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-THE RICHIONIV PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 1910.

Tb nict?.o:3 Palladia tzi SoTefotria Publlhd and wn4 by th i PALLADIUM PRINTINO CO. tud T day each week. avanlng Sunday mornlur. Of floe Corned North ttb and A tr. lion Pbon It SI. RICHMOND. INDIANA.

HadelaS) U. Ld Edit Lefts JBM........ButaM Muim Carl Beraaardl Aaaaetata Edit W. R. Paaadalaae... Xwi Kdller. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS In Richmond 18 00 per r (In advtnrt) or lOo per week. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. On year. In advance I.S HI month, in advance Una month, la advance .......... . RURAL ROUTES. On rar. In advance ftl His montha. In advance .......... l.M One month. In advance If Addraa changed aa often aa deatred; both near and old addreaaea muat be iven. Hubacrlbera will nleaa remit with order, which ahoutd be srlran for a aperlfled term; naive will not be entered until payment la received. Knterod at Richmond. Indiana, post offtca aa second clui mall matter. '. a. v.vj.' (Naw Yavfc Qty) aH waalied and rttltod to th ateaalatlaa of this mMioattoa. Only tt Beans of t elreaisara aontalaad la tts report Ml Ms RICHMOND, INDIANA PAN1C PROOF CITY" m llaa a population of f 1.000 and lr crowing;. It la tha county aat of Wayne County, and tha trading- center of a rich arlvulturat community. It la l ratvd due eaat from lndlanepolla 6t mllua and 4 rollaa from tha Mate line. JUchniond la a city nf homea nd of induatry. Primarily a manufaclurlna; city. It la alao he jobbing" center of Gaatern Indiana and enjoy tha retail trade of tha populous corarauc Hy lor mlloe around. Richmond la proud of lis plndld atreeta, well kpt yard. Ita content atdewataa and beautiful ahade treea. It haa S liatlvnal banks, t truat cora pan I as and 4 building aaaoctatlona with combined reaourcea nf over $1,000,000. Number of faetorl 125: capital Inveated 17,000.000. with an annual output of 137.000.000, and a pay roll ut 13.700.000. Tha total pay roll for tha cltv amount! to approximately M.300.000 annually. There are five railroad com 'ran lea radiating- In eight different dlrm-tlone from the city. Incoming freight handled- dally. I.7S.A lb.: outgoing- freight handled dally. 780.000 Inn. Yard farllUle. par day 1.700 car. Number of paasanger train dally, tt. Number of freight train dally 77. f Tha annual noat offtca receipt! amount to It 0.000. Total aaaeaaed valuation of the city, tts.00ft.000. Richmond haa two Intercrban railway. Three newapaper with a combined circulation of 13.000. Richmond la th great, eat hardware lobbing; center In the elate, and only aecond In ' a-eneral .lobbing Intereata. It haa a piano factory producing a high grade piano every IS minute. It I the leader In th manufacture of traction entrine. an-1 produce mora thrahfn machine, lawn moware. roller akatea. grain drill and burial cankot than any other cltv In th world. The city' area la I.40 acrea: h a reurt houa coating tSOO.0; 10 publle achoola and haa th- ftneat and moat complete Mh school In tb middle weat under construction; t parochial achoo'a Karlbam roller and th Indiana Pualnaa College; fra splendid fir companies n flr.o boss house; Olen Millar park. ha larrt and most VvMittfut park In Indiana, th home of Richmond's annual chnntaumia: seven hotels; murlclpal rlectrlo light plant, linear suecesaful operation, and a private electric light Plant. Incuring competition: tha oldest public library In the state, ex. rent one. and the second largest, 4ft 0 volumes: rum, refreshing water. nartssea; as mties of Improved streets: 4 mllea of . sewers; ft mtles of cement curb ad gutter combined: 40 mile of fmnt walk, and many mMs of brick walk. Thirty ,hurcha. . Including; th Raid fetnortat, bnltt at a coat of IMAM; Red Memorial ?osrltsl. one of he tnnat modern 1 the state; V. M C A feutM. eMwd st a cost of tt 00. 000, ot the finest In the sato. Th amusement center of Fastoro Indiana and TVtrn Ohio. No cltv of tha als of Richmond Mid m flna an annual art exhibit. Th Richmond Fall Festival heM each October la mmm. ro other city holda a itn(Ur affair. It la a-lven In a 1r.feret of the cltv and -financed hv the business men. Sweeesa awaiting envnn with enterprli In th Tanlo Proof City. This Is My 48th Birthday t PRINCE HtNRY OF PRUSSIA. Prince Honry of Pruasla. only brothr of Emperor Wllllaru vh born In Potsdam. August 14. 1 !. Bred to the aea. he Is popularly railed "The Sailor Prince," and Is a great favorite throughout Germany because of his democratic ways ami his lovefcf fun. He Is an athlete and many stories are told of his physical prowess. In 1S!C he attained the rank of admiral commanding the German fleet. Prom this command he retired a year ago to become Inspector general of the navy. Prince Henry was married In isss to Princess Irene of Hesse, a granddaughter of the late Queen Victoria and a titer ot the present empress of Russia. As an officer of the German nary he has traveled In all parts of the world. He has visited America several times. The most notable of these visIts was that made In liMrj, when he came to New York to attend the launching of Emperor William's yacht Meteor and afterwards visited a number of the principal cities of the country. High Handed. Wnile This paper soys that people who pursue a high banded course ought to be punished. What kind of coarse Is that pa? Pa It's tb systaaa a man play on when be won't late oa anything less than a royal flush or fear of a kind. The paper la right. Cf son. It la Just aocb lukewarm ttrta that are killing the great Americas enme.-Puck.

A Real Kansas Victory The overwhelming victory of the. progressive republicans in. Kansas has engaged the attention ot the entire country for the past week, but there was another question Involved in the Kansas contest and definitely settled In the election last week which means quite aa much to that state, and is as well worth the attention of the other states, as the incident of the overthrow of the standpatters. , Kansas settled once for all the question of the direct primary. Let the politicians and the people of every section, north, south, east and west, take note of that fact. It was the direct primary vote that enabled Kansas to gain Its magnificent victory for public sentiment. With the old convention system and Its boas rule Kansas could not have accomplished wbat it did. The powerful machine that he railroads and the other special Interests aided by tho professional politicians and the federal officeholders, when unoted as they were, never failed to control the nominations of the state officers and the congressmen. ( In inotl, when public sentiment was aroused In that state to a degree never known before that time, equal almost conditions existing this year, the machine was able in the face of that sentiment to force the party in line, and Ita elate was named In the state convention with but a single break In the list, and that was a minor position. That was machine rule not representative government. When the last state convention was held in 1908. to elect delegates to the national convention, men like Stubbs and Bristow and Murdock were laughed aside by the machine leaders. The convention was practically unanimous for the machine. Dpt. a few weeks later, under the direct primary, Stubbs and Bristow swept the state. That was the distinct contrast between boss rule and representative government that gave the people an understanding of the potential force of the individual ballot for the kind at government they wanted. This year behind the united forces that combined to defeat Stubbs and renominate the standpat congressmen there was an Issue that the machine tried to hide In a maze of petty questions lugged into the fight to divert public attention. Dut everybody knew the direct primary was In the balance, and the answer of Kansas was a 30,000 majority for Saubbs and the primary law. Kansas has come to know that representative government can be maintained only when the people have the power to enforce the representation they demand. The direct primary vote gives them that power. Above and beyond the satisfaction of knowing they have secured the kind of representation they want this year, the people know that with the primary law they can accomplish what they accomplished in the election last week. Kansas City Star.

Items Gathered In From Far and Near SLAP AT CINCINNATI. Prom the Chicago News. Cincinnati, one of the few largo cities for which 'the Federal census returns have been made public is credited with a population of 364,463. In 1870 Cincinnati had a population of 216,239, being a rival at that time of Chicago, which had .298,997 Inhabi tants, and of St. Louis, which bad 310.864. Cleveland at this time, bad a population of only 92,829. In 1870 there was a great rivalry between Chicago and St. Louis. By 1880 Chicago had entirely outdistanced St. Louis. Prof. Goode. in his report to the Chicago Harbor Commission, discussing the situation of Chicago in relation to water transportation, argued that it was Chicago's position on one of the great lakes which gave it the supremacy over St. Louis, traffic on the Mississippi having begun to decline about the time the rivalry between the two cities was the keenest. Cincinnati owed Its early growth to its access to the Ohio River, Just as the early development of St Louis was due to the volume and Importance of Mississippi River traffic. Cincinnati, with declining river traffic, has been falling behind in tho contest with Cleveland, situated on Lake Erie and enjoying the advantages of a growing traffic by water. In 1870 Cleveland had less than half the population of Cincinnati. By 1880 the figures were 296,908 for Cincinnati to 261,353 for Cleveland. By 1900 Cleveland had taken the lead with a population of 381,768 to only 325.902 for Cincinnati. The population of Cincinnati today Is less than Cleveland's population 10 years ago. The new census figures for . Cleveland when made public, probably will show that city to have a population in excess of 500,000. . There can be. little doubt that the declining Importance of the water route on which Cincinnati is situated is one explanation of the failure of that city to keep pace In growth with Cleveland. It may not be without significance, either, that Cincinnati is one of the worst boss-ridden cities ot the country, offering a marked contrast in that respect to Cleveland, which has much better municipal gov ernment, and gives evidence of considerable political Independence. Live cities, like Chicago and Cleveland, are fighting political corruption vigorously and prospering in no Inconsiderable degree by reason of the determination of their citizens to have honest and progressive government. Why rs a Pipe Dream? From the Houston Post. Asked about the Gore charges, T. R. waa silent. Wouldn't it bo splendH if this, sort of thing became a fixed habit with him? Looks Like an Insurgent Year. From the Boston Journal. Taking new courage, possibly from Kansas and Iowa, the Nicaraguan insurgents are again skirmishing suc cessfully. He Didn't Mention Which Party. From-the Buffalo Express. William Jennings Bryan says that he will continue to work for the good of his party. Let's see. When did he begin? Cant Bo Tricked Into It. From the Atlanta Constitution. Secretary Ballinger denies that he has conferred with anybody about resigning. Probably afraid of the ans wer. Well, There Is Kansas and Iowa. From New Orleans Times-Democrat. Champions of. the Aldrich-Pavne tariff bill against that it haa already established a great record. T. R. Knows How It Feel. From the Pittsburg Press. Being barred from conversation sort of entitles Dr. Crtppen to Colonel Roosevelt's sympathy.

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SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY. (Atchison, Kan., Globe). Ever remark how sheepish . a man looks coming out of a doctor's office? It is a mighty short distance between a winning hand and the discard. One of the easiest things on earth is to lay all the blame on the other fellow. A broken down man trying In vain to "come back" Is as sad a sight as a broken down tombstone. easaasa If there should be a law to hang every one who talked too much there wouldn't be enough left to wash the dishes. There is one thing no man or woman ever realize. That a compliment paid to their good looks Is true only six months, and not until death. , The women go to. a great deal of trouble at this time of the year mixins up a yellow sort of gravy to pour over the tomato, and spoil it. There is no more prospect of settling the row between employe and employer than there is of' settling the row between husbands and wives. LEARNING TO GRAFT. (Buffalo News). ' (Apologies to Kipling). I'v taken my graft where I've found it (I've grafted a bit in my time. And critics all said I was subtle I fancied my methods were prime). But yester-week, summering Idly, By Erie's wild turbulent hem, I mixed with the genius called "natives" And I learned about grafting from them. My landlady 6he was a winner. My chamber looked out on a shed. The matress she stuffed with some corncobs, And this she declared was a "bed." She gorged me with prunes and bread pudding. For this she got under my fur By taxing me forty-six fifty, And I learned about grating frora her. The "farm hand" who took my valises-He soaked me an extra four bits; The "girl' and the "chore boy" and "busman" Were there with the open-faced mits As I said in the start I have grafted By way that were smooth, but ahem! Believe me, I've only been piking I learned about grafting from them. THE INDIANA PRESS. Labor Resents Trick. (Elkhart Review.) Wage-earners who listened with friendly hopefulness to "promises volunteered by democrats In 1908 realiz ed when came the time for action that democrats, in the state of Indiana, for example, were not disposed to give serious consideration to labor's requests. Labor men who had tried out democratic promises in previous years were not surprised to find democratic leaders exceedingly offish and even insulting when It came time for performing some of the things so willingly promised before election. But there were some sincere men who believed what the democrats told them. Naturally these sincere and one-time hopeful labor men are disgusted with . democratic leadership such as that which now controls the democratic party in Indiana. This explains the present attitude of labor men. This explains in part why the republican party is receiving encouragement from the wage-earners. Farther explanation is found In the fact that the republican party, on Its record, deserves labor's support.

TO MAKE WORKING CONDITIONS

IN AMERICAN BY SIDNEY ESPEY. Washington, Aug. 13. To rnder working conditions In coal mines better, and to reduce the alarming death rate that annually costs over 2,500 lives from preventable accidents, rescue stations under federal Jurisdiction of the recently incorporated bureau of mines will be established at various center throughout the country. Up to the present time stations have been established at Wllkesbarre, Pa., Huntington, W. Va., and Birmingham, Ala. In addition, two perambulating stationsrailroad cars that have been fitted up for the purpose are to be located in the west, one with headquarters in Billings, Mont., and the other possibly at Denver. Col. Later six more stations will be established. The aim of the bureau Is to. co-oper ate with both the operators and the miners In conducting investigations with the object of rendering mining operations more safe. It will study the reasons for mine accidents, seek preventive measures and maintain rescue stations which will supply first aid to the injured.. Incidentally, it will become Vitally interested in an industry producing 2,ooo,ono,ooo values yearly, with an approximate annual waste of more than $300,000,000 , or nearly $1,000,000 for every working day. According to statistics gathered in foreign countries, the loss of human life is to a large extent unnecessary. At the present time there are about 700,000 miners employed in the cpal mines of this country. It has been estimated that about 3 per cent are killed annually in preventable mine disasters. In accidents occurring during the last 20 years an official calculation places the number of deaths at 50,000, while 11,000 women were widowed and over 20,000 children made fatherless. This deplorable condition has been brought to public notice for a number of years, but It was not until the last session of congress that steps were taken to organize a bureau of mines to deal exclusively with the subject. Heretofore the entire subject was handled through the United States geological survey, which was greatly handicapped in giving the attention required. At the last session of congress, a separate bureau was authorized and an appropriation of $500,000 made to carry on the work. The first steps in carrying out the work of this bureau will be to organize permanent rescue stations to render first aid to the injured. The station will be in charge of a practical miner, a mine boss and an engineer or superintendent. The men are to be select ed with care and on account of their practical experience under actual mining conditions. The station Is to be equipped with all modern facilities to be used in rescue work as well as complete hospital stores. Quarters will be built for the station crew. In every station a full mining outfit will be Installed, consisting of-oxygen hel mets, fire fighting apparatus, coal dust helmets and other necessities. From time to time, miners will be Invited from the mines around the station and special courses of instruction will be given by the engineer In charge to all who care to attend. It is planned to effect an agreement between the operators of the mines and the buLegible Law in Toledo, Nation-wide professional and edit; orial approval and keen appreciation have been given the American Corpus Juries project. In plain English, it would be a complete statement of the entire body of the American law In legible black and white. It would differ from a code in that it would be expository of the law rather than a literal statement of It. The proposal is to block out the entire field of American case law and statue lawstate and national under a logical system of classification, so that when the work is published the meaning of the law on any particular subject may be ascertained. This scheme for blazing the way out of the national legal jungle was suggested publicly by Lucien Hugh Alexander of the Philadelphia bar. acting in co-operation with Jumes De Witt Andrews, of New York, and Prof. George W. Kirchwey, dean of the law school of Columbia university. The Green Bag, a lawyer's magazine, devoted the greater part of its February issue to discussion of the possibility and desirability of a Corpus ' Juris. Since, that time a large collection of Indorsements from eminent professional men and leading American magazines and newspapers has been made. President Taft himself has frequently pointed out the woeful lack of unity in the decisions rendered in American courts, with their technicalities and delays ot procedure. He has urged repeatedly, that something be done towards . remedying this condition. While statutes are being enacted by thousands every year In the federal and state legislatures, the task of presenting the real living body of the law in a book or 1,000 pages does not appear hopeless. As Justice Holmes ob "THIS DATE

AUGUST 14. . 1711 Sir Hovedea Walker arrived at the mouth of the St" Lawrence river. 1756 Forts Ontario and Oswego destroyed by Montcalm. 1818 Joseph Gibbons, one of the organizers of the Republican party In Pennsylvania, born near Lancaster, Pa. Died there Dec. 9, 1883. 1840 Steam packet Brittania established a new record by completing the ; trip from Halifax to Liverpool In ten days. 18TO Admiral David O. Farragut died. Born July 5, 1801. 1SS7 Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg formally proclaimed ruler of 1 Bulgaria, 1891 Funeral of James Russell Lowell at ML Auburn, Massachusetts. 1900ReUef ot the Pekln legations by the Allies.

COAL MINES SAFE

I reau so that men will be allowed to leave their employment for a week without loss of pay to "attend school" J at these rescue stations. From this point the bureau's work is expected to , be accomplished, when the "students" : return to their respective employment where like schools will be established ' and the propaganda of the bureau dis- ' seminated among the miners, Sub- ' life saving stations will be established ! at the mines, where duplicate life-sav ing appartus will be Installed. , To make the service effective from the beginning, the engineers or superintendents will receive detailed instructions from the bureau as to what is expected of them. They will be required to keep in close touch with the mines and see that the men are thoroughly drilled at all times, responding j to calls for help immediately. The enj gineer will direct all rescue work in ; time of accident, and with him will He the responsibility for the proper application . of methods m conducting rescue work. At certain stated periods engineers from the bureau of mines will visit the various stations and act as inspector during the course of the year's work. The bureau expects to keep in close touch with the mines, also, but more particularly with a view of establishing a general co-operation for the benefit of the mine owners and the mine operators. It will not have any police jower, however, but will be able to enforce its regulation through the laws of the state in which the mine is located. The principal work of the bureau will be to study the cause of mine disasters. Following an accident an examination of the mine will be made to not only 'determine the cause, but if It could have been prevented by human agencies. Adequate government supervision in foreign countries has resulted in greatly reduced fatalities. One of the greatest aids in saving mine disaster victims, particularly those who have been hemmed in by fallen roofs or walls, Is the oxygen helmets. The geological survey has made a number of experiments with the helmet and found it very practical. The bureau of mines will attempt to carry the experiments a little farther, and cause all mines to be equipped with oxygen helmets and arrange that miners be taught their use. Heretofore, owing to the class of men em ployed in the coal mines the life sav-. ing devices have not been installed owing to the prevalence of superstitious fear. The schooling system, however, it Is expected, will completely overcome such obstacles. The helmet is similar in appearance to the headpieces worn by divers. It completely covers the head, fitting snugly around the neck and shutting off all air from the outside. Oxygen is supplied to the operator by a pump from large oxygen tanks. The operator otherwise is dressed in oil skins, closely tied at the wrists and ankles. Around his waist he carries a small sized miner's pick, a spade, a lantern and extra coil of rope, about 20 feet. With thia equipment he ' enters the mine in case of accident resulting from either -black damp or coal dust explosion, successfully carrying on his work of rescue unhampered by death dealing gases that surround him. Black and White O., Blade. serves, "The number of our precedents when generalized and reduced to a system, is not unmanageably large. They present themselves as a finite body of dogma, which may be mastered within a reasonable time." Judge Dillon, too, sayg that, while the number of cases Is legion, the principles the y establish are comparatively few. The Corpus Jurie project is of vastly more consequence, even, to the public than to the lawyers themselves. A New York banker is quoted as saying: "The greatest risk of business Is the legal risk." As long as courts and lawyers admit their inability to Interpret the law, Just so long will litigation continue to be costly, uncertain, even hazardous. As the Independent says the confidence of the people in the integrity of the courts Is not impaired, but they- have lost faith that a just decision will surely be reached in every case. It is asserted by the originators of the Corpus Juris project that the service performed for the Roman law by JXistinian and for the French law by Napoleon, could be accomplished'' for the American law ly any millionaire influential and liberal enough to assemble a company of the best lawyers in the country and support their Joint labors for a few years. So the avenue of immortal fame is open to the man who will establish a million dollar foundation of American Jurisprudence. Soft Pedal. (Logansport Journal.) Henry Barnhart. democratic congressman In the Thirteenth, doesn't get far with his argument for lower prices. Barnhart must face the population of a farming district, and so he is putting the soft pedal on his loud argument against existing prices for farm products. IN HISTORY"

A Novel Idea

By F. HARRIS DEANS

"Why don't you write a novel?" said Betty suddenly. "Why don't you?" I retorted. Betty gave a delightfully sly smile. "You won't tell anybody, will you?" "I'll be a perfect mausoleum of silence," I promised. She hesitated, glanced over her shoulder to see if anyone had entered the room, and then bent forward. "I am," she confided, in a whispttr. Leaning back in her chair, she regarded me expectantly. "Great Scott!" I murmured. Betty looked somewhat Indignant at my, perhaps, too excessive surprise. "Well, why shouldn't I?" she demanded. "No reason at all," I cried hastily. "Goodness knows, paper is cheap enough. What's it about?" "It's quite original," she declared proudly. "I never met an author whose wasn't," I remarked pessimistically. - "What's particularly original about yours the title?" "Don't be so horrid," she protested, with a pout, "its all original." "Then it won't sell." I affirmed. "Oh, well, it's not as original as all that. I'll tell you about it. For one thing " She stopped suddenly, and looked at me suspiciously. "I suppose you are interested?" I took my hand from my mouth in some confusion. ' "Immensely." I asserted. "You were saying ..." "Well, I wasn't saying anything, as a matter of fact. I was only going to." "Keep going," I said encouragingly, "Well," she nestled more comfortably among the cushions "that the hero, for instance. He's not the ordinary hero, of course." "H'm." I said enthusiastically. "In fact," she admitted frankly, "he's really not a hero at all." "Good," I commented, with a nod. "What are you calling the book?" The Hero who Isn't?' ! "Don't be sarcastic, now. When I say he isn't a hero, of course I dont mean that." "The great charm of this book," I murmured appreciatively, "will be its lucidity. What Is he then?" "Well . . . " she hesitated and glanced round the room as if In search of a suitable description. "He's just a man," she explained with a burst of frankness. "Now we're getting on. That settles his sex at the start. It's always as well not to have any doubt on a subject like that. Is there anything else striking about him? What color is his hair?" "I haven't mentioned his hair," said Betty, not quite sure whether to be indignant. ' "Well, you'll have to." I Informed her reprovingly. "Otherwise they may think he's bald. Unless . . .. I broke off and meditated for a moment. . "A bald hero would be rather a novelty," I suggested. ' Betty looked at me in hurt reproach. "And the heroine?" 1 went on, becoming interested, 'could Invent a hair-restorer and so win his love. And the villain" I began to get excited "could bag, the recipe and get out a patent first. You could have quite an emotional scene where he refuses to sell the hero a bottle." "Even if you're not Interested," said Betty pathetically, "you needn't laugh." "I was trying to help you," I pleaded. "Go on about the hero, then." "If you must know," she said sharply, "the hero is something like you." "The dickens," 1 ejaculated In dismay. "Only better," she added. "You needn't sneer,, because he is." "And the heroine?" I asked mildly. Betty had the grace to blush. "She's like me," she said aggressively. "Only better," I suggested. "She's different," she admitted, "in some ways." "To make her interesting," I opined. Betty glanced at me coldly. "And they're in love with each other," she mentioned. "Just so," I said. "And the villain loves her too." "1 see," I assented; "the two love her." "The too" Betty looked puzzled for a moment, and then light came to her. "Oh, you mean the two. Yes, they both do." She glanced at me with her head on one side. "What do you think of it?" "Is is that the plot?" I gasped. Betty hesitated. "That's all I've thought of so far,"

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she admitted. l want you to help me." " O'Help is very good, ! murmured. "Have you decided who Is to marry the girl?" "Why, the hero of course." "I don't see any 'of course' about it Because she mightn't discover who Is the hero until she has married him. Lota of women dont." Betty knitted her brows in thought. "But then," she complained, "there wouldn't be any proper ending to the book." "Not .strictly 'proper'" I admitted. "It's to be quite a conventional novel, then?" j "You see there's a mamma." explained Betty with a slight shrug. I nodded understanding. To be compelled to write with one eye on the general public and the other on my aunt would handicap most writers. "I was thinking," remarked Betty brightly, "that the villain might be rich." "They all are." I said. "Though which Is the cause an' which la the effect v "And a Lord." she, interrupted. " 'Peer' is more customary nowadays," I corrected. "But I see you've got the idea all right." "And the hero, what shall he be?" "Make him a Labour Leader," I hazarded. "One man Is as good as another, and that sort of thing." "But then he couldn't be a leader, could he?" she objected. "Oh, well, but he can be the exception. They all are. That'll be tha hu. man touch." ' Betty shook her head. "I think I shall make him an author," she announced. "Aren't you afraid of making this novel too original?" I hinted. "Still, have it your own way. Let him be philanthropic, and give copies of his books to the public libraries." V "Do they do that?" asked Betty doubtfully. "The second edition," I explained. "The first, of course, Is sent to the reviewers." . "I didn't know that." she admitted frankly. "Don't let tha't discourage you. If you knew everything, there'll be nothing left to write about" ; Betty looked somewhat daunted. "I never thought a novel was so hard tb write," she murmured disconsolately. "They're harder to read," I cheered her, "and that won't be your share." "Of course," she reflected; "there must be money In It, or they wouldn't do, would they?" .;. "Money can be the only Inducement in most cases," I agreed. "Some people write for fame, though don't they?" she Inquired, musing. They die young," I assured her. "so they don't count Laurels are not exactly a nourishing diet" Betty punched a cushion : into a more-comfortable position. , "Posterity," I continued dreamily, "paradoxically enough, means no circulation when you're alive, and a good circulation when you're dead. , "You're very bright today," she remarked "quite cheerful." "I thought" she continued pathetically, "It would be so original to writ a book." "It would be much more so to buy one," I affirmed. Betty shrugged her shoulders dis. couraged. : j "I 'won't write one at all then," she declared. ;:. ' "Now, I cried admlttingly, "that Is a novel idea." IT 13 A PARASITE. That Causes Itching Scalp, Dandruff, and Finally, Falling Hair. The Itching hair, the falling hair and the dandruff that annoys are the work of a parasite hidden In the scalp. That parasite must be killed to cure dandruff; acid the only preparation that will do that Is Newbro's Herplcide. "Destroy the cause, you remove the effect." . C. H. Reed, of Victor, Idaho, says: "Myself and wife had dandruff aud falling hair several years. Two bottles of Newbro's Herplcide completely cured us, after several other preparations had failed to do good." Makes hair grow glossy and soft as silkv Hundreds of other testimonials Just as strong. Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c. in stamps for sample to The Herplcide Co., Detroit, Mich. One dollar bottles guaranteed: A. O. Luken Co.. Special 'Agents. Phono 1 235