The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 23, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 3 October 1912 — Page 2

The Syracuse Journal GEO. O. SNYDER. Publisher. Syracuse, - - Indiana. KILLED BY SOLDIERS MARTIAL LAW IN ENFORCEMENT AT AUGUSTA, GA. ATTEMPTING TO PASS LINE Alfred Dorn Was Shot When He and Ben F. Baker Ignored the Challenge of Guardsmen and Whipped Up Their Horse —Other News. I ’ ■ Augusta, Ga., Sept. 28. —As the climax to rioting in this city and the shooting of three citizens by state = guardsmen, Governor Brown late last night issued a proclamation declaring “the city of Augusta to be in a state of insurrecton,” and ordering the immediate enforcement of martial law. Adjutant General /O’Bear has been ordered by to proceed here at and to assume charge ot the situatioh. Another company of militia also was ordered here from Waynesboro. ) • One citizenwas killed, another nrob ably fatally shot, a third less seriously Injured and a number of persons fired upon by state guardsmen called out late to' protect the power plant of the local street railway company from possible violence of its striking employes. The guardsmen were summoned when “it was reported the plant was to be- dynamited and they hastily established a deadline. Alfred Dorn was killed when he and Ben F. Baker attempted to pass the line in a buggy. When challenged, Baker whipped up his horse and the soldiers fired.. Dorn was literally shot to pieces and Baker was shot, but not dangerously wounded. Robert Christie attempted to -drive through the dines in an automobile, and it is said did not bear-the sentry’s challenge. He had gone but a few feet when he was shot through the lung, and at the hospital it is said he Is not expected to live: Charles Wilson, his wife and child In an automobile also were fired on but escaped unhurt. Soldiers ajso shot at a boy on a motorcycle but did not hit him. News of the shooting spread rapidly and attracted thousands to the scene of the trouble. At the same time great crowds were assembling in the mill district, which was the scene of last night’s rioting. Just before dark the -west end sympathizers spiked the tong Broad street bridge. Six Injured in Crash of Trains. Wheeling, W. Va., Sept. 25. —Six persons were seriously hurt yesterday when the Chicago express on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad crashed into the rear of a passenger train standing on a switch track at Benwood junction. The injured were taken to a North Wheeling hospital. They are: Carl and Claude Coffman, Fairmount, W. Va.; Mr. and Mrs. George Duncan, Wooditock, Va.; John Modi, Mannington, and Charles Foster, Bellaire, Va. 1 Noted British Politician Dead. Kingston, Ontario, Sept. 25. —Sir Richard Cartwright died following a surgical operation. Sir Richard was born here in 1835 and devoted the greater part of his life to the service t w his country politically. McManigal to Be Star Witness. Los Angeles, Cal., Septi 241- —Ortie McManigal, who is to be the chief witness for the prosecution in the dynamiting case to be tried in Indianapolis, Is on his way to the Indiana capital, where he is due to arrive today. „ Buried Beneath Falling Walls. Kansas City, Sept. 26.—Three workmen are buried beneath the Walls of the $250,000 Alemeda hotel, which is in course of construction, which collapsed when workmen were removing concrete forms that upheld the fifth and top floors. Pojice Quell a Schoolboy Riot. " New York, Sept.’ 24. —Police reserves were called out to quell a riot 1 p? 1,500 school boys, who took this Cleans of- protesting against transfer of their principals. Pupils of two schools were involved. Louisiana Mob Lynches Negro. Shreveport,,La., Sept. 26. —The body if Sam Johnson, a negro, who was taken from deputies at Grand Cane, La., by fifty masked and armed men, was found late yesterday swinging from "a tree twenty miles from Grand Cane. Slay Farmers Who Hire Negroes. Muskogee, Okla., Sept. 24. —Because they Imported negro cotton pickers to Briartown, where negroes never have been allowed to stay, three farmers, Sam Robinson, W. A. Larrimore and John Hilton were shot. Salvation Army Leader a Suicide. Elwood, Ind., Sept. 24. —Disheartened because of financial reverses and the serious illness of his wife are reason for the attempted suicide• of Captain W. H. Baker, head of the Salvation Army work here. Syracuse Boy Burned to Death. Warsaw, Ind., Sept. 27.—Playing „ With* matches near a strawstack at Syracuse, the three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hoopingarner, started a fire and was burned to death yesterday. <> Aviator Shaw Has a Tumble. North Manchester, Ind., Sept. 27.— Russell Shaw, an Indianapolis aviator, fell with his biplane her© yesterday afternoon and suffered severe injuries In attempting a flight before a county fair crowd,

IS. SICKLES 10 OUST HER HUSBAND Says She Will Foreclose Mortgage on His Home. I , ANGERED AT HIS STATEMENT Aged General Declares Jewels Pawned by Estranged Spouse to Save Him Were His and Not Hers. New York, Sept. 28—Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, U. S. A., retired, ninety-three years old, is to be evicted from his home at 23 Fifth avenue, And is to be stripped of every possession he has in the world, if his wife, from whom he.has been separated for thirty-two years, carries out her present plans. Mrs. Sickles, who is a Spaniard and has considerable capacity for wrath, Issued a formal declaration of war from her . apartments in the Hotel Marlton on West Eighth street, just a block from the general’s home. The battle signal was raised within a few- seconds after she read a public statement regarding herself and their affairs, which Sickles gave out to the newspapers. In this statement, General Sickles sought to destroy any sympathy for his wife, based on her pawming jewelry, a week ago, to take up an SB,OOO judgment against him; he attacked her personal character, said the jewels were his and not hers, anyway, and charged her with holding the arrested judgment over him as a club. Mrs. Sickles, with her son, Stanton, by her side, listened to the reading of the general’s statement with growing anger, which caused her bosom to heave more and more violently. “It is enough,’’ she said. “He is old. He is poor. He is my husband — by the law. He has been a brave soldier for his country. So much is true. But now, badly advised by a malicious old woman, he has forfeited any consideration which he may have had from me, however little he deserved consideration. This is the end. “I hold a $40,000 mortgage on that house. I shall foreclose that mortgage. I shall evict him. “He says the jewels v.'hich I pawned to save him were not mine, but his. Every single trinket was mine and had never been his or that of any member of his family except one —a jeweled heart. I redeemed that from a pawnshop at his request.”

THIRD PARTY NAMES TICKET. Henry Knox Smith Nominated for Governor in Connecticut. Hartford, Conn,, Sept. 28.—The Connecticut Progressives nominated the following ticket: For governor, Henry Knox Smith; for lieutenant governor, Frank S. Butterworth; for secretary of state, E. H. Roszelle; for state treasurer. F. J. Erbe; for state comptroller, H. O. Daniels. Mr. Smith, who resigned his office In Washington last -July to cast his fortunes with the Progressive party, was nominated by acclamation. The platform indorses ’the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram W. Johnson and the platform of the national convention. MORGAN WILLING fO TELL. Financier Is Summoned Before Senate Campaign Inquiry Committee. New York, Sept. 28. —Telegrams were received by J. P. Morgan, Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr., Ormsby McHarg and W. W. Tegethoff from Chairman Clapp of the senate committee that is Investigating campaign contributions, notifying tbem that the committee would expect them to be present when it resumes its hearings in Washington next Monday. Mr. Morgan said that he was perfectly willing to testify, but that he could not go to Washington next Monday because of previous engagements. ONE DEAD, THREE HURT IN DUEL. Deputy Sheriff Kills Enemy and He Is Fatally Shot. Lexington, Ky., Sept. 28.—1 n a duel between Deputy Sheriff William King and Winfred Troxell on Bear creek, Whitley county, Troxell was killed and King was probably fatally wounded. Two companions with Troxell were slightly wounded. An old grudge was the cause of the shooting. Young Girl I* Attacked. Steubenville, 0., Sept. 27. —Miss Lettie Ward, fifteen years old, who lives at the home of Samuel Farmer of Wheeling Junction, W. Va., was seized by unidentified men near her home and held while poison was administered. She is expected to die. Farmer recently had received anonymous letters threatening his life if he did not leave the country. No reason for the,, attack has been disclosed. Deny Rebellion Rumors. New York, Sept. 27. —Rumors which have been current here of plans for a series of new revolutionary moveinents.under the guidance of Castro in Venezuela, Zelaya in Nicaragua and Diaz in Mexico are denied. Volcano Is in Eruption. Seattle, Wash., Sept. 27.—Mail advices from Valdez, Alaska, say Mount Wrangell, the most widely known of the smoking volcanoes of Alaska, again is in eruption. Prospectors have been driven out. Astor Kin Dies. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Sept. 26.—The will of Henry Beekman Armstrong, an eccentric member of the Astof- family, who died a short time ago, disposes of an estate valued at |250,000. All of the property will go to charity. Army Drunks Must Pay. Washington, Sept. 26.—Officers and enlisted men in the army, absent from duty on account of disability resulting from drunkenness or any form of dissipation, will forfeit pay during their absence.

TYPHOON SWEEPS JAPAN; LOSS OVER $20,000,000 Loss of Life Heavy and Many Thotn sands of Families Are Rendered Homeless as Result. Tokio, Sept. 27.—Damage exceeding $20,000,000 was caused by the typhoon which swept Japan from end to end while the loss of human life was very heavy and tens of thousands are homeless. Wires have been swept down, cities isolated and communication by rail and road interrupted, so that news of The casualties is just beginning to come in. The storm, which was the worst in half a century, did the greatest damage to the cities of Nagoya, Osaka and Nara on Hondo island and In Gifu. A tidal wave demolished the harbor at Nagoya, while wind and rain and lightning worked havoc on shore. Three steamers were sunk at their anchorage and it is believed all on board perished, while many other boats were driven on shore. In the city of Nagoya every house was damaged and a large number destroyed. The Kiocho Maru, a large steamer, foundered off Ennshu and both passengers and crew were lost. At Gifu the known dead total 262, with 283 injured. All breakwaters and harbor wharves were washed away at. Osaka and 20,000 houses destroyed by high seas and terrific winds. Crops throughout the island are ruined. FOSS AND WALKER WINNERS. Are Nominated for Governor in Bay State Primaries. Boston, Sept. 26. —The primaries held in Massachusetts resulted in the renomination by the Democrats of Gov. Eugene N. Foss and the selection by the Republicans as his opponent of Joseph Walker of Brookline, former speaker of the legislature. Until the returns are completed It will be impossible to estimate the strength of the third party or to get a line on the probable result of the presidential election in this state in November. SEND BURGLAR TO ASYLUM. Educated Thief Who Robbed Chicagoans Is Declared Insane. Chicago. Sept. 26.—Jacob Foy Guthrie, educated burglar and forger, whose daring and cunning in robbing homes of wealthy south side residents amazed the Chicago police, was adjudged Insane by a jury in Judge Cooper’s court. He was ordered committed to the Chester Asylum for the Criminal Insane. Two alienists testified that Guthrie was insane. He presented a pathetic sight in the courtroom. He appeared wild-eyed and excited, and at times snarled and snapped like a dog. < GUILTY PLEA IS REFUSED. Bandit Gives Drug Habit as Excuse For Train Robbery. New Orleans, La.. Sept. 27. —Because of his statement that he was under the influence of a drug when he held up and robbed, the New York limited Train on the Louisville & Nashville railroad near New Orleans on the night of September 4, the United States court refused to accept a plea of guilty <from Howard O. Edwards to charges of robbing the mails and assaulting mail clerks. The bandit, who told the court he had no accomplices in the robbery, was remanded for trial October 4. MASSACRE CHINESE REBELS.

Officials Execute 200 Mutinous Soldiers Without a Trial. Wu Chang, China, Sept. 28. —More than 200 mutinous soldiers were summarily executed without the formality of a court-martial by the loyal troops commanded by General Li Yuan Heng in consequence of the outbreak among the soldiers encamped outside the walls of this city. The remainder of the mutineers fled into the open country after they had attacked the town and been defeated by the loyal garrison. STEERS REACH RECORD PRICE. Sixteen Sold at Kansas City for $10.90 a Hundred. Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 26.—Sixteen steers weighing 1,500 pounds were sold at the Kansas City stock yards by a Liberty (Mo.) farmer at $10.90 a hundred, or $173.31 a head, making them the highest-priced steers ever sold west of Chicago, according to local dealers. The steers had been full fed nine months. FLAG CINCHED BY GIANTS. New Yorkers’ Win National League Baseball 1912 Pennant. New York, Sept. 28. —The Giants earned the right to the title of champions of the National league' when they defeated the Boston team in two games. They can lose all the rest of their games on the schedule and still lead. Former Speculator Is Slain. Janesville, Wis., Sept. 28. —E. L.Dwyer, w r ho has made and lost several fortunes as a stock speculator, was found dead in the railroad yards here. It is believed he was murdered, as a bullet hole was discovered in his head. Oil Counsel Is Ousted. New York, Sept. 28. —Resenting the “objectionable conduct’’ of Robert W. Stewart, counsel for the Standard Oil interests in the Waters-Pierce-Stand-ard Oil litigation, Commissioner A. L. Jacobs ordered his withdrawal. Student “Poison Squad.” Philadelphia, Pa„ Sept. 26.—With the opening of the school year at the Hahnemann Medical college here, Dr. Edwin Nesbit,.professor of pharmacology, has organized a “poison squad” from the undergraduate body. Roosevelt Escapes Crash. Tulsa, Okla., Sept. 26.—Several men were borne down in the collapse of the grand stand from which Colonel Roosevelt spoke here and the colonel himself narrowly escaped. No one was injured seriously, however.

COLOHELANSWERS ARCHBOLD OCT. 4 Will Appear Before Campaign Fund Inquisitors. ♦ TO TELL ABOUT OIL GIFT Chairman Clapp Gives Out List of Witnesses Who Will Testify Concerning Contribution* to Political Parties. Washington, Sept. 27. —Chairman Clapp ot the senate committee investigating campaign contributions announces that the hearings will begin on Monday next and that Octobet 4 has been set as the date when Col. Theodore Roosevelt will appear before the committee. Subpoenas have been sent to New York for service upon General Counsel Elliott and the secretary of the Standard Oil company in connection with the investigation of John D. Archbold’s statements that he contributed SIOO,OOO to the Roosevelt fund of 1904 in behalf of the Standard Oil company. The two officials are required to produce any papers they may have bearing upon the transaction, the committee having called them in an effort to discover the receipt which Mr. Archbold said had been given him by Cornelius N. Bliss, then treasurer of the Republican national committee. Senator Clapp made public the names lof the majority of the witnesses who are + o be heard by the committee. The list includes J. PMorgan, R. C. Frick. William R. Hears*. Thomas F. Ryan, former Senator Chauncey M. Depew, William Loeb, Jr., George B. Cortelyou, Alton B. Parker, George R. Sheldon, Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr., and G, C. Tegethoff. Those who will be asked to explain the source of campaign funds this year and the method of their 'expenditure Include Senator Dixon, Ormsby McHarg and Treasurer E. H. Hooker of the national Progressive party for Colonel Roosevelt; H. L. Nichols for Governor Harmon, Representative McKinley for President Taft, former Senator F. T. Du Bois for Champ Clark, Senator Eankhead for Representative Underwood, and William F. McCombs for Governor Wilson. LOEB HOLDS 23 TRUNKKS. Rich Society Woman Ordered to Pay $5,000 Duty. New York, Sept. 27. —Twenty-three trunks containing clothing and dutiable imports from Europe, brought in without proper declaration by Mrs. Ambrose C. Kingsland of New York and Lenox, were declared forfeited by Collector of the Port Loeb. Mrs. Kingsland is a prominent and wealthy woman more than sixty years of age. She failed to make declaration of the value of the goods she brought in from Europe. No criminal proceedings will be instituted. She must pay $5,000 duties. If she does not pay this sum a civil suit will be instituted.

-WIFE UNKISSED 25 YEARS. Husband Gets Decree; Says She Was Like Marble Statue. SL-Louis, Sept. 27. —William R. Brock, Webster Grove, former proprietor of the Brock Corset company, testified in Judge Wurdeman’s court at Clayton he hadn’t kissed his wife in twenty-five jears. Brock obtained a divorce on the grounds of desertion. Explaining his reason for not kissing her, Brock described his married life as “living with a marble statue.” She repelled all emotion, he declared, and spent her time reading fiction. NEW ROOSEVELT ELECTORS. Names for Independent Ballot in Kansas Filed by White. Topeka, Kan., Sept. 27.—A petition naming ten new Roosevelt electors, to go on the independent ballot, was led by Jgjlliam Allen White, Kansas Progressive national committeeman. The petition bore 4,000 signatures. The eight Roosevelt electors in the Republican column, Mr. White said, would withdraw formally within a few days. Their places will be filled by eight Taft men, to be named by the Republican state committee. FIFTEEN MOROS ARE SLAIN. Filipino- Constabulary Engages in Fight With Murderous Band. Manila, 9 Sept. 27. —A number of Moros who had killed a Filipino were pursued by a detachment of constabulary. A hand-to-hand encounter ensued, in which fifteen of the Moros -were killed. Lieutenant Preuss, who was associated with W. Morgan Shuster in Persia, and four inen of the constabulary were wounded. Democrats Need $750,000. New York, Sept. 28.—The Democratic national committee needs $750,000 to defray expenses during the campaign. Henry Morgenthau, chairman of the finance committee, so declared in a statement. Verdict in Ring Case. Green Bay, Wis., Sept. 28.—John Parmentier’s death was not caused from engaging in a boxing contest with, “Kid” Lomax on December 26, 1910, according to a verdict of the jury. Warrant for J. R. Nugent. Newark, N. J., Sept. 27. —As an outgrowth of a wrangle at the polls here a bench warrant was sworn out for James R. Nugent, chairman of the Democratic county committee. The warrant charges assault. Wireless Inventor Hurt. Rome, Sept. 27.—Guglielmo Marconi, the discoverer of wireless telegraphy, who was badly injured in an automobile accident near Borgheto, is reported somewhat worse. He probably ■will recover.

BARON VON BIEBERSTEIN, “SECOND BISMARCK,” DEAD Succumbs Suddenly at Badenweiler Where He Had Gone for Water Treatment. Badenweiler, Baden, Sept. 26. —Ger many’s most brilliant diplomat, successor to Bismarck as the “strong man of the Fatherland” and promoter of world peace, is dead. The baron was appointed ambassador to London only last May, and his assignment to that difficult post was hailed by the most progressive political writers of Europe as a long step toward the removal of friction and agitation which for months had threatened the peace of the world. Marschall von Bieberstein, the most brilliant diplomatist of Germany, was expected to bring about better relations between the English and German peoples and to harmonize their conflicting interests. His death is- a great disappointment to those who had pinned their faith to his conciliatory endeavors. The baron had come here to take a course of alkaline water treatment and was in comparatively good health until a week ago. Then he suddenly fell ill and rapidly became worse until he died. The baron,- who was a native of Baden, was seventy years old. FORTUNE IN CORNERSTONE. Church Forgets to Exclude It in Sale and Buyer Won’t Give It Up. Minneapolis, Minn., Sep’t. 27.— vVhen the directors of the old Hennepin Avenue M. E. church of Minneapolis recently sold the old building to Harry E. Pence of this city they forgot to make provisions that the cornerstone be excluded from the deed. Now they have discovered that the copper box within the stone contains a small fortune and valuable papers. Efforts have been made by the directors to hare Mr. Pence give them the box but he has refused Witnesses to the laying of the corner stone in 1888 declare that there wa» a vast assemblage present and that every one put some money into th* copper box before it was sealed, many giving bank notes. IMBECILES IN OHIO GAIN. Allen W. Thurman Declares for Law of Sterilization at Once. Columbus, 0., Sept. 26. —Alarmed by the increase in the past year of the number of imbeciles in Ohio, President Allen W. ,Thurman of the state board of administration, declares that if a law of sterilization is not passed within a decade the state will be bankrupted in its care for the weak minded. The danger of the present marriage laws was brought forcibly to Thurman’s attention when a family of six idiots, ranging in age from seven to sixteen years, was transferred to the state institution from the Brown County Children’s home. CUBA FEARS INTERVENTION. Political Leaders Called by Gomez to Prevent Election Riots. Havana, Sept. 28. —In an attempt to avoid American intervention during the coming elections. President Gomez has palled on the principal political leaders to meet in conference to decide on measures which will assure an orderly day at the polls. The president’s action is due to dispatches from Washington stating that officials there are considering the advisability of intervening. The Cuban government officials also realize , that owing to the excited state of the public mind many fatalities certainly will result unless the leaders are able to control those under them.

IOWA MAN HELD FOR FRAUD. Prominent Church Member of Water 100 Arrested in Kansas City. Waterloo, lowa, Sept. 27.—E. A, Boggs, prominent church member and society man, who some months ago testified to having spent $190,000 on an insignificant monument company in twelve months, the money borrowed langely without security from banka, was arrested in Kansas City by the sheriff of Grundy county. lowa, and will be required to answer to five indictments returned by the grand jury of that county. The indictments charge embezzlement and obtaining money under false pretenses. CHINAMAN WINS IN PRIMARY. Is Nominated for Representative in Boston by Republicans. Boston, Mass., Sept. 27.—Chin Shue, a Chinaman, has been nominated for representative in the Seventh ward of this city by the Republicans. He is believed to be the first Celestial ever to be nominated for political office in the United States. He has announced that, if elected, he will work for the admission of Chinese women into the United States. He believes that a great injustice is being done the Chinese in this country by the rigid exclusion of the Chinese women. Pair Kill Selves in Pact. Richmond, Ind., Sept. 28.—William S. Johnson and Mrs. Roy C. Wyrnau committed suicide by 1 drinking carbolic acid in the presence of Mrs. Johnson and Wyman. The two families had been friends for years. Slayer Shot to Death. Salt Lake City, Sept. 28.—Harry Thorne was shot to death by executioners for the murder of George Fassell in a hold-up two years ago. The condemned man had been given the choice of shooting or hanging. First Game in Gotham. New York, Sept. 27.—The opening game of the world’s baseball series will be held in this city on Tuesday, October 8. The games will alternate between here and Boston, one game in each city, until concluded. Unveil Draper Statue. Milford, Mass., Sept. 27.—The trlb ute of his home town to the memory of the late Gen. Wlljiam F. Draper was paid when an imposing equestrian statue of the soldier and statesman was unveiled.

WHEN HEJIARRIES Sense as Well as Sentiment Necessary. By JEAN O. LOIZEAUX. — (Copyright. 1912, by Associated Literary Press.) Rivers scowled, tousled his blonde hair, and slammed shut the law book before him. But Jefferson went straight ahead with his panegyric of Miss Rose Wentworth’s charms. Finally Rivers grew tired of it. “Confound you, Jeff! Stop raving and get to work on that probate case! If the practice of law absorbed you as girls do, in a year you’d be too famousto live with. Can’t you get into your head that I am pursuing a profession and not a problematic wife?. I hate fooling, and I can’t be serious until I am professionally and financially established I want to offer a woman something more than just my sweet self!” Jefferson stared, astonished. John Rivers was a man of few words, and outwardly of small sentiment. But he had been roused. He went on. “Let’s finish this subject for good, Jeff. No, I will not beau Miss Nannie Wiley about just to give you a chance with her guest. In fact, I hope Mjss Wentworth will turn you down cold It would be your salvation. What courting is done by this firm should be for favor with judges and juries and clients. Success comes from digging, rather than by grace of an Irish temperament and a talent for banjoplaying. Sentiment’s all right, but when a man marries, he needs sense also. A practical man chooses his wife, instead of letting himself be dragged to the altar by the first pretty thing that makes eyes at him.” “Quite a tirade, old man,” commented Jeff bitterly. “You wait! Your time will come.” Rivers was reopening his book. “When it does I won’t maunder to you about it. Going after those depositions?” Jeff departed. Rivers so lost himself in study that five minutes later he did not hear a slim, dark-eyed girl enter until she spoke his name. She was delicate and refined-looking and —afraid. He sprang up. “Mr. Rivers? You’re a lawyer—may I talk with you?” He bowed her before him into the private office and closed the door. In a half hour he was ushering his graceful client into the outer hall as if She were a princess. Youth and beauty have their spell. , For all the tragedy of her pale face and plain clothes she was like the spring. He gave her a last bit of advice as he opened the door. * “Look again for the papers and report soon. We’ll do all we can. Perhaps the hope will keep your mother up a bit longer. Keep up your courage. Good morning.” Jeff, just entering, grinned maliciously. “A bad business,” said his partner, ignoring the grin. “She is a Miss Annie Morrow. John Morrow of Atta was her father; He died some months ago and left 7 things in queer shape. His widow, the girl’s mother, thought there was at least $20,000 for her in the State bank here. Though very close-mouthed, he had told her he was leaving her that sum. He was much older than his wife, and there was a son by a former marriage who has never recognized his stepmother and half-sister. The father had provided amply for him in cash.” Jeff was all professional interest. “No will?” “The girl saw him make and sign one before witnesses which she can produce. But the will can’t be found. And at the bank they found only about $1,500! The bank people told her Morrow had withdrawn the rest six months before his death. His bankbook showed this. He took the money in very large bills, and there is nc trace of it. The son denies all knowledge of it; ana has not changed his mode of living. Now the girl says that the funeral and her mother’s illness have eaten up all but about fifty dollars and she has gone to clerking at Atkinson’s, at $7 a week. Her education was ornamental, and she has neither time nor money for a business course. She has to spend her spare hours with her mother.” “I don’t see how law can help,” remarked Jeff shortly. “No. But Miss Morrow wants me to hunt for a hope! Her mother can’t at best live long, and would go peacefully if she was sure her girl would not be left penniless. 11l do what I can. Put a detective on the half-brother s trail. Meanwhile she says they ransacked every corner of the house they left for the will. They searched every paper and box for the bills or some account of them. The old man was queer and had no lawyer, but I am interested. Get those depositions?” After some days the detectives reported the brother’s status. Far from paying extra money, he was in debt and borrowing. Annie came in, said her mother was weaker, and that neither will nor money had been found. She wished Rivers himself to ccme out to the three rooms they had furnished and search for himself among the dead man’s effects. One evening he went out. After that his task became almost an obsession. In the desk and papers he found only evidences of great peculiarity and.a seeming order. There was nothing that helped. The furniture was fine old walnut; the mother and daughter of fine breeding-genuine, like all their possessions. He devoted himself to sustaining the invalid' with hope, assuring her that so much money could neither be lost or hidden, that it would be found to have been well invested somewhere, and that when located any judge or jury would give it to the widow and daughter. He left her almost happy, clinging to his hand and begging him to come again. This was in May, when the grass was greening on the slopes and the outdoor world began to be gay. Rivers relented towards poor • Jeff, the lovelorn, and made himself useful escorting Miss Wiley. Miss Wentworth smiled on Jeff. . And as for Nannie Wiley, Rivers soon began telling himself that if a man. wished to inarr

she was the woman to choose. She had health, dignity, beauty, social position, even a small fortune. Rivers wanted to be in love with her. Finally he made himself think that he was in love with her. She frankly preferred .. him to an extent that discouraged other suitors. One day walking with her on the street they met Annie Morrow in her little blue gown and simple hat. Rivers lifted lis hat with an unconscious homage which Nannie Wiley instantly observed. “Who is that pale little thing? Rather pretty, though.” "Miss Morrow, a client of mine." His very thought protected her from another woman’s comment. Rather pretty! Why, she was lovely! He had a moment’s pained wonder why Annie, during all his visits ’ to her mother, held herself so aloof. She would give him a cup of tea, join courteously in the conversation, but she was his client, nothing more. She worked silently, courageously. And he more and more devoted himself to the failing invalid. » One balmy evening late in May he was dressing to go out with Miss Wiley, Jeff and Rose Wentworth, when Annie ‘phoned him. Her mother was failing rapidly and wished to see •him. Instantly he called up Annie Wiley, telling her that important work for a client had just come in, that keeping his engagement was impossible, that he would come out in the morning to be forgiven for having to deny himself a pleasure. She excused him prettily enough, but laughed over the phone. "It’s quite all right. Is it your pret ty girl client?” He simply answered that the matter could not be i postponed. Then he took the first car to the Morrow’s. The doctor and neighbors were there, and Annie met him at the door, appealing to him to exaggerate, do something to make her mother think the money would be found. This he did manfully, promising to be the girl’s guardian, and see that all went well with her. The end came suddenly. Annie was dry-eyed and white, with no word for anyone. He helped her through the funeral, but that over she went back, to her work, refusing help from A him further. She was going to keej> the rooms to the mbnth’s end. After that Rivers worried about her, went frequently to see her, and was so preoccupied that Nannie Wiley professed herself not greatly amused by his society. What troubled him was that Annie held to her queer, cool, impersonal attitude to him, as though he were an enemy, and not her guardian. . He could not, moreover, bear to have her clerking in a store, growing paler and thinner. Together they had again searched all her father’s effects, and in vain as before. One Saturday night, on an impulse. Rivers went out and found Annie packing desperately. Her cheeks were flushed feverishly, and her eyes big and bright. He demanded explanations, standing over her. “I’m going back to Atta, where we used to live. 1-cau’t stand this life. I may be a coward. It may be wicked, but—l’m going." She could not finish, but he suddenly knew that she was telling him she was to be married. A wave of pain swept over him, and then he knew his heart. “Do you love him?” he asked abruptly,” taking her hands. "1 have known him all my life —you " have no right—” “I have. I love you. You shall not go unless you tell me truthfully that you do not love me! You must be wild to think of marrying anyone else! You do love me, don’t you? don’t you?” Still she drew away from him, but tears rolled down her cheeks, ■helplessly. He had both her hands. Therefore he dried the tears with his handkerchief, and when her eyes smiled at him, he held her elose a moment and kissed her soft hair. Unconsciously he stepped back and knocked a pile of old books to the floor with a crash. A big dictionary s fell open. He stooped to pick it up, and a crisp yellow bill fluttered from the leaves. Then he shook out others, and turned to take the girl again in his arms. "See how I kept my promise to your mother? Do you see, Annie?” But she no longer cared for the money. She rested against him and cried herself out of grief into contentment. Sound Dramatic Sense. Among the stories told by Arnold Bennett during his American tour was one about a young actress. “Two men, just before her debut, were discussing this young actress’s future,” Mr. Bennett said. “The first man remarked thoughtfully: “‘I believe her stage career will be’ extraordinary. She has a most remarkable dramatic sense.’ “‘Yes?* said the other man.. ‘And how does this dramatic sense display itself?’ “ ‘Well,’ replied the other, ‘it dis plays itself best, perhaps, in the s< ries of dinners at $4 a plate that si 4 has been giving week by week to ad the dramatic critics and theatrical correspondents.’ ’’ French Chalk. French chalk is especially good for cleaning embroidery that is too fragile to be washed with soap and water. The chalk should be made quite hot and sprinkled thickly over the embroidery, which is then rolled up carefully so that the chalk is inside Allow it to stand in a dark place foi a week or two, and then shake out all the chalk. This will leave the embroidery quite fresh., Brightening Oil Paintings. To clean and brighten oil paintings sponge the painting very carefully with a pure soap and lukewarm water and dry thoroughly with a soft cloth. With a piece of chamois skin dipped in sweet oil rub all over the surface of the picture. ’The result will be a pleasant surprise. This cannot injure the finest work of art in the least. Wise Woman. Mrs. Colin Gabble —Do you ever permit your husband to have his own way? Mrs. StrOngmind—Oh, yes, occasionally. He is sure to make a fool of himself, and that makes him easier to manage the next time.