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HEQEWISCH NEWS Mrs. Ed Miles was a Pullman visitor Tuesday. Frek Buckmaster spent Monday with George Hunter in Chicago. .rs. Ed. Coleson and daughter, Etiiel. and Misa Stella Bell were Chicago visitors Tuesday. Charles Welch and Mr. Bond of Fort "Wayne were the guests of II. Renbargef Sunday. David Drinnan, one of our former mail carriers, passed away at his home last Monday evening after a short illness. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Kirby of Chicago pent Sunday with Harry Itenbarger and family. Mr. Kirby is trainmaster of the western division of the Nickel Plate road. Revival meetings are being held this week at the M. E. church, corner of 133th street and Superior avenue. Dr. W. E. Tillroe, presiding elder, will preach this evening. Everyone Is invited to come and join In the services. The Improvement club met Monday evening and elected the following officers: President "William Sippel; vice president, Herman lliene; secretary, Frank Welland; treasurer, Ben Anderson. The club is trying to get the sewers for our town and will meet every first Monday of the month. Ike B. Silverman's up-to-date Liquor House. The most complete stock of wines for medical and family use in Ilegewlsch. Special prices from now on during the holidays. 14501 Ontario avenue. 12-14-1 nv VALPARAISO NEWS James II. McGlll is In New York on business. Frank Longshore of Ilobart is visiting here. J. II. Sullivan will leave for "Wash ington, D. C, in a few days. James Maxwell of North Calumet street is reported seriously 111. The V. II. S. basket ball team will play the Hammond high school team Jan. 11 at the gym. Judson Sanger, Ben Lynch and H. L. Hayhurst of Lowell visited In the city on business Monday. The house of J. II. O. Smith was struck by lightning Monday night dur lng the storm, demolishing the chim ney and the roof. C. B. Tinkham leaves soon for In dianapolis where he will remain during the legislature, being appointed to a clerkship. Mrs. Thomas English died at her home In Water street Monday night of old age. She leaves two sons and two daughters. She was 78 years old and has been a resident of Valparaiso - since 1S58. STONY ISLAND NEWS Mrs. Bell made a shopping tour down town Tuesday. Mrs. Bourban of Calumet Heights is moving to 9325 Washington avenue. Mr. and Mrs. C. Sheahan are the proud parents of a baby girl. Charles Leahey made a business trip to Dalton Tuesday. Mrs. Frank Schabalisky visited his Sister-in-law, Mrs. George Hall, Tues day. Miss Nellie McGrady, who has been seriously ill for the last few weeks, Is slowly improving. Will'am Hayes has move,! from 9rd street to 94th street, to be convenient to his work. Harry King of Grand Crossing had his arm broken Monday night while switching in the Nickel Tlate yards at Stony Island. This is the second time in three months that he hns met with a similar accident. BURNSIDE NEWS Mrs. McGovern of the city visit?d friends in Burnside yesterday. Mrs. OMa'ley is erecting a new r'ck hou ig in Fauphin Pa Mrs. Hlllyard, a forme resident ot this place visited with old friends in Dauphin Park yesterday. Cards nre out announcing ttie inarr'age of Miss Shiiley Moor? to Mr. McCune. KENSINGTON NEWS Mrs. Whealan who has been visiting In Austin. 111., has returned to her home here. Misses Annie and Gertrude Dower of South Deering, spent Sunday with relatives here. Miss Lulu Davis of Kendall's store arcade building, is confined to her home In Kensington with rheumatism. Suffering with appendicitis, H. Dekker of Dekker company, was taken to the Blue Island hospital, yesterday. Mrs. Sherman of 116th street had as her guests Monday, her sister and husband, Mr, and Mrs. Adams. Mrs. Robert McElroy of Downer's Crove, had as her guest last week, her

sister, Miss Sarah Jenkins of 110th and Michigan avenue.

The Ladies' Missionary society of the Bethany Reformed church, met at the home of Mrs. Weirsma, of 111th and State street, Wednesday afternoon. WEST PULLMAN Roy Pritchett is confined to his home on account of sickness. Mrs. D. B. Lozier is Improving slow ly from her recent Illness. Mrs. McGuire's sister of Peoria, 111., is here visiting her this week. C. D. Round has purchased a fine new automobile which arrived yesterday. Miss Krammer of Oak Glenn, 111., is visiting West Pullman friends this week. WHEELER NEWS Miss Mary Conrick was a Valparaiso visitor Monday. Wm. Janke of Hobart, Ind., trans acted business in Wheeler, Tuesday. The P. F. W. & C. R. R. official sur veyor made a business visit to Wheel er, Monday. At the meeting for the election of officers of the Methodist Episcopal Sun day school, Monday: evening, the fol lowing officers were elected: Superin tendent, Mr. Bay; assistant superin tendent, C. II. Barts; secretary, John Small; treasurer. Dr. Dobbins; chorister, C. H. Barts; librarian, John Conrick; assistant librarian, Leona Taylor; organist, Grace Johnston. STEAD ON A PEACE TOTTCt London Editor Going Around the "World on a Crusade Against the Dogs of War. Paris, Jan. 9. William T. Stead, of London, who arrived here, says in an Interview that he is on his way around the world in the interest of peace. He further declares that he Is authorized by the British premier, Sir Henry Campbell-P.aunermann, to say that Great Britain, if no other country does so, would at the approaching second peace conference at the Hague raise the question of taking steps to provide for the maintenance of interna tional peace. This, Stead says, will be done In the form of two propositions, as follows: First That each country participating In the conference appropriate a sum of money to be used in the propagation of the idea of maintaining in ternational peace. Second That each country participating in the conference article VIII of the act of the peace render obligatory the observance of conference of 1S99, permitting a third power to tender mediation, without giving offense, between twodisputing pow ers extend the scope of article VIII so r.s to bind the signatories, in case of n declaration of war, not to begin hos tilitics for a fortnight, in which la terim friendly powers would have the right to Intervene in an attempt to ad just the quarrel. HEARST ELECTED CHAIRMAN Trouble in the Independence League Two Factions Struggle for the Management. New York, Jan. 0. William Ran dolph Hearst has been elected chair man of the state committee of the In dependence League. On Tuesday, Jan. 1, about thirty members of the state committee met, and during the absence of Chairman Ihmsen elected Thomas r. Long as chairman. The meeting yesterday was called by Ihmsen soon after he returned from abroad. It is alleged by Ihmsen and his adherents in the committee that the earlier meeting was illegal because it was held on a holiday, although the rules provide that the committee shall meet on the first Tuesday in January. The session yesterday was executive, and admission was by card. Long and hi3 adherents were not present. Just before the committee met Justice Lev entritt denied an application by Long for an order compelling the Ihmsen men to show cause why they should not be enjoined from meeting to elect another chairman. HAS A SILVER BACKBONE Remarkable Operation on a Man with Back Broken in Two Places. Philadelphia, Jan. 9. Dr. Ernest Lj Place, of the staff of the Medieo-Chi rurgieal hospital, has performed a re markable operation upon Richard Wi gins, a driver, who had been smashed between his wagon and a gate, having his back broken in two places, causiu paralysis. The operation consisted In the removal of fifteen particles of splintered bone, which pressed against the spinal cord. It is proposed to insert in the vertebral structure a number of silver plates to takethe place of the fractured and splintered vertebrae. Mrs. Hartje's Sister Klopes. nttsburg. Jan. 9. Miss Ida Scott, aged 15, a sister of Mrs. Mary Hartje. whose divorce case recently attracted wide attention, eloped with Howard Lappe, who is almost twice her age. Mrs. Hartje traced the movements of her sister and telegraphed to the police of 1'oungstown, O., who arrested the girl and Lappe on their arrival there. John F. Scott, the girl's father, went to Youngstown and brought his daughter home. Subscribe for The Lake County Times.

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By KATHERINE CECIL THURSTON, Author of "The Circle." Etc.

Copyright. 1903. 1904. was to send him in search of Ko Ko" Notwithstanding his position, Loder fouifd occasion to smile. "Did he succeed V he said dryly. "Succeed? Oh, yes, he succeeded." She also smiled involuntarily. "Poor Ko Ko was stowed away under the luggage van, and after quite a lot of trouble he pulled him out. When it was all done the dog was quite unhurt and livelier than ever, but the Englishman Slie drew quite close to Loder and slid gently to her knees. had his finger almost bitten through. Ko Ko was a dear, but his teeth and hla tpmner wpfp linth vprv shnrn.' Khf laughed once more in soft amusement, Loder was silent for a second, then he too laughed Chilcote's short, sarcastic laugh. "And you tied up the wound, I suppose?" She glanced up, half displeased. "We were both staj-ing at the little inn," she said, as though no further explanation could be needed. Then again her manner changed. She moved. Imperceptibly nearer and touched his right hand. His left, which was farther away from her, was well In the shadow of the cushions. "Jack," she said caressingly, "it Isn't to tell you this stupid old story that I've brought you here. It's really to tell you a sort of sequel." She stroked his hand gently once or twice. "As I say, I met this man and we we became very fond of each other. You understand? Then we quarreled quarreled quite badly and I came away. I've remembered him rather longer than I remember most people he was one - of those dogged Individuals who stick in one's mind. But he 4 Join In mine for another reason she looked up. "He has stayed because you helped to keep him there. You know how I have sometimes put m-y hands over your mouth and told you that your eyes reminded me of some one else? Well, that some one else was my Englishman. But you mustn't be jealous. He was a horrid, obstinate person, and you well, you know what I think of you" She pressed his hand. "But to come to the end of the story. I never saw this man since that long ago time until until the night of Blanche's party!" She spoke slowly, to give full effect to her words. Then she waited for his surprise. But the result was not what she expected. He said nothing, and, with an abrupt movement, he drew his hand from between hers. , "Aren't you surprised?" she asked at last, with a delicate note of reproof. He started slightly, as. If recalled to the necessity of the moment. "Surprised?" he said. "Why should I be surprised? One person more or less at a big party isn't astonishing. Besides, you expect a man to turn up sooner or later in his own country. Why should I be surprised?" She lay back luxuriously. "Because, my dear boy," she said softly, "it is a mystery! It's one of those fascinating iu eit-i luut wuc once m a. ulccome once time." Loder made no movement. "You must explain," he said very quietly. Lillian smiled. "That's just what I want to do. When I was in my tent uu iuK ui xiiancne s parry, a mau came to be gazed for. He came just iV. : 1 . A T-,1 t . . like anybody else and laid his hands upon the table. He had strong, thin hands like well, rather like yours. But he wore two rings on the third finger of his left hand a heavy signet ring and a plain gold one." Loder moved his hand imperceptibly till the cushion covered it. Lillian's words caused him no surprise, scarcely even any trepidation. He felt now that he had expected them, even waited for them, all along. "I asked him to take off his rings," she went on, "and just for a second he hesitated I could feel him hesitate. Then he seemed to have made up his mind, for he drew them off. He drew them off. Jack, and guess what I saw! Do guess!" For the first time Loder involuntarily drew back into his corner of the

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by Harper 1 Brother! couch. "I never brusquely. guess," he said "Then I'll tell you. His hands were the hands of my Englishman! The rings covered the scar made by Ko Ko's teeth. I knew it instantly the second my eyes rested on it. It was the same scar that I had bound up dozens of times, that I had seen healed before I left Santasalare." "And you? What did you do?" Loder felt it singularly difficult and unpleasant to speak. j "Ah, that's the point. That's where I was stupid and made my mistake, j 1 should have spoken to him on the ; moment, but I didn't. You know how ! one sometimes hesitates. Afterward i it was too late." ; "But you saw him afterward in the ! rooms?" Loder spoke unwillingly. "No, I didn't that's the other point. ! I didn't see him in the rooms, and I haven't seen him since. Directly ha -was gone I left the tent I pretended 1 to be hungry and bored but, though I went through every room, he was nowhere to be found. Once" she hesitated and laughed again "once I thought I had found him, but it was only you you, as you stood in thai doorway with your mouth and chin hidden by Leonard Kaine's head. Wasn't it a quaint mistake?" There was an uncertain pause. Thet Loder, feeling the need of speech, broke the silence suddenly. "Whore do I come in?" he asked abruptly. "What am I wanted for?" "To help to throw light on the mystery! I've seen Blanche's list of people, and there wasn't a man I couldn't place no outsider ever squeezes through Blanche's door. I hav questioned Bobby Blessington, but he can't remember who came to the tent last. And Bobby was supposed to have kept count!" She spoke in deep scorn, but almost immediately the scorn faded and she smiled again. "Now that I've explained, Jack, she added, "what do you suggest?" Then for the first time Loder knew what his presence in the room really meant, and at best the knowledge was disconcerting. It is not every day that a man is called upon to unearth himself. "Suggest?" he repeated blankly. "Yes. I'd rather have your idea of the affair than anybody else's. You are so dear and sarcastic and keen that you can't help getting straight at the middle of a fact." When Lillian wanted anything she could be very sweet. She suddenly dropped her half petulant tone; she suddenly ceased to be a spoiled child. With a perfectly graceful movement she drew quite close to Loder and slid gently to her knees. This is an attitude that few women can safely assume. It requires all the attributes of youth, suppleness and a certain buoyant ease. But Lillian nev er acted without justification and as ed uer sliQt figure and pale hair softenea uy tne nreiignt, sue maue u. pic ture that it would have been difficult to criticise. But the person who should have ap preciated it stared steadily beyond it to the fire, nis mind was absorbed by one question the question of how he might reasonably leave the house be fore discovery became assuretl. Lillian, attentively watchful of him, saw the uneasy look, and her own face fell. But, as she looked, an Inspiration came to her a remembrance of many interviews with Chilcote smoothed and facilitated by the timely use of to bacco. "Jack," she said softly, "before you say another word I insist on your lighting a cigarette." She leaned forward, resting against his knee. - - . ... At her words Loder's eyes ft the fire. His attention was suddenly need ed for a new and more imminent difil cultv. "Thanks!"' he said quickly. "I I have no wish to smoke." "It isn't a matter of what you wish but of what I say." She smiled. She knew that Chilcote with a cigarette be tween his lips was infinitely more trac table than Chilcote sitting idle, and she had no intention of ignoring the knowl edge. But Loder caught at her words. "BefQre yQU orfiered me tQ smoke;. he gaiJ i ., . . . Your first command must have prior claim." He grasped unhesitatingly at the less risky theme. She looked up at him. "You're al ways nicer when you smoke," she per I - , gisted careSsing!v. "Light a cigarettei .,. p

Loder's mouth became set. "No." ho said, "we'll stick to this advice business. It interests me." "Yes afterward." "No; now. You want to find out why this Englishman from Italy was at your sister's party and why he disappeared ?" There are times when a malignant obstinacy seems to affect certain people. The only answer Lillian made was to pass her hand over Loder's waistcoat and, feeling his cigarette case, to draw it from the pocket. He affected not to see it. "Do you think he recognized you In that tent?" he insisted desperately. She held out the case. "Here are your cigarettes. You know we're always moresocial when we smoke." i I f

In the short interval while she looked up into his face several ideas passed through Loder's mind. He thought of standing up suddenly and so regaining his advantage, ne wondered quickly whether one hand could possibly suffice for the taking out and lighting of two cigarettes. Then all need for speculation was pushed suddenly aside. Lillian, leoking into his face, saw his fresh look of disturbance, and from long experience again changed her tactics. Laying the cigarette case on the

couch, she put one hand on his shoulder, the other on his left arm. Hundreds of times this caressing touch had quieted Chilcote. "Dear old boy! she said soothingly. her hand moving slowlv down his arm. In a Hash of understanding the con sequences of this position came to him. Action was imperative, at whatever risk. With an abrupt gesture he rose. The movement was awkward. Jle got to his feet precipitately. Lillian drew back, surprised and startled. catching involuntarily at his left hand to steady her position. Her fingers grasped at, then held his. He made no effort to release them. With a dogged acknowledgment, he admitted himself worsted. How long she stayed Immovable, holding his hand, neither of them knew. The process of a woman's instinct is so subtle, so obscure, that It would be futile to apply It to the commonplace test of time. She kept her hold tenaeiOTisly, as though his fingers possessed some peculiar virtue. Then at last she spoke. Rings, Jack?" she said very slowly. And under the two short words a whole world of Incredulity and surmise made itself felt. Loder laughed. At the sound she dropped his hand and rose from her knees. What her suspicions, what her instincts were she could not have clearly defined, but her action was unhesitating. Without a moment's uncertainty she turned to the fireplace, pressed the electric button and flooded the room with light. There Ib no force so demoralizing as unexpected light. Loder took a step backward, his hand hanging unguard ed by his side, and Lillian, stepping forward, caught it again before he could protest. Lifting it quickly, she looked scrutinlzingly at the two rings. All women jump to conclusions, and It Is extraordinary how seldom they Jump short. Seeing only what Lillian saw, knowing only what she knew, no man would have staked a definite opinion, but the other sex takes a different view. As she stood gazing at the rings her thoughts and her conclusions sped through her mind like arrows all aim ed and all tending toward one point Sh3 remembered the day when she and Chilcote had talked of doubles, her skepticism and his vehement defense of the idea, his sudden interest in the book "Other Men's Shoes," and his anathema against life and its irksome round of dfties. She remembered her own first convinced recognition of the eyes that had looked at her in the doorway of her sister's house, and, last of all, she remembered Chilcote's unaccountable avoidance of the same subject of likenesses when she had mentioned It yesterday driving through the park, and with it his unnecessarily curt repudiation of his former opin ions. She reviewed each item, then she raised her head slowly and looked at Loder. He was prepared for the glance and met it steadily. In the long moment that her eyes searched his face it was she and not he who changed color. She was the first to speak. "You wera the man whose hands I saw in the tent," she said. She made the statement in her usual soft tones, but a slight tremor of excitement underran her voice. Poodles, Persian kittens. even crystal gazing bails, seemed very far away in face of this tangible, fabulous, nresent interest. "You are not Jack Chilcote," she sad very slowly. "You are wearing his clothes and speaking In his voice, but you are not Jack Chilcote." Her tone quickened with a touch of excitement. "You needn't keep silent and look at me, she said. "I know quite well what I am saying, though I don't understand it thoueh I have no real proof She paused, momentarily disconcerted by her companion's silent and steady gaze, and in the pause a curious and unexpected thing occurred. Loder laughed suddenly a full, confident, reassured laugh. All the web that the past half hour had spun about him, all the intolerable sense of an impending crash, lifted suddenly. He saw his way clearly, and It was Lillian who had opened his eyes. Still looking at her, he smiled a smile of reliant determination, such as Chilcote had never worn in his life. And with a calm gesture he released his hand. "The greatest charm of woman is her imagination," he said quietly. "Without it there would be no color in life; we would come into and drop out of it with the same uninteresting tone of drab reality." He paused and smiled again. At his smile Lillian Involuntarily drew back, the color deepening in her cheeks. "Why do you say that?" she asked. He lifted his head. With each moment he felt more certain of himself. "Because that is my attitude," he said. "As a man I admire your imagination, but as a man I fail to follow your reasoning." The words and the tone both stung. ner. "uo you realize the position?" she aske sharply. "Do you realize that whatever your plans are, I can spoil them?" Loder still met her eyes. "I realize nothing of the sort," he said. "Then you admit that you are not Jack Chilcote?" "I neither deny nor admit My Identity i3 obvious. I can get twenty men i t3 swear to it at any moment that rou To Be Continued).

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