is what Augusshytus C Carton secretary of the public doman commission and land commisshysioner-elect promised the people of the state and he proposes to make good his pre-election pledge if the legisshylature wil l assist him in the proposishytion

Abolish Land Commission When the public doman commission

was-created twogtyears ago A C Car- A A J a j A m

ton then deputy land commissioner R n d w a t h e democratic candidate for

In New York there is a man who has been married 11 times Nobody except a New York waiter could pay alimony to ten women

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was elected its first secretary Under the statute creating the public doshymain commission itsmembers are composed 0 fthe board of state auditshyors including the secretary of state state treasurer and commissioner of the land office together with one reashygent of the University one member of the state agricultural board and one member of the board of control of the Michigan College of Mines

Secretary Carton is an enthusiastic adherent of the back to the soil movement and has done mucST during the two years that he has been con lected with the public domain comshymission to encourage immigration and induce farmers from other states to take up tracts o f land in the northern counties of the state To preserve the natural resources of the state to asshysist in the development of the agrishycultural lands of Michigan and $0 enshycourage immigration are among the few things that the commision has enshydeavored to accomplish ^ Carton believes that the time has

arrived when very little state land will be sold in Michigan and believes that the work of the land commission Is practically finished Tb he con-

number of years secretary of the re- publican state central committee is being prominently mentioned for tfye position Alward was secretary of the senate for a great many years prevshyious to Chilsons election and it is thought that his experience wi l l milshyitate in his favor During the last prishymary campaign Alward was defeated for the republican nomination for con gress in the eleventh district

Sidney Hall of Uetrolt who has been journal clerk in the house dur ing the past two sesions announces that ma is in the race for secretary of the senate and calims to have the solid support of the Wayne delegation The election of a secretary wil l be one of the first duties that the senate will be called upon to perform and much wire pulling is expected before any of the candidates secure the desired number

M E X I C A N F E D E R A L S S L A I N

Ascension Attacked and Captured by Insurrectos

G O V - E L E O T F E R R I S M E S S -A G E

PETROITmdashExtlU dry-fed s eesftH $75 G l steers and heifers 100frac34 t$gt 1 00 lbs $6750760 steers and hetters J00 to 1000 lbs $60676 steers and heifers that are fat 600 to 700 tbbs $U5475 choice fat cow $550ltggt675 goodfat cows $426 M common caws SOSreg4 canners S3copygt 3frac34) choice heavy bulls $5B0ltggt6 fair to

food bolognas bulls $4605 stock bulla 375^425 Choicefeeding steers 800 to

looiffibs $575lt$li60 fair feeding steers 800 to71000 Ibs $5 650 choice stockers 600 to 700 rtgts $5ltggt550 fair stockers 500 to 700 lbs $4475 stock heifers $375 425milkers large young medium age $40reg70 common milkers $3040

Veal CalvesmdashReceipts 483 market dull at last weeks prices best $65011 othshyers $4ltggt9 Milch cows and springers steady bullbull

Sheep ancjlamp^Receipts fe892 sheep steady lambs 25qlower thanlast week

Best lambs $S fair to good lambs $750 4 7 5 light to common lambs $450reg

5T fair to good sheep $3ltsectgt4 culls and common $2753

HogsmdashReceipts 4 107 no hogs soldi at noon- prospects are as follows Rangfc of ^pricesmdashLight to gpod ^butchers $74greggt 725frac34 pigs $69007 light yorkers^$7lt8gt T101 roughs one-third off bull Kt

NotemdashEhere will be no market here Christmas day

East Buffalo N YmdashCattlemdashBest 1350 to 1500-lb steers $876925 gjpod tb prime 1200 to 1300-Ib steers $7750325 j food to prime 1100 tol200-ttgt steersk

725reg 775 coarse plainish 1100 to 1200 lb steers $70725 medium butcher sters 1000 to 1100 lbs $62607 butcher steers 960 to 1000 lbs $60650 light butcher steers $525575 best fat cows $55006 butcher cows $45005 light butcher cows $3750 425T cutters $350copy 375 trimmers $3260350 best fat heifshyers $70750 medium butcher heifers $57506254 light butcher heifers $4500 5 stock heifers $40425 best feeding steers $6250675 fair to good stockers $5 0525 light common stockera $425frac34) 450 prime export bulls $6250675 best butcher bulls $5500575 bologna bulls $45005 stock bulls $45005 best milkshyers and springers $65075 common to fair kind $40 0 55

HogsmdashMarket 5c higher hogs $765 yorkers $7650770 pigs $7600770

Sheep and lambsmdashMarket active top lambs $8600865 cull3 to fair $5500 825 yearlings $550C50 wethers $475 5 ewes $4425

CalvesmdashSteady tops- $1050^1223 fair to good $75010 heavy $450($650

Refugee federal soldiers arriving in Juarez report that the 250 federal irregular troops garrisoning Ascension practically were annihiliated when reb-elpound attacked the ktovn

The attack vvas^ade shortly after midnight and fighting continued only for a few hours The garrison comshymander reports by letter to General Trucy Aubert at Juarez lhat he knew of only fifteen of his men escaping besides himself He is hiding at a ranch he writes -

The fate of 150 regulars at Gugman nearby is not known but it is be-

N e w M a n i n Office Governor-elect Ferris has announced

that he wil l send the name of John T Winship of Saginaw to the senshyate for confirmation as insurance comshymissioner to succeed C A Palmer This position pays $3500 annually and is one of the best plums that the democratic chief executive wil l have at his disposal Winship has for years been one of the democratic stalwarts

sented to be a candidate for the place with the understanding that the land commission would be abolished and the work should be turned over to the public domain commission A bil l for the purpose is now being framed and wil l he introduced a tthe next see-slon^

f Wants $100000 Superintendent Clarence E Holmes

of the Michigan School for the Blind ^haa recommended to Goy Osborn that w

i t o M t 6 laquo i B ^ and magastaasjn uTe to appropriate aproxlamtely $100000

that Institution next year A t the nt time the school is taxed to its

capacity and there tare huxMJfiate^

United States senator against Charles E Townsend two years ago

It has also been definitely decided that James Helme of Adrian wil l be appointed dairy and food commisioner the first of the yearHelme was apshypointed deputy dairy and food comshymissioner under Gilman Dame Owing to the fact that Helme was a demoshycrat his appointment as deputy by

3ov Osborn was entirely non-politl-U Helme was picked because of his

fitness for the position and his expert knowledge of the dairy business

Ferris has officially decided upon James Scully of Ionia as the success or to George W Dickinson of Pon-tiac as a member of the state railshyroad commission This is another of the choice pieces of patronage at the disposal of the new governor as Sculshylys term wil l be for six years and the salary is $3000 When the railroad commission was created four years ago Scully was appointed one of the commissioners by ex-Governor Fred M Warner

Going Abroad When Governor Osborn retires from

the executive office the first of the -yearr4t-may bo seme-time-raquobefore he -

steps foot on Michigan soil again as he says that he intends to spend much of his time in travel and wil probshyably start for some fdreign climate at once

The chief executive was a newsshypaper publisher for a great many years and has worked as a reporter on some of the largest papers in the country Consequently iT~he desires to enter the journalistic field again he wil l not be out of a job as some of the larg-

United States have made him attract ive offers tb act as war correspondshyent during the trouble In the fiaiampttt

lieved the tovn was taken by rebels before Ascension

Through Consul Thomas Edwards at Juarez the American state deshypartment requested Mexican military offieials to reCue J I Morris an American railway man Morris was taken captive by rebels when he atshytempted to save a bridge on the Mexshyico Northwestern railway which had been fired by rebels Since Morris carshyried federal passports it is feared he will not be given any consideration at the hands of the rebels

Primary Reform Issue to Receive Large Measure of Attention

Gov-elect Ferris has completed his inaugural messagemdasha document that for brevity straight-arm jabs and inshycandescence wil l rank with the strongshyest documents of similar nature filed in the capitol it is declared

Gov Ferris has left the democratic state platform to speakTor itself acshycording to tclose friends and in his message he does scarcely more than mention most of the measures formshyally advocated by the party One of the exceptions will bejthejprimary electign laws it is-announced as GovT^Fe^is^ has always made the alleged lack of orth in those laws a hobby

GRAIN ETC WHEATmdashCash poundnd December No 2

red $110 1-2 May opened without change at $114 1-2 touched laquo14 1-4 and adshyvanced to $114 1-2 July opened at 94 1-4 declined to 94 and advanced to 94 1-4 No 1 white $109 1-2

CORNmdashCash No 3 49 No 3 yellow 2 cars at 50c No 4 yellow 1 car at 48c

OATSmdashStandard 2 cars at J6c closing asked No 3 white 35c No 4 white 1 car at 33 l-2c sample 1 car at 32c RYEmdashCash No 2 62c

BEANSmdashImmediate prompt and Deshycember shipmetns $220 bid January $222 bid

CLOVER SEEDmdashPrime spot $1140 sample 33 bags at $1025 18 at $875 prime alsike^-$1275 sample alsike 14 bags at $1125

FLOURmdashIn one-eighth paper sacks pelaquo-196 pounds jobbing lots Best pat-entV $560 second patent $530 straight $pound7ampgt clear $490 spring patent $510 rye $480 per bbl bull

FEEDmdashIn 10-lb sacks jobbing lots Bran $23 coarse middlings $23 fine midshydlings $28 corn and oat chop $20 per ton

C O N G R E S S W I L L B E B U S Y

Pneumonia Causes 180 Deaths in State There were 2830 deaths in Michigan

and 4691 births during November acshycording to the mortality report of the secretary of state By ages there were 465 deaths of infants under one year

_of age 156 deaths of children aged one to four years both inclusive and 957 deaths of elderly persons

Important causes of death were pulshymonary tuberculosis 175 other forms of tuberculosis 30 typhoid fever $2 diphtheria and croup 48 scarlet fever 11 measles 10 whooping cough 11 pneumonia and broncho-pneumonia 180 diarrhea enteritis under two years of age 56 meningitis 24 inshyfluenza 7 cancer 159 violence 187

Taft Escapes Big Explosion A few moments after President Taft^

and his party entered the National theshyater in Panama where they were guests at a Christmas ball given by President Porras a terrific explosion wrecked a kiosk in Central avenue the towns principal street

The president had Just passed that way and the firemen and police guard were still on duty

Investigation showed that the exshyplosion was caused by dynamite One man was seriously hurt and many persons slightly injured

The president and those with him smilingly attempted to belittle the inshycident saying that they believed the explosion had no connection with the presence of President Taft Nevertheshyless a rigid investigation was begun by the authorities at the command of President Porras immediately after the cause of the disturbance became known

Seven Important Hearings Scheduled for Session After Holidays

An investigation possibly unpreceshydented in the history of the house will be ushered in when congress reasshysembles in January

Members of the house ^ 1 divide their attention among seven distinct investigations scheduled to begin imshymediately after the holidays They are

Inquiry into the so-called money trust hearings before the ways and means committee preliminary to tariff revision by the next congress the probe into the New^Haven-Grand Trunk railroad situation in New Engshyland the judiciary committees hearshyings on general trust legislation the inquiry into the ramifications of the so-called foreign and domestic shipshyping trust by the merchant marine committee the Glass sub-committees investigation incident to the framing of a currency bill and the inquisition into the affairs of the office ot supershyintendent of insurance in the District of Columbia The insurance inquiry will begin Dec 26 with the District of Columbia commissioners on the witshyness stand

These committees will endeavor to complete their work by the end of tho session It is estimated that the inshyvestigations wil l cost more than $100-000

GENERAL MARKETS The poultry deal is assuming quite imshy

portant proportions and a feeling of firmshyness prevails in nearly all lines Fowls drag a little but chicks are in good deshymand and there is a firm market for fur-keys at another advance in prices Chicks are In good supply but there is a scarcshyity of turkeys Dressed hogs are dull and easy and drossed calves active The marshyket is steady for dairy products and actshyive Potatoes and vegetables are steady and in good demandf

ButtermdashFancy creamery 33c creamshyery firsts 35c dairy 22c packing 21o )er lb lt

EggsmdashCurrent receipts candled cases included 28c per doz

Out of 730 postcard queries In re gard to a commission form of govern ment for Bay City about 750 were reshyturned and all were in favor 6f the commission

According to figures gathered by the State Association of Farmers clubs about three billion cigarettes are used in the state yearly It is figured that one person in every five smokes

The Cheboygan council has adopted a resolution which demands rental of the Cheboygan Telephone Co for the use of the streets

On Jan 1 the Grand Trunk railroad will provide modem vestibuleoV equipshyment and improved train service on C S amp M branch between Bay City Saginaw and Durasd

Gov Osborn has received word that the Chicago law and orderleague has inaugurated a camoeign against gambling fthd^asts^e ^ governor t raquo take stepMowards the suppression gambling in thfsvstate

To Provide Centra State Workhouse Representative Ashmon H Catlin

of Webbervilie Ingham county has announced two bills which he is framshying tp be presented to the next leg-isalture

One provides for the erection of a workhouse in Lansing similar to the one in Detroit to be used to vjiouse 1 u 1 A bull bdquo nine Michigan bankers at his private prisoners from counties of central t w bdquo L t y i l v u raquo - a ^ ^cuuai office in Detroit where Deputy A Eu Michigan Such a structure is in grekt bull w o ^ 0 v

+ gt gt + ubdquo ^ l Manning meets one in the main of-demand owing to the fact hat D e t r o k f ficegt l n L a n s i n i it is laquo a id will no longer contract with counties

Catlins proposed second measure would cause the present mortgage tax law to be repealed substituting the law on the statute books Jt 1891 which provides mortgages to be deshyducted from estates

Trigonometry has been dropped from the curriculum of the Negaunee higfi school On the advice of Prof C bullft Davis of the Uuivers4ty^otJ^lchigt gan who says the subject is no longrer required for admission to the engineershying department

Word was reecived in Port Huron that the Southern grain elevator owned by the Botsford amp Jen^s Co at S t Louis Mo had burned to the ground the loss being estimated at $100000 F r a n k ) Jenks of Port Hushyron Is a principal stockholder having owned about $40000 of the stock

Mayor Bi l ls of Grand Rapids h i s appointed a special committee to inshyvestigate the advlsaoility 0frac34 esiablishV ing a municipal coai^yard The plaii is to compete with the alleges local coal trust - bull bull^^- bull bullbull----7--

APPLESmdashBaldwin $225250 greenshying $250275 spy $2753 steel red $3350 No 2 75creg150 per bbl

CABBAGESmdash$1(^)125 per bbl DRESSED CALVESmdashOrdinary 10reg

11c fancy 12 1-213 l-2c per lb ONIONSmdash55c per bu DRESSED HOGSmdash$99G0 per cwt for

light to medium DRESSED POULTRY mdash Spring chickshy

ens 14(g)15c hens 1314c old roosters 10llc turkeys 2123c ducks 16(ggt19c geese 1415c per lb

POTATOESmdashMichigan sacks 58t bulk 48c in car lots and 55ltggt60c for store

HONEYmdashChoice fane ywhite comb IS 17c per lb amber 1415c

LIVE POULTRYmdashSpring chickens 13(g) 131-2c per lb hens 1212 l-2c No 2 hens 9c old roosters 910c ducks 15 16c geese 1314o turkeys 1720c per lb

VEGETABLESmdashBeets 40c per bu carshyrots 45c per bu cauliflower $225 per doz turnips 50c per bu spinach 75c per bu hothouse cucumbers $150175 per bu watercress 25ltsectgt70c per doz head lettuce $1260150 per hamper home-grown celshyery 25ltsectgt30c per bu green peppers 40o per basket rutabagas 40c per bu hotshyhouse radishes 25c per doz

PROVISIONSmdashMess pork $19 family $22ltsectgt23 briskets ll12c bacon 1618c Bhoulders 13 l-2c picnic hams 13c pure-lard in tierces 11 l-2c kettle rendered lard 21 l-2c per tb

HAYmdashCar lot prices track Detroit No 1 timothy $161950 No 2 tmiothy TL4501550pNo 1 mixed $141450 light lixed $15 copy1550 wheat and oat straw reg10 rye straw $1050(g) 11 per ton

Want Bank Dept Moved to Detroit bull That the state banking commission

ers office now in the state capitol be moved to Detroit is the hope of Michigan bankers and an effort to ward that end may be made when the legislature convenes v - v

Banking Commissioner DoVle meeta

The executive committee of the State Teachers association wil l meet in Lansing Jan 18 to select the place for the 1913 teachers convenshytion Kalamazoo and Ann Arbor ^re-favored t-

Rumorsgt regarding the absorption of the Marquette County Telephone Co by the Michigan State Telephone Co are beginning to take definite shape

While trying their new Christmas skates E Hlllman aged 7 and tJno~ Berg 10 of Gladstone fell through thin ice and were drowned

Wendali Klaus of oWsso believed to be the oldest barber in point opound service in Michigan celebrated hiaS seventieth birthday by entertaining the barbers of the city Hes been callshying Next for 61 years gt r

Mrs vJpsera Hale matron-of that Dorcas riolae Owosso believes that local option in Shiawassee county i s the cause o f t b f fergf ^ c r e i s e in mates at thfc i n s t i ^ ^ now 01 children at the itdmev the eijge aumhet tuitil this yesir he in r

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G R E G O R Y G A Z E T T E

R^W CAVEBLY Publish^

riNTJKNEV bull MXOHIQAV

SUSPENDERS Society has frowned on tbe mascushy

line suspenders So the suspender musCgo1mdashhas gone almost say those who sell wearing apparel for men Its the age of the belt Manly shoulders must be unhampered by straps only the patient diaphragm is to be subjectshyed to a harsfesS 60 passes another useful device sacrificed to fastidiousshyness We used to eat mashed potashyto with a knife t i l l someone with sushypercilious manners came along and told us the fork was the proper utenshysi l for that important duty Formerly people poured out their hot coffee into saucers blew it cold and then drank It from saucers all unconscious of the terrible impropriety involved Nor was it formerly considered an indicashytion of boorish origin for one to sip tea from a spoon Oh these changing times Suspenders gone the way of the bicycle and the crocheted necktie Is no one bold enough to do them revshyerence Fashion is a tyrant It takes no cognizance of mans various shapesmdashhis embonpoint his fullness or deficiency of girthmdashit merely isshysues a flat and expects all to obey The Jtime is opportune for a new declarashytion of independence Let every man who prefers suspenders to a belt buy a pair forthwith and wear it in defishyance of the world

CIVIL SERVICE L A W T H O U G H T TO BE COMING A N D IS IN E F F E C T

IN SOME D E P A R T M E N T S

SOME I M P O R T A N T P L A C E S TO B E F I L L E D BY GOVENOR FERRIS

AND WHO GETS T H E M

The Abolition of the Land Commission and Some of the Appointments tb

Be Made Are of Special Interest

Some people are determined not to let Christopher Columbus rest in peace Not long ago a celebrated Jewish rabbi insisted that the great f p i 0 y of the state after their duties explorer was a Jew and now comes a member of the Royal Geographical society with the claim that Columbus was a Spaniard and not an Italian

veil of mystery that has for four censhyturies enshrouded the cradle of Coshylumbus has at last been torn aside to reveal him without doubt or argument as a Spaniard Dr Horta says that the Italian lineage of the discoverer was accepted because there was no authentic respectable and authorised historic documents to prove to the contrary on tne other hand the Spanish historian says the only acshycepted proof of the Italian birth of Columbus was his own statement that he was born in Genoa

[By Gurd M Hayes] There is every reason to believe

that the next legislature wil l enact a civil service law for all state departshyments and that an effort will be made to eliminate politics to a large exetnt in determining the class of men and women who wil l transact the busishyness of the commonwealth

Ever since he came i o office two years ago Governor Osborn has stood for a civil service law for all state employes in recognition of meritious service Every employe in the state should be under civil service rules that are honestly made and honestly enforced said the governor Howshyever I am not speaking of a political service that works solely to the adshyvantage of the parties There is no reason why competent help in the em-

have been learned well should be reshyplaced for merely political reasons than there is that business firms should engage men for a short period

The Spanish scientist says that thet toHurn them loose after that time has been served

In his ex-augural message the retirshying chief executive will advocate the passage of a civil service law and the newly elected governor Woodbridge N Ferris says that he is heartily in favor of such a measure and many members of tlie legislature are already pledged to support such a bil l mdashSome of the departments fctave al-

An Englishman in Shanghai was twitting the eldest son of Dr Sun Yatsen about his fathers cosmopolishytanism Nobody knowB for certain where your father was born he said Canton claims him and so does Honshyolulu Before the revolution he bad not been here in China for manpound years The English port of Hongkong was tbe nearest he ever approached I dont see how your father can call himself a Chinaman and in fact i-kemploye found to be incompetent as dont know what to call hira Part of what you say Is true answered the son 6frac34 the famous patriot For fifteen years my father was a man without a country b u t bull laquo o w ^ a n d - t l r e + - copy m ^ - - raquo e e J i e ^

is somewhat of an innovation in Mich bey smiled proudly a country has been made for him

Ireland is to send a deputation to this country to protest against the landing at Queenstown of certain menshytally defective persons alleged to be Irish and having Irish names but deshyclared to be from other countries of origin than Ireland These objection ables are excluded from the United Sta s PS undesirable immigrants^ It Is said they have no claim on Ireland Certainly they have no claim on the United States

The mines department of Canada is preparing an official announcement that theeffective smelting of Canashydian orem-4s a commercial possibility The Iron business has undergone a revolution every few years for more than a century Is another due Wi l l i t result in the general adoption of electric smelting

Scientific experiments demonstratshying that caffeine is fatal to rabbits and that nicotine paralyzes the cptlc nerve should Impress the public Hereafter no truly numane persons wi l l give the rabbits coffee for their breakfasts nor put cigars smoking or chewing tobaccos in their own or others eyes

ready inaugurated a civil service sys-tern State TreasureT-elect John W Haarer has already announced that he will appoint the present cashier in the treasury department to the dep-utyship the first of the year while the chief clerk wil l be advanced to cashshyier and so on Auditor General 0 B Fuller has paid more attention to efshyficiency than political pull while Sec-~ retary of State Frederick C Martin-dale has many emjloyes in his departshyment whose political activities ceased years ago Martindale sampys that a civil service law would not cause him to

1 make a single change in Ills office as he declares he would discnarge a state

dreds of blind children in the state Who are unable to gain admission owshying to the limited facilities ot the im-stitution

At a recent Besslon of the legislashyture a law was enacted requiring comshypulsory education for all blind childshyren in the state and Superintendent Holmes points to this as a sufficient reason why sufficient money should be appropriated to care fo rthose who are being neglected at present I t IS pointshyed out that in many cases the parents of these children are unable becaiifie of adverse financial conditions to edshyucate them in private schools and as a result they grow up and become obshyjects of charity where they might be developed into self supporting citizens had they received the advantage afshyforded at the Michigan School for the

bull Blind The educational course at the Michshy

igan School for the Blind compares favorably with the advantages afshyforded in regular grammar and high schools of the state and in adition each pupil is taught some trade

Superintendent Holmes wants to add 40 acres to the school property in orshyder that a course in agriculture may be added to the curriculum From obshyservation i n other states he has learned that agriculture is a pursuit 1

that may be followed to considerable advantage by blind persons and he -says that polltry arising is another industry favorable to those who have lost their sight The legislature has always dealt generously with the School for the Blind and there is every reason to believe that the arshyguments of Superintendent Holmes will carry considerable weight at the coming session

A Warm E+ec^lon There is sure to be a wkrm contset

over the election of ^secretary of the senate to succeed E V Chilson who has announced his retirement after serving in that capacity for aXnumber of essions past Chilson says that his business demands all his time ami he is forced to drop out of politics temshyporarily The secretaryship of the senshyate is worth $10 per day and carries with it considerable political prestige Consequently it is much sought-after and friends of the respective candishydates are already soliciting the supshyport of the various members of the upper house

Dennis E Alward of Clare for a

M I S S H E L E N G O U L D A N D H E R F I A N C E T H E M A R K E T S

Miss Helen Gculd the philanthropical daughter of the late Jay Gould Is to wed Finiey J Shepard assistant to the president of the Missouri Pacific railroad

Quickly as he would turn a noor worker out of a private enterprise

For a man to run for office on a platform that he is to abolish that

igan politics but that is what Augusshytus C Carton secretary of the public doman commission and land commisshysioner-elect promised the people of the state and he proposes to make good his pre-election pledge if the legisshylature wil l assist him in the proposishytion

Abolish Land Commission When the public doman commission

was-created twogtyears ago A C Car- A A J a j A m

ton then deputy land commissioner R n d w a t h e democratic candidate for

In New York there is a man who has been married 11 times Nobody except a New York waiter could pay alimony to ten women

London has a hotel that-bag~gained mgh Its onions Certainly a

fame

forms us thatjthe too-ttlnct but the two

with us al-

lved ths It takes

ein

was elected its first secretary Under the statute creating the public doshymain commission itsmembers are composed 0 fthe board of state auditshyors including the secretary of state state treasurer and commissioner of the land office together with one reashygent of the University one member of the state agricultural board and one member of the board of control of the Michigan College of Mines

Secretary Carton is an enthusiastic adherent of the back to the soil movement and has done mucST during the two years that he has been con lected with the public domain comshymission to encourage immigration and induce farmers from other states to take up tracts o f land in the northern counties of the state To preserve the natural resources of the state to asshysist in the development of the agrishycultural lands of Michigan and $0 enshycourage immigration are among the few things that the commision has enshydeavored to accomplish ^ Carton believes that the time has

arrived when very little state land will be sold in Michigan and believes that the work of the land commission Is practically finished Tb he con-

number of years secretary of the re- publican state central committee is being prominently mentioned for tfye position Alward was secretary of the senate for a great many years prevshyious to Chilsons election and it is thought that his experience wi l l milshyitate in his favor During the last prishymary campaign Alward was defeated for the republican nomination for con gress in the eleventh district

Sidney Hall of Uetrolt who has been journal clerk in the house dur ing the past two sesions announces that ma is in the race for secretary of the senate and calims to have the solid support of the Wayne delegation The election of a secretary wil l be one of the first duties that the senate will be called upon to perform and much wire pulling is expected before any of the candidates secure the desired number

M E X I C A N F E D E R A L S S L A I N

Ascension Attacked and Captured by Insurrectos

G O V - E L E O T F E R R I S M E S S -A G E

PETROITmdashExtlU dry-fed s eesftH $75 G l steers and heifers 100frac34 t$gt 1 00 lbs $6750760 steers and hetters J00 to 1000 lbs $60676 steers and heifers that are fat 600 to 700 tbbs $U5475 choice fat cow $550ltggt675 goodfat cows $426 M common caws SOSreg4 canners S3copygt 3frac34) choice heavy bulls $5B0ltggt6 fair to

food bolognas bulls $4605 stock bulla 375^425 Choicefeeding steers 800 to

looiffibs $575lt$li60 fair feeding steers 800 to71000 Ibs $5 650 choice stockers 600 to 700 rtgts $5ltggt550 fair stockers 500 to 700 lbs $4475 stock heifers $375 425milkers large young medium age $40reg70 common milkers $3040

Veal CalvesmdashReceipts 483 market dull at last weeks prices best $65011 othshyers $4ltggt9 Milch cows and springers steady bullbull

Sheep ancjlamp^Receipts fe892 sheep steady lambs 25qlower thanlast week

Best lambs $S fair to good lambs $750 4 7 5 light to common lambs $450reg

5T fair to good sheep $3ltsectgt4 culls and common $2753

HogsmdashReceipts 4 107 no hogs soldi at noon- prospects are as follows Rangfc of ^pricesmdashLight to gpod ^butchers $74greggt 725frac34 pigs $69007 light yorkers^$7lt8gt T101 roughs one-third off bull Kt

NotemdashEhere will be no market here Christmas day

East Buffalo N YmdashCattlemdashBest 1350 to 1500-lb steers $876925 gjpod tb prime 1200 to 1300-Ib steers $7750325 j food to prime 1100 tol200-ttgt steersk

725reg 775 coarse plainish 1100 to 1200 lb steers $70725 medium butcher sters 1000 to 1100 lbs $62607 butcher steers 960 to 1000 lbs $60650 light butcher steers $525575 best fat cows $55006 butcher cows $45005 light butcher cows $3750 425T cutters $350copy 375 trimmers $3260350 best fat heifshyers $70750 medium butcher heifers $57506254 light butcher heifers $4500 5 stock heifers $40425 best feeding steers $6250675 fair to good stockers $5 0525 light common stockera $425frac34) 450 prime export bulls $6250675 best butcher bulls $5500575 bologna bulls $45005 stock bulls $45005 best milkshyers and springers $65075 common to fair kind $40 0 55

HogsmdashMarket 5c higher hogs $765 yorkers $7650770 pigs $7600770

Sheep and lambsmdashMarket active top lambs $8600865 cull3 to fair $5500 825 yearlings $550C50 wethers $475 5 ewes $4425

CalvesmdashSteady tops- $1050^1223 fair to good $75010 heavy $450($650

Refugee federal soldiers arriving in Juarez report that the 250 federal irregular troops garrisoning Ascension practically were annihiliated when reb-elpound attacked the ktovn

The attack vvas^ade shortly after midnight and fighting continued only for a few hours The garrison comshymander reports by letter to General Trucy Aubert at Juarez lhat he knew of only fifteen of his men escaping besides himself He is hiding at a ranch he writes -

The fate of 150 regulars at Gugman nearby is not known but it is be-

N e w M a n i n Office Governor-elect Ferris has announced

that he wil l send the name of John T Winship of Saginaw to the senshyate for confirmation as insurance comshymissioner to succeed C A Palmer This position pays $3500 annually and is one of the best plums that the democratic chief executive wil l have at his disposal Winship has for years been one of the democratic stalwarts

sented to be a candidate for the place with the understanding that the land commission would be abolished and the work should be turned over to the public domain commission A bil l for the purpose is now being framed and wil l he introduced a tthe next see-slon^

f Wants $100000 Superintendent Clarence E Holmes

of the Michigan School for the Blind ^haa recommended to Goy Osborn that w

i t o M t 6 laquo i B ^ and magastaasjn uTe to appropriate aproxlamtely $100000

that Institution next year A t the nt time the school is taxed to its

capacity and there tare huxMJfiate^

United States senator against Charles E Townsend two years ago

It has also been definitely decided that James Helme of Adrian wil l be appointed dairy and food commisioner the first of the yearHelme was apshypointed deputy dairy and food comshymissioner under Gilman Dame Owing to the fact that Helme was a demoshycrat his appointment as deputy by

3ov Osborn was entirely non-politl-U Helme was picked because of his

fitness for the position and his expert knowledge of the dairy business

Ferris has officially decided upon James Scully of Ionia as the success or to George W Dickinson of Pon-tiac as a member of the state railshyroad commission This is another of the choice pieces of patronage at the disposal of the new governor as Sculshylys term wil l be for six years and the salary is $3000 When the railroad commission was created four years ago Scully was appointed one of the commissioners by ex-Governor Fred M Warner

Going Abroad When Governor Osborn retires from

the executive office the first of the -yearr4t-may bo seme-time-raquobefore he -

steps foot on Michigan soil again as he says that he intends to spend much of his time in travel and wil probshyably start for some fdreign climate at once

The chief executive was a newsshypaper publisher for a great many years and has worked as a reporter on some of the largest papers in the country Consequently iT~he desires to enter the journalistic field again he wil l not be out of a job as some of the larg-

United States have made him attract ive offers tb act as war correspondshyent during the trouble In the fiaiampttt

lieved the tovn was taken by rebels before Ascension

Through Consul Thomas Edwards at Juarez the American state deshypartment requested Mexican military offieials to reCue J I Morris an American railway man Morris was taken captive by rebels when he atshytempted to save a bridge on the Mexshyico Northwestern railway which had been fired by rebels Since Morris carshyried federal passports it is feared he will not be given any consideration at the hands of the rebels

Primary Reform Issue to Receive Large Measure of Attention

Gov-elect Ferris has completed his inaugural messagemdasha document that for brevity straight-arm jabs and inshycandescence wil l rank with the strongshyest documents of similar nature filed in the capitol it is declared

Gov Ferris has left the democratic state platform to speakTor itself acshycording to tclose friends and in his message he does scarcely more than mention most of the measures formshyally advocated by the party One of the exceptions will bejthejprimary electign laws it is-announced as GovT^Fe^is^ has always made the alleged lack of orth in those laws a hobby

GRAIN ETC WHEATmdashCash poundnd December No 2

red $110 1-2 May opened without change at $114 1-2 touched laquo14 1-4 and adshyvanced to $114 1-2 July opened at 94 1-4 declined to 94 and advanced to 94 1-4 No 1 white $109 1-2

CORNmdashCash No 3 49 No 3 yellow 2 cars at 50c No 4 yellow 1 car at 48c

OATSmdashStandard 2 cars at J6c closing asked No 3 white 35c No 4 white 1 car at 33 l-2c sample 1 car at 32c RYEmdashCash No 2 62c

BEANSmdashImmediate prompt and Deshycember shipmetns $220 bid January $222 bid

CLOVER SEEDmdashPrime spot $1140 sample 33 bags at $1025 18 at $875 prime alsike^-$1275 sample alsike 14 bags at $1125

FLOURmdashIn one-eighth paper sacks pelaquo-196 pounds jobbing lots Best pat-entV $560 second patent $530 straight $pound7ampgt clear $490 spring patent $510 rye $480 per bbl bull

FEEDmdashIn 10-lb sacks jobbing lots Bran $23 coarse middlings $23 fine midshydlings $28 corn and oat chop $20 per ton

C O N G R E S S W I L L B E B U S Y

Pneumonia Causes 180 Deaths in State There were 2830 deaths in Michigan

and 4691 births during November acshycording to the mortality report of the secretary of state By ages there were 465 deaths of infants under one year

_of age 156 deaths of children aged one to four years both inclusive and 957 deaths of elderly persons

Important causes of death were pulshymonary tuberculosis 175 other forms of tuberculosis 30 typhoid fever $2 diphtheria and croup 48 scarlet fever 11 measles 10 whooping cough 11 pneumonia and broncho-pneumonia 180 diarrhea enteritis under two years of age 56 meningitis 24 inshyfluenza 7 cancer 159 violence 187

Taft Escapes Big Explosion A few moments after President Taft^

and his party entered the National theshyater in Panama where they were guests at a Christmas ball given by President Porras a terrific explosion wrecked a kiosk in Central avenue the towns principal street

The president had Just passed that way and the firemen and police guard were still on duty

Investigation showed that the exshyplosion was caused by dynamite One man was seriously hurt and many persons slightly injured

The president and those with him smilingly attempted to belittle the inshycident saying that they believed the explosion had no connection with the presence of President Taft Nevertheshyless a rigid investigation was begun by the authorities at the command of President Porras immediately after the cause of the disturbance became known

Seven Important Hearings Scheduled for Session After Holidays

An investigation possibly unpreceshydented in the history of the house will be ushered in when congress reasshysembles in January

Members of the house ^ 1 divide their attention among seven distinct investigations scheduled to begin imshymediately after the holidays They are

Inquiry into the so-called money trust hearings before the ways and means committee preliminary to tariff revision by the next congress the probe into the New^Haven-Grand Trunk railroad situation in New Engshyland the judiciary committees hearshyings on general trust legislation the inquiry into the ramifications of the so-called foreign and domestic shipshyping trust by the merchant marine committee the Glass sub-committees investigation incident to the framing of a currency bill and the inquisition into the affairs of the office ot supershyintendent of insurance in the District of Columbia The insurance inquiry will begin Dec 26 with the District of Columbia commissioners on the witshyness stand

These committees will endeavor to complete their work by the end of tho session It is estimated that the inshyvestigations wil l cost more than $100-000

GENERAL MARKETS The poultry deal is assuming quite imshy

portant proportions and a feeling of firmshyness prevails in nearly all lines Fowls drag a little but chicks are in good deshymand and there is a firm market for fur-keys at another advance in prices Chicks are In good supply but there is a scarcshyity of turkeys Dressed hogs are dull and easy and drossed calves active The marshyket is steady for dairy products and actshyive Potatoes and vegetables are steady and in good demandf

ButtermdashFancy creamery 33c creamshyery firsts 35c dairy 22c packing 21o )er lb lt

EggsmdashCurrent receipts candled cases included 28c per doz

Out of 730 postcard queries In re gard to a commission form of govern ment for Bay City about 750 were reshyturned and all were in favor 6f the commission

According to figures gathered by the State Association of Farmers clubs about three billion cigarettes are used in the state yearly It is figured that one person in every five smokes

The Cheboygan council has adopted a resolution which demands rental of the Cheboygan Telephone Co for the use of the streets

On Jan 1 the Grand Trunk railroad will provide modem vestibuleoV equipshyment and improved train service on C S amp M branch between Bay City Saginaw and Durasd

Gov Osborn has received word that the Chicago law and orderleague has inaugurated a camoeign against gambling fthd^asts^e ^ governor t raquo take stepMowards the suppression gambling in thfsvstate

To Provide Centra State Workhouse Representative Ashmon H Catlin

of Webbervilie Ingham county has announced two bills which he is framshying tp be presented to the next leg-isalture

One provides for the erection of a workhouse in Lansing similar to the one in Detroit to be used to vjiouse 1 u 1 A bull bdquo nine Michigan bankers at his private prisoners from counties of central t w bdquo L t y i l v u raquo - a ^ ^cuuai office in Detroit where Deputy A Eu Michigan Such a structure is in grekt bull w o ^ 0 v

+ gt gt + ubdquo ^ l Manning meets one in the main of-demand owing to the fact hat D e t r o k f ficegt l n L a n s i n i it is laquo a id will no longer contract with counties

Catlins proposed second measure would cause the present mortgage tax law to be repealed substituting the law on the statute books Jt 1891 which provides mortgages to be deshyducted from estates

Trigonometry has been dropped from the curriculum of the Negaunee higfi school On the advice of Prof C bullft Davis of the Uuivers4ty^otJ^lchigt gan who says the subject is no longrer required for admission to the engineershying department

Word was reecived in Port Huron that the Southern grain elevator owned by the Botsford amp Jen^s Co at S t Louis Mo had burned to the ground the loss being estimated at $100000 F r a n k ) Jenks of Port Hushyron Is a principal stockholder having owned about $40000 of the stock

Mayor Bi l ls of Grand Rapids h i s appointed a special committee to inshyvestigate the advlsaoility 0frac34 esiablishV ing a municipal coai^yard The plaii is to compete with the alleges local coal trust - bull bull^^- bull bullbull----7--

APPLESmdashBaldwin $225250 greenshying $250275 spy $2753 steel red $3350 No 2 75creg150 per bbl

CABBAGESmdash$1(^)125 per bbl DRESSED CALVESmdashOrdinary 10reg

11c fancy 12 1-213 l-2c per lb ONIONSmdash55c per bu DRESSED HOGSmdash$99G0 per cwt for

light to medium DRESSED POULTRY mdash Spring chickshy

ens 14(g)15c hens 1314c old roosters 10llc turkeys 2123c ducks 16(ggt19c geese 1415c per lb

POTATOESmdashMichigan sacks 58t bulk 48c in car lots and 55ltggt60c for store

HONEYmdashChoice fane ywhite comb IS 17c per lb amber 1415c

LIVE POULTRYmdashSpring chickens 13(g) 131-2c per lb hens 1212 l-2c No 2 hens 9c old roosters 910c ducks 15 16c geese 1314o turkeys 1720c per lb

VEGETABLESmdashBeets 40c per bu carshyrots 45c per bu cauliflower $225 per doz turnips 50c per bu spinach 75c per bu hothouse cucumbers $150175 per bu watercress 25ltsectgt70c per doz head lettuce $1260150 per hamper home-grown celshyery 25ltsectgt30c per bu green peppers 40o per basket rutabagas 40c per bu hotshyhouse radishes 25c per doz

PROVISIONSmdashMess pork $19 family $22ltsectgt23 briskets ll12c bacon 1618c Bhoulders 13 l-2c picnic hams 13c pure-lard in tierces 11 l-2c kettle rendered lard 21 l-2c per tb

HAYmdashCar lot prices track Detroit No 1 timothy $161950 No 2 tmiothy TL4501550pNo 1 mixed $141450 light lixed $15 copy1550 wheat and oat straw reg10 rye straw $1050(g) 11 per ton

Want Bank Dept Moved to Detroit bull That the state banking commission

ers office now in the state capitol be moved to Detroit is the hope of Michigan bankers and an effort to ward that end may be made when the legislature convenes v - v

Banking Commissioner DoVle meeta

The executive committee of the State Teachers association wil l meet in Lansing Jan 18 to select the place for the 1913 teachers convenshytion Kalamazoo and Ann Arbor ^re-favored t-

Rumorsgt regarding the absorption of the Marquette County Telephone Co by the Michigan State Telephone Co are beginning to take definite shape

While trying their new Christmas skates E Hlllman aged 7 and tJno~ Berg 10 of Gladstone fell through thin ice and were drowned

Wendali Klaus of oWsso believed to be the oldest barber in point opound service in Michigan celebrated hiaS seventieth birthday by entertaining the barbers of the city Hes been callshying Next for 61 years gt r

Mrs vJpsera Hale matron-of that Dorcas riolae Owosso believes that local option in Shiawassee county i s the cause o f t b f fergf ^ c r e i s e in mates at thfc i n s t i ^ ^ now 01 children at the itdmev the eijge aumhet tuitil this yesir he in r

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Agatha Redmond opera singer starting for an auto drive In New York finds a stranger sent as her chauffeur She is annoyed but-he remains Leaving the car she goes into the park to read the will of an old friend of her mother who has left her property There she is accosted by a stranger^ who follows her tp the auto climbs in and chloroforms her James Hambleton of Lynn Mass member of an old New England family decides he needs a holiday He goes to New York and there witnesses the abduction of Agatha Redmond Hambleton sees Agatha forcishybly taken aboard a yacht

C H A P T E R 111mdashContinued On the instant his brain became acshy

tive again It did not take long as a matter of fact to find the car though when he stumbled on it turned about and neatly stowed away close beside the partitioning wall he gave a start It was such a tangible evidence of what had threatened to grow vague^ Ihe yacht down the river and into the and unreal on his hands He squeezed himself into the narrow space between it and the wall finally thruBting his head under the curtains of the ton- neau

It was high and dry empty as last years cockleshell Not a sign of life not a loose object of any kind except a filmy thing which Hambleton found himself observing thoughtfully At last he picked it upmdasha long mist-like veil He spread it out held it ginshygerly between a thumb and finger of each hand and continued to look at it abstractedly Part of it was clean ana wnole dalnfy as only a bit of womans finery can be but one end of it was torn and twisted and stretched out of all semblance to itshyself Moreover it was dirty as if it had been ground under a muddy heel It was in its way a shrieking evishydence of violence of unrighteous struggle Hambleton folded the scarf carefully with its edges together and put it in his pocket

Jimmys actions from this time on had an incentive and a spirit that had before been lacking He noted again the number of the car arid returned to the edge of the dock to observe the yacht She had steamed up river a little way for some reafcon known only to herself and was now turning very slowly She was but faintly lighted and would pass for some pleasure craft just coming home But J im knew better He could at last put two and two togethshyer He would follow the Face-yin-deed he could not help following it In him had begun that divine experishyence of youthmdashof youth essentially whether it come in early years or late mdashof being carried off his feet by a spirit not himself He ran like a young athlete down the dock to the nearest workman evolving schemes as he went

The dock-hand apathetically trunshydled a small keg from one pile of freight to another wiped his hands on his trousers took a dry pipe out of his pocket and looked vacantly up the river before he replied to Hamble-tons question

Queer namemdashJene Dark they call her

It was like pulling teeth to get inshyformation out of him but Jim applied the forceps

r thing in the world You tae this money and be sure to get the messhysage to Mr Van Camp wil l you A i l right Now tell me where i can flrftf a tug-boat or a steam launch quick

OLeary down at pier Xmdash2mdash0 has launches and everything else AU right my son Aleck Van Camp- a | the Laramie But you be good and dont drown yourself

This last injunction word for word in the manner of the pert Edith touched Jimmys humor He laughed ringingly His spirit was like a chime of bel l i on a week-day

The hour which followed was one that James Hambleton found it diffishycult to recall afterward with any deshygree of coherence but at the time his movements were mathematically accurate swift effective He got aboard a little steam tug and followed

ijiarbor As she stood out into the roads and bega n to increase her speed he directed the captain of the tug to steam forward and make as if to cross her bows This would make the pilot of the yacht angry but he would be forced to slow down a trifle Jim watched long enough to see the success of his maneuver then went down into the cuddy which served as a cabin took off his clothes and looked to the fastenings of his money belt Then he watched his chance and when the tug was pretty nearly in the path of the yacht he crept to the sternand dropped overboard

river for two weeks or more possibly lesffj belonged Tb~ fort^a^parts no one thereabouts iknew who its owner was nor its captain nor its purpose in the harbor of New York At last quite gratuitously the man volunshyteered a personal opinion Slippery boat in a galemdashwouldnt trust her

Hambleton walked smartly back taking a look both at the yacht and the motor-car as he went The yachts nose pointed toward the Jersey shore the car was creeping out of the dock As he overtook the machine he saw that It was in the hands of a mechanic in overalls and jumper In answer

4 to Hambletons question as to the owner of the car the mechanic told him pleasantly to go to the devil and for once the sight of a coin failed to produce any perceptible effect But the major-general waiting half a block away was still in the humor of giving fatherly advice He welcomed

J im heartily r r h m i r i r ^ i e - T - a i n t got no use

for Owd youmake outtrade c Well enough for all present purshy

poses Can you undertake to do a job 1 for me

~ If It aint nothing Id hfcve to ar-V f e s t you for I might consider it he

ctiUdkled bullI want you to go to the JLaramie

Club and tell Aleck Van Campmdashgot the namemdashthat Hambleton has gone off on the Jeanne DArc and may not be back for some time and he is to loolc after the J5ea CflaquoU h

|oltf qsv young man youre uopound going todfc a t i i t t ^ iOU^ o reason as one might say bull ^ Oh no nota t a l l most reasonable

CHAPTER IV

Mr Van Camp Makes a Call Aleck Van damp turned from the

clerks desk rather relieved to find that Hambleton had not yet made his appearance Aleck had an errand on his mind and he reflected that Jim was apt to be impetuouB and relucshytant to await another mans conveshynience at least Jim wouldnt pershyceive that another mans convenience needed to be waited for and Aleck had no mind to announce this errand from the housetops It was not a business _that pertained directly eishyther to the Sea Gull or to the coming cruise

He made an uncommonly-careful toilet discarding two neckties before the operation was finished When all was done^the cravat presented a stuffe(larid warped appearance which was^fiot at all satisfying even to

s uncritical eye but the tie was the last of his supply and was pershyhaps slightly better than none at all

Dinner at the club was usually a dull affair and to Mr Van Camp on this Monday night it seemed more stupid than ever The club had been organized in the spirit of the English clubs with the unwritten by-law of abshysolute and inviolable privacy for the individual No wild or woolly manners ever entered those decorous precincts No slipping on the shoulder no hail-fellow greetings no chance dinner companionship ever dispelled the aw ful penumbra of privacy that surshyrounded even the humblest member A mans eating and drinking his corn-

on hie second day in London as he had ever been in Lynn or he would go from a friendB week end house-party where the habits of a Sybarite were forced on him to a camp in the woods and pilot-bread fare with an equal smoothness of temper and enjoyshyment Since luxury made no impresshysion on him and hardship never blunted his own ideals of politeness or pleasure no one ever knew which life he preferred

Choosing to walk fifteen or twenty squares to the Archangel apartment house his destination Van Camp looked about him on this night of his arrival with slightly quickened pershyceptions He cast a mildly appreciashytive eye toward the picture disclosed here and there by the glancing lights the chiaroscuro of the intersecting streets the constantly changing visshytas For an unimpressionable man he was rather wrought upon Nevertheshyless he entered the charming apartshyment whither he was bound with 5 the detached and composed manner which society regards as becoming A maid with a foreign accent greeted him Yes Mademoiselle Reynier was at home Mr Van Camp would find her in the drawing-room

The stiff and unrelaxed manner with whicn Mr Van Camp bowed to Miss Reynier a moment later was not at all indicative of the fairlye^pectable fever within his Scotch breast Miss Reynier herself was pretty enough to cause quickenedTusectBW-She was of

ing or going his living or dying were The yacht had been lying out in ihe-f matters only for ^lub statistics not

forpersonal inquiry or notice The result of this habitual attitude

on the part of the members of the club and its servants was an atmosphere

in which a cataleptic fit would scarceshyly warrant unofficial interference much less would merely mawkish of absent-minded behavior attract attenshytion That was the function of the clubmdashto provide sanctuary for pershysonal whims and idiosyncrasies of course always within the boundaries of the code

On the evening in question Mr Van Camp did not actually become silly but his manner lacked the poise and seriousness which sophisticated men are wont to bring to the important event-of the day He was as near being nervous as a Scotch-American Van Camp could be and at the same time an unwonted flow of life and warmth in his cool veins He went so far as to make a remark to the waiter which he meant for an affable joke and then wanted to kick the fellow for taking it so solemnly

You mind yourself George or theyll make you abbot of this monastery ye tV said Aleck as George helped him on with his evening coat

Yes- sir thank you sir said George ~

He left word at the office that in case any one called he was to be inshyformed that Mr Vani Camp would reshynt ( turn to the club forthe night theiL in his silk hat and generally shining togs he set forth to make a call l i e was no stranger to New Yorfc and usually he took h|s cities as they dune with a matterof-fact noncha lance He would be sa much i t borne

noble height evidently a woman of the world She gave Mr Van Camp her hand in a greeting mingled of European daintiness and American frankness Her vitality and aboundshying interest in life were manifest

Ah but you are very late This is how you become smart all at once in your New York atmosphere But pray be seated and here are cigarettes if you will No Very well but tell me has that amorphous gill-slitmdashor no the branchial lamellamdashhas it beshyhaved itself and proved to be the aveshynue which shall lead you to fame

Mr Van Camp stood silent through this flippant badinage and calmly waited until Miss Reynier had settled herself Then he thoughtfully turned the chair offered him so as to comshymand a slightly better view of the corner where she sat leaning against

-the old-rose cushions Finally taking his own time he touched off her greeting with his_precise drawl

Im not smart as you call it even in New York though I try to be His eyes twinkled and his teeth gleamed in his wide smile If I were smart Id pass by your error in scientific nomenclature but really I ought not to do it If one can not be exactmdash

Thats just what I say If one can not be exact why talk at all Miss Reynier caught it up with high glee She had a foreign accent and an ocshycasional twist of words which proved her to be neither American nor Engshylishwoman Thats my principle she insisted Leave other people in undisturbed possession of their hobshybies especially in conversation and dont say anything if you cant say what you mean But then you wont talk about your hobby and if I have no one to inform me how can I be exact But Im the meekest person alive Im so ready to learn

Mr Van Camp surveyed first the bantering alluring eyes then turned his gaze upon the sofa luxuries about them

Are you ready to turn this bijou dream into a laboratory smelling of alcohol and fish Are you willing to spend hours wading in mudbanks after specimens or scratching in the sand under the broiling sun Science does not consult comfort

Miss Reyniers expression of quizzishycal teasing changed to one of rather thoughtful inquiry as if she were esshytimating the man behind the scientist Van Camp was one of the lean angushylar type like Jim Hambleton He was also every manly and wholesome but even in his conventional evening clothes there was something about him that was unconventionalmdasha proshytesting untamed element of characshyter that reslsteqalHnileB except those prescribed by itself He puzzled her now as he had often puzzled her beshyfore but if she made fun of his hobshybies she had no mind to make fun of the man himself A cheerful intellishygent smile Anally ended hercontemshyplating moment

Oh ho nodggihg In the jsand for me I l l take what science I get in another waymdashput up in predig^sted packages or bottledmdashany way but the fishy way But please dont give me up You shed a good deal of light on my mental darkness last winter in Egypt and maybe I can improve still more She suddenly tarned with

Aleck not waiting for replies gtto-her remarks Its good to see you again And I like it here better than in Egypt dont you Dont you think this apartment jolly

The shaded lamps made a pretty light over Miss Reyniers- cream-colshyored silk flounces over the delicate lace on her waist over her glossy dark hair and spirited face As Aleck contemplated that face with its eager yet modest and womanly gaze and the noble outline of her figure he thought with an unwonted flowering of imagishynation that she was not unlike the Diana of classic days A domestic Diana he added in his mind She may love the woods and freedom but she will always return to the hearth

Aloud he said If you will permjlt me Miss Reynier I would like to inshyform you at once of the immediate object of my visit here You must be well awaremdash At this point Mr Van Camp who true to his nature was looking squarely in the face of his companion of necessity allowed himself to be interrupted by Miss Reyshyniers lifted hand She was looking beyond her visitor through the drawshying-room door

Mr Chamberlain and Mr Lloyd-Jones announced the servant

Aa Miss Reynier swept forward with outstretched hand to greet the newshycomers Van Camp fixed his eyes on his hostess with a minted expression of masculine rage and submission Whether he thought her too cordial toward the other men or too cool toward himself was not apparent Presently he too was shaking hands with the visitors who were evidently oldfriends of the house Madame Reyshynier the aunt of mademoiselle was summoned and Van Camp was mashyrooned o na sofa with LloydJones who was just in from the West Aleck found himself listening to an interminable talk about copper veins and silver veins a new kind of assayshying instrument and the good luck atshytendant upon the opening of LlQyd- j Jones new mine the Liza Lu

Aleck was the essence of courtesy to everything except sham and was able to indicate a mild interest in Mr B^oyd-Jones mining affairs It was sufficient Lloyd-Jones turned side-wrse on his end of the soft sfjread out plump gesticulating hands and poured upon him an eloquent torrent of fact speculation and high-spirited enthusiasm concerning Idaho in genshyeral and the future of the Liza^ Lu in particular More than that by and by his cheerful half-impudent manner threatened to turn poetic

Its great living in the open out there he went on by this time inshycluding the whole company in his ex-ordium You ride or tramp or dig rock all day and at night you He down under the clear stars thankful for your blanket and your rock-bed and your camp-fire and more than thankful if theres a bit of running water near byk Its a great life

Miss Reynier listened to him with eyes that were alternately puzzled and appreciative It was a discourse that would have seemed to her much more natural coming from Aleck Van Camp but then Mr Van Camp really did the thingmdashthat sort of thingmdash and he rarely talked about It It had probably been Mr Lloyd-Jones first essay in the world out of reach of his valet and a club cocktail and he was consequently impressed with hiB achievement It was evident that Miss Reynier and the amateur miner were on friendly terms though Aleck had not seen or heard of him before He had hobnobbed with Mr Chamber-Iain in London and oik more than one scientific jaunt The slightest flicker of jealous resentment gleamed in Alshyecks eyes but his speech was as slow and precise as ever

I was just trying to convince Miss Reynier that outdoor life has its peshyculiar joys he said I was even now suggesting that she should dig though not for silver Does Mr Lloyd-Jones lucre seem more allurshying than my little wriggly beasts Miss Reynier

If Aleck meant this speeeh for a trap to force the young woman to Inshydicate a preference the trick failed as it deserved to fail

I couldn^t endure either your mines or your mudpuddles You are both absurd and I dont understand how you ever get recruits for your hobbies But come over and see this new enshygraving Mr Jones its an old-fashioned picture of your beloved Rhine

Aleck thus liberated from Mr Lloyd-Jones and bis mines imade his way across the room to M aflame Reyshynier The cunning of o^d Adam was in his eye but otherwise he was the picture of deferential innocence

Madame Reynier loved Aleck with his inoffensive Americanisms and unshyfailing kindliness and with her friends she was frankness itself With two men in Miss Reyniers hands for entertainment it seemed to Aleck unlikely that either one could make any alarming progress Besides he was glad of a tete-a-tete with the chap-erone

Mad a rue Reynier was a tall straight woman elderly dressed entirely In biack 1 with faunt aristocratic c feashytures and g)^at directness hi speech She had ttya ampfce kind of hautjeur which forbids persons of this type ever to speak p r money of disease of scanshydal or of tod 1 intimate personalities in Madame Reyniers ease it also reshystrained her from every sort of exagshygerated speech She spoke English with some difficulty and preferred French

Van Camp seated himself on a spinshydle-legged gilt chair by Madame Reyshyniers side and begged to know how they were enduring the New York clishymate which had formerly proved inshytolerable to Madame Reynier As he seated himself she stretched out sav-Thg hands

I can endure the climate thank you but I cant endure to see your life endangered on that silly chair my dear Mr Van Camp Theremdashthank you And when he was seated in a solid mahogany he was rewarded with Madame Reyniers confidential chat They had returned to their New York apartment in the midst of the summer season she said for professional adshyvice She and her niece liked the city an4 never minded the heat- Meshyianie her aunt explained had been enabled to see several old friends and for her own part she liked home at any time of the year better than the most comfortable of hotels

This is quite like home she addshyed even though we are really exshyiles Aleck ventured to hope that the professional advince had not meant serious trouble of any sort

A slight indisposition only And are you much better now

Aleck inquired solicitously Oh it wasnt I it was Melanle

Madame smiled I became my own physician many years ago and now I never see a doctor except when we ask one to dine But youth has no such advantage Madame fairly beamed with benevolence while exshyplaining one of her pet idiosyncrasies Before Aleck could make any headway in gleaning information concerning her own and Mclanies movements as he was shamefully trying to do Lloyd-Jones had persuaded Miss Reynier to sing

Some of those quaint old things please he was saying and Aleck wondered if he never would hang himshyself with his own rope But Lloyd-Jones cheerful voice went on

Some of those Hungarian things are jolly and funny even though you cant understand the words Makes you want to dance or sing yourself Aleck groaneci Dut Meianie began To~ sing with Joneshovering around the piano By the time Melanle had sung everybodys favorites excluding Alecks Mr Chamberlain rose to deshypart He was an Englishman a se-rious heavy gentleman very loyal to old friends and very slow In making new ones He made an engagement to dine with Aleck on the following evening and as he went out threw back to the remaining gentlemen an offer of seats in his machine

I ought to go said Jones but if Van Camp will stay Twi l l That is he added with belated punctiliousness if the ladies will permit

Thank ^ou Chamberlain Im walkshying drawled Aleck then turning to the company with his cheeful grin he stated quite impersonally I was thinking of staying long enough to

EXTENDING T H E A G R I C U L T U R A L A R E A IN WESTERN CANADA

For sometime past the Canadian government has had surveyors at work platting new areas for the acshycommodation of the largely increasshying number of settlers coming in to occupy the agricultural districts of the three prairie provinces There were those connected with the work of securing settlers for western Can ada who last spring prophesied that there would be as many js 175000 new settlers from the United States to Canada during the present year and there were those who doubted that the previous years figures of 132000 could be increased Recent computation made by the officials of the f immigration branch at Ottawa show that the largest estimates made 1

by officials will be beaten and that the 200000 mark from the^ United States will be reached As great an increase will be-shown in the figures of those who will reach Canada from other countries this year The reshysults of the years work in Canadian immigration will give upward of a total of 400000 souls

But this is not to be wondered at when it is realized what is offering in the three prairie provinces and also in the coast province of British Coshylumbia which is also bidding strongshyly and successfully too for a certain class of sutler the settler who wishes tcykp into mixed farming or fruit raisfflg When the central porshytion dr thiB province-is opened up by the railway now being constructed there will be large areas of splendid^ land available for the settler

Reference has frequently been made of late by those interested 4n developshying the American west to the large numbers who are going to Canada high officials in some of the railways being amongst the number to give voice to the fact The more these facts become known the more will people seek the reasons and these are best given when one reads what prominent people say of it What the farmer thinks of it and what his friends say of it JamesA Iflaherty supreme knigtot of the Knights of Coshylumbus was in western Canada a short time ago He says

If I were a young man I would sell out my interests in less than two months and come right to the Canashydian Northwest where so many opshyportunities aboundmdashAdvertisement

Patriotism A quaint little incident is related by

a French war correspondent which sheds light on the enthusiasm and nervousness with which the Greeks entered upon their war with Turkey When the mobilization orders reached the little town of Chalkls all owners of horses and mules hastened to comshyply but there were no soldiers to esshycort the animals to Athens where they were urgently needed the milishytary being already on the frontier Thereupon the mayor of Chalkis set an example which was followed by two or three of the oldest lawyers

putonequestfonmdasher a matter of Borne school teachers doctors and hotel keepers little importancemdashto Miss Reynier

When she gives me the desired infor-_ mation T shall go

Me too chirped Mr Lloyd-Jones I came expressly to talk over that plan of building up friendly adjoining estates out in Idaho sort of private shooting and hunting park you know And I havent had a minute to say a word Jones suddenly began to feel himself^aggrieved r As the door closed after Chamberlain Meianie motioned them back to theirseats

Its not so very late she said eas-

Al l these notable and learned men put their dignity on one side and turned themselves for the nonce into grooms^tfhd stable lads After two days journeying they ffravely marched in procession through the principal streets of Athens leadshying their beasts and nobody laughed which indeed there was no reason tp do

Effective Personalities When you bring yourself to realize

how many different kinds of effective ily Come back and make your- personalities there are in the world selves comfortable and -Ill listen to both of you she said with a demure little devil In her eye I havent seen you for a^es and I dont know when the good moment will come again She_ included the two men in a friendly smile waved a hand toward the waiting chairs and adjusted a light shawl over the shoulders of Mashydame Reynier

But Aleck by this time had the bit in his teeth and would not be coaxed His ordinarily cool eye rested wrath-fully on the broad shoulders of Mr Lloyd-Jones who was lighting a cishygarette and he turned abruptly to Miss Reynier His voice was as seshyrious as if parliament at least had been hanging on his words

May I call tomorrow Miss Reynier at about twelve

Oh I say put in Jones all of you come to luncheon with me at the Litshytle Gray Foxmdashwill you Capital place and all sorts of nice people - Do come About one

Van Camp could have slain him (TO BE CONTINUED)

you will have your own troubles tryshying to pick out the wrong kind

- bull WPS--

Finger Stall for Child Every mother of a small son knows

how well nigh impossible it is to keep a bandage on his finger Also how frequently litflrf boys fingers are in need of bandaging Refora throwing away old kid gloves cut off the good fingers for finger stalls for the bo Cut the under side short but let the top run back to the wrist of tho gloVo then split this strip to form straps to fasten around the -childs

friendly confidential manner toward wr t with a small safety pin These

stalls wiH be quite large enough to coverjhe bandage^ finger of a small child and will save endless time and worry says Mothers Magazine For larger children use fingers from a mans glove r

Classification H When you come to simmer them

downmaintained the finicky gt boardshyer there are only two classes of peo piemdashthose who laquoall it incommode and those who call It ^discommode

^Idnt Mean to Say It One heard an awkward speech at an

evening party last Friday It was ^ one of those things a fellow says he fore he thinks and theny wishes he hadnt One of the gentlemen retired with a small group to the smoking gt room and didnt return until the lady he was escorting grew anxious about him

Where have you been she asked when she found him at last

You must excuse me he anshyswered I have been listening to aJ very clever man for the last hour

Then Im afraid youll find my conshyversation rather dull

Not at all not at all One gets too much of that sort of thing you know and its a relief tomdashepHthafe-r tsmdash -- -

We left him flounderingmdashCleve- land Plain Dealer

Sound Hub (angrily)mdashHere What do

you mean by waking me out oigt a sound sleep n

Wlfe--BeeftU8e the sound was d i s t r e s s i$ ivlaquo^^

u Probably the Truth

Bobbies sarcasm was- The visitor talking 4 child beautifully rem

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B y DR J O H N W A R R E N A C H O R X

O Y S of the grammar and high school ages who engage in athshyletic contests that are something more than boys play as for instance in the half-mile or mile run and who at the finish are greatly distressed and even ghastly in appearance as many

of them are make a bid for premature old age for supreme effort of this sort without adequate preliminary training often results in strucshytural changes in the coats of the arteries and it sometimes leads to changes i n the heart itself 4 4 A man is as old as his arteries This is an axiom in medical experience

The young gladiator of sixteen who eats a big meal and then rushes into a game of football draws the blood from his stomach where i t is needed to digest that mea^ The stomach is left to get on as best i t can Loss of muscular power in the organ follows and a splashing stomach because of muscular relaxation can in time be demonstrated Th i s condition wi l l often explain why our young gladiator is sallow com-

i plexioned and cadaverous looking in spite of his muscular development I t is hard to find a sound stomach nowadays in a man past forty years of age

I f boys in their teens are going to be pitted against one another in athletic contests that call for the regular schedule of professionals or o f college men who liave reached their physical maturity then they should also be examine4by physicians and handled by regular trainers as these older men are

Boys are poor judges of their physical fitness Naturally one boy likes to think he is physically as strong as any other boy and alt boys want to do the things they see other fellows do being ignoiymt nf the consequences Examination and direction in this field of rmiruvor lire essential for the athletic spirit is everywhere Even Sunday hcIiooN have their track teams Direction is as essential in athletics as in regard to bookVstudied Our half-grown boys should not be permitted to engage i n contests strenuous and prolonged in character if not physically up to i t or not in proper condition

Competing at play is a good thing for any boy where the sport Its a game that shifts about (and the test is not one of endurance or seevcre stress There is a big difference between exercises of this sort and doing stunts that may work physical harm or result in physical deformity that is bound to lapt a lifetime Bovs must learn to concentrate their minds and find their wi l l power or stick-to-it-iveness L i n i n g them up in sport

is one good way of educating them for their life work but it is not necesshysary or advisable that they be allowed or urged to go toMhe l imit of their strength and endurance or beyond it Prevention is better than cure everytime _

Moderation in airUTings is a good~rule to follow^for those who would live happily and last long There is time enough in this world for any man to work out the best there is in him mentally and physically and he doesnt need to break himself up before he really gets a start on or after he enters4he worlds arena and acquires the experience that aftorde him the greatest successes of his life Five years out of college equals the freshman year in college It takes twenty years to graduate the average man in experience that the world values and wi l l pay an individual 4 ^ ( ^ 0 ^ ^ ^

price for

E x t e n d

G r o u n d s

F o p

G r a n t i n g

D i v o r c e

By B DIUIN6W0RTB Slleitr l i i i

A commission of extremev able and serious-minded men of- the best standing in Great Bri ta in acting under appointment of the late K i n g Edward after an exhaustshyive investigation of the whole subject of divorce were unable to make a unanimous

- finding but a majority and minority reshyport were recently published

Bather oddlv as many think the re-port of the majority is in favor oi extendshying the grounds on which divordb is now legally granted while the minority recomshymends that the present English law on7 the

subject be allowed to remain as it is it being the view of the minority commissioners that it would be a dangerous step imperiling the welfare and damaging to the morals of the Bri t ish nation to make it any easier than it now is for manned people to become separated At present the only ground on which a divorce can be obtained in tbe United Kingdom is marital rnfidelitv France and the United States were both held up as awful examples of how demoralizing it is to society if there be many a severance ot the bonds of matrimony 1

The majority report rec6jjrnendod that four more grounds of justi-bull fication for divorce be recognized to wi t a life sentence in the penitenshy

tiary desertion after three years cruelty and habitual drunkenness whilt according to the commissioners were grounds recognized in nearly will the states of the American Union

The divorce sfte in England Ireland and Scotland is incompan lower than in the United States and it is a good thing from our B r i point of view that we do not compete with you on this line In fact

there are more divorces in the United States than in any other nation of the world Japan alone excepted where as it is well known one marshyriage out of every six is dissolved

L a c k o f

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W h e n

The average American concert goer fails to show any patriotism when the bands in our parks as they invariably do finish theirl program with The Star Spangled Banshyner Thus the bands keep our beautiful and stirring national anthem ever in the minds of the people and they in return

^should show their respect by arising and standing while it is being rendered

In m8sf European countries any such demonstration of utter disrespect for the national anthem occurs here as soon as^ the musicians are signaled to arisemdashwhen

isy exodus begins every one seeming to want to get out of ing melody as fast as possiblemdashwould create a riot the

down as antimilitarists or anarchists pmpel people to respect thojmelody but should i t

laquoand treated accordingly by the masses J i b i n g concerts printed on the programs el imi-

P l a y i n g

E Pttstoo Chicago

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iblic to remain unt i l the anthem is md to these ill-chosen stampedes

I L L I N O I S T H U N D E R B O L T R E G A I N S F O R M

Billy Papke of Kewanee

When Bil ly Papke of Kewanee 111 returns to America it will be to Ratshytle for the middleweight boxing championahip of the world When he is to return is not known at present but It is thought It will be within a few months At present he is fighting in France and England with much sucshycess He has been across the pond lesB than six months and in that period has won the championship of his division in England and France He has had three battles and won all three on knockouts

Papke is in the form displayed when champion of the world and stood as a rival of Stanley Ketchel for the honshyors Then he was referred to as the Illinois Thunderbolt and he was deserving of the appellation Defeats by Ketchel took most of the aggresshysive fighting spirit out of him and he has been some time in recuperatshying It is saidhe has fully recovered and is a Tipton Slasher He has his former knockout punch back and is as fast as ever His condition reports have it could not be improved ^ffotrirattttdeghe is iiiaTflng~~tkebdquo mlddTcT weight limit without any trouble

There will be considerable action In the middleweight ranks when Papke comes back Asi^le from Ketchshyel no 158-pounder was more popular

than the Kewanee lad since the days of Tommy Ryan His style of milling was liked as was his willingness to scrap while in the ring Papke when struggling for the title a few years ago never was known to stall Getting into the ring and slashing toe to toe with his opponent was his chief hobby and^he made himself fashymous with his loop-de-lo6p punch which he first used successfully against Hugo Kelly in Milwaukee when he conquered the then crack middleweight fighter

He has not changed his style of boxing any it is said This means there ^ t rouble ahpoundad for Eddie Mc-Goorty and Mike Gibbons who are striving to settle the middleweight championship of America among themselves Neither has met a fightshyer of Papkes type and will find the going a bit rough wrhen they meet one Neither can hit hard enough to stop Papke Ketchel was known as the assassin in the ring when he knocked out thirty-three men in forty-six fights and this included the best-sluggers of his day Papke hi his bouts with the late champion staged a bitter and desperate fight and gave as good as he received until he was knocked out He lost because Ketchel carried the stiffer punch r

W R E S T L E R S A R E VERY QUIET

Mat Men Usually Quite Susy at This Season of Year Are Missingmdash

Yussif Mahmout Coming

Its a shame for major football teams to be kept apart by minor difshyferences

The first basemen in the National league made 146 errors during the en-fire season

Every time Ty Cobb made a bingleb last season it netted him $3965r~ac^ cording to ftgus^s of Herman Wecke

The only thing that looks bad for the Ball Players Union is the fact that the club owners are not opposing it

Manager Stahl has sold Hugh Bradshyley the Red Sox first baseman to the Jersey City team of the International league i

President Garry Hermann of the Cincinnati Reds has re-engaged Trainshyer Dr Geoge Hoskins for the 1913 season

In an effort to develop a pitching staff for the Cincinnati team Hank ODay tried out seventeen twirlers last season

Manager Callahan says he will stand pat with his 1912 line-up Buck Weashyver and Rollie Zeider are sure of their regular berths

Frank Chance has been hit on the head thirty-nine times in actual games Nobody can say how often he has been hit below the belt mdash

Almeida and Marsansr^the Cubans who played with the Reds last sumshymer are managers of rival clubs in Havana this winter

Walter Johnson star twlrler of the Washington Senators says his team will win the pennant the coming seashyson if it will hustle a little

Mike Kahoe the Senators prize scout says the Athletics look fine He also declares that Connie Macks outfield will have bells on i t

Harry Wolverton the deposed manshyager of the Highlanders made an offer of $65000 for the champion Oakland team of the Pacific Coast league

The Louisville club of the American association sold a box for the opening game of tbe 1913 season and claims the record for an early advance sale

They say that Joe Birmingham the new manager of the Naps is the daddy of them all as a kicker Joe was a great goal kicker while at Cornell

Pitcher Marty OToole had a bad year but he has not lost heart I guess Ive lived down that high-priced reputation said Marty the other day

Owner Navln of Detroit says that if the players demand half pay for the spring training trips Tie i o r orie wiji not give his team any training at all

Where are the wrestling champions The baseball and football seasons are past and we are now in the period of the year devoted to bowling wrestling and basketball TUit the wrestling champions of foreign lands are not with us as usual

This time two seasons ago we wouldH^ have had two or three French title-holders four or five from Italy and several from Turkey Bulgaria Ger-

Yussif Mahmout

many Switzerland Scotland and other localities But now the only one who is roaring in our midst is Stanislaus 7iy82ko the ever-present Polish claimant

If the wrestlerswere wise they would hustle up and make hay while the sun shines For the bogy man of the ring Yussif Mahmout will be back as soon as the war is over and then things will go hard for the dub mat man Yussif spares none and if by any miracle he should be oeaten there Is the awful specter- Frank Gotch in the distance

Pitcher Walter Beach of the Gale burg club has been purchased the Providence Gray i r

J I M S i r $ S T E P M O T H E R

N By J p H N TROU

An hour or two after he had sent Anne Mayfleld enough rj ses to fill her little studio Don Rogefi^decided to drop in for a cup of tea not that he cared for the tea but under cover of the talk of the dozen or more he was sure to find there he could watch Anne and revel in her beauty and charm

Anne was going to marry the Hon-enable Richard Bachman a widower with a boy eight or nine years old Laird Robbins had told him confishydentially that he was in the jewelers w)ien the elderly lover ordered To Anne inscribed in a circle of diashymonds

Anne met him at the door ond over her head Dan saw Bachman by the window pinching off a rosebud out of his own late purchase to put in the lapel of his frock coat

If youre engaged Anne he said pointedly Id better not go in toshyday

Come right in this minute urged Anne cordially You can go to marshyket with me in a little while and then stay to dinner if you will

Bachman had Mb hat in his hand ready to leave 1

You think it is pretty then Miss Anne Don heard him ask at the door

Its lovely said Anne with enshythusiasm Youve shown splendid taste

Anne shut the door quietly and faced Donftaughter wrinkling up the corners of hep eyes

Isnt this place a bower of beauty and fragrance Your roses have made it summer here even if it is winter in the rest of the world Theyre lovely Don Whats the matter Your face is so long and solemn

Blue devils I guess he answered shortly bull Mind if I smoke

Never did did I Puff away but Ill have you know that if there are any blue devils in this box of an apartment you brought them in your pockets I ran them all out this morning and watched them freeze to death on the window sil l

Youre mighty gay this afternoon arent you

Yes sir for I have a contract with a big new magazine to furnish a page of my cuties in every issue for the next six months

What a clever girl you are Anne That^pencil of yours has made those little flgtrres^df people famous over the country

The door opened unceremoniously and Jimsie Bachman the - sou and lu jir to the vast estates of the Honorshyable Richard appeared

J Hello Miss Anne Got any cakes I certainly have Come in and

Ill get you some You - know Mr Rogers dont yau^

So you have a sweet toofh Jimshymy said Rogers affably

My names not Jimmy its Jimsie I saw it in the Bible Im all the time having to tell my right name to folks

While Anne went foraging for cakes Jimsie turned his back to the fire hands clasped behind him in the most approved man fashion

Mies Annes helping dad get marshyried he asserted with the importshyance of one giving vital news ^

Really - responded the man fcily Yes shes helped him a lot bout

slecting the ring and all went on the loquacious youngster The ladys a friend of Miss Annes Thats why shes so intersted bull

Whomdashwhom is your father going to marry demanded Rogers sudshydenly

I promised not to tell anything about it to anybody returned Jimshysie loftily

I l l give you a dollar to tell me the truth

Gee Id a told for fifty cents said Jimsie quickly forgetting his conscience Its Miss Anne Bradner she lives in another town Wheres the money J

Here you are Jimsie said Afine coming in just then I brought you a box full of cakee to take on the train tonight when you and your fashyther go visiting

What have you done with your blue ^devils she demanded turning back from closing the door on her diminutive guest and facing a man with a very different expression from the one he had jvorn half an hour beshyfore Did you give them to Jimsie Hes very accommodating

Very he answered and then as he watched her adjust a fur toque on her dark hair Are we going to marshyket nowmdashto buy a fat pig

No not that corrected Anne I need a few extras and Ive been too busy to go^out today

She fastened a great crimson rose In her furs I have to take one with me she said

To you tt is a rose to me it is my heart he quoted

Thats pretty sentiment isnt it Don You know so many beautiful things to say to w o m e C - I wonder what you win say to the one woman when she comes into your life

What every other man has said before me just that I love her and want her Wont that be enough

Yes answered Anne on guard against his apparent indifference i f she loves you

Anne he Called and atT the husky note in his voice Bhe lifted iter eyes to his Anne 1 love yon and I want you Is it enough4 rt

1 think Annes answer came from somewhere in the region of his coat collar tnat 1 have waited en tiura sand years to hear yon fay that

M I L L

He got angry one day And threatened lo quit Didnt fancy he way Things were going a-bit And so in a huff He resigned It was meant for a bluff For the boy in his mind Fondly fancied that they Would beg him to stay But they stunned him and filled him with

woe When they failed to rebel against letting

him go

Keenly bereft With a heart that was pore And a weight on his mind Such as never beTore The day )ie resigned Had come to oppress him he left But the greatest and saddest of shock

was to come For wheft he stole round on the followshy

ing day He was stricken dumb To see that the mill was still grinding

a waymdash Merrily humming its wonted song As if nothing at all hadgf-ver gone wrong

What He Meant A good preacher who ministers togt

the spiritual needs of one of the most fashionable congregations in city of the middle west has a son-four years old who has been caiied remarkably bright even when his parents were not present to hear

Not long ago little Edward was out playing v ith some boys from^around the corner They were pretty close to the window of the library in which the good iruin sat composing his sershymon for the fullowing Sunday conseshyquently when Edward exclaimed 4 0h darn the father heard him

Come in here Edward said the-good man and Edward went in

I heard you say Oh darn a moshyment ago

Yes papa What did you mean by saying

that 1 meant oh damn the child reshy

plied hut I know it is wicked to say damn so I only said darn

MERE OPINION

Man was made from dust and many a one makes a mudhole of himself by pouring wet stuff down his throat

Hell hath ho fury like a ball playshyer who is wronged by the umpire

Poor old Eve She had no girl friend to go to when she and Adam got engaged

Some people go hurrying through this world as if they were afraid the grave mightnt wa for them

A Reasonable Objection Arabella said old Billyuns as he

finished his dinner I am going to ask you to do me a favor I want you to give your young man MrmdashMr Whats-hisnamemdasha message for me

Arabella blushed and looked down at her plate

Teirhim the bluff old millTbnaire went on that I dont object to his staying here and running up my gae^b bills but that I do want to register a ^ -kick against his carrying the morning paper away with him when he leaves

His View of It Do you know that in Japan every

child is taught^to write with both hands

No I wasnt aware of it In fact after having seen some Japanese penshymanship Im inclined to believe that every child over there is taught to write with both feet

What He Caught I saw you out fishing through a

hole in the ice the other day Didnt catch anything jhd you

You bet 1 did What was tt bull A blamed bad cold

mwm

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T R U T H A B O U T T H R C A S E

T h e Experiences of M F Goron Ex -Ch ie f of the Par i s Detective Pol ice

Edited by Albert Keyzer

T H E L I G H T N I N G F L A S H

Tours gratefully L de V-

After I had read It I glanced at the fceaTer a young distinguished-looking man

With a slight tremor in his voice he bullaid

I am in 1 great trouble I see you are I replied and I

hear you are English What brings you here

He paused an Instant and passing his hand across his forehead reshypeated

I am in great trouble With a gesture as if anxious to

throw off his secret he continued My name is Allen B and my

father is one of the largest colliery owners in the north of England Six months ago I came to Paris to study paintingmdash

Again he paused staring at me Then suddenly he asked

Do I look like a swindlermdasha sharpshyer

No you do not Why do you ask Because a fortnight ago I rose in

the morning with an untarnished repshyutation and although I had commitshyted no wrong whatever I went to bed a disgraced man

He wak laboring under strong emoshytion a id as he remained silent I said

Tell me what has occurred It fell upon me like a thunderbolt

at the house of Madame J where I used to gOL_ojice_-A-ffie^jQXja^^ of cards I was praying piquet i the smoking room with a young fi low called Bernard T and hai won the first game We had just gun the third when Bernard juparped up and shrieked

I have caughtyou at las You are cheating

The men at the other tables crowdshyed around us and Madame J her daughter Genevieve and their guests came running in from the adjoining drawing room attracted by the noise

I had grasped Bernard by the throat calling out Retract what you said you villain JOV I will k i l l you

They dragged him away from me II r s ^ amp s white as a sheet and the moment ne lraquoAi caught his breath he shook his fist at and bawled

You say youll kill riich You want me to retract I tell you you aas a cheat a dirty cheat Gentlemen ask him to empty his pockets here beshyfore you and youll see whether I am right

I put my hands in the pockets of my smoking jacket and pulled out-a dozen cards corner-bent like those used by professional sharpers

There was a moment of silence and then the Viscomte de St said to me This is a very serious affair Have you any explanation to offer

Then the horror of my situation came upon me I tried to rush at Bernard but they laid hold of me Frantic with rage I shook them off

Its a lie Its a lie I shouted Gentlemen this fellow or some other scoundrel has-r-heavens knows whymdash slipped these cards into my pocket It is a fiendish trick some on his played and I call upon those here who know me to help to unmask the cow-ard who did it

They looked at me in silence and after whispered consultation ther Visshycomte de St spoke again ^

Mr Bmdashmdash I think it wil l be best if you and M Bernard T withdraw for a few minutes to allow us to disshycuss this matter and decide on the course to take

Bernard went upstairs to Madames boudoir and I to the drawing room where I found Mademoiselle Genevieve alone For a while she took no notice of me as I nervously paced up and down the room but when I stopped she remarked in a soft voice

Monsieur Allen I am sure you are Innocent

I presectsed her hand 4Goa bless you Mademoiselle Geneshy

vieve T shall never forget your confishydence in me But since you do not doubt me I implore you to tell me whether you have any suspicion any idea as to who could have laid this trop for me

She thought a moment and then reshyplied

Nd Monsieur Allen I have not the faintest idea I wish I could help you

She looked up and I ltcould read in her eyes that she had spoken the truth

At that instant a gentleman asked n e to come Into the next room where the Vicomte de St mdash addressed me as follows

u Having been thltr unwilling wife nmfyltamp^Jtiifa w consider it oar 4ut r gentlemen and snen of the world to prevsnt a n r un

(Copyright by J

H E followingWtter was from a gentlenran holdshying a high position in the diplomatic world

Dear Monsieur Goron I earnestly beg of you to come to the assistance of my friend who has met with a disastrous advenshyture Please do everyshy

thing In your power to extricate him from the horrible position in which lie is flaced I can vouch for his hunorable-aesB

B LippincoitCoj

an en ther ai

necesary scandal M Bernard T has accused you of playing unfairly which you deny Marked cardshave been found in your pockets and your explanation is Uhat some one had placed them there We now have pledged ourselves not to divulge what has occurred here this evening so as to give you time to refute this charge You can rely on our absolute discreshytion and I call upon M Bernard T to promise us not to breathe a word about this to any one I give you my word said Bershy

nard His word I exclaimed how much

do youthink it is worth Gentlemen I once more declare that this man is a liar and that if he did not put the cards in my pockets he knows who did Andmdash

Parden me Interrupted the v i shycomte we cannot allow this We sinshycerely hope you may prove your innoshycencemdashwe hopo it ior your sake And this is all vc- have to say to you for the present

After a pause my visitor resumed I have no recollection of how I got

home that evening and even the next morning I could not realizethat it had not been a fearfifl dream Several days I spent trying to unravel this niys^ tery when 1 received two letters from England The first was from my fashyther The poor man is heart-broken He had had a full account of what had occurred at Madames house He advised me to go away somewhere in-the Colonies and remain there ti l l this affair is forgotten The other letter wasmdash

He again stopped and hid his face in his hands

It was from my fiancee the girl I was to have married in three months on my return to England She too knew all about it and informed me that-^must consider our engagement

d I at once wrote to my fa-d to my fiancee telling them

that I had been the victim of a horshyrible Tgtlot imploring them to reply by return post but neither of them has sent me a line I then remembered my friend L de V a school-chum now on the diplomatic service He has known me all my life and after I had told him my story he gave me this introduction to you Monsieur Goron I beg of you to help me

I certainly will try to help you I replied but your story is incomshyplete I want to hear more about these peoplemdashthe vicomte Bernard T Madame Jmdashmdash and evenmdashif you a41ow memdashMademoiselle Genevieve Who are they1

Madame J is tho widow of a naval officer I was introduced to her the first week I arrived in Paris by a man in the studio where I was paint ing She received every other evenshying The viromteis an old friend of hers and I am toW a member of the Jockey club Bernard T I met also at Madames house We have ^often dined together and gone tc theaters

Has he a-~pofession How does he his living -

He is I think an insurance broker but he has moneyand dees not soem to work very hard

And Mademoiselle Genevieve Last but probably npt least

You are right Monsieur Goronmdash last but not least for 1 believe she Is the Innocent cause of this business I have been thinking nisht aiid day and I am sure I have found the clue to this mystery

He colored slightly and said I am afraid whrt I am gcirig to tell

you will sound rrther fooli-hbt you ( wil l sco it is irnpv-arit Bernard T i3 in love Titb Genevieve r strlkng-ly handsome girl She had of lato shown mo marked partiality and in his mad jealousy Bernard h^s planned this to ruin me in her eyes

And this according to you is the clue to the affair

Undoubtedly There can be no othshyer cause why anybody should try to compromise me in such a horrible way With your help we will get to the botshytom of it

It is a queer a very queer busishyness darker than you seem to think I do not say this to alarm you but to prepare you for a few surprises Give me the addresses of all the people you have just mentioned and come here to-morrow at four oclock Dont think of revenge this may or may not come later The first thing to be done is to clear you

My visitor thanked me and went away with a lighter step But when he returned the following day he looked more distressed than before

What has gone wrong1 I asked Any fresh trouble

No he replied moodily except that I have had a letter from our lawshyyer begging me to go away at oncemdash for the honor of the family

With a suppressed oath he threw the leter on my table mdash

Never mind^he lawyer Tell him to go to (hemdashColonies himself Since I saw you I have looked into the matter and have gathered a little useful information First let me tell

get

jealousy does not hold water JExcuse my asking you-^haveou ever say flirted with the g i r i r ^

Never1 v

Have you given her any presents or made appointments with her

Never A l l the better for it simplifies matshy

ters Another question Do theyraquoplay baccarat at Marjame J s1

Yes three or four times a week Did you play Yes but I gave up becausemdash You found you lost too much Youve guessed it I did lose How much About two thousand-dollars Just what I expected I have reshy

ceived some queer reports about your friends Madame J s reputation is 7ar from good and I suspect her salon to be a trap to swindle peoplemdashlike you Bernard T certainly didx inshyherit some money last year but he ran through it and he is now the asshysociate and possibly the tool of proshyfessional gamblers As to the vicomte there is some mystery here and I disshytrust mysteries And now my dear Mr B I am- afraid I must say something that will upset you You have undoubtedly an enemymdashnot that Bernardmdashbut a man or woman who has a more potent interest in ruinshying your reputation Look into the past and see whether you can detect any such person

Mr B stared at me in amazeshyment f

An enemy he cried I en enshyemy I have never ptaod In anybodys way and no 2ian in mine As to wom-erraquo tey have played no part in ray life I have fallen in love only once mdashand that with the girl I was to have married he added with a bitter smile

You will not be the first to have made such a startling discovery Othshyers have made it and in this very room too I see I cannot look to you fgr assistance in this business Keep quiet until you hear from me I hoplt3 it will be soon

I do not know a more villainous ofshyfense than that of sullying a mans reputation to rob him of what is dear-er^to him than lifemdashhis honor And I resolved to use all my energy to come to this poor fellows assistance espeshycially as the conviction grew upon me that my young friend was the victim of a plot a fiendish conspiracy and

0 ItvtiM

details about by Martha D-

the to give me some disturbance caused She had it seems smkshed a window using threatening language and the yicomte had applied for a summons

I sent for her andabull111 tie before six she was announced a tall dark-eyed girl who played an insignificant part in the new farce at the Folies-Dramat-iques She was very selt-possessed

and asked what I wanted of hor And so you had a scene with your

friend the vicomte She turnedsharply around and her

eyes grew warlike v

My friend you call him I can dispense with such friends When a map borrows money from a woman and does not papound her the least he can do is to be civil to her

That is true Why did he borrow money from you

I dont know At times he has plenty of cash and at others not a cent

I suppose he gambles a bit You bet Since he goes to that

new club in the Rue Maubeuge he is always flush with monepound H e has been wonderfully lucky there too much so I fancy

Why too much bo Oh I dont know And she shrugshy

ged her shoulders J draquod x^t Mrit it prudent to press

the point If he borrowed money from you

and as you say has now plenty why does he not pay you

He might have done so but he has his silly pri(Je He was annoyed that I alluded to it in the presence of his friend an Englishmanmdashalthough that man did not understand a word of FreBci)mdash and he had specially asked me to come that evening I would have done better to have gone away as I was getting cross at their talkshying English all the time

Possibly he-too was cross if the Englishman paid you too much attenshytion

No she laughed he is too fond of himself to notice Buch things And the Englishman was too absorbed in what the vicomte was saying

In the course of my career I reshymember having only twice assumed a disguise and this was oae of the oc-

BREATH VEPL DEALT

that those who slipped the incrbninat- J casions I do inpound cards into his pocket were only Gemier or Mr thlaquo instruments of scoundrels who art of mak1 lt vonld remain in the dark unless I dragged theminto- the light

During his narrative of the tragic sceneat Madame J s house I had not been favorably impressed by the attitude of this vicomte th^ self-con-ctituted president of the impromptu tribunal of honor I therefore decidshyed to leave the fiery Bernard alone for thepresent and take the myto-rious nobleman in hard after having first found out who he was

I confided the laior mission to Nichshyolas one of my men whom his colshyleagues h^d nicknsmed the Diver because^of his wonderful skill in div-

nto peoples pasts and unearthshying the most hidden secret a I did net see my diver ror two days but when he turned np he looked happy and handed me his report It was one of his weaknesses He bad started life as a writing-master and as be wrote a beautiful hand he seized every opportunity of displaying i t

The report read as follows

CIO Hector St mdash fcorn in Paria in 1S7)

from Greek parents Enlisted at nineteen in the Papal Zouave Three years later emigrated to Australia In 1876 was In Ualy where received the title of vicomte ftradenthe Pope In Florence eloped with tne wife of a well-known banker Came to Paris and in was Implicated In turf scandal For reason that did not transpire was asked to resign his memshybership of the Y Club Remained two years -In England after which he reshyturned to Pari Has small apartment In Rue Labowlere Ia well known in the baccarat world Is one of the support-

not aspire to rival M Beerbohm Tree in the ones self unrecognizshy

able but with a few touches about the eyes the nose with a dark wig and dyed eyebrows I felt pretty safe as I issued forlh to enter the enemys camp

At ten oclock in the evening I preshysetted myself at the Club in the Ria Maubeuge As I expected I was mfcrmed that only members had a right to enter but the doorkeeper tock my card after which a gentleshyman came down-rtalrs euroyed me harshyrow ly asked me for my address and rpparertly satisfied with my appearshyance remarked that I could join as a country member

It Is not quite regular he said for me to admit you before you are properly introduced but as you do not reside in Paris and intend to reshyturn soon to Limoges we will allow you to come in now on payment of the entrance fee You must be duly proposed and seconded

era of new gambling-nub opened a monthjof risking their money in fashionable ago In the Rue -Matibctiffc Goes thererTI71t_ i _ laquo~_n i nearly evrlaquory j light Means unknown but is not believed to have a fixed Income

P S-The^ntght before last at half-pst twelvk s^nt for a policeman because Marthe D his former swetheart was creating a disturbance outside his place

The Diver had acquitted himself well of his task and I told him so

you that your theory about Bernards frac34 what he could not ta^wbdquowas that the most Important part of his report was In the postscript

I went to the police commissaTT in the vicomtes district and laquo6ked mm

l lrw the old etory I had heard it before

I then entered the baccarat room where around a loraquog table covered with green baize a dozen persons were seated I looked about me It was still early and tne business Of the evening had not begun The players were of the ordinary type The mashyjority of them were pigeons ready to be plucked the rest bore the undenishyable stamp of the professional gamshybler My attention however waa censhytered on the croupier ^ Few peoplemdasheven those in the habit

clubs or in casinos of well-known wa tering-fclacesmdashhave a rembtg idea of the important post this official holds With a long flat wooden scoop-something like a cricket-batmdashhe rakes in the counters from-the losers and pays the winning side

In great clubs these men are carefulshyly watched to avoid any trickery but in the small gambling-dens their role 1 altogether a different one When som one opens one of these deqs Which being clubs can be raided only

croupier becomes are bent on rob-

with difficulty the his partner Both bery

If the proprietormdashalways a professhysional sharpermdashtakes the bank fy will cheat the players by a spries of tricks too numerous to be explained here When however a guileless stranger acts as banker the croupiers role comes in for while he rakes in the money for the banker a portion of it disappears into his pockets in manner which only the most expert eye can detect )

For the benefit of the uninitiated I will explain the principles of the game

The player sit on the right and left of the banker who has several comshyplete packs of cards in front of him When the players have staked their money the banker deals one card to the rigbt one card to the left^and one to himself He repeats this operation

One of the players on either tide of the banker takes up the cards and plays them against the banker for his side of the table

The object of the game is to score ninemdash-not moremdashor as near that numshyber as possible^mdashwith the two card^ a third card can be had if desired Court-hards and tens aro valueless If the total of the spots comes to more than ten ten must be deducted

If the bankers score is below that of the players he loses if above he wins

Slowly the room began to fill and toward half-past eleven a tall thin man with a grayish beard and small piercing eyes came in from the de scription given me I recognized the Vicomte de St He smoked a cigshyarette paying little attention to what went on at the table where a banker with only three hundred francs in the bank was dealing his cards in a desulshytory fashion

A l l at once the vicomtes face brightshyened and he went up with extended hands to vome fashionably dressed men who had just entered I guessed they were what in - gambling-hourse parlance Is called r Big Game I then gave up my seat at the table where I was too much In view and stood behind tiuj-^piayers where I could watch everything

A bright-looking youth took tho bank for five thousand francs and play began in real earnest Somebody called Hanco (staking all thereis in the bank) nnd the excilenient rose to a high pitch

Thus far the vicomte had not joined in the game at last to my delight I saw him take^u bank also for five

-thousand francs He called for fresh cards

This call for fresh cards at such a time demands an explanation In the gambling world it Is well known that after the- cards have been shuffled cut and placed in front of the banker it is easy for the latter by sleight of hand to put a few prepared cards on the top that will give him two or three winning deals If therefore the banker asks for fresh cards tho uninshyitiatedmdashand unfortunately they form the majoritymdashsuppose that no trickshyery is possible I am sorry 4o have to disabuse them

The woQst swindles arepracticed with socallei new packs I say so-called because in the directorial sanctum they have undergone a curishyous process The pack is held over a steaming kettle the wrapper skilfully removed the cards taken out arrangshyed to give the dealer the advantage and ariin crrrfuMy replaced in the original wrapper

The study I had in former years been compelled to make of these pracshytices now proved useful and I moved behind the vicomtes chair so as not to lose one of his movements

Five new packs were brought in and the croupier undid the four leavshying oneon the niantlepiece Reshuffled the four-packs with a great deal of zest yet so dexterously that their orshyder was not changed The man was a great expert in the sham-shufiling trick

Of all thjg_peopleVin the room I certainly waa the most interested in the game for I was playing for higher stakes than any of themmdash(or a mans honor Supposing these cards brought on a tray should not have been tampered with supposing the vicomte played a fair game without any attempt at cheating my whole combination fell to the ground and I should have to invent anoher mode of attack

I held my breath when the first cards were dealt and then a feeling of relief came over me for I at once recognized the famous combination known as the 705 or more approprishyately the Lightning Flash because of the rapidity with -Which it cleans out its victims And by way of cu-riousity I give below this extraordshyinary scries from which it will be seen that with the exception of two deals where banker and players have the same points the former wins every coup The players mny rut as many times as they like li 1 not affect the game

A quarter of an hour later the vicomte rose He smiled and could well afford to do so for he had made a big haul Three oclock struck the last bank a small one had been dealt Everybody left and I was on the sofa pretending to be asleepv

W W s that I heard the vicomte ask i bull

^ h r i t s a chap from Limoges He came to-night for the first time was the reply

I Jumped up and said to the vishycomte

bullEach Sack of flftyraquotwo cards Is ar ranged leuro the followingorder face upshyward The noughtsssrepreaent either court cards or tens which in baccarat are valshyueless 70 5 bull 0 ^ laquo 6 4 I t $ 0 8 0 1 2 6 9 0 S 7 0 J 7 0 4 a o t laquo o i $ e s s e i t s raquo ft r 4 o o o s s

I want a few momeats converse^ tion with you gt

He looked bard at me ami conduct^ ed me to the next room I took off my wig but before I could utter word the vicgicte placed himself in front of the door

Get away from there I commendshyed I am M Goron Dont attempt any nonsense or I call up my men and have you and your croupier taken to the depot

lie could not suppose that I had come unaccompanied and silently took a chair

Perhaps you will tell me what all this itieans he asked

Certainly But first ring the bell and s-end away your servants i

My orders were obeyed And now I continued follow me

into the card room 1 led the way and from the mantelshy

piece took the fifth pack xjeft there when the vicomte had dealt the cards-

The croupier who had remained beshyhind moved toward the door

Come ^ere t shouted to him Take off your coat and waistcoat and hand them to me

He did so trembling with fear and out of several long pockets lined with velvet to deaden the sound If

tock a handful of counters You scoundrel I said I watched

you do this And now clear out I want to talk i o your mastermdashand acshycomplice

I handed the vicomte the pack of cards I had taken up and said

Let me call them over to you with my back turned Seven nought five nine noughtmdashI forget the rest but I think this ought to be enough I have seen the Lightning Flash done before Do you want any more reashysons why I came here tonight

He seemed stunned and shook his head

Cannot this scandal be avoided he asked

Expect nothing from me until you have told me the whole truth about the Allen B affair at Madame j gts what was the object of that conspiracy and who is at the bottom of it

He looked at me with a cunning exshypression |

I think I see your gamey Monsier Goron Allow me to comlrtfment you on your skill- In other words you want me to make certain disclosures In that case It is but right I shouldmdash

I gave him no time to finish bis sentence but seizing him roughly by the arm shouted

I arrest you you scamp t raquogt What I expected happened The

coward in him came to the fore He 4H4nged nnd crawledT--^ndmdashtheg-~te4d-me he had instructed Bernard T to elip the cards in poor Allen B s pockets

Whose orders did you carry outM

An Englishmans Harold W or in reality Edshy

ward K mdash He pave me a surprised glance Yos bull bull For what reason I dont know You can believe me

It is a secret between him and Allen and I would never have done this thing had I not been in Edward K s hands He compelled me to do it

He put his statement down In writshying and then took me to his apart-input where at my request he handshyed me two letters from Edward K

I whs on the point of leaving when I remembered Mademoiselle Marthe

Sit down again and write a note to the police commissary in your district that you wish to withdraw your charge against Marthe D

The vicomte who had given un feelshying surprised at anything wroft the note and handed it to me

It was six oclock and broad dayshylight when I reached home I at once sent for Allen B

Who is Edward K I asked beraquo fore he had even time to sit down

A distant connection Why i What object had he in disgracing

you He Impossiblemdashhe belongs to a

firpt-elnffl county family Rlnw your county families Read

this and I handed him the vicomtes statement

I never thought it possible that deshylight and horror could be expressed at the same time on anybodys face Allen B- performed that extraordl nary feat Then he shook me by both hands until my arms ached and exshyclaimed

What a scoundrel Who could have dreamed this Monsieur Goron it all dawnsupon me now Three years ago that man proposed to a Jady to whom I afterward became engaged She rejected him and hemdash

That wil l do These are family seshycrets I dont want to know more than T can help Leaver at once for England T h l i document and those two letters will clear you and i f anyshybody wants more information refer them to me

He again wrung my hands too moved to speak then he took up his hat and stick 4 -

One more word before you go I said Do you know what strikes me aft the queerest part about tpoundllaquo queer affair It is that wbiamp your fat and the lady you~wer about to threw you over without even you a hearing two people Parismdashone your humble-s the other the daughter who keeps a gambl Heved in you But 1 improbable comes mdashrfeel tired ^

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A t h l e t i c s O f t e n D e r a n g e d

B y DR J O H N W A R R E N A C H O R X

O Y S of the grammar and high school ages who engage in athshyletic contests that are something more than boys play as for instance in the half-mile or mile run and who at the finish are greatly distressed and even ghastly in appearance as many

of them are make a bid for premature old age for supreme effort of this sort without adequate preliminary training often results in strucshytural changes in the coats of the arteries and it sometimes leads to changes i n the heart itself 4 4 A man is as old as his arteries This is an axiom in medical experience

The young gladiator of sixteen who eats a big meal and then rushes into a game of football draws the blood from his stomach where i t is needed to digest that mea^ The stomach is left to get on as best i t can Loss of muscular power in the organ follows and a splashing stomach because of muscular relaxation can in time be demonstrated Th i s condition wi l l often explain why our young gladiator is sallow com-

i plexioned and cadaverous looking in spite of his muscular development I t is hard to find a sound stomach nowadays in a man past forty years of age

I f boys in their teens are going to be pitted against one another in athletic contests that call for the regular schedule of professionals or o f college men who liave reached their physical maturity then they should also be examine4by physicians and handled by regular trainers as these older men are

Boys are poor judges of their physical fitness Naturally one boy likes to think he is physically as strong as any other boy and alt boys want to do the things they see other fellows do being ignoiymt nf the consequences Examination and direction in this field of rmiruvor lire essential for the athletic spirit is everywhere Even Sunday hcIiooN have their track teams Direction is as essential in athletics as in regard to bookVstudied Our half-grown boys should not be permitted to engage i n contests strenuous and prolonged in character if not physically up to i t or not in proper condition

Competing at play is a good thing for any boy where the sport Its a game that shifts about (and the test is not one of endurance or seevcre stress There is a big difference between exercises of this sort and doing stunts that may work physical harm or result in physical deformity that is bound to lapt a lifetime Bovs must learn to concentrate their minds and find their wi l l power or stick-to-it-iveness L i n i n g them up in sport

is one good way of educating them for their life work but it is not necesshysary or advisable that they be allowed or urged to go toMhe l imit of their strength and endurance or beyond it Prevention is better than cure everytime _

Moderation in airUTings is a good~rule to follow^for those who would live happily and last long There is time enough in this world for any man to work out the best there is in him mentally and physically and he doesnt need to break himself up before he really gets a start on or after he enters4he worlds arena and acquires the experience that aftorde him the greatest successes of his life Five years out of college equals the freshman year in college It takes twenty years to graduate the average man in experience that the world values and wi l l pay an individual 4 ^ ( ^ 0 ^ ^ ^

price for

E x t e n d

G r o u n d s

F o p

G r a n t i n g

D i v o r c e

By B DIUIN6W0RTB Slleitr l i i i

A commission of extremev able and serious-minded men of- the best standing in Great Bri ta in acting under appointment of the late K i n g Edward after an exhaustshyive investigation of the whole subject of divorce were unable to make a unanimous

- finding but a majority and minority reshyport were recently published

Bather oddlv as many think the re-port of the majority is in favor oi extendshying the grounds on which divordb is now legally granted while the minority recomshymends that the present English law on7 the

subject be allowed to remain as it is it being the view of the minority commissioners that it would be a dangerous step imperiling the welfare and damaging to the morals of the Bri t ish nation to make it any easier than it now is for manned people to become separated At present the only ground on which a divorce can be obtained in tbe United Kingdom is marital rnfidelitv France and the United States were both held up as awful examples of how demoralizing it is to society if there be many a severance ot the bonds of matrimony 1

The majority report rec6jjrnendod that four more grounds of justi-bull fication for divorce be recognized to wi t a life sentence in the penitenshy

tiary desertion after three years cruelty and habitual drunkenness whilt according to the commissioners were grounds recognized in nearly will the states of the American Union

The divorce sfte in England Ireland and Scotland is incompan lower than in the United States and it is a good thing from our B r i point of view that we do not compete with you on this line In fact

there are more divorces in the United States than in any other nation of the world Japan alone excepted where as it is well known one marshyriage out of every six is dissolved

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W h e n

The average American concert goer fails to show any patriotism when the bands in our parks as they invariably do finish theirl program with The Star Spangled Banshyner Thus the bands keep our beautiful and stirring national anthem ever in the minds of the people and they in return

^should show their respect by arising and standing while it is being rendered

In m8sf European countries any such demonstration of utter disrespect for the national anthem occurs here as soon as^ the musicians are signaled to arisemdashwhen

isy exodus begins every one seeming to want to get out of ing melody as fast as possiblemdashwould create a riot the

down as antimilitarists or anarchists pmpel people to respect thojmelody but should i t

laquoand treated accordingly by the masses J i b i n g concerts printed on the programs el imi-

P l a y i n g

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iblic to remain unt i l the anthem is md to these ill-chosen stampedes

I L L I N O I S T H U N D E R B O L T R E G A I N S F O R M

Billy Papke of Kewanee

When Bil ly Papke of Kewanee 111 returns to America it will be to Ratshytle for the middleweight boxing championahip of the world When he is to return is not known at present but It is thought It will be within a few months At present he is fighting in France and England with much sucshycess He has been across the pond lesB than six months and in that period has won the championship of his division in England and France He has had three battles and won all three on knockouts

Papke is in the form displayed when champion of the world and stood as a rival of Stanley Ketchel for the honshyors Then he was referred to as the Illinois Thunderbolt and he was deserving of the appellation Defeats by Ketchel took most of the aggresshysive fighting spirit out of him and he has been some time in recuperatshying It is saidhe has fully recovered and is a Tipton Slasher He has his former knockout punch back and is as fast as ever His condition reports have it could not be improved ^ffotrirattttdeghe is iiiaTflng~~tkebdquo mlddTcT weight limit without any trouble

There will be considerable action In the middleweight ranks when Papke comes back Asi^le from Ketchshyel no 158-pounder was more popular

than the Kewanee lad since the days of Tommy Ryan His style of milling was liked as was his willingness to scrap while in the ring Papke when struggling for the title a few years ago never was known to stall Getting into the ring and slashing toe to toe with his opponent was his chief hobby and^he made himself fashymous with his loop-de-lo6p punch which he first used successfully against Hugo Kelly in Milwaukee when he conquered the then crack middleweight fighter

He has not changed his style of boxing any it is said This means there ^ t rouble ahpoundad for Eddie Mc-Goorty and Mike Gibbons who are striving to settle the middleweight championship of America among themselves Neither has met a fightshyer of Papkes type and will find the going a bit rough wrhen they meet one Neither can hit hard enough to stop Papke Ketchel was known as the assassin in the ring when he knocked out thirty-three men in forty-six fights and this included the best-sluggers of his day Papke hi his bouts with the late champion staged a bitter and desperate fight and gave as good as he received until he was knocked out He lost because Ketchel carried the stiffer punch r

W R E S T L E R S A R E VERY QUIET

Mat Men Usually Quite Susy at This Season of Year Are Missingmdash

Yussif Mahmout Coming

Its a shame for major football teams to be kept apart by minor difshyferences

The first basemen in the National league made 146 errors during the en-fire season

Every time Ty Cobb made a bingleb last season it netted him $3965r~ac^ cording to ftgus^s of Herman Wecke

The only thing that looks bad for the Ball Players Union is the fact that the club owners are not opposing it

Manager Stahl has sold Hugh Bradshyley the Red Sox first baseman to the Jersey City team of the International league i

President Garry Hermann of the Cincinnati Reds has re-engaged Trainshyer Dr Geoge Hoskins for the 1913 season

In an effort to develop a pitching staff for the Cincinnati team Hank ODay tried out seventeen twirlers last season

Manager Callahan says he will stand pat with his 1912 line-up Buck Weashyver and Rollie Zeider are sure of their regular berths

Frank Chance has been hit on the head thirty-nine times in actual games Nobody can say how often he has been hit below the belt mdash

Almeida and Marsansr^the Cubans who played with the Reds last sumshymer are managers of rival clubs in Havana this winter

Walter Johnson star twlrler of the Washington Senators says his team will win the pennant the coming seashyson if it will hustle a little

Mike Kahoe the Senators prize scout says the Athletics look fine He also declares that Connie Macks outfield will have bells on i t

Harry Wolverton the deposed manshyager of the Highlanders made an offer of $65000 for the champion Oakland team of the Pacific Coast league

The Louisville club of the American association sold a box for the opening game of tbe 1913 season and claims the record for an early advance sale

They say that Joe Birmingham the new manager of the Naps is the daddy of them all as a kicker Joe was a great goal kicker while at Cornell

Pitcher Marty OToole had a bad year but he has not lost heart I guess Ive lived down that high-priced reputation said Marty the other day

Owner Navln of Detroit says that if the players demand half pay for the spring training trips Tie i o r orie wiji not give his team any training at all

Where are the wrestling champions The baseball and football seasons are past and we are now in the period of the year devoted to bowling wrestling and basketball TUit the wrestling champions of foreign lands are not with us as usual

This time two seasons ago we wouldH^ have had two or three French title-holders four or five from Italy and several from Turkey Bulgaria Ger-

Yussif Mahmout

many Switzerland Scotland and other localities But now the only one who is roaring in our midst is Stanislaus 7iy82ko the ever-present Polish claimant

If the wrestlerswere wise they would hustle up and make hay while the sun shines For the bogy man of the ring Yussif Mahmout will be back as soon as the war is over and then things will go hard for the dub mat man Yussif spares none and if by any miracle he should be oeaten there Is the awful specter- Frank Gotch in the distance

Pitcher Walter Beach of the Gale burg club has been purchased the Providence Gray i r

J I M S i r $ S T E P M O T H E R

N By J p H N TROU

An hour or two after he had sent Anne Mayfleld enough rj ses to fill her little studio Don Rogefi^decided to drop in for a cup of tea not that he cared for the tea but under cover of the talk of the dozen or more he was sure to find there he could watch Anne and revel in her beauty and charm

Anne was going to marry the Hon-enable Richard Bachman a widower with a boy eight or nine years old Laird Robbins had told him confishydentially that he was in the jewelers w)ien the elderly lover ordered To Anne inscribed in a circle of diashymonds

Anne met him at the door ond over her head Dan saw Bachman by the window pinching off a rosebud out of his own late purchase to put in the lapel of his frock coat

If youre engaged Anne he said pointedly Id better not go in toshyday

Come right in this minute urged Anne cordially You can go to marshyket with me in a little while and then stay to dinner if you will

Bachman had Mb hat in his hand ready to leave 1

You think it is pretty then Miss Anne Don heard him ask at the door

Its lovely said Anne with enshythusiasm Youve shown splendid taste

Anne shut the door quietly and faced Donftaughter wrinkling up the corners of hep eyes

Isnt this place a bower of beauty and fragrance Your roses have made it summer here even if it is winter in the rest of the world Theyre lovely Don Whats the matter Your face is so long and solemn

Blue devils I guess he answered shortly bull Mind if I smoke

Never did did I Puff away but Ill have you know that if there are any blue devils in this box of an apartment you brought them in your pockets I ran them all out this morning and watched them freeze to death on the window sil l

Youre mighty gay this afternoon arent you

Yes sir for I have a contract with a big new magazine to furnish a page of my cuties in every issue for the next six months

What a clever girl you are Anne That^pencil of yours has made those little flgtrres^df people famous over the country

The door opened unceremoniously and Jimsie Bachman the - sou and lu jir to the vast estates of the Honorshyable Richard appeared

J Hello Miss Anne Got any cakes I certainly have Come in and

Ill get you some You - know Mr Rogers dont yau^

So you have a sweet toofh Jimshymy said Rogers affably

My names not Jimmy its Jimsie I saw it in the Bible Im all the time having to tell my right name to folks

While Anne went foraging for cakes Jimsie turned his back to the fire hands clasped behind him in the most approved man fashion

Mies Annes helping dad get marshyried he asserted with the importshyance of one giving vital news ^

Really - responded the man fcily Yes shes helped him a lot bout

slecting the ring and all went on the loquacious youngster The ladys a friend of Miss Annes Thats why shes so intersted bull

Whomdashwhom is your father going to marry demanded Rogers sudshydenly

I promised not to tell anything about it to anybody returned Jimshysie loftily

I l l give you a dollar to tell me the truth

Gee Id a told for fifty cents said Jimsie quickly forgetting his conscience Its Miss Anne Bradner she lives in another town Wheres the money J

Here you are Jimsie said Afine coming in just then I brought you a box full of cakee to take on the train tonight when you and your fashyther go visiting

What have you done with your blue ^devils she demanded turning back from closing the door on her diminutive guest and facing a man with a very different expression from the one he had jvorn half an hour beshyfore Did you give them to Jimsie Hes very accommodating

Very he answered and then as he watched her adjust a fur toque on her dark hair Are we going to marshyket nowmdashto buy a fat pig

No not that corrected Anne I need a few extras and Ive been too busy to go^out today

She fastened a great crimson rose In her furs I have to take one with me she said

To you tt is a rose to me it is my heart he quoted

Thats pretty sentiment isnt it Don You know so many beautiful things to say to w o m e C - I wonder what you win say to the one woman when she comes into your life

What every other man has said before me just that I love her and want her Wont that be enough

Yes answered Anne on guard against his apparent indifference i f she loves you

Anne he Called and atT the husky note in his voice Bhe lifted iter eyes to his Anne 1 love yon and I want you Is it enough4 rt

1 think Annes answer came from somewhere in the region of his coat collar tnat 1 have waited en tiura sand years to hear yon fay that

M I L L

He got angry one day And threatened lo quit Didnt fancy he way Things were going a-bit And so in a huff He resigned It was meant for a bluff For the boy in his mind Fondly fancied that they Would beg him to stay But they stunned him and filled him with

woe When they failed to rebel against letting

him go

Keenly bereft With a heart that was pore And a weight on his mind Such as never beTore The day )ie resigned Had come to oppress him he left But the greatest and saddest of shock

was to come For wheft he stole round on the followshy

ing day He was stricken dumb To see that the mill was still grinding

a waymdash Merrily humming its wonted song As if nothing at all hadgf-ver gone wrong

What He Meant A good preacher who ministers togt

the spiritual needs of one of the most fashionable congregations in city of the middle west has a son-four years old who has been caiied remarkably bright even when his parents were not present to hear

Not long ago little Edward was out playing v ith some boys from^around the corner They were pretty close to the window of the library in which the good iruin sat composing his sershymon for the fullowing Sunday conseshyquently when Edward exclaimed 4 0h darn the father heard him

Come in here Edward said the-good man and Edward went in

I heard you say Oh darn a moshyment ago

Yes papa What did you mean by saying

that 1 meant oh damn the child reshy

plied hut I know it is wicked to say damn so I only said darn

MERE OPINION

Man was made from dust and many a one makes a mudhole of himself by pouring wet stuff down his throat

Hell hath ho fury like a ball playshyer who is wronged by the umpire

Poor old Eve She had no girl friend to go to when she and Adam got engaged

Some people go hurrying through this world as if they were afraid the grave mightnt wa for them

A Reasonable Objection Arabella said old Billyuns as he

finished his dinner I am going to ask you to do me a favor I want you to give your young man MrmdashMr Whats-hisnamemdasha message for me

Arabella blushed and looked down at her plate

Teirhim the bluff old millTbnaire went on that I dont object to his staying here and running up my gae^b bills but that I do want to register a ^ -kick against his carrying the morning paper away with him when he leaves

His View of It Do you know that in Japan every

child is taught^to write with both hands

No I wasnt aware of it In fact after having seen some Japanese penshymanship Im inclined to believe that every child over there is taught to write with both feet

What He Caught I saw you out fishing through a

hole in the ice the other day Didnt catch anything jhd you

You bet 1 did What was tt bull A blamed bad cold

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T R U T H A B O U T T H R C A S E

T h e Experiences of M F Goron Ex -Ch ie f of the Par i s Detective Pol ice

Edited by Albert Keyzer

T H E L I G H T N I N G F L A S H

Tours gratefully L de V-

After I had read It I glanced at the fceaTer a young distinguished-looking man

With a slight tremor in his voice he bullaid

I am in 1 great trouble I see you are I replied and I

hear you are English What brings you here

He paused an Instant and passing his hand across his forehead reshypeated

I am in great trouble With a gesture as if anxious to

throw off his secret he continued My name is Allen B and my

father is one of the largest colliery owners in the north of England Six months ago I came to Paris to study paintingmdash

Again he paused staring at me Then suddenly he asked

Do I look like a swindlermdasha sharpshyer

No you do not Why do you ask Because a fortnight ago I rose in

the morning with an untarnished repshyutation and although I had commitshyted no wrong whatever I went to bed a disgraced man

He wak laboring under strong emoshytion a id as he remained silent I said

Tell me what has occurred It fell upon me like a thunderbolt

at the house of Madame J where I used to gOL_ojice_-A-ffie^jQXja^^ of cards I was praying piquet i the smoking room with a young fi low called Bernard T and hai won the first game We had just gun the third when Bernard juparped up and shrieked

I have caughtyou at las You are cheating

The men at the other tables crowdshyed around us and Madame J her daughter Genevieve and their guests came running in from the adjoining drawing room attracted by the noise

I had grasped Bernard by the throat calling out Retract what you said you villain JOV I will k i l l you

They dragged him away from me II r s ^ amp s white as a sheet and the moment ne lraquoAi caught his breath he shook his fist at and bawled

You say youll kill riich You want me to retract I tell you you aas a cheat a dirty cheat Gentlemen ask him to empty his pockets here beshyfore you and youll see whether I am right

I put my hands in the pockets of my smoking jacket and pulled out-a dozen cards corner-bent like those used by professional sharpers

There was a moment of silence and then the Viscomte de St said to me This is a very serious affair Have you any explanation to offer

Then the horror of my situation came upon me I tried to rush at Bernard but they laid hold of me Frantic with rage I shook them off

Its a lie Its a lie I shouted Gentlemen this fellow or some other scoundrel has-r-heavens knows whymdash slipped these cards into my pocket It is a fiendish trick some on his played and I call upon those here who know me to help to unmask the cow-ard who did it

They looked at me in silence and after whispered consultation ther Visshycomte de St spoke again ^

Mr Bmdashmdash I think it wil l be best if you and M Bernard T withdraw for a few minutes to allow us to disshycuss this matter and decide on the course to take

Bernard went upstairs to Madames boudoir and I to the drawing room where I found Mademoiselle Genevieve alone For a while she took no notice of me as I nervously paced up and down the room but when I stopped she remarked in a soft voice

Monsieur Allen I am sure you are Innocent

I presectsed her hand 4Goa bless you Mademoiselle Geneshy

vieve T shall never forget your confishydence in me But since you do not doubt me I implore you to tell me whether you have any suspicion any idea as to who could have laid this trop for me

She thought a moment and then reshyplied

Nd Monsieur Allen I have not the faintest idea I wish I could help you

She looked up and I ltcould read in her eyes that she had spoken the truth

At that instant a gentleman asked n e to come Into the next room where the Vicomte de St mdash addressed me as follows

u Having been thltr unwilling wife nmfyltamp^Jtiifa w consider it oar 4ut r gentlemen and snen of the world to prevsnt a n r un

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H E followingWtter was from a gentlenran holdshying a high position in the diplomatic world

Dear Monsieur Goron I earnestly beg of you to come to the assistance of my friend who has met with a disastrous advenshyture Please do everyshy

thing In your power to extricate him from the horrible position in which lie is flaced I can vouch for his hunorable-aesB

B LippincoitCoj

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necesary scandal M Bernard T has accused you of playing unfairly which you deny Marked cardshave been found in your pockets and your explanation is Uhat some one had placed them there We now have pledged ourselves not to divulge what has occurred here this evening so as to give you time to refute this charge You can rely on our absolute discreshytion and I call upon M Bernard T to promise us not to breathe a word about this to any one I give you my word said Bershy

nard His word I exclaimed how much

do youthink it is worth Gentlemen I once more declare that this man is a liar and that if he did not put the cards in my pockets he knows who did Andmdash

Parden me Interrupted the v i shycomte we cannot allow this We sinshycerely hope you may prove your innoshycencemdashwe hopo it ior your sake And this is all vc- have to say to you for the present

After a pause my visitor resumed I have no recollection of how I got

home that evening and even the next morning I could not realizethat it had not been a fearfifl dream Several days I spent trying to unravel this niys^ tery when 1 received two letters from England The first was from my fashyther The poor man is heart-broken He had had a full account of what had occurred at Madames house He advised me to go away somewhere in-the Colonies and remain there ti l l this affair is forgotten The other letter wasmdash

He again stopped and hid his face in his hands

It was from my fiancee the girl I was to have married in three months on my return to England She too knew all about it and informed me that-^must consider our engagement

d I at once wrote to my fa-d to my fiancee telling them

that I had been the victim of a horshyrible Tgtlot imploring them to reply by return post but neither of them has sent me a line I then remembered my friend L de V a school-chum now on the diplomatic service He has known me all my life and after I had told him my story he gave me this introduction to you Monsieur Goron I beg of you to help me

I certainly will try to help you I replied but your story is incomshyplete I want to hear more about these peoplemdashthe vicomte Bernard T Madame Jmdashmdash and evenmdashif you a41ow memdashMademoiselle Genevieve Who are they1

Madame J is tho widow of a naval officer I was introduced to her the first week I arrived in Paris by a man in the studio where I was paint ing She received every other evenshying The viromteis an old friend of hers and I am toW a member of the Jockey club Bernard T I met also at Madames house We have ^often dined together and gone tc theaters

Has he a-~pofession How does he his living -

He is I think an insurance broker but he has moneyand dees not soem to work very hard

And Mademoiselle Genevieve Last but probably npt least

You are right Monsieur Goronmdash last but not least for 1 believe she Is the Innocent cause of this business I have been thinking nisht aiid day and I am sure I have found the clue to this mystery

He colored slightly and said I am afraid whrt I am gcirig to tell

you will sound rrther fooli-hbt you ( wil l sco it is irnpv-arit Bernard T i3 in love Titb Genevieve r strlkng-ly handsome girl She had of lato shown mo marked partiality and in his mad jealousy Bernard h^s planned this to ruin me in her eyes

And this according to you is the clue to the affair

Undoubtedly There can be no othshyer cause why anybody should try to compromise me in such a horrible way With your help we will get to the botshytom of it

It is a queer a very queer busishyness darker than you seem to think I do not say this to alarm you but to prepare you for a few surprises Give me the addresses of all the people you have just mentioned and come here to-morrow at four oclock Dont think of revenge this may or may not come later The first thing to be done is to clear you

My visitor thanked me and went away with a lighter step But when he returned the following day he looked more distressed than before

What has gone wrong1 I asked Any fresh trouble

No he replied moodily except that I have had a letter from our lawshyyer begging me to go away at oncemdash for the honor of the family

With a suppressed oath he threw the leter on my table mdash

Never mind^he lawyer Tell him to go to (hemdashColonies himself Since I saw you I have looked into the matter and have gathered a little useful information First let me tell

get

jealousy does not hold water JExcuse my asking you-^haveou ever say flirted with the g i r i r ^

Never1 v

Have you given her any presents or made appointments with her

Never A l l the better for it simplifies matshy

ters Another question Do theyraquoplay baccarat at Marjame J s1

Yes three or four times a week Did you play Yes but I gave up becausemdash You found you lost too much Youve guessed it I did lose How much About two thousand-dollars Just what I expected I have reshy

ceived some queer reports about your friends Madame J s reputation is 7ar from good and I suspect her salon to be a trap to swindle peoplemdashlike you Bernard T certainly didx inshyherit some money last year but he ran through it and he is now the asshysociate and possibly the tool of proshyfessional gamblers As to the vicomte there is some mystery here and I disshytrust mysteries And now my dear Mr B I am- afraid I must say something that will upset you You have undoubtedly an enemymdashnot that Bernardmdashbut a man or woman who has a more potent interest in ruinshying your reputation Look into the past and see whether you can detect any such person

Mr B stared at me in amazeshyment f

An enemy he cried I en enshyemy I have never ptaod In anybodys way and no 2ian in mine As to wom-erraquo tey have played no part in ray life I have fallen in love only once mdashand that with the girl I was to have married he added with a bitter smile

You will not be the first to have made such a startling discovery Othshyers have made it and in this very room too I see I cannot look to you fgr assistance in this business Keep quiet until you hear from me I hoplt3 it will be soon

I do not know a more villainous ofshyfense than that of sullying a mans reputation to rob him of what is dear-er^to him than lifemdashhis honor And I resolved to use all my energy to come to this poor fellows assistance espeshycially as the conviction grew upon me that my young friend was the victim of a plot a fiendish conspiracy and

0 ItvtiM

details about by Martha D-

the to give me some disturbance caused She had it seems smkshed a window using threatening language and the yicomte had applied for a summons

I sent for her andabull111 tie before six she was announced a tall dark-eyed girl who played an insignificant part in the new farce at the Folies-Dramat-iques She was very selt-possessed

and asked what I wanted of hor And so you had a scene with your

friend the vicomte She turnedsharply around and her

eyes grew warlike v

My friend you call him I can dispense with such friends When a map borrows money from a woman and does not papound her the least he can do is to be civil to her

That is true Why did he borrow money from you

I dont know At times he has plenty of cash and at others not a cent

I suppose he gambles a bit You bet Since he goes to that

new club in the Rue Maubeuge he is always flush with monepound H e has been wonderfully lucky there too much so I fancy

Why too much bo Oh I dont know And she shrugshy

ged her shoulders J draquod x^t Mrit it prudent to press

the point If he borrowed money from you

and as you say has now plenty why does he not pay you

He might have done so but he has his silly pri(Je He was annoyed that I alluded to it in the presence of his friend an Englishmanmdashalthough that man did not understand a word of FreBci)mdash and he had specially asked me to come that evening I would have done better to have gone away as I was getting cross at their talkshying English all the time

Possibly he-too was cross if the Englishman paid you too much attenshytion

No she laughed he is too fond of himself to notice Buch things And the Englishman was too absorbed in what the vicomte was saying

In the course of my career I reshymember having only twice assumed a disguise and this was oae of the oc-

BREATH VEPL DEALT

that those who slipped the incrbninat- J casions I do inpound cards into his pocket were only Gemier or Mr thlaquo instruments of scoundrels who art of mak1 lt vonld remain in the dark unless I dragged theminto- the light

During his narrative of the tragic sceneat Madame J s house I had not been favorably impressed by the attitude of this vicomte th^ self-con-ctituted president of the impromptu tribunal of honor I therefore decidshyed to leave the fiery Bernard alone for thepresent and take the myto-rious nobleman in hard after having first found out who he was

I confided the laior mission to Nichshyolas one of my men whom his colshyleagues h^d nicknsmed the Diver because^of his wonderful skill in div-

nto peoples pasts and unearthshying the most hidden secret a I did net see my diver ror two days but when he turned np he looked happy and handed me his report It was one of his weaknesses He bad started life as a writing-master and as be wrote a beautiful hand he seized every opportunity of displaying i t

The report read as follows

CIO Hector St mdash fcorn in Paria in 1S7)

from Greek parents Enlisted at nineteen in the Papal Zouave Three years later emigrated to Australia In 1876 was In Ualy where received the title of vicomte ftradenthe Pope In Florence eloped with tne wife of a well-known banker Came to Paris and in was Implicated In turf scandal For reason that did not transpire was asked to resign his memshybership of the Y Club Remained two years -In England after which he reshyturned to Pari Has small apartment In Rue Labowlere Ia well known in the baccarat world Is one of the support-

not aspire to rival M Beerbohm Tree in the ones self unrecognizshy

able but with a few touches about the eyes the nose with a dark wig and dyed eyebrows I felt pretty safe as I issued forlh to enter the enemys camp

At ten oclock in the evening I preshysetted myself at the Club in the Ria Maubeuge As I expected I was mfcrmed that only members had a right to enter but the doorkeeper tock my card after which a gentleshyman came down-rtalrs euroyed me harshyrow ly asked me for my address and rpparertly satisfied with my appearshyance remarked that I could join as a country member

It Is not quite regular he said for me to admit you before you are properly introduced but as you do not reside in Paris and intend to reshyturn soon to Limoges we will allow you to come in now on payment of the entrance fee You must be duly proposed and seconded

era of new gambling-nub opened a monthjof risking their money in fashionable ago In the Rue -Matibctiffc Goes thererTI71t_ i _ laquo~_n i nearly evrlaquory j light Means unknown but is not believed to have a fixed Income

P S-The^ntght before last at half-pst twelvk s^nt for a policeman because Marthe D his former swetheart was creating a disturbance outside his place

The Diver had acquitted himself well of his task and I told him so

you that your theory about Bernards frac34 what he could not ta^wbdquowas that the most Important part of his report was In the postscript

I went to the police commissaTT in the vicomtes district and laquo6ked mm

l lrw the old etory I had heard it before

I then entered the baccarat room where around a loraquog table covered with green baize a dozen persons were seated I looked about me It was still early and tne business Of the evening had not begun The players were of the ordinary type The mashyjority of them were pigeons ready to be plucked the rest bore the undenishyable stamp of the professional gamshybler My attention however waa censhytered on the croupier ^ Few peoplemdasheven those in the habit

clubs or in casinos of well-known wa tering-fclacesmdashhave a rembtg idea of the important post this official holds With a long flat wooden scoop-something like a cricket-batmdashhe rakes in the counters from-the losers and pays the winning side

In great clubs these men are carefulshyly watched to avoid any trickery but in the small gambling-dens their role 1 altogether a different one When som one opens one of these deqs Which being clubs can be raided only

croupier becomes are bent on rob-

with difficulty the his partner Both bery

If the proprietormdashalways a professhysional sharpermdashtakes the bank fy will cheat the players by a spries of tricks too numerous to be explained here When however a guileless stranger acts as banker the croupiers role comes in for while he rakes in the money for the banker a portion of it disappears into his pockets in manner which only the most expert eye can detect )

For the benefit of the uninitiated I will explain the principles of the game

The player sit on the right and left of the banker who has several comshyplete packs of cards in front of him When the players have staked their money the banker deals one card to the rigbt one card to the left^and one to himself He repeats this operation

One of the players on either tide of the banker takes up the cards and plays them against the banker for his side of the table

The object of the game is to score ninemdash-not moremdashor as near that numshyber as possible^mdashwith the two card^ a third card can be had if desired Court-hards and tens aro valueless If the total of the spots comes to more than ten ten must be deducted

If the bankers score is below that of the players he loses if above he wins

Slowly the room began to fill and toward half-past eleven a tall thin man with a grayish beard and small piercing eyes came in from the de scription given me I recognized the Vicomte de St He smoked a cigshyarette paying little attention to what went on at the table where a banker with only three hundred francs in the bank was dealing his cards in a desulshytory fashion

A l l at once the vicomtes face brightshyened and he went up with extended hands to vome fashionably dressed men who had just entered I guessed they were what in - gambling-hourse parlance Is called r Big Game I then gave up my seat at the table where I was too much In view and stood behind tiuj-^piayers where I could watch everything

A bright-looking youth took tho bank for five thousand francs and play began in real earnest Somebody called Hanco (staking all thereis in the bank) nnd the excilenient rose to a high pitch

Thus far the vicomte had not joined in the game at last to my delight I saw him take^u bank also for five

-thousand francs He called for fresh cards

This call for fresh cards at such a time demands an explanation In the gambling world it Is well known that after the- cards have been shuffled cut and placed in front of the banker it is easy for the latter by sleight of hand to put a few prepared cards on the top that will give him two or three winning deals If therefore the banker asks for fresh cards tho uninshyitiatedmdashand unfortunately they form the majoritymdashsuppose that no trickshyery is possible I am sorry 4o have to disabuse them

The woQst swindles arepracticed with socallei new packs I say so-called because in the directorial sanctum they have undergone a curishyous process The pack is held over a steaming kettle the wrapper skilfully removed the cards taken out arrangshyed to give the dealer the advantage and ariin crrrfuMy replaced in the original wrapper

The study I had in former years been compelled to make of these pracshytices now proved useful and I moved behind the vicomtes chair so as not to lose one of his movements

Five new packs were brought in and the croupier undid the four leavshying oneon the niantlepiece Reshuffled the four-packs with a great deal of zest yet so dexterously that their orshyder was not changed The man was a great expert in the sham-shufiling trick

Of all thjg_peopleVin the room I certainly waa the most interested in the game for I was playing for higher stakes than any of themmdash(or a mans honor Supposing these cards brought on a tray should not have been tampered with supposing the vicomte played a fair game without any attempt at cheating my whole combination fell to the ground and I should have to invent anoher mode of attack

I held my breath when the first cards were dealt and then a feeling of relief came over me for I at once recognized the famous combination known as the 705 or more approprishyately the Lightning Flash because of the rapidity with -Which it cleans out its victims And by way of cu-riousity I give below this extraordshyinary scries from which it will be seen that with the exception of two deals where banker and players have the same points the former wins every coup The players mny rut as many times as they like li 1 not affect the game

A quarter of an hour later the vicomte rose He smiled and could well afford to do so for he had made a big haul Three oclock struck the last bank a small one had been dealt Everybody left and I was on the sofa pretending to be asleepv

W W s that I heard the vicomte ask i bull

^ h r i t s a chap from Limoges He came to-night for the first time was the reply

I Jumped up and said to the vishycomte

bullEach Sack of flftyraquotwo cards Is ar ranged leuro the followingorder face upshyward The noughtsssrepreaent either court cards or tens which in baccarat are valshyueless 70 5 bull 0 ^ laquo 6 4 I t $ 0 8 0 1 2 6 9 0 S 7 0 J 7 0 4 a o t laquo o i $ e s s e i t s raquo ft r 4 o o o s s

I want a few momeats converse^ tion with you gt

He looked bard at me ami conduct^ ed me to the next room I took off my wig but before I could utter word the vicgicte placed himself in front of the door

Get away from there I commendshyed I am M Goron Dont attempt any nonsense or I call up my men and have you and your croupier taken to the depot

lie could not suppose that I had come unaccompanied and silently took a chair

Perhaps you will tell me what all this itieans he asked

Certainly But first ring the bell and s-end away your servants i

My orders were obeyed And now I continued follow me

into the card room 1 led the way and from the mantelshy

piece took the fifth pack xjeft there when the vicomte had dealt the cards-

The croupier who had remained beshyhind moved toward the door

Come ^ere t shouted to him Take off your coat and waistcoat and hand them to me

He did so trembling with fear and out of several long pockets lined with velvet to deaden the sound If

tock a handful of counters You scoundrel I said I watched

you do this And now clear out I want to talk i o your mastermdashand acshycomplice

I handed the vicomte the pack of cards I had taken up and said

Let me call them over to you with my back turned Seven nought five nine noughtmdashI forget the rest but I think this ought to be enough I have seen the Lightning Flash done before Do you want any more reashysons why I came here tonight

He seemed stunned and shook his head

Cannot this scandal be avoided he asked

Expect nothing from me until you have told me the whole truth about the Allen B affair at Madame j gts what was the object of that conspiracy and who is at the bottom of it

He looked at me with a cunning exshypression |

I think I see your gamey Monsier Goron Allow me to comlrtfment you on your skill- In other words you want me to make certain disclosures In that case It is but right I shouldmdash

I gave him no time to finish bis sentence but seizing him roughly by the arm shouted

I arrest you you scamp t raquogt What I expected happened The

coward in him came to the fore He 4H4nged nnd crawledT--^ndmdashtheg-~te4d-me he had instructed Bernard T to elip the cards in poor Allen B s pockets

Whose orders did you carry outM

An Englishmans Harold W or in reality Edshy

ward K mdash He pave me a surprised glance Yos bull bull For what reason I dont know You can believe me

It is a secret between him and Allen and I would never have done this thing had I not been in Edward K s hands He compelled me to do it

He put his statement down In writshying and then took me to his apart-input where at my request he handshyed me two letters from Edward K

I whs on the point of leaving when I remembered Mademoiselle Marthe

Sit down again and write a note to the police commissary in your district that you wish to withdraw your charge against Marthe D

The vicomte who had given un feelshying surprised at anything wroft the note and handed it to me

It was six oclock and broad dayshylight when I reached home I at once sent for Allen B

Who is Edward K I asked beraquo fore he had even time to sit down

A distant connection Why i What object had he in disgracing

you He Impossiblemdashhe belongs to a

firpt-elnffl county family Rlnw your county families Read

this and I handed him the vicomtes statement

I never thought it possible that deshylight and horror could be expressed at the same time on anybodys face Allen B- performed that extraordl nary feat Then he shook me by both hands until my arms ached and exshyclaimed

What a scoundrel Who could have dreamed this Monsieur Goron it all dawnsupon me now Three years ago that man proposed to a Jady to whom I afterward became engaged She rejected him and hemdash

That wil l do These are family seshycrets I dont want to know more than T can help Leaver at once for England T h l i document and those two letters will clear you and i f anyshybody wants more information refer them to me

He again wrung my hands too moved to speak then he took up his hat and stick 4 -

One more word before you go I said Do you know what strikes me aft the queerest part about tpoundllaquo queer affair It is that wbiamp your fat and the lady you~wer about to threw you over without even you a hearing two people Parismdashone your humble-s the other the daughter who keeps a gambl Heved in you But 1 improbable comes mdashrfeel tired ^

The vlcoi Paris the learned

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T R U T H A B O U T T H R C A S E

T h e Experiences of M F Goron Ex -Ch ie f of the Par i s Detective Pol ice

Edited by Albert Keyzer

T H E L I G H T N I N G F L A S H

Tours gratefully L de V-

After I had read It I glanced at the fceaTer a young distinguished-looking man

With a slight tremor in his voice he bullaid

I am in 1 great trouble I see you are I replied and I

hear you are English What brings you here

He paused an Instant and passing his hand across his forehead reshypeated

I am in great trouble With a gesture as if anxious to

throw off his secret he continued My name is Allen B and my

father is one of the largest colliery owners in the north of England Six months ago I came to Paris to study paintingmdash

Again he paused staring at me Then suddenly he asked

Do I look like a swindlermdasha sharpshyer

No you do not Why do you ask Because a fortnight ago I rose in

the morning with an untarnished repshyutation and although I had commitshyted no wrong whatever I went to bed a disgraced man

He wak laboring under strong emoshytion a id as he remained silent I said

Tell me what has occurred It fell upon me like a thunderbolt

at the house of Madame J where I used to gOL_ojice_-A-ffie^jQXja^^ of cards I was praying piquet i the smoking room with a young fi low called Bernard T and hai won the first game We had just gun the third when Bernard juparped up and shrieked

I have caughtyou at las You are cheating

The men at the other tables crowdshyed around us and Madame J her daughter Genevieve and their guests came running in from the adjoining drawing room attracted by the noise

I had grasped Bernard by the throat calling out Retract what you said you villain JOV I will k i l l you

They dragged him away from me II r s ^ amp s white as a sheet and the moment ne lraquoAi caught his breath he shook his fist at and bawled

You say youll kill riich You want me to retract I tell you you aas a cheat a dirty cheat Gentlemen ask him to empty his pockets here beshyfore you and youll see whether I am right

I put my hands in the pockets of my smoking jacket and pulled out-a dozen cards corner-bent like those used by professional sharpers

There was a moment of silence and then the Viscomte de St said to me This is a very serious affair Have you any explanation to offer

Then the horror of my situation came upon me I tried to rush at Bernard but they laid hold of me Frantic with rage I shook them off

Its a lie Its a lie I shouted Gentlemen this fellow or some other scoundrel has-r-heavens knows whymdash slipped these cards into my pocket It is a fiendish trick some on his played and I call upon those here who know me to help to unmask the cow-ard who did it

They looked at me in silence and after whispered consultation ther Visshycomte de St spoke again ^

Mr Bmdashmdash I think it wil l be best if you and M Bernard T withdraw for a few minutes to allow us to disshycuss this matter and decide on the course to take

Bernard went upstairs to Madames boudoir and I to the drawing room where I found Mademoiselle Genevieve alone For a while she took no notice of me as I nervously paced up and down the room but when I stopped she remarked in a soft voice

Monsieur Allen I am sure you are Innocent

I presectsed her hand 4Goa bless you Mademoiselle Geneshy

vieve T shall never forget your confishydence in me But since you do not doubt me I implore you to tell me whether you have any suspicion any idea as to who could have laid this trop for me

She thought a moment and then reshyplied

Nd Monsieur Allen I have not the faintest idea I wish I could help you

She looked up and I ltcould read in her eyes that she had spoken the truth

At that instant a gentleman asked n e to come Into the next room where the Vicomte de St mdash addressed me as follows

u Having been thltr unwilling wife nmfyltamp^Jtiifa w consider it oar 4ut r gentlemen and snen of the world to prevsnt a n r un

(Copyright by J

H E followingWtter was from a gentlenran holdshying a high position in the diplomatic world

Dear Monsieur Goron I earnestly beg of you to come to the assistance of my friend who has met with a disastrous advenshyture Please do everyshy

thing In your power to extricate him from the horrible position in which lie is flaced I can vouch for his hunorable-aesB

B LippincoitCoj

an en ther ai

necesary scandal M Bernard T has accused you of playing unfairly which you deny Marked cardshave been found in your pockets and your explanation is Uhat some one had placed them there We now have pledged ourselves not to divulge what has occurred here this evening so as to give you time to refute this charge You can rely on our absolute discreshytion and I call upon M Bernard T to promise us not to breathe a word about this to any one I give you my word said Bershy

nard His word I exclaimed how much

do youthink it is worth Gentlemen I once more declare that this man is a liar and that if he did not put the cards in my pockets he knows who did Andmdash

Parden me Interrupted the v i shycomte we cannot allow this We sinshycerely hope you may prove your innoshycencemdashwe hopo it ior your sake And this is all vc- have to say to you for the present

After a pause my visitor resumed I have no recollection of how I got

home that evening and even the next morning I could not realizethat it had not been a fearfifl dream Several days I spent trying to unravel this niys^ tery when 1 received two letters from England The first was from my fashyther The poor man is heart-broken He had had a full account of what had occurred at Madames house He advised me to go away somewhere in-the Colonies and remain there ti l l this affair is forgotten The other letter wasmdash

He again stopped and hid his face in his hands

It was from my fiancee the girl I was to have married in three months on my return to England She too knew all about it and informed me that-^must consider our engagement

d I at once wrote to my fa-d to my fiancee telling them

that I had been the victim of a horshyrible Tgtlot imploring them to reply by return post but neither of them has sent me a line I then remembered my friend L de V a school-chum now on the diplomatic service He has known me all my life and after I had told him my story he gave me this introduction to you Monsieur Goron I beg of you to help me

I certainly will try to help you I replied but your story is incomshyplete I want to hear more about these peoplemdashthe vicomte Bernard T Madame Jmdashmdash and evenmdashif you a41ow memdashMademoiselle Genevieve Who are they1

Madame J is tho widow of a naval officer I was introduced to her the first week I arrived in Paris by a man in the studio where I was paint ing She received every other evenshying The viromteis an old friend of hers and I am toW a member of the Jockey club Bernard T I met also at Madames house We have ^often dined together and gone tc theaters

Has he a-~pofession How does he his living -

He is I think an insurance broker but he has moneyand dees not soem to work very hard

And Mademoiselle Genevieve Last but probably npt least

You are right Monsieur Goronmdash last but not least for 1 believe she Is the Innocent cause of this business I have been thinking nisht aiid day and I am sure I have found the clue to this mystery

He colored slightly and said I am afraid whrt I am gcirig to tell

you will sound rrther fooli-hbt you ( wil l sco it is irnpv-arit Bernard T i3 in love Titb Genevieve r strlkng-ly handsome girl She had of lato shown mo marked partiality and in his mad jealousy Bernard h^s planned this to ruin me in her eyes

And this according to you is the clue to the affair

Undoubtedly There can be no othshyer cause why anybody should try to compromise me in such a horrible way With your help we will get to the botshytom of it

It is a queer a very queer busishyness darker than you seem to think I do not say this to alarm you but to prepare you for a few surprises Give me the addresses of all the people you have just mentioned and come here to-morrow at four oclock Dont think of revenge this may or may not come later The first thing to be done is to clear you

My visitor thanked me and went away with a lighter step But when he returned the following day he looked more distressed than before

What has gone wrong1 I asked Any fresh trouble

No he replied moodily except that I have had a letter from our lawshyyer begging me to go away at oncemdash for the honor of the family

With a suppressed oath he threw the leter on my table mdash

Never mind^he lawyer Tell him to go to (hemdashColonies himself Since I saw you I have looked into the matter and have gathered a little useful information First let me tell

get

jealousy does not hold water JExcuse my asking you-^haveou ever say flirted with the g i r i r ^

Never1 v

Have you given her any presents or made appointments with her

Never A l l the better for it simplifies matshy

ters Another question Do theyraquoplay baccarat at Marjame J s1

Yes three or four times a week Did you play Yes but I gave up becausemdash You found you lost too much Youve guessed it I did lose How much About two thousand-dollars Just what I expected I have reshy

ceived some queer reports about your friends Madame J s reputation is 7ar from good and I suspect her salon to be a trap to swindle peoplemdashlike you Bernard T certainly didx inshyherit some money last year but he ran through it and he is now the asshysociate and possibly the tool of proshyfessional gamblers As to the vicomte there is some mystery here and I disshytrust mysteries And now my dear Mr B I am- afraid I must say something that will upset you You have undoubtedly an enemymdashnot that Bernardmdashbut a man or woman who has a more potent interest in ruinshying your reputation Look into the past and see whether you can detect any such person

Mr B stared at me in amazeshyment f

An enemy he cried I en enshyemy I have never ptaod In anybodys way and no 2ian in mine As to wom-erraquo tey have played no part in ray life I have fallen in love only once mdashand that with the girl I was to have married he added with a bitter smile

You will not be the first to have made such a startling discovery Othshyers have made it and in this very room too I see I cannot look to you fgr assistance in this business Keep quiet until you hear from me I hoplt3 it will be soon

I do not know a more villainous ofshyfense than that of sullying a mans reputation to rob him of what is dear-er^to him than lifemdashhis honor And I resolved to use all my energy to come to this poor fellows assistance espeshycially as the conviction grew upon me that my young friend was the victim of a plot a fiendish conspiracy and

0 ItvtiM

details about by Martha D-

the to give me some disturbance caused She had it seems smkshed a window using threatening language and the yicomte had applied for a summons

I sent for her andabull111 tie before six she was announced a tall dark-eyed girl who played an insignificant part in the new farce at the Folies-Dramat-iques She was very selt-possessed

and asked what I wanted of hor And so you had a scene with your

friend the vicomte She turnedsharply around and her

eyes grew warlike v

My friend you call him I can dispense with such friends When a map borrows money from a woman and does not papound her the least he can do is to be civil to her

That is true Why did he borrow money from you

I dont know At times he has plenty of cash and at others not a cent

I suppose he gambles a bit You bet Since he goes to that

new club in the Rue Maubeuge he is always flush with monepound H e has been wonderfully lucky there too much so I fancy

Why too much bo Oh I dont know And she shrugshy

ged her shoulders J draquod x^t Mrit it prudent to press

the point If he borrowed money from you

and as you say has now plenty why does he not pay you

He might have done so but he has his silly pri(Je He was annoyed that I alluded to it in the presence of his friend an Englishmanmdashalthough that man did not understand a word of FreBci)mdash and he had specially asked me to come that evening I would have done better to have gone away as I was getting cross at their talkshying English all the time

Possibly he-too was cross if the Englishman paid you too much attenshytion

No she laughed he is too fond of himself to notice Buch things And the Englishman was too absorbed in what the vicomte was saying

In the course of my career I reshymember having only twice assumed a disguise and this was oae of the oc-

BREATH VEPL DEALT

that those who slipped the incrbninat- J casions I do inpound cards into his pocket were only Gemier or Mr thlaquo instruments of scoundrels who art of mak1 lt vonld remain in the dark unless I dragged theminto- the light

During his narrative of the tragic sceneat Madame J s house I had not been favorably impressed by the attitude of this vicomte th^ self-con-ctituted president of the impromptu tribunal of honor I therefore decidshyed to leave the fiery Bernard alone for thepresent and take the myto-rious nobleman in hard after having first found out who he was

I confided the laior mission to Nichshyolas one of my men whom his colshyleagues h^d nicknsmed the Diver because^of his wonderful skill in div-

nto peoples pasts and unearthshying the most hidden secret a I did net see my diver ror two days but when he turned np he looked happy and handed me his report It was one of his weaknesses He bad started life as a writing-master and as be wrote a beautiful hand he seized every opportunity of displaying i t

The report read as follows

CIO Hector St mdash fcorn in Paria in 1S7)

from Greek parents Enlisted at nineteen in the Papal Zouave Three years later emigrated to Australia In 1876 was In Ualy where received the title of vicomte ftradenthe Pope In Florence eloped with tne wife of a well-known banker Came to Paris and in was Implicated In turf scandal For reason that did not transpire was asked to resign his memshybership of the Y Club Remained two years -In England after which he reshyturned to Pari Has small apartment In Rue Labowlere Ia well known in the baccarat world Is one of the support-

not aspire to rival M Beerbohm Tree in the ones self unrecognizshy

able but with a few touches about the eyes the nose with a dark wig and dyed eyebrows I felt pretty safe as I issued forlh to enter the enemys camp

At ten oclock in the evening I preshysetted myself at the Club in the Ria Maubeuge As I expected I was mfcrmed that only members had a right to enter but the doorkeeper tock my card after which a gentleshyman came down-rtalrs euroyed me harshyrow ly asked me for my address and rpparertly satisfied with my appearshyance remarked that I could join as a country member

It Is not quite regular he said for me to admit you before you are properly introduced but as you do not reside in Paris and intend to reshyturn soon to Limoges we will allow you to come in now on payment of the entrance fee You must be duly proposed and seconded

era of new gambling-nub opened a monthjof risking their money in fashionable ago In the Rue -Matibctiffc Goes thererTI71t_ i _ laquo~_n i nearly evrlaquory j light Means unknown but is not believed to have a fixed Income

P S-The^ntght before last at half-pst twelvk s^nt for a policeman because Marthe D his former swetheart was creating a disturbance outside his place

The Diver had acquitted himself well of his task and I told him so

you that your theory about Bernards frac34 what he could not ta^wbdquowas that the most Important part of his report was In the postscript

I went to the police commissaTT in the vicomtes district and laquo6ked mm

l lrw the old etory I had heard it before

I then entered the baccarat room where around a loraquog table covered with green baize a dozen persons were seated I looked about me It was still early and tne business Of the evening had not begun The players were of the ordinary type The mashyjority of them were pigeons ready to be plucked the rest bore the undenishyable stamp of the professional gamshybler My attention however waa censhytered on the croupier ^ Few peoplemdasheven those in the habit

clubs or in casinos of well-known wa tering-fclacesmdashhave a rembtg idea of the important post this official holds With a long flat wooden scoop-something like a cricket-batmdashhe rakes in the counters from-the losers and pays the winning side

In great clubs these men are carefulshyly watched to avoid any trickery but in the small gambling-dens their role 1 altogether a different one When som one opens one of these deqs Which being clubs can be raided only

croupier becomes are bent on rob-

with difficulty the his partner Both bery

If the proprietormdashalways a professhysional sharpermdashtakes the bank fy will cheat the players by a spries of tricks too numerous to be explained here When however a guileless stranger acts as banker the croupiers role comes in for while he rakes in the money for the banker a portion of it disappears into his pockets in manner which only the most expert eye can detect )

For the benefit of the uninitiated I will explain the principles of the game

The player sit on the right and left of the banker who has several comshyplete packs of cards in front of him When the players have staked their money the banker deals one card to the rigbt one card to the left^and one to himself He repeats this operation

One of the players on either tide of the banker takes up the cards and plays them against the banker for his side of the table

The object of the game is to score ninemdash-not moremdashor as near that numshyber as possible^mdashwith the two card^ a third card can be had if desired Court-hards and tens aro valueless If the total of the spots comes to more than ten ten must be deducted

If the bankers score is below that of the players he loses if above he wins

Slowly the room began to fill and toward half-past eleven a tall thin man with a grayish beard and small piercing eyes came in from the de scription given me I recognized the Vicomte de St He smoked a cigshyarette paying little attention to what went on at the table where a banker with only three hundred francs in the bank was dealing his cards in a desulshytory fashion

A l l at once the vicomtes face brightshyened and he went up with extended hands to vome fashionably dressed men who had just entered I guessed they were what in - gambling-hourse parlance Is called r Big Game I then gave up my seat at the table where I was too much In view and stood behind tiuj-^piayers where I could watch everything

A bright-looking youth took tho bank for five thousand francs and play began in real earnest Somebody called Hanco (staking all thereis in the bank) nnd the excilenient rose to a high pitch

Thus far the vicomte had not joined in the game at last to my delight I saw him take^u bank also for five

-thousand francs He called for fresh cards

This call for fresh cards at such a time demands an explanation In the gambling world it Is well known that after the- cards have been shuffled cut and placed in front of the banker it is easy for the latter by sleight of hand to put a few prepared cards on the top that will give him two or three winning deals If therefore the banker asks for fresh cards tho uninshyitiatedmdashand unfortunately they form the majoritymdashsuppose that no trickshyery is possible I am sorry 4o have to disabuse them

The woQst swindles arepracticed with socallei new packs I say so-called because in the directorial sanctum they have undergone a curishyous process The pack is held over a steaming kettle the wrapper skilfully removed the cards taken out arrangshyed to give the dealer the advantage and ariin crrrfuMy replaced in the original wrapper

The study I had in former years been compelled to make of these pracshytices now proved useful and I moved behind the vicomtes chair so as not to lose one of his movements

Five new packs were brought in and the croupier undid the four leavshying oneon the niantlepiece Reshuffled the four-packs with a great deal of zest yet so dexterously that their orshyder was not changed The man was a great expert in the sham-shufiling trick

Of all thjg_peopleVin the room I certainly waa the most interested in the game for I was playing for higher stakes than any of themmdash(or a mans honor Supposing these cards brought on a tray should not have been tampered with supposing the vicomte played a fair game without any attempt at cheating my whole combination fell to the ground and I should have to invent anoher mode of attack

I held my breath when the first cards were dealt and then a feeling of relief came over me for I at once recognized the famous combination known as the 705 or more approprishyately the Lightning Flash because of the rapidity with -Which it cleans out its victims And by way of cu-riousity I give below this extraordshyinary scries from which it will be seen that with the exception of two deals where banker and players have the same points the former wins every coup The players mny rut as many times as they like li 1 not affect the game

A quarter of an hour later the vicomte rose He smiled and could well afford to do so for he had made a big haul Three oclock struck the last bank a small one had been dealt Everybody left and I was on the sofa pretending to be asleepv

W W s that I heard the vicomte ask i bull

^ h r i t s a chap from Limoges He came to-night for the first time was the reply

I Jumped up and said to the vishycomte

bullEach Sack of flftyraquotwo cards Is ar ranged leuro the followingorder face upshyward The noughtsssrepreaent either court cards or tens which in baccarat are valshyueless 70 5 bull 0 ^ laquo 6 4 I t $ 0 8 0 1 2 6 9 0 S 7 0 J 7 0 4 a o t laquo o i $ e s s e i t s raquo ft r 4 o o o s s

I want a few momeats converse^ tion with you gt

He looked bard at me ami conduct^ ed me to the next room I took off my wig but before I could utter word the vicgicte placed himself in front of the door

Get away from there I commendshyed I am M Goron Dont attempt any nonsense or I call up my men and have you and your croupier taken to the depot

lie could not suppose that I had come unaccompanied and silently took a chair

Perhaps you will tell me what all this itieans he asked

Certainly But first ring the bell and s-end away your servants i

My orders were obeyed And now I continued follow me

into the card room 1 led the way and from the mantelshy

piece took the fifth pack xjeft there when the vicomte had dealt the cards-

The croupier who had remained beshyhind moved toward the door

Come ^ere t shouted to him Take off your coat and waistcoat and hand them to me

He did so trembling with fear and out of several long pockets lined with velvet to deaden the sound If

tock a handful of counters You scoundrel I said I watched

you do this And now clear out I want to talk i o your mastermdashand acshycomplice

I handed the vicomte the pack of cards I had taken up and said

Let me call them over to you with my back turned Seven nought five nine noughtmdashI forget the rest but I think this ought to be enough I have seen the Lightning Flash done before Do you want any more reashysons why I came here tonight

He seemed stunned and shook his head

Cannot this scandal be avoided he asked

Expect nothing from me until you have told me the whole truth about the Allen B affair at Madame j gts what was the object of that conspiracy and who is at the bottom of it

He looked at me with a cunning exshypression |

I think I see your gamey Monsier Goron Allow me to comlrtfment you on your skill- In other words you want me to make certain disclosures In that case It is but right I shouldmdash

I gave him no time to finish bis sentence but seizing him roughly by the arm shouted

I arrest you you scamp t raquogt What I expected happened The

coward in him came to the fore He 4H4nged nnd crawledT--^ndmdashtheg-~te4d-me he had instructed Bernard T to elip the cards in poor Allen B s pockets

Whose orders did you carry outM

An Englishmans Harold W or in reality Edshy

ward K mdash He pave me a surprised glance Yos bull bull For what reason I dont know You can believe me

It is a secret between him and Allen and I would never have done this thing had I not been in Edward K s hands He compelled me to do it

He put his statement down In writshying and then took me to his apart-input where at my request he handshyed me two letters from Edward K

I whs on the point of leaving when I remembered Mademoiselle Marthe

Sit down again and write a note to the police commissary in your district that you wish to withdraw your charge against Marthe D

The vicomte who had given un feelshying surprised at anything wroft the note and handed it to me

It was six oclock and broad dayshylight when I reached home I at once sent for Allen B

Who is Edward K I asked beraquo fore he had even time to sit down

A distant connection Why i What object had he in disgracing

you He Impossiblemdashhe belongs to a

firpt-elnffl county family Rlnw your county families Read

this and I handed him the vicomtes statement

I never thought it possible that deshylight and horror could be expressed at the same time on anybodys face Allen B- performed that extraordl nary feat Then he shook me by both hands until my arms ached and exshyclaimed

What a scoundrel Who could have dreamed this Monsieur Goron it all dawnsupon me now Three years ago that man proposed to a Jady to whom I afterward became engaged She rejected him and hemdash

That wil l do These are family seshycrets I dont want to know more than T can help Leaver at once for England T h l i document and those two letters will clear you and i f anyshybody wants more information refer them to me

He again wrung my hands too moved to speak then he took up his hat and stick 4 -

One more word before you go I said Do you know what strikes me aft the queerest part about tpoundllaquo queer affair It is that wbiamp your fat and the lady you~wer about to threw you over without even you a hearing two people Parismdashone your humble-s the other the daughter who keeps a gambl Heved in you But 1 improbable comes mdashrfeel tired ^

The vlcoi Paris the learned

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Despefatei Defense of Adr ianople

S a v e d the C a p i t a l -Kit

U P S E T P L A N S O F T H E A L L I E S

^rqderlck Palmsr Tefls of the Furious fighting by the Ottoman Armies

That Balked Dcmctrleff and Ivanoff

By FREDERICK P A L M E R Staff Correspondent of the Chicago

Record-Herald in the Balkan War

war meant no aggrandizement only that no more territory would be taken from them This is enough after

^ lsome generations to b r e a t h e e$en-M | sive instinct in any soldieiC

The Turk must have his back against the wall in order to fight well His attitude is that cf the mad bull against the toreador and e veryltspaad bull we know sometimes gets a horn into the toreadors anatomy and tossshyes him over the palings This hapshypened in a way at Adrianople

Victory is to the heaviest batshytalions Bonaparte said this but aftshyer Caesar said it after some general of Egypt Babylon or Nineveh

The allies knew that tb^ir success depende on speed in a fall campaign mdashspeed and the shock of masses pour ing over the frontier Theirs was a hundred-yard-dash chance

The Serbs at Kumanova their critshyical battle had odds of at least four to one

The Greeks riever had less favorshyable odds usually much higher

-Mustapha PashamdashThe minarets of A s f o r the Montenegrins who had Saltan Selim

Needle-like I have seen them rise ovser the indistinct mass of Adriano-p lpound from the distant hills then as substantial columns from the nearby bills and againso close from the The only one of the allies who dis-heilproof of an advanced infantry4^- a I l l e ^ modern organization their fai l

make out the of the great

position that I could tilings on the dome

mprue itself Tbe simple grace of the minarets

-dominated town and landscape and siege Weary drivers of the weary oxen of the transport and still wearshyi e r artillerymen bringing up addishytional^ guns through seas of mud saw tbem tor the first time as a token of djfefiance of work unfinished of batshytles yet to be fought and of lives yet to be lost

Infantrymen in the advanced -trenches saw them as the goal against a foe which had fallen back -Without any adequate rear guard secshytion but which had begun to fight bulldesperately under their shadows

That Turkish garrison as it withshydrew into the shelter of its forts seemed to find something of the spirit o f old Sultan Selim the Magnificent far whom the mosque was named out with this difference Sultan Selim was not given to falling back

bullcm forts and minarets He stormed forts he went ahead to plant new minarets in the soil of Christendom

Rouses Old Turks Spirit Prom the first in this war the Turk

took the defensive frorn^ the first he acepted it as his part and portion of ihe campaign

In Riilgnrila w W p many Turk ptill l i v e under Christian rule we had laquoeen the Terrible Turk the great fighting man of the past whose soul was supposed to be above lowly toil as a hewer of wood and a carrier of water He did odd jobs in the abshysence of the Bulgarian at the front Tbe Hon of the past had been trained to dog harness

A l l the earry victories of the Bulshygarian army completed an impression laquoof a one-time lordly race demoralized and enervated who retained only the fataitem of Kismet in its lexocon

Te warrior cry For Al lah was los t forever But at Adrianople For Allah For the Minarets For the Padlsna rose again to the dignity wWcb abandoned bravery always comshymands

The sheer Impetuous fearlessness gtf the Bulgarian well drilled and coolly manipulated was the first great revelation of the campaign and the second was how In the hour of hopelessness his desperation arous-jed the old qualities of the Turk

iBvery situation eve^y development In the war reverted to Adrianople It

laquowas the nut to crack in the first plan ofstrategy of the campaign It hovshyered over the first army before Tchatalja as a nightmare It stood i n the way of the prompt supplies of bread and bullets for the first army i t delayed the signing of the armisshyt ice for ten days it Was been the main subject of contention before

London peace conference ft war mslble for the treatment of the

mampitary attaches who saw nothing of the war and of the correspondentsmdash laquorfco saw little

War Hinges on Adrianople jBtoeti our phlegmatic little English-

speaking censor assistant at Musta-pha wouldrltIpse his temper at the bulldry suggestion of any peace termg wj[gft Adrianople still in Turkish posshysession

shall have a revolution if we t get Adrianople I have heard

my officers say VWe shall not go home without

JMfriftROple the wounded soldiers wtnrnmg from the front kept repeat-

a small show what they did in one way or another did not matter They had work to keep them fully occushypied as it developed in the siege of Scutari

ure to make any headway again emshyphasizes the wide difference between a body of men with rifles and an acshytual army

Bulgars Bear Wars Brunt So the Bulgarians took the great

and telling work of the war on their shoulders You have only to know the Bulgarians to understand that this

was inevitable There is stubborn an4 aggressive

character enough in Bulgaria to spare for all southwestern Europe

Bulgaria made a hundred-yard dash with ox cart transportation and made it around an obstaclemdashAdrianople The main railroad line and the great Constantinople highway ran by Adrishyanople It was on the direct line of communication from the center of the Bulgarian base to the center of its objective

In the center of Thrace it was the only real fortress on the way to Conshystantinople Kirk-Killis8eh or Losen-grade as the Bulgarians call it deshyspite their willingness to allow an imshypression of its formidaliHty to be spread abroad was not in any sense well fortified

Now the first thing was to surround Adrianople that is to strike at it from all sides as the key to the poshysition A branch of the main Sofla-

-Conotantlnoplo ra-Hroad-Jjne runs to

ffttch were the instructions which fir Daneff the Elihu Root of the Balshys a m took with pound im to London Ad-rfanoplewas graven on the minds of M s countrymen By diplomacy he -mast get a fortress which was not jFBt taken by force of arms

d a n c e at a map -and you will see tha t the whole success of the allies depended on bottling up the Turk on t h e peninsula so that all the other

forcesltlom Scutari to Adri-bullUtC Iron Kdftanova to Hasetfha

^ltsectat-^Jbamu communica-ieiOreek| Serbs and Mon-

fere the backs The Bui-lerteolc to buck the line (

Id not- raquoave to consider European public

tlousies of the pow-it substitutes for

statesmanship pi were beat

permit lulgariai

tj win

Yamboli With this as its base Deme trieffs or the First army swung around Kirk-Kilisseh which was takshyen in the first splendid ardor of the campaign With its fall anyone can see from a staff map that any battle line of defense with Adrianople as a part of it was impossible for a force of the numbers of the Turkish main army

Two or three hundred thousand men who were homogeneous might have held on but not half that numshyber when badly organized Thereshyfore Nazim Pasha had to fall back to a new line and leave Adrianople to care for itself

Reveals Bulgar Courage The next step was the decisive batshy

tle on the line from Lule Burgas to Bunnarhissar

There again superiority of numshybers as well as organization countshyed that superiority which makes a havy turning movement possible while the enemyB front is engaged

In short the Bulgarians had the Turks going They gave the Turks no rest and they had a sufficient nushymerical preponderance in additionto the dependable courage of their inshyfantry to guarantee success

So there was nothing wonderful about the strategy of the campaign nothing new nothing startling The old principle of the swift movement had been applied to the sitshyuation in hand gt

By the flank the Japanese kept putshyting the Russians back from the Yalu to Mdkden^By the flank Grant put Lee back to Richmond

There was just one and only one startling feature In this warmdashBulgarishyan courage f hat enabled Demetrieff to gain at Kirk-Killisseh and Lule Burgas in a hurry what with most armies would have required much more time

Demetrieff had willing flesh for a necessary sacrifice He threw his inshyfantry against frontal positions In a cloud into shrapnel and automatic gun fire without waiting to silence the enemys batteries

Expected to Take Adrianople And after Lule Burgas the next step

would have seemed the storming of Adrianople When peace negotiations should begin It was a vital point in their favor in the negotiations to have Adrianople in their possession

The^Bulgarian treatment of the cor^ respondents is one of the manySrv dlcations that the Bulgarian staff did at one time expect to take Adrianople by storm

It was argued by serious correshyspondents who did not feel that they ought to waste their time or the money of their papers In idleness that the Bulgarian government ought not to have received any correspondshyents at all But this was not logic to the government The press represhysented public opinion It could serve a purpose and ail the college professshyors in the land who spoke any forshyeign language found their work in the common cause no less than grandfa-

made of the wounded nor even of the weather if it were bad for bad weatb-

er might tell the enemy that the roads Were bad ltj i

While many an ixaaginaw account because it had the similitude of narshyrative which characterizes all conshyvincing fiction was haUed as real war correspondence t hV Bulgarian staff when it came to actual reports pf actions (exclusive of massacres) was scrupulously exact andexasperat-ingly late and brief bull

A l l praise by the press kept the ball of the prestige of victory rolling It helped to convince the powers and the Turk that the Bulgarian army was irresistible The Btage climax of the whole campaign would be the fall of Adrianople Therefore were the -correspondents moved to Musta-pha Pasha just as Lule Burgas was being won and Constantinople being then supposedly defended only by a demoralized army which could not make a stand every report from Mus-tapha PaBha ^which showed that Adrianople was on the point of capitshyulation added to the stage effect of Bulgarian triumph

Turks Defy the Bulgars As the first Bulgarian army drew

near the Tchatalja lines the mise en scene was complete ffut Nazim Pasha making use of the elapsed time to fortify the Tchatalja lines rather than submit to the humiliating termfi offered bade the Bulgarian hosts come on

Success had turned the bedds even of the Bulgarian staff They had beshygun to think that the^bld fighting qualshyity was out of the Turk and sowiHing was the Bulgarian infantry to undershygo slaughter that it was only a case of recording another charge of flesh against shrapnel and automatic gUn fire and the day was won

Alas an old principle of war dealshying with an impossibility of the same order as squaring the circle in mathshyematics was now to bring generalship back from the clouds to solid earth

You can take strong positions in front only with time by sapping and mining and all the weary operations of a siege as the Indomitable Grant learned by the failure of his flrsh rush

General Demetrieff

at Vlcksburg and the Indomitable Nogi learned by the failure of the first rush attack at Port Arthur

In a week any army that has spades and a few of the resources of material which should be part of the storehouse at its base should make such a position as that of the series of rising Irills back of Tchatalja fully tenable against any but siege attack unless there was room for a flank atshytack

Turks Turn the Tables And the breadth of the position

turning open to infantry approach in any atshytempt at storming was only 16 miles while from either sea side of the narshyrow etrip^ of peninsula the Turkish navy could bring into play more powshyerful guns than any Demetrieff had at his disposal

At the same time there is to be kept in view the generally accepted tenet that you must not send inshyfantry against any well entrenched poshysition until its batteries are silenced or it is known that they can be kept under control during the infantry atshytack by a well concentrated fire of your own batteries

Demetrieff used his guns tbr a day in trying to develop the strength and location of the enemys batteries But the Turks would not be drawn At last the tables were turned

Meanwhile Adrianople also was tellshying You may discuss as much as you please whether the original plan of the Bulgarian staff was to mask this fortress or to take it by storm the fact remains that the only result was to mask it and the lesson was that any garrison in the rear of an advanshycing army though it is held securely in investment remains a mighty force In being for the enemys purpose

Nature meant Adrianople to be a fortress Past it on the soutfi flows the Maritza river taking its origin in the Balkans and plowing its way across the alluvial lowlands of Thrace to the sea A strong bridge crosses it on the line of the Constantinople highshyway at Mustapha Pasha some twenty-five miles from Adrianople

This bridge which is not far from the Bulgarian frontier the Turks left intact jkjeharacteristic piece of careshylessness in theearlier part of the war

ther found-hia-in driving an ^x-cart-fiu-keeping with-all otheT-slgns-TyrTiir Jjcish demoralization and wrongheaded-pess which might easily lead the Bulshygarians to think that Adrianople would not resist a brilliant onslaught Mustapha Pasha became tbe head quarters of the second Bulgarian army

and the women In making bread yTfce plan was well thought out and

the regulations which would flit a iCfflbuim^etLnpt^ officers or college professors out of Ipnsideratlon No mention was to be

under General Ivanoff who Vas to have tho thankless task of the operashytions around Adrianople W$le-eaampy glory was te 6ethe fortune of Deme-trleff w^T commended the ^rst army mdashuntUMie first alaquoHy had t4 take poshysitions in rbnt without anyopportushynity for flanking which was the nashyture of Ivanoffs task from the start

Uanoff Wakes Up It was Papastepe and Kartaltepe

which wakened Ivanoff from hia dream of a final brilliant stroke in keeping with the earlier ones of the war just as Tchatalia brqught Demetrieff down from the clouds of overconfidence Papastepe is one of many hills in the narrowing rib of the 203 Meter H i l l of the siege With guns in position there Adrianople would be under bombardment The Bulgarians took it by sending in the usual cloud of inshyfantry and losing about a thousand men But the Turks took it back again Four times I am told it changed hands in the course of those night actions which we observed only by the brilliant flashes in the sky above the hills

Far up the valley in the mist was Kartaltepe that other important hil l which commanded the river bottom of the Arda We took Kartaltepe in Noshyvember and a month afterward in one of their splendid sorties the Turks so far as I could learn had taken it back but it was as untenable for them as Papastepe was for the Bulshygarians Possibly because it was again ours and very evidently ours permashynently the Bulgarian censors had found it worth while to confound skepticism and persistent unfriendly rumors by allowing the corresponshydents to enter the promised land of their dreams where for weeks beshytween the batteries on the hills and the infantry in the muddy river botshytom of the Arda hell had raged in the winter rains

We did not know then as we were to know a few days later that beyond Kartaltepe in the direction of Dele-gatch was another force isolated from the Adrianople garriscm^a^a^nievmain Turkish army thatof Xaver Pas with 10000 men caught in the literal flood of that 100-yard dash of the ready informed prepared aggressor against the unready enemy taken un aware and hastening re-enforcements to the scattered garrisons and trying to adjust itself for the blow to fall with the crash of a pile driver releasshyed from its clutch

Discloses War Secret But Taver Pashas 10000 were still

a force in being with guns and full

I f l i e C E P T l l S

JOIN IN ASKING OTTOMAN DELshyEGATES TO GIVE UP TO BALshy

K A N A L L I E S

P E A C E C O N F E R E N C E ADJOURNED OVER CHRISTMAS

Diplomats Admit the Situation Is Criticlal One as the Young Turks

Are Advocating Breaking Off A l l Negotiations

equipmentmdasha rorce in a box a force in desperation

Do you seethe Adrianople garrison (which was inrtouclj by wireless with theTurkish main army) striking out to connect up with Taver Pasha Do you see Taver Pasha trying out lines of least resistance in a savage effort to reach Adrianople or the main Turshykish army

Something to stir the blood this in the way j f war drama while not a single foreign correspondent or atshytache knew even of the existence of Taver Pashas command Until its surshyrender

The news of this was conveyed with the official assurance that now no othshyer Turkish force except that of Adrishyanople remained in Thrace when we had been under the impression for over a month that It was the only one The censors did not smile as they posted the bulletin but some of the correspondents smiledmdashat themshyselves

No after the first rainbow hope of a successful general attack was over Ivanoff was fully occupied in holding Adrianople safely in siege That batshytery of old Krtipps which fired over the advanced Servian infantry posishytion while a battery of Crejisotr in turn fired over it addedtheir items opound evidence to the same end

These Krupps were taken by the Russians at Plevna in the war of 1877laquo 78 and given to the little army of the new nation of Bulgaria Bulgarian reshycruits had dragged them through the muddy rtraquoads and over the pastures and beautifully emplaced them and were working them against the enemy with boyish pride But the world wa thinking only of the modern Creusots and their brilliant showing

The Bulgarians almost proved that you can make bricks without straw They won the war by the bravery of their self-confidence as Well as by their courage

Adrianople which was about to starve if it did not fail had I am conshyvinced two months supplies when the armistice was signed With the Id and 20-year-old conscripts already on the way to the front with a casualty list that is easily one-fifth of the whole army there was no sign of weakening

The square chin of the stoical Bulshygarianwas as firmly set as ever I wonder what would happen in Europe if it included in its borders a nation of 100000000 Bulgarians

The six powers are urging Turkey to abandon Adrianople and to accept in principle the terms proposed by the Balkan allies at the last session of the peace conference

It was learned from a semi-official source that Great Britain France and Russia the triple entente and Gershymany Austria-Hungary and Italy of the triple alliance through secret diplomacy are advising the porte to accept the proposal of the allies beshycause for Turkey to refuse would cause the Balkan war to be resumed and resumption of hostilities might endanger the peace of the rest of Eushyrope always admittedly precarious

Diplomats admitted that the situashytion was a most delicate and difficult one because the militarists of Conshystantinople and the Young Turks are advocating the breaking off of negotia tions renewal of hostilities

B L A M E P L A C E D O N P H Y S I C I A N S

bully- ^

Y A M A G A T A S T A B B E D

Attempt Made by Fanatic to Japans Military Councilor

7 KlllVI

An attempt was madef in Tokioto assassinate Prince Arltoma Yamagata the president ofmdashthe -Japanese privy council and supreme military counshycilor of Japan His assailant ended his own life

Prince Yamagata was attacked in

Growth of Drug Habit In United States Alleged to 9e p u e t o Opiates ^

Offered in Prescriptions

That 99 pet cent of all the cocaine and morphine manufactured in ttys country is used by persons who have formed the drug habit through physishycians prescriptions is the startling statement made by Dr L F Keblergt Chief of the Division of Drugs Departshyment of Agriculture This statement and others proving that physicians and not patent medicines are reshysponsible for the appalling growth of drug addiction in tbe United States was made by Dr Kebler in an address at Washington before the American Society for the Study of Alcohol and Narcotics

Dr Kebler is quoted by Washington papers as having declared that drug using had increased 100 per cent in the last 40 years and that American medical men were not discriminating enough in their use of opiates Their overindulgence to their patients he said is creating thousands of drug users every year

It is a very sad thing to say that our physicians are doing the greatest work in promoting the use of cocaine and morphine said the doctor State laws are not saving the public from the grip of the drug habit and the American public is sinking tighter anji tighter Into the black abyss of the morphine and cocaine fiend

The worst of it is that the imporshytation of opium into the country is becoming larger and larger year by year - I nave heard it said on reliable authority that 99 per cent of the coshycaine and morphine manufactured in this country is used by persons who have forme^ the habit through docshytors prescriptions bull-Almost siniultaneousJy with Dr Keb-lers address Dr J A Patterson at Grand Rapids Michigan in a public

^statement said that 19 out of every 20 patients who come to an institution wifyi which he is connected for treatshyment for the drug habit owetftheir downfall to physicians prescriptions

Eager for His Rights As little Freddie had reached the

mature age of three and was about to discard petticoats for manly rai-

his home in Seklguchi Koishikawa by bull trade e n t _ i n t h e f deg m _ deg_f_ n c k e r b c k [ B the assassin and was stabbed in two places but not seriously injured The prince is 74 years olfl but has a pow-

his mother determined to make the occasion a memorable one The Brisshytol Times tells what happened

The breakfast table was laden with good fare as the newly-breeched erful physique and he overpowered

1rtir-airsaiulii^^ tendants to remove him to prison The c r i e d t h e p r o u d m o t h e r now you are would-be assassin was a young man 1

a little man apparently not over 22 years old He j The fledgling was in ecstaciee Dis-refused to give his name and when plagtttg his garments to their full ad-asked why he had attempted to ki l l the prince said For my countrys good

The prince was born in 1838 and has won practically every honor that is possible for a Japanese to gain

mdashPorter KHfg Lone Train Bandit To Walter Daniels a negro porter

of Kansas City should go the credit for saving the valuable consignments hi the through safe of the express car of St Louis amp San Francisco-irain No 112 Oklahoma City to Kansas City which was held up near Chandshyler Okla according to passengers on the train Daniels shot and killed the negro bandit while the latter was in the act of robbing the express car

vantage he edged closer to 5his mothshyer and whispered Mummie can I call pa Bil l nowmdashYouths Companshyion

S H O R T ON B R O T H E R L Y L O V E

Luckily William Had Grace Enough to Remember That Henry Was

Sacred

Ancient Science 4 It is generally supposed that those

who combated the opinion that the earth was a spherev when Columbmgt

4 proposed his greatvoyage were only giving expressions to opinions that had always been entertained But the

xfact is that long biafoie the Christian era the Greek and Egyptian philososhyphers entertained the idea that the earth was round and Stew vastly more about eclipses the motions of the moon and other astronomical matshyters than many dp even today The idea of Columbus had been anticipated by the anciejit philosophers^ by_more

than sixteen centuries

Seemingly Good evidence bullIs your son happilymarried Yes

rmafral d he 18 Ive lt)pne4my best to convince Mm laquohe4wt worthy of him but he wont believe |he

80 Convicts Freed by Gov Blease A l l records in South Carolina for

the number of pardons granted in one day were broken w^ien by order of Gov Blease 80 convicts confined in tho state penitentiary and serving on chain-gangs throughout the state were liberated their pardons being granted as Christmas presents

Included in the list are prisoners convicted of offenses ranging from first degree murder to minor infracshytions of the law

Bulgar ArmyJJj of Plague Cholera is causing terrible havoc

^^among the Bulgarian troops encamped 8 FaHong the Tchatalja defenses of Conshy

stantinople according to Gen Guech-eff head of the Bulgarian forces An epidemic of typhoid is also raging in the Bulgarian camp

Twenty-five thousand1 soldiers have been attacked by the cholera and typhoid since the contagion reached the Bulgarian lines from the Turkish camps and the death rate is heavy

Every possible effort is made to stop the spread of the disease the great est cholera experts in Europe having been engaged by Czar Ferdinand alnd ^enttothe front to fight the^epidemics ind direct the sanitation of the camps

Edwin P Riley while camping threw the contents of a can of gasoshyline over a fire He is dyinamp

Practically the entire population of Big Rapids with the exception of inshyfants in arms the i l l the-feeble and the aged wi l l attend the inauguration of Gov-elect Ferris Jan 1 ^

Representative-elect Ashmen H Catshylin of Ingham county wil l present a bi l l in the legislature providing for the erection at Lansing of a workshyhouse similar to the Detroit house of correction for prisoners from central Michigan

Former Cashier Elven T Larson one of the wreckers of the First Nashytional bank at Ironwood four years ago has been paroled from the tie troit house of correction He was sen-tenced to seven years He wi l l pron^ ably to west anfl enter the milling business

William was not kind to his small brother Henry in fact he looked upon him as ~ nuisance a scourge sent from heaven to try his spirit and spoil his fun Especially that day was Henry a thorn in the older boys flesh In his efforteto rid himself of his burden William restorted to all the methods the mind of youth suggested but in vain Henry continued to stick as close if not closer than a brother

William finally said the boys father who had witnessed unheard the final paroxysm of the unequal struggle you should be ashomed of yourself to treat your little brother in that way He ought to be scared to you v

William made no reply but shortshyly afterward believing himself to be free of surveillance he was heard to address Henry thus Always taggin after me If you werent sacred Id break your blamed face for youmdash The Sunday Magazine

S T E A D Y HAND A Surgeons Hand Should 3e the Firm

est of A i l

For fifteen years I have suffered from Insomnia indigestion andxiher vousness as a result of coffee eurorinlaquo-ing said a surgeon the other day (Tea is equally injurious because i t contains caffeine the same drug found in coffee)

The dyspeiteia became so bad that I had to limit) myself to one cup at breakfast Even this caused me to lose my food sopn after I ate it

A l l the attendant symptoms of inshydigestion such as heart burn palpitashytion water brash wakefulness or disshyturbed sleep bad taste in tho mouth nervousness etc were present to such a degree as to incapacitate me for my practice as a surgeon rf

The resttft of leaving off coffee and drinking Postaim was simply marshyvelous The change was wrought forthwith my hand steadied and my normal condition of health was reshystored Name giVen upon request Read the famous little book The Road to WeUviile in pkgs Theres a reason

Postum now comes in concentrated powder form called Instant Postum I tJs prepared by stirring a level tea-spoonful in acup of hot water addftg sugar to taste and enough creani^to bring the color to golden brown K

lustant Postum is convenient theres no waste and the flavor is aK ways uniform Sold by grocers-rgO-cup tin 30

A fccup trfaj name and 2-cent stamp for pastwe Postum Cerear Co m r B ^ t a e Creek Midi Adr v bull bull

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4V vv - bullbull bull S bull ltM frac34 1 iff

W A S D R I V E N B Y S T A R V A T I O N

Jonsmlths Method of Getting Key Wat Rather Extravagantbut

What Could He Do

His wife had been spending a week or two at the seaside with her own people and Jonsmith had been living tfie lone and simple life But there was a curious look of calm desperashytion in his eyes when his wife came back

And presently the wife began to(

make discoveries - bull bull Where is-^mdash she began Goodshy

ness WhatPliave you done with my dresses And what has happened to the lawn Whats that black patch in the center Why-

Jonsmith took a deep breath then spbke bravely and manfully

f Julia -said hemdashJulia I starved rot^tw_a _days and then you wrote to say that the key of the pantry was in the pocket of your second-best tailor-made walking-skirtmdashnot the bolero or the morningmdash

Utl said morning-skirt and not the tailor-made nor themdash

It doesnt matter Jonsmith inshyterrupted wearily and yet with a touch of savagery in his voice I dont know a tailor-made from a morning-skirt nor a bolero from a fichu So I just took the whole lot out on the lawn and burnt them Then I found the key whilst raking among the ashes

M A D E OLD G E N T L E M A N W R O T H t

I D E N T I F I C A T I O N O F A M E R I C A N W O O D S

R E C E N T L Y B E C O M E G R E A T L Y E M P H A S I Z E D

User s Need of Reliable Means of Recognizing Commerc i a l T i m -

~ ber Increases Because of Demand for S t a n d a r d S p e c i e s -

M a n y Expensive L a w s u i t s Result F r o m Controvers ies

Misunderstood Editors Use of French Word and Trouble Was With

Difficulty Averted

It was in Indiana not so very long ago that the daughter of anold White River farmer was reading the country newspaper to t himself She had got to the Personals and read this laquo

Mrs Willie Morritts nee Black has returned from a visit to her parshyents in Indianapolis

I dont quite understand that said the old gentleman

What dont you understand inshyquired the daughter

That part about Mrs Willie Morshyritts nay Black What does nay Black mean

On thats French and means she was born Black

Yes nee is French for born Well it aint so ejaculated the

old man jumping upmdashandmdashshaking his fist I knowed her parents and they were as white as anybody that ever lived in Indianny and Ill see that editor about it But before he could get away the daughter exshyplained matters and the old gentleshyman cooled downmdashExchange

Wanted Slaves for Missouri On January 27 1778 Don Bernardo

de Galvez governor of the Spanish province of Louisiana which included Missouri petitioned the king of Spain for aid for the settlers along the Misshysouri river and Mississippi river in Missouri The said inhabitants he wrote in order to promote the culshyture of these plants ^flax and hemp) would desire that the compassion ot the king should deign to provide them

-with negro slaves on credit for whom they may pay ^with the crops^ aforeshysaid

Be thrifty en little things like bluinjr Dont accept water for bluing Ask for Red eurorosa Ball Blue the extra good value blue Adv

Still Untasted What asked Mrs Oldcastle as she

picked up a volume of Limp Feather Edition of the Classics do you think of Thucydides

bullI really dont know replied Mrs Gottalotte after shehad straightened a corner of her $600 royal Persian rug weve never had any Josiah says theyre no good unless you get them fresh and our grocer never seems to have any except the ones in cansmdashExchange

Limited Knowledge A Muncie bride of two months went

into a department store of the city to buy four pairs of socks for her husshyband

What size please asked the young woman clerk

Well all I know is he wears a 14 collar replied the bride mdash Indianaposhy

l i s News

Perennial No corn today growledthe star

boarder raquo Out of season said the landllady

Every thing is out of season at some time w

Except the prune1

Important to Another Examine carefully every bottle of

CASTORiA a safe and sure remedy for 1 infants and children and see that i t

Bears the Signature of w ^

4n TTse For Over i o Y amp r a T Chi ldren Cry for Fletchers Castoria

Much of that which is called pure J^culaquo8eurodness^-i8- nothingmdashbutmdashfcuraafr

nature

(By G B SUDWORTH) The wood users need of a reliable

means of recognizing commercial woods has become greatly emphashysized in recent years because of the enormous demand for standard kinds and species of woods This increased use is necessitating in some cases the substitution of similar or entirely different woods for many of the well-known and long-used ones the supshyplies of which no longer meet the demand

Some of the substitutes offered are as good as standard timbers while others are inferior to them Howshyever this may be the frequent disshycovery by consumers that they have not received the woods ordered has led to a great many difficulties and to serious controversies involving exshypensive lawsuits

In many instances manufacturers believe that in substituting for exshyample the woods of several different species of ffhe white oak for that of the true white oak they are doing no injustice to purchasers and this belief is reasonably supported by facts Much depends upon the uses made of the timber

No one could deny that for some purposes the woods of the con oak overcup oak post oak bur oak and

1 Blue Oak The Rate of Gro This Tree Requires From Fifteen to Twenty Years to Grow One Inch in Diameter

stant work has made him familiar his knowledge of other woods is necesshysarily limited Cdnfronted with the necessity cf distinguishing the few oak woods he knows from a larger number of different species the charshyacters he has long and safely relied upon are often insufficient because they may be common to the wood of some of the oaks with which he is unshyfamiliar Thus a carefully selected well-seasoned piece of water oak (Q nigra) may be so similar in color and general appearance to some grades of white oak as to deceive not a few unacquainted with the structural charshyacteristics of all our oaks

Another difficulty that may be enshycountered by one who depends enshytirely upon an empirical knowledge of woods is to prove his convictions reshygarding the identity of a wood For Want of exact knowledge of the anashytomical characteristics of the wood in question he can only insist upon his opinion It happens in actual practice that one inspector passes as white oak a shipment composed of white oak black oak and red oak and his judgment is challenged by another inspector yet in such an event neishyther is able to do more than assert his opinion

It must not be understood that a study of the structural characters of woods always renders identification easy It is sometimes extremely difl-I cult to find characters that distinguish the woods of closely related trees which may be abundantly distinct in their flowers fruit and foliage It is comparatively easy to point out simple characters which distinguish oak from other woods Moreover it is not diffishycult to find characters that will sepashyrate the white oaks (annual fruiting species) from the black and red oaks (biennial fruiting species) The task however of pointing out easily obshyserved distinctions that can be relied upon to separate the woods of differshyent species of white oaks black oaks and red oaks is difficult and in a few instances impossible without the aid of the high magnifying power of a

~ cinnpampmi4^niicroscdpe This is because some of the mTnute structural chaTac-

flwamp white oak are as good as that of white oak But the substitution for example of the somewhat similar black and red oaks for true white oak is less easily defended because these substitutes are very different in quality from atiy of the white-oak woods

With numerous oaks therefore as with manpound other woods the consumer has occasion- to distinguish such superficial characters as color feel odor hardness weight etc cannot be depended upon alone as distinctive^ because they vary not only with tfcs age of the tree but also according to the soil in which the tree grew and the ^season and manner of cutting The butt log differs from the top log

the heartwood from the Bamppwood and the wood of a rapidly grown tree from that of a less rapidly grown one of the same species

While the practical woodworker recshyognizes the woods with bdquowhich con-

B a c k a c h e M a k e s A n y o n e F e e l

Nothing ages anyone more quickly than weak kidneys

It is not aloLe the aching back the stiff painful joints but the evil effect of bad poisoned blood on the nerves the vital organs and the digestion

The condition of the kidneys makes good health or ill-health

The kidneys are the filters of the--blood Active kidneys filter from the blood evshy

ery day over one ounce of poisonous waste and pass it off dissolved in the urine

If the kidneys are weak or diseased only part of this filtering is done and the blood is heavy with uric acid and other poisonshyous or waste matter gt Instead of being nourished by the

blood the nerves and vital organs are irshyritated and the circulation digestion etc are disturbed

If your back aches constantly if your joints are stiff lame and painful suspect the kidneys

Kidney sufferers are likely to feel dull heavy restless at night rheumatic dizzy at times subject to headaches and anshynoyed with sharp piercing pains that make work an agony and rest impossible

Doans Kidney Pills are the best-recomshymended and most widely used remedy for weak or diseased kidneys They act quick- ly contain no poisonous nor habit-form^ ing drugs and leave no bad after-affects of any kindmdashjust make you feel better all over

Every Picture Telt a Story

The following case is typical of thej effected by Deans Kidney Pills Ctaampefttl testimony is the best evidence

ALMOST WENT BLIND Chicago Man Tells of Awful SuffeWnpgt

J J Wolf prop barber shop 2086 Or den Ave Chicago 111aaySi- lMy back ached terribly and I had sharp stabbing pains throughout my body I kept getshyting worse suffering from splitting head aches and dizzy spells during whicji It would nearly lose my balance My eye became so effected that I nearly went blind I became dropsical and ws sogt puffed up at night that when I tock off my shoes there were deepridges around4

my ankles I got so thin and emanated that my friends hardly knew me There was always a desire to pass the kidney secretions and I had to get up often at flight The secretions were scanty and scalding in passage and contained a large amount of stringy white substances with blood Finally I was laid up helpless The doctor did me no good and I gave up hope When a friend urged me to taker Doans Kidney Pills I did and I had taken but a few doses when I felt some thing give away inside of me The pain was terrible and shortly after I passed five gravel stones each tbe size of a beanraquogt In three davs I felt like a different man Six boxes of Doans Kidney Pills made mf well The cure has been permanent

bullWhen Your B a c k is L a m e ^ R e m e m b e r the Name

D O A N S K I D N E Y P I L L S Sold by all DealclaquoLfrico 50 cents fastcr-Mflburn Co Buffalo M Ybdquo Proprietors

ters easily demonstrated when greatshyly magnified cannot be seen under)the low magnifying power of alt pocket lens

species of oaks known in the world about 53 occur within the United States Thirty-five include all of the commercially useful Ones and a numshyber of other species the woods of which are likely to become more or lesB useful in the future The remainshying fifteen species are of inferior qualshyity or the trees occur in such limited quantities as to be of little or no ecoshynomic importance

Not Missed If a man gets an idea into his

head that the community he lives in cannot get along without him the surest cure is for him to take a months visit somewhere remarks E B Going of Osawa^omie

When he comes ^home he will find thatthe cow has been milked regushylarly during his absence that the corn has been husked and cribbed just as well as he could have done it that the chiekens and ducks and pigs didnt stop growing during his abshysence that the regular winterJiterary society has been organized ^ n d is making progress without his august presence that the roads have been dragged regularly and that some of his own neighbors didnt even know he had been away These are just a few of Hhe little things that make a fellow realize he is not so many potashytoes to the hill as he thinks he ismdash Kansas City Journal

T H E B J S T ^ T R E A T M E N T F O R

A N D F A L L I N G HAIR

To allay itching and irritation of the Of the approximately 300 differe-nt4 B c a l P raquo Prevent- dry thin and falling

hair remove crusts scales and dan-dru|ft-anltL promote the growth and beauty of the hair the following speshycial (treatment is most effective agreeshyable and economical Oh retiring cohib thamp hair out straight all around tfaenr begin at the etde~and make a

Not Ready to Decorate J D Bowersock of Lawrence was

explaining to the Kansas editors last week how he feels toward certain edishytors I am like the Dutchman said he The Dutchman came to town on Decoration day He laquoaw the flags flying and the pepple going to the cemetery with large bunches of flowshyers He asked whai^ineant Why this is Decoration oa said one Dont you know what that is The Dutchman confessed that he didnt The man then explained it Isnt there some one at rest in the cemeshytery whose grave you would like to decorate with flowers asked the man The Dutchman shook his head and replied Dose peebles vat graves I like to degorate are not dead yet mdashKansas City Star

SEEING IS BELIEVING

Selecting Seed Corn The state of Minnesota has taken

official notice of the idta of better seed corn and the governor set aside a- week in which the farmers were asked to go one day into their fields and choose their seed corn fdr next year

A Y R S H I R E I S E X C E L L E N T M I L K P R O D U C E R

It takes a sharp man to make a tool of a dull one

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parting gently rubbing Cuticura ointshyment info the parting with a bit of soft flannel held over the end of the finger Anoint additional partings about half an inch upart until the whole scalp has been treated the pur pose being to get the Cuticura Ointshyment on the scalp skin rather than on the hair It is welj to place a light covering over the hair to protect the pillow from possible stain The next morning shampoo with Cuticura Soap and hot water Shampoos alone may be used as often as agreeable but once or twice a month is generally sufficient for this special treatment for womens hair

Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world Sample of each free with 32-p Skin Book Address post-card Cuticura Dept L Boston Adv

Obliging Landlord It was getting very late and Dub-

bleighs gasoline has given out Anybody around here got anyv gasshy

oline he asked drawing up at a small hotel by the roadside

Nobody but me said the landlord Goqd said Dubbleigh How

much do you want for I t Couldnt sell it to ye today said

the landlord Its Sunday But see here my friend protestshy

ed Dubbleigh What can I do Imdash Ye might put up here for the

night said the landlord indifferentshyly I got a nice room I can let ye have for $7mdashHarpers Weekly

S a s k a t c h e w a n

Y o u r O p p o r t u n i t y

I t N O W In the Province of S a s k a t c h e w a n Western C a n a d a bdquo Do yout defile to got s Free Homestead of 160 ACRES ot that well known Wheat Land area to becoming more limited but no less valuable

NEW DISTRICTS nave roeontly been opened up for settlement and into theflo railshyroads are now being built Tho day will soon cozuo when there will bo no M Free Homesteadlnjr land left A Swift Current Saskatchewan farmer writes 1 came on toy homestead March 1006 with about 11000 worth of horses and machinshyery and juampt 886 in caah Today 1 have DUO acres of wheat 900 acres of oats und GOacruscf flax Mot bad for six yfurs but only an inshystance of what may be dono uraquo Western Canada in Manitoba Soskutcbewun or Alberta

Bend at onco for Literature MftpBt Hallway Itatoa sre to~=mdash M i V Molnnes

178 Jefferson Avo Detroit Mich Canadian Government Agent or address Superintendent of Immigration Ottawa

P A R C E L S P O S T R A T E F I N D E R I n d i i p e n i n b U I n s t a n t a m Tells at a glance the parcel-post rate front yonr kgt (alkty to any point in tho United tttatug Avoldicofi-fuhlon arislnu from the gone system of distant

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Stella LitemdashDo you believe in the supernatural

Irvihgton BoothlettemdashNo I never saw a super natural

Looking After His Bait Daniel and Harvey two old expert

fishermen were BUn flshLng for trout in deep water sitting with their backs together when Daniel accishydentally fell out of the boat and went down Harvey looked back and missshyed his companion who at that moshyment appeared on the surface pipe still in his mouth raquohaking his whisshykers profusely

HarveymdashGosh Dan I Jest missed ye Where ye been

DanmdashOh I jee went down for ter see if me bait wus all rightmdashJudge

Automatically determines postage required accord lnlaquo Ur weight and stone Three styles each Including a nandsame 3-color map of the united State 21x3raquo inches and an aluminum Kate Kinder Price(poa-tugo prepaid) plain paper map 80cents olotbmown -laquo(Tmap 76 cents walltype map 91 Order today Hcmit by postal money order PARCELS POST R A T E FINDER CO iraquoa Liberty St New York City

D E F I A N C E S T A R C H mdash 16 oancM to the paefcage

mdashother starches only 12 ouncesmdashsame price aat| DEFIANCE 18 SUPERIOR QUALITY

Rose to the Occasion Where did you get those lovely

roses dear Arent they beautiful Yesmdashwfcere did you get them Robert Bosqueau gave them to

me Bobbie Bosqueau Why M

Yes I kndw what you are going to say His wife has been dead only six weeks and isnt it pathetic that he is bringing me roses

Yesmdashhavent they kept wel l And the breeze blew and the rainshy

drops fell and it wasnt for quite a while that the fierce enmity smartedmdash Exchange

College Secrets BaconmdashWhat did your boy learn at

college EgbertmdashSays he cant tell me Why not Says its a secret Nonsense No you know he learned the footshy

ball signals

R e p u t a t i o n proves value Tested throughout three generationsmdashknown the world over as the most reliable pre- -ventive and corrective of stomach l iver bowel troublesmdashan unequal ed requtation has been secured b y

B E E C H A M S

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Pessimism WilliemdashPaw what is a pessimist PawmdashA man who takes an umbrelshy

la along when he goes to a ball game ~rCincinnati EnquirefT

Red Cross Ball Blue gives double value for your money goelaquo twice as far as any Other Ask your grocer Adv

This Is Unkind TommymdashPop what is a freeshy

thinker PopmdashA freethinker my son Is any

man who isnt marriedmdashPhiladelphia Record

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In quantity of milk produced Ayr-shires wil l probably rank next to tbe Holstein-Prieslan The cows owned by the Wyoming Agricultural college averaged last year something over 8000 pounds apiece while herds avershyaging better than 6t00 pounds are not uncommon In percentage of butter fat the bre^d stands between the Hp stein and this Jeraey or Guernsey 36

small and the milk makes an excel lent quality of cheese

The cattle are extremely hardy and good rustlers often winning out where other breeds would have diffl culty in gaining a foothold They arc rather slow in coming to maturity but their period of usefulness is a long one Crossed on taniroon stock they show- niarked (ptepriencjr snrf

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In the Midst of Luxury You have everything that wealth

can buy havent you Yes replied Mr t)ustin Stax But

it dont seem fair that I should have worked so bard to get all these things while tbe butler and footman and maids enjoy them free

Shoots First That guide shoots nearly every

hunter be takes out ^Aocidentat ly

No he always claims he does it in Belfraquodefens

Health^ best waymdashEat Applet ev e r r day^ ^oys ie

Mrs Wlnalow Soothing Syrup for Child ret teethingaoften- the frutna reduces inflammashytion allays pain cures wind colic Sampc a bottle M

Hilaquo fttatuft That man is something more than

a mere marine Do you mean he is an ultramashy

rine

The sting of defeat outlasts the sweets of victory

The microbe of love is sometimes devoured by the germ of suspii

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D o i t s D u t y Nine times in ten when the Wtf Ur

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A l l cottCTonfoations ehodld be address d toR W Caeriy Pinckney Michigan sad should be received-oo or before Wedshynesday of each week if it receives proper attention laquo

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Beso lve T o Adver t i se W e believe o u r advertisers have

been ge t t ing the i r share of the trade the past year Some of them have been m a k i n g an extra effort to at t ract customers and the same effort con t inued w i l l b r i n g results B y adver t i s ing and then hav ing the goods to back i t up nei ther the parcels post the rura l free de-l ivery the c i t y stores nor any of the elements that the country merchant has learned to look upon w i t h apprehension are l i k e l y to hur t our advertisers I f the mershychant does not avai l himsef of the opportuni ty where lies tne b lame I t is a good idea to resolve at the beg inn ing of year to tpend a reasshyonable sum i n adver t is ing your business and to carry i t th rough the whole year Resul ts w i l l just i fy the resolutions

J u r o r s B r a w n

For tht Jawuary Term Commeaclng Monday

January 61913

N O R T H H A M B U R G P i s c b i e j L o c a l s

Albert Benham has returned to Ann Arbor alter spending Xmas with his parents

Mrs C Carpenter was an Ann A r shybor ana Ypsilauti visitor Tbuamprday

D J Bennett and family visited at the bom of his brother Ralph Sun-da

OrvtJe Nash and family spent X m a f at to bom a of bis parents

Toe people of this vicinity have erected a wait ing room at Brooks

A l b e r t M a r s h a l l Green O a k W i l l i a m Feathery H a m b u r g J u l shyius C a r r H a n d y L o u i e Manns H a r t l a n d F r e d Strecker H o w e l l H e n r y Geh r inge r Iosco F r e d Rubb ins M a r i o n M e o r y DurfeeT

Oceola J o h n Monks P u t n a m form O s m u n Tyrope W i l l i a m M a r s h a l l U n a d i l l s A J M c O l e m -ents B r i g h t o n Leona rd H i b b a r d Cohoc tah F r e d Disb ro ( frac34 ^ w a y O l i v e r Brunson Deerfield F r a n k K H a c k e r G e n o a Jasper D Brenoan Green Oak F r e d L a k e H a m b u r g O E Car r H a n d y Char les L e m m o n H a r t l a n d L y shyman P E l wel l H o w e l l W i l l m r a Gassady Iosco P h i l i p S m i t h M a r i o n A M Hetch le r Oceo la Char les H e n r y P u t n a m Char les Boss Tyrone

A D Thompson of H o w e l l has leased the M i l l s bu i ld ing next to the D o m o c r a t office and soon afshyter the firpt of the year w i l l open an office there where be w i l l be ready to serve yon i n real estate conveyance and the d rawing of papers

The goveruor of Arkansas ce l e shybrated Chr i s tmas by i ssu ing 316 pardous almost emptying the ja i l s tad prisons in that state H e has

v b e e o ask ing the legislature to make certain pr ison reforms that have not been granted so he

[ s h o w i n g tbem a t h i n g or two

^ M r s A r t h u r B i c e of H a m b n r g charged With c a r r y i n g concealed |weapons was arranged i n the conrt o f Ju s t i ce Roche afc H o w e l l recent ly and was bound over to the J a n u a r y term of cour t for t n a l no defense be ing pot i n T h e

Ibai l bond o f $800 was fnrniahed b y t h e defendant who is now st her home i n H a m b u r g

W J W R I G H T

P H Y S I C I A N A N D S U R G E 0 N

H o i i r i - r U ^ to 330 600 to 800

M A i avH and wife spent Christshymas with relatives in Howell

James Burroughs and wife visiteo biy sister Mrs Campbell of Brighton Saturday

W l f f r u x j i A J L Wm Doyie and family spent Xmas

at the borne of Edward Spears Micbaei Harris of Jackson spent

Christmas with relatives here Irvin Kennedy and family and Jas

DoyUraquo and daughters Alary cent and Ethel ate Christmas dinnsr at Patrick Kennedy 8

Walter Retta and Ruth Collins of Marion spent Christmas at John Chal-kers

D M Monks and family a n i John M H a n is and family visited at Patshyrick Kennedys last Sunday

M r and Mrs Ear l Reason are vi$it-ng too latters parents Mr and Mrs

Bert VanBlaricnm this week Micbaei Morpby and wife Andrew

Murphy and wile and Jobn and Frank Dunn of Jackson spent Christmas at Wm Murphys

Wi l l and James Fiske visited at Jobn Cbalkere last Sunday

S^e an I Jo Harr spent Thursshyday at tbe borne of 1) M Monks

The following quests were entershytained at tbe borne of H B Gardner Christmas gtf)r C B Gardner and family of Alma Grace Garaer Mrs Bert Hoff and Mrs E Backus and daughter Corinne ot Lansing Otit-Webb and family ot Cnadilla and Glenn Gardner and larnilv Stock-b r i d g e mdash ~ ~

Mrs Micbaei Farley spent Cnfistajis at tbe home of D M Monks

Mrs Jobn Dink el visited her moth et Mrs W m Gardner Thursday

Mrs Maria Harris Lucy and Jobn Harris ate Christmas dinner with VY E Murphy and family

Thomas Cooper and family of Jackshyson spent Christmas at the borne of Maria Cooper ~

John M Ha wis ltand family were Sandav quests at the borne of James P Harris of Marion

A N N U A L M E E T I N G

T h e A n n u a l meeting of the L i v i n g s t o n Coun ty M u t u a l F i r e Insurance Company for tbe e lecshyt i o n of officers and for tbe t r a o -of such other business as may leshygal ly come before i t w i l l be held at the conrt house i n t h e v i l lage of H o w e l l i n said county on Tuesday tbe 7th D a j o f January A D 1913 at 100 oclock p m Da ted H o w e l l M i c h December 16 1912 W J L a r k i n Secretary

H o w e l l F a i r

A committee to sol ic i t stock for a L i v i n g s t o n Coun ty fair has been appointed at H o w e l l The re seems to be a s t rong sentiment i n favor of i t and i t is thought that ft fa i r may be a real i ty th is c o m i n g f a l l A n opt ion has been secured on 40 acres of l and l y i n g i n the east part of H o w e l l v i l lage ad jo in ing the A A ra i l road T h e estimated cost to start the fa i r would be about $7000 and stock w i l l be sold to cover tbe expense at bull10 per snare T h e money w i l l be ca l led i n as needed i n ins ta l lments whep the work commences in tbe s p r i n g

B r i g h t o n w i l l b u i l d four mi les of state reward road tfajs year s t a r t ing at H u b b a r d s corners and g o i n g east a

E a r l T u p p e r i s w o r k i n g for W W B a r n a r d

L e e H o p k i n s and wife of A o n A r b o r were i n town M o n d a y

Jas Q u i n of J a c k s o n was a P i n c k n e y v i s i to r Saturday

pound L Mat-key of Ba t t l e C r e e k was i n town the first of the week

M r s Jas Hof f is spend ing the winter wi th relatives i n L a n s i n g

M i e a J u l i a W y l i e of D e x t e r was tbe guest of friends here last F r i shyday

M r s B S Swar thout o f A l m a spent last week at tbe home o f C L y n c h

M B Da t row aud wife of L e w -iston M o n t a n a are v i s i t i n g relashytives here

F r a n k D u n n o f Jackson fwas the guest of b is sisgter H e l e n D u n n last week

L o u i s Stackable spent a few days last week with friends i a W h i t -more L a k e

K e v J o h n Stackable of N e w T o r k C i t y is v i s i t i n g relatives i n this section

M r s R H K i i b y of H a m b u r g spent last Thursday at the home of her mother

Pat- B rogan of H o w e l l was a guest of P i n c k n e y fr iends F r i d a y and Saturday

M i s s E t h e l M u l h o l l a n d of Y p s i -s i lan t i has been v i s i t i n g at the home of J R M a r t i n

G e o W S y k e s and wife of D e shyt ro i t were guests o f relatives the latter part o f last week

B e r n a r d M c O l u s k y a n d wife spent a few days last week w i t h her sis ter i n M t Pee l ie r O h i o

Eugene M c l n t y r e o f Mi lwaukee is v i s i t i n g at the home of hfs p a r shyent M and M r s A l e x M c l n t y r e

Y Ostrander H e r b e r t D a n c e r E m m e t B e r r y of

8 tockbr idge were P i n c k n e y cal lers F r i d s y

M r s J M o M s n n u s of Jackson and Miss Paosie Bren ings ta l i of E l o i s e spent the past week at the home of E Bren ings t a l i

Messrs and Mesdames A l b e r t W i l s o n and James M a r b l e were gusts at tbe home of M r s E W M a c t i n one day last week

F W W i l c o x of Jackson has exshychanged bis 100 acre farm near here wi th J o h n H W a l s h of Deshytroi t for property in that ci ty

J o b n M c l n t y r e and f a m i l y M r s Coojey and daughter L u c i l e of Pontine and Sydney Sprout spent Chr i s tmas at the home of A l e x M c l n t y r e

James Green antl wife of H o w -11 Ernes t Ca r r frd fami ly and F r a n c i s C a r r and fami ly of De t ro i t spent Chris tmas at the home of W A Car r

H e l e n M o n k s l j u c i l e M c C l u s -ky A n n a Lennon L o u i s and L e o M o n k s L e e T i p l a d y I M o r a n a n d Norber t L a v e y attended the dance at Gregory List 4 T h u r s d a y n i g h t ~

T b e Congregat ional parsonage i n th is v i l lage was the scene of a quit wedding Chr i s tmas day when M i s s E l s i e Schrotzberger of this place became tbe bride of A l shybert A Fea thm of Det ro i t R e v W H R i p o n pe r fo rming the c e r shyemony

M r s f r a n k N i l e of Det ro i t M r and M r s M e r v i n N i l e and son M a y n a r d H a r r y and GeorgeJLiav-ty of Jackson aud M r s J D W h i t e and N o r m a n and- F r a n k spent Chr i s tmas w i t h P a t r i c k L a v e y and fami ly 1

Garne r Carpenter and f a m i l y and Claude B e a t o n and f a m i l y of P i n c k n e y H a r r y R o s e and f a m i l y of A n n A r b o r F r e d Carpenter and wife of Pont iao a n d C h a t E d d y and f ami ly ot W b i t more spent Sunday at the home o f E G Carpenter of Pe t tyavi l le

I h e residence o f W m M o r a n caught fire one ev^fcniitfj l a s t week from an overhealea^catmney | t was immedia te ly d iscovered and the a l a rm g iven a n d thanks to the

S O U T H I O S C O

T t j Wit ters brother sod families ate Xinj^dinner at Timlsbame

Mr and Mr C Wilkinson of Dak ota are ^ s i t i n g her parents M ^ and Mrs Albert Ward at present

Mr and Mrs W m Caskey entershytained Mr and Mrs pound W Caskev of Piainfieid E d Secor and family ot Atarion and Nick ^But ley dnu tamily of tbts place at thMr borne Xmas

The Misses Kathryo and Beatrice bam born are visiting their sisters in Pinckney at present

Gladys and J D Roberta spent t i e i r vacation with yeir grandparents near Webbervilte

Mr and ^ s W m Caskey of A n d shyerson and pert Roberts and family ate Xmas dinner at tbe borne of T Wain wright

Tbe Watters Brothers are enter-Uioing tbeir cousin from Dakota at present

Mr and Mre David Smith of Deshytroit spent Xmas with relatives bore

P L u i n m E L P

Mr George Montague visited at Asbel Duttons last Thursday

James Caskey and wife ate Xmas dinner at tbe borne of Ira Kings

Mrs Jerusba Isbam is visiting at Mrs Tatt VanSyckles in Marion

Mrs Mary Bristol visited ber mother Mrs Nettie Keliog last week

Harvey Dyer and family visited at the borne of Geo Bullis in Howell last week

J G Sayles and family of Stock-spent last Wednesday at Edgar Van Syckles

Frank Walters and family spent Sunday with Wm Walters

Miss Irene Frazier is home from Howell for her Xmas vacation

- Not ice T o Taxpayers I w i l l be at the bank i n G r e g shy

ory every Wednesday u n t i l J a n 12 1913 at D n a d i l l a Tuesday Dec 17 and Tuesday Dec 31 and j i t P l a in f i e ld T h u r s d a y Deo 19 and Thursday J a n 2 to receive taxes

A d e l b e r t Brea r l ey T w p Treas

B o y s yen5 suits now $i at D a n shycers

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T o R e d u c e W e M U i a l l G i v e t h e

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( B o y s $ 5 B l u e Sergltgt E x c e p t e d ) i

2 0 p e r c e n t R e d u c t i o n

O n a l l M e n s a n d B o y a c l o t h o v e r c o a

1 2 5 p e p c e n t R e d u c t i o n

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L i b e r a l reductions o n dress goods underwear fur and f fur linlaquoraquod coats etc

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Tlamo rejuct iouA menu more to th pui ^iiaser than do 33pound per cent discount on c i ty prices

C a r F a n ^ P a i d o n $ 1 5 P u r c h a s e s o r M o r e

W J C A N C E R amp C O M P A N Y

S t o c k b r l d ^ e t M i c h

mdash I f a r E mdash T h e parcels post takes effect Januarymdashle tmdashaud we are prep ire 1 to take care of a l l ma i l orders Our stocks are complete and our service w i l l be prompt Phone or wri te us

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One Year i | advance 100

A l l cottCTonfoations ehodld be address d toR W Caeriy Pinckney Michigan sad should be received-oo or before Wedshynesday of each week if it receives proper attention laquo

Ejtered as secend-claab matter June ^ i J j p s i u t f 1912 at the post office at Pinckney Miefc-ian under the Act of March 3 1879

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Beso lve T o Adver t i se W e believe o u r advertisers have

been ge t t ing the i r share of the trade the past year Some of them have been m a k i n g an extra effort to at t ract customers and the same effort con t inued w i l l b r i n g results B y adver t i s ing and then hav ing the goods to back i t up nei ther the parcels post the rura l free de-l ivery the c i t y stores nor any of the elements that the country merchant has learned to look upon w i t h apprehension are l i k e l y to hur t our advertisers I f the mershychant does not avai l himsef of the opportuni ty where lies tne b lame I t is a good idea to resolve at the beg inn ing of year to tpend a reasshyonable sum i n adver t is ing your business and to carry i t th rough the whole year Resul ts w i l l just i fy the resolutions

J u r o r s B r a w n

For tht Jawuary Term Commeaclng Monday

January 61913

N O R T H H A M B U R G P i s c b i e j L o c a l s

Albert Benham has returned to Ann Arbor alter spending Xmas with his parents

Mrs C Carpenter was an Ann A r shybor ana Ypsilauti visitor Tbuamprday

D J Bennett and family visited at the bom of his brother Ralph Sun-da

OrvtJe Nash and family spent X m a f at to bom a of bis parents

Toe people of this vicinity have erected a wait ing room at Brooks

A l b e r t M a r s h a l l Green O a k W i l l i a m Feathery H a m b u r g J u l shyius C a r r H a n d y L o u i e Manns H a r t l a n d F r e d Strecker H o w e l l H e n r y Geh r inge r Iosco F r e d Rubb ins M a r i o n M e o r y DurfeeT

Oceola J o h n Monks P u t n a m form O s m u n Tyrope W i l l i a m M a r s h a l l U n a d i l l s A J M c O l e m -ents B r i g h t o n Leona rd H i b b a r d Cohoc tah F r e d Disb ro ( frac34 ^ w a y O l i v e r Brunson Deerfield F r a n k K H a c k e r G e n o a Jasper D Brenoan Green Oak F r e d L a k e H a m b u r g O E Car r H a n d y Char les L e m m o n H a r t l a n d L y shyman P E l wel l H o w e l l W i l l m r a Gassady Iosco P h i l i p S m i t h M a r i o n A M Hetch le r Oceo la Char les H e n r y P u t n a m Char les Boss Tyrone

A D Thompson of H o w e l l has leased the M i l l s bu i ld ing next to the D o m o c r a t office and soon afshyter the firpt of the year w i l l open an office there where be w i l l be ready to serve yon i n real estate conveyance and the d rawing of papers

The goveruor of Arkansas ce l e shybrated Chr i s tmas by i ssu ing 316 pardous almost emptying the ja i l s tad prisons in that state H e has

v b e e o ask ing the legislature to make certain pr ison reforms that have not been granted so he

[ s h o w i n g tbem a t h i n g or two

^ M r s A r t h u r B i c e of H a m b n r g charged With c a r r y i n g concealed |weapons was arranged i n the conrt o f Ju s t i ce Roche afc H o w e l l recent ly and was bound over to the J a n u a r y term of cour t for t n a l no defense be ing pot i n T h e

Ibai l bond o f $800 was fnrniahed b y t h e defendant who is now st her home i n H a m b u r g

W J W R I G H T

P H Y S I C I A N A N D S U R G E 0 N

H o i i r i - r U ^ to 330 600 to 800

M A i avH and wife spent Christshymas with relatives in Howell

James Burroughs and wife visiteo biy sister Mrs Campbell of Brighton Saturday

W l f f r u x j i A J L Wm Doyie and family spent Xmas

at the borne of Edward Spears Micbaei Harris of Jackson spent

Christmas with relatives here Irvin Kennedy and family and Jas

DoyUraquo and daughters Alary cent and Ethel ate Christmas dinnsr at Patrick Kennedy 8

Walter Retta and Ruth Collins of Marion spent Christmas at John Chal-kers

D M Monks and family a n i John M H a n is and family visited at Patshyrick Kennedys last Sunday

M r and Mrs Ear l Reason are vi$it-ng too latters parents Mr and Mrs

Bert VanBlaricnm this week Micbaei Morpby and wife Andrew

Murphy and wile and Jobn and Frank Dunn of Jackson spent Christmas at Wm Murphys

Wi l l and James Fiske visited at Jobn Cbalkere last Sunday

S^e an I Jo Harr spent Thursshyday at tbe borne of 1) M Monks

The following quests were entershytained at tbe borne of H B Gardner Christmas gtf)r C B Gardner and family of Alma Grace Garaer Mrs Bert Hoff and Mrs E Backus and daughter Corinne ot Lansing Otit-Webb and family ot Cnadilla and Glenn Gardner and larnilv Stock-b r i d g e mdash ~ ~

Mrs Micbaei Farley spent Cnfistajis at tbe home of D M Monks

Mrs Jobn Dink el visited her moth et Mrs W m Gardner Thursday

Mrs Maria Harris Lucy and Jobn Harris ate Christmas dinner with VY E Murphy and family

Thomas Cooper and family of Jackshyson spent Christmas at the borne of Maria Cooper ~

John M Ha wis ltand family were Sandav quests at the borne of James P Harris of Marion

A N N U A L M E E T I N G

T h e A n n u a l meeting of the L i v i n g s t o n Coun ty M u t u a l F i r e Insurance Company for tbe e lecshyt i o n of officers and for tbe t r a o -of such other business as may leshygal ly come before i t w i l l be held at the conrt house i n t h e v i l lage of H o w e l l i n said county on Tuesday tbe 7th D a j o f January A D 1913 at 100 oclock p m Da ted H o w e l l M i c h December 16 1912 W J L a r k i n Secretary

H o w e l l F a i r

A committee to sol ic i t stock for a L i v i n g s t o n Coun ty fair has been appointed at H o w e l l The re seems to be a s t rong sentiment i n favor of i t and i t is thought that ft fa i r may be a real i ty th is c o m i n g f a l l A n opt ion has been secured on 40 acres of l and l y i n g i n the east part of H o w e l l v i l lage ad jo in ing the A A ra i l road T h e estimated cost to start the fa i r would be about $7000 and stock w i l l be sold to cover tbe expense at bull10 per snare T h e money w i l l be ca l led i n as needed i n ins ta l lments whep the work commences in tbe s p r i n g

B r i g h t o n w i l l b u i l d four mi les of state reward road tfajs year s t a r t ing at H u b b a r d s corners and g o i n g east a

E a r l T u p p e r i s w o r k i n g for W W B a r n a r d

L e e H o p k i n s and wife of A o n A r b o r were i n town M o n d a y

Jas Q u i n of J a c k s o n was a P i n c k n e y v i s i to r Saturday

pound L Mat-key of Ba t t l e C r e e k was i n town the first of the week

M r s Jas Hof f is spend ing the winter wi th relatives i n L a n s i n g

M i e a J u l i a W y l i e of D e x t e r was tbe guest of friends here last F r i shyday

M r s B S Swar thout o f A l m a spent last week at tbe home o f C L y n c h

M B Da t row aud wife of L e w -iston M o n t a n a are v i s i t i n g relashytives here

F r a n k D u n n o f Jackson fwas the guest of b is sisgter H e l e n D u n n last week

L o u i s Stackable spent a few days last week with friends i a W h i t -more L a k e

K e v J o h n Stackable of N e w T o r k C i t y is v i s i t i n g relatives i n this section

M r s R H K i i b y of H a m b u r g spent last Thursday at the home of her mother

Pat- B rogan of H o w e l l was a guest of P i n c k n e y fr iends F r i d a y and Saturday

M i s s E t h e l M u l h o l l a n d of Y p s i -s i lan t i has been v i s i t i n g at the home of J R M a r t i n

G e o W S y k e s and wife of D e shyt ro i t were guests o f relatives the latter part o f last week

B e r n a r d M c O l u s k y a n d wife spent a few days last week w i t h her sis ter i n M t Pee l ie r O h i o

Eugene M c l n t y r e o f Mi lwaukee is v i s i t i n g at the home of hfs p a r shyent M and M r s A l e x M c l n t y r e

Y Ostrander H e r b e r t D a n c e r E m m e t B e r r y of

8 tockbr idge were P i n c k n e y cal lers F r i d s y

M r s J M o M s n n u s of Jackson and Miss Paosie Bren ings ta l i of E l o i s e spent the past week at the home of E Bren ings t a l i

Messrs and Mesdames A l b e r t W i l s o n and James M a r b l e were gusts at tbe home of M r s E W M a c t i n one day last week

F W W i l c o x of Jackson has exshychanged bis 100 acre farm near here wi th J o h n H W a l s h of Deshytroi t for property in that ci ty

J o b n M c l n t y r e and f a m i l y M r s Coojey and daughter L u c i l e of Pontine and Sydney Sprout spent Chr i s tmas at the home of A l e x M c l n t y r e

James Green antl wife of H o w -11 Ernes t Ca r r frd fami ly and F r a n c i s C a r r and fami ly of De t ro i t spent Chris tmas at the home of W A Car r

H e l e n M o n k s l j u c i l e M c C l u s -ky A n n a Lennon L o u i s and L e o M o n k s L e e T i p l a d y I M o r a n a n d Norber t L a v e y attended the dance at Gregory List 4 T h u r s d a y n i g h t ~

T b e Congregat ional parsonage i n th is v i l lage was the scene of a quit wedding Chr i s tmas day when M i s s E l s i e Schrotzberger of this place became tbe bride of A l shybert A Fea thm of Det ro i t R e v W H R i p o n pe r fo rming the c e r shyemony

M r s f r a n k N i l e of Det ro i t M r and M r s M e r v i n N i l e and son M a y n a r d H a r r y and GeorgeJLiav-ty of Jackson aud M r s J D W h i t e and N o r m a n and- F r a n k spent Chr i s tmas w i t h P a t r i c k L a v e y and fami ly 1

Garne r Carpenter and f a m i l y and Claude B e a t o n and f a m i l y of P i n c k n e y H a r r y R o s e and f a m i l y of A n n A r b o r F r e d Carpenter and wife of Pont iao a n d C h a t E d d y and f ami ly ot W b i t more spent Sunday at the home o f E G Carpenter of Pe t tyavi l le

I h e residence o f W m M o r a n caught fire one ev^fcniitfj l a s t week from an overhealea^catmney | t was immedia te ly d iscovered and the a l a rm g iven a n d thanks to the

S O U T H I O S C O

T t j Wit ters brother sod families ate Xinj^dinner at Timlsbame

Mr and Mr C Wilkinson of Dak ota are ^ s i t i n g her parents M ^ and Mrs Albert Ward at present

Mr and Mrs W m Caskey entershytained Mr and Mrs pound W Caskev of Piainfieid E d Secor and family ot Atarion and Nick ^But ley dnu tamily of tbts place at thMr borne Xmas

The Misses Kathryo and Beatrice bam born are visiting their sisters in Pinckney at present

Gladys and J D Roberta spent t i e i r vacation with yeir grandparents near Webbervilte

Mr and ^ s W m Caskey of A n d shyerson and pert Roberts and family ate Xmas dinner at tbe borne of T Wain wright

Tbe Watters Brothers are enter-Uioing tbeir cousin from Dakota at present

Mr and Mre David Smith of Deshytroit spent Xmas with relatives bore

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Mr George Montague visited at Asbel Duttons last Thursday

James Caskey and wife ate Xmas dinner at tbe borne of Ira Kings

Mrs Jerusba Isbam is visiting at Mrs Tatt VanSyckles in Marion

Mrs Mary Bristol visited ber mother Mrs Nettie Keliog last week

Harvey Dyer and family visited at the borne of Geo Bullis in Howell last week

J G Sayles and family of Stock-spent last Wednesday at Edgar Van Syckles

Frank Walters and family spent Sunday with Wm Walters

Miss Irene Frazier is home from Howell for her Xmas vacation

- Not ice T o Taxpayers I w i l l be at the bank i n G r e g shy

ory every Wednesday u n t i l J a n 12 1913 at D n a d i l l a Tuesday Dec 17 and Tuesday Dec 31 and j i t P l a in f i e ld T h u r s d a y Deo 19 and Thursday J a n 2 to receive taxes

A d e l b e r t Brea r l ey T w p Treas

B o y s yen5 suits now $i at D a n shycers

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L i b e r a l reductions o n dress goods underwear fur and f fur linlaquoraquod coats etc

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Tlamo rejuct iouA menu more to th pui ^iiaser than do 33pound per cent discount on c i ty prices

C a r F a n ^ P a i d o n $ 1 5 P u r c h a s e s o r M o r e

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