The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 23, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 5 October 1911 — Page 3

SERIAL fl STORY

ELUSIVE ISABEL

By JACQUES FUTRELLE ir by M. KETTNER

Copyright. 1908. by The Associated Sunday Magazines. Copyright 1909, by The Bobba-Merrill Company. SYNOPSIS. Count dl Rosini, the Italian ambassador, is at dinner with diplomats in the national capital- when a messenger brings a note directing him to come to the embassy at once. Here a beautiful young woman asks that she be given a ticket to the embassy bait The ticket Is made out In the name of Miss Isabel Thorne. Chief Campbell of the secret service, and Mr. Grimm, his head detective, are warned that a plot of the Latin races against the English speaking races is brewing In Washington, and Grimm goes to the state ball for informat ion. In a Conservatory, his attention Is called to Miss Isabel Thorne, who with her companion, soon disappears. A revolver shot is heard and Campbell and Grimm hasten down the hall to find that Senor Alvarez of the Mexican legation, has been shot. A woman did It, and Grimm is assured it was Miss Thorne. He visits Kter, demanding knowledge of the affair, and there arrests a man named Pietro Petrozinni. Miss Thorne visits an old man, Luigi, apparently a bomb maker, and they speak of a wonderful experiment. CHAPTER Vlll.—(Continued.) i — , Simultaneously the front door of the house on the corner, where Hastings had been hiding, and the front door of the house near the corner, where Blair had been hiding, opened and two heads peered out. As the car approached Hastings’ hiding-place he withdrew into the hallway; but Blair came out and hurried past the legation in the direction of the rapidly disappearing motor. Hastings joined him; they spoke together, then turned the corner. It was about ten o'clock night when Hastings reported to Mr. Campbell at his home. “We followed the car in a rented automobile from the -time it turned the corner, out through Alexandria, and along the old Baltimore Road into the city of Baltimore,” he explained. “It was dark by the time we reached Alexandria, but we stuck to the car ahead, running without lights until we came in sight of Druid Hill Park, and then we had to show lights or be held up.. We covered those forty miles going in less than two hours. “After the car passed Druid Hill it slowed up a little, and ran off the turnpike into North Avenue, then Into North Charles Street, and slowly along that as if they were looking for a number. At last it stopped and Miss Thorne got out and entered a house She was gone for more than half an hour, leaving Mr. Cadwallader with the car. While she was gone I made some inquiries and learned that the house was occupied by a Mr. Thomas Q. Griswold. I don’t know anything else about him; Blair may have learned something. “Now comes the curious part of it,” and Hastings looked a little sheepish. “When Miss Thorne came out of the house she was not Miss Thorne at all —she was Senorita Inez Rodriguez, daughter of the Venezuelan minister. She wore the same clothing Miss Thorne had worn going, but her veil was lifted. Veiled and all muffled up one would have taken oath it was the same woman. She and Cadwallader are back in Washington now, or are coming. That’s all, except Blair is still in Baltimore, awaiting orders. I caught the train from the Charles Street station and came back. Johnaon, you know —” “Yes, I’ve seen Johnson,” interrupted Campbell. “Are you absolutely positive that the woman you saw get into the automobile with Mr. Cadwallader was Mies Thorne?” “Absolutely,” replied Hastings without hesitation. “I saw her in her own room with her wraps on, then saw her come down and get into the car.” “That’s all,” said the chief. “Goodnight.” For an hour or more he sat in a great, comfortable chair in the smok-ing-room of his own home, the guileless blue eyes vacant, staring, and spidery lines in the benevolent forehead. On the morning of the second day following, Senor Rodriguez, the minister from Venezuela, reported to the Secret Service Bureau the disappearance of fifty-thousand dollars In gold from a safe in his private office at the legation. ‘ « CHAPTER IX. , Fifty Thousand Dollars. Mr. Campbell was talking. “For several months past,” he said, “the International Investment Company, through its representative, Mr. Cressy, has been secretly negotiating with Senor Rodriguez for certain asphalt properties in Venezuela. Three days ago these negotiations were successfully concluded, and yesterday afternoon Mr. Cressy. in secret, paid to Senor Rodriguez, fifty thousand dollars in American gold, the first of tour payments of similar sums. This

gold 'was to have been shipped to Philadelphia by express today to catch a steamer for Venezuela.” Mr. Grimm nodded. “The fact that this gold was m Senor Rodlguez’s possession could not have been known to more than half a dozen persons, as the negotiations throughout have been in strict secrecy,” and Mr. Campbell smiled benignly. “So much! Now, Senor Rodriguez has just telephoned asking that I send a man to the legation at once. The gold was kept there over night or perhaps I should say that the senor intended to keep it there over night.” Mr. Campbell stared at Mr. Grimm for a moment, then: “Miss Thorne, you know, is a guest at the legation, that is why I am referring the matter to you.” “I understand,” said Mr. Grimm. And ten minutes later Mr. Grimm presented himself to Senor Rodriguez. The minister from Venezuela, bubbling with excitement, was pacing forth and back across his office, ruffling his gray-black hair with nervous, twining fingers. Mr. Grimm sat down. “Senor,” hp inquired placidly, “fifty thousand dollars in gold would weigh nearly two hundred pounds, wouldn’t it?” Senor Rodriguez stared at him blankly. “Si, Senor,” he agreed absently. And then, in English: ' “Yes, I should imagine so.” “Well, was all of it stolen, or only a part of it?” Mr. Grimm went on. The minister gazed into the listless eyes for a time, then, apparently bewildered, walked forth and back across the room again. Finally he sat down. “All of it,” he admitted. “I can’t understand it. No one, not a soul in this house, except myself, knew it was here.” “In addition to this weight of, say two hundred pounds,, fifty thousand dollars would make considerable bulk,” mused Mr. Grimm. “Very well! Therefore it would appear that the person, or persons, who got it must have gone away from here heavily laden ?’? Senor Rodriguez nodded. “And now, Senor,” Mr. Grimm continued, “if you will kindly state the circumstances immediately preceding and following the theft?” A slight frow.n which had been | All IIIWL W-’" Mb il “No One, Not a Soul in This House, Except Myself, Knew It Was Here.” growing upon the smooth brow of the diplomatist was instantly dissipated. “The money—fifty thousand dollars in gold coin—was paid to me yester-i day afternoon about four o’clock,” he began slowly, in explanation. “By Mr. Cressy of the International Investment Company,” supplemented Mr. Grimm. “Yes. Go on.” The diplomatist favored the young man with one sharp, inquiring glance, and continued: “The gentleman who paid the money remained here from four until nine o’clock while I, personally, counted it. As I counted it’ I placed it in canvas bags and when he had gone I took these bags from this room into that,” he indicated a closed door to his right, “and personally stowed them away in the safe. I closed and locked the door of the safe myself; I know that it was locked. And that’s all, except this morning the money was gone—evfery dollar of it.” “Safe blown?" Inquired Mr. Grimm. “No, Senor!” exclaimed the diplomatist with sudden violence. “No, the safe was not blown! It was closed and locked, exactly as I had left It!” Mr. Grimm was idly twisting the seal ring on his little finger. “Just as I left it!” Senor Rodriguez repeated excitedly. “Last night after I locked the safe door I tried It to make certain that It was locked. I happened to notice then that the pointer on the dial had stopped precisely at number forty-five. This morning, when I unlocked the safe — and, of course, I didn’t know then that the money had been taken —the pointer was still at number forty-five.” He paused with one hand in the air; Mr. Grimm continued to twist the seal ring. “It was all like —like some trick on the stage,” the minister went on, “like the magician’s disappearing lady, or or —! It was as though I had not put the money into the safe at all!” “Did you?” inquired Mr. Grimm amiably. “Did I?” blazed Senor Rodriguez. “Why, Senor —! I did!” he concluded meekly. . / Mr. Grimm believed him. “Who else knows the combination of the safe?” he queried. “No one, Senor —not a living soul.” “Your secretary, for instance?” “Not even my secretary.” “Some servant—some member of your family?’ “I tell you, Senor, not one person ta all the world knew that combina-

tion except myself,* Sqpor Rodrigue* insisted. “Your secretary—a servant —souk member of your family might havs seen you unlock the safe some tima and thus learned the combination?” Senor Rodriguez did not quite know whether to be annoyed at Mr. Grimm’s persistence, or to admire the tenacity with which he held to this one point “You must understand, Senot Grimm, that many state documents are kept in the safe,” he said finally, “therefore It is-not advisable that any one should know the combination. 1 have made it an absolute rule, as did my predecessors here, never to un« lock the safe in the presence of an> other person.” i “State documents!” Mr. Grimm’s lips silently repeated the words. Then aloud: “Perhaps there’s a record ot the combination somewhere? If you had died suddenly, for Instance, how would the safe have been opened?” “There would have been only ana way, Senor —blow it open. There is no record.” "Well, if we accept all that as true,” observed Mr. Qrimm musingly, “it would seem that you either didn’t put the money into the safe at all, or—please sit down, there’s nothing personal in this —or else the money was taken out of the safe without it being unlocked. This last would have been a miracle, and this is not the day ot miracles, therefore—!” Mr. Grimm’s well modulated voice trailed off into silence. Senor Rodrigues came to his feet with a blaze of anger in his eyes; Mr. Grimm was watching him curiously. “I understand, Senor,” said the minister deliberately, “that you believe that I—!” “I believe that you have told the truth,” interrupted Mr. Grimm placidly, “that is the truth so far as you know it. But you have stated on« thing in error. Somebody besides yourself does know the combination. Whether they knew it or not at this time yesterday I can’t say, hut somebody knows it now.” Senor Rodriguez drew a deep breath of relief. The implied accusation had been withdrawn as pleasantly and frankly as it had been put forward. “I ran across a chap in New York once, for instance,” Mr. Grimm took the trouble to explain, “who could unlock any safe—that is, any safe of the kind used at that time —twelve or fourteen years ago. So you see. I doubt if he would be so successful with the new models, with all their improvements, but then—! You know he would have made an ideal burglar, that chap. Now, Senor, who lives here in the legation with you?” “My secretary, Senor Diaz, my daughter Inez, and just at the moment, a Miss Thorne—Miss Isabel Thorne,” the senor informed him. “Also four servants —two men and two women.” “I’ve had the pleasure of meeting your daughter and Miss Thorne," Mr. Grimm informed him. “Now, suppose we take a look at the safe?” “Certainly.” Senor Rodriguez started toward the closed door jiist as there came a timid knock from the hall. He glanced at Mr. Grimm, wfio nodded, then he called: “Come in!” - The door opened, and Miss Thorne entered. She was clad in some filmy, gossamer-like morning gown with her radiant hair caught upon her white neck. At sight of Mr. Grimm the bluegray eyes opened as if in surprise, and she paused irresolutely. “I beg your pardon, Senor,” she said, addressing the diplomatist. “I did not know you were engaged. And Mr. Grimm!” She extended a slim, white hand, an,d the young man bowed low over it. “We are old friends,” she explained, smilingly, to the minister. Then: “I think I must have dropped my handkerchief when I was in here yesterday with Inez. Perhaps you found it?” “Si, Senorita,” replied Senor Rodriguez gallantly. “It is on my desk in here. Just a moment.” He opened the door and passed into the adjoining room. Mr. Grimm’s eyes met those of Miss Isabel Thorne, and there was no listlessness in them now, only interest. S|ie smiled at him tauntingly and lowered her lids. Senor Rodriguez appeared from the other room with the handkerchief. “Mil gracias, Senor," she. thanked him. “No hay de que, Senorita,” he returned, as he opened the door for her. “Monsieur Grimm, au revoir!” She dropped a little curtsey, and still smiling, went out “She is charming, Senor,” the diplomatist assured him enthusiastically, albeit irrelevantly. “Such vivacity, such personality, such —such—she is charming.” “The safe, please,” Mr. Grimm reminded him. (TO BE CONTINUED.) “Noblesse Oblige." In Mrs. Walford’s story of Lord Mansfield, in her recent book, entitled “Recollections of a Scottish Novelist." the top note ot propriety is reached. The noble lord’s young nephew, seeing him annoyed at a railway station at having no servant at hand to get his newspapers, ran post-haste and procured them. Lord Mansfield showed no gratitude whatever. “Edward,” was all he would Uvy, “recollect, Edward, that a gentle&hn should never hurry himself in public." In Proportion. Wifie —1 want a cap, please, for my husband. Shopkeeper—Yes, madam. What size does he wear? Wifie—Well, 1 really forget His collars are size 16; though 1 expect he’d want about sise IS or 20 for a cap. wouldn’t he?

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EVIDENCES OF TASTE DRESS ACCESSORIES ARE THE THINGS THAT COUNT. Scarf May Be Used as an ExampleColored Handkerchiefs to Match Sult or Gown—Short Skirts Demand Fine Stockings. This is the age of the accessory in dress history. It is by the accessory that the wearer’s refinement is expressed. The woman of no taste whatever may make a presentable appearance so long as she wears just what her tailor and dressmaker give her, but let her loose among the little extra things which her clever and well-bred sister chooses so well and she betrays herself at once. The scarf is foremost among today’s little dress luxuries. Time was when •he weaker of one of these airy nothings met with stern disapproval. She was suspected of trying to be artistic. which was once considered quite tad form. But now every well-dressed woman has a whole range of them carefully laid away in her favorite perfume sachets, and' is out at the sales buying more. There are lovely examples in all the shops, from the useful trifles in plain or shot ninon to the painted or bead embroidered crepe de chine ones that are wide and long enough to be caught up into a cloak for evening wear. There is quite a rage for the colored handkerchief. Now that mere men are having their handkerchiefs to tone with their socks and neckties, the smart woman has hers to match her linen suit or her embroidered gown. The Importance of the stocking is one of the most interesting circumstances of today’s dressing, and it is really difficult to find whether we got such pretty stockings because of our short skirts or we shortened our skirts to show our hosiery. And stockings are among the articles in which one may “plunge” without fear at sale time. One can scarcely have too many pairs—especially during the holiday and visiting season. s One girl who possessed many quaint strings of beads has been matching them all with stockings during mldsummer sales, and in this color-loving era the excuse seems sufficient Little lawn collars and cuffs are other accessories which can be purchased at present at great reductions, “if you have any at all, you must have a lot," was the axiom heard at a counter where these were being sold the ether day, and there is some truth in the extravagant statement, for it is essential that the lawn trifles should be always immaculate, otherwise one looks infinitely better without them. Novel Necktie. An oddity in neckwear that can easily be copied at home is made of inchwide velvet ribbon brought around the base of the collar and held in front -over the crossed ends by, a beaded slide. The ends, which are cut square across, are finished with beaded fringe to match. The newest fringe for these ties is made of the small round beads of wood, gilt, and iridescent colors. Combination fringes are especially new, mixtures of the blue, green, red and gold beads being used. This is much less garish than it sounds.

SIMPLE COSY FOR THE EGGS Useful Breakfast Equipment for Those Who Like Theirs Served In English Style. For a large household or perhaps a boarding house, where a number of eggs have tofbe kept warm each morning on tljj \breakfast table, th© “egg cosy” of which we give a sketch, ’’rill be found very useful, and in it sev-

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eral eggs may be'kept hot, and as they are required they are easily obtainable. For making it a c circular cardboard box should tfe obtained, and a collar box will quite answer the purpose. This box should be loosely lined inside with wadding covered with flannel, tacked to the bottom and again just round the edge. The small sketch at the top illustrates this. A

HANDSOME AND IN STYLE Bag Fashioned According to the Latest Fad May Easily Be Made at Home. The most fashionable bag at the present time is made in brocade, embroidered silk or velvet, of the shape of our illustration. They are very expensive to buy, but clever fingers may easily fashion a very handsome bag at less than a quarter of the price that would be paid tor one in a store. Whatever material is selected should be cut out to pattern; it should then be tacked on firm linen or canvas; strips of the material and lining used are joined in at the sides and lower part. The lining should be of silk cut to same pattern as. outer material, and

slip-stitched in carefully at the edges. The edge all round is trimmed with fancy braid. In the center and on either side there are three flat buttons covered with the same material, and this arrangement is repeated on the lower part of the bag. A long loop of silk cord is attached to each side at the top, and the ends are knotted and frayed out into tassels. ■■■■■'■ i The Home Dresser. For the at home dressmaker there are no pins so handy as the homemade “red heads.” They are made in the following way: Take a package of-No. 8 needles, melt a little red sealing wax and dip the head ends of the needles in and chape the lump of wax so as to form a fair-sized head, and stick them on a cushion to harden. They are excellent to pin work or patterns in place, and are so much sharper than the ordinary pins, also longer. They are thinner, too, and do not leave such large holes in the finer materials. These are used by southern women, and the idea is, original with them. Many people who sew a great deal make up two or three, papers of these needles at a time, but they last well and do not seem to get lost or have the natural depravity credited to the every-day pin.

circular piece ot materihl should then be cut out a trifle larger than the bottom of the box, and this piece of material forms the base of a bag into which the box is subsequently fitted. The bag should be made of silk and lined with flannel and drawn up at the neck at one side on a silk cord. Round the sides some pretty floral design such as suggested in the sketch can be embroidered. After the eggs have been placed in the bag the neck is easily closed with the strings and can be pulled open in a moment whenever an egg is required. Made in silk of some pretty color, chosen perhaps to match the breakfast service with which it is to appear, this little case is very decorative as well as useful —London (Eng.) Madame. The Growing Girl. When making dresses for a little girl who is growing rapidly allow six extra inches in the length of th© skirt. Just above the hem set in a deep tuck on the wrong side; now above it put in two or three small tucks on the right side to hide the line where the deep one has been made. When the skirt needs lengthening, all you have to do is to pull out the thread of the deep tuck, and down comes the skirt without any trouble ff letting out the hem and facing it up again. The small tucks on the right side remain as they were and serve to make a pretty finish 'to the skirt. When dresses with Dutch necks are worn it is quite as Important to distribute powder across the back of the neck as it is to cover the face and front of the throat.

BILLS PUSHED ASIDE Some Were Downright Freaks and Others Sentimental. * There Were Still Others That Were Simply Impossible—Measure Proposing Change In Inauguration Day Failed. Washington.—During the session of congress recently closed some of the many bills introduced and sidetracked, though not of a national importance, were of general interest from the unique nature of them and for sentimental reasons. The bill appropriating $25,000 for the repair of the old wooden warship Portsmouth, which passed the senate, failed of passage in the house. The bill now rests with the committee on naval affairs, and it Is expected that it will pass the bouse, at the next session of congress without fail. The passage of this bill is for sentimental reasons, as it is desired to have the old. wooden warship exhibited at the Panama canal exposition at San Francisco in 1915. “and there to remain,” quoting from the senate report, “as an incentive to duty to our navy on the Pacific coast.” The appropriation asking for an additional amount to raise the Maine received a like fate as the appropriation for the warship Portsmouth. The president asked for an appropriation of $250,000 to complete the work, and his special message was given due consideration, but congress failed to appropriate the amount asked for. Senator Poindexter’s bill providing that civil service employees shall have freedom of speech and of the press and the right to organize for their mutual benefit did not receive a favorable report of the committee to which it was referred, but it is understood that he will ask the committee to consider it at the next session.' Senator Root’s bill to incorporate the Carnegie endowment for international peace did not receive a favorable report from the foreign relations committee either, and like the Rockefeller foundation may find that it will be some time before it is enacted into law. Senator Cullom’s bill providing for highways to be constructed from Washington, respectively to Portland. Me., Niagara Falls, N., Y„ Seattle, Wash., San Francisco. Cal., to Austin, Tex., and to Miami. Fla., which highways will bear respectively the names of Lincoln, Jefferson. Grant. Monroe. Roosevelt. Washington and Lee, was introduced late in the session and received scant consideration. Never before in the history of a congress have there been so many bills introduced to provide for commissions to investigate different subject matter as was introduced in the last session. ' So many of them were introduced and passed that Senator Williams of Mississippi presented a measure to provide for a commission “to investigate the said commissions and to make recommendations concerning the same.” His bill was referred to the committee on public expenditures but did not receive a favorable report. Senator Heyburn of Idaho believes thqt the Congressional Record, which gives a verbatim report of speeches delivered and undelivered, should be popularized, for he introduced a bill providing that the Record should be sold for $1 a year and that popular subscriptions for the same be received by postmasters throughout the United States. His bill failed of favorable action at this last session. Senator Gallinger’s joint resolution proposing an amendment tp the constitution of the United States providing that the inaugural date shall be changed to. tifa last Thursday in April met the same fate at this last session as it had at several previous sessions. Senate bill No. 1. by Mr. Owen )pf Oklahoma, to establish a department of health, whereby all departments of the government dealing with the public health, except the medical department of the army and navy, should be organized under one head, was discussed in the senate on several occasions, although it did not receive favorable action by the upper house. The bill to provide for a monument to the late President Garfield, at Long Branch, N. J., and the bill to declare Lincoln’s Birthday a legal holiday received consideration in both house and senate but was not enacted into? a law. Neither did the bill to construct the Lincoln Memorial Highway from the White House at Washington to the battlefield at Gettysburg receive favorable approval of the house. good-roads bills, which arte urged by automobilists, received consideration In the senate and house alike, but none of them were passed. GUARDING THE WHITE HOUSE. Probably no other building in America is so well policed as the White House. It takes 42 men to do it daily. If any mischievous stranger should seek entranee he would not get far Twenty-four men guard the outside of the building and eighteen the inside. Eight are in the executive offices. Fourteen, guard the White House within and without at night. The number of men enumerated does not Include the secret service men who guard the person of the president, and who sometimes <fre in , service to guard the members of the president’s family. < Every door to the White House has Its policeman constantly on guard There are always two in the base ment of the executive offices, where

there is a large door leading from the street for the reception of supplies. There is always a policeman at the kitchen entrance. Two men in livery, not policemen, guard the main entrance into the White House at the north portion. In the daytime there is a policeman in the east room and one each at both stairways that lead to the private apartments of the president and his family on the upper floojr. There is a policeman always in the basement, the entrance to wlifth, is from the east wing of the mansion. At night a policeman guards the basement corridor of the interior, another the corridor of the main floor, and another the corridor of the upper private floor. Outside there is constant vigilance in front and in the rear, if the White House may be conceived as having any rear. The ?outh front is as beau tiful as the north front, apd, indeed, more so. A policeman is always on guard at the south portico, and especially so at night. Qiie parades with the regularity of a sentryman the half covered corridor leading from the. White House to the executive offices! * JUNKETS STILL IN FAVOR. Besides the transcontinental trip ot President Taft, which will be paid for from the $25,000 appropriation made by congress to defray the chief executive’s traveling expenses, there are a great number of big and little trips under way or planned by government people. For instance, Secretary of the Interior Fisher is touring Alaska, Sec retary of the Navy Meye|r is inspect ing European navy yards, and Secre tary of War Stimson recently returned from a trip to Panama, Cuba and • Porto Rico. Z Government officials are inspecting conditions at the branches of their bureaus 'throughout the country. For ester Graves is making a trip to the 1 Pacific coast and Director Newell ol the reclamation service will soon follow suit. Commissioner General of Imnngration Keefe not long ago returned from a toiir which included Canada and Hawaii. The secretary ot commerce and labor is expected to cruise up the Atlantic coast visiting, lighthouses, and Secretary of Agrieul ture Wilson will scon begin a round of visits to western cities attending conventions. Members and officers of the tariff board and the Aldrich monetary com mission continue their journeys about the country and in Europe from time to time. A big expedition of senators and congressmen is said to be scheduled for Panama this fall. The I eus». committee on rivers and harbors some time ago made a run down the Ohio river. Army and navy officers are constantly making trips to inspect forts and navy yards. One of the most 'lnteresting junkets in recent years was that to attend a conference on national parks in the Yellowstone Park. Most of those attending the conference traveled to the Yellowstone„ at Uncle Sam’s expense. , • TELLS INDIANS TO WORK. Navajo Indian braves should stoi atetnding dances and feasts and de vote attention to sheep-raising and .blanket-weaving, according to Indian , bureau reports, whicn point out that the Navajo “squaws are ’the grub get ters.” The Indian bureau is gathering in formation from the Indians and trad ers as to the extent of the Navajc sheep and blanket industry. It is be lieved the reports will show that this New Mexico-Arizona tribe of red men sells annually between $400,000 and $500,000 worth of blankets. The government wants to teach the men the value of improving this industry and of raising a variety, oi sheep which will ..give them bdtter wool than that they obtain from na tive sheep. The Navajos have 1,000,000. sheep, * of which 80 per cent are native. Fully 80 per cent of the tribe live by means of work connected with the sheep and blanket industry*. Practically all the Blankets ar« made t>y the squaws, who, with the children, also do much of the sheep herding, shearing, wool-carding and spinning. One report said that if the “bucks” would help the women make blankets they could earn an average of SSOO a year to a family, which is more than the average salary of thi white families of this country. Another report declared flat- “gen, erally speaking the man is not a prokdMctive factor in the two great Indus: tries of sheep-raising and blanketweaving.” One reason why the government decided to help the Navajo in his blanket industry' was that imitations had appeared on the market. - WHEN CANNON FIRES. Ex-Speaker of the House Joseph G. Cannon very much dislikes to prepare a speech in advance and whenever he does he invariably gets off on to another angle and delivers an altogether different speech. Mr. Cannon’s favorite method of preparation for a speech is to write down the various headings which he proposes to discuss. Then he has his stenographer write, out these headings on small sheets of paper, takes them into the house with him and prbmptly loses them. He explains his inability to ” writ© out his speeches in advance by his early training as a lawyer. Then Tie was accustomed to ride horseback to the county sedt, have a conference for a few minutes with his client and go into court to wrestle with th© ease eatch-as-catch-can style.