Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 252, 19 July 1911 — Page 2

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THE KIUHMOXU FAULADIUM AND SUX-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY J U ITT 19, 1911.

OFFICIAL PROGRAM OF SUMMER SCHOOL To Be Conducted by the Friends Very Interesting Announced Today. The official program of the Friends' summer Bchool, which will be held at the North A ttreet Friends' Meeting house grounds during the week of August 11-18, was announced on Wednesday. The object of the school is indicated In the foreword which is as followb: "The Bummer chool has for its purpose to study our Individual and society needs and possibilities, to strengthen the spirit" of fellowship, and to equip Friends for larger and more efficient service." The program which was outlined in the Palladium last Monday is exceedingly strong. The courso tickets including board, lodging and lectures, will be $6, while lecture tickets alone will be 91. Single admission tickets will b 25 cents. The program follows: Friday livening, 7:30 Song service and social. Saturday Morning, 9 to 9:20 Devotional meeting. 9"; 80-10: 13 Lecture, Charles Swain : Thomas, "Our Reach and Our (Jrasp." 10:30-11:15 Elbert Russell, first lecture on "The Social Teachings of Jesus." 11:30-12:15 Seminar ,for. Young Peo- . pie. George Walton, What Think ' Yo of Christ.' Evening, 8 lecture, Charles Swain Thomas, "The Message of Litera- . ture and Life." Sunday Morning Meetings for Worship at Richmond. Milton and Westfield. Evening Song service and Young People's Meeting for Worship. Monday Morning, 9:00-9:20 Devotional meeting. 9:00-10:15 Elbert Russell, second lec1 ture on "The Social Teachings of . Jesus." 10:30-11:15 R. Harelay Spicer, Stud- , les la Acts. 11:30-12:15 Seminar for Young Peo- ' pie, George Walton, "The Friendly Form of Worship." Afternoon, 5:00 Elbert Russell, third lecture on "The Social Teachings of Jesus." Evening, 8:00 Lecture, Dr. Thomas A. Jenkins, "Quakerism and Scholarship." Tuesday Morning, 9:00-9:20 Devotional meeting. 9:30-10:15 Lecture, Henry W. Wil- . bur, "The Quaker Message." 10:30-11:1511. Harelay Spicer, continuing "The Studies In Acts." 1:30-12:15 George Walton, "Begln- . nlngs of Jesus' Ministry." Evening, 8:00 Susannah M. Gregg, , Reader, Music. Wednesday Morning, 9:00-9:45 R. Barclay Spicer, continuing the "Studies in Acts." 10:00-11:00 Regular meeting for worship. 11:15-12-00 lecture, Jane P. Rush-

more, "Fundamental Principles of

t Philanthropy."

Afternoon, 5:00 Seminar for Young

, People, George Walton, "The Power Within." Evening. 8:00 Henry W. Wilbur, Illustrated lecture, "Some Experiences In England. Thursday Morning, 9:00-9:20 Devotional meeting.

9:30-10:15 George Walton, continuing

"Beginning of Jesus' Ministry."

10:30-11:15 Mary II. Whltson. "Adult

Classes in First Day Schools."

11:30-12:15 rt. Barclay Spicer, "The

Social Basis of Religion." Evening. 8:00 Jane Rushmore, "Fun

damental Principles In Phllanthro-

py." Friday

Morning. 9:00-9:45 Henry W. Wilbur.

"The Quaker Massage." 30:00-11:00 Closing services.

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tinguished Passengers. (National News Association) New York, July 19. The White Star liner Olympic, the giantess of the seas,

arrived this morning on her second

voyage from South Hampton and Cherbourg, via Queenstown after a fine trip of five days 13 hours and six minutes at an average speed of 21.72 knots per hour. So attempt was made to speed the giant liner. If necessary she could have reached port on Tuesday afternoon. The days runs were 525, 560, 534, 526. 518 and 228 to the Ambrose Channel light vessel. The Olympic brought 514 saloqn, 245 second cabin and 326 third class passengers. Many of the saloon passengers were homeward bound tourists and visitors to the coronation. Among the saloon passengers were: Charles W. Schwab, Lord Pierre,

chairman of Harland & Wolf Shipbuil

ding company at Ilelifast; Mr. andf

Mrs. August Uelmost; liear Admiral

Watts and Cone of the United States I

Navy, who attended the congress of naval architects, held at London; John Hays Hammond, Jr.; Harlow Higginbotham and Mrs. Oelrichs.

AGED VETERAN IN; TOLD WAR STORIES

Mike Higgins, born at Ballavaughan, Ireland, once a resident of Wales, a veteran of the Civil war, who was for two years at the terrible Andersonville prison, after he had been shot through the shoulder at Lookout mountain, was in police court this morning. He had been "shot" again but it was with rum instead of with a Rebel bullet. Higgins was bent with age, his hair was white and straight and he wore a beard and mustache of the style of '58. He told how the prisoners would pull a flea from their clothes and lining them up race the bugs across a plate to see who would get ratins. With flashing eyes he told how his comrades had been shot down at the notorious "dead" line, beyond whic hwas good water. The Confederate sharp shooters never missed their aim. He went to jail after his hearing before the mayor.

AN ALGERIAN HOTEL.

A BAG OF GOLF CLUBS.

They Picture In a Way tha Varioua Phases of Human Society. Deroteea of the links will be interested to learn that, in the opinion of a Philosophical atudent of their ancient Came, a bag of golf clubs Is a symbolical epitome of human society. In the front rank you have the driver, smooth, polished, elegant, the aristocrat of the circle, to whose lot falls the showy role in the day's performance, who disdains to play his part on the level of his fellows, and must have his sphere f operations artificially raised above the plane of the common earth. The brassy Is your rich commoner, substituting a barrier of metal for the tee that confers rank on his social superior. After these come the humbler cloeks, lofters and mashles, the common herd, who, like the butchers, shoemakers, and tillers of the ground among human beings, have the bulk of the work to do, aad can afford no polish save what comes from keeping themselves clean, which at times is no easy task. Apart from them all stands the niblick, the good Samaritan of golf, resorted to only when the player is in a serious difficulty. The function of the niblick is to aid the golfer In tlje day of trouble, and his destiny, after haying done his duty in that state of life, is to be relegated to the limbo of forgetfulness. Argonaut

Tha Attempt to Describe Ita Attraction In English. Things are not always as they seem, even in an advertisement. This truth dawned upon Robert Crawford when he was in Algiers, and he tells of the reason for his conclusion in "Reminiscences of Foreign Travel." Mr. Crawford, not being satisfied with his lodgings, procured a copy of the Journal des Etrangers and proceeded to look up a hotel. After a patient investigation the choice seemed to lie between two. One, according to the notice, possessed "every Anglish confort" and had "larg" as well as small apartments. The otherand I was strongly drawn to itadvertised as follows: Fir Glass House. O. Full South. Mis of larg- Fare. Tramways to and from towen every 10 minutes. I found the place. To my surprise there was no conservatory or glass house of any kind and no fir trees. As I pondered over the fact the solution suddenly came to me it was a "firs class house," of course. What of the rest of the advertisement? The hotel had a southern aspect and was situated in a park. As for the tramway, that was pure fiction.

F GLAD HEARTS. There are souls in the world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. Their influence is an inevitable gladdening of the heart. It seems as if a shadow of God's own gift had passed upon them. They give light without meaning to shine. These bright hearts have a great work to do for God. Faber.

SHE TAKES EFFECTS OF GREAT HUMORIST

Mrs. Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch,

daughter of Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), the deceased humorist, who

has removed from Stormfield, the Connecticut farm home of the famous author, the household effects and articles of furniture that were almost intimately associated with the home life of Mark Twain. Mrs. Gabrilowitsch is the wife of Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the Russian pian

ist. She is now living in Germany. To her foreign home she took recently the desk at which her father wrote many of his best known books, and the bed table on which he often wrote when he did not care to get up or was too ill to do so. The autograph books of his library, the curios given to him by famous friends, and all the costly articles that would have been dear to American hearts because they were dear to the best known American humorist, have been taken to Germany. Mrs. Gabrilowitsch, their owner, has gone there with them. Mrs. Gabrilowitsch inherited her father's entire estate, appraised at $471,135.

LEAGUE MAKES GOOD Other Towns Seek Admittance in 1912.

BRENNER WOMAN IS OUT ON $50 BOND Anna Brenner, who is alleged to be the affinity of Cadda Howard, now confined in the county jail, was released from the Home for the Friendless on Tuesday night. Will Starr, a farmer living on Greenwood avenue, supplied $50 bail. Howard's bond has been reduced to this figure, but though his relatives in Darke county, Ohio, are regarded as wealthy they have taken no steps to release him. It was on the instigation of the man's brother that he and the woman were arrested on the charge of fornication.

New Castle, July 19. Speaking of baseball success, the Eastern Indiana Sunday league seems the biggest winner in the state. All of the clubs are drawing well and all are making some money. Connersville, the tailenders. had more than 800 paid admissions last Sunday. There is no doubt but that the schedule will be extended through August and September. The fans are interested in the race and desire a continuation of the same class of sport. Next season will be the early organization of the league, with the probable addition of a couple of other clubs. Others Now Want In. Muncie fans have heard of the good sport and are clamoring for admission. The same is true at Anderson, where Sunday ball is a big winner with the proper men at the head of the game. One of the- big attractions at the game Sunday at Connersville was young Harold Roes, the sturdy offspring of Harry Ross, the Maxwell outfielder. The youngster was called to catch in the preliminary practice, when Ernestberger warmed up the pitchers and he handled the stinging throws from the bases like a veteran.

He will make a great played if he continues to shine as at present.

Russia. Russia did not break into European history until compartivery recent times. Ruric, a Varengiaa chief, seems to have been the first to establish a gov ernment. about 862. Ruric's descendants ruled amid many ups and downs till 159S, at which rime the real history of the country may be said to begin. With the solitary exception of the United States of America, the progress of Russia under Peter the Great and Catherine II. is uneaualed for rapidity in the history of the world.

Bringing Down the Average. "It is said that there are 120,000 hairs on the average human head," said the baldheaded man. "Too bad that you've pulled the average down so low, my dear," said his wife. Yonkers Statesman

A Bad Beginning. "I have known better days, lady," began Faded James. "Tea, It's a wretched moralng." replied the farmer's wife, "but I've got no time to discuss the weather with you, bad as it is." And she shut the door and left him.

FORMER SHAH FLEES

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Has Started a Revolt in Persia.

l VI0LE DEATHS In State in May Health

Board Reports.

According to the bulletin for May,

issued by the state board of health.

ther were 230 deaths due to violence

during that month. They were: mur

ders 7, suicides 45, accidents 17$. Of the murders, four were by gunshot, one by cutting, two by explosion; of the suicides, nine were by gunshot, eight by hanging, seven by drowning, three by cutting throat, five by carbolic acid, two by morphine, sevea by poisons of different kinds, one by burning, one by stepping in front of car. one by jumping from a height, one not named. Of the accidental deaths, steam railroads caused thirtytwo, interurbans three, street cars one, automobiles seven, crushing injuries seventeen, mining two, machinery one, burns and scalds thirteen, drawning thirty, falls nineteen, gunshots three, animals and vehicles fourteen, electricity two, lightning four, an dthe remaineds by various means. There were 207 cases of smallpox.

with no deaths; 350 deaths were due to tuberculosis in its many forms. Pneumonia caused 167 deaths. There were 131 cases o f typhoid fever reported, with twenty-nine deaths. There were 145 cases of diphtheria with nine deaths; 513 cases of scarlet fever with sixteen deaths. There was one death due to pellagra and seven from Infantile paralysis. .

(National News Association St. Petersburg. July 19. The army officers responsible for the escape of the exiled Shah of Persia. Mohammed

AH Mirza, who was held in Odessa1!

supposedly under strict surveillance will, according to an official announcement today be courtmartialed and sent to Siberia for allowing him to flee to Persia and there start a revolt. The Russian government will use every means in its power to prevent the revolution in Persia from becoming more serious, as, by agreement with the other powers, it undertook to prevent Mohammed Ali, after his dethronement in July, 1909. from returning to Persia and reascending the throne. Five thousand troops were ordered in readiness today to proceed to the Persian frontier.

WILL BE NO COMPS FOR STATE FAIR

Palladium Want Ads Pay.

(National News Association) Indianapolis, July 19. The State

board of agriculture has announced no tickets will be printed for the state fair which opens on September 4th. Slot machines at the gates will be provided and each patron must deposit half a dollar or a Quarter coin. The entire free list has been suspended.

HORSE THIEVES FOES Are Holding Convention at Arkansas City, Kan.

(National News Association) Arkansas City, Kan., July 19. Arkansas City today began the entertainment of the annual convention of the Aiti-Horse Thief Association of Kansas and Oklahoma, which is one of the most unique and influential organizations in this section of the country. Though horse thieves are not so plentiful in the two States as they were once upon a time, the association has continued to maintain Its organization largely for social purposes and now has a membership estimated at 50,000.

MORMON COLONY

TWO CONVICTS ARE

HUNTED BY POSSE

(National News Association) Augusta, Me., July 19. Frederick Reynolds, a wife murderer, and Clarence A. Conant, a burglar, inmates of the criminal insane hospital here, are

at large and a posse of several hun

dred citizens is beating the woods north of the city in an effort to cap

ture them. The men gained their lib

erty by removing bars from the third story window and sliding down a rope

o bed clothing.

Easy Stairs. The very acme of ease Is reachefl In stairs that have treads twelve to fifteen inches broad and risers five to seven inches high. The run or distance in most houses is too short to allow of this, but they should come as near It as the architect of the house will permit. It is so easy to climb such stairs that one hardly Is aware of any effort.

Polo. Polo or hockey on horseback Is a game of Asiatic origin and was introduced into England In 1872.

(National News Association) Santa Barbara, Cal, July 19.- Announcement was made today that the Cuyama ranch will be purchased by a colony of Mormons, consisting of about 1,000 families from Salt Lake. The ranch contains more than 60,000 acres. The Mormons will establish a church and build a city in the tract.

MISTOOK WIFE FOR BURGLAR; SHOT HER (National News Association) Kittanning, Penn., July 19. Thinking she was a burglar, George Golden 27, a shoe dealer, shot and killed his wife while she was closing a window to keep out the cool air at two o'colck this morning.

SMOOTS WOOL BILL INTRODUCED TODAY

(National News Association) Washington, July 19. Senator Smoot today introduced his wool bill as a substitute for the Underwoodhouse measure. - ,

MRS. BELMONT HAS HER JEWELS SEIZED

(National News Association) New York, July 19. Customs officers discovered 15,000 worth of Jew-' els in a. trunk of Mrs. August Belmont which they . declared had not ( been declared when she returned from Europe today. They were seized without objection from the former actress.

A MATTER FOR INQUIRY BY HERBERT JAMESON.

MAnd you moan to Bay. Tom. that you didn't put that atl-lm-octant question to this Mr. Vallance?" Tm sorry, my dear, but it entirely escaped my memory." , "But It must -hava been hovering on roar Upa all the time." -I can honestly . r. .Milly. that It rearer occurred to mo once. Really. rm dmM Tm very unpractical.' Tto be equally honest. Tom, you certalnty axe. Bar a certain Mr. Vallance ajaked for our only chlld'a hand Id wurlaco aad you did not put the usual aaellmlnerr queertioa a to his position sad prospects." -Im It or oo very usual T" "Certainly, and more then ever neceaaxy m thla ease. X lot you and Enid both rather Tun-down' go away to-At-fow. city for a change of air. while I uporintended the Bprinf cleaning at home. Tou moot at the boarding- house you know how I beaded you to go to t hotel, whera poopl ra never so familiar Mr. Robert Vallance. He falls In love with Enid. and. Enid, you Jay. with him. Tou llaten ympatheUoelly to what the youn man haa to aay. aad promU paternal co-operation In tackllne me." My dear, you put thlng-a ao very queerlyf . . Xibflft..:: -,jn!atT b mb mb mam ' -So very truthfully, you meant To proceed, 7vi day-ticket from AtJantlo City and come up to New York to consult m Ot.thm youn man's money mattera you know nothing, ex.pt tat bo is in o business, undoaed. U Rochester. Sere the tide e-t Mrs. WWetta eloauenee ap T Ka own force, ceaaed to earn .Her huahand was looking thoufhtout of the window; hi. brow wee knit m perpelsity.

"Have you any business connections In Rochester 7" suddenly asked Mrs. Wlllett. "Not one. Then I should suggest your going at once Into town to your club and Interviewing everybody about Rochester until you find some one who knows Mr. Vallance. Now, if you start at once, you'll be at the club at the lunch hour, when the rooms will be more or less full, and the chance of obtaining Information better There's your hat behind you.-- . u Wiilott sat tn his club; but not i io dining room of the club merely i.. ;Ie library. A Rochester directory, in which he was thoroughly absorbed, lay on the table before him. He had "flunked" the society of hi brother men and chosen another and an easier way. The first facts he had gleaned were recorded on a slip of paper at his side. Robert Vallance the only Vallance given In the directory was an Insurance agent living at The Nook. London Road, Rochester. Mr. WlHett's face lengthened. Insurance agentl Alas. It was not a very remunerative business! He knew several Insurance agents, and they were usually broken-down men who had failed at other occupations, and had come down to canvassing for Insurance orders. Their ranks. Willett knew, were crowded and competition furious. And worse. Vallance apparently had no ottlce; he performed what business he had at his private house. The Nook. The Nook you saw it. a tiny suburban villa, trying to look important with Its name In big- gilt letters over the door. Mr. YHUett closed tha book tn despair. Then he opened It again, for another Idea had come from the fertile field that was his brain on this particular morning. After all. there must be some fairly well-to-do insurance agents; perhaps young Bob waa one of them. Willett turned up another section In the directory. It waa the brief section that recorded the name of private Inquiry agents in Rochester. He chose the name that came first Abner & Co. On Imposing club paper, and under a staring heading "Private."

he wrote Messrs. Abner & Co.. detailing the full circumstances (which waa characteristic of Tom Willett). and requesting information as to the financial standing of Mr. Robert Vallance. if they would kindly wire him to his private house in the morning (mentioning no name, of course), he would be very grateful and at once send them a remittance for their fee. plus the cost of the message. Mr. Willett returned home feeling. 'for the first time In his life, a thoroughly practical man. But Humph!" was Milly'a only comment. Mrs. "Willett looked for the telegram by ten o'clock next morning. Of course. It had not come by that hour. Private Inquiry agents are only human la the extent of their ready Information, as Tom reminded his wife. When the telegraph boy came up their steps at 10:55 a. nu, Tom declared It a most surprising featHe let Mllly open the message, because In that short space of time at Atlantis City he had grown to love young Boa. Most considerately she held It so that both could read It together. The message ran: "Information re person named quite satisfactory. Respectable and generally esteemed young man; Income about three thousand per annum Abner." Mrs. Willett's eyes glowed. "Candidly. Tom. I never expected ao much' "Wen. you could see at once that the fellow tu thoroughly respectable." "I waa referring to the figure. He will be able to keep Enid in the social position that she has been accustomed to. The Income is near but not unpleasantly near our own. There's an A B C on the shelf behind yon, Tom; look out the next train to Atlantic City. Give Bob every blessing from me. express my regrets for not being ablo to come to-day. and aay that I hope to see my future son-in-law booh. Tou had better explain that some important business In town unexpectedly cropped up yesterday, and prevented your returning until to-day.' 6 In a corner of the pavilion as remote from their fellow creatures, but within hearing of the dulcet strains of Daa Godfrey's band, sat tha affianced pair.

For Mr. Willett had returned, bearing the maternal consent and blessing, and the horizon towards which the young lovers looked waa wholly blue. Now, In one particular Enid took after her mother. She had not the same commercial spirit, but she was thoroughly practical. She would have married a man (If she loved him) on ten dollars a week, but she would have required It precisely stated beforehand (preferably in black and white) how that ten would be expended. Love that builds nothing more substantial than fairy palaces made no appeal to her. A few hours after she knew that she waa to be Bob's for life, she was asking herself where that love of theirs was to be domiciled. All unwittingly the band. too. pressed home the matter. It started playing a very popular song about a bungalow and the dear little girl that someone or other invited to be the queen there. "I wonder. Bob. where our bungalow will be when we are married?" "I don't know about a bungalow, but Rochester has some rather nice suburbs." "Oh. I'm sure we shall find the very thing; but we mustn't be too extravagant at first. How much do you think we ought to give for a house?" "I really haven't thought much about it dear!" "We should not spend too much to begin with. I would rather start in a small way. and launch, out afterwards. 1 don't thick we ought to assign more than three hundred dollars a year for house rent-" Boh looked rather agast. "I'm afraid er that would be rather too large a proportion of our Income." "Oh, do you think ao?" "Tea: it works out at one-fifth, and statistics - "Why. dear, you're not calculating rightly! It's lust one-tenth, and people say that even one-sixth la a fairly aaf proportion. What la the matter?" Enid, you do not suppose no on has led you to suppose that my income la three thousand a year?" "Tea; Isn't it?" She waa watebinc his face. "Oh. pleas don't think I mind in the leaat what it 1st We are bound to get along an rhrht. and. after all. we have one another. It was father who told me that he had heard you had three

thousand a year." Bob's expression waa glum Indeed. The glamour in the sky had faded before the clouds of cold reality. "Who can possibly have told him ouch a lie? Perhaps I should have told you the truth at first, Enid, and not run the risk of this misconception. I had fifteen hundred last year! I do not expect to have a,penny more than that this year." Had it not been a public place, Enid would have pressed her cheek to Bob's in assurance that money did not matter In the least, and would never be suffered to come between them. Situated as they were, she tried to convey the same thing by warmly clinging to his hand beneath her jacket, and pouring contempt with her voice on that ugly and obnoxious thing money. "What does it matter. Bob?" And her tones were high pitched In their disdain. "Six hundred a year or three hundred, it's all the same to me. I don't care a bit if you don't, and you must promise me that you're not going to. As for father, he's about the most unworldly man that ever lived. I don't imagine for a moment that it will make a pin's head difference to him." "There's your mother, too." "Tea. she different. I know; but " Enid, I feel In a perfectly horrlbla position, rm living- now under false pretence Someone, whether enemy or would-be friend. I don't know, has misinformed your father as to my position in life. I ought to go to him at once and put the whole thing right." The girl proteated. What did a little money more or less matter? Waa ha not worth Ma weight In gold to her? Character, reputation that was the true valuation of every human being. But Bob was adamant. Ha would tell the truth to her people, and definitely ascertain if he waa valued for himself alone. "There's just one thin, though, old girh I go back to Rochester to-morrow, as you know, because my little holiday la up. I will aea my employers, and teU them Tm engaged to Too married virtually engaged, perhaps I'd better aay. Tha thing is Improbable, but they may surgest a small raise In salary. On Saturday afternoon you're going - back to

New York on Thursday, you aay I U take advantage of the half-holiday to run up to New York to see your father and mother together. I'll know my actual position and prospects for the future then, and be able to tell the square facta. If I see that they're dissatisfied, well, we must wait awhile that's all. old girl. Meantime. I want you to promise not to aay a word to either your father or your mother.' - "I promise. Bob: but" "What are you thinking of?" -Of the unpleasant position for you. dear." But her actual thoughts were of her mother. . , ... How would that good lady" look, what would she say, when she learned that Bob was only worth fifteen hundred a year instead of the three thouaand that she had imagined? . . It was a diffident and distrustful. Robert Vallance who. two days later, resumed office duties. Never had the return to harness been so distasteful, never had the ordinary affairs of life struck him so prosaic He had left the exhileratinsr heights for the enervating plains. A week ago money had been nothing to him the merest matter of coarse. Dollars had only troubled him when ha was face to face with that complex task the yearly filling In of his tax paper. Month by month he had pocketed his salary, and thought no more about it. And now, next to love, finance had grown the most stupendous fact in life. He felt better when he had entered the office. Hie fellow clerks subordinate to him, most of them greeted him warmly: and the active partner of the firm. Sir. Tracy, aa ha passed Into his own private sanctum, stopped to shake hands and apeak. An hour later, when he had to go inside that room to confer with Mr, Tracy on certain matters of business he felt that the time had come for him to apeak. "Ah. Vallance! Just put down that basket of letters: we'll com to business in a few minutes. I want to talk to you of something else first. Please shut the door.Speeulartrta wlkHy aa to what waa earning. Vallance did as be waa raid. "Now come and sit down! No. this chair beside not'. Have a cigar or cigarette? Ah. I forgot you don't amokcl

Ur.n T t haf a vaaA holiday

".n, A nupv yw "I couldn't have had better, sir. feel completely rested. "Thafa good. I can't -uulte Imagine it, for I etgnaltsed a holiday In the same way once by getting engaged." Bob's mouth opened in sheer surprise. "Mr. Tracy, you've heard?" "Merely in the way of business. I haven't been prying into your affairs. You'll allow in a moment that I couldn't help myself. I say, what a nice man your future father-in-law must be? But take my advice if she's what I faacy ahe la beware of your mother-in-law." "Tou know the family. sirT "No only professionally. - Tou see'they consulted me the firm, I mean.' There. I won't beat about the bush any longer. Read that letter from Mr. Willett; and that'e the copy of my wire tav reply, followed subsequently by thife letter. He wrote to us Abner Jc Co. -for information about you, never dreaming . that you were in our employ, and that we could give It first hand. I call It on of the biggest Jokes on earth. Ha simply -got our name, he says, out of the. directory." - In a minute or two Bob saw tha whole thin- and waa laughing too. Then his face grew serious. Tha neat words came with difficulty: "Mr. Tracy it was kind socially kind of you to say what yon did la this telegram. But I can't allow Mr Willett to remain under a miaappra bension aa to my real Income." "Miaaapprehenaion. my boy? There is none. Thla affair what fun I've had out of it haa Jaat given me tha opportunity I've been looking forward to for some time. now. Mr. Abner. rm sorry to aay, is now incurably i-l and will never ba back at work aaraln. I don't feel disposed to bar. tha buaineaa entirely on my own sheuldera Tou-va been with us now eleven yeart With Abnei-s consent, Tm having papera prepared making you 1bi partner. It wHI be worth T the threl thouaand a year mentioned to Mr. Wii! WJ- v"0. T.1a Cn I told him nothIn but tho truth, uxtar alt That three thouaand being- aecur. you will tocllnad to.jrf! that trifling inauranc, an bu's ne,a you'vo been carryinron it hoaa since your father's death."